Fog Township

Chapter 13 Chapter 13

In the morning, bright sunlight shines in through the window.Yu Sheng was awakened by the sunshine.

A Ming had already woken up and was bringing in the cooked white rice porridge and steamed buns.

"You're awake. Come and have breakfast," Amin said.

Yu Sheng rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "You wake up so early." Then he saw the steaming breakfast on the table and said, "Thank you, let's sit down and eat together."

A Ming smiled and said, "No, I've already eaten." He sat facing Yu Sheng, watching him devour his food.Then he said: "By the way, I asked my grandma, and she said that your legs are almost healed. No, it will be the Dragon Boat Festival in a few days, so I begged her to let us go to the mountain to pick some mugwort leaves and calamus. Guess what! She agreed! Just told me to take good care of you, don't make any mistakes. "

Yu Sheng said happily: "That's just right! I've wanted to go out for a long time to relax, and I've grown moldy from staying in this place."

A Ming said: "Then let's go back early, before the heat comes up. If we go out late, we will die of heat."

Yu Sheng hastened to drink the porridge, almost choking himself.

"Slow down. There's no rush."

Yu Sheng just smirked from the sidelines.

A Ming carried a bamboo basket, and Yu Sheng carried his camera.It was the first time for Yusheng to look at this quaint mountain village. Every household is a house made of wooden doors, wooden pillars, and wooden beams.The streets paved with bluestone slabs are very narrow, and the blue tiles on the roofs surround the small streets into long dragons.This kind of simple and primitive town is incomparable to those so-called ancient towns that have been over-commercially developed.Yusheng has also been to Dali, Lijiang, and even Pingyao in Shanxi, but was disappointed. Only this small town called Chaba can be regarded as a real ancient town.

Yu Sheng was deeply attracted by the aura of this small town, he hadn't felt such a peaceful and peaceful feeling for a long time.He couldn't help but took out his camera and greedily recorded everything he saw.

Because it was still early, there were not many pedestrians on the street, and most of the shops along the street were still closed, only a few shops selling breakfast lazily dismantled the wooden boards on the shop doors, and the fire in the stove was warmly smoking , the heat in the pot rose slowly.

When walking into Yizi Street, there are more pedestrians.Yu Sheng didn't care about the strange eyes the villagers gave him. There were friendly, curious, puzzled, surprised, and even scared eyes in the eyes.A daring child stepped forward and asked him, "Uncle, what are you doing?" Yu Sheng didn't explain to him, but smiled on his face, made an OK sign with his right hand, and left happily.

A Ming followed behind him, afraid of any mistakes, after all, his leg injury had not fully recovered.Finally out of the crowded street, there are two big yellow kudzu trees in front, and then the Qingshi bridge is down.

Yu Sheng walked excitedly, his steps were faster than normal people.Amin quickly shouted: "Slow down. It's going downhill ahead."

Yu Sheng disapproved: "You underestimate me too much, why am I also an outdoor photographer. I can handle ups and downs." He stepped down and arrived at the Qingshi Bridge in three or five steps, standing there, turning back Looking at the tea dam behind him.

Amin gasped for him.He quickly followed up and said, "You are really brave! I won't forgive you if you get hurt."

Yu Sheng smiled easily and said, "It's okay. Let's continue walking."

Going further, he entered the forest, and A Ming followed Yu Sheng closely, looking a little nervous; Yu Sheng was relaxed and looked at the surrounding scenery from time to time.After passing through a bamboo forest, the mountain road became steeper.A Ming didn't dare to take his eyes off Yu Sheng for a moment.

Yu Sheng asked, "Amin, how long will it be?"

Amin replied: "Through this camphor forest, there is a small stream in front of it, and there are many strong calamus growing beside the stream."

Yu Sheng couldn't wait to quicken his pace.A Ming followed closely and told him to slow down.

Sure enough, a pond formed by a small stream came into view, and Yu Sheng couldn't help but raised his camera to record this beautiful moment.Sure enough, the pond is full of plump, strong and half-human calamus.Yu Sheng hurried into the pond, and was about to pick some calamus, when A Ming hurriedly called to him, "Let me do it. The pond is muddy, be careful that you slip."

Yu Sheng ignored him, and still wanted to pick them himself.He picked up the Swiss Army Knife, found the one closest to the pool, and was about to bend down to cut the roots of the calamus.Unexpectedly, there was a small water snake coiled among the grass, which frightened him back several steps.

Yu Sheng shouted in panic, "Ah! There's a snake!"

A Ming rushed over immediately and asked, "Where is it?"

Yu Sheng was still in shock, and said hesitantly, "It's...inside the calamus just now."

Amin was calm and composed. He took a sickle for mowing grass and looked into the calamus bushes.Finding a small water snake hiding in the haystack, only as thick as a little finger, he immediately relaxed. He put away the sickle and pinned it between his belt.While the snake was not paying attention, he quickly caught him.

A Ming smiled: "Haha, did this little earthworm scare you?" He waved the little snake in front of Yu Sheng.

