Chapter 9 Chapter Three Nine

When grandfather came home, it was almost the usual time for breakfast, and his shoulders and hands were full of things. As soon as he got up the hill, he called Cui Cui, asking Cui Cui to pull a boat across the stream to meet him.Seeing how many people had entered the city, Cuicui was in a panic on the boat, and when she heard her grandfather's voice, she became more energetic, and said sharply, "Grandpa, grandpa, I'm coming!" After getting off the ferry, he put the things on his shoulders and hands on the bow of the boat, and while helping Cui Cui to pull the boat, he smiled at Cui Cui, like a child, full of humility and shyness. "Cui Cui, you are in a hurry, aren't you?" Cui Cui should have complained to her grandfather, but she replied, "Grandpa, I know that you have a lot of fun trying to persuade people to drink on He Street." Cui Cui also knew Grandfather was very happy to go to River Street to play, but saying this would make him even more shy, so he didn't bring up the words.

Cui Cui reckoned everything on the bow of the boat, but the wine gourd was missing.Cui Cui sneered. "Grandpa, you are so generous. You invited the vice master to have a drink with the people on board, and even ate the gourd!" Grandfather smiled and explained: "Where, where, my gourd was confiscated by Uncle Shun Shun. When he saw me inviting people to drink on Hejie, he said, 'Hey, hey, Zhang Heng the ferryman, this won't work. If you don't open a distillery, How like that! Put that down of yours, and let me drink it all up.' He really said, 'Let me drink it all up.' I put the gourd down. But I guess he was just kidding me. Is there still less shochu in his family? Cui Cui, tell me..."

"Grandpa, do you think that if people really want to drink your wine, they are just joking with you?" "What's that about?" "Don't worry, because it's not the right place for you to treat guests, they will hold back your gourd and prevent you from asking people to drink up the wine. They will bring it to you later, you still don't understand, really!" "Oh, it's really going to be like this!" Speaking of the boat coming to shore, Cui Cui rushed to help her grandfather carry things, but in the end she only took the fish and the flower bag; the money in the bag was used up, but there was a bag of sugar and a bag of sesame pancakes.As soon as the two of them brought the newly bought things to their home, someone shouted to transition to the stream. Grandfather wanted Cuicui to watch the meat and vegetables so as not to be dragged away by wild cats, and competed to go down the stream to do things. After a while, he shouted with the transition man. Home is here.It turned out that this person was the one who gave the wine gourd.I only heard my grandfather say: "Cui Cui, you guessed it right. They really brought the wine gourd!"

Before Cui Cui had time to walk to the stove, her grandfather and a young man with a dark face and broad shoulders entered the room. Cui Cui and the guests all smiled and let the grandfather continue the conversation.The guest looked at Cui Cui and smiled again, Cui Cui seemed to understand why she was being watched, she felt a little embarrassed, and went to the stove to light a fire.Someone by the stream called for transition again, Cui Cui hurried out of the door and boarded the boat, and crossed the stream.It happened that someone was crossing the stream again.Although it was raining lightly, there were extraordinarily many people in transition, three times in a row.While working on the boat, Cui Cui thought of her grandfather's fun.For some reason, the person who was sent from the city to give the wine gourd seemed to her to be an acquaintance.But the eyes seem to be acquaintances, but they don't know where they met.But it also seems that he refuses to think of this person in a certain way, so he can't guess the identity of this person.

Grandfather shouted on the rock ridge: "Cui Cui, Cui Cui, come up to have a rest and accompany the guests!" Originally, there was no one to go ashore and wanted to go ashore to light a fire, but after grandfather yelled, he refused to go ashore. A visitor asked his grandfather, "Should I go into the city to watch the boat?" The old ferryman said, "You should guard the boat."The two talked about something else.In the end, the guest dialect is back to business: "Uncle, you, Cuicui, look like a grown-up, and you look very good-looking!" The ferryman smiled. "The tone is the same as that of my brother, which is refreshing." Thinking this way, he said: "Second old man, you are the only one worthy of praise in this place. People say you look good!" The leopard in Bamianshan, the golden pheasant in Didixi , 'It's all aphorisms that extol the virtues of you as a person!"

