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Chapter 747: Things in the Shoreless Sea

Chapter 747: Things in the Shoreless Sea

The Shen Mansion is one of the largest mansions in Chiyun City. The Shen family is in business and is good at fishing. In the entire Chiyun City, only the Shen family can catch big fish from the shoreless sea, and their boats can also travel farther.

If other fishermen can walk five miles, he can walk ten miles. If other fishermen can walk ten miles, he can walk twenty miles.

Others could only catch small fish and shrimps from the shoreless sea, or pick up some live shells on the beach when the tide receded. But the Shen family could catch big fish. Last year, they caught a fish more than three feet long and gave it to Su Yuanwang, the governor of Chiyun City.

Chiyun City guards the sea. Outside the city is a Haixian Town, sandwiched between Chiyun City and Wu'an Sea. Haixian Town did not exist originally, but was formed spontaneously by the people after the spiritual energy of heaven and earth disappeared. In the past, when there were spiritual practitioners, the people living by Wu'an Sea were all spiritual practitioners, because they believed that the spiritual energy here was abundant and more suitable for cultivation. With spiritual practitioners around, mortals naturally stopped coming. Later, the spiritual energy disappeared, and the spiritual practitioners were gone, so mortals wanted to go to the seaside to fish.

Although the shoreless sea cannot be entered too deep, it is still possible to go a few miles shallow. As more and more fishermen came and went, and the daily round trip to Chiyun City was a bit far, some people settled down by the sea and built houses, and slowly a small town was formed.

Later, when the government saw that there were more and more people living on the coast, they sent officers and soldiers to garrison and manage the area, and named the town Haixian Town.

The Shen family also has a house in Haixian Town, which is the largest house in Haixian Town. The second master of the Shen family lives there and has a group of fishing experts under his command. As long as the wind and waves are not strong and the shoreless sea is suitable for sailing, they will go out to sea to fish every day, and then take the caught fish to Chiyun City and surrounding provincial governments to sell.

The Shen family made their fortune by fishing. The well-known wealthy families around Chiyun City all maintained good relations with the Shen family so that they could get better fish, shrimp and seafood from them. But recently, all fishermen could not go out to sea, including the Shen family. This blizzard swept across the entire continent, and even Chiyun City, the southernmost city with only one summer a year, was not spared.

The entire Chiyun City was covered in heavy snow. The shoreless sea was even frozen over and was gradually freezing inside.

The officials of Chiyun City went to the beach many times. Seeing the freezing weather spreading day by day, the prefect Su Yuanwang became more and more worried. So one day he went to the Shen family and asked the old man and the old lady of the Shen family to analyze the situation and come up with an idea.

The old lady Wang of the Shen family listened to Su Yuanwang talking about the situation outside with a gloomy face, and she glanced at the old man from time to time.

Old Master Shen didn't look like he was smiling. When the prefect asked them to analyze the situation, he said, "How can we mortals analyze the affairs of the heavens? The prefect should go to the capital to ask the Imperial Observatory. The celestial phenomena have changed, and the Imperial Observatory must have an explanation."

Su Yuanwang sighed, "I have also thought of the Imperial Observatory, but distant water cannot quench immediate thirst! Moreover, I can't even leave the house now. It's hard for me to walk here, let alone go to the capital. Even if there is news from the capital to be transmitted to Chiyun City, it will probably take a year or two. By then, the opportunity will be cold. Alas, I can't count on it."

"What does the prefect expect from the Shen family?" Old Madam Wang asked Su Yuanwang, "The Shen family is a merchant family. They are good at fishing and can help you with things like donating a private school. But as for analyzing astronomical phenomena... it's too difficult for us."

"Old Madam, you are worrying too much." Su Yuanwang was still very polite to the Shen family. "This government does not want you two elders to analyze the celestial phenomena. Let's talk about the shoreless sea. The shoreless sea has frozen, and the more it freezes, the farther it will go. All the fishermen in Haixian Town cannot go out to sea and have returned to the city to live. The Shen family knows the shoreless sea best, so I want to hear what you think about this matter, and also analyze whether it is the heavy snow that affects the shoreless sea, or there is something unusual about the shoreless sea that affects the weather."

The two elders of the Shen family looked at each other, and then heard the old man Shen say: "Although our Shen family can sail farther in the sea, and have been lucky enough to catch a few big fish, but when it comes to how much we know about the shoreless sea, it is not enough. Alas, who in this world can understand the shoreless sea? That sea area is the largest known sea area on this continent. The sea is trapped by mazes all year round, and no one can figure out the way. There are even different opinions about who set up those mazes there.

