Chapter 89: Peculiar Water Dependence
It was still early before dark, Xin Yi went to Xiao Cao's house to borrow a fishing net and a few bundles of thick hemp rope, saying that he was going to catch a net at night to see if he could catch some fish and sell it for money to subsidize the family.
Xiao Cao Niangzi told her that she didn't have to work so hard, and quickly found a man to marry her, but she felt a little sorry for this thin little widow who had lost her husband, and her perception of her was no longer the vicious stepmother who was disgusted at the beginning.
While borrowing the fishing net, Xiao Cao Niangzi asked her family to carry a bucket of small crucian carp......
Xin Yi was not too polite to her, and asked the lover to keep the crucian carp in the water tank in the yard, and when she saw the three little ones squatting next to the fish and chirping, she smiled, beckoned the lover into the room, took out the things in the cage, and put them on the bed one by one.
For this operation, Xin Yi was fully prepared.
Bianjing City has a developed business and there is no shortage of goods. Two days ago, she spent a lot of money in a fishing house to buy a water cushion and a fishskin hat.
The water is a kind of clothing used by fishermen by the sea to enter the water to collect pearls. Most of them are made of fish skin, sea skin or shark skin, which is conjoined from top to bottom, with a smooth appearance, very warm, fast swimming speed under water, and longer diving time, and the appearance is somewhat similar to modern wetsuits.
The shark skin water and fish skin hat bought for twenty taels of silver, the material is good to the touch, and she is full of confidence.
"Close the door, you can help me."
The lover looked at the clothes on the bed in bewilderment.
"Sister, what is this......"
"I wore it when I went into the water."
The lover was impressed, "My sister understands everything." ”
Just in case, Xin Yi carefully checked the water support, tried it on again, and then explained to his lover with satisfaction.
"At night when I enter the water, I will tie the hemp rope around my waist, and you must keep an eye on my movements in the boat, and if I shake the thick rope, you will pull me up. Do you understand? ”
The lover nodded, and there was a little excitement in his eyes.
At night, when the three little ones fell asleep, Xin Yi secretly took his lover and took a small boat out of the Bianhe River.
The wind was strong at night, and the boat swayed, and the lover found the reef he had seen during the day by memory.
Xin Yi glanced at Zhuangzi across the river, silently tied the thick rope around his waist, inserted a dagger, and then did at least two quarters of an hour of warm-up exercises and breathing adjustments on the boat before he tentatively entered the water......
In the cold winter, even if you are wearing water, you are so cold that you give up on the spot.
Surfacing, she took a deep breath, repeatedly adjusted and mentally built, and sank to the bottom of the river again.
Slowly tried from shallow to deep, several times, her body became colder and colder, and she finally lowered her heart and plunged down with a fierce son.
The lover shouted quietly on the boat.
"Sister, you have to be careful."
She was too scared, but Xin Yi told her not to make a sound, so she could only bite her lower lip, open her eyes wide in the river breeze, and stare motionlessly at the thick hemp rope that swayed slightly on the water, and kept chanting "Bodhisattva bless" in her heart.
After Xin Yi entered the water, there were no goggles, and the visibility was low, so it was difficult to hold on to the bottom for too long. She held her breath and stared, groping her way underwater with her hands and the memories she had of when she had done this task.
Near the bottom of the river, her body was almost numb from the cold, but the function of the human body was strong, and she gradually adapted to the temperature of the water, and she entered the water longer and longer each time, and the scope of her groping was larger and larger.
Slippery aquatic plants, thick floating mud, hard stones......
Where is that shipwreck?
Xin Yi kept adjusting the direction, and when he sank to the bottom of the water for the umpteenth time, he finally felt a hard wooden plank in the thick layer of silt, and continued to grope to confirm that it was indeed the appearance of a ship's plank......
This is it!
Xin Yi's heart was beating so fast that he was about to burst out of his throat.
She is only one step away from a huge fortune, and the perseverance to make a fortune makes her not rush to the surface, but grope with her memory......
She remembered that the wooden boxes containing the incense were wrapped in tin skin, just below the planks, and Xin Yi pushed the planks little by little, lifting the planks with extraordinary strength and pushing them to the side, but she did not find the tin crates.
She was afraid that she would deviate from her position when she entered the water again, so she tied another rope that she had prepared in advance to the board of the boat, and grabbed the end of the rope to ventilate the water.
"Sister!" Seeing her jumping out of the water like a fish, the lover nervously lay on the board of the boat and asked, "Did you find it?" Found the treasure? ”
Xin Yi looked at her nervous appearance and laughed.
"It's coming. You hand me the nets......"
The lover did so in a panic.
This time, Xin Yi dragged the fishing net down the rope, and was about to use the fishing net to pull it up when he was about to find the box.
