The silent sunset pulled Jingfang's shadow long, and she lingered silently near the ferry named Fenglingdu, hesitating.

Under the embankment made of fine sand, a wide river flowed. This big river was called Fengling River. At this moment, the water in the Fengling River was rippling, as if it was about to overflow the river bank.

Jingfang and Shui Wang met on this ferry in Fenglingdu. At that time, Jingfang was only twenty-one years old and her family was poor. In order to get medicine for her sick father, her mother worked hard to save more than a dozen eggs and let her take a boat to the county town to sell them at the ferry in Fenglingdu. She put the eggs in a basket, covered it with a towel, and then came to Fenglingdu with the basket. However, Jingfang waited here for a long time, only to see a boat moored quietly at the ferry, but no one was there to rock the boat. She was so anxious that she fell straight down. Finally, Jingfang finally found the small shack made of the crooked body of the tree under a thick, crooked willow tree. This is where the people who rock the boat in Fenglingdu live.

Jing Fang walked to the small shack, stood still, and looked inside from the gap in the straw curtain. She saw a person sitting on the small wooden bed inside, holding an open book with both hands, and her whole face was almost buried in the open book.

"Grandpa!" Jing Fang shouted, raising a hand and lifting the straw curtain that looked to be quite old.

"What?"  She flipped through the books and closed them, revealing an unfamiliar four-sided face, black. There was a pair of bright eyes on the four-sided face, staring at her.

"Ah? You... you're not grandpa?" Jing Fang said as she stepped back. The old straw curtain fell down again, between her and him.

The man in the small shack walked out and stood in front of Jingfang. Jingfang suddenly felt as if a tall black tower stood in front of her. She needed to raise her head to see his face.

He looked at Jing Fang and said, "I'm a new boater. If you have anything, just tell me."

"Oh, oh," Jingfang agreed in a panic, saying, "where's Master Qing Shan who used to rock the boat here in Fenglingdu?"

"Master Qingshan passed away two months ago," the young man said. Then he asked Jingfang, "Do you want to cross the river?"

"Yeah, yeah."  Jing Fang didn't know what to say for a moment, so she took two steps back.

"What are you doing in the county seat?" The young man looked at her basket.

"Selling eggs." Jing Fang didn't lie, and she didn't think of lying.

"Sell? These dozen eggs?" the young man asked.

Jingfang nodded.

"However, the weather forecast says that the weather is not good today, so we can't cross the river." The young man said, "What if there is heavy fog or strong wind and waves in the middle of the river?" After saying that, the young man shook his shoulders, turned around and went into the low and damp shack again.

Jing Fang stood alone outside the small shack. She looked at the small shack, then turned to look at the wide river, and her feet seemed to be tied with two big lead bumps, which were extremely heavy.

I don't know when the fog started. A few steps away, I can't see anything clearly. Jingfang first started to be a little scared, and then a thought made her almost shudder with joy. So she walked quietly to the ferry from Fenglingdu. Under the cover of thick fog, Jingfang quickly untied cable of the boat and pushed the boat into the river without realizing it.

The boat carried Jingfang and the eggs in her basket and slid into the middle of the river.

Suddenly, there was a strong wind. Suddenly, the river began to flow and the waves became high, and the boat suddenly looked like a wild horse that was very untamed. The boat-rocker did not listen to her orders, and just after holding it, it tilted up, let alone rocking the boat. At this time, Jingfang could not even hold it. A big wave hit, the boat capsized, and she fell into the rolling river. Jingfang struggled in the river, and suddenly she felt her body floating again, her head was out of the water, and a hand held her up to the boat. She opened her eyes and saw that a man like a black tower climbed from the water to the boat. Ah, it turned out to be the young man in the small shed who did not allow her to cross the river!

She suddenly jumped up and rushed over. Like an angry goat, she hit the young man's broad chest with her head desperately, crying and shouting, "Why did you save me? Why did you save me? If you can't get the money to treat my father, it's better to let me die, woohoo..."

