Lao Zhao saw that I didn't know what I was thinking? And after a while, the tea was not brewed, and the conversation between the two people also stopped.

Then he patted my hand and said, "Brew tea, make tea, dead ghost, who are you thinking? When you meet two women today, you are fascinated? Miss the girl in white? That girl is not bad." Think about He Xiangu? Isn't it? Half-old, dressed like a fairy, do you want to think too? Oh, miss Cher? Yes, you must miss Cher, no wonder you can't paint anymore, think about women, pathetic! Sad! This old fox. Lao Zhao yelled, I woke up and chatted with him for tea, I was embarrassed for a while, smirked at him, and said, "I'm sorry, fourth master, I suddenly remembered what happened when I was in junior high school." Lao Zhao said: "I must be thinking about Xue'er! Hanjiang Xue? Yes? When people reach a certain age, they are nostalgic." "I didn't answer Lao Zhao's words, and I was busy making tea.

Lao Zhao drank tea and nagged: "Lao Zhang, did you study in junior high school in your hometown? How many years have you not been back?" Lao Zhao asked, my heart was also a little melancholy, and after drinking a cup of tea, he said: "It's been more than 20 years, it's like a blink of an eye, time flies so fast! Life is only seventy or eighty years, alas! It's gone in a blink of an eye." I rarely go back, and I rarely contact my classmates, and I don't know what the situation is in my hometown, but a few years ago, I had contact with the head of the town culture station, he was my classmate, called Cui Daniu. Lao Zhao looked at me in astonishment and said, "Forget it, forget everything there, forget the people there, and don't plan to go back to see it? Is there something sad? Or are you afraid of seeing someone? Yes? Or are you sorry for someone? It seems that you old fox really has a story." However, as time passes, why do you still remember it? Alas, I said the old fox, is the hometown beautiful? Now the countryside is different, why don't we go to your hometown with Ah Guang to sketch, okay?" I smiled bitterly and said: "There are no relatives in the countryside, so basically I haven't been back, and I still have some memories. This is a good proposal, you go and talk to Ah Guang, I'll contact Da Niu, and I'll leave in a few days, how about it?" Lao Zhao said: "Okay, then it's decided." Lao Zhao said and went to find Ah Guang.

So, Lao Zhao and Ah Guang and I came to the countryside where I had been absent for twenty or thirty years, Sanjiang Town, Haiyang County.

My hometown in the countryside is in Sanyuan Village, which is located in the center of Sanjiang Town (the commune was changed to a town in the mid-to-late eighties), and the seat of the town government.

Because I left the countryside relatively early, except for some people who are older than me and some classmates, I basically don't know much about the young people, really

"Children don't know each other anymore." After so many years of leaving my hometown, I am inevitably both unfamiliar and familiar in my heart, but I still vaguely feel that there is a sense of things being wrong!

When the three of us appeared at the cultural station in Sanjiang Town, as soon as Da Niu saw me, he couldn't wait to shake my hand, he seemed to be holding the hand of a lover who had been reunited for a long time, and he was unwilling to let go for a long time.

He said in a loud voice: "Alas, my mother, you great painter are here, but I haven't seen you for more than twenty years." Let me take a good look, well, there are too many changes, too many changes! I was a young man back then, and I haven't seen you since I went to Pengcheng. My brother, I thought you had gone to an alien planet, and you didn't know the way back, and you won't come to see our brother again in this life. A few days ago, you called and said that you were coming, I couldn't sleep well at night, but today is good, let the north wind blow you, and we brothers want to get together. When Da Niu said this, I also had mixed feelings and screamed

"Da Niu", pulled out the hands that were tightly held by Da Niu, hugged Da Niu, and both of them had tears in their eyes.

Lao Zhao and Ah Guang were also a little moved. Lao Zhao said: "I am so moved, moved! In the blink of an eye, it has been more than 20 years!" Ah Guang also said: "Yes, time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and it is rare to have a long brotherhood." It's rare!" This hum two generals, one moved, the other rare.

Da Niu realized now that I had two other classmates coming together, and they hurriedly pulled out their hands to shake hands with Lao Zhao and Ah Guang, and while shaking hands, they said: "Disrespectful and disrespectful, the two teachers are good", and then let me sit down.

After Da Niu finished speaking, his right hand took out a pack of cigarettes from his right trouser pocket, but when he took out half of the cigarette, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and put the pack of cigarettes back.

Da Niu may feel rude, and with his left hand, he took out a pack of hard boxes from the left jacket pocket, lifted the lid of the box, took out two sticks, and handed them to Lao Zhao.

Lao Zhao said: "Thank you, I don't smoke." Da Niu handed it to Ah Guang again, and Ah Guang smoked a cigarette given by Da Niu and thanked him.

Da Niu hurriedly took out a lighter, lit a cigarette for Ah Guang with both hands, and several people sat down to talk. After sitting down, I first introduced Da Niu to Lao Zhao and Ah Guang, and I said, "Cui Da Niu, my best classmate from elementary school to junior high school, the head of the Sanjiang Town Cultural Station." Lao Zhao and Ah Guang said at the same time

"Hello webmaster". Da Niu smiled happily and told the two teachers not to be polite, just follow Hanzhe to call Da Niu, saying that it was so kind.

