The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 108 Fisherman’s Pride (2)

The boat went all the way down the river, and after about two cups of tea, a tributary appeared in the river.The boatman propped the boat into the tributary, and the river suddenly became anxious, and there seemed to be a hand in the whirlpool that appeared from time to time, pulling the boat almost sideways.Ji Mingmei couldn't sit still and almost fell on top of me.

I quickly reached out to support her and let her sit next to me.Ji Mingmei's face turned pale with fright, she hugged my arm and didn't let go.Seeing this, the boatman smiled and said, "Where are the young couple going?"

"Tantou Town, is this boat coming?" I asked him, embarrassed to say that we are not a young couple.

"Yes," replied the boatman, "it's just going to take a while. The current isn't steady, so you'll have to sit down."

When I heard that the boat would arrive at Tantou, I felt relieved.Someone on the boat talked, and the atmosphere suddenly became relaxed. I chatted with him for a while, and knowing that he was from Tantou Town, I asked him about the person Xin Shouyi was talking about, and asked him if he knew him.

"What do you want him for?" The boatman was a little surprised, and his tone seemed to be familiar with that person.

I was a little hesitant when I heard the words, because that person was one of the murderers who caused the Wenling landslide. Naturally, I wanted to question him this time, and if it was verified, I would report it to the local town office.Since he was familiar with that person, if he told him the truth, it might be a little troublesome.

The boatman glanced at me, maybe he guessed what I was thinking, and said with a smile: "Did he do something wrong? It's okay, you tell me, I will take you to him. Otherwise, he usually lives in the On the water, it is not easy for you to find him."

It is necessary to be cautious, if these two people get along well, we are on the boat right now, which is a bit inconvenient.So I covered it up with a smile, only saying that I was a city watcher and I was looking for him to deliver a letter, nothing else.

For some reason, the boatman took a deep look at me after hearing what I said, but he didn't say anything, he just pointed at Ji Mingmei and said, "When I was young, I used to walk many roads with the girl I liked, just like you. I have seen many styles in the world."

"You can also see that he likes me, can't you?" Ji Mingmei blushed, but said happily, "But he just doesn't admit it, do you think this person is very bad!"

"Haha!" the boatman laughed, "men in this world are generally enlightened later than women, and they are often ashamed to say that they like the word when they are young. But the things in the world are the most teasing. When there is no chance to speak."

I stared blankly at the two people who were talking very happily, and thought that there are all kinds of things in the world. This person has a Li Kui face, and he is talking about "love" and "like" here.Normally, "When I arrived at Jiangxin, I asked if you want to eat bandao noodles or wontons", is this what he should say?
Ji Mingmei is obviously attracted by this Li Kui who talks about love, and is chasing after him to ask him about the past.The boatman glanced at the other people on the boat, and said with a smile, "That was not a good time. Yuan Shikai stole the country and proclaimed himself emperor. At that time, public opinion turned against the sky, and all places became independent, and the war against Yuan broke out..."

When a war starts, ordinary people's lives will naturally not be easy.In addition, there was a severe drought in the north at that time, starvation was everywhere, and the northerners went south to flee famine one after another, and ten rooms were empty.Of course, life in the south was not easy. He worked part-time in a family at that time, and he could only avoid starvation to death.

Once in a small city, a group of people suddenly came from nowhere, and when they got here, they could no longer walk, and a large number of people died outside the city.He went out of the city with the people in the city to see the dead, and by the way, see if he could pull out valuable things from the pile of dead people.

At that time she was lying among the dead with a rope around her neck.When he saw the rope, he felt that there might be a pendant on it, so he stretched out his hand to grab it.The moment he grabbed the rope, she suddenly grabbed his hand.He was taken aback, thinking that the corpse was fraudulent in broad daylight.

He was about to run away, but found that the woman didn't seem to be dead, but she was holding his hand in a futile manner.Only then did he come to his senses and knew that she was just fainted from hunger.She opened her eyes weakly, looked up and down the man in front of her, and after confirming that he couldn't eat, she closed her eyes again in disappointment.

He looked at the thin girl curiously, and seeing that she seemed to have fainted again, he stretched out his hand and poked her.Her lips moved, and she said softly, "Whatever you want, you can take it yourself."

Probably she also felt that her life was not long, so she simply let him go.He stood there watching her for a long time, as if he saw the death-killer wandering around, waiting for her to take her last breath before taking her away.It was very patient, pawing around other corpses, coming to look at her from time to time, and smiling at him, showing its sharp fangs.

He didn't like its tusks, it felt like a nasty little beast.There is no way for people to survive, so why let the ghost business flourish.Thinking in his heart, he accidentally took out half a piece of dry food from his arms and handed it to her. He felt that he was happy to mess up the business of the life-killing ghost.

She opened her eyes and looked at him. She didn't reach out to catch him immediately, but a layer of mist slowly formed in her eyes.But she was so weak that she didn't even have the strength to cry, so she could only cry quietly.He watched her cry, and after a long pause, he realized that she didn't have the energy to eat at all, so he scratched his head and brought the dry food closer to her mouth.

She ate very slowly, and it took more than half an hour to eat half a piece of dry food.She came back to life after eating, and he stood up after feeding her, ready to go back to the city.But when she turned around, she was behind her, and she didn't speak, just looked at him timidly, showing a malnourished smile to please him.

He stopped and chased her back, and she took two steps back, waiting for him to turn around before following her.After chasing her twice, his heart softened, and he thought to follow along, half a piece of dry food could save her life for one day, but she would still die the next day, so he let her follow him back to the place where he lived.

