Chapter 2 maple col

Teng Changshun, the owner of the Radish Creek Orange Garden, went to Lujiaping to see the president of the chamber of commerce, and thanked him for mediating the little dispute with the security chief.When I arrived at the chairman, I saw that the chairman was still discussing things with the steward, chatted for a while, and then went down to the river to see the boat. At that time, there was an old oil tanker with five cabins and four sculls on the river beach. It was resting obliquely among the stones for repair, supported by many large and small wooden beams and pillars. An old shipbuilder was filling the gaps in various parts of the hull with putty and hemp heads. go.Another worker was hiding under the side of the boat, and the hammer and drill made the hull rattle.Chang Shun walked over with his hands behind his back to watch them repair the ship.The old shipbuilder knew the mind of Luoboxi, and greeted him when he saw him: "Boss Teng, hello!"

Changshun said: "Okay! Eat and drink well, get everything, what's wrong? But you are so kind! There is work all year round, there is wine to drink, when the sky falls there is a tall man, when the earth falls there is a big fat man You don’t have to worry about anything...” The old shipwright replied with a smile, “I can’t finish my work in a year, and my two old bones are loose. Good luck. This bowl of Yilu rice People don't want it." "Brother, you make yourself so miserable. It's like Wang Sanguo. You are indispensable in this place. You are an engineer."

Wang Sanguo is a story in a play. The old boatman understands it, but he doesn't understand what an "engineer" is, but he realizes that this title must be related to a profession, like managing a machine scalper in a machine oil shop, so he shrunk his mouth With a grin, he put down the hammer, packed a bag of herbal cigarettes, and presented it to Changshun. The other younger boatman also stopped his beating work, got out of the seam of the boat, and said to Changshun, "Boss, I heard from people in Pu City that you are going to sing an opera in Luoboxi Village, and you have already made an appointment." Team, you are the leader. Boss Teng, I said that your family has a lot of oranges, so you should sing three major plays to thank God, and next year you will have a fat grandson."

Chang Shun said: "Brother, you are right. Who is not a jerk in life these days! You all chased me out and called me outside, but I didn't know that it was October, and the outside was beautiful. The center was empty. This year, the provincial committee members came seven times, and everything was messed up." It’s all gone, there is only an empty shelf, more than a dozen people eat, this is called a prosperous population! Not long ago, Wang, who opened a mill in Xitou, said to me: "This year, the rain is good, the sun is good, and the frost is good.The rain is good, the grains and grains are harvested, and the mill produces a lot of rice. I want to sing this play to worship God.If the frost is good, it will be sent to your head. Your orange tree is full of frost, and its color is one piece of fire and one piece of gold.You are the leader, and invite the members of the Pu City opera troupe to sing for a few days, okay? 'I can't shirk things, so I have to agree.In fact, Amitabha, he can't sing this show himself! "

The young boatman is an old antique from a wishing show, and he knows how to create something out of nothing, so he said with a smile: "Oh, big boss, who doesn't know that you are a member of the carrot creek? Money is a long river, flowing and flowing, Flowing everywhere: Dongdong for 30 years, Hexi for 30 years. Your village is prosperous, and you can see it from the top of the tree from a distance. Your Yaoyao looks upright and well-behaved, with the appearance of a first-class lady. Heizi's appearance is full of mountains, In the future, if you are lucky, you will be the governor. When the Republic of China came, the governor was changed to the governor, and then the chairman. He will be the chairman. If you become the chairman, you will be greeted by a plane, and you will be escorted by twelve box cannons. It is so majestic!"

