Mazui Village is located at the junction of two provinces, is the most remote mountain village in Luliang County, surrounded by deep mountains and old forests. There is very little arable land in the mountains, but fortunately, the surrounding mountains are a natural granary, as the saying goes, the villagers of Mazui Village have inherited superb hunting skills from their ancestors, and at the same time, they are also in the same vein of the people's customs, even if they are in the year of famine, as long as a shotgun and a machete go deep into the mountains, the harvest can also feed a family. Therefore, Mazui Village, a small mountain village in the middle of a poor country, has never heard of a man who cannot find a daughter-in-law for hundreds of years. Although the people in the village are not prosperous, they can at least barely maintain balance.

However, in the past ten years, the villagers have realized that they don't know when the number of people in the village has become smaller and smaller, and there are only about 100 households left in the village where there were hundreds of families in the past. In the past ten years, it is almost impossible to see, not that the adult men in the village can not find their daughter-in-law to beat the single, mainly most of the young people have walked out of the mountains and gone to the big city where tens of millions of people live in a place in the legend。

As for the young people who stayed in the village and did not go out, the pheasants and wild boars that leaned on the mountains have completely lost their attraction to girls within a radius of hundreds of miles, and they have gradually changed from young people to middle-aged old singles.

Now if you can still hear the sound of suona and firecrackers in the village, it is almost certain that it is not a daughter-in-law, but an old man of which family is old.

But today's suona firecrackers are an exception, it is definitely a happy event, and this happy event is more festive than marrying a dozen daughters-in-law in the village more than ten years ago, which family used to marry a daughter-in-law, but only those with a little kinship, or a good relationship between neighbors to go to join in the fun, after all, Mazui Village is said to be a village, but it is a real mountain village in the depths of the mountains, from the east of the village to the west of the village, not to mention hundreds of miles away, although there are not many people, but the land is very wide. Looking at the mountain and running a dead horse, for people who have been in the mountain village all their lives, even if it is a village, some people will never see each other in their lives. But today's happy event is amazing, the whole village has come, although the number of people is not as good as before, but really together, the potted basketball court of the village committee is also crowded.

A young man about 20 years old stood on the hillside not far away, looking down from the top of the slope, just enough to see the village committee, the man quietly looked at the unprecedented lively scene under the mountain, his face was not sad or happy. A yellow earth dog crawled quietly at the feet of its owner, perhaps it had never seen Mazui Village so lively, and a pair of eyes stared intently at the bustling crowd below. Next to the yellow earth dog squatted a little girl wearing an emerald plaid shirt, with two pigtails on top of her head, and her snot had fallen to her mouth. The little girl is thirteen or fourteen years old, and it is reasonable to say that she is the most lively age, but at this moment she is indeed a little abnormal, her eyes sometimes look at the man standing next to her, and sometimes look down with some indifference.

Zhang Zhiming stood in the center of the makeshift platform, holding the microphone in his hand and feeding twice, "Ladies and gentlemen, aunts and aunts, please be quiet, I have something important to announce." ”

The crowd was quiet for a few seconds, and then there was a burst of laughter, the mountain villagers were fierce and simple, so that not many people regarded this village party secretary as an official, and a middle-aged woman with a very loud voice stretched her neck and shouted, "Secretary Zhang, we all know this happy event, what else are you announcing, hurry up and have good wine and good food first." ”

Zhang Zhiming looked at the woman with a smile: "Mother-in-law of the Wang family, your loud voice is better than the microphone in Lao Tzu's hand, let's just withdraw the outdoor radio in the village, and if there is any policy propaganda in the village in the future, you can just go to the top of Harrier Mountain and shout, and save some money for the village, which can be regarded as making some contributions to the village."

The crowd suddenly laughed, the people in the mountains were all straight, there were no twists and turns, they dared to say whatever they thought, and they were not afraid of offending people's concerns, and many villagers immediately coaxed and agreed. Especially those old bachelors who have not tasted a woman in their forties, they are even more coaxed.

The middle-aged woman crossed her hands on her hips, shook her big buttocks and said with a smile: "No problem, as long as you give money, let alone shout a few broadcasts to the village, it is enough to sleep with Secretary Zhang for one night." ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a burst of laughter, and several old bachelors suddenly became excited, they couldn't eat pork, and playing the mouth cannon could be regarded as scratching their boots, hoping to quench their thirst.

"Big sister, just your big basket ass, don't fold Secretary Zhang's waist"

The other person giggled and said, "My waist is strong, big sister, or I will let you sit enough."

The middle-aged woman's man is a well-known rake ear, and he has long been accustomed to flirting with his daughter-in-law in the face of others, not only is not the slightest angry, but he is happy to giggle there.

The middle-aged woman's backhand was a slap in the face, "You are not hard during the day, but you can't afford to be hard at night, the old lady was molested by those old singles who were beaten by thousands of knives, what are you happy about." ”

The crisp slap drew laughter.

