Chapter 1 The Fishing Village Boy
Fifteen years ago, strange stones fell from the sky on the coast of the East China Sea, and the ancestors of various factions felt this, and explored in many ways, but to no avail, so they opened the mountain gate widely, and selected apprentices to teach the law. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
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Shibei Village is a small fishing village in the East China Sea, where nearby fishermen have lived by the sea for generations, worshipping the Dragon King of the Four Seas and thriving here.
On the edge of the cliff near the sea, the old fish head sat on a reef, looking at the vast sea, his eyes were cloudy, he was already old and unbearable, and he could no longer go to sea, but I heard the people in the village say that when the old fish head was young, but there were three or five fishing villages near the first class and a good hand at fishing and sailing, in this sea, he recognized the second, and no one dared to recognize the first.
A group of little dolls, ranging from four or five years old to seven or eight years old, gathered around the old fish head with snot bubbles, listening to him tell magical stories about fairy spirits in his hoarse and unique voice.
"In the depths of the sea, there are countless islands, which are the dwellings of the immortals, they fly to the sky and escape to the earth, and swim in the twilight of the North Sea, it is said that even the old dragon king will treat them as guests and entertain them with immortal wine and spiritual fruits."
"There is still an immortal elixir growing on those immortal islands, and mortals can live forever as long as they eat a small leaf!"
"There is also a kind of spring water, called Liquan, mortals get drunk after taking a sip, and then fall asleep, and a hundred years have passed in the world......"
The children listened attentively with big black eyes, and with the old fish head's narration, their faces sometimes showed amazement and yearning.
Lao Yutou is more than 100 years old, and he is the most knowledgeable in the village, and even he once walked out of Shibei Village to see the outside world, so the dolls in the village love to listen to him tell stories, but he has been talking for more than 20 years.
It was getting late, a melodious flute sound came from a distance, and a green ox carried a young man in a coarse cloth shirt walked slowly, he was not very old, about fourteen or fifteen years old, he seemed to be delicate, but he had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his small face was full of spirituality.
"It's Brother Xiaohao!"
"Brother Xiaohao, you caught something good today, show us quickly."
The children swarmed up around the boy on the back of the ox, stretched out their heads and looked into the barrels and fishing nets beside the cow's belly, and then there was a burst of exclamation and admiration.
"Wow, what a big red jade shrimp! Brother Xiaohao, sure enough, you are the most capable, our village may not be able to catch a red jade shrimp in a year. A tiger-headed teenager said with little stars in his eyes.
"Hey, this one, this one, do you think it's a three-eyed fish?" The other little girl bit her fingers and screamed in a voice peculiar to a little girl.
"What? Trioculus, I'll see. A more knowledgeable boy squeezed through the crowd, looked at it carefully, and said loudly: "It's really a three-eyed fish, you look at the scales on its eyes, it's like a third eye." ”
"You little ones." The young man jumped down from the back of the ox lightly, mysteriously took out something from his arms, and said with a smile: "Xiaohu, Xiaoya, Xiaoning, you see what I brought you back." ”
"Ah, it's a tiger roaring snail!" The three children shouted in unison, and three small black paws grabbed the boy's hand like a sea snake out of a hole.
Xiaohu was the fastest, and as soon as he caught the extremely beautiful conch, he brought it to his mouth, puffed out his cheeks, and blew hard.
Roar!
It was really like a terrible eye-catching insect roaring loudly in front of him, and the vivid tiger roar shook the children all over his body, and almost fled, and a few timid people fell directly to the ground, and when they came back to their senses, they attracted a burst of laughter.
Xiaoya and Xiaoning also grabbed the other two conches and couldn't wait to blow them, and suddenly two different whistling sounds came out.
"Ah, I'm a tiger cub." Hearing the voice, the little girl stomped her foot unhappily.
"Haha, Xiao Ning's is still a female tiger." The little tiger laughed, and among the three conchs, the sound of his tiger roaring snail was the most powerful and loudest.
"Stinky little tiger, I want to change with you."
"Oh, no, I don't want to change ......"
Xiaohu and Xiaoya chased and fled, running towards the village, Xiao Ning shrugged his shoulders and said to the young man: "I really can't do anything about them, Brother Xiaohao, then we will go back to the village first." ”
"Go, go, watch them a little." The young man touched Xiao Ning's head and waved his hand with a smile.
The rest of the children around looked at it with envy, it was a tiger whelk, when the merchants outside came to collect the seafood, it was said that the highest price was three taels of silver, and even if they cried and made a fuss at their parents, they would get at most three or five copper plates, which was not enough for a fraction of a tiger whelk.
Seeing Xiao Ning and the three of them running away, the children immediately dispersed, hugging Xiaohu and Xiaoya, begging to let them play too.
The young man took a big fish from the fishing net and said with a smile: "Today's harvest is good, old man, you can take this fish back to replenish your body." ”
"Xiao Hao, your skills are even better than when I was young." The old fish head looked at the young man kindly, and there seemed to be an inexplicable look in the cloudiness of his old eyes.
"Hahaha, that's right, I'm the most powerful in our village, and my dad can't compare to me." The boy laughed triumphantly.
"Yes, our small village, where can we accommodate you, the Jin Lin who is about to jump into the dragon gate......" The old fish head muttered to himself in a voice that no one else could hear.
When I got home, I tied up the green ox and handed over the fish and shrimp to my mother in the kitchen, and when I came to the yard, I saw a stout man sitting on the stone steps, carefully polishing a jet-black harpoon.
"Daddy, I'm tinkering with your baby bump again." The boy sat next to the stout man.
