On the banks of the Nulong River, there is a village called Yanshang Village, with a total of 58 households in the village, which can barely be regarded as living and working in peace and contentment. Since half a year ago, the Nulong River flooded the villages of Heshang and Hexia, which are located lower, and Yanshang Village is the closest village to the river.

Recently, there has been a new thing in the village, a few men who lost their homes in the two villages below before, and they were actually coerced by people to be robbers, but they came back a few days ago, and they all wilted their heads and brains a lot.

On this day, several village women who were washing clothes by the river suddenly noticed a small boat floating on the Nulong River, and they couldn't help but stop their work in surprise.

The Nulong River is like a dragon that is angry all the time, and the water on the river is high and dangerous, and it cannot be controlled by non-the most experienced boatmen.

The last time there was a big flood, the only river crossing boat in the vicinity was overturned, and the old boatman who was holding the boat was also swept away without a trace.

As a result, the two sides of the river have been cut off for several months, and even if they want to go to relatives on the other side, they have to go around a hundred miles away.

The women of the village stopped doing their laundry, but gathered together and pointed and looked on tiptoe, and saw that the boat was moving slowly in the rapids, but it was very safe, and it was getting nearer.

"Yo, what a handsome boy!"

"Hehehehe, Sister-in-law Chunhua's eyes are good, and you can see that the young man is handsome at a glance!"

"It's like you're not staring at someone's face, and you're not looking at that pair of tricks that are almost sticking to him!

"Huang Er's family, your Huang Er's family is as strong as a bear, and he hasn't cultivated your land at night. ”

Several village women joked with each other unscrupulously, but their eyes were on the boat that was getting closer and closer. I saw the young man with the oars in the bow of the boat raise his head, and his handsome face showed a simple and somewhat shy smile.

"Yo yo yo!"

The women of the village all cried out, and the most pungent sister-in-law, Chunhua, shouted: "Young man, where did you come from, and where are you going?"

The young man smiled shyly as he docked the boat: "Auntie, is this Iwashang Village?"

"Yes!" replied to Chunhua's sister-in-law, and several village women enthusiastically stepped forward to help pull the rope and bolt it to the wooden stake that had been standing on the shore.

"What are you doing in our village? Look at your white and pure, aren't you a scholar from some family?"

"I—I'm not a scholar. The young man was embarrassed by several village women: "I, I'm a boater, I heard that this river has been cut off from boats, so I want to come here to make a living......"

These words surprised the village women, and they all shook their heads to say that they didn't look like it.

However, it was only when the young man had difficulty moved down from the boat that they noticed that he was lame on one leg, and it was evident that he had not seen it when he had sat in the boat.

The village women were surprised, but inevitably showed a pity with a little pity, and then began to inquire about each other's origins from head to toe.

After the young man's account, it was learned that his surname was Ouyang, and he had a name called Zhu Zi who was extremely incommensurate with his appearance, and he was eighteen years old this year, and his family had been boating for three generations, and he was from Jinsha Village in the upper reaches of the Nulong River.

The flood half a year ago also flooded Jinsha Village, most of the people in the village fed the Dragon King, and none of the survivors survived, and the pillar family died so that he was the only one left.

Jinsha Village was naturally scattered, and the pillars had nowhere to go, so I heard that there were no boats in this area of Iwashang Village, so I thought about coming here to beg for a living.

The pillar's eyes turned red as he spoke, and the village women wiped away two handfuls of tears. They are all people who have lived by the river for generations, and their feelings are all the same.

Aunt Chunhua slapped her thigh: "Are you called a bolt, and you have been holding the boat for decades on the side of Qimang Mountain upstream? ”

The neighbors all knew each other's roots at a distance of ten miles and eight villages, and the pillar was not surprised, but only nodded.

However, the second aunt Huang suddenly stomped her feet, and said angrily: "I don't know what's wrong with this world! The ancestors were implicated in the killing of those immortal families, and they lived in fear all day long. It's been easy to settle down for a few years, it's either a plague or a big flood, how can this live!"

