Chapter 10: Abnormality
The rising winter day is shrouded in clouds, the sky is gray in the early morning, and the river is cold and foggy.
The hull of the cargo ship broke through the turbulent river and went all the way north.
The ferrymen who were driven to the deck of the cargo ship shivered from the thick cold and humidity of the river. Many people shrunk their necks, folded their hands, and stomped their feet, but they still couldn't stop their teeth from chattering up and down.
Coriander's hands and feet are cold, and her icy face is like a natural unmodified jade that is white and red, and she is still reminiscent of the word "ice clear and jade" when she is dressed as a teenager.
Coriander pulled out a cotton and linen scarf from her baggage, and while complaining, she put the scarf on Parsley.
"I said a long time ago that you would stay at home, but you were disobedient, now it's okay, you know what it's like to be sinned!"
As the saying goes, "If you don't listen to good people, you will suffer in front of you". Coriander really thinks that his sister is a flower bone raised in a greenhouse, and she can't bear the hardships of the wind and rain outside. Maybe the coriander in the past was what he thought, but after being reborn, the current coriander is no longer the original coriander whose eyes were only limited to Yushui Township.
If the coriander doesn't come out with the coriander, I don't know who will really suffer, and I'm afraid the coriander won't be able to get on the boat to Shanghai.
Afraid of hurting Coriander's self-esteem, Coriander didn't say anything arrogant, grinned and took off the scarf and gave half of it to Coriander, "Let's circle together!" β
Coriander deliberately reprimanded her with a tiger face, "You can still laugh!" β
Coriander picked up the nice words, and said softly: "It's been a long time since I've seen my father, and I've almost forgotten what his face looks like." You think I don't want to go to Shanghai to find my father, I want to do it more than you, okay? Growing up, I haven't traveled far and have the opportunity to go to the big city, do you think I can sit at home? She shook Coriander's arm, "When I arrived in Shanghai, I found our father and asked him to take us around." β
Coriander's face was relaxed, she didn't really get angry with coriander, she just complained out of distress.
"Okay, brother is not cold, you can surround yourself." He put the scarf back on Coriander, and looked a little anxiously over Parsley's weak shoulders in the direction of the cargo hold.
The wooden door of the cargo hold did not close, but since one man had entered, the man with the harpoon stood at the door like a doorman, glaring fiercely at anyone with a swarthy face when he saw anyone approaching.
The snow was falling, the temperature was getting colder, and the ferrymen on the deck gradually couldn't hold it anymore. Although the inside of the cargo hold is not warm, at least it is a place that can shelter from the wind and snow, but it is so cold outside that people are about to freeze into popsicles!
Coriander was anxious and angry, their brother and sister spent a whole silver dollar on the ship, but not to suffer this sin!
He couldn't help but muffled and said, "What kind of fame are these people doing, will they ......?"
Coriander's eyes were bright, and she knew that what he was going to say was something strange in the rice bag, so she quickly poked his lower abdomen with her elbow and motioned him to stop with her eyes.
She whispered, "Didn't I tell you not to meddle in your business!"
When Coriander moved the rice bag in the middle of the night, he found that there were other things in the rice bag besides rice, and he didn't think much about it at the time, and after mentioning it to the coriander, he was taught a few words by her, and his heart was like grass growing in his heart, and he was more and more concerned and curious about what was in the rice bag.
He vaguely felt that Jiang Fatzi and the others had arrived in the cargo hold to check what was hidden in the rice bag.
Touching the coriander's tense face, the coriander wanted to speak and stopped.
Coriander couldn't swallow a sigh of relief, and after going out, he always felt that the coriander was very abnormal, and he couldn't say what was wrong......
Perhaps after checking the goods, Jiang Fatzi's man came out of the cargo hold and left with the black-faced man holding a harpoon at the door of the cargo hold.
The ferrymen, shivering from the cold on the deck, rushed into the hold, and when the coriander and coriander entered, they found that their original position had been robbed.
This position was carefully built by Coriander after working hard for half the night, how could he be willing to be robbed of such a good place, and immediately frowned and glared at the person who grabbed their position.
Cilantro felt that they were fast enough, but she didn't expect that it was the unlucky boy who looked clumsy and rushed into the cargo hold first. It was this hapless teenager who snatched their place.
Coriander angrily emphasized: "This is our position!"
