Qi Laosan didn't speak, letting him shout was comparable to taking off his pants on the street, and he couldn't open his mouth.

"By the way, third uncle, you have to help me dig a pit in the yard when you are free, and spread stones and sand at the bottom of the pit for the old turtle to live in." Haizhu said again.

"Oh, good."

Haizhu carried water to take a bath, and he happened to have nothing to do, so he took a shovel and began to dig a pit.

The moonlight was hazy, the sea breeze brought the sound of waves, Dongzhu had already slept, and Haizhu took out a box full of silver hairpins and gold hairpins. Jin hairpin, gold step shake, gold bracelet, gold earrings, she all took them into the tray and weighed them, and the gold was seven taels...... There were more than five taels of silver.

In front of the jumping candle flame, Haizhu pinched the black-red gold step and burned it on the fire, she felt that it was a loss to sell gold alone, and the more expensive should be the craftsmanship. For example, this stamen, which is wrapped in thin gold wires, and the petals that are as thin as cicada's wings, are not skilled by ordinary goldsmiths.

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"The filling of the pancake hasn't been changed yet?" Han Ji glanced at Haizhu, "I found that you are very unpersuadable and stubborn." ”

"You don't understand." Haizhu didn't wrap anything in the noodles, flattened the pot, and said, "You can eat the white flour cakes." ”

Han Ji: ...... Looks like she really understands.

He pulled a purse from his waist and handed it to her, "I bought a knife yesterday." ”

"Didn't give much, did you?"

"You'll find out when you go back and weigh it." Han Ji sat on the bench and asked what the shipwreck looked like under the sea.

"It was dilapidated, the planks were rotten, the masts were rusty, half of them were seaweed, and half of them were burrows for shrimp and crabs to fight." Haizhu grabbed ash and rubbed the oil on his hands and asked him how the ship sank.

"I hit the rocks, and after the bottom of the boat entered the water, it sank after about a pillar of incense."

"Sister, the cake is ready." Dongzhu was a little stunned by Han Ji, the two sat on a bench, and she handed the cake to Haizhu.

Haizhu handed him the cake again and asked in a whisper: "Hey, the gold has changed color when soaked in the seawater, how can you remove the color on the surface?" ”

Han Ji stopped chewing and tilted his head to look at her meaningfully.

"That's what you think." Haizhu shrugged, "At that time, the female guests on the boat were quite rich, and the gold jewelry in the makeup was filled with three layers. ”

Han Ji smiled, he suddenly found that Haizhu's days were quite interesting, selling cakes in the bustling downtown in the morning, and going to the lonely underwater adventure in the afternoon, neither leaving the fireworks, but also accompanied by surprises from time to time. The most important thing is that she is a person, who can work hard for two pennies for a long time, and looks like she wants to get rich, and the opportunity to make a fortune is hidden at the bottom of the sea, and she doesn't seem to be very interested.

seems to have a lack of understanding of her own talents, and seems to understand life too thoroughly, and the balance is properly grasped by her.

"What are you smiling at me?" Haizhu stroked his arm, "I don't know, I'll go find Shen Sui." ”

"The original owner of the jewelry box you picked up should be from Yongning Town, don't be reckless and take out the things and sell them." Han Ji ate the last bite of the cake and said, "I'll go back with you, I'll take the things and send them to you with money." ”

Haizhu immediately closed the stall, and the unsold ones were not sold, and the afternoon pancakes were used as lunch.

"You've been in Yongning Town every day all this time? Don't go with the boat to patrol the village? Walking on the road, Haizhu asked.

"Go, go once every half a month, I don't stay in Yongning every day, and I go to the barracks every three or five days."

Haizhu didn't inquire.

Grandma Qi pushed Second Uncle Qi to lead Chaoping to see the leeks, there was no one at home, Haizhu opened the door and took the makeup box that was drying in the yard and put all the gold and silver jewelry into it, "The silver is rusty, even if you can't sell it, it's okay to melt it into broken silver." If you can exchange it for a silver ticket, give me a silver ticket, and I always worry about the gold at home. "I'm always thinking about giving flowers.

