After more than a month, I didn't find any opportunities.

On this day, I told Yu'er that I was going to the flat ground to see if there was a chance over there. When I walked to the river, my heart suddenly brightened - I saw hope!

Speaking of which, I have to introduce where Yu'er's family lives. Here is a dam that a river splits in half. Not only do we have a lot of people living on this side, but there are also a lot of people living on the other side of the river.

The river is about ten zhang wide, and the current is very fast, but the river is not deep, and the deepest part is at best the waist of an adult.

Why do I see hope by this river?

Just because today is the day of the scene in Pingdi Town, there are many people on both sides of the river who go to Pingdi to catch up.

But the town of Pingdi is on our side, and the people on the other side have to cross the river to go to Pingdi or Daejeon, but the bridge over this river is far downstream. The people on the other side had to make a circle to come over the bridge in order to pass through our village to the town of Flatland.

Don't think that the hope I see is to build a bridge over this river and collect tolls.

I don't have the financial strength to do so.

It's just that I want to buy a boat to ferry on this river.

I rushed back to tell Yu'er.

But she shook her head like a rattle, and said, "Do we have fewer boats on the river, and if the ferry can make money, why should they go fishing?" ”

I said, "But they didn't think of it, but I did." ”

"It's not that no one else thought of it, no one would take a boat at all, just because there was a bridge underneath," she said. ”

I said, "It's a long and time-consuming way to get off the bridge. ”

She said: "Do you know why the shops in the middle of the alleys are so remote and the business is still so good? It's just because their stuff is a penny cheaper than in the downtown area, and people only think of saving a penny, and they don't think that it will cost a pair of shoes and time. ”

I said, "It's really not worth it." ”

"Can people think of it?" she said. ”

I said, "I'll let people know." ”

"It's the rich who are on the clock and don't want to walk, and the poor are willing to spend more time and effort than save that penny, just because they have the time and energy," she said. ”

I said, "I'd rather earn the pocket money of the rich than the living expenses of the poor." ”

She said: "Yes, no matter how good the business for the poor is, it doesn't make much money, and it's tired to death, but how many rich people are there?" ”

I said, "There are few rich people, but they can earn a lot at a time." It is enough to take on one or two rich people's jobs a day. ”

At my repeated requests, she finally offered me the dowry money and told me to go downstream and buy a boat.

The boat was sold by two strong, but vicious-looking policemen. For some reason, they sold me this good-looking fishing boat cheaply, and I only paid two oceans.

They said that this was the stolen goods of the Jiangyang thieves, otherwise they would not have cheapened me.

I pulled the boat back into the river in front of our village, and hurried back to tell Yu'er.

Yu'er didn't believe their words, and said, "Isn't it that they are pretending to be robbers, and they robbed this ship?" ”

I thought about it for a moment and said, "Quite possibly." ”

She said, "Do you dare to buy a thief ship?" ”

I said, "Anyway, I'm only running the ferry here, and even if they get caught, the police won't be able to find us here." ”

So I ran the ferry. I also stayed on the boat at night, and if I didn't, the thieves would steal my boat.

Indeed, as Yu'er said, it was the landlord who came to cross the river on my boat. I put a chair on the boat and made them a bowl of hot tea. They drank my tea and crossed the river in my boat.

After going back and forth like this, I quickly got to know Mr. Wu Fa Wu, who lived on the other side.

Master Wu is thin and thin, and he looks like a scheming and cunning man.

During the casual conversation, I learned that he only had one son, who was in business there after graduating from university in Kunming.

He always compared me and said, "It's good that I didn't give birth to a son like you, otherwise I would have become a boatman and his father, so that I would have the face to meet my neighbors, and how to have the face to face my relatives and friends." ”

I smiled and said, "A son born of a person like you will naturally not be a dog." ”

He said: "Although he is not a tiger, at least he will not rely on women to make a fortune and be a spineless and ruthless doorman." ”

I didn't get angry, I still smiled and said, "Even if he is not a tiger, he will be an outstanding human spirit." ”

He laughed so hard that my boat swayed from side to side.

Sometimes he will say: "When others have money, they will invest in fields and real estate, but I will not do this, I want to invest in future generations, only when future generations are profitable, is the greatest success in life." ”

I said, "Yes, yes, a shrewd person like you naturally has a great foresight and can see things that others can't see." ”

He said, "Look at your father-in-law, he bought so many fields and properties, what about the descendants?" His only son had a lot of money but was illiterate, so he could only be an illiterate landlord and landowner like him. ”

I said, "That's enough for a family with a good heart." ”

He said: "As for my daughter, she has not been trained well, if it is my girl, she will be robbed up the mountain this time, she will commit suicide, and she will have a good reputation as a strong woman, so that others will praise her, and become a good example for those girls to worship and learn, and she will never come back to lose the face of her mother's family." ”

I said, "To be alive is to have everything, and if you are gone, no matter how glorious the halo is, it is nothing but vanity." ”

He said angrily, "It is because you have tolerated too many people that have allowed foreigners to invade and enslave us for hundreds of years." ”

Whenever this happens, I always close my mouth and laugh twice. He was my guest, and I was not guilty of arguing with him, nor would I sting him with needle-like words.

After a while, he would say again: "She survived, but will the Wang family still want her?" Not only did she not have anyone to ask for it, but she also lost the face of the Qian family, and fell into the notorious reputation of being ruined by the Yi people for bad shoes that no one wanted, do you listen to what the villagers who know about this matter talk about her behind their backs? ”

I said, "It doesn't matter what people say, what matters is that she's alive." ”

He said, "Of course you have to say this, you outcasts have picked up a big bargain." What's the use of earning so much, in the end, it's not a part of it that you, an outsider, take away. ”

After saying this, he shook his head and sighed again.

I said: "Getting married to me means that I picked up a bargain, if there is no such thing as that Yi person, marrying the Wang family, the Wang family is not picking up cheap?" ”

He said, "Not bad." ”

I said, "She brought a lot of dowries. ”

"That's as it should be," he said. ”

If I asked him why, he would have said that the Wang family was a good family, and I was a lowly outcast. So I'm always silent at this time.