Good mountains, good water, good people

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The bus did not go directly back to their village, and the last stop was only to their small town.

When the bus returned to their town, there were only four passengers including him, the conductor and the driver left on the bus.

Gu Changning sat in the last row, so he was naturally the last one to get off.Getting off in front of him was a young couple holding a child. The child seemed to be two or three years old. He fell asleep in the car and was hugged by his mother. The father of the child followed behind with big bags and small bags. walking.

There are many tricycles and motorcycles carrying passengers on the side of the road here. When you see someone getting off the car, you will surround them and ask them if they want to take a ride.

The family of three who walked in front of him took a tricycle and left, and Gu Changning also wanted to take a ride home.

"A ride?"

"Where are you going? By car?"

"How much is it to go to Yunxi Village?"

"20 dollars."

Seeing that he didn't mention getting in the car, the motorcycle driver continued, "Twenty is already very low. Others charge thirty."

Do you really think that he is a foreigner who doesn't know the price?Gu Changning listened to this man's nonsense, and almost rolled his eyes. Thinking back to the time when he took a ride home from the town, the fare was only two yuan. At that time, they were still reluctant to take a ride, and most of them walked back with the children from the same village. of.The price of goods has risen these years, and the price of gas has also increased, from three to five yuan to ten or eight yuan. Last time he came back, he was charged ten yuan for the fare, and it doubled in the blink of an eye?

This is not a question of the ten or eight yuan, but a question of his dislike of being taken advantage of.

"I'm twelve, can you go? There are no customers in your village, and we have to pay for the gas money for our trip. I only earn you two dollars."

"Let's go then."

Gu Changning saw that the passenger who came from behind was more pleasing to the eye, so he got into the car of the other party, and after he sat down, he said a word, and the master drove away.

Just passing by the vegetable market in the town, he asked the master to stop the car, bought some things at a roadside stall, and took them home, so as to avoid the embarrassment that the family did not prepare his meals when the time came.

It took a minute or two to buy things, but the master didn't have any objections.

On the way, the passenger-carrying master asked him if he was studying abroad, and the school was on holiday so early.

Gu Changning himself was a little embarrassed, "I graduated a long time ago, and I have been working for many years." This is not the first time he has been mistaken for a student, who makes him look tender, and looks young Well, he was extremely narcissistic in his heart.

There are high mountains on both sides of the road entering their village. It used to be a dirt road, and it would be particularly difficult to walk on a rainy day, but this time he came back and found that it had been paved with cement.

"Master, when was this road paved with cement?"

"Oh, the road in your village should have been paved at the end of last year or the beginning of this year. You haven't been back for a long time, right?"

"Well, yes, I haven't been back for some time." Gu Changning smiled embarrassedly. Last year, the company was busy with work, so he didn't come back for the New Year. This year, something happened to him. After dealing with things over there, I will have time to come back.

"Now that you are young, you don't want to come back after you go out... That's right, in a small place like ours, it's best if you can go outside, who wants to come back, only us old guys can't find it outside For work, I can only plant land in my hometown, find some work to do, and I can barely earn a living..."

The driver was a talkative middle-aged man, and the young people from their place talked about trivial matters at home, life and life.

The winding winding mountain road went all the way, and they saw their village after passing a mountain. At the entrance of the village stood a stone tablet with three large characters written on it: Yunxi Village.

Their village is built at the foot of the mountain. It is an old village with a history of hundreds of years. Most of the village is an old house built with mud walls and black tiles. It is surrounded by mountains. Under the mutual reflection of the white walls and black tiles, the whole village It looks quaint and peaceful.

There is also a meandering river among these mountains, which passes through their village. The people in their village have grown up drinking the water of this river for generations, and this river has nurtured generations of them.Their village is located in these mountains, surrounded by green water and green mountains, but it is also because it is surrounded by mountains and there are relatively few flat lands. There is not much land suitable for farming. Only a small amount of land around the village is suitable for farming.

The temperature in the mountains is a few degrees lower than that in the city outside, but compared to the north, no matter how cold the winter here is, there is little snow here. At a glance, green vegetation can be seen around the village. There are quite a few people bent over working, and a group of grazing cattle and sheep are grazing leisurely.

It’s just that most of the young people in the village have gone out to work in recent years. There are only some old people in the village. The surrounding mountains are deserted and no one is planting. There are only some fields near the village with better roads, and some old people are planting. .The road on the mountain is not easy to walk, and the old people don't like to go up, so most of the fields developed on the mountain are barren and unplanted.

"Just park a little ahead."

The roads in the village were not easy to walk, so Gu Changning stopped the car at an intersection near the master's house, and took out 15 yuan from his wallet to go there.When the other party came to give him some money, he pushed the other party's hand, "No need to look for it, thank you master." The extra few dollars was considered as subsidizing the master's gas money for going out.

"That's all right." The master accepted the money with a smile, and drove away.

"The college students are back."

"The college student hasn't come back for a long time, why did he come back so early this year?"

"..."

