"There are no currents, no tides, and we are in completely unfamiliar waters. How can I know where to cast my net?" Zhou Wang smiled bitterly and shook his head. "However, based on my experience, this area is not far from the Dongwuyang fishing grounds, and there are far fewer fishing boats than in Dongwuyang. The fishery resources must be much richer than in other seas. I think we can cast our net here."
"Okay, then I'll do as you say. Let's set the net here." He said, wanting to go with the flow.
"OK."
Zhou Wang immediately called a few crew members who were chatting and bragging to walk towards the winch. Although it is very simple to release the net of a drift net fishing boat, just press the net-releasing switch of the winch, but a machine is still a machine, and it is inevitable that it will malfunction. Every time Zhou Wang released the net, he would bring a few crew members to deal with emergencies, although these people had never been used once.
At this time, Fang Youqun came over with a squid in his hand, "This is weird, where did the Steller's sea eagle go?"
"Huh?" Xiang Yang then remembered that he had not seen any sign of the Steller's sea eagle since he got up this morning. He hurriedly looked towards the top of the cabin. Sometimes the Steller's sea eagle liked to stand on the top of the cabin to enjoy the breeze.
"If you didn't see it, then you didn't see it. The Steller's sea eagle is the king of the sky and one of the top marine predators in the shallow sea. What's more, it is familiar with the two humpback whales. If it really encounters danger, the two humpback whales will not ignore it." Xiang Yang said.
As Xiang Yang was speaking, a small black dot appeared in the distant sky.
Fang Youqun immediately shouted, "Brother Yang, look."
"Chiu—"
Before Xiang Yang looked up, he heard a loud eagle cry.
Xiang Yang immediately laughed and said, "It seems that it didn't eat enough last night and went out fishing. It's time to reduce the food it gives it. Otherwise, we will have to raise a Steller's sea eagle into a free-range chicken."
“Pah.”
At this time, the Steller's sea eagle landed on the roof of the cabin and dropped a tattered cloth bag from the roof of the cabin.
"Hey, what is this?" Xiang Yang immediately walked over and picked up the cloth bag.
Fang Youqun stretched his head and warned, "Brother Yang, be careful there may be infected objects like viruses on it."
Xiang Yang shook his head. Steller's sea eagles are more sensitive to things like bacteria than humans. Since the Steller's sea eagle picked up the cloth bag, it is highly likely that the cloth bag is clean.
This cloth bag seems to be quite old. The silk thread breaks when pulled, and many places on it are covered with green hair. There is also a hole the size of three fingers in the lower left corner.
"This seems to be a purse used by ancient women." Fang Youqun said excitedly: "Brother Yang, do you think this thing could be an antique?"
"Don't worry, even if you become an antique, this thing will never become an antique." Xiang Yang tore the purse into several pieces with a little force. It was broken into such pieces, let alone a purse, even the blue and white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty would become worthless.
What Xiang Yang didn't expect was that there was something inside the torn purse. As the purse broke, the things inside immediately fell onto the deck, making a few crisp sounds.
"This, is this a copper coin?" Fang Youqun asked in surprise.
"Is it strange?" Xiang Yang picked up the three copper coins from the deck. "A purse was originally a wallet for ancient women. What's so strange about putting copper coins in it?"
"Let me see when this purse fell down." Xiang Yang rubbed the green hair on the first copper plate hard. There were four characters engraved on the front of the copper plate. The top character was pronounced Jia, with a square hole in the middle. The bottom character had too many green hairs, so Xiang Yang couldn't see clearly what it was. However, Xiang Yang could roughly guess that it should be the character Qing, and the two characters on the left and right were Tong Bao.
There are two rows of numbers on the north side of the coin. The row of numbers above the square holes is 1769, and the row of numbers below is 1820.
"This purse must have been dropped into the sea by an ancient person during the Jiaqing period." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
Then Xiang Yang wiped the second copper coin. The writing on the second copper coin was clearer. The front side was written with Qianlong Tong Bao, and the back side was engraved with 1736 and 1796.
"Strange." Xiang Yang frowned. He looked at the torn purse again. There was not even a pattern on it. It was obvious that it was not dropped by a rich lady. How could an ordinary woman have two different versions of copper coins in her purse
Xiang Yang hurriedly looked at the third copper coin. This time, Xiang Yang was even more confused, because the front of the third copper coin had "Taiping Tong Bao" written on it, and the back had two ghost-like patterns, with no numbers at all.
Since he couldn't understand it, Xiang Yang didn't think much about it. He handed the three copper coins to Fang Youqun and said, "Please wash these three copper coins for me, and find a small box for me to put them in after they are dried."
Fang Youqun took the three copper coins and looked at them. He said, "Captain, are these copper coins valuable? I saw a vendor selling them on the street in Huhai Town during the Chinese New Year last year. He had a lot of these copper coins on his stall, and they were only a few yuan each."
"I don't know whether it is valuable or not." Xiang Yang was telling the truth. The reason why he had the idea of collecting it was simply because he simply liked these old things. It didn't matter if they were not valuable. He just kept them for fun. It was useless even if they were valuable. If this thing fell into the hands of someone who liked old things, he would definitely not sell it.
"Okay." Fang Youqun took the three copper coins and jogged towards a water tank.
Xiang Yang looked up at the Steller's sea eagle and casually threw the tattered purse under the boat.
As soon as he threw the purse down, Xiang Yang suddenly raised his head. He thought of something extremely important.
wrong.
Where is this
It would take at least several hours for a fishing boat to sail here and even return to the nearest shore, and this is based on the engines of modern fishing boats. If calculated based on the sailing speed of ancient ships, this place is undoubtedly considered to be the open sea.
It's not surprising to find a purse near the sea. It might have been dropped by a young lady accidentally while she was walking on the beach.
But this is the distant sea. Which young lady would go for a walk to the distant sea
Moreover, the purse was not empty. There were still three copper coins in it. It was impossible that someone had thrown it into the sea because he no longer wanted it.
That leaves only two possibilities.
One possibility is that someone accidentally dropped his purse into the sea while on a boat.
Another possibility is that there is a shipwreck nearby.
When Xiang Yang thought of the shipwreck, his pupils immediately shrank.
I'm afraid that when anyone thinks of ancient shipwrecks, the first thing that comes to mind are boxes of gold, silver, jewelry, and all kinds of gorgeous and precious utensils. The discovery of each ancient shipwreck means the discovery of a huge treasure.