When she said this, I was also a little confused.

That's right, this bay road between the big and small mounds is indeed the narrowest part of the nearby Zhulong River.

Not only is it narrow, but if you look at the two endpoints of the big horse mound and the small horse mound, the river channel has a bend of nearly 90 degrees at these two endpoints.

In other words, it is the part between the two hills, like half a chessboard, squarely embedded in the direction of the river.

I remember my father said that when he was a child, the water of the Zhulong River was very large, and it was inconvenient for the people on both sides of the river to come and go, so he decided to choose a place as a ferry.

The boatmen went down the Zhulong River and found that the river between the big and small mounds was the narrowest, and the river was deep, and there were no mudflats.

But after the ferry was built, there were two inexplicable accidents for some reason, and when the boat was in the middle of the stream, it suddenly capsized.

Although the boat capsized, fortunately the population was unharmed, but some belongings were lost, but the ferry boat did not dare to take any more risks. The Maqiu Ferry was then discontinued and replaced with Liangdian Bridge, where the water flow was stable.

I told Shen Yu about the ferry back then, and she asked me immediately.

"Where is the ferry? What about ferry routes? ”

However, how do I know this, it was when my father was a child, and I guess I have to remember the characters of my grandparents.

Shen Yu was a little disappointed, she looked at me and said, "If you have time, you really have to stay here and investigate it carefully." ”

"Shall you go over there?" I asked, pointing to Pony.

"Well," she nodded, "how about we walk through the river?" ”

"Aren't you afraid of sneakers filled with sand?"

"Don't be afraid, you can brush my shoes and wash my socks when I go back."

"Good, good!"

"Why did you say yes so quickly?" Shen Yuhu looked at me suspiciously, "You don't like to lick socks like those lewd men, do you?" ”

"How could it be...... Where do you see all this nonsense......" I suddenly thought that Hua Yu had said that Shen Yu actually had a lot of words such as "old driver" and "acceleration" in his mind - I originally thought she was talking nonsense, but now it seems to be true.

"I-" Shen Yu's face flushed when I said it, "I'm giving you a reminder, I'm in ME TAO now, even if that woman has any bad intentions for you when she appears, I will sue you for sexual assault!" ”

“……”

The two of us trudged through the riverbed full of white sand, Shen Yu scolded me, but his eyes were not idle for a moment.

Whenever she saw something in the white sand, she would stop and look twice.

As mentioned before, the river is actually some distance away from several surrounding villages, and the nearby villages are mainly engaged in agriculture and the industry is not very developed, so the river water has not been polluted by industry, and there is relatively little domestic waste.

As a result, most of the remnants on the riverbed are dry grass barley that grew as it dries up, and the bones of animals that presumably drowned in the river before, as well as rotten fishing nets, broken wood, broken pieces of iron, and the like.

"What is this?" Shen Yu picked up a pottery shard from the white sand and asked.

I looked down and saw that what she was holding in her hand was a light brown and indigo faience pottery, and there were irregular wisps of lines on the pottery shard, because the pottery shard was so small that I couldn't tell what it was.

The two of us took it in our hands, polished the glaze on one side of the pottery shard, and looked at it over and over for a long time without eyebrows.

"Let's take it first, and go back to someone and ask." Shen Yu stuffed the pottery shards into his carry-on backpack.

It was about seven or eight hundred meters from Damaqiu to Xiaomaqiu, but because of the soft sand and the stoppage, we walked for half an hour.

The Little Machu looks much shorter than the Big Machull, and because of the gentle slope, someone has long since reclaimed it and planted rows of sweet potato seedlings on it.

I was afraid that Shen Yu would trip over the sweet potato seedlings crawling around, so I kept following her closely, stretching out a hand, ready to support her at any time. However, the ground is hard, and it is much easier to climb than the big pony.

Standing on the pony mound and looking around, the two 90-degree bends of the Zhulong River channel are even more obvious.

"When I was in elementary school, there was still a half-pulled stone tablet erected under the pony mound, and the words on the stone tablet had long been smoothed, and then when I went to junior high school, even the stone tablet was gone." I said to Shen Yu.

"Was it taken away?"

"It's possible, maybe they'll all be hewn into stone and built walls to pave the yard." I say.

"It's a shame." She sighed, then pointed to the west and asked, "At that time, the black ship appeared from the bend of Damaqiu, and then disappeared behind the bend of Xiaomaqiu, right?" ”

"Yes, that's right, the black ship is very high, and there is an attic on it. There is a monster in front of the ship, and there is a woman in red on board. "I gave a brief summary of what I saw at the time.

Shen Yu pointed to a five-hole stone bridge in the distance to the east of Xiaomaqiu and asked, "What is that bridge called?" ”

"Liangdian Bridge, it is said that a long time ago, there was a temple opposite the bridge, and the main hall of the temple had a huge beam wood, so it was called Liangdian. The name of the bridge is also due to the attack. ”

"Where's the temple?"

"Who knows, it is estimated that it was not there eight hundred years ago, my grandfather once said that even his grandfather had never seen that temple."

"Where do you think the Black Ship will end up?" Shen Yu asked.

"I don't know, anyway, if I turn around this bend, I won't be able to see."

She pointed to the Liangdian Bridge in the distance, and then asked, "Can the height of the black ship in your memory pass through the low stone bridge in front?" ”

"Ahh I was stunned for a moment.

yes, how did it get by?

I had never thought about this before. The black boat was sailed downstream, but soon after turning the bay of the Little Maqiu River was the Liangdian Bridge, which, according to my recollection, was at least a building boat more than two meters high on the water.

And that day the torrential rain was flooding, the Zhulong River has flooded the riverbed, and the Liangdian Bridge not far in front is only a little more than a meter away from the water surface.

If so, where else can the black ship go? Can it only be moored between the Little Pony Hill and the Liangdian Bridge?

However, how come such an eye-piercing boat has never heard rumors from other people in the neighboring villages?

The more I think about these things, the more weird I feel.

Shen Yu glanced at me and walked to the bottom of the pony mound by himself.

"Where did you see the Black Ship?" I asked her.

"You'll find out today." She said.

"You're the only one who sees the black ship?" I asked again.

"Yes." She spoke succinctly.

The two of us crossed the dry riverbed and walked to the opposite bank to drop off the car, just in time to meet a diesel tricycle suddenly driving up with black smoke.

I hurriedly grabbed Shen Yu and gave way to it, but I didn't expect the tricycle to step on the brakes and stop beside me impartially.