It was a dark-faced young man with a pair of thick lenses, and what did not match his thin stature was a cart drawn at the end of a thick rope hanging from his shoulder.

The mountain road was rugged and the road was potholed, and it seemed that he was pulling with great difficulty, and he walked up to us sweating profusely and asked, "Is it you, you are going to Shanxia Village?" ”

I saw that he spoke Mandarin, and he looked like he had studied, so I asked, "Can you pull us across the river?" ”

The young man was about to speak, but the donkey puller hurriedly said, "College student, you are not at home to take care of your wife, why are you here to join in the fun?" ”

The young man ignored him, looked at me with his eyes and said, "Can you give six hundred?" ”

"If you can really pull us across the river, don't say six hundred, a thousand masters will also take care of it." Jin Yiyi said: "But we don't sit on this single-board car, it sinks too fast, it is better to swim over directly." ”

"Who said they were going to ride a solo car!" The young man blushed, "I have a boat, but you have to give me double the money before I can pull you over, and then I will return the rest of the money to you when I get ashore." ”

Jin Yiyi took a mouthful of Beijing films and said: "How can there be such a business in the world, when we are sent ashore, you take the money and run away, where will we reason." ”

The young man was anxious: "It's not for me to take the money, anyway, you can't love it, don't bring such an insult!" ”

I see that the sun is about to set at this time, if I can't cross the river now, I will have to be pulled back to the county seat by this donkey cart for one night, and come back tomorrow, this way down, the body and bones really can't withstand such a toss, so I made a round and said: "It's no problem to give you money, but what is said here, you have to tell us, let us rest assured, right?" ”

The young man shook his head: "You can't say it before crossing the river, and if you say it, it won't work." ”

Well, I'm looking at Jinyi, which means that you brought the place, and you can do it yourself.

Jin Yiyi straightened his teeth, and it is estimated that he didn't expect that he would worship these twenty-four worships, so he almost had a problem with this last trembling, and his head was full of sweat, and he muttered: "It doesn't matter if you have money or not, but how do I think you don't look like a good person?" ”

"You're not a good person, you have the ability to swim over by yourself, I won't pull you anymore!"

I noticed that this young man deliberately said the word "crossing" in "ferry" several times as "pull", as if it was a bit of an off-string sound, and before he could think about it too clearly, he heard Tong Xiaomeng say: "Deal, one thousand and two is right, I'll give it to you now." ”

Seeing Tong Xiaomeng take out the money from the pocket of her clothes, Jin Yiyi hurriedly grabbed her: "Really give it?" ”

Tong Xiaomeng said: "I believe in him, if you don't want to give, I'll just give." ”

I gave Jin Yiyi a look, and saw that he reluctantly took out six hundred yuan from his wallet and handed it to the young man, so he asked, "When can I cross the river?" ”

The young man said, "Wait for me at the mouth of the river, and I'll pick you up when I send the cart." ”

Watching the young man pull the cart away from sight, the donkey driver said to us, "I don't know if what you did is right, anyway, he won't cheat you, don't worry." ”

I asked curiously, "You just called him a college student, do you know this young man?" ”

The coachman smiled: "He was supposed to be a college student, but when he got the notice, the old lady fell ill and was sent to the hospital to find out whether it was liver cancer or advanced stage, and the doctor said that he needed to change his liver to live a few more days, and the orphans and widows had no father, where do you say he got the money?" ”

The coachman drove the donkey cart to the mouth of the river, and the three of them sat in the cart and suddenly no one spoke, quietly, and when they reached the mouth of the river, I settled the money for him, handed him a cigarette before leaving, and asked, "Since you know who he is, why didn't you tell us earlier?" ”

The coachman lit the cigarette, put it in his mouth, squinted his eyes in the clouds and said: "He didn't let him speak, saying that he earned money by labor, and he was not ashamed, but this kid has a little ability, but his temper is a little weird, such a big river, you can let him light it on the boat, anyway, it's just to cross the river, just go ashore, don't care so much." ”

"You mean, he can really cross the river with us?" I asked.

