Chapter 7 Variables (15)
On this small boat across the mountains and seas, thousands of miles away, she was shocked to hear someone announce her name and hometown! She snapped open her eyes and blurted out, "How do you know?" β
The man in front of him looked a few years older than Sha Ting, tall and strong, his face tanned by the sun, a pair of thick eyebrows raised upward, and his dense eyelashes could not hide the smile in his eyes, and he seemed to be proud that he had guessed where Sha Ting came from.
My name was on the admission notice, and he could call it out after reading it. But what about hometown? Could it be that I whispered what was in my heart so that he could hear it? Sha Ting quickly looked at the other partyβdark red linen short sleeves and trousers of the same color, and a golden crow with wings embroidered with gold thread on her chest.
"Are you the master of the Golden Crow? You have my details, don't you? Sha Ting asked with confusion.
The young man patted the edge of the boat and laughed, "They don't call Master here, they call Teacher here." Of course, I'm not a master or a teacher, I'm just a boatman in the Golden Crow. There are a total of twenty sampan boats that are usually responsible for transporting students to and from this flaming lake, and five of them are under my control! He puffed out his chest proudly, and then said, "I don't have any information about you, I guessed it by your accent!" The people of Poseidon Island will unconsciously use a descending tone when they speak, and the locals of Smoke Town especially like to pronounce the descending sound of the word 'I' obviously, my grandmother and aunt all speak like this, exactly the same as your accent. He grinned at Sha Ting, "I grew up with my grandmother in Port City when I was a child, and I went to Sun God Island to join my parents when I was a teenager. Almost ten years have passed like this, but the voice of the hometown in the crowd can still be distinguished at once! β
Sha Ting was a little dazed, she didn't expect to meet someone from Hong Kong City here, and the other party was just a boatman, so she had to get along with him?
"Where are you from Port City?" Before Sha Ting could speak, the man spoke again with a happy smile, "My grandmother has a boat shop on Hai Street in Nail Horn Bay, and now it should be my aunt who runs it, and it is the third generation to pass it on to her!" The shipyard shop is also well-known in Hong Kong City, and it uses our family's surname "Meitang", have you heard of it? β
Sha Ting tried her best to suppress the urge to shout!
Meitang Boat Rope Shop, how could she not know?! My brother worked in the cable shop before he went to work in the gem mine. The old lady in the shop had fallen twice, both of which her mother had gone to see her, and then the old lady had forgotten everything and was just smiling at the passers-by. The shop was run by her daughter's family. The fat woman and her strong husband were good-hearted people, and they took her brother in as an apprentice, taught him all kinds of knowledge and trades, and never defaulted on his wages. Even after he left the shop to work in the gem mines, he was still missed. Sha Ting remembered that the proprietress had made a special trip to Smoky Town after Ah Xun's death, and she must have heard about Ah Xun somewhere, because her eyes were red from crying, and she walked past Wota and Seren Yin with a frown, without looking at them. She brought him a brown silk funeral gown with a carved wood arm hidden in the right sleeve of the funeral robe. The elder brother finally left in that suit, and the wooden arm was attached to the severed shoulder, and there was no difference between it and someone else's corpse.
"Meitang boat shop? I know that shop ......" Sha Ting clutched the ginger leaf in her hand tightly, and was about to speak when she was about to speak, when a surprise shout came from the bow of the boat - "Rainbow~!" β
"Look, there it is!" βγ
"It's so beautiful!"
The hull of the boat shook violently, and where Sha Ting staggered towards the hull of the boat, the boy surnamed Meitang reached out and grabbed her, and asked her to lean against the edge of the boat and stand firmly.
"Do you want to go to the bow of the boat to see the rainbow?" He raised an eyebrow and asked her excitedly, "This is rare!" β
"No...... I'm not going. Sha Ting shook her head and said hesitantly.
Mei Tang pursed his lips slightly and made a regretful expression, but immediately changed his smile back, "I have to go over and come back in a while." β
He turned, jumped up with both hands on the edge of the boat, and jumped up, "Don't all squeeze to the right side of the ship, spread out now!" Go behind the oarsman, or the boat will capsize, and none of us will be able to get to the island!" β
He trotted lightly on the edge of the boat and shouted to the crowd at the bow of the boat, a beautiful backdrop spread out in the direction he was heading. A magnificent rainbow bridge rises from the misty depths of the Flame Lake, and the seven colors each swell up to the sky along the arc-shaped track, and the one that is clustered under the morning sun light presents a transparent color, as if it is gently drifting with the lake breeze, Sha Ting's eyes follow the rainbow bridge downward, until the color of the bridge turns gray and fades, and once again merges into the back of the misty Jinwu Island.
At this moment, the miraculous beauty in front of her made Sha Ting feel chosen in her heart. Just a moment ago, she had planned to tell the boatman everything she and her brother had done to the Plum Pond Boat Rig Shop, and now she was determined not to mention anything about Smoke Town's past.
Oh, yes! This Hongqiao is an auspicious omen, a dividing line! The gray and sad life is a thing of the past, and Smoke Town has been left behind me, and everything will be different!
The ginger leaves in her hand have turned into a small green paste, Sha Ting sniffed, the cool breath almost dissipated, she raised her arm and was about to throw the residue into the lake when she suddenly noticed a huge shadow emerging in the fog covering the lake not far away, just staring at it, the outline of the shadow became clear, it was actually a huge ship! Although the boat was far away from the sampan boat that Sha Ting was riding, a glance showed that it was more than ten times larger than the sampan! The oars sticking out of the hole swayed in unison, and Sharten counted them, and there were ten, and it was a twenty-oared double-decker sailboat!
How could a ship of this type of ship be able to navigate the Sea of Glory with ease, but how could it appear in the Lake of Fire?
The mainsail on the mast and the winged sails on the truss were all torn apart, puffed up by the wind, and the pattern on the canvas could not be seen from the side. Satine stared at the hull of the ship, and saw a white spring that began to depict half of the hull from the top of the wave, and she also saw a lone man holding a black flag standing on the deck of the second deck in the center of the ship. Twenty waving oars and unfurled sails of all sizes made the huge ship move forward as fast as if it were flying against the surface of the lake, and Satine stared intently at the flag-raising strange man on the deck, the relative distance between the two boats was getting closer and closer, and she could see it clearly! What kind of black flag is that, the long black hair that is clearly flying in the wind, the weird person she thinks is a girl standing on a high place looking up at the rainbow!
Sha Ting waved her hands vigorously at the girl on the boat, "Hey~~!" Look here! She unconsciously opened her mouth to shout, and she no longer cared that her shouting would attract the sideways glances of the people on the boat!
Why should I call a stranger?
Sha Ting's mind was questioning her actions.
Because the ship is about to sail into the fog!
Because the girl was wearing a white and purple Golden Crow Courtyard uniform!
Because we are all here at this moment on the lake of fire under the rainbow!
But perhaps it was because of the fog, perhaps because the great ship was sailing too fast, or perhaps because the girl was attracted by the rainbow in the canopy, that she did not notice that someone was waving and shouting in the beetle-like sampan on the lake not far away. She didn't respond to Sha Ting's cries, but she did something she didn't expect! Sha Ting saw her bend down and draw a knife from her calf, her long black hair tightened in the wind, the knife flashed, and the flag and the girl were separated! The girl cut off her long fluttering hair, and then, without hesitation, waved her hand, threw the large bundle of green silk out, and fell into the lake, merging with the waves.
The giant ship moved forward, disappearing into the mist behind the Golden Crow Island, where the rainbow ended, from Shatin's point of view.