Chapter 129 Dragon Otter (Part 1)

Guchai and Duoling were young and had limited experience. The master they had worked with day and night suddenly died. They both lacked their backbone and seemed lost, crying and at a loss. After my persuasion, they temporarily stopped crying and were busy giving Ruan a message. Black converges the remains.

Uncle Ming seemed a little distressed when he saw me hiding the best Nanzhu into the mouth of Ruan Hei's corpse. He walked in circles around the corpse on the ground, but it was not convenient to explain the situation clearly, so he had to bear the pain and give up. But he seemed to suddenly He noticed some unusual signs and came over and grabbed my arm, dragging me behind Guchai: "Brother Hu, do you think there is anything... unusual about this egg boy?"

I watched Guchai squatting on the ground to sort out Ruan Hei's body. His upper body was naked. When he went into the water to save people, his shirt was torn off by Uncle Ming, revealing the flower embroidery all over his body. The flower embroidery on his body was colorful, complicated and delicate. The ocean waves, fish and dragons in the sea chasing fire beads, or the complex patterns of diving and swimming on the bottom of the sea, look majestic, mysterious and magical. Tattoos are very popular in the Southeast Asian region, but such exquisite full-body brocades as Guchai are rare, but I don't know what Uncle Ming meant by what he said. This young man can go into the water and fight whale salamanders. Is it beyond the capabilities of Dan Min's apprentices?

When I thought of this, I suddenly felt a chill in my heart, so I asked Uncle Ming what he meant by this. Is there something wrong with Guchai? Uncle Ming leaned into my ear and whispered: "I think Guchai's egg boy has an unusual life experience. This egg boy may be a dragon in the sea..."

After hearing what Uncle Ming said, I looked back at Guchai. After thinking about it, I felt a little disapproving. Even though Guchai had extraordinary underwater skills and dared to fight fish, dragons and sharks, he was still a human being with flesh and blood. How could it be some kind of dragon in the sea? The Dragon Scale Clan is just a myth told by fishermen and egg people. Is there really a Scale Clan in the world? The alarmism is too much. This kid is at best a visitor from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. I discovered this a long time ago, but he is far behind the well-known idol "Mike Hux" in China at that time. He is not as chic. Despite his handsome star appearance, he is as dark and thin as a cement loach, but I guess his talent for diving is almost the same as Michael's. He is "a piece of wood drifting from the Atlantic Ocean."

Uncle Ming winked at me and Shirley Yang, indicating that he could take a step to speak. I asked the fat man to help Guchai and Duoling clean up the body of Ruan Hei, the Eggman. Then I followed Uncle Ming to the sloping deck and stepped on the ship's rail. While staring at the changes in the water around him, he absentmindedly asked him what he wanted to say?

Uncle Ming said: "I'm really not being alarmist just now. We only know a rough outline of the two egg boys Achai and A-ling's past lives. Achai was an orphan on the Coral Temple Island overseas, but do you think his tattoos are... Very strange? I have lived in the strong winds and waves of the South Ocean for half my life, and I have never seen anyone encounter a bald whale salamander in the water, and still walk back and forth unscathed. Judging from my experience, we are now trapped in the sea. Eye, maybe Guchai can be of great help to us, maybe he knows the ability to distinguish the color of water and the dragon's lair."

Shirley Yang and I looked at each other. Even so, we can't just say that Guchai is a dragon and not a human being. Shirley Yang said that the method of observing the color of the water to identify the dragon's residence was said to be quite proficient in the Taoist monks in the past, but it has long been lost. , could Gucha actually know this kind of ancient art? He has always been an apprentice with Ruan Hei, and the skills of collecting eggs and clams are all obtained from his master, but Ruan Hei does not seem to know these skills.

Uncle Ming saw that we didn't believe it, so he had to explain in detail, revealing some little-known past events of the Egg Man. Uncle Ming knew very well about various trades at sea, knew the ins and outs of the egg collectors, and touched on Captain Jin and the Egg Man. , although they belong to the same seventy-two lines and are activities that have been around since ancient times, the biggest difference between the two is that Captain Mojin can assess the situation and make advances and retreats, while Dan Min has always been "dead mining" and relies on life. To seize the pearl, they will not return until they die. The ancestor they worship is the "fisherman".

The crafts and customs of "egg people" and "egg pickers" we are talking about today only began to take shape in the Ming Dynasty. The official origin of the egg picker's profession was far earlier than the Ming Dynasty. Its traditions and history It is very ancient. I heard that during the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were barbarians on the South China Sea. They lived on boats for generations. They were naked and with disheveled hair. They could freely come and go in the sea. They were extremely tough and strong. They were best at fishing for pearls in the water. They were carved with fish and dragon patterns all over their bodies. , they regard themselves as fish and dragon scales, do not accept the king's status, and do not respect the king's way.

Later, due to the increasingly bad living environment, they had to be recruited by the court and were called "Dan people". They specialized in fishing for pearls in the sea. The Dan people were the predecessors of the Dan people in later generations. They had been embroidering fish and dragons all over their bodies since they were young. Picture of the sea, naked when going into the water. It is said that this tattoo pattern is called "penetrating sea array", which makes the evil fish on the bottom of the sea see it, and often mistakenly think that they are aquatic, so they often refuse to harm them. Dan people have special constitution and age. Year after year, fishing for pearls and fish on the seabed day after day caused the eyes of their descendants to gradually develop a thin film. For them, being on the seabed with turbulent undercurrents was like walking on a wide and flat street. Just like a common meal.

But because the ancient ruling class was too cruel to exploit the "Dan people", and the Dan people themselves are relatively barbaric and bloodthirsty, they are naturally rebellious. Whether they are killing clams and whales, pulling out the muscles of dragons and skinning sharks, or entering dragon dens to fight turtles and turtles, , have always been unafraid of death, so when they were pressed too hard by the government, they would take risks and kill officials to rebel. From generation to generation, they surrendered and rebelled again. After all, they were small in number and powerful. With limited resources, it was difficult to accomplish anything big. In the end, they were almost wiped out by the government. This ancient nation living on the sea gradually disappeared completely. However, the emperor and nobles still needed a large number of pearls. The work done by the Dan people was all done in coastal areas. The poor fishermen took over and gradually formed the current "egg people".

The craftsmanship and rules of the Dan people are similar to those of the Dan people in ancient times. Basically, they imitate cats and draw tigers. As the saying goes, it all depends on the posture. The Dan people collect eggs at most by imitating gourds and ladles. In ancient times, Most of them have not been able to learn the Dan people's unique skills. The two are completely different. However, the Dan people's living environment is still cruel and harsh. They are often under the close supervision of officers and soldiers, with swords hanging on their heads, regardless of the dangers on the seabed. Abnormally, they were forced to tie up stones and sink into the water to collect eggs, and basically died nine times out of ten. Some egg residents were unwilling to hand over the southern beads in exchange for their lives. They scraped the clams with a sharp knife at the bottom of the water, swallowed the beads into their belly, and hid them secretly. However, Once they return to the surface, if they are discovered, they will be disemboweled immediately. Their limbs will be tied up on the spot, their belly will be cut open, and they will cut from the stomach to the anus. After searching the intestines and scraping the belly, they will then dump the body into the sea to feed the fish. Most of the egg people live in Those at the bottom who are poor and unable to make a living, or those who are prisoners and exiles, no matter how many deaths they have, no one will even frown.

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