On Saturday, Dong Mei took her daughter to the countryside to see her parents. Wenzhu had a labor dispute to deal with because the unit had to deal with it, but it was not completed.

Every time I go to the countryside, it is torture and test for Dong Mei, I take motion sickness medicine, so I don't vomit, and my head is still dizzy. The journey was just over an hour, but it was as long as a century.

Tianyu was very excited, staring out the window, and from time to time there was a scream: "Mom, look, Mom!"

Outside the window are large fields of rape flowers, golden and yellow, dazzlingly yellow, covering the earth like a carpet, as if the earth is cold. Smelling a faint fragrance, it looks very gratifying. From time to time, the bees flutter from one flower head to another, and they are very busy.

After a while, there is another cherry blossom, scattered on the side of the road, white as clouds, almost invisible leaves, the flowers from the branches all the way to the branches, as if grabbing the work, dense, swaying in the wind from time to time, dressing the spring as lovely and charming as a girl.

Since it is spring, peach blossoms are indispensable, peach half of the sky, flowers like the morning glow, facing the wind, beckoning, and competing for beauty. The car is running in a sea of flowers, and sometimes it feels like the flowers are running.

The people in the car were very tolerant, did not scold, and looked at the shouting Tianyu with a smile. Dong Mei felt that it was not good, and it was not good to educate Tianyu not to make loud noises in public places. Tianyu stuck out his tongue and said he understood. Keep your eyes on the window, afraid of missing something new.

It didn't take long for Tianyu to see something powerful again, and there was another scream, which made everyone in the car laugh. Tian Yu covered his mouth and blushed. Dong Mei didn't say anything, just touched Tianyu's head, probably because she knew her mistakes and changed them, she was still a good child.

Only when her feet hit the ground, it seems that she is the real Dong Mei, shrewd and capable. Dong Mei took a big breath of fresh air and spat the damn smell of gasoline into the bottom of the roadside ditch.

The metasequoia on the side of the road welcomes, these metasequoia Dong Mei was planted when she was in elementary school, you can't be a pillar, you can only watch, now it's tall and lush, it's still running up, and the sky is its limit.

Such a tree can withstand wind and rain, and magpies like it, and often build their nests on it. When Tian Yu saw it once, he asked, "What is this?"

Dong's mother was already waiting on the side of the road, Dong Mei pulled her daughter forward to say hello, got on the electric tricycle, and the three of them laughed all the way west to Dongjiawan.

Dongjiawan is a typical Jiangnan water village, surrounded by water on three sides and a highway to the south. The back door of Dong Mei's house is a river, about 300 meters long and 70 or 80 meters wide. On the other side is Wenjiazhuang, where Wenzhu was born, and now Dong Mei's mother-in-law's house. The people of Dongjiawan are called Dong He, the people of Wenjiazhuang are called Wenhe, and the people of other villages are called Wendong River, just because Wenjiazhuang has a long history of several years than Dongjiawan.

The riverside has long been laid with weeping willows, and the charming branches have hung down to the water, and when the wind blows, the water halo ripples. The river is still the same green, the blue waves are drifting, a few ducks are playing, I don't know whose family, no one cares. The dock is still there, but it is used less, like forgetting, like remembering, and no one can be hindered by where it is placed.

Dong Mei walked down the stairs and touched it with her hand, but the spring water was still a little cold. Not far away, the spring flowers bloomed too much, and ten sisters appeared, white and red mixed together, in full swing. In the distance, there are one or two old men fishing Wendong water.

It's just that the excitement in memory is gone.

When I was a child, in the morning, the roosters and dogs barked, the smoke rose from the cooking, and the village woke up.

The riverside wharf is even more busy, the aunt of the Zhang family washes rice, the aunt of the Li family washes vegetables, the daughter-in-law of the Dong family washes clothes, and more clothes are made with mallets. The vegetable leaves that accidentally floated away, there was a river to fight for. Flocks of ducks and geese forage in the reeds and peanuts by the river, and they are full or play or wander.

At four or five piers, the sound of mallets came and went, and the rhythm was bright, as if someone was directing.

There are also several small wooden boats in the river, which are used to clean up the river and accumulate fertilizer. Two long artemisia seeds, with a mouth made of special yarn underneath, can be flexibly opened and closed, digging up the bottom of the river until the silt is closed, and opening in the cabin to spit out the silt.

The silt is transported into a grass pond by the river, mixed with safflower grass, and allowed to ferment until fertilizer. Today, such wooden ships have fulfilled their historical mission and are long gone. On the contrary, the safflower grass, which is not used as feed or fertilizer, turned over and came to the stage as a green food, and the price is very high.

The wharf is a press center, and women are diligent and fast-talking, and they can't hide things in their hearts, and they will never be happy if they don't vomit.

"Uncle Dongtou's family gave birth to fourteen piglets and gave two of them. ”

"Why did you give away the two heads?"

"Thirteen or fourteen are unlucky. ”

"Xitou Erxiao is about to marry a daughter-in-law. ”

"Is the daughter-in-law handsome?"

"Just like the two little bears, it is his blessing to be able to marry a daughter-in-law. ”

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Whose daughter-in-law does not give birth? Whose child still wets the bed? Who is preparing to build a new house? Whose old man is sick? Whose child is not filial? Whose husband and wife quarrel?。。。。。。 If you walk here in the morning, you will know all about the village.

The women are chattering and lively, and while working, they are doing homely work. When the matter is finished, it stops abruptly, and it does not go to the heart. After living, people are relaxed, and people are walking after talking. The wharf fell silent, and the Wendong River should flow or how.

