In the afternoon, a girl in a blue shirt came to the fishing house, probably Lin Bo's daughter, holding a stack of quilts, she leaned over from the door and asked, "Is Mr. Qu here?"
Probably because she was born at the seaside, her skin is not as white and smooth as that of a woman in the capital, but a healthy wheat color. The two braided braids are wrapped in a blue floral square, with a simple beauty. .
Although Tianyimen is deeply favored by the emperor, it is no different from Taoist temples. It is hard to cultivate on weekdays. It does not matter whether Qu Chunfeng wants this quilt or not. He heard the sound and walked out of the house. When he saw a girl, he subconsciously avoided his eyes and bowed, "But the girl from the Lin family?"
Aying looked at him secretly, thinking that it was as Daddy said, he was a handsome scholar who had no power to tie a chicken with his hands, he was upright, but old-fashioned, and looked a little over his head: "Exactly, Daddy let I'll bring some quilts and tea bowls and utensils for your son."
Qu Chunfeng nodded, avoiding her hand and taking the thing: "Thank you girl."
A Ying smiled and said, "Young Master Qu called me A Ying. This is a rural place, and there are not so many red tapes."
Lin Bo felt that Qu Chunfeng was excellent both in appearance and personality, but A Ying, a girl who grew up by the sea, seemed to be simply curious about him. People in such a small place.
Qu Chunfeng put things on the bed, and accidentally saw a pair of pearl earrings on A Ying's ears, the color was slightly blue in the sun, remembering that the three mermaid weeping beads collected in the treasury of Chu were also the same color, After a slight pause, he asked unintentionally, "The fishermen here rely on fishing for a living. How can I get money?"
Aying explained: "There is a market not far from here. I caught fish and sold it at a restaurant and inn. Someone collected it. Why, the son also wants to go out to sea to fish?"
The nobility in Beijing is strict in etiquette. The noble girls of the noble families usually do not go out of the door, they do not go to the second door, and even the name of the boudoir is not known to outsiders. If a man looks directly at an unmarried girl, it will inevitably be disrespectful, not to mention Qu Chunfeng. Half a priest.
He kept his eyes half down, and heard the words: "To tell the truth, I am penniless now, and I want to do some work to raise money to go home. If I can earn some money, it would be good to go fishing at sea."
Ah Ying said, "The money for fishing is meager, and it's a coolie. I'm afraid you can't bear it if you are a scholar."
Qu Chunfeng glanced at the pearl earrings on her earlobe without a trace, and then looked back, smiling like the breeze: "There are many rare treasures in the sea, if you are lucky enough to pick up one or two pearls, it will be enough."
A-Ying didn't know if he noticed his gaze, and unconsciously touched her earlobe, looking nervous, she explained with a smile: "This bead... This bead was obtained from shells by my father when he went to sea a few years ago, and the color is strange. So I stayed, but it’s not worth much, if you want to go out to sea, it’s fine, I’ll tell him after daddy’s injury and I’ll take you with me.”
Qu Chunfeng smiled and thanked: "Thank you girl."
Ah Ying waved her hand, indicating that it was nothing, it was inconvenient to be alone, and left after a while.
Unknowingly, it was night. It was still hot in the daytime and people were sweating, but now it was freezing cold. Qu Chunfeng had profound energy to protect his body, so he was naturally not afraid. Silently opened his eyes and walked out the door.
This village is really weird.
The girl was born in a poor family, but she used mercenary tears worth tens of thousands of gold as ornaments. Knowing that the Chu Palace treasury has all the rare treasures in the world, she can only reluctantly collect three. He does not believe that A Ying does not know the value of these beads.
They live in poverty, live here and refuse to leave, as if they are waiting for something.
The merman likes to show up at night, especially when the moon is full. When Qu Chunfeng walked out of the house and saw that the sea had receded, it was not as turbulent as the day. , fell on the beach lightly like a dragonfly, without making any sound.
The merman is not as gentle and harmless as the legends say. The song of the siren always confuses the mind, and the ten fingers have sharp claws, cutting gold and jade, and cutting iron like mud. If the villagers were not dead in the last life, they would be angry. If they lost their minds, the court might not really catch them so easily.
Qu Chunfeng never took it lightly. He walked to the coast, sat down on a rock, put his long sword on his knees, took out the pearls and jade presented by the Prefect of Quanzhou from the Qiankun bag, and picked out the most delicate hanging. Glass beads.
The things that the Prefect of Quanzhou dared to offer as bribes were definitely not ordinary things. There were 20 rosary beads in total. The whole body was round and crystal clear. Call it ingenious.
