Chapter 23 black tide floating coffin (above)
The sky rained heavily, the sea waves rose and fell, “trident” in this wind and waves in the danger, at any time may be capsized and buried in the belly of the fish, Uncle Ming holding the life buoys screaming “Mazu quickly show!
Ruan Hei, the captain of the ship at the helm there, also followed Uncle Ming to recite the “Sea and Sky Sacred Mantra” and asked Mazu to show up and come to save his life. Although Ruan Hei looked rough and had a beard like a hedgehog, the sea wolves on the sea, no matter how courageous they were facing the winds and waves, their superstitiousness in sailing was extraordinarily serious, and they were in awe of the power of the underworld, which was probably the reason why they were able to settle down on the sea. This is probably also the spiritual support for them to be able to live on the sea.
Seeing the high winds and waves, the boat was about to fall apart, I do not know how long it could last, I also had to hope that A-Ma Zu’s spirit, quickly calm the winds and waves, but I was particularly disgusted with this “open the door of the temple does not burn incense, when things come to the end of the promise of pigs and sheep,” the action, instead of begging all over the sky of the gods and buddhist, it would be better to rely on their own to come up with a practicable solution.
“By the way” this famous saying refers to the reform and opening up after the implementation of the contract responsibility system, the policy is implemented to the household, the farmers in the production of energy, people have more bold, the land has a big yield, if more ways to seek new ideas, pioneering, you can get a greater return, can not be stagnant, stay in the stage of eating the old, this slogan was also used by many of those who are not the same, but also by those who are not the same. The slogan was later also more than those who went to sea from the business of the individual, used for self-excitement, but we are now in the situation, the seat of the ship in the furious waves of the plan is about to lose control, in addition to the fate of God, and where there is what way to think.
At this time Shirley Yang crowded over to ask me what to do now? Just a wave from the hatch hit in, the cockpit people are drenched in salty seawater, I wiped the water droplets on my face, said to Shirley Yang: “I can not imagine that the dragon on the water with the wind and waves have such momentum, the old way to touch the gold in the mountains in the past does not work, the sea wolves and the egg people will not be able to use a new way to pray to God to tell the sky of the soft approach is not useful, the troops that set of hard methods can not be used to fight hard. The hard way of pounding and charging can not be used, I am completely out of ideas, by the way …… is there any method to cope with this in the art of moving mountains and reclaiming the sea?”
Shirley Yang said, “Moving mountains and reclamation and can not call the wind and rain, which can make the wind and waves calm, I see this formation on the water dragon brought up by the storm came in a hurry, and go inevitably fast, now only try to control the trident, to fight for time, hold on to the end of the storm at sea.”
Can say is easy, do is difficult, the sea willow boat in the shock waves floating swaying, constantly being pushed to the tip of the wave valley, every second is full of danger, the sky black clouds, dark haze, although it is day, but is the same as the night, the clouds in the lightning and thunder, opened the pot of seawater for a long time refused to calm down, thanks to ruanhei and ming uncle driving the boat experience, they in order to survive is to do their best, the rest of the people to assist with all their strength, make the “Trident” in the nick of time to save the day.
The British modified this sea willow boat, also really strong and sturdy, banned the test of the storm, I do not know is the sea willow boat is the treasure of the ocean, or A-Ma Zu really have the spirit of the ship in the sea so stormy, the hull has always been unharmed, finally survived to have a ray of sunshine from the gap of the dark clouds thrown between the wind and the waves gradually leveled off, the raging sea gradually returned to the calm, at this time the ship although all right, but the boat people can be Really can not eat, the whole body bones are almost all upside down scattered, everyone is exhausted.
See the wind and waves finally passed, Uncle Ming excited directly kneeling on the deck to A-Ma Zu kowtow and make a big wish, the ship’s captain Ruan Hei trick-like from the bilge out of the incense burner yellow paper things to give A-Ma Zu offerings and burn incense, their personal beliefs I am not good to intervene, and then look at the fat man due to more white wine, but also collapsed in the cockpit sleeping upside down, the ground is full of his vomit, Guchai and Duo Ling is trying to drag the fat man into the inner cabin, and then see the fat man in the cockpit, but the fat man in the cockpit. Guchai and Duoling were struggling to drag the drunken fat man into the cabin, so that he would not block the hatch and get in the way.
I walked to the bow of the ship, looked at the piercing sunlight that pierced through the dark clouds, and breathed a long sigh of relief, this storm has passed, at least within a few days, there will not be such a large sea air cohesion, we can take this opportunity to enter the coral spiral by using the tidal wave to look for shipwrecks and the Yin fire next to the eye of the sea known as the “Returning Ruins”, and of course, we also have to be a handful of egg picking. “Although there were many tasks, there should be enough time, but in the storm, the course was deviated, and it would take a day later than expected to arrive at the Great Coral Reef.
Thinking of this, I intend to find Shirley Yang to discuss how to use the mixed tide to sail the ship through the “coral spiral” dense outer reefs, I just want to go to the cockpit to find Shirley Yang, I feel that the sea seems to be some places are not normal, take a closer look, can not be, the sea water has turned black, the sea air to the depths of the sea troughs are washed to the surface, and the sea air to the depths of the sea. The sea air washed all the stuff from the depths of the sea trough to the sea surface, forming a large black tide, and our seat boat was sailing right on top of the ink-black sea water.
The rest of the people also found this situation, while watching the black as ink seawater, while discussing, each saying their own reasoning, Shirley Yang said that there are many dead fish floating in the sea, the continental shelf of the South China Sea is a step down, this area is just under the sea floor of the abyss, and its deep rock layers may contain a large number of coal oil and gas, brought to the surface of the sea by seawater, the deep-sea fish are afraid of suffering.
Nguyen Hei agrees with the Vietnamese fishermen, he said that the deep sea water, naturally there are a number of black, the deepest seawater boiling and churning, and other seawater has a great difference, even if the seabed creatures do not dare to approach, the water is hotter than the hot springs a hundred times, may be this tide is the seabed of the black springs were brought up.
Uncle Ming said, must be on the water dragon to hide in the sea trough of the big cuttlefish washed up, that cuttlefish is octopus, its feet can reach out a hundred feet away, big, that thing a stomach of black water, will spit out the death of ink, so the sea water are black, if you can get its body can contact foreign buyers, if complete enough to be able to sell to the big price, probably the same price with that Loulan female corpse belongs to the same level.
I said to Uncle Ming: “So you not only buy and sell dried corpses, but also do business with dead fish specimens?” In the seven mouths in the sound of discussion, the guys have their own advocate, the possibility of the occurrence of the black tide are mentioned all over, but until the end, on the black sea water is actually how to form, difficult to have a definitive conclusion, only know that it is from the bottom of the sea up, but to see the sea rolled over the dead fish, in the thick ink-like seawater is very conspicuous, looks like the white flowers are not counted, but also can not help but be a little shocked, if not for this trident construction cleverly If it were not for the trident’s skillful construction and sturdiness, we might now be one of these dead fish.