Chapter 27 Chapter 6 - Big Connection (3)

People from the entire Jiangbei world seemed to flock to Nantong, and all wanted to cross the river.The streets and alleys of Nantong City are crowded with people, like bamboo shoots arranged in cans.The city was about to collapse, but there were still teams coming from the many passages outside the city. We stayed in Nantong for three days before we got a collective boat ticket. Crowds rolled on the ship pier.Everyone's face is written: "I want to go across the river! Go across the river!" It seems that the huge world behind them will collapse in an instant in the near future, and they must desperately board the huge White Riverboat.

The river was surging, and the ship with no wheels was moored by the river like an island.The sky on the river was confused. This riverside not only gives people a feeling of despair, but also makes people feel that there is infinite hope ahead. The singing was replaced by shouting.There were also crying sounds.Those flags fluttered in the air and sometimes became weapons in fighting.With the sound of the heavy siren sounded by the riverboat, the crowd crowded towards the riverboat even more nervously. We mixed in the crowd, and were dispersed in a short while.I heard Shao Qiping yelling: "After boarding the ship, the students of Yau Ma Tei Middle School gather under the big chimney!" That means, everyone should take care of each other before boarding the ship.Immediately, I heard birdsong coming from different directions.One of the voices came from a place far away from my husband.However, I had a hard time figuring out who was actually blowing that china bird.I also blew on my china bird, echoing him.Both of us kept blowing.In this strange crowd, the birdsong made me a little less panicked.At first, our birdsong was still anxious to find a partner, but after echoing for a while, our hearts became more at ease, and the birdsong became a kind of singing and answering that we could all understand.In this chaotic crowd, we actually got such a special taste, and I was very happy.But after a while, the bird song gradually left and became farther and farther away.I sensed from the bird song how flustered he was at the separation.I can even imagine the hopelessness in his eyes and the way he was about to cry.

I can't hear a bird song anymore.I blew on the porcelain bird alone for a while, but seeing no response, I felt bored, and thinking about not letting myself be delayed on the pier, I put the porcelain bird in my arms and concentrated on approaching the riverboat.Relying on my natural agility, I am like a loach nimbly moving forward in the gap between people.All around me is the strong smell of sweat.I was sweating too, and my eyes were sore with the sweat.The shoe was stepped on several times, I bent down to lift the shoe several times, and was almost stepped on several times.At the end of the squeeze, I really had no strength, and my body was weakly caught in the crowd, with my mouth open to inhale, and the crowd passively pushed me towards the riverboat step by step.

Of course I boarded the riverboat.After going up, I drilled desperately until I reached the top floor.When I leaned on the railing and looked towards the river, I saw that the crowd was still rushing towards the riverboat.I unloaded the bedroll, opened my clothes, and let the river wind blow.Standing high and overlooking the flow of people, my heart is full of pride, and I feel that I am more capable than others. The activity port towards the river ship was suddenly closed—the river ship was overloaded and could no longer carry people.After a while, the riverboat slowly left the pier with the whistle.

Looking at the countless waving arms, I suddenly became nervous: Did Ma Shuiqing and the others board the riverboat?So I took out the porcelain bird and blew on it, while rushing down the big chimney. There were many people standing under the big chimney, but I couldn't find anyone from Yau Ma Tei Middle School.I yelled as if I was about to be killed: "Teacher Shao!——" "Ma Shuiqing!——" There was no answer.I suddenly felt that I was a duck that was separated from the flock, floating alone in the vast water. On the water, there was just one cry after another.I also yelled one after another, calling Shao Qiping, Ma Shuiqing, Xie Baisan, Yao Sanchuan, Liu Hanlin, and even Tao Hui the last one.

Several college students were annoyed by my calling, and shouted at me: "What's your name?!" I stopped shouting.Put the bedroll on the deck, then sat down on it, staring blankly at the legs dangling in front of his eyes. "Maybe they're still in the lower cabin." I picked up the bedroll, blew on the porcelain bird, and searched back and forth in the third cabin below.I feel like a lot of people are looking at me, and they must be taking me for a madman.I didn't care about these, and I still stubbornly blew the porcelain bird down until the mouth was a little numb.

I was back down the chimney again.What I saw was still the same—strange faces. I was exhausted, so I put the bedroll on the deck and sat down.I put my head between the two railings, staring at the muddy and tumbling river in a daze. I don't know who dropped a newspaper, but it floated in the air for a long time before it landed on the river.After a while, you will never see it again.In the sky above the riverboat, a gray-black smoke belt drifted towards the stern of the ship until it merged with the gray cloud sky. There is nothing everywhere, and the riverboat seems to be driving in a vast ocean that will never reach the other side.

I leaned against the cold railing and cried silently.When a few teardrops fell, I followed them with dim eyes.They were blown crookedly by the river wind.When I finally couldn't see them, I was thinking: How long will it take for them to fall into the river? I made my heart sad—it was my favorite thing to do until I was twenty.After being scolded by my mother or beaten by my father, when I sit alone on the threshold or by the river, I will taste this emotion very comfortably, making my heart sore, my nose sore, Let the tears gurgle out and flow into your mouth.Then, I tasted the saltiness of my tears carefully.

