Dozens of pearl-picking boats are moored in a sheltered bay by the sea at Heqing Town where Li Sanjian lives.

There is also a large incense table on the shore of the bay. On the incense table are placed candlesticks, incense burners, fruits and vegetables, meat and other offerings. Hundreds of pearl collectors are burning incense and praying, begging God and the Sea God to bless this pearl collector's trip to proceed smoothly.

"Mazu protects me, protects me and everything goes well."

"Worship God, evil waves, sea ghosts stay away."

All the pearl collectors worshipped in the direction of the pearl pond.

The people who pick pearls are called 甲 or 甲. 甲 uses boats as their homes and seas for their living. Except for some family members living on the shore, 甲 almost always live on the sea, fishing, picking beads, fishing clams, etc.

The court organized them to form a householder and established a village chief, which was under the jurisdiction of the Hepo Division. They collected fishing classes and paid taxes to officials every year, and were called "官网".

Because Qiongtai was at the southernmost end of the Song Dynasty and was also a place where Han and Li lived together, the jurisdiction of the imperial court here was not so strict.

The people who picked the pearls in Qiongtai went to the pearl pond to pick the pearls. After picking the pearls, the monks could exchange pearls for some daily necessities from the merchants, such as grain, cloth, wine, salt, etc.

At this time, hundreds of ephemerals were worshipping the sea god, and then they would go to the pearl pond to pick pearls. Li Sanjian's grandfather Fu Gui and two uncles Fu Yan and Fu Lin were all listed here.

"Dad Fu, the sacrifice has ended. Can you go to the Zhuchi Lake?" After the sacrifice was over, an old eunuch asked.

Fu Gui frowned and looked at the sea in the distance, waved his hand and said, "Get up."

Because Fu Gui's family is a family of people, and Fu Gui has been picking pearls for decades, has rich experience and is familiar with sea climate change, so Fu Gui is the leader of the people who pick the pearls this time, and all the monks are willing to obey his arrangements.

Then the sects shouted horns, drove a pearl boat, and sailed out to sea.

The beaded boat is different from ordinary fishing boats. The bow of the ordinary fishing boat is pointed, while the beaded boat is round, and the hull of the beaded boat is wider than that of the fishing boat, and it seems to be a huge oval wooden tub.

There are also some bead-picking tools such as cables, pottery jars, grass recommendations, wooden barrels, wooden basins, bead-picking knives in the pearl boat.

The pearl-picking ship driven by Fu Gui is the largest of all ships.

"What? Jian'er, why are you here?"

Fu Gui, Fu Yan, Fu Lin drove the pearl-picking boat and just left the coast. Li Sanjian suddenly stretched out his head from the cabin and looked around.

Li Sanjian suddenly appeared, and immediately scared the Fu family and his son. What did he do? Once he came to pick pearls, he was not much different from the fire under the sword mountain. It was extremely dangerous. Both Fu family and his son didn't understand why this demented boy suddenly appeared on the pearls and picking boat? You must know that this kid would not get on the boat on weekdays.

"Grandpa, second uncle, third uncle." Li Sanjian said with a wry smile: "I'm so bored at home, I want to come out and take a look."

"Nothing is nothing, nothing is nothing." Fu Gui said angrily: "The sea road is dangerous, don't you know? If you have any accidents, how can I explain to your mother? Well, by the way, do your mother know?"

His daughter is a pitiful person. She married Li Qing and gave birth to three sons. Later, Li Qing and Li Sanjian's two brothers passed away one after another. Fu Erniang was in pain. At this time, Li Sanjian was Fu Erniang's only hope in this world. If Li Sanjian was surprised, Fu Gui really didn't know how his daughter could be.

Survive in this world.

"Mom is going to the market, grandpa, I'm fine." Li Sanjian grabbed the boat and replied, "Mom... I don't know."

In fact, it was not that Li Sanjian was interested in going to sea, but that Li Sanjian saw Fu Erniang picking up some conchs by the beach every day, and clams went to the market ten miles away to exchange for some grain, salt and other daily necessities. It was too hard. Not to mention the hard work, I couldn’t change anything. Some conchs and clams couldn’t change much grain and salt.

Li Sanjian couldn't bear it, so he planned to go out to sea with Fu Gui and others to see if he could find some livelihoods and share the hard days with Fu Erniang.

"You are really messing around." Fu Gui was so angry that he came: "You actually came here secretly. Your mother knew about it and was going to blame me again."

"Dad, let Jian'er follow him. Anyway, he won't go into the sea, so there is no danger." Fu Feng was angry with Fu Gui, so he quickly persuaded him.

Fu Gui looked at Li Sanjian, sighed and said to Fu Lin, "Lin'er, look at Jian'er, be careful, don't let him fall into the sea."

At this time, the pearl-picking ship was far away from the coast, and it was impossible to send Li Sanjian back. Besides, even if it could be sent back, it might anger the Sea God. The Sea God was not a joke.

"Don't worry, Daddy, I've left it to me." Fu Lin said to Li Sanjian with a smile: "Jian'er, hurry up..."

"No obstacle, no obstacle." Li Sanjian grabbed the boat and smiled, "The scenery here is unique, it's not in vain..."

Before Li Sanjian finished speaking, a big wave came and almost pushed Li Sanjian into the sea. Fortunately, Fu Lin grabbed Li Sanjian, but even so, Li Sanjian drank several sips of sea water, and his whole body was soaked like a chicken. His face was pale and he was choked by the sea water that he could not speak for a while. He looked at Fu Gui and others in awe of fear and embarrassed...

