Chapter 14 Chapter Sixteen

The old boatman fell asleep when he was tired from work, and Cui Cui fell asleep when he was tired from crying.Cuicui couldn't forget what her grandfather said. In the dream, her soul floated up with a beautiful singing sound, as if it was floating around gently. It went up the White Pagoda, down the vegetable garden, and on the boat, and flew back and forth across the cliff halfway. Waist—what are you going to do?Pick saxifrage!When pulling the boat in the daytime, she looked up at the fat saxifrage on the cliff and was very familiar with it.The cliff is three to five feet high, and it is impossible to climb and fold it at ordinary times, but in this season, you can choose the largest leaf as an umbrella.

Everything was like a story told by her grandfather, Cui Cui just lay bewildered on the straw under the burlap tent, thinking that this dream was the most beautiful and sweet.Grandfather was awake on the bed, opened his ears to listen to the midnight song sung by the people on the high cliff of the river.He knew who sang it, and he knew it was the first song of Mr. Tianbao on Hejie, so he listened sadly and happily.Because Cui Cui was tired from crying during the day, she slept soundly, so he didn't disturb her. At dawn the next day, Cui Cui and her grandfather got up, washed their faces with stream water, and got rid of the taboo about talking about dreams in the morning. Cui Cui hurriedly told her grandfather what she had dreamed about last night.

"Grandpa, you talk about singing. I heard a very beautiful singing in my dream yesterday. It was soft and lingering. I seemed to follow the sound and fly around. I flew to the halfway up the cliff of the opposite stream and picked a lot Saxifraga, I got saxifrage, I don’t know who to give this thing to. I slept really well, and the dream was so interesting!” The grandfather smiled gently and compassionately, and did not tell Cui Cui the truth of last night. The grandfather thought to himself: "It's better to dream for a lifetime, and there are still people who become the number one prime minister in their dreams."

The old boatman who sang last night thought it was the elder Tianbao. In the coming day, Cuicui will guard the boat and go to the city for an excuse to deliver medicine and find out the situation.When I saw the old man on Hejie, I grabbed the young man and said happily: "Boss, what a cunning thing you are, who walks both carriages and roads!" However, the old boatman did one thing wrong, and made last night's singer "Zhang Guan Li Dai".The two brothers went to Bixiyu at the same time last night. They took the lead in order to drive the older brother. No matter what, they refused to sing first, and the younger brother had to sing first.As soon as the younger brother opened his mouth, the elder brother couldn't open his mouth because he knew he was not an opponent.The songs that Cuicui and her grandfather heard at night were all sung by the old Nuosong.When the eldest wife and younger brother came home, they decided to leave Chadong and drive down the new oil tanker at home, so as to forget everything on it.At this time, I was about to go down the river to see the loading of new ships.Seeing his cold expression, the old boatman didn't understand what he meant, so he made a ridiculous mark with his eyebrows and eyes to show that he understood that Tate's indifference was fake, and that he had news to share.

He patted the elder and said softly: "You sing very well. People listen to your song in their dreams, and they have traveled a long way for that song! You are the number one, the number one singer in our place." Looking at the salivating old face of the old ferryman who was handling the ferry, the old man said softly: "Forget it, you gave your precious daughter to the singing bamboo sparrow." This sentence baffled the old boatman at all.The old man walked down the river from a stilted building, and the old boatman followed.When I got to the river, I saw that the new boat was loading, and many oil baskets were put on the bank.A sailor was making long bundles of thatch for use as handles on the ship's side to keep out the waves, and someone was rubbing grease on the paddle boards by the river.The old boatman asked the sailor who was sitting on the handle in the sun, when the boat was going down, and who would guard the boat.The sailor pointed at Tate.The old boatman rubbed his hands and said:

"Boss, listen to me to be serious. It's not right for you to follow the road; if you take the road, you have a share!" The elder pointed to the window and said, "Uncle, look over there, you want the bamboo sparrow to be your grandson-in-law, where is the bamboo sparrow!" The old boatman looked up and saw Erlao, who was arranging a fishing net by the window. When returning to Bixiyu and getting on the ferry, Cuicui asked: "Grandpa, who did you quarrel with, and your face is so ugly!" Grandfather smiled slightly, he didn't tell Cuicui a word about his going to the city.