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Wang Shouzhe immediately picked up his strong bow and sword, and rushed out quickly.
to the deck.
Holding a fishing and hunting spear with thorns and ropes in his hand, Wang Dinghai directed the boatmen to slap the water surface quickly with long bamboo poles. Wang Zhong and Wang Yong also drew their strong bows, ready to shoot at any time.
"Shouzhe, you came just in time." Wang Dinghai couldn't contain his joy and said with a solemn expression, "It's a single Donghai Arrow Flag. It should have been washed into the fresh water by the tide. It's not too difficult to deal with. Pay attention to it When the water is on the surface, shoot it at the vital point with an arrow."
Generally speaking, the difficulty of dealing with aquatic beasts is no worse than that of land-born beasts. When they are underwater, they are often powerful and ferocious, and it is common for them to overturn and smash ships.
Wang Dinghai has been an "veteran fisherman" for more than ten years. He naturally has his own way of dealing with aquatic beasts. The sound of bamboo poles beating the water can disturb the judgment of aquatic beasts and make them dare not easily attack the boat. arouse the opponent's anger.
Except for a few fish, most of the fish, even the ferocious beasts, are less intelligent than the terrestrial ferocious beasts.
As soon as Wang Dinghai's voice fell, a large water splash suddenly exploded four to five feet away from the left side of the ship. A nearly two feet long aquatic monster leaped out of the water and charged fiercely towards the boat.
With Wang Shouzhe's dynamic vision, he can only see that the aquatic beast has a front spine that looks like a sharp sword, and a dorsal fin that looks like a triangular flag. It looks a bit like a sailfish on earth.
But no matter in terms of size or ferocity, it is far from comparable to sailfish.
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
Three shocking sounds sounded almost at the same time, and the sharp arrows hit the beast one after another. The difference is that the sharp arrows fired by Wang Zhong and Wang Yong penetrated three or four inches into its body. But Wang Shouzhe's arrow sank more than a foot.
The difference did not come from the difference in bows and arrows, but that the quality of the profound energy that Wang Shouzhe used to attach to the arrows was higher.
"Bastard, how courageous."
As an old fisherman, Wang Dinghai was the most ferocious. His whole body was swollen, and his profound energy exploded to the extreme. The fishing and hunting short spear specially used to hunt and kill large fishes was thrown violently. .
However, at this time, the beast's front thorns stabbed a boatman, and he fell into the water unabated. At the same time, with a flick of its tail, two more boatmen were swept into the water.
"Boom!"
Accompanied by the sound of huge splashes, the ominous beast and the boatmen fell into the water.
But it carries Wang Dinghai's fishing and hunting short spear, and a special thick rope is tied to the end of the short spear.
Before it could swim more than ten feet, the rope was stretched to the extreme and suddenly tightened, "creaking". The medium-sized merchant ship was pulled sideways by it, and the bow was swung by the strong pulling force.
This is the experience and skill of human beings in dealing with large aquatic beasts on board. The East China Sea Arrow Flag obviously made a wrong decision. This wrong decision will naturally cause it to lose its life.
The pulling of the fishing and hunting spear and the barbs made it writhe in pain, but it couldn't get away when it tried desperately. The more it struggled, the more serious its injuries were, and the special ropes became more and more entangled around its body.
Then, Wang Shouzhe and others greeted it with long-range strikes with strong bows.
Even so, Wang Shouzhe and others shot a pot of arrows empty, and the East China Sea arrow flag gradually stopped struggling and turned its belly. All the boatmen came together and dragged it back slowly.
At this time, the body of the boatman who was nailed to death by its front thorn had been thrown away long ago, and was washed away by the tide. Of the boatmen who fell into the water, only one was rescued, and the other was probably swept away by the undercurrent and could not be found.
Although a second-order aquatic beast was killed, two lives were lost, which cast a cloud of gloom on Wang Shouzhe's face.
The morale of the boatmen is also very low. After all, those who die are all partners who get along with each other day and night.
"Shouzhe, the battle against the second-order aquatic beasts has gone very smoothly today. This is a big victory." Wang Dinghai came over and patted Wang Shouzhe on the shoulder, and said after a word of comfort, "Even if the bloodline clansman and his family will die In combat, it may not be impossible."
Wang Shouzhe understands that although the level of the second-level beasts is the same as that of the high-level Qi Refining Realm, the beasts are generally much stronger than those of the same realm.
And this world is different from the earth after all, human beings have always been competing with fierce beasts for the place of survival. Because human beings live on land, in the human habitat, all terrestrial beasts have been wiped out long ago, which is relatively safe.
However, no one can predict how many people will die in this kind of eradication and land reclamation.
But the situation in water is different.
Humans don't live in water. A big river like Anjiang has a wild source and many tributaries. Some of the tributaries lead to some uncultivated ferocious water swamps. There is a paradise for aquatic beasts.
