Chapter 13 Chapter 12 The Fish Demon

Regarding the color code, I don't know anything about it. When Axiu took out the samples for comparison, he stood aside in a daze.Tang Ziyue took out a pen and paper, wrote down the passwords one by one, and checked which one solved the password more smoothly.The samples that Ashiu got were English, Russian, Japanese, Greek, and Italian. If none of these five languages ​​corresponded, he would have to wait a few more days to know the answer to the password. Axiu and Tang Ziyue were so busy, I could barely get in the conversation, so I had to watch from the sidelines, lest someone follow along and mess up the decryption of the code.Fortunately, no one came to the old library tonight, and there was no wind and rain. Everything seemed normal.In order not to have any accidents, I even brought a flashlight this time, fearing that the power facilities would be damaged by wind and rain like last time.

After a while, before the password was solved, I asked next to me: "Aren't there only seven colors? How can they correspond to so many letters?" "Who said there are only seven kinds?" Axiu raised his head and said. I don't know much about colors, so I was ashamed and asked how many colors there are in the world.Axiu didn't take the opportunity to mock me, but explained seriously that there are three primary colors in the world, namely red, yellow, and blue, which can form countless colors in the vast world.For example, in a computer, colors are composed of three primary colors of red, green, and blue. One Byte (byte, ranging from 0 to 255) is used to represent a color component, so there are 256×256×256=16777216 colors.The so-called 32-bit true color actually has one more byte of Alpha value (semi-transparency).

"16777216 colors? So many?" I have never understood this academic language, and my head was empty after listening to the beginning. Seeing my blank face, Axiu said: "In short, there are many colors. The human eye can distinguish about 10 million colors, but this is just an estimate, and there is no standard answer. Because the structure of each human eye is different, Everyone sees colors a little differently, so color distinctions are fairly subjective. If one or more types of cone cells in a person do not respond properly to incoming light, then the color that person can distinguish is less Few, such people are called color-blind..."

"Okay, okay, I understand, that is to say, there are more than seven colors, which are more than enough to correspond to those letters!" I hurriedly begged for mercy. Tang Ziyue was still changing the password, and after writing several sheets of paper, she said: "It's not Japanese, it's not Italian, Greek, Russian, and now only English is left." "That's good. I don't understand Japanese, Italian, Greek, or Russian, and I can barely understand English." Axiu said with a silly smile. "English?" I was stunned, "Second Master Tang understands both passwords and English. Where did he study before? He can't be a retired spy, right?"

After the final code conversion, Tang Ziyue and Axiu finally translated the color code of the concentric circles. There are 21 concentric circles in total, but there are no 21 colors, because some are repeated.I held my breath and waited for more than a minute before Tang Ziyue handed me the written password. There were 21 letters written on it, forming a sentence—Meet meat the crossing site. "This...isn't Second Master Tang dead? Why did he ask you to meet him at the ferry?" Ashio wondered. Crossing Site means crossing site, and the current crossing site documents have this English word, which is no stranger to me.But I live in the ferry place. Isn't it too redundant for Mr. Tang to leave this set of codes before his death?What's more, Second Master Tang is dead, how can I meet him at the ferry?You can't invite a Maoshan Taoist priest to summon the soul, right?Tang Ziyue couldn't figure it out just like me, and there were more things to discuss next, and it was inconvenient for Ah Xiu to be present, so she sent him away.

When only Tang Ziyue and I were left in the attic, I asked, "Tell me, is the ferry that Erye Tang is referring to the old ferry, the one that dug out the log last time?" "It's possible, I think so too." Tang Ziyue said holding the password. "Jin Lele sent us a text message asking us to arrest someone there. That person may be the person she blackmailed. Both of them should have read out the password of Mr. Tang. Did they meet Mr. Tang? Father?" I questioned. "Second Master Tang is dead. It's absolutely true. How did they meet? Besides, can't we make appointments elsewhere? Why do we have to be at the old ferry? It's so hard to find there. In my opinion, Second Master Tang It means that there is a secret he wants to hide there, and I want you to go and have a look." Tang Ziyue analyzed.

