Chapter 50: The Strange Boat
After heung-woo and Mia frolic in the water tank, they begin to rinse the soil from the planter box to reduce the salt in the soil.
From time to time, Xingyu reached out to take the water dripping from the planting box to test the taste. It was only when the saltiness of the water had subsided that they stopped washing the dirt.
When Heungwoo and Mia sit in the lifeboat to rest, Heungwoo gets out of the lifeboat. Soon after, I saw Xingyu walking in again with an ice bucket.
When Miya was about to ask Xingyu, Xingyu spoke first: "This ice bucket will be our toilet in the future." Xingyu saw Miya staring at him with wide eyes, and hurriedly continued: "The sea is vast, this is our only source of fertilizer!" Miya immediately went berserk: "You're stupid! Fish bones, guts and heads can be soaked in water to ferment into fertilizer. It has to be so disgusting! Xingyu was surprised and said, "It turns out that it can still be like this!" I don't know! The next day, they still didn't see the potatoes sprout, and the two of them started to worry.
Miya asked worriedly, "It's been four days, and the potatoes still haven't sprouted." Have the potatoes been left too long to sprout? Xingyu replied helplessly: "I don't know, I haven't planted it." "They have only seen the potatoes sprout naturally, but they have never planted potatoes.
They could only continue to wait. By the seventh day, the potatoes in the planting box had finally sprouted. The two of them saw the small green and white tender tips emerging from the bean eyes of the potatoes, and they ran happily to vent the joy in their hearts.
They waited for another two days for the sprouts to grow before they cut the potatoes into the soil and planted them. They don't dare to plant too intensively, for fear of affecting the growth of potatoes.
In the planting box, only six potato sprouts were planted. At this time, the potatoes in the lifeboat also began to sprout.
But they had no dirt left. You can only dig out the bean eyes, peel them, soak them in water, and prepare them to add vegetables at night.
At this time, the potatoes in the container, lacking sunlight, still did not move. After another three days, the potato seedlings finally came out of the mud.
When Miya was carefully watering the potato seedlings, Xingyu saw a strange boat floating in the distance, and after Xingyu saw it clearly, he blurted out with wide eyes: "How can this boat float here!" Mia heard Xingyu's shouting and followed Xingyu's gaze.
Mia saw a strange boat floating on the sea, like a small boat and like a raft. Long logs with the thickness of a calf are put together to form the shape of a small boat.
There is also a cage-like shed on the boat, which is very long, two-thirds of the whole boat is covered by a shed, only the bow has no shed.
If you don't notice that the hull and roof of the ship are tightly tied with logs, you will think that it is a cage floating on the sea.
Mia also faintly saw that the back half of the boat shed was lined with a row of logs, dividing the back half of the boat shed into two low upper and lower levels.
Mia was surprised and asked, "What kind of ship is this?" Very strange ship, and it also looks very rudimentary. Xingyu replied uncertainly: "If I'm not mistaken, this ship should be the only traditional ship of the sea drifting clan in the world." Don't underestimate this ship! The people live in these small boats and have been drifting in the South China Sea for generations. Many of their people have never been ashore in their entire lives, and live only at sea. After hearing this, Mia was surprised and said, "Wow! It's amazing! Do not go ashore for the rest of your life, live at sea. Can this kind of boat withstand the wind and waves of the sea? When we drifted in a lifeboat before, we almost capsized in the big waves. This kind of boat is even more powerful than a lifeboat, and can float here from the South China Sea. Xingyu replied with a wry smile: "That's why I'm not sure." Although the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea meet, it is a long way to float here from the South China Sea. I'm afraid that there was an accident on this ship, and there was no one on board. "This boat is indeed the traditional boat of the drifters in the South China Sea, and it is made of mangrove trees that grow in the shallows.
Mangroves are very difficult to rot when immersed in the sea and are very durable. In addition, the log itself has buoyancy, and even if it is sunk by a huge wave, it will float itself.
The design of the boat is heavy and light, so that the boat can be turned over by itself after being overturned by the waves. This is why in addition to the roof, the shed body is woven into a cage to reduce the weight of the upper part.
And the low boat shed also acts like a cage so that the people inside will not be thrown out of the boat by the waves. Although Mia was amazed by the strong design of this small boat, she still asked puzzledly: "This ship is too simple to even protect from the wind and rain." Living in it, life is definitely hard. Why don't they go ashore to live? "There are a lot of different theories on the Internet about the origins of the Drifters.
Xingyu's father was once employed by a small country in Southeast Asia and was commissioned to investigate this sea drifting tribe. So Xingyu has seen a copy of the historical record of this small country.
That's why Heung-woo was able to recognize the ship. Xingyu then told Miya what he knew: "The ancestor of this drifting clan was a court guard in a small country in Southeast Asia. At that time, the king of the country died, and there were no legitimate children to succeed to the throne. At that time, the court health supported the king's illegitimate son to succeed to the throne, but after this illegitimate son succeeded to the throne, he was quickly overthrown by the minister. After the change of dynasty, the illegitimate child disappeared. The court guards were also hunted down and eventually escaped by boat. At that time, the relationship between the new dynasty and the colonial powers in the West was very good, so they joined forces to issue wanted notices throughout Southeast Asia. These palace guards have nowhere to escape but to keep drifting on the sea. A few generations later, the country changed dynasties. The new dynasty forgave their sins, but their descendants were accustomed to drifting on the sea, so they did not return home. To this day, the people are still adrift on the sea. After listening to the story told by Xingyu, Miya seemed to understand the life experience of this drifting clan, and silently looked at the boat not far away.
Soon after, the boat was drifting past the raft. The two saw a skull stuck in the upper deck of the boathouse.
Xingyu and Mia immediately understood that there had been an accident on the ship, and the owner had died. The unmanned boat, with its superior design, has been floating on the sea.
Xingyu and Mia mourned for the ship's owner, and then silently watched the boat go away.