All the people are gone, and the two sisters Meng and Wen are also gone. I read the words left by Meng Wen, and I didn't bother her in my heart. Getting along these days has made me a little bit better about Meng Wen.
I can't say whether she is good or bad, but she is also a poor person, a poor person who has been abandoned by the family and has to do everything possible to protect his sister.
People are like this.
I dragged my tired footsteps and walked back step by step. In the past few days with Meng Wen, I have been somewhat rewarded. At least I have seen scenes that I have never seen before.
But the doubts in my heart were still not completely solved. I couldn’t help but rubbed my eyes as I walked. I kept wondering why my eyes are different from other people. How did the hanged ghosts who don't know their identity get into the depths of their eyes
After thinking about it, thinking about it has a headache, so I just don't think about it. As I walked slowly, I took the opportunity to regain my strength. When I returned to the river beach, the words that the master had told me before I left, once again filled my mind.
I still have to drift continuously in this big river. At the beginning, I was really a little irritable. At my age, living in the country, I have reached the age of starting a family. But I can't, like other people, guarding my own small home, guarding my one-acre three-point land, and living a peaceful and plain life. I have to collect the corpses and always deal with those floating corpses in the water.
However, after I was irritated for a while, my heart gradually calmed down. Some words, I finally figured out some flavor.
Everyone, from birth, has a path in front of him, no matter whether he is willing to follow this path or not, he has to follow it after all. Because this way is fate.
Before going down the river, I had to make some preparations. I secretly smiled bitterly. Every time I settled down for a period of time, there would be some twists and turns, forcing me to leave my hometown. The boats I bought were discarded and had to be repurchased. Fortunately, Fang Tian left me a lot of money when she left. Otherwise, she would not even be able to fill her belly by relying on the meager income from corpses.
This month is already very cold, and the boatmen in the river have basically stopped. I got a small boat, in order to reduce the trouble, there is no pretense to hang up the corpse. Anyway, the master also said that the most important thing now is to quickly find the three-eyed floating corpse. As for collecting the corpse or not, it is not so important.
The days return to plainness. I go down to the river in the early morning and spend a day in the river. When the boat arrives at dusk, I will collect the boat. It is so dull and boring for seven or eight days in a row.
I don't have a fixed place to live because I can't always look for a section of the river. I searched a section of the river in a few days, and then I had to change places. When the weather was cold, I suffered a lot when I was sleeping outside. Looking at the river beach, it was relatively calm now, thinking that there should be no major changes, so after seven or eight days, I migrated to the south for about 20 miles.
There is a small village in this place, about less than ten miles away from the river beach. It is already the closest village to the river. I wandered around the village. Because of the relatively high terrain, the village was not affected much during the flood seasons in previous years. As long as the villagers have a place to live and have food to eat, they will not easily leave their hometowns. The village is full of people and there are no free houses.
I searched for a long time, and finally found a shack outside the courtyard of a family. This is a very simple shack, usually used to store fodder.
The family's surname is Liu, and the couple takes a boy over seven years old. I discussed with them, and they told me to live in a shack without saying anything.
The shack is rudimentary, but I don’t plan to live permanently. I just need to look for the river for a few days and then move to the place, so I don’t care how shabby living in the shack is.
I lived in the village for three or four days. In the middle of the afternoon, I might have caught a little wind in the river. I felt dizzy and a little hot in my head. So I took the boat in advance and prepared to go back to rest early. When I returned to the river beach near the village by boat, I saw a bunch of villagers gathered on the river beach from a distance.
This month, the weather is cold, and all the villagers who usually depend on the river for food have collected their boats. It is rare to see so many people gathering together on the river beach.
From my experience, I can tell at a glance that most of what happened.
I drew the boat to the shore and walked all the way. When I arrived, I saw people from the village gathered on the beach. Not only people, but also two boats. One of the boats is relatively large, with a winch on it, and a lot of ropes. It seems to be trying to salvage something in the river.
I watched behind the crowd for a while, not knowing what happened for the time being. At this time, the son of the old Liu family, Xiaoyong, was squeezing to play in the crowd. I took advantage of the situation and grabbed him and asked in a low voice: "Xiaoyong, what are you doing here?"
"Uncle Ma and the others said, there is something in the river, and it is still shining golden light." Xiaoyong is very naughty, and has been familiar with me in the past three or four days, and grinned and said to me: "I don't know what it is. Everyone wants to catch it up and take a look."