"What?"   The young man bent down and hugged the cable, slowing down the speed of the boat, and tilted his neck to look at Jingfang.

"My father has been sick for a long time. My mother asked me to... let me cross the river to the county seat to sell the dozen eggs she saved and buy medicine for my father..." Jing Fang looked at the basket of eggs floating far away in the river, crying so hard that she couldn't even speak. The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she became, covering her face with both hands, crying all over her body trembling. The young man looked at her, and his two thick black eyebrows wrinkled.

"Alas..."  He sighed heavily, then remained silent.

Jingfang stopped crying, took her hands away from her face, and peeked at him.

The young man first fixed the rudder with a cable, and then he entered the cabin with a cat waist, pulled out a snow-white close-buckled fishing net, held it with both hands, and moved his feet, "walked to the bow of the boat, forked the horse steps, and stood firmly. Then, the two thick arms like horse stakes swung, and the fishing net in his hand flew out" swoosh ", opened, formed an oval, and slowly fell into the Fengling River.

He cast several nets in a row, and each net did not fail.

He found a nylon pocket and wrapped the fish he had just caught. He put it at Jing Fang's feet and said to her in a muffled voice, "Take these fish to the county seat and sell them. Go back early and I'll wait for you to cross the river."

Jing Fang's tears fell. She gave him a deep bow and sobbed, "I will never forget you."

From then on, Jingfang ran to Fenglingdu every day, either to help him mend his fishing nets or wash his clothes. Although he still frowned strangely and looked at her silently with a pair of bright eyes, the expression on his face was much milder.

She knew that his name was Shuiwang, and he knew that her name was Jingfang.

Jingfang and Shuiwang began to fall in love. One night, Jingfang and Shuiwang came to Fenglingdu after watching a movie and sat on the boat. The boat was like a happy cradle, swaying gently on the quiet Fengling River, so that the people on the boat were about to enter a sweet dream.

"Oh, I have a question... to ask you..." Jing Fang finally spoke, her voice low and trembling.

"What are you talking about? You can ask. Shui Wang whispered, his voice was like the murmuring water of the Fengling River.

"What words? You ask," Jingfang said in a rough voice, learning to speak word by word. Then she said in a reproachful tone: "Do you have to let a girl say some things first? You, you are really a silly big person, similar to Liang Shanbo in the movie, a stupid goose!"

Jing Fang's eyes were hot, and her face seemed to be covered with soft moonlight, which was so charming.

"Jingfang, I... I look stupid and thick..." Shui Wang frowned and whispered in a muffled voice.

"I like it!" Jingfang said.

"I don't have any money, I can only send people across the river by rocking a boat every day." Shui Wang said again.

"I do!" Jingfang said.

The day after Jing Fang showed her heart to Shui Wang on the boat, she had the courage to tell her father about her love affair with Shui Wang. Jing Fang's father is a person who doesn't sprinkle a grain of rice for dinner, and he immediately put forward a harsh condition: "No girl from any family can keep her at home all the time. However, I have supported you for more than 20 years, even if it is 2,000 yuan a year, it will cost 40,000 to 50,000 yuan! If that Shui Wang really wants to marry you, let him prepare 50,000 yuan, he will pay the money in one hand, and I will give you to him in the other hand!"

Jing Fang knew that her father was using money to stop her marriage with Shui Wang. For this reason, Jing Fang cried and made trouble, but her father did not sympathize at all. Jing Fang secretly found Shui Wang and asked him to make an idea. Shui Wang frowned and thought for a long time, then he slapped the side of the boat with his big palm and said decisively, "Go back and tell your father that I agreed to his conditions!"

"What did you say? You promised to take 50,000 yuan?Jingfang's eyes widened in surprise, "You can take so much money?"

Shui Wang habitually looked at Jing Fang with her bright eyes and said, "I can't let your father poke my spine and say that I picked up such a big girl like you for nothing!"

Jingfang knew that Shuiwang was stubborn by nature. Even eight cows could not be pulled back after he said a word. She said to Shuiwang, "I will wait for you to marry me."

