Chapter 152: Fishing Port
These naΓ―ve words made Qin Zhen think of himself in his previous life.
In adolescence, he often felt that when he grew up, he would be an adult, and he could make his own decisions about everything.
But in front of the people who love you, no matter how old you are, you are always a child.
"Listen more to your senior sister." Qin Zhen smiled and said, "She won't harm you." When you reach my age, you'll know how lucky it is to have someone in charge. β
"That's right." Zhao Yu also nodded thoughtfully, with a touch of sadness in his cold eyes.
Shanhai looked suspicious: "You guys are not a few months older than me, right?" It's like you're seventy or eighty! I don't know, I think it's an old man! How can there be a little bit of young people? β
As soon as Qin Zhen was about to speak, he heard several urgent exclamations from behind him.
When I turned around, I saw Nangong Yuan and Tang Xuan hurriedly running over.
"Brother Qin, I can be regarded as catching up with you!"
The two were out of breath, Nangong Yuan took Qin Zhen's hand, and said breathlessly: "Brother Qin, you must help me!" β
Tang Xuan also said with a sincere face: "Our name is all in your hands!" β
"What's wrong?" Qin Zhen glanced at the two of them, then turned his head to look at the mountains and seas, and said suspiciously: "They were caught secretly pooping again?" β
"I didn't get any news." Shanhai scratched his head.
Seeing that the two of them wanted to speak and stopped, Qin Zhen pulled the two aside in understanding, and responded: "In this way, let's talk while walking." β
After listening to the two of them, Qin Zhen couldn't help but smile with a strange expression.
"So you're going to let me explain it to them?"
"Yes!" The two of them nodded busily.
"Then why are you sure that the two of them will believe what I say?" Qin Zhen asked rhetorically.
"Because you are Qin Zhen, the whole village knows that you can't deceive people!" Nangong Yuan blurted out.
"Brother Qin, in a word, please!" Tang Xuan begged bitterly.
It can be seen that these two people are also in a hurry to go to the doctor, and they really have no choice but to come to Qin Zhen.
"No problem, but I told you in advance, if they don't believe me, don't blame me in the end."
Qin Zhen didn't even want to agree to it.
"Good, good! Let's go back now! Nangong Yuan hurriedly said.
Now he just wants to clear up the misunderstanding as soon as possible and return his innocence.
"Not now, I'm still fine!" Qin Zhen said in a deep voice: "At least I can help you after I come back." β
"Huh?" The two of them were a little anxious when they heard this.
"If you are not in a hurry, you can go to the harbor with us and take you to appreciate the sea style."
Faced with Qin Zhen's proposal, Nangong Yuan and Tang Xuan thought about it for a while and agreed.
They don't have the face to go back to the village, so it's better to come outside to avoid the limelight.
Moreover, although they are Jiangnan scholars, they have never seen the sea, and they are fascinated by the vastness of the ocean on weekdays, and they will naturally not refuse when they have the opportunity today.
With the addition of these two people, the trip to the fishing port in Qinzhen was naturally much more lively.
There was talk and laughter along the way, and finally in the afternoon, I saw the iconic wooden fence on the outer edge of the harbor.
"Brother Nangong, Brother Tang, can you swim?" Qin Zhen asked suddenly.
"No, I didn't." Tang Xuan shook his head, looking at the azure ocean in distraction.
"Don't look at us as southerners, southerners also have landlubbers, don't they?" Nangong said: "Although the south of the Yangtze River is near the sea, this is the first time we have really seen what the sea looks like." Truth be told, I've heard people say that the sea is black! When I saw it today, I realized that the sea was blue. β
Even the children of the scholar clan like Nangong Yuan are still like this, not to mention ordinary people.
In this era of traffic congestion and news blockage, many people's perception of the outside world only stays in hearsay.
Ordinary people, who can go out of a village and enter a city, are considered capable people! Like those who can go out of the province and go to other counties and counties to come back alive, they are all big heroes touted by the old and young masters of ten miles and eight towns!
This also highlights to another extent how difficult it is to "enter Beijing to catch the exam".
The "cold window" mentioned in the ten years of hard reading refers to a down-and-out poor family like Tang Xuan, and it is already very good for ordinary people to be able to fill their stomachs, how can they have the spare energy to improve themselves and read and write?
Compared to the humble fishing port at the beginning, the fishing port is much more lively today.
Everywhere you look, flocks of fishermen are naked, pulling nets on the shore; Many seafarers hugged driftwood and shuttled through the rough waves; Large areas of flat land have long been carved out on the shore, and houses are lined up side by side, and smoke rises from cooking.
The unique trumpet sound of the tide rang out one after another, reaching the sky.
"What are they doing?"
Seeing dozens or hundreds of people naked and lining up to pull fishing nets from the sea, Nangong Yuan couldn't help but be shocked.
He had never seen such a peculiar activity.
Not only him, Tang Xuan and Zhao Yu also showed surprised looks.
"It's fishing."
Shanhai likes to see the appearance of these scholars who don't know it, and introduced.
"We'll throw the nets into the sea, and then the people on the shore will pull them and drag the fish to shore!"
"Can this catch fish?" Tang Xuan was dumbfounded.
In his imagination, shouldn't fishing be done slowly with harpoons or tackle?
This looks like a tattered net, but it can also catch fish? Won't the fish run away from the crevice?
Nangong Yuan was shocked: "This net is all broken!" β
"You know, the gaps in the nets are meant to allow the small fish to escape and leave the big ones behind." The mountains and seas were triumphant: "If the big fish and small fish are netted, the fish in the sea will not be able to reproduce, and they will not be extinct?" Zhen'er said that this is called sustainable development. β
As he spoke, the nets left the water, revealing a net woven of fine wire filled with white fish, jumping and lapping against the broken waves.
"OMG! There really are fish! Nangong Yuan jumped up excitedly.
He had never seen so many fish in his life.
"With so many fish, won't the nets break?" Tang Xuan was already stunned.
"You don't know that! This fishing net was made up by our town, and the biggest advantage is that it is strong and durable! Not to mention such a little fish, even the dragon king in the sea can catch it! Speaking of this, Shanhai said with adoration in his expression: "A few days ago, Zhen'er also caught a dragon king with this thing!" β
Just then, there was a sudden exclamation on the beach.
I only heard Li Erniu shouting loudly.
"Quick! Come and help, this fish is too heavy to be dragged on! β
I saw that the fishing net, which had been moving smoothly from the water, suddenly sank downward, and the long rope in the hands of the fishermen seemed to be dragged by some heavy object, and they actually got out of their hands.
Many people were caught off guard and dragged to the ground, and the fishing nets that had just surfaced quickly fell into the sea.