Chapter 47 dragon otter (on)
Gu Cai and Duoling are not very old and have limited experience, the sudden death of the master they have been living with, they are missing their backbone, they look disoriented and at a loss with tears in their eyes, and only after my persuasion did they stop their sadness for the time being, and busied themselves with collecting the remains of Ruan Hei.
Uncle Ming saw me hide the best one of the beads into the mouth of the body of Ruan Hei, seems to be a little heartbroken, circling around the body on the ground, but this situation is not convenient to say, have to bear the pain, but he seems to have suddenly found what unusual signs, come over to pull my arm, dragged me to the back of the ancient guessing: “Hu old man, look at him this egg boy is not what? …… anything unusual?”
I looked at Gu Guchai squatting on the ground to organize the remains of Ruan Hei, his upper body naked, shirt in the water just now to save people, was Uncle Ming ripped off, revealing a body full of embroidery, this body embroidered in colorful and complicated fine, all are the big ocean waves, the sea fish and dragons chasing the fire beads, or diving to swim in the sea bottom of the complex pattern, it seems to be a magnificent and mysterious magic, the South China Sea area is very popular tattooing and tattooing, but like the Gu Guchai such a sophisticated The whole body embroidery is not common, but I do not know what Uncle Ming said is the intention, this young man can go into the water to fight the whale and salamander, is not the egg people apprentice can do?
When I thought of this, I felt a chill in my heart and asked Uncle Ming what he meant by this. Is there something wrong with Gu Guai? Uncle Ming put together in my ear and whispered, “I see that Gu Guai this egg boy’s life is unusual, this egg boy may be a dragon in the sea ……”
I heard what Uncle Ming said, and looked back at the ancient guess, on second thought, some do not think so, even if the ancient guess underwater skills over the top, dare to fight the fish dragon sharks, but he is also flesh and blood of ordinary people, but how will be what the dragon in the sea? Dragon scale of the family is all fishermen egg people in the mouth of a false legend, is not the world really have the scale of the family not? Not too alarmist overheard, this kid is at best a visitor to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, which I found out a long time ago, but compared to China’s household idol at the time, “Mike. He can be far worse than the Chinese household idol “Mike Hex”, there is no handsome star look, on the contrary, black and thin like a water loach, but I estimate that he is good at this kind of diving talent, almost the same as Michael, is “a piece of wood from the Atlantic Ocean drift over”.
Uncle Ming made a wink to me and Shirley Yang, signaling to take a step to talk, I let the fat man to help Gu Cai, Duo Ling to clean up the body of the egg people Ruan Hei, and then walked with Uncle Ming to the tilted deck, stepped on the boat bang, while staring at the surrounding changes in the water surface, while absentmindedly asked him what he wanted to talk about?
Uncle Ming said, “Just now there is indeed no alarmist, Ah Chai Ah Ling these two egg boy, their previous life we only understand a general, Ah Chai is an orphan on the overseas coral temple island, but you see his tattoos are not very strange? I in the south ocean big wind and big waves in half a life, have not seen someone in the water encounter sword spine whale salamander, still can walk back and forth unharmed, to uncle my experience to judge, we are now trapped in the eye of the sea, maybe Gu Cai can help us a big help, maybe he knows to identify the water color to identify the dragon’s point of the skill.”
Shirley Yang and I looked at each other, even so, can’t say that Gu Cai this kid is a dragon non-human, Shirley Yang said that the way to observe the water color to identify the dragon residence, it is said that in the past the moving mountain Taoist is quite proficient, but now has long been lost, is it possible that Gu Cai even will be this kind of ancient art? He has always followed Ruan Hei apprenticeship, picking eggs and finding mussels craft are from his master, but Ruan Hei does not seem to know these skills.
Uncle Ming see we do not believe, had to explain in detail, revealing some little-known egg people in the past, Uncle Ming on the sea of the various trades know very detailed, know the ins and outs of the egg pickers, the gold miners and egg people, although the same seventy-two rows, is from ancient times have hooks, but the two biggest difference is that the gold miners can be in the shape of the situation, there are in and out of the egg people have been ” dead picking”, to life and death. The biggest difference between the two is that the Golden Guards are able to take the situation into consideration and have the ability to move in and out, while the egg people have always been “dead pickers”, taking the pearl with their lives and not returning until they are dead.
Today we say to the “egg people” and “egg” craft rules, are the Ming Dynasty began to form, the formal origin of the occupation of egg collection period, is far earlier than the Ming Dynasty, its tradition and history is very old, tasted in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the South China Sea water I heard that in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the South China Sea water barbarians, generations of people living in the boat, naked, cloaked hair, in the sea to and from freely, tough, the most good to go to the water to pick beads, carved around the body of fish and dragons pattern, they are fish and dragons scales of the genus of self-respect, do not serve the king, do not respect the king’s way.
Later, due to the increasingly harsh living environment, had to be recruited by the court, known as the “boat-dwelling people”, specializing in the sea picking beads, boat-dwelling people is the predecessor of the later generations of the egg people, they have been embroidered fish and dragons around the body since childhood, the sea of the figure, to go to the water naked, it is said that this tattoo pattern called “through the sea array “, so that the seabed of the evil fish see, often mistaken for the same aquatic, they often refused to harm, boat-dwelling people with special physique, year after year, day after day at the bottom of the sea beads fishing, so that their descendants eyes gradually developed a layer of fine film, in the seabed of the submerged turbulent currents, as for them to walk on the wide, flat streets, and the same as a common household meal.
But because the ancient ruling class on the “boat-dwelling people” exploitation is too cool, coupled with boat-dwelling people themselves are more savage and bloodthirsty, born with a bone of contrariness, whether it is slaughtering mussels and whales, pulling the tendons of the dragon and peeling the skin of the sharks, or into the dragon’s lair to wrestle soft-shelled turtles and oars, has always been a quiet and unafraid to die, and so often in the case of the official government pressures overly tight, they will be quite a risky to kill the officials to rebel, a generation down, down and down, and down and down, and then down, and then down and down, and then down and down. After all, they are not many, the power is limited, it is difficult to become a great thing, and finally killed by the government a few extinct, this ancient people living in the sea gradually disappeared, but the emperor and nobility also need a lot of pearls, boat-dwelling people engaged in the work of the poor fishermen in coastal areas to take over, and slowly formed the current “Egg people! Eggman”.
Egg people’s craft and rules of the trade, with the ancient boat-dwelling people are similar, basically according to the cat drawing tiger, as the saying goes, handle style handle style, all based on the frame, the egg people egg picking at best is to follow the gourd, learn a look, but the ancient boat-dwelling people’s best work, most of them did not learn, both of them high and low since it can not be the same day, just the egg people’s survival environment is still brutal and harsh, often in the close monitoring of the soldiers and the officers, head of the white edge of the dangerous suspension, regardless of the seabed! Dangerous and unusual, was forced to tie on the stone sunk into the water to collect eggs, basically nine deaths, there are egg people are not willing to pay on the life in exchange for the South Pearl, underwater with a sharp blade scraping mussels, swallowing beads into the abdomen, secretly hiding, but back to the surface, once recognized, will immediately be disemboweled by the doom, tied up on the spot limbs, cut open the belly from the stomach and intestines to the anus, searching the intestines and stomach and then discarded the body into the sea to feed the fish, the majority of the egg people living in the lowest level! Most of the egg people are living in the lowest class, poor people who have nothing to live for, or criminal exiled generation, they even if the death of more, no one frowned.