The resentful souls of the whole family will be gathered in the blood demon, and the person who is in the Gu will be swallowed by the blood demon in the blink of an eye, as long as he touches a drop of blood, no one can save it! "That bloody tears are bloody Gu?" Wang Lie nodded. "So, if the Blood Demon Gu sheds blood and tears, then everyone in this family will die?" Lao Peng's hand holding the knife was also trembling slightly.

"Yes, it is said that the Blood Demon Gu can only be refined by taking blood from at least everyone in the family. It is only when all the people whose blood is taken are dead that this Gu will attack. If there is still bloodline left, you can still take revenge, and you don't need such an extremely evil thing as the Blood Demon Gu. "Looks like the people we met on the road aren't the owners of this house?" Lao Peng's trembling hand slowly stabilized, and the green tendons were exposed to the handle of the anti-hook knife. Qianjun slowly stood up and looked at the empty and rainy courtyard outside: "If I'm not mistaken, there is probably not a single living person left in Heishuipu." ”

At sunset, the sea is sparkling and shining, reflecting the afterglow of the West, as if a layer of molten red gold is flowing on the water. The warm, moist sea breeze blows in your face, with a slight salty smell, and with it comes the rough and loud singing of the sailors.

It is the harvest season in late spring, and in the deep sea in the distance, there is a large ship moored from a long voyage, unloading a full cabin of fishing goods to a small boat called "sea shuttle" by Wanzhou fishermen. At the shore, the young people of the fishermen worked in pairs, singing fishing songs, stepping on the waves, and rushing onto the beach with one arm holding the boat, and the cabin was full of abalone, shrimp and crabs. They were almost naked, their skin was exposed to the seaside sun over time, turning a deep copper color, and their muscles were as strong as antelopes running freely on the Northland savannah. There were already merchants waiting to collect fish on the beach, and the brown-skinned fish seller had a few orange moons in her long black hair, and she was dressed in a gorgeous skirt with the corners of her skirt tucked high around her waist, and she stepped on the fine sand with her bare feet and smiled at the young people.

This more than ten miles long sea cliff is called bluestone beach, the south side is an endless white sand beach, the north side is the bluestone sea cliff with dog's teeth intertwined, slightly concave to the land, forming a natural deep-water harbor within a radius of several miles, which can be used for dozens of zhang of deep-water building ships to moor. Qingshi City, which is listed as the "Ten Towns of Wanzhou", is the largest fishing market in Wanzhou because of this good port, and hundreds of thousands of catties of dried and fresh fish are delivered here every day.

If the big ship enters the port to unload, the fish will only be available tomorrow, and most of the umami of the fish and shrimp will be gone. So there are boatmen and fishermen rowing small boats, taking advantage of the opportunity of the big fishing boats to grab the freshest and best fish, and immediately sell them to the merchants, so that they can be sold in the market that night. People sell fresh fish with a jar of seawater, add a little salt and tender bamboo shoots, simmer it all night on low heat, and the next morning it is a pot of milky white soup. This delicacy is difficult for the emperor on the Taiqing Palace in Tianyuan City to enjoy.

"Ah Lian! Lotus! The young man dragging the sea shuttle jumped in the waves, waving his arms and shouting the name of the fish girl, "Come and choose, the best ones will be given to you, and we will help you move back." "The two fishermen brothers and the girl named Ah Lian are already acquainted, and Ah Lian comes here every evening to wait for them. The brothers always sold her the best fish at the best price and helped to move them back to the market. Fishing is hard work, all relying on the strength of his youth, the income is not rich, the two brothers have not yet married, and Ah Lian's beauty is famous in the fishing market, slender and soft body, ivory-like delicate skin, when he smiles, people feel that they see a flower blooming in an instant.

Ah Lian lifted her skirt in one hand and jumped into the sea with her bamboo basket in the other. She jumped and ran in knee-deep water, like a lilting fawn, splashing on the belly of her long, plump calves. "Ah Da, do you have the stone crab I want? I also need five pounds of oysters and five pounds of abalone," Ah Lian sat on the side of the boat leaning over, her wet skirt floating leisurely in the sea breeze. "Yes, yes, yes, our stone crab is the biggest," the honest brother grinned, clutching his wet hair. "The biggest one is here!" The younger brother picked up a stone crab weighing up to three or five pounds from the cabin.

