Ghostly Tomb

Chapter 1612 Forcing Questions ([-])

After hearing Chen Zhi's words, old man Wu opened his mouth wide open for a while, then lowered his head and thought for a while, then stopped talking.

This time the silence lasted for a long time...

Just when Fat Wei thought he was going to run out and shout, old man Wu suddenly raised his head, the wrinkles on his face were tightened, and he looked at Chen Zhi stubbornly:

"I don't care who you are.

We have survived to this day, relying on God of the Sea, we do not worship other gods.

It's okay to ask me to help, but you have to tell me, what exactly are you looking for?It's not okay to bully people in our village! "

"I'm here to find a small island!" Chen Zhi looked at old man Wu and said seriously,

"There is a cave on that island that leads down to the eye of the sea.

And based on everything that happened now, there should be some very strange creatures living on it.

It should be those creatures that dragged the diver into the sea. "

"You're right!" Old man Wu put his legs on the kang,
"The thing you're talking about is called a shark. I saw them when I was young..."

When old man Wu said these words with such certainty, the stone in Chen Zhi's heart finally fell.

It seems that magical creatures like sharks really exist, and they really live in this sea area.

The merman, also known as Quanke, is a mysterious creature with a fishtail and human body in ancient Chinese myths and legends. It is very similar to the mermaid in Western mythology, but the merman in China has always been a terrifying and ferocious creature.

As early as Ganbao's "Sou Shen Ji" there is a record:

"Beyond the South China Sea, there are sharks who live in the water like fish. They don't waste their weaving, and their eyes can produce pearls when they cry."

That is to say, sharks are good at weaving, and they can make dragon silk that is not wet in the water, and the tears they drop can be made into beads, which are extremely expensive.

In the famous work "Jinse" by Li Shangyin, a Tang poet, "the moon and the moon in the sea have tears", that is to say, the pearls transformed from the tears of sharks.
Moreover, it is said that the burning point of merman oil is extremely low, and one drop can burn for several days without extinguishing.

At this time, I heard old man Wu say,
"The young people nowadays are very light-hearted, they only know how to fiddle with their mobile phones every day, and they don't listen to a word of the old people.

They don't believe anything in the past, but they believe everything on the Internet. In the end, they don't know what is true and what is false.

But those things I saw with my own eyes when I was a child, I will never forget them all my life... ",
Old man Wu then began to ramble on about his childhood,

"At that time, there were daily wars outside, the emperor was overthrown, and everyone in the village was still wearing braids!

The official yamen is far away from here, and we are also poor here. The fishermen who often go to sea are very courageous, fearless, and no one cares about us.

At that time, the girls in the village were very expensive, and anyone who looked good wanted to marry outside, and the bride price for girls outside the village was even more expensive.

The boys in the village have to catch fish for several years before they can change a wife, and many of them are single.

So some men in the village caught some sea daughters-in-law in the sea to use, and kept them in their own water cellars. After they got married, they put them back into the sea.

These are all embarrassing things, no one said it publicly..."

"Is the Hai daughter-in-law you mentioned a mermaid?" Chen Zhi asked old man Wu,
"Yes!" Old man Wu nodded and replied,

"It was all a matter of old age, and no one believes it now.

I didn't believe it when I was a child, but I always heard from my grandma that if I don't work hard, I will only marry a daughter-in-law in the future.

Later, there was an accident at the house of a distant relative's uncle, and I guess it was the first time I saw the shark.

That uncle was an old bachelor, and he never married a wife in his life. Later, I heard that he raised a water daughter-in-law, who was raised in the water cellar in the backyard.

But one night, when he went to make out with his daughter-in-law, the merman bit off the baby!

My father and grandpa ran to help, and I followed suit, only to see the ground was covered with blood, and my distant uncle was writhing in pain.

And that daughter-in-law Hai was tied to the ground with five flowers, her ugly appearance was really disgusting, she was covered in black paint, only her upper body was a woman's body, her lower body was a big fish, and her face was so fucking disgusting..."

"There really is such a thing?" Fat Wei's eyes widened when he heard it, as if he was listening to the Arabian Nights.

"Of course!" Old man Wu said to Fat Wei, wiping his nose:
"My old man has never told a lie in his whole life. I would never have told such a thing when I was beating ghosts and monsters a few years ago.

But now that I am old, no one will believe me even if I say it, so it doesn't matter.

But do you know, when I was five or six years old, there were more than one or two mermaids in this village.

People back then dragged whatever they caught in the sea to their homes, and no one knew what they hid.

I also heard that there was a shameless widow in the village who also caught a male shark and put it in her sea cellar.

Then the merman died, and the widow cried shamelessly for several days, and everyone in the village laughed at him!Haha~~
Later, that thing was extremely rare, and when I grew up, I never heard of anyone raising sharks.

Now that my generation is dead, how can anyone know these things? "

"To live with the merman!" Chen Zhi said softly:
"Then you said you've seen a shark, what's going on? Could it be..., you too..."

"Ah! Bah! What nonsense are you talking about!" Old man Wu heard the meaning of Chen Zhi's words, and spat viciously.
"My old Wu is a shameless person. Even if he can't marry a wife in this life, he won't want that damn thing. People are people, how can they do that kind of thing with animals?
Let me tell you, I was 17 years old when I met the shark.

That year, I just made an appointment with a family, and they asked for 200 yuan. In order to collect enough money for the bride price, I made a taboo, and went to sea while it was dark...

(End of this chapter)