"You mean the journal?" I asked. "Of course not." Tang Ziyue said softly, "Since we left the old ferry that night, we never went back. Do you want to go again sometime?" "What are you looking for there?" I shrugged, and replied helplessly, "The old ferry is gloomy. I don't think there are any good things. If there were any, they would have been poached away." "But Second Master Tang left you this letter before he was alive. He must have considered those factors and knew that he would die. I think there is something in Second Master Tang's words. Things won't be stolen so easily. Let's go together Shall we go?"

I looked out the window of the attic, thinking it was dark now, and it would be dangerous to go to the ferry.Even if there are no bad guys ambushing, there will always be poisonous snakes and wild beasts, it is safer to go to the old ferry during the day.Tang Ziyue has no objection to this, and this matter has only been clarified until now, and she is not in a hurry. After the password was unlocked, Tang Ziyue asked me, have any weird things happened recently?The urn incident just happened today, and I told it out of my head, Tang Ziyue asked me as soon as she rolled her eyes, didn't Jin Lele do these things?I've already thought about this, Jin Lele may have a chance to change the position of the jar, but the grass snake is definitely not stuffed into the jar by her.Because the tank was not ventilated, the snake could survive at most a day, and then the snake slammed into the tank, and it must have been unable to bear the feeling of confinement.

"It's not Jin Lele, who else is there? There are only a few people in the crossing." Tang Ziyue asked inexplicably. "It doesn't have to be someone from the crossing field, it may also be someone from outside." I said as I put away the color code, and then said, "Jin Lele is on duty at the crossing field. Except for Captain Hu, it belongs to her and outsiders." people are familiar with." "It's not easy to find helpers for this kind of thing, you must find someone you can trust?" Tang Ziyue asked suspiciously. I thought about it for a while, and felt that what I said was true. What Jin Lele did was shameful, and if she wanted to find someone, she had to find someone she could trust 100%.Speaking of it, Jin Lele doesn't get along with the people in Duchang, and Mrs. Han and her are only in a mutually beneficial relationship, because Jin Lele sometimes wants to add food to himself, so he occasionally helps cook.We guessed and guessed, but there was no standard answer, so we decided to go to the old ferry at noon tomorrow to see if there were any new clues.

As soon as Tang Ziyue left, I didn't feel like staying in the library, so I walked out of Yishan Teachers College.The night was calm and undisturbed, and I was beginning to think that it might be a good thing to end it.Anyway, the locks have been changed, and Jin Lele has also been admitted to the hospital to lie down. Whether the secret is exposed or not, it will not do me any harm.I struggled with my thoughts all the way through the camphor forest, and when I returned to the ferry, I felt that I should not give up so quickly. After all, Second Lord Tang died for me. Yishan Town is getting hotter and hotter. Except for Jia Xiazi, everyone no longer closes the door at night, letting the river wind blow into the dormitory, taking away the heat in summer.As soon as I entered the yard, I noticed that Sister Miao was still in the office, and then I thought that she was really hardworking, and if she didn't come home so late, isn't my husband in a hurry?The lights in Yue Mingfei's room were not turned on, presumably to celebrate the end of the catastrophe, he went to look for flowers and ask willows again.I've been using my brain too much lately, and I've been groggy all day long, so I decided to take a shower and then go to rest.But Blind Jia suddenly opened the door, took a bucket and walked to the bathroom, and got there first.

