God said I would meet you

Lin Jinyu thought for a while before she could vaguely find some memory about the name.He actually doesn't remember much about that shy, introverted and most inconspicuous girl.

That girl was always standing behind everyone, with a ponytail and a little white barrette, and old clothes and shoes.She used to carefully flip through the pages of Lin Jinyu's novels with her black and chapped fingers.

The dark wheat-colored face, thin wrists, and shy eyes full of curiosity and longing are all Lin Jinyu's only impression of this name.

"She..." At that age when boys usually play with boys and girls usually play with girls, Lin Jinyu felt that she didn't have much interaction with her: "How old is Chen Hui? I remember she is younger than me, why..."

"Our Yi girls here can get married when they turn [-], and she is almost [-], of course she can."

Lin Jinyu always felt that nineteen or twenty was still very young, at the age of studying, getting married and having children...

"Why did you send me a wedding invitation?" Lin Jinyu was a little surprised: "To be honest, I actually don't remember her very much."

"Then you have to ask yourself." Zhang Xinli withdrew his arm, stood up and said, "Hurry up and get out."

Lin Jinyu didn't stand up immediately, but touched her back with her backhand.

"?" Zhang Xinli asked puzzled, "What are you touching?"

Lin Jinyu replied without blushing or panting, "See if you wiped that plaything clean."

"..."

The bell for the end of get out of class had already rang. When they packed their clothes and went out, they saw a large number of laughing and slapstick figures rushing out of the corridor of the teaching building in the distance.

Gao Wu asked, "Why did you hang around for so long, four to five ten minutes soon."

Lin Jinyu said, "Ask him."

"..." Zhang Xinli said, "It's none of your business."

Gao Wu snorted: "Hurry up, if you can't catch the car, you have to open a house. I won't pay for it."

Lin Jinyu was vaguely familiar with the way back. The CMB and the Panshan Highway were exactly the same, and the mountains outside the car window had changed colors. Even the small restaurant on the mountainside was still there. Lin Jinyu was once respected by a beautiful Yi girl whose name she didn’t know. Wine... nothing has changed, they've just grown up.

"By the way," Lin Jinyu asked: "Chen Hui got married, what are you busy with, isn't this their family's business?"

"We get married and neighbors help here," Zhang Xinli said. "In a village, there are basically one or several family clans. If they are not the same branch, they are not far away. Every family will help when they get married. They will also come to help you when you get married."

Most of the Yi people who have lived in Liangshan for generations have a relatively complete family lineage, and most of the people in the same family line up and help each other. One year, when someone reversed the car at the entrance of the village, a chicken was run over and killed, and the villagers surrounded it. He refused to let go, and in the end the car owner had no choice but to pay 600 yuan.

Even if you go out one day, no matter how far you go, if you get together and report each other's Yi family branch, you will know each other's background roughly.

Lin Jinyu reckoned that he would never get married in this life, so he asked, "No, I remember that Chen Hui is of Han nationality, right?"

"It has been changed," Zhang Xinli said, "Our small area itself is mixed. Over the past few decades, many Bai Yi have married well-developed Han people. You can fill in whatever you want on your ID card, depending on your needs... I heard it is The man's family wanted to marry a wife from the same family, so her family changed her real name back."

"So it's like this..." Lin Jinyu understood: "Operate flexibly."

It was after seven o'clock in the evening when they arrived at the village, it was already dark, and there was no one on the dirt road, only Gao Wu's cousin was waiting for him on the dirt slope.

The little girl who was only two years old back then has also grown up, combing her long double ponytails, and holding her two young brothers.

Gao Wu was carrying a big bag and a small bag. Before he turned to the gate of the village, Gao Fei galloped down from the slope, and yelled loudly while rushing towards him: "Brother!"

The voice was loud and generous, and when the girl whose name was like a boy ran, her two braids looked like the wings of a nighthawk.

She slammed her head into Gao Wu's arms with a sullen head. Gao Wu put down the things he was carrying and hugged her: "It's so late, why are you still outside?"

"Wait for you to go home for dinner."

Gao Wu laughed, two canine teeth still showing on his dark face, he gave the skirt and snow boots he bought with the saved wages to his sister, and gave two candies to each of the younger brothers behind his sister.

They were in a hurry to catch the car, and it was true that they hadn't eaten yet. Lin Jinyu was also a little hungry, so Zhang Xinli took the things in his hand and said, "I'll deliver the things I bought, you can go home first, and I'll cook for you when I'm done. "

It's a very happy thing for someone to cook for you. Lin Jinyu thought for a while and said, "No, it's so heavy. I'll be with you. Just in time...to see Chen Hui."