The man glanced at the young man, shoved the harpoon into his hand, and said in a rough voice: "You stupid baby, what do you know, this is passed down by your grandfather's grandfather, it is the fourth generation to me, it is the heirloom of our old Xu family, and it will be passed on to you in the future, give me serious grinding, and if you don't grind well, you are not allowed to eat." ”
Then, as soon as he picked up the old cigarette stick placed on the stone steps, he smoked it.
The young man pursed his lips and muttered in a low voice: "You baby, let's leave it to the eldest brother and the second brother." ”
He is the fifth oldest in the family, and there are two brothers and two sisters above, and a little sister below, but the family heirloom must be passed on to men and not to women.
"What did you say?" The strong man didn't hear the young man's words, took a puff of dry cigarette, and asked suspiciously.
"Okay, without your baby, our Xiaohao is also the most powerful in several nearby fishing villages, you better keep it for yourself." A woman's voice came from behind her, and it was Mother Xu who came over and called them to eat.
"That's it, my brother is the most powerful, and he brought us back three tiger roaring snails today." There was a little girl standing next to Mother Xu, who was coaxing blindly, she was the only girl of the young man, the youngest in the family, so she was very favored.
The sturdy man listened but was not happy, and turned his head and glared at the two women: "Women, how can you be disrespectful to this baby, where do you know, this harpoon has a different meaning for my Xu family, not only saved my grandfather's life, but also saved my grandfather's life, if there is no it, there would be no Xu family today." ”
Mother Xu was also glaring, and she wanted to have a seizure, the little girl was quirky on the side preparing to watch a good show, and the young man hurriedly played a round: "Mother, I'm hungry, I've been fishing all day, and now I don't have any strength at all." ”
"Hmph, I'll settle accounts with you in the evening." Mother Xu loved this son the most, and pulled the boy to the house like Xu Dahai.
For a family of eight, dinner was naturally very lively, plus the fish and shrimp brought back by the teenager, this meal was much more hearty than usual, and Mother Xu of course kept putting vegetables into her little son's bowl, which made the little girl pout.
While eating, the young man talked about the fishing process, which attracted the admiration of several brothers and sisters, and on the other hand, he had to take care of the younger sister, interspersed with a few interesting things, and made her giggle, and threw the dissatisfaction just now out of the clouds.
At night, the boy lay on the roof of his house, looking at the stars in the night sky, and the sound of the waves in the distance was in his ears, and his thoughts drifted away. He was not originally from this world, but he inexplicably crossed over from the earth fifteen years ago and became the youngest son of a fisherman's family in this small fishing village.
After two or three years of adaptation, he gradually accepted his current life, because he retained the memories of his previous life, so even if he was restrained, he seemed a little precocious compared to other peers, but fortunately, it was nothing, because he found that the world was not simple, and there were many smarter children, so the villagers were not too strange, but happy to see it.
In the following years, he relied on some knowledge from his previous life, combined with the fishing experience accumulated by local fishermen, and slowly developed his own set of methods, catching more fish than others each time, and sometimes catching one or two precious fish and shrimp, which also made the family start to become wealthy.
Of course, these are still trivial things, since he heard that there are immortals, demons and monsters in this world, he paid attention, when he was six years old, he accompanied Xu Dahai to go fishing and accidentally saw a boat that others couldn't see!
After comparing the other people's performances and discovering the anomaly, he memorized the appearance of the ship, even the exact time and location of its appearance, which he did not mention to anyone else, not even his parents.
The boy secretly cut down bamboo to make a small boat, and went to the same place at the same time every year to wait, but he only met twice in so many years, and calculated the time, exactly once every three years, but he was not able to catch up with the mysterious boat because of his insufficient preparation.
"The third time! This time it must be successful. The boy clenched his fists secretly, and his eyes showed a glimmer of hope and persistence.
In the early morning of the next day, when the sky was just bright and the sea was filled with morning mist, Shibei Village suddenly jumped with chickens and dogs, and a roar sounded violently.
"Bastard boy, don't run, stop me!"
The young man carried the package on his back, grabbed the road and ran wildly, and while running, he looked back: "Obviously foolproof, how did he be discovered?" ”
He couldn't figure it out, today is another three-year period, he made all the preparations he could, left a letter to his family, and planned to leave quietly like the previous two times, maybe he couldn't catch up, and he had to come back, but who knows, just after he went out, his father Xu Dahai chased out on his hind feet, carrying a wooden stick, it seemed that he was ready to discount his feet.
It's no wonder that Xu Dahai is so, the sea is mysterious, they are old fishermen with decades of experience who dare not go to sea at will, every time they have to choose a good time, see the weather, and finally worship the old dragon king, this can go to sea, you want to go to sea without a little doll with all the hair, and you are still looking for the ethereal immortal, Xu Dahai as long as he thinks about it, his lungs are going to explode, he has great expectations for this talented little son, how can he watch him go to death.
The boy ran as fast as he could, and no one was more familiar with the way in which the little bamboo boat was hidden, and all the way through yesterday's cliff, in a hidden place, after going down the long rope, he cut the rope holding the boat with a dagger, and he threw the package into the boat, and then jumped up with him, and the boat immediately drifted down the stream and into the sea.
The young man looked from the sea, a figure stood on the cliff, it was not Xu Dahai, he laughed proudly.
"Dad, I ask the fairy to go, your baby harpoon should be left to the eldest brother and second brother, haha, don't think about me, I will definitely come back in three or five years."
"I'm so angry, you stupid son of a bitch!" Xu Dahai roared on the cliff.
"Xu Dahai, who did you say raised the son of a bitch?" Another roar sounded, and Xu Dahai's ears were immediately grabbed by Xu's mother.
A burst of laughter came from below, and the flat boat drifted farther and farther away in the vast sea, who knows, on the boat, there is a fishing village boy named Xu Hao!