The boat repairer pulled a piece of winter melon and gourd on a vine, pulling Changshun so hard that his suffocation disappeared.Chang Shun said: "Brother, it's still early in the Chinese New Year. You, an antique, started singing. In the Republic of China, there was only a first-grade pot, so how about a first-grade wife? The third sunspot became the governor. I'm afraid it's the water that captured Yang. You pretend to be Yue Yun, He pretended to be Niu Gao and became the commander of the Dongting Lake Navy Battalion, so that you all know how to row a boat!" The boatman said: "How can a building of hundreds of feet be built from the ground? Tian Xingshu, a man from the Phoenix Hall, used to sell horses and grass to make a living, but when things turned around, he became the governor. He Long, a man from Sangzhi, was Wang Zhengya's groom 20 years ago. Commander. Bamian Mountain is thirty miles high, and you have to climb up from the foot of the mountain. If you are not lucky, you can't tie it with hemp rope and brown rope. If you are lucky, you can't block the door planks. Shun clapped his hands,) Boss Teng, if you don’t believe me, let’s see.”

Changshun smiled and said: "Okay, brother, you are right. My family's third black man has become an official, and I want him to worship you as a military adviser. You just wear gossip clothes, take a goose feather fan, and become Mr. Zhuge Wolong, and go to Changde Go to Deshan to sing "Dingjun Mountain"." The old shipbuilder joked: "Go to Changde Mansion to sing "Empty City Strategies", and send me to sweep the city." Today happened to be the birthday of Changshun's third son. Although what he said was ridiculous, it still made the owner of the Carrot Creek Orange Garden feel happy.So he proposed to the two shipwrights to invite them to the side street for a drink.It is a local custom that when friends and lovers talk speculatively, they invite each other to eat white shochu, and the wine is served with fried corn flowers, which is called "baoguzi wine".The two shipwrights happily put down their work and followed Changshun to Hejie.

The owner of the Luoboxi Orange Orchard was drinking with two ship repairers at the long table on Lujia Pinghe Street, when something happened at home. First, when Changshun went to the street, the two daughters carried the bamboo cages on their backs, saying that they were going to the market in Qingxiping, to buy some hemp and flower thread, and to take the silver jewelry with them so that they could bring flowers from the city. The silversmith washes.Changshun was a little guilty because of the bad news in the area a few days ago. He was afraid that his two daughters would bring silverware to the arena to show off, so they were not allowed to go.The second girl is honest and honest, willing to obey, but once Changshun said it, her willingness was dispelled.The third girl, Yaoyao, has something else to worry about. She heard people say that there was a wooden puppet show at the Taipingxi Field last time. Everyone who saw it said that she was hiding in the curtain alone, beating gongs, drums, civil and martial arts, singing and doing all by herself. Hilarious and interesting.The puppet-playing Piaoxiang is doing business, so this must be in Qingxiping.She wanted to see this quaint puppet show.Huayinsmith is from the city, his craft is very good, and his business is very prosperous. He only comes once every two or three months, and this is the only time for jewelry washing. If he misses the opportunity, he will have to wait until the twelfth lunar month.Yaoyao was usually obedient and did not dare to make up her own mind, and obeyed everything her father said.This time the wish was big, and I couldn't restrain myself a bit, so I asked my father to comment.Yaoyao said: "Father, if the second sister doesn't go, I will go. I pinched my fingers to count the date, and it will be very auspicious to go out today. If you don't believe me, you can look through the almanac to see if it is an auspicious day for the zodiac. The stage horses move and the stars are moving. It is a good time to travel My bracelets, rings, and silver chains on my apron are all pitch-black, which is really ugly. When the flower silversmith comes to the scene, I will send them to be cleaned and brightened. Be a guest!"

Dad really flipped through the almanac hanging on the wall, but he couldn't reason, but he still didn't allow him to go.He also said that he was not allowed to go for big things. Yaoyao couldn't hold her breath, so she said with a half-smile: "Father, if you don't let me go, I'm going to cry!" Changshun knew that making a fuss out of a molehill could not be taken seriously, so he teased Yaoyao and said, "If you want to cry, go to the orange orchard and cry by yourself at the bank of the river. The place by the river is open, no one will hear and laugh at you, no Someone stops you. You cry enough to go home. Yaoyao, I said, why do you only choose a good day to go out, and don’t remember who’s birthday it is? Your third brother will arrive home in a few days, watch by the river Look! I'll go to town to see my godfather, and bring back some meat."

