It was a small bungalow on the shore, and the walls were made of many irregular stones, and the bottom of the wall facing the sea was covered with something resembling seaweed.

There is a chimney on top of the bungalow. It's evening time at the moment, and there should be someone inside cooking, cooking smoke and birds.

When Chen Qiqi and Liu Ronglong entered the door, a woman happened to come out of the small door next to him, and she was Liu Ronglong's wife.

When she saw Liu Ronglong bring a fair-skinned young man, she was a little curious: "Who is this little brother?" Liu Ronglong took the bamboo basket from Chen Qiqi's hand, handed it to the woman and said: "This little brother plans to go to sea with his friends, his friends haven't arrived yet, just stay in our house for a few days, come, steam the big clams, make them better, put some salt, these are all things that the little brother bought...... "The woman's eyes lit up, the seafood is becoming more and more difficult to sell, and this full bamboo basket may not be able to sell half of it on weekdays...... Liu Ronglong led Chen Qiqi to sit down on the edge of a log table in the small living room, and then went into the room and took out a wine jar, and said with some pride: "Come and taste the local wine brewed by my father-in-law, it has been preserved for several years, and there are many people who want to buy it, but unfortunately this thing is very food-intensive, even if my father-in-law only uses a small cup to make one or two halves to moisten his throat every time he drinks............ The smell of earthy sake slowly spreads out.

He had a smile on his face, and he had put on a mask of pain inside him, which smelled strange, a bit like the feeling of being mixed with half of the muddy water in a puddle...... Out of politeness, he nodded: "Uncle's wine is okay, but let's keep it well, I happened to bring some wine bought on the road, why don't you try it together?" As he spoke, he took out two bottles of rice wine from his pocket that had been re-sealed in ordinary ceramic bottles by the chicken leg boy, and opened the lid, Liu Ronglong immediately stood up: "Little brother, no, brother, your smell is so pure, it is completely different from the wine I have drunk, although I don't know as much about wine as my father-in-law, but this is definitely not cheap, do you really want to take it out and drink it?" ”

"Uncle...... Where did you speak? Chen Chuchu pushed a bottle of rice wine over and said: "Being able to know and eat here is a kind of fate, drinking is ......" In the kitchen, Liu Ronglong's wife quickly got the big clams ready, and at the same time served some green vegetables, the staple food is not rice, but yellow-brown wheat lake, a bit like the kind cooked by Lao Miaozhu in the world of "Fighting Ghosts".

Liu Ronglong is not usually a person who drinks alcohol, after drinking a few sips of rice wine, before he has eaten the food, his tongue begins to numb, and his speech starts to be intermittent, he already knows Chen Chu's name, and there is a trace of blush on his dark face at this moment: "Brother Initial, don't you like to listen to homestay stories?" Come...... Let Uncle I, tell you a little story about our place here, there is Grandma Tiger, and Mama Hai, which one do you want to listen to? Chen Chuchu chose to listen to Mother Hai, and felt that the pattern was higher than that of Grandma Hu.

In Liu Ronglong's stumbling description, Chen Chuchu probably heard what kind of story he was telling.

The story goes that the fishermen who make a living by fishing on the beach worship Mazu and pray for safety at sea, but I don't know when, gradually a small number of fishermen suddenly began to worship a name

The deity of "Mother Sea". Other unknown villagers inquired and learned that worshipping Mazu Niangniang could pray for safety, but if you worship Mama's mother, you can basically bring good seafood to the sea...... Oddly enough, ask anyway.

These villagers all forgot where they heard the name of Mother Hai, but they spread it inexplicably, and began to worship, and even the statue of the god was carved somehow, but carved the three words of Mother Sea on a stone, and made a shrine facing the sea, and put the name of Mother Sea in the stone.

These villagers say that the sea mother is very smart, every time she goes out to sea at night, when she reaches the sea, as long as she shouts the name of the sea mother to the sea, and then casts the net down, you will hear the sound of the sea water agitation, there are villagers with good eyes, and you can even see a behemoth swimming back and forth under the sea...... Fishermen have different descriptions of the appearance of the sea mother, some say that she looks like a whale in the sea, some say that she appears like a black figure standing on the surface of the sea, and in short, everything is said...... It stands to reason that the sea mother is so effective, there should be more and more fishermen who worship her, but with the passage of time, it has decreased...... It turned out that the fishermen who caught the seafood, wanted better seafood, went to sea farther and farther, and even left the waters of the Qing Dynasty.

There was a lot of trouble, that time, the fishermen threw down the fishing net pulled up a heavy black fish, the fish kept going back and forth on the boat, and could not hold it down, the boat was not big, and it was unstable in itself with the ups and downs of the sea in the sea, coupled with the regular impact of the black fish, the boat shook more and more, and was suddenly topped by the waves, overturned, and the people on the boat died so that only one person survived.

How can you make a living by fishing at sea without encountering danger? Even in offshore fishing, there were occasional cases of boats capsizing and people drowning, and the fishermen felt some sympathy for the deceased, but did not feel anything unusual.

It's normal to capsize once, but it's not normal to capsize several times in a row. According to the survivors' descriptions, the fishermen encountered a humanoid black figure holding colorful jewels in their hands, which shone in the darkness and were hard to find...... Fishermen who approach the Shadow and try to obtain the jewels will inevitably encounter a whirlpool and then the ship will be destroyed.

There were determined fishermen who were afraid to approach the black shadow because there were too many accidents with their fellow villagers, and who knew that the black shadow kept throwing the gold and silver jewels in his hand into the boat, more and more, heavier and heavier, like a small mountain, and finally the hull could not bear it and slowly sank into the sea.

There are fellow fishing boats who have witnessed all this. They didn't have an accident. The people who had the accident were all fishermen who believed in the sea mother, and these people were scared and changed their careers to do something else, while those who were still fishing were all working in the offshore waters, saying that they would not go out to the far sea, and no matter how much seafood they had, they would not go.

When the story came to this, Liu Ronglong laughed embarrassedly: "I'm not afraid of the jokes of the initial brother when I say it, uncle and me, my ancestors believed in the sea mother, in order to survive, the ancestors set a rule, only allow us juniors to fish offshore for a living, no matter what...... Slowly, we all became sea catchers, fishing for kelp, seaweed, seaweed, and shellfish after the tide receded and selling them......" Chen Chu saw that he had finished the whole bottle of wine alone, so he sandwiched some food for him: "Uncle, eat more, drinking on an empty stomach hurts your stomach, by the way, why don't you see other people, your children?" ”