I sighed, instead of competing with blind Jia, I won't die if I wait a little longer.Strangely, when Jia Xiazi walked out, I could smell a strong smell of medicine in the air.In the past, Blind Jia applied medicine to his eyes to prevent eye tissue necrosis. The medicine had almost no taste. I wonder if the hospital changed him to another medicine. I was about to open the door and enter the room when Blind Jia suddenly came back and asked me, "Is that Huang Dingyi?" I stopped my hands and replied, "It's me, what's wrong?" "I just remembered that one night when I went to take a shower, Jin Lele gave me a DV player and asked me to help keep it first. Can you give it to Jin Lele's parents for me? Last time they came, I forgot to say It’s gone.” Jia Xiazi put down the bucket, walked into the dark room with no lights on, and took out a DV player. I took the DV player suspiciously and asked, "Jin Lele asked you to keep it? Why?" "She didn't say, and I didn't ask." Blind Jia picked up the bucket as he spoke, "Just remember to give the things to Jin Lele's parents. My eyesight is not convenient, so it's not appropriate to find them. You should go Bar." In the dark of night, I was holding the DV player, feeling overwhelmed, this may be an important clue left by Jin Lele!Because Jia Xiazi couldn't see and couldn't pry into the privacy, Jin Lele was so relieved to hand over the DV player to him.Immediately, I excitedly opened the dormitory, closed the door without even turning on the lights, and turned on the DV player while sitting alone in the dark.Before turning on the DV player, I thought a lot. Maybe Jin Lele recorded the murderer, or she spied on someone's amazing privacy and wanted to threaten it. After the DV machine was turned on, it showed that there was only one video in it, so I couldn't wait to turn it on.After watching it for only a minute, I took a deep breath with horror and said in my heart in horror: "Oh my God! This... this can never be true!" The moment I turned on the video, I thought about many possibilities, maybe it was the picture of the murderer attacking Jin Lele.But after thinking about it, he felt that it was impossible, because it was given by Jin Lele to Jia Xiazi before the accident, and it could never be related to the murderer.I was sitting on the head of the bed, in the dark, when the fluorescent light on the screen flickered, the video was turned on. In the beginning, the video was Jin Lele's selfie. In the video, she coquettishly said that this DV player was just bought, and she planned to record a video as a birthday present for her boyfriend.Before she finished speaking, Jin Lele began to take off her clothes, revealing her hot black underwear.I saw this scene and wanted to turn off the video. At this time, Jin Lele heard movement outside the house, and she put her clothes back on again.The video screen shook for a while, it should be Jin Lele picked up the DV player and walked out of the window. After the curtains were raised a crack, an unbelievable scene appeared in the video-in the night, Mr. Tang groped into his room with his whole body wet!The picture is very blurry, I was still lying to myself at first, maybe what Jin Lele recorded happened a few months ago, but Second Master Tang was wearing the same clothes when his body was found!My hair stood on end, I pressed pause, and didn't dare to continue watching. On April 27th, Mr. Tang was fishing for corpses in the Yishan Reservoir. This is absolutely true. We have been standing by the side of the reservoir. I calmed down a bit, canceled the pause, and continued to play the video.Jin Lele secretly took pictures of Second Master Tang, so she opened the door and quietly walked outside Second Master Tang's door.The doors of the dormitory in the ferry are all wooden doors, which have been covered with large gaps over the years.Jin Lele was facing the crack of the door with the DV player, while Tang Erye was facing the camera with his back, anxiously arranging some things on the bed and putting them into a cardboard box, but he didn't realize that someone had secretly photographed them. At the same time, Second Master Tang made a phone call with his mobile phone and packed his things while making the call: "Is it Yu Yuyu? Something went wrong, and Chen Shiwan is dead. I'm putting everything in a box now, you Come here quickly, you must hide it well, don’t lose it!” At this time, Second Master Tang turned around vigilantly, and Jin Lele immediately moved away from the door and hid in his room, where the recording was interrupted.Holding the DV player in my hand, I sat motionless in the dark, and the mosquitoes lingering around the fluorescent