The Ladder of Love (Part II) Zhang Baotong 2017.10.10

For decades, I walked almost as far as I walked up and down the hill and didn't know how wide the road was outside, and I lived in my own hut all day long, not knowing that there were such tall buildings outside. Sitting on the plane, I was so scared, afraid that the plane would fall from the sky. And the mobile phone, which can make phone calls to people far away, and the air conditioner that cools the air in the house. All in all, the outside world was a real eye-opener for me.

I lived in Nanjing for six days, and during these six days, the food, shelter and sight were too different from my life, one in the sky and the other on the earth. At first, I thought it was so novel, but later, I began to think about my home, thinking that it would be great if Aunt Xiu came out with us, and let her see this colorful world of flowers. It's a pity that she has stayed on the mountain in the middle of the slope all her life, and she has never tasted these prosperous beauties and human pleasures. However, it's not interesting for me to enjoy these things alone, if only the two of us enjoyed them together.

I also made a lot of jokes when I went out this time. I went into the toilet of the hotel and saw the new toilet trough in the toilet, and I felt that this place was so clean that I didn't dare to make it convenient inside. When I got into the elevator, the elevator went up, and I was so scared that I almost fell. Sitting on the plane, the plane just flew together, I was so scared that I didn't dare to open my eyes, I was always afraid that the plane would fall from the sky, and my heart was pounding, until the plane landed, I breathed a long sigh of relief. There are also doors in the hotel, open and lock the door, I haven't learned how many times I have learned. When I went to the restaurant to eat, there were so many dishes, chicken, duck and fish, and all kinds of famous dishes were on a big table, these dishes were so expensive, looking at this expensive dish, I only went to pick up those small dishes, and I didn't dare to eat those big dishes. When I visited the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, I felt more familiar, because I knew Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek. Originally, I thought that it would be difficult to talk and deal with people outside because I didn't know them, but I didn't expect that all of them were very warm and friendly to me, which made me feel happy.

Participating in this party, the TV station gave me 4,000 yuan, I have never seen so much money, and I have never earned so much money in my life. With all that money, I felt like I was dreaming. However, this dream is real, and there is no sense of illusion at all. But what am I going to do with all this money? I don't know, because we don't lack anything, we don't want to buy anything. On the day I left Nanjing, everyone else bought a lot of things for my family, and I also wanted to buy some things for Aunt Xiu so that she could be happy. However, I followed others around the street for a long time, and I also saw a lot of rare and very good things, but when I saw the price, it made people startled, and it was expensive to die, so I followed others around for most of the day, and I didn't buy a penny of anything.

After I left Banpotou, Xiugu couldn't stay alone in the mountains, she felt very lonely and bored, she didn't have the heart to work, she didn't have the heart to eat, and she didn't have the heart to stay in the house. So, she started to go down the mountain after eating casually in the morning, and only came to Liu San's house at noon. It just so happened that Liu Sanjia installed a landline last month, and she picked up the landline to call Zhou Jilin, who led the team, and asked me if I was okay outside. Zhou Jilin gave me his mobile phone and asked me to answer the phone. I told her that I was fine outside, and asked her not to worry, and that she was afraid to live alone in the mountains at night, so she would stay at her son's house. However, she was not used to living in her son's house. So, after making the phone call and having dinner, she walked up the mountain, returned to the mountain, cooked some more food, and went to sleep behind closed doors.

That day, when she heard that I was coming back, she went down the mountain early and stayed at Liu San's house to wait for me. We had dinner at my son's house, and we went home together on the mountain. Along the way, I told her a lot of new things I had seen. I told her that the phone could talk to people far away, that there were people on the TV who could move around as if we had seen people on the street, that airplanes could fly around like birds, and that air conditioning could cool a hot house. I spoke to her about electric lights in particular. It is said that with electric lights, there is no need for kerosene lamps, and the electric lights are clean and bright, like little suns. But Xiugu said, "Isn't the kerosene lamp very good?" We have used it for many years, and we haven't heard anything bad from you. I told her that electricity can be used for many purposes, such as lighting, watching TV, air conditioners and refrigerators. Xiugu asked me what electricity was. I can't tell you clearly, so I just said that you haven't seen it, and I told you that you don't understand.

Two months later, Liu San's home had electricity and a TV. Xiugu saw that her son's electric lights were very bright and the TV was good, so she asked me to go to the village leaders and tell them that we also need electricity. I found the village chief, and the village chief told me to go to the town to find the mayor. So, I went to the town and found the mayor. The mayor said to me, don't worry, let's have a meeting to discuss, the city has a plan, to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to build a 'ladder of love' tourist attractions, and will definitely send electricity to Banpotou Mountain.

At the end of 2006, they really sent electricity to Banpotou Mountain, and we began to use electricity, and an individual boss came up to play on the mountain, and when he saw that we didn't have a TV in the house, he sent us a big color TV. ”

At this point in the story, Aunt Xu continued, "The young man went out and told me a lot of rare things when he came back. He said how fancy the people outside dressed, how high the high-rise buildings were, and how soft the beds in the hotel were, and how comfortable to sleep in, but he still liked to sleep in his own home. He told me about those new and rare things for a whole month. I was moved by what I heard, and I wanted to go out and have a look, but I still had to come back after reading it, as long as I was with him, it was a golden nest and a silver nest outside, and there was no place like our own earthen nest. ”

Listening to their narration and dialogue, I thought that under the strong collision of modern civilization and ancient life patterns, these two old people have been able to calmly begin to accept the outside world after experiencing fear, evasion, and curiosity, and are gradually changing their lives, but there are still many things that have not changed in them, and those things that have not changed are their simplicity, their love that is not stained with dirt, and the "love ladder" on the cliff.