Wang Zan smoked cigarettes and drank tea, and felt a little energetic. He drove the car for one day yesterday and slept in the car again at night. He woke up in the middle of the night, so he couldn't help feeling a little tired.

Several old men in the village sat opposite him and slowly drank tea. The sorrow on their faces seemed to have covered the vicissitudes of time.

Wang Zan knew that they had encountered something, and it might be quite small, because first of all, you must make everyone in the village nod and take confidential measures. Otherwise, if someone leaks the news, the result will be quite serious, so this matter must involve the whole village.

"Our village makes a living by going to sea to fish. Every family has fishing boats. Even if there are no fishing boats, the fishing skills are definitely good. Therefore, fishing is the foundation for supporting our entire village. If this line is broken, then the whole village may have no way out." The speaker was the patriarch of the village. In many villages in the southeast coastal areas, they basically have the same surname, and the patriarch is equivalent to the village chief.

The village’s surname is Fu, who has lived here for hundreds of years. His ancestors have made a living by going out to sea to fish. Some people go out to do business or go to school and never come back, but as long as they stay, they must be fishermen.

The old man surnamed Fu said, "I didn't know what happened about it about three or four months ago. The fishing boats in the village suddenly had no harvest. Even if there were some small fish and shrimp, they were almost the same as none. Moreover, the things raised in some breeding areas died inexplicably. There was no sign, it was a sudden incident."

Wang Zan asked: "Is the weather bad during that period? Or is there something wrong with the sea area here, such as being polluted?"

The patriarch shook his head and said, "It only takes a few days for the bad weather, at most about a week, and it cannot last for several months. As for the pollution you mentioned, it is even more impossible. This area of ​​sea is a fishing area, and the control is very strict. There is no place for pollutant discharge on the coastline here, so the problems you mentioned do not exist."

Wang Zan said "Oh" without asking any more. He was not very familiar with these things, but at this time he felt a little weird. In such a large sea area, dozens of fishing boats in the village went to sea, but they had no harvest for several consecutive months. This was either being possessed or offended the Dragon King.

No wonder they had to hold this kind of memorial ceremony during the sacrifice. This was indeed forced to a dead end. If they could not catch fish, the whole village would have no income.

An old man suddenly sighed, and his tone seemed a little sad: "If you just can't catch the fish, it's nothing. If you can't catch the fish, you might be able to pass it. Moreover, your family still has some money. It's not only the fish that can't catch it, but the boat has capsized."

Wang Zan was stunned in surprise and said incrediblely: "Has the fishing boat capsized?"

"Yes, just two months ago, there were four fishing boats in the village going out together. Unexpectedly, it was only more than three hours before going out. A big wave suddenly came and overturned a fishing boat. The six people on the boat fell into the sea. Fortunately, several other fishing boats were nearby. After seeing the boat capsized, they came to rescue people immediately, and then they were fished up. The overturned fishing boat quickly sank." The old man said with a panic expression on his face: "The people who came back said that the weather was very good at that time, and there were not many wolves at all. And there had never been waves since the wave. No one had seen this situation before, but he thought it was a coincidence. After all, the situation in the sea changed a lot, but he didn't expect that the boat capsized twice later."

The previous time, the boat was just a capsized, so the villagers thought it was a coincidence, and after a few days a boat went out to sea to fish, the people above did not react and were directly trapped under the boat. Two of them drowned in an instant. They didn't even have time to save them, and the bodies were even less found.

After these two capsized accidents, after ten days, a boat went out to sea to catch fish, and the same thing happened again. A wolf hit him and overturned the boat.

The bottom structure of sea boats and river boats is different. As long as they are guarding against big waves, it is usually difficult to overturn the boat if it is not particularly large waves. Moreover, these fishermen have been in the skills of decades, and they must have encountered this situation more than once.

The most important thing is that the weather for capsizing three times is good, and once can be said to be a coincidence. It may be rare for two times, but it has capsized three times in a row. No one of the fishing people has experienced this kind of thing.

"Later, the people in our village were panicked. It would be nothing if we couldn't catch fish. We could still hold on. If we could go to sea, we would capsize and die. Then no one would be able to stand it!"

The price of a sea fishing boat is usually not cheap, it usually costs hundreds of thousands or more than one million, and even larger ones are millions. If anyone loses a fishing boat at home, the money will be too big.

Wang Zan felt incredible and evil when he heard it. The situation in this village seemed to be cursed. If fish could not be caught, people would die if they went to sea.

This fishing village has been rooted here for hundreds of years. If they can survive until now, they must have experienced many different situations in fishing. Needless to say, the experience is beyond words, so if these fishermen have no choice, they will be desperate.

The old patriarch sighed and said, "If it weren't for the desperate situation, who would have taken the children from the village to sacrifice to the sea? Isn't this a sin? But we have no choice. There is hundreds of people in the entire village. If there is no way out, there will be nothing after a long time."

Wang Zan frowned and said, "If you can solve the problem by just sacrificing children and boys, then you are really committing evil. Two lives are still people in your own village. I guess many people are related to them. If they go to the sea, if the incident doesn't work afterwards, it will be too late for you grandpa to regret it."

"But although we haven't tried it before, our ancestors have sacrificed it, and it is said that it works, so this rule has been passed down, otherwise we wouldn't have taken risks," said the old patriarch.
Chapter completed!