Han Ji nodded, "I'm leaving, there's still something to do." ”

He left, and Haizhu also pushed a cart to take the turtle to the sea to hunt.

In the afternoon she went to the blacksmith's shop to find a blacksmith to make her an iron plate and an iron frame, and the vessel for burning the fire was also made of iron.

"Ready to make sizzling tofu?" The blacksmith asked.

"yes, I want to try." It's hard to stay up at night without other pastimes, so Haizhu plans to come out at night and set up a stall to sell sizzling tofu, sizzling squid, grilled octopus, and barbecued meat.

The main theme is a rich nightlife.

She pushed the wooden cart and took the old turtle to the dock, and when she was unanchoring, she was suddenly stopped by an old man, "Girl, I heard that you are good at water?" Can you go to sea to catch a shipwreck? ”

"Something?"

"I have a job to make money, do you want to do it? The main family is generous, and the salary is never ambiguous, five taels of silver for half a day. ”

"What job?" Haizhu turned back.

"You know about pearl diving, right?" The other party said in a suppressed voice.

"Admiral Marine, you know, right?" Haizhu also lowered his voice, "His son explained to the guards on the dock that I can only move around the Yongning dock and can't go far." ”

Haizhu moved out of Han Ji, and when she saw that the old man's eyebrows were drooping, she rolled her eyes, people were afraid of being famous, pigs were afraid of being strong, and she knew that her reputation would be remembered by ghosts.

Chapter 51: Maritime Containment

The boat left the dock, Haizhu looked back to the shore, and the old man who had invited her was nowhere to be seen.

The tide rushed up the reef, and the wet marks were quickly evaporated, and under the clear clear sky, there was still dirt in the shadows.

The original owner grew up in the village since he was a child, and heard a lot of rumors and past stories from the old people who have experienced the wind and frost, and Haizhu also learned from his memory that the imperial court had strict control over pearl diving, and the registered pearl divers were called Tanmin, and the pearls collected by Tanmin were sold to the government.

There were also pearl divers who were not on the official register, and if they were not for the Tan people, they had to pay a pearl fee to the imperial court, and the pearls they collected would be sold to merchants. And the pearl merchant is a local snake, and he is often surrounded by powerful people.

This is not a secret on the seaside, pearl divers who are not on the official register are actually equivalent to profit-making tools raised by the powerful, and the descendants are incompetent, if they are talented in swimming, they will become slaves of pearl diving from life to death. The old man who talked to Haizhu was the eyeliner that the pearl merchant kept outside, and he found that the person who was good at swimming was lured over first.

The ancestors of the pearl girl were pearl diving for a living, and in her father's generation, underwater kung fu was lost, so her children no longer relied on pearl diving for food. Haizhu can be sure that the pearl girl is clear about the rules of this trade, so when the pearl girl mentioned in Qijiawan that she wanted to teach her pearl diving, she became wary.

The pearl girl may have originally just wanted the two to cooperate in pearl diving to make money, but her mind was not pure, and the simple point was to use her, and if she became rich in the future, she could also take the opportunity to murder her.

A seabird folds its wings and plunges into the sea, and the sound of splashing brings Haizhu back to its senses, and in the distance a fishing boat is pulling its net, and there is a blue-white fish body in the black fishing net. She turned her □□ sail and rowed over, approached and said, "This net is not a small harvest." ”

"I guess there's a school of fish passing by." Qi Laosan happily closed his mouth, picked up a bucket of fish in a net, he didn't have time to cast the net again, squatted on the side of the bucket and pierced the swim bladder with a silver needle, and threw it into the water tank one by one.