Yaoyao couldn't help laughing, she had nothing to say, she put down the cage, and didn't say a word in the hurry. After Changshun left, Yaoyao saw that the weather was fine, so she took out a jar of kudzu powder that was not dried in the sun yesterday, and poured it into a large dustpan to dry.Together with my sister-in-law, I tossed the hazelnut shells for a while.Originally, I wanted to go to Qingxiping to rush to the market, but I couldn't go, and my wish was difficult. It seemed that the weather was very long this day, and I couldn't use it up no matter how I used it.According to the local customs, being a daughter-in-law is not like being a daughter. A daughter-in-law has to do some housework all day long, even on non-farm busy days, she also has to feed pigs and chickens, push oars and grass.Or stay by the pot and stove to float cotton cloth with straw ash, and go down to the river to wash the green vegetables for pickling.As usual, there are many things to do, and I am busy all day long.Coupled with the work that belongs to personal wealth savings, such as weaving linen, it is naturally easier to live.Sometimes it is also used to rush to the market, mostly out of business necessity, and it is rarely used as a game for fun.As for being a girl at home, although those who contribute to the housework can still participate, they don't have any special responsibilities.Therefore, a daughter-in-law often thinks the days are short, but a daughter thinks the days are long, and rushing to the market is the best entertainment for a girl's family.When the family needs something, the daughter can do it, and the daughter will do it as usual. If it can’t be done, the adults in the family have to do it. The daughter often carries a thin bamboo basket, and follows to the field to play and watch the excitement, so she buys what she wants. used things.Sometimes the two sisters would walk thirty miles back and forth just to buy some pocket things for the game.

My sister-in-law has gone to the mill, and my mother is winding cotton yarn behind the warehouse.Yaoyao couldn't make it to the field, but she seemed to have nothing to do.Early in the morning, two magpies on the maple tree behind the house chirped endlessly, and after a while they flew north.After drying the kudzu powder, Yaoyao sat on an overturned basket in front of the house, thinking about her thoughts. What's on your mind? "Daddy told a joke, you are not allowed to go to the market, you have to cry to the river. Okay, I will really go to the river!" She was not wronged, and she had no reason to cry. She went to the river to see Sailing, happy and unrestrained.The boats made by Sanheizi in my family are not available, and there are many Tongren boats, Gaocun boats, Jiangkou boats, and large and small boats from other villages and towns, going up and down the beach, you can see them. When they got to the river ridge and looked at the opposite river, although they were nearly a mile away, Yaoyao had good eyesight, but she could see a few passers-by sitting on stone benches and resting under the small flagpole in front of the ancestral hall on Fengshuao.In the past few days, the leaves of the maple trees have been fully ripened by the frost, and have fallen a lot, and the depressions can be seen to be sparse.Yaoyao couldn't see where the old sailor was, guessing that he must be chatting with passers-by there.She wanted to call out to see if the old sailor could hear her, so she called "full" sharply.After calling five or six times, but still getting no answer, Yaoyao thought to herself, "Manman must be digging Polygonum multiflorum with others, to get addicted to the gods, and his ears only listen to the ground and not the surface of the water." Normally, Yaoyao would not be too embarrassed to sing loudly, but today she was particularly in high spirits and sang a song with her throat full.After the singing, someone on the col yelled repeatedly to express their welcome.And she blew the whistle made of paulownia veneer, and as an echo, Yaoyao sang again: You don't sing as many songs as I do. I have three cows' hair in my songs. I sang for three years and six months, and just finished singing one cow's ear. But it was very obvious that the old sailor hadn't noticed that the person singing by the river was Yaoyao.Yaoyao was dissatisfied, so she stretched her throat again, and called out "full" four or five times. As expected, she was heard by the old sailor under the maple tree on the col, and staggered down the path to the river , stood on a big black stone pier, and greeted Yaoyao.People are separated by a river, less than half a mile wide, and the sound transmitted by the water surface is far away, and the loud voices on both sides can be heard clearly. The old sailor screamed Yaoyao with a hoarse throat.Yaoyao said: "Manman, I've called you for a long time, why do you keep ignoring me?" "I thought the fan by the river was calling the birds! Where's your father?" "To the town." "Why don't you go to Qingxiping to rush to the market? Didn't you mean to take advantage of the silversmith's visit to wash the jewelry and eat wine? I thought you had left early." "Leave early? Dad won't let me go. I said:" If you don't let me go, I will cry! 