The Woman in the Mountains (novella) Zhang Baotong

At about four o'clock, Qiao Ling changed into a half-worn long coat and trousers, and her shoes were changed into cloth and said, "Let's go to the Yunling Gold Mine." "I saw that it was getting late, and I was afraid that it would be dark when I got there, so I said, "Go see the scenery?" she shook her head and smiled, "Go and help me carry the mine." I said okay, and followed her down the hill briskly, to the brook below, and walked along the path to the mountain. The path by the stream gets narrower and higher. Because she was in a hurry, Qiao Ling walked very fast, and I also quickened my pace to follow her.

When we walked to the front of a small mountain village on the side of the mountain, there was a large cornfield in the low-lying area by the stream. Suddenly, a flock of birds arose from the ground. I saw a middle-aged man running from the side of the road into the thick cornfield in a panic, making the cornstalk rattle. He crossed the cornfield, jumped across the stream, went up to the opposite bank, and then was no longer visible. At this moment, I saw three or four strong men running from the village, each with a pole or a stick, shouting and scolding and chasing after him. When they ran up to us, they asked Qiao Ling, "Did you see that dog's flower intestine Guiping?" Qiao Ling immediately pointed in the direction of the mountain and said, "Just ran through the path." So the men chased after the side of the path, wielding their poles and sticks.

Seeing that Qiao Ling was protecting the person who was being chased, I asked, "Do you know that person?" Qiao Ling said, "That person is a well-known person in our township named Guiping, whose family lives in the village on the other side of the mountain pass and opens a shop. Almost all the men in the mountains went out to work, but this man was idle, dressed neatly all day long, combed his hair shiny, and went everywhere to get flowers and grass, and we were young and beautiful women from four villages and eight groups of young and beautiful women who almost let her taste it all. I asked curiously, "Can this man have such great charm?" Qiao Ling said, "This man is white and clean, neatly dressed, loves to talk and laugh, and is very good at pleasing women." Besides, almost all the men in this mountain have gone out to work and don't come back once a year and a half, and who doesn't want the man they like to love them?" Then, she said, "The man who chased Guiping just now is the man from Qiaohua in this village." Qiaohua is a daughter-in-law married from Shanyang, and her family was very poor in the past, but she looks handsome and smart, she is also young, and she is easy to dress up, and she walks with a twist. When the men saw her, they wanted to touch her breasts and pat her buttocks, but not only did she not get angry, but she also felt that someone else liked her. Qiaohua has a problem, she likes to take advantage of others, and some men give her five yuan and ten yuan, and she can sleep with others. Therefore, the fact that she and Guiping were stealing together had already made everyone in and outside the village know about it. Later, it was her sister-in-law who told the Qiaohua man about it, and her man ran back from the city to clean up Guiping after hearing this. ”

I was amazed at how much she knew about this, and besides, she was still living at her mother's house in Shangzhen the other day. I asked her, "How can you know all about this kind of thing?" she said, "Although our villages are far apart, we are all relatives and relatives, and when we talk together, we are talking about these things about the east and the west." Yesterday afternoon, one of my cousins happened to come to my mother-in-law's house, and I still listened to my sister-in-law. I said, "It seems that if that man with a flower intestine is caught, he will definitely not be spared." ”

Qiao Ling said, "Then can you still give people 2,000 yuan." I said, "Two thousand yuan can be sent away?" Qiao Ling said, "That Guiping is not an ordinary person, how can he give two thousand yuan to others smoothly? Normally, if you ask him to buy you a fake necklace or send you a flower scarf, it's okay, but if you want him to give you two thousand yuan, it's not the same as cutting his flesh." You city people may not take these two thousand yuan in their eyes, but in our mountains, even if you work hard for a year, you can't earn that much money. ”

I said, "Two thousand yuan is not a small number for us wage earners, and my monthly salary is just over a thousand, which is almost two months' salary." "It's just that I don't value these two thousand yuan, and people's reputation is much more important than these two thousand yuan. However, if 2,000 yuan is used to compensate the woman's family and eliminate their anger, it is much better than fighting with knives and sticks or going to court. If this kind of thing had happened in the city, it would have been much more troublesome and much more serious. A female staff member in our unit had a relationship with the department leader in this regard, and let his wife run to our unit to chase the female staff member and beat her to death. There was also a female teacher in my former unit who had an affair with the principal, and as a result, his wife cut her cheek with a fruit knife. In contrast, two thousand dollars is a very good way to solve this complex problem.

Follow the path by the stream to the west until you come to the edge of a village called Lawn, where there is a path facing south up the mountain. The trail is much narrower than the creek path, which can only be walked by a single person while the path by the creek can be walked by a walk-behind tractor. The steep slopes of the mountain were climbed one after another, and more than ten steep slopes were climbed in a row, and they reached a mountain beam. Above the ridge is a wide plateau covered with green grass and small white flowers.

Because of the continuous climb of more than ten steep slopes, the top of a very high mountain is above the mountain beam. Because the ridge of the mountain is an open flat land, if you stand on the top of the mountain and look to the west, you can see that the sun has stopped in the far west, illuminating the western peaks. Standing on the top of the high mountain, looking up, I saw that the sky was open, the weather was thousands, the eyes were full of green, and the mountains became smaller, so that people couldn't help but have a kind of high mountain to the top, and the majestic and heroic mountains at a glance. At this time, Qiao Ling pointed to the mountainous area opposite and said to me, that there is the territory of Shanyang. Her cousin's daughter-in-law's maiden home was over there. I looked over there, and the mountains seemed to be higher and denser, and the people were poorer, but the girls were beautiful.

In fact, standing here, you can see far away from the mountains and the horizon, where the clouds and mist and the mountains and seas are rare to see, and the surrounding mountain streams and peaks also have attractive scenery. Walking on the top of this mountain, you will feel very close to the heavens and far away from the earthly world. Our hearts will fly high, as if we can see a quiet and quiet river in the dense forest on the edge of the sky, and on the edge of the river, there is a dream-like date waiting for us, which makes us fascinated and impatient.

Because Qiao Ling walked very fast, I had to follow her closely, and many beautiful scenery could only pass by without an unobstructed view, but I couldn't calm down and slowly absorb the bottom of my heart. So, I would like to come back tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to visit and watch.