Chapter 6 Chapter 2 Six

During the day, the old boatman was arguing with a transitional man who sold leather paper on the ferry.One could not accept the money offered, but the other insisted on giving the money to the old man.It seemed that the old ferryman was oppressed because of the style of the transitional man who gave the money, and the ferryman seemed angry and forced the man to take the money back, so that the man had no choice but to keep the money in his hands.But when the boat approached the shore, the man jumped onto the pier, threw a handful of copper coins into the cabin, and left in a hurry with a smile on his face.The old boatman still had to pull the boat to let someone else go ashore, but he couldn't catch up with that person, so he called the girl on the top of the hill:

"Cui Cui, Cui Cui, help me pull that guy who sells leather paper, don't let him go!" Cui Cui didn't know what happened, so she went with the yellow dog to stop the first person who came down the mountain.The man smiled and said: "Don't stop me!..." Just as he was talking, the second businessman came and told Cui Cui what was going on.Cui Cui understood, and held on to the paper figurine's clothes, saying only: "Don't go! Don't go!" The yellow dog barked next to Cui Cui to show that he agreed with his master.The rest of the businessmen were all smiling and couldn't walk for a while.The grandfather rushed over panting, forced the money into the man's hand, and put a large bunch of grass tobacco on the merchant's burden. He rubbed his hands and said with a smile, "Let's go! You go on the road!" smiled and left.

Cui Cui said: "Grandpa, I thought that man stole your things and fought with you!" Grandfather said: "He sent me a lot of money. I don't want the money! Tell him he doesn't want the money, and he still quarrels with me, which is unreasonable!" Cui Cui said, "Have you returned it all to him?" Grandfather pursed his lips and shook his head, pretended to be cunning and smiled triumphantly, took out the single copper coin tied in his belt, and gave it to Cuicui.Let's say: "He got our handful of tobacco leaves, and he can eat them all the way to Zhenzhu City!"

The sound of drums sounded again in the distance, and the yellow dog listened with its ears open.Cui Cui asked her grandfather if she could hear any sound.As soon as the grandfather paid attention, he knew what the sound was, and said: "Cui Cui, the Dragon Boat Festival is here again. Do you remember the fat duck that the Tianbao boss gave you last year? In the morning, the boss went to the east of Sichuan with a group of people, and asked you during the transition. You must have forgotten the rain that fell. If we go this time, we have to light a torch to go home again; do you remember that the two of us used torches to light the way home?"

Cui Cui was still thinking about everything about the Dragon Boat Festival two years ago.But when her grandfather asked, Cui Cui shook her head with a slightly annoyed look, and deliberately said: "I don't remember, I don't remember." In fact, what she meant was "Why can't I remember?!" The grandfather understood the meaning of the words, and said: "The year before last was even more interesting. You waited for me by the river alone, and almost didn't know you came back. I thought the big fish would eat you!" Cui Cui sneered when she mentioned the past.

"Grandpa, did you think the big fish would eat me? I told you that I was accused by someone else! You just wanted that grandpa in the city to eat the gourd that contained the wine! You have such a memory!" "I'm getting old, and my memory is really bad. Cui Cui, now that you are grown up, you must dare to go to the city to watch the boats by yourself] I am not afraid that the fish will eat you." "When you grow up, you should guard the boat." "When one is old, one should guard the ship." "A man should rest when he is old!" "Your grandpa can still beat tigers, you are not old!" Grandpa said, so he bent his arms, trying to make his muscles look strong and young in the restraint, and said: "Cui Cui, if you don't believe it, just bite."

Cuicui stared at her grandfather, who was slightly hunched over with white hair, and said nothing.There was the sound of suona blowing in the distance. She knew what it was and knew the direction of the suona, so she asked her grandfather to get off the boat with her and pull the boat across to the shore on the other side of the house.In order to see the wedding sedan chair for the wedding ceremony early, Cui Cui climbed to the tower behind the house to have a look.Not long after, that group of people came, two suona players, four strong country men, an empty sedan chair, a young man in new clothes who looked like the son of the head of the regiment, and two sheep, and a sheep leader A child, a jar of wine, a box of glutinous rice cakes, and a gift bearer.After the group boarded the ferry, Cui Cui and her grandfather also boarded the ferry. Her grandfather pulled the boat, but Cui Cui stood beside the sedan chair, admiring everyone's faces and the tassels on the sedan chair.After reaching the shore, the man who looked like the son of the head of the regiment took out a small red paper envelope from Kouhua's belly and handed it to the old boatman.This is the rule, and my grandfather can no longer say no to it.But after winning the money, the grandfather spoke. He asked the man where the bride was from. When he got it, he asked her surname. When he got it, he asked how old she was. They all figured it out together.As soon as the suona player came ashore, he blew the suona wu wu la la again, and the group of people went over the mountain and left.Grandfather and Cuicui stayed on the boat, their emotions seemed to be chasing the sound of the suona, and they walked a long way before returning to their side.

The grandfather weighed the weight of the red paper envelope and said: "Cui Cui, the newlywed mother in the Songjiabao is only fifteen years old." Cui Cui understood the meaning of her grandfather's words, ignored them, and quietly pulled the boat up. When she got home, Cuicui ran home to get a double-pipe suona made of small bamboo, and asked her grandfather to sit on the bow of the boat and play the song "Mother Sending Her Daughter" to her, but she and the yellow dog lay down on the big rock in front of the door to shade Look around at the clouds in the sky.The days grew longer, and at some point, my grandfather fell asleep, and so did Cui Cui and the yellow dog.