The unlucky young man had a flattering smile on his face, and bowed his head to the coriander, "I know this is the position of the two of you," he folded his hands and alternately waved the coriander and coriander, and begged in a good voice, "Don't worry, two little brothers, I don't want to occupy your place, I just want to ask the two of you to let me squeeze in your place, I really can't stand the smell in the cabin!" β
Coriander escorted Coriander into their haven and threw a very unkind eye knife at the hapless boy.
The unlucky young man knew each other very well, and moved the place inside to them, and sat honestly close to the outside, without the slightest resentment on his face. He clasped his hands and stared at her silently for a week, as if he noticed the staring of coriander, and deliberately turned around and smiled at her.
From his childish face, he couldn't tell the slightest bit of scheming Chengfu, he looked so innocent and harmless.
Vanilla felt more and more that the identity of this unlucky boy was delicate-
Since he was a ferryman going north to Shanghai like them, he was empty-handed, and he didn't have a bag by his side.
Not only that, but his thin gray old cotton suit seemed to be relatively low-key, but there was no half patch on his body, and there were no stitches in the side seams of the clothes. The workmanship of this garment is obviously not from the hands of ordinary people.
Coriander knows that they are the best tailors within a radius of ten miles from Yushui Township, and they are afraid that they do not have such a level of craftsmanship.
This unlucky young man, shouldn't it be Jiang Fatzi who was planted in the ferry?
Thinking of this possibility, Coriander's face changed slightly.
She regretted wanting to bite her tongue off, she shouldn't have let the coriander touch the rice bags at night!
The hapless boy approached them, most likely because he suspected that they had found the name in the rice bag!
Coriander was immersed in the world of her own conspiracy theories, and she had an extra hand in front of her, holding half a pot in her hand.
She looked up and saw that the coriander had already nibbled on the other half of the pot.
"Eat some, I didn't eat last night." Coriander crunched on the pot.
Coriander took the pot and didn't know how to eat it because she was so preoccupied. She squinted her eyes, and her heart skipped a beat in frightβ
The hapless boy didn't know when he left his place, and crouched in front of their brother and sister, drooling like a gluttonous dog, staring at the pot in their hands. Coriander didn't even notice his approach!
Coriander sighed secretly, this unlucky boy is really not simple!
Who is the other person?
"What do you eat that seems to be delicious?" The hapless boy spoke.
"Gollum-" The unlucky boy's stomach sang about the empty city.
Coriander first glanced at Coriander's face, and saw that she ignored the unlucky young man's meaning, and he also turned a deaf ear to the man.
The unlucky boy wagged his tail and begged for mercy, looking more and more depressed.
Coriander really couldn't stand being stared at by his watery eyes, and finally couldn't help but say to Coriander: "Brother, give him half a sheet!"
Coriander seemed to be ready to give generously, and with a "eh" full of interest, she untied her burden and broke half a pot for the unlucky boy.
The unlucky young man held the pot and feasted on it, and said words of gratitude, "Thank you, you two are really nice people - mmmm, delicious and delicious, so delicious!" β
Coriander was the same age as the unlucky boy, and because he was hungry for half a pot, the two started talking.
The unlucky boy solved half a pot in three or two, looking at his gobbling up food, it seemed that he had been hungry for several days, and Coriander kindly gave him half a pot again.
The unlucky boy was eating with relish, so he heard the coriander ask him, "Didn't you go out with dry food?" β
The unlucky young man became melancholy, and sighed and talked about his pitiful experience, "Little brother doesn't know, I went out to run errands and met a thief who stole my luggage, and my dry food and money are in my luggage!" β
"That's bad luck." Coriander showed a little sympathy, and after a while, she wondered, "Then how did you get on the boat?" β
"This ......" The unlucky young man staggered, but he reacted quickly enough to pick up immediately, "My luggage is gone, and I have a silver dollar left on my body, and I can't buy a ticket home for a silver dollar, so I followed the fat man on the boat......"
"So your home is in Shanghai!" It turned out to be someone from a big city, and Coriander couldn't hide the envy on his face. "You give the fat man a silver dollar? Are you alone? Didn't you say two people for a silver dollar? β
The unlucky boy slapped his thigh, indignant, and called himself fooled.
Listening to them talk was boring, and the coriander was sleepy on the side.