I met you back in 2000

One month after the school made up classes, I don’t know who reported it. We were notified to leave school immediately in the middle of the first class that afternoon.The teacher didn't even have time to arrange the summer homework, so he found a few sets of test papers and sent us home.

Before, I wrote a composition about the customs and customs of my grandmother's hometown. After being named and praised by the Chinese teacher, I read it out as a model essay in front of the whole class.After Shi Qiang heard this, he kept thinking about going back to my grandmother's house with me. I was annoyed by his reading, so we organized a trip during the summer vacation.

Grandma passed away a few years ago. At the funeral, my mother cried for days and nights until she became hoarse, and we never went back.In my impression, it is a place with mountains, water and endless rice fields.Times have been changing, cities have gradually replaced rural areas, but some places have been sitting in a certain corner for more than ten years, even when I went back in my 20s, it was still a mountain road full of mud, and there were still only old people at the door And children, they are still guarding this mountain and these white walls from generation to generation.

So Shi Qiang saw this scene after taking the long-distance bus for seven or eight hours, and he decided to go back the next day.

There were a few showers during the day, and the mountain road was muddy and difficult to walk, but my grandmother's house was halfway up the mountain, so it was impossible to walk on this road.I simply took off my shoes and prepared to go barefoot.

"Don't take off your socks, the stones hurt your feet." Su Ze reminded me in front, "Which house is your grandmother's house."

I pointed to a jujube tree in front of me, "The one behind the tree is lit."

"Someone at home?"

"Yes, my little grandmother knew we were coming."

The little grandma is my grandma's younger sister. I haven't checked how to call her by her seniority. Anyway, she has been called that way for so many years.

Su Ze nodded and went up the mountain first.

"Damn, you guys won't really go up like this." Shi Qiang had an incredulous expression on his face, "Is there another way?"

Seeing the young master Shi Qiang's appearance, I couldn't help but say a few words, "At first you were the one who made a fuss about coming, but now you make a fuss to go back, can you take a stand as a human being?"

"Who knew it would rain during the day, do you know how expensive my shoes are?

"Then you take off your shoes like I did."

Shi Qiang didn't hesitate at all, "Forget it, what if you step on cow dung." He followed Su Ze as he spoke.

"Is there still cow dung?" Zhou Zhou, who was bending over to take off his shoes, paused obviously, looked up at me, his eyes were probably asking.

I nodded, "Yes, be careful."

Zhou Zhou fastened the half-loose shoelace, "The shoelace was loose just now."

Qin Jiangyu, who was following behind, heard a few laughs, patted my shoulder as he passed me, and told me to follow quickly.

"Where's Zhu Jiajun?" I asked him.

"Looks like I'm still watching people feeding pigs at the entrance of the village."

When the few of us passed by the entrance of the village just now, we had stood there and watched for a long time. We were embarrassed to eat the pigs, but the little pigs were still watching.I quickly called Zhu Jiajun's name down the mountain a few times.

My voice echoed in the mountains, spreading farther and farther.Children from several families on the side of the road ran out laughing, and shyly hid behind the old man when they saw strangers.Sure enough, it was a child brought up by grandparents, with a dark face but bright eyes.

"The child of Old Jiang's family is back."

My mother's surname is Jiang, so I am naturally a child of the Jiang family.

"Yes, grandma."

The old man was shaking the palm-leaf fan in his hand, and said a lot of words in his mouth. I can't understand the local accent here, but he smiled and nodded anyway.

After a long time, Zhu Jiajun came up with a humming hum, holding a large handful of yam leaves in his hand, saying that he would help me feed the pigs at home.I laughed at him, "The pigs are slaughtered only during Chinese New Year in the village, and you won't be able to wait until you have fed them."

Zhu Jiajun scratched his head, and said honestly that he should be a vegetarian.

