Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Seven: Forced Questions (2)
After hearing what Chen Zhi said, Old Man Wu opened his mouth wide and was stunned for a while, then lowered his head and thought for a while, then stopped talking.
This time the silence lasted for a long time...
Just when Fat Wei thought he was going to run out and yell, Old Man Wu suddenly raised his head, the wrinkles on his face were tightened, and he looked at Chen Zhi stubbornly:
"I don't care who you are.
We have survived until now because of the God of the Sea, and we do not worship other gods.
It's okay if you want me to help, but you have to tell me what you are here for? You can't bully the people in our village!"
"I'm looking for a small island!" Chen Zhi looked at Old Man Wu and said seriously,
"There is a cave on the island that leads directly to the eye of the sea below.
And based on everything that's happened now, it's estimated that there should be some very strange creatures living there.
It should be those creatures that dragged the diver into the sea."
"You're right!" Old man Wu crossed his legs on the kang.
"The things you are talking about are called sharks. I saw them when I was young..."
When he heard Old Man Wu say these words with such certainty, the stone in Chen Zhi's heart finally fell.
It seems that magical creatures like sharks really exist and really live in this sea area.
The shark, also known as the Quanke, is a mysterious creature with a fish tail and a body in ancient Chinese myths and legends. It is very similar to the mermaid in Western mythology, but the Chinese shark has always been a terrifying and ferocious creature.
It was recorded as early as Qian Bao's "Sou Shen Ji":
"Beyond the South China Sea there are sharks who live in the water like fish. They never stop weaving, and when they weep, they can produce pearls."
This means that the sharks are good at weaving and can make dragon yarn that is impervious to water, and the tears they shed can be turned into beads. Such beads are priceless.
In the famous work "Jin Se" by the poet Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty, "the moon pearl in the sea has tears", which refers to the pearl turned into by the tears of the shark.
Moreover, it is said that the ignition point of shark oil is extremely low, and a drop of it can burn for several days, and can be used as an ever-burning lamp. It is said that there are ever-lasting lamps made of shark oil in the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, and thousands of them have not been extinguished to this day.
At this time, I heard Old Man Wu say,
"Today's young people are very frivolous. They only play with their mobile phones every day and don't listen to a word the old people say.
They didn't believe anything in the past, but they believed everything on the Internet. In the end, they didn't know what was true and what was false.
But I will never forget the things I saw with my own eyes when I was a child...",
Old man Wu then began to talk about what happened when he was a child.
“At that time, the adults in the village still wore big pigtails! In the town, there was still a county magistrate!
The imperial court is far away from here, and we are also poor here. The fishermen who often go to sea are very courageous. They are not afraid of anything, and no one cares about us.
At that time, girls in the village were very expensive, and any decent girl wanted to marry outside the village. The betrothal gifts for girls outside the village were even more expensive.
The boys in the village have to fish for several years before they can find a wife, and many of them are single.
So some men in the village caught some sea wives from the sea and kept them in their own water cellars. After they got married, they were released into the sea.
These are all embarrassing things, and no one says it openly..."
"Is the sea wife you are talking about a shark?" Chen Zhi asked Old Man Wu,
"Yes!" Old man Wu nodded and replied,
"That was all in my old age, and no one believes it now.
I didn't believe it when I was a kid, but I always heard my grandma say that if you don't work well, you will end up marrying a wife from overseas.
Later, one time, something happened at the house of a distant relative's uncle. I guess it was the first time I saw a shark.
The uncle was an old bachelor and had never married a wife in his life. Later I heard that he had a water wife and kept her in a water cellar in the backyard.
But one night, when he went to have sex with his sea wife, the shark bit her baby off!
My dad and grandpa ran to help, and I ran to join in the cheering. The ground was covered with blood, and my distant uncle was rolling on the floor in pain.
And the wife of the sea was tied up on the ground. She looked so ugly and disgusting. She was covered in black and black. Her upper body was that of a woman and her lower body was that of a big fish. Her face was really disgusting..."
"Is such a thing really possible?" Pang Wei opened his eyes wide when he heard this, as if he was hearing a fantasy.
"Of course!" Old Man Wu wiped his nose and said to Fat Wei:
"My old man has never told a lie in his life. When I was fighting monsters and monsters a few years ago, I would never tell a lie.
But now that I am older, no one will believe me even if I say it, so it doesn’t matter anymore.
But do you know that when I was five or six years old, there were more than one or two people in this village who were fooling around with the sharks.
At that time, people would drag whatever they caught in the sea back home, and no one would know what was hidden.
I also heard that there was a shameless widow in the village who also caught a male shark and put it in her cellar.
Later, the shark died, and the widow cried shamelessly for several days. Everyone in the village laughed at him! Haha~~
Later, those things became extremely rare. By the time I grew up, I had never heard of anyone raising sharks.
Now, everyone in my generation is dead, how can anyone still know about these things?"
"Just live with the sharks!" Chen Zhi said softly:
"Then you said you've seen a shark, what's going on? Could it be that... you are the same..."
"Ah! Bah! What nonsense are you talking about!" Old man Wu heard the meaning of Chen Zhi's words and spat fiercely,
"I, Old Wu, am a shameless person. Even if I can't get a wife in this life, I won't want that damn thing. People are just people. How can I do that kind of thing with an animal?
Let me tell you, I was 17 years old when I met the shark.
That year I had just engaged in a wedding, and they asked for 200 yuan. In order to collect enough money for the bride price, I violated my taboo and went to the sea while it was dark...