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As soon as the river swelled, my young heart began to be restless again, and I completely forgot my father's lesson. Whenever I had the opportunity to slip to the river, I never gave up easily.

But more often than not, I could only run to a ridge with a clear view of the river, and see everything that flowed on the river.

From time to time, there are wooden houses, pigs and cows flowing down from the upper reaches of the river, and occasionally a young daughter-in-law holding a log and shouting "help, help". There are brave adventurers, most of whom are sturdy men who live by the river all the year round, familiar with the nature of the water, and when they see an excellent timber or a wooden raft floating on the river, they will drive the boat without hesitation, and rush towards the center of the river like an arrow, and when they get close to the drift, one person will drive the boat, and the other will hook the drift with an iron hook, and then be washed downstream by the huge waves, and then strive to row the boat to the shore when the current is a little slower.

I was often stunned by these thrilling movements, and I sweated for them. In my eyes, they are heroes and heroes. They do it all with ease, with complete certainty, and they take pleasure in it. Even so, it is a big risk, after all, "deceive the mountains and the water"! Maybe one day you will lose your footing and drink a lot of cold water and die, and the wife and children at home will have no backbone.

The surging flood not only brought wealth to the heroes by the river, but also a wife to them one day. I heard this from my uncle by the river.

My uncle is from the riverside and knows everything that happens by the river. Every time my uncle came, I would pester him to tell him something new. There were some things that my uncle couldn't tell me, but when he was drinking with my father, I would always hide in a corner outside the house and listen to them secretly.

Uncle said that Kai Ge, who is still a single brother in his thirties, encountered peach blossom luck when the flood rose.

On that day, a wooden building floated down upstream, half of which was swept away by the flood, and the remaining half floated and sank in the water. A woman clung to a pillar and shouted, "Help! Help me! ”

Kai Ge has strength, good water quality, and is very familiar with all the situations in this section of the river, so he completed the rescue by himself.

After the boat docked, Kai Ge hurriedly fished up the frightened and trembling young woman. The woman, who did not die, was fished out of the boat, and her whole body went limp, and she fainted.

The two of them were wet, and the inside and outside of the boat were also wet, and it was cold, but fortunately there was a fire on the boat to make a fire to warm up and cook. The flood water did not recede for a while, and it was slowly getting dark again, and it was difficult for the boat to pull back to the dock, so it had to wait for it to be tied to a tree.

At night, the sky is like a huge black cauldron, tightly wrapping this small boat.

By the wilderness river, the river roars. One boat, two people. A man and a woman, huddled in the cabin.

That night, the river was jolting and the boat was jolting.

The next day, when the flood waters receded, Kai Ge dragged a small boat down the river, and there was an extra woman in the boat.

Since there was a woman in the family, Brother Kai had a hot meal for a few days, and he also knew what a woman tasted like. The little woman was dressed neatly in and out, and a bitter cauliflower was inserted in her bun, which was very charming, and she fascinated Brother Kai.

But a few days later, the little woman's husband came all the way from Shanghe and found Brother Kai's house, not only did he not blame Brother Kai for sleeping with his wife, but also recognized Lao Geng with Brother Kai.

A year later, they really introduced Kai Ge to a family business.

Of course, this also contains some of the plot that I reasonably imagined, and this is not the case with my uncle's original words.