Stubborn illness

"Don't unzip the zipper casually here, you didn't see how many pairs of eyes were staring at you just now."

"Oh, I'm just taking the gum, here."

It was [-], summer vacation, in front of the ticket hall of Guangzhou Bus Station Provincial Station, I was with H, he went to line up to buy a ticket, I waited at the door, saw him come back after buying the ticket, I opened the zipper of the luggage bag, I took out a stick of chewing gum from it and handed it to him. He patted my hand and looked around vigilantly: "It's messy here, be careful."

"It's nothing, a few tattered clothes." I deliberately raised my voice, and my eyes scanned the surroundings as vigilantly as he did. There were crowds of people around, all kinds of clothes, people of all colors, most of them were in a hurry.

We left the ticket hall, hurriedly passed the ticket checkpoints, and got on the corresponding bus bound for Zhongshan. When the time arrived, the bus started, slowly backed up, slowly moved forward, and slowly drove into the wide road in front of the station , mixed into the river like raindrops.

On the simple and honest viaduct, looking at the sky, there is no cloud in the sky, the heat is on your head, and you can overlook the low place, with cars coming and going, and the stream is endless.The open square in front of Guangzhou Railway Station is the same as when my uncle and I came two years ago, there are scattered travelers standing, sitting, lying, or wandering around.

"Do you want Huamei?" H who was sitting beside me gently pushed my arm.

"No, you eat."

"Aren't you motion sick?"

"There is one thing, Huamei can stop motion sickness?"

"Okay, I don't know."

"Forget it, don't eat, I'll lie down for a while, and I'll be fine." I tilted my neck, moved my buttocks forward, relaxed my lumbar spine, leaned the back of my head on the backrest of the seat, closed my eyes slightly, and felt the car's even movement. Shaking, driving on tarmac.

With the violent shaking of the car body, I woke up, opened my eyes, adjusted my sitting posture, and looked out the window. The car had already driven out of the noisy downtown surrounded by high-rise buildings, and there was a winding dirt road in front of me. The road surface was bumpy and uneven. There are occasional big and small trees on both sides, their leaves trembling slightly and shining in the hot sun.

Not far to the left is a river with a wide surface and rapids, like a huge silk satin blown by the wind. A cruise ship sails upriver and cuts two streaks of white water, like sitting on a lotus, moving forward steadily. "Where is this?" I looked at H.

"I don't remember the name of this place either, it should be arriving in Xiaolan soon."

"Oh. How far is it to Xiaolan?"

"It's not far away." A guy who doesn't even know the name of the place in front of his house and the distance is probably a guy who doesn't hear anything outside the window.

We sat together on a double seat and chatted without saying a word.Suddenly, just in front of us, right in front of us, an elder about 50 years old with the appearance of a farmer slapped the chair, raised his right hand, raised his arms and shouted: "Driver, open the door! Open the door! There are thieves Ah, there are thieves, I lost my money, I just sold two big pigs this morning, and all of the three thousand or so pigs in the bag are gone, oh, look, the bag is all scratched, it shouldn’t be Help me drive directly to the police station ahead."

The originally quiet carriage was even quieter now, except for the exasperated shouts of the elders, a few people stood up in the front row and back row, and turned their heads to look at the elder's position, most of them remained in place, as if nothing happened What, the car just slowed down a little bit and drove slowly. I moved my butt, and H pulled my pants quickly, signaling me not to be fussy and not to move around.

"Driver, I'll get off in front." Someone said.

"Don't, don't, don't let people get out of the car, we'll talk about it at the Public Security Bureau." The elder shouted helplessly.

The driver’s expression seemed perplexed, the carriage was abnormally quiet, there were more than one people standing by the door waiting to get off, and the elder was still shouting: “Who stole it, who stole it, take it out, take it out, It will not be pursued." Obviously this is in vain.

"Alright." The car door opened, four or five people got out of the car together, rushed to the opposite side of the road, and disappeared behind the dilapidated roadside factory building, leaving behind the elders in the car, swearing and wanting to chase out, but obviously not practical.

"Try not to make a sound when you encounter such a thing." H warned me.

"why?"