"However, it's very unfair." "It's fair! I heard from the people on the boat that when you escorted the boat last time, something happened at Baijiguan Beach under the Sanmen Gate. You rescued three people from the rough waves. You spent the night on the beach and were seen by the women in the village. Is it true that people sang by your shed all night?" "It's not the women singing all night, it's the wolves howling. That place is famous for having a lot of wolves, and they just want a chance to eat us! We lit a big fire to scare them away so they won't be eaten!"

The old boatman laughed, "That's even better! What they said is still very true. Wolves only eat girls, children, and handsome eighteen-year-old youths. Old bones like me, they don't want to eat!" The second elder said: "Uncle, you have seen 20,000 suns here. Others say that our place has good feng shui, and there are adults. I don't know why, but now there are no adults?" "Are you saying that good Fengshui should produce famous people? I thought that such people would not be born in our small place, and it would not be a problem. We have smart, upright, brave, and hard-working young people, and that's enough. Like You father and son brothers have added honor to the local area a lot!"

"Uncle, you are right, and I think so too. Where there are no bad people, good people come out. Like Uncle, even though he is old, he is still as strong as a nanmu tree. It's serious, generous, and rare." "I'm an old bone, what can I say? Sun, rain, long walks, heavy burdens, eating and drinking, starvation and cold, I have taken my share, and I will lie down soon This icy land feeds maggots. You guys have everything in this world, work hard, the sun will not fail you, and you will not fail the sun!" "Uncle, seeing how hardworking you are, we young people dare not let the sun down!"

After talking for a while, the second elder wanted to leave, so the old boatman stood at the door and called Cui Cui, asking her to come inside to boil water and cook, and replace him with looking after the boat.Cui Cui refused to go ashore, but the guests had already disembarked. When Cui Cui pulled the boat, her grandfather deliberately pretended to complain and said: "Cui Cui, if you don't come up, do you want me to be a wife and cook at home?" Cui Cui squinted at the guest, and seeing the guest staring at her, she turned her face away, pursed her lips, and confidently pulled the horizontal cable, and the boat slowly pulled across the opposite bank.The guest stood at the bow and talked to Cui Cui:

"Cui Cui, after dinner, why don't you go to see the boating with your grandfather?" Cui Cui was embarrassed not to speak, so she said: "Grandpa can't say, there is no one guarding the boat!" "And you?" "If grandpa doesn't go, I won't go either." "Are you guarding the boat too?" "I'll accompany my grandpa." "I want someone to guard the ferry for you, okay?" With a bang, the bow of the ship hit the ridge on the shore, and the ship came ashore.The two elders jumped to the shore, stood on the slope and said:

"Cui Cui, it's hard for you!...I need someone to replace you when I go back. You guys should eat quickly and go to my house to watch the boat. Today is crowded and lively!" Cui Cui didn't understand the stranger's kindness, and didn't understand why she had to go to his house to see the boat. She pursed her lips and smiled, and pulled the boat back.After arriving at the bank of the stream at home, I saw that person was still on the hill opposite the stream, as if waiting for something, so he walked away.Cuicui went back home, went to the stove to light the fire, stuffed some damp grass into the stove, and asked her grandfather who was trying the gourd wine brought back by the guests: "Grandpa, the man said that he needs someone to replace you when he goes back, and wants the two of us to watch the boat, will you go?" "Are you happy to go?" "I'm glad you two went together. That man is very nice. I seem to recognize him. Who is he?" The grandfather thought to himself: "That's right, people think you are good too!" The grandfather smiled and said: "Cui Cui, don't you remember that when you were by the big river the year before last, someone said he wanted a big fish to bite you?" Cui Cui understood, but still pretended not to understand and asked, "Who is he?" "Think about it, guess it." "There are so many people in this book, I can't guess that he is Zhang San Li Si." "The second elder of Shunshun Chuan's family, he knows you, but you don't know him!" He took a sip of his wine, as if praising wine and people, and said in a low voice: "Okay, wonderful, this is rare. " The transitional people shouted under the sill outside the door, and the old grandfather still said "Okay, wonderful..." and hurried off to work.