The South China Sea Returns to the Ruins Chapter 4 The Fish That Swallows the Boat (I)

Uncle Ming was hungry for most of the night, and when he saw the food served, he couldn't talk anymore, I couldn't help it, what was there to wait for him to finish eating, the big gold tooth first served Uncle Ming a hot bowl of dried noodle soup, the soup was thinly floated with a layer of broken leek foam, and the noodles were topped with two egg yolks, and the big gold tooth told Uncle Ming: "This noodle soup has a nickname, the egg yolk is yellow, and the leek foam is green, so it is called two yellow orioles and green willows, and the following noodles are even more terrible, eat a bite of the noodles without biting off that is the silver whiskers upside down, If you bite off, it is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen for nine days, don't look at the ingredients, the egg yolk is scattered, and the leeks are not too fresh, but this artistic conception is there, since ancient times, how many literati have come to the hotel, not to order anything else, a single order of noodles soup, not for anything else, just to rush these two egg yolks, what is the picture? Isn't it just the vassal elegance of Figure 1? ”

The fat man and I stared at each other with wide eyes, the big gold tooth is worthy of being a profiteer who can speak well, a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron came out of his mouth, and it can also be turned into a treasure inlaid with gold and jade, the fat man said to everyone: "I think we went to the United States and poured what kind of bright weapon, there are two old gold, we have to make a windfall when we partner to open a restaurant, if you don't make the president of the United States, you have to run to Chinatown, just to eat your two egg yolks, not to mention that the president of the United States has not eaten, even my gluttonous worm has hooked you up, Is there still a bowl of ...... for the fat man in the pot?"

There is no noodles in the pot, there is only half a pot of clear soup left, and the big gold tooth has three bowls of soup, and the four of them drank it snoring, and Uncle Ming almost licked the bottom of the bowl...... But when I saw these two round eggs, I remembered that the bead we were looking for in Kunlun Mountain, what is that thing called? ”

I thought to myself, "Dust Beads", it's all in the past, what's the point of mentioning it? Could it be related to the maritime affairs of the Coral Spiral? Then he said to Uncle Ming: "Are you talking about the dust beads?" In ancient times, it was called phoenix gall in the mainland, which is a secret of the royal family, and even in the ancient classics of such a large length as the Book of Changes, there was no half of the phoenix word, I think it was probably not because China had not yet invented the phoenix character during the period when the "Book of Changes" appeared, but because all the secrets about the phoenix gall were only accessible to the ruling class, in fact, the bead was not able to live forever, which was a misunderstanding of the ancients. ”

Uncle Ming said: "Yes, yes, it's that what kind of beads, like this kind of beads, in fact, there are a lot of them in the South China Sea, when I was young, I first ran a boat with an uncle in the family, at that time there was a war in the South Seas, how difficult it was to do business, one year we were transporting salt and rice, but I didn't expect to meet the fish that swallowed the boat at sea." ”

I lived in Fujian for a long time with the fat man when I was a teenager, and I also heard fishermen talk about the big fish that swallowed boats in the open sea, but they never knew the details, so I asked Uncle Ming to say more detailed, and only after asking did I know that the original "fish that swallows the boat" does not specifically refer to a certain kind of fish, all the people who walk the boat meet the deep-sea giant fish that can capsize the boat in the sea, because they don't know its name, they all call it by the word "swallowing the boat", and some people who have encountered shipwrecked experience will also use this word to describe their encounters at sea, the water has swallowing boat-swallowing fish. ”

But Uncle Ming really ran into a big fish that time, how big this fish is can not be described at all, can not be measured by what we often say two catties and feet, but this kind of giant fish is only in the deep sea of the open ocean, south of Xin'an, all belong to the sea, after the Hong Kong Buddha Hall Gate, it is the turbulent deep ocean, Uncle Ming and his uncle smuggled at sea, in addition to salt, there were many black market items in the cabin, that time their ship just ran into trouble out of the sea area of the Buddha Hall.

It was night, the moon was as bright as a mirror, looking at the sea, endless, and it happened that the wind was calm and the tide was breathing, the ship was very steady, and then the sailors on the ship found that there was a huge wave rolled up in the sea, and the experienced old sailors said that this was a surge rather than a wave, and the sea must first rise and then the waves, and the sea surge would rise without wind, which was formed by the turbulence of the sea water itself.

As the waves became more and more, a mountain was revealed in the sea, faintly in front of it, and the people on the boat thought that there was a wonder of the sea or the surge, and they all stood on the side of the ship and watched curiously.

When everyone was muttering suspiciously, they suddenly found that the sea surface under the bright moon had changed again, and after a while, several huge rocks floated from the bottom of the sea, and Uncle Ming's uncle soon found that the big thing was not good, not the surge, but the big fish appeared in the sea, tonight the moon is bright and quiet, it must be a group of fish on the bottom of the sea, and it is not the mountain rock island that exposes the sea, but the backbone of the big fish, and then instructed everyone not to make a loud noise, and quickly and quietly drive the boat far away, otherwise the fish will be alarmed, once the waves come out, Our ship will have to be sunk by the waves.

But before the captain's order could be passed on, the sea churned, and the fish floating on the surface of the sea came to the boat where they were, and in this case they could only quickly turn the rudder and turn around and flee for their lives, but the speed of the ship was not fast enough, and several times it was almost overturned by the huge waves, and in order to survive, the captain had to order that everything that could be thrown on the ship should be thrown away, so that the light boat could speed up.

In the end, he threw away all the goods, and threw more than a dozen living people on the ship into the sea, the boat was able to escape from death, sailed back to the Buddha Hall Gate, the goods on the ship were lost, Uncle Ming and his uncle all the belongings were lost, and the two of them almost let the creditor force them to jump into the sea, in order to recover the loss, they had to take the risk and go to the sea eye of the coral spiral to go pearl diving.

Coral spiral is a huge coral forest at the bottom of the sea, it is said that there is a bottomless sea eye, the surrounding sea area and the deep sea and the ocean, the wind is high and the waves are urgent, the danger is unpredictable, it is also known as the cemetery of the wreck, there are many giant mussels in the coral forest, rich in pearls, whenever the full moon, hundreds of old mussels in the sea, will open the mussel shell to adopt the essence of the bright moon, some pearls have grown for thousands of years, for the aura of heaven and earth, at that time, by the yin fire of the seabed, the sea surface is all reflected by the moonlight pearl.

Due to the coral spiral close to the deep sea, many aquarium evil fish will be attracted by the pearl to linger, and the giant mussel in the sea will not completely open the mussel shell in order to protect itself, so in a year, the wonder of the pearl reflecting the moon on the sea is only a few moments, all on the night when the moon is full and eroding.