Hongye thought for a while and said, "The fabric here is so thick, I can bring whatever kind of fabric I can."
Yun Kong noted it down.
"The climate in Quanzhou or Guangzhou is a bit similar to here. When it's hot, you might be able to grow the same vegetables or fruits."
"Then I will bring fruit seeds and rapeseeds back to try planting them." Yun Kong also thought to himself, I wonder if the calamus, which is very precious to the wizards here, can be brought back alive?
"Also, Jiaojiaohu and his sisters are siblings, so they are afraid of giving birth to weird children..."
"A cat." Yun Kong wrote it down.
"Two, one male and one female." Hong Ye quickly corrected.
"Too."
"Oh, and iron!" Hongye suddenly remembered, "I want to make flying needles. Pig iron is fine, but I remember that iron can't be bought and sold casually, so even some old farm tools, weapons, and kitchen utensils will do."
Yun Kong nodded: "In that case, I should also find a good piece of peach wood and make a peach wood sword."
In four or five months, he will head back to his motherland, and Yunkong expects Weng Bo to show up again.
But Weng Bo never showed up again.
Liang Daoqing was very happy to get the unprecedented pure Dipterocarpus King, and asked his cousin how to find it?
Cousin Liang Daobin shook his head and said: "It's a rare thing." He didn't want to reveal that it was scraped off a piece of clothing.
Liang Daoqing stayed in Boni for a few more months, so he followed his cousin to several villages to collect different products. He learned about the sources of many products, which opened his eyes and also evaluated what new product lines to develop. go back.
Unconsciously, the sun and the moon flew by, and the wind turned.
Liang Daoqing came to visit again: "Taoist Master, we will leave for Quanzhou in ten days." He specially gave Yun Kong more time to prepare.
Yunkong had nothing to prepare. It was still the yellow cloth bag that accompanied him on his travels. The outside was embroidered with innate gossip and the inside contained Taoist magic weapons.
He had to board the ship the day before departure, as merchant ships would sail at dawn.
When I took the step out of the house, my heart suddenly tightened and I wanted to give up getting on the boat.
He turned back to look at Hongye. She was playing with two cats. When he saw Yunkong looking back at her, he came over with a cat in one hand. He first put the Jiaoshanhu close to Yunkong and said, "Yunkong will bring a wife back for her." You." Then he put the female cat towards Yunkong and said, "Can I bring you a husband too?"
Yunkong smiled and stroked the two cats: "While I'm away, I have to trouble you to help me protect the red leaves."
The two cats meowed in unison.
At that time, Yun Kong never thought that this sentence would become a prophecy.
Hongye put down the two cats, took out a small braid from his waist pocket, and handed it to Yunkong: "Seeing a person is like a person. I wish you good luck on the road."
Yun Kong couldn't help but burst into tears, and he took out two small copper bells that he had carried with him for thirty years from the cloth bag: "Hang them by the window, and when the wind blows and the bells ring, it means I'm thinking of them."
Hong Ye shed tears and hugged Yun Kong tightly, unwilling to let go for a long time.
The merchant ships set out to sea in the early morning as promised. There are few reefs here, so they are not afraid to sail when the light is insufficient.
After the boat traveled for a while, someone exclaimed: "What a big fish! It's at the stern of the boat!"
"Is it a whale?" someone asked.
Whales travel all over the world, so it is not surprising that they would appear in this area. In fact, whales often swim here.
But what they saw wasn't a whale.
"It's not a whale," the veteran sailor continued. "The tail of a whale is flat. This is a fish. The tail and the body are on the same plane." He also made gestures with his palms to explain.
Yun Kong also went to the stern of the boat and crowded with the sailors to watch. On the sparkling sea, there was indeed an astonishingly large fish following the stern of the boat, about the same size as a merchant ship.
"I noticed," said the sailor at the helm, "that it has been following the ship since it started."
The big fish suddenly put its head out of the water and spit out a column of water.
"What! It's a whale!" A young sailor took the opportunity to retort to the old sailor, "It can spray water!"
"The whale is spraying water overhead." Before the old sailor could respond, someone had already reminded the young sailor.
When the big fish raised its head out of the water, Yunkong could see clearly. The big fish's big round eyes seemed to be staring at him, as if they were watching deliberately to make sure that Yunkong was on the boat.
"Weng Bo!" Yun Kong thought in his heart, Weng Bo's true form is indeed a fish!
This also explains the difference between the water god and the land god.
Water can carry messages because messages dissolve in water.
