I came to the world of the heavens

It was a small bungalow on the coast, the wall was made of many irregular stones, and the bottom of the wall facing the sea was covered with seaweed-like things.

There is a chimney above the bungalow.

It is evening now, someone should be cooking inside, and the smoke is curling up.

When Chen Shishi and Liu Ronglong entered the door, a woman happened to come out from the small door next to her. She was Liu Ronglong's wife.When she saw Liu Ronglong bringing a fair-skinned young man, she was a little curious: "Who is this little brother?"

Liu Ronglong took the bamboo basket from Chen Shishi, handed it to the woman, and said, "This little brother is planning to go out to sea with his friends. His friends haven't arrived yet, so he might as well stay at our house for a few days. Come, steam the razor clams. Make it better, add some salt, this is what the little brother bought..."

The woman's eyes lit up, seafood is becoming more and more difficult to sell, usually this full bamboo basket may not be able to sell half of it, today this unknown brother made a round, it's really great...

Liu Ronglong led Chen Chushi to sit down on a round wooden table in the small living room, then went into the room and took out a wine jar, and said with some pride: "Come and taste the local wine brewed by my father-in-law. It has been preserved for several years. There are a lot of people who want to buy it, but it’s a pity that this stuff costs a lot of food, even my father-in-law just uses a small cup to moisten his throat every time he drinks it..."

Chen Shishi took over the wine jar, opened the cover, and suddenly... an earthy smell of wine slowly permeated out.

He kept a smile on his face, and he had already put on a mask of pain in his heart. It tasted strange, a bit like mixing half of the muddy water in the mud pit into it...

Out of politeness, he nodded: "Uncle's wine is okay, but it's better to keep it well. I happened to bring some wine bought on the way, why don't we try it together?"

As he spoke, he took out two bottles of rice wine that had been packaged with chicken legs and repackaged in ordinary ceramic bottles, opened the lid, and Liu Ronglong immediately stood up: "Brother, no, brother, your smell is so pure, I drank it before." Drinks are completely different, although I don't know as much about drinks as my father-in-law, but it's definitely not cheap, do you really want to drink it?"

"Uncle...what did you say?"

Chen Shishi pushed a bottle of rice wine over and said, "It's a kind of fate to know each other and eat here, and it's like drinking..."

In the kitchen, Liu Ronglong's wife quickly finished the razor clams and brought some green vegetables. The staple food is not rice, but yellow-brown wheat paste, which is a bit like the kind cooked by Lao Miaozhu in the world of "Fighting Ghosts".

Liu Ronglong is not a frequent drinker. After taking a few sips of the rice wine, his tongue started to tingle before he ate the food, and he began to speak intermittently. He already knew Chen Shishi's name, and there was a blush on his dark face at this moment: "Xi Shi Brother, don’t you like listening to homestay stories?

Come...let me tell you some local stories about our place. There are Grandma Hu and Mother Hai. Which one do you want to hear? "

Chen Shishi chooses to listen to Mama Hai, feeling that she has a higher profile than Grandma Hu.

In Liu Ronglong's stammering description, Chen Shichu probably heard what kind of story was being told.

The story goes like this, the fishermen who make a living by fishing at the seaside all worship Mazu to pray for safety in the sea, but I don’t know when, gradually, a small number of fishermen suddenly began to worship a god called "Sea Mother".

Other villagers who didn't know why asked and learned that worshiping Mazu Niangniang can pray for safety, but if worshiping Mother Hai, basically they can bring good high-quality seafood when going to sea...

Weird enough to ask anyway.

These villagers all forgot where they heard the name Hai Mama, and they just started to worship inexplicably, and even the statue didn’t know how to carve it. They just carved the three characters of Shanghai Mama on a stone, and made a shrine facing the sea. Put a stone with Mother Sea's name on it.

These villagers say that Mother Sea is very spiritual. Every time I go out to sea at night, when I get to the sea, I only need to shout the name of Mother Sea to the sea, and then cast the net down, and I will hear the sound of sea water churning in the sea. Villagers with good eyes can even see a huge monster swimming back and forth under the sea surface. At this time, when the fishing net is raised, there will be a lot of seafood in it...

The fishermen have different descriptions of the appearance of the sea mother. Some say it looks like a whale in the sea, and some say it looks like a black figure standing on the sea when it appears. In short, they can say everything...

It stands to reason that Mother Hai is so effective, there should be more and more fishermen worshiping her, but as time goes by, it decreases...

It turned out that the fishermen who caught seafood wanted better seafood, and they went farther and farther out to sea, and even almost left the waters of the Qing Dynasty.

People were killed. At that time, a heavy black fish was pulled up by the fishing net cast by the fishermen. It was not stable, coupled with the black fish's seemingly regular impact, the boat shook more and more, and was suddenly pushed up by the waves and turned over. The people on board died and only one person survived.

How can you not encounter danger when fishing at sea for a living?
Even in offshore fishing, there are occasional incidents where boats capsize and people drown. The fishermen have some sympathy for the dead, but they don't think there is anything unusual about it.

It is normal to capsize once, but it is very abnormal to happen several times in a row.

After the Heiyu incident, fishermen who went out to sea again, as long as they were far away, they would capsize. According to the description of the survivors, the fishermen encountered a black figure in the sea holding colorful jewels in their hands. These things were hidden in the dark. Shining light, it's hard not to notice...

Fishermen approaching the shadow to obtain jewels must encounter a vortex, and then the boat crashes and everyone dies.

A determined fisherman, because too many accidents happened to fellow villagers, was afraid to approach the black shadow, but the black shadow kept throwing gold, silver and jewels into the boat, more and more, more and more. The heavier it was, like a hill, the hull finally couldn't bear it and slowly sank into the sea.

There were fellow fishing boats who witnessed all this.

Nothing happened to them.

Those who had the accident were all fishermen who believed in the mother of the sea. These people were afraid and changed their careers to do something else. Those who were still fishing were all working near the sea. go.

When the story came to this point, Liu Ronglong laughed awkwardly: "I am not afraid of my brother's jokes when I say it. Uncle, my ancestors believed in the mother of the sea. In order to survive, the ancestors made a rule that only us younger generations are allowed to fish in the coastal waters. Health, we can’t go out no matter what... Gradually, we all became sea hunters, catching kelp, seaweed and shellfish after low tide to sell..."

Chen Chuchu saw that he finished the whole bottle of wine by himself, so he ordered some food for him: "Uncle, eat more, drinking on an empty stomach hurts your stomach, by the way, why don't you see other people, where are your children?"