Wen Donghe nurtured the people of the two villages, silently dedicated, and never asked. Wen Donghe witnessed Dong Mei's growth like his mother, and Dong Mei also witnessed her changes, and the two are familiar and tacit.

Dong Mei let go of ducks and geese in the river, and by the way, she carried the "white hair floating in the green water, and the red anthurium plucking out the clear waves"; in the sunset, looking at the glittering water waves, I thought that the sunset was divided into several parts, and the number was different each time; I had played with my friends, and the tiles were like water rats, going down the water surface several times, and sliding for more than ten meters before they were unwilling to sink to the bottom of the river, and I don't know when they would be able to come out.

Dong Mei is the only daughter in the family, Dong Sanbao has six brothers and sisters, and she gave birth to this girl. Scarcity is expensive, and Dong Meijin is very expensive. Parents were reluctant to let Dong Mei learn to swim, for fear of making a mistake. God often jokes with people about what he is afraid of.

In the middle of the summer after graduating from elementary school, after dinner, fifteen-year-old Dong Mei went to the river to wash dishes.

On a wooden boat in the middle of the river, there are several children rocking the waves, and Wenzhu is the leader. Several people stand in a big zigzag shape, "one, three, five" side to the left, "two, four, six" side to the right, by the Wenzhu unified password, "left, right", "left, right" 。。。。。。 The faster it gets, the waves in the river get higher and higher, and sometimes it feels like the boat is about to capsize.

The boys had a lot of fun, and some even screamed. The timid people can't afford to play this, and they are afraid that if they are not careful, they will be so scared that they wet their pants.

Dong Mei was washing the dishes while watching, the waves came in waves, and somehow, she stumbled and slipped straight into the heart of the river.

A "help" woke up Wen Zhu and them, seeing people falling into the water, Wen Zhu jumped out of the boat first, and the rest of the people followed suit, swimming over like an arrow, no one was seen, and then a fierce man stabbed down, and Dong Mei was rescued in less than three minutes.

Dong Mei just choked a few mouthfuls of water, no big problem, but Dong's father and Dong's mother were half dead in a hurry, and she was grateful to Wenzhu, so she took a courtesy to thank her, and blocked Wenzhu's parents back, but smoked a few cigarettes. The people on both sides of the strait are kind, and it is very common to save people in the river, which is not worth unusual.

Wen Zhu is a good swimmer, one of the best on both sides of the Wendong River, saving Dong Meina at the age of fourteen. A few small back-and-forth trips from north to south, a fierce man pierced the small KISS on the opposite bank, and it was no problem to hold it underwater for three or five minutes, and he had saved six people, Dong Mei was just one of them.

Wenzhu has excellent water quality, he can swim tricks on TV, he is a man on the shore, and a fish in the water.

In summer, the Wendong River becomes a natural bath, a man's world, and a boy's paradise. The heat is unbearable, and the adults take a bath in the river to cool off. After the boys take a nap, they can stay in the river, and most of them walk in groups, so that they can take care of them.

Take a foot basin on the edge of the river beach to touch some snails, the bottom of the river to touch a snail, mussel shells, sharp boars, etc., that is to be horizontal, need to tie the fierce and other technical work, generally to the end is always the majority of bamboo.

Take the snail home, drop a few drops of vegetable oil, rest for a few days, and go to the earthy taste for reprocessing. A simmered salted pork is a first-class delicacy, simmer slowly until the soup is white, put a few pieces of old tofu to taste stronger, float a few garlic leaves before the pot, the aroma is tangy, salivating, it is a must-have for hospitality during the New Year's holidays.

The children who couldn't swim on the shore looked envious, so they pestered their father and brother to teach. Teaching is doing, learning is serious.

Most of the swimming equipment is homemade, and the lifebuoy is a bicycle inner tube, which is too big, just go around twice. Large pieces of white foam, newly bought household appliances are in the packaging, foot basins are available in every house, grasp the edge of self-learning, learn to swim always have to choke a few mouthfuls of water, the water chokes a lot and swimming probably learns. Adults are free, holding the child's jaw, and after a few days, the progress is also rapid.

Most of them are self-taught, and adults are watching from the sidelines. The swimming posture is almost learned, the head is the best to learn, hold your breath, cover your head in the water, choose a good direction, splash all the way to kill, sometimes hit people, choke on saliva, and come again. Once you are proficient, you can march into the tricks. Dong Mei is the swimmer she learned after falling into the water, the master is Wenzhu, she can't swim many tricks, and it's no problem to save her life.

The Wendong River brings happiness to both sides in summer and benefits to people in winter. Approaching the thirtieth of Chinese New Year's Eve, the heads of the two villages met and cooperated in trawling. The adults contributed, and the children were very happy, farting on the shore, running like a puff of smoke, and sometimes shouting twice.

What is the north wind, it will only bully those who do not work. The grass by the river has long since turned yellow and withered, and those who have good deeds have extinguished it with a fire. The branches of the trees have lost their leaves, and they are reflected in the river bare, and a pulsatilla is watching the excitement in the branches, and people are approaching to change the branches.

The trawl proceeded step by step, and after more than an hour of busy work, the net was about to be closed. The opening of the net is getting smaller and smaller, and the fish find that the space is too crowded, and they struggle to jump out of the water, mostly in vain, and occasionally there is a fish that slips through the net, and they live happily outside for a year or longer, and they are still fish in the net when they gain weight, and the outcome of fate sometimes cannot be changed.

There are fish in every family, more than every year, a group of auspicious atmosphere, and celebrate the festival.