Chapter 554: Beach Chronicles, Strong Walls and Clear Wilderness
"Wow, sea, sea..."
Seeing the sea from a distance, Qin Yue, who saw the sea for the first time, cheered and ran towards the sea.
"Beach, sand..."
Qin Yue stepped lightly and looked down at the hot and humid sand. She even stopped curiously and picked up the sand at her feet with both hands.
"Wow, wow, wow..."
Not far away, there was the sound of waves.
Qin Yue's attention was immediately attracted, and he raised his head to look in the direction of the sea.
She only saw the waves stacking higher and higher on top of each other, rushing toward her. She was so frightened that she took half a step back, only to realize that the waves became much smaller when they reached the beach, and finally even disappeared.
"The earth is still powerful."
Qin Yue, with the earth under her feet, felt safer than ever before.
Qin Yue took a deep breath, like a lonely brave man rushing towards the turbulent waves even though thousands of people have gone before him.
A wave hit and Qin Yue was knocked to the ground.
Qin Yue stood up and ran back quickly when she saw someone behind her.
As he ran, he giggled happily.
When the waves receded and the white waves disappeared, Qin Yue then charged towards the waves, and then ran back quickly after the waves passed. Just like this, you advance and I retreat, you retreat and I advance, Qin Yue
I played happily for a long time.
"Huhu..."
Qin Yue was tired from playing and sat on the beach. Only then did she realize that there were many shells on the beach.
"Wow! So beautiful……"
Qin Yue picked up a shell with a colorful spiral pattern that he liked, picked it up, and looked at it carefully.
Suddenly he frowned slightly.
"Why are there things in here? Eh, it's so disgusting..."
What Qin Yue is most afraid of are these molluscs.
Qin Yue threw it out instinctively.
Then he thought of something, and with a wave of his hand, a sword light more than an inch long flashed through, and he was ready to stab the mollusk inside.
Sensing that the other party was dead, Qin Yue patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then I looked at that beautiful shell and fell into confusion.
"Although the shell is beautiful, but inside..."
Qin Yue sighed like an adult: "Well, as expected, as the third brother said, everything has advantages and disadvantages. It is impossible for you to take advantage of all the advantages. If I want this beautiful shell, I will
Find a way to deal with the disgusting things in there."
Qin Yue touched her chin, thought for a while, and suddenly had an idea.
"By the way, I can find someone to help me. I can find someone who is not afraid of these disgusting things in the sticky lake to help me deal with the things inside. Isn't that enough?"
Qin Yue stood up, built a shed with her right hand, and looked around.
"Is there anyone around here?"
Qin Yue saw from a distance a little girl about the same age as her on a tall rock that stood upright after being hit by countless waves. She stood there, motionless for a long time, looking at the sea from a distance, not knowing what she was looking at.
.
"It's her."
Qin Yue's figure flashed and flew up. After a few ups and downs, he reached the bottom of the reef.
Qin Yue looked up at the girl who was standing by the reef, as if a wave was coming and she might fall into the sea at any time. She tilted her head, stood below and shouted: "Hey, little sister standing on the reef, you
Want to jump into the sea?"
The little girl turned back, glanced at Qin Yue, shook her head and said, "Thank you for your concern. I don't want to jump into the sea. I just stand here and wait for my father to come back."
Qin Yue was stunned for a moment, then jumped up and jumped more than three feet high onto the rock. She stood beside the little girl, followed the direction of the sea, looked around for a few times, then shook her head and said: "
Is there no one on this sea? When will your father come back?"
The little girl was stunned by Qin Yue's sudden jump from the bottom of the reef to the top of the reef. She instinctively replied blankly: "The sea is round and you can't see too far. When I was a child, I heard in the village
Grandma said that my father would come back when he left the village before I got married. Yesterday, I should have left the village. I thought that my father might come back to visit me, so I waited here. After waiting for a long time,
Dad hasn’t come back yet.”
After hearing this, Qin Yue tilted her head, looked at the little girl in front of her, then looked at the sea, and asked curiously: "Since when did your father not come back?"
