Chapter Ninety-Six: The Gift of the Merman
(Ask for collection, ask for support...... )
"Lord, lord......" Zhao Yun and the others rushed up one after another when they saw Han Lie vomiting blood.
"It's okay, it's just a little exhausting." Han Lie took a deep breath and stood up with Zhao Yun's support.
"Huh, huh, ......huh" At this time, the female mermaid held the baby and jumped in front of Han Lie, with a look of awe on her face, looking up at Han Lie with watery eyes, and stretched out her hand to point at the white Jiao, with a look of appeal.
"You want this white Jiao?" Han Lie frowned and asked, hesitantly.
When the female mermaid heard this, she hurriedly shook her head and waved her hand for a while, where could Han Lie understand her gestures, so she had to smile bitterly: "As long as you don't want this white Jiao corpse, other things can be given to you." ”
"Huh, huh, huh......" The female mermaid could understand Han Lie's words, but she couldn't speak, and with Han Lie's permission, she actually learned from the human race, and bowed her head and thanked her.
"Don't do that, get up." This time, Han Lie originally came to hunt and kill this merman, but after the battle just now, he found that this merman was quite humane, and he couldn't bear to kill him, plus this female merman also sent them two divine swords from the bottom of the sea, Tai'a and Gongbu, if it weren't for these two divine weapons, the weapons in Han Lie's hands couldn't break through Bai Jiao's hard scale armor at all, and if they didn't get it right, they would be wiped out.
From this point of view, this female mermaid also saved their lives, not to mention that Han Lie is not an extremely vicious person, even if he still has a little conscience, he should not have the slightest intention of killing the merman, not to mention that there is a little merman in the arms of this female merman.
The female merman who got Han Lie's permission jumped to the side of Bai Jiao's corpse with a little joy on her face, first groped around Bai Jiao's rotten head, and when the female merman's hand was withdrawn from the white Jiao's flesh and blood, Han Lie and the others clearly saw that she was holding a yellowed bead in her hand.
"Lord, it seems to be Jiaozhu, is it just given to her?" Xu Huang said with some surprise.
"Forget it, although I didn't gain any wealth this time, but I got two divine weapons and another actual battle, so it should be regarded as an experience." Han Lie nodded, although he knew that Jiaozhu must be worth a lot, but since he had promised the female merman, he naturally didn't want to regret it.
However, the female mermaid did not accept the shark bead, but directly put the bead a little bigger than her thumb into the mouth of the baby in her arms, the baby looks like a human child more than a year old at most, looking like a girl, but so many things have happened, she has not cried or made trouble, just a pair of black and clear eyes, has been slipping, giving people a sense of agility and well-behaved.
"Ahh The little female mermaid who ate the beads suddenly let out a cry of excitement, and her pink arms slapped indiscriminately.
Seeing this, ......the female merman hurriedly comforted the little female mermaid in her arms, and then jumped to the place where the white shark was half-body, leaned over and opened her mouth to bite the white Jiao's body, and the surprising scene happened again, the hard white snake skin scales, at this moment under the female shark's teeth, like paper paste, were suddenly bitten through the snake skin by the female shark with her mouth, revealing a bloody mouth.
Just when Han Lie and the others were surprised, the female mermaid stretched out her hand again, quickly took out an egg-sized gallbladder from the wound, and put it on the baby in her arms, the little mermaid opened her mouth and bit out the white gallbladder, and swallowed the white gallbladder little by little.
After all this, the female mermaid showed a happy smile on her face, and patted the little female mermaid in her arms, her holy expression was definitely no less than that of any human mother.
"Ya Ya ......" The little female mermaid excitedly stretched out her little hand and called a few times, and then fell asleep deeply.
This kung fu, Han Lie instructed Zhao Yun to take the sergeant and start to pack up the iron net and rope, preparing to pull this white Jiao, which weighs at least three hundred catties, back to eat meat, this thing is very replenishing at a glance, of course, Han Lie is not only for meat, but mainly wants to peel the skin, the snakeskin scales on this white Jiao's body are hard and abnormal, and even the sharp blade of refined steel like the Seven Star Treasure Knife cannot be broken, which shows how strong its defense is.
If you bring it back, it is enough to make several sets of two-dang armor that you wear close to your body to protect the vital parts of your body, so that even if you encounter cold arrows on the battlefield, with the hard scale armor defense of this white jiao, it is not enough to be fatal.
Han Lie didn't move due to exhaustion, but sat aside to rest, but at this moment, the female mermaid put the child in her arms in front of Han Lie, and then pointed to the rope and iron net in the hands of the busy sergeant, making Han Lie confused.
"Ah, you want ropes and nets?" Han Lie took a while to come to his senses, and asked with some hesitation.
"Whew." The female mermaid opened her mouth and nodded repeatedly.
"Wen Xiang, give him ropes and iron nets." Seeing this, Han Lie didn't know what she was for, but he didn't refuse.
Xu Sheng, who was on the side, heard Han Lie's order, and immediately took a bundle of straw rope and a pair of iron nets and sent them to the female merman.
The female mermaid, who had taken the rope and the iron net, turned around and plunged into the water.
"Childe, what does this merman mean?" Xu Sheng looked at the merman who entered the water in confusion, scratched his head and asked.