All the way in, I met people in the village, and everyone in the village called him a college student. Gu Changning greeted them with a smile, and went back to their home.

There are not many literate people in the older generation in their village, and the educational level of the younger generation is generally not high. Most of them go out to work after finishing elementary school, and only a few go to junior high school.He himself was the first college student from their village back then, and he had a good time in the village for a long time. Now every time he comes back to the village, people in the village call him a college student when they see him, and few people calling his name.

In the eyes of the people in their village, people who study are different, so every time he comes back, the people in the village are very enthusiastic about him.

On the way, I greeted the people in the village a few times, and went into the small road, not far from their house.

They lived in a large courtyard house with a fence surrounding the open space, with vegetables growing on both sides and a road in the middle.Even in this season, you can still see a lot of Chinese cabbage and a piece of green onion in their vegetable garden.

As soon as he opened the door and went in, he saw their lamb stretching its neck and gnawing on the cabbage in the garden, followed by an old sheep.As soon as the old sheep saw him coming in, he bleated at him. He didn't know whether it was to greet him, or to tell the lamb in front not to eat, because someone came and ran.

The lamb glanced at him, seemed to be taken aback, and then ran away, leaving the old sheep here looking at him blankly.

The old sheep was not afraid at all when he saw him, and walked towards him, bleating softly at him, and rubbing his head against him.

"Hey, you still remember me, right? You didn't care about that little guy stealing vegetables just now?" Gu Changning reached out and touched the old sheep's head and asked.

The response from their old sheep was still a bleat.

The old sheep in their family is very good-looking, with white fur, two curved horns on the top of the head, and a tuft of white beard on the chin.The mustache was braided into a small braid, the braid was tied with a red string, and a bow was tied on the tail. It was very beautiful. Don’t think it must be their grandma who braided the old sheep’s beard. up.

This old sheep was raised by their grandma. I don't know how many years it has been raised. It is very human.He used to see that every morning when he woke up, he would take a small comb to comb the old sheep's beard, and after combing, he would braid his hair again, which was very considerate.

Every time he came back, he would see the old sheep following his grandma, even if his grandma went out for a walk, the old sheep would definitely go out with his grandma.Seeing the old sheep at home now, he knew that his grandma must be at home.

Sure enough, as soon as I looked up, I saw their grandma sitting on a small stool inside the gate picking beans. There were two baskets in front of the old lady, one containing the unpicked beans, and the other containing the picked beans.

"Tai Nai." Gu Changning let go of the old sheep's head, walked towards the old man, half squatted down and looked at their Tai Nai, and said with a smile: "Tai Nai, it's me, big baby, I'm back What about my parents and grandparents? Are you alone at home?" Their grandma is over 90 years old this year, and she doesn't remember much about the past few years. I wonder if the old man still remembers him.

If it is said that what he misses most in his heart outside is probably the old man at home.

"Oh." The old lady looked at him fixedly, as if she had just recognized him, she let out a long oh, and suddenly said: "The eldest child is back, your grandma and the others are all out .Why did you leave school so early today? Are you hungry? I'll call your mother to come back and cook for you."

"Don't worry, don't worry, I'm not hungry yet, so I don't need to call them back." As soon as Gu Changning heard it, he knew that their grandma had misremembered the time again, thinking that he was still studying.But at this moment, he didn't correct the old lady, he held down the old lady's hand and let her continue to sit.

It's a little early for dinner at this time, and his grandmother will come back from outside later.His grandmother has been cooking for their family these years, and his grandmother sometimes helps out. Occasionally, his father will also show off his skills, cooking two dishes or something, and his cooking skills are pretty good.

As for his grandfather, in my impression, his grandfather hardly ever enters the kitchen.

He didn't call home before he came back, and his family didn't know about his return, so he didn't know where his parents and grandparents went at the moment.

Fortunately, their grandma likes to stay at home all year round. Every time they come back from the outside, the first thing they see must be their grandma, so he is not in a hurry to find someone right now, why not accompany him first He is too milky to talk.

Glancing at the beans in the two baskets, Gu Changning casually picked up one and removed the head and tail, put it in the picked basket, and asked the old lady, "It was my grandma who asked Grandma to help you pick the beans." Really? Shall we fry this tonight?"

"Yes, it's fried at night. Your father likes to eat this bean the most. Put some meat and fry it together. Your father can eat three bowls of rice for one meal." The little old lady used her inflexible hands Go grab the beans in the basket, pick off the heads and tails clumsily, with a serious face.

From the peaceful smile on the old man's face, it can be seen that the old man lived happily in his later years.

Although the old lady's health has not been very good these years and she has a lot of forgetfulness, she can still remember things that happened a long time ago.

Gu Changning is already used to this. If you ask the old lady what dish she ate yesterday, the old lady will probably not remember, but if you ask his grandfather and his father what kind of food they like to eat, the old lady can tell one, two, three. Come on, remember things more clearly than them.So sometimes they doubt whether the old lady is really sick or fake, but with the doctor's diagnosis there, it seems that this matter cannot be faked.