Chapter 55: Into the Mountain
Today, the old captain came to pick up Liu Yujin and them, and it was because of the sale of wild things that they opened the door that had been closed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info made them see a way out in the fear of suddenly losing the help of the planned economy, and saw a more hopeful prospect than before.
Xie Quanzhong laughed even more proudly, "That's! If it weren't for Zhihong's words, I wouldn't have believed it! I didn't expect my nephew to be so capable now." ”
The old captain couldn't look down on his cousin's tail that was about to rise to the sky, but he had to hold back his sullen breath and endure it, who let him have a bold nephew who could help them sell mountain goods in the county seat! Seeing Xie Chengshu and them approaching, he hurriedly smiled and walked a few steps forward to shake hands with Liu Yujin: "Yujin's eldest nephew! I heard that you have sent rice from afar, and we will go down the mountain all the way down the mountain in the morning to meet you." ”
Liu Yujin smiled politely: "Uncle, you and my uncle are waiting at the foot of the mountain, why do you have to run such a long way?
"I'm not tired, I'm not tired! I'm waiting for people who are in a hurry! No, I don't feel tired at all when I look at it all the way. ”
The old captain replied while happily looking at Liu Yujin, who was mature and had an aura, and secretly sighed in his heart: The old saying 'Qian Zhuang is heroic' is really true, look at Yu Jin's current vigorous and clear style, where can he still remember when he took his daughter-in-law and younger siblings here to beg for a living, that down, shabby, and shrunken look!?
Once in the town, the old captain took charge of the town, and instead of resting in the town, he took them all the way to a village at the foot of the mountain, to the house of a captain with whom he got along well. There are many wolves in the deep mountains, and they can't be lit with torches, for fear of causing mountain fires, so they will not go up and down the mountain in the middle of the night unless they have to. The villages below the mountain know this situation of the mountain people, even if they are not familiar with each other, as long as they know that it is indeed the people from the mountains, if they catch up with the overnight stay, they will generally be willing to receive them.
This captain and Captain Xie often have meetings together, receive food, make approvals, etc., and they will meet each other on various official matters, and sometimes they will come back from the town together. When it gets late, the old captain will stay overnight. Old Captain Xie also rushed to his favor, tea, hares, pheasants, charcoal, and other rare things in the mountains, he would bring one or two things to his family every time, and he never was empty-handed. Over time, the two captains were like relatives.
This time, Captain Xie brought a large group of people over for the first time to spend the night, and the captain did not slack off at all and received him warmly. There was no extra bed, so they laid a thick straw and made a long bunk on the floor so that they could sleep for a long time.
The next day, Captain Xie put the old cow and the cart at the captain's house here, no matter what, he asked Liu Yujin to follow him up the mountain, Liu Yujin couldn't excuse himself, he really couldn't do it, so he had to climb the stone mountain road that made him daunted by twists and turns, and dangers were everywhere.
The mountain is all stone from the foot of the mountain three miles up, and the clay is only a thin layer on the surface. Such a mountain road does not have the yellow sticky mud that cannot be shaken off when it is stained, and it is neat to walk in rain and snow. But it's also because it's full of stones, and when it's raining and snowing, you don't have to turn your head at all, and it's especially dangerous to slip three times in one step.
What is even more regrettable is that in the early days of liberation, the engineering team came from above to build the road, but because these stones were too difficult to chisele, the manpower and material resources consumed were too large, and this was not an important place, the plan to open up the mountain road was then shelved. The old captain was still young at that time, and he had been pleasantly surprised by the big guys, but now that decades have passed, he knows that the road construction is not worth counting on. It's just that I can't help but feel sorry in my heart. Seeing Yu Jin's nephew carefully staggering step by step in front, he remembered what he said about building the road at that time: "Hey, when you were just liberated, if you took advantage of the momentum to build this road, your ox cart would be able to climb the mountain, and you wouldn't have to climb the mountain so much!"
When Jiefang Chu talked about road construction, Liu Yujin had already heard the big guys say it last time he was begging for a living in the mountains. Therefore, he can understand what the old captain said. It's just that it's useless to understand, this road has not been built after all, isn't it? From time to time, I looked up with admiration and envy to see them carrying more than a hundred pounds of hemp bags in front of me, and they could still be the adult trees on the mountain.
Before they reached the steepest whistle peak, Xie Zhihong and Xie Shounan took the old people down the mountain to pick them up. When Xie Shounan saw them, he shouted to Xie Quanzhong, who was walking in the front, from afar: "Grandpa, why are you so fast? I thought I would have to go to the foot of the mountain to pick you up?"
Xie Quanzhong looked up at his great-grandson angrily, he couldn't shout at such a distance, old man, he didn't have that enough breath.
Xie Zhishan saw his father's panting and old state of resting one step at a time, and couldn't help complaining: "Dad! I said that you are too old, and you can't stand this tiredness when you go up and down the mountain." You just don't listen to me, you have to come with the old captain, you see how tired you are now!"
"Okay! hurry up and help replace them, don't be verbose with me!" Xie Quanzhong really felt that he was old, and he had only climbed a little bit of this mountain road, so he was so tired that he didn't bother to speak.
After entering the Xie family's Zhuangzi, the old and the young, men and women, all ran out, as if watching a big play, making Liu Yujin cry and laugh. Fortunately, my cousin and aunt, although I haven't seen each other for more than ten years, I can still get to know each other, and we can still say a few words in a short time when we meet.
Liu Yujin was surrounded by the Xie family, especially the few children who had been to his house and came back first, pulling his shirt or trouser legs, and showing off to Zhuangzi's friends: "This is my cousin! Take us in a big car, it's fun in the city!"
was torn by the children so that his pants always slipped down, Liu Yujin was secretly glad that he was good-looking, and asked the little brother in the army for an armed belt to tie around his waist, otherwise, the pants would have to be torn off by the children today. The eldest uncle of the Xie family finally saw that his nephew and grandson were having difficulty walking by several children, and hurriedly scolded the children: "Go, go! ”
The children dispersed in a hurry, and the adults were able to enter the house and talk.
Cheng Lin's daughter-in-law heard her grandfather say that she must take Liu Yujin into the mountains, but she didn't take it seriously. She remembered that on the first night when she left, Liu Yujin said that if she only sent rice to the foot of the mountain, she would turn around and go home. Because his family's baba rice has already been soaked, he will make New Year's baba in the past two days. After making the New Year's poop, they are still busy making tofu, and after making tofu, they are also busy killing New Year's pigs, and this is the first time in decades that their family has killed New Year's pigs, and they must treat guests to eat pig-killing rice. During this time of the year, he was so busy that his feet did not get dusty, how could grandpa take Liu Yujin into the mountain? !