I live in Beihai Jun Nanhai [Rebirth]

Shui Jing was startled, and suddenly remembered the conversation between the two woodcutters that he heard in the mountains before leaving Yu country last time. They said that fishermen disappeared frequently at sea, and there were mirages exhaling. They suspected that it was a sea monster. Fishermen on the coast have offered sacrifices many times, but none of them worked.

Recalling this episode, Shui Jing asked: "I heard that several sacrificial offerings were useless, so why try again?"

When the woman heard the words, she was about to cry again, her brows were full of sadness, and she said: "The sacrifices before were all pigs and sheep, but this time they are... boys and girls."

Shui Jing was taken aback for a moment, he remembered that the taller of the two woodcutters also mentioned "sacrificing boys and girls", and was taught a lesson by the shorter one, Shui Jing thought they were just taking this It's a joke, but I didn't expect it to develop to this point.

Seeing that the woman couldn't restrain herself when she mentioned this matter, as if she had been greatly wronged, Shui Jing couldn't help but look at the child in her arms, and murmured: "This child..."

The woman hugged the little boy tighter, lowered her head and pressed her chin against his forehead, sniffed and said, "That's right, my son is the boy they... want to sacrifice."

She seemed to be terrified, she was stunned for a moment, then she seemed relieved, and lowered her eyes and said: "Fortunately, His Royal Highness came in time, otherwise..."

It wasn't until Shui Jing heard this sentence that he understood that Xie Wuyi really came here, but he didn't come to participate in the sacrifice, but to prevent the sacrifice from proceeding.

Seeing that the woman seemed to be calmer than before, Shui Jing asked her to explain what happened in detail.

A few months ago, there was a mirage above the South China Sea.

In the mirage, gunpowder smoke filled the air, flames soared into the sky, corpses littered the field, and blood flowed like rivers. It was the scene of fierce battle between the two sides.

People along the coast came to hear the news one after another, and thousands of people witnessed the fierce battle with their own eyes.

That night, the sea situation changed suddenly, lightning and thunder rumbled, and a storm that never happened in a hundred years swept across the entire South China Sea.

Fortunately, the storm came and went quickly. Before the people had packed up their soft and abandoned houses and fled for their lives, the storm had gradually subsided, and the surging sea water had stopped rising and gradually receded.

Two incidents happened day and night, and people panicked for a while, and rumors spread everywhere.

The common people didn't know the cause of the mirage, let alone the battlefield when Daluan attacked Qiong. They all said that it was the mirage's exhalation, which was the prophecy of the sea monster and the prophet, which foreshadowed that the country of Yu would be destroyed. The torrential rain was due to the changing situation caused by the appearance of the sea monster.

No matter how the government tried to stop the suppression, the rumors could not be quelled, and almost the whole country knew about it.

After that day, boats going out to sea to fish would disappear for no reason from time to time, and again and again fishermen would leave and never return.

Rumors then intensified, saying that the sea monster was going to break the foundation of Yu State relying on the sea to eat the sea.

The fishermen by the sea organized several sacrificial offerings, throwing live animals such as pigs and sheep into the sea as sacrifices to the sea monsters, hoping to appease the anger of the sea monsters. It is said that the sea monsters look down on these livestock and must be sacrificed by living people.

The so-called living people refer to boys and girls, but no father and mother would be willing to sacrifice their children, and this matter gradually faded away.

However, the "Kraken" has been causing trouble, and the disappearance has not stopped. These fishermen who have been fishing for a living for generations have no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to go to sea, or cut off their livelihood. The more anxious, the more angry.

The woman's husband is one of them. Due to the need to make ends meet, he and a brother who grew up with him borrowed the largest and strongest fishing boat from the coastal fishermen to go out to sea, and promised that as long as there is a harvest, he will return to the sea. Most of the income is given to the fisherman as a reward.

Unfortunately, even the largest and strongest fishing boat could not prevent the misfortune of disappearance. The two never came back after going out to sea, and the fishing boat disappeared without a trace.

