On the vast blue sea as far as the eye can see. There are several long-distance fishing boats www.biquge.info carrying out deep-sea operations.

In this era, except for the fleets of the great powers, which sailed in the seas and oceans; It is still a relatively dangerous thing for ordinary civilian ships to sail to the ocean.

But in the same way, it is precisely because there are not many civilian vessels and not many fishermen with the courage to sail the deep sea that the profits are very rich. In particular, things like tuna are of high quality only in the deep sea of the open ocean, and dignitaries like to eat them.

Even if you're lucky, if you can catch a top-notch marine fish like bluefin tuna, you might be able to go out to sea and catch one at a time enough for a fisherman to eat for a lifetime!!

Therefore, even if it is very dangerous, there are still some coastal fishermen who have been fishing for generations and choose to leave the shallow sea for deep-sea fishing operations because of their good water performance and strong boat management ability......

Wu Shark is one such fisherman. Or to be precise, he is not an ordinary fisherman, but a fishing boss. Under his control, he controls several good quality fishing boats and twenty or thirty young fishermen who are strong, water-oriented, and proficient in sea navigation. Relying on the sea to eat the sea, it can be regarded as earning a lot of family property.

It is as if there are landlords in the farming people who live on the land, and there are also roles such as "fishermen" and "fishermen" in the fishermen's groups.

Although Wu Shark lives in a small coastal town in the northernmost part of Indonesia, he is a Chinese with pure blood.

His family had migrated here from Hainan at the end of the Ming Dynasty. When he was very young, he heard the elders of his family say that from the time of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which the Chinese were most proud of, their Wu family was sent to Hainan by the imperial court, and they served as officials for generations, responsible for the management of the "egg people".

What is an Egg Man?

The Egg People are a very special historical ethnic group. It is the old name of China's water residents, mainly distributed in the southeast coastal area of Liangguang and Fujian. They generally live along the rivers and seas, and because they live in the water environment for a long time and rarely interact with land residents, they have formed a series of unique lifestyles and cultural customs.

As early as the Qin Shi Huang period, the imperial court had sent envoys to contact the egg people in the South China Sea and included them in the jurisdiction of the Qin Dynasty.

And by the Sui and Tang dynasties, they were officially called the Egg People by the imperial court - and perhaps there was a more famous and formal name: the Tan people! It's just that this is a formal title that was only formally formed during the Song Dynasty.

The biggest feature of the living customs of the "Tan people" is that they "float the rivers and seas" and "live by boats". For thousands of years, they have lived a "nomadic" life on the water.

There are two theories about why it is called the "egg (Tan)" family.

The first is based on the Taiping Huanyu Ji, which says that it was because the Han people first saw the egg people, and they used a special form of boat. The bow and tail of the ship are pointed high, the hull is flat and broad, its shape resembles an egg, so it is called "egg boat", and because it lives on the boat, takes the boat as its home, it is also called "Tanjia", "Tanhu" or "Tanmin".

The second is that the most powerful thing about this nation is not in fishing or catching rare seafood, but - pearl diving! Digging for egg-sized pearls in the body of a huge old clam in the depths of the ocean is worth 10,000 gold. It is also one of the favorite treasures of the royal family of all dynasties.

Because these pearls are the size of eggs, they are also called "egg beads", so the only person who can dig them is called "egg people".

All in all, whatever the way it is said. The Tan people are a group of people who are extremely proficient in water. And the court loved all kinds of treasures that the eggs got from the deep sea—pearls, coral, ambergris, and so on. Therefore, it is natural to send court officials to manage and control these egg people. These officials are called "egg officials".

The egg official is hereditary, so he is in charge of the egg people group for generations. Knowing a lot of secrets about the sea and some nautical knowledge, gradually, these egg officers themselves also thought of themselves as egg people. It's nothing more than the leader of the Egg Men......

And the ancestor of Wu Shark is such an egg official!

Dynasties change, and rivers change.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the last orthodox dynasty in China, the Manchu Qing settled in Jiangshan, provoking fierce revolts from the Han Chinese and other ethnic groups. At that time, the ancestor of the Wu family was furious, and led a part of the egg people who were willing to follow him to leave the mainland of China, drift across the ocean, and finally came to the northwest of Indonesia, and took root like this. It has been nearly 200 years since it was passed down to Wu Shark's generation......

For more than two hundred years, the Wu family has never given up the secret and mysterious mission about the origin of the egg man!

This secret has been passed down from generation to generation since the appearance of the Egg Man, and although it is not a mandatory family mission, the leaders of the Egg Man are also very curious about this secret. Therefore, once there is time or a relatively peaceful era, the leader of the Eggman will always push to continue to explore the biggest secret of the Eggman......

"Boss Wu, Boss Wu? What do you think? It's not like thinking about women. Ha ha. The sudden shouting in a rough voice interrupted Wu Shark's thoughts about his family's origin and secrets.

When he raised his head, he saw a black-faced man with bare feet, **** upper body, and only a pair of big pants grinning at him. His hands and feet are unusually large, and he looks unusual.

This guy is called Lao Yu, and his water nature is very good, and he is second only to Wu Shark in the seaside fishing village where the descendants of the egg man are located. The two grew up together, and their relationship is also excellent. That's why I dared to ridicule him like this.

Wu Shark wasn't angry, just glared at him fiercely: "It's only been three days since we came out, and you're starting to think about women?" When I was young, I was so unrestrained, and I couldn't do it if I was a little more careful. The iron rod has turned into noodles. ”

Hahahaha!

Immediately there was a burst of laughter on this fishing boat, and the fishermen were also very happy to watch the excitement of the boss sarcastically mocking the second child. The other fishing boats in the vicinity were also very curious when they heard the laughter coming from this side.

After playing for a while, Wu Shark waved his hand and told the fishermen to stop playing and go about their work. After all, there is a danger in the sea every minute and every second, so everyone must be vigilant enough for a long time. There can only be a brief period of relaxation.

Of course, as the boss, there will be more time to relax......

Wu Shark sat on the bow deck, his feet outstretched, dangling outside the side of the ship. A pair of sharp eyes looked straight at the place where the sea and the sky met in the distance. The sea breeze blew in his face and ruffled his hair. (To be continued.) )