The boat docked, and Shi Baoquan wrapped the rope around the wooden stake next to the stone steps and went to the township government to find someone.

Li Junge also got off the boat, walked up to the dock, and habitually came to the left side of the small square.

There is an old well here, a round mouth is opened in the middle of the bluestone slab, look into the cold forest, there is a long-handled wooden spoon on the side of the well, a coarse porcelain bowl, that is the villagers placed here, it is convenient for passers-by to wash and drink, which can also be seen how simple the folk customs here are.

There is also a pair of italic couplets engraved on both sides of the wellhead, "the article is drunk for three days, and the heart is clear in the ancient well", and I don't know which village sage left it in the old days, and the handwriting has been somewhat worn out.

Li Junge scooped half a bowl of water with a long wooden spoon and took a sip. "Hmmm! it's still so sweet!"

Holding a coarse porcelain bowl and starting to look around, the buildings around the small square are all old houses with blue bricks and black tiles, and the door frames are painted with jujube red lacquer, which looks stable and generous.

Half of the wall is open with carved windows, showing the former owner's former glory.

Opposite the wharf is a bluestone road, on both sides are some wooden tile houses, today is not a set, there are not many pedestrians on both sides of the road, only a few household door panels are placed on the platform, there are some small commodities on it, mostly daily things.

At the end of the bluestone road of the wharf, there is a concrete road, and the buildings on both sides have begun to become modern, mostly two-story red brick buildings.

"Hey, Erpi!" A crisp voice came, Li Junge turned his head, and saw a beautiful big girl standing in front of him, with a pale lotus shirt on her upper body, a pair of denim cropped pants on her lower body, and a pair of white sneakers under her feet.

The girl combed a ponytail, stayed in the sea and jumped and jumped, with long eyelashes, big eyes, a cocked nose, and a relatively round face, looking at Li Junge and smiling there.

"Hahaha, crazy girl!" Li Junge was also happy, and opened his arms, "Come on, come on, long time no see, brother hug one!"

"It's not serious!" The big girl gave Li Junge two beautiful whites, "Why did you suddenly remember to come back?"

"Knowing you're here, I'm back in a hurry. Li Junge was used to playing with the big girl, and he couldn't hold it back habitually, and suddenly thought that he was now the deputy head of the township, and there was a group of old men and old ladies around him with slanted eyes and ears pricked up.

quickly adjusted his tone and reported his experience to the girl again. Then he asked, "You don't stay in the big provincial capital, why do you want to exercise here?"

"I'm lucky!" the girl smiled proudly as if she had picked up a treasure, "There are several places in the quota for our bureau, and everyone is reluctant to come. Hahaha, such a nice place, how can you do it if you don't come. ”

"That's that, that's. Li Junge echoed, "The scenery is beautiful, the climate is pleasant, the mountains are born, the water grows, everything is available, except for the difficult road and the poor people, there is no problem." ”

"Don't look down on your hometown!" the big girl criticized, "The situation is difficult now, aren't we trying to figure out a way, I believe it will get better!"

"Yes, someone is poor and difficult to walk, and so on, we can only say it to our own family, doesn't it seem that we are modest. Who dares to say this outside, see if I don't beat him to death!" Li Junge also smiled and agreed.

The two chatted about some interesting things when they were young, and they were very happy, Li Junge said to the big girl: "Are you free this weekend? Come to my house to play, and two friends are also coming, one you also know, Wang Congjun, and the other is Zhu Chao'an, who is also my classmate." ”

"Hmph, I know both of them, pig worms, we've eaten grilled fish a few times. The big girl seemed a little proud that she could quickly open up contacts, patted Li Junge's shoulder and said, "Okay, I'll go to visit the uncle and aunt on the weekend, you are responsible for preparing the food, I want to eat well." After speaking, he took a sip, "Ouch, I think of your delicious food, I'm hungry." ”

Li Junge pursed his mouth, "What delicious food have you people in the city eaten, a roasted sweet potato is enough to pass away." ”

The girl's apricot eyes widened, "No, you have to have meat! All kinds of meat! Otherwise, I will sue the eldest lady!"

"Okay, all kinds of meat!" Li Junge responded casually, stuffed the big bowl into the girl's hand, took two steps back, glanced up and down a few times, and said with a wicked smile: "I'm afraid that you will cry and shout to lose weight after eating." With that, he laughed and quickly jumped into the boat.

The boat drove out for a while, Li Junge turned around, and saw the girl waving her fist with him on the shore.

Along the Wuxi River upstream, after driving for half an hour, there was a small pier on the left hand side in front of me, which was also a big banyan tree with bluestone steps, but there was no small square, and the stone steps were paved directly on the hillside.

The banyan tree was even bigger, with a thick trunk directly blocking a third of the sky above the creek.

This trunk is noticeably smoother than the others, and it is a natural springboard for the little children to play in the water in the summer, and it has been climbed up and down a lot, and one side has become very smooth.

There is also a steel cable on the wharf, which crosses the Wuxi River in the air, drawing a soft arc, only half a meter above the water at the midpoint, and the two ends are fixed to the large stones on both sides of the river.

There was also a wooden boat docked on the pier, with a two-finger thick hemp rope tied to each end, and a thick wooden stick with a wooden groove on it.

