After finally counting the number of people and making sure that everyone who was supposed to come had arrived, we finally set sail.
At this time, it was already dark, the sky was a little gloomy, and the moon was not visible. The sea was pitch black, and it felt very permeable to look at it like this.
After Lin Feng got on the ship, Fatty Sun and I hid in the cabin and tried not to meet him. After the boat sailed for a while, Fatty Sun, who was lying on the sofa, suddenly said: "Lazi, come and take a look, Fortune Rat"
What's going on here?"
I turned around and looked around. I was fine at first, but was running around on Fatty Sun's body. Suddenly without any warning, he shrank into a ball and shivered on Fatty Sun's belly.
What happened to the little thing? He turned out to be so virtuous. I looked at the still trembling Rat and said, "Great Sage, is your wife seasick? What, can rats also be seasick?"
"It doesn't sound like seasickness." Fatty Sun put the Fortune Rat in his hand, took a closer look, and continued: "I'm not telling you, it was just shaking so hard, as if it was frightened by something."
Just then, I heard Xiong Wanyi shouting from the deck: "It's foggy! It's such a heavy fog. Go find the captain and ask him to drive the boat carefully." When he finished speaking, the deck was in a mess, as if something had happened.
Fatty Sun coaxed the money rat in his hand, looked up and looked outside, and turned back to me and said: "Lazi, it's foggy outside. I didn't say that fog on the sea is unlucky. It's written in the book that the Titanic is colliding.
When we reached the iceberg, there was heavy fog on the sea."
I laughed aloud and said to him: "Great Sage, do you read books? You also watched Titanic. I thought you had only seen the movie version."
Fatty Sun said to me seriously: "I've also seen the movie version. I'm not saying that, but I still admire the scene where the hero and heroine draw each other the most..."
While Fatty Sun and I were still joking, there was suddenly a loud noise, as if it hit something. The hull shook violently. Fatty Sun and I grabbed the tables and chairs fixed in the cabin to prevent ourselves from falling.
Fatty Sun's face changed and he stammered: "No... no way, I'm just saying, don't take it so seriously."
I pulled up Fatty Sun and pushed him out of the cabin: "Stop standing there in a daze, go out and take a look."
When Fatty Sun and I rushed to the deck, the fog was terrifyingly thick. However, we could still see that the deck was already full of people. It was quiet and no one made a sound. Almost everyone's eyes were fixed on the place behind us.
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I looked back and followed their gaze, and I was startled when I saw an ancient wooden ship passing by our mixed passenger ship in the thick fog. This wooden ship was so big that its hull was divided into two parts.
On the third floor, you can vaguely see the sail floating on the top. Compared with it, our ship is like a small sampan.
I have never heard of such a huge wooden sailboat before, let alone seeing it. Our boat almost collided with it just now, the engine has stopped, and it was squeezed out of the channel by this big guy.
The surrounding investigators were staring at the Minato ship with sullen faces. Most of them had already taken out their pistols, as if they were on guard against something.
In the fog, I could vaguely see figures moving on the deck of the big wooden ship, and there were quite a few of them. They seemed to be watching us, but I couldn't feel that these people were still alive.
An investigator named Zhang Tianlei under Lin Feng walked up to Director Lin and whispered a few words to him. The more Lin Feng listened, the more his brows furrowed. He squinted his eyes and stared at the figure on the big wooden boat, but in the end he still looked straight at him.
He stared at the big wooden boat without giving any instructions.
After about two or three minutes, our two ships were completely separated, and we watched the ship disappear in the heavy fog. Strangely enough, after the ship disappeared, a gust of wind suddenly blew on the sea.
, blowing away the heavy fog that lasted for days. Looking towards the direction where the big wooden boat disappeared, the endless sea was empty, and the big wooden boat disappeared without a trace.
The captain and several crew members of the ship were so frightened that they dared not speak out. Now that the ship was completely invisible, the first mate on the ship shouted hysterically: "The ghost ship is coming to collect the ghosts! The ghosts are here!"
