Yu Jinshui is 14 years old and grew up by the sea since childhood.

For many people in the hinterland, this may be an enviable thing, after all, living by the sea often means an abundance of cheap seafood and a beautiful view of the seaside at any time.

But it's not as rosy as everyone thinks.

Yu Jinshui's fishing village is not wealthy, and its geographical location is not superior, it is quite far from the area where fish swim in the sea, and the annual catch in the offshore sea is very limited.

To be honest, the vast majority of people in the village can only have enough to eat and wear, and they are constantly busy every day under the pressure of survival, and they have no heart to enjoy the so-called seaside beauty.

I am afraid that only the few wealthy families in the whole village who own medium-sized fishing boats and can go to the sea have this leisure and qualification.

Of course, these rich people can live such a prosperous life, naturally they are not people who are greedy for pleasure, in their opinion, instead of spending effort to make these things in the wind and snow, it is better to marinate a few more salted fish.

Just like now, this time is the low tide of fishing, and almost every family stays at home to recuperate and adjust, but those rich families have coldly pushed those medium-sized fishing boats out again.

Someone in the village greeted: "Shuigen, are you planning to go to sea again?"

Mizune was a swarthy and sturdy honest man, he was one of these wealthy families, and when he was asked by the villagers by name, he replied honestly: "Eh, I want to go to sea." ”

The people in the village kindly persuaded: "Now when you go to sea, you can't catch fish, if you work hard, I'm afraid you won't even be able to earn back the oil money of the boat, it's better to go home and make more dried fish, and some people will come to you to buy it next spring." ”

"I know. Shuigen smiled honestly, they are all old fishermen, how could he not know this truth, but the reason why he and the rest of the families chose to go to sea today is not to fish, he pointed to a few young men and women behind him, "This time I went to sea to take them around, not to fish." ”

When the villagers heard this, they all looked behind Shuigen.

"Tsk, it seems that he has slaughtered a high roller," Yu Jinshui secretly guessed, he saw that the group of men and women were beautifully dressed, and saw Shui Gen and the others smiling like flowers, so he knew that the former was likely to be very generous.

Shuigen found Yu Jinshui in the crowd: "Eh, Jinshui, you are here too, you go and ask your old man, do you want to think about it again?"

Yu Jinshui's family is also one of the wealthy families in the village, and they also have a medium-sized fishing boat that can go to the sea, but in addition to Yu Jinshui, the Yu family only has an adult.

Old man Yu once said that before Yu Jinshui was an adult, he would not pass on the fishing boat to Yu Jinshui, and only accepted the lease of the fishing boat from others.

This time was hired by young men and women to go to sea, and Yu Jinshui's family was originally one of the lists, but Old Man Yu refused.

Therefore, in the face of Shuigen's invitation again, Yu Jinshui just waved his hand and found an excuse to refuse: "No, Grandpa feels sorry for our fishing boat, and wants to take advantage of this time to repair it, you can go." ”

Shuigen's expression showed a little regret, and he shrugged helplessly at the group of young men and women behind him: "He still doesn't want to, I'm afraid you still have to follow the original plan and leave a few people to guard the fishing village." ”

There are quite a lot of young men and women in this group, and the fishing boats of the Shuigen family alone can't carry them all.

Yu Jinshui watched the interaction between Shuigen and the young man and woman, stood in place for a short while, and then pursed his lips and returned to his home.

The Yu family's house is not as luxurious as Shuigen's households, but it is much better than the rest of the villagers, there is a small courtyard before and after, which is more than the upper than the bottom, Yu Jinshui entered the house, and found that his grandfather was putting dried fish in the jar, which seemed to be salting the salted fish that was ready to be sold in the coming year, so he hurriedly went up to help.

"What's the matter, you're back after watching the excitement?" asked his grandson without raising his head while working.

"Well, it's quite lively, and that posture has brought all the people in the village over. Yu Jinshui turned over the fish, sprinkled layers of fine white salt on it, and then smeared it with a special sauce made by himself to enhance its flavor.

Yu Laohan glanced at Yu Jinshui, smiled happily, and didn't speak again.

