Nanhai City was approaching, and in addition to sending those few prescriptions to Du Ling, Nangong Jin put away these more than ten account books. I don't understand a lot of things, but now that I have arrived in the South China Sea, I may be able to find out something if I pay attention to everything.

They didn't go directly to the city when they arrived in the South China Sea, Feng Mo'er arrived a few days earlier than them, saying that they would go to Dali Business to do some work first.

On the wharf outside the city, twenty or thirty ships were seen from afar as if they had no owner. Feng Mo'er stood to the side with her waist crossed, loudly directing the boatmen to separate those boats.

"Sister Feng, hard work." Nangong Jin smiled and strode up. "Whatever you want me to do, just as I am told."

Feng Mo'er was surprised when she saw them arrive, "Arrived so fast?" Well, the ships are all here. I think this money is unjust, let alone ten ships, you can take all of them. Boss Peng has been picking for two days, and you will ask him later. ”

"Is it that bad?" Nangong Jin looked at those boats, faintly regretted, and muttered, "It shouldn't be so bad." ”

"Also, this ship has to find a way to sail back on its own. He didn't come to deal with it, and there was only one shopkeeper in the Dali firm. Feng Mo'er couldn't help but ask again: "Also, are you stopping the moon port?" ”

"yes. Otherwise, why buy so many boats. Nangong Jin said as a matter of course.

Feng Mo'er almost jumped up, "There are ten of them here, plus our own three, thirteen!" Ah Jin, you, you ....... Okay, I'm not afraid of losing, but I'm afraid. ”

Nangong Jin laughed, "Just a few boats, empty ships don't pay taxes." As for the rest, I can always figure it out. ”

After waiting for a while, they didn't see Peng Sheng coming down, and Nangong Jin and Yao Fangyu also got on the boat to check. Looking at the ships and cabins, although the longest stopped for more than half a year, the condition of the ship was not as bad as Feng Mo'er said.

I looked at four ships in one hour, and except for one, the other three were okay. However, Nangong Jin found a string of very interesting symbols. These symbols were engraved in the captain's room, and they were similar to the string of unknown numbers and symbols recorded in Liang Lie's account book.

It was already evening when she saw Peng Sheng, and Nangong Jin found a high-end restaurant in the city to reward Peng Sheng and Feng Mo'er. With Yao Fangyu here, doing these things is very smooth.

Peng Sheng drank wine and looked tired, "Ah Jin, I will help you pick out the ten ships you want." However, you still have to repair it. The matter of the ship is related to human life, and there can be no mistakes. ”

"Brother Peng is in charge of this." Nangong Jin said with a smile, then took out a piece of paper, which was the symbol that was traced in the captain's room today, and asked, "Brother Peng, I saw these symbols on the ship, what does this mean?" I saw a few ships, but more than half of them had this. ”

Peng Sheng glanced at it and laughed, "Ah Jin also runs a boat school to teach children how to sail boats, but I don't know this." This is a mark of the position of the sea mark, and with the number, you can find a place on the sea. That's about the same as an address. Usually there are these markings in the captain's room, indicating that the ship has been out of the ocean. ”

This answer made Nangong Jin startled, and turned her head to look at Yao Fangyu. Yao Fangyu was also looking at him with a questioning face.

A drink made Peng Sheng drunk and went back to his room to sleep. Nangong Jin grabbed Feng Mo'er, "Sister Feng, do you have a trustworthy boat boss?" Don't be a pirate, do your part. ”

Feng Mo'er looked at him in surprise, "Yes." ”

"Can you get acquainted?" Nangong Jin asked.

"Now?" Feng Mo'er looked at the sky outside. "In a hurry?"

"Not really, I have a place here, and I want the boat boss to see where it is." Nangong Jin didn't intend to hide it from her. Although this address on the sea was written down by Liang Lie, more than 20 years have passed, and I don't know what else can be found.

"Tomorrow. I came on a clipper, and it was full of my people, not only the ship's boss, but also the sailors. Feng Mo'er said with a smile.

Ever since she knew that it was an address, Nangong Jin couldn't sleep a little, and finally waited until dawn. Early in the morning, he pulled Yao Fangyu and followed Feng Mo'er to the dock to find the boat boss.

The boat boss looked at the string of symbols and numbers handed over by Nangong Jin, spread out a chart on his desk, took out a bunch of unknown tools, calculated and drew on the map, and after a stick of incense, he pointed to a point and said, "It's here." ”

The three of them came up to see, this point is in the blank space of the sea, but fortunately it is not too far from the coastline.

Feng Mo'er looked at Nangong Jin and asked, "It doesn't seem too far, do you want Ah Jin to take a look?" ”

Nangong Jin looked at Yao Fangyu as if she had the intention of asking, Yao Fangyu asked, "Go now, how long will it take to arrive?" ”

"In two hours. This place should not be far away. The boat boss said.

Nangong Jin asked, "Go and see?" What may be there is at stake for your ....... ”

Yao Fangyu smiled: "I don't even know what it is, maybe it won't be mine." Sister Feng is her own person, let's go and have a look, and I can give an opinion when the time comes. ”

As soon as Yao Fangyu decided, Feng Mo'er smiled and went to arrange it. In less than half an hour, the ship had rushed out of the dock and headed out to sea.

The captain of the ship was not wrong, it took more than two hours to reach that point.