Pull the boat from the opposite shore with hemp rope, pick up the stick when you get on the boat, clip the wire cable into the wooden trough and flick it back and then release it, and the boat will go to the opposite bank.

This is not only a tool for the villagers to cross the Wuxi River, but also a favorite toy for the villagers in the summer.

In the summer, the wooden boats are basically occupied by the babies, and it is common to see a boatload of bare-bottomed babies playing in the middle of the river.

Waiting for the uncle who crossed the river to shout, and then a boatload of babies jumped into the water like dumplings to empty the boat.

The tin boat turned off its engine and began to glide towards the small pier by inertia, and then gently leaned on the small pier by the banyan tree and stopped next to the wooden boat.

Li Junge jumped off the boat and skillfully fixed the boat to the wooden stakes by the dock.

Shi Baoquan threw his luggage and backpack to him to catch it, dragged out a large bamboo basket from the stern of the boat, loaded the things that the villagers entrusted him to buy, and called Li Ermao, who ran a small supermarket in the village, and asked him to call someone to move other things.

Then the two of them stepped on the bluestone ladder and walked towards the village.

After a short walk up, after crossing the highest water mark in summer, the stone road is a flat road with rice paddies on both sides of the stone road.

The rice in the rice field was green, and when the two of them passed, the frogs in the grass at the edge of the field jumped into the field.

There is a small ditch on both sides of the bluestone road, and the water from the mountain flows down from the small ditch, providing sufficient water for the terraces.

After walking for seven or eight minutes, three people came to meet him, two men and one woman, the man was carrying a flat burden, a handful of hemp rope was hanging on his head, and the woman was carrying a large back basket.

It was Li Ermao and his father Li Sixin, as well as Li Ermao's daughter-in-law Zhang Guangping.

Several people hurriedly greeted each other, and Li Ermao said: "Ouch, Erpi is back! Why haven't you heard what your aunt said? Come back this time and play for a few more days! Come to my house to drink at night!"

Li Junge Li Ermao and the two are about the same age, and they have played together since childhood, Ermao is not good at reading, and he did not continue after junior high school, but this baby has a flexible brain, and opened a small supermarket in the village, mainly selling small things such as cigarettes, water bottles, laundry detergent, etc., and then set up a pergola in his yard and set up a few tables, which is a small teahouse, and the villagers have a place to gather and chat, and life is still passable.

Li Junge hurriedly began to smoke, took out a few Tashan, first saluted Shi Baoquan, then saluted Li Sixin, shouted Uncle Li, and by the way, he also threw one to Li Ermao.

Lijiagou people are basically the same clan, dozens of generations are an ancestor, Tongguang years into the Shi Shen Qing Gong, generally according to the genealogy of the seniority, in order to distinguish relatives, their own elders do not bring surnames, other families bring surnames, but also one of the agreed quick customs.

Li Sixin is a well-known good man in the village, and I don't know if it was a genetic mutation that gave birth to Li Ermao. I saw that while he adjusted the flat shoulder from his right shoulder to his left shoulder, he took the Tashan handed by Li Junge with his right hand, and counted Li Ermao: "Your baby knows how to play when it gets dark on the first day, so there is a reason that you will not fall into the house when you come back the day before! You are not allowed to go to him these days. ”

Li Ermao still didn't dare to talk to his old man, so he had to mutter: "It's a new era now, who still pays attention to those ones!"

Li Junge hurriedly smiled and said, "Third Uncle Li is right, there are some rules that still need to be paid attention to. Then he also greeted Zhang Guangping, who was carrying the basket, and said, "You guys also hurry up to pick up the goods, don't delay the work." I've been back for a long time this time, so I'll come back to your shop for tea another day. ”

After bidding farewell to the three of them, the two continued to walk towards the village, and after walking for more than ten minutes, the terrain changed again, and entered a small plain at the bottom of the mountain, where the terraced fields disappeared until the mountains around the plain began to reappear.

The two sides of the road were replaced by cornfields, sweet potato fields, and some vegetable fields, and the stone road gradually widened, and some houses began to appear on the side of the road.

The memorial arch is one of the architectural cultures with Chinese characteristics, which first evolved from Hengmen, that is, a building with two pillars and a beam, which is generally used to mark the entrance of various residential areas.

Later, the memorial arch slowly evolved into a kind of monument-like building, there are meritorious squares, Kedi squares, loyal and filial piety festival and other names, with the role of propagating etiquette and religion, marking the great merits of the ancestors of the family, and also has the function of place name identification and ancestor worship.

The memorial arch of Lijiagou Village is such a building, the memorial arch carves the dragon and the phoenix, it is very exquisite, and it is also decorated with patterns such as Ruicao, auspicious clouds, etc., and there is a couplet engraved on it: "The clear water is like practice, the wall is like a screen, and Zhong Ling gathers the door of the three provinces." The poets and immortals are in the Tang Dynasty, the famous ministers are in the Song Dynasty, and the morality is passed down to hundreds of generations. ”

The upper link clarified the local geographical environment and location, and the lower link reminded the surnames of the local clans, and used Li Bai, Li Gang, and Lao Tzu to elevate themselves with the names of Li in three different periods.

The locals call this place Shen Qingfang, but there is no way to verify whether it is the handiwork of Shen Qinggong, the ancestor of the Li family.