Chapter 14: Ghosts of the Sea
Seeing that these people were talking about things that had nothing to do with him, Xiao Ling became a little impatient.
"Sir, can we go now?" Xiao Ling said to Qiao Yifan, but his tone was a little stiff.
Qiao Yifan glanced at him and nodded.
"Please try not to go out during this time, we may need your cooperation at any time." Guo Zhijian smiled.
"I knew I would have reported a ball case!" Wang Hui was a little dissatisfied, and muttered: "Isn't this the best example of asking for trouble!" ”
"It is the duty of every citizen to cooperate with the normal work of the public security organs!" Chen Li raised his eyebrows at Wang Hui and said with a smile.
Watching Xiao Ling and Wang Hui walk away, Qiao Yifan didn't say anything, but stared at their backs for a long time.
Lao Liu on the side gently poked Chen Li and said in a low voice: "Fatty, this kid was still covered with scars last night, we watched the nurse bandage the wounds on his head, why are they all gone?!" ”
"I noticed it as soon as I came, did this kid use some folk remedies when he went back?" Chen Li frowned, thoughtful.
Guo Zhijian didn't seem to hear their conversation, and walked over to the criminal policemen who were disposing of the corpses without saying a word.
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"Thirteen, I didn't eat anything when I came out at noon, I heard that the seafood thieves in this fishing village are cheap, and it's hard to come out, should we also go to luxury?" Wang Hui said as he walked with his bicycle.
"I still have more than three hundred on me, is it enough?" Xiao Ling said.
"Not so much, let's order less, one beer per person is enough, it is estimated that it is more than a hundred."
"Let's go, Lao Tzu has had bad luck these days, and he just borrowed seafood to get bad luck."
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In a small seafood shop, Xiao Ling and Wang Hui were feasting.
Although it wasn't a meal, in addition to the two of them, there were also some people sitting at several other tables in the store, and it seemed that they had come to eat cheap seafood.
The seafood in the fishing village is indeed cheap, it is simply the price of cabbage, and Xiao Ling and the others ordered four or five dishes, including beer, for less than one hundred and fifteen.
"Thirteen, how did those policemen know you?" Wang Hui dipped the peeled shrimp in some light soy sauce and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Don't mention it, what kind of arrest did they carry out yesterday, and Lao Tzu was almost regarded as a gang-society-society!" Xiao Ling put down his wine glass, a little depressed.
"What's wrong?"
"I just got out of the car yesterday afternoon, and I happened to meet them in the round-up of a group of criminals entrenched in the bus station, that scene is really terrifying, hundreds of SWAT criminal police officers participated, holding grass, and police and gangster films, Lao Tzu was unfortunately regarded as a criminal."
"Haha, this shit luck is really not available to ordinary people, congratulations!"
"Get out!"
At this time, there were four guests at the adjacent table who were also chatting while eating, and they were chatting very energetically
"What you just said is true?" Guest A asks Guest B at the same table.
"If you don't believe me, should we make a bet?" Guest B snorted.
"Ghost only believes, why haven't you seen the news for such a big thing?" Guest C disagreed.
"Haha, it's a river crab!" Guest Ding laughed.
"Anyway, I don't believe that, it's too evil." Guest A said again.
"Okay, I'll prove it to you!" Guest B was obviously not convinced, and shouted to the inside: "Boss, come here!" ”
Xiao Ling was stuffing a piece of fish meat into his mouth when he saw the boss in his fifties trotting over.
"How many people, what else do you need?" The boss had a smile on his face.
"I've heard that something evil is going on in this village, is it true?" Guest A asked.
"Well, it's all nonsense from outsiders, there's no such thing!" The boss hesitated for a moment and said with a smile.
"Boss, if you are willing to speak up, I will give you five hundred!" Guest B is arrogant and authentic.
"It's not that I don't want money, there's an explanation for this!" The boss's eyes have begun to shine.
"There's a door!" Guest Ding smiled again.
"We're just curious, we won't talk nonsense, five hundred yuan, don't be in vain!" The guest smiled.
"How many people really don't talk nonsense?" The boss's eyes immediately widened.
"Well, as long as you say it, the money will be yours!" Guest B was indeed wealthy, took out his wallet, counted five red tickets, and slapped them on the table.
"Hold the grass, Tainyima is rich!" Wang Hui glanced at the big bill on the table next to him, swallowed his saliva, and said in a low voice.
"Eat your meal!" Xiao Ling glared at him, and then pricked up his ears as well.
The boss stared at the money on the table, and simply pulled a chair and sat down.
"You really guessed right, our village has not been peaceful lately." The boss lowered his voice.
"Speak slowly!" Guest A motioned for a few people at the table to be quiet.
"Well, it's not ordinary." The boss sighed.
Xiao Ling and Wang Hui, who were sitting on the side, saw that the boss said solemnly, and they also quieted down.
As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to eat the water, this village is dependent on the sea because of the sea, of course, it also depends on the sea for a living.