The ship has collected its soul! Everyone is going to die, let’s die together..."
Xiong Wanyi stood next to the first mate and saw his crazy look. Without saying a word, he slapped him in the face. The slap was a bit harsh and two lines of nosebleeds flowed out instantly. However, the slap also had an effect.
, the first mate stopped talking nonsense and just looked at Xiong Wanyi blankly.
Xiong Wanyi wasn't done yet. He looked at the first mate and said, "What kind of ghost ship collects souls? What do you know?"
The first mate still looked very frightened when he thought about that incident. The captain couldn't stand it any longer, so he told the first mate the centuries-old legends in the nearby waters.
According to legend, there is a ghost ship drifting in this sea area. It is said that this ship was the treasure ship used by Zheng He during his voyages to the West. When Zheng He returned from the West for the sixth time, he encountered a storm and the bottom of a treasure ship was flooded.
Before the crew members could evacuate, they sank into the sea along with the treasure ship.
But since that day, almost every twenty years or so, someone will see a huge wooden sailing ship in this area. Legend has it that as soon as this ship appears, the souls of anyone who sees this ship will be moved.
The hungry ghosts on the boat took it away.
After the captain finished speaking, a crew member pointed to a bright light on the sea and shouted: "It's back! The ghost ship is back!"
Looking in the direction of his finger, there was a bright spot on the sea in the distance. The bright spot was getting closer and closer. I could see clearly that it was really a ship, but a modern version made of steel. When the ship got closer,
Only then did we see that the ship was much larger than ours, but still not half as big as the ghost ship we just saw. Standing on the deck above were all familiar people: Gao Liang, Hao Wenming, Qiu Bulao, Xiao Monk and others.
The two ships came together, and we all moved to Gao Liang's big ship. After Lin Feng got on the ship, he reported what happened just now to Gao Liang. However, Director Gao's reaction made me a little confused. He heard that we
After seeing the ghost ship, there was a disappointed expression on his face.
Fatty Sun and I got behind Hao Wenming, and Fatty Sun said: "Hao Tou, I'm not the one who said that we are using our capital this time to go fishing in the South China Sea, right?"
Hao Wenming glared at him: "How many times have I told you, don't imitate me when talking? I didn't say, come as you are told. Where did you come from so much nonsense?"
When I saw Hao Wenming, I originally wanted to make insinuations about what happened in 1975. But when I saw Lin Feng glance at me intentionally or unintentionally, and thinking of the scene on the plane, I swallowed my words again.
I don’t know if it was intentional, but after seeing Hao Wenming, Fatty Sun’s “I didn’t say it” became more and more impoverished: “Hao Tou, it wasn’t me who said it, where is that foreign devil Hugo? He didn’t go with you.
? Why didn’t you see him? "
Hao Wenming lightly kicked Fatty Sun: "I won't let you say it, but you still have the energy." Fatty Sun ducked away with a playful smile, not taking Director Hao's words seriously at all. Hao Wenming sighed and got to the point:
"I'm not saying that. Hugo is a foreigner after all, and some things should be avoided. Boss Gao asked him and Moyes to go to the Catholic Church in Tianjin to preside over a mass."
What I heard was interesting, so I went over and interjected: "Hao Tou, what happened here? It's such a big fuss, and you still have to avoid Hugo and Moyes."
"I told you, have you ever heard of a ghost ship?" Hao Wenming looked at me and said.
"Ghost ship?" I remembered the scene I just saw and said, "I've never heard of it, but I should have seen the original one a few minutes ago. I don't know if the ship I just saw is a ghost ship."
"I'm not telling you, I really don't know whether I should say that your life is good? Or that you have bad luck?" Hao Wenming looked at me and Fatty Sun and shook his head, sighed and said: "We have been drifting in the sea for a little half a month, and we have nightmares every day.
I wanted to find this ghost ship, but in the end I didn’t even see a ghost ship, not to mention a ghost ship. Fortunately for you, you met the ghost ship as soon as you entered the sea."