'Daddy said: "If you want to cry, well, go to the riverside and cry alone, so that you can have a good time crying.' Then I came to the river." "Have you really cried enough?" "Steaming is not enough and cooking is enough; why am I crying, I said to play. Manman, why don't you fish?" "It's cold, the water in the big river is cold, and the fish have hid in the rock holes for the winter, and they won't take the bait. Yaoyao, I'm still fishing. I'm sitting under the maple tree in front of the ancestral hall. I caught Ao people and caught them all. Just feet, gossip for a long time. You won’t come here for a long time, come across the river to have fun. The maple leaves here are big and red, and they look better than the one behind your house. Come, I’ll make a hat for you You wear it. Yang Jinting, the master of Taipingxi, gave me two big bags of oiled chestnuts, each the size of an egg, hanging on the eaves to dry for half a month, the taste is fragrant and sweet, come and do me a favor, eat it I can't eat it alone, so invite your second sister to come across the river too." Yaoyao said: "That's great, I'll help you eat it. I'll come after a while." Yaoyao went back home and wanted to invite the second girl to cross the river together, and told her: "It's full of eggs and chestnuts, I need someone to help finish it." The second girl was grating her hair under the sun in the courtyard dam, and said with a smile: "I have something to do, so I can't go. Yaoyao, you want to go, and you have promised me a lot, so you can go." The sister-in-law who helped the second girl grate her head also teased Yaoyao said: "Yaoyao, I am full of favoritism, I am very happy with you. Chestnut eggs are big, and duck eggs are big. When you come back, bring some leftovers and put them in your pockets. Let us try them too. " Yaoyao turned around and left without saying anything.Mother came out from the side room carrying a large cotton gauze basket, but she stopped. "Yaoyao, bring some oranges to give away. If outsiders want them, they will be picked out of eight out of ten, and they will not appreciate it. My family members have forgotten. There are more than half of the baskets in the main room, and you can carry them all by yourself. " Yaoyao really used her thin bamboo cage to pick up oranges the size of the cage, and prepared to cross the river.There was a small boat at home by the river, Yaoyao didn't sit in it, but went to the mouth of Jinsha Creek a little downstream.At that time, there was a young man in the village who was loading vegetables on a boat, preparing to sell them in the town.Yaoyao said: "Brother, I want to cross the river to Ao. When your boat starts, I will take your boat to cross the river, okay? Are you going to the town?" Everyone in the whole village knew Yaoyao, and the young men were more willing to talk to and courteous. The boat went up and went from the mouth of the opposite river as usual, it didn't take much trouble, so of course he agreed to this little job.Yaoyao said again: "Brother, I'm not busy, you fill the boat with vegetables, and you will send me across the river when it's time to start. I'm going to play on the Ao. I'm not busy at all!" Yaoyao put down her basket, sat on a pile of pumpkins, and came to watch the scenery on the river leisurely.The leaves of the water willow by the river are yellow and nearly stripped, and the small branches are red and smooth, very beautiful.Yaoyao borrowed a knife and chopped a lot of twigs of water willow, preparing to weave baskets and birdcages.The water at the mouth of the stream is much clearer than in the past, and the sand at the bottom of the water is full of fine gold flakes, shimmering and shining in the sun, and the agate stones and clam shells are especially beautiful on the sand in the water.There were a few children in the village who were playing in the water by moving cobblestones to build embankments to block the water. Yaoyao was delighted to see Lie Xin, so she also took off her socks and went down to the stream to kick the water, just like children, picking pebbles and clam