Golden Fishing Village

The cobblestone that fell off was not big. It was originally across the earth wall. After Jiang Caoqi kicked the stone away, his entire foot passed through the earth wall and entered the yard. His ankle and calf were stuck in the earth hole.

He pulled back, but couldn't pull it out.

Seeing this, he wanted to use force, but the earth wall was too fragile now. As he exerted force with his thigh, a nearby section of the earth wall shook.

Ao Muyang hurriedly said: "Don't move, be careful."

Jiang Caoqi was stunned and said: "I want to be careful, but my foot is stuck and I can't pull it out."

Ao Muyang said: "Take your time, if you can kick it in, why can't you pull it out?"

Jiang Caoqi slowly pulled out, but still couldn't pull his foot out. He stretched it in again, turned his ankle and adjusted the direction to pull it out, but still couldn't pull it out.

Repeatedly several times, he changed his posture, but he couldn't pull his foot out without destroying the earth wall.

Someone on the street was curiously watching this scene. Seeing Jiang Caoqi constantly twitching and changing positions, he came over and asked curiously: "Village chief, what is this brother doing? Is he fucking the wall?"

After hearing this, Ao Muyang couldn't help laughing: "Haha."

Jiang Caoqi's face was tender. He pulled his feet back in anger, and a large piece of mud was pulled out.

Ao Muyang was angry and said, "What are you doing?"

Jiang Caoqi said: "This wall must be demolished and rebuilt."

"Get out, don't even think about it." Ao Muyang said angrily, "I want to repair it to its most original appearance, keep its original style, and keep it the way I remember it."

Jiang Caoqi pressed his hands down and said: "Okay, okay, don't be angry, then I will make a design draft to help you keep it the way you remember it, you are quite nostalgic."

Ao Muyang wanted to keep the original appearance of the old house, not just nostalgia, there are not many old fishermen's houses in the village, he wanted to preserve this house well, and show the children and tourists the environment where the ancestors of the fishermen lived in the future.

The last time the old house was repaired, only the roof was repaired, and the courtyard wall was not moved.

This courtyard wall is more difficult to repair because the material used is very special. It is made of submarine volcanic mud, mixed with clay, sand, and salt powder.

You should know that the fishing area is windy and rainy. The main body of the house and the courtyard wall dare to be made of mud, which must be because this mud can resist wind and rain.

In fact, the wall made of volcanic mud mixed with clay, sand, and other materials is very strong. After being exposed to the sun for a summer, it can resist wind and rain for many years.

The old house of Ao Muyang's family is old, at least fifty years old. It was built by his grandfather's generation and has been used until now.

If he hadn't left home for five years, causing the old house to be unattended and unpopular and accelerated damage, then this courtyard wall could have lasted for many more years.

After listening to Ao Muyang's introduction, Jiang Caoqi was shocked: "The old houses in your village are all built with volcanic mud? This is amazing. There is such a saying in the traditional architecture of Hongyang fishermen's families? Then I have to write it down quickly."

Ao Muyang said: "I'll remember it later. Now I'll think about how to help me repair the house."

Jiang Caoqi said: "The courtyard wall is not strong now. If you don't want to tear it down and rebuild it, you can only reinforce it from the outside, which requires volcanic mud. Where can you find volcanic mud?"

Speaking of this, he frowned and said: "I still can't understand. Where did your village find so much volcanic mud in the past? There are volcanoes in Hongyang?"

Ao Muyang said: "It's not the kind of volcano you understand, it's a mud volcano, do you know?"

Jiang Caoqi nodded and said: "Mud volcano? Cold volcano, right? I know this."

Mud volcanoes are not the same as real volcanoes. Volcanoes can erupt magma with high temperatures and strong destructive power. Mud volcanoes are formed by the accumulation of mud and gas that are ejected from the ground at the same time. On land, its appearance is mostly conical hillocks or basin-shaped, and there are often depressions at the top of the hill, from which mud and gas are spewed out intermittently.

Like a real volcano, it can also spit fire, but someone has to ignite it. The gas it spews contains methane, marsh gas, and hydrogen sulfide, some of which can be ignited.

However, it does not burn under natural conditions, so the mud it spews out is cold, also known as a cold volcano.

Jiang Caoqi continued: "If I remember correctly, the formation mechanism of mud volcanoes mainly includes earthquake eruptions, the ring state and gas content of deep sediments, fault activities, and artificial drilling, right? Do you have any here?"

Ao Muyang scratched his nose and said: "I don't quite understand what you said, but we do have mud volcanoes here, wait for me to take you to the sea to see."

Jiang Caoqi asked in surprise: "Undersea mud volcano?"

Ao Muyang said: "Yes, what's wrong?"

Jiang Caoqi said: "Nothing, just curious, Hongyang Bay actually has underwater mud volcanoes, which is quite rare. No Yes, there is a mudstone layer on the seabed of Hongyang Bay. As long as there is a fault channel on the seabed and natural gas rises, mud volcanoes will appear, right? "

Ao Muyang said blankly: "This, it should be right? Anyway, there is a sea area here that does have a lot of mud volcanoes. It is a reef area. If you are lucky, you can see mud being sprayed out like a fountain when the tide is low. "

The mud volcano area is 15 or 16 kilometers away from Longtou Village. It is located in the ocean just south of the town dock. The earliest record was in 1722. Since then, mud has been bubbling out intermittently for many years.

Jiang Caoqi was quite interested in this. He found a relevant introduction from the online library, saying that "On the first day of the seventh month of the Renyin year, the ship arrived at the reefs and black mud gushed out. On the night of the next day, there was a fire, more than a foot high, and the heat burned people, so most people did not dare to approach. However, the fire left the mud, which was red and without light. The wet part was like black mud, and when it was dry, it was no different from soil. Although it was smelted according to the method, there was no sulfur smell."

Mud volcanoes generally do not self-ignite. The record said that the fire was seen because someone took a lantern to take a closer look at night, and the candlelight in the lantern ignited the flammable gas that was ejected.

Those people were lucky at the time and no casualties occurred. Later, when people went to investigate the mud volcano, many people were injured and killed because of the fire.

So, all along, whether it was a large ship or a small ship, they would sail around that sea area. Except for the people on the seaside who needed to get volcanic mud to build houses, people would not go for the excitement at other times.

In mid-August, Ao Muyang drove a sea fishing boat and towed a wooden boat to the mud volcano sea area.

He had never been to that place, but it was marked on the map, so it was not difficult to find.

The sea area has a name, called the Moon Sea. It is said that the mud water ejected by the mud volcano contains some fluorescent substances, which are integrated into the surrounding reefs. Whenever the tide is low, the seabed is exposed. Under the moonlight, the exposed reefs and seabed will emit gray and white colors, just like the surface of the moon.

The sea fishing boat set off towards the Moon Sea. When it was almost close to the sea area, Ao Muyang decisively dropped anchor and then rowed a small wooden boat to go over.