It is precisely because of this kind of water system extending in all directions that aquatic beasts appear in an endless stream within the scope of human habitats. Otherwise, the perennial hunting behavior of human beings would have wiped out all the aquatic beasts in the habitat.
This East China Sea Arrow Flag is obviously a fierce beast in the sea. With bad luck, it was washed into the Danshui River by the tide. And it has no experience with humans. The sea is extremely vast, and how many terrifying and ferocious species are hidden in it, humans have so far been unable to understand.
Therefore, maritime merchant ships usually have to be not only large, but also very strong, and they must be loaded with some siege equipment and other weapons. And the city wall on Jinsha Island is naturally not just a decoration to prevent humans from intruding indiscriminately...
The ferocious beasts in the sea are also not vegetarians.
Gathering his mind slightly, Wang Shouzhe said, "Uncle Six, what should be paid for should be rewarded, and what should be rewarded."
"That's natural. According to the traditional high standard, the pension for each dead boatman is 30 dry gold, which is 60 dry gold. I will handle these myself." Wang Dinghai is used to such things, and there is nothing too emotional Big fluctuation, "For the remaining 20 boatmen, each will be rewarded with 2 dry gold for hush money, that is 40 dry gold, and we need to pay 100 dry gold."
100 dry gold, the expenditure is not small, and the pension of the boatman is usually relatively high.
But Wang Shouzhe took the money very happily, and directly gave Wang Dinghai 100 dry gold for him to manage.
When the living boatmen heard that each of them paid 2 dry gold, they immediately lost all emotions and their morale rose a lot. The overall income of the boatman is not bad because of the risky work, but the net income of 2 dry gold is a huge sum of money.
They were overjoyed and helped Wang Zhong and Wang Yong to pull the beast's corpse onto the deck little by little.
"We need to sail quickly, Wang Zhong and Wang Yong. You drag the prey into the cabin. And speed up the cleaning of the deck. It is not suitable to stay here for a long time." Wang Dinghai immediately issued the next order and explained with Wang Shouzhe, "This piece of water is not It is our family's hunting waters, but it belongs to Donggang Zuo's territory, so leave as soon as possible to avoid complications."
There is no doubt that Wang Dinghai is a man who has been making a living on the water for a long time, and his decision is very wise.
More than a quarter of an hour after the boat sailed out, it encountered Zuo's fishing fleet from a distance. At this time, the tide was rising, which happened to be the best time to fish in this water area.
They saw a passing medium-sized merchant ship, and they were busy snatching prime time fishing, but they had no intention of going forward to ask. In Anjiang, it is not uncommon for merchant ships and passenger ships to come and go.
Next, they passed through Zuo's waters territory without any surprise or danger.
"Congratulations to the Patriarch." Wang Zhong and Wang Yong also temporarily dealt with the Donghai Arrow Flag, and happily reported, "The arrow flag is estimated to weigh more than a thousand catties, and if the inedible part is removed, it will be at least seven hundred or more." Jin, big profit."
The fish meat of the second-tier beasts is several tenths more expensive than that of the first-tier beasts, and the effect of replenishing qi and blood will be better. These pure fish parts alone are worth hundreds of dry gold.
The leather of the arrow flag is also very useful. After being tanned by special techniques, some high-end water cushions can be made, which can increase the water escape technique and defense of the Xuanwu practitioners.
All edible parts, even fish intestines and livers, will be eaten.
The remaining inedible bone spurs can be dried and ground into spiritual fish bone meal, which can be used to fertilize spiritual fields.
In short, such an expensive and rare spirit fish will not be wasted anywhere.
There is also the swim bladder of the spirit fish, which is also very expensive. After being specially processed and dried in the shade, it becomes the famous spirit fish maw.
This is the most expensive part of the spirit fish. Eating it for postpartum women can prevent postpartum hemorrhage, warm and replenish Qi, blood and physical energy.
Of course, only when the bloodline women of the Xuanwu family give birth, will they have such precious things to eat, and women from ordinary families are out of luck.
"Remember that after the isinglass is processed, it should be noted on the ledger when it is put into the clan treasury. It will be used as one of the dowry when my sister gets married." Wang Shouzhe instructed with a thought.
"That's natural." Wang Zhong agreed with a smile, "The maw of the red-tailed spirit fish that the previous Patriarch hunted and killed is also preserved. It must be Miss Luo Yi's dowry."
Wang Luoyi is the daughter of the Wang family, so when she gets married, she will naturally have the best spirit fish maw as a dowry.
At the same time, under normal circumstances, Wang Shouzhe didn't need to think about this for Liu's daughter.
Because when the Liu family's prostitute married Wang Shouzhe, it was natural that high-quality spirit fish maw should be used as a dowry. It was the natal family's wish for the married daughter, and hoped that she would recover after giving birth.
The customs and traditions of the Xuanwu family have penetrated into every part of life.
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