The underwater waves surged, the two boats staggered, Qi Laosan was ready to go back, he advised: "Be careful yourself, don't swim deep, don't go to the place where the shipwreck is wrecked, the bottom of the sea is too deep, it is estimated that there is no light below, and it is difficult to find a big fish attacking you." ”

Haizhu naturally agreed, her target today is octopus and squid, which can be caught on the shallow bottom of the sea.

There is no need to find a suitable position, the net bag is tied, Haizhu jumped off the boat with an iron rake, and the old turtle now does not need to be pushed, and climbs to the bow of the boat and sinks down.

A man and a turtle dived to the bottom of the sea, and when they were no longer visible, two small boats floated towards this side in the distance.

When Haizhu floated up, she saw three black boat bottoms underwater, and she touched her face with her backhand, and her cheeks instantly touched the cold water.

She burst out of the water and met the four faces that had leaned out of the boat, and the men on the boat looked at her with a smile.

"The girl's kung fu of holding her breath underwater is really good, and her reputation is well deserved." One of them spoke.

Hearing no malice in the words, Haizhu smiled, swam to the side of the boat and poured the octopus from the net pocket into the bucket. The place where she went to sea today was not far from the shore, and she had already been on guard, and estimated that she would go upstream with a cup of tea.

"Is there anything wrong with you?" She asked.

"It's okay, it's okay, you're busy, we're just having fun."

Then she didn't care, took the net and soaked in the sea, tied it to her waist and dived down again.

The sea floor is full of light, the color of the coral stone is much brighter, and the thumb fish creeping on the seaweed are red and yellow, nibbling on the tender algae leaves. Seeing that the sea pearl had no intention of invading it, the black sea bream, which was driving away the sea urchins, had the audacity not to hide or dodge, swinging the fishtail to stabilize its body, and watching her rummage for sea shells at the bottom of the sand.

A seashell was occupied by an octopus, Haizhuyan quickly broke the shell, grabbed the little octopus trying to escape, threw the shell and was picked up by her, the shell of the slap can be used as a saucer.

There were a few clusters of seaweed on the sandy bottom in front of them, which had not yet grown, and were first discovered by black-and-white spotted conchs, and the snail meat was adsorbed on the seaweed, and it was pulled up and reluctant to throw something into the mouth. Haizhu slowly picked up seventeen conches and tied them to their nets to float. Before leaving, she found that the old turtle was gnawing on the sea urchin, so she used an iron rake to pry a few and put it in its mouth, and picked four large ones to take away.

As soon as she left, the smelling fish and shrimp swam towards the old turtle.

There were still three boats floating on the sea, and Haizhu did the same, poking through the light mask and getting out of the water in embarrassment, and when she saw one of them holding the hourglass, she rolled her eyes, "You guys are so boring." "Throw the sea urchin over.

"Yo, bring us sea urchins, you're so nice." The man with the hourglass took out a knife to open the sea urchin, took out his cheeks and lungs and put them in the sea, directly used the knife to pry the yellow and eat, and asked unceremoniously: "Hey, what is the bottom of the sea like?" ”

"A beach with grass and reefs, and the people who walk have been replaced by fish, shrimp and crabs, and that's it." Haizhu climbed onto the bow of the boat and sat down to rest, and easily dismantled the loose hair and re-braided it.

"Hey, aren't you afraid we're bad guys? I wasn't surprised to see us. The man in the white shirt asked, and Haizhu came out of the water and saw them calmly, as if he had expected them to come.

Haizhu looked at the people on the boat, with a weird smile on his face, "Why are you surprised?" I am not afraid that you will kill me for money, but if you are afraid, you are the one who should be afraid. She glanced under the boat and continued to threaten: "When I get to the sea, it is my territory, if I have murderous intentions, I will directly knock your boat overturned, the boat will overturn, and if you fall into the sea, you will not see anyone, and you will not see your body." ”

The four people who still wanted to make fun of Haizhu froze, and the smile on their faces was replaced by vigilance.