However, if the volume of water is too large, the message will be diluted to the point of being unrecognizable. Therefore, many ghosts and gods dare not approach the sea. They can only travel by wind and rain from the sky.
Unless the water god himself is a creature derived from water, he retains his individual independence and is not afraid of being diluted by water.
Speaking of this, Yun Kong was confused again...
Bo Ni's society was relatively primitive. When he came into contact with the Tibetan people, he would always inquire about local legends. In particular, Liang Daobin's wife Ganbusi knew many of the taboos and legends of the tribe. She said that every girl must learn them before getting married.
Gumbus told him that there was a big river in the interior that his tribe rarely went to. If he wanted to go fishing or sailing in the big river, he must first get the permission of "Tan Bi'a", otherwise Tan Bi'a would be furious. If the offense was serious, , not only will people die, but they will also cause floods to destroy fields and cause famine.
"What actually is Tan Bi Ya?"
"It's Naga."
Naga is the Sanskrit word for "dragon".
In addition to having their own mythology system, the Bodhisattva people believe in the animism of all things in nature. They have also been influenced by Brahmanism in India for a long time, so some of their languages are derived from Indian scripts.
Let’s talk about what makes Yun Kong confused.
The water gods of Bo Ni are dragons and fishes, which is very reasonable.
Since ancient times, dragon gods, dragon gods, clam spirits, fish spirits, etc. have appeared in lakes, rivers, and seas in the Middle Earth, which is quite reasonable.
But if the ghosts and gods after death become water gods, they are not water creatures. Aren't they afraid of dissolving into water?
According to legend since ancient times, there is a goddess of Luoshui, who was a drowned daughter. She was transformed into a god by literati, but she may not really be a god.
But unlike Luo Shen, Mazu is just a small god of Luoshui. Mazu is the god of the sea. It has been believed by fishermen for hundreds of years. It has surpassed the belief in dragon gods of all dynasties. She has performed many miracles of saving people at sea. How can we explain it? ?
It is said that Mazu had magical powers since she was a child, and she was a female Taoist priest who helped the world. Maybe she was born with magical powers. Such magical powers usually came from previous lives.
Yun Kong found the context: What kind of person was Mazu during her lifetime? What kind of god is he after death?
Yun Kong guessed that Weng Bo might have the same confusion: If Mazu was not a water tribe, how could she be a water god?
"Hey! Don't pile up at the stern! Get back to work!" The old sailor couldn't help shouting, "The stern is too heavy, go away!"
Everyone dispersed, leaving only the helmsman. He fixed the rudder and took a nap comfortably under the shading shed. He was familiar with this route, and he knew that there would still be some time before the next turn of the helm.
Yunkong stared at the big fish. It was floating and sinking on the sea, and its silvery dorsal fin looked like a sail in the rising sun.
"Weng Bo, Weng Bo, what is your purpose?" Yun Kong murmured to himself.
The big fish spit another water column into the air, as if to say hello to the sky, then dived into the water and did not appear again for a long time.
The merchant ship sailed on the wind, passing through Maru without stopping or docking, and arrived at Quanzhou in only thirty days.
After the merchant ship sailed into the bay, the waves suddenly became calm, and it sailed smoothly to the Jinjiang estuary, where there was a port for merchant ships to berth.
Yunkong walked to the stern of the boat, looking for Weng Bo.
The big fish would appear for a while every day, as if to let the clouds know that it was coming all the way.
But before the merchant ship entered the bay, Yun Kong no longer saw any big fish.
Maybe it got under the boat to hide from people, Yun Kong guessed.
As soon as the ship docked, Liang Daoqing sent someone to summon the Taoist priest in charge of Mazu Temple to come to the port to contact Yun Kong, while he himself quickly found an intermediary to sell his goods.
When the busy Liang Daoqing passed by Yun Kong, he casually asked: "Taoist Master, do you want to go ashore for a walk first?"
Yun Kong thought for a while and said, "That's fine, I'm free anyway."
"Don't get lost." Liang Daoqing left quickly.
Yun Kong stepped onto the port carrying the yellow cloth bag, and various dialects immediately floated to his ears. Quanzhou dialect, Cantonese dialect, Hangzhou dialect, and Tokyo dialect were constantly heard, making Yun Kong, who had lived on the quiet seaside for a long time, suddenly feel like he was in another world.
Everything that was once familiar now feels strange.
He shuttled among the noisy coolies, sailors and merchants, trying to integrate himself into the world he once lived in as soon as possible.
At this moment, he had an illusion and suddenly wanted to find a corner to sell divination and make a few bucks. Only then did he realize that he had no bamboo poles and no white cloth tricks in his hands.