screen remained indifferent.If I haven’t watched the video, I can explain it far-fetchedly. The thing Tang Erye was photographed on was before April 27 or 28, but Tang Erye called Yu Yuyu, a college student, which completely confirms the date of the video. It was April 28th. Some time ago, Yue Mingfei used dishonorable means to check Erye Tang's phone call records, and found that the owner's name was Hu Jiaheng, not Erye Tang.What's more, in Erye Tang's call records, he called Chen Shiwan many times, and on the night of April 28, he also called Yu Yuyu, which lasted about 10 minutes.At that time, I thought that there was an error in the call record, or that Erye Tang's mobile phone was stolen, and someone pretended to be him to call Yu Yuyu.Now that I have watched the video, I have to start all over again, because Yu Yuyu knew that on the night of April 28, Erye Tang was still alive, so she only answered the phone for 10 minutes. After thinking about it, I analyzed it in my heart: "Er Tang Erye went into the water to retrieve the corpse on the 27th, and he disappeared that afternoon. We searched for a whole day but couldn't find him. On the 28th, the first ferry director Hong Ke's The corpse suddenly floated to the surface of the water, and Zhang Dahu, a fisherman, reported the news. We thought it was Mr. Tang, so we went to retrieve the corpse again. That night, Mr. Tang’s body was found at the ferry. Assuming that Mr. Tang was still alive on the 28th, And I made a phone call to Yu Yuyu, so he couldn't have drowned in the reservoir. Yu Yuyu answered the phone, and the next day someone found her dead body in the river. That night, when Tang Ziyue and I came back from the old ferry, we had I saw someone crawling out of the river and running into the Yishan Teachers College. Could it be that Yu Yuyu's death was also related to Master Tang, because she got the box that Master Tang gave her that night?" There were more and more mosquitoes, so I turned off the DV at this time, got up and lit a plate of mosquito coils, and then lay on the bed and continued to think.Jin Lele got such an important clue and kept it secret. If she had given it to Qin Wang early in the morning, maybe she wouldn't have to lie in the hospital.However, Jin Lele may have the same thought as me, Erye Tang should be at the reservoir, how will he get back to the ferry?If this contradictory matter cannot be explained clearly, Qin Wang must think that Jin Lele is making fun of the police. This night, I tossed and turned, and fell asleep at dawn.Sister Miao came back to the ferry and couldn't bear our laziness. She knocked on the door early and urged us to go to the river to collect garbage.My head was as heavy as a shot put. After finally getting out of bed, Ms. Miao threw me a fishing net and told me to fish up the rubbish from the river.Captain Hu saw my confused face, so he laughed and said that Sister Miao volunteered to be in charge of the sanitation work of the Yijiang River, so that the crossing would not be like a free-living unit. As soon as Yue Mingfei came back and took the fishing net, he said dissatisfiedly: "Why do you let us go? She just sat comfortably in the office and directed blindly?" "Why? Because he is an official!" I laughed. "Then why does Captain Hu want to go? Isn't he one level higher than Miao Lihua?" Yue Mingfei complained as he walked out. "If you don't want to go, then change it with Blind Jia. If he goes fishing, you will become blind for him." I said right. "I'm not going to change it! If I want to change it, I'd better change it with Mrs. Han. I will cook and she will collect the garbage." Yue Mingfei smiled wickedly. I snorted and said, "You cook? Can you eat?" During the conversation, we had already come to the riverside. Captain Hu walked in the front. When he went around the river cliff, he slipped several times and almost fell into the river.I couldn't see it anymore, and wanted to ask Captain Hu to rest on the shore, but he didn't care, and insisted on fishing garbage with us.Speaking of which, Captain Hu told us a long time ago that he dislikes the littering of residents along the river, polluting the emerald green river beyond recognition.Moreover, since the expansion of enrollment at Yishan Teachers College, more and more students went to the riverside to have sex. The broken condoms, like duckweed, piled up on the riverside, swaying with the waves. Yue Mingfei looked annoyed and said, "Damn it, these students are too open-minded. They actually used so many condoms, and some of them were broken. Are they human or beast?" "Come on, you're not much better." I replied. "What's wrong with me? I'll at least take him