Chapter 15: Traveling Together in the Hometown 2
After climbing over the slope, I passed by a small pool, the water in which was crystal clear and cold, and it was said that it was the tears of the dragon king, and it had the effect of curing stubborn diseases.
But when he was a child, Li Shaohui didn't care so much, he often took off his clothes and played in it with a few friends, and if an adult saw it, he would scold and leave, but as soon as the adults left, they were still naughty.
If it is spring, there will be tadpoles here, and Li Shaohui will also catch a few and keep them in the water tank at home, and when they grow legs, the children's curiosity will pass, and they will be released into the river and left to their own devices.
After crossing the small pool, you will come to a small forest, where there are mostly birch trees, straight and tall, as if they are strong and unyielding. Because it is early autumn, the leaves have turned to a tender yellow, rustling in the mountain breeze.
"There are magpies!" Lin Yue'er shouted happily as she watched the magpies that had been jumping around in the forest foraging for food on the ground.
"It's not all, look at the ones on the trees..."Lin Yue'er followed Li Shaohui's fingers, there were several nests of birds built on the high branches, and there were a few beautiful magpies standing on the trees next to the nests, quietly looking into the distance, occasionally the wind blew, and the birch trees shook slightly, making the magpies go up and down, like swings, which is really interesting.
Magpies represent good fortune, so Li Shaohui Village has always had a fine tradition of protecting them.
Looking at the magpie, Li Shaohui also suddenly thought of another interesting childhood story, "Girl, let me tell you a story!"
"Hmm. ”
"When I was a child, something like this happened in this wood, one day I was playing here with a few friends, and I accidentally saw a green snake coiled around a tall birch tree, and there was a magpie nest at the top of this tree, and we didn't have to think much about it to know what the green snake wanted to do, so we worked together to knock it down from the tree, and stoned it to death, and then divided it into five horses, and then threw its body parts in several directions, do you think we were very kind at that time?"
Lin Yue'er pouted and said dissatisfiedly: "What kind heart? You are really so cruel, you just abused that green snake like that for the sake of the magpie, wouldn't it be good if you beat it away? Why do you have to cruelly dismember the body?"
Looking at Lin Yue'er's dissatisfied look, Li Shaohui had to explain: "Girl, you don't understand this, the snake has a saying in our village, people say that it is an evil spirit, it can remember the enemy who killed them before it is alive, if you don't separate their body parts, they only need to be exposed to the noon sun for seven days and will be resurrected on the spot, and then they will take the mighty same kind into the enemy's house to take revenge." ”
Lin Yue'er was skeptical and said, "You just talk nonsense, I don't believe it." Okay, let's not talk about such cruel things, you can talk about the bad things you did, I don't believe you did good things when you were a child. ”
Li Shaohui stroked his forehead and thought, and said: "Bad things, there are really not many, generally it is a homemade slingshot to bake sparrows and eat, sometimes we will go to the field in groups to find bird eggs, if we are lucky, we will also meet the newly hatched birds, then we will take them home one by one to raise, but there are too many mice in the village, and they will often be eaten by them within a few months." ”
"Ah, how can you do this? This is too cruel, isn't it?" Lin Yue'er looked at Li Shaohui again and complained.
Li Shaohui smiled bitterly: "Silly girl, at that time, we were all children, who knew this, and when everyone grew up, no one wanted to do this anymore." ”
The two talked and laughed, walked through the woods, and finally arrived at the cemetery of Li Shaohui's grandfather and grandmother. Looking at the kind second elder on the tombstone, Li Shaohui's eyes turned red and he almost shed tears. Lin Yue'er felt the same and held Li Shaohui's hand tightly. She pulled Li Shaohui to kneel down reverently, put snacks on the table, burned some paper money, thought about Rushui's heart, and was silent for a long time before she kowtowed her head and slowly stood up.
After a while, Li Shaohui also came back to his senses from the past, and smiled embarrassedly, "Girl, am I a little too pretentious..."
