Shi Jianren explained that he didn't know that the train was fast or slow, even if he thought he was very smart, in fact, he was trembling in the face of this completely different world, so he carefully chose a direct train to Jiangzhou, and sat for more than ten hours, and for this train also raised money to buy tickets and waited for a few more days, and now the frequent passengers of the first class of the flight of course understand that they can take the express first, arrive at the nearest county and then take a variety of short-distance intercity trains to reach the destination, and they can arrive at any time in one breath, without taking the kind of slow train that stops everywhere along the way。 Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But now the two shifts have led to nearly ten hours of tossing and turning, and in the early hours of the morning, I took a nap in the hourly room of the hotel outside the railway station in a certain county, and when I jumped off the train at noon, I was left only walking.

Qi Xuejiao barely knew that there was such a commuter car before.

Because this is a small railway station with no platform at all, let go of a few people, and put down a few pigs along the way, looking up at the uninhabited atmosphere of the surrounding mountains and five mountains, there is indeed a feeling of being separated from the world.

In this piece of heaven and earth, except for the railway tracks and heavenly track cables carried on the black stones in front of you, they can be regarded as traces of modern civilization, and any other angle is primitive.

It's even more primitive than the kind of cottage in Moon Lake, because you can see the village and the forest farm residential area there, and there are no resident gathering points around here!

A few children looked curiously at the two men and women with their backpacks, they were picking up things along the railway, and all the garbage thrown down the train could become their harvest.

If it were to be another girl, it would still be shocked, but Qi Xuejiao pulled the backpack on her shoulders with both hands and nodded: "Well, our country is really big, and the gap between the rich and the poor is really not ordinarily big." There was no immediate move to find candy from the bag for the child, and followed the husband down the dense mountain path by the railway, the kind paved with stone slabs, which was only two people wide.

Shi Jianren has never introduced to his wife what will happen along the way, leaving some suspense for Qi Xuejiao to be fresher, in fact, he is also watching: "The problem here is that there are too many hills, so if you want to come in...... In fact, the most convenient thing is to drive by yourself, even if you go around, I have seen the nearest highway down, and the end is less than ten hours, but such a car has nothing to do with our mountain, so there is no need to waste this money. ”

Qi Xuejiao actually cared about the flowers and plants on the side of the road, and picked a wreath for herself: "I've always been curious about what kind of water and soil can give birth to people like you, and what it's like to live in seclusion in the mountains, but I think I can bear and experience this simple and arduous environment, speaking of which, the environment in Africa is actually not bad, not the yellow sand like I imagined......

It's almost the same as before in the car, the two chattered, Qi Xuejiao was really not squeamish at all, not even professional hiking shoes, didn't feel tired and followed Shi Jianren down to the valley, there is a very small old stone bridge here, it is already the appearance of moss spreading dead tree roots, the bridge deck is even paved with rotten fallen leaves and a little slippery, Shi Jianren took his wife and habitually guessed:" When I came out, this was actually the fastest way from the town to the outside world, and all the young people who went south to work were from here to the side of the railway to break into the world, which was quite lively at that time, and this only showed that there were better transportation channels, and it used to take seven or eight hours to get to the county, and then it took several hours to get to the provincial capital. ”

Sure enough, if you climb up the stone road on this side, you can turn a corner, and you can immediately see that the stone path has become a stone road, five or six people wide, and the big tree with a canopy like a pavilion is entrenched on the side of the steps, as if the passage of time is only in those rings, and you can't even see the previous railway, thinking about the ancient town and ancient streets in front of you that are deep in the mountains and old forests have not changed for hundreds of years, Qi Xuejiao is also more interested: "It's a bit similar to the old street, no wonder you have a lot of feelings for that street, and you can find the imprint of historical precipitation." ”

Shi Jianren took the lead and walked up: "Obviously, the house is dilapidated, and there are some ......"

Indeed, the human built environment is like this, as long as there is vitality and vitality, no matter how old and dilapidated the buildings will be repaired, such as the shanty houses on the dock back then, and many of the houses next to the stone steps in front of you are only left with ruins, either the kind of ruins that are in chaos, or the appearance of slowly falling into ruins after no one lives, and occasionally you can see one or two old people sitting under the eaves and looking at them without any fluctuations.

Shi Jianren is also different from leaving a few years ago: "Most people will not come back after going out to work, which is similar to Moon Lake. ”

Qi Xuejiao inquired: "Then let's transform this place into a Moon Lake, or build another old street." The two really communicated with each other and precipitated in Lao Cai, not to mention that they almost lost their lives there, and confirmed their truest hearts, so they paid special attention to it.

Shi Jianren smiled and held her hand: "This place is different from Moon Lake, the foundation is a little bad...... Besides, we are here to visit relatives and go home, not to change here, unlike the ethnic minority areas that have some cultural inheritance and leave some young and middle-aged laborers, almost all of them here are going to the city, this is the law of natural flow, it is difficult to reverse, I do not recommend forcibly knowing the difficulty. ”

Sure enough, as the stone road seems to go to a high place, and also goes deep into the surrounding brick and wood structure of the house, to be denser, the stone road suddenly becomes a fork in the road, with different directions staggered, at this intersection suddenly lively, but this kind of excitement is also the pattern of seven or eight shops and three or five teahouses, the shops are full of daily necessities, but people are concentrated in the few teahouses, either playing cards or drinking tea, and then they all lock their eyes on the two strangers passing by.