shells from the gravel.The young vegetable seller once helped Yaoyao's elder brother get a boat off Changde Mansion, and wanted to have a conversation with Yaoyao, so he asked Yaoyao: "Yaoyao: How soon will your three sunspots come back?" Yaoyao said: "One or two The sky is coming to the shore. Today the magpies are calling and the weather is good. I guess his boat must rest on the Tongwan River." "Your third brother is capable. He is always up and down throughout the year, busy all the time. Your father is very lucky." "What kind of good luck? The rain and the sun are all over the head. Isn't everyone in the village the same?" "Your father and children are full of house, good and capable, different from other families." Yaoyao understands that the person in front of her is not only envious of her father, but also flattering her.But he can't speak, so he speaks so plainly and honestly.Because of this, Yaoyao smiled slightly, watching the young man move the vegetables, as if saying: "I understand what you mean, let's talk about it later." However, the man seemed to have seen through the secret, a little shy, embarrassed to say anything more , just go to work. After loading enough vegetables, Yaoyao boarded the boat, sat upright, and asked the man to take her across the river.When the boat arrived at the shore, Yaoyao said, "Brother, it's hard for you!" She took out ten big oranges from the cage and placed them on the bow, "Brother, let's eat oranges to make your mouth dry. You go to the town to meet my father, Just tell him, I'm watching the boat on Fengmuao." After finishing speaking, he pushed the bow of the boat with his hands and knees, pushed it away from the shore, and walked like an ape, heading straight for Fengmuao ancestral hall go. When approaching the col, I saw the old sailor was bowing his waist and using a long bamboo broom to clean the fallen leaves in front of the ancestral hall.Before Yaoyao came to the side, the voice came first: "Many, full, I'm here!" The old sailor said with a smile: "Yaoyao, you are usually a little monkey spirit, with fast hands and feet, why are you like eight immortals floating in the sea today? After half a day of crossing, it is not enough. Where is the supernatural power?" "I'm picking up treasures at the mouth of the stream. It's full, look, how many good things!" She took out all the wet stones and shells in the pocket of her apron, and stuffed them into the palm of the old sailor: "All of you!" "Hey, take me! I'm not a fairy, take this as a meal? It's a good gift." Yaoyao naturally also found it funny. "Manman, this maple leaf is good. You can help me make a big hat and put these stones on it. The foreigners and committee members of the Gospel Hall will definitely praise it when they see it." She pointed to the oranges in the back cage: "This It was my mother who asked me to bring it for you." The old sailor said: "Oh, so much, I can eat it? Where's my sister? Why don't you invite her to play." Yaoyao still smiled: "My sister said, there are so many chestnuts, and I really need help to finish them. Why don't you give us a bag, let us carry it home and chew slowly." The old sailor also laughed and said, "That's good, that's good. You have a cage, and you will carry a bag when you go home. Please help. If you don't help, you will put it in the ancestral hall. You can only ask the squirrel to help. " "Manman, is it because squirrels can't help you that you want us to help?" "Where, where, I left it for you with good intentions. If it wasn't for you, it would have been eaten up by passers-by. You know, there are hundreds of two-legged rats that climb over this mountain valley every day, and Dafang is willing to put them away." Eat, eat everything! Everything that is raw except the coir raincoat, and anything with feet except the bench, they want to eat it all! They can eat it all!" The two walked towards the ancestral hall while chatting and laughing.In the side room, the old sailor took over the cage and poured the oranges into a big dustpan, "Yaoyao, these oranges are really big, I will cover them with pine hair and keep them, and I will ask your elder brother to bring them to the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang." Go down and sell it, and come back with a big fur coat from Xikou. The oranges here are worthless, but the ones below are. In the foreign-style buildings in the foreign concession, it is warm in winter and cool in summer, and you can live a peaceful life without worrying about the sky. How can you be bullied by company commanders and platoon leaders." Yaoyao said: "What's the point of that? I want to wish in the countryside." The old