As one of the few large ports in the sea area of Zhiyuanfu, Qingchu City has naturally developed into a rather lively commercial city.

A bus with two red lanterns hanging in front of it that has not yet been lit, wrapped in iron sheets, and constantly steam surging vehicles on the top with a long whistle has just passed by, in the carriage, men are wearing short brown or dark clothes, smoking cigarette bags, chatting about the recent work while swallowing clouds and spitting fog, and the women are adjusting the bun on the top of their heads, stretching plain skirts from time to time, and chatting about interesting things in life.

Lu Jing held a scallion pancake in his hand, wrapped a cloth on his back and walked along the street, dragging a wooden cart carrying a large box behind him, although he had been here a few times before, he still looked at everything around him with great interest.

The city of this era has its own unique characteristics.

After expressing his intentions to Uncle Fu and getting affirmation, Lu Jing naturally had to think about the next things.

Although his extraordinary ability gives him the ability to barely protect himself on this sea, the most important thing to go to sea is a ship of his own!

Lu Jing was thinking about this matter earlier, and he didn't plan to get a big ship at the beginning.

On the one hand, the funds are not abundant, Wu Rin's hush money plus his savings in the past half a year is indeed enough to buy an ordinary two-masted sailing ship, but the kind of ship that can only be used for delivery obviously does not meet Lu Jing's requirements, and he has always been a person who would rather lack than excess.

On the other hand, at the moment, Lu Jing is alone, there is no trustworthy crew companion, if he really gets a big ship, he has to recruit a crew temporarily, if it is said that it is for commercial use, and he plans to take risks, he has to experience all kinds of troubles, he doesn't want to spend it with a group of people with different intentions before the sea comes out.

Therefore, after discussing with the people in the shipyard, Lu Jing set his goal on a small dhow steamship, just like Uncle Fu's steam whaling ship, with a mixed hull of wood and steel structure, a hybrid of steam and sails, and if you are skilled, you can control it alone.

Although the size of the sloop steamship is not large, it is better than all kinds of organs, and its ability to withstand wind and waves is quite good, and there is no problem in supporting the voyage of several people, in Lu Jing's plan, before he earns enough money to buy an ocean-going ship to leave the Shuoming Dynasty and go to other countries, this will be his ship.

In fact, Lu Jing's first goal after going to sea was to buy an ocean-going ship, but now he had to buy a ship to go to sea first.

For example, this kind of hybrid ship is brand new, and the price will naturally not be cheap, Lu Jing spent a lot of saliva, and the people in the shipyard were only willing to reduce the asking price to 6 gold leaves and made it clear that if Lu Jing still wanted to bargain, then they would not wait.

At present, Lu Jing's savings are close to 1 gold leaf, plus the hush money given by Wu Rin, a total of 3 gold leaves, and no matter what other items need to be bought after buying the ship, this ship alone is short of 3 gold leaves.

Because of this, Lu Jing came to Qingchu City as soon as he left the port, planning to find a place to sell the things he was dragging behind him.

The most important thing is the scallops, the statue of the human head and the three fins, Lu Jing knows that they should be quite valuable, provided that the right buyer is found.

"Don't miss it when you pass by, today's Qingyun Building focuses on stewed bluefin fish, first come, first served~"

Standing in front of a restaurant, Lu Jing looked at the shopkeeper who was selling at the door, and raised his chin, the latter noticed that Lu Jing's eyes lit up immediately, and hurriedly came up,

"Brother Lu, what good goods are being delivered today?"

"Uncle Fu doesn't even know the origin of the fish this time, why don't you take me to see your shopkeeper quickly, don't forget to call Old Man Xu too, isn't he known as a know-it-all on the sea, I want to know if he has not seen the fish I caught this time." ”

In the past six months, in order to make extra money, Lu Jing often uses his outstanding diving skills to catch some precious sea fish to sell when he is on a long voyage, and he follows the people of Qingyunlou to catch the line every time, and every time there is goods, he will basically look for them.

It's just that Lu Jing didn't come here today just to sell fish, what he really wanted to find was Old Man Xu.

Follow the shopkeeper all the way to the courtyard where the kitchen is located, and it didn't take long for a rich middle-aged man in satin clothes to appear with a smile on his face.

"Shopkeeper Zhou, this time the goods are not ordinary. ”

As soon as the two sides met, after greeting each other, Lu Jing didn't waste any time, and directly opened the wooden box behind him.

"Hey, why does this fish look so strange......"

As the owner of the restaurant, he has seen a lot of all kinds of seafood, but this is really the first time he has seen this kind of fish, the huge size and strange shape, it is undoubtedly a good gimmick to attract business, and he hurriedly stretched out his eyes to the shopkeeper next to him.

When the shopkeeper received the instruction, his hands were thrown to the old man's waist for a while, and the latter could not stand this violent shaking, and he threw up violently when he lay to the side.

"Lao Xu, if you're dead, if you're not dead, hurry up and take a look at the goods, I serve you with good wine and food every day, but I don't want you to be a swill bucket!"

Shopkeeper Zhou stepped forward and dragged the old man, lifted him to the side of the wooden box, pinched his nose and said.

The old man seemed to be familiar with this process, and his two thick palms brushed away the hair in front of him, and he lay on the edge of the wooden box and looked inside, burping with wine in his mouth.

