After staring at each other for a long time, neither Hao Jian nor I came up with the idea of repairing the ship, jumped out and sat on the ground leaning on the boat, Hao Jian took out two cigarettes and lit them and handed them to me.

The cigarettes we brought have long been smoked, this box was turned out in Hu Sanye's bag before, the cigarette box is metal, it is full of foreign languages and I don't know what brand, the cigarette is brown, about the thickness of the index finger, it is bitter and astringent and a little throaty to smoke, until a long time later I didn't know that this thing is also a cigar, just taste the aroma in the mouth, you can't suck it into your lungs at all.

Let's say that at the moment, Hao Jian and I are really tired enough to choke on the two dirt buns, pick up the cigar and smack it violently, I feel a little dizzy after three sips, I smacked my lips and threw the rest directly into the water, but for a senior smoker like Hao Jian, smoke is life, in this case, no matter how difficult the cigarette is, it will never be wasted, and I gritted my teeth and smoked a whole cigar.

Anyone who knows a cigar knows that this thing burns very slowly, if you light it and don't smoke it, it won't change much in those two hours, and it has been a long time since Hao Jian finished smoking that cigar, and I have not been idle during this time, and my mind has been thinking about how to repair the hole in the ship.

As the saying goes, "there is nothing difficult in the world, only afraid of people with hearts", under my racking of my brains, I really thought of a way to make do, I first found a suitable size of wood, soaked it and roasted it with fire, and then bent it into an arc that matched the bottom of the boat, covered the hole, and then cut off the rubber of the sole of the shoe and burned it and poured it on it, and a simple patch was completed.

Hao Jian couldn't believe it when he saw that I had made it so simple, so he knocked on the wooden board and asked, "Are you sure this thing is strong?" If half of the road leaks, the two of us will be embarrassed. ”

"Under normal circumstances, as long as you don't touch the rapids, it's fine, and after you get into the water, you just sit on this board and press the point, and it won't leak." I said it seriously, but I wasn't very sure.

If this matter is not done well, it will put his life into it, and others will definitely continue to question it, but Hao Jian has always trusted me unconditionally, and when he saw that I said so, he didn't talk nonsense, and ran to the bow of the boat to push the boat into the water, but as soon as he touched the boat, he let out an "oops".

I was shocked and hurriedly went over to check, and saw that Hao Jian's palm had been scratched, and at this time there was already blood on his hand, and the wound was very neat, as if it had been scratched by a sharp blade.

"How?" I asked, frowning.

"How the hell do I know! As soon as I made a lot of effort, I gave Lao Tzu a bit, and this dog's boat is aimed at me! ”

Hao Jian scolded and pointed at the bow of the ship, I raised the flashlight and leaned over, it turned out that there was a very thin piece of broken porcelain in the gap between the keel and the hull, patted Hao Jian and gloated: "It's not that people are targeting you, it's that you should be unlucky, such a big ship has a piece of porcelain here, but let you press it!" ”

"Fart! This must be someone targeting me! Hao Jian jumped to his feet angrily and scolded, two fingers pinched the broken porcelain piece and pulled it out as soon as he pulled it out, raised it above his head and was about to throw it, I inadvertently glanced at it, and found that there seemed to be something written on the porcelain piece, and hurriedly raised his hand: "Don't throw it!" Show me! ”

"What's so nice about a broken bowl?" Hao Jian rolled his eyes angrily, but still handed me the piece of porcelain.

I took the water and cleaned the blood stains and put it under the flashlight, and found that it was written in Li, "Fu Wei Shang Fang", this word is often used in sacrificial texts, is this piece of porcelain from a sacrificial vessel?

Hao Jian took out a bandage and bandaged the wound, but after listening to my findings, he didn't care much: "The sacrificial vessel is the sacrificial vessel, what does it have to do with us?" Hurry up and get the boat down to chase the little white face is the right thing, if something really happens after a while, it is estimated that we will not even be able to recover the corpse of the child! ”

"Phew! Crow's beak! I hurriedly slapped Hao Jian three times in a row, and said "It's weird" a few times, and then I got on the ground and turned my head to look at the bottom of the boat, if it was really like I thought, there should be the same thing at the bottom of the boat.

The boat should be sinking slowly in a relatively stable state, the bottom of the boat is embedded in the silt at the bottom of the river, and after a long time, it is wrapped in a thick mud shell, I used a small wooden board to hang off the silt on the surface, and I saw that the bottom of the boat was indeed engraved with many small characters.

The words on the bottom of the boat are the same as those on the porcelain tiles, they are all standard official books, probably because they are worried about affecting the tightness of the hull, so these words are engraved very shallowly, and then they are covered with silt in many places have been blurred, and some of the words of the official book I don't know, I can only read it with a guess in connection with the context, and sure enough, it is the same as I thought before, this is a sacrificial boat.

The original text on the bottom of the boat is sprinkled with hundreds of words, and most of them are blurry and illegible, so I won't repeat them here, which probably means to offer sacrifices to the river god on a certain year, month, and day, hoping to bless the wind and rain, the country and the people, and so on.

Hao Jian's face changed after hearing this, and he hugged his shoulders and looked at the sacrificial boat and asked tentatively: "Let's sit in the sacrificial boat, will the river god and his old man treat our brothers and sons as sacrifices?" Why don't you change it, there seem to be quite a few ships underneath! ”

"Those boats are definitely not as strong as this," I waved my hand and said firmly: "The ancient people were more superstitious, even if they couldn't eat, they didn't dare to be sloppy with the things they sacrificed to the gods, and they must have used the best materials at that time, and this time you really found a treasure!" ”

Hearing the word "baby", Hao Jian suddenly came to his senses, circled the boat three times, and asked excitedly: "Actually, this boat is not very heavy, how much can it be sold for if it is made out?" ”

"It's hard to say," I smacked my lips, "but for such a big thing, it would cost millions to say the least, right?" ”

"How many ...... Millions?! Hao Jian was so shocked that he almost didn't bite his tongue off, and he kissed him several times when he threw himself on the boat and didn't care if it was clean or not, I watched from the side and suddenly felt a little sorry for him, because no one dared to accept the things that were sacrificed to the gods, and the reason why he quoted a sky-high price was to let him get on the ship with peace of mind, after all, we would not necessarily come back here, only if Hao Jian treated this ship as a treasure, he would stay on the ship willingly.

When Hao Jian was enough, I also packed up my things and threw them on the boat, and then he and Xiao Hei pushed the boat into the water together, to my surprise, the boat was much heavier than I imagined, the waterline was almost two-thirds of the way to the hull, I could only silently pray that the next road would be calm, otherwise a wave would come up, even if the bottom of the boat did not leak, we would sink.

When the hull was stable, we climbed onto the boat and found an awkward problem: there were no oars on board.

Although the sacrificial boat is also a boat, it is more symbolic, no one will sail with this thing, so it is not strange that the boat is not equipped with oars, the key is that we can't do it without oars, is it true that we want to row without oars as said on the Internet - all by the waves?