The book continued, and said that Chu Xunyu and his party were heading to eastern Guangdong on Qiu Luhua's ship, it was another early morning, and it was another day of boredom, Mu Yuan got up and walked with Shang Qian to the deck, glanced at the fishing rod, and shook his head helplessly; Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 InfoWhat are you going to do today? This question seems to have become Mu Yuan's biggest life problem right now.

Wangchen is not bad, these days have finally begun to look a little human, at least you can get out of bed, although the face is still as ugly as ever, but you can already struggle to get out of bed and drink some porridge, it is estimated that you are hungry, Qiu Luhua took into account Wangchen's physical reasons, and specially instructed the cook on the ship to stew some preserved eggs and lean porridge, Miao Buyan gave Wangchen a small bowl, Wangchen felt much more comfortable to drink.

Chu Xunyu is not idle, these days accompanied by Sun Mengxuan to find Chen Yanyan is learning to recognize navigation charts, Sun Mengxuan is a soldier, although he has never fought a water battle, but he is also an expert in reading maps, Chu Xunyu has been fighting in the army for many years, and he is also a veteran in reading maps, so he is working hard to learn navigation these days.

In the past few days, it has seriously deviated from the originally planned route, considering that the surrounding situation is unknown, so he specially took a remote route around the long road, Qiu Luhua still lies on the mast and sleeps as always, occasionally comes down to order some things, almost does not disturb everyone much, all the ordinary affairs on the ship are taken care of by Chen Yanyan, in the end it is one of the ten sheng chairs, everything can be ignored all day long, Mu Yuan is very envious, and thinks about when he can have a big ship to travel to the sea so chic.

Everyone was busy with their own affairs, suddenly the gong sounded on the boat, and the peace exploded, everyone couldn't help but be a little shocked, Mu Yuan laughed, looking forward to the stars and the moon Finally, something happened to him, if he went on like this, he had to suffocate to death, quickly threw away the fishing rod in his hand, pulled Shang Qian and ran to the back deck of the ship. Chu Xunyu also heard the sound beside Chen Yanyan, someone entered the door and reported to Chen Yanyan, it turned out that the lookout on the main mast found something floating on the sea, and then Chen Yanyan ordered someone to lower the main sail, sail slowly, and take people out to see what was going on.

The lookout found something floating on the sea in the distance on the right side of the ship's side at a high place, and when the big boat got closer, he found that there was a corpse lying on a rough and broken wooden cabinet, it is not uncommon to have a corpse on the sea, anyway, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the people who run the boat talk with their fists when they have conflicts, and they stab them to death and throw them into the sea to feed the fish, but this corpse is holding a broken wooden cabinet, it is obvious that it should not have been killed by a conflict, but the boat sank and escaped, and it is a very difficult time now, so Chen Yanyan still asked people to salvage the body to see what was going on。

So the sailors threw out rope hooks and hooked the corpse over, and a few people dragged them onto the deck. The ship's doctor went up to check, this corpse is an ordinary person, not a cultivator, dressed as a sailor, in his fifties, the people on the water are old, and the unique sea breeze and frost years have left a lot of marks on his face, but it is not the Skeleton Valley, and there are many ordinary people in the Skeleton Valley, but without exception, there are blood-colored skeletons on the chest that are unique to the Skeleton Valley, this person does not, Chen Yanyan judged that this person is a smuggler nine times out of ten, because most of the smugglers on this remote route are smugglers selling sea salt and wine, for so many years, people on this route are often thrown into the sea by their companions because of the uneven distribution of spoils, or because of natural disasters, the ship is in distress, abandon the ship and escape。

Chu Xunyu couldn't help but go up to check it, and found that this person was still alive, but he had been drifting in the sea for a long time and lacked water and food, and he couldn't stand the wind and sun before he passed out.