The rosary was wrapped around Qu Chun's sturdy wrist, and it shone brightly under the moonlight. the sea—
The bead did not sink to the bottom, but was held by him with profound energy, and floated on the surface of the sea, looming in the undulating waves, and it was full of brilliance, like stars entering the sea.
The merman likes to pick up such shiny and delicate things and go back to laying out the nest, especially the merman who is about to come of age, will look for precious gems and jade for courtship.
Qu Chunfeng sat quietly on the rock, using colored glaze as bait, the blue ribbon of his hair was ruffled by the wind, and the corners of his clothes were flying, but his figure remained motionless. However, unfortunately, except for the surging waves and the movement of fish swimming by, there is no whereabouts of the merman.
Jiang Taigong has been fishing in Yinxi for fifty or six years, and he has not caught a single fish. Qu Chunfeng cannot always be like him, waiting for dozens of spring and autumn at the seaside. After about two hours, until the moon was almost hidden by the dark clouds, he finally opened his eyes and slowly got up from the rock.
The sharks are really not that easy to catch.
Longevity isn't that good either.
Not only Emperor Zhaoning wanted longevity, but Qu Chunfeng also wanted to know whether there was real longevity in this world. He raised his hand and squeezed it in the air, and all those glazed beads were taken back. He probably glanced at them, and there were twenty of them, not more than one, not less than one. He frowned slightly and threw them into the sea.
This time, I didn't use my profound energy to support them, and those beads were quickly hidden in the waves. One of the glazed beads survived and rolled into the crevices of the rocks.
The system was puzzled, and appeared behind him to probe his brain: […Is longevity really that important to you?]
Qu Chunfeng had already decided in his heart that it was a monster. Every time it appeared, he was elusive, and he couldn't detect half of his breath. Hearing the words, he was silent for a moment, and then asked: "So what?"
The system snorted: [Even for the sake of longevity, it shouldn't kill people]
Qu Chunfeng closed his eyes and said nothing. After a while, he said softly: "There are too many people who died in this world. You can't save them, and I can't save them either. In troubled times, only Mingzhe can protect himself."
After he finished speaking, staring at the turbulent and dark sea, he seemed to want to dive into the water to see, but thinking about his lack of water, he finally gave up the idea.
… It’s not good to be drowned.
Holding the sword in the end, he turned and left the beach.
The moonlight spreads faintly on the sea surface, and then shattered into a sparkling light. Not long after Qu Chunfeng left, a slight splash of water suddenly sounded on the water surface that was just surging quietly, as if something was silent. Swim over.
The reef by the shore was covered with a hand at some point. It was slender and pale, glowing with a faint cyan color. The nails were pointed and long, and a little cold light flashed. The sword should also be sharp three points.
That hand groped lightly in the cracks of the rubble, touched a glass bead that had just been left behind, dexterously fiddled with his fingernails, then clenched it into the palm of his hand, and disappeared into the water again.
The sea remained calm.
Early the next morning, before dawn, Lin Bo suddenly came to Qu Chunfeng's house, reached out and knocked on his door: "Master Qu, Master Qu."
After a while, the wooden door was opened with a creaking sound. Qu Chunfeng stood behind the door, not seeing any sleepy appearance, and seemed to have woken up a long time ago: "So it's Uncle Lin, what's the matter?"
Lin Bo explained, "I heard from A Ying yesterday that Young Master wanted to go out to sea to fish, so I came to ask if you would like to go with me."
Qu Chunfeng was stunned at first when he heard the words, then looked at his legs, and said, "Of course it's gone, it's just your injury..."
Uncle Lin didn't care, he smiled and said: "Thanks to the golden medicine that the young master gave yesterday, after I crushed it and applied it, most of the leg injury has healed, and now I can walk without worry."
Qu Chunfeng gave the secret medicine of the big inner, which is naturally different from ordinary things. He heard the words and smiled: "It's fine if nothing happens, that medicine is just a gift from a friend, it's a waste to stay with me, it's natural to be able to help you. Is good."
Seeing a red sun rising from the sea, Lin Bo said to Qu Chunfeng, "Young Master Qu, the sun has already risen, if you want to go out to sea, it's best to go now, just pack up and go with me. "
In fact, Qu Chunfeng didn't have much to pack. He changed into light clothes and went to the beach with Lin Bo. He remembered the star-gazing last night, and after a rough calculation, there was a tendency of wind and rain.