to a hotel, who would fool around by the river!" Yue Mingfei said disdainfully. Captain Hu was serious about picking up garbage. I saw that he was serious, so I stopped talking and worked hard.Yue Mingfei didn't like being ordered by others, so he swung the net pole back and forth with great range of motion, which almost knocked me into the water several times.When Captain Hu saw this, he talked about Yue Mingfei, but he still went his own way and didn't listen to any persuasion.After half an hour, the garbage basket was full of garbage, and Captain Hu left with the basket.I immediately seized the opportunity and told Yue Mingfei about the recording in a low voice.I've been waiting for this moment for a long time, if it wasn't for Sister Miao's messing up all morning, I would have made it clear to Yue Mingfei long ago.Like me, Yue Mingfei couldn't believe the video was real, but faced with various realities, he could only accept it. Captain Hu came back soon, and Yue Mingfei stopped talking immediately, and continued to pretend to be collecting garbage.This scene reminded me of the corpse hunt last month. After hesitating for a moment, I asked Captain Hu: "Do you think... Hong Ke's corpse was really taken away?" "Why did you suddenly ask about this? Didn't I say it, just pretend it never happened!" Captain Hu replied with a dark face. "Huang Dingyi's question is right! Except for that Zhang Dahu, we are all curious. Tell me, how can a person who died twenty years ago float to the reservoir? It's okay to float, but the body suddenly disappeared again. Even the grass has been shoveled away..." Before Yue Mingfei finished speaking, Captain Hu interrupted: "As I said before, in 1988, the bridge on the Yi River was washed away by the flood. At that time, there were many pedestrians on the bridge. Hong Ke jumped into the water to save people, and then disappeared. Missing It is missing, if I know, can he still call it missing?" I understand Captain Hu's meaning, he wants us not to ask, because he doesn't know anything.Captain Hu may have realized that he had overreacted, so he changed the subject and told us that when the bridge was washed away, a terrifying fish appeared in the river.That kind of fish is ferocious and brutal. It not only attacks other fish, but even women who wash clothes by the river have been bitten.When the bridge collapsed, shoals of those fish appeared under the bridge, and the people who measured the flood level saw it, so it was rumored that the shoal of fish swallowed the piers and brought the bridge down. Yue Mingfei laughed when he heard this: "Captain Hu, are you lying to a child? Even a whale can't swallow a bridge, right?" Captain Hu rolled his eyes and replied, "Why am I lying to you? It was 1988. It is normal for some people to be uneducated and influenced by feudal ideology. In fact, that kind of fish is not rumored. I also saw it at that time. However, according to the current saying, they should be piranhas, or piranhas." I was shocked and said, "Piranhas? In the Yi River?" "That happened twenty years ago, but I don't see it now, otherwise the others would have been killed if they went swimming in the water." Captain Hu said calmly. My concept of piranhas only exists in movies. That kind of fish originated from the Amazon River Basin in South America. How could it possibly swim to the Yi River in China, unless someone deliberately stocked them.I really don't know what is the benefit of putting piranhas in the river, it will only destroy the ecological balance.Having said that, people at that time hadn't thought that far, otherwise exotic creatures such as apple snails, water hyacinths, and snapping turtles would not have dominated China's natural world. Then, I asked again: "Captain Hu, what do you mean to say that Hong Ke disappeared while rescuing people, and everyone thought he was eaten by piranhas, so they didn't continue to look for him?" "We thought so, but no matter how the piranhas eat, there will always be some debris left behind. Fortunately, those fish disappeared somehow, otherwise it would be a big project to fish them out of the river. "Captain Hu replied. "Did the collapse of the bridge happen in 1988?" Yue Mingfei asked suddenly. "That's right! Didn't I say it many times? When I found Hong Ke's body, I told you too," Captain Hu said annoyed. Yue Mingfei immediately stopped talking, and started digging through the garbage. When Captain Hu left with the garbage basket, he immediately said to me: "Hey! Huang Dingyi! If the bridge collapsed in 1988, would someone be punished?" Written in the county annals? Is it because of this incident that the county annals in the 1980s were