Chapter 53 Memory
The tricycle was turned off and it seemed that it had stopped deliberately. I looked at the tricycle building and wondered.
"Wood stake!" A dark-faced man pushed open the car door, jumped out of the tricycle, and shouted at me, "When did you come back?"
"Bronze pillar!" I didn't expect to meet my childhood playmates in this place, and I was also very excited.
We both ran over and held each other's arms tightly and smiled.
"Where are you going?" I asked him.
"Yeah, go to the market and sell beans! You're just sold out, you're going home!"
"Hey?" I was a little confused, "You can't live in our village anymore?"
"Yeah, let's get in the door! Now live in my father-in-law's house!" He looked up at Chen Yu from a distance and asked secretly, "Your wife?"
"Student." I quickly whispered to deny.
"Yes, yes, yes, I know that you people in the city can play, and those who are not married yet are all said to be classmates." Tongzhu laughed, "Why are you here to run to the edge of this deserted river?"
I suddenly remembered that the copper pillar was also one of the children who witnessed the black ship back then.
"Hey, Zhuzi, do you remember when we ran to Zhulong River to catch fish when we were a child?"
"I remember so much! I'm addicted to fish and often come here!" He looked at the white sand and reeds in the old river, as if recalling the scene at that time, "The water here is deep and there are many fish. Every time I roll all over the mud and carry a basket of fish back!"
"Do you still remember when it rained heavily when we were young, we ran here to catch fish at noon and saw a black boat?"
"Black boat?" Tongzhu narrowed his eyes, "I don't remember that there seemed to be no ships in Zhulong River at that time, right? There were only two broken ferry boats at the old ferry east of Liangdian Bridge."
"How come you can't remember? You should remember it better than me!" I said, "It was the time when Brother Da Ran took us to come secretly. As soon as the black boat passed, a lot of fish came over the water. We picked up a lot and went back!"
The bronze pillar looked at me and his eyebrows were furrowed.
"You can't say it, it was very stuffy that day? It seemed like there was a layer of fish floating on the river. Brother Daran and I jumped into the water and picked up all the baskets, right? I really had an impression of this." He recalled, "At that time, we thought it was quite strange. You said that it was a long time, but why did the fish suddenly float on the river?"
"Not surprising, because after the black ship drove, the fish capsized in groups - do you still remember that there was a monster in front of the black ship, and there was a woman in red on the ship?"
"Ah hahaha," Tongzhu laughed, "Tuanzi, are you kidding? Where did the monsters come from and where did the women come from, we are just a few bare-ass kids sucking fish!"
I was stunned in surprise.
"You should know better than me! When the black ship came, you were still rushing in the river. When you were about to be drowned, the woman on the black ship threw you a piece of wooden raft. You pulled the wooden raft before swimming."
"How could it be! I'm so good at water! How could it be flooded! Where is there a black boat? You can't remember the piles, you can remember what you saw in your dreams as real, right?"
Seeing that I was still confused, he added another sentence.
"If you don't believe me, go and ask Brother Da Ran and the others, and see if you remember it wrongly or I remember it wrongly. Hahaha!"
I was still stupid there - what was going on? At that time, we all saw the black ship coming, and were scared by the monsters in the water pulling in front of the black ship and screamed. The copper pillar was still in the water so scared that it was trembling all over, and we fluttered hard to call for help.
How could he not remember?
Moreover, how could he swear that Brother Daran and other friends don’t remember it?
"Zhuzi, I won't tell you anymore. I have to rush back to have lunch!" Tongzhu looked at me in a daze, patted me on the shoulder and said.
"Okay, we have time to see you!" I waved my hand at him.
He got into the tricycle building, drove a little forward for a while, and suddenly stopped again.
The copper pillar opened the door a crack and shouted at me: "Hey, stakes, I really don't remember the black ship, but I just remembered something!"
"Ah, what's the matter?"
"Do you know Yan Tang from the village? That boy who is older than you?"
"Remember."
"Two years ago, when the Zhulong River was dry, he secretly dug earth on the riverbed and put up the homestead of his new house in his family. He was caught and fined him several thousand yuan.
"The place where he stole the soil was east of the Little Machu River Bay. He was digging the soil while he was digging. According to him, he was digging and suddenly dug a hard thing. When he digged out, he found that it was a four-clawed iron anchor. There was still a lot of rotten wood around the iron anchor, and it was probably a ship gang of a wreck."
"Ah? There is still this? Is Yan Tang still in Baota Village? Where are the Four-Claw Iron Anchor and the Boat Gang?"
"I heard that I went south to work. I didn't know where Tie Anchor and Mutou went. Later, people from the cultural relics institute in the district came and found nothing."
Tongzhu lit a cigarette, and he took a few puffs, as if he was about to say something amazing.
"All these are all fine. The strangest thing is that Yan Tang built a new house built with stolen soil as the foundation. After living in it for more than a month, it suddenly collapsed - you know, if it weren't for an earthquake or a slump in this kind of brick-concrete bungalow, it would definitely not have collapsed! Fortunately, the day the house collapsed, Yan Tang's family was outside, and the consequences would be unimaginable!"
After saying this, Gongzhu drove his tricycle through the riverbed, and the wheels rolled on the white sand and raised dust all the way.
I walked to the front of the car and said to Shen Yu: "You have heard it all?"
"Hear—Do you still have a look in your head looking east?"
"have."
"Can this car be driven onto the riverbed?" Shen Yu asked, photographing the domestic off-road vehicle I rented.
"It should be possible to walk along the shore, where the soil is harder."
"Then let's look for the place where the legend has dug up the wreck?"
Her suggestions are exactly what I like.
To be honest, I didn’t think there were many inappropriate things in the Black Ship incident before. I just thought that although this matter was strange, it was not humane.
I used to think that my friends probably had the same mentality as me and didn’t want to mention this in the village. But today I heard Tongzhu say that there might be a second possibility, that is, maybe they don’t have any memories of the black ship!
Could it be that except for me and Shen Yu, others who have witnessed the black ship will automatically delete the memories from their brains? Or is the copper pillar just an isolated case?
I think that in the future, I have to find Brother Daran and other friends to inquire about this matter with them, and see if they have lost their memory like a copper pillar or retained their memory like me.
The riverbed is close to the shore and is full of weeds and barley, and the car body is shaking when walking.
The car drove past the little machu, turned the riverside and walked another two or three hundred meters, and sure enough, he saw a square pit in the middle of the riverbed.
Chapter completed!