: Stars crossing the sea

Author: Dongfang Hong Bus

Half is sea water, half is flame.

The sunset on the sea is like quenching the red iron ball, or melting the ice cream ball.

Today is the fifth day of Chu Qing’s sea trip. She is still addicted to the beautiful sunset. The boy from the Chu family is already hanging a lantern on the bow and stern on the boat.

"Sister, look over there, we are coming!" Gan Lai pointed to the distance, where the sea and the sky seemed to be divided by a thin line.

Chu Qing took out the telescope and looked at it. Sure enough, the thin lines in the telescope were much thicker, and there was land there.

Just for this, Chu Qing was preparing to go back to process the high-magnitude telescope.

Chu Yuan looked at the telescope and sighed: "It would be great if I had this thing at the beginning."

Gan Lai pointed to the lantern hanging under the bow of the boat and said, "It was better to have this in the beginning."

Because of the glass, this time the lighting of the bow was not only a notched porcelain ball to hold candles, but a glass lampshade was used.

Fishing lamps are seen at sunset, candlelight is dotted with fireflies, and the breeze is clustered with waves, scattering into stars in the sea.

Six medium-sized civilian ships were teamed up at sea, and each ship had lantern lighting at the ends. Chu Qing felt that it was better to surround the lanterns on both sides of the ship.

"There is a reef in front, and it is not safe here. What if such a good glass lampshade is broken?" Chu Yuan said.

Not everyone understands the quiet deep sea.

As soon as the sun sets, the sea becomes dark, and Chu Qing really can't see how the sea surface in front is different from other places.

Xiaobao suddenly asked, "Did Gan Lai fall into the water here?"

Chu Yuan and Gan Lai, who had not been able to hold hands for five years of long-distance love, just fell into the water here and went straight to the point. This reef is so good.

The mind is knocked open and a small stone can make people excited.

"Is there a reef here that makes Gan Lai fall into the water and have a high fever?" Chu Qing asked.

"Yes," Gan Lai pointed under the water, "Sister, if there were glass lamps at that time, you could see reefs underneath."

Chu Qing looked at it as if it were, and sure enough, under the light of the bow, the sea water was not so dark, and there was a darker outline below.

It would have been great if there were brighter lights, and now I can only see a blur.

The reef here is relatively deep and the boat can get close to it, but it immediately deviates from the direction and has to go around. The reef ahead is high.

"This reef is worth remembering!" Chu Qing said: "Have you named it?"

"Hold your wife back!" Chu Yuan replied immediately, Gan Lai rolled his eyes: "Ghost sees sorrow!"

When they were in danger, Chu Yuan held his wife so much, but Gan Lai almost died. The two of them had different feelings about this reef.

Chu Qing and Xiaobao sat on the side waiting to have fun, but they didn't expect the two to fight—

"Hold your wife back!"

"Ghost sees sorrow!"

"Hold your wife back!"

"Ghost sees sorrow!"

Chu Qing: "..."

Xiaobao: "If you two go and three of you go back, why don't you call this sea area 'Tiandinghai'?"

Chu Qing raised his hands and feet: "I agree!"

The Chu boys flattened their navigation chart. Chu Qing saw a place indicating the reef marked with three small words: "Hold your wife and return"; now they drew a circle around it, and wrote "Tian Dinghai" in it.

It seems that the boys are reluctant to give up the name "Holding Wife" and also like "Tian Dinghai". They simply define one as the name of the reef and the other as the name of the sea area.

Is it that I want to catch a wife by hitting a rock?

Chu Qing lamented the abilities of these boys.

Even though I have never read any books, they are all rough people, who would have thought that they could draw navigation charts?

Chu Qing asked them how to distinguish the direction at sea. It was simple to say it, but not simple.

Just like on land, when you go to a strange place, you rely on the sun and surrounding scenery as reference objects during the day, and you need to observe the stars at night.

"The sea is endless, I don't know the things, but I only look at the sun, the moon, and the stars." This is recorded by Faxian, a monk from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when he returned home on a boat after visiting India.

People who seem to be a little uneducated and have never traveled far away cannot summarize it.

But in fact, it is these "hard people" around them who have had astrological sight since childhood.

Astrology is not something that only the Imperial Heaven Sect can do.

Farming is closely related to the weather, and astronomical phenomena can predict the weather.

Marching, water transportation, business trips, fishing... As long as you go out, you need to rely on the stars to distinguish the direction.

Positioning stars and ships using the Pythagorean theorem is what sounds very high-sounding "star-pulling technique".

When Chu Qing learned about "Star-shaking Technique" in the library, he also knew that there was a tool called "Star-shaking Circle".

When observing the North Star using star-letting technique, hold a suitable-sized star-letting board, stretch your arms out, and look at the sky.

The upper edge of the board is aligned with the North Star and the lower edge is aligned with the horizontal line.

When the measurement is less than one finger, use ivory to "miss etch" to make up for the test in time.

After finding the height of the North Star, the ship can calculate the geographical latitude of the location.

In the era without a compass, relying on the advantages of star-drawing, the Chinese embarked on a sailing journey of looking at the astronomical phenomena and circulating all over the world.

In Chu Qing's opinion, these are knowledge that is difficult to learn clearly without arranging at least three months of training and practical courses.

But at the moment, these boys just raised their hands and compared them to the stars. By looking at how many fingers the stars are on, they roughly know their position.

However, in a night without stars, you cannot guide you with tears. You can only rely on a compass to guide you.

When you are at night, you are at the sun, when you are at the sun, when you are at the dark, you are at the compass.

Chu Qing and Xiaobao learned from the boys together and took notes carefully.

The first time the Chu boys knew that they could be masters for the boss, so don’t be too excited!

The hardships of life at sea cannot suppress the Chu family's lofty nature.

When the glass lantern attracts fish to swim with the boat, it is the time for the Chu family to have a meal.

Mackerel, matchmaker, yellow croaker, yellow croaker... No matter what it is, you can pick the big ones and chop them into large pieces, sprinkle the peppers in a pot.

The fish such as dragon head fish, sardines and other small fish were fryed in a pot.

Don’t say that these guys don’t know how to eat, they waste all the good things. What good things are these? I’ll catch a group of people on the next website, who are rich, willful, and fish, and willful!

However, Chu Qing still prefers fried or roasted Minta fish. The meat is firm, thick in fiber, and chewy.

Chu Qing frys Mingtai fish with his own hands.

Press the fish with a spatula on one hand to make the heat even, and pour boiling water into a chili powder bowl with the other hand. Xiaobao is responsible for stirring it, then chop some minced garlic and add some soy sauce to mix it together.

I drove the fish and made the garlic sauce, and then applied it on the Mintamar fish, frying and smearing it layer by layer.

Look, there are seasonings and willfulness.

The fragrance drifted farther and farther away with the sea breeze, and the boys' saliva flowed longer and longer.

It’s not how good Chu Qing’s cooking skills are, but that as long as Chu Qing makes it, even if it’s fried glass residue, it’s delicious.
Chapter completed!