Volume 2 A Journey of 10,000 Miles 36
"Daddy Barna, we've been out to sea for three days, and there's no shadow of a fish?"
Papa Barna was dressed in a sackcloth shirt that was a little loose due to his excessive thinness, and his long life at sea had made his skin as dark as that of his crew, and he looked very old in his fifties.
It was early spring, but there was a heat wave in the damn sea, and Barna frowned.
"Daddy, what's the hurry, when will Daddy take you home empty-handed?" Barna was equally anxious, but he couldn't show it in front of the crew.
More than a dozen people in this boat are all from a small fishing village in Feiyun, and the most valuable thing for a village is this broken fishing boat, and dozens of people are pointing to go out to sea to fish in order to have a full meal.
Bursts of birdsong came, and Daddy Barna hurriedly raised the monocular clairvoyant.
"Herons, herons, a flock of herons!" shouted Papa Barna excitedly, and a flock of herons circling over the surface of the sea, which can only mean one thing, there must be a large school of fish under the surface, "Dog, Daddy, raise the sails!"
"Okay!" more than a dozen men on the boat responded violently, sweeping away the depression since going to sea.
The soft sails of the fishing boat rose and the speed skyrocketed, splitting the waves, and the wind blew Papa Barna's shirt up.
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"Hey, hey!" several men were bare-chested, the green tendons on their arms bursting, battling the heavy fishing nets, the scorching sun made their spines black and red, and the burning pain could not diminish everyone's excitement by half a point.
The sails were lowered, and Papa Barna and the sailman joined in the netting, and it had been a long time since there had been such a bumper harvest!
The huge trawl net slowly broke away from the sea under the joint efforts of everyone, and they begged for half their lives at sea, and this scene still made their eyes pop out......
The trawl was propped up as if it were about to burst, and the mesh became round, and the fish in this net were probably worth a thousand pounds! The fishing boat had been tilted by the net, and the deck had to be close to the sea.
The crowd tried their best to pull the trawl to the boat, and the fishing boat swayed violently.
Papa Barna sat down on the deck and laughed at the boat's wrought.
"Alas, how can there be a dead man!" suddenly cried the father of the sailman, and the people realized that there was a man with white flowers lying in the net, and it was not until the fish in the net broke free from the net and jumped onto the deck.
"Damn, bad luck!" This is the last thing the fishermen want to encounter, and the joy of the harvest dissipates in an instant, how can this boat of fish be sold for a price.
Daddy Barna hurriedly stood up on the side of the ship, this place is seven or eight hundred miles away from Feiyun, and it is not a merchant shipping route, where there will be people who fall into the water.
But the man with a black arm guard on his right hand was actually fished up, and Barna had the courage to approach the man.
"Why don't you throw him down quickly, we won't say that no one knows!" the dog father proposed, and everyone was silent, but this suggestion was indeed everyone's idea, but it was just ......
"Don't do this, you anger the god of the sea, we're all finished!" said Barna angrily, every time they go to sea, they have to make offerings to the god of the sea to pray for peace, and the god of the sea's gift, whatever it is, must be accepted.
The dog's father lowered his head, but he was still very unwilling in his heart, he had worked hard for so long, but in the end he ended up in vain, how to explain to the mother-in-law and children at home.
"He's alive!" Barna said suddenly, the man's fingers twitching.
Everyone came down to the spirit, picked up the fishing nets with their hands and feet, and let this person lie on his back, alas, he was so tall, and his face was still a little immature, but he was a head taller than everyone else, and at first glance he was a foreigner, and his skin was whiter than his mother-in-law at home, which made these rough men a little envious.
Barna couldn't stop pressing on the man's stomach, he must have drowned not long ago, but in this vast sea, he had not seen a ship pass by this day, which was really strange.
Barna's efforts were not in vain, and a moment later, the man coughed violently and spat out a small fish......
"Where is this?" Wei Shu finally woke up, looking at the group of black-faced men around him, a little confused.
Wei Shu only remembered that a wave of fire slapped him and Kuaizhou into the sea together, and the clothes on his body were burned in an instant, and Kuaizhou disintegrated in an instant.
I don't remember how I survived, and when Wei Shu regained consciousness in a trance, he was surrounded by a school of fish and slowly drifted along the sea......
"Hey, boy, count your fate, we saved you!" Seeing Wei Shu wake up, the dog's father turned from anger to joy and saved his life, and the sea god would definitely take care of them.
Wei Shu shook his head, and then his face turned red, why are his clothes gone!
Barna found a set of boatman's shirts and trousers, handed them to Wei Shu, and asked, "Where did you come from, and how did you fall into the sea?"
Wei Shu hurriedly put his clothes on his body, this linen clothes were very rough, and he was uncomfortable, but there seemed to be nothing to complain about at the moment, so he lied first, and then said, "I followed my fellow villagers out to run business, and I didn't want to meet bad people, not to mention that the money was robbed, and I was thrown off the boat." ”
"Oh," Barna scratched his head, not sure if the kid was telling the truth, but such a young man really didn't look like a bad guy, "and where is your family, and do you have any relatives?"
"No relatives...... "Hanhai is gone, and the outlying island has become a ghost domain, Mo Lao Ghost should also leave with Shao Jingzhu this time, Wei Shu's expression was gloomy, but there was no need to pretend.
"Then come back to Feiyun Island with us!" the dog's father shouted, "What kind of business to run, follow the grandfathers to the sea in the future, and you won't die of hunger!"
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"Sail up, brothers, go home!" shouted Barna, and the crowd got busy again.
Wei Shu sat at the stern of the boat, looking at the splashing water in a daze, the memory before falling into the sea slowly became clear, when Wan Ye's move was released, the whole sea was like boiling molten steel, and there was a piercing burning pain everywhere in his body, Wei Shu felt dizzy when he thought about it now, but why is he unscathed now, but his clothes are all gone......
These fishermen are all mortals, why are they so happy? Life on the outlying islands is not a day of peace, and even if they have some cultivation, they still can't escape the fate of going with the flow.
The world is like the sea in front of you, racking your brains to struggle for a wave, but after all, it is still an empty ......
"Little brother, what's your name?" When the fishing boat returned, Daddy Barna became an idler, so he went to the stern to see the "new crew".
"Wei Shu, thank you dad for saving your life. The habitual smile on his face, these people saved themselves, Wei Shu was still very grateful, the old man in front of him was short, thin and strong like the rest of the crew, presumably because he had endured the scorching sun and wind at sea all year round, and the wrinkles on his face were like knife carvings.
"This is not a place where merchant ships will come," Barna has been at sea for half his life, unlike those young fishermen who are uninformed, and Wei Shu's lies can't deceive him, "but who hasn't had a problem, what are your plans?"
Wei Shu didn't expect that this old man was not easy to fool, so he had to pretend to be pitiful as much as possible, "I was killed, if I am indeed homeless today, if my father doesn't dislike it, I can fish and operate the boat, but it can't be done, and I can cook." ”
"Well, although our village is small, we don't have a single mouth. "Bana doesn't worry too much, an outsider can't make any big waves when he arrives on Feiyun Island, and those immortals of the Feiyun Sect are powerful.
"Oh no! the Anjia tax ship is coming!" the dog father who climbed on the top of the mast suddenly shouted, and Father Barna ran to the bow of the boat, ignoring the guard.