Zhang Baotong 2017.9.19

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the Yellow River is still like winter, and under the blue and gloomy sky, the cold wind is blowing. At the beginning of the morning, the sky was full of cold, and the entire edge of the Yellow River seemed to be frozen.

Yang Penglin stood on the edge of a large pond and kept looking at the path leading to Fanjia Village, waiting for his beloved lover. However, there were no pedestrians on the path, and what he saw was an empty and dazzling yellow. The withered yellow grass, the withered yellow ground, and the endless withered yellow reeds, even the poplar forest on the edge of the pond are withered yellow.

The reeds in the ditch were swaying and swaying, fanning the cold wind that ran through his clothes, making him feel cold. He tucked his hands into his trouser pockets and kept jumping on the grass to keep himself warm.

The reeds in front of you are vast and endless, and it is a great landscape on the edge of the local Yellow River. Every time he sees this landscape, he will think of the song "The leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost." The so-called Yi people, on the water side". He heard from others that this poem was written about the ancient scenery and stories of their place. Even though he had only heard about it, he was hoping it was true. However, why hasn't his Yiren come yet?

The Yiren he waited for was named Xu Mingli, and the two were classmates from elementary school, middle school to high school, although the two had loved each other since they were in high school, but they only flirted with each other, tacitly, and never publicly confided their true feelings. After graduating from high school, he asked his parents to find someone to go to Xu's house to talk to the matchmaker, but the Xu family thought his family was poor and resolutely disagreed, so he chartered dozens of acres of fish ponds, wanting to get rich by raising fish, so that the Xu family could see. However, contrary to his wishes, the fish pond he contracted not only made him rich, but made him lose 50,000 yuan at once. Therefore, he wanted to leave here and go to the city to work to pay off his debts. He was leaving in the afternoon, and wanted to say goodbye to her before leaving.

A burst of firecrackers sounded over the village not far away, making people feel that the smell of the New Year had not completely dissipated. But his heart had long since left here and entered the city. It's just that there's one more thing that reassures him. Because the Xu family did not agree to let Xu Mingli have a relationship with him, they could only meet secretly in the past two years, and every time he called her to ask her out. Because she was afraid of other people's comments and her father's anger, she always met with him and said a few words before leaving. The two have yet to talk deeply about relationship issues. Now that he was about to leave, he had to talk to her and make sure that she wouldn't be snatched away by someone else after he left.

Just as he was glancing towards the village, he suddenly heard footsteps behind him. He looked back and saw that Xu Mingli had come to him from a path by the reeds. She wore a new light yellow puffer jacket, black leggings, and black bucket boots that rose above her knees. This makes her already slender figure more and more beautiful and straight. Her head was wrapped in a bright red scarf, revealing only her delicate goose-egg-shaped face. This made him feel that she didn't look like a rural girl at all, like a pretty girl from the city.

He liked this kind of beautiful appearance, so he smiled and said, "Look at your dress, it looks like you're from the city." ”

She said, "I came from the county seat, my cousin got married today, and I went to help yesterday." As soon as I received your call in the morning, I asked Fushun to send me on a motorcycle. Then, she asked, "Do you really want to go to Beijing?"

He looked up to the sky and sighed, and said, "I owe so much money to others, what should I do if I don't go out?"

She said, "You deserve it." If others can't do it, you have to do it. ”

He said very self-deprecatingly, "I thought that I could make a lot of money by wrapping up the fish pond, and then find a decent person to come to your door to propose marriage, but I didn't expect to lose like this." ”

She glanced at him with a snort and said, "I'm interested in your people, not your money." As long as you are good, I don't dislike you no matter how poor you are. ”

He said, "But, without money, I won't be able to get through your father's pass." Besides, since I want to marry you, I have to make your family happy so that you can live a good life. Then, he asked with concern, "I heard that your father told you to Zhou Kun in Nantang?"

She nodded and said, "I've been talking about this for a long time, but I haven't agreed. ”

He also said, "I heard that Zhou Kun's family is doing business in the county town and has bought a house. ”

Xu Mingli sighed sadly, looked into the distance for a while, and then said, "My father is forcing me, and he was still telling me the day before yesterday that if I don't agree, he will die to show me." ”

"Is there any other way?" he stared straight at her.

She shook her head and said, "What's the solution?"

"And what are you going to do?" he asked.

She said with a sad face, "What can I do? He's my father, and I can't just watch him die." ”

He wanted to cry, but he held back his efforts not to let the tears welling up in his eyes. He said, "I'm not reconciled, his Zhou family has a few stinky money, and he wants to seize other people's lovers?"

She corrected and said, "I don't blame the Zhou family, it's my father who dislikes the poor and loves the rich." ”

He looked helpless and said, "So, we're really going to break up?"

She looked sad and said, "I don't know. ”

At this time, the sun had risen, the wind had stopped and the trees were quiet, the grass was desolate, and the reeds behind him were holding their breath, as if they were grieving for their separation.