Chen Hui, now changed back to the name of the Yi nationality, is called Erhuo. Erhuo was still busy by the fire pond the day before she got married. After finishing her one-year construction period, she bought a standing ticket and sat on the crowded express train with her luggage. Back home, I went to hold grass and herd cattle during the day, and when I came back at night, I helped my mother cook and do housework, took care of her father who was drunk, and urged her younger brothers and sisters to write big characters. Time is soaked in cold water and cold wind.

Zhang Xinli piled up the things he bought in the courtyard and called her to come out and get them.

Chen Hui agreed loudly in the room, the voice was loud and hoarse, it no longer had the slightest hint of a child's voice, it was a voice trained in the roaring machinery of the factory, only this kind of voice could compete with the roaring steel A place to communicate effectively with co-workers.

While wiping her hands on the clothes without paying attention, she said: "Just buy it back, and send it here. Tomorrow, my dad wakes up and moves it..."

Zhang Xinli replied, "It's okay, by the way."

When Chen Hui came out, she glanced at the guests at the door indifferently, and quickly squatted down to check the wine and meat under the ground... It was that hasty glance that swept across Lin Jinyu behind Zhang Xinli, and the movement of her squatting suddenly stopped. In the middle of the air, his eyes suddenly returned to the door from the wine and meat.

Lin Jinyu said, "Hello... Long time no see."

Chen Hui has grown up and matured, and on her face with tiny freckles suddenly appeared the awkward expression that Lin Jinyu was very familiar with when she was a child. She put the loose strands of hair behind her ears, and her voice became much quieter and recovered a bit. Lin Jinyu was familiar with the shyness in her memory, and she said, "Hello, you are really here."

Chen Hui was married far away, and the invitations and other matters were handled by the man's family. All she could do was write an address with ugly handwriting and send it to him in the invitation.

"Hmm..." Lin Jinyu didn't know what to say, so she had to say auspicious words first, "I wish you a happy wedding."

The day after tomorrow is a good day calculated by Bi Mo, and the brothers from the same branch of the man's family will come to welcome the bride on behalf of the groom. Chen Hui smiled and said, "Thank you."

There was a child in the room shouting, "Sister, Sister, Mom calls you to lay the bedding", Chen Hui turned her head and shouted to her younger brothers and sisters to be quiet, and she would come later.

Lin Jinyu said, "I'm getting married the day after tomorrow, so I'm still so busy today."

Chen Hui said, "It's all like this."

According to the ancient tradition, brides of the Yi nationality cannot eat before they get married. With the development of the times and the deepening of Sinicization, many customs have been simplified. Chen Hui said, "Would you like to come in and eat some potatoes and boiled corn?"

"No need," Zhang Xinli said, "I'll leave as soon as the things are delivered, and I'll come back tomorrow to help."

Chen Hui nodded, the wooden earrings dangling around her ears.Years of exposure to the sun and hard work made her look mature, and she did have the temperament of a married woman, while Lin Jinyu still looked like a young college student full of vigor.

When Zhang Xinli and Lin Jinyu walked out of the door, Chen Hui plunged into the trivial housework and the cold water of winter again.

……

"It's so psychedelic," Lin Jinyu exhaled, and walked home with Zhang Xinli: "This kind of thing always makes me feel like it's still far away. I didn't expect that my peers around me would get married and have children soon."

"In rural villages and towns, it's generally a little earlier to get married," Zhang Xinli said: "After finishing school, he works, and after working, he saves a gift and is busy getting married and having children, like Gao Wu, Mu Se, and Zhang Wenbin. They are all in a few years... …maybe not even a year away, and they're almost there."

"...A person's life really goes by very quickly," Lin Jinyu said with emotion: "Go to school after learning to walk and run, work after school, get married after work, have a child and raise a child, and send the child to school when it grows up , I will be old at that time, and my life will be over."

"Yes," Zhang Xinli said, "One stage passes quickly, and the next stage will come quickly."

"If at the beginning... I mean if," Lin Jinyu suddenly had an idea, he said: "If you didn't go to school, go to Shanghai, or even go to university, would you be married soon... "

Zhang Xinli thought about it, but did not deny it, and said, "Maybe."

On the way home, they ran into a few old men sitting around smoking and drinking. They really love to drink. Although Lin Jinyu often meets with classmates and friends for drinks, they usually eat and drink at dinner parties. Unlike here, if there is nothing to do, everyone will sit on a stool and drink together, or take a bowl and drink dry, without any food.

