"If the boss of the boat rowed to rescue you and then return together, he would not have had time to board the Dongxing and rescue Ding Jian. Then Ding Jian is lying. But if Ding Jian came down the soft ladder and returned to the fishing boat by himself, why would he lie?" Team Cao muttered, it is true that as he said, there is no need for Wang Huzi and Ding Jian to lie, but in the process of the development of things, it is obvious that another party is hiding the facts, and I can't figure out the reason for it for a while.

Wang Huzi looked confused when he saw that we were all confused, knowing that his words might not be strong enough, and added, "Team Cao, Teacher Chang, that Fan Lengzi is the nephew of the boat boss, and I owe the boat boss gambling debts, Fan Lengzi doesn't save him, his mother's family won't spare him, if I don't save it, the money he borrowed from me will be wasted." Not to mention that he heard our cries for help first, even if he heard the cries for help at the same time, who do you say he would choose to save?"

"If Ding Jian wasn't rescued by the boat boss, he climbed down from the East Star himself? Why did Ding Jian tell us that it was the boat boss who saved him? When you were rescued on the fishing boat, did Ding Jian already arrive at the fishing boat?" Team Cao couldn't wait to ask the question I also wanted to ask.

"When we got on the boat, Ding Jian was not on the fishing boat at all, and we also told the boat boss about Ding Jian's stay on the East Star. Everyone discussed this for a long time, but at that time, most of the Eastern Star was already shrouded in fog, and the shadows were full of some terrible ghost fires drifting, where would anyone dare to go up to the Eastern Star to save people?"

In the end, the ship's boss decided not to take the Eastern Star for the time being. Ding Jian didn't jump into the sea with Wang Huzi and them to survive, it was his own problem, he couldn't complain about others, if he had a big life, find a place to hide, and when the fog cleared early the next morning, everyone could save him. ”

In the face of fear, what people often lack is just an excuse, and I have seen too many such things and I don't care about them. Ding Jian is a wandering painter, and it is estimated that no one except the people on the boat knows that he got on the fishing boat and was thrown at sea, except for touching the conscience of the fishermen, there will be no superfluous impact. What's more, in the wind and waves, it is common for several fishermen to die unexpectedly, not to mention a landlubber like Ding Jian.

How Dante Jian got off the boat, this is indeed a strange thing.

Wang Huzi had already guessed what we were going to ask, and without waiting for us to speak, he hurriedly said, "Two leaders, I, Wang Huzi, have never had no culture, nor have much knowledge, but I never tell lies. After Fan Lengzi and I were rescued that day, Ding Jian was never on the fishing boat, and no one saw him at all. That night, the captain of the ship left two men to guard the bow of the ship, and in the second half of the night, the fog on the East Star flooded down and covered half of the bow. ”

"The two vigils were frightened, so they fled into the cabin, and I followed the captain to the deck, and the vigil tried to cut the cable tied to the Eastern Star, turn the bow of the ship and run away. However, the ship's boss received a message from the Maritime Safety Bureau, and we had to hold out until the next day, when the ship from the Maritime Safety Bureau arrived and made a handover, before we could return to the sea. He didn't dare to disobey the orders from above, so he and the crew worked together to wait and cut the cable as soon as the fog reached the cockpit of the fishing boat. ”

"But strangely, the fog, as if it could understand us, did not rush any further, like a wall, between us and the Eastern Star, and then we could not even see the outline of the Eastern Star. ”

"By about seven o'clock the next morning, the fog began to dissipate, and by that time the vigil had already noticed that the Eastern Star in front of us was gone, as if it had disappeared with the fog. The cable had been cut by something and hung limply in the water. ”

The boat boss was about to take people into the dinghy and row out to have a look, but someone found Ding Jian lying on the ground on the observation deck on the top floor. No one saw how the Dongxing disappeared and how Ding Jian lay on the lookout. ”

Ding Jian was all dry, with a lot of cameras, flashlights, and backpacks, but he was unconscious. He could only have come down the soft ladder of the Eastern Star, but the boat at the bottom of the soft ladder had already rowed back, and everyone couldn't figure out how he came over, and he didn't get a drop of water on his body. Wang Huzi spoke for a long time in one breath, and was so thirsty that he picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"Could it be that the captain of the boat brought someone up at night to save Ding Jian?" Team Cao scratched his head, the current situation was obviously beyond his expectations.

"Impossible, after I got on the fishing boat, I stayed with the fishermen who kept vigil for the second half of the night, no one got on the boat, and after finding Ding Jian in a coma, I asked the boat boss that he didn't go to the East Star to pick up Ding Jian. He was a timid man, and he was scared enough about what we encountered on the boat, and what he said should be true. ”

"Then how do you think Ding Jian got back to the fishing boat?" I always felt that Wang Huzi came to us at this time not just to state some kind of fact. hurriedly interjected, hoping that Wang Huzi would sort out and retell the situation of the day according to our ideas.

