It wasn't until we reached the end of the trail that the group had to turn their minds to the present.

In front of it, there is a stone platform with an area of about 100 square meters, and the platform is built on the edge of the river.

This river is completely different from the river in our Xihe City, at a glance it is turbulent, and the light raindrops hit the river, as if stirring up a thousand waves, and the waves crash on the stone platform to make a terrifying sound.

There was silence around them, and no one else was in sight.

Before we could walk up the stone platform, we felt a gust of river breeze, some cold and some wet.

At the front edge of the stone platform is a ferry port, about two meters wide, which is a port for small boats to dock.

Around the stone platform, there is a one-meter fence that has rusted to prevent people from falling into the river.

Zhou Wu looked at the river for a while, picked up a stone and threw it into the river, there was a gurgling sound, and Brother Wu said that the river was very deep.

A few of us nodded approvingly, but I didn't see a boat at the crossing, so I had to look into the distance, but I couldn't find any boats.

"Brother Jing, the phone has no signal."

Liu Wenya took a few landscape photos, originally to post them in the circle of friends to record a good life, but found that the mobile phone had no signal.

A few of us also found out about this situation, and King Zheng said that it was normal, after all, it was far away from the bustling city and at the foot of the mountain.

Zeng Zhiguang asked me if I would continue to wait for the boat here, or if he would go back and ask the old man when there would be a boat here.

I said wait and see, and as soon as the words fell, on the other side of the river, in the visibility, a boat was coming towards us.

Liu Wenya said that she wanted to come to whatever she wanted, and it was the ferry boat that came.

We waited for a few minutes, and we could clearly see that the boat was not a small ferry as we imagined, but like a cruise ship, but it was not as beautiful as the painting boat in the Sunshine Clubhouse.

At first glance, the front of the ship is an empty platform with a few items piled up, and there is no shelter on the wheel except for the low wheelhouse.

When the cruise ship slowly docked at the ferry port, we found that the cruise ship was very old, and we could see mottled rust everywhere.

"Master, let's cross the river!"

I approached the cruise ship and spoke to a man in the cockpit.

The man emerged from the cockpit, his skin dark, at first glance like a native of the mountains, with a bald head and a cardigan shirt that showed a solid chest.

His size is even stronger than Zhou Wu, and he is close to King Zheng's Xiong Jian's physique.

I can't see his specific age, the baptism of the years, and the vicissitudes of poverty, so that his face obviously has a maturity that his peers do not have.

"I'm not a boatman crossing the river."

The man's voice was low, and he said he was the scavenger of the river.

Liu Wenya was puzzled and asked what a scavenger was, and I whispered to her that in some places, people who pick up garbage are called scavengers, and some people who live on the water make a living by picking up items in the river, and they are also called scavengers.

Liu Wenya sighed as if she didn't understand, and said, "Are those people who pick up corpses in the river written in the novel also considered scavengers?" ”

I said it wasn't a scavenger, it was a corpse digger.

The conversation between the two of us was actually very quiet, but the scavenger heard it very clearly, and he said with a calm face: "I am also a corpse digger!" ”

Liu Wenya and I quickly shut up, and Zeng Zhiguang is a person who has seen the world, he stepped forward to bargain with the scavenger, let the man take us across the river, and was willing to give the scavenger 200 yuan.

The scavenger immediately agreed, put the six of us on the cruise, said that there was no cabin prepared, and asked a few of us to stand on the platform in front of his pile.

When the cruise ship started, the roaring motor was very harsh, but we could only hold back.

Fortunately, the cruise ship is so big, and the ride on the river is quite smooth, and it doesn't make us shake.

Looking at the raging river, the dog said that he felt the urge to jump down and swim.

Liu Wenya laughed and said don't jump, how can you break it if you pick up the corpse if you jump down?

It was originally a joke, but who knew that suddenly the dog screamed like it was being stepped on by its tail, which scared us a few times.

"Brother Jing, look, that's a corpse!"

I saw that the dog pointed to the northwest direction, where the current was too fast, and there was a huge tree in the water, so the rolled up river was very obvious.

On the edge of the tree, there was a man floating on the water, almost swept into the whirlpool of the river several times.

At this time, the scavenger who was sailing the boat also noticed the situation, he stopped the ship, took a long wooden pole, and stretched it out towards the man.

"She's alive!"

The scavenger muffled: "It's a young woman, the kind that suicidal kind, alas! ”

With a sigh from his heart, our nervous hearts were relieved, and when we saw the scavenger reach under the woman's arm, he shook the pole so that it touched the woman's sinking face.

After a few seconds, the floating woman finally felt the presence of the wooden pole, and she struggled to grasp the pole with both hands and lift her head from under the water.

Sure enough, it's alive, and it's pretty good-looking.

The scavenger dragged the fair-eyed woman onto the boat, dressed in plain old-fashioned clothes and trousers, and after being soaked in the water, she lay on the slipway and gasped.

"Excuse me, how do you know that she is a woman who committed suicide?"

Curious, I stepped into the cockpit and asked the expressionless scavenger.

"We are far away from the city, and some mountain people in the mountains can't find a daughter-in-law, so they will tie up women from other places to live."

"Over the years, there have been women who can't stand the abuse of the mountain people who have chosen to commit suicide by throwing themselves into the river, and they would rather die than be humiliated again," the scavenger said. The ignorance and ignorance of the mountain people are the real condition of poverty. ”

I frowned when I heard it, I really didn't expect that in today's society under the rule of law, there is still such a bad habit of forcibly robbing women as wives.

No, it's not a vice, it's a crime!

I hurriedly asked the scavenger, in the big mountains, are there many such robbed women?

The scavengers said that it was a minority, and there were not many local mountain people, so only seven or eight families robbed it this year.

I couldn't help but groan, not scolding the scavenger, but thinking that the 'just' seven or eight households he said was so understatement, and that's only this year, I felt that he didn't feel any waves in his heart when he talked to me about it.

Perhaps, it's not strange to see it!

"Young man, I see that you are very righteous, listen to my advice, don't think about calling the police, otherwise you may die in the mountains and no one will know."

The scavenger took a crumpled cigarette from the bridge and smoked it, waved me away, and said again:

"Don't believe me, there are many things you can't imagine in this big mountainous area where the emperor is far away!"