The meal was very late, and it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening when I left Professor Lin's house, and I went back to the hotel with Tofu drunk, and slept until noon the next day.

Tofu recalled while brushing his teeth, "At dinner last night, the old professor said that he would leave tomorrow, but he didn't tell us where we were going. ”

I thought about it for a while and said, "He said that he was going to sea, and the closest to the capital is Bohai Bay, and it is estimated that he will set off to the Bohai Sea tomorrow." ”

Tofu said again: "Can there be archaeology in the sea?" ”

"Absolutely. Human beings have been sailing for a long time, and the merchant ships were submerged by the wind and waves during the voyage, and the goods in the sunken ships were left in the depths of the sea, so there are many treasures under the sea, and in the past two years, seabed salvage has become a trend, which is not surprising. ”

Tofu nodded, continued to brush his teeth, and suddenly sprayed foam again and said, "That's not right." You kid didn't turn his mind today, you think, if it's just to salvage shipwrecks on the bottom of the sea, as for calling the two of us? Even if it's to wash our face, it's too contrived. "When Tofu said this, I also felt that something was wrong, and I thought, isn't it seabed salvage? But how do you go to the sea?

Tofu and I were washing up and chatting, and we didn't come up with any useful information, so we could only take one step at a time. Since the equipment was prepared by Professor Lin, Tofu and I didn't need to prepare much, so we just packed some personal items, packed them up that day, and spent the whole day wandering around Beijing and visiting Wangfujing.

There was a lot of food there, and there were flavors from all over the world, so I went back to the hotel with a round belly of tofu, and the next day, I gathered at the place agreed in advance with Professor Lin and a few others.

As I had speculated, the starting point this time was in the Bohai Bay area, which took more than six hours to drive from Beijing.

At this moment, it was early in the morning, and our group converged, only to see a silver bread parked in the parking lot behind the high school entrance examination institute, which looked inconspicuous, and there were already a few people around in front of the car, except for Gu Wenmin and Professor Lin, the rest of them did not know each other.

In fact, I was a little unoptimistic about this trip, because there were still a bunch of messy things behind me that had not been solved, but I was asked to go to sea to do other things halfway, and I was inevitably uncomfortable, but for some reason, after seeing Gu Wenmin, my heart suddenly quieted down.

Not only me, but also Tofu seemed to be relieved, probably because of the trust we cultivated after living and dying together, and it was natural to feel relieved to see a reliable companion. Tofu is easy to get carried away when he is happy, and jokes: "Oh, Gu Da Beauty, it's really like not seeing you for a day, I want to kill you!" As he spoke, he was about to go up and hug him, Gu Wenmin was shocked and said, "Xiaodou, men and women don't kiss." ”

Tofu stomped his feet, pinched his throat and said coquettishly: "I hate it, people are girls!" "I almost spurted out a mouthful of blood, and kicked the tofu aside.

In addition to Professor Lin and Gu Wenmin, there are also young men and women who follow Professor Lin inch by inch, and it seems that they may be his students. In addition, the other two people are more eye-catching, all bald, looking strong and healthy, and their eyes are very vigilant, maybe they are the official thieves that Professor Lin said.

When Tofu and I arrived, everyone got into the car, and one of them drove all the way to the national highway.

At this time, everyone was sober, not as drunk as the night before, Tofu was a person who couldn't hide his words, and immediately threw out a bunch of questions: "Professor Lin, where are we going to sea?" Are we going to salvage a shipwreck? First of all, I've been suffering from hydrophobia lately. He was telling the truth, since he was flooded in the tomb of Princess Geger, Tofu changed his hobby of swimming in the past, and now he walks around the swimming pool when he sees it.

Therefore, it is said that there is a risk in the inverted bucket, and you need to be cautious when entering the industry, and if you are not careful, it will leave psychological trauma.

Professor Lin smiled when he heard this, the wrinkles on his face piled up into a blooming chrysanthemum, and said, "Don't worry, I won't let you go into the water." We are not carrying out seabed salvage this time, and if we are really salvaging shipwrecks, we will not need your skills. ”

Immediately afterwards, he told us about the purpose of this trip, and Tofu and I were stunned for a moment after listening, and Tofu said, "Professor, you are playing with us!" ”

According to Professor Lin, our mission to go to sea this time is an official thief mission, as the name suggests, it is not easy for the official to come forward directly, so the task that we secretly started is, at worst, spies and agents. Our destination was an island in the southeast of Japan.

The island belongs to Japan in terms of classification, but it is a small, deserted island with no one stationed, so there is no need to worry about being discovered.

You may be asking, how do you dig mushrooms to a small island in Japan?

Professor Lin told us a story about this problem, and Tofu and I only thought it was incredible.

When it comes to this, we have to start with Qin Shi Huang.

Qin Shi Huang was a man of great talent and strategy, unified the six countries, and the Qin Dynasty was also prosperous under his rule.