However, 50,000 yuan is easy to say, but if you really want to earn 50,000 yuan, how easy is it to say? A year has passed, and another year has passed. With the passage of time and the increase of age, the firm belief in Jingfang's heart waiting for Shuiwang to marry her has gradually faded.

Soon, Jing Fang's father received a young man at home named Liu Xing. Jing Fang's father happily told Jing Fang's mother and Jing Fang that Liu Xing was a cadre in a factory in the county seat. He was handsome, flexible, and more importantly, his family was very wealthy. This Liu Xing fell in love with Jing Fang as soon as he saw her. So, soon, Liu Xing paid to build the first two-story building in the village for Jing Fang's family. Jingfang's parents smiled from ear to ear all day long.

On the day the two-story building was built, Jing Fang's father announced loudly in front of relatives, friends and neighbors that two of the buildings were the new houses where Jing Fang and Liu Xing got married. At first, Jing Fang said nothing to agree with the marriage with Liu Xing, and she couldn't forget the black tower-like water that rocked the boat in Fenglingdu. However, unable to hold up Liu Xing's pursuit like a tail fish chasing a head fish, unable to withstand Liu Xing's strong attack, Jing Fang finally gave in, and she nodded and agreed to marry Liu Xing.

Who knew that after Jingfang and Liu Xing got married, she had just lived a few days like a fairy, when Liu Xing, the so-called rich man, suddenly showed her one bill after another. It turned out that Liu Xing didn't have much money at all, and the money he spent for Jingfang and Jingfang's family was borrowed. Because the things that Liu Xing bought in the family were borrowed money, they were all taken away and sold in order to pay off the bills, leaving only the empty house and the parents who were sighing with drooping faces. Jingfang wanted to cry, but who would she cry to? At this time, she remembered the black tower with a broad chest that was rocking the boat in Fenglingdu.

At this moment, Jingfang stood in the willow bushes, her feet seemed to be filled with lead, and she couldn't move a step. She herself couldn't tell how she felt, so she finally mustered up the courage, turned her face to the river bay of Fenglingdu, and shouted: "Brother Shuiwang..."

Shui Wang was stunned, stood up with a black tower-like body, twisted his thick black neck, and looked towards Jingfang, looking for the person who called him.

"I'm here!" Jing Fang tried his best to pretend to be very calm, drilled out of the willow bushes, and stood on the riverbank.

With a "pop" sound, Shui Wang's knife for chopping fish fell on the board of the boat, making a clear sound.

"Brother Shuiwang, do you hate me?" Jingfang looked at him with big watery eyes and said.

Hate her? Yes, hate her! But how can a word of hate describe the emotional waves in his heart? Ever since that unforgettable moonlit night on the boat and Jingfang made a private marriage for life, he began to earn money desperately by his own strength. In summer, he was reluctant to buy even an undershirt, always bare and barefoot. The spine was tan-black, like a thick glaze. His hands were worn clean with thick calluses, and his hair was long and he refused to cut it, and he was reluctant to spend the money on it. He didn't want to buy his daughter-in-law with money, but for her, don't let others laugh at her for marrying a poor man. At first, Jingfang ran to Fengling for three days and two days, but later, her footsteps here were sparse, and he didn't think badly. Someone even told him personally that Jingfang had changed her mind and wanted to marry a rich young man, and he always laughed it off. It was not until he saw the fact that he never believed it with his own eyes that he knew that Jingfang had really changed her mind... Shui Wang swore that in this life and this life, he would never want to see her again, and never see her again! Who knew that now, she was here again, and she appeared in front of his eyes as someone else's new wife.

"You, what are you doing here?Shui Wang asked her coldly as her lips trembled.

"I... I crossed the river..." Jingfang said in a low voice, following her eyes and looking at her toes, as if begging Shuiwang's forgiveness.

