The premonition in my heart was very bad. Just before the premonition had disappeared, the shadow under the water immediately disappeared. At the same time, the father who was sinking in the water was also gone.
"Father!!!" I yelled, and rushed to the side of the boat, staring anxiously at the surface of the water, and wanted to turn over and jump into the water to rescue my father.
The river surface seemed to be completely calm again, and the shadow of his father and the shadow of the one-eyed floating corpse were completely submerged in the water in that instant, and could no longer be seen. I looked around quickly from left to right, and wanted to go into the water to find my father, but I couldn't even see his shadow. What if I got into the water
According to my experience, in such a slow or slow river, as long as people fall into the water, they will follow the water and flow downstream. I immediately turned the bow of the ship and walked slowly downstream along the river. The sun was completely set and my eyes were darkened. I turned on the wind lantern on the boat. The small wind lantern can only illuminate a small area of the water at the bow of the boat, and it is completely invisible no matter how far away.
I controlled the boat and drove more than a mile downstream in one breath. The river is flowing, the waves are rolling, the full moon is in the sky, and the clear moonlight is sprinkling on the river. Driving this way, I didn't even dare to blink my eyes, but my father's figure seemed to be completely swallowed by this billowing river. Went in.
"Father!!! Daddy..." I couldn't bear the panic, and the deep sadness. There were some things that I didn't want to think about, but I didn't want to think about it, but people who grew up by the river encountered this The situation, even if others don't say it, I know it well, after a person fell into the water, there is no appearance for more than a mile, and it is mostly dead in the water.
In the silent night, all sounds seemed to disappear, leaving only the heart-piercing cry of a fifteen-year-old boy who returned to the police on both sides of the strait.
Just as I yelled and yelled, I suddenly saw a shadow rising and falling between the water waves not too far in front of me.
That is a person, probably dead, face down in the water, I can’t see that person’s face, but when I see the clothes with a few patches on the other person’s body, my heart is like falling. Entering the ice cellar, the chill is deep.
It was my father's gown. In order to keep me full, my father had only two sets of clothes throughout the year. He had applied dozens of patches before and after but he was reluctant to throw it away. The clothes, I have seen big since I was young, and I will never misunderstand them.
Is the father dead? I couldn't believe my eyes, but he was ups and downs in the waves. In the past few years following my father down the river, I have seen the floating corpse in the water more than once. Only the floating corpse will be like a broken skin, without a trace of vitality, flowing down the river.
I completely let go of my hand and let the boat chase it straight in the turbulent water. The boat sailed fast, but his father's body floated fast in the water, chasing and chasing, always separated by a distance of about ten feet.
I gritted my teeth and wanted to continue chasing desperately. However, by the moonlight, my gaze suddenly dazzled. I am familiar with this section of the river, and it is less than one mile ahead, which is a place called Yuzuikou. The channel of Yukoukou is very narrow, so the current will be turbulent. For us fishermen who drive small boats, Yukoukou is a dangerous place and the boat will capsize if it is not done well.
Normally, I won't take risks, but as I watched my father's body drifting further and further away, my mind was suddenly empty, and I didn't think much about it, I just wanted to get my father back.
It was less than one mile away, and the boat had reached the mouth of the fish mouth. At this moment, my heart sank to the bottom of my feet. After the boat floated into the mouth of the fish, it was no longer a question of whether I could retrieve my father's body, but whether I could protect myself in this turbulent river.
People who have never experienced it will not know what it is like to be in this situation. I completely lost control of the boat.
In this way, I insisted on having a bowl of tea, and I suddenly saw that there seemed to be a little light flickering between the water and waves. The light of that kind of lamp can be known to be the light of a wind lamp at a glance, but in such a flow of goose feathers sinking to the bottom, how can there be a little light of the wind lamp
The weird lights flickered in the waves, but I had no time to take care of them, just because I was in a difficult situation to protect myself.
Huh! ! !
At the moment when the boat was about to be overturned by the turbulent currents, a rope seemed to have eyes, passed through the waves and threw directly in front of me. I involuntarily grasped the rope and followed closely, the boat crashed. I rolled over in the current, but fortunately with this rope, I was not washed away by the rapids.
The rope was tightening constantly. After three or five breaths, I finally followed the rope and saw the light flashing in the stormy sea.
It was a four sheep boat undulating in the water. The so-called four sheep boat actually means two sheepskin airbags on each side of the boat. To the west of the Hetao area, many people use sheepskin airbags to pierce the raft into the water, but to the southeast of the Hetao, almost no one uses sheepskin.
In the lower reaches of the river beach, only the corpse scavenger can control the Four-Sheep Boat, so as long as you see the Four-Sheep Boat, you can be sure that there must be a corpse scavenger on board.
I was dragged by the rope and climbed onto the four sheep boat in embarrassment. Four sheep on the boat
There was a person standing, and he used this rope to pull me back from the ghost gate.
This person's feet seemed to have taken root, and he stood firmly on the Four-Sheep Boat, no matter how strong the wind and waves were, he remained motionless. The kung fu of this hand-boat is amazing, even an old boatman who has lived in the water all his life may not have such accomplishments.
The water was cold and the wind was cold, but this man only wore a short coat, showing two muscular arms. He was about forty years old, wearing a straw hat, a thin beard under his jaw, and his face was tanned, but his eyes seemed to be two stars in the dark sky.
I was shocked when I saw this man hunting a corpse, and then I woke up from a dream, while spitting out the mud and sand in my mouth, I begged him bitterly, begged him to go downstream from here to see if I could Find the father's body.
There are many corpse hunters on the river beach, and you can see them all the time except during the flood season. I don't recognize this corpse scavenger, but seeing him driving the four-goat boat, walking on the ground in the rapids like Yuzuikou, I feel that the other party is very reliable.
I hurriedly said to the corpse collector that the corpse collector in Dahe Beach was charged for salvaging the corpse, but I had no money. I could only discuss with the other party and find someone first.
"The water at the mouth of the fish's mouth is too fast. It depends on luck to get it." The corpse scavenger's throat seemed to have been burned by hot coals, hoarse and dull. While talking to me, he put away the rope and twisted his body. The four sheep boat at the foot seemed to have also turned around in the water: "Try it."
His kung fu in driving the Four-Goat Boat really reached the point where he reached the top, leading me from Yuzuikou to Laojun Gorge. For thirty or forty miles of the waterway, I opened my eyes and kept scanning, but I never saw my father's body again.
We searched all night. By daybreak, I couldn’t tell if it was river water or tears on my face. I was afraid that it would be troublesome to collect the corpse. , Just begging him to help find his father.
"I'll help you find it again." The corpse scavenger took a piece of dry cake and a kettle, threw it to me, and said: "You don't need to give money. If I want to spend money, I won't waste the night."
I was very grateful, but couldn't eat anything, and only drank a few sips of water. The big river beach of that year was not a stable place. The world outside the river beach was in turmoil, and there was also a pot of porridge here. The rivers and lakes that pulled up the hills of the stockade were as many as cow hair, and there were sand bandits who robbed the house. Finally let me know that there are still good people in this world.
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