Chapter 1: Heart of the Ocean
Even wider than the grasslands is the ocean.
Pitch black, there was a faint glowing spot in the boundless darkness of the night, so small that it could be ignored. But it was this small point of light that stood firm in the dark night.
At night, there is no moonlight, and the undulating sea is pitch black, and it is a ship that is forging ahead on the surface of the sea that gives a faint light. The hull of the ship is also black, and only the candle flame in the cabin lets people know that there is also a "ghost fire" on the endless sea.
The sea was not calm, the shining ship was not too small, the hull was constantly jolting, and the crew was busy on the deck, trying to make the bumpy hull smooth, because there was a captain on this ship. Countless raindrops smashed fiercely on the crew's bodies, exploding water splashes. The crew are all experienced sailors, who have seen strong winds and waves, and tonight's stormy situation is commonplace, which is nothing more than a feeling of gloom.
The whole ship can be divided into two parts, the upper and lower parts, below the plywood, the cabins hold all kinds of things, including weapons, and are also a resting place for the crew. Above the cleats were huge mast sails, puffed up by the sea breeze. In the stern of the ship, under the mast above the plywood, there is a room that stands out very abruptly, covered with tiles, as if the houses on land were moved directly to the stern, which is also the unique feature of this ship. If you run into this ship in the daytime, all the ships on the opposite side will avoid it, and dare to continue sailing forward until the ship leaves, otherwise it will be regarded as a great disrespect, and this ship also has a loud and beautiful name!
On the endless pitch black sea, faint points of light come from the room at the stern of the ship, and if you enter the room, you will find that the room is very bright, even a little dazzling. The room is not big, and what catches your eye is a nautical chart on a wall, which is the only obscure thing in the room, and whether it is a table, chair or a bed for resting, it can be described as luxurious to absurd. The room was filled with water vapor, the water vapor was wafting from the teapot on the table, and the enticing aroma of tea filled the room, and the strange thing was that the owner of the tea did not pour the tea into the cup to drink, but let the tea roll in the teapot, and let the fragrance of tea fill the room, and she only cared to check whether the rouge on the corner of her mouth was red.
A man smeared with rouge, a nautical chart, a steaming teapot and endless extravagant accessories make up this room. The bronze mirror reflected the face of the woman who had been smeared with rouge, and the woman's appearance was enough to eclipse anything in the room, and the touch of carmine on the woman's lips was even more bewitching.
Everything the crew was doing now was to make the woman in the room feel comfortable, even though the woman didn't care about what they did......
The woman was finally satisfied with the rouge on her lips, and poured the tumbling tea into the cup, but still did not drink it, but looked at the sea outside the window, and then put her hands on her cheeks, sometimes like a cat in Sichun, sometimes like a flaxy fox, sometimes like a domineering empress. Yin and yang change, one person has a thousand faces!
The black boat was tossed on the sea, but the aft room did not seem to be one with the ship, and even the tea in the teacup did not shake in the slightest.
Suddenly, the tea in the teacup shook, and the woman in the room moved slightly, but there was still no movement, just took back the thoughts that floated into the distance.
The rain on the sea was getting heavier and heavier, and there was no intention of stopping, and just as the ship was moving normally, there was a sound, like a boulder hitting an egg, and the small sound was still caught by the crew, and the experienced crew went to the side of the ship to look and found a very small boat, so small that it might not be called a boat, or a plank would be more appropriate to describe it. There seemed to be a man floating on the water next to the boat, a man who had fainted, but one hand was still clinging to the side of the boat.
The crew grinned when they saw the people and the ship on the sea, and the crew's teeth were still so bright in the dark night. The crew who noticed the situation beckoned the other crew members to put away the canvas on the mast, which made the hull pause and make the woman in the room frown.
The crew found a rope and put it down, and followed the rope to the side of the boat, not thinking about who the person floating on the sea was, but holding each other's clothes in one hand, and pulling the two up with the crew.
The canvas was reopened, and the ship continued in the same direction, the rain falling was as heavy, the only difference was that there was an extra "stranger" on the deck, and the crew gathered around to observe the rescued people.
The crew member who rescued the stranger squeezed each other's chests very rhythmically, as if they were used to it, and it didn't take long for the stranger to spit out a mouthful of seawater and wake up to a violent cough.
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Bai Sha remembers wandering along the endless dark sea, hunger and exhaustion sweeping through his body, and giving up hope of returning to land while seeing no hope at all. Just when he was desperate, he suddenly saw a faint light on the sea, and the stranger thought that he had seen a ghost fire, or that the messenger of hell had lit a fire and let him go to hell to report, and watched the so-called ghost fire get closer and closer to him, and then his biggest reliance, the boat, was violently struck, and then he fell unconscious.
Looking at the crowd of people around him, he knew that these people had no ill will towards him, and he also knew that this was not hell, so he was a little relieved. The weather outside was bad, and the crew carried the awakened white sand into the cabin under the plywood. There is a candle flame in the cabin, and the temperature is very comfortable.
It was pitch black outside, the sight was not very good, after entering the cabin, Bai Sha was finally able to see the crew members who rescued themselves, everyone was wet, the rain was still falling down the clothes, the clothes were not ordinary cloth, but satin, their faces were not tired, and they were all energetic, which did not match the image of most of the crew members in Bai Sha's heart.
Bai Sha didn't know how long he had been adrift on the icy sea, his face was pale and frightening, and he shivered in the cabin for a long time before slowly recovering. At this time, the crew had dispersed, and only the crew who rescued Bai Sha was left, who was boiling gruel with their backs to him.
Smelling the fragrance wafting over, he unconsciously moved his body, wanting to get closer to the fragrance wafting over. Hearing the movement behind him, the crew who was boiling porridge turned his head to look at Bai Sha, showed a sincere smile, and then put the porridge in a bowl and cooled it and brought it to him.
Bai Sha's hands trembled and held a bowl of porridge handed over by the crew, where could he still see the chopsticks handed over with the bowl, and no matter how hot the porridge just came out of the pot, he held the rice porridge in the bowl with both hands and poured it directly into the innermost, grunting.
The crew wanted to stop it, afraid that the hot porridge would burn the other party's mouth, but they couldn't bear to say anything when they saw the other party gobbling it up, so they just waited for the other party to drink it and put a bowl again, and so on. The two of them did not speak during the whole process, one drank porridge and the other served porridge, until the stranger drank all the porridge without wasting it, which made the crew very satisfied, perhaps because the other party was hungry to drink up a pot of porridge, but the porridge cooked by himself was undoubtedly delicious.
After drinking the porridge, his lower abdomen bulged slightly, and he was satisfied to enjoy the wonderful feeling of hunger going away, and only then did he notice the crew who had been serving him. After drinking, I also had the strength to speak, and I was about to stand up and thank the other party, but the other party stopped me.
Bai Sha still maintained his original posture, clasped his fists and said: "Thank you big brother for saving your life, the kid's name is Bai Sha, a native of Quanzhou, and you haven't asked your eldest brother for his name?" ”
"Heart of the Ocean."
After the crew finished four words, they reincarnated and left, leaving Bai Sha alone in the cabin.
Bai Sha knows that the "Heart of the Ocean" is certainly not a name for life-savers. But I don't think I've heard these four words somewhere, but I can't remember them......