On the second day, he went to ask the owner of his servant, trying to find a job for her too.The host was kind, and promised to let her help with the laundry and pay according to the number of times.He was very happy and helped her pick up some clothes from other houses to wash.In that turbulent era, they relied on each other after they met by chance, and became each other's courage to continue living.

He was just a part-time job for others with meager income. The two of them struggled from sunrise to sunset, not looking for food but food, and finally fooled the two mouths.Naturally, he couldn't give her anything, so he felt guilty all the time.When autumn passed, she looked out the window and said quietly: "Winter is coming soon. The south...the south won't snow..."

When he heard this, his heart was moved, and he suddenly said to her: "Let's go to the north to see the snow!" He said that he became happy first, "Have you never seen snow? I have never seen snow either. Let's go, Let's go see the snow, and I'll build you a snowman!"

She was taken aback when she heard what he said, but then she became happy and blushed.Although they had nothing, fortunately, Xue didn't need money.He made up his mind to take her to see the snow.He said: "I can't make you full, I can't make you warm, but I can accompany you to see the snow."

There was a little pride in his heart when he said this.It's true that he can't even give her enough food and clothing, but can the hostesses of those rich and well-clothed homes put down everything and take the people they like to see the snow?They can't!
He thought very excitedly, and really put this matter on the agenda, and went to talk to the master's house, and then took her away.The master's family was very nice and gave him a small sum of money when he knew he was going to the north.So when the weather was getting colder, they left the warm south to go to the famine-ridden north.

"Then what happened afterwards?" He stopped suddenly when he said this, and Ji Mingmei hurriedly asked, "Did you see the snow?"

"I see, what a heavy snowfall." The boatman put the penny on the bow of the boat, sat down himself, and stretched out his hand, as if catching the invisible snow falling from the sky.

"Then did you build her a snowman?" Ji Mingmei continued to ask.

"It's piled up, it's not well piled up." The boatman laughed, but his voice suddenly dropped, "It's not piled up well, but she's still very happy."

"What about her, you took her back to the south, are you at home now?" Ji Mingmei asked a series of questions.Young girls love to hear such stories, and even though it has nothing to do with her, she still listens with interest.

"She's dead." The boatman looked back at the people in the cabin and said in a low voice.

"Ah?" Ji Mingmei was startled, "So this white belt tied to your penny is for her, isn't it?"

"Yes," the boatman smiled slightly, "I often think of her. When I saw you just now, I thought of the scene when we went all the way north to see the snow."

"Then...how did she die?" Ji Mingmei asked cautiously.She's such a nice girl when she's not losing her temper.

"It's been almost 20 years since she died," the boatman said calmly, "I almost forgot how she died."

"What, you've been dead for almost 20 years?" I heard something wrong. Judging from his age, I guess he met that girl 20 years ago. "Then she died not long after seeing Xue come back?"

"She didn't come back." The boatman said, "She died on the way to see the snow."

Ji Mingmei and I were silent when we heard the words.The only thing he can give her is to accompany her to watch the snow, but she died on the way to watch the snow.Therefore, what he got in exchange for all he had was not a lot of flowers, but a rest of everything.This must be an unspeakable pain.

"Don't be sad." Ji Mingmei comforted him, "She must be very happy if you took her all the way to see the snow."

"Yeah, she is really happy, but I can't be happy." The boatman smiled, a little sad about the past, "especially after I know the truth of the matter, I regret it even more."

"What truth?" I asked, always feeling that something was wrong.The woman he mentioned has been dead for nearly 20 years, but he still has a leucorrhea on his penny. Could it be that his leucorrhea has been tied for 20 years, turning this boat into a boat to commemorate the dead?

At the moment, the four other people on the boat, except us, were waiting for this boat to pick them up.Four people set foot on a boat in memory of the dead at the same time. It sounds like they are going to meet the dead on this boat, which is a bit weird anyway.Thinking of the heavy expressions of these four people, it was obvious that something big was about to happen.

I secretly regretted in my heart that I shouldn't have obeyed Ji Mingmei's wishes and boarded this ship.Now that the boat is in the middle of the river, there is no one around. If something really happened, it can be said that there is no way to escape to heaven and earth.The four boatmen were silent in the cabin, the boatman turned his head to look at them, and said with a smile, "You want to know the truth?"

My heart skipped a beat, and I suddenly thought that it might be better not to know the truth, so I hurriedly said, "Suddenly I'm a bit sleepy, let's talk about it when we get ashore."

Ji Mingmei Bingxue is smart. Hearing what I said, she understood that something was wrong. She also yawned and said to the boatman with a smile, "I'm really sleepy when he tells me that. I need to close my eyes for a while."

She hugged my arm, leaned her head on my shoulder, and said to the boatman: "No matter what the truth is, if someone can travel thousands of miles to take me to see the snow, I will only be happy and grateful."

The boatman also smiled and said, "The little girl is very nice, I like it very much."

Hearing his kind tone, I was a little relieved, thinking that even if there was something weird about this boat, as long as it could send us ashore, what happened after that would have nothing to do with us.Just thinking about it, the bottom of the boat suddenly shook, and the whole boat rushed into a vortex.

Ji Mingmei screamed, and she was almost thrown out.I hurriedly hugged her, only to find that the bottom of the boat seemed to be broken by something, and water was gurgling.This really knocked me out of my wits, and I hurriedly pointed to the place where the water came out and said to the boatman, "The bottom of the boat is leaking!"

At this time the ship came out of the vortex, but entered another vortex.I understood in my heart, no wonder no other boats have been seen on this tributary. It must be a dangerous journey, so other boats have avoided this place.But this ship remembering the dead did the opposite and came here on purpose!

(End of this chapter)