Lin Yue'er shook her head with a smile and sighed: "The leaves fall back to the roots, people always have to miss the past, reflex themselves, and find a home, only people who value love and righteousness will think like this, do this, this is what I appreciate most about you." As she was talking, she saw Li Shaohui's face showing a little smugness, so she stopped, looked at his complacent appearance, and pursed her lips and smiled.
After that, Li Shaohui took Lin Yue'er's hand and walked to rest under a big willow tree.
"This tree is so strange, why is there only a bare trunk left?" Lin Yue'er asked in surprise.
Li Shaohui explained: "This tree has a history, it was originally a lonely grave to welcome the soul, just because of the abundant rain in those years, it actually took root, survived, and flourished year by year. Perhaps because it absorbed too much yin energy, this tree grew into a towering tree in just a few years, looking like a willow forest from a distance, evil and gloomy. It was probably this evil qi that offended the wrath of the god of thunder, so in a heavy rain of lightning and thunder, it was struck by lightning and lightning, and it burned into a sea of fire, and it became like this. You see, you can still see the charred black of the fire, and its trunk burned to the ground. ”
"But even so, can it survive strongly?" Lin Yue'er looked at the scattered green leaves on the tree and was surprised and admired.
"So we always thought that this tree was spiritual and evil, and everyone didn't dare to care about it, so we let it fend for itself. ”
"Then let's go too!" Lin Yue'er pulled Li Shaohui into the distance, for fear of accidentally getting into bad luck.
The two rested for a while not far from the willow tree, and Li Shaohui asked, "Girl, are you tired?" If you are tired, we won't climb the mountain, and we will go home." ”
Lin Yue'er smiled when she heard this, stood up and made a jumping motion, meaning that she was still very energetic.
Li Shaohui smiled narrowly and said, "Okay, then when you are tired, you are not allowed to cry your nose or pester me." ”
Lin Yue'er didn't speak, but just snorted very arrogantly and gave Li Shaohui a big disdainful look.
Although the hill in Li Shaohui's hometown is not very high, the altitude is nearly 2,000 meters, and Li Shaohui has never really climbed to the top of the mountain, mainly because it takes several hours to get to the bottom of the mountain from home, and it takes a lot of time to climb to the top of the mountain and fold it down, so it will be late to return home, and it will inevitably be suspected and criticized by his family.
Li and Lin meandered all the way along the winding path in the mountain, and when they reached the halfway point of the mountain, Li Shaohui was already panting like a cow and sweating profusely, but Lin Yue'er was much better, although there were fine beads of sweat on her forehead, her face was normal, and she walked like flying.
She sneered softly at Li Shaohui with a smug expression. Li Shaohui blushed, the dignity of a man had already been thrown into the mountains by him, and he had praised Lin Yue'er in Haikou before, but he didn't expect the current world newspaper to come so quickly.
On the way up the mountain, Lin Yue'er moved forward easily, Li Shaohui followed behind and struggled to catch up, and it took about two hours for the two to reach the top of the mountain.
At this time, Li Shaohui was already tired and out of breath, so he found a clean boulder and sat down to lie down. Lin Yue'er also sat beside him lightly, wiping the sweat beads on his face for him.
After a while, Lin Yue'er stood up with both hands, looked at the scenery below the mountain and praised sincerely: "Shaohui, you see how beautiful it is, I didn't expect your hometown to be such a beautiful place." ”
Li Shaohui sat up and looked down the mountain, here is the branch of Heng Mountain, at present he is at the southern end of the peak, to the east across the peak of the mountains and mountains is to enjoy one of the five famous Heng Mountain Scenic Area, the west is the endless mountain range, disappearing in the endless fields, in the north is mostly the lofty mountain Junfeng, the strange peaks are listed, standing proudly. There are more than a dozen villages surrounded by mountain peaks in the southeast and north, but Li Shaohui's hometown is located in the middle, like the stars and the moon, which is also the reason why neighboring villages are often envious, saying that this is a place of feng shui that can produce many people.
At the foot of the mountain is a vast field, which is layered on top of each other, dotted with colorful herbs and trees, with a colorful layered beauty. When the evening breeze blows, a large area of grass and crops is poured, revealing a flock of sheep, leisurely eating grass and spreading joy, painting a picture of the wind blowing grass and seeing cattle and sheep.