The stone crab waved two giant claws, as if it could clamp Ah Lian's nose at once, which frightened her into a scream and covered her face desperately. The laughter of her younger brother Ah Er rang out, and she secretly looked through her fingers, it turned out that the big stone crab had already been tied with lead wire, and the two claws were just terrifying. "Ah Er, you scare me!" Ah Lian pushed him in the chest with some shame, and the younger brother laughed and fell into the sea.

The fisherman's kung fu is not a problem, and in a blink of an eye, Ah Er has already carried the side of the boat and turned over, looking at Ah Lian and his brother weighing the goods with a hippie smile. The sea breeze was intoxicating, this was the happiest time for the two brothers in the whole day, Ah Er pulled a soft strand of fine hair behind Ah Lian, Ah Da shouted at him not to make trouble, while holding the fish basket to load seafood for Ah Lian. Ah Lian smiled and slapped Ah Er's hand, and even pinched him. "You ......" Ah Er was about to pull Ah Lian's nose when he was suddenly stunned. All three of them turned around and saw figures on the beach not far away.

It was a young man in his twenties, wearing a blue-gray long coat, covered with a dark green leather armor, the velvet coat was washed white, the leather armor was also sharpened, and a simple and unpretentious long knife hung from his waist. Ah Lian glanced at him, her heart suddenly jumped, and her face was a little feverish for some reason. Qingshi is Haicheng, it is rare to see such a young man, his clothes are not luxurious, but there is the quiet and ease of a noble boy, at first glance it looks like a pine birch on the painting.

When she peeked at the young man again, she was surprised to see that he was carrying his soft boots, stepping barefoot in the sand, and the rising tide washing under his feet, and there were no footprints behind him. The young man must have been standing there for a long time, so the tide had wiped his footprints away. While they were playing, the young man stood there and watched them quietly, as if the stone man in front of the Shanghai Temple on the hill in the distance was watching the sea, facing the ebb and flow of the tide day after day, and so on for a thousand years. "Are you going to buy fish?" After a moment of silence, Ah Da shouted.

The young man smiled. With such a smile, he suddenly ceased to be a stone man, and his delicate face was full of happy smiles: "What fresh fish are there?" "Yes! Yellow croaker, sea bream, black halibut, sea oysters, sea urchins, sea rainbow oysters, what do you want, sir? We all have, the freshest, fresh today. ”

The young man lifted his robe, waded to the side of the boat, and looked down to see the fish and crabs in the full cabin, the blue pike crab and the oysters rolling together, the gray sea bream swimming in the barrel, and the red crab was bright and moving. He couldn't help laughing, but Ah Lian turned her face away, her face a little red. The young man stood very close to her, the fragrance of the grass and trees on his body reaching the tip of his nose, and the warm smell of his clothes in the sun, which made people feel a little confused.

"It's all the best fresh food, you can pick whatever you like, it's cheaper than the ones on the market," Ah Da said. It is rare for customers to come to the beach to buy fish, which is a good opportunity. "Pick quickly, don't just look at it and don't buy it," Ah Er was a little upset. He clearly saw that the red glow on Ah Lian's face had not receded, and occasionally glanced at the young man secretly. "Oh," the young man thought for a moment, "then help me get a big crab." "There are a lot of big crabs, stone crabs, red crabs, pike crabs? You can be clear. ”

The young man seemed to be completely unable to comprehend the names of so many crabs, so he could only pick up a fishing rod and pluck the crabs with the tail of the rod, looking at the red crabs and the tide crabs for a while, and he couldn't get an idea. But he picked it with relish, and the smile on his lips kept on for a long time. "This is it! I want this! The young man finally took a fancy to a large stone crab. The big guy was wielding a big pincer proudly, and his back was blue-gray, like a general in pig iron armor, and he really had a different aura.

"This one is not for sale!" Ah Er said resolutely, "This is what we kept." "That big stone crab was left by him to Ah Lian, so he didn't want to sell it no matter how high the price was. "Really?" The young man scratched his head, looking a little regretful. "Sell! Selled! Ah Lian said as she stabbed Ah Er in the waist with her elbow. You're going to keep it for yourselves," the young man looked embarrassed. "This is what I ordered, and I said I could sell it if I could!" Ah Lian grimaced at Ah Er.