Her husband was killed, and the woman was in pain, but unexpectedly, the house leaked and it rained all night. The fisherman who borrowed the boat went to her and the brother's house several times to ask for compensation. Restless.The nearby fishermen went to persuade him to fight, and finally told the fisherman to stop for a few days.

Unexpectedly, not long after, the fisherman came again and said that since he had no money to compensate, he would use the child to pay off the debt.

This time, the surrounding fishermen were uncharacteristically silent, and no one spoke out to persuade them.

Later, the woman finally understood the reason.

Her husband's brother had a three-year-old daughter, and her family happened to have a son.The fisherman asked the two families to use their children to pay off the debt in order to sacrifice the boy and girl to the sea monster.

This was exactly what all the fishermen wanted, so even if they felt pity, no one objected.

Naturally, the two wives would not agree to such absurd demands, and tried their best to stop them, but they were orphans, widows, mothers, and weak, unable to resist the crowd.

This evening, the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the sea monster was being held on that beach. No matter how much the two mothers cried and begged, they didn't hear them. Several burly men stopped them from approaching and threatened them if they If they make trouble again, they will be tied up and thrown into the sea together.

The two mothers watched helplessly as the ceremony was completed and they tied the two young children with hemp rope and dragged them into the sea.

They howled and cried.

Everyone was unmoved and watched with cold eyes.

Seeing the two children being submerged in the sea, the brother's wife, with bloodshot eyes, broke free from the bondage like crazy, and hit the altar with her head, bleeding profusely.

But the woman in front of her fainted on the ground due to grief and anger, and lost consciousness.

When she woke up, she was surprised to find that her son was beside her. Although his body was soaked, he was unscathed, and he was obviously saved.

Only then did she know that just as she fell, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrived upon hearing the news, and in desperation, he jumped into the sea to rescue the two children regardless of the obstruction of his followers.

After landing, he first confirmed that the two children were fine except for a few sips of water, and immediately asked the imperial doctor to treat the brother's wife. After learning that she had passed away, the prince was furious and lifted the altar. The people who took the lead in the riots were taken back to await trial.

There are not a few people who participated in the sacrificial ceremony this time. Except for the few who took the lead, most of the others were silent and did not dare to make mistakes, but there were still a few who were not afraid of death. They said that they were forced to do this because The court ignored them, and they had no choice but to find a way to ask the sea monster to stay alive.

Everyone did not expect that His Royal Highness did not get angry because of this, but instead said that the man was right, and also said that he would go to sea in person the next day to meet the sea monster.

……

After saying this, the woman raised her finger and pointed to the distance, and said, "His Royal Highness has prepared the boat, and it will go to sea tomorrow morning."

Shui Jing looked in the direction she pointed.

Because of the Kraken incident, almost all the fishermen near the sea no longer go to sea. There are thousands of fishing boats docked by the sea, but most of them are leaning on the shore in the dark as if they were abandoned.

In this way, the few boats with dim lights and people carrying things up and down are particularly conspicuous.

Shui Jing saw those ships clearly, and asked in disbelief, "Is he using these ships?"

Those boats were neither warships nor fighting ships, but a few very inconspicuous ordinary fishing boats, some big and some small, some new and some old, they looked like they had been borrowed casually from fishermen, they were extremely simple.

The woman nodded and said: "His Royal Highness said that he will use whatever boat the fishermen used when they disappeared. A boat that is too big or too good looks not easy to mess with. He is afraid that the sea monster will not have the courage to show up."

A look of Xie Wuyi's stern expression suddenly appeared in front of Shui Jing, and he said with a little arrogance, "I'm afraid it won't have the guts to show up". He couldn't help shaking his head helplessly, and said with a smile, "He really is..."

The woman said: "Selfless and fearless."

"..." Shui Jing swallowed back the "guts" that almost blurted out, well, selflessness and fearlessness are selflessness and fearlessness.

