The South China Sea Returns to the Ruins Chapter 20 Drifting Melons and Fish (I)
According to the past tradition, it is necessary to sacrifice the "melon god" and "fish owner", of course, this is only a dispensable form, but we follow the step-by-step and do not care about this extra move, so as not to regret it in case of repentance. In the past, if the fishermen and egg farmers caught the big fish in the sea, they all had the practice of sacrificing the fish owner, because the big fish in the sea were all dragon sons and grandsons in the eyes of the fishermen, and the so-called "fish master" was the dragon king of the South China Sea.
Ruan Hei, the boss of the boat, led everyone to burn incense, took out a jar of aged wine from the cabin and poured it into the sea, which is considered a sacrifice to the fish master dragon king, before the egg people went into the sea to collect eggs, and the sea was nothing more than a stone sand water dagger, and a pig urine bubble for ventilation, before the action, the whole body was drenched with water, and the heat of the living people on the body was eliminated as much as possible, so as not to be attacked by evil fish in the sea, almost taking the lives of the egg people themselves to exchange for Nanzhu.
The mountain movers are interested in all the beads in the world, whether they are in the mouth of the dead or those that have not yet been picked by people in the water, and they all try to get them by skill. They have a different way of collecting eggs in the South China Sea, and their generation is the best at Qimen Fangji, that is, they are proficient in all kinds of Qimen secret recipes, although most of these earthworks are not contained in the orthodox classics, but they are really wonderful. We had a large amount of half-raw watermelons in the hold before we went to sea, as well as a few large bags of quicklime, all of which came in handy.
He set up a pot at the bow of the boat, soaked the bucket in quicklime and turned it into a semi-boil, cut off the watermelons the size of a fist, removed the melons inside, poured lime water, and sealed the skins of the melons in their place. The cracks in the skin of the melon were blocked with sticky glue mixed with fiddler grass and cockles, and then the lime melons were thrown into the sea one by one.
The melon is filled with boiling lime water, floating and floating on the sea surface, just when it is about to sink and not sink, the water on the sea surface is overturned, and a big fish about ten meters long separates from the sea, swallows the lime watermelon one by one, and the fish body jumps high in the air by taking advantage of the momentum, stops for a while, and falls back into the water with a "pop" sound, splashing sideways.
All the aquariums that will be attracted by the pearl in the old snail have a sense of the yin essence of the moon, and they like yin and evil yang by nature, and they encounter the round watermelon floating and sinking in the sea, and there is the yin essence of the cockle in the melon, all of them compete to devour, and for a time the sea rises and falls, and all kinds of big fish come out of the water to swallow the melon. Although the watermelon is soaked in seawater, it is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, the lime in the melon is still boiling, and it is boiling even more when it encounters water, and it is swallowed into the belly of the fish by the sea fish, and the skin of the melon is immediately broken, and the great heat generated by the quicklime and the water can burn the belly of the fish lightly, and in an instant, there are several dead fish floating up with the white belly.
As more and more watermelons are tossed, the fish have no physiology once they are swallowed. I saw the dead fish churning on the sea surface continue to appear, these big fish are fierce by nature and ugly, and the appearance of being burned to death by lime in the abdomen is even more painful, and the fish's eyes are naturally open, and it is even more like death. We all stood on the deck and watched in horror, everyone had been mentally prepared beforehand, but we still couldn't imagine that the secret technique of "mountain movers" would kill fish so neatly.
I waved at Ruan Hei and signaled for them to prepare to go to sea, and the boat bosses, Ruan Hei and Duo Ling, immediately changed their water, brought scuba water, frog goggles, and egg picking, and waited for the signal in the kayak lowered on the side of the boat. The fat man and the others continued to throw melons into the sea, the aquarium lurking in this sea seemed to be endless, dead and one came out again, tumbling on the sea surface to swallow the bait, the fat man yelled that it was not good, it was not enough to estimate in advance, so that the watermelon and quicklime were not enough.
I tell the fat man and others, don't throw the watermelon too fast, avoid one fish swallowing two melons, be sure to use it sparingly, and eliminate one enemy with each bullet. If you don't get rid of the evil fish around the giant mussel, you will encounter an accident when you go into the water to collect eggs, even if it doesn't bite people, it will be hit hard by it on the bottom of the sea, and it will make people unable to eat and walk around, and now you can only fight to the end, anyway, either the fish will die or the net will break. If all the watermelons are polished and still can't kill the big fish around the coral tree, they can only go home and come back at a later date, but they may not be able to catch up with such a suitable walrus weather in the future, and I don't know when to enter the coral spiral again.
At this time, Shirley Yang saw that the killing was too heavy, and in less than a meal, nearly two hundred huge sea fish had died, and he couldn't help but change color slightly, but it was too late to regret it now. I persuaded her that anyway, she has already started to kill, and she must not be soft-hearted, stop now, these fish will die in vain, anyway, those crew members and egg pickers who are shipwrecked will also be buried in the belly of the fish if they fall into the water, although it is now fashionable to engage in class reckoning, but let's take this as revenge for the egg people.
In fact, I don't care about these dead fish, if I don't get rid of them, going into the water is equivalent to feeding the fish, but I am faintly worried in my heart that I can't kill, I am afraid that I will return in vain, fortunately, at the moment when there are still about 30 watermelons left, there are finally no dead fish floating in the sea, and I think that these big fish with thick scales and huge mouths are dead. Limited by the environment of the submarine currents, the aquarium is light and refuses to cross the boundary, but there are a few vicious fish greedy for the essence of mussel beads, mixed with the coral forest to wander around, as long as they are all removed, there is no worry about going into the water to collect eggs, and the aquarium in other waters will not venture into this vacuum in a short time.
Ruan Hei, the boss of the boat, used to be an egg farmer, and every time he pinned his head in the waistband of his trousers, seeing that this trick of drifting melons and fish was so powerful, in less than half an hour, he lured out all the big fish lurking near the coral tree and killed them cleanly, it was really a ruthless method, and he couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. I shouted at him several times before he came to his senses, pressed his thumb down, made a gesture to us to dive, and then with his half-breed apprentice Duo Ling, he held down the diving equipment on his body, fell back on the edge of the kayak, and rolled over into the water.
Seeing that Team A had entered the water, Shirley Yang beckoned Uncle Ming and me: "Team B has entered the bilge and prepared to dive." "Although we have cleared a lot of aggressive fish, the underwater situation is unpredictable, maybe it won't be too long at all, time is limited, and the three of us need to go into the water as much as possible.