The fishing fire grew bright, and Chunsi walked out of the canopy, and she shivered in the fierce river wind. She took a hitch and looked at the bustling old town, brightly lit.

"Don't go in or out." Her father said in the peng, Chunsi sighed, hit a bucket of river water, and slipped into the peng.

This is a double-canopy fishing boat, with a futon hanging from the mouth of the tent, and a stove in it, which freezes on the river in the middle of the night, and sleeps well where it rests against the stove, and where it leans against the futon, it can freeze out of the ice edges. On the fourth day of spring, the river water is poured into the pot and boiled, and when it is hot, it can be poured into the soup woman.

These things are hung up from the bottom of the river, and in the summer, these children often dive in the river to find some garbage washed down from the upstream. Some of them are used, I don't know what they are, they are all hung on the canopy and tinkling.

"That tangerine peel, stared at me for a long time today, we will be tomorrow, the boat will not stop here." Chunsi said to her father. "He also told me that he kills people to make money, and he is a hundred wen per person."

"Poor bones have a fever, don't you pay attention to him." Chun's fourth father said suicidly, patting Chunshen's back, Chunshen raised his head and asked his sister: "Killing people is not to kill heads?" ”

Chun Si's father pressed Chun Shen's head back, "You listen to him tick, he dare?" Go to sleep, don't listen to adults. ”

Chunshen shrank his head into the quilt, there were several lattices at the bottom of the boat, and the two near the stove were the ones he slept with his sister. When others are small, the whole person falls into the lattice.

Chunsi's father pulled the clothes he was draped on, and said to Chunsi: "People are poor and the fire is extinguished, and the rice is not eaten by Huazi, this tangerine peel, the ghost is unknown, don't pay attention to him, he will definitely not see him in the spring, this kind of person will not stay long." ”

Chun Si nodded, while Chun Si Niang was plucking the mussel meat, in winter, the river tributaries flow to the nearby lake, and the mussels are all under the silt, which is not as easy to find as in summer. The mussel meat has eaten with strength. During the day, when the fourth father of Chun Si pulled the fiber, his mother took Chun Shen Chunsi to hang mussels in the lake. Now the mussel shell ash can also treat burns, and now the army is collecting it, and if you break it for twenty taels, you can exchange it for a copper coin. Chunsi went to help, Chunsi Niang looked at Chunsi and helped Chunsi cut his hair. "His father, the four girls of spring, are going to marry on the shore and endure hardships on the boat, the Japanese are here, and they can't survive."

It is impossible for a small fishing boat to go upstream, if you want to go, you can't tell where the boat can go, and you can't tell how to live on the shore for generations. There was silence in the boat. Chun Si Dad lit a cigarette pouch and lowered his head without speaking.

Chunsi didn't speak, she had never thought about this problem, and she had heard a lot of things that had happened, but when she heard about it, she was apprehensive. But she never wanted to leave.

After the soup woman was done, Chunsi wanted to lie down and sleep, but suddenly, a series of strange sounds suddenly came from a distance, endlessly, and came over against the river. Chun Si's father was startled, recognized that this was the sound of drums, and immediately opened the curtain to look out, only to see that it was pitch black on the river and he couldn't see anything, but in the darkness, there was a drum sound.

"How can anyone play drums?" The child's mother asked, and the fourth father of Chun grabbed the fire lamp on the side and immersed it in the river water to extinguish it. Poured out the stove with the water of the soup woman in the tent, and then jumped to the rocking place, untied the anchor rope, and Chun Si asked in surprise: "What's wrong with Dad?" ”

"Don't speak, the water bandits are coming." Chun Si Dad looked at the shore and began to shake the oar, while looking at the direction of the original wharf, he was horrified to find that the fire of the garrison camp on the original wharf had been extinguished, and those garrisons did not know when they would be withdrawn today.

The water bandits on the river are all in the lakes of the direct flow, after the Japanese called, all rushed to the Yangtze River, earlier there was an army on the wharf in charge, now the military goods are ready, the front line will definitely be opened, the army leaves, the first to come is not the Japanese, the water bandits on the water will definitely come again. These water bandits kill people without blinking, and they will definitely die again when the time comes.

The boat slid smoothly upstream, the drum suddenly stopped, some could not be heard clearly, Chunsi's father breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Chunsi, Chunsi's face was also pale, he just wanted to speak, suddenly, the whole boat shook, the bow sank, and then floated.

Chun Si Dad jumped up and said in his heart that it was bad, he had been sailing for so many years, and from the feeling under his feet, he knew at once that there was one more person on the boat.

He rushed to the bow of the boat, and in the moonlight, he saw a half-naked man squatting in the bow of the boat, with large shoulders and round waist, skin as white as snow, covered in water, and the cold river water spread white mist on him, and it seemed that his body temperature was extremely high. This man had caught up with the boat that had chased him all the way from the icy water.

Chunsi's father raised the harpoon on the side, but the man didn't care about Chunsi's fork at all, but looked straight at Chunsi, Chunsi grabbed his own collar buckle, and also picked up the mussel knife.

"Ask for a bowl of hot water to drink." The half-naked man suddenly said, "I'm a little thirsty." ”