This is Chu Xunyu doesn't know, although the Skeleton Valley is a pirate, notorious, but for this kind of thing has always been very open-minded, this is related to Chen Qi's leadership, the entire Skeleton Valley sheltered a lot of ordinary people during the war, and they are all from poor families, after all, these dirty work on the ship has to be done, these mortals on weekdays swing the sails, anchor and pull fiber, and finally have something to eat, and will choose a good qualification to give exercises to practice, in short, how to do it in the Lu Sect, how to do it in the Skeleton Valley, but the method is different; Not to mention that if you don't save others today, others won't save you tomorrow if you are in distress.

Since Chen Yanyan agreed, there was nothing to say, Chu Xunyu straightened the man, pricked a few needles, and fed some herbs with water, and after a while, the man retched a few times, spit out a few mouthfuls of sour water and slowly woke up. However, he glared at the boat doctor on the side, and someone grabbed a job with him, Mu Yuan also comforted him, telling him that his brother was also selling strong pills on the streets and alleys on the rivers and lakes, and he still had some means, and the people in the rivers and lakes gave him the nickname "Country Saihuatuo", and it was not a shame to lose to him. The angry Chu Xunyu rolled his eyes at him.

Since the person woke up, there was nothing to do, and everyone dispersed to do their own thing, Chen Yanyan let the boat continue sailing, ordered someone to take a chair and blanket, let the person sit up, made a cup of hot tea to warm up, and took a few steamed buns to satisfy his hunger. The person who looked like this uncle was dazed at first, and a little frightened, thinking that he had seen the blood-colored skull flag of the Skeleton Valley, but he didn't expect the uncle to breathe a sigh of relief after looking up and seeing clearly that it was the name of the Skeleton Valley, leaning on the back of the chair and trembling with a blanket, holding the steamed bun and opening his mouth to gnaw, pouring a few sips of hot tea and choking on a straight cough. Later, Chu Xunyu learned that it turned out that the Skeleton Valley had never embarrassed these smugglers, and they could not do anything to give people a way to live, not to mention that the Skeleton Valley was a dignified overlord of the sea, what could they do to embarrass these little shrimps? After all, the Skeleton Valley is also half of their peers in some aspects, and they will not blindly suppress, only some taboo behaviors, the Skeleton Valley will completely destroy you, Chen Qi has set very strict rules in this regard, such as trafficking, human trafficking, which is not ashamed of his peers, selling children for money, or selling people's Huanghua girl to go to the Qinglou, that is really harmful, no need to wait for the government to come and take you, Skeleton Valley bumps into you and kills you once, takes the head back to receive the reward, and never accepts any surrender and capture, regardless of the good or bad, from the captain to the sailors who tow the deck, all of them are cut off with knives and knives, all of them are killed, and the ship's goods and funds are looted, and the last fire burns the shipFor example, the stolen officials who were wanted by the imperial court, with their families, gold and silver, and wanted to go to sea to avoid the limelight, were bumped into by the valley and directly took someone to the government to receive a reward, if they resisted, they naturally did not need to go into details. As for the cloth sellers, wood sellers, etc., they are all for their livelihood to beg for food, and the Skeleton Valley itself also needs them to replenish their supplies, after all, it is far away in the depths of the sea, and it is inconvenient to trade with the land, so they have always been friends, and the uncle who rescued it saw that it was the ship of the Skeleton Valley and suddenly felt a lot more relieved.

When the uncle recovered, he told everyone what had happened to him. It turned out that he had met a "Quanke".

The name Quanke is unfamiliar to most people, but it also has a name that everyone must have heard, that is, "mermaid", and some people call it "mermaid", yes, it is the legendary guest of the sea with a fishtail and a fishtail. Mu Yuan heard this and jumped three feet high, all said that it is better to be famous than to meet, the legend of the merman is well-known, and there are records in all dynasties, from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Naturalist" to the great poet Du Fu and Li Shangyin in the Tang Dynasty have mentioned, Li Shangyin's sentence "There are tears in the pearl of the sea and the moon, and the blue field is warm and the jade is smoking" The poem is popular, and it is said that the merman "weeps tears into beads, and does not waste the shark" One of the two major characteristics, the legend of the merman tears fell into pearls, a kind of cloth woven with water and grass is not soaked in water, avoiding water and wind, people can wear it to travel all over the world, crossing the water like flat ground.

