Daming Yinghua

Chapter 22 Treasure Hunting
With a "ding", the blade touched the rock and made a crisp sound.

Yan Siqi threw the dagger beside him, lay down on his back, panting heavily.

The fierce battle with the shark almost exhausted all his strength.

Even so, after resting for a while, he said to Zheng Haizhu with concern: "Your leg is hurt."

Zheng Haizhu was taken aback when he heard the words, and looked at his ankle, only to find that there was a big hole.

Probably when she was exploring the cave, she was rowed by the top of some submerged reef. The sea water was cold, which made her skin numb. She was concentrating on it at that time, and there was no sharp pain, so she didn't know her foot was injured.

It is estimated that it was the bloody smell from the wound that attracted the sharks.

Zheng Haizhu observed the wound, it wasn't deep, and the newly oozing blood wasn't too much, and it was slowly congealing.

Then she gently moved her ankles, supported the ground, and said to Yan Siqi: "It's nothing."

Yan Siqi nodded, and still blamed with lingering fear: "Why did you fall? I just practiced and jumped onto the roof and saw you walking from Xu Futing to the rock. If I hadn't rushed here because of worry, you would... Look at that sea!"

Zheng Haizhu leaned forward and looked down from the place where the two climbed up, and immediately got goosebumps all over his body.

I saw five or six sharks appearing in the blue sea water. Although they were not as huge as the great white sharks in later movies, they were at least longer than adults.They swim together in one place, twisting their dorsal fins and tails from time to time, making waves that are not small, as if they are fighting in groups.

Soon, the waves turned from yellow-white to scarlet, and the blood-stained area of ​​the sea water became larger.

Yan Siqi said: "They are fighting for the shark that was seriously injured by me. The morning is calm and the sea is calm, it is the time when these sharks are cruising near the island."

Zheng Haizhu saw that his scalp was numb, so he quickly retracted and moved to Yan Siqi's side, wanting to see if his palm pierced into the shark's rough gill bone was injured, but his eyes showed surprise.

Yan Siqi understood what she was looking at, raised his palms wearing steel wire gloves, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, I've been in Hirado for many years, and I'm used to not leaving it with me. Wearing this thing, it won't delay you from robbing it. A sharp object that is not afraid of life or death. I never thought that it could restrain that beast today."

Speaking of this, Yan Siqi got up, looked around for a while, then walked to a rocky beach with stagnant water not far away, and picked up a large handful of oysters.

Protected by steel gloves, he was not afraid of shells pricking his hands at all. Yan Siqi found the weak hole in the oyster, pierced it with the tip of the knife, pried it open without any effort, and handed it to Zheng Haizhu: "Eat two oysters to shock, Xia At the end of autumn and the beginning of autumn, oysters are the most plump."

Zheng Haizhu took a sip of the milky juice from the oyster shell with a fresh sea flavor, and chewed the oyster meat, but felt that it was sweet and tender, it was really delicious.

Yan Siqi saw that she looked cute, and the panic-stricken look had faded away, and he felt relieved, so he opened some oysters for himself.

This time they were close, and Zheng Haizhu was quickly attracted by the dagger that opened the oyster.

It is said to be a dagger, but it is actually nearly a foot long, with a blood groove, and the cold light is so cold that it almost makes people dare not look directly at it.

Zheng Haizhu came to Daming, and after seeing the worrying social security, he had a strong sense of self-defense when going out to wander.In the Han Mansion, she encouraged Han Ximeng and his servants, including her nephew Zheng Shoukuan, to make porcelain mines with great success. On that day, she killed the villain Xu Aliu with a steel chisel given by Ma Xianglin. The interest in hot weapons is far stronger than when he followed the crew to watch the excitement in his previous life.

"Brother Yan, can you show me this knife?"

Yan Siqi nodded, but did not hand it over directly, but with a serious face, he warned her first: "This knife is called Muramasa, and it is a famous sword of the Japanese country. The long sword made by the Muramasa family is too sharp, and it kills countless people. There are people who hurt themselves without avoiding the edge, so the Tokugawa samurai banned this sword from being circulated in the Japanese country. I occasionally saw samurai fighting with the Muramasa sword in the Japanese country, so I secretly searched for the successor of the Muramasa sword, and forged it first. Try it with a short blade. When you hold a knife, be careful with the edge."

Zheng Haizhu promised again and again, and impatiently took the village handle, which was far away from the tip of his nose, but he waved it without hesitation at the grass that emerged from the crevice of the rock.

The blades of grass are as light as a feather, and they are blown by the sea wind, swaying erratically, but with a flash of the Muramasa's sword, a section of the leaf, which is difficult to withstand the force, is cut off.

"It's amazing." Zheng Haizhu praised.

Yan Siqi looked at the short knife: "This knife, 30 taels of silver, is worth half a year's salary of my county magistrate in Daming, can it be good? Looking back, I still have to hurry up and sell some big goods, save money to make more Give the long knife to the brothers, and it will be easier to compromise when taking the boat. In fact, people are everywhere in this vast sea, and people are much more cruel than sharks."

When Zheng Haizhu heard the last sentence and fell into silence, he was quite embarrassed.

The sea Chinese in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were known as merchants "without a motherland". If they did not rely on their own strength to build armed guards, they would be far more dangerous than Western European maritime merchants such as Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Even Japan, Japan, At any rate, the maritime trade fleet also has the support of the shogunate.

After a while, Zheng Haizhu broke the silence and asked, "Brother Yan, how much is the price for a village chief knife?"

"It must be six or seven taels of gold, which is about the same price as a draft horse."

Zheng Haizhu pursed her lips, pondered for a moment, stared at Yan Siqi, and said word by word: "Brother Yan, I didn't fall into the sea today. Maybe there are good things buried under our rocky cliffs, which can buy many villages. It's a long knife..."

Yan Siqi slowly listened to Zheng Haizhu's narration, and was silent for a while, suddenly there was a hint of sullenness in his eyes, and his tone was a bit cold.

"Miss Azhu, you avoided me and went to the sea alone to explore the cave first, because you were afraid that I would covet the money? Now tell me, one is because I saved you, and the other is because you can't get those things out by yourself. ?”

Zheng Haizhu smiled, and shook his head frankly: "Brother Yan is now a big businessman. He judges people and judges things according to the way of doing business. My idea is not that complicated. I saw in the relics of my brother before. I didn’t take what I said seriously. I didn’t even know where Daishan was, and I couldn’t go there even if I knew it. When I actually arrived at Daishan Island from Jiangnan, I naturally wanted to explore it. But the pirate, oh no, the sea merchant Wang Zhi, after all, it has been gone for so many years, so I don’t know if the things are still there? I just want to make an outpost first. Looks like the horoscope is indeed a drop, please ask Brother Yan to write the 捺 character, otherwise there will be a thunder in vain, but you won’t see a drop of rain, and you will be happy for nothing, I can’t afford to lose that person.”

When Yan Siqi heard this, the shadow in his eyes dissipated slightly.

But there is a feeling that is getting stronger—Miss Azhu has changed so much. In the past, how could she be so eloquent and talk like an old river and lake running on the dock, and she would blush slightly when she finished the clothes.

Zheng Haizhu finished eating the last freshly opened oyster, wiped his mouth, and asked Yan Siqi with a bright face: "Next, it's up to you, brother."

(End of this chapter)