The little girl said with a trace of sadness in her eyes: "Since three or four years ago."
Qin Yue understood in her heart, she was silent for a moment, and then asked.
"Where's your grandma?"
The little girl lowered her head even further.
"My mother-in-law died shortly after giving birth to me. People in the village said that I was the one who killed my mother-in-law."
Even grandma...
Qin Yue's eyes widened in anger, and he said firmly to the little girl: "Don't listen to those guys' nonsense."
Qin Yue asked distressedly: "How have you survived in the past few years?"
The little girl then raised her head with a smile on her face.
"Children in fishing villages can always survive as long as they want to live."
Qin Yue thought of the shells he found on the sand stall before and frowned.
"You rely on those shells on the sand stall..."
The little girl smiled sheepishly.
"Those are very delicious. As long as they are cooked over fire, they will become fragrant."
At this point, the little girl's stomach growled.
Qin Yue took out a piece of pastry from the empty bag, handed it to the little girl and said, "You are hungry, come on, have something to eat, let's sit down and talk slowly."
Qin Yue forced herself into the little girl's arms and pulled her to sit down. Qin Yue also took out a piece of pastry and ate it while shaking her legs while blowing the sea breeze and watching the waves under the setting sun.
Facing the sea breeze, she squinted her face and blew it for a moment. Then she felt that the little girl had eaten her cake, and then she smiled and asked, "My name is Qin Yue, can you call me Xiaoyue? What's your name?"
It seemed that it was the first time for the little girl to eat such a delicious pastry, and her eyes were bright. However, she was still not in a hurry and ate it bit by bit, like a little hamster.
Hearing Qin Yue ask her name, the little girl embarrassedly pulled back her hair that was messed up by the sea breeze, and replied in a low voice: "Xiaoyu."
"Xiaoyu? This is your nickname, right? Don't you have a famous name?"
After Qin Yue finished speaking, she suddenly thought that since Xiaoyu had lost her father and mother, naturally no one would give her a big name, only a nickname.
A trace of annoyance flashed in Qin Yue's eyes, and then she quickly said: "I also have a nickname. My nickname is Yaya. Isn't it unpleasant?"
Speaking of his nickname, Qin Yue's eyes flashed with disgust.
"Yaya..." Xiaoyu read it carefully twice, shook his head and said, "No, I think it sounds very good."
When Qin Yue heard such a sincere answer, her squinted eyes kept curling up, and she said with a smile: "Where, I think your nickname is nice, Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu, listen, read it
It sounds so smooth and pleasant to the ears."
Xiaoyu lowered his head and took small bites of the pastries, while replying with an embarrassed smile: "No, there are many similar nicknames like mine in the village, and they are not nice at all."
Qin Yue asked in surprise: "Really?"
Then Qin Yue thought of something and said thoughtfully: "Maybe it's local differences."
The nicknames they have over there are all about mountains, trees, or something related to them. Over there is a mountain village, and here is a fishing village. Maybe here they are all about the sea, fish, etc.
nickname.
Qin Yue suddenly felt that he was so smart when he was like this. He said with a smile: "Hee hee, I am really a genius."
Xiaoyu didn't understand why Qin Yue was boasting and enjoying herself, but when she saw Qin Yue's happy smile, she also started laughing along with her unconsciously.
"By the way, you grew up eating shells from the sand stalls, so you should be pretty good at dealing with those things."
Qin Yue blew the sea breeze for a long time and had fun for a long time before he remembered the business.
Xiaoyu nodded in confusion and said, "Yes, is there any problem with this?"
Qin Yue finished the cake in his hand in two bites, patted the crumbs on his hand, stood up with a smile and said: "It's not a problem, it's that I need your talent in this area."
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to pick up the little fish, pointed at the sand stall and said: "I want to pick up some beautiful shells, but the things inside are really, really frustrating. Can you help me deal with them? I'll pay.
Give you wages."