But Chen Yanyan coldly poured a basin of cold water on Mu Yuan's head, she told everyone that the real merman is not at all the poetry and painting written by those literati in history, on the contrary, those who run boats on the sea know that meeting a merman is an extremely unfortunate thing, and there will be a disaster of blood and light. Like humans, the male merman is dark in color, covered in scale armor, ugly in appearance, protruding eyes and big ears, with a large mouth that can reach the root of the ear, and a mouth full of fangs; The merman is very lewd, good carnivorous, especially likes human flesh, the words between the merman are like songs, tactfully turn and listen, very demagoguery, look at the moon at night, sing on the stones, attract the sailors of the nearby ships to approach, and be bewitched by the merman to share the food.

But it's not so simple for this uncle to meet Quanke, please listen to him......

This uncle is Cantonese, surnamed "Qian", let's call him Qian Bo, Qian Bo turned out to be the helmsman boss of a private tea seller, running for nearly 40 years, these familiar routes run like playing, not long ago I took a trip to the "moon live", which is commonly known as smuggling, sent a large number of tea north to Yingtian, ten days ago I also met the passing Gugu patrol ship, and the Gugu brothers on the ship exchanged tea for a lot of good things.

One night three days ago, when Qian Bo saw that there was nothing to do, and it was far from the coast, the official ship could not patrol here, so he ordered things to be done in advance, handed over the rudder to the apprentice, and carried the flask back to the cabin to squint for a while. The helmsman had a good status on the ship, and he also had a small room of his own, and after eating some side dishes and drinking two taels of wine, Qian Bo felt very good, and slept with his head covered without saying a word, ready to sleep until dawn to meet the rising sun on the horizon.

In the middle of the night, Qian Bo felt cold, but he was strange, the land of the two places has always been hot, how could this be? But the sleeping Zhenghan didn't bother to care about this, and casually pulled the quilt and covered it a few times, and in a daze he heard the "creak" in his ears 's faint voice, Qian Bo was furious, and he didn't bother to get up, closed his eyes and scolded the apprentices outside, so that they were optimistic about the mice in the warehouse, and always warned them to clean up well on weekdays, but now there are more and more rats, and they are getting bolder and bolder, and they don't clean up this group of lazy people when they get up tomorrow.

After falling asleep for a while, Chamber's eyes suddenly woke up, because he felt that the speed of the ship had slowed down, and the people who ran the boat took the boat as their home and were most sensitive to the wind and grass on the ship. Qian Bo cocked his head, feeling that the speed of the ship was getting slower and slower, and it was so cold around him, he couldn't help but mentally scold these bastard apprentices for definitely driving the wrong course of the ship again, so he picked up his clothes and pulled the door open and went out to scold.

Unexpectedly, the cabin was quiet when the door was opened, it was pitch black, there was no light, Qian Bo's head was green, this group of bastards must be drinking and gambling on the deck again, and they didn't even know that the ship was open, so they took three steps and made two steps, rubbed on the deck, and prepared to catch the apprentices. But when he went on the deck, Chamber's face was really green, because the deck was empty, and a cool sea breeze blew, and there was a bit of blood.

The boat stopped in the shallow water of a small island, this small island is no stranger, often passing by, this is a reef desert island, but now it is different, the island is scattered with many torches, half extinguished and half burned, there are two or three small boats on their own boats around, under the firelight, several mermaids are gnawing on the corpse, the corpse is full of scattered knives and ropes.

