"What for?" When Xiaopang heard this, he was stunned.

"Guess the guts." When Ms. Zhao heard this, she repeated it jokingly.

"Egg picking." Sitting upright, I looked at her.

"Yes, it's egg picking." When Ms. Zhao heard this, she smiled, then took a sip of her wine glass and continued, "Listen to my grandfather, at that time he was not sure if what those people said was true, anyway, they said that the foreigner in the suit was also a bit of a down-and-out big boss, their situation was similar to that of grandpa, and they also lost money in business and wanted to gamble.

"Oh." After listening to her, I understood.

Egg picking, egg picking, not eggs.

That's what the locals say, and it actually means going out to sea to pick pearls.

At that time, the level of science and technology was relatively backward, and it was not easy to go to the deep sea for pearl diving, coupled with the various invasions of some deep-water beasts, which made the deep-sea operation very dangerous.

When people die, those who have lived on the sea for generations begin to be afraid, so some people think that in the South China Sea, pearls and other things are treasures of the sea, and those people will die because they have taken the things of the sea and angered all kinds of spirits in the sea.

It is also because of this that people who go to sea are very taboo to mention words such as "pearls" in the process of going to sea, once they say it, it is easy to attract the hostility of the "sea god", and if it is not good, not only those things with pearls are not allowed to him, but the souls who died because of pearl diving will also deliberately drag them into the water because of jealousy.

On this basis, the "egg" has become an obscure term for the big pearl in the deep sea.

Aside from these unobtrusive legends, we also have to admit that "egg picking" is a very dangerous industry, in the past few decades, there are not a few people who have been caught alive by the big mussels in the deep sea, however, the market value of deep-sea pearls is very high, once you get a few enough pieces, it is enough to ensure that the three generations of a family have no worries about food and clothing.

Therefore, in the eyes of the locals, egg harvesting is an industry with high returns and high risks, and no one wants to take risks if they are not desperate or obsessed with money.

Old man Zhao stayed in the South China Sea for a long time, and knew everything about the local affairs, and when he heard this, he felt that it was very reasonable, and he discussed it with a few brothers and agreed to this work.

Old Man Zhao made his own little calculations, and he was happy in his heart, but what he didn't expect was that although he thought he was smart, he still made a fatal mistake.

After many years, Mr. Zhao only told this matter, and when he talked about his feelings, he often burst into tears.

Only he knows how much has happened here, and we only know the result that does not count as a result.

When they went, there were twenty-one of them, but on the day they returned, only he and his two good brothers, who were seriously injured and almost died, were all gone.

At that time, this incident caused quite a stir, and even the people above were alarmed, however, unexpectedly, those who came to investigate did not entangle with Old Man Zhao more, and after understanding the situation, they quickly left, and at the same time, several other golden foreigners appeared in Old Man Zhao's field of vision.

They were very interested in Old Man Zhao's affairs, and while pestering Old Man Zhao to ask this and that, they also sent a lot of people to investigate the whole story, and even Old Man Zhao's tattered wooden boat was bought by them for a lot of money.

At that time, everyone except the person concerned did not understand what the value of the wrecked ship that was about to be scrapped was there, until a long, long time later, the foreigner who bought the boat removed a corpse from the broken ship that was severely damaged, and auctioned it at an even more shocking price to a famous collector at home and abroad, at that time, everyone understood the real reason why Mr. Zhao became rich overnight.

All along, those people were not looking for big pearls the size of eggs.

What they are looking for is a person.

It's not appropriate to say that it's human, in a sense, it's not a person at all.

Many people wonder if that thing really exists, but few can say for sure.

Some say he is a close relative of the kappa, some say he is a mysterious descendant of Atlantis, and others say that he is a people of the sea that existed in the Middle Ages of the South Seas.

Of course, in various classics throughout the ages, they have a common name - mermaids.

When I heard this, everyone present was attracted by Ms. Zhao's words, not because of how bizarre the story was, but because the merman was so famous.

When I was in school, I saw such a passage in a broken book in the library, with a bookmark on that page, so I was very impressed by this passage, which said: "Beyond the South China Sea, there are mermaids, who live in water like fish, and do not waste weaving, and whose eyes cry, can produce pearls." He also said, "The shark people of the East China Sea, with black scales and teeth, are the most yin, and their ointment can be candles, which will not be extinguished for ten thousand years." ”

At that time, I was curious about what it was like to be described in this way, so I went back and searched, and the first picture that came out was a half-orc with a long-haired woman on the beach

At that time, my curiosity was greater, and I couldn't miss it when I encountered this yellow, violent and legendary mysterious creature, and it is no exaggeration to say that I spent a lot of thought in this creature.

The recent encounter with the water monkey made me more interested in the legendary mysterious creatures, especially the legend about the eight hundred bhikshunis left a deep impression on me.

The merman is a sea creature, originally living in legends, it is said that many merman corpses have been found around the world, and the U.S. Navy has also caught a live one, therefore, everyone generally believes that this thing does exist zài, as for where it came from, this question is controversial, in general, there are about the following theories.