Zhang Zhiming, secretary of the village branch, is in his fifties this year, although he has been the village party secretary for more than 20 years, he is also a rough man born and raised in his bones, and he never knows what tears taste, but at this time he has an inexplicable feeling that he has never encountered, and he is obviously very happy in his heart, but his eyes can't help but redden. For many years, Mazui Village has not been so lively for too long.

Clearing his throat, Zhang Zhiming said into the microphone, "Fathers and fellow villagers, although everyone knows that there is a great joy in our Mazui Village, but the ancestors who are lying in the col do not know, Mazui Village, the land of the mountain gods with more than a dozen mountains, I am here today to tell the ancestors of Mazui Village loudly, and tell the grass and trees in the village, the first college student in the history of our Mazui Village, and a golden phoenix flew out. ”

The villagers in the audience were infected by Zhang Zhiming's emotions, and one by one they no longer made noise and jokes, and in the interval between Zhang Zhiming's words, they all applauded with the strength to eat milk, and the applause immediately resounded through the mountains and forests, echoing for a long time.

Zhang Zhiming pressed his right hand in the crowd, and then said: "In the past, when the old branch secretary was alive, he often told me that there was once an old monk who practiced and passed by our village, saying that our village gathers the essence of heaven and earth, condenses the aura of mountains and rivers, and sooner or later there will be a great person of creation, which will bring great blessings to our village. Bai Ling, the daughter of the white carpenter's family, fulfilled the prophecy of the high monk. ”

There was another thunderous applause from the audience.

"Bai Ling, this girl I watched her grow up, she has been smart and clever since she was a child, I have long seen that she is not a person who can stay in the deep mountains and old forests, this time she is not only admitted to the university, but also the champion of our county, do you know what is called the champion? It is the first place in the county, do you know how many villages there are in our county? More than 500 villages, now we compare more than 500 villages in the county, the surrounding villages have been looking down on our village all these years, and even the daughters are not allowed to marry. ”

Listening to Zhang Zhiming's words, the villagers on the basketball court immediately became agitated, for these people who most of them have never been out of Mazui Village, they feel that Mazui Village is already very big, let alone the county, and they are all excited, just like their own daughters have been admitted to the legendary university.

"In the past, I went to the town with Village Chief Zhang for a meeting, and the lame man in the next village always liked to pull me and me to blow that their village married a few daughters-in-law and gave birth to a few babies this year, that proud look, every time I saw it, Lao Tzu wanted to take a mallet and call on his poor face. Hehe, it's different now, two days ago I went to the town for a meeting, and the secretary and mayor of the town praised our Mazui Village in front of dozens of village secretaries and village chiefs at the meeting, saying that our Mazui Village has won glory for the town and is an example for all villages to learn. After the meeting, I used to always and didn't pull me to brag about the lame Ma who wanted to run away, so how can I be, Lao Tzu has been angry with him for so many years, and finally raised his eyebrows and exhaled once, how can he run away, I chased after him and grabbed Ma Da lame, 'Yo, Secretary Ma, what are you running?Go back and give birth to a baby? You give birth to so many babies with birds, can you be admitted to college? Can you take the first place in our county?'"

The villagers burst out laughing, "Secretary Zhang said it well, it's really fucking relieving." ”

Bai Fugui stood in the crowd, with an extremely proud smile on his face, Bai Fugui has not had a good time over the years, although he is the only carpenter in the village, but a table and a stool in the village can be used for several generations, especially in the past ten years, more and more people have gone out of the village, leaving behind some old, weak, sick and disabled, the village has not married a new daughter-in-law for nearly ten years, how can there be any work for him to do, his family has been a carpenter for generations, and he has a unique job as a carpenter, but hunting is a little commonplace, there is no work, hunting is not good, these years are poor and aggrieved, even his mother-in-law often shows his face to himself, I remember once I was upset and drank two more glasses of wine, the evil fire in the center of the abdomen was unbearable, and I took off my pants and arched to my mother-in-law, and when I was about to break the door, I was kicked under the bed, and my mother-in-law scolded me on the bed, and the mother-in-law scolded me on the bed, "If you have the ability, go out and earn the money back, and toss a ball on the belly of the girl." If it weren't for the help of neighbors over the years, let alone for my daughter to go to high school and college, I wouldn't even be able to support myself. After holding back for so many years, looking at the envious eyes cast by the villagers, Bai Fugui felt that he was living like a person for the first time. I thought in my heart that I must toss my mother-in-law enough tonight and vent all the wretched anger I have suffered over the years.

At the top of the hillside, the man looked at everything under his nose, his face expressionless. The pigtailed girl sniffed, looked at the crowd in front of the village committee intently, and asked lightly: "Is the university that Secretary Zhang said much bigger and more beautiful than the primary school in our village?" ”

The man nodded, "I guess." ”

Zhang Zhiming smiled and nodded in the direction of Bai Fugui, "I said so much, just to tell you that Bai Ling, the daughter of the white carpenter's family, really gave us the face of the head of Mazui Village this time, I won't say more, now I invite Bai Ling, the golden phoenix who flew out of Mazui Village, to come to the stage to tell you a few words." ”

Usually cautious, walking will be slightly bowed head Bai Ling, today the waist pole is very straight, with a confident smile on his face, the family used to be poor, whether it was in the village or in school, Bai Ling will feel inferior to others, now I see the whole village gathered here for themselves, see the whole village is proud of themselves, this kind of scene has never dreamed.

