Chapter 693 Arrival
In winter, it took forty-five minutes to sail from Jiachuan to Rongshan, but in summer, even without an engine, they had already passed the small town of Rongshan.
After the water level rose, the waterline was very close to Rongshan Town. It used to take more than ten minutes to walk into the town after disembarking, but now it only takes three to five minutes. The dock has been set up directly on the river street outside the town.
Climb the stone stairs.
There are old houses on both sides here, and the shadows of the eaves cover the old street, which is very cool and turns into a lively vegetable market.
"There are children floating in the river!" Someone shouted, which immediately alarmed the whole market. Everyone flocked to the river to watch this weird raft and the children on it.
Everyone also commented that they were not interested in boys, but they were concerned about Liang Hong.
"Whose daughter is this?"
"I don't know you. You're not from our town, are you?"
"That's not possible, otherwise your parents will give you a good beating."
"She's a pretty girl, but she's too tanned."
"You have a good figure, and you can tell from the looks of it that you work hard."
"My parents are willing to give it up..." As he spoke, the conversation turned to criticizing Lao Liang.
Liang Hong and her fellow villagers were separated by the width of a backwater belt, so of course they couldn't hear her. She excitedly waved to the town and shouted, "Hello!"
The villagers were a little embarrassed, and felt that it would be impolite not to respond, so they hesitantly raised their hands and waved. The rhythm was not consistent, and they lost the momentum of Sister Hong.
After passing Rongshan, it's not far from Zhongba.
At this point, the river left the town that still had some modern atmosphere and entered the desolate primitive.
It is not that there are no people in this primitive environment. In almost every stream that flows into the Yangtze River, there are fishing boats at the entrance, or there are fishmen on the shore, fishing there.
The rocky beach that could be seen all the way last year has disappeared, and has all sunk underwater. Now the waterline is directly submerged into the soil covered by wire grass, and not far above is the dense bamboo forest.
Wait until you pass Zhongba
"There!" Liang Hong stood up from the raft and used her outstanding balance ability to stand on the tops of two logs: "The middle dam is there! We are here!"
The Yangtze River is now divided into the Inner River and the Outer River. Now the width of the Inner River has become similar to the width of the Outer River in winter. The area of the entire Zhongba Island has been reduced by one-third, and the huge turtle stone in front of the island has also disappeared.
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Yang He struck the long wooden stick horizontally, used the gravity balance to easily control it to pull the river surface, and adjusted the direction to drive towards the head of the island.
"No, no, no, no." Zhou Zhi quickly waved his hand: "When we enter the Neijiang River, let's go ashore from the guest house. We have to walk a lot less."
"Yes, I'll do it." Fang Wenyu took the "Changpeng" from Yang He and said, "Let's go give Xueshan and the others a surprise."
As he spoke, the raft slid against the edge of the island and slid into the waterway. Because the reference object was closer, the scenery on both sides of the river swept back quickly, and it seemed that the water flow suddenly became more turbulent.
Fang Wenyu controlled the raft and tried to get as close to the island as possible, but found that the raft was somewhat uncontrollable.
"Get into the water!" Zhou Zhi rolled over from the raft into the water and began to push the raft towards the shore.
The friends all followed suit and started pushing the raft into the water.
The raft finally approached the riverside, and everyone burst out laughing after their soles could touch the underwater grass bottom.
No one has ever experienced the situation just now, so it is impossible not to be nervous at all.
The one who was most frightened was of course Wei Fei. The baby is still stuck on the tire and dare not get off.
Everyone was not in a hurry to get ashore, so they just held the raft and floated along the bamboo forest to the back of a blue brick and blue-tiled house with a stone roof foundation, and then pushed the raft ashore.
Wei Fei didn't stand up in shock until his butt hit the ground. Then he found that his feet were soft, so he sat down on his butt in the rushing water, stretched out his hand to scratch at Zhou Zhi, and shouted heartbreakingly: "Help--
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"Shut up!" Zhou Zhi couldn't help but get angry and pulled Wei Fei up: "The water is just above the knees, why don't you?"
"Oh." Fang Wenyu spread his hands and expressed regret: "I must have been exposed now."
Sure enough, just as Zhou Zhi and the others were dragging the raft ashore, there were footsteps in the bamboo forest path and a thick voice: "Who?!"
Immediately after, Jiang Hongxing's sturdy body emerged from the bamboo forest, followed by several girls.
As soon as Feng Xueshan saw it, she spat: "Look at it, you guys, I'm just going to say there's something wrong with them?!"
The remaining three women couldn't help but blush. They even said good things to these people on the boat. How could this be done?
"Elbow?!" Jiang Hongxing was dumbfounded when he saw the naked pigs: "Did you float down? Oh, and there is a girl! Why don't you do this to save the ship's money?!"
"Hello, Uncle Jiang! We see you are here!" Zhou Zhi greeted Jiang Hongxing: "I brought you three bottles of wine. It's not good wine, but it was brought back from the capital. It also has the name of uncle. Do you think it's a coincidence?
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"Really? Let me take a look..." Jiang Hongxing took the wine bottle, and then smiled brightly: "Hey, it's true! Hongxing Erguotou! It's really weird that the last three characters are there."
After saying that, he raised his face again: "Uncle, I have to criticize you. This river is not for fun. You just floated down Jiachuan with a few pieces of wood and a few tires, and you are really too courageous to deal with such a big water.
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"Just this time." Zhou Zhi laughed and said, "Isn't this learning the spirit of long-term drifting?"
The Chang Drifting Spirit refers to the feat of rafting the Yangtze River for the first time in 1985. A group of inexperienced young people, inspired by patriotism, determined to complete the entire Yangtze River rafting before foreigners.
Yao Maoshu, who went first, died, but under his influence, two teams, Zhongke Team and Luoyang Team, were soon organized again.
At that time, the news followed the entire process and reported that when the two teams drifted together on Yeba Beach, three of the eight team members were killed.
While crossing the Zhonghu Leaping Gorge, another team member and a reporter were killed.
Fortunately, the sealing ship failed to intercept and drifted across the Lower Tiger Leaping Gorge, completing the two tasks at once.
Later, another team member encountered misfortune at Baihe Beach and Zhamutan in Jinsha River.
After entering a stable river basin, the task became easier.
A total of eleven people were sacrificed for the entire feat. Together with the women's volleyball team's five consecutive championships, it greatly inspired the patriotic enthusiasm of the Chinese people at that time.
Zhou Zhi was still young at the time, but his third sister was already a junior high school student. After reading the news and knowing that the Changdiao team was about to pass through Manzhou, he and his classmates ran to Qiba for a picnic.
When the long drifting team passed by, they invited the team members to come ashore to have dinner with them and take photos. They spent a happy and joyful day, and they came back and chatted with Zhou Zhi for several days.
However, the relevant departments quickly realized the problem and immediately issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Management of River Rafting Activities", no longer promoting such behavior.
But that doesn't stop Zhou Zhi from using it as an excuse for action now.
Chapter completed!