177.Sea Tomb (1)
Darkness gradually filled the sky, countless stars broke through the night, and the night moisture permeated the air, diffusing a sentimental atmosphere. Looking up at the sky, the vast starry sky is exceptionally clear, and the distant stars are shining, like small tears......
Every night, I would make a cup of seaweed tea, sit on the stairs of the bamboo building, and look at the stars in the sky, as well as the Milky Way running through the night sky, because I think that looking at the sky at night can make people instantly the same many things, such as some of the usual troubles, but if you look at the vast sea of stars at night, you will feel that your troubles are nothing at all.
And Xue Meiniang is busy with housework, and will sit on the stairs with me to watch the sky, we will be stupid to watch for a long time, during which we will say some words in our hearts, or trivial things in our hearts, I and Xue Meiniang except for the last layer of membrane between husband and wife, others are basically the same as ordinary couples, she is responsible for the trivial things at home, I am responsible for making money outside, cooperate with each other, and only seek to make their lives better and better.
When I first came to the sea, maybe because I was not accustomed to the water and soil, I had a lot of ringworm because of allergies, and then Xue Meiniang would rub medicine on the stairs.
At this time, Xue Meiniang leaned on my shoulder, she put her arm around me and said: "Husband, I really hope that we can stay here forever, I have never felt so happy, these three months are the happiest days since I can remember." โ
"Silly girl." I smiled and didn't continue to speak.
Because this is a small place, there is no cable TV, let alone the Internet, but because of such primitive conditions, I feel that in addition to those information-based things, there are many wonderful things in life.
In the distance, I saw that it was the woman who begged me during the day, and she was walking towards us with her man and three children.
His man saw me and hurriedly trotted over to give me cigarettes, which are often smoked by men in the town, called SMS, which are generally about 30 baht, which is equivalent to six yuan.
His man's name was Kenlida, and he was a fellow of my ship, and his family was in debt and wanted to buy a boat, so I bought his boat, and gave me some more money, and asked him to work for me, and he was an experienced old sailor, and I was very good to him, so he affectionately called me a horse killer......
Although I don't like the term "horse-killing chicken" because it also means "massage" in Japan.
Kenlida's wife brought us eggs, and some vegetables, all home-grown, not worth much to me, but I took them anyway, and if I didn't, Kenlida would think that I disdained his thank-you gifts, and would resent me when the time came.
Two of Kenlida's three children have already gone to school, and the other one is more skinny, that is, the boy who had an accident during the day, he will not continue to go to elementary school, thinking that Kenlida's family is not very good, and he can only provide two children to study at most, and his youngest son is a boy, and Kenlida plans to let his younger son inherit his mantle in the future.
I lit a cigarette and invited their family in, but my house is not big, roughly only sixty or seventy square meters, Xue Meiniang took out the pastries from the cabinet, which was something I learned from the three sisters of the Hua family, and it was very delicious and very Chinese.
The three children ate very happily, and whether the two and a half children admired Xue Meiniang, so they started chatting on the side, and Xue Meiniang was also very gentle and decent.
Kenlida was holding a piece of sugar cake, he said some words of thanks in Thai language, and then folded his hands and expressed his gratitude to me in a Thai way, and I also asked him to go back early, after all, I have to go to sea tomorrow, I have little experience in going to sea, and most of them still have to rely on their locals.
The Kenlida family didn't stay for a long time, their way of expressing their gratitude was very direct, we accepted the gift, and then thanked it in person, even if it was a good message, they would take care of each other in the future.
The next morning, I put on a pair of short-sleeved trousers and boarded the boat with the rest of the group, which had an old-fashioned diesel engine with plenty of horsepower, but when it started, black smoke billowed and it was very choking.
In addition to Kenlida on the boat together, there are also the Bosiwa brothers, I usually call them Bo Ge or Bo Di, they are about the same age as me, but they are dark-skinned and are good swimmers, and the two brothers are especially good at going into the sea to touch clams, and they are very good at holding their breath.
When we were about to sail, the women I hired wrapped a lot of hay on the boat, and the local custom is that the ship wrapped in hay can sail safely and return smoothly, after all, the sea is stormy, and I have encountered storms several times when I go to sea.
Once in the movie I saw that the storm is very scary, able to overturn the ship, but in fact, after watching it, I found that the movie is just an exaggeration, the actual storm at sea, is nothing more than a little heavy rain, as long as you master the rudder and control the direction of the ship, basically the danger factor is very small, of course, it is still very scary to go in the deep sea, the waves of the deep sea are bounced up from the bottom of the water, and a careless will capsize the ship, but our ship is simple, only suitable for shallow sea operations.
At this time, the sky is clear, I thought that I will not encounter any wind and waves, I just stood on the bow of the boat and smoked, the money brought out from China, I have turned from 100,000 to 200,000, on the one hand, I am a little more courageous than the locals, I like to use idle money to invest, rather than put it at home moldy, life is a challenge.
Bo Ge came out of the cabin, his vicious eyes looked ahead, and said, "It's time to get off the net." โ
Brother Bo's eyes were very good, he said that when he got off the net, he would definitely be able to catch a lot of fish, which is also the reason why I have a good relationship with him, he himself has skills, but he keeps to himself, and I have no skills, but I like to take risks, so we can make money when we get together.
The large mesh we use for fishing is very large, so that the small fish we catch can escape from the mesh, and the big fish are kept by us, which is also conducive to the reproduction of local fish and does not become the result of killing chickens and eggs.
Kenlida and I tripped the big net over the side of the boat, and then everyone shouted one, two, three, and then cast the net, and we sailed around the sea for a while, and when we felt that the sailing speed was getting slower and slower, I knew that it was time to close the net, and immediately asked everyone to pull up the net, and sure enough, there were a lot of fish, most of them were sand tips and hairtail, and there were also a lot of miscellaneous fish, such as slug and large yellow croaker.
Everyone laughed, this is a good harvest, better than usual, I also smiled and pulled the fish up, put it in the middle of the boat, so many fish can earn at least 50,000 baht, that is, more than 10,000 yuan, minus labor costs, I can still have seven or eight thousand remaining fuel costs.
But this time, I found something terrible in the school, and I saw a shiny thing in the school, which turned out to be a yellow croaker, with a small hole in the belly, and a sharp thing poked out of it.
I jumped down, grabbed the yellow croaker, took it and opened my stomach to see that I was dripping, it turned out to be a gold bar!
This discovery is enough to make everyone boil, Bo Ge and Bo Di are even more excited, they have not seen this huge gold bar, this weight must be at least three taels, according to the market price, three taels is one hundred and fifty grams, and the market price of gold is more than 40,000 yuan, but the small gold is comparable to the value of three or four boats of fish.
Of course, I am more excited, because I know that there is a popular way of funeral in Thailand, that is, sea burial, which is played by some rich people, of course, there is basically no such thing now, sea burial is to load a dead person into a boat, and then let the ship float around, there are all kinds of pearl treasures in the ship, usually sail to a certain extent and then sink into the sea, most of them sink into the deep sea, and all people do not have this opportunity.
And the discovery of gold in the shallow sea means that there is likely to be a sunken ship buried at our feet!
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