Concentricity

Mo Jinyan drank the medicine, fell asleep, and woke up refreshed. All the symptoms of stuffy nose and headache disappeared. It was only because he was hungry that he remembered that he hadn't eaten breakfast yet, and he didn't know what time it was.After putting on his clothes, he came out and found that there was no one outside, but green smoke was rising from the embankment. Looking at the sky, at least it was already time.

"Brother Yu!" Mo Jinyan shouted from the stern of the boat.

"Hey, Xiao Mo, are you up?" A figure appeared on the embankment, isn't it Yu Simian?His face was covered with soot, black and white, like a cat, Mo Jinyan looked at it and almost laughed out loud.

Yu Simian didn't realize it, and only asked with concern: "How are you, Xiao Mo?"

Mo Jinyan held back his laughter and jumped ashore: "Well, it's all right. Brother Yu, what are you doing?"

Yu Simian was lighting a fire in the harvested field, and a large pile of soot had already been burned. "I'm simmering taro. Are you hungry? It should be ready, take it out and have a look."

Mo Jinyan found a wooden stick, turned on the fire, and grinned: "Brother Yu, let me come, you go and wash your face."

Yu Simian was taken aback for a moment, then said "oh", blushed slightly, and quickly jumped off the embankment to wash his face.He is handsome and has attracted a lot of attention, so he also pays more attention to his image.

When he came up after a while, Mo Jinyan had already built the fire without adding more firewood.Yu Simian asked: "Is it all right?"

"Well, it will be fine later." Mo Jinyan looked at Yu Simian with a smile, "Brother Yu, you don't want to eat, do you want to eat taro?"

Yu Simian smiled uncomfortably, squatted down next to Mo Jinyan, wiped the water off his face with his hands: "No, I'm not very good at cooking, and I happened to see taro by the river, so I dug it up Burning and eating, I didn’t expect it to take this long.” The fact is that he had nowhere to start with a pile of uncooked rice and lettuce, and he was afraid of setting the boat ablaze, so he ran to the shore to start a fire.

Mo Jinyan smiled and rolled his eyes, knowing that he couldn't do it.He pushed aside the fire with a stick, and picked out two warm yams, and a scent of burning yams came out.Smelling the aroma, Yu Simian let out a stomach growl, and he laughed awkwardly. Mo Jinyan grabbed a taro, squeezed it in his hand, then patted it with his left and right hands upside down, removed the dust, and handed it over to the taro. To Yu Simian: "Brother Yu, eat first."

Yu Simian took it and let go of the scald, and the taro fell to the ground.

Mo Jinyan hurriedly said, "I forgot to mention, it's a little hot."

Yu Simian said: "I see why you are not afraid of being scalded while holding it?"

Mo Jinyan grinned and said, "I have rough skin and thick flesh, so I'm not afraid of being scalded. Besides, I don't hold it all the time. I switch hands."

Yu Simian grabbed Mo Jinyan's hand, looked at it, and pinched it again. Mo Jinyan's palm was very wide, his fingers were long, and his joints were distinct. There were thick calluses on his palm and fingers, and he felt a little uncomfortable. , suddenly made a decision, and said: "Xiao Mo, you have suffered too much. When the elder brother settles down, you can do things with the elder brother."

Mo Jinyan looked at Yu Simian in surprise, his eyes sparkled with excitement and emotion: "Okay, thank you Brother Yu!"

Yu Simian smiled and said, "You kid, you don't even know what Big Brother asked you to do, so you just agreed."

Mo Jinyan tilted his head and laughed: "Brother will definitely not let me do bad things."

The heat of the roasted taro was not controlled properly, and some places were already burnt. The two of them ate so much that their mouths were black and numb, and they laughed at each other for a long time.Two roasted yams per person, of course, can't do anything, Mo Jinyan clapped his hands after eating the yams, "Come on, brother Yu, let's get on the boat and cook, it's time for lunch."

Yu Simian has been busy all morning, eating two small taro is simply drinking poison to quench his thirst, it's not worth it, he just wished he could eat.Now that Mo Jinyan is recovering from his illness, and his rations are finally settled, there is no reason to disagree: "Okay, I will help and learn to cook. Next time, I don't have to wait for you to cook, I can do it too." Make it for you to eat."

This was Mo Jinyan's happiest time. Since that illness, Yu Simian and him seem to have lost each other.In the past, when Yu Simian was ill, he always cooked and washed for him by himself, relying on himself for every detail.Now that Yu Simian is alive and well, he has started to take care of him in many ways, really like a big brother, teaching him some ways to deal with problems, teaching him some principles of life and doing things, and the gap between the two has disappeared a lot in an instant.

Mo Jinyan was full of hope, Brother Yu said, let me follow him in the future, then I can continue to like him quietly, maybe even become a brother.

A few days later, the boat arrived at the confluence of Gutian River and Minjiang River.Along the way, the number of boats on the river gradually increased. In addition to fishing boats that haunted at night, there were also many cargo ships and passenger boats carrying passengers.Some go up the river, and some go down the river. When people meet each other, whether they know each other or not, the boatman will greet each other with a yell.

That night, the boat was moored at the confluence of the Minjiang River and Gutian River, where the view was wide, and the speed of the stream slowed down quickly due to the sudden widening of the river, so it was suitable for mooring the boat. Mo Jinyan tied the boat to the willow tree on the bank and started Wash rice for cooking.Yu Simian put away the clothes that were drying on the boat awning last night, and suddenly heard a rough roar coming from not far away, Yu Simian stopped to listen, the rhythm was clear and cadenced, it sounded like he was singing: "Xiao Mo, what is this?" sound?"