Xiaoyu followed Qin Yue's fingers and glanced at the sand stall over there, pulled back his hair that was messed up by the sea breeze, and shook his head repeatedly.
"No, no, it's just a small thing, you don't have to pay for it, it's just..."
The little fish reluctantly looked in the direction of the sea.
Qin Yue waved her hand and said: "The sun is going down. Your father is coming early. I don't think he will come today. Let's wait again tomorrow. Okay, okay, let's go, let's go quickly."
Let's pick shells. If it's too late, the sun will go down."
Qin Yue said, caressing the little fish, jumped off the reef.
The little fishman didn't react until he was in the air, and screamed in terror. He stopped screaming when his feet hit the ground, his body went limp, and he sat down on the sand.
Qin Yue let go of Xiaoyu's hand, quickly touched her ears, and said helplessly to Xiaoyu: "You scream so loudly, it makes my ears buzz."
Xiaoyu waited for a long time before he recovered. He quickly stood up, habitually pulled his hair around his ears, and said sheepishly: "Um, I'm sorry, I, I didn't react at the moment, um, um
…”
Qin Yue waved her hand and said: "Okay, okay, children of the world, where did such a grinding thing come from? Come on, let's go, it's more important to do business."
"Jianghu...children?"
Xiaoyu followed Qin Yue without knowing why, and returned to the sand stall that she was familiar with and couldn't be more familiar with.
Qin Yue ran all the way and found the beautiful shell that was stabbed to death by his sword. He said to the little fish who followed him: "This is it. The thing inside has been killed by me. You just need to remove it from the inside."
Just come out."
Xiaoyu probably knew what Qin Yue wanted to do.
"Do you want these beautiful shells? You need to wash the inside and dry them in the sun, otherwise the shells will be damaged."
Qin Yue's eyes lit up and she said, "Can you do it?"
Xiaoyu couldn't stand the way Qin Yue looked directly at her, so she subconsciously pulled her hair around her ears, lowered her head, and replied in a low voice: "Many of the children in our village like to collect shells. I, I have also done it.
, will do it.”
"Great!" Qin Yue cheered, and then said to Xiaoyu: "Just follow your customs."
Afterwards, Qin Yue ignored the small fish and happily jumped around to pick up shells.
Xiaoyu looked at Qin Yue's carefree posture, with a trace of envy flashing in his eyes.
If her father comes back, can she become carefree like him, live happily every day, do whatever she wants, and no longer have to worry about how to eat and how to eat?
Not worried about being bullied?
Xiaoyu shook his head and quickly threw away these fantasies. He picked up the shell pointed by Qin Yue, took out the meat inside, found a flat reef that was only half a foot high, touched it with his hand, and found that
It was still hot, so he nodded with satisfaction, put the meat on top, and then went to the ditch not far away to wash the shells in his hands.
Qin Yue ran back after a while and poured a handful of shells in his hand at Xiaoyu's feet.
"These have all been taken care of for me. I'll go look for them again."
After saying that, before the little fish could say anything, he ran away like the wind.
Xiaoyu shook his head helplessly: "Many of these are inedible."
Then Xiaoyu thought of something and laughed at himself: "I am also confused. What Xiaoyue wants is not food, but those shells. Children like us in the fishing village who mainly eat and collect those shells by the way, don't
Same."
The little fish lowered his head again and packed them up. If he couldn't eat, he dug out the meat and threw it away. If he had never seen it before and was not sure whether it was edible, he also threw it away.
Even so, the reef temporarily stored there was filled up soon.
Even if the ones at the back were edible, the small fish had no choice but to throw them away.
The sun went down, and Qin Yue finally had enough fun and ran from a distance, dumped the shells in her arms on the hill made of shells, smiled and said to the little fish: "That's all."
Xiaoyu kept moving his hands and asked in confusion: "What are you doing with so many of them? I see there are a lot of similar shells in there. Isn't this a repetition?"
Qin Yue sat on the floor, opposite Xiaoyu, counted with his fingers: "This is not collected for myself. I finally came to the beach, so I have to go back with special products. I want to give it to my third brother."