Many things on the river beach are spread widely. In the past many years, the river changed its course almost every year, and every time it changed its course, the original villages and towns in the upper reaches of the river would be washed and destroyed. Therefore, the river water was often mixed with messy things. These things gradually sink to the bottom and stay in the river for decades and hundreds of years. Unless something accident happens, things at the bottom of the river will appear.
Hetan has so many stories about this. Many rumors say they are from where and who they are, and what they fished in the river. The rumors are rumors, but for these poor villagers, fighting against the rich is too big.
No one could tell what was in the river, it was still shining with golden light. It can be seen that someone must have seen the golden light in the water with their own eyes, and then the whole village will be attracted here.
There were more than a dozen people standing on the big boat, all strong men. If something is in the water, someone with particularly good water quality needs to go into the water to investigate, find the thing, then fix the rope, and lift it up with the help of the winch on the boat.
There is a villager nicknamed Lao Mao, who is the head of this group. The old cat is about 30 years old and small in stature, but he is very clever, clever, and has many ideas in his head. Most of the villagers obey him. At this moment, the old cat crouched by the boat, looked into the water for a while, turned his head and asked the person behind him: "Little Ma, have you seen it clearly? Is this the place?"
"Brother Cat, how could I look wrong? It is indeed here, the golden light flashed several times, and it was clear through such turbid water."
"That's good." The old cat stood up, took off his coat, topless, took the hip flask from the person next to him, took two sips, and said: "I'll go down
Go and see. "
"Brother Cat, be careful."
"I've grown up in the water since I was a child, so I'm afraid of getting into the water?" The old cat grinned, took a breath, and jumped directly into the water from the boat.
Listening to Xiaoyong, the old cat is notoriously good at water, and can hold back the incense for half of the time in one breath. After he got into the water, everyone's eyes were fixed on the surface of the water.
The water of the old cat is really good. It didn't show up for a long time after entering the water. Just when everyone was waiting for a dim sum, a splash of water splashed on the water, and the old cat's head immediately appeared.
"Brother Cat, how is it?"
"There is something underneath." The old cat's face turned blue with cold, wiped off the water on his face, and said: "The thing has sunk in the sand. It took a long time to find it."
"Have a drink and warm yourself up." The man on the boat quickly dropped the hip flask and asked, "Brother Cat, what's next?"
"It's as thick as my wrist. It's invisible. It's like a metal rope by hand." The old cat took two more sips of wine, threw the flask up, and said, "Take a rope, thicker, whatever it is. I have to get it up and take a look."
The old cat took the rope and went into the water again. This time, he took longer to go into the water. Some of my scalp numb when I watched on the shore, because the old cat’s breath was long enough. Can't help but come up.
After a few more breaths, the water splashed up again. When the old cat emerged from the water, I saw his face become greener and his body trembling.
"Brother Cat, is that done?"
The old cat’s lips were already purple, and he was probably too cold to speak. He just nodded. The people on the boat hurriedly pulled him up, wrapped his clothes, gave him drinks, and someone brought him a brazier. Charcoal is burning in the brazier to keep warm.
After the old cat sat down, the four strong young men began to turn the winches with all their strength. The rope on the winch is thicker than the thumb. Copper wire is added to the rope, and the outside is coated with a few layers of oil. It is very strong. The winch is slowly twisted, the rope is tightened, and things in the river are also picked up a little bit. Come up.
Before long, the rope was caught on the surface of the water, and I saw one end of the rope tightly tied to a rusty lumpy iron chain. The iron chain is very thick and extremely long. The rope on the winch has already mentioned the ship's side, but the iron rope seems to have a long section soaked in the water.
"Sure enough, it is a chain, what is the chain connected to?"
"I guess, isn't it just a wire rope? Brother Cat, do you want to look again, what is it?"
The old cat was wrapped in clothes and roasted on fire, nodded, and several people began to turn the winch again. The wire rope was hoisted out for a long time, and it was difficult to navigate on the big boat. The villagers rowed over to a small boat and temporarily coiled the wire rope raised to the surface of the boat. .
The chain was dragged out to be at least five or six long, but it still didn't end. In the end, they simply dragged the iron rope ashore, and gathered more than a dozen people to pull the iron rope on the shore together.
The five-to-six-foot-long iron cable was pulled out by another two meters. At this time, almost everyone, through the afterglow of the setting sun, saw under the turbid water surface, there seemed to be a flash of golden light.
The people on the shore came to their spirits, exerted their strength together, dragged the iron cable and suddenly pulled back, and the golden light gleaming under the water was suddenly dragged out of the water.
The people on the shore were shocked. Everyone, including me, had never seen this thing dragged out of the water.
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