When she said this, I was a little confused.

That’s right, this bay between the big and small Machus is indeed the narrowest place in the nearby Zhulong River.

Not only is it narrow, but if we look at the two endpoints of the Great Machu and the Small Machu, the river channel has a bend of nearly ninety degrees at both endpoints.

In other words, the part between the two hills, like half a chessboard, is embedded squarely towards the river channel.

I remember my father said that when he was a child, the Zhulong River was very water, and the people on both sides were inconvenient to exchange, so he decided to choose a place as the ferry.

The boatman went down the Zhulong River and found that the river channel between the large and small Mahuts was the narrowest, deeper, and there were no mudflats. Even though the water flowed quite fast, there were no whirlpools and twists, so he temporarily chose this place as a ferry.

But after the ferry was built, there were somehow two inexplicable accidents. When the ship reached the middle of the flow, it suddenly capsized.

Although the ship capsized, fortunately the population was fine and some property was lost, but the ferry boat did not dare to take any risks. The Machu Ferry was then suspended and moved to Liangdian Bridge with stable water flow.

I told Chen Yu about the ferry that year, and she immediately asked me.

"Where is the location of the ferry? Where is the ferry route?"

But how could I know this? It was a matter of my father when he was a child. It was probably only after the characters from my grandfather’s generation remembered it clearly.

Chen Yu was a little disappointed, and she looked at me and said, "If you have time, you really have to stay here and take a good look."

"Come there to see?" I asked, pointing at Little Machu.

"Well," she nodded, "How about we walk through the river?"

"Aren't you afraid of sand and soil filling your sneakers?"

"Not afraid, when you go back, you can brush my shoes and wash my socks."

"Okay, okay!"

"How come you promised so readily?" Chen Yu looked at me suspiciously, "You won't be like those wretched men, who like to lick socks, right?"

"How could it be... what did you see these messy things..." I suddenly thought that Hua Yan said that there were actually quite a lot of words like "old driver" and "acceleration" in Chen Yu's mind - I thought she was talking nonsense, but now it looks real.

"I-" Chen Yu's face turned red when I said it, "I'm going to remind you that I'm ME TOO now. Even if the woman has any evil intentions to you when she appears, I will sue you for sexual assault!"

“…”

We were struggling hard in the riverbed covered with white sand. Chen Yu scolded me with his mouth, but his eyes were not idle for a moment.

Whenever she saw something in the white sand, she would stop and take a look at it.

As mentioned before, Zhulong River is actually a distance from several surrounding villages, and the nearby villages are mainly engaged in agriculture and the industry is not very developed, so the river water has not been polluted by industrial pollution and has relatively little domestic waste.

Therefore, most of the residues on the riverbed are dry grass barley that grows when it gradually dries up, as well as animal bones that were previously drowned in the river, as well as rotten fishing nets, broken wood, broken iron pieces and so on.

"What is this?" Chen Yu asked, picking up a piece of pottery from the white sand.

I looked down and saw that what she held in her hand was a piece of light brown and indigo painted pottery, and there were irregular patterns on the pottery. Because the pottery slice was too small, I couldn't tell what it was.

We held it in our hands and shiny the glaze on one side of the pottery. We turned it over and looked at it for a long time without any eyes.

"Please keep it in first, go back and ask someone for advice." Chen Yu stuffed the pottery slices into his carry-on backpack.

It was about seven or eight hundred meters from Damachu to Little Machu, but because of the soft sand and the slump of our feet and the stops and stops, we walked for half an hour.

The small mahut looks much shorter than the large mahut, and because the slope is flat, some people have already cultivated it and planted rows of sweet potato seedlings on it.

I was afraid that Chen Yu would be tripped by the sweet potato seedlings crawling around, so I followed her closely, stretching out a hand, ready to help her at any time. However, the ground of the Little Machu is hard, so it is much easier to get up than that of the Big Machu.

Standing on the small mahirl, looking around, the two 90-degree bends in the Zhulong River are even more obvious.

"When I was in elementary school, there was a half-lazi stone tablet under the little mahut. The characters on the stone tablet had long been smoothed out. Later, after I went to junior high school, I even lost the stone tablet." I said to Chen Yu.

"Is it being pulled away?"

"It is possible that they might be chiseled into stones and built walls and yards." I said.

"It's such a pity." She sighed, then pointed to the west and asked, "At that time, the black ship appeared from the river bend of the Great Machu and disappeared behind the bend of the Small Machu?"

"Yes, that's right, the black ship is very tall, and there is a loft above it. There is a monster pulling fiber in front of the ship, and there is a woman in red on the ship." I briefly summarized the situation I saw at that time.

Chen Yu pointed to a five-hole stone bridge in the distance to the east of Xiaomaqiu and asked, "What is that bridge called?"

"Liangdian Bridge, it is said that there was a temple opposite the bridge. The main hall in the temple had a huge beam, so it was called Liangdian. The name of the bridge was also inherited."

"Where is the temple?"

"Who knows, it probably disappeared eight hundred years ago. My grandfather once said that even his grandfather had never seen that temple."

"Where do you think the black ship can go in the end?" Chen Yu asked.

"I don't know, I can't see it anyway after turning around this river bay."

She pointed to Liangdian Bridge in the distance and then asked a question: "Can the height of the black ship in your memory pass through the short stone bridge in front?"

"Ah!" I was stunned for a moment.

Yes, how did it go?

I had never thought about this problem before. The black ship sailed downstream, but shortly after turning over the Little Machu River Bay, Liangdian Bridge was there. According to the black ship I recalled, it was at least a tower ship that was more than two meters high on the water surface.

The heavy rains flooded that day, and the Zhulong River had already flooded the riverbed. The Liangdian Bridge not far ahead was only one meter away from the water. In this size, black ships must not cross the stone bridge.

If this is the case, where else can the black ship go? Can it be parked between Xiaomachu and Liangdian Bridge?

But, such a dazzling boat, why hasn't you ever heard rumors from other people in the neighborhoods?

These things are really weird the more you think about them.

Chen Yu looked at me and walked down the little mahut by himself.

"Where did you see the black ship back then?" I asked her.

"You'll know today," she said.

"You are the only one who sees the black ship?" I asked again.

"Yes." She said concisely.

We crossed the dry riverbed and walked to the place where we put the car on the other side. We happened to meet a diesel tricycle driving over with black smoke.
Chapter completed!