"Hehe, in the past two months, he dared to go to Shanxia Village by the river, he was the only one who in scorpions, and he didn't have any real skills, and no one really crossed the river."

I saw that the coachman was talking secretly, so I stuffed a box of Yuxi that had just been opened into his hand and asked, "Then is there any famous place in this river, otherwise, so many boatmen, how can he dare to cross this river?" ”

The coachman grinned and stuffed the cigarette into his pocket, looked around, and then lowered his voice and said: "I see that you are not mortals, to tell you the truth, just this month, I have pulled more than one wave of outsiders to Shanxia Village, so far I have not seen a single repeat customer, and it is also good to not let you come here before, since you have to go, I advise you a word, there are all rare things in this Yellow River, and some things are fresh and fresh, but don't think about taking them, there are some things, but there are masters!" ”

After the coachman left, Jin Yiyi slammed his mouth and said, "How can I smell the feeling of the fairy jumping?" ”

I don't know where the young man sent the cart, the three of them were thrown at the mouth of the river and waited until it was almost dark and did not see a single figure, watching the boatmen on the shore all gone, even I was a little suspicious that I was really trapped, and was jumped by two immortals in this poor mountain remote area.

But Tong Xiaomeng has always been very sure of her intuition, she said that she can see different things in that person's eyes, which is not sincere, but there is no deception.

Jin Yiyi admired Tong Xiaomeng's eyesight very much, with such thick lenses, he didn't even see the eyeballs, and he was curious about how Tong Xiaomeng saw purity.

Fortunately, after waiting for less than 20 minutes, I saw the river upstream, and the shadow rowed down a boat, the boat went from far to near, and saw that the young man standing at the bow of the boat was the young man before, Tong Xiaomeng said to Jin Yiyi:

"To look at the world with kindness, it is also stepping on a piece of shit, some people feel that they have taken shit luck, and they are not good to get rich, so they are secretly cool; Some people feel that the shit is dirty, they feel that they have poured blood mold, so they are depressed, you see, whether they are happy or not, it is not the shit that decides, it is what you think of this shit. ”

After listening to these words, I don't care if the shit is dirty or not, but I feel that this bubble of shit is quite felt by her cultural person.

The young man parked the boat on the shore with the long artemisia, and while apologizing, he explained that the boat was parked upstream, and he didn't know which grandson had smashed a small hole with a stone, and it took a long time to make up for it, and now he could take us across the river.

I glanced at Jin Yiyi and saw that his face was pale, so I smiled and said, "Look, someone has stepped on dog shit." ”

I asked the young man's name, and he said that his name was Chen Tao, and he had been with Tong Xiaomeng for a year, and he had been in this business for four years.

Tong Xiaomeng asked him if he didn't have the idea of going to college again, I thought it was stupid to ask, Chen Tao also shook his head silently and didn't speak.

Chen Tao said that although we are from the capital, but in the past, Qianlong Ye crossed the Yellow River and burned paper to bow down in accordance with the rules.

The so-called following the customs of the locals, since there are so many boatmen, he is the only one who is willing to pull us across the river to Shanxia Village, it is certainly not for nothing, and Jin Yiyi and I often deal with the Yellow River, knowing the evil place of the Yellow River, so we are naturally full of promises.

Chen Tao had already prepared the paper candles used to sacrifice the river, he inserted two lit red wax into the mud of the river beach, and one person stuffed a pile of yellow paper in his hand, and according to his instructions, several people knelt behind him, kowtowing to the Yellow River while burning paper.

I think this scene is quite ridiculous, but when I think back to the scenes I experienced in Hezi Village, I can't help but feel solemn about this big river, and at the same time, I glanced at Tong Xiaomeng next to me out of the corner of my eye, and found that she was closing her eyes, bowing her head with a reverent face, knowing that judging from the first time I got along with her in the car, she must have thought of going with me.