"Ah!" Yang Bochuan exclaimed and asked in a trembling voice, "Is that Granny Jiang the wife of Guo Dahai?"
After receiving Guo An's affirmative reply, Yang Bochuan sighed: "Twenty years have passed, and I didn't expect that she is still alive. But since she is still alive, why do people in the town lock her up and prevent her from coming out to find you?"
"All of this stems from my mother and her identity as a person in this small town." Guo An said in a deep voice.
"What's your identity?" Yang Mo noticed that Chen Jue looked a little different, as if he knew something. Chen Jue noticed Yang Mo's gaze and hesitated whether to answer, but finally said: "Let's ask Officer Guo to speak."
Guo An did not answer Yang Mo directly, but said to Yang Bochuan: "Do you still remember that when I was young, my family fell into decline, and later my father made a comeback."
Yang Bochuan nodded and said: "Of course I remember, I always thought it was related to the map Guo Dahai gave me, wasn't it?"
"Map!" Yang Mo suddenly woke up and said, "My map was stolen by Mr. Bao!"
"You still have the nerve to bring up the map! I told you that this belongs to an old friend and cannot be touched, but you bastard actually stole the map!" Yang Bochuan was so angry that he raised his hand to hit him.
Guo An quickly smoothed things over and said: "It doesn't matter, the map is actually not important. This is something that belongs to the town. If it is taken away by Mr. Bao, it will be returned to the original owner."
Hearing what Guo An said, Yang Bochuan's anger was mostly gone. Since his son was still lying on the hospital bed, the slap was finally avoided.
Seeing that the scene had calmed down, Guo An continued: "The reason why my father was able to get out of this predicament was also because of my mother's special physique."
Chen Jue was listening and shouted in realization. Everyone's eyes immediately turned to him, making the young man wearing glasses feel embarrassed. Chen Jue noticed that Guo An was also looking at him, so he asked tentatively: "Is that..."
Guo An nodded and recited loudly: "The sharks live in the water and swim sideways. The color of the light silk is incomprehensible, and the waves are clear and full of moonlight every night. Sometimes I come to the city to stay, and the island is green and dark. . Weeping pearls to repay your kindness, don't say goodbye, I will see you this year and next year. I know that all races are there, and the springs a hundred feet deep frame the houses. No one can look back at the mountain when the birds are empty, and the clouds and waves can make one's head turn white."
What Guo An recited was "Song of the Shark" by Li Xin of the Tang Dynasty. Although Yang Mo graduated from college, he was an uneducated boy. After hearing this over and over again, he seemed to understand but could not help but look at Chen Jue and his father for help.
Yang Bochuan sighed with disdain and explained: "This is an ancient seven-character poem written by Li Xin in the Tang Dynasty, called "Song of the Sharks". It describes a legendary race called the Sharks."
"Merman?" Yang Mo understood a little now and said, "I seem to have seen it in some fantasy novels. It is a race similar to Western mermaids. Its characteristics are... what is it?" Yang Mo only asked I hate myself for not reading more books, and my head is always muddled at critical moments.
Chen Jue also shook his head and said: "I remember it was recorded in "Sou Shen Ji": Outside the South China Sea, there are sharks who live in the water like fish. They do not waste their weaving achievements. When their eyes weep, they can produce pearls... "
"Yes, yes! That's what it means!" Yang Mo remembered it and said hurriedly: "I also know that the sharks, also known as Quanke, are good at weaving dragon yarn that is not wetted by water. The oil on their bodies can be used as lamp oil to last for a long time. The most important thing is that if the shark sheds tears... it will..."
Yang Mo's eyes widened, and he recalled in his mind the oil lamp he saw in the small town, and the tears shed by Grandma Jiang... Suddenly, he understood everything, and murmured: "This legend... is actually true! But ... Granny Jiang and Mr. Bao have legs on their lower bodies!"
"The lower body of the shark looks like a fish body, but in fact the internal skeleton is a pair of double legs. If they are willing to endure great pain and cut the fish body open from the middle, after a period of adaptation, they can walk upright like a human being."
Yang Mo shuddered all over and said: "It hurts to hear it! I didn't expect that Granny Jiang would pay such a high price to be with humans. The same goes for Mr. Bao. In order to find Granny Jiang in the city, he could actually Bear this pain."
"My mother suffered far more than you imagine." Guo An said: "Because of the financial constraints, my mother did not want my father and me to suffer, so she sold the dragon yarn and teardrops. Our lives have changed. Well, but I was also coveted by gangsters. When my father had a premonition of this, he sent me to a distant relative's house. On the other hand, he entrusted Uncle Yang with the map marking the gathering place of the sharks for safekeeping. Afterwards, the disaster did happen. , Zou Zhiguo, Sun Fengen and others captured my parents and asked them where the town was. My father preferred death to surrender and was brutally killed. My mother was caught on the boat and wanted to hide. If Mr. Bao hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid my mother would have died. It was also very dangerous. In order not to expose my mother to the existence of the town, and to protect my mother, they locked her up. Since then, we have not seen each other for twenty years."
Pang Jiaojiao suddenly remembered something and asked: "I remember that Zou Zhiguo died in a shipwreck. Could it be that the residents of the small town did this?"
"That's true. I believe Yang Mo has experienced this personally." Guo An said.
Yang Mo recalled everything that happened before he fainted, and couldn't help but feel a little worried, and asked: "Is that scream the town residents' way of asking for help? I understand, but why do screams still happen every night in Longnvtan?"
"Before falling into the cliff, I had been to the Dragon Girl Pond." Chen Jue said: "I saw them swallowing the dragon grass first, then showing pain on their faces, and then screaming uncontrollably. Then a lot of black and dirty stuff will be vomited out.”
"That's because the seawater pollution this year is serious, and many residents are suffering from strange diseases. Only by relying on asparagus to remove toxins from the body. However, asparagus can also cause severe pain to the body, so it will be uncontrollable. Scream. The rainy season is when their bodies are strongest, and only then can they bear the pain caused by Asparagus." Guo An explained.
Pang Jiaojiao added: "So, Sun Hui really faked his death? And his purpose of killing his father was to ask for the location of the town! But how did Sun Fengen know the location of the town?"
"Zou Tiankai is not dead, he has told me everything." Guo An explained: "In the shipwreck that year, although Zou Zhiguo died, Sun Fengen was lucky enough to be pushed to the shore by the waves and survived. And that's right next to the town. Coast. After Sun Fengen encountered a catastrophe, he sincerely repented and even cut off his fingers and vowed to change his past. The people in the town were kind-hearted, so they opened a wide net and let Sun Fengen go. This also laid the foundation for everything that happened now. A foreshadowing was laid. Zou Tiankai had long known about the existence of the town from his father, and it took him many years to finally find Sun Fengen. However, Sun Fengen was tight-lipped about what happened back then, which made Zou Tiankai even more convinced that the other party must know the location of the town. He couldn't coerce Sun Fengen. , and then controlled Sun Hui and turned him into his lackey. Seeing his son's depravity, Sun Fengen was despondent and finally revealed the location of the town. "
"Finally, everything is revealed." Pang Jiaojiao breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly frowned: "No, where is Zou Tiankai? Could it be that... he was imprisoned in a small town?"
Guo An shook his head and said: "In order to prevent Zou Tiankai from exposing the town's secrets, the residents took him away. After this incident, they decided to move away from their original place. Now I don't know where they have gone. "