Dongxiang Ancient Village (novella love story) Zhang Baotong

After a summer rainstorm, the temperature drops quickly, and a cool breeze blows from the river through the dense woods at the edge of the village, bringing a refreshing coolness. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Wen Li, as usual, came early under the pergola at the entrance of the village. The pergola is made of bamboo and wooden planks, about seven or eight meters wide and twenty-four or five meters long, which is very simple. The pergola was built at the expense of the village, not only to provide shelter from the wind and rain for tourists, but also for villagers to gather and chat. There are also stalls selling locally produced monk fruit, mangoes, and plums, as well as some common food and beverages. There is a parking lot in front of the pergola, and an outward-facing road leads to the national highway between Guilin and Yangshuo.

Although the ancient village of Dong Township is not far from the Guiyang Highway, only seven or eight kilometers away at most, the local Dong people have never intermarried and interacted with foreign peoples, and have maintained the life form of the matriarchal society that has been inherited for thousands of years for many years. However, in recent years, the government has asked them to continue to maintain the original ecological living environment and methods of the Dong villagers, and on the other hand, it has asked them to develop the economy and get rid of poverty and become rich. Not only did they begin to associate with foreigners, but they also brought tourists from all over the world to visit their homes.

Wen Li is a receptionist selected by the government in the village, with a salary of 500 yuan a month. This money is a lot of income for Wen Li and all the Dong villagers. Because Wen Li's family has a total of four people, the total amount of money spent on farming, raising pigs and selling fruits last year was only seven or eight thousand yuan. Therefore, Wen Li has a strong sense of satisfaction with her work and income. She is always the first to arrive every day, sitting here with enthusiasm, waiting to welcome the first train of tourists.

She wears a black lace-trimmed cardigan and a black pleated skirt with lace underneath. The thin skirt was short, so that the thin white legs above the knee were exposed. On his feet, he wears embroidered boat-shaped heel hooks. The most dazzling thing is the bun on her head. The bun is wrapped in red cloth and has a few silver hairpins. And she wears silver earrings on her ears, silver bracelets on her wrists, and a wide silver belt around her waist. This silver belt not only helps her ward off disasters and diseases, but also is a sign that she has grown up.

Dongxiang Ancient Village is a newly developed tourist spot, and there is no admission fee to visit the village. This makes the tour guide unprofitable, so they don't want to bring tourists here at all, because they can take a decent commission from the ticket revenue wherever they take them. The reason why they want to come here is because the government and the tourism bureau have assessment and requirements for them, and if they don't come here to check in a few times a month, they will be assessed and fined. Therefore, Guilin's tour guide will only stop here for an hour on the way when the time is relatively free and the entire trip has been completed. Tourists who have seen some scenic spots in Guilin or Yangshuo and then come here generally have to wait after ten o'clock at the earliest, so although Wen Li came early, she could only stay on the bamboo bench under the pergola while embroidering and waiting.

After a while, the sisters came to the pergola one after another. They were all the youngest and most beautiful women selected in the village, wearing the same clothes, doing the same dress, and even being about the same fat and thin. So, they look like sisters in the family.

Yuhua came to Wen Li's side, and saw that Wen Li's embroidered flowers were a little scattered and rough, so she said angrily, "So smart and clever sister, I just let the reading be stunned." As he spoke, he picked up Wen Li's embroidered cloth and demonstrated it to Wen Li.

Listening to Sister A's blame, Wen Li felt very frustrated, feeling that she had worked hard to go to elementary school and junior high school, and had learned so much knowledge, she felt useless as soon as she left school. In fact, cultural knowledge is really not of much use in their village, as long as they can know some Chinese characters, recognize money, and settle accounts, it is almost like this for the sisters who are with her, there is no need to go to school too much like her.

Thinking that it is better to be able to embroider a good flower than to have so much schooling, Wen Li felt a little depressed and sad. Born into the Dong family, she knows that embroidery is the basic skill of a woman. A big buttocks, a big voice, big feet, a big mouth and clever hands are called "four big and one small", which is the basic criterion for the Dong family brother to choose a sister. And she has been studying in school almost since she was a child, and she has little contact with work such as needle money embroidery, and she has little interest. Therefore, when I learn it now, it seems relatively dull and clumsy.

Not long after, a tourist bus came from the other side of the road and stopped in the open space in front of the pergola. Then, a large group of tourists got out of the car and began to go into the pergola to shop, or stand under the door sign engraved with "Dong Township Ancient Village" to take pictures.

A guide in a checkered shirt came to the reception and asked the receptionists, "Who's going to receive you?" Wen Li stood up from the bamboo bench and said, "It's me." The tour guide tilted his head and looked at Wen Li carefully, and said, "Little Sister, why don't I see that you are from the Dong nationality?" Wen Li raised her eyes to look at the tour guide, smiled contemptuously, and asked, "You say that I don't look like a Dong person, what kind of people do you look like?" The tour guide said, "I think you seem to be a Han Chinese." Wen Li snorted and asked, "Why am I like you Han people?" The tour guide said, "The Dong sister wants to be four big and one small, but I don't see that you have the characteristics of four big and one small." Wen Li said, "Those are the beautiful characteristics of our Dong women, but I am not good or beautiful, so I don't have these characteristics." The tour guide shook his head and said, "Actually, in my eyes, you are the most beautiful and beautiful girl." Some tourists next to him also responded, "Yes, you are the most beautiful Dong sister." Wen Li smiled embarrassedly and said, "It's a pity that I'm not Han." ”

A middle-aged man sent an invitation to Wen Li and said, "Young and beautiful sister, can I take a picture with you?" Wen Li looked at this person as a big fat man, his stomach was very tall, and the meat on his face was so bulging that he couldn't bulge anymore, and she was really unhappy, but when people opened their mouths, she couldn't help but give face. As a result, everyone asked to take a photo with Wen Li. Wen Li was very annoying, but it was difficult to refuse, so her brows were furrowed.

At this time, the tour guide saw Wen Li's thoughts, so he held the small blue flag printed with "Lijiang International" high, and shouted to everyone with a microphone, "We have to catch a plane at three o'clock in the afternoon, the time is very tight, everyone should hurry up, and now we will visit the village with Xiao Amei." With that, he asked Wen Li to take everyone into the village.