Years of experience have convinced me that what I can see with my eyes may not necessarily be true.
However, this time, the three large ships moored in the inlet were so detailed that I had to use such an adjective, just because all the details were so clear. I doubt if I walked up to them and stepped over them. From a distance of several hundred meters, I could even clearly see the wood grain on the hull.
It was a typical Chinese wooden boat with a two-layer hull and a strong Chinese ancient style, but it was different from the exquisite Jiangnan painted boats and had a rough flavor.
If such a ship is seen and said to be fake, no one will believe it, but if it is real... In the layers of mist, there are people in black robes knocking, and the ship is bustling with people. Why can’t people see clearly at all
I think I need to open my eyes to see what this ship is? But my intuition told me that it would be very dangerous if I did that. Those ships who originally didn't care about my existence would attract all their attention to me. Even if I was tied with a Cynomorium Knot at this moment, I couldn't stop it.
That's it, in the misty darkness, the wedding boat suddenly appeared, the overflowing joy, the faint mist... I wanted to put everything on the screen, making me unable to tell whether it was illusion or reality. , I couldn't help but ask Mr. Liu behind me: "These ships..."
But before I finished speaking, Mr. Liu behind me suddenly coughed several times and then said in my ear: "No one has been up there, no one knows whether they really exist... I only know that every two years They will all appear once, but you can’t get within ten meters of it.”
"What will happen if we get close?" Mr. Liu's words contained a lot of information. I didn't know how to ask for a while, so I could only ask the most critical question.
"There were once outsiders in the town who forcibly approached those big ships...and then..." Mr. Liu was silent. I knew that he was not hiding something, but was trying hard to find the accurate adjective. After passing It took about a few seconds before Mr. Liu said: "Then he suddenly disappeared... He just disappeared in front of all of us... Some people said that he got on the boat, but the next day, his body was floating here. On the Yellow River, my friends and I went to collect his body together. I will never forget his face in my life, and I don’t know what kind of fright can make a person’s face distort like that.”
I was silent... At this moment, I was almost certain that these large ships were definitely not real. Whether they were ships or the people on them, they might be some kind of terrifying existence, but I still had one last question. : "Old man, since this ship is so weird, are they going to sacrifice their children to this ship?"
I'm a little confused about what's going on with sending off and welcoming the bride? But Mr. Liu told me that the children’s lives would not be in danger for the time being, and he vaguely knew from their conversation that these children were going to the so-called holy village. Could they be boarding this ship
But Mr. Liu also said that no one can approach this boat. Anyone who comes close will float in the Yellow River. The child... At this moment, I am thinking that if the child is in danger, I will try my best to save the child. This is the principle. There is no way to give up!
But Mr. Liu quickly gave me the answer: "The child is not sacrificed to this ship, but sent to some... some mysterious place! This ship is not the real ship to pick up the child."
"Then?" I frowned and couldn't think clearly. Since this boat was not the real boat to pick up the child, was it necessary to throw the child directly into the Yellow River
This time Mr. Liu did not answer me directly, but said: "You will know after reading."
The night wind at this time is getting colder, and the wind blowing in the northwest has never had the "lingering" meaning of the south. It is more like a tired man breathing heavily after exhaustion, direct and biting, scratching his face. Everyone's hair and clothes are flying...
The joy on the other side becomes more and more intense in such wind, the mist lingers, the people who cannot kneel, the children who are lifted high... It makes people suddenly realize that life is like a play.
In such a scene, under the clear moon, there was suddenly a slight sound of water breaking. After those gorgeous ships, a somewhat simple awning boat appeared in my sight.
It was not a awning boat like those in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but a rather rugged awning boat in the Northwest style. It had a wide hull and a dark awning. A man wearing a bamboo hat and a typical Northwest sheepskin jacket stood on the bow. The boat was rowing at a standstill... and a huge red silk flower was tied to the bow. The drooping fabrics on both sides of the silk flower were wrapped around the hull to decorate it for a week, adding an extra dimension to this simple and unpretentious boat. A hint of celebration.
