"Take a short break and do things that consume too much energy and are definitely not suitable for the elderly."
The wooden boat floated along the river to the river bank, and Mr. Zhuan jumped onto the river beach.
This flowing movement was completely inconsistent with the old man he said he was.
"Is it full? It's more obedient than you."
Chujiu and I jumped to the river beach one after another, and when we were about to pull the wooden boat onto the river beach, Mr. Zhuan waved his hand to indicate that we should not worry about the wooden boat, as it would not be able to escape on its own.
"When you make a fortune, you will know how to save money. Hey, it seems that I am not going to take this bundle of rope anymore. You just put it away and throw it on the boat."
As soon as Chujiu and I stood still, Mr. Zhuan sat on the boulder and rubbed his calves, asking Chujiu and I to pull the rope back from the river.
I thought it was something that could be easily solved by just gathering a rope, but when I actually took action, I realized that it was not that easy.
The rope is fifty meters long, of which forty meters are floating in the water.
I held a piece of rope in my hand and pulled it back. The rope that was exposed out of the water was only stretched a little by me, and then fell into the water again.
"Guo Guo, no? The beef dumplings we had tonight were in vain."
When Chujiu saw this, he laughed at my lack of strength and grabbed the rope from my hand.
"Strange!"
Chujiu originally wanted to show off in front of me, so he used some force on his arms when pulling the rope, but the rope still wasn't pulled out of the water.
"Zhu Nao Nao, luckily I wanted to accept you as my apprentice before, but luckily you didn't agree."
Mr. Zhuan scolded me and Chujiu, but pointed at the water flow.
The reverse pulling force generated by the forty-meter-long rope in the water flow exceeding two meters per second is definitely not something I can pull up easily.
At this time, Chujiu also found clues on the boulder.
The rope was pulled by the current, and the rope tied to the end of the boulder had some signs of breaking due to friction with the stone. I believe it will be completely torn off in a few days.
"Okay, this is the power of nature, I'm not angry."
In the end, with the combined efforts of Chujiu and I, the rope was pulled out of the water like a tug-of-war.
Because I kept exerting all my strength, I didn't feel the cold river water on the rope.
The soaked nylon rope and hemp rope were really not that heavy. Chujiu and I gritted our teeth before carrying the whole bundle of ropes into the cabin.
"How do you feel now? Move your fingers."
I couldn't understand what Mr. Zhuan wanted to express for the moment, and my fingers instinctively bent according to Mr. Zhuan's words.
"Hey, it feels like my fingers suddenly become more flexible."
As soon as the thought of clenching a fist came to my mind, my fingers were already clenched together.
Chujiu smiled and explained to me Zhuan Ye’s good intentions, using a simple method to temporarily increase the reaction speed of our arms.
It's like a person running with a heavy enough sandbag tied to his legs every day. If the sandbag is suddenly removed, his legs and feet will become extremely flexible.
"Tch, I'm afraid you might lose your grip on the boat and fall into the water. I don't want to go down to rescue people in such cold water."
Mr. Zhuan jumped down from the boulder and waved his hand for us to get on the boat quickly.
The wooden boat began to float forward slowly again. Unlike before, Mr. Zhuan stood upright, but his legs were slightly bent. It seemed that he was trying his best to control the speed of the wooden boat.
As the wooden boat moved forward, I began to feel nervous, and I was about to reach the legendary and real Guitou Bay.
I have even seen the swirling water, which is the very edge of the whirlpool.
Based on the width of the backflow water waves, I still couldn't believe the scene in front of me. The underwater whirlpool was at least seventy or eighty meters long.
Looking back now, the two-meter-wide whirlpool in the river near Lijiacun can only be regarded as an undercurrent at best. Even if we encountered it when we were playing in the water, we would have to use our hands and feet to paddle out.
The super whirlpool in front of us could easily suck us and our boat into it.
Chujiu was equally incredulous and stared at Mr. Zhuan with a serious face. Mr. Zhuan just turned his face slightly and told us not to worry.
"Hold on tight, I'll test their attitude first."
Mr. Zhuan's expression also began to become serious, and he stared into the water without blinking.
Before Chujiu and I had time to realize the meaning of his words, the wooden boat suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the backflowing waves.
The moment the wooden boat hit the backflow, it stirred up a wave of water. The wave hit the bow of the boat and splashed water on us.
At this moment, the bow of the wooden boat was lifted high by the water waves. Chujiu and I couldn't help but fall backwards, but luckily we quickly grasped the eaves of the boat on both sides.
Standing on the bow of the boat, Mr. Zhuan leaned forward, his legs became more bent, and with a loud shout, the bow of the boat was pushed down.
However, the wooden boat did not continue to move forward and floated on the swirling current. Fortunately, it was not washed away by the current and rotated with the current.
The wooden boat was in a stalemate with the current for nearly a minute, neither moving forward nor retreating.
The water waves hit the boat board again and again, and the splashing water fell into the cabin, almost submerging our feet.
Chujiu and I had to support our body weight with our hands and step on the boat boards on both sides to prevent our shoes from getting soaked.
In another half minute, our shoes will definitely be soaked in the cold river water.
I stared at Mr. Zhuan’s back, and this scene was completely consistent with the hexagram.
The big rooster that was thrown into the cabin behind Brick in front of us suddenly raised its neck and began to scream.
The crisp sound of chicken crow floated to the distant stone cliff. It was obviously just a chicken crow, but the "cluck" echoed in the river for a long time.
Mr. Zhuan looked back at Chujiu and I behind him, and the wooden boat began to slowly retreat.
We once again returned to the river beach next to the boulder.
This time Mr. Zhuan asked us to help drag the wooden boat to the river beach and drain the water from the cabin.
"I haven't been in the water for more than 20 years. I'm afraid these guys have forgotten me, an old man."
Zhuan Ye's self-deprecating tone was obviously filled with anger, and he motioned Chujiu and I to pick up some dry wood in the distance to light a fire.
"Hurry up and dry your clothes. It's not easy to get cold. Little babies need to pay more attention to their health."
For the first time, Mr. Brick showed unabashed concern for us.
After lighting the fire, Mr. Zhuan took out a cigarette stick from his pocket, squatted next to us and started smoking cigarettes.
"My ship must leave here before midnight. I don't know if that boy from Mengkou was lucky or lucky. He fished the man out unexpectedly. If it had been someone else who had come here in the middle of the night, they would definitely not have been able to come back."
Mr. Zhuan was smoking a dry cigarette and suddenly said this sentence without any beginning or end.
Chujiu answered the question smoothly, it must have been his luck. Mr. Zhuan smiled and said nothing.
I looked at the time on the pager. It was just past twelve o'clock, and there was less than an hour left before midnight.
"Let's set off in about time. Be quick when summoning the spirits on the ninth day of the lunar month."
Mr. Zhuan got up and walked towards the wooden boat, but instead of getting on the boat directly, he took off a pendant from his neck and hung it on the bow of the boat.