After three years of high school in the county, she is no longer different from the ordinary village girl who digs soil in the ravine, wearing tight jeans and a snow-white T-shirt, she is more like a lady who comes out of the scholarly door in the city.

took the microphone in Zhang Zhiming's hand, looked at the group of people in the audience, after all, it was a girl who had just graduated from high school, and her heart was a little worried, Zhang Zhiming nodded and gave her a comforting smile.

Bai Ling stood in the center of the stage and bowed deeply to the audience. The audience immediately burst into thunderous applause. Bai Fugui's daughter-in-law had a smile on her face at the moment, but at the same time, she was also full of tears. Bai Fugui just wanted to reprimand his mother-in-law for not being productive, only to find that his tears flowed out two drops of anger.

Bai Ling's voice is very good, just like the call of a lark, golden and rainy, crisp and pleasant.

"Thank you to my parents for raising me with hard work, thank you grandparents, uncles and aunts for taking care of my family over the years, thank you to the two committees of the village branch for funding my studies, without your help there would be no Bai Ling today, the grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by springs, I swear here, once I graduate from college and have a successful career, I will do my best to repay Mazui Village. ”

"Okay, good," the excited villagers clapped their hands red and roared in their throats.

The pigtailed girl pursed her mouth, "She seems to have forgotten to thank you." The yellow earth dog barked twice, and seemed to echo the little girl's statement.

The man was still expressionless, "Grandpa often said that if you are happy when you give, then enjoy that happiness, and if you have the idea of reciprocating, this sense of happiness will be greatly reduced." Sometimes the process is more important than the outcome. ”

The pigtailed girl held her chin with both hands and shook her head: "I don't understand, I only know that I went into the mountains with a shotgun to fight wild roe deer, and if I can't hit a wild roe deer, at least I have to catch a pheasant and come back, otherwise why don't I go into the mountains." ”

The man smiled wryly and touched the girl's head, "You are still young, you will know when you grow up and have someone you like." ”

The pigtailed girl slapped the man's hand away angrily, "I'm fourteen years old, which eye of you saw that I was small, and last year I was able to go into the mountains alone to hunt wild boars." ”

The man smiled and sighed: "You are also called hunting wild boars, if I hadn't arrived in time, you would have become wild boar dung by now." ”

The pigtailed girl snorted, as if she had been poked in the sore spot, and sighed in the man's tone, "Hey, Bai Fugui's snobbish eyes really went to your house to get married." ”

The man nodded calmly.

"You agree?"

The man nodded again.

The girl put on an adult tone, and said angrily: "Cut, look at your bear-like appearance, you can still go into the mountains alone to hunt a big black bear, and you can't take a white rich man." ”

The man smiled bitterly, "If it's just his opinion, of course I won't give up easily." ”

The pigtailed girl was stunned for a moment.

"Is that what she meant?"

The man nodded slightly.

"You talked?"

"I went to her house yesterday. ”

"What did she say?"

"She said to me, 'Well frogs can't talk about the sea, and summer insects can't talk about ice.'"

"What's that?"

"That is to say, the frog in the well is not worthy to talk about the sea, and the insect in summer is not qualified to talk about ice"

"What do you mean?"

The man smiled bitterly, "It means that I don't want to be blind BB"

"What?" the pigtailed girl jumped up.

"Did she really say that?"

The man nodded.

The pigtailed girl immediately turned into an old hen who guarded her chicks, her face flushed with anger, and she walked down the hill with her feet.

The man grabbed the girl's arm, "What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to rip her mouth apart. ”

The man's face was cold, the girl rarely saw the man's expression, don't look at the usual coquettish and naughty beside him, but every time she saw the man's really angry look, her heart beat the drum, this twelve-year-old girl who dared to go hunting alone in the mountains was not afraid of the expression of the man in front of her.

The pigtailed girl sat on the ground, full of grievances.

"Is that all?"

"I don't have anything to do with her anymore. ”

The girl looked at this big brother next door who had always loved her, and for the first time found that there was also that kind of helpless expression on his face.

The man put away his cold expression, sat down next to the pigtailed girl, and touched her head lovingly.

"Brother Shanmin, over the years, there have been more and more people beating singles in our village, are you afraid that you won't be able to find a daughter-in-law in the future?"

The man smiled and knocked on the girl's head, "Little girl, what do you know?" ”

The pigtailed girl said unconvinced: "Of course I understand, the man should marry the woman, you will marry a daughter-in-law when you grow up, and I will become someone else's daughter-in-law when I grow up." ”

The man was amused by the girl's words and smiled slightly, pinched off a dog's tail grass next to him and held it in his mouth, and the haze in his heart was a little less.

"Brother Shanmin, you don't have to worry about beating a bachelor in the future. ”

"Oh? Why?"

The pigtailed girl tilted her head and said seriously: "When I grow up, if you haven't married a daughter-in-law, I will be your daughter-in-law." ”