The scene was silent for a long time, and Yu Jinshui couldn't help but question in his heart: "Grandpa, in fact, we can lend the boat to them, after all, they promised to find the person who drove the boat, and they also paid the insurance money for the damage to the ship in advance, so we have no risk at all." ”

"Hehe, I knew that you kid was holding back words in his heart," Yu Laohan laughed, and after laughing, he replied to the other party seriously, "How to say it, you don't seem to be at risk, but the risk inside is big." ”

Yu Jinshui asked, "What risk?"

"People, people are the biggest risk," Yu Laohan smacked his lips, "Look at those young people, which one doesn't look rich, it's still a trivial matter if our ship is gone, and if you want to lose people, I guarantee that their families will arrest the people involved one by one." ”

"That's the truth, but Grandpa, you have set a bad ending in advance, it's too much," Yu Jinshui frowned and pondered at first, and then said with some disapproval, "In our area, there are no reef whirlpools, and there are no big shark poisonous jellyfish, so the danger is really small." ”

Yu Laohan glanced at his grandson who was still stubbornly pouting: "You don't naively think that this group of young people just wants to take a stroll around the neighborhood?"

When the words fell, Yu Jinshui was slightly stunned.

In the end, he was only fourteen years old, although he was a little precocious and quick-witted, but he didn't see the problem comprehensively, and at this moment, after Yu Laohan's point, he began to immerse himself in his mind and carefully analyze the possible behavioral motives of that group of young people.

He remembered a rumor that came out a few days ago, and his tone was a little hesitant: "Could it be that they want to go to the Nanyang border to have a look?"

"Otherwise?" Yu Laohan had been pickling the fish for a long time, and his waist was a little sore, so he couldn't help but stand up and stretch his muscles, "They are a group of young people who are either rich or noble, in addition to pursuing excitement, what other reason can you think of to prompt them to come to our poor and remote territory?"

Yu Jinshui stopped talking.

Indeed, if they want to play at sea, this group of young people can rent more luxurious boats on their own, and the reason why they go to them to rent fishing boats is probably because it is close to the border of the South Seas, and because it is very remote, even if they go to sea, few people will pay attention to it.

But......

Yu Jinshui's tone suddenly became surprised: "Grandpa, they have gone to such great lengths, is the previous rumor true?"

"If only one or two people spread it, it would be fake news, but now it's ......" Yu Laohan heard this, and was silent for a moment, then shook his head and sighed slightly, "Now there are several batches, dozens or hundreds of people circulating together, and the description of the giant tortoise is exactly the same, which is a bit bizarre, and I also heard that in the sea area on the border of the South Seas, there are fleets of several countries patrolling, and this is the case every day...... To be honest, I can't give a word of accuracy. ”

Yu Jinshui is staggering.

"Anyway, let's just avoid getting involved in these messy things, after all, over the years, we have also saved some money, enough to feed the two of us," Yu Laohan said this, and suddenly changed his words, "By the way, last time the teacher proposed to let you go to the county to study, how did you think about it?"

"Ahh

"That's not it," Yu Laohan explained to his grandson, "Our village is too close to the sea, the humidity is too heavy, and my calf bones hurt every cloudy day, so it's good to move to the county as soon as possible, and our family can still afford this money." ”

Yu Jinshui hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded, on the one hand, because of the rheumatic pain that Yu Laohan said, and on the other hand, because of the inexplicable anxiety in his heart.

The grandfather and grandson of the Yu family were talking about moving, and at this moment, the light in the courtyard suddenly dimmed.

What's going on?

Yu Jinshui and Yu Laohan raised their heads one after another, and were surprised to find that the sky above them was overcast in an instant.

"Grandpa, doesn't the weather forecast say that it will be sunny today?" Yu Laohan was a little puzzled.

Yu Jinshui ignored Grandpa's inquiry, he looked carefully at the haze rolling above his head, and a sense of unease rose in his heart.

Yu Laohan saw Yu Jinshui staring at the top of his head in a daze, a little inexplicable, he showed a puzzled expression, but he didn't say anything, but quickly ran to the yard and carried all the sea fish that were drying back to the house.