One share for the eldest brother, one for the second brother, one for father and mother, one for master and Aunt Xin, one for each of us, sister Shaoyao, sister Yanzhi, brother Luo Hong, uncle Zhou, etc. In short, there are many people here.
, Alas, at this point, I feel that the collection is still too little. If it is not enough, I will collect some more tomorrow."
Xiaoyu couldn't help but slow down the movements of his hands, and said in an envious tone: "You have so many family members and elders, it's really enviable."
Apart from her father, who has not come back for many years, she no longer has any family members.
The people in the village may be related to her, but after so many years, she no longer dares to have any extravagant hopes.
She could not be more grateful for allowing her to grow to such a big size safely.
The smile on Qin Yue's face stopped and she stopped talking about this topic. She glanced at the meat on the rocks not far away and asked in surprise: "You, what is this?"
Xiaoyu glanced at Qin Yue's line of sight and said without looking back: "That's edible meat, it's our dinner today."
"Ah?" Qin Yue's expression changed and she said, "Can I eat this?"
Xiaoyu smiled and nodded and said, "Of course, you treat me to cakes, and I treat you to barbecue."
In the fishing village, these shells are picked up by children and eaten by children. Therefore, what is important is not who picked them, but who cooked them.
Xiaoyu is quite talented in this aspect.
Many children in the village like to eat the shell meat she made.
Especially barbecue.
It's delicious.
After eating it, all the children in the village disliked it.
Qin Yue frowned and originally wanted to refuse, but when she saw Xiaoyu helping her handle the shells seriously, she swallowed the words that came to her lips.
"I'm going to pick up firewood and make a bonfire. It's getting dark, so don't burn out your eyes."
Qin Yue quickly looked away from the shell meat and ran away like flying.
Xiaoyu said without raising his head: "Pick up some more stone slabs one or two fingers thick."
When Qin Yue came back with firewood and slates, he skillfully set up the firewood and raised the bonfire. He glanced at the slates in the sand in confusion and said, "Xiaoyu, what did you ask me to find these slates for?"
"Barbecue." Xiaoyu replied without raising his head.
"Barbecuing?" Qin Yue glanced at Xiaoyu in surprise: "Barbecuing on a stone slab?"
"Yeah?" Xiaoyu replied matter-of-factly: "Don't you use stone slabs for barbecue?"
Qin Yue shook his head and said: "We use slender forest sticks or bamboo skewers to skewer and grill."
Xiaoyu shook his head and said, "Plugging wood into the flesh? That's so unclean."
Qin Yue opened her mouth, glanced at the slate, and wanted to say, your slate is not clean at all.
Xiaoyu's hands and feet were very nimble and he finished it quickly. He washed his hands and started to play with a few stones to make a simple stove. Then he washed the stone slabs and placed them on the stove.
Roast it dry, then put the meat on the rock on the stone slab, hold a long strip of stone that has also been cleaned, and start roasting it.
Xiaoyu said with a regretful expression: "It's a pity that there is no salt and Houttuynia cordata, otherwise we could adjust the seasoning to make it more delicious."
Qin Yue looked at the shell meat that was getting more golden and fragrant, swallowed involuntarily, and quickly took out the salt and other seasonings from the empty bag.
He handed it directly to Xiaoyu: "See if these can be used."
Xiaoyu smelled them one by one, his eyes lit up, and he said in surprise: "These spices are so fragrant."
As he said that, he picked up some and sprinkled it on.
As soon as this seasoning is sprinkled, the aroma becomes stronger.
Qin Yue stared straight at the stone slab and asked impatiently: "Xiaoyu, are you okay? Are you okay?"
Xiaoyu smiled and pointed to the two on the side: "These two are already healed."
Qin Yue took out two pairs of kuaizi and gave a pair to Xiaoyu. He quickly picked up a piece of barbecue and ate it without worrying about burning his mouth.
"Good times, good times..."