However, when he saw the contents clearly, the wine burp suddenly stopped, and his body, which had been limp, suddenly straightened up, and he was about to get closer with both hands holding the wooden box.

Boom~

How can a person in a drunken state have any balance at all, Old Man Xu turned the probe directly into it, the upper body was in the box, and the lower body was outside, and the whole person was fluttering.

"Help, help......"

The sound is getting softer and softer.

Lu Jing took a step forward with a smile, grabbed the clothes on the old man's back with one hand and lifted him out of the wooden box, but as soon as he pulled it up, the old man turned around and grabbed his collar, widened his eyes and asked, "Where did you find this fish, and where is the content in its stomach?"

"I caught it at sea, how do you know it has something in its belly?"

Lu Jing was stunned at first for Old Man Xu's sudden questioning, and then his expression couldn't help but become serious.

He hadn't told the people in front of him that he had gotten something out of the belly of a fish!

"With a large head and a wide belly and a pitch-black body, the body is long and large...... Do you know why this fish is called by the people of the sea?"

Waving his hands a little excitedly, the old man looked around at the audience with a little arrogance on his face, and suddenly said,

"A Gift from the Deep - Black Gold Treasure Fish!"

"Okay! that's a great name...... Hurry up, inform the kitchen, tomorrow's specialty is this deep-sea fish, this amount is enough for a whole fish feast, Brother Lu, a fixed price, 10 silver dollars, I will accept this fish!"

When Shopkeeper Zhou heard this, his squinted eyes flashed with essence, he didn't care how the fish tasted or what was in his stomach, the key was that the head should be loud.

The gift of the deep sea, this title is playing with you?

There is no 5 silver dollar entrance fee, are you embarrassed to sit down and eat?

"10 silver dollars are sold, but I have a request, that is, Shopkeeper Zhou has to prepare a table for me, in order to keep it fresh, I got up early in the morning. ”

10 silver dollars a fish, this price Lu Jing naturally has no reason to refuse, anyway, the treasure in the belly of the fish has long been in his hands, on the other hand, the shopkeeper Zhou is also very satisfied with Lu Jing's cheerfulness, and immediately patted his chest and said that Lu Jing was open to eat in the building, in his eyes, people like Lu Jing who can get to cherish deep-sea fish are undoubtedly the ones who need to be wooed, or even flattered.

Of course, if he knew that Lu Jing would not go out to sea to fish again in the future, he would probably regret it.

"Boy, I saw it just now, this fish's belly has been cut open, what is in it?"

Old man Xu still relentlessly asked Lu Jing about the news, and he had the intention of not giving up without asking why.

"Or let's talk over a drink, I did get some things, but I don't know their value, and I'm going to ask you to identify them. ”

If you want to sell something, you naturally have to know something about the goods, Lu Jing didn't want to be wronged, so he immediately thought of the well-informed old sailor in front of him.

"You kid is good enough, don't worry, you know everything!"

As soon as he heard that Lu Jing was going to invite guests to dinner, Old Man Xu immediately brushed his hair up, hugged the former's shoulder, and smiled like a chrysanthemum on his whole face, and the scar on his left cheek seemed to be a little less hideous.

Set up a table on the second floor of Qingyun Building, and when the wine and food were ready, Lu Jing took off the cloth wrap and took out the palm-sized moon-white scallop first, planning to test Old Man Xu first.

Burst~

As soon as he saw the scallops, the wine that had just been drunk from the wine bowl in his mouth squirted out before he could swallow it, and the old man Xu reached out and snatched the scallops away, looking at them with bright eyes.

"Moonshine shells, or this size...... Boy, you're fucking lucky, this kind of shell is an extremely valuable medicinal material after grinding into powder, this size, looking for those shops who know the goods is at least 1 gold leaf, if you meet an urgent need, the price can go up!"

Old man Xu's face flushed, as if he had just poured a few bottles of spirits, paused, his expression became a little surprised, and he turned to look at Lu Jing,

"This thing shouldn't be in the belly of the fish, otherwise it would have been digested a long time ago. ”

"I got it by chance, and there are two other things. ”

Knowing the value of this moonlight shell, Lu Jing was also hot, and decisively took out the statue of the human head and the three fins.

This time, Old Man Xu lost the excitement just now, looked at the two things in Lu Jing's hand, frowned suddenly, and looked at the latter with a little more abruptness and pity in his eyes.

"For the sake of this meal, I give you a word of advice, boy, if you want to live a few more years, don't go to sea in the future, especially in the stormy weather of last night. ”

Old man Xu didn't pick up the things in Lu Jing's hand, but just shook his head and said,

"I said how did you get that treasure fish and this moonlight shell, it turned out that I accidentally bumped into their corpses, these things are indeed treasures, but you ...... What kind of expression do you have, can I still lie to you, wait, what you won't meet is alive, right?"

Halfway through his words, Old Man Xu noticed the strange expression on Lu Jing's face, and suddenly seemed to think of something, and his gaze at Lu Jing suddenly changed.

"Hahaha~"

Lu Jing picked up the wine bottle and took a sip, looked at Old Man Xu, and replied with raised eyebrows,

"Secret!"