"Haha" Fu Lin couldn't help laughing when he saw this: "Hey, I said Jian'er, look at your little body, Jian'er, come here and grab your third uncle."

Fu Lin is only nineteen years old this year, only six years older than Li Sanjian. He has just become an adult. However, Fu Lin has a long-term boating at sea, has excellent water quality and is also extremely thick. Because of the sun and rain all year round, he looks dark and strong.

Standing on the boat, it's like an iron tower.

Even if Li Sanjian was washed down from the sea by waves, Fu Lin was sure to quickly pick him up from the sea.

Li Sanjian was helpless and grabbed Fu Lin's belt with one hand and tightly grasped Fu Lin's belt with the other.

This makes it much more stable...

Fu Gui glanced at Li Sanjian, shook his head, and continued to direct the pearl-picking boat toward the pearl pond.

Dozens of pearl-picking ships soon arrived at a pearl pond, and the cicadas broke down and stayed on the sea surface.

Then the sects were divided into two groups, one went to the sea to pick the mother of pearls, and the other was responsible for sailing the boat and receiving the support.

The people who were responsible for going into the sea to pick the mother of pearls were all young and strong, with excellent water properties. They were all naked, and they carried a sharp pearl-picking knife, tied the pearl-picking basket with only a mouth and a small belly. Before entering the water, they took a deep breath several times, finally held their breath, jumped into the sea, sank into the seabed, and sank into the seabed, dozens of feet of seabed, opened their eyes wide, and looked for the mother of pearls in the seabed and in the rock cracks under the seabed.

Every person who went to sea to pick pearls had a rope wrapped around his waist. One end of the rope was in the hands of the people on the boat. The experienced Eat on the boat held the rope tightly with both hands and stared at the exposed sea.

Once there is any movement of the rope on the surface, they have to immediately pull the rope with others and pull the pearl picker out of the sea.

Fu Gui held the rope tied with Fu Scale tightly, opened his eyes wide, and did not dare to take his eyes off the rope.

Fu Gui also paid attention to the sea surface. Once a trace of blood floated up, it means that Fu Lin and others were in danger at the bottom of the sea and had even died.

Although many protections have been taken, it is still extremely dangerous to go into the sea to pick pearls. If the person who goes into the sea to pick pearls is wrong or the person who pulls on the ship reacts slowly, then the person who goes into the sea to pick pearls will be suffocated to death under the water, and will be bleeding from the seven orifices and die miserably.

In addition to breathing, there are many unknown dangers at the bottom of the sea, such as attacks from sharks, strange fish, poisonous sea snakes, poisonous jellyfish and other underwater creatures. If this happens, then the person who goes to the sea to pick pearls will die without a complete body, and even the slag will not be left. Li Sanjian's uncle died in the bottom of the sea, and even the corpse has not been found.

There is also the temperature at the seabed. It is summer and the temperature at the seabed is still very low. If you pick pearls in winter, the person who picks the pearls may be frozen to death on the seabed.

People who pick pearls completely change pearls with their lives...

It turned out that this is how the pearls were picked. Li Sanjian sat in the cabin, holding the rope tightly, leaning his head to look at the sea, and thinking in his heart that this pearl that he had collected with his life should be sold at a good price, right? At least once, he can eat and wear food and clothing in one year.

"There is some movement!" Fu Yan shouted loudly when Li Sanjian was speculating randomly.

"Do it!" Fu Gui shouted loudly, pulling the rope with both hands. Everyone on the pearl boat pulled the rope together, and even Li Sanjian used his strength to suck it...

The other ephemerals on the bead-picking boats also pulled the ropes at the same time.

In a moment, Li Sanjian's third uncle Fu Lin was pulled out of the sea.

"It's in stock! It's in stock!" Fu Lin, who was floating on the sea, shouted with excitement, holding the pearl-picking basket.

"Pull on the boat quickly." Fu Gui said loudly.

After Fu Lin was pulled onto the boat, he fainted after yelling for a few times. The purpose of the yelling was to exhale the turbid air in his chest. Because he held his breath for too long, Fu Lin fainted, and at the same time, someone might not be able to wake up again.

Fu Gui, who was very experienced, quickly covered Fu Lin with a boiled quilt to prevent him from being frozen.

Fu Lin was strong and woke up after a while. He smiled and pointed at the pearl basket and said, "Dad, there are still a lot of goods, and there is still a big one. I have never seen such a big one before."

"Speak less." Fu Gui smiled and said, "I don't know how other ships harvest?"

"It should be quite a lot. The child heard the other brothers on the boat cheering." Fu Yan said.

"Black Pearl! Black Pearl!" A celestial who pried open the mother of pearls suddenly made several sounds.

"What?" Fu Gui hurried over and took a black pearl the size of a walnut and said with tears in his eyes: "Auspiciousness comes from the sky, auspiciousness comes from the sky!"

Legend has it that black pearls are the tears of mother-of-pearls, which have been formed after countless years of precipitation, and are extremely rare.

Fu Gui picked pearls that he had been collecting for a lifetime, and this was the first time he had seen a black pearl.

Fu Gui then glanced at Li Sanjian.

Could it be that he brought such auspiciousness? Fu Gui said in his heart.
Chapter completed!