Qin Yue's eyes lit up and she gave Xiaoyu a thumbs up. Before she could swallow it, she praised her repeatedly.
Xiaoyu held the pair of exquisite kuaizi in his hands, carefully picked up a piece of meat, and ate it, his eyes lit up, and he nodded repeatedly: "Xiaoyue, your seasoning is really good. This is the first time I know about barbecue."
It can still be so delicious.”
Qin Yue said sheepishly: "It's Xiaoyu who is good at his craftsmanship."
Qin Yue also grilled meat on the road, using the same seasonings, but the taste... well, let's not talk about it.
Qin Yue took out the juice from the empty bag and shared it with Xiaoyu. After the two of them had eaten and drank enough, they ate and talked by the campfire.
"Xiaoyu, it's getting late. I'll take you back later."
"Thank you, Xiaoyue, but it doesn't have to be so troublesome. I can just go by myself."
"How about that? What if you are snatched away by a wolf on your way back? I'd better take you back. If the wolf comes, I can beat it away."
"Wolf? Haha, there are no wolves here. I have never seen a wolf since I was a child, but I have heard of wolves. Xiaoyue, have you seen a wolf? Do wolves really eat disobedient children?"
"This is nonsense told by adults to deceive children. The wolf is so cruel. It dares to eat even adults, let alone children."
"Ah, that wolf is really scary."
"Hehe, actually wolves are not that scary. There are hunters in our village who have killed wolves. No matter how powerful the wolves are, they are still far behind us."
"Yeah, that's right."
The two were chatting happily when they suddenly heard a loud shout from afar.
"Who is there?"
Xiaoyu was so frightened that he quickly hid behind Qin Yue, grabbed Qin Yue's clothes, and said anxiously: "Quick, hide quickly."
Qin Yue was like a rock, sitting there motionless, and asked puzzledly: "What's wrong? It's okay, don't care who it is, no one dares to touch me."
Xiaoyu felt the footsteps getting closer and closer, and begged with a trembling voice: "Don't tell them that you have seen me." After saying that, Xiaoyu quickly ran into the darkness and hid in a rocky beach.
A sharp look flashed in Qin Yue's eyes, and she glared at the two people approaching from a distance.
Seeing that the other person was wearing a robe embroidered with the word "catcher", he immediately understood their identities.
"Captain? What are you doing here at night?"
Qin Yue took the initiative and asked softly.
When a young policeman of fifteen or sixteen years old heard Qin Yue's tone, he was so angry that he wanted to draw a knife and yell at him.
The middle-aged policeman in his thirties quickly held down the hand of the young policeman who was drawing the knife, and looked at Qin Yue's clothes with a surprised look on his face.
He is not Xiaoyu and the fresh-faced, inexperienced raw melon egg next to him.
There are also aristocratic families in Donglai County.
Although the aristocratic family has been banned in recent years, and the children of the aristocratic family have kept a low profile, with few people walking around, but when he was young, he had seen a lot of the children of the aristocratic family.
The middle-aged police officer immediately recognized Qin Yue's clothes and his demeanor as a member of a noble family.
Even if the children of the aristocratic family decline, they are not something they can handle.
The middle-aged police officer quickly said with a smile: "I have disturbed the young lady's enjoyment. We were patrolling, and a notice was issued in the government office, which said that no one is allowed to stay within a hundred miles of the coastline, no matter it is day or night. I am the same.
Doing your duty, sorry for bothering you, sorry for bothering you."
After saying that, the middle-aged police officer grabbed the young police officer and left quickly.
After walking far away, the middle-aged detective let go of his hand, and the young detective asked dissatisfiedly: "Uncle Zhou, who is she? Are you so afraid of her?"
Zhou Deshui turned pale and the young man took a quick look and said, "Those who have no eyesight to see are the children of aristocratic families. I guess those who come here to travel will hide as far away as possible when they see such a person."
This is Zhou Deshui’s life experience.
These traveling children of aristocratic families are the culprits and troubles. If you see them, hide away if you can. Don't get involved, otherwise you will die without knowing how.
