Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen

Grandfather seemed to be angry with someone, the smile on his face diminished, and he didn't pay much attention to Cui Cui's side.Cui Cui Xiang knew that her grandfather didn't love her very much anymore, but she didn't seem to understand the reason.But this is not a long time, and once the days pass, it will be fine.The two of them still lived by rowing, everything remained the same, but for life, there seemed to be an invisible gap somewhere, which could never be filled.Grandfather can still get the hospitality of the boat boss Shun Shun when he crosses the river street, but it is obvious that the boat boss has not forgotten the reason for the death of the deceased.The two elders traveled six hundred miles from Beihe to Chenzhou, looking for the poor brother's body along the river, but to no avail, they posted signs on various tax offices and returned to Chadong.Not long after, he went across eastern Sichuan to handle goods, and met the old boatman during the transition.The old boatman looked at the young man, as if he had completely forgotten about the past, so he talked to him.

"Second elder, the June sun is poisonous, and you are going to the east of Sichuan again, are you not afraid of hard work?" "If you want food, you have to go on the road with your head on fire!" "We need to eat! The second hometown still has little food to eat!" "If there is food to eat, Daddy said that young people should not eat and do nothing at home!" "How is your father?" "Eat well, what's wrong with it." "Your brother is broken, I think your father seems to be much more emaciated because of this matter!" The second elder fell silent when he heard this, and looked at the white tower behind the old boatman's house.He seemed to be thinking of the old incident that night in the past, and he felt very melancholy.The old boatman looked at the young man timidly, with a smile on his face.

"Second elder, my family Cui Cui said that one night in May, I had a dream..." He looked at the second elder while he was talking, and he was not surprised or bored when he saw the second elder, so he continued, "She had a strange dream. , Said that in a dream, he was lifted up by a person's singing, and Shangxuanyan picked a handful of saxifrage!" The second elder turned his head to the side and made a wry smile, thinking in his heart that "the old man can be pretentious".This point seemed to be revealed in that wry smile, and the old boatman still saw it, and the old boatman said, "Second old man, don't you believe it?"

The young man said: "Why don't I believe it? Because I was a fool and sang songs all night on the rock over there!" Embarrassed by an unexpected truth, the old boatman stammered, "It's true...it's false..." "Why isn't it true? Isn't the death of Elder Tianbao true!" "But, but..." The old boatman's pretentiousness was just to clarify the matter, but when he first narrated the matter, there was a mistake in the method, so he was misunderstood by the second elder.Just as he was about to tell the story of that night, the boat had reached the shore.As soon as the two elders jumped onto the shore, they wanted to go.The old boatman looked even more hectic on the boat and said:

"Second old man, second old man, wait, I have something to tell you. Didn't you mention that earlier - you do something stupid? You are not stupid, and others really call your song a fool!" Although the young man stood still, he said softly: "Enough is enough, don't talk anymore." The old boatman said: "Second old man, I heard people say that you don't want to grind the boat, you want to ferry the boat. That's what Yang Mabing said, isn't it true?" The young man said, "So what if you want a ferry?" The old boatman looked at the look of the two elders, and suddenly became happy in his heart, so he couldn't help calling Cui Cui loudly, asking her to come down to the stream.However, I don't know if Cui Cui didn't come out of the house on purpose, or if she went somewhere else. I haven't seen Cui Cui's shadow for a long time, and I haven't heard the girl's voice.The second elder waited for a while, looked at the look of the old boatman, smiled without saying a word, and strode away with a porter who was carrying vermicelli and white sugar.

After passing the Bixiyu hill, the two of them should walk along a winding bamboo forest. The porter said at this time: "Nuosong Erlao, look at the air of making the ferry, I like you very much!" The old man was silent, and the man said again: "Second old man, he asked if you want a mill or a ferry. Are you really going to be his grandson-in-law and take over his ferry?" The second elder laughed, and the man said again: "Second elder, if this matter is assigned to me, I want that mill. The profit of a mill can harvest seven liters of rice and three buckets of chaff every day."

The second elder said: "When I come back, I will tell my father to match you with the people in Zhongzhai, so that you can get the mill. As for me, I think it would be good to get a ferry boat. It's just that the old man is a crooked person. Unfavorable, he was the one who killed the boss." The old boatman was very unhappy when he saw that the second elder had left like that, but Cui Cui hadn't come out yet.Walking home to check, it turned out that Cui Cui was not at home.After a while, Cui Cui came back from behind the hill with a basket, and only then did she know that Cui Cui had gone out to dig bamboo shoots early in the morning.

"Cui Cui, I've called you for a long time, but you didn't hear me!" "What are you calling me for?" "A transition... an acquaintance, we talk about you... I call you, but you don't agree!" "who is it?" "Guess, Cui Cui. It's not a stranger...you know him!" Cuicui blushed when she thought of what Shijian overheard from the bamboo forest, and she didn't speak for a long time. The old boatman asked: "Cui Cui, how many whip shoots did you get?" Cuicui dumped the bamboo basket to the ground, only a handful of saxifrage except for a dozen or so small whip shoots.

The old boatman glanced at Cui Cui, and Cui Cui ran away with blushing cheeks.