Dongxiang Ancient Village (novella love story) Zhang Baotong

Wen Li walked to the edge of her field and saw her grandmother wearing an old casual dress, with her trouser legs pulled up high, and she was holding a shovel to drain the water. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Grandma saw Wen Li coming back from the township, stopped what she was doing, smiled like the morning sun on her face, and said, "My Ali, tired after a morning walk?"

Wen Li drank the herbal tea in one go, put down the bowl, and said to her mother, "Grandma, I'm not going to work today, I'm busy with your work." Grandma hurriedly said, "No, no, don't get your clothes dirty." You are now a learned and working person, and you can't be like grandma. ”

Wen Li is wearing clean and beautiful work clothes. This kind of work clothes is only one set per person, and it must not be soiled, otherwise it will be affected when going to work. So, hearing what Grandma said, Wen Li nodded and said, "Then I'll go home." ”

After walking through the fields and woods, we entered the village. As soon as I entered the village, I met a sister who shouted to her from afar, "Sister Wenli, why are you only coming back now, that Guilin tour guide has been waiting for you for a long time, and he walked by just now." ”

Wen Li asked, "What is he looking for me?" Sister Ah said, "I sent you a photo, and when I saw that you were not there, I sent it to your house." Wen Li couldn't help but be stunned, because there was also a photo of her and the tour guide in the photo. If my grandmother sees this, it will be worth it!

So, she hurried home, and the door was locked. Then she remembered that she had left in a hurry in the morning and had forgotten to bring her keys. So, I went to the house to find Abba. Because Abba loves to go to the house to play pai gow when he has nothing to do.

The house is actually a large hall located in the center of the village and can accommodate seven or eight hundred people. There are four doorways in the house, but there are no doors, so anyone can enter and exit at any time. This was once the drum tower of the Dong family, with a total of three floors and a height of 13 meters, but it was destroyed by fire in the 60s, so it was later built at the expense of the commune.

There is a small shop in the big house, which is opened by Sister Huaqin, and is run by Brother Qiao, a man from Huaqin. Next to the small shop there were two or three small tables and one or twenty small stools. This is a place provided by the flower piano house for those who play cards. Although these tables, stools and venues are free, everyone who plays cards is required to smoke. Cigarettes have to be bought from small shops.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw Abba sitting at the card table and gambling with several men. They put some bamboo pai gow as big as a bookmark, engraved with points, put them on a small table, stack them, touch two to four pieces per person, and then bet money, and after betting money, they start to compare pips, whoever has a bigger pip wins.

Pai Gow used to be played by older men, and did not gamble money, even if the money was gambled on one or two corners at a time, but now most of the people who play Pai Gow are married middle-aged or young men. They don't have to work in the fields, they just watch the children cook at home, and they are relatively leisurely, and sometimes when they are bored at home, they go around the house and watch others play cards. Looking at it, I learned it, and I wanted to touch two handfuls, but I became addicted and developed a habit. Although they don't have much money on them, they are bold and have a big appetite, and they don't take a dime or two dimes in their eyes at all. Therefore, sometimes if you have bad luck, you can lose dozens of yuan at a time. Therefore, the Dong family calls the person who plays cards a loser.

Seeing Wen Li suddenly enter the house, someone whispered to Abba to call the police, "Your Wen Li is here." Abba immediately panicked and hurriedly stood up, as if he was afraid of his daughter's discipline. Wen Li has long known that Abba loves to play cards, although she doesn't like it, but she can't dissuade her, because Abba is usually not good at talking, and she doesn't like to talk to others, as if she has a lot of troubles in her heart, and she frowns all day long. It is only when playing cards that you can see his brow stretch slightly. Therefore, she could not bear to disturb Abba's interest. Seeing that Abba looked panicked, he said in a calm tone, "Abba, you give me the key." ”

Abba hurriedly gave her the key, and then was about to leave. But the others didn't want to leave, they were waiting for him to draw cards. He looked a little embarrassed, and looked into his daughter's eyes. Wen Li looked at this situation and said, "Abba, you play for a while, I'll cook." Abba hurriedly said gratefully, "It's okay, but don't tell your grandma." Wen Li said, "Don't say it." ”

When I got home, I opened the door and saw a large envelope stuffed into the crack of the door. The envelope contained a picture taken by the tour guide of the day for their sisters, and a letter that read:

Dear sister, I've been thinking about you since I first met you. I think I'm in love with you. But do I really hate me so much that you always avoid me as if you have some preconceptions against me, and if there is something I don't like you, please point it out and I will try to correct it. In two or three days, I may come again, and then we will meet again. Xu Yalong.

After reading the letter two or three times in a row, Wen Li smiled, and after thinking about it carefully, she felt that the tour guide was actually not annoying, and even a little likable. If he hadn't kept bringing tourists to their village, how could the villagers and the village, and their sisters, have such a good income? But she didn't want to mix this with love, after all, they belonged to different nationalities, and each had its own marriage customs.

She hid his letter and their photograph in a drawer in the bedroom of the embroidery building, locked it with a copper lock. Sometimes, when I have nothing to do, I open the drawer, take out the letter and the group photo, and look at it for a while, and I feel a warm feeling permeating and rising in the heart. This made her begin to have an urge and anticipation to see him.

That afternoon, the tour guide named Xu Yalong came with a large carload of tourists. He was the first to jump out of the car, and he was not in a hurry to organize tourists to line up to enter the village, so he ran straight in front of Wen Li, and said with a smile, "Where did you go two days ago, so I waited for an hour or two." Wen Li deliberately lowered her face and said, "I didn't let you wait." But the tour guide was not angry, continued to smile, sat down beside Wen Li, and asked in a low voice, "Have you seen the photos and letters?" Wen Li said without a smile while embroidering flowers, "I didn't see it." The tour guide said, "It's impossible not to see it." As he spoke, he snatched the embroidered cloth from Wen Li's hand and said in a pleading tone, "What do I dislike about you?"

Yuhua next to her saw the two of them talking, so she came over and coaxed her, "Brother and sister are whispering, let's listen to it." Wen Li's face flushed, and she said to everyone, "We are not lovers, what are you whispering?" However, Sister Yuxiu said, "We don't know about the two of you." As he spoke, he sang: "The affection of brother and sister is long, as if the flowing water rings day and night." As soon as she sang, all the sisters gathered around and sang together:

Brother and sister's affection is deep,

It is like a plantain root;

Brother is like a banana leaf,

Ah Mei is the heart of the plantain.

The sisters sang like this, attracting tourists to come and watch, and Wen Li was so ashamed that she couldn't raise her head. She hurriedly ran to the bathroom. By the time she came out of the bathroom, the tourists had already asked a sister to take her to the village. On the other side of the pergola, only the tour guide and other sisters were laughing.

Wen Li heard the tour guide asking Yuhua from afar, "What are the conditions for marrying your little sister of the Dong nationality?" Yuhua said, "See which sister you want to marry?" The tour guide said, "For example, the beautiful sister just now." Yuhua said, "You mean Sister Wenli?" The tour guide said, "Yes!" Yuhua said, "Then why don't you ask her?" The tour guide touched his head and said, "Why am I embarrassed to ask her, and she won't tell me if I ask." You didn't see her cold look at me, as if she had a grudge against me in my previous life. ”