Shui Wang didn't ask any more questions. He asked Jingfang to come on board, and then he bent down, picked up a handful of water on the side of the boat, washed the fish scales stained on his hands, and then straightened up, picked up the long pole, stretched it to the bottom of the river, and supported it hard. There was a "clatter" sound of water around the boat, and the boat left the river bank.

Shui Wang and Jing Fang didn't speak, only the rhythmic sound of the boat scull stirring the river. Jing Fang sat on the boat and couldn't feel the movement of the boat, but only saw the trees on the banks walking back and forth. She couldn't help it, and finally said without words, "Brother Shui Wang, do you know what I'm going to do?"

After listening to her words, he took back his gaze from the distance, and a pair of bright eyes stared at her blankly.

"I'm going to the civil affairs bureau in the county seat to divorce him..." Jing Fang said, her voice trembling.

"Li... divorce? Why?" Shui Wang's body shook violently as if it had been hit hard by something.

"I... I... I was deceived by him!" She only said that, and tears rolled down.

Shui Wang listened to Jing Fang's cry, he lifted the boat's scull up from the water, put it horizontally, and used it as a rudder to stabilize the boat. He listened carefully to Jing Fang's cry without even blinking his eyelids, until Jing Fang stopped talking, and then asked in a muffled voice, "How did he treat you...?"

Jing Fang would never lie. She told him honestly, "He didn't say anything to me. Very good.

Shui Wang let out a long sigh of relief, then turned the boat in his hand suddenly, and pressed the black tower-like body on the boat. The boat raised its head like a horse, turned a circle, and returned according to the same route.

"You... what are you doing?" she exclaimed in surprise.

Shui Wang didn't say anything until the boat reached the ferry of Fenglingdu, where they had just set sail. He stopped the boat and put it on the board. Then he turned his face, frowned, opened his bright eyes, and looked at her in silence for a while, as if to see her from the inside out. Then he pointed to the shore, and two words popped out of his mouth: "Get off the boat!"

"What?"   Jingfang looked at him and asked.

Shui Wang still pointed to the shore: "I told you to get off the boat, I will not send you to divorce!"

Jing Fang suddenly stood up and looked at him with hatred. Then, she turned around, stepped on the board he had set up for her, and ran ashore with three trembling steps.

"Hey, wait a minute!" he shouted behind her.

She listened very carefully, but she didn't look back and kept walking.

"Zhao Jingfang, you..." He caught up, and she felt that she could hear his "wheeze" gasping.

She stopped, but did not turn to look at him, deliberately giving him a back and a head.

"Here!"  He pushed a small notebook from her back into her hand, "Take this and pay back the debt you owe others. Buy some furniture for the rest."

Then she heard his footsteps. From the footsteps, she could hear that he was leaving. Then she took the little book he had stuffed into her hand and showed it to her. Oh, it was a passbook. The deposit amount in it was fifty thousand yuan! This is the number of betrothal gifts her father asked him for back then!

"Brother Shuiwang... I... I can't take this money..." She chased after him and shouted.

Shuiwang, who was walking forward with his head down, turned around, stretched out his thick arms, and stopped her: "I earned this money with my own strength. I won't bite your hand! When you have enough money in the future, pay me back..."

When he said this, Shui Wang did not look at her, his bright eyes kept looking to the side. He couldn't deceive his feelings, he was still very stubbornly in love with her! He didn't want to see her tears at that moment, let alone listen to her words of gratitude. Before he could finish his words, Shui Wang jumped on the boat, picked up the boat, and swayed his broad arms, and swayed again. The boat had left the river bank and sailed towards the middle of the Fengling River.

The boat gradually went away, and from a distance, he, the boat and the Fengling River seemed to merge together, gradually disappearing into the vast distance. Only the water of the Fengling River was dancing and shining, showing a moving scenery.

For a long time, Jing Fang was still standing at the ferry of Fenglingdu, letting the wind blow her hot cheeks. Her eyes were filled with crystal flowers, and she looked at the murmuring water of the Fengling River without blinking. At this time, she felt that it was the first time she had discovered that the river was so wide, so clear, and so beautiful.