Chapter 148 Good day(1/2)
Xia Yu put all the things in the space and was not worried about being investigated.
It is just necessary to remember the specific location of the shipwreck, so that it is easy to distinguish in places with coastlines. If it is far away from land and islands, you must use a high-tech positioning system.
The landing beach he chose to return was as usual, a relatively remote and uninhabited place, and it was basically not discovered by anyone.
Also, there are many tourists going to swim in the sea. As for when they go down, people who are bored will not pay attention to it deliberately.
After a while, I went back to the room of the homestay to rest.
He can actually stay at the bottom of the sea all the time, but that will be very depressing, mainly at the spiritual level.
Returning to reality, it is still quite good to be down-to-earth.
It is also the time for him to contact the country at night. If he can come back, try to come back as much as possible. At worst, he can go into the sea early.
This night was no exception. After he rewarded himself with delicious seafood, he replied to the message on WeChat.
Bai Yujiao said that she missed him very much these days, and tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival again, so-called "I miss my family more during the festival."
Xia Yu felt fine himself, although he was alone in a foreign land for a stranger.
This brings high-tech benefits to you, you can contact your relatives and friends anytime, anywhere, and you will not feel so lonely, not just being together spiritually.
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Bai Yujiao naturally stays at home and spends three days with her family. The legal one is for a three-day holiday. In fact, it is strictly speaking, only one day on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and weekends are regular holidays.
Xia Xue and He Linlin also went back to celebrate the festival, and they were on the way back.
Originally, Xia Xue asked her parents to celebrate the festival in Yuhai, but Chen Fuqiong and Xia Mingguang both hoped that she would go back to her hometown to celebrate the festival.
Bai Yujiao didn't go with her. She went to Harbor City with Xia Xue and He Linlin last weekend.
Then he also met Chen Wenxiu, who had passed by Aomen in Hong Kong City. In addition to shopping and playing, the girls went to visit the mansion that Xia Yu rented in Hong Kong City for more than 100,000 yuan a month.
The environment is really good, but the housing prices in Hong Kong City are really scary. If you earn less, you can't even afford the rent.
This will be where Xia Yu often stays in Hong Kong City, and several other girls will also help clean up and organize the rooms. When they come to Hong Kong City to play in the future, they will definitely live here.
After school, Xia Xue and He Linlin drove back to Yangdong County, and they all had driver's licenses and drove in rotation.
Xia Xue also sent him a message while He Linlin was driving, asking him when he would go home and whether he could be before the end of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday.
Xia Yu's answer is no, saying that he would stay in Annan for a while and ask her to help her stay at home with her parents.
Xia Xue also knew that he was doing big things outside. If he didn't make a fortune, he would not be able to afford Yuhai's house, and he would not even be able to afford the rent for renting a house in Hong Kong City.
The little money you earn by just grabbing seafood is not enough to see.
She knew the matter of salvaging the wreck. She used to ask her to help deal with the porcelain salvaged in the sea. But Xia Xue was fumigated by the smell of fishing for porcelain. The indescribable smell was really bad...
Xia Yu went to Annan to "do a career" and made a lot of money on Jizhou Island last time. But the specifics were not known by Xia Xue, the younger sister, and he didn't tell her about it.
Bai Yujiao’s family is in the antique and cultural relics business and knows more insider information, but they didn’t tell them the reason, the same as what Xia Yu said, saying that the less they know, the better.
Xia Xue had to give up and couldn't force her. Anyway, she knew that Xia Yu had found good things and made a big profit.
When she arrived at He Linlin's house in the county, everyone was worried that she would not be safe to drive at night, and the road back to the fishing village from the county was not very good. Xia's mother and father asked her to stay at He Linlin's house for one night, and it would not be too late to go back during the day tomorrow.
Xia Yu also had the same opinion, it was Mid-Autumn Festival tomorrow.
He also said that he would video chat with his family on the Mid-Autumn Festival night and enjoy the moon together...
In fact, while having daily contacts, Xia Yu also sorted out the Ming Dynasty shipwreck salvaged today in the space.
There were a lot of porcelain pieces salvaged in the early stage, and he did not rush to deal with these pieces and continued to be placed in the sea water first.
It is better to give priority to the complete porcelain.
Today he only salvaged the porcelain exposed on the seabed, mainly blue and white porcelain bowls.
There are all types of bowls, and most of them are small bowls.
In his opinion, this batch of blue and white porcelain bowls are not specially customized export porcelain, but traditional domestic porcelain.
Whether it is the shape of the instrument, the patterns, paintings, and craftsmanship, they are very traditional.
For example, one of the large bowls that are relatively well preserved is straight mouth, curved belly, flat bottom, and ring foot.
The blue and white color has bright hair, while the white glaze is a bit gray.
The outer wall of the big bowl is lion pattern and peony pattern, with a peony pattern on the inner bottom and a flower pattern on the edge of the inner wall.
What made him most happy was that the blue and white double circles on the bottom of this big bowl were written in the blue and white circles, and the six-character two-line style "made in the Chenghua Period of the Ming Dynasty".
Such porcelain with signatures is the most proof of the age of the porcelain.
What made him feel quite regretful was that at least more than half of this batch of porcelain was damaged, including those with the "Chenghua" style.
