"Sir, you actually think highly of this sour scholar. Why don't you let him report the rest to you?"
Gao Ming glanced at the sky and said uncertainly: "People should be brought here soon."
At the moment, they are nowhere else but in the small courtyard of Chen Yang's house.
Gao Ming told Mei Wenxin's story all the way from the shack in the north of the city back to Chen Yang's yard.
Before the story was finished, the small red clay stove next to Chen Yang had already boiled water.
Chen Yang made tea, one for Gao Ming and one for himself. He apologized to the other agents and said that he could not make so much tea, and asked them to bring boiling water to quench their thirst.
After doing this, Chen Yang shook his head and said: "He is here, I have something to ask him.
Brother Gao Ming, don’t be lazy and tell us what happens next.”
Chen Yang is really interested, both in the story itself and in the character Mei Wenxin.
In his eyes, this is already a character.
Gao Ming had no choice but to moisten his throat and continue: "Mei Wen kept his promise for half the night. He didn't see the gold suddenly appear. Instead, he saw a ship going down the river..."
...
Mei Wenxin waited until it was close to the ugly time, and the picture of the turbulent weeping willows that seemed to have stopped before his eyes finally changed.
A passenger boat, with a solitary lantern hanging on its head, was traveling down the river from the upstream.
Seeing this scene, Mei Wenxin did not connect it with the money hidden in the book box, but just felt sad.
A middle-aged man listens to the rain on a boat.
That feeling of wandering, with only a solitary lamp by my side, the desolation and loneliness until dawn, couldn't help but come to my heart.
There is a tacit understanding that middle age is hard and middle age is poor.
As soon as Mei Wenxin came up with this idea, he knew that he was wrong. He was terribly wrong, and a sense of terror emerged, like an invisible big hand suddenly reaching out from behind and strangling his throat tightly.
This time, there was no need to hide it, Mei Wenxin instinctively held his breath.
He saw a middle-aged scholar about his age, carrying a book box on his back, walking out of the cabin of the passenger boat and standing at the bow.
The lone lamp was dim, but the moonlight was just right. Mei Wenxin could clearly see that the book box looked so familiar, like the one where the gold was hidden.
After having this idea, Mei Wenxin looked at the middle-aged scholar and immediately saw something was wrong.
The middle-aged scholar is slightly bent over. It is not a natural hunchback, but more like the weight of the things on his back, which makes him overwhelmed after carrying it for a long time.
As soon as Mei Wenxin discovered this, he saw a short, stocky man in shorts walking over with a brace.
At this moment, the passenger boat was already swirling in the fast current.
The hydrology of this place is special, and non-local boatmen often fail to control it and can easily hit the reef and break the boat into pieces.
Judging from the way the boat started spinning as soon as it entered the turbulent position, and the boatman arrived late, he must not be a local who is used to eating on the water.
Immediately afterwards, Mei Wenxin saw that the middle-aged scholar seemed to have a conflict with the stocky boatman.
The two of them started fighting directly on the bow of the boat.
The scholar seemed to be no match, and within a few breaths he was choked by the short and sturdy boatman with his arms.
They remained entangled in this position.
Mei Wenxin watched as he watched the middle-aged scholar's knees bend gradually, his struggle becoming weak, and he was about to be strangled to death by the boatman.
At this moment, he completely forgot about gold and not gold. He suppressed his fear and worried that after the boatman was hit and killed, he would not stop killing him and silence him. He would shout to alert the other party.
At this moment, a sudden change occurred.
"Clang~"
At this critical moment, the bow of the passenger boat hit a reef in the river.