Yu Sheng was startled and frightened, and said, "Take it away quickly, I... I'm scared."

A Ming stopped teasing him, took out a cloth bag from his waist, threw the little snake into it, and tied the opening tightly.

Yu Sheng asked in shock, "Are you going to take it back?"

A Ming said: "Yes, this kind of small snake is non-venomous and can be used as medicine."

Yu Sheng sat on the bank of the pond to recover from the shock just now.I think that although I often take pictures outdoors, I still feel afraid when I encounter poisonous snakes and lizards.I don't want to, Amin is so brave, is it true that a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers?I also thought that in such a backward and barren land like Chaba, human survival requires a cruel struggle with nature, and human beings need to fully exercise their potential to survive. Bravery is naturally in their blood. gene.Thinking of this, Yu Sheng couldn't help admiring him, he really couldn't underestimate the big boy ten years younger than him in front of him, maybe it was true as he said, he should be called "man".

Amin flexibly used the sickle in his hand, and cut a small bundle in a short while.After tidying up and putting them in the basket, Amin wiped the sweat from his head and said, "Let's go! Let's pick mugwort leaves!"

A Ming and Yu Sheng walked across the creek and came to a relatively flat sloping land. A large piece of natural wild wormwood grew lushly, and the unique aroma of wormwood wafted in the air.

"You'd better rest, I'll do all the work. I don't think you can do it, but it's getting in the way." Amin said with a grin.

Yu Sheng still had lingering fears about the little snake just now, and was also worried that there might be some poisonous snakes and insects hidden in the pile of wormwood, so he had to apologize awkwardly: "Okay! Okay! Go and do your work."

A Ming put the basket aside, and walked into the waist-high wormwood by himself.He picked up the sickle in his hand and harvested one crop after another. He methodically harvested the edge area first, and then pushed into it in an orderly manner.

At this time, sweet music came from nowhere, like the sound of a trumpet, or the crisp chirping of a bird.The voice was getting closer and closer to A Ming and Yu Sheng.

A Ming and Yu Sheng looked in the direction of the music together, and it turned out that it was Ya Niang and A Bao.Seeing them holding bamboo baskets and sickles in their hands, they presumably came to cut wormwood.

A Ming rushed up to say hello, and said, "Young girl! It's you, I thought who had such a nice voice."

"That's right. Didn't I tell you that Ah Bao can blow leaves? He was the one who did it just now." The prostitute hurriedly called Ah Bao over.

Yu Sheng also walked over.

Ya Niang looked at Yu Sheng, pointed at the T-shirt he was wearing, and said, "You are dressed so special! The clothes don't even have sleeves."

Yu Sheng smiled and said, "We all wear this way there, so there's nothing strange about it."

A Ming hurriedly changed the subject and said, "A Bao, you are amazing. This is the first time I have heard the music from the leaves. It's really nice. Can you see what kind of leaves it is?"

A Bao handed the camphor leaves in his hand to A Ming, and said, "It's just an ordinary camphor leaf. But it's still a bit particular when picking the leaves."

A Ming and Yu Sheng flipped through the leaves in their hands, but they couldn't see anything.So he asked, "What's the point?"

A Bao said proudly: "For the leaves, you should use new and old ones. If you blow them too new, they will break. Old leaves have good toughness, but the tone is much worse."

Yu Sheng said: "There are so many famous halls here."

Amin said to the prostitute: "Are you also coming to cut moxa?"

The prostitute said: "Well, isn't it the Dragon Boat Festival? I don't want to buy ready-made ones. I think it's only meaningful if I cut it myself." The prostitute looked at the large bundle of wormwood in Amin's back basket and continued. : "Are we going to pick so much to make medicine this year?"

A Ming said: "Yes. The moxa on the Dragon Boat Festival is the most effective medicine, and the moxa after this season is not easy to use."

The prostitute said: "Yes, just like rapeseed, spring rapeseed is not as good as winter rapeseed, and there is no oil to be squeezed out." She told Abao to pick some mugwort leaves at will.Then, he said to A Ming: "Dragon Boat Festival, you and grandma will come to my house for dinner, just like in previous years, you must come."

A Ming quickly said: "Of course it is possible, but this year is a bit different, maybe I have to bring Yu Sheng."

The prostitute took a serious look at Yu Sheng, and suddenly said with a smile: "It's okay! The guests here are all customers, it's just a matter of adding a pair of chopsticks."

Yu Sheng said: "I don't need to bother, I'm used to being at ease, and I can just go anywhere to eat at that time, I can do it."

After Abao picked a handful of mugwort leaves and tied them up, he put them in the basket he carried with him.He came over to meet them and said, "Let's go home together." He looked at the prostitute and said, "Let's go! I'll blow the leaves for you."

The prostitute glanced at A Bao, smiled and said, "Okay. You can play the song "Old Yin Tea""

A Bao said with a smile: "Camphor tree leaves blowing "Old Yin Tea" is really amazing!"

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