At this time, the girl's mobile phone rang, it was Fushun calling, asking her to leave quickly, or she would not be able to catch up with the wedding at noon. Because it is still 30 kilometers away from Dali County. She answered the phone and said apologetically to him, "No, I'm leaving." Fushun is waiting for me at the intersection. ”

In fact, he was also anxious to go to the police station to get a second-generation ID card, because the past ID card had expired. However, the person who has loved him for many years is about to leave him, which makes him unable to figure it out anyway. When he saw that she was leaving, he grabbed her hand and said earnestly, "We're about to break up, maybe we can't be together again, can you stay with me for a while?"

She looked hesitant, but nodded anyway, and said, "Ten minutes at most?" ”

He said, "Ten minutes is too little, or half an hour?" he continued to plead with her.

She thought for a moment and said in a resolute tone, "No, I'll only give you twenty minutes." ”

He only had twenty minutes, and it was the last moment she gave him, and the richest twenty minutes for him. So, he said, "Let's go to the embankment." ”

She was a little embarrassed and said, "What's there to see on the embankment?"

But he said, "You gave me these twenty minutes, and you have to listen to me." ”

On the embankment of the Yellow River, the sky is clear, the world is new, the air is fresh and transparent, and the scenery is clear and picturesque. Although he has been here many times, he has never felt that the scenery of the Yellow River will be so beautiful. Maybe it was with her that made him feel so new and strange. He grabbed her hand and held it tightly.

She said, "Don't do that, it's not good to let people see it." As he spoke, he was about to break free from his hand.

However, he said very domineeringly, "No, I have loved you for many years, and you are going to be an adult, and I want to be with you well." As he spoke, he held her hand tighter, for fear that as soon as she relaxed, she would fly away from her side.

The wind blows from the surface of the river, and the cold air gusts, but it makes people feel extra refreshing and comfortable. The river is spacious and calm, and the opposite bank is Yongji, Shanxi. He wasn't familiar with that side. But this side of the river bank is their hometown, in the warm spring season, a large area of wild flowers will grow on the grassy grass; in summer, you can see 10,000 acres of lotus flowers blooming in the wind, especially the endless reeds, the fragrance of reeds, the willow embankment smells the waves, the birds are flocks, the wild ducks are pieced, there is infinite poetry and painting. But he was about to leave here, his hometown, his beloved girl. How could this not make him feel sorrow and sorrow in his heart.

He pointed to the reeds on the other side of the embankment and said to her, "I have heard that 'the leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost.'" The so-called Yi people, on the water side' verses were written by the ancients here. ”

Xu Mingli was stunned and said, "So what's the matter?"

Yang Penglin said, "It shows that our water and grass are abundant and the beauties are more beautiful." ”

The girl glanced at him and said, "Since our aquatic plants and abundant scenery girls here are more beautiful, then why do you want to leave?"

He frowned, sighed, and said, "If you don't leave, how can you pay off your debts?" If you don't leave, how can you earn money to build a house?" ”

The girl's mobile phone rang again, and it was still Fushun calling. She asked him to wait a little longer, and then comforted him and said, "Don't be so pessimistic?

He shook his head and said, "That's because you are in my heart, and everything I do is also for you, but you are about to become a member of the family, so what is the point of me going out to work again?"

Hearing this, Xu Mingli couldn't help but feel a little emotional, she frowned for a while, and said, "But, there are more girls better than me, why do you have to hang yourself from a tree?"

He said, "There are many good girls, but none of them are mine." Moreover, I only love you alone, and I have loved you for so long, how can you not make me sad and desperate when you suddenly leave like this?"

"But," she did not know how to persuade him, she could only bow her head and say apologetically, "I love you too, but ...... It's just that we don't have a fate. ”

Listening to her words, he immediately hugged her and said, "Mingli, you follow me, let's leave here together, I promise you that I will love you for the rest of my life and will definitely let you live a good life." ”

She shook her head and said, "No, we left like this without knowing why, why will we come back to meet people in the future? No, not really." ”

At that moment, the phone rang again, and she said, "I'm really leaving." But he still held on to her, so that she could not break free. She was a little upset and said, "I'm going to be angry." ”

He didn't listen to her, saying, "Be angry, you're angry, and I'll not let you go." ”

To his surprise, she didn't get angry, but stretched out her arm around his neck, put her face on his chest, and said, "Penglin, I don't want you to leave, it's hard to work outside, I don't want you to suffer." And Beijing is far away. ”

These words moved him so much that he wanted to cry, he kissed her and said, "With your words, I will be happy to go to the ends of the earth, even if I am tired and tired, I am willing." ”

She nodded tearfully, kissed him softly and said, "Penglin, you can go to Beijing, no matter how long I will wait for you." ”

"But your father told you to Zhou Kun, what are you going to do about this?" he asked worriedly.

She said, "Don't worry about this, I told my father in the afternoon that if he wants to force me to marry the Zhou family, I will run away from home and never return to this home." ”

He was moved to cry, "Mingli, how should I repay you in this life and this life!" he said, holding her in his arms again.

At this time, Xu Mingli's mobile phone began to ring again. He knew he had to leave her, so he kissed her the cheek and said, "Go quickly, or it will be too late." With that, he pushed her away from his arms.

But she said, "I won't see you for two years, and I will miss you very much." ”

He raised his hand at her and said, "I'll call you every day." ”

She kept turning her head to beckon to him as she ran down the embankment. He stood on the embankment of the Yellow River and watched her run down the embankment, across the pond, and then disappear into the path by the reeds.