Malaysia River in Memory

Damahe River is a long river in my hometown. Its name should be Suixin River, but for convenience of memory, people named it after the village where it is located and forgot its real name.

The Malaysian River has existed since ancient times, but the river surface is not very wide, and it is often silted up, and the water flow is not smooth. If it catches up with heavy rain, it will burst its banks and cause floods. After many excavations, today's dozens of meters wide river surface has been formed. My father built the Dama River. After the treatment, the Malaysian River is wide and deep, and the blue waves are rippling on the bridge, which is refreshing. ?

Dama River runs from east to west between Yuji and Miao Feng, which is the natural dividing line between the two towns. Yuji Township is on the south bank of the river and Miaofeng Town is on the north bank of the river. Since ancient times, no bridge has been laid on the river, and crossing the river depends entirely on ferry. At the same time, Damadukou is also an important passage for Miao Feng to Lingbi County, which is also on the south bank of the river. So if people from two towns go to the other side of the river, or people from Hebei coastal areas go to the county seat, it will take a lot of effort. "Crossing the river in ten miles" means that you can cross the river at one time and walk as far as ten miles. It takes a lot of time to cross the river by ferry. In fact, Miaofeng Town still has a road leading to the county seat, but people in the south of the town don't want to take that long road! Although it takes some time to cross the river, it is better than a short trip.

I heard that three ferry families in Damacun bought a big boat in partnership, and the ferry alone made a fortune, which made foreigners jealous. For a family of three, one ferry is used every day, and the ferry fees collected are in their own pockets. The ferry orders for the Chinese New Year holidays should be arranged separately, because the business is extremely hot in those days! There is a charge for crossing the river. When I went to the county town for high school, I never passed by the Malaysian River. The charge for a single person is 30 cents, with a discount of 50 cents for two people, 50 cents for a single person riding a motorcycle, two dollars for a tricycle or tractor and five dollars for a car. If you catch the vehicles for weddings, it is more expensive to cross the river ... in short, you must collect them once, starting from the ground. Later, a rising tide lifts all boats, and the fees doubled. Later, these ferrymen were ingenious and proposed to provide annual clothes and collect (needed) food and money as boat money from nearby villages that often passed through the ferry. Villages that have received money and grain will no longer be charged by boat in the future. Many villages along the river have paid, and many villages in the distance, such as our village, refused on the grounds that they rarely crossed the river, and no one was willing to pay ... Later, the villagers calculated an account and spent more money than the annual package. Karma, not happy at all. One summer, Zhang Jinke and I went to the county seat to attend high school. Once, the two of us rode through Damacun, just in time for the hot weather. It happened that we had fifty cents left, so we bought two popsicles, each with twenty cents left ... After crossing the river, we said that we had no money to pay the boat fare, and the ferryman didn't believe it. This kind of thing usually happens. If there is no money, we can give it next time. I don't know what happened to grandma that day, but she wouldn't let us get off the boat anyway. We said that there was still a dime left, and grandma decisively "searched" and left. Narrow peasant thought, terrible! If my village had also paid for grain, I believe this would not have happened.

"The natural barrier becomes a thoroughfare", and now a reinforced concrete bridge has been built on the Malaysian River. Nowadays, a large number of vehicles and pedestrians of various colors roared past, full of vitality. The great river that once hindered the people on both sides of the strait has become full of green, with rippling blue waves and tender feelings. It's just that I don't like it at all (2065438+ 8: 00 pm, August 5, 2008, Lingbi Humble Room, Anhui)