"Even the sea urchins you eat, I can chop up the poisonous jellyfish and poke it in."

"Bang" twice, there are two more sea urchin shells on the sea, and the timid person has covered his neck.

Seeing that they were frightened, Haizhu suddenly smiled, "I'm joking, what do you want your life to do, you are not bad people." ”

"There's really no poisonous jellyfish in sea urchins?" The man in the white shirt asked.

"No, I just want to scare you." Haizhu pointed to the person holding the hourglass and said, "I have seen him, he is friendly with Shen Sui, I call Shen Sui to call the sixth brother, what should I do to you." ”

The hair was braided, Haizhu jumped out of the boat, and the old turtle was still waiting for her at the bottom of the sea, and if she delayed any longer, it might find her.

"I'm going to the sea, you guys go back too, don't go to the sea if you're not good at swimming, if you're unlucky enough to encounter a whirlpool at sea, even Mazu can't save you." With that, she went into the sea.

The four people on the boat looked at each other, and the man in the white shirt asked, "Jia Qing, have you seen her?" ”

"Nope." Jia Qing put away the knife and thought about it carefully, he didn't call the girl to accompany him when he was drinking with Shen Sui, if Haizhu was there, he couldn't be impressed.

"Then she said that she had seen you, forget it, go back to the little sixth master and ask."

"Shall we go back then?"

"What are you going to do if you don't go back, wait for her to come up and drag us into the sea?"

When Haizhu surfaced again, there was only one boat left on the sea, she took the black snapper out of her net pocket, grabbed the head of the fish and pierced the swim bladder with a silver needle, threw it into the water tank, and dragged the rope hanging in the sea to swim to the left, and the old turtle followed behind the boat.

I changed my place and dived again, and the bottom of the sea changed the scenery again, there are many fish in this sea, the seagrass on the bottom of the sea is about to be gnawed bald, and there are not many corals next to it, and it is estimated that the polyps are eaten by fish and shrimp.

Haizhu swam with the flatfish school, and when it was about to turn a corner, he opened his net pocket and rushed into the fish, filling half a bag like digging sand and piercing his mouth.

The fish were frightened and ran away, and she sat on the bottom of the sea on the struggling fishing net, wearing long sleeves and her arms not being cut by the fins, and her neck was not covered by a few scars.

When the movement in the net pocket was small, Haizhu stood up and lifted the net pocket, pushed the old turtle, and took the lead to swim to the sea. The fish in the net pocket struggled to fall, and the resistance of the water made the ascent more difficult than ever, and she had to change hands halfway through, and the old turtle swam above her head and waited for her for a while.

When she finally came out of the water, Haizhu was tired and tired, so she rested on the bow of the boat for a while before climbing up, dragging a net of fish onto the boat like a tug-of-war, and laboriously pricking the swim bladder with a needle.

The old turtle swims at the bottom of the boat and hits the board with its shell from time to time.

"Right now, there's only the last two." Haizhu didn't care if it understood it or not, every time it bumped, she would say something.

The last flat fish was thrown into the tank, she cast a net and dragged the old turtle up, and when she looked around and saw that there were no fishing boats coming, Haizhu squatted down and changed her wet clothes.

Before the sun sank into the sea, she propped the boat back to shore first.

Before the time of the return of the ships that had gone out to sea, the wharf was deserted, the porter and porter sat dozing in the shade of the trees, and the guards laughed and laughed in a low voice with their swords. When Haizhu rowed into the bay, they looked at each other.

"I came back early today." Du Xiaowu yawned and walked to the beach, looking towards her boat, "How many were arrested today?" ”

"I didn't catch much, I was unlucky, I was unlucky, I didn't want to catch anything." Haizhu smashed the anchor and first half-pushed and half-lifted the old turtle off the boat, and then put the fish in the bucket in the water tank to the water officer to weigh it, and poured the octopus and seashells into the net pocket to weigh them.