This scene in front of Qian Bo ran for more than 40 years in the ship is familiar with it, but obviously the apprentices on the ship found the merman, so they wanted to go up and catch them, catch the merman, it is terrible, and eat and drink all his life, in the past, it was said that there was a lucky boat runner who could hit the injured and stranded merman and catch it and sell it at a sky-high price, so some brave crew members at sea often heard the merman's song not retreating but advancing, plugging the ears with cotton balls, and holding peppers in their mouths, so that people were sober and not bewitched by the singing, and then the brothers held knives and sticks, and leaned over from behind with a small boat, and then swarmed up, scattered with fishing nets, slashed with wooden sticks, and cut with knives, no matter what means, whether it was dead or alive, as long as you can catch one, it is not in vain. But to tell the truth, the sharks on these reefs are singing in groups of three or five, and when they find someone approaching, they jump into the water, and if they are in a hurry, they directly grab humans and drag them into the sea, so they want to catch sharks are generally sent to death with unclear brains, and few can come back alive.

Qian Bo saw that his apprentice was hopeless, and he didn't know how many people were left on the ship, but after all, he was experienced in the rivers and lakes, and he knew that his stupid apprentices must have heard the merman's song and moved greedily, so he went to the ghost gate, so he didn't say a word and lowered his head and lay down along the side of the ship, and the cat ran to the stern rudder, and he wanted to run quickly with the boat. But there are two unreasonable points in the story, and Chen Yanyan also expressed his disbelief, because first, this route Qian Bo has been running for so many years, and he has never heard of sharks in this sea area, and the sharks are generally in the depths of the ocean;

But when he ran to the stern of the boat, he was about to pee, under the moonlight, he saw the captain and them lying in a pool of blood, and two black mermaids were holding them with their heads down and gnawing, what was particularly peculiar was that these mermen seemed to be not quite the same as the legend, with white bones everywhere on their bodies, cold and fluttering, and Chamberber didn't bother to care about what happened to the mermen, so he hurriedly held his breath and retreated. After taking two steps back, suddenly mutated and regenerated, the hull tilted sharply, according to legend, this is the merman will chisel through the hull after eating the crew, capsize the big ship, not a few breaths, in the ship in the difficult gasp of the collapse of the collapse, Chamberber holding a broken wooden cabinet fell into the sea, drifting down the river, I don't know how long it took, until today was rescued.

After listening to what happened to Qian Bo, it didn't seem to be a lie, Chen Yanyan sent someone to send Qian Bo back to rest first, and when the people left, he raised his head and gestured to Qiu Luhua on the mast, Qiu Luhua jumped down, he had been watching and listening to everything that happened just now, sitting at the tea table as always, drinking tea and checking the charts, he and Chen Yanyan's views were the same, there could be no sharks in this sea area, Qiu Luhua had been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for many years, and had also met sharks. Mu Yuan asked with interest: "What happened later?"

"Hack to death. Qiu Luhua replied categorically, pressed one foot on the surface of the chair, peeled peanuts and ate them.

Mu Yuan exclaimed in disappointment: "Don't, I haven't seen any tears yet." ”

"Listen to me. Qiu Luhua rarely put away his smile and looked at Chu Xunyu and the three of them, "If you meet this thing, especially the female mermaid, don't have illusions, just cut them until they die, and it is best to pull their disgusting gills out of their bodies." ”

Qiu Luhua's expression seemed to be a little painful, it seemed that he had suffered the loss of the merman, but everyone was not easy to ask, but Qiu Luhua told everyone that the merman is a nest group, they have never been too far away from their nest, the nest is generally built in the deep sea, this sea private ship comes and goes frequently, if there is a merman's lair, it will be repaid? What's more, the appearance of the fishman mentioned by the helm boss seems to be a little different from what Qiu Luhua has seen before, and it seems that he doesn't know what's going on without asking the merman.

Mu Yuan exclaimed in surprise: "Are you still in contact with the mermaid?"

Qiu Luhua looked at him strangely, pointed to the big sail on it with his finger, and then pointed to the chart with his hand, and said: "No need to contact, we are now downwind, the speed of the boat is very fast, we all know where the island is that the boss just said, and we will pass by tonight, so everyone sleep well, tonight, I invite you to enjoy the song of hell from the depths of the ocean......"