I hurriedly looked back at the calm water, only the swell was getting bigger, and the two boats rose and fell with the tide, but there was nothing else abnormal, so I said to Gu Chai : "Didn't you ask the kid not to mention ghosts again?" And I don't have a long memory. The mountain is high and there are monsters, and the forest is easy to be fine, so don't talk nonsense when you get to this kind of place. "After saying that, I want to pass a small mirror that Shirley Yang brought with him, and secretly hold it up to look at Gu Chai, but the mirror is too small, and the two boats are driving undulating on the water, and where can I see the reflection in the mirror.

Duo Ling was worried about Gu Chai and asked, "Senior brother, why do you always mention ghosts?" "Gu Chai and his senior sister said a few words of the local language of Coral Temple Island, Uncle Ming has been in Nanyang for a long time, can understand a lot, he heard and told us, it turned out that Gu Chai said about the bottom of the sea willow ship.

The sea willow boat is made of sea willow as the main material, from ancient times to the present, there are few such ships, even Uncle Ming has never seen it before. Sea willow is not wood, but the sex is extremely yin, so it occupies the word "willow". In ancient times, the willow was regarded as the "head of the five ghosts", and it is said that the juice of willow leaves is rubbed on the eyelids and you can see ghosts at night.

In ancient times, the tomb paid attention to the seal of the tree, the seal refers to the sealing of the soil, the tree is any one of the five ghost trees, like the locust tree willow tree is not suitable for planting in the courtyard of the yang house, because they are worthy of the name of the yin house tree, the folk proverb has the saying "in the courtyard of the house, do not plant the five ghosts", it is this meaning.

Whether it is the captain of the gold school or the egg people, they all know a common truth: "A name is a name, and there must be a reason." "Even the most ordinary names of people like Zhang San, Li Si, and Wang Er Mazi are all based on ranking, surname, and characteristics." The title of "sea willow" is naturally not groundless, in addition to its shape like a willow, it also has the yin nature of a willow tree. Legend has it that the people who drowned in the sea are sea ghosts, and the sea ghosts often gather on the sea willows, and with the moonlight infesting the sea, as the moon shines on the sea, the sea willows will condense a cloud of ghost energy, and the living people who touch this ghost will immediately die of the cold.

Believe it or not, anyway, in the thousand-year-old sea willows, there is such an invisible and qualitative yin qi, just like some mussel shells, there will be vivid Buddha statues. The yin qi in the sea willow is also more human-shaped, using the sea willow to build a ship, can penetrate the waves and go deep into the open ocean, even if it encounters a stormy sea, as long as a part of the ship uses the thousand-year-old sea willow, it can often turn the danger into a disaster, completely relying on the sea ghost yin qi in the sea willow. However, there are many taboos on the sea, and there must be a secret cabin in the sea willow ship to worship sea ghosts. There is such a superstitious saying that whoever talks about sea ghosts on the sea willow boat will die.

In the secret cabin where sea ghosts are raised, most of them will put sea stone flowers and lock the bones of sea bandits. Because the sea willow boat sails to the sea, the sea willow in the hull will surge with yin qi, and the crew will continue to die inexplicably, and only the sea stone flower can absorb this ghost qi. There is often a kind of half-fish and half-shrimp "sea monk" near the sea stone flower, this kind of fish can survive from the water, it is a kind of amphibian creature, it is caught by someone and kowtows to beg for mercy, the mouth is cooing, it seems to be chanting "Amitabha". It usually licks the black water that the sea stone flower turns into after absorbing the yin energy, and the superstitious crew believes that the black water is the resentment of the ghost in the sea willow. "Sea monk" is a bodhisattva fish in the sea, there are "black relics" in the head of the fish, they can surpass the dead by chanting Buddha on the boat, so some fishermen will immediately release the "sea monk" when they catch it, and no fisherman dares to eat this fish.

And the bones of the pirates are also an indispensable thing on the sea willow ship, which can shock the undead in the sea willow. In the South Seas, there are countless such strange customs and customs. Now that the willow boat is almost extinct in the world, such unbelievable taboos cannot be fully believed, nor can they be disbelieved. The British salvage team didn't believe in this evil, and planned to catch a few "sea monks" to make specimens, but they committed a taboo and were invaded by the yin qi in the sea willows, and lost their lives in vain.

Uncle Ming had heard some of it, and he forgot it without mentioning it, and he only knew a rough idea, but he had never seen it in person, and at this time, Gu Chai told Ruan Hei some things about him before, and everyone knew a thing or two. Gu Chai was convinced of this, he always thought that after the death of Master Ruan Hei, the ghost was attached to the sea willows in the bilge, although he was shocked and frightened at the time, but now that he is leaving the ship, he can't help but be reluctant, and he can't help but look back, wanting to see if there is Master Ruan Hei among the sea ghosts in the water.