The old uncles greeted Zhang Xinli and said, "Did you bring something back to the bride? The young men of the Zhang family are very hardworking!"

One of them smiled and said, "I'm planning to eat your wedding wine anytime!"

Zhang Xinli perfunctory these elders a few words, another uncle said: "Don't worry! I want to study, college students, I want to find a good one! City hukou! Civil servants! How can it be so fast, you think your child."

Everyone laughed.

Lin Jinyu couldn't tell what was going on in her heart. In this closed mountain village, the neighbors and neighbors were closely related, and the relationship was very close. A family's daughter married out, and the son married. The family is a family behind closed doors, and their own affairs are only related to their own small family atmosphere... In the concept of most people here, there is probably no such concept as "two men can love each other" .

Zhang Xinli, Chen Hui, Gao Wu, and countless people here should have had the same life trajectory. Lin Jinyu was a unique accident in his life.

After returning home, Zhang Xinli went in to cook and let him play first.He still seemed to regard Lin Jinyu as the middle school student who held his mobile phone and played games against the clock.

In many cases, the more banned things are, the more attractive they are. In the past, Lin Jinyu was always supervised when playing with his mobile phone, disconnecting from the Internet and handing over his mobile phone. After going to university and being in other provinces, he can't go home a few times a year, playing all night long as long as he doesn't die suddenly and no one cares about him, he is very normal on the contrary.

Lin Jinyu responded, but didn't enter the room, just rubbed her hands, and sat on a pony by the door like a migrant worker, lighting a cigarette and thinking about life.

Since meeting Zhang Xinli, his smoking frequency seems to be increasing day by day...Lin Jinyu began to wonder if she was a little selfish, Shanghai is a diverse city, where various populations gather, local, foreign, domestic, foreign, No matter how "unorthodox" things are here, it doesn't seem so strange here. This city accommodates more than 2000 million different people. Every morning, the subway is so crowded that a needle can't fit in. Everyone sweeps the snow in front of the door, and the pace is fast. The life of life makes most people have no time or mood to point fingers at others all day long.

But the place where Zhang Xinli grew up was not like this. Lin Jinyu belatedly realized that in this land where enthusiasm and brutality coexist, Zhang Xinli had seen a single life trajectory since he was a child, and had faced many scrutiny and pointers. Zhang Xinli was unheard of for many things that he was familiar with and took for granted.

For the first time, he thought, why not let it go... But he was so reluctant, the world is so vast, and they are so small, everyone is an independent individual, so different and so different, how lucky it is to meet the person you love, and how many Brave, two people can love each other?

Zhang Xinhe was also in the yard, and Lin Jinyu was thinking wildly all by himself, and couldn't help feeling sad. He asked him if he would like to come over and smoke a cigarette and chat together. He replied "No", and went to feed the chickens in the shed.

Lin Jinyu looked at the hens "clucking and clucking" all over the yard, and felt that something was missing: "Where's the dog from before?" He asked: "The black one, a big one."

"Oh, black dog," Zhang Xinhe said while busy feeding the chickens, "It's been in the nest all the time. It's an old dog and doesn't like to move."

It was indeed an old dog, the fur on the sides of its muzzle began to turn white, as if covered with a layer of fine icing sugar. Humans in their teens were just beginning to get rid of their childishness, but for a dog, more than ten years old Years are all about life.

It rarely came out of the nest, and almost stopped barking. Lin Jinyu still remembered that when he first came, this dog was so fierce that his voice was as loud as thunder, and he hardly let a stranger like him step into the yard.

Now the old black dog is huddled in a den that is not spacious, and often does not move all day long.Lin Jinyu approached and teased for a long time. It stared with black and white eyes for a long time, and then seemed to suddenly remember the person in front of it. With a bit of effort, it still solemnly shook its tail that had lost its hair due to aging.

It was already dark, the stove was hot, and there was a smell of oil and pepper that Lin Jinyu was very familiar with. He had been away from this smell for many years.

There was a sound of footsteps and greetings on the main road at the entrance of the village. Lin Jinyu stood up, stepped on the wall and looked out, and saw the white beam of the flashlight coming from a distance. A team was carrying bags, carrying fertilizer bags, Groups of young people in woven bags and snakeskin bags walked home along the road in the cold wind of the twelfth lunar month. There were wood colors, Zhang Wenbin, and many others whose names they could not name. people.

Every face is equally young, but it is also vicissitudes. It is a wave of returning home every few years, young people who have wandered outside, they have returned home.