But compared with the gorgeous ships around it, this ship looked like it was among a group of soldiers in bright clothes and angry horses. The tired veterans who just came off the battlefield, could this be...
"The messenger has arrived. This is the real boat to pick up the bride. Don't you notice the difference?" I just guessed that Mr. Liu had already laid on my back and told me the answer.
Yes, there is a difference. Compared with those gorgeous ships, this ship looks like a real ship. Although they all look the same to the eyes, full of three-dimensionality and details, but that The feeling is so different, just like there is always a difference between the people you see on the screen and the people you see in reality.
At that moment, I was in a trance. When I looked at those gorgeous ships again, I suddenly felt that the air around them was a little distorted, just like the steaming breath in the hot desert, distorting everything in the lens.
This... I didn't believe my eyes for the first time, but when I looked up again, everything was back to normal. At the same time, Wei Donglai's voice full of excitement and flattery echoed in this deserted place: "Welcome the bride" The ship has arrived, let’s see you off.”
As he spoke, the awning boat slowly rowed toward the shore, while the large ships were still moored in the backwater bay, more than twenty meters away from the shore.
The moment the awning boat docked, the men in black holding the children lifted the children higher and higher. They lowered their heads and walked towards the awning boat step by step. People knelt even more It was lowered, almost in a prostrate position.
Amidst the whistling wind and the rushing water of the Yellow River, the children seemed to realize that this was a road of no return, and finally began to howl and cry, looking particularly desolate and helpless.
My heart began to throb inexplicably, and I didn’t know which child spoke first and suddenly called out: "Mom, dad, grandma..." Then, several children cried and called for their relatives. A slice.
Such a scene made me feel heartbroken and suddenly so angry that I couldn't breathe. Could it be that the children's relatives were among those cloaked people
I really wanted to ask Mr. Liu, but before I could ask the question, I saw a figure suddenly stand up among the kneeling people in black, and rushed towards those holding children. The man in black was suddenly pulled away by the kneeling crowd around him.
Then, there was another female voice in the crowd shouting: "Don't let my tigers go, our tigers won't go, our tigers won't go..." Along with this female voice, one of the boys cried. It was especially loud. Under the moonlight, you could see him stretching out his little hands and shouting: "Mom, mom..."
However, all this was of no use. Someone had already covered the woman's mouth, and the distance between mother and son could only gradually become farther and farther away... Several cries from other places rang out from the crowd. However, compared to that tiger mother, those people seemed much more restrained.
I thought of the people crying in the crowd when I walked down that hill. Could it be them? Are they the children's relatives? How could they...? My hands trembled, thinking of my parents' love and their desperate desire to save myself since I was a child. I suddenly found that I couldn't control myself at all. Could I just watch such a human tragedy in front of me
I was carrying Mr. Liu on my back, and my hands were shaking. He naturally felt it, and his sigh sounded behind me: "Sorrow for the misfortune, anger for the indifference... Only at this time can I feel sad, what else?" Use? But you can still feel sad, which means you are not completely numb! Don't do it, it's useless. Saving people doesn't mean just saving them like this. Saving people means saving people's hearts. Otherwise, if you save the child, they will still send it away again! "
I gritted my teeth tightly and my breathing became heavy. I almost said a sentence from between my teeth: "How can we save people's hearts?"
"Only by destroying the root cause of everything can the numb people gradually wake up. Let's go, don't read anymore. If you continue to read, what will make you more heartbroken is not what happened to a few children. I am afraid that these people were once in a There are real people living in this town who are familiar with each other." After saying this, I felt a chill on my neck, and it turned out that a tear fell on my neck.
The hot tears left in his eyes were blown cold by the wind before they fell to the ground... Mr. Liu cried, but the tears were cold. Was his heart cold
Under the clear moon and misty night wind, several children were picked up by the man wearing a sheepskin coat on the boat and put into the boat. There were sounds of joy... The awning boat swung away again silently. , left the shore.