"Alas!"

For a while, the sigh sounded, the world is difficult, and the most bitter are these mortals. has no power and no power, watch the sky to eat, and a few can be killed by a random rainstorm.

The pillar looked to the left and then to the right, a little overwhelmed.

Sister-in-law Chunhua raised a pair of big hands covered with thick calluses and patted him vigorously: "It's okay, it's okay! God can't die of hunger and blind sparrows, I see that you were very stable when you just survived, you have this skill of running a boat, and you can go to the big river! Take a walk, follow the aunts to find the village chief!"

The women of the village were very enthusiastic, and they took up the clothes basin and dragged him to the village. Things went well after that, and the village chief agreed to let him dock the ferry in Iwagami Village, but first to see what he was doing.

After all, the Nulong River is no better than those calm lakes and streams, the water is extremely turbulent, and there are sucking whirlpools underwater, so it's useless to let you know how much water you have. If the boat capsizes on the river, the lives of a boatload of people may be confessed.

The countryside was idle, so almost the whole village ran to the river to see the excitement. Although the pillar is a little shy, his temperament is calm, and the boat he drives is even more stable, which attracts the villagers to raise their fingers, saying that they have never seen such a good one, and they all make people think that they are not on the Nulong River!

From then on, the pillar did the work of crossing the river, holding the boat during the day and staying on the boat at night. The fare collected is not expensive, a copper coin per person, and the use of goods without copper coins can also be used, and there is no limit to grain, vegetables and fruits, and wild things.

It's just that the river is several miles wide, and the river is so fast that his small boat can only carry a dozen people when it is full, so he has to make two trips back and forth every day, barely making ends meet. After two years, several villages on both sides of the strait knew that he was alive and well, and that he had never had an accident, and was even willing to come from afar to take his ferry.

If there is nothing to do on the river, it is inevitable to gossip, so Zhuzi Town sits on the bow of the boat and rocks the oars during the day, but he knows very well about the affairs of ten miles and eight towns.

Which family has a grandson, which family has died, which mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fight every day, which family has a man who steals into the widow's door behind his back, and his ears are full of ears. Even got acquainted with these neighbors, and gradually some people called him for help when they were doing red and white ceremonies at home, and had a meal of wine by the way.

It's just that every time it comes, the pillar feels different. It is like the indifference of a bystander, and it seems to be a feeling of empathy, and the life, old age, sickness and death, joys and sorrows of others seem to be lightly and heavily pressed on his heart, so that he is often stunned by the rushing river, but he can't tell what he is thinking.

It seems that I have thought a lot, but I don't seem to think about anything, such as looking at the moon in the water, looking at the flowers in the drunk, everything seems to be separated by a veil.

He had an inexplicable feeling that he should be sitting on the bow of the boat every day but not lonely, crossing the river during the day, listening to all the things in the world, watching the water and listening to the waves at night, and chewing on those incomprehensible feelings alone.

Ferrymen, people who take people from one shore to the other by boat. The people on the boat intersect during this journey, but at the end of the trip, they become passers-by in each other's lives.

But there are always times when there is an accident, such as a person who quietly passes away in the middle of a journey, but leaves his soul on the ship forever. For example, people who don't want to reach the other side and just want to stop in the middle of the river.

The pillar was concentrating on paddling, but he felt a shadow flash, and when he turned around, he saw a young woman rushing out of the cabin and jumping into the river with a determined face!

At that moment, he didn't know where he was so fast, and in the blink of an eye, he pounced and grabbed the other party's collar!

At this time, the other people in the cabin reacted and screamed.

"Jumping into the river, someone jumping into the river!"

Most of the pillar was dragged overboard, and in an emergency, he clinged to the cabin with his other hand. The churning river suddenly rolled up, as if it had seen its prey, and wanted to pull him down the river to devour him.

But I saw that the girl raised her head and looked at him with hatred and anger: "Let go!"

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