God said I would meet you

In the early hours of the morning, the team to pick up the relatives set foot on their way home.

Chen Hui's younger brother was only eight years old this year, obviously he couldn't follow the custom to carry his older sister on the road, so he and his younger sister followed far behind.

Sitting on the back of his cousin, Chen Hui walked out of the yard surrounded by the team of receiving and seeing off the relatives, and headed towards the entrance of the village along the main road. Zhang Wenbin followed closely behind the crowd, followed by Mu Se and La Long And Gao Wu, Lin Jinyu and Zhang Xinli were at the back.

"Where are we going?" Lin Jinyu followed Zhang Xinli out of the village gate. After walking for more than ten minutes, she still couldn't see the end. She couldn't help asking, "Are you going all the way to the man's house? Can someone who carries someone back be able to carry it? "

Zhang Xinli replied: "I used to memorize it all the time, but now I definitely can't. The wedding car is parked on the other side of the road."

Although the two of them seemed to have changed into a brand new relationship now, his expression remained the same when he spoke, and there seemed to be no difference in his attitude towards Lin Jinyu for a while... This made Lin Jinyu feel unreal. I was a little confused, and kept thinking in my heart: Is this considered to be together?So fast, it seemed to happen all of a sudden... Will he go back on his word?Will you wake up one day and say it was just a joke...

People who have just fallen in love are always easy to worry about gains and losses, and after walking for a while, Lin Jinyu secretly looked at Zhang Xinli, who still kept his eyes on the front and concentrated on walking, as if he didn't pay attention to him.

Lin Jinyu finally couldn't help but asked, "Will you go back on your word?"

Zhang Xinli turned his eyes to him and asked, "What?"

"I asked you if you would go back on your word," Lin Jinyu said, "Are you really...decided to have a date with me?"

Zhang Xinli seemed a little confused, so he asked, "Why do you ask that?"

Because you seem to be talking casually... Lin Jinyu said: "Just ask." His eyes wandered, scanning the withered grass and scattered ground around him: "If you go back on your word...you can also tell me directly...it's okay."

Zhang Xinli stopped, turned to look at him, Lin Jinyu also stopped, and was relatively speechless with him.

After two or three seconds of silence, Zhang Xinli stretched out his hand, patted the back of his head, and pressed Lin Jinyu to his side. The two of them got a lot closer in an instant, and their shoulders pressed against each other: "What are you thinking?" Zhang Xinli felt a little helpless Said: "You think I'm talking casually?"

No, just not sure...Lin Jinyu was half embraced by him, and Zhang Xinli's body temperature was warm.

"It's not just talking casually," Zhang Xinli let Lin Jinyu get closer, and stuck to himself: "I may...not be very good at expressing, but I didn't just say it casually."

Lin Jinyu looked at his profile and replied, "I see."

Zhang Xinli smiled, took his hand back from his shoulder, and walked down his arm. There was no one around, he took Lin Jinyu's hand and held it, and continued walking.

The beam of the flashlight cut the night of the mountain into pieces. Someone walked towards her lover openly, and someone held hands silently.

After turning the last bend, there is a wooden bridge on the water in front of it. The team of the woman's family sent her relatives only to this place. After crossing this bridge, they really left home.

The young man who received the bride untied Tsarwa and spread it on the ground beside the bridge. The cousin put Chen Hui down and rested on the spot, while Chen Hui's mother stepped forward to arrange her headdress and clothes.

The mother and daughter looked at each other through a layer of veil, Chen Hui's mother started to cry while Chen Hui pursed her lips, her eyes were also red.

She hugged her mother in her wedding dress, then grandma, father, younger siblings, and she was about to bid farewell to her relatives and start her own new family.

The man’s family lives in another county, far away from here. The Yi nationality is a nation that values ​​death and despise life. According to the ancient tradition, once a girl gets married, she will not come back unless there is a big event, but Grandma still said to her over and over again: "Come back and have a look when you're free."

The person who received the relatives opened the way ahead, and they were about to start again. Chen Hui nodded and sat on the back of his cousin again. The girl named "Hui" left here, and she changed her real name back to her family. A bride price of 25 yuan came, part of this money became her dowry, and part of it would become the tuition and living expenses of her younger siblings, her father’s wine money, and maybe even part of her younger brother’s bride price in the distant future.

Lin Jinyu watched all this from afar, watching the team of receiving the bride slowly cross the bridge, the side of the wooden bridge was full of people, he had never seen so many young people in the village at one time.