Fatty Sun said: "Hao Tou, was that really a ghost ship just now?"
"Nonsense!" Hao Wenming said helplessly to Fatty Sun: "I'm not talking about you, Sun Dasheng, you have been in the polling bureau for a long time. Such an obvious thing should be seen at a glance."
He paused, took a breath, and continued: "Listen to what Lin Feng said, you just heard the legend of the ghost ship. That ship was a product of the early Ming Dynasty, and it should have sunk at the bottom of the sea for six hundred years. However,
I don’t know why, but it appears in the sea every twenty years or so. It can be seen in the historical records of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China.
Moreover, during the Republic of China, the Religious Commission and the Special Case Handling Office, the predecessor of the Polling Bureau, tried their best to board the ship to find out what happened. Unfortunately, they came back empty-handed every time. Several times, they saw ghost ships.
On the sea a few nautical miles away, it was like the situation just now. But when I rushed over at full speed, I watched the ghost ship disappear in the thick fog."
When Hao Wenming was talking, Fatty Sun tilted his head and listened. He waited until Hao Wenming finished speaking before he raised his head and said to Hao Wenming in confusion: "Isn't it just a ship? I didn't say, never mind a ghost ship.
Is there any need for the Shenship to make such a big noise? They also sent away those two foreign devils. What on earth is on that ship?"
"It was because we didn't know what was in the ship that we made such a big fuss." Hao Wenming frowned and told the origin of the ghost ship. The ghost ship was the treasure ship that was wrecked when Zheng He returned from his voyages to the West. It was at that time.
The main ship of the fleet, but Zheng He was lucky. He was on another ship when the accident happened.
According to the literature records at that time, after learning that the treasure ship sank to the bottom of the sea, Zhu Di, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, issued an incredible edict. He asked Zheng He's fleet that had entered the port to go back to sea and return to the place where the treasure ship crashed, at all costs.
To raise the sunken ship.
However, not long after Zheng He's fleet went to sea, he received an additional imperial edict from Zhu Di. The original edict was withdrawn and Zheng He's fleet was ordered to return to China. After more than 10,000 people returned in confusion, more than 300 of them were at the port.
He was arrested by Jinyiwei on charges of cheating, and Zheng He was sent to Beijing under the supervision of Dongchang Tai.
On the day he returned to Beijing, Zheng He was immediately summoned by Zhu Di. No one knows what he said to the emperor. They only know that three days after this summons, Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, issued an edict that Zheng He's six voyages to the West were complete.
However, such things cost a lot of money and were afraid of wasting people and money, so the Western voyages to various countries came to an end (it was not until the sixth year of Xuande, seven years after Zhu Di's death, that Zheng He made seven voyages to the Western Seas, but the scale was far less than the previous six)
Twenty years later, a merchant ship was suddenly encountered in heavy fog while passing through the sea area where the treasure ship was wrecked. In the heavy fog, all the people on the merchant ship saw a huge sailing ship approaching them. Since both ships were on the same coast,
On the waterway, the merchant ship was unable to dodge and was hit and sunk by this huge sailing ship.
Almost all the people on the merchant ship died. Only one lucky sailor hugged a log and soaked in the sea for a day before he was rescued by another merchant ship. The legend of the ghost ship began.
After that, every twenty years or so, the ghost ship appeared once, and the rumors became more and more weird. There are also different opinions on what the ghost ship was carrying. The most bizarre one is that Zheng He accidentally traveled to various Western countries.
An artifact that was discovered. It was because of the artifact's reappearance that it was forbidden by heaven and sank to the bottom of the sea with the treasure ship when it returned home.
After hundreds of years of repeated appearances of ghost ships, although no one has grasped the specific time of their appearance, some people have found its pattern. When ghost ships appear, they must weather the foggy weather. After the fog dissipates, the ghost ships must disappear. But
It may appear twice more in a short period of time. After three appearances, you will have to wait another twenty years if you want to find the ghost ship again.
