Chapter 13 Metal Detectors

Soon the two women forgot about the gold collar being deceived, holding two exquisite clairglasses, kept playing, a look at the distance, a look at the boat, the clairvoyance shrunk up is more than ten centimeters, open more than 40 centimeters, about a 10-30 times zoom telescopic mirror, soon love it, this era of monoculars was invented by the Dutch, just spread to China. The second uncle bought one from the Dutch at a high price, which is very precious, and he usually wipes and maintains it himself, and does not fake others at all.

The second daughter rolled around several times before letting the two of them play a few times. Daddy is still staring at the side, for fear that he will miss and shatter. It made them itch, and once when their father was not at home, they secretly took it out to play and were beaten up.

After some coercion and temptation, countless unequal treaties were signed, in short, these two clairvoyant mirrors belonged to the two sisters, and the right should be compensation for Li Jing's loss of the gold collar. Li Jing looked like he was in pain, and the second daughter waved her hand proudly to signal that he could get out.

Soon the ship turned, the front is Nanao Island, later here is a famous scenic spot, the shape is like a dumbbell, the east and west parts are relatively large, it is a mountain, the middle is narrower is the plain, the island set up two deputy commanders in the third year of Wanli, respectively, the deputy commander-in-chief of Chaozhou and the deputy commander-in-chief of Zhangzhou, the establishment of Fujian, Guangdong and Nanao general town government office, the island is divided into two, the west half belongs to Guangdong, and the east half belongs to Fujian. Later, Nanao Town was established, which was under the jurisdiction of Chaozhou Government.

It is an important transit point for ships from north to south, and the island has beautiful scenery and steep terrain. In the early days, many pirates and pirates gathered here and plundered everywhere. It was later recovered by the officers and soldiers.

However, with the neglect of the emperor of the Wanli Dynasty, the ministers fought over the party, and a large number of officials died and were not replenished after leaving office, and only half of the six Shangshu of the Central Committee were in their positions. Locally, it's even more chaotic. At this time, Nan'ao Island had been deserted, and occasional merchant ships passed by to replenish fresh water, and the garrison and the officials stationed in Nan'ao Town had been withdrawn for more than ten years. It was not until more than 30 years later that Zheng Chenggong resisted the Qing Dynasty here and set out to recover Taiwan, that he regained the jurisdiction of the government.

At this time, the second uncle commanded the Feilai Mountain to start sailing along the circumference of Nanao Island, so that it could test the speed of sailing with the wind and against the current. Li Wei'er and Li Xin'er were finally crazy enough, and they came down from the lookout with Li Jing.

Li Jing and the second uncle exchanged the experience of driving a new style of schooner, ordinary sailing ships are generally five or six knots of speed, and this Feilai Mountain schooner, because of its own length-to-width ratio is close to seven, more than six .5, so the maximum speed of the downwind can reach nine knots, if you add the tide speed can be superimposed to twelve or thirteen knots, the zigzag of the headwind can also reach six knots, and the headwind of your current is estimated to be less than four knots. Overall, it can be a quarter to a third faster than a hard sail.

Before the sun set, I sailed into the Wupingzhai Wharf between Huyu and Lieyu on Nanao Island, and I could only spend the night in Wupingzhai tonight. There are many abandoned houses in Wupingzhai, which are enough to live for hundreds of people. Except for the sailors on duty on the ship, the remaining fifty or sixty people began to clean the stone houses, cutting down a lot of thorny bushes and erecting them in several broken places of the wall. Arrange the sentry and start cooking.

After dark, a bonfire is lit, an iron pot hangs on the wooden frame, rice porridge is boiled, and crabs, scallops, and chopped octopus caught on the beach are put into it, and the aroma of seafood porridge spreads with the rice porridge tumbling in the pot, and everyone sits around eating seafood porridge and chats quietly. The bonfire reflects the dark faces, and the men who run the sea all the year round are all vicissitudes of life.