Some of his colleagues in his youth lost their lives because of this.
When the young catcher heard this, he sneered and said, "Children of aristocratic families? Huh, it's already the Great Jing Dynasty. How can there be any children of aristocratic families now?"
Zhou Deshui shook his head and said: "You are still too young and have never seen the power of the Aristocratic Family. Do you think that the Aristocratic Family can be banned with just a decree? Their background is deep. Such a behemoth, even if it falls,
It's gone, and it's not something we little people can do. Well, from now on, be smarter and don't use the knife. Otherwise, I don't even know how you died. You will be the only male in your family.
If you are gone, think about it, how will your mother-in-law and your sister survive?"
The young detective's eyes shrank and he stopped talking. He just followed Zhou Deshui in a muffled voice and continued patrolling.
"They left, you come out."
Qin Yue shouted towards the pile of rubble.
After waiting for a while, Xiaoyu walked back cautiously, glanced at Qin Yue, and said with admiration in his eyes: "Xiaoyue, you are so powerful, you are not afraid of those fast catchers, but those fast catchers are afraid of you.
how did you do it?"
Qin Yue scratched his head in embarrassment and wanted to say it was because of his third brother. However, thinking of Xiao Yu's life experience, he changed his mind and said: "Because I am a strong martial artist, they are naturally afraid of me."
Xiaoyu thought of Qin Yue jumping down from a height of more than ten feet as light as a swallow, without any appearance of anything. Then he thought of Qin Yue running so fast that no one could be found in the blink of an eye, and he looked envious.
He said: "You are a girl, it is great that you can practice martial arts."
Qin Yue asked in confusion: "What's the difference between this and boys and girls?"
She has practiced martial arts since she was a child, and all children in the village, both male and female, also practice martial arts.
When she arrived in Luojing, she saw many powerful and high-ranking women, so Qin Yue didn't think there was anything special about women practicing martial arts.
Xiaoyu just glanced at Qin Yue enviously, shook his head, and stopped talking about this topic.
Although Qin Yue was puzzled, he still struggled with the matter. He thought it was Xiaoyu who had limited knowledge and asked curiously: "Why are you hiding from the police? Have you committed a crime?"
Xiaoyu shook his head and said: "Yesterday, a team of fastmen came to our village and told us that Dongyi's group of pirates were coming. They said they wanted to attack some wild areas and drove us all out of the village. I took advantage of the chaos and escaped.
Come out, I don’t want to leave, I left, and my father comes back and can’t find me, what should I do?”
"Strengthen the walls and clear the country!" Qin Yue recalled what the middle-aged policeman said just now, and said thoughtfully: "The Dongyi people are indeed coming, probably within a month, but didn't the imperial court build a navy?
I heard that if they want to defeat the enemy at sea, why do they have to fortify the walls and clear the country? It’s strange.”
Qin Yue thought that her main task was to investigate the navy transferred from the Zhendong Army to see if there was anything fishy in it.
Thinking of this, Qin Yue's eyes flashed with light and he murmured to himself: "It seems that I have to go to the Navy Camp as soon as possible."
Otherwise, just looking at flowers from the outside is like looking at flowers in the fog, and you can't tell clearly what kind of flowers they are.
"Xiaoyue, what's wrong with you?"
Qin Yue immediately came back to her senses, smiled and shook her head and said, "I'm fine. What about you? You can't go back to the village. Where did you sleep last night?"
As if someone had seen his embarrassed side, Xiaoyu lowered his head in embarrassment and whispered: "I, I just stayed in the cave on the rocky beach over there for one night."
"Rocky beach? Cave? How about that? Let's do this. You can sleep with me tonight. Come on, let's go back to the city."
"Ah? I, this, you..." Xiaoyu rubbed the corners of his clothes with his hands at a loss.
Qin Yue directly stopped the little fish, jumped up, and disappeared in place, leaving only a clear and domineering voice, which came from the sea breeze and echoed on the beach for a long time.