Volume 2: Snow Ridge Please Spirit - Haidong Emperor's Mausoleum Chapter 221: Pearl Diver
After the previous dynasty entered the customs, Dongzhu, which was produced in the "land of Longxing", gradually overshadowed the limelight of Lingnan Pearl with the rise of the royal family.
Everyone in the world knows that the color of Dongzhu is like light gold, luxurious and extravagant!
In order to monopolize this luxurious pearl, the royal family has successively issued bans prohibiting the people from diving pearls outside the customs, and non-royal clan ministers are not allowed to wear the East Pearl.
After this paper ban, Dongzhu became a special private ornament for the royal family, princes, and nobles, making the value of Dongzhu rich and glorious, and wearing a more valuable and noble color.
At the same time, after ruling China, in the need of imperial prestige, the previous dynasty began to set up the Wula Yamen outside the Guan, specializing in the collection of Dongzhu, which together with sable, eel, ginseng, honey, and pine nuts continued to pay tribute to Beijing.
Since ancient times, officials and nobles have tended to them.
Once the noble things are known to the people, they often attract upward and downward effects, and they are eager to do so.
Although the previous dynasty strictly censored and punished the poaching of Dongzhu, once this beautiful jewel was in his hands, he gained a lot.
Therefore, the people are becoming more and more frustrated, and the poaching of Dongzhu is endless.
When Yu Bo was young, he was a pearl diver who poached the village, and went down to the Mujiang River for these poachers to hunt pearls.
The official pearl diving, mostly in the spring and autumn plumbing season, with the pearl Xuan boat full of pearl divers along the river to fish.
At the most beautiful time, the river is mighty, thousands of ships, and the flag is fluttering, which is very spectacular.
Folk poaching can only be done secretly and late at night.
In the cold season of midwinter and spring, the officials are reluctant to go into the water, and the patrol guards are also the most lax.
At this time, the pearl thieves will dig through the ice, burrow into the biting river, and use waxed kerosene lamps to enter the water in search of mussels.
In the middle of winter, hiding at home and not burning the kang is still unbearable, not to mention the cold river water, the pearl divers will be frozen and drowned in the river if they are not careful, and they will die on the spot.
The pearl thieves naturally know this!
Most of the pearl divers they drove were slave escapees who did not dare to return to their hometowns, and if they had families, they would coerce their families during pearl diving, and if they dared to flee or lazy pearl diving, their families would be thrown into the river.
In this way, pearl divers are either afraid of returning home, or need to protect their families, and most of them will let the thieves take control of the village and dare not resist.
Uncle Yu's father is a pearl diver, and after the old man died, the young Uncle Yu took over his father's work, and the son followed his father's business.
The water and fire are ruthless, and the river is cold.
Once this kind of theft is discovered by the government, it will definitely peel the daylilies and show the public.
Yu Bo's mother knew this very well, and in order to get her son out of the sea of suffering, she deliberately angered the pearl thief when Yu Bo was pearl fishing, jumped into the river and drowned in front of Yu Bo's eyes.
When a loved one dies in front of him, he wants to fight hard.
But Yu Bo also knew that the pearl thief village was extremely vicious and there were many people, so he had no choice but to lose his own life.
Fortunately, most of the pearl thieves team do not go into the water, and they are not as familiar with water as Yubo.
Now that his relatives are dead, Yu Bo is no longer coerced by them, and takes his mother's body down the river and escapes from the tiger's mouth in the river.
In the cold winter season, the neighboring villages will mostly dig ice on the river surface to get water, and when Yu Bo is about to die, he finally finds the ice digging mouth and gets his life back.
The place where Yubo went ashore was Huangwei Village near Changbai Mountain, he lied that he and his mother dug ice to get water and accidentally fell into the river, and now his mother has drowned, leaving him with good water and not drowned.
Seeing that he was indeed dragging the body of the middle-aged woman, the people of Huangwei Village believed his words for seven or eight points, and immediately took him into the village and gave him half a month of old ginseng to regain his spiritual energy.
After all, Yu Bo was frostbitten in the river for several hours, and his face was scratched again, and when the ulceration and swelling were healed, he left unsightly potholes and ecchymosis, and even the skin on his body was soaked and could not be recovered.
When he got older, his skin drooped down and became terrifying, and he became a strange old man with a potholed face.
Not to mention that children cry when they see wow wow, even adults have to be frightened.
When he was young, in order to repay his gratitude, he guarded the temples and ancestral halls of the village for Huangwei Village all the year round, and when he was old, he also knew that he was ugly and ugly, and he started to say goodbye to the village.
He has been taking care of the temple and ancestral hall for Huangwei Village for twenty or thirty years, and he has long been a person from Huangwei Village, and when the villagers heard that he was leaving, they were naturally unwilling.
Coincidentally, the previous temple of Longmen Peak Jiaolong Temple was old, so he volunteered to go up the mountain and become the new temple leader.
After the previous dynasty was gone, he successively looked at the Jiaolong Temple for more than ten years for these Huangwei villages, and most of the young people in Huangwei Village also knew him.
Respectful, call Uncle Yu, joking, call him old fish, he is not angry.
After Ge Da finished speaking, everyone couldn't help but sigh, and the cat master had red eyes, and said angrily:
"Brother Yu's life experience is really more bitter than mine, the old dynasty of death, how many poor people's lives have been buried."
"Today's Republic of China is not the same, it should be borne by the common people, and no one can run away, let's eat, drink more and have more fun."
Yue Guanchao recalled Yu Bo's experience, which was too similar to his own experience, and the old man's incident also reminded him that he must no longer feed the tiger with his body, he must get rid of the Tang family as soon as possible and return his freedom.
"Hey, where did the second artillery go?"
Song Siyuan looked behind him, Yue Erpao was originally skewering meat in the back, but the kung fu disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Yue Guanchao looked at the half-bitten meat skewer, he turned his gaze to the side hall, the side door of the side hall opened, and he saw his brother walking towards the old well in the flower bed.
"This calf!"
Yue Guanchao pushed open the door of the hall and walked forward quickly, Yue Ercang seemed to be hysterical, and he was swaying at the wellhead and drilling down.