Seeing that I was distracted by the Half Moon Pool, Da Niu nudged me and said, "Don't keep thinking about the past, go back early to rest, and take you out tomorrow to go around, go back and go back." ”

Da Niu's words interrupted my memories, I looked at him, smiled and apologized, and went back to the cultural station with him.

The next day, after taking us around, Da Niu had lunch in the canteen of the cultural station, and in the afternoon we arrived at the first sketching spot, Liyu Mountain Sanjiang Pagoda.

As soon as Da Niu arrived at Liyu Mountain, he immediately asked the three of us to go to the Guandi Temple first, and he said to Lao Zhao and Ah Guang, two outsiders, that this Guandi Temple is spiritual! He usually comes often, and said that every time the new secretary and mayor of Sanjiang Town take office, he will bring them to the Guandi Temple to burn incense to ensure the safety of the people of Sanjiang Town.

The reddish-brown tile roof is a famous intangible cultural heritage inlaid with porcelain technology, vividly sculpting various characters of the Three Kingdoms: there are the stories of Taoyuan's Three Knots, Zhao Zilong's rescue of Adou, and the three heroes fighting Lü Bu; there are also stories of walking thousands of miles and riding alone, borrowing arrows from grass boats, Jiang Gan stealing books, and going to meetings with a single knife, and so on. The whole roof is a palace of art, this Guandi temple left from the middle of the Qing Dynasty, has a history of nearly 200 years, can survive without being destroyed, it is not easy. These palace-level cultural relics on the roof, modern craftsmanship is almost difficult to copy, the characters on the shape are different, the ghostly axe is wonderful, ingenious, and the color is rich, quite see the profound skills of the folk artists at that time. This temple sits in the west and faces east, facing the Han River, the temple gate is two exquisite stone carvings on both sides, the left side is carved Liu Huangshu Sangu Maolu, the right side is carved is Zhang Yide's battle against Changbanpo;

Brother Xuande Brother Yide Brother De Brother

Division: Wolong, Youzi, Longlong, Division, Longyou

The horizontal batch is: Hanshou Pavilion Marquis

The main hall of the inner hall is the wood carved lacquer gold statue of Guan Gong, about one meter high, is carved out of camphor wood, mighty and upright, the eyes are very bright! The red face and black beard sit in the center, and the back Guan Ping Zhou Cang is divided into left and right. The green dragon knife held by Zhou Cang was glowing under the light, which really made people feel daunting and intimidating.

After taking a turn at the foot of the Liyu Mountain in Sanjiang Tower, we felt that this place was very suitable for sketching. Liyu Mountain, Sanjiang Tower, Guandi Temple, Chanyin Ancient Temple, the banana forest under the mountain, all kinds of trees and fruit trees on the mountain, the ancient tower on Liyu Mountain is also set off very imposing. The ferry at the Hanjiang River Rapids Ferry, the people waiting for the transition at the ferry, adults and children, bicycles and motorcycles, and small fishing boats moored here, are the natural waterfront scenes in the painting, and several anglers are concentrating on fishing in the distance. There are several small stone houses on the side of the wharf, built along the embankment, with staggered heights, simple and picturesque. There is a small circle in the embankment, the bamboo forest banyan trees are intertwined, there are two cattle of an old and a small one under the big banyan tree, in front of the stone house, there are some agricultural tools on the wall, there is a small wooden table of a farmer in the circle, a few simple small bamboo benches. Several village aunts and sisters-in-law were chatting while embroidering under the banyan shade, their eyes always looking at Lao Zhao, as if they were talking about his beard. There is a melon shed on the goose, and the vegetable patch next to it is planted with green spinach, TJ white, thick and mustard greens. A few chickens were foraging, and in the distance, two puppies were playing, making sounds that people couldn't understand from time to time. Then a large yellow-haired dog, cleverly running from a distance, did not know where to go, suddenly stopped, pricked up his ears, and did not know what he heard, staring at us strangers, sticking out his tongue, and walking away with his tail between his legs.

This kind of picture of the countryside can only be experienced when you are immersed in the scene! Inside the embankment, there are patches of crops and rice fields. The irrigation ditch is like a natural cutting line, criss-crossed, with oblique, straight and transverse lines, which create patterns of different sizes in the countryside, and occasionally there are fishing ponds of different sizes, and some scattered wooden houses are set up next to the fishing ponds. These scenes in front of them made Zhao and Ah Guang, who were accustomed to painting the famous mountains and rivers in the north, exclaim their beauty and beauty! They all said that when they arrived here, they would truly understand the simple and original ecological beauty of the pastoral landscapes I painted.

Ah Guang proposed to go up to the Sanjiang Pagoda to see, but the bull tried his best to obstruct it, saying that the tower was in disrepair, and the top had been damaged by the earthquake, and the villagers also said that the tower had a tower god, or some supernatural things, and no one dared to go up. Last month, another of our classmates, Jia Er, "fell" down from the tower and fell to his death...... Da Niu suggested that he could take a boat to the other side of the Hanjiang River, look at Sanjiang Town, and organize the buildings such as the Hanjiang Rapid Water Ferry Pier and Guandi Temple in the picture, which will be more perfect, easier to choose, and more visual.

We all thought this proposal was very good, so we took the ferry boat of one yuan per person, and when we arrived at the other side, it felt really different, and the bearded old Zhao praised the stationmaster, who really had a cow's vision! No wonder he could be the stationmaster, and the big cow touched the general's belly with one hand and his bald head with the other, smiling and complacent. I suddenly felt that the big cow was a little cute.

