The Woman in the Mountains (novella) Zhang Baotong

Originally, I wanted to stay in the mountains for ten days and a half months, but after only three or five days, I wanted to leave. There are so many views here, and I feel fresh after watching it once or twice, but after staying for a few days, I feel dull and boring. There's nothing here that appeals to me anymore. The only thing that attracts me is Qiao Ling, but we can only talk together and do nothing else. Moreover, I have almost finished saying what I need to say, and I can't do what I want to do.

Another reason why I don't want to stay here anymore is that there are no toilets and places to shower. Every time you urinate or urinate, you have to find a temporary place. I always ran to the woods on the top of the hill to make it easier. However, you can't run into the woods to take a bath. Because there is no water there. The water is in the stream below the mountain. I heard Qiao Ling say that they rarely take a bath, and if they want to take a bath, they take a towel when it is dark, squat by the stream, and don't even have to take off their clothes, and wipe their bodies with a towel dipped in water. But can it be washed cleanly and comfortably?

I take a shower at home at least once a week, and I feel itchy when I don't take a shower. However, there is no way to bathe in this mountain, so I feel itchy all day long, and when I itch on my body, I have to scratch it with my hands. There are blood marks in some places on the back. And my head is also itchy, Qiaoling wants to boil water for me to wash my hair. However, as soon as I saw the worms in the water, I felt sick and didn't want to wash them.

Small things like eating, sleeping, bathing, and going to the toilet are so common in everyday life that people don't pay much attention to them. However, when you arrive in a new environment and find that something is not as convenient as you normally are, you will feel that this small thing has become a big thing and it will start to cause you anxiety and uneasiness. Why do we always want to travel, but when we really travel, we are anxious to go home early. Because there are some things that make you feel less convenient and smooth than at home.

On the morning of leaving, Qiao Ling looked very sad, she didn't say a word in the morning, and was cooking silently with her head down. I certainly understand that, and I feel the same way. The falling flowers are independent, and the micro swifts are flying. People who are dependent on each other always have endless bitter lovesickness and endless sadness and parting. However, in life, it is inevitable to say goodbye. But parting takes away the unbearable yesterday, and the years can't take away the long-term thoughts, and the emotion of love will be like a seed, slowly blooming gorgeous flowers in the heart with the passage of time.

After eating, Qiao Ling took out a small paper bag from the box and gave it to me. I opened the small paper bag and saw that there were several very small gold particles. The gold particles don't look very pure, and the color is not as bright as the gold you see in the gold shop. I know it's gold from the ore in their own house. Under the eaves in front of Qiao Ling's house is a square container containing cyanide-infused mineral soil. That's how they refined gold. Moreover, only very rare gold can be extracted from many ores.

Qiao Ling said to me, "This is a little bit of my heart for you, you find someone to put a small necklace on your wife." I immediately returned the paper bag to her and said, "I don't want it, you might as well use it for yourself." "I don't think they knew how much manpower and material resources they had spent to get this little bit of gold. And if we want to get a necklace that is much bigger and much better than this, we only need to spend one or two thousand dollars to buy it. I don't want to accept such a valuable gift.

She insisted on giving it to me, "Make a souvenir." I said, "I've taken the memorial to me. This thing is exempt. I really don't want to. With that, I shoved the paper bag into her hand, and then kept some small food left in the travel bag for her to bring to the child, and took out three hundred yuan from my pocket and gave it to her, "I wanted to buy you a dress, but I didn't have the opportunity, so you can buy it yourself." She didn't want my money, but I didn't want her to say more, so I hugged her tightly and said, "Obedient, or I won't come next time." ”

When she heard this, she put the money on the bed, and said to me, "I'm not going to send you, but you'll have to come again next year!" With that, we hugged and kissed again.

I went out with my duffel bag on my back and walked briskly down the mountain. She stood in front of the door and watched me. I turned around and beckoned to her. Then it went down to the path by the brook at the bottom of the slope. When I looked up at her house again, I saw her standing on the edge of a high hill, waving at me. I stood on the side of the road and beckoned to her, and walked towards the mountain pass.

I walked briskly for more than ten miles, out of the mountain pass, to the side of the highway in the streets of Shangzhen, and took the car back to Xi'an. It was already five o'clock in the afternoon when I got home. As soon as I got home, I had to boil water and take a shower. However, when I took off my T-shirt, my wife exclaimed in surprise, "What's wrong with you?" I said, "probably for fleas to bite." My wife said, "Why is it all red?" I took a mirror and looked behind my back, and I saw that my back was full of scratches, and there were many scratches and blood marks. And the place where the flea bit should be a big red bump. While I was wondering, my wife shouted, "You have lice on you." So saying, he threw my garments into a basin and said, "Take off all your garments and scald them with boiling water." ”

As soon as I heard that I had lice on my body, I started to get goosebumps all over my body. I took off all my clothes and started to wash my hair and shower. After washing my hair and showering, I changed into clean clothes and began to comb my hair with a comb to get rid of all the lice in my hair. When my hair was dry, I went to the barber shop and got my hair cut. Then, I washed my head again.

My relationship with my wife has neither improved nor deteriorated, but we are still on the verge of divorce. But she still refuses to divorce, because one of her ** has been removed, and I am afraid that no one will want her if she is divorced. It turned out that the male classmate who chased her saw that she was sick and quickly married another woman. And I can't accept this harsh truth. I am an aesthete, and my literary nature fills me with romance, and I do not want to reclean this marriage that is already on the verge of death, but longs to replace the existing marriage with a fresh and sincere love. So, I've been missing Qiaoling all the time.

In the summer of the second year, I wanted to go to Qiao Ling's place because I missed her very much. However, the editor of a literary magazine asked me to revise a novella. So, I didn't go to Daxigou again. I wanted to write a letter to her, but I knew that the people of the mountains would not respect the privacy of others, but would be very curious about the privacy of others. I'm afraid that the letter will be opened by others and then sent to Qiao Ling's husband, which will cause unnecessary trouble to Qiao Ling, and it will also make me unable to go to Daxigou in the future. So, I didn't write to her.

After another six months, my wife and I finally went through the divorce surgery. I gave her the kids and the house because I felt that even though she was divorced from me, I still wanted her to have a better life. Because she almost died of such a big illness, I don't want her to suffer any more. Since I didn't have a house, I stayed at my mother's house. My mom made room for me to live in. My brother is in business in the building materials market, and the business is quite prosperous, he has opened three stores in a row, and he is in need of people. So, I wanted Qiao Ling to come over and help my brother's shop. With Qiaoling's intelligence and ability, she will definitely do a good job.

So, in the summer, as soon as the unit was on vacation, I went to Daxigou to bring Qiaoling out of the mountains.