There are three floors in total. Fang Ming and the others are standing on the second deck. Tourists are also arranged on this floor. The lower floor is where the crew works. As for Brother Chen, he is alone.
He stood on the top floor and sat there.
"It's just a boat, and there are so many rules. I don't have so many rules for making an airplane."
A girl's dissatisfied whispers on the boat resonated with other tourists.
"Yes, if you don't want to come here in vain, who would take this boat?"
"No matter how nice the scenery is in Tingfengya, I will never come here again. This service experience is so bad."
Hearing the dissatisfaction of these tourists, Fang Ming smiled, stared at the river, and asked a crew member on the side: "Is this a branch of the Nu River?"
"Well, it is indeed a tributary of the Nu River. We call this river the Nu Cang River. Rumor has it that an immortal split the Huacang Mountain with his sword, causing the ground to crack, which caused the water from the Nu River to flow in."
Hearing what the crew said, other tourists just took it as a joke. Nowadays, there are many promotions of such myths in tourist attractions. Some famous tourist mountains, especially those with temples and Taoist temples, are said to be "smooth" if a huge boulder on the mountain is smoothed a little.
Where gods attain enlightenment, their buttocks sit flat.
Some tourist attractions even create some artificial things in order to create scenic spots, such as carving a big footprint on a boulder, saying that it is the footprint of a god.
After hearing it too much, tourists don't take it seriously. They just want to be in a good mood when traveling. There is no point in worrying about whether these are true or false.
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After the boat sailed for almost half an hour, the river gradually narrowed, and the mountain scenery on both sides clearly appeared in the eyes of all tourists.
"If we change to a bamboo raft, we can just lie quietly on the raft and watch the mountain scenery on both sides of the river drift along. How comfortable it would be."
Some tourists lamented that although the ship was quite spacious, because it had been renovated and was old, the engine roared under the cabin, and the most important thing was that the smell of diesel was still coming.
It's like having a toilet next to a table of delicious food.
"Bamboo raft?"
A crew member just walked over not far away. When he heard this, he said with a sneer on his face, "Returning the bamboo raft, do you think you have lived too long?"
The crew member's words were very soft, but among the tourists present, Fang Ming heard it, his pupils shrank, and he looked forward.
"How far is it from Tingfeng Cliff?"
Some tourists couldn't help but ask. It had been half an hour and they still hadn't arrived at the tourist attraction. Their patience was running out.
"If you're lucky, you can usually arrive at around two o'clock in the afternoon."
One of the crew members who brought the food said something and at the same time distributed the food on the plate to the tourists present.
This was lunch, but what dissatisfied these tourists was that the entire lunch was entirely vegetarian, and the only meat dish was pork.
"I said you are too stingy. You live by the river, and you can only get a few fish for fun. We spent twice the price, and they just gave us these."
A fat middle-aged man looked dissatisfied. The big gold chain around his neck attracted everyone's attention. Next to him was a slim young woman in her thirties.
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"That's right, a boat ticket at the scenic spot only costs 400 yuan. You can just sell it for 800 yuan. You should prepare some food for us. What are these? Is this edible?"
The young woman next to the man also looked disgusted, and other tourists naturally followed suit.
"That's right, you guys are too black-hearted."
"Charging so much money and providing such a service is simply a shady ship."
The crew member didn't have a strange expression, because he had encountered this situation too many times, and almost every group of tourists would have this situation happen to him.
"If you don't want to eat, you don't have to eat. If you're dissatisfied and want to get off the boat, you can get off now, and you'll get back every penny you paid."
Brother Chen didn't know when he came down from the top. As soon as he said these words, the originally noisy deck suddenly became quiet. I don't know why, facing this Brother Chen, these tourists felt a little scared.
"Let's go, how to go? This is in the river, where should we get off the boat? It's obvious that we can't get off the boat, so that's why we say this."
Of course, there were still tourists venting their dissatisfaction. Brother Chen gave the man a cold look and saw that the man felt a little angry, but he still pretended to be strong and looked at Brother Chen.
"I can give you a kayak, and the way you came back is with the current."
After hearing what Brother Chen said, the man stopped talking. Of course he was not willing to go back like this.
"If you want to eat, eat it quickly. The food will be collected in half an hour. If anyone doesn't cooperate, just give them the kayak and let them get out."
After saying this, Brother Chen walked towards the cabin below, and many tourists on the deck could only endure it and walked into the cabin seats inside. Although it was vegetarian food, it was better than nothing.