He gave a dry laugh and nodded, then remembered something, and asked, "Where's that little girl?"

The "virgin boy" in this woman's arms still has her mother after all, but the "virgin girl" has lost her parents and became an orphan. Where can she go?

The woman said: "His Royal Highness brought her back to the palace, and someone should take care of her."

Shui Jing nodded, looked at the trembling child in her arms, and said, "It's very windy here, if Madam doesn't have anything important to do, it's better to take him home earlier."

The woman nodded, looked at the sea and sighed, and stood up on the ground. She raised her hand to untie the robe that wrapped the child, but Shui Jing stopped her and said, "No need, take it away."

The woman was startled, thinking that he thought the robe was dirty and wrinkled, she was a little embarrassed, she lowered her head and said: "Sorry, I have caused you trouble."

Shui Jing waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about it."

After he finished speaking, he thought for a while, reached out and grabbed a handful of odds and ends in the skirt of his clothes, and put them on the robe that the child was wrapped in.

The woman looked down at those things, jade balls, finger rings, hairpin rings, and some objects that she couldn't even recognize, but were obviously of great value.

The woman was startled, and hurriedly reached out to grab those things to return to Shui Jing, and said repeatedly: "No, there is no need, you don't have to be like this..."

Shui Jing is not good at dealing with this kind of evasion. Thinking of the original fate of those playthings, he took a step back and said: "Take it, it was originally meant to be thrown."

This is not all nonsense, all kinds of weird little things he brought out from various countries were either found to be cumbersome and thrown away in the end, or they were thrown away like the inkstone that was picked up by Shijiu. It's useless, throwing it at anyone is throwing it.

The woman was at a loss for words, Shui Jing didn't want to wait for her to speak again, so she said, "Farewell."

After finishing speaking, he simply turned around and strode away.

……

In the early morning of the next day, as soon as Chaoyang exposed half of his head on the sea, thousands of people from Yu Kingdom had already gathered on the beach. It was a dark place at a glance, full of people, and it was very lively.

Most of them are coastal fishermen. They are deeply disturbed by the "Sea Monster", and they are finally looking forward to the court's intervention. They are full of expectations and have high hopes.

The rest are the people of the capital who heard the news and came to watch the excitement. If it hadn’t happened suddenly yesterday, the news would not have spread too far, and I am afraid that people would come from other cities from thousands of miles to watch.

In a short while, the crown prince came from a distance, and the people knelt down one after another, leaving a way to the fishing boat.

Xie Wuyi is still dressed in apricot-yellow clothes today, but it is different from the toga and wide sleeves of the past, but a strong suit with tight sleeves and waist. Under the hem is a pair of boots, and his bronze sword hangs from his waist. In terms of his original handsome appearance, he was even more heroic and majestic, causing all the fishermen's girls to blush and whisper.

Xie Wuyi walked all the way to the shore without looking sideways, and led a dozen or twenty soldiers to board four boats.

After standing on the bow of the boat, he turned back to look at the beach. Shui Jing thought that he was going to raise his arms and shouted some inspiring words such as "remove harm for the people" and "do justice for the sky", but he just kept silent After looking around at the people on the beach, he turned around, waved his hand, and signaled to set sail.

The common people didn't seem to have expected such a commotion, they stared blankly at the ship that was about to leave the shore. Suddenly, a female voice in the crowd shouted: "May His Royal Highness eradicate the evildoers and return safely and triumphantly!"

Only then did the common people come to their senses, and immediately shouted: "Eliminate the evildoers, and return safely and triumphantly!"

"Eliminate the evildoers and return safely and triumphantly!"

"Eliminate the evildoers and return safely and triumphantly!"

Xie Wuyi turned around, looked in the direction of the first voice, and found the mother of the boy from yesterday among the crowd.

Her eyes were burning, tears seemed to flicker, her lips opened and closed slightly, as if she was about to say a thousand words.

Xie Wuyi met her gaze, didn't say anything, just nodded solemnly to her.