"Two leaders, I really don't know how Ding Jian returned to the fishing boat, but when he returned to the boat, he followed the Dongxing as if he was a different person. Wang Huzi began again with his often incomprehensible narration.

A writer friend of mine who has written about the life of a sailor once told me that sailors, especially those who often go to the open sea for training, usually take a long vacation of about a month after a mission. It's not physical exhaustion, it's a mental problem.

After all, life at sea is too boring, day after day, only ships are slap-sized places to move, and people are acquaintances who see each other every day. As the days go by, some sailors will be autistic, and in severe cases, they will even lose their social skills and even language skills.

Now that I think about it, although the fishing ground where Wang Huzi and them fish is not an ocean-going operation, they also have to live on a fishing boat for three weeks or even more than a month, and the loneliness and depression coupled with the high-intensity operation should be more serious than that of sailors.

Wang Huzi is a rather introverted person, and it is normal for him to have difficulties in thinking and expression. It's just that I can't tell if he has subjectively magnified his thoughts, or even blurred the line between imagination and reality, of course, the problem is more likely to lie with Ding Jian, who is more sensitive.

But I also understand that thinking about these things now is harmful and useless, so I simply put my patience and continue to listen to Wang Huzi's memories.

According to Wang Huzi, Ding Jian was in a coma on the ship for two days, and after waking up, he didn't know anyone on the first day, nor did he speak, and whoever came near him, he seemed to be very afraid, like a ghost, so he locked himself in the cabin and could not come out.

After a day, it seems that I have regained some memories and had some brief communication with others. He also went to Wang Huzi and asked him what had happened after the fog had risen on the Dongxing, but he didn't believe what Wang Huzi said, and he insisted that the ship's boss had boarded the Dongxing and dragged him down.

Wang Huzi thought that this was absolutely impossible, and the boat boss did not know how to doppelgänger, so it was impossible to save Wang Huzi who jumped into the sea, and at the same time save Ding Jian on the East Star. But Ding Jian said that he was anxious, so he pulled the king's beard to find the boat boss and wanted to make it clear.

When the boat boss heard this, he just perfunctory Ding Jian and sent him away, but told Wang Huzi that Ding Jian may have been a little stimulated by the events of that night, and his spirit was not normal, and it was good that he came back, and what he said was what he said, and it had nothing to do with everyone when he got ashore.

The words of the boat boss were not wrong, but that day Wang Huzi began to pay attention to Ding Jian's every move. Ding Jian often didn't sleep all day, and he seemed to be in good spirits, and when the fishermen slept at night, he painted in the cockpit. I don't know if you've seen his paintings, the East Star seems to have been soaked in seawater, and there are some dead fish, dead shrimp and seabird corpses, but it is by no means like he painted, his paintings are full of demons and monsters, gloomy and gloomy, and Wang Huzi has never seen one.

The people on the boat said that he was a demon, anyway, he had no interest in anything other than painting all day, and he sat in front of the sea for an afternoon, and he didn't know what he was looking at. Painters, there are always some things that are different from normal people, but how to say it, after staying with Ding Jian for a long time, you will feel that he is cold all over his body, and he is unspeakably uncomfortable.

Ding Jian has been very interested in all the dead corpses since the East Star came down, and those of us who fish have nothing awkward about dead corpses, and we have to deal with dead fish and shrimp every day. But Ding Jian, a dead fish, a dead bird, he just laid it on the deck, drawing one every day, drawing the process of those dead bodies decomposing, you say disgusting or not.

Wang Huzi later went to the boss of the boat and drank some wine with him. On the way back, the boat boss also became like a stuffy gourd, holding a wine bottle all day long, he was not a good drinker, the sea breeze was cold at night before he took two sips, and now he drank it, and he had something in his heart at a glance.

Wang Huzi told him about Ding Jian's abnormalities, but he couldn't arouse his interest at all, so he dealt with Wang Huzi a few words, and then drank wine, and a bottle of wine was almost finished, so he told Wang Huzi in a daze that he didn't go to the East Star to save Ding Jian that night, but he slept in a daze in the cockpit, and he didn't know how long he slept, but he had a strange dream, he dreamed that he came out of the cockpit, put down the boat, and rowed all the way to the soft ladder of the East Star.

At this time, the fog that hung over the Eastern Star had cleared for the most part, and the captain had just climbed up the soft ladder to the deck when he heard the sound of staggering footsteps ahead. The deck was pitch black, and not far away should be the bridge tower of the East Star and two huge gantry cranes, looming hidden in the mist, but for some reason, the body emitted a pale yellow light, like two huge monsters, slowly moving their bodies.

(The shape is above the rivers and seas, and the heart is under Wei Que, so it is silent and contemplative, thinking for thousands of years, quietly moving, and seeing thousands of miles.) - "Zhuangzi Let the King")