Lao Zhao and Ah Guang are facing the idyllic scenery in the south, which is very fresh, and after crossing the river, there is also another scene, which is dizzying. They were so happy that they started drawing. I secretly asked Da Niu:

"What's going on with plus two?"

When I asked, Da Niu's mood was a little heavy for a while, and he sat down with me on a small stone bench under the big golden phoenix tree on the embankment on the shore, lit a red double happiness cigarette, took a few puffs and said:

"It's a long story, it's good that this mad dog is dead, but it's a pity that there are two 'soft years' (tide language, people who are not sick but are born unable to walk)!" Da Niu put the cigarette butt that was only half smoked, put it under his feet and stepped on it fiercely, his tone was very angry, and he talked to me about our classmates plus two:

"You know that you are deaf after a major illness and haven't studied anymore?" Da Niu looked at me and said.

"I know, the people in the village said at the time that his father had accumulated too much evil, and when he broke the four olds, he burned the lord in the prince's palace, saying that this was retribution, but what did this have to do with Jia Er?"

Later, Jiaer's family became a purely disabled family, and maybe his fate was destined to be like this. The big cow lit another cigarette, and then began to talk about the addition of two—

Jiaer's father, it turned out that during the Sixty Revolution, he was still the famous number one person in Sanyuan Village. His father was an orphan, and before liberation, he was a pig baby in the landlord's mansion. The owner of this paradise is still a member of his father's family, and when he sees that he is an orphan, he kindly takes him in at home. After liberation, he turned over and became the master's second father, and evaluated the identity of a farmer. This time let the two and his father, the hero has a place to use, and he became the most powerful representative in the era of the fighter, trampling his original employer under his feet, climbing as a pig, riding on the old employer, beating and scolding, fighting so that the old man's family has no head, and the old man is angry to death.

Da Niu Gu spoke, the cigarette in his hand was about to burn out, he quickly took two puffs, put out the cigarette under his feet and continued: Later, Jia Er's father also once became the head of the Revolutionary Committee, but unfortunately he was born a pig herder, he was illiterate, and he was not easy to learn, and his family was poor, and he was too lazy to do it, so he couldn't go up the steps. I can't write an application for joining the party, and in the end, I can't compete for Lao Jin, who is also a farmer, and this old Jin can speak well. So Jia Er's father can't be the director of public security, and he has never been able to join the party, so no girl likes him. In the end, I had to go back to my old business, raise two boars, and breed other people's sows.

This profession is a person who is a pig brother, and it is even more difficult to find a wife in the countryside, but fortunately, the matchmaker next door introduced him to a foreign woman who died of her husband, and gave him a wife for nothing, and finally built a home. It's a pity that his mother died of dystocia when she gave birth to Jia Er, and Jia Er was able to save it, which is a blessing. At that time, Jiaer's father was really miserable, and people said that he was retribution, saying that when Jiaer's father was in the Revolutionary Committee, he raped a girl from the landlord's house in the township, and I don't know if there was such a thing? Later, Jiaer's father crossed the streets and alleys, and led boars to breed other sows in four towns and six miles, so he had to always bring Jiaer, and he became a father and a mother. finally pulled the plus two big.

The big cow said it like a story, and I was fascinated by it. Because Da Niu spoke very methodically, and when he spoke, he spoke in a low tone and frustration, which was very vivid. In fact, when I was in the township in my early years, I probably had some understanding of these old things that Da Niu said, after all, Jia Er has been our classmate since elementary school. It's just that after I went to Shenzhen, I didn't know much about the things in the township, so I asked Da Niu to continue to talk about the things that happened after Jia Er. The big bull touched his bald head, as if there was a fly on his head, and then he lit another cigarette, took two puffs and continued—

After the serious illness in the second junior high school, the deafness hit his father hard, and it passed in a few years. After his father's death, Jia Er guarded an old boar left by his father and the old stone house by the stinky ditch in the north of the village. One year during the Spring Festival, a couplet written by Jia Er himself made Jia Er famous.

On the left is:

When the matchmaker threads the needle

On the right is:

Traveling with the groom to get married

The horizontal batch is:

Package production to households

Because the boar and the sow mate, sometimes the person who has to lead the pig brother has to use his hand to help hold the boar's thing and insert it into the sow, and the mating can be successful, and the elderly people understand. After all, this plus two is still a scholar, and he is more talented than his father.

But as soon as the girls in the township walked to his door, they spat with a "bah", and scolded this plus two for not being human. Jia Er also made the girls look down on him, Jia Er was famous for drinking, he was very ugly, and he was very lazy, and he worked for three days to catch fish, four days to dry the net, and his profession was Brother Pig, no girl was willing to marry him, so he always couldn't get a wife. Jia Er had to mix with the old cleaners in the township all day long, and in his spare time, he also touched some fish, shrimp, snails and the like in exchange for a little money.

But within two years, the old boar was not worthy of breeding, so he sold it to Jia Er, and Jia Er was also rich for several days. But after spending all the money from selling boars, the life of Jia Er was miserable. When I really don't have money to drink, I help people do some masonry work, get a few wages, and can only live one day at a time, and support the past year after year, and unconsciously become an older youth, and often go to the hair salon with the old staff to find a young lady...... So life is really difficult, and I don't fight for it.

In this way, when she is nearly forty years old, the daughter of the matchmaker in the township is also a matchmaker, and she still mentions a marriage without money for Jia Er, and she is quite good-looking, but she can't walk, and she is a soft year. In order to pass on the lineage, I didn't think so much, so I carried a few catties of wine and two cigarettes, and went with the old man to bring back the soft year.

Jia Er only had a wife at the age of forty, and finally had a decent home, and when he first married his wife, he was happy for a while, and he was a little diligent, but unfortunately the good times did not last long.