After touring the cave and making sure there was nothing good to find, Zhang Meng swam to the surface of the river with the ingots in her arms.
At this time, Zhang Mengzhenqing had learned to swim specifically to save Xiaotao, otherwise she would have drowned in the river.
As soon as she appeared, an arm stretched out in front of her.
Zhang Meng looked up and saw the man sitting on the boat, looking at her anxiously. She shouted happily, "Gu Mingtai."
Gu Mingtai's face was pale, and he couldn't force a smile. "Come up quickly, I'll pull you up."
Zhang Meng smiled and put her hand in his.
In just a moment, she was already on the boat, having been in the river. The person rowing the boat was Village Chief Zhu.
"Comrade Zhang, you're finally out! If you don't come out, this guy will be so anxious he'll jump down to find you."
Village Chief Zhu glanced at Gu Mingtai with a stiff smile.
He thought to himself that it was a good thing that Comrade Zhang came up, otherwise, if he continued to sit on this boat with Comrade Gu, he would be scared to death here.
Zhang Meng wiped the water off her face and said with a smile, "How did you know I would come out here?"
Village Chief Zhu immediately looked at Gu Mingtai and said, "I don't know about that either. Comrade Gu asked us to row the boat over here and wait."
When Zhang Meng heard that it was Gu Mingtai's intention, she immediately looked at him, waiting for his explanation.
Gu Mingtai took out a dry towel from the side and wiped her body. Seeing that she kept looking at him, he said, "I found that the moisture here is thicker than that on other rivers, so I guessed that this must be the place where the monster's cave is."
Zhang Meng immediately opened her mouth wide and said with admiration, "Gu Mingtai, you are really amazing. Someday, you can teach me how to smell water vapor. I want to learn."
Seeing that she was constantly moving around, Gu Mingtai supported her shoulders with a rare sullen look on his face, "Just sit still. You're soaked. If you don't wipe it off, you might catch a cold."
Zhang Meng looked embarrassedly at the village chief Zhu who was rowing the boat. Seeing that he was only busy rowing the boat and didn't even look at the couple, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Meng immediately grinned and said to Gu Mingtai flatteringly, "I won't catch a cold. Have you forgotten that I have the best body? I'm not afraid of this little bit of cold."
As soon as she finished speaking, a sneeze came out of her mouth.
It immediately made her feel so embarrassed.
Gu Mingtai pursed his lips and stared at her with a half-smile.
Zhang Meng blushed and quickly said, "Okay, okay, I know I was wrong, you can wipe it off."
By the time the boat docked, all the water stains on Zhang Meng's body had been completely wiped away by the man next to her.
Before she even got off the boat, the villagers waiting on the shore stared at her nervously. The atmosphere was suffocating.
Zhang Meng stepped off the boat and looked at the nervous villagers. He immediately grinned at them and announced, "Everyone, your River God will no longer bother you from now on. You don't have to worry about him asking you to send him a wife every ten years. You can live your own lives from now on."
As soon as she finished shouting, the villagers who were waiting for her did not cheer, but instead let out countless cries that had been suppressed for a long time.
Zhang Meng looked at the villagers who lowered their heads to wipe their tears, and her heart ached. She turned to look at Gu Mingtai who was protecting her and said, "Gu Mingtai, I miss my grandma and the others."
Gu Mingtai held her hand and said, "We'll go home soon."
Village Chief Zhu also got off the boat with red eyes and shouted to the villagers, "Why are you crying? The River God has been eliminated. We don't have to worry about him bringing us floods anymore. This is a good thing. We should all smile."
"Village chief, we can't laugh. My heart aches when I think of our daughter who was sent away!" A white-haired woman cried.
Village Chief Zhu's eyes, which had been red with great difficulty, began to turn red again.
From childhood to adulthood, Zhang Meng hates to see others sad, and this time there are so many people sad at once.
Worried that she would be made to cry by them, Zhang Meng quickly took Gu Mingtai's hand and sneaked out of the crowd. Before leaving, she released Zhu Xiaojing from the ingot and let her reunite with her family for a few days.
Soon, a man and a woman riding bicycles appeared on the path in Zhujia Village, with the man riding in front and the woman sitting in the back.
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