The six kingdoms have also been swept away, and the people have settled in peace, so what will happen next? Of course, it is to sit firmly on his throne and enjoy his glory and wealth. But when human life has to die, Qin Shi Huang was psychologically unbalanced, feeling that he had been fighting for half his life, and now he has settled down, but it is getting twilight, and this hard-earned country will not be able to enjoy it for long.

No, I have to live for a few more years, a dozen years, a few hundred years, and live forever!

Therefore, Qin Shi Huang in history began to superstitious Fangshi in the later period, alchemy and mercury, and pursued immortality. At that time, the first emperor raised a lot of alchemists, and the alchemists also fought with each other, among which there was a man named Xu Fu, so he came up with a trick of seeking immortals overseas, and told the first emperor that there was Penglai Immortal Island overseas, and there were immortals living on it, and the immortals would refine the elixir of immortality, and he was willing to take people to the sea to seek the elixir.

As soon as Qin Shi Huang heard that he could live forever, he immediately agreed. Of course, this elixir was fake, Xu Fu used this to suppress other monks, and he was reused by Qin Shi Huang. He went to sea twice, but he returned unsuccessfully because of an 'accident'. When he came back from his first failed voyage to sea, Xu Fu said that there were sharks overseas, and they were good at using their singing voices to confuse people, but there were not enough people to kill them, so they failed.

Therefore, the second time he went to sea, Qin Shi Huang gave him a lot of people, of course, this time it was also in vain, because there was no elixir at sea at all. Xu Fu made an excuse again this time, saying that although the mermaids repelled, the immortals thought that we were not sincere, and the elixir was rare, so it was natural to use treasures and boys and girls to sacrifice.

Qin Shi Huang was very afraid of death in his later years, fanatical and obsessed with immortal Taoism, normal people knew that Xu Fu was unreliable when he heard it, but he was like grasping a life-saving straw, so Xu Fu went to sea for the third time. This time the voyage was enormous, with more than 20 ships loaded with gold and silver treasures, grain and livestock, young men and women, young and strong laborers, and as a result, they were gone and never returned.

Only then did Qin Shi Huang realize that he had been deceived.

So where did Xu Fu go with all this treasure and people? According to the speculation of some historians later, his route at that time was all the way to the east, to the east, wasn't it the Japanese Kou? Therefore, there is a speculation that Xu Fu and his men and horses were stationed in a land in the east to breed, and that land was later called Japan.

After listening to this, Tofu stammered: "So, the ancestors of the Japanese are Chinese?" Damn, I don't have a grandson like that. ”

I immediately slapped him, turned to Professor Lin and said, "Professor, this is just a speculation after all, there is no real evidence, this is not something that can be said casually, and if we don't make trouble, the Japanese compatriots will say that we are shameless." ”

Professor Lin said: "It doesn't matter if there is real evidence for this kind of thing, even if it is false? Even if it's true? He was right, even if it was true, we couldn't say, "Hey, we're actually a family, your people are mine, and your land should be ours."

Does that help? Nothing works.

Whether this speculation is true or not, it was more than 2,000 years ago, and it doesn't matter at all.

I said, "You're right, so why did we sneak to that little island on the Japanese border?" What's there? ”

Professor Lin said: "Now that it belongs to the territory of Japan, the reason why we want to go to that place this time is because more than 20 years ago, we had obtained first-hand information, the origin of this information is a long story, in short, according to that information, we got a clue, it is said that Xu Fu's tomb is on that small island." ”

Gu Wenmin nodded slightly and said to me, "What we are looking for this time is Xu Fu's tomb." ”

Tofu and I looked at each other, speechless for a while. What Professor Lin said just now, we can all listen to it as a story, but now we are going to Japan to find Xu Fu's tomb, let's not say whether there is one, if it is really found, then the inference that Professor Lin just made is not true? Could it be that Xu Fu really crossed east to Japan?

What's the point of looking for his grave now? It's not always to expose the truth of history, is it?

Professor Lin didn't say any more, he seemed a little tired, and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

The car was a little bumpy, and after sitting in it for a long time, they were all a little drowsy, and everyone didn't talk anymore, but slept for a while, and at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, our car stopped at the Bohai Bay.

The coastline of this place is U-shaped, and on the right is the pier of Bohai Bay, where all kinds of boats are docked. We drove to the left, and after we got away from the pier, there was a deserted area where fishing boats were moored. These sea boats are different from the boats usually seen in the river, this kind of ship is more than 30 meters long, and each of them is a behemoth.

Among these behemoths, there was a pocket-sized ship that stood out, not that big, about twenty meters from bow to stern, small but looking new, and three people standing in the bow, two of them bald. As soon as I saw it, I understood that the small boat Bacheng was the next ship we were going to take, and the three people on board should also be our partners.