sailor said: "What are you reluctant to do?" "I hate the orange tree." "I just said to move the orange tree to Parrot Island!" "Then our cows, our sheep? Our chickens and ducks? I know, they don't want to go to that place where they live. I don't know the road well, and I've heard people say that the water is yellow and muddy all the time, without bottom. It’s such a wide river with no edge. It’s full, you say, how can fish see the way in muddy water, and not bump into it? I’m a little scared if I’m not familiar with the place.” "What are you afraid of? You will get used to it when you get there. If you really go there, you won't have to raise cattle or pigs." "I swear I won't go. I'm not happy to go." "You can't go if you don't go there! It's agreed that everyone will go, even the little Huazi dog at home, you can't live alone." When the two talked, it seemed as if everything had been arranged and they were just waiting to board the boat, their quarrel was extremely ridiculous.At the end, when the two realized that there was no way to move the orange trees in the garden beyond Yingwu Island, Fang each sighed with a smile, and ended this childish discussion. The old sailor forked off a large bag of brown chestnuts from the beam in front of the porch, and put them in Yaoyao's back cage.Yaoyao didn't go home for a while, the house in the ancestral hall was gloomy and felt very cold, so the two went outside to bask in the sun.Yaoyao grabbed a broom to sweep the colorful maple leaves in the Dapingzi.For half a month, half of the tree's leaves had fallen. As long as there is a slight breeze, there will always be some leaves that are detached from the branches, like red and purple sparrows, flying in the sky.The sunlight is mild and slightly chilly, the scenery becomes clearer and clearer, and everything is so quiet and beautiful that it cannot be described.While cleaning the leaves in front of the ancestral hall, Yaoyao looked up at the leaves falling in mid-air, and caught them with her hands. The old sailor sat on the stone bar and smoked dry tobacco with a fire sickle, and he could hear the sound of gongs and drums in the distant village. "Yaoyao, listen, where are the gongs and drums playing? It's too early to make wishes during the Chinese New Year. The townspeople said: "There will be a wishing opera in Luoboxi, a total of seven days. Send people down to Pu City to drive the opera troupe. It would be great if they have all the costumes and roles." Your father is the head of the team. If you want me to order a play, I must order "Xue Rengui's No. 1 Scholar in the Martial Arts Examination" for the main play, and "Wang Po Scolds the Chicken" for the miscellaneous play. In the Yingxiang Opera Troupe from Pu City, all the good characters went to Hongjiang, and the remaining two characters, one Xue Rengui, was born; the other, Wang Po, was also born! " Yaoyao said: "Peaches and plums, red and green, snail shells, flat and round, who isn't born with it? I don't like to go to the theater. It's really hard to sit on a high stool to watch a movie. Man, you said the other day To catch quail, if there is a hand net, let’s go today, do you think it’s okay? I want to play today.” The old sailor shook his head, and pointed to the barren island in the lower reaches of the river, "Yaoyao, I won't go today, I'd better go in a few days. You see, there are people burning mountains across the river all day long. It's a fire! It's been six or seven years. God. Burning and burning, all the quails in the thatched grass have gone down the river and moved to the island. It will not be too late for us to scoop them up in a few days. The quails on the island will have nowhere to fly. will fly elsewhere." "Why doesn't it fly?" The old sailor made fun of Yaoyao, and gave a strange reason: "Isn't it just like you, seeing everything here is good, thinking it is a paradise, and never wanting to leave." Yaoyao said: "Since we are reluctant to leave, why do we catch it? This little thing only weighs four or two, not as good as a chicken leg. If you don't catch it, let it play and fly from one grass to another. In the grass, it's interesting." "To be honest, this little thing can't play like you! Hezhou has a lot of wild food, and the water is convenient. In ten days, it has grown fat and fat, and its small wings can't lift itself. It's blessed, Just like a great official, he is conservative and prudent in everything, so naturally he has no choice but to retire on Hezhou." "Where does it go in the twelfth lunar month?" The old sailor deliberately pretended to be serious, and answered this question: "Where have you been? I hid in the grass nest where