Mengkou shivered and rummaged through his pocket for a long time, took out a cigarette box, took out a cigarette from it and put it into his mouth.
I don't know whether it was because of the strong wind or because my hands were shaking, but I used several matches to light the cigarette. Meng took a long puff of the cigarette and choked and coughed for a long time.
"I really can't figure out why those people smoke. The smell is so unpleasant."
Mengkou did not smoke. The cigarettes he carried were given to him by a restaurant owner who came to buy fish every day when he went to the city to sell fish. As time went by, Mengkou accumulated more cigarettes.
Later, when Mengkou saw a cigarette case in good shape abandoned on the road, he would pick it up and put the loose cigarettes given to him by others into the cigarette case. When he met fellow villagers with whom he had good relations, Mengkou would smoke out a cigarette case.
Pay it to the other party.
The logs collided and drifted, drifting farther and farther against the stone shore. Mengkou looked at the logs drifting into the distance with only a black line left, and he breathed a sigh of relief. He threw half of the cigarette butt in his hand into the water and looked up at the moon in the sky.
, hold up the wood pulp again.
"Mom, I have to scare someone to death."
Mengkou habitually looked back at Guitou Bay, and his heart that had just calmed down began to beat violently again.
The log that had obviously drifted far away actually floated back against the current, and the naked eye saw it drifting in the direction where it was.
Even though the water surface of the river is flat, Mengkou knows better than anyone else how much effort it takes to row against the current. Every time he catches river fish, Mengkou has to grit his teeth and exert force when rowing against the current. Even so, the wooden boat can only move forward slowly bit by bit.
.
The speed of the log drifting toward me was much faster than that of rowing a boat. It was like there was a diesel motor installed under the log, pushing the log forward.
Mengkou instantly thought of the water ghost that the villagers said, jumped from the wooden boat to the river beach, and used all his strength to drag the wooden boat to the river beach.
Standing on the sand on the river beach, Mengkou finally felt a little more at ease. The story said that as long as you are not in the water, the water ghosts can't do anything to you. The worst is to stay up until dawn before going back. They say the fish here are fat, so I can catch a net by the way.
, I just happened to go to the city.
At this time, Mengkou had long forgotten about finding wealth and wealth in danger, repairing the house and yard, marrying a wife, and buying furniture. The villagers were right, only when you earn money can you spend it.
Meng Kou was thinking that in the future, the fish he caught would no longer be sold by the catty, but by the strips. The smaller ones cost about 40 cents per catty, and the fish larger than one catty cost 60 cents. If you are lucky, you can catch more than three catties.
The big carp must be sold for two yuan anyway.
In this way, I can save two or three yuan a day, which will be enough to repair the house in three to five years.
When the log floated to about fifty meters away from itself, it turned and drifted towards the rocky shore.
There was a "plop", and there was another sound from the stone bank in the distance. Mengkou only saw a black object emerging from the water under the stone bank.
Within half an hour, several items emerged from the water below the stone bank, including wood, tree roots, plastic foam boxes, broken iron barrels, and even a black box.
These things floated on the surface of the water and drifted far away, then turned and floated back against the current. Fifty meters away from themselves, they turned again and floated back to the stone bank where they first emerged from the water.
"So that's how it is. It scared me half to death." Meng Kou muttered and smiled.
It turns out that the stone bank is in the shape of an inverted bowl, and the river below the water surface is wider than the surface. After the tide rises at night, the water flow accelerates, forming a huge whirlpool at the bottom of the water. The items that were previously washed under the stone bank are driven by the vortex.
Stir it up and stir it all out.
Mengkou was glad that he did not row a boat, otherwise the wooden boat would be sucked into the whirlpool and the person would fall into the water. No matter how good the water quality was, he would not be able to swim back.
No one knows how wide it is under the water. Even if you hold your breath and are washed to the shore, you will not be able to surface. Even if you realize at this time, it is in the shape of an inverted bowl, and there is no second breath for you to swim back.
The water surface.
After another half hour, more and more things were washed out by the water under the stone bank. Bottles and cans were floating on the water, as well as a dilapidated wooden chair.
When Mengkou was thinking about how many things were hidden under the water, a black and white bubble emerged from the water. The bubble went through a large circle and floated fifty meters away from Mengkou. Mengkou's heart beat violently again.
This is not a bubble. This is obviously a bulging piece of clothing. When the clothes surfaced, they were washed by the water and filled with gas. From a distance, they looked like a big bubble floating on the water.
Mengkou recognized this kind of black and white clothes. They were work clothes for the battlefield. Boss Zhang from the battlefield asked someone to buy them at Yuncheng Garment City. They showed off at the time. These clothes were called workers' clothes. The old woven material was particularly durable.
Durable.
It turns out that the old worker was really washed up in Guitou Bay.
Meng Kou panted heavily, touching his chest with his hand to beat the violent heartbeat, and took a step forward, wanting to take a closer look.
"The tide is out."
Mengkou looked down at a wet stone under his feet. When he jumped to the river beach, the stone was obviously submerged by the river water, but at this time it was completely exposed.
"not good."
Mengkou looked at the old worker who had drifted back to the rocky shore. These things floating on the water after the low tide must have been washed to the bottom of the rocky shore again. Whether they can be washed out by the current at the next high tide is another matter.
At this moment, Meng Kou used his head as he had never seen before. Looking at the trajectory of the old worker floating on the water and the gradually widening water surface, he quickly calculated that the old worker would float only fifty meters in front of him again.
once.
If this opportunity is missed, the old worker will probably get stuck under the stone bank and be washed into the water again.
Mengkou looked at the two bundles of ropes on the wooden boat. The two bundles of ropes together were enough for more than fifty meters. Mengkou, whose heartbeat was getting faster and faster, uncontrollably tied the ropes to one end of the wooden boat, and then tied the other end to the wooden boat.
On the stone pillars on the river beach.
After pushing the wooden boat into the water again and jumping on it to hold up the wood pulp, Meng Koou realized that he still longed for the 10,000 yuan reward offered by Boss Zhang.
Seeing the old worker's body staying on the farthest surface of the water for a moment and beginning to float back, Meng Kou suddenly pulled up his sleeves, spit into the palm of his hand, rubbed his hands together, picked up the wood pulp, and started paddling forward with all his strength.
Twenty meters, ten meters, five meters, three meters, two meters.
Meng Kou paddled the wooden paddle in reverse direction, controlling the wooden boat to hover on the water. The changes in the water flow trajectory two meters away were visible to the naked eye. This was the edge of the vortex and the area where the vortex was the most powerful.
Looking at the corpse of the old worker floating closer and closer, Meng Kou knew in his heart that there was only one chance.
The fishing net needs to be spread out with both hands, which will inevitably cause the wooden boat to lose control and float along the current towards the whirlpool. The wooden boat must be rowed back before floating to the edge of the whirlpool.
Mengkou calculated the speed of the water in his mind. Even if there were ropes tied to the boat, the distance of two meters would never exceed three seconds.
He needs to throw the fishing net within three seconds, catch the old worker accurately, then pick up the wood pulp and row back desperately.