The next day, the landlord and I took Luo Luo and Miss Q to Guigang, the ------city where Du Kang was located, and took a few more trains to his town, but it was still not our final destination when we got to that town. We took a two-and-a-half-hour high-speed train from Guilin to Guigang, then an hour's bus from Guigang to Shilong Town, and finally found a van after two hours of exposure to the sun. In fact, we were hindered by countless obstacles that day, for example, when we read the wrong high-speed rail ticket, waited for an hour at the high-speed rail station without breakfast, and finally because our No. 16 carriage plus we only had seven or eight people, the food seller on the high-speed rail forgot about us. For example, when we arrived in Shilong Town, the whole town had a power outage, and all the shops had no food and no air conditioning, saying that there was no food at all, but it was not, only a few snail noodles could still operate normally, but when I was wet with sweat and never dried, I definitely didn't want to eat snail noodles without air conditioning and fans, especially when the temperature was as high as 37 degrees. In fact, a simple power outage is nothing, and the road maintenance workers outside are driving two work trucks full of asphalt, making the temperature and smell unbearable.

Du Kang drove to Shilong to pick us up, on the way from Shilong to Houlu, I saw rice and sugar cane on both sides, Du Kang explained to me: "Our fields and fields are all planted with this, and there are also patches of eucalyptus trees on the mountain, because eucalyptus and sugarcane do not need to be taken care of, and rice is because our side belongs to the farmland reserve, so we don't grow much except for these three things." "Are these the main sources of income?" I asked, like an ignorant child. "Yes, that's basically all I earn, but I still have a lot of free time, for example, I raise a lot of pigs and cows, chickens and ducks, and other people often work outside the home, and young people basically work outside. ”

This road is long for me, I can't stand the hot weather, although the air conditioning on Du Kang's car is very good, but it makes me feel that it is not only because of this, there are two mining areas on this road, according to Du Kang, it is a kind of black and black mine, because of these two mines, the road is always dusty, no matter how white the car is, you can change the color as long as you pass by, and the fields in the distance are full of potholes that are more or less different in size because of the underground cavities and collapse.

The next section of the road let me realize what is called "guarding the clouds scattered to see the moon", after the road of transporting waste land in the mining area, what catches my eye is the rice field, or "rice sea", what is called the sea, as far as the eye can see, endless, it is far away I don't know how many miles, when the wind blows, the ears are full of "rustling" sound, the sound of "rice waves" is not as turbulent as the Yellow River, not as magnificent as the Dongting, but in the calm there is this incomparably not weaker momentum, there is no sound of the city's engine and the sound of rapid development, this pleasant sound makes me more pleasant. When we arrived at Houlu Village, we continued to move forward until we passed through one eucalyptus forest after another, and arrived at a road guarded by countless tall pine trees, for me, this road was no worse than the "cherry blossom road" of Wuhan University, with occasional cicadas chirping on the trees, and the sunlight passing through the pine leaves. What followed was a fishpond that fed the entire village of Changtang, irrigated countless farmlands, sent away countless crops of rice, and guarded the return journeys of countless young people.

Du Kang's house is not far from the fish pond, a few breaths away, he surrounded a clearing with a bamboo forest, his old cattle and their children are leisurely eating "fish grass" there, fish grass is a kind of weed in Guilin, I don't know what it is called, they call it fish grass here, it is a plant that they have been used to raise cattle and sheep, and even specially planted. Du Kang's house is also surrounded by bamboo, there is a cowshed under the bamboo forest, and even for a moment I envied the group of cattle, even envy, envy made me feel that I am not as good as them, they are a group of good cattle, Su Shi once wrote: It is better to eat no meat than to live without bamboo. No meat makes people thin, and no bamboo makes people vulgar. People are thin and fat, but people are not curable. They are extremely elegant, playing in the bamboo forest, dwelling in the bamboo forest, I have tried to get close to them, but they have not paid attention to me until my hand touches their heads, and they have never looked at me directly, you see, this is the difference between Yashi and such ordinary people as me. The birds, beasts, fish and insects here are not afraid of people, I have had countless close contact with birds, stroked the carp in the fish pond, stayed the dragonfly at the fingertips, watched the cicada vibrate the eardrum, looked at the toad, greeted each cat and dog, this is what makes me happy, so that I get out of the cage of the city, I have not touched the mobile phone in the past few days, even if it is in a daze with the rice field, it is all pleasant to me, without the fast-paced whipping in the city, every day the villagers have done their own things, at noon and at night they will gather at a certain house, drink their own wine together, talk about the recent events with their throats and bare arms, and exchange how to plant rice to be able to harvest a bumper harvest, how to raise pigs with firm meat, and whose old cattle gave birth to a little calf, these homely things can not be seen through the door, and they cannot be found on the Internet.

