With a "ding" sound, the blade touched the rock and made a crisp sound.
Yan Siqi threw the dagger beside him and lay down on his back, breathing heavily.
The fierce battle with the shark almost exhausted all his strength.
Even so, after taking a short rest, he said to Zheng Haizhu with concern: "Your leg is injured."
Zheng Haizhu was stunned when he heard this and looked at his ankle, only to find that there was a big gash.
It was probably when she was exploring the cave that she was scratched by the top of an underwater reef. The cold water made her skin numb. She was fully focused at the time and did not feel any sharp pain, so she did not know that her foot had been injured.
It was probably the smell of blood from the wound that attracted the shark.
Zheng Haizhu observed the wound. It was not deep, and the newly oozing blood was not too much. It was slowly condensing.
She then gently moved her ankles, propped herself up on the ground, and said to Yan Siqi, "Nothing."
Yan Siqi nodded, still trembling with fear: "Why did you fall? I had just practiced kung fu and jumped up to the roof, and saw you walking from Xu Futing to the rocks. If I hadn't been worried and came here, you would have...
Look at that sea!”
Zheng Haizhu leaned forward and looked down from where the two climbed up, and immediately got goosebumps all over his body.
I saw five or six sharks appearing in the blue water. Although they were not as huge as the great white sharks in later movies, they were at least longer than an adult. They swam together in one place, sometimes twisting their dorsal fins and tails.
It stirred up a lot of noise, as if there was a group fight.
Soon, the waves turned from yellow-white to scarlet, and the area covered with blood became even larger.
Yan Siqi said: "They are competing for the shark that I seriously injured. In the morning, the sea is calm, which is when these sharks swim close to the island."
Zheng Haizhu's scalp felt numb when he saw it, and he hurriedly retracted and moved to Yan Siqi's side. He wanted to see if his palm was injured when it dug into the shark's thick gill bone, but there was a look of surprise in his eyes.
Yan Siqi understood what she was looking at, raised his hands with steel gloves, and said with a smile: "Nothing, I have been accustomed to carrying it with me for many years in Hirado. Wearing this thing, I don't have to waste time in robbing, and I can still carry it with me."
A sharp object that is not afraid of death. I didn’t expect it to be able to control that beast today.”
Having said this, Yan Siqi stood up, looked around for a while, then walked to a rocky beach with accumulated water not far away, and picked up a large handful of oysters.
Protected by steel gloves, there was no fear of shells pricking his hands. Yan Siqi found the weak hole in the oyster, pierced the tip of the knife, pried it open effortlessly, and handed it to Zheng Haizhu: "Eat two oysters to relieve your shock, Xia
In late autumn and early autumn, oysters are the most plump."
Zheng Haizhu took a sip of the milky white juice that smelled of fresh seawater from the oyster shell, and chewed the oyster meat. She found it sweet and tender, and it was a truly delicious thing.
Yan Siqi saw that she looked cute while eating, and the frightened and embarrassed look had faded away. He felt relieved and opened some oysters for himself.
This time he was so close that Zheng Haizhu was quickly attracted by the dagger used to open oysters.
It was said to be a dagger, but it was actually nearly a foot long. It had a blood groove, and the cold light was so cold that it almost made people afraid to look directly at it.
Zheng Haizhu came to the Ming Dynasty and saw the worrying social security, so she had a strong sense of self-defense when she went out to venture out. In the Han Mansion, she encouraged Han Ximeng and the servants, including her nephew Zheng Shoukuan, to make a homemade porcelain thunder with great success. That day
She also used the stainless steel chisel given by Ma Xianglin to kill the villain Xu Aliu. Her interest in various cold and hot weapons was far more intense than when she followed the crew to watch the excitement in her previous life.
"Brother Yan, can you show me this knife?"
Yan Siqi nodded, but did not hand it over directly. Instead, he looked cautious and warned her first: "This sword is called Muramasa, and it is a famous sword from the Japanese country. The long sword made by the Muramasa family was too sharp and killed countless people.
There are people who do not avoid sharp edges and injure themselves, so the Tokugawa samurai family forbade the spread of this sword in the Japanese country. I occasionally saw samurai fighting with the Muramasa sword once in the Japanese country, so I secretly searched for the successor of the Muramasa sword and forged it first.
Try using a short-handled blade. When you hold a knife, be careful with the blade."
Zheng Haizhu agreed repeatedly and couldn't wait to take the Muramasa. It was far away from the tip of his nose, but he waved it without hesitation towards the grass emerging from the cracks in the rocks.
The blades of grass were originally as light as a feather, and were blown by the sea breeze, swaying unsteadily. However, with the flash of Muramasa's sword, a section of the leaf, which was not strong enough to bear the force, was cut off.
"It's amazing." Zheng Haizhu praised.
Yan Siqi looked at the short knife: "This knife costs thirty taels of silver. It's worth half a year's salary of my Daming County magistrate. How can it be better? Looking back, I still have to step up my sales of large quantities and save money to make more.
Give the brothers some long knives so that they can be more at ease when sailing on the boat. In fact, there are people everywhere on this vast sea now, and people are much crueler than sharks."
When Zheng Haizhu heard the last sentence and fell into silence, she felt quite sad in her heart.
The maritime Chinese in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were called "merchants without a motherland". If they did not rely on their own strength to build armed escorts when going to sea to sell goods, they would be far more dangerous than Western European maritime merchants such as Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Even Japan, the Japanese nation,
After all, the sea trade fleet also had the support of the shogunate.
After a while, Zheng Haizhu broke the silence and asked: "Brother Yan, how much is the price of a village sword?"
"It must be six or seven taels of gold, which is about the same price as a pack horse."
Zheng Haizhu pursed his lips, pondered for a moment, stared at Yan Siqi, and said word by word: "Brother Yan, I did not slip and fall into the sea today. Maybe there are good things buried under our stone cliffs, which can buy many, many villages."
A long sword..."
Yan Siqi slowly listened to Zheng Haizhu's story and remained silent for a moment. Suddenly, there was a hint of suspense in his eyes and his tone was a little cold.
"Miss Azhu, you avoided me and went to the sea to explore the cave alone first, were you afraid that I would covet the money? Now tell me, firstly, because I saved you, and secondly, because you can't get those things out on your own.
?”
Zheng Haizhu smiled and shook his head calmly: "Brother Yan is a big businessman after all. He knows people and judges things according to the way of doing business. My idea is not that complicated. I saw the legacy left by my ancestors in brother's relics.
I didn’t take what he said seriously. I didn’t even know where Daishan was, and I couldn’t go there even if I knew it. It was useless to think about it. Who knew that God would play tricks on people, but thanks to General Mao’s gift, after a few days, I actually made it.
When I actually arrived at Daishan Island from Jiangnan, I naturally wanted to explore it. But the pirate, oh no, the maritime merchant Wang Zhi, after all, has been gone for so many years, how do I know if the things are still there? I just wanted to set up an outpost first.
The character "horoscope" does seem to be a bit off, please ask Brother Yan to write the character "捺", otherwise the thunder will be in vain, not a drop of rain will be seen, and the joy will be in vain. I can't afford to lose that person."
When Yan Siqi heard this, the gloom in his eyes dissipated a little.
But there is a feeling that is even stronger - Miss Azhu has changed so much. In the past, she never talked like an old man running on the dock. She would blush slightly when she put on the finished clothes.
Zheng Haizhu finished the last freshly opened oyster, wiped his mouth, and asked Yan Siqi in high spirits: "The next step is up to you, big brother."