Chapter 35: A Little Story (1)
This happened the night after I had a conversation with Venster and Abe Sojun at the Beijing Hotel.
Because everyone drank a little too much, we simply didn't plan to go there again, so we just found a hotel near Bauhinia City and checked in hastily.
Unfortunately, there are only double rooms left in this hotel. Unfortunately, I was forced to get together with Kim Bucktooth.
I thought I would go to bed as soon as I went back, but I couldn't stand the stinky feet and stinky leather shoes that Jin Da Luo's teeth hadn't washed for a few days. I had to get up and smoke five or six cigarettes in a row.
But it just kept me awake.
No, I had to spill my anger on the side of the pig-like golden bucktooth, and let him sit with me.
Jin Da Bucktooth was drinking too much at first, and he was clamoring to sleep. But then, for some reason, he sat on the bed again and didn't say a word.
When I threw a cigarette to him, he picked it up and took a big puff.
After a long time, he slowly spit out a circle in his eyes and sighed: "I can't sleep either, so let's just tell you the story of what happened before and after me and your grandfather arrived in that village." ”
With that, he silently took a few puffs of cigarette and added, "It's a story I'll never forget in my life, but after tonight, I may forget." So, you can listen to it as a story......"
——Narrated from the perspective of Jin Da Bucktooth——
When do you start? Let's talk about the situation when I was young, when I was a big egg, I was very good in water, because I grew up by the Yellow River, since I could walk, I was taken by my father to the Yellow River to practice water.
Over time, I also became a standard man raised by the Yellow River.
However, I am not the only one in our village who has good water quality.
Every family here is sure to raise a few men who are very good at water.
Why?
Because our life is to rely on people with good water properties at home, go down to the Yellow River to dig up the treasures at the bottom of the Yellow River, and sell them for money.
It's a chore, because even a "frogman" with excellent water quality will sometimes overturn.
Xiang drowned a man like this, and the people in the village said that he was captured by the river god of the Yellow River to be a sailor and a sailor. Under normal circumstances, they would not go down to collect the body, and even if there were other people around at the time, those people would not go to collect the dead......
There are often things about the dead, but the things that go down to the Yellow River to dig things still have to be carried out......
Let's talk about what can be dug up in the Yellow River.
According to my father, this was a critical place, and many wars, large and small, took place in this wasteland.
Naturally, some of the Iron Riding Bronzes would fall into the Yellow River. Although it will be washed downstream, most of it will settle directly into the sea.
Occasionally, there are antiques or objects such as gold and silver.
But in fact, except for the rusty bronze and iron tools that can no longer be seen clearly. I have never seen gold or silver fished out of the Yellow River.
But at that time, there would be legends every once in a while that someone from a certain family had scooped up a lot of gold bars from under the Yellow River.
This was really envious and jealous for me at the time. So the next day I went down dozens of times, desperately trying to dig gold out of the Yellow River.
The result can be imagined, in addition to bronze ironware, it is also bronze ironware......
But a few days later, when I heard that someone had fished out gold and other treasures from underneath, I immediately regained my confidence and went into the water to dig for things.
And so the days went by, day after day......
It wasn't until I was 18 years old that a sudden accident changed the fate of me and my village.
As I said earlier, people who do things like ours mainly look at the sky, and God wants you to drown today, and you can't do anything about it.
If you drown, you will drown, and you will not collect the corpse of those who can collect it! Over time, you can think about how many lonely souls who have died in vain and loved their homes wandering around the Yellow River?
It's not me who blows, I've seen the corpses sinking to the bottom of the Yellow River more than once. A few times, I could even feel that they were still alive, staring directly at me with their greedy eyes open at the bottom of the Yellow River.
I don't know how many times I've seen a dead body, but since that time, I've been sick since I went back.
Not physically sick, but mentally!
Can you know what it's like to know that you're going to die at any moment, and you're going to be an accomplice to those lonely ghosts at any time.
God, who in this world doesn't cherish their lives, I admit it, I'm afraid of death, but I'm even more afraid of dying there, and my body won't be able to return home, and I won't be able to enter my ancestral grave.
So, after that depression and illness, I begged my father to let me go out to work, I don't want to fish in the river every day.
In the end, my father beat me up and told me: "We are children of the Yellow River, we have received a lot of gifts from the Yellow River in this life, and it is the Yellow River that has raised our village." You just want to get the benefits out of the river like this? Tell you that you want to leave unless Lao Tzu is dead! ”
At that time, I knew that without this river, without this village, I would be a useless person, and I didn't know how to live. So I didn't talk about it again.
After a pause, I felt like I was getting better again......
However, the day before I was about to go down again, my father died......
Yes, just like the men who drowned in the river, he also lost his footing and drowned.
Although the people who were with him at that time were only a dozen meters away from him. But based on the circumstances, the chances of him being saved were close to zero.
Those people had to watch indifferently on the shore as my father was submerged by the Yellow River and disappeared......
I know that this is his fate, it is the Lord of Huang He who wants him to be a sailor.
There's no way around it......
But the responsibility of exchanging money for the whole family fell on my shoulders.
So the next day, I put away my grief and jumped into the river again in my simple wetsuit......
I didn't expect to see my father after I dived more than ten meters!
It was indeed my father, who was staring at me with wide eyes and resentment!
I almost wanted to run away from here, but suddenly there was a golden glow underneath......
It's gold! It's the gold that other people often talk about!
The gold was in a broken copper box, just behind my father's corpse!
At the same time, I heard someone next door shouting, "The Yellow River undercurrent is coming!" The undercurrent of the Yellow River is coming! ”
I was shocked, how could this be an undercurrent?
As soon as the undercurrent comes, that box of gold will inevitably be washed away!
But if I go and bring the gold now, the odds of life and death will be fifty each.
Give it a go!
I decided not to hesitate any longer and went down and scooped up the box of gold.
As I passed by my father's body, I seemed to hear his voice
"Son, I realized that I was wrong, and this Yellow River is no longer the Yellow River it used to be. Son, take this box of gold, take the family with you, fly away, and never come back! ”
That's what I remembered later, and I couldn't care about it at the time. His heart was on the chest of gold.
As a result, the gold was obtained, and the undercurrent came.
I was pulled by the undercurrent, and it kept spinning. I thought to myself, now it's time to play, and I have to go with my father.
But...... I don't know if my dad has appeared, but I feel like I'm floating up.
I opened my eyes and saw that I was really floating upward. At that moment, I felt that my father had manifested himself.
Instantly, I was a little nervous.
At that moment, I heard my father whisper in my ear, "Son, look down, and remember, the farther away you can from this thing, the better!" ”
I heard this at the time, and I heard it clearly.
So I looked down, and guess what I saw?
A ship, a ghost ship, in the undercurrent, moving with the undercurrent. Or rather, it's the undercurrent that it's moving!
Seeing this, my newly recovered blood pressure instantly rose again.
I just fainted......