435 Money Chasing People
Ping'an took off his cotton jacket and thin cotton trousers. The cloak had already been placed in the cabin. The sun was strong on the sea in the afternoon and the temperature was still very high.
When he reached the shore, he took off his shoes again and stared closely at the glowing place, but it still didn't work; the water was still too deep.
He looked around and found that Fu An and the others had not come at all. It could be said that there was no one else on this island except them.
Then what are you worried about?
In no time, he stripped off all his clothes and went into the water naked.
Although I still shivered, I got used to it after a while when I reached the surface of the water. After all, this is Minzhou, where it rarely snows in winter.
Ping'an swam over, dived down, and quickly picked up the thing. When he surfaced, he was dumbfounded looking at the big, round pearls in his hand.
He had never seen such a big pearl before, and he estimated it could be worth a lot of money.
His heart was excited, such beads were definitely worth collecting.
Swimming back to the shore, he hid the pearl under a rock and swam to the bottom of the sea again.
When he picked up this thing just now, he found that there were many large shells nearby. Are there beads inside?
He picked up everything he could see and threw it onto the shore, and this took him an hour.
If it's any later, Fu An and the others will get anxious.
He dried his body and hair, put on his clothes, and used a dagger to pry open the shells. There were more or less beads inside these shells, some even had several, and there were all kinds of colors. There were also a few larger ones, but none of them were as big as the first time he picked up.
He shook his wallet and found that there was actually half an ounce of it. It's not okay for people to chase money, but it's a different story when money chases people.
He is really rich now.
He didn't plan to tell anyone about this. Even if he told them, they wouldn't want them, so why bother?
He hid the purse in his inner pocket and then walked back leisurely. Halfway through, he saw Xiao Ming and others coming towards him.
Fu An saw him and sat down: "Ping An, are you trying to scare us to death? How come you've been out for more than an hour and the sun is about to set."
Ping An smiled and said, "What could be the problem? I found a place to wash my hair, and it's a little dirty. Xizi, go get the wooden bucket. I found a stone nest full of clean rainwater. This way, we don't have to worry about running out of water on the way."
"Oh." Chen Xizi turned around and ran. There was indeed not much water left in the water tank on the boat. So many people could not go without water. He was worried about this very thing.
Two large buckets of water were scooped from the stone nest using bowls, and the water tank quickly filled to half its capacity. Although it was not full, it would be enough for three or four days if one was frugal.
After all, it’s just for drinking, so you should use sea water for washing.
As a result of this delay, the sun set, and once the sun set, the beach immediately became cold.
Dinner was still grilled fish, and Xiao Ming cooked a pot of porridge. Fu An jokingly said that he had become a master at cooking porridge.
The few people had full stomachs, there was more water on the boat, and an extra basket of grilled fish, so they squeezed into the cabin peacefully.
Soon, darkness enveloped the sea, accompanied by howling sea breeze.
"Listen, the wind is picking up again." Fu An was terrified.
Ping An comforted him, "It's okay. It's normal for the sea to be windy. We have already used double vines. Nothing will happen. If the wind really gets strong in the second half of the night, we can sleep in pairs. What happened last night won't happen again."
Fu An heaved a sigh of relief, and after a while said, "I've always wanted to surf on the sea, but I'm afraid of the waves this time. I may not want to go out to sea again in the future."
Chen Xuan smiled bitterly: "Me too, to be honest I miss my parents, I've never thought about it this way before."
Ping'an didn't say a word. He also missed his parents, his master, his teacher, and his biological father.
He wants to include people like Erqiang.
Xiao Ming said quietly, "I miss my elder brother, Erqiang and the others, and the eldest master."
Chen Xizi was a little confused. He was an orphan and was sold to the young master by Mr. Chen when he was young. The master who taught him martial arts was not kind to him. If there was any relative, it would be the young master, and his young master was lying next to him now.
So he had no one to think about, and soon he began to snore evenly.
Ping'an also fell asleep. He was worried to death in his dream. So many pearls jumped into his arms, how could he hold them all?
After catching one, the other fell away. After all the busy work, in the end only a handful was left in my arms.
Ping An woke up in this depressing rhythm.
There was a howling sea breeze outside the cabin, and the cabin was swaying from side to side.
Damn it! It was fine and sunny during the day, but why was there a howling sea breeze at night?
Ping An didn't want to sleep anymore and didn't wear his cloak anymore. The cloak was just covering his quilt.
"Master Ping'an." Chen Xizi sat up.
"Xizi, you can sleep a little longer. It's still early. I'll go out and take a look."
Chen Xizi stood up and said, "I'll go out with you."
Two people jumped onto the shore. What they saw was not a big deal, but they were so scared that their hearts almost jumped out of their chests. One of the two wooden sticks had been unearthed, and the other one was also shaking.
The two of them each held one in their hands and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Xizi, take this too. I'm going to find some stones to drive the piles."
A quarter of an hour later, the two returned to the cabin. At this time, the sky was a little brighter and the sea breeze was a little weaker.
The remaining three people were still snoring. Ping An didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He thought that Fu An and the others were lucky because someone else would take care of their chores.
Lying down, he could no longer fall asleep.
Little did they know that Xiao Wu, Er Qiang and Lin Feng drove the borrowed carriage for a whole day and night, only taking a short break during the ride and the drivers taking turns to sleep for a while, and they arrived at the gate of the general's mansion before dark.
Sun Sicheng was wondering why. Normally, they should have arrived here in the evening. As it was getting dark, he began to feel uneasy.
The Marquis sat with him in the main hall waiting.
"Don't worry, Xing and Yang are very familiar with the boat, and there are two skilled boatmen. They will definitely arrive soon, or Ping An will just want to play for another day."
"My Lord, my Lord."
Sun Sicheng was shocked. It was Xiao Wu's voice. What happened?
He went out quickly and saw a carriage standing alone in the middle of the yard. Xiao Wu, Lin Feng and Er Qiang were all in a miserable state.
"What's wrong with Ping An?"
Er Qiang started to cry, "Master, my cousin is lost, wuwuwu, wuwuwu."
"Xiao Wu, you say."
Sun Sicheng's face turned pale.
Xiao Wu knelt down and told the story, Lin Feng and Er Qiang also knelt down.
Lin Feng said: "Master, we were ready to go back, but when I looked up, I found that Master Fu and Master Chen were gone, and I thought nothing would happen.
But the young master still told me to look on the right side, Qingshi and Wu Jun to look in the front, and he took Xiao Ming to look on the left side.
As soon as we looked for them, we found that they were missing. Uncle He took us to look everywhere, but there was no trace of the five of them. Later, Uncle He went to find Mr. Huang, who was in charge of the market, and Mr. Huang took people to search every house again.
I found that a shop on the left was closed in the afternoon, but the shop owner had closed the shop five days ago and was only open until today's market.
The shopkeeper next door said that there were indeed two teenagers, one big and one small, who came to look for someone. He said they didn't see anyone and left.
Mr. Huang discovered that the shop below that closed down had not seen Young Master and Xiao Ming at all, which meant that there was something wrong with the shop owner who closed down in the middle, but the names they registered when renting the shop might not be their real names. "
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