the wind and snow were out of reach in the winter and the twelfth lunar month, and spent a year warm and peaceful. After the New Year, when it’s time, jump into the water to become a clam. In March, it will be clear and the spring rain will fall. You can bathe and play in the pond, croaking all day and all night, making you unable to sleep! " Yaoyao looked at the old sailor with a serious expression but not a serious tone. "Everyone says that, but I don't believe it. Toads are transformed from quail. What's the use of tadpole fish?" "Well, how many things in the world are useless. For example, if you ask those things why they survived, they ignore you according to the rules. It just survived! Believe it or not. I I caught a toad once a year ago, and there was a quail with its tail intact. I caught it when I pulled the tail. It must have bitten off the tail first. The nine-tailed vixen was recognized by people. , isn’t it the same tail? It can’t be changed, if it is seen accidentally, the original shape will appear.” What the old sailor said were all jokes, how could he hide it from Yaoyao.Yaoyao smiled and said, "Manman, I heard that the County River Affairs Bureau wants you to be the director, because you can recognize waterways and talk about it (river)!" The old sailor waved a pipe and said, "Okay, as soon as the letter of appointment comes, I will take office immediately. Since the Republic of China, some officials have been changed from directors to supervisors, and some officials have been changed from supervisors to directors. Some people say that this is a revolution!Yaoyao, do you think this is like a revolution? " When the maple leaves were swept up in a pile, Yaoyao put down her broom and concentrated on picking two kinds of leaves, bright red and bright yellow, and was going to ask old sailors to weave bamboo hats.But the old sailor used that handful of salicor willow branches to weave a basket and a birdcage for Yaoyao.This matter was done so delicately and swiftly, by the time Yaoyao picked up the wooden leaves, the little basket was already finished, and the little birdcage was almost finished. Yaoyao laughed as soon as she saw it, "Manman, you are very capable! The Yellow Crane Tower has 18 floors, you must have been there to carry bricks and wood." Yaoyao quoted the legend, which meant that the old sailor would go with Lu Ban I have been an apprentice.This is a local joke that praises craftsmanship. The old sailor replied: "The 18th floor of the Yellow Crane Tower, who saw it with their own eyes? I was a raft for a year, and I released it to Yingwu Island. When I was empty, I went to the Yellow Crane Tower. When I got there, I didn't see you." I didn’t see Lu Dongbin in the building, but I was held by a spectator by the sleeve in the empty flat that had been burned, and refused to let go. I thought I owed him money, but he said that he was destined to me. His name is 'Sai Dongbin' He said that I am kind-hearted and good-natured. When I meet good people, I will never worry about food or clothing for the rest of my life. After I am fifty-six years old, I will still do big things. I asked him whether the big things are the governor who leads the soldiers, or the county magistrate who is shouted when he goes out? The physiognomist just shook his head and said, "No, it's not." He also said, "You give me two taels of silver, and I will calculate it carefully for you. I will ensure that you will be effective at that time. If it is not effective, you will tear me up." A signboard. I looked at the signboard. It turned out to be a piece of rag faded by the rain and sun. I don’t know what it will look like after thirty years. I only gave him three Chinese torreya. I was twenty-five years old at the time, It's been thirty years now, this fairy's femur must be used as a drum stick. It's not too bad to say that I will meet a good person in my life. If I say that I want to do big things, Yaoyao, think about it, what big things are waiting for me when I get old Do it? I’m afraid it’s not about stretching your feet, that’s a big deal.” Yaoyao said: "Everyone says that you can watch overturned boats from the Yellow Crane Tower. There is no tower, so there is nothing to see standing by the river." The old sailor said: "It's more beautiful. The fire dragon boat moored at the Hankou Water Wharf has four floors. When the horn is played, it is louder than the old buffalo. It is true that the machine travels eight hundred miles a day and takes thousands of people nice!" Yaoyao laughed, "Haha, I said Yellow Crane Tower, you have four floors. I said 'look overturned', you have a dragon boat. Manman, let me ask you, will the