Chapter 55 looking for the owner's ship

Jianyazi's real name is Jianhua.Hearing that I wanted to go to Sumudong, he looked for oars everywhere, but he searched two or three houses but couldn't find them, and finally rode a motorcycle to his aunt's house to bring two. It took us a while to untie the boat at the water's edge.There was too much water in one of the small wrecks; another had broken the oars, and could not hang the oars;Jianhua didn't care what happened, he threw these things ashore, put on his oars and left.Anyway, most of the private boats here are public, people come first, first come first, and whoever releases the anchor first will use it first.

Sumu Cave is far away from Kuhu Lake. Because there is no road, or even any land route, people have to rely on boats to get in and out.Some people have built their houses on this side of the lake, but the responsible fields are still there, and they have to row into the mountains during rice planting and harvesting seasons.The boatload of people we met on the way were such rural office workers. At this time, we have passed a corner of the lake, bypassed a small uninhabited island with dense green pines, and entered the left one of the two canyons.According to Jian Yazi, this water gorge is very long, and we can see Sumu Cave after two more bends in front and a trident waterway.

I already feel that the sky between the green hills on both sides of the strait is getting narrower and narrower, and the smell of grass coming from the shore is getting stronger and stronger.A small boat was docked on the shore, and a few bundles of miscellaneous firewood were scattered, which caught Jianyazi's attention. "The people in Shanpo are so hardworking, and there are people collecting firewood!" Judging from his tone, it seems that everyone is not used to collecting firewood now. "Master Sheng—" he yelled up the mountain, and of course he was calling to the owner of the boat, "You didn't steal the tree, did you?—the public security bureau came with handcuffs——"

All I heard was a muffled echo, and crows, but no answer. "The wild old man has entered your house—" Jian Yazi laughed. There was still no response from the mountain. But Jian Yazi heard it: "Are you scolding your mother? I am afraid that you will sit in the prison with good intentions——your hall guest wears a gold ring, and I am afraid that he will be impatient and give you prison meals——" He laughed again. This time I vaguely heard a response, but I couldn't hear it clearly, and I didn't know which forest the sound came from. Jian Yazi laughed so hard that the boat wobbled.Seeing that I didn't quite understand, he added a few more explanations, saying that Mrs. Sheng's family had a heavy burden and had two children who needed to study, so he had to let his wife go out to work.The wife made money back, but she also earned a green hat. Once she came back in a car, wearing red and green, big bags, high-heeled shoes, and brought back a man with a bare head. What kind of boss is he?Mrs. Sheng took the man a pair of bottles of wine and a pair of leather shoes, and could only greet him with a smile.Seeing that man picking thorns out of his wife's fingers and blowing ashes out of his eyes, I didn't know what to do, so I had to go to the backyard to catch and kill chickens... That's why everyone made fun of him later.Someone said: Husband, husband, at least one foot away, why didn't you guard even one threshold?

When I came here again the next year, I heard that Mr. Sheng had a poor character, was bitten by a snake, died, and was buried by the lake.It was only then that I remembered the name "Master Sheng" that I had heard of before.In fact, I have never seen him, only heard a vague answer from the hillside on the side of the water gorge—is that him?I have also seen two bundles of miscellaneous firewood on the silent shore, and a small boat (with newly patched original-color wooden boards at the bow)-is that also him? One evening, when I went swimming, I saw a black spot on the water in the distance.I don't know when, when I turned my head inadvertently, I was taken aback, and found that the black spot just now had enlarged into the bow of the boat, and it was coming straight towards me.The lake water has basically no flow speed, and there is no strong wind this day. Why does an empty boat float so fast?Could it be a torpedo boat launching a surprise attack on me?

I swam over, capped the boat, swung the oars, and rowed it back to where it was, anchored at a curb on the bank.I've now recognized the original color planks of the bow.If I remember correctly, this is Mr. Katsuki's boat. A few days later, the strange thing happened again.I spotted it again while swimming, an unmanned boat unknowingly unanchored and drifting towards me again.At that moment, it was completely alive, breathing, blinking, tiptoeing, and wagging its tail hidden in the water from time to time. I don't bother to deal with it anymore, let it hang around.After a while, I found that it swam across the peninsula where the school was located, probed its head in front of another peninsula for a while, then slowly deflected, and finally settled on the grass bank, as if returning home.I looked in the direction of the bow of the boat: strange, there were some bundles of miscellaneous firewood not far from the shore.

I couldn't help being surprised.Is it looking for the shore where the fagots are kept?Do you think that anyone who chops wood may be its owner? I couldn't help but suspect that this boat was actually alive—it was whispering in the waves, panting in the raindrops, dreaming in the moonlight and the twinkling fireflies, but would break free from the anchor whenever it got the chance. Go, use your nose to search for the breath of the woodcutter. Its current new owner is named Youfu, and it is strange that the boat keeps breaking anchor.In a fit of anger, he later set the boat on fire, and managed to recover a few kilograms of iron nails.