"What's wrong?" I'm baffled.

"Hey," said the mother with a giggle, "I discussed with your father, you don't have a girlfriend at such an age, do you like boys!" ”

"That's it," said the father, wiping tears from his eyes, "you have to be mentally prepared if you bring a boyfriend back one day and say, 'Mom and Dad, I want to marry him—then we have to agree if we don't agree......

"Yes, I still advise your dad. What kind of man or woman, you just want to be happy in this life......" said the mother.

"Words!" Shen Yu "snapped" and put down the chopsticks, "Why didn't I know you were still bisexual!" ”

I'm so angry and laughing, I really don't know what parents think - can't they see that their child is a straight man?!

Even if you can't see it, the two of you will return a sentence to me, and even I will make up my brain when I take my boyfriend home and come out of the closet! Did they all go to watch Tan Meiwen when they had nothing to do?! Isn't that messing with me!

Add chaos to chaos! I really don't know why they are talking about these things in front of Shen Yu!

What mistakes did I make in my last life, what kind of birth did I cast, so I chose these two old and rotten parents!

"Little Miss Shen, don't misunderstand, don't misunderstand." The father probably just realized that he had said the wrong thing, and quickly explained, "My mother and I often study the marriage and love problems of Yan Zhu on the Internet, so we still have some understanding of the LGBT community - Yan Zhu can chase such a beautiful girl as you, which means that he is still straight, and it is definitely not a 'competition to say'." ”

"What can you say about the game"? After thinking about it, I realized that what my father was saying was actually "bisexual", but the pronunciation was really not standard.

"Well, straight men don't have much fun, and their imagination is like a potato - he agrees with that." Mother also began to play round.

"Haha, uncle and aunt, I know - he has been chasing me for so many years, and he has already seen it." Shen Yu is really happy today, and he can act to scare people.

......

After lunch, I was going to take Shen Yu to the Zhulong River for a spin, and then the two of us planned to go back to Gaoguo directly, and then take the car to Songshan to see the place where Shen Yu witnessed the black boat back then.

"Little Miss Shen, I really can't bear you to go. I don't care if he can catch up with you, I'll come to play often in the future. Mother sent us to the mouth of the alley, grabbed Shen Yu's hand and said.

"Don't worry, Auntie." Shen Yu gave her mother a simple hug.

There was already a circle of neighbors at the mouth of the alley, and the six aunts were also standing there excitedly.

"How handsome! Even if the heavenly immortals descend to earth, they will look like this! She kept whispering to the neighbors.

Shen Yu gently tugged at the corner of my clothes, I pulled the car door for her, and then turned around and sat in the driver's seat.

"Dad, Mom, let's go." I rolled my window to greet them.

I drove out of the village with Shen Yu in my car.

"Really...... I'm sorry for you. I said to her with gratitude.

She didn't speak, but shook her head gently. Her eyes were staring ahead, and she looked quite touched.

"I envy you." She suddenly said, "There is such a good family, such good parents. ”

"They're all ordinary people." I say.

"Ordinary people are good. If I wasn't in a hurry, I would have liked to stay with them for a few more days. Shen Yu sighed, she raised her hand and wiped the corners of her eyes inadvertently, paused for a moment and said, "My childhood was really miserable. ”

She didn't say any more, and I didn't bother to ask more. But I know that as the secrets around me are revealed, I will definitely understand Shen Yu more completely, and understand this mysterious, intelligent, obedient, kind but sometimes lonely and helpless girl.

"Oh yes, what is the relationship between you and that Wen Tingxu?"

"It's really okay, it's just classmates and friends......"

"Definitely not! You actually go home and still think about him every day! Hurry up and explain it honestly! ”

……

I haven't come back for a few years, and the old Zhulong River has completely dried up.

The drying up of the Zhulong River is not due to drought, the Qiling Mountains have been smooth in wind and rain over the years, and the water and soil are still abundant. It's just that a few years ago, a water diversion project was carried out, and the Zhulong River was cut off and straightened, so a section of the river passing through Baota Village was abandoned and replaced with a new river, and the river naturally became a waste river, and the bottom of the river slowly turned into yellow sand.

I parked the car on the edge of the Zhulong River, and then took Shen Yu through the withered reeds and walked towards the bottom of the river.

It is said that in ancient times, the old Zhulong River was dredged, and the dredged sediment accumulated at the two bays on the opposite side, and two small hills were piled up respectively, looking like two white horses guarding the river from a distance.

Legend has it that there was a gentleman in the village who named them Damaqiu and Xiaomaqiu, and also attached a landscape called "Shuangma Drinking River".

To this day, witnessing the passage of the black ship back then is still vivid in my mind like a movie.

I remember very well that the black boat was slowly coming from the direction of Damaqiu, and then disappeared behind the bend of Xiaomaqiu.

I showed Shen Yu the route of the black boat, Shen Yu was not afraid of the soles of her shoes getting into the soil, she went down to the bottom of the river, stepped on the thick white sand, and walked to the bottom of the big hill.

"You see, there is a big bend in front of here, and the river below the big horse mound was the widest in a radius of more than ten miles. After the big moll, the river gradually narrowed, and the speed of the river increased a lot, and the small pony mound in front of it was the narrowest part of the nearby river, and after turning that bend, it slowly widened again. I explained to Shen Yu.

Shen Yu nodded, and she walked slowly towards the big mound, and I followed closely behind her.

A place with a height always looks close and a walk far. Coupled with the soft sand beneath our feet, it took us about 20 minutes to climb to the top of the hill.

Shen Yu stood on a high place, looking around, and kept saying "strange" in his mouth.

"Strange? What's weird? I asked.

After all, I was born here and grew up here. The Zhulong River is a "holy place" for children in Pagoda Village to play since childhood, if there is really anything strange, I am afraid we have already found it.

"The strange thing is what you just said." Shen Yu looked at me and said, "Look, from a distance, there are plains in a radius of dozens of miles, and judging from the varieties of crops planted, the soil quality is similar. Right? ”

"That's right, the area around here is all sandy land washed by the Zhulong River, and it's best to grow sweet potatoes, peanuts, watermelons, potatoes, and so on." I say.

"The sandy soil is loose and soft, so when it comes to rivers, it must be very malleable, right?" Shen Yu continued, "But like you said, the course of the Zhulong River suddenly narrowed between these two mounds, and the narrowing was very large. But after passing through this stretch of the river, it suddenly expands again - isn't it strange?

"It stands to reason that even if the river is really narrow at first, the water will become faster and faster in a narrow place, and if the soil is of the same quality, then the water will cut the soil like a sculptor, and finally the river will be about the same width.

"But why has the course of the Zhulong River remained in such a state of sudden contraction after thousands of years?"