Lin Bo has been born and raised in this fishing village for decades. The only thing that is valuable is a thatched hut and two or three fishing boats. He stepped on one of them, raised his sail, and said to Qu Chunfeng who was standing on the shore: "Sir, Come down, you can be careful for a while, don't get seasick."
Qu Chunfeng has martial arts, but he didn't reveal it, and he didn't want Lin Bo to see it. Holding the hem of his robe, he deliberately staggered onto the boat, looking like he was powerless to tie the chicken.
Seeing this, Bo Lin supported him and let him sit on the deck: "Young master, sit down, the old man will call you later when you are pulling the net."
Qu Chunfeng grew up in the capital and did not know water. At this time, looking at the endless sea, he really felt dizzy. He didn't need to pretend, his face was already pale and ugly, and he could only hold on to the side of the boat to stabilize his body.
Lin Bo glanced at him: "Young master is a scholar, I'm afraid he has never experienced such hardships on a boat, right?"
Qu Chunfeng said: "Although I haven't gone to sea yet, I read "Sou Shen Ji" when I was young, and seeing the descriptions of what I saw at sea, ghosts and ghosts, I already yearned for it. , the thousand-year-old tortoise, the merman in the water."
All of his previous words were only intended to pave the way for the last sentence.
When Lin Bo heard the words, his rowing movements were indiscernible, and he shook his head. It seemed that what he said to him was not the same temporarily, but he did not show it: "What kind of turtles and mermen are all fake, made up by scholars. Don’t believe what you said above, old man, I have been fishing for decades at sea, including my grandfather’s generation, there have been hundreds of years, and I have never seen any mermaid.
Qu Chunfeng smiled: "Perhaps, I don't think it's credible to be born late."
Upon closer inspection, he is actually a stern person. Occasionally, he smiles two or three times, but it is only light and polite.
Before they knew it, they had already sailed to the middle of the sea. A red sun slowly rose, and the shimmering waves flashed red light. Qu Chunfeng suddenly remembered the time when he killed the village in his previous life. , the fire was soaring into the sky, and the sea was so scarlet, not stained by the red sun, but blood.
Everyone has demonic obstacles in their hearts, not to mention profound scholars such as Qu Chunfeng, who have been stuck in a bottleneck for a long time. After several meditations, he almost lost his mind, but it is difficult to find the root cause.
There was clearly an endless sea in front of him, but Qu Chunfeng suddenly flashed a scarlet color in front of him. There was no scene, just a dazzling red. He closed his eyes, his brows were furrowed, and his mind was confused. God.
Lin Bo packed up the fishing net, and said to Qu Chunfeng, "Let's cast the net here. Mr. Qu is very optimistic. It is also very important to cast the net. If you don't get home, you won't be able to catch a single fish."
After he finished speaking, he skillfully threw the fishing net towards the sea, and the piled net immediately stretched out and sank into the sea with a clatter. After waiting for a while, Lin Bojing felt that there was movement underneath, and then he picked it up little by little. It was a bag full of seafood.
Qu Chunfeng saw that his lower plate was steady and he used his waist to exert strength. The movements seemed simple, but in fact there were many skills, and he helped him pull the net up together: "So there are so many tricks in casting the net."
Lin Bo is a good fisherman, and his eyes are also vicious. A net of fish jumped around, splashing all over, making Qu Chunfeng's hem wet.
When they were unaware, the ship quietly floated to the depths of the most reefs, as if there was a force that was deliberately driving it.
Lin Bo said: "Everything in this world has its own particularity."
Sitting on the deck, he removed all the fish from the net, leaving only a few big ones, and put all the remaining small fish back into the sea, Qu Chunfeng paused when he saw this, "Old man, why did you let them go? "
Lin Bo smiled and said: "Leave a way to live, enough food is enough, you don't have to kill them all. Besides, there are no small fish, where did the big fish come from, Master said?"
Qu Chunfeng paused: "Of course it is."
The two of them were busy closing the net just now, and didn't notice that the surrounding terrain had changed, until a huge wave suddenly hit, and the hull hit the sea rock and shook violently. Then they suddenly realized that they didn't know when they reached the reef beach. A deep whirlpool gradually appeared in the distance, and the range began to gradually expand, and the hull was no longer obeying orders.
Seeing this, Lin Bo's complexion changed greatly, and he quickly pulled the sail and paddled: "No, I actually encountered a water vortex, let's go!"
It was too late. The whirlpool seemed to have magical power, and it sucked the fishing boat firmly. A huge wave hit, the boat overturned, and Qu Chunfeng also fell into the water. He couldn't breathe, he couldn't even open his eyes, and the sea water gradually drowned his nose and mouth.