There are also the "Wanli Year" blue and white bowls he discovered before, which prove that the ship's age was at least after Wanli or later.
But this is also impossible. It is already a lucky thing to keep some parts intact.
By sorting out these blue and white porcelain bowls and looking at the themes on the walls of their bowls, Xia Yu can better judge that these are domestically sold porcelains.
The themes are very rich and traditional, including immortals riding on cranes, the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, the beautiful pond, the lions playing with flowers, Xizhi loves geese, the nobles blow and flutter, fishermen and woodcutters farming and reading, butterflies love flowers, lotus and pheasants, landscape figures, flat clouds up, infant play, auspicious words, dragons and phoenixes, group flowers, etc.
It is not new to domestically sold porcelain on foreign trade ships. Almost every merchant ship will carry some domestically sold porcelain, and the same is true for several shipwrecks discovered by Xia Yu.
This type of traditional domestic porcelain is much more popular and economically valuable than export porcelain, such as the most typical Clark porcelain.
When Xia Yu was sorting out this batch of porcelain, he cleaned and desalted together. He can be regarded as the "god" in the "Treasure Ding Space". He has gained a lot of experience in dealing with these porcelains. The process is also quite fast, but it still takes a certain amount of time to desalted.
Even if the price of these porcelains is not high, Xia Yu tried his best to protect them.
Because the treasures of this entire ship may not be as expensive as a complete Yuan blue and white plum vase.
But in terms of history and cultural relics value, such a shipwreck in the Ming Dynasty was quite high.
A ship is a microcosm of society at that time. Who is the owner of the ship? Is it a smuggling ship or a normal commercial ship? Where is the destination? Why does a ship have porcelain with a span of hundreds of years on both sides of the front and rear?
These issues can be revealed through cultural relics on the ship.
Xia Yu is also happy to reveal these secrets, even if only he himself knows them for the time being, he will not release them to the public.
There are not many porcelains salvaged today. After sorting them out, Xia Yu will have a good rest.
After discovering the shipwreck, the pressure on him was reduced a lot, and this trip to Annan was not in vain.
He was in a good mood and was lazy that morning, and he only had enough food and drink when it was almost dawn.
The subsequent task is to completely salvage the Ming Dynasty shipwreck. According to previous salvage experience, he is expected to salvage it all within a week and transfer it to the space.
After going into the sea, he spent less than half an hour to dive to the wrecked ship, and then he didn't delay much and immediately started the salvage work of the day.
With the experience of salvaging the two previous wrecks, Xia Yu became more and more skillful in salvaging.
He also put all the mud and sand into the space first.
The subsequent processing can be completed when you return to the shore.
During the salvage process, he was not surprised to find that the cultural relics on this Ming Dynasty shipwreck were mainly porcelain.
Tea and silk are difficult to preserve in such an environment.
Unless it is like the Yongzheng shipwreck before, the tin cans containing tea can be stored in a very good condition. But those tea leaves cannot be drunk. The most useful thing is the seeds of tea tree, which are also planted in the space by him and drink the tea they grow.
In addition to porcelain, he also gained other benefits.
Among the metal products, there are copper coins, copper ingots, and copper plates. Among them, there are quite a lot of copper coins, which makes him a little doubt whether this is a smuggling ship.
Because the Ming Dynasty prohibited copper from flowing out.
Of course, at that time, most merchants were actually smuggling, because as long as there was enough profit, merchants would dare to do it. Violating policy regulations was nothing, and merchants also had ways to avoid it.
There are also some iron products with severe corrosion, iron pots, and cylindrical iron products.
Xia Yu speculated that it might be the iron hand guns or iron gun cannons that had been equipped more frequently at that time.
Because the sea has always been uneasy, pirates are raging in many seas.
Regular merchant ships actually need their own armed forces to protect the personal and property safety of the crew. Otherwise, when they encounter pirates, they will be completely lambs to be slaughtered.
His salvage work at the bottom of the sea that day continued until evening.
Since the wreck was really deep, he was not worried about whether he would alarm the fishermen on the sea, or the uncommon coast guards or the like.
Generally, if the relevant departments find a shipwreck, they will send maritime forces to patrol nearby waters or even block the waters.
When Xia Yu hadn't discovered a shipwreck before, he still hoped that there would be a coast guard and other people in such a sea area to block and patrol!
Because that means there must be a shipwreck below, so he doesn't have to go to other places to look for it.
Let it go now! He just wants to be quiet and not to be disturbed.
After returning to the shore, it is better to eat and drink first.
He was not in a hurry to go back to the homestay, but instead wandered around. He was preparing to chat with his family and friends in China to celebrate the festival and watch the moon together.
The weather was pretty good that day, and there was no industrial pollution here on Zhanpo Island. You can see the round moon when you look up.
He first chatted with Xia Xue. Now they were not at their own house, but went to visit their grandmother with Xia’s parents and celebrated the festival at their grandmother’s house.
Xia Yu smiled and said hello to his grandmother and asked her to take good care of her health.
But grandma and the others were obviously more worried about Xia Yu who was wandering outside. He felt fine by himself. He also took everyone to see the lively scene on Annanguo Zhanpo Island through the video.
To be continued...