It can also be called Niu Station, and everyone here calls him

"Cow Station". Lao Zhao Aguang said in unison: "Okay, it's called Niu Station." The big cow was busy making tea.

The big cow man is relatively short, plus fat, people feel that his legs are particularly short, as if the proportion of the upper and lower body is not coordinated, and the general's belly is too prominent.

Da Niu said while making tea: "Han Zhe, I can't think of it for more than 20 years, you still remember my brother! This person, when he reaches a certain age, he begins to feel nostalgic, and I have often asked where you are in the past two years, but there has been no news. The last time Xiaoyan came home, she said that she didn't know much about your situation, but I heard that you seem to be painting in Kyoto. I didn't expect you to be sitting in front of me today, and it was really effortless. Come, brother, tea, tea, two teachers tea, tea. I followed Da Niu's words and said, "Yes, Da Niu, it's been more than 20 years in a flash! Time is like an arrow, it seems that it is only a blink of an eye, and life is too short!"

"Yes, life is short, but brotherhood is long, Da Niu stationmaster, your tea is delicious, thank you!" said Lao Zhao with a smile.

Ah Guang also smiled and nodded. After drinking tea, Da Niu offered to take us out for a walk, and the three of us said yes.

So we put our walking at the cultural station, followed Da Niu all the way to visit, and enjoyed the natural scenery of the southern countryside.

Da Niu held his oily bald head, pointing to this and that while walking, the three of us followed behind him, and when we met acquaintances, Da Niu took the initiative to smile and give a thumbs up to people: "The great painter from the capital, our classmates." We bent down and nodded and laughed, and Da Niu felt very dignified and felt that others respected him.

Da Niu also said to the three of us: "I said Han Zhe, my old Cui is not blowing, this cultural station is still good for me to do, if I change someone else, then it is not necessarily? Look at you, you can draw a movie ticket and draw a great painter, how can I not do a good job? We are classmates, how far can I go? Do you say yes? You paint me a few pictures of the scenery of Sanjiang Town this time, and I hang them in the hall of the cultural station, then we will have the confidence to improve the taste of our cultural station at once, and also let me study and study." As soon as the superior leaders came, they also knew that our Sanjiang Town had a large number of talents, which could add glory to our Sanjiang Town's face. After hearing this, Ah Guang was confused and asked me what kind of movie ticket I painted?

I said it was a joke when I was reading. After Da Niu finished speaking, he didn't forget to exaggerate the bearded Lao Zhao, saying that his beard was particularly good-looking, and that he would also grow his beard from tomorrow.

Lao Zhao said that if the stationmaster Cui grew a beard, it would definitely be better, and Lao Zhao said that he also stuffed a pack of lotus cigarettes brought from the capital to Da Niu.

Da Niu gave a thumbs up and said mysteriously: "I heard that this is a cigarette smoked by the general secretary! Niu, you can get it! Thank you! Thank you! I will go to Ah Jiu'er's side another day to light it up, this cigarette can't be bought." "Da Niu said that he would take us to meet my other classmate, Ah Jiu'er, tomorrow, and he told me that Ah Jiu'er was last year

The "line of fire" joined the party and is now the secretary of Sanyuan Village. Sanjiang Town is the alluvial island of Hanjiang all the way south to Ostrich Island, near the sea, but it cannot be said to be an island, it can only be said to be a Zhou Garden, because the island is basically a plain, there is a levee about six meters high along the river, there are more than a dozen ferries in the old days, and the entry and exit have to rely on ferries, leading to Ostrich Island, Haiyang, Yingzhou and other places respectively.

I remember that in the early 80s, when I went to Pengcheng, there was no bridge. Therefore, Sanjiang Town is affected by traffic and is relatively backward.

But it has a better name, Green State Treasure Island. The Hanjiang River is here, divided into the East and West Rivers, surrounds Sanjiang Town, and converges together near the Ostrich Island, in this way, the geographical location of Sanjiang Town is unique, surrounded by rivers on all sides, and the people of Sanjiang Town are protected by the embankment around the river.

The land here is fertile, people live and work in peace and contentment, there are rice and vegetable gardens, melon fields, bananas, bamboo forests and ponds everywhere, these pastoral scenery of the old wilderness and the natural water system criss-cross, combined just right, like a natural painting, the big banyan tree in the south, and a piece of green vegetable field, the banana garden bamboo forest pond water system is intertwined, the village has become a point in the green shade, it can really be described as a fence village green screen.

Because of the inconvenient transportation in the past, the people of Sanjiang Town only relied on farming, and after the reform and opening up, the development was also very lagging behind, so it still retains the taste of the original ecology of the countryside, which feels particularly kind!