The four maids were busy serving porridge to everyone, lighting wormwood around them, and smoking away mosquitoes. Li Jing asked about the second uncle, about the treasure here, the second uncle took a sip of wine, a little drunk, and said: "It has been rumored for many years, it shouldn't be fake, but you have also seen this island, within a radius of less than a hundred miles, such a big place, when Qi Shuai and tens of thousands of people were not found, the government gave up, in the early years, the government blockade did not allow deep into the island to prevent the theft of treasures, and later the soldiers were withdrawn, and the people flocked to dig up treasures, and indeed some people dug up some jars and jars, containing some copper coins, silver jewelry or something, but it is far from the legend, Later, things were gradually dug up, and nothing could be dug up anymore, and the island was completely deserted. In addition to the head town government, there are more than a dozen old pawns guarding the door, and no one has gone deep into the island. ”

"Second uncle, I have good things, I can sense the gold, silver and iron tools underground, why don't we try our luck in this village, anyway, we have nothing to do when we are full."

The second uncle touched Li Jing's head dotingly, "I know that you children are curious, okay, you are not allowed to go out of the village, there are sentry posts on all four walls, and you are only allowed to look in the stockade." ”

Li Jing was overjoyed and asked Shi Jian to move his box to a stone house, and asked Shi Jian to guard the door, and no idlers were allowed to approach. Then he quickly clicked on the light curtain, "Beauty, take a look, how many coins those two gold collars have been exchanged." ”

The customer service eyebrows lit up, "It contains a total of 562 grams of pure gold, which can be exchanged for 562 coins."

"Great, I've earned it now, and I can buy a lot of things."

"Are there any metal detectors for sale?"

"This is a product that surpasses your current technology tree, there is only a small power, 110 coins, do you want it, it can detect the depth of five meters underground, and the range of ten meters around. solar PV charging".

Saying that a product is displayed below, Li Jing slid his finger to look at the product picture, the product is very simple, a folded long rod, there is a circular ring below, and a solar panel is used to charge the lithium battery in the long pole.

"It's so expensive, one-fifth of the coins are gone,"

The customer service Meimei smiled and said, "Maybe you have found the treasure of the Pirate King, you must know that Wu Ping's treasure is said to have more than a thousand tons of gold." ”

"Well, you managed to convince me"

After a while, Li Jing walked out of the house with a detector in his hand and greeted the four maids and two sisters, as well as the sword and Bai Yu. Lighting torches in the yard, shouting and screaming, began to search. Li Jing felt that treasure hunting was similar to devil demining, pouting, inch by inch detector.

Suddenly, the detector sounded, and Li Weier shouted excitedly: "Here, here" Everyone rushed up, shovels together, dug for a long time, and dug out a rotten iron nail, Li Weier picked it up and looked at it, and threw it into the bamboo basket angrily. Then a group of people ran east and west, and after a while, they dug up half a basket of broken copper and iron.

Although I didn't dig up the treasure, I had a lot of fun. The second uncle came out to take a look, although he didn't know what the metal detector was and why it was dripping, but this nephew had already done a lot of things that he couldn't understand, so he simply let this group of half-grown children play. I smoked a dry cigarette and went back to sleep.

Digging until midnight, this yard has been searched, except for a dozen copper coins There is nothing valuable, the big guys are very happy, and they have fun.

Li Wei'er kicked the bamboo basket and said, "These scrap copper and rotten iron can beat a few plowshares and a few firewood knives, which can be regarded as a small harvest." ’

"It seems that there is still a place to be found," Li Jing said with squinted eyes.

"I didn't look for anything, I searched all over it," Li Yue'er said.

Li Weier reacted, "The well, the well has not been found, little brother, give me the metal detector"

Li Weier slowly stretched the long rod into the well, and slowly circled the mural in the well, but the detector did not respond, and there was no response to the surface of the water.

"Alas, no, no, there's nothing in the well" Li Weier was about to take out the metal detector, when suddenly the detector sounded.