The old man added: "When Mei Yulong reached the age of fourteen, he clamored for us to return his father's sealed fishing boat to him, so that he could live alone. Fourteen-year-old children, many people are still coquettish with their parents at this age, but he has already begun to face life and this moody Beijiang. Although he was only fourteen years old, he was able to do all the rough and fine work on the fishing boat, and every time he went out of the boat, he always caught the most fish, and his strength was amazing, and the iron anchor weighing 1890 pounds could be lifted with one hand, so we were relieved to be self-reliant. ”

Li Yihang thought to himself: "Compared with Mei Zuo, I am much luckier than him, he has never called his father, but I am afraid that there is no grave for my father, and there is nowhere to put my grief on." Yes, Mei Zuo stayed in Shaozhou for more than ten days, I am afraid that it was not only to inquire about Aunt Leng's location, but also to return to the river, reminisce about the past, and pay tribute to his parents. I also started to face a bleak life on my own at the age of 14, and I wonder if I will be able to achieve as much as him in the future."

Mei Zhifei said: "Then what will happen to my father in the future?" The old man said: "Life on the river is not as good as on the land, sometimes we can't see him once in half a month, everyone sees that he can live independently, and everyone pays less attention to him, about 20 years old, he sold the fishing boat to go ashore to make a living, and we haven't seen him since." Mei Zhifei nodded and asked, "Old man, what do you call me?" The old man said: "My surname is Huang, and my name is Huang Haiping." Mei Zhifei said: "If I can see my father and mention your name to him, I wonder if he can remember you?"

Huang Haiping smiled and said: "Twenty or thirty years have passed, the older I am, the clearer I remember this kind of thing, and what about children, the older they are, the more blurred their memories become, and most of them can't remember it." ”

With these words, the fishing boat has gone down more than ten miles of waterway, and Li Yihang said: "Uncle Huang, let's go to the Ichthyosaurus Temple and take a look at what the Ichthyosaurus looks like." Huang Haiping said: "Okay, I'll have fun with you today." On the shore, the five walked up the mountain, and Huang Haiping sang a local folk song: "The cow boy fell into Nanshan, and he rolled in three autumns." There is an open depression on the mountainside, and the Fish Dragon Temple is placed on it alone. ”

Came to a flat land on the mountainside, saw a building standing alone on the hillside from a distance, only to see the fish dragon temple two in front and back, dilapidated, grass vines, moss crawling all over the low wall, the roof has collapsed a small half, Huang Haiping said: "Since Mei Qingmu got rid of the fish and dragon essence, there are no people here to come up to worship, it has been in disrepair for a long time, and it is not bad if it has not collapsed." ”

When everyone approached, they saw the banner on the gate inscribed "Five Princes Temple", Li Yihang asked curiously: "Why is it the Five Princes Temple and not the Fish Dragon Temple?" Huang Haiping said: "Because people on both sides of the Beijiang River say that the Ichthyosaurus is changed by the five princes of the Dragon King of the South China Sea. Li Yihang thought to himself: "All goblins and old monsters must have a prominent background and a thick background, and the chances of an ordinary person becoming a goblin are very slim." Huang Haiping pushed open the hidden wooden door, and with a musty smell, he reached out to pick up the cobwebs and walked towards the front hall.

I saw that the front hall was dedicated to the clay statue of the god who was the fifth prince of the Dragon King of the South China Sea, who looked like a young man in the village, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a square face and thick lips, but two forked antlers were inserted on his head. Luo Yun said: "How can the fifth prince look like such a country boy, you have dwarfed his image like this, of course, it is useless to worship and worship." Huang Haiping said: "Well, this is a new insight, maybe the master of the statue is not skilled enough, or he is not rich in imagination and can't think of any handsome appearance, so he can only find a guy who is a helper to copy and portray." ”

Mei Zhifei said: "If you want to shape the appearance of the fifth prince into the appearance of Brother Luo Yun's eyebrows and beautiful eyes, I think he must be very useful, and he will no longer mess around in the river, this statue master is a bad thing." ”

Sun Jianteng said: "No, no, I think the statue master is deliberately like this." ”

Mei Zhifei asked, "What's the solution?" Sun Jianteng said: "The statue master has suffered from the fifth prince, so he has a grudge and makes him ugly. Li Yihang said: "Why do you look down on the country boys, but I think there is no problem with this appearance at all, it is unpretentious, delicate and expressive, which represents the simple emotions and wisdom of the vast number of working people." ”

Luo Yun smiled: "Why does your words sound so familiar, I seem to have heard it there." Li Yihang said: "This is the first time I have said this, have you heard it there?" Luo Yun said: "It seems that another person in my body has heard it." Everyone knows that Luo Yun is referring to things that travel through the future, and Mei Zhifei said: "Do people like to talk like this a thousand years later?"

Li Yihang said with a smile: "You have a him in your body, and I also have a her in my body, haha, we are really brothers." The other three didn't know what he was talking about, and their eyes were full of curiosity.

The apse is dedicated to many fish-shaped monsters, some with barracuda heads, some with yellow fish heads, with big eyes, all wearing red and green trousers, and their appearance is strange and scary. Huang Haiping said: "When I was a child, I came with my parents to worship the fifth prince, but I never dared to go into the apse to see these fish monsters, and I had nightmares at night, and other friends were also average. ”

After leaving the temple, everyone went down the mountain and returned to the fishing boat, and returned home. Everyone was bored on the boat, Luo Yun said: "Shall I teach you to sing?" Li Yihang knew that Luo Yun was good at this, so he said: "Okay, you taught me "Tomorrow Will Be Better" last time, and I can still sing it now." Luo Yun said: "Now I will teach you a new song, or the Divine Comedy sung by people thousands of years later, called "Horse Pole". Huang Haiping said: "How to set a horse on the Beijiang River, come to the occasion, is there a fishing rod?"

Everyone laughed, and Luo Yun also laughed: "I haven't heard the song about fishing yet, I'm really embarrassed." Sun Jianteng said: "Since there is none, let's sing a horse song first." ”

Luo Yun said: "Listen up. He cleared his throat and sang:

Give me a white cloud, a rising sun.

Give me a piece of green grass stretching into the distance

Give me an eagle, a mighty man.

Give me a leash and hold it in his hand.

Give me a white cloud, a white imagination.

Give me a gust of fresh wind to blow away the potpourri and give me an encounter.

In the green pasture, give me a hot look.

You are mighty and majestic, and the galloping horses are like the wind.

The endless wilderness wanders with you, and your heart is as wide as the earth

Thou art a man of a horse, thou art in my heart, and I would like to melt in thy broad chest

"The endless wilderness wanders with you, and your heart is as wide as the earth.

Thou art in my heart, thou art to melt in thy broad chest.

The endless wilderness wanders with you, and all the days are as sunny as yours. ”

As soon as the song ended, everyone cheered in unison and said: "Why are the people of the future drinking songs so good, teach us quickly." Luo Yun said: "It's not that the people of the future sing well, it's that I, Luo Yun and Luo Gongzi, sing well." Zhifei, the original singer of this song is a woman, it's best for you to learn to sing. ”