dognovel Chapter 980 Spread
Chapter 980 Spread
, but she had never seen the real thing. "Later, grandpa died in the sea, and the boat was left at the dock." Lu Chengyu smeared the prepared tung oil on the cracks, "Grandma waited for him all her life, and before she died, she said that the 'Wangchao' would find someone she could trust." As dusk drifted into the dock, Su Wan touched an iron box at the bottom of the toolbox. When she opened it, it was a yellowed logbook, and the last page was sandwiched with a black and white photo - a young man in a suit stood at the bow of the "Wangchao", with a silver anchor on his chest, smiling as if he had swallowed the whole sun. "It's him." Lu Chengyu's voice was a little hoarse, "My grandpa Lu Zhiyuan." There was a line of pen writing on the back of the photo: "Jingshu, when I come back from the Cape of Good Hope, I will use this boat to take you to see the aurora." The ink was soaked blue by the sea water, but it was still clear. That night Su Wan fell asleep on the canvas bed in the dock. The dream was full of the sound of waves. She saw her young grandmother standing at the dock, her blue cheongsam fluttering in the wind, and holding an unsent letter in her hand. When she woke up from the cold in the early morning, she found that she was covered with a navy blue shirt, and the anchor brooch on the collar was shining. Lu Chengyu was lying on the workbench next to him, with tickets scattered around him - to the Cape of Good Hope, the date was early next month. Su Wan folded the shirt and put it next to him. As soon as her fingertips touched his hair, he grabbed it. His eyelashes cast a light shadow under the desk lamp, like a resting seagull. "Don't repair the ship." His voice was hoarse with just waking up. "The 'Wangchao' is too old and can't withstand long voyages." "I want to go to the Cape of Good Hope." Su Wan pulled her hand back, and his palm was still warm. "Grandma said that grandpa's logbook was left there." Lu Chengyu stared at her for a while, and suddenly smiled: "I just happened to be going there to do something, so it's on the way." They stayed in the dock for half a month. Su Wan followed Lu Chengyu to learn how to repair the ship's planks. He taught her how to identify the direction of the sea water and how to determine the direction according to the stars. Once, when she was climbing the mast to change the sail, the knot under her feet suddenly loosened. When she fell down, he caught her steadily. "Hold on." He held her in his arms, his heartbeat louder than the waves, "If you fall down, you will be taken away by sharks." Su Wan buried her face in his shirt and smelled the sea salt mixed with her jasmine soap. The old craftsman at the dock teased them: "This young couple looks like Mr. Lu and Miss Lin when they were young." On the eve of departure, Su Wan found a secret compartment on the cabin wall of the "Wangchao". There was a velvet box hidden inside, containing a moonstone ring, and the words "Jingshu" were engraved on the inside of the ring setting. "Grandpa was going to propose at the Cape of Good Hope." Lu Chengyu hugged her from behind, his chin resting on the top of her head, "Grandma won't know until she dies." Su Wan put the ring on her ring finger, the size was just right. The moonlight shone in from the porthole, and the moonstone on the ring and the one on the bow shone at the same time, like two breathing stars. When the "Wave Chaser" left the port, Su Wan stood on the deck and watched the "Wangchao" being properly placed in the dock. Lu Chengyu handed her a telescope: "Look over there." Under the lighthouse at the dock, the old craftsman was nailing a new ship plate on the hull of the "Wangchao", which read "Never sail". "Some ships are suitable for long voyages, and some ships are suitable for mooring." He held her hand holding the telescope, "Just like some people, born to find a home in the waves." On the seventh day of sailing, they encountered a storm. The dark clouds were very low, as if they were going to press the sea surface into the seabed. When Su Wan was awakened by the bumpy hull, she found that Lu Chengyu was not in the cabin. She grabbed her raincoat and rushed out, and saw him standing in front of the rudder. The heavy rain soaked him like a drowned chicken, but he still held the steering wheel steadily. "Go back to the cabin!" He shouted at her, his voice torn into pieces by the wind and rain. Su Wan ran over and grabbed his arm. The waves hit the deck, and her canvas shoes were filled with seawater, but she was nailed to his side. "Let's go together." Her voice was trembling, but she was very firm. "Grandma said that sailors hate to face the wind and waves alone." Lu Chengyu looked at her eyes that were blurred by rain and suddenly smiled. He freed one hand and pulled up her raincoat hood: "Hold my waist tightly." That night they stood in front of the bumpy rudder until dawn. When the red sun jumped out of the waves, Su Wan found that her nails were deeply embedded in his waist, leaving a crescent-shaped red mark. "You are bleeding." She hurriedly touched his wound, but he held her hand. "This is called a sea oath." He lowered his head and kissed her forehead with the salty taste of sea water. "The old sailor said that those who go through the storm together will be tied together by the sea god." When the ship passed the Strait of Malacca, they found an albatross on the deck. Its wings were entangled in the fishing line, and it lay on the canvas dying. Su Wan carefully untied the fishing line, and Lu Chengyu washed its wound with clean water, his movements as gentle as touching fragile porcelain. "Can it survive?" Su Wan looked into the albatross's dim eyes. "Yes." He broke off half of his sandwich and placed it in front of the albatross. "Albatrosses can live for sixty years, which is longer than a human's lifespan." The albatross really survived. It always landed on Su Wan's canvas chair and pecked the biscuit crumbs in her palm with its beak. Lu Chengyu named it "Wangchao" and said that it was a sign of peace like the old ship. On the day of arriving at the Cape of Good Hope, Su Wan found the logbook in the second-hand bookstore at the port. On the yellowed pages, Grandpa recorded the daily voyage, and the last page had a small map with the "treasure place" marked. "It was Grandpa's joke." Lu Chengyu pointed to the X mark on the map, "He said he wanted to dig a treasure full of moonstones for Grandma." They rented a small boat and found an uninhabited island according to the map. On the beach after the tide receded, there was indeed a rusty iron box. When Su Wan opened it, there was no moonstone inside, only stacked letters - all written by grandpa to grandma, but never sent out. "Jingshu, I saw a whale today, and the water spray is like your blue cloth shirt hanging on the bamboo pole." "The stars here are very low, you can touch them with your hand, and they are much brighter than those in Shanghai." The stars on the keys When Lin Yanqiu first touched the Steinway grand piano, his fingertips hovered on the keys for half a minute. The dark brown body of the piano is like a piece of amber soaked in moonlight, the keys are white and brittle, and the edges of the black keys have fine wood grain. This is the oldest piano in the old piano room of the Conservatory of Music. When the sustain pedal is pressed, it will make a slight squeak, but it is still the most precious treasure in her eyes - being assigned to this piano room before the exam is already a special favor from the dean of the department. "A girl from the countryside can play "The Bells" well?" There was a sneer from behind. It was Zhang Manqi from the piano room next door. She was adjusting the hem of her skirt in front of the mirror. Her nails were painted with pearl-colored nail polish, which shone coldly in the sun. "Don't embarrass our department in the tryout next week."