Mo Jinyan raised his head and listened to it for a while: "Oh, it's the boat song of the Heluolangs in southern Fujian." Hokkien people are especially so.

"He Luolang?" Yu Simian heard this title for the first time.

"Well, they are also called Hakka people. It is said that they first moved here from the Yellow River and Luo River areas." Mo Jinyan told the story he had heard.

"So that's how it is." Yu Simian suddenly realized, "It's the Hakka people, no wonder they are called He Luolang, it's really very apt. Coming from Heluo, they really don't wander close." There was some emotion in his words.

Mo Jinyan suddenly seemed to think of something, and he said in a daze: "Where are the Yellow River and Luohe River? It is said that they are in the Central Plains. My ancestors are said to be in the Central Plains and will go there..."

Yu Simian wanted to hear him continue to say something, but Mo Jinyan had already lowered his head and continued to scoop water and wash rice.The water contained in the water tank in the boat was drawn from the well by the river. Although they have been cruising in the water, the river water cannot be drunk with a scoop.

Mo Jinyan is really a pervert, Yu Simian thought to himself.He couldn't figure it out until he was awakened by the loud boat song.

It turned out that in a trance, the boat chanting the chant was approaching. The boat was going up against the current, traveling very slowly, with a large hull, at least thousands of dendrobium (60 tons) of loading capacity, and it was not quite like a private private boat in terms of scale. , but it should be an official ship of the government, which is probably used to load salt and rice.The boat had a deep draft and moved very slowly. Ten oar positions were installed on both sides of the boat, and ten sailors were rowing hard on each side.

Yu Simian has only seen ships of this size in the North-South Grand Canal. They are also official ships of the government. They often travel in a whole team, loaded with grain, cloth, silk, well salt, rare treasures, etc., from south to north , sent to the capital.After entering Fujian, big ships are extremely rare.And he read from the book that during the previous dynasty, Quanzhou in southern Fujian was the largest shipbuilding base at that time, capable of building large ships with a load capacity of tens of thousands of dendrobium (600 tons).These super-sized ships sail the vast seas without fear.However, after the sea ban was issued, all these large ships were forced to be destroyed, and most of them were used as firewood for village women to cook rice.Every time Yu Simian thought about this, he couldn't help sighing: This is the decline of an era.

Mo Jinyan stood beside Yu Simian at some point: "This boat is bigger than ours."

Yu Simian looked at the boat: "Have you ever seen a bigger boat than this?"

"Ah? I've seen it before." Mo Jinyan replied.

"How big is it? Where did you see it? Is it an official ship?" Yu Simian asked questions one after another.

"It's been many years. At that time, my father took me to Lianjiang to visit friends. I saw it there. The boat was abandoned and ran aground in the bay. The bottom of the boat was filled with water. It was as high as a three-story building and long. It is twenty or thirty feet wide and ten or so feet wide, which is much more spectacular than this boat.” It was the largest boat Mo Jinyan had ever seen, “My father said that the boat could hold five thousand dendrobium. It was a private ship of a sea merchant, and later the imperial court banned the sea, and these ships were all rotten and ruined."

Yu Simian looked at the big ship fading away in the twilight, and imagined the big ship Mo Jinyan had seen, how majestic it would be, and the legendary Wanhu boat, wouldn't it have the momentum to swallow up mountains and rivers ?Do you still have a chance to meet those big ships?

Mo Jinyan also had something that he couldn't grasp, and he murmured, "I hope that in the future, we can also build such a big ship."

Yu Simian looked down at him and smiled, "Maybe there will be a chance."

In the quiet night, the boat rests quietly on the river, floating gently.The chill in the water penetrates into the cabin through the thin planks, and the cold air permeates the small cabin.The two squeezed together on the not-so-spacious bed, Mo Jinyan lay side by side with Yu Simian, and he tried to keep a little distance from Yu Simian.Yu Simian stretched out his arms, wrapped Mo Jinyan's waist and brought him into the bed: "Xiao Mo, it's cold, it doesn't matter if you get closer."

Mo Jinyan really wants to cry, don't get close anymore, I really can't stand the torment and torture.But Yu Simian didn't know it, he pulled Mo Jinyan to lie next to him, some parts of his body were inevitably pressed against each other, the warm body temperature was transmitted, and his nose was full of the other party's breath.Mo Jinyan didn't dare to breathe, he held back his body's instinctive impulse desperately.

In the dark, Yu Simian heard Mo Jinyan's long and short breathing, which was obviously unstable: "Xiao Mo, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?" As he spoke, he reached out and touched Mo Jinyan's forehead. Khan, startled him, "Xiao Mo, you have a cold again?"

Mo Jinyan shook his head, and said in a hoarse voice, "It's okay, Brother Yu."

"He said he was fine, but his voice has changed. He must be suffering from the wind and cold." Yu Simian insisted, and stretched out his hand to check if his body temperature was normal.

Mo Jinyan was really about to cry, he suddenly got emotional, pushed away Yu Simian's hand, and said in a rough voice: "It's really fine, leave me alone!" He bent over, clamped his legs, and turned his back Go, very frustrated in my heart: what to do with me, what to do with me, don’t talk to me!