Li Shaohui looked at Lin Yue'er with a smile and said, "Girl, if we are old, we will be a couple of old herdsmen and buy a few cattle and sheep here to graze, what do you say?"
Xu is a day of playing made Lin Yue'er feel tired, at this time she was bent on her legs, resting on her arms. She listened to Li Shaohui's words, and didn't reply, just said "um" lightly.
The mountain breeze blew her hair, and a few strands fell on her cheeks, which was playful and smart. Li Shaohui was sweet in his heart, so he quietly moved over, gently hugged her, and looked at it quietly, there is a kind of beauty that lasts for a long time, and there is a kind of love that lasts forever.
Li Shaohui was inexplicably moved in his heart, she really worked hard today, she played with herself for so long, and she didn't shout tired, and she listened to herself babbling about childhood trivial things all day, and she didn't feel bored at all. She is a good listener and can always empathize, accompanying herself sometimes joyful and sometimes sentimental.
Perhaps, this is what the confidante that men have been pursuing is like this.
Standing on the top of the mountain, accompanied by beautiful women, Li Shaohui suddenly had a pride in his heart of "being at the top of the mountain, seeing the mountains at a glance", and at this moment he also understood that the master in the novel likes to stand on the top of the mountain and think about life when he has nothing to do.
Li Shaohui's thoughts were flying, and he thought of the news about Xingguang that he had recently investigated. In the more than a year since he returned to his hometown, the Shanghai branch of Xingmang has flourished and grown, and has become the most important right-hand man of Xingmang headquarters.
Yu Qiangzhai has also become a big celebrity in the group, and I heard that he will join the core management of Xingmang after the year, and his future is smooth sailing, which is not bright.
It's just that on the day when he is famous and stands on the top of the mountain, will he really be happy? At that time, did he still have a brother who valued love and righteousness like himself? And did he have a virtuous and dignified wife like Lu Yao?
There are many emperors in history who have betrayed their feelings and finally fought their way out to stand at the top of power, but when they are in infinite scenery, they suddenly look back, aren't they all bent over their waists, touching their gray beards, sighing at their memories?
Li Shaohui sighed in confusion. At this time, the sunset was already red, and the white clouds on the horizon were burned into a brilliant sunset, and the glow flowed, sometimes fiery red mixed with gold, sometimes light blue pregnant with purple. The cloud form is also ever-changing and unpredictable.
Li Shaohui hadn't seen such a beautiful sunset for a long time, and he couldn't help but be fascinated, he remembered that when he returned from grazing when he was a child, he often liked to sit upside down on the back of a donkey and enjoy this gorgeous scenery.
If for the rest of his life, Lin Yue'er could always accompany him like now, silently appreciating this beautiful scenery, how good would it be? Li Shaohui yearned, but in a blink of an eye, his mood was extremely depressed, this time when he returned to Shanghai, not to mention how to end the matter of Yu Qiangzhai, that is, how to promise Xia Xue and Tang Fengling, the three women who were cut off from him, how should he face it?
For some reason, the uncertain Li Shaohui has always had a faintly bad illusion recently, and it is very likely that going back this time will be a tragedy of "eating all the birds and throwing themselves into the forest, and leaving a piece of white and the land is really clean".
"But, can you do it if you don't go back?" Li Shaohui was sad in his heart, and turned his head to look at Lin Yue'er again.
At this time, Lin Yue'er had already woken up, and was looking at the sunset stupidly, her fair face was crossed by the setting sun with a layer of soft golden light, looking holy and lonely. What did she make in the temple, and did she also foresee a bad fate in the future?
Li Shaohui was worried, although his hometown was in front of him, it had gradually drifted away, and the warmth of his childhood could only be pursued in the dream of memory, and the beautiful home in his heart had just been built in the company of Lin Yue'er, and now it was about to collapse?
Could it be that when the sun sets, it is the moment when the song is over, and the broken intestine is also at the end of the world?