"Miaomiao, it's here." The little grandma called me on the mountainside, just like my own grandma, when she came back when she was a child, she always stood under the jujube tree and waited for me.In my impression, I still vaguely remember that the road is not easy to walk in this kind of rainy day, so she carried me up and down the mountain, and my shoes would not get wet at all.

Su Ze has already gone back and unloaded his luggage. He came down to find me with a pair of sandals in his hand.

"Give it to me."

My bag isn't heavy, but it's tiring after carrying it for a long time. I handed the bag to him and put on my slippers.

"Have they all arrived yet?"

"Well, only you and Zhu Jiajun are missing."

"Wow, I'll have to take a shower first, I'm covered in sweat."

"Shi Qiang is going to wash first, and I'll boil some water later."

"Can you use the stove?"

Su Ze squinted at me, "Who baked the winter potatoes for you?"

I laughed twice, "Look, I forgot."

Su Ze said helplessly, "What do you remember?"

I thought for a while and said, "Sweet potatoes are delicious."

After hearing this, Su Ze rubbed the mud on my face.

Grandma's house is relatively simple, just a small bungalow built with stones. Since the old man passed away, no one has lived here.The little grandma came over during the day to help us clean up very well, and it was quite comfortable to live in.

After dinner in the evening, Su Ze and I sent my little grandma home. Before we left, she remembered that there was still watermelon soaking in the well, and asked us to go back and fish it up to eat.

Originally, the little grandmother had to come back with her, saying that it was not safe to be near the well at night, and she was afraid that something might happen to our children.

I persuaded her, "How old are we? We are all fatter than the mouth of a well. If we fall in, we will get stuck."

The old man smiled from ear to ear, and told us to use more flashlights to shine, "The watermelon is in the bucket, just pull it up with a rope."

"Don't worry, I won't lose it."

It was already dark at this point, and there were no street lights on the mountain. Fortunately, Su Ze remembered the road, and he felt like he was home in just a few steps.

"So it's so close."

Su Ze has always had a lot of opinions on my problem of not looking at the road when I go out, and he took the opportunity to educate me, "I should have left you here."

I am shameless, "Are you willing?"

The light in the flashlight kept shining on the road, so I didn't pay much attention to the expression on Su Ze's face. He was silent for a long time before saying, "You are more ruthless than me."

I took back my steps, and Su Ze also stopped in front of me.

He turned off the flashlight, and I got used to it for a while before I found Su Ze's outline from the darkness, and there was only one outline.

"Why do you say that?" I asked him.

"Why did you change my wish?"

Su Ze's tone was very flat, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him, but it made people feel inexplicably sad. I think the expression on Su Ze's face must be extremely sad at this time, but it was covered by the night.

And I was also very surprised at the time, because Su Ze could not have expected that I would change his college entrance examination choice a year later.

So I stared at Su Ze's slightly tired eyes, and it took me a while to realize what volunteer he was talking about.

Before the summer vacation, Miejue Shitai asked us to post the college entrance examination volunteers on the blackboard, which meant that we should find out our goals so that we can work hard for them.I struggled for a long time before deciding that I still want to stay in the local area to take the S University, because I think the distance should not be an obstacle between me and Su Ze.

Su Ze didn't say a word after reading my volunteers, so I thought he agreed with my views on long-distance relationships.But what he didn't expect was that he also changed his wish to S University.At that time, I was so angry that I had a big fight with him, and regardless of whether he agreed or not, I directly changed his posting wish to Peking University.

That's probably what he was talking about.

I stepped forward to grab Su Ze and told him, "I don't want to be a stumbling block in your life. Don't tell me you've worked so hard for so many years, would you be willing to stay in this small city?"

"I can stay for you."

"You can't!" I interrupted him, "Su Ze, this is not the way you should go!"

Su Ze laughed at himself and said, "What is the path I should take? Why do you decide which path I should take?"

Su Ze's words pierced my chest like a sharp knife. After more than ten years, I suddenly doubted whether it was right or wrong for me to change Su Ze's wish back then.There seems to be a voice in my head that keeps asking me, why did I change Su Ze’s college entrance examination choice back then?