Regardless of the CMB on the mountain road or the fields on the mountainside, the busy figures of all kinds are either old people with chicken skin and white hair, or middle-aged people with frosted temples, or teenage children. Many young people.

However, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, they will still leave soon. Mu Se, La Long, Zhang Wenbin, these young people are not at home most of the time, they are working outside, just like footless birds, they can fly and leave the nest , Some died outside, and some finally returned home when they were old.

Their children stayed in this mountain, grew up the same and became the same birds.

The bride's back disappeared into the mountains, and it was time for the sending team to go home.

Chen Hui's grandma, the thin and haggard old man who once said good luck to Lin Jinyu, put her hands behind her back, opened her dry, toothless mouth, and muttered in Yi language, "This mountain can't hold young people." .”

Lin Jinyu heard Gao Fei say: "Brother, let's go back, can you stay after the New Year?"

Gao Wu took his sister, put her hand in his own, squeezed it, and said, "But I have to work, and I can't make much money from farming." He said, "Gao Fei, I want to give you Save a sum of money, so that you don't have to be ashamed like me, you can buy whatever you want, and wear whatever clothes you want, and you don't want to marry far away for a bride price like other children , thinking that if one day you get married, it will only be because of a man you fell in love with."

Gao Fei pursed his lips, and took her brother's hand and strode forward. Lalong in the front line hummed a song in a language that Lin Jinyu couldn't understand. In this quiet mountain, the singing was loud and distant.

The singing sound is like a bird's cry, or a child's whisper. It sings that the child is far away, and a mother, when it is dark, why is she still cooking and waiting for the child to go home on the hill.

Lin Jinyu was a little infected by other people's loneliness, and his mood suddenly became depressed... He remembered that summer, the sun was shining brightly, and the sea in the mountains was rippling in the wind, and the black dog always wagged its tail at him, waiting for Lin Jinyu Feed it the meat and ham sausage that no one has ever fed it. It is so strong that it can't hold back. It runs around and throws mud on him. Everyone smiled carefree.

At that time, obviously all people and dogs were very happy, they hadn't grown up yet, and they didn't have all the troubles of growing up.

Lin Jinyu suddenly felt that things were right and people were wrong. He wanted to smoke a cigarette again, but suddenly felt his hand was pinched.

He looked up and saw Zhang Xinli looking at him quietly.

"What are you thinking about?" Zhang Xinli held his hand a little harder. At this moment, most of the people had gone to the front, and no one was paying attention to them. Zhang Xinli held him again and asked, "Is it cold, are you sleepy?" ?”

Lin Jinyu said, "It's not cold, what time is it?"

Zhang Xinli glanced at his watch, which had a dark blue dial that Lin Jinyu was familiar with.He said, "It's past three o'clock."

Lin Jinyu yawned, and Zhang Xinli said, "Go home quickly, make an exception today and sleep casually, don't wake you up, go play tomorrow."

In fact, Lin Jinyu originally bought a ticket for the evening, planning to leave on the day of the wedding... Who made him think at first that the guy in front of him was getting married.

He said, "Well... yes, it just so happens that my ticket to go back is the day after tomorrow."

Zhang Xinli looked softly, squeezed his hand, and held him tightly in the cold wind.The surroundings are very dark, far away from the crowd, even the light of the flashlight has become weak, and the night birds are screaming, revealing a chill.

Lin Jinyu didn't know this area, didn't know where he had gone, but he didn't feel anything at all. Zhang Xinli held his hand firmly and warmly, just like that year, in Liangshan, where he was unfamiliar, when Zhang Xinli held his hand and got drunk. like him.

Lin Jinyu walked aimlessly, he knew that no matter where he went, Zhang Xinli would be able to take him home.

After Lalong sang that song, he changed to "Don't Be Afraid" by Mo Xizi's poem. It was as if he was tuned to a human-shaped automatic radio on a certain music program. Lin Jinyu and Zhang Xinli were holding each other tightly. There was nothing to be afraid of. Some people left, but there were new people by his side. He became lively again, took a few steps to sneak up, and suddenly put his hand into the back of Zhang Xinli's collar.

Zhang Xinli made a "hiss" from his hand that was not much warmer than ice cubes. He grabbed his arm and slipped it with his backhand. He glared at Lin Jinyu, then let go of the hot hand and let him put it in his pocket. , I changed the direction, walked to the other side, and used my warm hand to hold Lin Jinyu's hand that attacked him.

Lin Jinyu raised an eyebrow at him and smiled handsomely.

Sure enough, people still have to not be afraid, for those who are not afraid have a way.

Gathering and separation are the most common things.