Chapter 112: Waves by the Bay
Cheng Ge and others set off from Quanchi Villa at noon and hurried non-stop. It wasn't until the early morning of the next day that we arrived at the port of Bolan Bay on the north side of the Forgotten Worry Sea.
Bolan Bay Port is the largest port on the border of the Forgotten Sea. At this moment, Cheng Ge and the others came here and saw that the port was filthy, and there was an indescribable smell of blood in the entire air.
Because there was a storm here last night, and the wood, cargo, fish carcasses, and the wreckage of small fishing boats were all scattered on the surrounding sea, and gradually rotting in the sun.
However, these are not the main ones. The most important thing is that in the midst of that big storm, there was a bloody case of robbery and corpse dumping near Bolan Bay.
It was a silk cargo ship returning from the neighboring sea. The silver jewelry, agate jade silk, antique calligraphy and painting on the ship were all swept away. The captain, sailors, men, and warriors on the ship, a total of one hundred and eight lives, were thrown into the sea, and there were no bones left.
However, what is even more tragic than the bloodshed is the unfazed attitude of the residents here towards such incidents. They had no interest in tracking down the murderer, because there was only one group of pirates who were so brutal and dared to commit crimes in the waves.
With the recurrence of such large-scale bloody cases, local officials in Bolan Bay have long been unable to take care of it, and the only way is to ban Hong Kong.
So in the past two days, not even a single cargo ship has been seen on the long coastline of Bolan Bay. There were only some anxious businessmen, looking around for news of the lifting of the ban by the imperial court.
Most of the businessmen sighed, because in recent years, the ban on the sea has been two, usually two or three months. And after two or three months of delay, not to mention that their business was lost, in the end, it was not enough to even go home.
However, Cheng Ge and the others were not in a hurry. Especially Cheng Ge, he is really not in a hurry at all. Because they went to sea this time, Gong Ziqi was dominant. So he believes that he doesn't have to worry about it, Gong Ziqi will take the initiative to find a way to solve the existing problems. And he still has to wait for someone, waiting for Zhang Zijun and Yi Xunfeng.
After coming here, they waited and sat leisurely on a restaurant near the sea, eating breakfast and drinking morning tea.
They had been on the road for almost the whole day, and they were in dire need of rest, nutrition and strength.
Cheng Ge, Shi Ruge, Tang Yuying, and He Qianxing sat at a table. Gong Ziqi, Xu Zhilan, and Tang Yuying's two junior sisters sat at a table. Eight of their attendants sat down at two tables.
It was the first time in eighteen years that Shi Ruge had gone out of such a far door, and it was the first time she saw the boundless sea, so she was naturally extremely curious. She tilted her head and kept looking at the blue sea in the distance, dotted with white seagulls. Even though she was already exhausted, the smile on her little face couldn't be contained.
Cheng Ge and He Qianxing were eating, and from time to time they also looked at the rough and splashing sea. And Tang Yuying, she lowered her head slightly, she didn't know what she was thinking, and there was a bright smile on Lingxiu's face.
"Yuying Yuying, when we get to the boat, let's go swimming in the sea together, will you be able to swim?" Shi Ruge suddenly said seriously, his gaze retracted from a distance, and fell on Tang Yuying opposite, his peach eyes were full of smiles.
Tang Yuying immediately raised her eyes, shook her head at Shi Ruge, and her beautiful eyes also turned into a crescent moon shape, and said, "I can't swim." But like a song, you can teach me ......"
Shi Ruge nodded happily again, looking interested and said, "Okay!"
Hearing the conversation between Shi Ruge and Tang Yuying, Cheng Ge couldn't help but stare at Shi Ruge coldly, and scared her: "Go to the sea to swim? Do you think the sea is in the river? There are sharks and whales in the sea, which will eat people!"
Shi Ruge was stunned, as if she didn't believe what Cheng Ge said, and looked at Cheng Ge again, blinking her big smart eyes, "Fish, can fish in the sea eat people?"
Cheng Ge looked away helplessly, and then explained to her seriously, "Although their names have the word fish on them, they do not belong to fish, but to mammals......
"Ah, that's it......" Shi Ruge replied softly. Then she didn't know what to say, she simply stopped looking at Cheng Ge, lowered her head slightly, raised her hand and scratched her head.
At this time, an old man caught her attention.
It was an old man holding a piccolo in one hand and a bamboo basket in the other. The old man's rickety body was surrounded by a piece of linen, which was so dirty that he couldn't see the background. The wrinkles on his face are layered, and he seems to be a hundred years old.
He casually paced upstairs, chatted with some neatly dressed guests, and raised the piccolo and bamboo basket from time to time to make a gesture, as if he wanted to perform something, and after touching the nail a few times, he walked straight to Shi Ruge.
Walking up to Shi Ruge, he held the bamboo basket with one hand, held the piccolo with the other, knocked on it, and said in a hoarse voice: "Little girl, show you something interesting, only fifty yuan......
Shi Ruge thought about it again, nodded first, and then shook his head again.
The old man was puzzled, frowned and asked, "What? don't you want to see it?" or do you have no money?"
Shi Ruge seemed to be worried about something, and pursed his lips and thought for a while.
Cheng Ge looked at Shi Ruge again, he knew Shi Ruge's temperament very well. Shi Ruge is a girl who is curious about new things or mysterious things, so at this time, he guessed that Shi Ruge's heart must have wanted to see it.
Without saying a word, he took out fifty yuan, handed it directly to the old man, and said, "Show her." ”
Shi Ruge looked at Cheng Ge again, her heart became happier and sweeter, and the smile on her little face became more and more innocent and cute.
The old man took the money handed by Cheng Ge and put it into the money bag on his waist with impatient movements. Originally, Cheng Ge was about to take another sip of tea, but suddenly noticed that the old man's money bag was originally empty, and his action of drinking tea quickly stopped, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his alertness increased by twelve points.
He thought: How could an old man who came out to sell his art have an empty money bag? Unless he was pretending to appear in order to get close to Shi Ruge! Then, who would want to be unfavorable to Shi Ruge?
The old man squatted down, sat cross-legged on the ground, and laid the bamboo basket flat between his legs. Finally, he pressed the piccolo to his lips and blew a strange and muffled flute sound.
Shi Ruge watched with bated breath, and his big eyes no longer blinked. Suddenly, the bamboo basket moved, and a cyan triangular head slowly crawled out of it.
It was a highly venomous king cobra. It opened its eyes, spat out its tiny tongue, and glowed with phosphorescence all over its body. Because he saw the sun, his body twitched violently a few times, and he slowly crawled out of the bamboo basket.
When Tang Yuying saw it, her brows furrowed, the smile on her face was all condensed, and she was about to make a move. Cheng Ge secretly took her hand and motioned her not to move for the time being.
He wants to see who wants to be unfavorable to Shi Ruge!
He Qianxing on the side also noticed that something was wrong, stopped drinking tea, and squinted his eyes.