Speaking of this, Duoling and Gu Chai shed tears together, the two put down the wooden oars and raised their hands to wipe their tears, their small boat suddenly slowed down, I took the opportunity to use the mirror to look at Gu Chai's back, and was about to take a closer look, but the mirror in my hand was taken back by Shirley Yang, she whispered to me: "What the hell are you going to do again?" What do you look at them in the mirror? ”

I told her about the ghost of the captain I had seen in the wreck, and Shirley Young said, "You were blaming Gu Chai for always mentioning ghosts, but now you are doing the same, and you have told you all the words inside and outside." ”

I said to Shirley Young: "Our future is bright, but the road is tortuous, and now we are lost in the chaos of the ruins, on this tortuous road, we have to be careful in everything, who can really prove that there are ghosts in the world or not?" In case something unclean entangled with Gu Chai, you and I naturally can't stand idly by, but it's too late to wait for something to happen, and when the daylily is cold, I feel that Gu Chai's time is not quite right when he is underwater, do you feel this way? ”

Shirley Yang shook his head and said: "I think Duoling and Gu Chai are both simple people, and I didn't find anything abnormal about Gu Chai on the Mary Sannu, I know you have to worry about the fate of our group at sea, but don't put too much pressure on yourself." I saw a portrait of the captain himself in the captain's room, with a beard and a gold watch with a pipe in his hand, and the cabin was very cramped, and we brought a lot of diving lighting, and the light and shadow were staggered under the water waves, and perhaps what you saw in the mirror was only a reflection on it. ”

I was dumbfounded, could it be that I was really blinded by the mistake? In the complex environment of underwater darkness, lack of oxygen and high pressure, coupled with the shaking of diving lighting equipment, this is also an inaccurate thing, maybe the ghost in the mirror is a temporary illusion, but then I think about it, we dived to salvage the Qin King's bone mirror, too many incomprehensible things happened, is everything in the normal category? Why does the shark repellent on the body fail at the same time at the bottom of the water? Why are those evil sharks chasing and biting us like crazy? Now that the salvage team has lost a member, how can they turn a blind eye to these strange things if they want to bring all the survivors back? Don't bully the mountains and the water, how many living beings have been swallowed by the sea from ancient times to the present, the dead ghosts at the bottom of the sea are by no means less than those on land, and the things in the sea are too difficult to say, I don't know how many times more complicated than the deep mountains and old forests. Let's touch Jin Xiaowei often boasts of himself, saying that people are extraordinary people, and the things they encounter are extraordinary things, and their experience and knowledge are not beyond the reach of ordinary people, but when they are put on the sea, we are almost a black eye, and even inferior to Uncle Ming, which is called interlacing like a mountain.

Shirley Yang originally wanted to comfort me a few words, but when I said this, I had to frown slightly, for the action of diving and fishing for the green head just now, she also had a lot of doubts in her heart, but for the time being, she didn't have any clue, while rowing the wooden paddle in her hand, while looking at the sea water, she was silent.

At this time, the fat man said to us: "You two are really not enough to pursue, don't see yourself and can't get by, I look at the sea, my hometown, it's really like the song sings." We egg people were born by the sea, grew up in the sea, the sea is like our old lady, generous and selfless to us, let us catch a lot of money this time, and when we have enough strength, when there is water in the sea eye, just swim out and end it, and don't care what the is doing. Besides, the two of you are patronizing and whispering, and the old thief of the Hong Kong farmers is not idle. ”

The fat man motioned for me to pay attention to Uncle Ming's movements, and we leaned the lifeboat to the side of the boat where Uncle Ming and the three of them were, only to hear Uncle Ming comforting Duoling and Gu Chai in his heart, claiming that he liked these two children from the bottom of his heart, and persuaded the two of them not to go to France to find relatives, but simply worship themselves as teachers, and boasted: "Why do you all call me Uncle Ming?" Because your uncle and I are the light, everyone in Nanyang knows that as long as they follow Uncle Ming, they will never fall into the darkness......"

I immediately whistled with the fat man to Uncle Ming: "You hurry up and rest, we don't know what kind of bird you are?" Isn't it just a ruined amphibious speculator? When did you make yourself a saint? The skin was three inches thicker than the corners of the city walls. ”

Even if it weren't for Ruan Hei's entrustment before he died, it would be impossible for me to watch Gu Chai and Duo Ling jump into the big fire pit of Uncle Ming, after finding Duo Ling's biological father, she should be able to get a life that truly belongs to her; And Gu Chai is only fifteen or sixteen years old, his future should be broader, he is not like me and the fat man sixteen or seventeen now, we have no choice about the future at that time. There was a saying back then, "Don't ask about morality, intellect and physique, only ask about the elderly." If you don't ask how old you are, you must ask about your fifties." This means that the way out for young people is to go to the mountains and go to the countryside, and there are many brothers and sisters in the family, the eldest stays, the second goes, the third stays, and the fourth goes, so everyone who cuts in line asks how old they are. In addition, unemployed young people who stay in the city can take over their father's job, and the premise is that their father is in his fifties, so we have no right to choose our fate before the age of 30.