Chapter 3 A Little Ant
This girl wore standard Dan family clothes. No matter what dynasty, Dan family members were still Dan family members, and there was no big change. Hong Tao was not afraid of Dan family members. The simpler the more simple the people were, the less afraid he was. He was afraid of meeting too educated. Those people had too many rules and had too many minds, so they were not easy to deceive themselves.
"You are Han Jizi, the ship sinks?" At this time, the middle-aged man who was rowing pulled Hong Tao onto the boat with a rope, raised his head and looked at Hong Tao, who was much taller than him. Although his accent was also very heavy and he didn't know how to pronounce it clearly, Hong Tao still understood it.
"It's sunk. I have been floating for more than a day before I met you. Can I drink it?" Hong Tao was indeed a little thirsty. The sea water thing was bitter and bitter when it was drunk. After it was spit out, it was also burning in his mouth and nose, which was very uncomfortable.
"Azhu, bring a bowl of soup." The middle-aged man signaled Hong Tao to get on the big ship first, and then said to the girl on the boat. The girl trotted all the way into the tent. Before Hong Tao could stand firm on the big ship, she ran out again with a big black bowl.
"Thank you! Your name is Azhu?" Hong Tao took the bowl and looked at it. There were some sea dishes inside, which were hard to tell what it was, and half a mussel, which smelled good. But he didn't drink the soup, but grinned at the girl and asked for the name of the person.
"Moderator!..." The girl was very generous and directly reported her name. Then she turned her head and ran towards the boat next to her. The half-meter-wide gap between the boat was not difficult for her. She jumped a few times and ran to the other side of the three boats and got into the tent.
"Moderator!" The name Lei made Hongtao dizzy. He was a little doubtful that he had traveled to ancient times. Could it be that someone had given such a high-ranking title in ancient times?
The old man and the middle-aged man on the boat ignored Hong Tao. They were loading fish from the cabin of the boat with a wooden barrel. Hong Tao stood on the big boat and looked down at it. The harvest was really not great. There were two or three mackerels more than one foot long, one flounder and two crabs. It seemed that this was the harvest they had gone to sea. According to the direction of the sun, it should have been afternoon. It was not enough for the family to eat this one day.
"Brother, where are you from?" Before the seafood soup in Hong Tao's bowl had been finished, the girl who ran away just now pulled a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties and came back. As soon as the middle-aged man opened his mouth, he actually had a mountain|east accent, which made Hong Tao feel very friendly, at least he could understand it.
"Old sir, my family is in Nanyang Australia. My surname is Hong and my name is Tao. This time I was carrying a boat of spices to Quanzhou for sale. I didn't want to meet a giant whale in the sea and knocked over the boat. I floated for a day and a night before I was rescued by these two benefactors. I am very grateful. I just don't know where this place is. What do you always call me?" Since there are people who can communicate, Hong Tao's lies gushed out like Taotao's sea water. He tried hard to make himself speak more classical Chinese. Unfortunately, he has never learned classical Chinese well since he was a child, and he doesn't know what dynasty this is. How to call others and himself, I can only try my best.
There is no such place in Nanyang Australia at all. Since it is just making up lies, it is naturally necessary to find a source that is not easy to be seen and verified. The southern coastal areas of China have traded with Southeast Asian countries since ancient times, so Hong Tao did not dare to use the place names of these countries to pretend. He did not know what these places were called in ancient times. If they knew or had acquaintances who often came and went there, it would be troublesome.
Hong Tao can confirm that whales have been called whales since ancient times, not Kunpeng, etc. This is also what he likes to fish and flip through the Internet. There is a saying in "Ancient and Modern Notes": Whales are sea fish. The big ones grow thousands of miles long, while the small ones grow dozens of feet long. The females are called salamanders, and the big ones also grow thousands of miles long, with their eyes like bright moon beads.
Listen, the big ones have been thousands of miles apart. No matter what, it is reasonable. Even in the Republic of China period, ordinary people dare not say that they make up their own mistakes, and there is no way to verify it.
"Their surname is Chen, and their name is En. The one who saved the young man was Ban Fu and his second son Ban Xiaoer. This is his daughter Ban Zhu. This place is Jiyang County, Guangnan West Road, Ningyuan Bay. I have heard of Quanzhou. It will take 20 days to go to Qiongzhou to take a sea boat. I just don't know where this Australia is?" Chen Mingen said very clearly, and answered Hong Tao's questions clearly in a few words, but Hong Tao's questions were even more questions. Guangnan West Road? Jiyang County? Ningyuan Bay? The history teacher died early. Hong Tao doesn't remember any of these three place names. There is only the last Qiongzhou. He probably knows that this is not the Hai | South Island?
After listening to the way these three place names and Chen Mingen spoke, Hong Tao could basically confirm that he was thrown into ancient times by the grandson in the sky. Then the grandson found a good thing, that is himself. It was just like playing with an ant when he was a child. He threw it into a strange place and was so silly that he could not find his home. You said that a god in the sky, why is his quality so low? Why is it so angry with his ant? Just say a few words to scold you. It’s not that you haven’t been scolded. How many people in the world are scolding you every day!
"Australia is more than ten thousand miles away. It takes more than a hundred days to take a sea boat. It is the first time I left home to sell goods, so I was shipwrecked. I stopped going to Quanzhou. The goods and luggage were gone, and I would starve to death if I went there. I wonder if Mr. Chen, do you need help here? I can fish. My family lives by the beach. I can manage food every day." Now everything else is nonsense. It is real to find a place for myself to eat and sleep. It is dark. If no one takes me in, my eyes will be dark. Where can I go to sleep? I am wet all over. Even if the weather is not cold, it will be harsh to sleep on the beach at night.
"You can fish? Are you not a monk?" Before Chen Mingen could answer, the girl named Moderator or a half-pig interjected. She had been listening to the conversation between the two of them all the time around Chen Mingen, and didn't know how to avoid it. Her big eyes were wide open, and she looked Hong Tao up and down and left and right, as if she was looking at an animal she had never seen before.
Chapter completed!