The existence of a shipwreck proves that the brain-dead of the chief planner has not been cured, and the mission has not changed in any way, even if there is a difference in position, it will not be too far.
Xin Yi's heart raced.
Where?
Where's the tin suitcase?
The dark water was very tormenting, and just when Xin Yi felt that she was about to reach the critical point of entering the water and needed to surface again for ventilation, she finally found a box......
It's a boxy, smooth tin skin.
Xin Yi was overjoyed and pulled the fishing net over......
Well, the box is a bit light. She subconsciously felt that something was wrong, but she didn't have a chance to hesitate and think, and pushed the box into the net......
At this moment, the hand slipped and touched a strange object.
Soft, like a dead fish. There are also knotted ropes and stones......
Xin Yi tore off the rope, lifted the stone, and continued to grope for a moment, his fingers suddenly stiffening.
Person! That's a person!
No, strictly a corpse.
The corpse was stuck between the box and the stone, and the rotting skin felt like stinking tofu......
Xin Yi's brain buzzed, as blank as lack of oxygen, and he almost subconsciously shook the rope......
The lover quickly pulled her up.
"How's my sister? Did you find it? ”
Xin Yi breathed heavily, staring at his beloved, his eyes were strange and weird, and it took a long time for a sentence to come out.
"Corpses."
"What?"
"There are corpses underwater."
"Ahh The lover turned white, "We, should we report to the official?" ”
Xin Yi let out a breath, calmed down, and shook his head quietly, "No." At least not yet. ”
Once reported to the official, her incense medicine and her white duke will all be lost.
Xin Yi is mindful, he must pick up the box first.
"Don't be afraid. It should be the shipwreck who drowned in the water......"
She lowered the rope around her waist, took a deep breath, and was about to enter the water again, when she saw her beloved's face suddenly change.
"Sister, sister...... Look at it. What's behind you......"
Xin Yi turned around sharply.
Just a short distance from the reef, a corpse surfaced.
The rotten clothes could not see the color clearly, and floated there quietly, in the dim night, indistinguishable, but extremely terrifying.
The lover was only startled at first, but when he saw the long hair of the floating object, he reflexively screamed......
"Dead people. It's the dead. ”
The corpse was stuck in a wooden box of stones and tin skin, and it was Xin Yi who turned the wooden box to allow it to surface.
Xin Yi's head grew.
At night, there are also boats coming and going on the Bianhe River.
Once the body is found, it is not a question of whether she should report it to the police.
"Sister, what should I do? We're still reporting to the police, right? ”
The lover was timid and frightened, Xin Yi pulled the rope, half of his body floated on the water, his brows frowned slightly, his eyes crossed the boat, looked at a river boat with a night light not far away, and then looked at the man standing in the wind at the bow of the boat, and couldn't help sighing.
It seems that Fu Jiuqu has never trusted her, and has always sent someone to monitor her.
"No need to report to the police. The official is right in front of him. ”
The wind on the river was a little stronger, and the tarpaulin was fluttering in the cold wind.
Cai Qi was originally very far away, but after discovering that Xin Yi had sunk to the bottom several times, he didn't worry about coming over to see what was going on.
He was very curious about what this little lady was doing, so he asked people to take out the wind lantern and shine it.
The surface of the river is floating with a mess of aquatic plants and floating filth......
"Little Hou Ye, there is a person floating there."
Cai Qi took the wind lantern and raised it to expand the range of vision.
"It's not a person, it's a corpse."
With a low snort, Cai Qi handed back the wind lantern and slowly moved his gaze to Xin Yi on the side of the small fishing boat.
"Lean in."
"Yes."
The river boat approached slowly, and the lover held his breath, so nervous that his voice was hoarse, and his fingers were clenched tightly.
"Sister, what should I do? What to do? ”
What else can I do?
"The soldiers will come to block, and the water will cover the earth."
It seems like a long time has passed, and it seems like there is only a moment.
The river boats of the Imperial City Division surrounded them, and the body was also salvaged to the deck, and several people were watching.
Xin Yi and his beloved, as well as their boats, were also blocked between the riverboats and the reef.
Cai Qi lowered his head, looked at the floating corpse that had already decayed, and then looked at Xin Yi, seeing that she was dressed strangely and had a serious expression, he couldn't help laughing.
"Sister-in-law came out at night, what are you doing?"
Xin Yi climbed into the boat, shook the water on his body, and slowly retracted the fishing nets that were still underwater, "Fishing." ”
Whatever the state of affairs, look good.
She methodically retracted the fishing net slowly, but the tin box was not pulled up, and there was still a corpse in it. The badly decomposed corpse was wrapped in aquatic weeds, emitting a foul smell, and the beloved screamed again, clutching Xin Yi's sleeves tightly, not knowing how to place his hands and feet.
Cai Qi glanced at it and almost laughed out loud.
"Is it fishing, or is it fishing?"