Now, I feel that I am very lonely, very pitiful, very miserable, and I am a very unfortunate person in the world.I actually cried aloud, tears filled my eyes, and I saw a railing not far away that was as thick as a pillar. "This child is crying." A man and a woman walked past me, the woman said to the man. I just remembered that there are so many people around.I swallowed the tears in my mouth, wiped away the tears on my face, shrunk my body into a ball, and completely faced the river.At this time, I hope to see the so-called Jiang Zhu appear on the river.In the top of my head, there are also people talking about Jiangzhu.A person said: "Look at the distance, on the river—isn't it a river pig?" I looked into the distance, and I was suddenly surprised: it's really a river pig!I stared at it—for a long time, I thought it was just a wave.On the top of my head, there was also a person who said: "Fuck Jiangzhu, he is a wave!" So, I was very disappointed.

The sky gradually darkened, and the wind on the river also picked up, making a whirring sound beside the ship's side.A few skinny seagulls flitted across the waves behind the stern, like gray ghosts on the river.The surrounding area of ​​Jianglun became more and more lost. I felt cold all over my body, and my heart couldn't help but sore again. Many people began to eat, and I could smell the aroma of food.I felt very hungry, so I reached into my pocket for money.I only have two dollars in my pocket.My father gave me ten yuan in total, and Shao Qiping still had eight yuan. I was afraid of losing the money, so I gave most of the money to him and kept it for him, just like other students.I took out the two dollars, looked at them, and put them in my pocket again.I only have two dollars, and I can't spend them.

I swallowed and put my knees against my stomach. I carried my bedroll and wandered around on the riverboat like a tramp.It was already dark when I returned to the chimney again. The riverboat sails in the dark, giving people a feeling of boundlessness, companionship, and homelessness.Night is strange.When it gets dark, people have the desire to go home, and they yearn for the company of acquaintances, which is more likely to make people feel desolate than during the day.I've had this feeling before, but never as strongly as today.I hoped for Shao Qiping and the others to appear over and over again in my heart. I sat on the bedroll and took out the china bird and blew it - purely by chance.However, I never dreamed that a miracle would appear: in the direction of the ship's stern, there were birdsong echoing!Although far away, I can hear clearly.Immediately I jumped up, forgetting even the bedding, blowing on the china bird vigorously, and ran towards the stern of the boat like crazy. The sound of birdsong is getting closer.I felt that the other party was also running towards me. "It must be one of ours!" When this-judgment was formed in my mind, I was almost excited to bang my head on the deck or kneel on the deck. — A bright light illuminates the passage. I saw a girl running towards me. "Tao Hui!" I stopped and shouted loudly. At the same time, I heard her cry: "Lin Bing!" As we approached, we both bowed our heads and wept. I cried for a while, felt embarrassed, turned around and wiped away my tears with my sleeve, and asked, "Are you alone?" Tao Hui folded her hands in front of her body and nodded to me. "How did you get up here?" "I was squeezed into a line of college students who caught me in the middle and took me to the boat." "I have been looking for our people since I got on the ship, why haven't I met you?" "I've been looking, too. I've been down the chimney several times..." On such a big ship, if you go to the left and I go to the right, you go to the stern and I go to the bow, and you go to the lower deck and I go to the upper deck, it is also very natural that they cannot touch each other.It would be nice to just die and wait under the chimney.We couldn't help but regret it. We walked together to the chimney.Maybe we can still wait for one of our people. We sat down at a distance of four or five steps.The two had nothing to say, and they didn't dare to look at each other, they just lowered or turned their heads to one side in silence. It was late at night, and the people on deck—went away, and went into the cabin—it was warmer there.Only a few people were still leaning on the railing, enjoying the night on the river quietly. In the distance, some fishing fires can be seen. I finally said to Tao Hui, "Are you cold?" "not cold." But what I saw was: under the dim light, she folded her hands on her chest, looking cold.I couldn't help feeling sorry for her, "It's too windy on the deck, go to the cabin!" There was actually a bit of an order in my words, which surprised me. What surprised me even more was that Tao Hui stood up obediently and walked to the cabin with her bedroll. "Give me the bedroll." I stepped forward and took her bedroll. She didn't object and walked meekly in front of me.I carried two bedrolls alone and walked behind. There was no more space in the cabin, so we had to lay down our bedding on the passage between the two cabins. I pulled one of my plastic sheets out of the bedroll and spread it on the floor and said to her, "You put the bedroll down and go to sleep." She sat on the bedroll and shook her head, "I'm not sleepy." I also sat down on the bedroll. It was just the two of us in the aisle. Very lonely.We finally started speaking boldly.It was she who spoke first, "Your composition is really good!" "not good." "Okay, your composition is always circulated. Teacher Shao said: The best composition in our class is Lin Bing." Our words come and go.Every time it starts, it seems that it is finally carried out after hesitating for a long time. Hardly a soul moves around anymore.The night was very deep. "Go to sleep." I said. "What about you?" she asked me after letting go of the bedroll. "Go to sleep first." She was really sleepy and fell asleep after a while. I am very happy to watch her.I don't know why, but I cried silently. There was a wind blowing from the aisle, and it was blowing on her head.I picked up the bedroll and sat on the aisle to shield her from the river wind.After a while, I was shaking a little bit by the wind. However, I still sat there and kept the wind from blowing on her head.She slept very quietly, as if sleeping in a warm home.