During the Republic of China, the Religious Affairs Committee suddenly became extremely interested in this ghost ship, and almost solved the secret of the ghost ship. They assembled hundreds of large and small ships to intercept the ghost ship, but unfortunately that year the ghost ship
The ship appeared once, and for a very short time. By the time it was discovered, it was already too late, and all we could do was watch the ghost ship disappear into the thick fog.
After Hao Wenming finished speaking, I asked him: "Hao Tou, how many times has the ghost ship appeared this time?"
Hao Wenming raised three fingers to me: "The twenty-year quota is gone again. Next time the ghost ship comes out, I won't be able to see it. Didn't I say that I want to know what's inside? It's up to you.
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Fatty Sun suddenly laughed and said: "Hao Tou, don't worry. If we really solve the secret of the ghost ship twenty years from now, we will definitely tell you about it when we burn paper at your grave."
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The muscles in the corners of Hao Wenming's eyes trembled a few times, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Fat Sun, now I throw you into the sea, and if you become a ghost and tell me a dream, you can still tell me what is inside the boat."
The smile on Fatty Sun's face did not diminish, and he said: "Hao Tou, I didn't say it, but do you dare to believe what I said as a ghost?"
It seemed that the ghost ship matter was gone, and Gao Liang was not in the mood to stay here and bask in the sun. After discussing with Monk Xiao for a while, he called all the people from the polling bureau into a large cabin for a meeting.
Fatty Sun and I mingled in the crowd. We couldn't get in the middle of a meeting like this, we could only observe. After not seeing each other for a few days, Gao Liang's face already showed fatigue. It's no wonder that he is in his sixties.
I am a man, my face has turned sallow after being exposed to the wind and sun on the sea. I have been working endlessly on a ghost ship for several days, and now I can still sit here and preside over a meeting. In terms of energy alone, it is already very impressive.
Amazing.
Director Gao didn't talk nonsense. After the opening remarks, he got to the point directly: "Tonight, Zheng He's ghost ship appeared again. Unfortunately, we still failed to seize the opportunity and missed him again."
Speaking of this, Director Gao looked around at everyone, paused, and continued: "According to the pattern of its appearance over the past hundreds of years, the next time the ghost ship appears will be twenty years later.
.From some perspectives, this is also good news. Our current mission can be temporarily ended." After hearing this, the investigators below almost all let out a long sigh secretly.
Gao Liang said again: "Old rule, leave a few people to deal with the aftermath, and the rest will go back to the bureau." After saying that, his eyes scanned the faces of several investigation directors, and finally stopped at Director Hao's.
He said: "Hao Wenming, things are changing, so I hope you will be in the same room this time."
As soon as Fatty Gao said this, starting from Hao Wenming and below, I, Fatty Sun and Po Jun were all stunned. In the past, such aftermath matters were all done by the investigators of Room 2 and Room 4, and very few of them were left to us.
One room precedent.
The so-called aftermath means that after the incident is handled, a few people are left at the scene to remove the traces of the polling bureau's handling. Generally, the person who handled the incident is responsible for handling the aftermath. Now Gao Liang has arranged for one of our rooms to be responsible. I don't know who he is.
What kind of medicine is buried in the gourd?
"The polling bureau has nothing to do with me now, so I will stay here to help with the aftermath," said Monk Xiao, who was next to Gao Liang. Director Gao glanced at him and nodded in acquiescence.
Another person came to join in the fun, but Monk Xiao has been floating on the sea for a few days, and he hasn't drifted enough yet? But looking at his face, he was red, and he didn't look tired at all. I began to doubt that he
How have you been living at sea these days? It’s getting more and more nourishing as time goes by.
After the arrangements were made, Gao Liang announced that the meeting was over, and he left several directors to continue the small meeting. The remaining investigators either returned to their cabins to rest, or a few people with good connections crowded in in twos and threes.
Together. Probably because we were finally returning to land, almost everyone was in a good mood, except me... and Fatty Sun.