Night had fallen, casting a hazy veil over the river's surface.
Not long after the Jiang Han 60 passenger boat left Qing'an, it soon came into sight of Xiao Gushan in the middle of the river; downstream it would pass Wuhu and arrive at Jiangcheng, where the advertisement board for Panda Electronics at Number Four Pier was particularly eye-catching.
When he was a child, Liang Xiaoyu loved to sit at the bow or stern of a small fishing boat, watching the passing ships, never growing tired of the sight.
In summer, when he bathed in the river, he felt no shyness when the Bai Shen or Bai Liu passenger ships passed by; he would wave to the passengers, bare-bottomed, dreaming of travelling far on a passenger ship one day.
That dream had finally come true!
