With a "ding", the blade touched the rock, making a crisp sound.

Yan Siqi threw the dagger beside him, lay down on his back to the sky, and gasped roughly.

The fierce battle with the shark used up almost all his strength.

Rao is like this, after he was still resting for a while, he said to Zheng Haizhu with concern: "Your leg is injured." ”

Zheng Haizhu was stunned when she heard this, and when she looked at her ankle, she found that there was a big opening.

When she was about to explore the cave, she was scratched by the top of a reef under the water, the water was cold, and her skin was numb, and she was so engrossed that she didn't feel any sharp pain, because she didn't know that her foot was hurt.

It is estimated that it was the smell of blood emitted by the wound that attracted the shark.

Zheng Haizhu observed the wound, it was not deep, and the newly oozing blood was not much, and it was slowly coagulating.

She then gently moved her ankles, propped herself on the ground, and said to Yan Siqi, "It's okay." ”

Yan Siqi nodded, still reproaching with palpitations: "Why did you fall?" I just practiced and jumped on the roof, and I saw you walking from Xu Futing to the reef, if I hadn't been worried and rushed here, you would ...... Look at the sea! ”

Zheng Haizhu leaned over and looked down from the place where the two climbed up, and got goosebumps again.

I saw that in the blue water, there were five or six sharks, although they were not as huge as the great white sharks in later movies, at least they exceeded the length of adults. They swim in one place, sometimes twisting their dorsal fins and tails, and making waves that move a lot, as if they were fighting in a group.

Soon, the spray changed from yellowish white to scarlet, and the area of the sea blood was even larger.

Yan Siqi said: "They are fighting for the shark that was seriously injured by me. The morning is calm, and that's when these sharks swim close to the island. ”

Zheng Haizhu saw that his scalp was numb, and he hurriedly retracted and moved to Yan Siqi's side, wanting to see if his palm that was pierced into the shark's rough gill bone was injured, but his eyes showed surprise.

Yan Siqi understood what she was looking at, raised her palms wearing wire gloves, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I've been in Hirado for many years, and I'm used to carrying it with me." Wearing this thing, I don't delay the knife and rob, and I'm not afraid of the sharp objects that are alive and dead. I didn't expect it to be able to restrain that beast today. ”

Speaking of this, Yan Siqi got up, looked around a little, and then walked to the rocky beach with stagnant water not far away, and picked up a large handful of oysters.

Protected by steel gloves, not afraid of shells piercing his hands at all, Yan Siqi pinpointed the weak hole on the oyster, pierced the tip of the knife, pried it open without much effort, and handed it to Zheng Haizhu: "Eat two oysters to suppress the shock, in late summer and early autumn, the oysters are the fattest." ”

Zheng Haizhu sucked a mouthful of milky white juice with the fresh smell of sea water in the oyster shell, and chewed the oyster meat, but it felt fresh and sweet and tender, which was really delicious.

Yan Siqi saw that she looked cute, and the frightened embarrassment had faded, and he was relieved, so he also opened a few oysters for himself.

This time it was close, and Zheng Haizhu was quickly attracted by the dagger that opened the oyster.

It is said to be a dagger, but it is actually nearly a foot long, with a blood groove, and the cold light is so cold that people dare not look at it.

Zheng Haizhu came to Daming, and after seeing the worrying social security, he had a strong sense of self-defense when he went out. In the Han Mansion, she pleaded with Han Ximeng and the little maids including her nephew Zheng Shoukuan, and the self-made porcelain thunder was a great success, and that day she used the steel chisel given by Ma Xianglin to kill the evil bandit Xu Aliu, her interest in all kinds of cold and hot weapons is far stronger than when she watched the excitement with the crew in her previous life.

"Brother Yan, can you show me this knife?"

Yan Siqi nodded, but did not hand it over directly, but with a cautious face, he warned her first: "This knife is called Muramasa, and it is the famous knife of the Wa Kingdom." The long knife made by the Muramasa family was too sharp, killing countless people, and there were also people who did not avoid the edge and injured themselves, so the Tokugawa samurai forbade this knife to circulate in the Wa Kingdom. I occasionally saw a samurai fighting with a Muramasa sword in the Wa Kingdom, so I secretly searched for the successor of the Muramasa sword, and first forged a short blade to try. When you hold a knife, be careful with the blade. ”

Zheng Haizhu agreed again and again, and couldn't wait to take over this Muramasa, but it was far from the tip of his nose, but he waved it without hesitation at the grass that came out of the crack in the stone.

The blades of grass were originally as light as a feather, and they were blown by the sea breeze and swayed, but the shadow of the knife in the village flashed, and the leaves that were very difficult to bear the force were cut off.

"That's amazing." Zheng Haizhu admired.

Yan Siqi looked at the short knife: "This knife, thirty taels of silver, is a small one, and it is worth half a year's salary of my Daming County official, can it be good." Looking back, I still have to step up a few big sales, save up more money to make more long knives for my brothers, and I can compromise more peacefully when I go on the boat. In this vast sea, there are actually people everywhere now, and people are much more cruel than sharks. ”

When Zheng Haizhu heard the last sentence and fell silent, she felt quite embarrassed in her heart.

The maritime Chinese of the Ming and Qing dynasties, known as the merchants who "had no motherland", went to sea to sell goods without relying on their own strength to build an armed escort, far more dangerous than the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, British and other Western European maritime merchants, and even the Japanese and Japanese maritime trade fleets had the support of the shogunate.

After a while, Zheng Haizhu broke the silence and asked, "Brother Yan, how much silver does a village chief knife cost?" ”

"You must get six or seven taels of gold, which is about the same price as a pack horse."

Zheng Haizhu pursed her lips, pondered for a moment, stared at Yan Siqi, and said word by word: "Brother Yan, I didn't fall into the sea today. Under our stone cliffs, there may be good things buried, and we can buy many, many village long knives......"

Yan Siqi slowly listened to Zheng Haizhu's narration, was silent for a moment, and suddenly there was a trace of sadness in his eyes, and his tone was a little cold.

"Miss Azhu, you avoided me and went to the sea to explore the cave alone, because you were afraid that I would covet money? Now tell me, one is because I saved you, and the other is because you can't take those things out on your own. ”

Zheng Haizhu smiled and shook his head calmly: "Brother Yan is now a sea businessman, and he knows people and judges things according to the number of ways to do business." My idea is not that complicated. I saw the statement left by my ancestors in my brother's relics before, and I didn't take it seriously, I didn't even know where Daishan was, and I couldn't go if I knew, so it was useless to think about it. Who knew that the will of heaven would make people, thanks to General Mao, a few days of hard work, I really went from Jiangnan to Daishan Island, so I naturally wanted to explore. But that Haikou, oh no, the maritime merchant Wang Zhi, after all, it has been so many years, how do you know that things are still there? I just want to make an outpost first, and the eight characters do look like there is a skimming, and then ask Brother Yan to write the words, otherwise there will be a thunder in vain, but I can't see half a drop of rain, and I can't afford to lose that person. ”

When Yan Siqi heard this, the gloom in his eyes dissipated slightly.

But there is a feeling that is even stronger - Miss Azhu has become so much, she used to talk so eloquently like an old river and lake running on the dock, and when she connected the finished clothes, she would blush slightly.

Zheng Haizhu finished eating the last freshly opened oyster, wiped his mouth, and asked Yan Siqi with a bright face: "Next, it's up to you, big brother." ”