There is a moon in the countryside, the stars will still blink, the mosquitoes are really bigger than the city, the frogs and cicadas are noisy but can make people sleep, in the past few days, I no longer have insomnia, go to bed early, wake up early, do not miss the sunrise, do not miss the sunset, can say hello to the bamboo that has just grown behind, and say good night to the old scalper behind the house, for people like me who are locked by the city and locked by themselves, these days of freedom are really excellent.

July 24 is the "community day" here, the community day here is extremely grand, the first day of the family to Shilong town to purchase all kinds of needed items and dishes, Du Kang's family is to prepare eight pig's trotters, I don't know how many chickens, I don't know how many meat dogs, even more than a lonely person like me for the New Year. There are many people who come, lunch and dinner are, the three aunts and six mothers will visit, their etiquette is not as cumbersome as Guilin, people come empty-handed, full stomach walking, and even passing by, will be pulled over to drink two glasses, that is not bold, and never pressure wine, that is, just when you pass by, I have wine, let's drink a glass that can even be called going with the flow, this feeling, very good.

If I could, I would like to "work at sunrise and rest at sunset". Live in the bamboo woodland, and rest in the bamboo forest at night.

After the day of the society was Tian Hui's death day, we stood in front of the tombstone together, Du Kang said softly: "It's really fast, it's been three years." I nodded, "yes, it's been three years." "Because of Du Kang's customs, if someone leaves, it can only be a grave within three years, and no monument can be erected, and no grave can be repaired, so Du Kang is here alone for three years, but except for me and Du Kang, no one knows, in fact, this is just a clothed mound, an empty tomb. Tian Hui is not far from Du Kang's house, although it is a burial mound, there are no weeds, Du Kang said: "I like to sit alone and talk to her, I believe she will be able to hear." After saying that, he squatted down and put a few pieces of paper money on the new monument, and lit two more candles.

He handed me the incense: "You are her best friend in life, this first incense, bring it to you." I nodded, took the nine incense sticks he helped light up, and bowed to Tian Hui's tombstone, and inserted them into the soil. Then the landlord and Du Kang, Luo Luo and Miss Q also gave Tian Hui incense, and the landlord and I introduced Luo Luo and Miss Q in front of her tombstone, I don't know if she knows each other, but if she is still there, she should be happy for me, after all, we used to urge each other to give birth to a godson or goddaughter.

That night, Luo Luo and I were lying on the roof of Du Kang's house, we looked at the stars in the sky, I told her the story of Du Kang and Tian Hui, she asked: "If it were me, I would be with you in the last time, and then close my eyes in your arms, there is nothing happier than dying in the arms of my lover." I shook my head: "If it were me, I would be like Tian Hui, I would also leave, and I would also run far away alone, so that you don't know me, and I won't even let you know why." She hit me: "You're so ruthless." I looked at the stars in the sky and said, " I once had a dog, it came to me three months after it was born, I raised it for fifteen years, when I was still young, countless times in the middle it was almost given away by my mother, I always took it, I said no matter what, I will not give it up, it accompanied me through the years that I couldn't survive, I will part with it one day, but I hope I can give it a full life, one morning I got up, I can't see it, I look for it, I can't find it, I call it, it doesn't bother me anymore, I call it, it doesn't bother me anymore, and finally I see it lying there under the curtain, its eyes are open, its breathing is slow, I pick it up, it whimpers a little, as if blaming me for finding it, I held it, kept talking to it, its tears slowly remained, it was old, the tears were thick, I also cried, the tears flowed to it, it used its last strength to stick out its tongue on my face to leave its last companionship to me, I don't remember when, its eyes closed, at that moment, I cried, I seemed to understand why it was hiding, hiding under the curtains, it wanted to hide in a place I couldn't see and couldn't find, but the room was so big. After saying that, my tears also fell, Rollo wiped my tears for me and got into my arms, I hugged her and continued: " I know that kind of pain, that kind of pain that is uncomfortable even breathing, if it were me, I knew that I would die soon, I wouldn't let you know, I would leave you silently, so that you could never find it again, so that you would hate me, you would blame me for saying goodbye, but a lifetime is so long, there is still a lot of time, you will meet different people, you will encounter different things, soon, I will be erased from your mind, occasionally think of me, you will also feel that you are naïve, you will not think, my departure is a big deal, but I am not ladylike, and at that time, I was just like Tian Hui, dissolved in the loess, or dissipated in the wind。 She drilled into my arms again, I looked at her and said: "That kind of pain, if you can, I hope you will never experience it in your life, I used to go to school, I learned a text, it was Lin Juemin wrote to Chen Yiying's "Book with Wife", I always felt that Lin Juemin was stupid, even if it was a love story, he should let his lover live longer, and later I found out that in fact, where he was stupid, he also knew that kind of pain, and let me die first, and you would rather die before me. ”