Chapter 17: Memories of Youth (1)
During the Qingming Festival, it rains a lot, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.
The boy with a travel bag on his back walked with difficulty on a particularly narrow and slippery ridge in the field. A man in a black shirt walked up, holding an umbrella in one hand and a transparent plastic bag in the other, which contained some sacrificial items such as incense, candles, paper money, etc.
He hurried without raising his head, and when he met the young man who was in the way, he passed by with hatred. The inexperienced boy just stepped on a lump of mud, and was tripped over like this, and he slipped into the seedling field under the ridge in embarrassment.
"Hey...... Are you so good at walking, tired of it!" the boy grabbed the mud and threw it at the man.
The man in the black shirt dodged nimbly, and spat at the young man with a strong momentum, "Bah! I can't walk the road, who is to blame? Why don't you fall to death you rabbit cub......?"
The man laughed unscrupulously and left, and the boy "crackled" and threw a few more lumps of mud over, "What the hell are you talking about?
He was angry and wanted to rush up to theorize, but the ridge was very slippery, and the weeds on it were particularly immature, and they broke when he grabbed it, and he couldn't climb it after trying several times.
At this moment, he was covered in mud, he couldn't see the human appearance at all, and he looked indescribably embarrassed.
It was also his bad luck that on this day, it was the Qingming Festival, the cold mixed with the drizzle poured down, and the water in the rice field was cold and biting. There is a vast expanse between heaven and earth, so that people cannot see the way forward and do not know the way back.
"Ah...... ......The boy was about to scold again, but a loud sneeze interrupted him, and a long list of snots was very embarrassing, and it fell down with a "snort".
He raised his hand and wiped it with his sleeve very rudely, as if he had a grudge against someone.
Anyway, the new clothes he just changed into were dirty enough, and he couldn't care about any clean and neat etiquette anymore.
Just such a kung fu of wiping his nose, the movement was a little bigger, so that he lost his balance when he was trying to climb, and even fell into the seedling field with an umbrella in embarrassment.
The green umbrella with folded wings was lonely in the mud not far away, and the young man sat in the paddy field, wet and cold, and a gust of wind blew, which made him experience the despair of "calling the heavens and the earth not spiritual".
After calming down, a hot pain hit his wrist, he endured his anger, put his hands in the rain and washed them, and grinned and blew the wound to relieve the pain, "Whew...... Whew......"
At that moment, a shadow suddenly hung over him, shielding him from the continuous rain.
He looked up curiously, and found that it was a young woman with an oil-paper umbrella, dressed in coarse cloth clothes woven of homespun cloth, with her hair tied high, and carrying a bamboo basket commonly used by farmers on her back, looking at him with a smile.
This looks a little old-fashioned and outdated, but it is unexpectedly not ugly on her body.
Before his most embarrassed appearance was exposed, the young man stood up a little helplessly, and used a fierce tone to hide his embarrassment, "What do you see, haven't you seen a man?"
"Huh...... I've never seen such an embarrassment. The woman smiled, not frightened by his evil deeds, but looked at him with a smile, stretched out her hand, and said kindly, "Come on...... I'll pull you up!"
"Uh...... Can you do it? I don't want to fall again. The young man looked at the girl's slender wrist, with a look of suspicion and disgust, and his tone was a lot softer, after all, he didn't stretch out his hand to hit the smiling person!
The girl smiled dumbly, and said with certainty: "Don't worry, even if you are a pig, I can pull you up." ”
"You are a pig, your whole family is a pig!" the young man was angry like a wild lion whose tail had been stepped on, and stared at the girl viciously.
"Okay, whatever you want, either I'll do a good deed and pull you up, or you'll find your own way out of this paddy field and choose for yourself?"
Seeing that the young man still looked like I was angry and didn't want to deal with you, she turned around and wanted to leave, "If you want to rub it off any longer, I'm leaving." ”
The boy is not stupid, and if he knows that if he doesn't know each other again, he may really be trapped in this cold seedling field.
"Hey...... It's a big deal, just pull her down and make a cushion on her back, who told her to dare to be disrespectful to me?" the young man thought ill-intentionedly.
Then he grabbed the girl's hand with great strength and pulled it down hard.
The teenager has always liked fitness sports, and the height of one meter eight is naturally not small. Her face was red, and the girl didn't move.
The girl's strength was really not covered, I saw that she shrank back very calmly, and the young man's nearly 100 catties of meat were pulled up by her, and she stood firmly on the ridge.
The young man was not convinced, and the dead duck looked at her stiffly, "Cut, I really underestimate you, you are worthy of being a country woman, and your strength is great." ”
The women around him were all delicate women, so weak that they fell ill when the wind blew. There are really very few existences like maidens.
The girl skimmed him, and didn't go to her heart, but said helplessly: "A pair of working hands naturally have great strength, and they can't compare to you people in the city." ”
"You haven't walked this kind of road at first glance, have you? You follow my heels, and you can see where I step on them, so that it is not easy to slip. ”
It seemed that she was hurt by the young man's words, and the girl walked forward without looking back with an umbrella. The young man wanted to taunt a few more words, but he couldn't take care of it at this time, so he quickly followed attentively.
Until she sent the boy onto a small street paved with bluestone slabs, the girl nodded goodbye to him and walked to the end of the street.
"That...... Hey......" The young man shouted in a somewhat stiff tone, and the girl turned her head to look at him suspiciously, but he suddenly didn't know what to say, and hesitated in place for a while.
The girl shouted at him, "Are you all so arrogant in the city?
Turning around, the girl stopped paying attention to him, and walked away without looking back.
The young man pursed his lips, hugged his bag tightly, and muttered uncontrollably: "Hmph! This girl is a rose, right?
He had to find a place to stay quickly, otherwise he would have to freeze to death with wet clothes, and then he went from house to house.
After walking for a long time before knocking on the door of a house, he asked an old man impatiently, "Hey...... Fellow, is there a hotel here?"
The old man tilted his ears sideways, tilted his head, and looked uncertain, "Ah, what are you talking about? There are only wine sellers on the street, you go that way!"
The old man pointed to a junction not far away, and was about to close the door. The young man hurriedly put his hand against it, and explained anxiously, "It's not wine, it's a hotel?"
"There are pigs on the street, so let's go quickly, it's too late." ”
The old man still wanted to close the door, but the young man just refused to let him go, and said loudly: "You uncle, your ears are not good, I am asking you...... Where is there a place to sleep?"
"Ah, dumplings, all of them, all of them, all of them there. ”
The boy was so angry that the bull didn't say anything to the horse's mouth.
"Oh, you offspring, get out of the way, don't put anything unclean in there. ”
The old man was annoyed by the young man, so he pushed him away directly, and locked the door with a "bang", as if some flood beast was about to come in outside the door.
The boy staggered to his feet, and after kicking him hard, he walked away scolding, "Wow, you're sick, you're unlucky." ”
After walking for an hour, he didn't see a few figures, and there was no response to knocking on the door, this small village was like a ghost village, and as the sky became darker and darker, his heart became more and more hairy.