Han Lie didn't know what it meant at first, but when his eyes touched the Tai'a Sword beside him, he couldn't help but move: "Could it be that there is a shipwreck under the seabed?" If I remember correctly, this Tai'a sword should have been the sword of the First Emperor after he destroyed Chu, and then he was missing. ”
"The lord said well, according to legend, the sword of Tai A Jian, the sword of the might, is the king of Chu ordered the sword casting master Ou Zhizi to take three years to cast, containing infinite power, Jin Jun learned of the prestige of this sword, so he sent a messenger to ask for it, the king of Chu did not allow, as a result, Jin Jun sent 200,000 troops, all the way to Yingdu, when the city was broken, the king of Chu ascended the city, drew his sword out, only to see a majestic sword qi sent out, the Jin army was almost killed and wounded, so far Tai Awei is famous all over the world." Zhao Yun remembered a classic he had read before, and echoed: "At the end of Qin, the world was in turmoil, some people said that the first emperor was buried with a sword, and some people said that the sword was dug up by Xiang Yu from the tomb of the first emperor, there are many rumors about this sword, but no one has really seen this sword, and now it is obtained by the lord, this is the will of heaven." ”
"Yes, in the past, Emperor Gaozu held the Chixiao Sword to kill the Python Jiao uprising, and established the foundation of the Han Dynasty for more than 400 years. Xu Huang walked up and said excitedly.
"Ahem, that's over." Han Lie clenched his fist in front of his mouth and coughed, and said with a calm expression.
"Huhu ......" The female mermaid who would go and return pulled the rope back to the shore, threw the rope and waved to Han Lie.
At this time, Han Lie understood the other party's meaning at once, and nodded hurriedly: "Go to a few people and pull the rope up." ”
"It's so heavy." The five sergeants stepped forward and pulled the rope and immediately shouted.
When Zhao Yunxu Huang heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward to help pull it up, and when everyone pulled the rope up, there was a square iron box three feet long wrapped in the iron net at one end of the rope.
"Let's see what's there." Han Lie and the others on the shore were all curious, and some sergeants had already whispered.
Zhao Yun waved the Gongbu sword, and with a sword, he cut off the rusty copper lock on the box, and when the lid of the box was opened, he saw that there was a box full of gold cakes in the huge box.
Seeing this box full of gold cakes, Han Lie's eyes couldn't help but keep looking, he stepped forward, grabbed a handful and scattered it like this, then picked up another piece, opened his mouth and bit it with his teeth, and when he was sure that this box of gold cakes was not copper gold, he tried his best to restrain his excitement and said: "It's red gold, full of red gold." ”
"Haha, great, this box of gold cakes has 3,000 gold, and the lord is really blessed." Xu Sheng grabbed them together and couldn't help laughing.
"Congratulations, my lord." Zhao Yun and Xu Sheng also bowed down to congratulate, and the hundreds of soldiers on the shore also knelt down and shouted, "Congratulations to the lord." ”
"It's all the robe brothers, so there's no need for so much courtesy. Today, you have a lot of credit, and you will be rewarded with five hundred dollars for each person when you go back. Han Lie nodded, waved his hand and shouted.
However, the matter is obviously not over yet, at this moment, the female mermaid pulled the rope again and drilled into the water with the iron net, seeing her actions, Han Lie, who was originally calm, couldn't help but be moved: "Could it really be that I guessed, there is really a shipwreck under the water?" ”
"Lord, this gold cake is a red gold cake cast in the pre-Qin period, heavier than the gold cake cast by my Han Dynasty, as long as we bring it back to Licheng, after re-casting, it is enough to mint five thousand gold, if there is a three-five box of gold cake at the bottom of the sea, then our current predicament in Licheng will be completely solved." Zhao Yun also said excitedly.
Although these gold cakes were minted in the Qin Dynasty, since Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the Han coins have been disordered, and the private minting of coins has long become a means of collecting wealth in various states and counties.
The common people who have suffered greatly have long hated the bronze five-baht coins minted in various places, and the gold cakes cast only in red gold have not only not depreciated, but the price has risen all the way, and has become the only currency recognized by the local tycoons.
Therefore, if the box of gold cakes in front of you is cast in brass, the value is really limited, but as a gold cake cast in red gold, the value will naturally double geometrically.
However, to Han Lie's surprise, the female mermaid actually fished up twenty large boxes for him, although these boxes only had three boxes of gold cakes, but there were two boxes of jade, one box of jewelry, and those three boxes of gold cakes were worth more than 10,000 gold, as for those two boxes of jade, they were all fine Western Regions jade, and the value was only 10,000 gold, and the discount of that box of jewelry was also no less than 5,000 gold, it can be said that with this batch of wealth, even if there were another 100,000 people, Han Lie would not have to worry about having no money to feed them.
However, the items contained in the other dozen boxes were basically worthless, and the various weapons contained in five of the boxes had already been rusted and almost become debris, and they were of no value at all.
The silk cloth contained in the other three boxes has already been soaked into a mass of slag by the seawater, and there are three boxes of Qin State half two coins, these coins are all cast in bronze, which will also be decayed, and the remaining few boxes are filled with some books that have also decayed, but Han Lie turned out a jet-black iron plate in these boxes containing books, saying that it is an iron plate, but it is just like an iron block, which can be immersed in the water for hundreds of years without breaking, this material is obviously not an iron component.
On this two-foot-long iron plate, there were slow words engraved on the seal, Han Lie looked at it for a while, but found that most of the words were not recognized, and he only vaguely justified that it seemed to be related to the First Emperor sending people to the sea to search for the elixir of immortality.
Han Lie didn't delve into this, seeing that the time was not early, and the tide began to rise, Han Lie immediately ordered to move those valuable boxes away, preparing to return home, to say that these boxes are not ordinary materials, the outside is wrapped with fine iron, but the inside is made of agarwood, if it is ordinary wood, it will have already rotted in the seawater.
For such a big gift from the female mermaid this time, Han Lie was grateful, and also said solemnly: "The vast sea, although it is your hometown, is also extremely dangerous, if you can trust me, I can take you back to the offshore life and ensure your safety for the rest of your life." ”