"They have knives. There is more than one person. You didn't see it. Four or five of them. The driver dare not mess with it."

"That elder is very pitiful."

"It can't be helped, it's black, and this kind of thing happens a lot." H understated.

In fact, in [-], when I went to Guangzhou Jiaotong Committee with my uncle for training fees, I saw Ming Qiang in the square in front of the railway station as soon as I got off the bus. I saw other people sleeping on their luggage bags, dragging them up and running away. , The robbed person knocked his head heavily on the ground, got up and chased him, how could he catch up, sat on the ground and cried bitterly, it was like a movie, I never wanted to believe it was true, and I saw this scene again today, only Seeing that the old man's slack pocket was scraped open more precisely than a tailor's technique, revealing a white thigh, pitiful, pitiful.

Later we also got out of the car. After such an episode, we turned motorcycles, turned a few miles of country roads, and turned a few lanes. "We are here, right in front, just across the river." Shake it to the right twice like Gao Lao did, and raise your hand to stroke the hair hanging on the forehead.We stepped onto the ferry and docked with the boat. Along the river bank, the luxuriant banana trees stirred the elephant ears, as if welcoming.

Next to the big river is a small river, and next to the small river are houses. There are plantain trees everywhere, and the trees are shady. H led me along the small river and crossed the small bridge. There are several independent families in front of the building. The building is two and a half floors, and the exterior decoration is simple. There is an open space in front of the house, hot cement, and fruit trees are planted around it, there are lychees and mangoes, and the mango trees are full of heavy fruits.

"Oh, I'm back, I'm back, I'm back."

There are two women in front of me, one is his mother, I call her aunt, and the other is his elder sister, we nod and smile at each other, his mother is tall, strong, dark-skinned, with a hearty laugh, his elder sister described Similar to her mother, with a shy expression, let us enter the living room, there is another girl in the living room, slender and petite, with a fairer complexion than the three of them, and she is immersed in her homework.

"Oh, it's so hot, the weather."

His mother was always cheerful, opened the refrigerator, brought Sprite and put it on the table, urged her daughter to get a cup, poured it for us, started chatting with her son, and saw at a glance When I came out, the two mothers and sons were reunited after a long absence, and they were very affectionate. They spoke a local language that I didn't understand well, and they said a few words of Guangzhou Cantonese from time to time. After saying hello, H helped to explain.

"Hey, where's your father?"

"He went out to do errands, and he may not come back until dinner."

At dinner, his father bought a lot of vegetables, most of which were river fresh, fresh shrimp, live fish, and shellfish. The green vegetables were grown by the river outside the yard, using local materials.

Before night fell, tables and chairs were set up in the yard, and the tables were full of delicacies, big and small pots, some fried, some still raw, a small gas stove in the center of the table, and a fiberglass pot on top, cooking Served with seasoned boiled water.

"Come on, let's eat. Boy, ask your classmates to sit up and eat."

His mother was busy inside and out for a while, and a table of sumptuous dishes appeared in front of him. His sister put the dishes, Sprite and coconut juice, and waited for us to sit on them.Neither of us drank alcohol. He and his mother explained that his father had a bad throat and could not drink, and the family had never bought alcohol. H knew that I did not drink alcohol myself.

While we were eating and chatting, the river surface was rippled like fish scales, the leaves of the banana trees on the river bank were rustling, and the moist breeze with the smell of green grass was blowing, and the heat at noon was blown away unknowingly. , surrounded by a pleasant cool, night is quietly falling.

After dinner, everyone sat in the living room and watched TV. The living room was not very big, and there were things all around against the walls, such as refrigerators, TV cabinets, altars, and some tightly wrapped sundries. A low leather sofa with a backrest, more than one meter long.

The second floor is the bedroom. Go up from the narrow concrete escalator on the left hand side of the living room. The balcony has no railings, and the concrete protective wall is more than one meter high. Standing on the balcony, looking ahead, there is a wide river. You can’t see the river, but you can see it. The boats on the water are lit with lights and their whistles are rumbling.

"I'm tired from driving for the past two days. Let's go to bed early, haha." His mother came up and stood beside H. "Boy, where are you going tomorrow?"