stolen?" "It's possible." I finished my answer and asked again, "What do you want to say?" "Is there a problem with the quality of the bridge that drowned people in the town, so someone wants to keep this matter a secret?" Yue Mingfei guessed. I thought I would hear an astonishing answer, so I was disappointed and said, "How is this possible? Many of the buildings left over from that era were cut corners. This is an open secret, and there is no need to keep it secret. What's more, the bridge It wasn't built by the ferry, so why would Second Master Tang spend so much time trying to hide it?" Yue Mingfei saw that I didn't approve, so he turned his head to pick up the garbage, too lazy to think about it.Not long after, Captain Hu came back again. Yue Mingfei, whose back was turned, saw no one, and swung the fishing net in his hand, and Captain Hu, who had just stepped off the cliff, was thrown into the water.Captain Hu climbed back to the shore without any risk, and wanted to reprimand Yue Mingfei, but I was stunned when I stood aside—Captain Hu was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, which became transparent when wet. Unusual marks were vaguely revealed on the upper body. Captain Hu rushed back to the shore angrily, but he didn't notice that the white shirt had become transparent. I was about to intercede for Yue Mingfei, but I froze in a blink of an eye.On Captain Hu's upper body, there were many scars, some of which melted after being exposed to water, and blood stained his white shirt red.Those scars are very special, and each one is shaped like a fish bone. Captain Hu may have realized it, and wanted to turn his back on me and hide those scars, but there were wounds on both sides, no matter how he tried to hide, it was useless.I'm all too familiar with the scars from the corpse hooks, because I have them on my body and they still haven't healed.Some time ago, Yue Mingfei helped me apply medicine for several days in a row, and he was no stranger to those scars. When he saw this scene, he fell silent just like me. Captain Hu couldn't find an excuse and wanted to leave. When I saw this, I immediately said, "You were the one in the reservoir that night! You were the one who wore Mr. Tang's diving suit! Isn't that right?" Yue Mingfei also excitedly said: "Sure enough, we guessed right! You must have pushed Jin Lele into the river!" "What nonsense are you talking about?" Captain Hu flatly denied, "I don't understand!" "The wound on your body was scratched by the corpse hook! When you rescued me that night, you must have been scratched too!" I exposed it on the spot. Captain Hu was extremely calm and explained without panic: "Are you stupid? Didn't Miao Lihua tell us to scoop up garbage? This Yijiang River has been thrown many corpse hooks by scavengers before, and some of them have not been removed. I forgot. I went into the water to clean the corpse hook the day before yesterday, it was Miao Lihua's idea, if you don't believe me, ask her!" Seedling pear blossom?I was speechless, if this was Sister Miao's idea, then Captain Hu's rhetoric would be impeccable.But apart from Captain Hu, who else in the crossing had the ability to rescue me from the reservoir that night?Sister-in-law Han's physical strength is weak, and blind Jia's eyesight is weak. There is absolutely no way for the two of them to go to the reservoir to confront Jin Lele.Captain Hu's wound melted open, and he kept gritting his teeth in pain. Before we could question him, he went back to the ferry to change his clothes. Yue Mingfei looked up at Captain Hu to leave, and then asked: "Do you really believe what he said?" "We'll find out when we ask Sister Miao." I replied thoughtfully. "Hu Jiaheng wasn't at the ferry that night. Jin Lele was sent to the hospital the next day. He couldn't be contacted. Don't you think it's strange? I remember that Hu Jiaheng told Qin Wang that he went to the hospital that night. At the ferry, he didn't go anywhere, which is obviously a lie! He must have a ghost in his heart!" Yue Mingfei vowed. "I think the same as you. In fact, I also suspected Captain Hu, but there is no evidence," I said helplessly. "If the person who appeared at the reservoir that night wasn't Hu Jiaheng, who would it be?" Yue Mingfei guessed with a sad face, "It can't be Mr. Tang, right? You just told me that Jin Lele's DV camera captured Tang Er Ye returned to the transition site on the night of the 28th, and then died. Yu Yuyu took the box that Tang Er Ye gave her, and died too..." "I didn't say that Yu Yuyu got the box Erye Tang was going to give her, he just said so in the video." I corrected. "Aren't you talking nonsense? If Yu Yuyu