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"Hey, it doesn't look like much, but it tastes pretty good."
Zhang Shuqi picked up a piece of vegetarian food and put it into her mouth, only to find that the taste was not as unpleasant as she had imagined. The same was true for other tourists, and the dissatisfaction on their faces was much lessened.
Half an hour later, several crew members came to take away the food trays as promised. There was a seven or eight-year-old little girl who ate slowly. The father wanted to continue letting the child eat, but the crew members took the food tray away directly.
There is no room for negotiation at all.
"I'm going out to have a cigarette."
After eating, Chen Ze's craving for cigarettes got stronger. He walked to the deck alone and took out his cigarettes. Other tourists who smoked also walked out, but most of them still stood on the sides and watched the scenery.
Ye Ziyu and the girls were leaning against the railing and talking privately. Fang Ming did not walk over, but his eyes fell on Brother Chen above. With his sight, he could only see the upper body of Brother Chen, and at this moment, this
Brother Chen stared down. It was obvious that there must be something in front of him.
However, just the next moment, Brother Chen frowned, and at this moment, a sharp-eyed tourist suddenly shouted, "What is that?"
The tourist's cry aroused everyone's curiosity. Everyone looked in the direction of the tourist's line of sight. There was a white light flashing about two hundred meters in front of the ship.
"It's the refraction effect of sunlight." Some tourists guessed.
"Refraction is a hairy thing. Although the water surface will reflect sunlight, this is obviously not the case. The sunlight appears to be a line on the water surface from a distance, but it is a ball."
On the deck, Fang Ming stared forward, and his eyes changed a bit. Besides Fang Ming, there were several tourists on the boat whose expressions also changed, but they soon returned to their original state.
Brother Chen walked down from the third floor with an ugly face. He glanced at the many tourists on the deck, but said nothing and walked towards the cabin.
The distance of more than two hundred meters could be reached in about a minute at the speed of the ship. When it was clear what these white lights were, the exclamations on the ship became even louder.
Dead fish, pieces of dead fish floating on the water, and the white light seen by many tourists before was caused by the belly of these dead fish floating on the water and the light added to it.
"Why are there so many dead fish? Could it be that the river is polluted?"
"Even if it is pollution, it should not only affect this area. And have you noticed a strange place? We are going against the current. Logically speaking, these dead fish will float towards us, but these dead fish are floating in front of us.
The fish is just floating on the river. The river is so fast and it can still float on the water. This is unscientific."
An attentive tourist discovered this detail, which suddenly caused panic among the passengers on the boat.
"Maybe I encountered a water ghost."
"I heard people say that dead fish floating on the river is a sign that the river god is angry. Some old sailors will leave immediately when encountering this situation, otherwise they will suffer disaster."
When these tourists were panicking, Ye Ziyu and the other girls also walked up to Fang Ming.
"Fang Ming, what's going on?" Ling Yao asked Fang Ming.
"It's not clear yet. Let's just wait and see. But you should pay attention to yourselves. I don't think this trip will be peaceful."
Fang Mingyi said something pointed, and then his eyes turned to the door of the cabin, where several crew members walked out one after another, carrying various plates in their hands, and two crew members came out carrying a wooden table.
The crew placed a wooden table at the bow of the ship and placed a plate on the table. The plate contained some fruits and three animals and other daily tributes used for worship.
"What is this for?"
The tourists looked at the actions of these crew members curiously. At this moment, the boat also stopped, and the dead fish were less than ten meters away from the boat.
After a while, Brother Chen also walked out of the cabin. He was carrying something covered with red cloth on his shoulders. Judging from his struggling expression, this thing should not be light.
Carrying the things to the bow of the ship, Brother Chen squatted down and placed the things on his shoulders and the red cloth on the table. Only then did everyone understand why the table was so big, but the plates only occupied such a small space.
Part of it was originally used to hold this large object.
"Light the incense!"
Brother Chen shouted at the crew member beside him, and the crew member lit three Zen incense sticks and handed them to Brother Chen.
"Everyone has a road, and water has a channel. Now I am borrowing the water channel to give you a small gift, and I hope it will be accepted with a smile."
After paying homage, Brother Chen poured all the tributes on the table into the river.
"What is this? Is there really a river god?"
"You don't understand. This is a rule for people traveling on the water. In many places, when boats are traveling, they will worship the dragon god. This does not necessarily mean that there is a river god. It is just a rule passed down for many years."