But going out to sea to fish is not as simple and comfortable as tourists following the boat boss to the offshore waters, even in the modern era of highly developed communications, it is still a high-risk occupation.
With the impact of human beings on the ocean, fishing operations have increased, and the offshore sea is basically unable to meet the needs of fishermen, and in order to make a profit, you have to go farther, and there must be a premise, that is, your boat must be big enough.
Lin Laohan in the village did not have this condition, and the family could only rely on a small fishing boat to make a living. Compared to those fishermen who have the conditions, they can only operate in the offshore area.
Because they can't go far, their family usually goes back to the village once a week, and the harvest is only enough to cope with life.
A month ago, Lin Laohan took his three sons to the sea, and after tossing for a week, their harvest was not much different from usual, except for the cost of fuel and other expenses, it is estimated that there is not much left.
However, the father and son have also become accustomed to it.
Because the weather was too hot, the ice on the ship was consumed quickly, and in order to prevent the fresh goods from becoming stinky, they hurried back with a small harvest.
Unlike other trades, seafood is usually traded early, and in some places the market opens at three or four o'clock.
In order to catch up with the morning market, Lin Laohan and his son did not rest all night.
At more than two o'clock in the morning, the fishing village was already in sight, and Lin Laohan, who was standing at the bow of the boat, finally breathed a sigh of relief: there would be no big problem in catching up with the morning market!
Just as he was feeling at ease, he suddenly noticed that countless huge bubbles were emerging from the right front of the ship's side, as if something was moving on the bottom of the sea.
It's very close to the shore, and there are very few big sea creatures, could it be whales?
Lin Laohan stared at the surface of the sea for a while, and in his experience, he knew very well that those bubbles were not made by whales, but the things under the water were definitely extremely huge.
Lin Laohan, who has been fishing all his life, has never seen such a strange thing, and he hurriedly called his three sons.
But the sons were also confused.
After a while, as the bubbles increased, the sea began to churn, but the churning was more exaggerated than the waves caused by the largest typhoon, and the waves were no longer enough to describe its power, and the waves with huge undercurrents turned the ship around.
However, this was only the beginning, and when they came back to their senses, they found that a similar situation had occurred almost simultaneously around the ship, and the sea seemed to be open, setting off countless huge waves, becoming more and more fierce and ferocious!
Lin Laohan hurriedly looked around and found that except for the location of his ship, the rest of the sea was calm and the weather was very good! Seeing this situation, the Lin family's father and son instantly panicked.
The fishermen in the coastal areas are more superstitious, and Lin Laohan thought that he had offended the god of the sea by not doing a good job, so he hurriedly ordered his sons to go back to the cabin to move the sacrifices out and prepare to sacrifice to the god of the sea.
But at this moment, except for the violent shaking of the boat, it had begun to spin in place, because there was no sea breeze at all, and the sails had long become ornaments, and the boat was like a small leaf at the hands of the waves.
When they can't even stand still, where else can they do but hold on to the fixtures around them.
Just when they were panicking, with a strange voice coming, Lin Laohan found that a black shadow was circling around the boat, and the speed was so fast that he couldn't see what it was at all.
After about four or five turns, the black shadow suddenly swooped down on the ship, but soon it disappeared without a trace.
Soon after the shadow disappeared, the sea stopped churning, the waves disappeared, and the sea instantly returned to calm, as if nothing had happened just now.
After the boat also stabilized, the frightened Lin Laohan hurriedly got up, ready to call a few sons to check whether the hull was damaged, after all, this is the guy from their family for dinner.
Who knows, when he looked around, he found that except for the eldest son, the second son and the younger son, who were originally nearby, were gone.
Lin Laohan thought that they were hiding in the cabin, so he asked his eldest son to look for it, but his eldest son checked every corner of the ship, but the two of them were as if they had evaporated from the world, and there was no trace of them!
Lin Laohan was frightened into a cold sweat, and hurriedly circled around the side of the boat several times, but on the calm sea, there was nothing to be seen at all!
Could it be that the god of the sea got angry and took away his two sons? Lin Laohan still didn't give up, he personally went into the water and searched around the boat, but he still found nothing.
The desperate Lin Laohan hurriedly went ashore with his only surviving eldest son and invited the whole village to help search and rescue Da Fishing, but his two sons disappeared completely, not to mention the corpse, not even half of the cloth was found.
When he explained the situation, the villagers believed that the god of the sea was angry and took his two sons as punishment, and from this, an invisible panic began to spread in the village, and every family burned incense and sacrificed day and night, for fear that disaster would suddenly befall their homes.
Lin Laohan's two sons are very young, in their early twenties, and they are the main laborers of the family, and their disappearance has almost brought a catastrophe to this family, which is not wealthy in the first place.
Lin Laohan's wife also fell ill because of this, and he died in less than half a month.
But the matter did not end, and then, in less than a month, more than a dozen families in the village suffered the same tragedy, and all the people who disappeared were the strong men of the family.
For a time, the village was overwhelmed by the clouds, and the people were panicked, except for a few families who did not want to die, the vast majority of fishermen did not dare to go to sea again.