Afterwards, Old Man Wu told them about the events of that era.
This remote fishing village in the north had been in a semi-closed state before liberation. Apart from the fish trade, it had almost no contact with the outside world.
At that time, the mountains were high and the emperor was far away, and there were wars outside every day. It was never clear whether Marshal Zhang was better than Marshal Zhang.
But this place is poor. Even if there is any war, they can't come here. When the Japanese invaded, they didn't bother to cause trouble in this poor and remote fishing village.
But this small island was really called Shark Pearl Island in the past, and the name was taken from the Shark people in this area.
Mr. Wu's full name is Wu Ranyan, because his five elements and eight characters lack fire and water is too strong, so the family gave him this name to suppress his water luck to prevent him from being swept away by the sea.
But Wu Ranyan was born very close to the sea. He had big soles and a stable chassis. He could go into the sea as soon as he could run, and he could fish in a boat before he was an adult. He was better than the boys in the village.
At that time, the young people in the village followed him out to sea for fishing, saying that Grandpa Poseidon liked him, and every time they went out with him, they caught more fish and shrimps than usual.
Later, Wu Ranyan got engaged when he was 17 years old. He married a fishmonger's daughter, who asked for a bride price of 200 yuan.
This was indeed a fair price at the time, but for these poor fishermen, it was a sky-high price.
In order to save enough money to get married, Wu Ranyan went out early and returned late every day to fish, but the coolie work at that time was not valuable and he still didn't save enough.
Later, his eyes turned red, and he went to sea late at night without telling his parents...
There is an unwritten rule in Wujia Village: no fishing late at night.
The waves in this bay are very strong at night, sometimes as high as a storey, and small fishing boats can be capsized by just one wave.
But Wu Ranyan relied on his skillful driving skills to catch fish twice at night.
I don't know why, but the fish at night were actually very fat, and there were even many valuable species. Wu Ranyan tasted the sweetness, and became bolder from then on, so he tried to go into the deep sea.
One night, he drove the boat, escaped several big waves, and entered the deep sea.
As soon as I threw the fishing net into the sea, I suddenly caught something very heavy and couldn't pull it out no matter how hard I pulled it. The thing was obviously a living thing and it was still struggling desperately in the fishing net.
Wu Ranyan was so excited that he thought he had caught some huge fish in the net. When he tried his best to pull the net up, he saw something with a human body and a fish tail flapping on the deck. It kept struggling, and the small boat was about to give way.
He jumped over and over.
Only then did Wu Ranyan realize that he had recruited a shark...
Wu Ranyan took out the dagger, nailed the shark's tail, and then tied the shark with a rope, hoping to capture it and sell it for money.
But the shark begged bitterly, saying that he was willing to exchange a priceless pearl for his life.
Then she shed a tear, and the tear turned into a bright pearl and fell into Wu Ranyan's hand.
Wu Ranyan was very surprised, so he agreed to let the shark go.
Before leaving, the mermaid said that if he needed anything again, Wu Ranyan could take the pearl and go to the sea to find her.
Those who hold the pearl can find the island of the sharks, where there are countless gold and silver treasures and beauties like clouds.
After Wu Ranyan got the benefit, he put the shark man back into the sea, and then came back...
"Only this?",
After hearing this, Chen Zhi asked:
"Didn't you say that you were captured by them? And then you escaped again!
Since you let her go, why did she come to arrest you again?"
"Yes! I was indeed arrested~~" When Wu Ranyan said this, he frowned tightly, as if the memory made him very painful, and he held it in for a long time before spitting out,
“But it’s strange to say that!
I can’t remember how I was arrested at that time!
I just remember that the shark was very scary and wanted to eat me with its big mouth. Then I ran away in a daze and when I woke up, I was already on the shore!
And then..., and then..." Wu Ranyan scratched his head, frowned and said vigorously:
"Later I came back and we got married. I really can't remember what happened at that time.
But since then, every year I see that shark on the seashore late at night.
I also asked others to see it, but they all said they couldn't see it.
But I really saw it. I saw the shark hiding in the gap in the waves, smiling at me!
That ghostly appearance was so scary that from then on, I never dared to go into the sea at night again!"
After hearing what Wu Ranyan said, Chen Zhi and Fat Wei looked at each other, as if they didn't quite trust what Old Man Wu had just said.
Fat Wei grinned for a while, then looked at him,
"Say, old man, actually I never thought you were a braggart!
Look at how energetic you are, you don't look like the kind of person who talks nonsense?
But the more I hear about this now... why does it get more and more mysterious?
If you have really been to that island, how could you not even know how you got there? Could it be that the mermaid walked ashore on her own and pulled you there?
Old man, we are talking about serious things now, so don’t make up stories to scare us!
We don’t have time to talk nonsense with you..."
"Look at you, what did I lie to you for?",
Old man Wu's stubborn temper was suddenly aroused by Fat Wei.
He then stood up, got under the head of his bed, and pulled out a wooden box from inside.
Then he took out another fish skin case from the wooden box, took out a small cloth bag from it, and peeled off the layers of cloth.
Finally, he handed the contents inside to Chen Zhi and Pang Wei,
"look!
Am I bragging to you?
Have you seen this thing?
You probably can’t find such valuable things in your city!”
Chen Zhi glanced at the contents of the cloth bag, and his heart suddenly "thumped~~".
I saw a pure white pearl in the rag. The pearl was the size of a pigeon egg. It was glittering and translucent. It was sublimated and radiated with precious light.
It’s really like Li Shangyin’s poem, the moon in the sea has tears...