didn't get the things, why would she die suddenly?" Yue Mingfei didn't believe it. I thought to myself, this is true, but Yu Yuyu's belongings have been sorted out by classmates and family members, and no one has found any special box. Ai Mofei, Yu Yuyu hid the box in a secret place, or it has been taken away by the murderer , so no one noticed something unusual?On this day, I was thinking about the video, and I didn't take it seriously at all when I picked up the trash, as if I hadn't picked it up.Captain Hu didn't go back to the river to pick up trash after he was wet. I don't know if he was afraid that Yue Mingfei and I would question him again. When I returned to the ferry in the afternoon, I saw that Sister Miao was still in the office, so I boldly asked her if she had asked Captain Hu to clean up the corpse hook at the bottom of the river the day before yesterday.When Sister Miao heard my question, she rolled her eyes to the upper right corner, and admitted that this was true, she did let Hu Jiaheng go into the water to clean the corpse hook.After answering this question, Sister Miao asked me why I suddenly asked her about this matter, and whether Hu Jiaheng was complaining behind my back. I heard the words, and quickly denied: "No, no. I'm just curious, why didn't you ask me and Yue Ming to fly." "I couldn't find you that day. Let's talk about it. You are not familiar with the corpse hook. If something happens to you, how can I explain to your parents?" Ms. Miao looked outside the office after she finished speaking, as if she was waiting for someone. I found it strange, and asked again: "The river is so green that you can't see the bottom. How do you know where there is a corpse hook?" "Why are you asking so many questions?" Sister Miao annoyed, "Go and do your own thing." I saw that there was something wrong with Sister Miao's expression, so I couldn't continue pestering her, so I had to leave the office building resentfully.At this time, a middle-aged man walked into the ferry. Sister Miao chased me out and stopped me.The middle-aged man was called He Kuang. He used to be a sand dredger on the Yi River, and he also scooped up dead bodies.Before Erye Tang's accident, there was not enough manpower, and now he was even more nervous, so Sister Miao invited someone from outside to help.This kind of person is regarded as a temporary worker, and any responsibilities in the future will definitely be pushed to He Kuang, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone. He Kuang lived on the other side of the Yi River, facing the ferry. When he came here, he directly supported the bamboo raft. He occasionally drove others across the river, charging 50 cents each time.He Kuang doesn't need to live in the ferry, he will come to report once a day in the future, just to pick up the garbage and clear the mud and sand.The most important thing is that the heavy rain season in Guangxi has come, and the ferry will be so busy that the rescue and flood discharge have to be solved by the ferry. Sister Miao and He Kuang stayed in the office for a while, and then I took He Kuang around the ferry and introduced the environment of the ferry to him.In a trance, I seemed to travel through time and space, and returned to more than half a year ago-at that time, Second Master Tang took me around like this.When passing by the west side of the office building, He Kuang saw the abandoned small building behind, and asked me why no one lived there, what a waste of a building. I asked the same question half a year ago, and Mr. Tang replied like this: "The building has been in disrepair for a long time, and it is not suitable for living in, and it is inconvenient to tear it down, so it stays there." I copied that sentence exactly, and He Kuang asked in bewilderment: "It's been in disrepair for a long time? How come there are two office buildings with only how many people are there in the ferry?" "I didn't say it was an office building, maybe..." I instinctively wanted to explain, but I became dumb halfway through.He Kuang is right, no matter whether the abandoned small building used to be an office building or a dormitory building, any answer seems very abrupt, but I haven't thought about it deeply before.However, He Kuang's curiosity was not serious, he just asked a casual question, and he stopped caring.The sun gradually went down, we turned around, and finally walked to the riverside together. He Kuang's bamboo raft was right in front of him, so he was not in a hurry to go back, but continued to babble with me about the past.Although He Kuang was not a member of the boat bridge unit, he and Tang Erye and others had retrieved many corpses