Gu Chai and Duo Ling are not very old, their experience is limited, and the master who got along with them day and night died suddenly, they both lacked the backbone of the heart, and they seemed to be lost and depressed, and they were at a loss with tears.

When Uncle Ming saw that I hid the best Nanzhu in the mouth of Ruan Hei's corpse, he seemed to be a little distressed, and walked around the corpse on the ground, but it was inconvenient to say this situation, so he had to endure the pain and cut his love. However, he seemed to suddenly notice something unusual, came over and grabbed my arm, and dragged me behind Gu Chai: "Brother Hu, do you see what he has in this egg boy...... What's out of the ordinary? ”

I watched Gu Chai squatting on the ground to sort out Ruan Hei's body, his upper body was naked, and his shirt was torn off by Uncle Ming when he entered the water to save people just now, revealing his whole body full of embroidery. This body of embroidery is colorful and complex, all of them are large ocean waves, and the complex lines of the fish and dragons chasing fire beads or diving on the bottom of the sea are majestic, mysterious and magical. Tattoos and tattoos are very popular in the Nanyang area, but it is rare to see such a delicate full-body splendid as Gu Chai is, but I don't know what Uncle Ming meant, this young man can go into the water to fight whale salamanders, is it something that the apprentices of the egg people can do?

When I thought of this, I suddenly felt a pang in my heart, so I asked Uncle Ming what he meant by this? Could it be that there is something wrong with Gu Guess? Uncle Ming whispered in my ear: "I think Gu Guess's life experience is extraordinary, this egg boy may be a dragon in the sea......"

I heard what Uncle Ming said, and looked back at Gu Chai again, and after thinking about it, I was a little disapproving, even if Gu Chai had excellent underwater skills and dared to fight whale salamander sharks, but he was also an ordinary person of flesh and blood, but how could he be a dragon in the sea? The dragon scale clan is full of legends in the mouths of fishermen and egg people, is there really a scale clan in the world? It's too alarmist, this kid is at best a visitor to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, which I discovered a long time ago, but compared to the well-known idol "Mike Harks" in China at that time, he is far worse, he does not have a chic and handsome star, but is black and thin like a cement loach, but I estimate that his talent for diving is almost the same as Michael, "a log that floated from the Atlantic".

Uncle Ming glanced at me and Shirley Yang, and motioned to take a step to speak. I asked the fat man to help Gu Chai and Duo Ling clean up the corpse of Ruan Hei, the egg min, and then followed Uncle Ming to the sloping deck, stepped on the ship, and while staring at the changes in the water around him, he asked him absentmindedly what he wanted to say?

Uncle Ming said: "There was really no alarmism just now, Ah Chai, Ah Ling, these two egg boys, we only know a rough idea of their previous life experience, Ah Chai is an orphan on Coral Temple Island overseas, but do you think his tattoo is very strange?" I have been in the winds and waves of the South China Sea for half my life, and I have never seen anyone encounter a sword-spine whale salamander in the water, and still walk back and forth unscathed. Judging from my experience, Uncle I, we are now trapped in the eyes of the sea, maybe Gu Chai can help us a lot, maybe he knows the ability to distinguish the color of water and recognize the dragon's lair. ”

Shirley Yang and I glanced at each other, and even so, we couldn't just say that this kid was a dragon. Shirley Yang said that the method of looking at the water color to recognize the dragon dwelling, it is said that the people who moved the mountain were quite proficient in the past, but now it has long been lost, is it possible that Gu Guess will actually know this ancient technique? He has always followed Ruan Hei's apprentice, and the skills of collecting eggs and looking for mussels are all derived from his master, but Ruan Hei doesn't seem to know these skills.

Uncle Ming saw that we didn't believe it, so he had to explain in detail and reveal some little-known egg people's past. Uncle Ming knows all kinds of things on the sea very well, knows the ins and outs of the egg pickers, and touches the gold captain and the egg people, although they belong to the same seventy-two lines, which has been done since ancient times, but the biggest difference between the two is that the touch gold school captain can be dwarfed by the situation, there are advances and retreats, and the egg people have always been "dead picking", taking pearls with their lives, not dead and not returning, the ancestor they worship is the "fisherman".

The "egg people" and "egg picking" techniques and practices that we are talking about today were only formed in the Ming Dynasty, and the official origin of the egg picking profession was much earlier than the Ming Dynasty, and its tradition and history are very ancient. On the occasion of the Qin and Han dynasties, there were dragon people on the water of the South China Sea, who lived on the boat for generations, naked, with their heads scattered, coming and going freely in the sea, being fierce, the best at going to the water to dive pearls, and the whole body was carved with fish and dragon patterns.

Later, due to the increasingly bad living environment, had to be recruited by the court, called "Tan people", specializing in pearl diving in the sea, Tan people are the predecessors of the egg people in later generations, they have embroidered fish and dragons around the sea since childhood, naked when going to the water, it is said that the pattern of this tattoo is called "through the sea array", so that the evil fish on the bottom of the sea see, often mistaken for the same aquarium, they often refuse to do harm. The Tan people have a special constitution, year after year, day after day pearl diving and fishing on the bottom of the sea, so that their offspring gradually develop a thin membrane in the eyes, and in the turbulent undercurrent seabed, for them it is like walking on a wide and flat street, which is as common as a meal.

But because the exploitation of the "Tan people" by the ancient ruling class is too cool, and the Tan people themselves are more barbaric and bloodthirsty, and they are born with a backbone, whether it is slaughtering mussels and whales, pulling dragon tendons and skinning sharks, or entering the dragon's den to fight turtles, they have always been not afraid of death, so they often take risks to kill officials and rebel when they are pressed too tightly by the government. After all, they are not many in number, their strength is limited, it is difficult to achieve any big things, and finally they are almost extinct by the government, and this ancient nation living on the sea has gradually disappeared completely, but the emperor and nobles still need a large number of pearls, and the work engaged in by the Tan people is replaced by the poor fishermen in the coastal areas, and the current "egg people" are slowly formed.

The craftsmanship and rules of the egg people are similar to those of the Tan people in ancient times, basically according to the cat and the tiger, as the saying goes, the style is all based on the frame type. At most, the egg people pick eggs according to the gourd to draw the scoop and look like a palm, but most of the ancient Tan people have not been able to learn the unique skills, and the superiority of the two is incomparable. It's just that the living environment of the egg people is still cruel and harsh, often under the close monitoring of officers and soldiers, the head of the white blade is dangerous, regardless of the danger of the seabed, forced to tie up the stone and sink into the water to collect eggs, basically ten picking nine deaths, there are also egg people who are not willing to pay back the Nanzhu in exchange for their lives, scraping the mussels with a sharp blade at the bottom of the water, swallowing the pearls into the abdomen, secretly hiding, but back to the water, once they are recognized, they will be immediately disemboweled, tied their limbs on the spot, cut open the belly, cut from the stomach to the anus, search the intestines and scrape the belly, and then abandon the corpse into the sea to feed the fish. Most of the egg people are poor and unable to live at the bottom, or prisoners and exiles, and no one frowns even if they die.