Poor family mother and son

Half sea water, half flame.

The sunset on the sea seems to be quenched by a red-hot iron ball and melted like an ice cream ball.

Today is the fifth day of Chu Qing's sea trip, she is still obsessed with the beautiful sunset, and the Chu family boy has already hung lanterns on the bow and stern of the boat.

"Sister, look over there, we're almost there!" Gan Lai pointed to the distance, where the sea and the sky seemed to be divided by a thin line.

Chu Qing took out the binoculars and looked. Sure enough, the thin lines in the binoculars were much thicker, and there was land there.

For this reason, Chu Qing is going back to process high-magnification telescopes.

Chu Yuan looked at the telescope and said with emotion: "It would have been nice to have this thing in the first place."

Gan Lai pointed to the lantern hanging under the bow of the boat and said, "I wish I had this in the first place."

Because of the glass, this time the lighting of the bow is not only a gapped porcelain ball to hold candles, but a glass lampshade.

See fishing lanterns at sunset, and fireflies lit by candlelight.Gentle wind and waves scattered into the sea of ​​stars.

Six medium-sized civilian ships formed a team at sea, and each ship had lanterns at the bow and stern for lighting. Chu Qing felt that a circle of lanterns should be placed around the ship's sides.

"There is a hidden reef in front, so it's not safe here. How can such a good glass lampshade be smashed?" Chu Yuan said.

Not everyone understands the quiet deep sea.

As soon as the sun went down, the sea was very dark, and Chu Qing really couldn't see the difference between the sea in front of him and other places.

Xiao Bao suddenly asked, "Did Gan Lai fall into the water here?"

After five years of long-distance love running, Chu Yuan and Gan Lai, who failed to hold hands, fell into the water here, and went straight to the point, this reef is good.

When the chest is knocked open, even a small stone can make people feel excited.

"Is there that piece of reef where Gan Lai fell into the water with a high fever?" Chu Qing asked.

"Yes," Gan Lai pointed to the water, "Look, sister, if there were glass lights back then, you could see the rocks below."

Chu Qing looked at it as he said, and sure enough, under the light of the bow of the ship, the sea water was not so dark, and there was a darker silhouette faintly below.

It would be nice to have a brighter light, now I can only see it as a blur.

The reef here is relatively deep, and the boat can still approach, but it immediately deviates from the direction and has to go around. The reef ahead is high.

"This hidden reef is worth remembering!" Chu Qing said, "Have you named it yet?"

"Take your wife home!" Chu Yuan immediately replied, Gan Lai rolled his eyes at him: "I'm so sad!"

In that distress, Chu Yuan hugged his wife very well, but Gan Lai almost died. The two felt differently about this reef.

Chu Qing and Xiaobao sat on the side waiting to have fun, but they didn't expect that the two would start arguing——

"Take your wife home!"

"Damn it!"

"Take your wife home!"

"Damn it!"

Chu Qing: "..."

Xiaobao: "Two of you go, three of you go back, how about calling this sea area 'Tianding Sea'?"

Chu Qing raised both hands and feet: "I agree!"

The boys of the Chu family flattened their nautical chart, and Chu Qing saw that there was a place on it indicating a hidden reef marked with three small characters: "Bring your wife home"; now they drew a circle around it, and wrote "Tianding Sea" inside.

It seems that the boys are reluctant to give up the name "Holding Wife to Return", and also like "Tian Ding Hai", so they simply set one as the name of the reef and the other as the domain name of the sea.

Does anyone want to bump into a rock and hold a daughter-in-law?

Chu Qing lamented the abilities of these boys.

Regardless of whether they have read any books, they are all rough people, but who would have thought that they could draw nautical charts?
Chu Qing asked them how to tell the direction at sea, it was easy to say, but not easy.

Just like on land, when you go to a strange place, you need to use the sun and the surrounding scenery as reference during the day, and you need to observe the stars at night.

"The sea is boundless, and I don't know anything. I only look at the sun, the moon, and the stars." This was recorded by Fa Xian, a monk in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when he returned to China by boat after visiting India.

People who seem to be uneducated and have never traveled far can't sum it up.

But in fact, it is these "rough people" around them who have had to watch the stars since they were young.

Stargazing is not something that only people from Qin Tianjian can do.

Farming is closely related to the weather, and celestial phenomena can predict the weather.

Marching, water transportation, business, fishing... as long as you go out, you need to rely on the stars to identify the direction.

Using the Pythagorean theorem to locate the stars and ships, this is the "astrology" that sounds grand.

When Chu Qing learned about the "star-stretching technique" in the library, he also knew about a tool called the "star-stretching board".

When using astrology to observe Polaris, hold a starboard of appropriate size, straighten your arms, and look at the sky.

Align the top edge of the board with the North Star and the bottom edge with the horizon.

When the measurement is less than one finger, use the ivory "notch" to make up the measurement in time.

Once the altitude of Polaris is obtained, the ship can calculate the geographic latitude of the location.

In the era when there was no compass, with the advantages of star-gathering, the Chinese embarked on a voyage of looking at the sky and traveling across the world.

From Chu Qing's point of view, these were knowledge that would be difficult to learn without arranging at least three months of practical training.

But right now, these kids just raise their palms to compare with the stars, and by seeing how many fingers the stars are on, they can roughly know their positions.

However, in a night without stars, you can't use tears to guide you, you can only rely on the compass to guide you.

At night, you can watch the stars, during the day, you can watch the sun, and in the dark, you can watch the compass.

Chu Qing and Xiao Bao learned from the boys together and took notes carefully.

It was the first time for the boys of the Chu family to know that they could also be masters for the boss, not to mention how excited they were!

The hardships of life at sea cannot suppress the optimistic nature of the Chu family.

When the glass lantern attracts schools of fish to swim with the boat, it is the time for the Chu family to have extra meals.

Spanish mackerel, matchmaker fish, yellow croaker, yellow croaker... don't care what it is, anyway, pick the big ones, chop them into big pieces, and sprinkle the peppers in a pot.

Small fish such as dragon head fish and sardines are fried in a pan with some flour.

Don't say that these boys don't know how to eat, and they waste all the good things. What kind of good things are these?Those who catch a group of people in the next net are rich, self-willed, fishy, ​​and self-willed!
However, Chu Qing still prefers to eat pan-fried or grilled pollack. The flesh of this fish is firm, the fiber is thick, and it tastes chewy.

Chu Qing personally fried pollack.

Hold the fish with a spatula in one hand to make it evenly heated, and pour boiling water into the chili powder bowl with the other hand. Xiaobao is responsible for stirring, then chop some minced garlic and add some soy sauce to mix together.

The garlic sauce is made in a hurry to fry the fish, and then spread on the pollack, while frying and spreading, layer by layer.

Look, there are seasonings, but also self-willed.

The fragrance drifts farther and farther with the sea breeze, and the children's halazi flows longer and longer.

It's not how good Chu Qing's cooking skills are, but as long as Chu Qing cooks it, even if it's fried glass slag, it's delicious.

The boys have always looked down on pollack, this is a good move, it is estimated that the pollack in this sea area will become extinct in the future.