Some say it was set up by Elder Ye Wu'an thousands of years ago, some say it was set up by later spiritual practitioners, and some say the maze in Wu'an Sea was formed by itself and has nothing to do with anyone. In short, it is complicated, and the more complicated things are, the more difficult it is to guess. The more legends there are, the more confusing our human brains are.

So, even though the prefect wants us, the Shen family, to analyze the situation, we really can’t figure it out.

But since you are here, the Shen family cannot let you come in vain. Let's do this. Let's discuss it in the next two days. I will go to the beach myself to see what the situation is. After seeing it, I will go to the government office and report to you, sir."

"Oh, that's great!" Su Yuanwang was overjoyed. "As long as Old Master Shen is willing to make a trip, that will be the hope of our Chiyun City! You don't have to bother going to the government office then. I will come here, I will come to the Shen family."

After leaving the Shen Mansion, a servant who was accompanying him said to Su Yuanwang, "The Shen family is too arrogant. Your Excellency is the prefect, but you have to humble yourself in front of them, and the Shen family actually endured it. Who do they think they are?"

Su Yuanwang sighed, "There is no way. After all, the Shen family knows the shoreless sea best! The border is difficult to defend. Although there is a sea to the south of Chiyun City and it does not border other countries, this shoreless sea is the most uncertain existence in the world. This government has been stationed in Chiyun City for a full ten years. During these ten years, we were worried every day, afraid that something would happen in the shoreless sea, afraid that there would be a big roar.

Although the fishermen in Haixian Town all have experience in sailing, they are also risking their lives. Every year, a few people die, but have you heard of anyone dying in the Shen family? They always go to the farthest sea, catch the biggest fish, sail the safest boat, and pay the highest wages.

If you say there is no reason, I don't believe it. Why can they take the sea route that others can't take? Why are they not afraid of the sea array that others are afraid of? However, each family has its own foundation for survival, and each family also has some ancestral skills. Just like the Ying family in the capital, the whole family is skilled craftsmen, and no one in the world can make jewelry and mechanisms better than the Ying family.

But can you ask the Ying family why they cook so well? Just like can you ask the dim sum shop about the secret recipe of dim sum?

So, if they don't want to tell us, we can't force them to ask, that would be like robbing them of their money! We can only cooperate with them and beg them to find out. Anyway, apart from lowering our attitude and making two more trips to the Shen family, there is no other loss.

There is a natural disaster happening right now, and this government has no other thoughts but to get through this disaster peacefully."

The servant nodded. "If you don't feel wronged, I won't say anything. You are right. There is nothing more important than surviving this natural disaster. Six more people died in the city today, all of them frozen to death. The government has tried its best to rescue the homeless. The jails have been converted into temporary shelters for beggars to live in. But there are always those who cannot be taken care of, and those who are too old to survive. This snow is really terrible."

At the Shen Mansion, Su Yuanwang had been gone for a while, but Old Master Shen and his wife Wang were still sitting in the front hall, and neither of them had any intention of moving.

The servants carefully served tea and then left the hall. When no one else came in, Wang asked, "Do you really want to go to the beach to see? Actually, it's useless. No one knows the situation and what's in the sea better than us. But I don't believe that the shoreless sea caused the snow and wind in the sky. Snow falls from the sky. How can the things in the sea affect the sky?"

Old Master Shen glanced at her and snorted coldly: "Women's opinions!"

"Why am I just a woman?" Wang was not convinced. "Snow in the sky is a natural disaster, and something in the sea is a shipwreck. I have never heard of a natural disaster and a shipwreck happening at the same time. How about you tell me, what do you think?" Old Master Shen was silent for a while, and then he said, "That thing in the sea is powerful. None of us knows how powerful it is. It is possible that it can turn the world upside down. For hundreds of years, the Shen family has seen it show its power. When we went to deliver food to it the year before last, we even heard it say that one day it would change the color of the world. Look at it now, hasn't it changed!"

He pointed outside the door, and saw a vast expanse of white snow. The old lady was confused for a moment.

"Does changing color mean turning into this? Then what is its purpose? Is it to let heavy snow cover all the towns? Freeze everyone to death? What good will that do to it? Also, if that day really comes, our Shen family will have no chance of survival!"

She coughed twice and sighed, "We are old, but the children are still young. They have to live."

"So I said I'd go take a look." Old Master Shen said, "I went to the beach to take a look, not to find out anything for Su Yuanwang, but just to see that thing, listen to what it says, and also to say something good for the Shen family. No matter what, for hundreds of years, we have to feed it every two years, and that's because we have a relationship with it. It can't eat us and kill us and the common people together. Besides, this was originally a deal. It was agreed that if we feed it for four hundred years, it will help us avenge our ancestors. Now if you calculate it, isn't it exactly four hundred years..."