"Thank you, girl," said the young man, "by the way, I want to go to sea, do you know where to go to sea?" "Out to sea? Anyone here can go to sea, as long as it's not a day when the sea is closed, how you want to get out," Ah Erurn replied angrily. "I'm looking for a big ship to go to the open sea, and I don't know where to find it?" "To the far sea?" Ah Lian shook her head, "If you can't go out to sea, the official family has a law, and all big ships must be registered, which is called the Sea Gate Register." You can't go to sea for more than three days at a time, and you can't leave the shore for more than 50 miles at most, and only the big ships of the official family can sail far. ”

"Oh," the young man was momentarily distracted. "Take your big crab," Ah Er grabbed the stone crab and threw it into the young man's hand. The young man's thoughts were suddenly interrupted, and Ah Lian screamed, and saw the big guy with his teeth and claws waving his pliers and clamping it on the young man's hand, but he didn't know how to pinch the crab's back shell. Ah Er was also taken aback, he originally wanted to play tricks on young people, but he didn't expect that he didn't know how to deal with crabs at all. The dangerous stone crab, the pincers of the large stone crab can crush the finger-thick pebbles at a time.

The stone crab suddenly froze on the young man's hands, and the young man did not pinch its back shell, but it could not grip the young man's hands. The young man pinched its two pincers with his hands and feet, and pressed them against the side of the boat. "Wow," Ah Lian exclaimed. "How did you catch it so accurately? Have you practiced martial arts? Ah Er also admired, forgetting his hostility towards this young man for a moment. Practiced," the young man smiled, "...... It was a long time ago. ”

The noise in the distance came with the sea breeze, and the young man turned his head curiously to see that it was a place at the end of the beach, where fishermen and passers-by gathered in a crowd, and more and more fishermen were attracted to it, as if something had happened. "Why are there so many people over there?" The young man raised his head and looked, "Is it a big fishing market?" "The big fishing markets are all in the city," Ah Lian shook her head, "It's the official family's navy that is recruiting people to go to sea, it's been a few days, and it seems that they haven't found enough suitable people." ”

"How can the trolls recruit here?" "Recently, the sea has been unstable, and the official family has built a new Xiying Water Protection Mansion, and there is a shortage of sailors, so a lot of fishermen have been recruited." "Can you enter the deep sea if you enter the navy of the official family?" The young man's eyes lit up, and then dimmed again, "That's someone who can handle boats, right?" I haven't even seen a sail before...... I'll check it out anyway. He took a silver baht from his waist, placed it on the bow of the sea shuttle, and carefully grabbed the back shell of the big stone crab. The stone crab struggled hard, and the two big claws pointed at his nose from afar, and the young man was a little embarrassed, and he didn't know how to grasp this big thing with teeth and claws. Ah Lian laughed out loud.

"I'll give you this basket," Ah Lian tossed her basket over. "Thank you," the young man stuffed the stone crab into the basket. He smiled at Ah Lian before leaving, Ah Lian lowered her head to twist the corners of her skirt, and when she looked up again, only the back of his green clothes fluttering on the beach. The venue for recruiting Ding members in the Xiying Water Protection Mansion is nothing more than a few tables and a large flag, on which in addition to the tiger emblem of the Emperor Ji of the Xie Dynasty, also depicts a gray shark. The Xiechao Navy has three water protection mansions, and the Xiying Water Protection Mansion was newly built a year ago, and the scale is the smallest, and they are all troops and ships that were hurriedly transferred from the two major water protection mansions of Bizhi and Qinyang, so the honor guard of the office is not large.

The presiding officer of the recruitment was a military academy in black, and several junior colonels were busy recording names and consulting yellow books to determine their identities. A sturdy young fisherman was standing in front of the black-clothed military academy, allowing him to pat his chest and waist advantageously, and briefly checked his body. "Yes, have you ever been to sea?" "I have been," the young man replied neatly, "I have starved to death if I don't go to sea, how can I grow so big?" There were fishermen all around, and everyone laughed. Will that be martial? ”

"It's okay to fish, but it's not okay to hit people."

The young man replied directly, and the black-clothed military academy also smiled: "That can only be regarded as a sailor, not a sailor, two gold baht and four silver quills per month, okay?" ”

"Okay, it's better to earn more than fishing, and you have to save money to marry a wife." There was another round of laughter. The black-clothed military academy wanted to wave him down, but suddenly remembered something: "By the way, do you understand astrology?" If you understand astrology, you can be directly promoted to a staff officer, that is, a general, with a monthly salary of eighteen gold baht. ”