Chapter 3 A Little Ant

This girl is wearing the standard Tanka family clothes, no matter what dynasty it is, the Tanka family is still the Tanka family, and nothing has changed much. Hong Tao is not afraid of the Tan family, the more simple and simple people he is, the less he is afraid, he is afraid of meeting those people who are too educated, those people have too many rules, and they have many eyes, and they are not easy to deceive.

"You're a Han man, and the ship has sunk?" At this time, the middle-aged man who was rocking the oar pulled Hong Tao onto the boat with a rope, and looked up at Hong Tao, who was more than a head taller than him. Although his accent was also very strong and his words were not very clear, Hong Tao still understood.

"It's sinking, I drifted for more than a day before I met you, can you give saliva to drink?" Hong Tao is indeed a little thirsty, the seawater thing, drinking it is bitter and bitter, and after spitting it out, his mouth and nose are also burning, which is very uncomfortable.

"Ah Zhu, bring a bowl of soup." The middle-aged man motioned for Hong Tao to get on the big boat first, and then said to the girl on the boat, who trotted all the way into the canopy, and before Hong Tao could stand firm on the big boat, he ran out again with a big black bowl.

"Thank you! Your name is Ah Zhu? Hong Tao took the bowl and looked at it, there were some sea vegetables in it, I can't tell what they were, and half a mussel, which smelled good. But instead of drinking the soup, he grinned at the girl and asked for their names.

"Moderator! ......" The girl was very generous, directly reported her name, and then turned her head and ran to the boat next to her, the gap between the boat and the middle of the boat half a meter wide did not bother her at all, and in a few jumps ran to the other side of the three boats, and got into the canopy.

"Moderator!" This name Lei De Hongtao was dizzy, and he was a little skeptical that he had traveled to ancient times, could it be that someone had such a lofty title in ancient times?

The old man on the boat and the middle-aged man didn't pay attention to Hong Tao, the two of them were using a wooden barrel to load fish from the cabin of the small boat, Hong Tao stood on the big boat and looked at it condescendingly, the harvest was really bad. There are two or three mackerel more than a foot long, a flounder, two crabs, it seems that this is the harvest of the two of them going to sea, according to the direction of the sun, it should already be afternoon, a day to catch such a little seafood, not enough for the family to eat.

"Little brother, where are you from?" The seafood soup in Hong Tao's bowl hadn't been drunk yet, and the girl who ran away just now pulled a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties back.

"Old gentleman, my family is in Nanyang Australia, my surname is Hong, my name is Tao, this time I was carrying a boatload of spices to Quanzhou to sell, I didn't want to meet a giant whale in the sea, and the boat overturned. I drifted for a day and a night before I was saved by these two benefactors, and I am very grateful, but I don't know what kind of place this is, what do you always call it? "Now that there are people who can communicate, Hong Tao's nonsense gushes out like the sea water. He tried his best to make his words more literary, but unfortunately he didn't learn classical Chinese well since he was a child, and he didn't know what dynasty this was, and how to address others and himself, so he could only try his best.

Nanyang Australia, there is no place at all, since it is a nonsense, it is natural to find a source that is not easy to be recognized and verified. The southern coastal areas of China have had trade with Southeast Asian countries since ancient times, so Hong Tao did not dare to use the place names of these countries to pretend, and he did not know what these places were called in ancient times.

Whales, Hong Tao can be sure, since ancient times, they have been called whales, not Kunpeng and the like, which is also his penchant for fishing. There is a saying in "Ancient and Modern Notes": whales, sea fish. The big one is thousands of miles long, and the small one is dozens of feet. Its female is called a salamander, and the big one is also thousands of miles long, and her eyes are like bright moon pearls.

Listen, the big ones are thousands of miles away, and capsizing a cargo ship, no matter what, it makes sense, even if it is put in the Republic of China period, ordinary people dare not say that they are making it up, and there is no way to verify it.

"My family name is Chen, my name is En, and it is Banfu and his second son Banxiao Er who saved the little brother, this is his daughter Ban Zhu. This place is Jiyang County, Guangnan West Road, Ningyuan Bay. Quanzhou has heard that it may take 20 days to take the waterway, and you have to go to Qiongzhou to take a sea boat, but I don't know where this Australia is? This Chen Mingen spoke very clearly, and answered all Hong Tao's questions clearly in a few words, but Hong Tao had more questions in his heart. Quang Nam West Road? Jiyang-gun? Ningyuan Bay? The history teacher died early, the three place names of Nima, Hong Tao doesn't remember where one is, only the last Qiongzhou he probably knows, isn't this the South Island of the Sea?

After listening to these three place names and the way Chen Mingen spoke, Hong Tao could basically confirm that he was thrown to ancient times by that grandson in the sky. The grandson has found a good thing, that is, himself, and it is the same as playing with ants when he was a child, throwing it to a strange place and watching it crawl around and find a home. You say that a heavenly immortal, why is this quality so low! It's okay to be angry with your own ant, you just listen to the two sentences of scolding, it's not that you haven't been scolded, how many people in the world have to scold you every day!

"Australia is more than 10,000 miles away, it takes more than 100 days to take a sea ship, and it was the first time I left home to sell goods, and I was shipwrecked. I won't go to Quanzhou, the goods and luggage are gone, and I have to starve to death if I go, I don't know if Mr. Chen, do you need a helper here? I know how to fish, and my family lives by the sea, so I can take care of my food every day. "Now everything else is nonsense, it's true to hurry up and find a place to eat and sleep for yourself, seeing that the sky is getting dark, if no one takes you in, these two eyes are black, where to sleep? Wet all over, even if the weather is not cold, it is enough to sleep on the beach at night.

"Do you know how to fish? You're not a monk? Before Chen Mingen could answer, the girl on the side who was called the moderator or a half-pig interjected. She has been listening to the conversation between the two people by Chen Mingen's side, and she doesn't know how to avoid it, her two big eyes are round, and she looks at Hong Tao through up and down, left and right, as if she is looking at an animal she has never seen before.

"Monk? No, we all have this kind of short hair over there......" Hong Tao really moved his heart when he heard the word monk. In fact, it was good to be a monk in ancient times, it is said that in ancient times, monks could do business, local masters, do not have to pay taxes, and even marry wives and have children, this Nima is a privileged class. But after thinking about it, I can't even recite a Buddhist scripture, and the ancients were very superstitious, once they knew that they were impersonating, they didn't tie themselves to a big stone and sink into the sea, and honestly be a fisherman, and it was important to save their lives.