dragon boat capsize? How many dragons are there? " It is customary in the countryside to call a ship a dragon boat, and the old sailor was silenced and couldn't answer for a while, which was absurd.Because he thought of the common "dry dragon boat" in the local area. It was a wooden frame the size of a case. It worshiped the Nuo Gong and Nuo Mu with red and black heads. The name symbol, according to the legend, worshiping Nuo Gong and Nuo Mother as a godson, can live a long life and be rich.This dry dragon boat is really a dragon! At that time, three young men carrying oil baskets came from the water, and they all put down their burdens on the col and sat down to rest.The old sailor has been guarding the col for many years, and there are many people coming and going. Although he doesn't know these people, people can know him.Seeing the gadgets made by the old sailors, they all felt very dexterous.One of them said: "Old man, you have done a good job with this basket. When the provincial committee sees it, there will be a reward!" The old sailor often hears people say "commissioner", and the committee member is not very good in his impression.It's like being a busy and ignorant urbanite. Although he came to the countryside to make ordinary countrymen a little awed, in fact everything he did was ridiculous.They went around the countryside in a sedan chair on a three-legged crutch, causing a lot of restlessness.Enough trouble, when you want to go back to the province, you will take other people's hen and bacon to make road dishes.It is not empty talk to tell the country people that everything has rewards, gold medals and silver medals!Now I heard a young oil merchant say that he would be rewarded for the baskets he wove, so he said, "Brother, what reward? The provincial committee members come to our town and only catch fat hens to eat. What do you know about the mysteries of the world and the primordial universe?" Another oil dealer chattered and said, "Why no rewards? The Mud Man sent a twenty-six catties of big radish to the committee to ask for a reward. There are words engraved on it, just like the iron coupons in the Danshu, no food, no donations, no love, and it will be canceled only when the dynasty changes!" "Have you ever seen that silver medal with your own eyes?" "Someone has read and touched it, and the words are clear and distinct." Yaoyao couldn't help laughing when she heard this strange legend. But one of the oil merchants retorted: "Where is there any silver medal? I only heard that Lanni Township invited people to participate in the award, and congratulated the one who went to invite the reward. It was 500 yuan each. The county magistrate invites the commissioner, the commissioner invites the commissioner, the commissioner invites the chairman, and the chairman invites the supervision—all the way to submit a report, and then all the way to refute the official document, which is much slower than sending people to Yunnan Province to buy golden monkeys!" The original oil merchant, in front of strangers, said, "How can such a thing happen, I don't believe it. Someone has seen that big silver medal with their own eyes. It is the same style as Zhao Yuefei's gold lettered plaque. It is written in He Shaoji, with fat strokes. fat." "You don't believe it, but you believe that the medals are the same as the gold medals on the show. If the medals are really handed out, the mud figurines will even set up an archway to sing a three-day show. You can watch the three-day white show." "You know what, dog tangerine, pickled garlic, sour and smelly." The guy likes to tell jokes, and when he saw that the oil dealer was in a hurry, he simply teased him and said: "I also heard that the troupe has also been hired, and the play has been arranged. I invite you, an unlucky oil seller, to be the chief. Are you ready to be rewarded? Don’t lose face and ask the oiran to step down to ask you!" The old sailor interrupted: "How long does a turnip last? I'll ask you. The commissar took it to the county, chopped it up long ago, and ate it for stew. You don't believe it!" A few people are using the committee members from the province as the topic, and they are talking nonsense based on what they have seen, heard and guessed.Yaoyao listened from the sidelines, only pursing her mouth in amused manner. In front of the col, there is a string of bells ringing under the horse's collar. It is dense and joyful. The louder the sound, the closer it is. It can be inferred that someone is riding a col.There is a four-sentence song in the local folk song "Lang Riding a White Horse". Yaoyao was suspicious: "Who came riding a horse? Could it be..."