Even if Shi Jianren's hukou is here, the two of them are now dressed differently from here, with black T-shirts and slacks and sneakers like couples, and they each carry a backpack, which is indeed more like tourists.

Shi Jianren is the guide, and inevitably his eyes are still a little bright: "Oh, there, the old man took me down the mountain for the first time to squat there and sell herbs, and then took me to the teahouse to watch people......"

Qi Xuejiao didn't have a hobby of taking a camera to commemorate the occasion, she just concentrated on watching: "Interesting." ”

In fact, Shi Jianren can basically identify people, and can see who is who, there has been no change at all in the past few years, except for the old ones, and even the clothes on his body are still in the style of the eighties and nineties of the last century, and they have not changed since then, almost all of them are over forty years old, middle-aged and elderly people in their sixties and seventies, and young people in their early twenties almost didn't see it, plus a few children scurrying around.

But I didn't share these feelings with my wife, I found a store to buy some ordinary daily necessities, not a lot, vegetables, rice, oil, salt, etc., as well as a single cotton tire or something, and finally bought a flat shoulder to pick it up, he used Mandarin with a local accent throughout the whole process, so that his wife could also understand, Qi Xuejiao shared a small hoe, and observed the edge of the blade a little professionally:" I will grind this, you know, all the personnel we go to Africa for peacekeeping assistance will grow vegetables, and the Chinese like to grow vegetables when they go to the whole world, especially in our troops, and it is said that diplomats also have this habit, haha. ”

In the end, Shi Jianren found a place to sell food and asked for two bowls of spicy noodles, and sat on the broken table and chair on the side of the road to eat, Qi Xuejiao also picked the meat foam in her bowl to her husband, saying that he would have to carry the weight later.

It's hard to imagine that the two of them were talking to a group of business elites, almost all of whom are multi-billionaires, at noon yesterday.

Anyway, the turbaned grandma who had been wiping her hands on the dark blue shabby apron looked at Shi Jianren and never thought to ask who he was.

What surprised Qi Xuejiao was that there was still a signal on her mobile phone, and it was full.

Shi Jianren takes it for granted that the communication department has this deepening ability, as long as it does not involve technological innovation, the current situation in China is to be able to expand and replicate to the extreme, anyway, it is not necessary to keep extending, and it does not need to be too brainy.

After lunch, Shi Jianren was not in a hurry, changed to the table by the water in the teahouse and asked for two cups of tea, and gave Qi Xuejiao a brief description of the prescription position in this town, even if it is a military doctor for many years, Qi Xuejiao still adheres to the characteristics of the natural lack of a woman's sense of orientation, only knowing that this is an inconspicuous town that passes through the 100,000 mountains in the Hunan and Guizhou areas along the main artery of the southbound railway:" See the stone arch bridge, the mountain stream here is different from the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, a little high and urgent, so it is difficult to build a highway, there is a town office there, there used to be a simple road to the county, but in order to drive the townships and towns as much as possible, try to go around, of course, the mountain terrain also determines that it can only be around, so even if you take a shuttle bus into the county, it will take several hours, the old man actually accompanied me once, and then I went to it myself several times, you can also save some fares, I also walked by myself once, sixty or seventy miles. ”

Qi Xuejiao retracted her gaze to observe the depths of the black and dark teahouse, there was a TV set playing TV programs, just such a thing can also transmit information from the outside world, but it feels like the people sitting here playing cards and drinking tea are obviously another world compared to the TV.

The big world changes outside with each passing day have nothing to do with here, and even these two obvious outsiders will not cause much waves in their eyes and attitudes, it seems that every day here is no different from every day, and it is slowly moving towards the end of life.

In a sense, the happiness index of such a life is still very high, because there is no sadness, and of course there is no joy.

So it's easy to feel in a trance, and the girl is fixed: "Mountain stream?

Shi Jianren smiled: "I don't know, he didn't point me to the specific place, but he said that he picked it up when he came back from the town." ”

So this stalk became the main topic of the couple's walk up the mountain in the afternoon.

Every time she passes through a ditch, a stream, or even a puddle of water that comes out of the rocks, Qi Xuejiao will naughtily point and show her husband with her eyes.

Shi Jianren is mainly responsible for laughing, and then by the way introduces the surrounding scenery, which ones are named after themselves, and where are they impressive, so that after leaving the town for about an hour, the two have been built along the slope without stone slabs, basically stepping out of the hillside path to climb the ridge, Shi Jianren pointed to the shadow of the mountain in front of him and said that there are two mountains, and then happily drank water together and looked back, probably the town street composed of dozens of brick and wood houses in the mountains was clearly unfolded in the field of vision, Shi Jianren pointed out that the road seemed to have become a hardened pavement, and the time to the county may have been greatly shortened, but there are still only one or two vans in the town, which is a huge gap from the already congested traffic in Moon Lake and Terroir.

Everything has not changed from when Shi Jianren left here six or seven years ago, and even more depressed, Shi Jianren pointed to his wife to show the only relatively new building: "The government is estimated to have found a way to improve the pull, but this should be the farthest point beyond the reach of the whip, and the influence is already very limited." ”

Qi Xuejiao, who had spent half a year in Moon Lake, would not be surprised by this situation, but finally asked the natural doubt: "Since it is such a remote place, why did you go to Jiangzhou back then?" I remember that it seems that you once said, who are you going to Jiangzhou to......

Now that he has abducted his wife into this deep mountain and old forest, Shi Jianren finally feels that he can speak.