Years of experience have convinced me that what you can see with your eyes is not necessarily true.

However, the three large ships moored in the bay this time were so detailed that I had to use such an adjective, because all the details were so clear, and I suspected that if I walked forward and crossed the distance of a few hundred meters, I could even see the wood grain on the hull.

It is a typical Chinese wooden boat, with a two-layer hull, with a strong Chinese ancient style, but it is different from the delicacy of the Jiangnan painting boat, and has a rough taste.

If such a ship is seen and said to be fake, then no one will believe it, but if it is true, in the layers of mist, the people in black robes and the bustling people on the ship why can't they see it clearly at all?

I think I need to open my eyes to see what this ship is. But my intuition told me that if I did that, it would be dangerous, and those ships who didn't care about my presence would be attracted to all my attention, even if I was tied to the knot at the moment.

That's it, in the misty darkness, the sudden appearance of the happy boat, the flamboyant joy, and the faint mist want to put everything into the screen, so that I can't tell whether it is illusory or real, I can't help but ask the old man Liu behind me: "These ships"

But before I finished speaking, the old man Liu behind me suddenly coughed several times before he said in my ear: "No one has ever gone up, no one knows whether they really exist or not, only that they will appear once every two years, but they can't be within ten meters of it." ”

"What happens when you get closer?" Mr. Liu's words were very informative, and I didn't know how to ask them for a while, so I could only ask the most critical question.

"There used to be outsiders in the town, forcibly approaching those big boats, and then" Old Man Liu was silent, I knew that he was not hiding anything, but trying to find the right adjective, after about a few seconds, Old Man Liu said: "Then he suddenly disappeared in front of the eyes of all of us, some people said that he got on the boat, but the next day, his body was floating on the Yellow River, I went with these friends of mine to collect his body, I will never forget his face in my life, I don't know what kind of fright it takes to make a person's face distort like that. ”

I was silent for a moment, I was almost sure that these big ships were definitely not real existences, whether it was the ship or the people on board, maybe they were some kind of terrible 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 don't understand what this is all about. 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 conversations that these children were going to be sent to the so-called holy village, could they be on this boat?

But Mr. Liu said that no one can approach this boat, and those who approach will float in the Yellow River, then the child at this moment, I am thinking, if the child is in danger, I will do my best to rescue the child, this is the principle, there is no way to give up!

But Old Man Liu quickly gave me the answer: "The child is not sacrificed to this boat, but to be sent to some mysterious place!" This boat is also not a real boat to pick up children. ”

"That?" I frowned and couldn't think clearly, since this boat is not a real boat to pick up children, should I throw the children directly into the Yellow River?

This time, Mr. Liu did not answer me directly, but said: "You will know if you read it." ”

At this time, the night breeze is getting cooler and colder, and the wind blowing in the northwest has never had the 'lingering' meaning of the south, more like a tired man, after exhaustion, heavy gasping, direct and cold, blowing a little pain on the face, everyone's hair and clothes are flying

The joy on that side is becoming more and more intense in such a wind, the mist is entwined, the people who can't kneel for a long time, and the children who are lifted high make people feel suddenly, and life is like a play.

In this scene, under the clear moon, there was a faint sound of breaking water, and behind those gorgeous ships, a somewhat rudimentary awning boat appeared in my sight.

It is not the kind of awning boat in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but a somewhat rough awning boat belonging to the style of the Great Northwest, with a wide hull, a dark awning, a person wearing a hat and a typical sheepskin jacket in the Northwest keeps rowing the boat in the bow and tying a huge red silk flower in the bow, and the sagging cloth on both sides of the silk flower is wrapped around the hull and decorated for a week, adding a touch of festivity to this unpretentious ship.

But compared to the ornate ships around it, this ship looked like it was in a group of freshly dressed and angry soldiers, and that was the tired veteran who had just come down from the battlefield

"The messenger has arrived, this is the real ship to receive relatives, haven't you noticed the difference?" I just had a guess that Old Man Liu was already lying on my back and said the answer.

Yes, there is a difference, compared to those gorgeous big boats, this boat is like a boat rowed in reality, although they all look the same in the eyes, full of three-dimensional sense and detail, but the feeling is so different, just like the people you see on the screen, and the people you see in reality, there is always a difference.

At that moment, I was in a trance, and 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.

For the first time, I didn't believe my eyes, but when I looked up again, everything was back to normal, and at the same time, Wei Donglai's voice full of excitement and flattery echoed in this barren place: "Welcome the ship to the family, send the relatives." ”

As he spoke, the awning boat slowly rowed to the shore, and the big boats were still moored in the backwater bay, more than 20 meters away from the shore.

At the moment when the awning boat docked, the black-clothed people holding the children lifted the children higher and higher, they lowered their heads and walked towards the acanning boat step by step, and the people knelt even lower, almost in a five-body posture.

In the whirring wind, in the sound of the Yellow River, several children seemed to mean 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, so I suddenly shouted: "Mom, Dad, Grandma" Then, several children cried and called for their relatives.

Such a scene made me feel heartache, and I suddenly couldn't breathe with anger, could it be that the children's relatives were also among those cloaked people?

I really wanted to ask Old Man Liu, but before I could say anything, I saw that among the kneeling black-clothed people, a figure suddenly stood up, and rushed towards the black-clothed people holding children, but was violently pulled by the kneeling crowd around them.

So, there was another female voice in the crowd shouting: "Don't let my tiger go, our tiger won't go, our tiger won't go" Accompanied by this female voice, one of the boys cried particularly loudly, in the moonlight, you can see him keep stretching out his little hand, shouting: "Mom, Mom"

However, all this was to no avail, someone had already covered the woman's mouth, and the distance between the mother and son could only gradually pull apart, and a few cries from other places sounded in the crowd, but compared to the tiger mother, those people seemed much more restrained.

I remembered the people who were crying in the crowd as I walked down that hillside, could they be them? Are they the children's relatives? How can they? My hands trembled, remembering the love of my parents, the feeling of desperate to save myself since I was a child, I suddenly found that I couldn't restrain myself at all, such a human tragedy in front of me, did I just watch it.

I was carrying Old Man Liu on my back, my hands trembled, he naturally felt it, and his sigh sounded behind me: "Mourn its misfortune, be angry until this time, only to come to grieve, what's the use?" But it can still be sad, which means that it is not completely numb! You don't do it, it's useless to do it, saving people doesn't mean saving people like this, saving people is to save people's hearts, otherwise you save the child, or they will send it again! ”

I clenched my teeth tightly, my breathing became heavy, and I almost burst out of my teeth with a sentence: "How to save people's hearts?" ”

"Only by destroying the root of everything can the numb person gradually sober up. Let's go, don't look at it anymore, if you look at it again, what makes your heart hurt more is not what happened to a few children, I'm afraid that these people used to live in the same town, familiar with each other, living people. After saying this, I felt a chill on my neck, and it turned out that a tear fell on my neck.

The tears left in his eyes, before they could land, they were already blown cold by the wind Old man 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 in sheepskin jackets on the boat, and they were already sent into the boat, and the sound of joy The black canopy swayed silently and left the shore.