This is a reef mountain in the middle of the sea, with a dark reef mountain with potholes and all kinds of shells on the mountain. The boat circled the stone and found a depression where the man could ascend.

Nangong Jin pulled Yao Fangyu and Feng Mo'er to climb this reef mountain together, the ground was full of sea sand, and the sea breeze was whirring in his ears. Walking into this depression, you can go directly to the belly of the mountain. There was a light shining through the sky, and it was not dark in the belly of the mountain.

The three of them looked around at the small and small stone cave space, and found nothing.

"Ah Jin, there's nothing in this place." Feng Mo'er asked. "The ground is rocky, and it is impossible to bury anything. There are typhoons on this sea, plus big waves, even if there were before, they are definitely gone now. ”

Nangong Jin was also disappointed when she saw this place, and she didn't understand what Liang Lie meant at all. Yao Fangyu took advantage of the faint light to take a few more steps inside, a little unrelenting, thinking of at least walking along the stone wall.

Nangong Jin seemed to understand what Yao Fangyu meant, walked to the stone wall, and carefully checked if there were any clues.

After a while, I only heard Yao Fangyu say: "Ah Jin, there seems to be a ...... here." ”

Nangong Jin walked to Yao Fangyu's side in a few steps, and there seemed to be a pile of dry bones under the stone wall in front of him. Nangong Jin took out the fire fold and stepped forward, squatting in front of the pile of bones to take a closer look.

Feng Mo'er also stepped forward and whispered, "Is this a human or a beast bone?" What about the head? ”

Nangong Jin looked around with a fire fold, and there was a dark brown object that seemed to be round in the distance, walked over, picked up a long rock on the ground, and turned the object over.

"It's human!" Feng Mo'er leaned behind her and said.

Yao Fangyu stood aside and was silent. Nangong Jin looked at the skull carefully, "It seems to have been beheaded." Pointing to the base of the skull, "It looks like a knife cut here." ”

Feng Mo'er nodded and said, "So, there is someone who was killed here?" So who is this person? Who killed him? Why? ”

"Let's see if there's any clue nearby." Nangong Jin stood up, saw Yao Fangyu standing in a daze, stretched out her hand to take her, and checked it in the cave.

"Ah Jin." Feng Mo'er stood by the pile of dry bones and shouted, "This person is missing a finger. ”

Nangong Jin took Yao Fangyu and walked back and asked, "What does this mean?" Is it a pirate? ”

"Not necessarily. Generally, those who are tied up by pirates will also have their fingers or ears cut off and sent to their homes. Feng Mo'er explained.

"Could it be that the kidnapped person was hacked to death here because the family didn't pay the ransom?" Nangong Jin guessed.

Feng Mo'er shook her head, "No." ”

Nangong Jin looked at Feng Mo'er in surprise. Feng Mo'er smiled and explained: "Although this place is not too far from the land, it is not on the waterway, and pirates generally follow merchant ships. If it is really as Ah Jin said, if they want to kill hostages, they just push the sea directly, and it makes no sense for Baba to rush so many ways here to kill. ”

Nangong Jin nodded, but couldn't think of why.

Feng Mo'er smiled again: "If this person can die here, there must be a story." It's a pity that this pile of bones looks like it's been going on for years, and the story has long been forgotten. ”

Nangong Jin noticed Yao Fangyu's strange appearance, turned back to her and said, "Maybe this person died after your stepfather wrote down this place, don't think too much." ”

"Then why did the stepfather write down this place?" Yao Fangyu asked, and then said a little sadly: "I feel sad, I don't know why, I don't think he should die here." ”

"Let's go." Nangong Jin proposed with a smile. "Sister Feng is right, there may have been something here, but now it's gone. Left this person who once had a story, but unfortunately, the story has long been forgotten. ”

The two of them persuaded and coaxed Yao Fangyu away from here, and on the way back, she was always thoughtful, and Nangong Jin understood what she was thinking. So he proposed to go to Yao's house the next day to talk, and it should be as if the daughter gave her father incense, although before, Yao Fangyu never thought of going to incense.

However, after going out the next day, Yao Fangyu hesitated and didn't dare to enter the door of Yao's house, and originally said that she would go by herself, but it was temporarily changed to Nangong Jin handing over a visit post.

It's just that the name of the Nangong clan didn't make the Yao family pay the slightest attention.

In the living room, Nangong Jin was drinking tea, and the main seat was a young man under twenty, who introduced himself as the second son of the Yao family. Nangong Jin laughed in her heart, it seems that this second son should be a grandchild, but he is the same as Yao Fangyu's generation. also deliberately picked the second son to receive it, I really don't know if the eldest brother came last time, whether the other party let the grandchildren come to receive it.

"I don't know what I just said, can Yao Gongzi decide?" Nangong Jin put down the tea and asked.

Yao Yu was embarrassed, "Nangong Gongzi, do you mean to worship...... Uh, that, that, this thing ....... ”

Nangong Jin said with a smile: "It's not a worship, Miss Yao, as a daughter who wants to marry, has this wish before marrying." After all, the Yao family is a mother's family, and this matter is not a big deal, but it is just to go to the tomb to worship. ”

"This, this, I can't be the master." Yao Yu blushed.

"Who can call the shots?" Nangong Jin asked.

"None of them are at home." Yao said anxiously.