While carrying it, he complained in a tone: "This rainy weather is really coming, and I don't know how long it will last, the quality of this box of dried fish will be greatly reduced, and I don't know if the vendors will lower the price next year." ”

"Grandpa, I feel a little wrong, look, look!" Yu Jinshui looked at the sky above his head, and the more he looked, the more he felt that something was wrong, in the center of the cloudy whirlpool, there was actually a purple-red thunderbolt slowly forming!

Yu Laohan followed the words and looked over, and was stunned for a while, even the small dried fish in his hand slipped to the ground, and he didn't care about picking it up.

Just before the two of them could fully react, the sky suddenly darkened a little again, and then the purple-red thunder fell straight into the world from the center of the cloud vortex.

"Bang-"

A dull thunderclap exploded outside the Yu family's house, and everyone's hearts jumped involuntarily.

But there's more to it than that.

The clouds that lingered in the air ceased to roll and turned into a torrential rain pouring down from the sky, and with it a strong wind like a tornado.

Almost instantaneously, all the coastline that was shrouded immediately blew up rain curtains, and the air was blown away with sand, stones, clothes for drying, and even small wooden benches and other light furniture!

In the face of this rapidly changing situation, the grandfathers and grandchildren of the Yu family were a little unaware, they never thought that it was just a blink of an eye, and the originally quiet and ordinary day suddenly became a disaster day.

The grandfather and grandson of the Yu family exerted their instinct to survive and wanted to rush into the house.

During this period, the small dried fish in Yu Laohan's hand was directly blown, and Yu Laohan wanted to catch a few handfuls, which made Yu Jinshui frightened: "Grandpa! Don't care! Come into the house!"

He shouted several times, and finally made Yu Laohan change his mind and hurriedly hide in the house.

Yu Jinshui didn't have time to accuse Grandpa of his behavior at this time, and the moment he returned to the house, he immediately went to close the windows on both sides, but as soon as he closed the window lattices against the strong wind, the glass on the window was suddenly smashed by a small shell carried by the wind.

"Be careful!" Yu Laohan was in a hurry, pulling Yu Jinshui back and stopping him behind him.

Yu Jinshui glanced at the wound on his right arm that was scratched by the edge of the shell, a trace of palpitation flashed in his eyes, and he immediately suppressed his emotions and took his grandfather to hide back in the relatively closed and narrow bedroom, and blocked the wardrobe in front of the bedroom window.

The rain poured down and the wind howled.

I don't know how long it took, but the grandfather and grandson of the Yu family finally found that the movement outside the house had calmed down.

"Are you alright?" Yu Laohan got up and looked outside the house, and found that it was not dark outside, at least a few rays of light shone in through the window.

"It should be fine. Yu Jinshui opened the bedroom door and found that the hall and kitchen were completely in a mess, he took a deep breath and took Grandpa's hand out of the courtyard gate.

The chaos on the outside is even worse.

On the ground, there were clothes, dried fish, and even fresh live fish, which must have been blown out of the water by the wind.

It's just that neither Yu Jinshui nor Yu Laohan are in the mood to take a closer look at their surroundings at the moment, and their eyes are all attracted by a strange scene in the sky.

At this moment, there is an island floating in the sky!

The island is so large that it covers almost the entire surrounding sea, but its true face is not clear, not only is it covered by white clouds, but the outermost layer is surrounded by thousands of free streamers.

The streamer is purplish-red and seems to have a very high temperature, so that the air around the streamer becomes scorched, as if there are transparent air waves rolling back and forth, making it difficult to see the real scene behind it.

"Hey, that'...... Isn't that Shuigen them!" Suddenly, Old Man Yu let out an exclamation.

Yu Jinshui's heart was shocked.

He scanned and saw that below the island, above the sea, a suspended sailboat was slowly moving upward, and if he looked closely, he could faintly see some of the people on board.

The two Yu families were dumbfounded.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion on the coast ahead.

Yu Jinshui and Yu Laohan followed the prestige, their pupils shrank, and they couldn't help but lose their voices in unison: "This is ......"

Not far away, a ship that looked exactly like a sailing ship in the air was slowly moving towards the shore.

And, at the very front of this ship, a white sail stands in the wind, and there are four big characters written on it: "Yingzhou Haike".