After a long time, I finally compromised and said, "Okay, you decide for yourself, but don't say it's for me."

I got angry and went back to the house first, leaving Suze outside alone.

Qin Jiangyu and the others had already laid mats on the ground, and it was cold in the mountains at night and the concrete floor, I asked them to cover them with another blanket, but Shi Qiang said that I lived like an old man.

Qiang didn't want to go home after dinner at night, and he even asked Zhou Zhou to go fishing in the river tomorrow morning.

"The deep-fried crispy fish your grandma made is really delicious. We'll make it after catching the fish tomorrow."

"That's dried fish that needs to be dried for several days."

"We're not in a hurry to leave, so let's hang out for a few days."

"I didn't know who it was just now, so I had to make a fuss to leave."

Shi Qiang followed Qin Jiangyu and they all laughed.

"What about the squad leader?"

As soon as Shi Qiang finished asking, Su Ze came in with a watermelon.This melon is grown in my own field. Although it doesn't look very good, it tastes sweet. The key is that it has a lot of water, which caused us to wake up in the middle of the night with collective urgency.

Originally, the little pig had a urgency to urinate first, and he didn’t know where the toilet was, so he woke up me who was sleeping in the innermost room. The chain reaction caused everyone to wake up in the end, so everyone lined up to go to the toilet next to the pigsty.

"Zhu Jiajun, what are you dawdling in there, I'm about to pee out." Zhou Zhou scolded hoarsely from behind.

Xiaozhu was very wronged in the team, "What, Shi Qiang is in there."

Zhou Zhou squinted his eyes for a while, then spat, "Damn it, Shi Qiang, did you fall into the shithole?"

"Fuck, why do you pee in the toilet? The mountains are full of dirt and grass. Just pee on the side of the road."

We were right when we heard it. What kind of civilized people are we in this valley?

Su Ze stopped me from behind and told me not to go too far, lest there be snakes in the grass.

I don't know if it's because of the mosquitoes at night, and everyone wakes up in the morning feeling a little bit depressed.The little pig got up early, and when I went to the pool to brush my teeth, he was already feeding the pigs, and the laughter and the sound of the pigs eating were perfectly natural.

The little grandma came to make breakfast for us just after dawn. People in the countryside here do all physical work, and they usually have staple food like rice or noodles in the morning.Knowing that we are not used to eating these, so we made rice porridge.

The jujube trees at the intersection were planted by my grandmother. Although many children in the village had knocked down many of them, some green ones were still hanging on the trees.

Su Ze and I are like an old married couple, we don't have any overnight feud.So the two of us hit dates one by one and picked them up by the other, and we cooperated tacitly.

Sure enough, Shi Qiang and Zhou Zhou went to the river to fish for fish. The fish was so small and flexible that it was impossible to catch it with hands. When Su Ze and I passed by, the bucket was still empty.

The little girls washing clothes and vegetables by the river probably haven’t seen so many handsome little brothers. Although their faces are shy, they can’t help but peek at us. I bumped into them a few times and turned their heads away with a blushing face. , Whispering together.I don't know if we are discussing who is the most handsome among us.

"I can't catch this fish." Shi Qiang was annoyed.

"Nonsense, of course you can't catch it like this."

I was about to instruct them when a bold girl next door blushed suddenly and showed them, "Put the basket in the water, wash the vegetables and meat on it, and they will all swim over."

The little girl's voice is very pleasant, clear and crisp, like singing a folk song.

I saw her hand stroking the water a few times, as if by some kind of magic, all the little fish swam over.

Shi Qiang hurried over to lift up the basket, and the small fish out of the water were running around in the basket.

Unexpectedly, there are still such fishers, Shi Qiang excitedly joked with the little girl, "Are you selling your hand?"

The laughter by the river echoed in the mountain stream, startling the birds singing in the woods.

[The author has something to say]: I changed the volume for three days today, are you happy?