Small bridges and flowing waters, fences, remnant bridges, huts, goose sheds, duck liao chicken nests can be seen everywhere; plantains, longans, pomegranates, loquats, papaya trees, corn, sugarcane and vegetable greenhouses can be seen everywhere in front of the village; the negative ions of the treasure island oasis of Sanjiang Town are hundreds of times higher than those in the city center.

People in the city drag their children and daughters to come here, and it is a place of leisure every weekend, especially when it comes to the season of eating fresh bamboo shoots around the Dragon Boat Festival, which is to let the rural restaurant that operates the bamboo shoot banquet farmhouse have another kind of liveliness outside the city.

Sanjiang Town because of the surrounding river, the air quality is first-class, there is basically no industrial pollution, Sanjiang people have been relying on planting for a living in the past, simple and industrious.

In the early 80s, there were no bridges to the outside, and people could only rely on more than a dozen wharves around the river to get in touch with the outside world, so it was very closed, but people's thoughts were relatively more simple and simple than the outside.

During the Anti-Japanese War, due to its unique geographical location, it was also a base for underground work, and Sanjiang Town became an old revolutionary area.

In the past, it was rumored that if Sanjiang Town did not collapse the embankment for three years, the sows could hang gold earrings, which shows how fertile the land of Sanjiang Town is.

In the past, when the Hanjiang River reached the dry season, there was a large area of golden sandy beach, the sand of the beach was quiet and delicate, there were many shellfish and reptiles in the sand, and there were many varieties of river fresh in the Hanjiang River, and people would often go to catch them as vegetables to eat.

Now there is no beach, these state-owned resources have long been plundered, and the only Sanjiang People's Bridge built in the late 80s to connect with the outside world has become a dangerous bridge due to excessive sand mining on the riverbed!

Due to the impact of earthquakes in the earth's crust, there are two or three small hills in Sanjiang Town, and the altitude is only one or two hundred meters, the most famous of which is Liyu Mountain.

The Sanjiang Tower built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty on the Liyu Mountain is the landmark of Sanjiang Town, but unfortunately in an earthquake, the top of the gourd and the top layer on the tower were damaged by the earthquake and lost half of the floor, and the tower became a dangerous tower, but this tower is standing still.

The Sanjiang Pagoda was built by Lin Xichun, the head of the household department at that time, and it is said that it was built to break the feng shui of Haiyang County.

At the foot of the carp mountain, there is also a Guan Emperor Temple and a Zen Yin Ancient Temple, and the next door to the Liyu Lake under the mountain is the rapid water crossing of Sanjiang Town, which is still preserved.

Due to the arrival of the Han River, the surface of the river suddenly narrows and turns, and the current is turbulent and turbulent. In the old days, the ships of Fujian and Kezhou, when they arrived here, would burn incense and bow down to peace, so it was named Rapids.

After all, Da Niu is the head of the cultural station, and he still knows some of the places that our painters like, and he takes us to the old office address of the former Sanjiang Commune government, which was undamaged during the Cultural Revolution and is quite well preserved.

Now this paradise has been returned to overseas Chinese. There are several hollow gold lacquer wood carvings inside, which are also listed as national cultural relics; the left side of the gatehouse is carved with the Taoyuan Three Knots, and the right side is carved with the Three Heroes Battle Lu Bu; the characters are delicately and meticulously depicted, vivid!

These are all from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, the hands of famous wood carvers in Haiyang County, which is really ingenious!

The knife is powerful, Guan Yun's long beard, which is a hair-sized line, is also hollowed out and hand-carved, which is really breathtaking!

Ah Guang also joked with Lao Zhao that he asked Lao Zhao to keep his beard so long. After coming out of Taoyuan, Da Niu said that he was going to the barber shop of the fifth brother, and said that he would leave after a few cups of tea, and by the way, let us know about the customs of Sanjiang Town.

Lao Zhao and Ah Guang also agreed, this countryman's old barber shop may have a story. Da Niu also said that he had a shaved head, and he had to run to the fifth brother's barber shop in three days, which was very annoying.

But the fifth brother's craftsmanship is well known far and near, so that the razor's kung fu strength is quite good, and the craftsmanship is first-class, making people feel that they are not shaving, but as comfortable as a massage.

I thought: Maybe the big cow wants to show his face in front of the five brothers! Because the countryman's barber shop is a free communication center.

Maybe Da Niu thinks in his heart that it is necessary to release the information that I am his classmate, so that the fifth brother usually has no intention of letting it out, and he may feel in his heart: We have added too much glory to his cultural station.

He chatted about the anecdotes of the five brothers while walking, saying that the five brothers have many stories in their stomachs, have a wide range of knowledge, and speak with a sense of humor, and the men of the four towns and six miles in the vicinity like to go to his shop, our childhood classmates Dahan, the old man, plus two, Yuzhi, Zhou peeling, and chandelier brothers, etc., are all frequent visitors here, sometimes some people do not have a haircut, but also come to have a good time, drink a cup of tea, listen to a joke, it is also a pastime.

The fifth brother is an interesting person who is known from far and near.