before.In the 1950s and 1960s, a letter of introduction was required from the unit to salvage the remains. The family members took the letter of introduction to find the water transportation company or brigade, and then these units organized the fishermen to salvage. The family members usually handed over a pack of cigarettes and a piece of fish as a reward.In the 1970s, the cost of salvaging remains was still relatively low. Two people and one boat each counted as one work point. Each work point was 3 yuan, and 9 yuan a day was earned, which was divided between two people. In He Kuang's impression, the cost of recovering corpses has risen since the reform and opening up. In the 1980s, the money was calculated according to the dead body, and it was 200 yuan to pick up one. It would be good if one person could get 30 to 40 yuan a day. If they were people in the village, they hardly charged money.He Kuang started fishing in the river when he was a teenager. He remembers that in the late 1990s, the price of salvaging corpses had reached about 3,000 yuan.The one time He Kuang was most impressed by the corpse search was in the early 1990s, when a bus in Yishan Town plunged into the Yijiang River near the bus terminal, and only one of the 53 passengers survived.At that time, the ferry was understaffed, so a group of fishermen including He Kuang were called to retrieve the remains, and the scene was horrible. "It's all right now. The management of the ferry is getting stricter. The old fishermen don't get involved in the fishery anymore. Only the old stubborn Zhang Dahu dares to snatch the business." He Kuang said melancholy. I looked at the river and excused Duchang: "We confiscated a penny for the corpse." "I know, but other old corpse hunters don't think so. Think about it, there are corpse hunters in other places, and folk corpse hunters can do whatever they want. How can they be so strict as in the town?" He Kuang said to I say. I didn't want to argue about this matter, so I changed the subject and asked, "Old Man He, are you familiar with Second Master Tang?" "Of course I'm familiar with him! Not only him, I also know Hu Jiaheng, Hong Ke, and Han Tianxiao very well. It's a pity that some people's lives are not good, so let's go first." He Kuang lit a cigarette after finishing speaking, and suddenly pump up. Hong Ke, Han Tianxiao?The first two ferry chiefs?I felt that the deaths of those two people were a bit strange. Since He Kuang brought it up, I simply asked: "Both Hong Ke and Han Tianxiao had accidents during salvage. Has no one investigated it? It seems that Captain Hu said, Hong Ke went into the water to save people when the bridge collapsed, and encountered piranhas." "That's right, Hu Jiaheng didn't lie to you." He Kuang said as he rolled up his sleeves, revealing his thick arms. I glanced at it and couldn't help shivering. It turned out that He Kuang also went into the water to save people when the bridge collapsed in 1988, but was bitten by a piranha, leaving a large area of ​​scars.If Han Tianxiao hadn't rescued He Kuang ashore, then He Kuang would have lost his body like Hong Ke—of course, He Kuang didn't know that Hong Ke's body had inexplicably floated in the Yishan Reservoir some time ago.He Kuang revisited his old place and felt a lot of emotions. He talked to me for a long time before paddling a bamboo raft back to his home on the other side. The setting sun dyed the river half green and half red, like a pile of half-ripe fruits, which was breathtakingly beautiful.But such a beautiful river, how many people were buried in it?I let out a long sigh, not wanting to be sad, and turned around and walked back to the ferry, ready to have dinner with everyone.In order to integrate into the ferry, Sister Miao actually stayed for dinner, making the atmosphere very serious, not as relaxed and happy as before. Before I picked up the bowls and chopsticks, Sister Miao said loudly: "Don't you wash your hands before eating? Go wash your hands!" Everyone was used to being dirty, and when they heard that they had to wash their hands, they walked out with a smile on their faces and queued up in front of the faucet outside the cafeteria.Ms. Miao might have been afraid that we might have dealt with it, so she came out to watch.Unexpectedly, when Captain Hu, Yue Mingfei, Jia Xiazi, and Mrs. Han rolled up their sleeves and were about to wash their hands, I saw that one of them had a strange wrist—someone had been bitten by a snake recently! My eyes widened, and I wondered in my heart, could that be the one who put the snake in the urn?Because you accidentally got bitten while catching a snake?But...how could it be that person?