Chapter 71, Under the Great Banyan Tree
The next day, Li Mo and Li Wei did not go to Paomapo, Li Mo brought a fishing rod, Li Wei brought an easel, and they went to the small river outside Kuyuling to fish and sketch.
Li Hao didn't go either, but this is a person who likes to go from house to house, and goes to his childhood friends to play mahjong and fight landlords to drink. And Li Di really borrowed a few sets of clothes from the next neighbor's sister of the family show, dressed himself up, Li He and Li Chun, and mixed in the family show and their team to go to Happy Horse Slope.
Li He first thought it was fun, and secondly, he really knew that such folk activities were becoming less and less, and although they reappeared later, most of them were commercialized, and the performances and performances were more than the original meaning, so he also had the heart to feel it.
There is no crowd of people in his childhood, nor is it lonely as he imagined, but in Paomapo, what Li He sees is really the passing of tradition. As my grandmother said, there are fewer and fewer young people staying in their hometowns. And Li He knows that in a few years, there will be fewer young people.
But at least at this time, the horse slope is still lively.
Happy Horse Slope is a large, gentle slope with trees on three sides, a small river on the south side, and a lawn the size of a football field in the middle. There is a wind and rain bridge across the river, and there is a high drum tower on the other side of the bridge. There is also a market on the bridge and under the bridge, after buying and selling the necessary items, young men and women wearing national costumes stroll to the horse slope, three or five groups, see the eye, then try with mountain songs, if the singing is intentional, then swim to the edge of the woods, blow the leaves, dance the reeds, and gradually the crowd gathers, singing and dancing.
When the three siblings Li He and Li Di followed Jiaxiu and other childhood friends to Paomapo, there were already several large groups of people gathered in the woods near the river to sing, and the cheerful rhythm of reed sheng and wooden drums spread far and wide.
"Little Li He, don't you know how to sing mountain songs?" When he walked to the edge of the horse running slope and could see the largest and tallest banyan tree with a trunk hugged by more than a dozen people, Jia Xiu, the girl next door, smiled and said to Li He: "If you sing well, then try it quickly, maybe you will meet the beautiful girl from the village." Look at that big banyan tree, it should be thousands of years old, if you sing and make a wish under the big banyan tree, your wish will come true. ”
Li He laughed and said, "Sister Jiaxiu, if you say this, I can really sing, but I can't meet a beautiful girl, will you compensate me?" Li He has to go to the mountains every holiday since he was a child, although he doesn't like to run around like his cousin Li Hao, but he often sits alone in the wind and rain bridge, and he really heard a lot of mountain songs when he was a child. As for singing, Li He recently found that he actually has a lot of potential in singing, especially the pronunciation that he has learned from Mr. Liu for a period of time.
Jiaxiu smiled and said: "Sincerity is spiritual, how do you know if you don't try? Even if you don't meet this time, as long as you sing so that everyone remembers you, the next time you rush to the scene, there will definitely be a good girl coming to you to sing to the song." ”
Li Chun is a person who likes to be lively, and as soon as he heard Jia Xiu say this, he immediately jumped up and clapped his hands and said, "Brother, sing it, sing it, you sing very well." There are very few boys in the neighborhood who sing well, and even if there are, they don't sing as well as you. ”
Cousin Li Di also covered her mouth and said with a smile: "That's it, my brother is such a great guy, if there is no beautiful girl to sing, it would be a pity." If you're embarrassed, just drink a bowl of rice wine first. ”
Li He is also drunk, these sisters and sisters are afraid that the world will not be chaotic. But in fact, he also wanted to sing a mountain song and give it a try, not to see any beautiful girls, but to try anything in life. KTV has been there many times, and every time I hold the microphone and cry wolf, my heart is even more empty. This is also a common problem of modern people, people always like to find comfort in the lights of the city, and after being drunk, the homeless soul is even more confused and desolate.
Then sing, there are too many things that I haven't done in my previous life, too many regrets, too many bonds, since I am reborn, no matter how far I can go in this life, at least I have tried.
So Li He was walking on the hillside, looking at the big banyan tree from a distance, and suddenly he opened his throat and sang the lyrics that he had heard since he was a child, according to the melody of the mountain songs he had heard since he was a child: "Sister, may I ask you, which river has dry stones? Which mountain has bluestones? Which village has unmarried girls? Which village has unmarried girls?" Li He's grandparents are foreigners, but rooted in this ethnic minority mountain village, Li He's father Li Jie and his generation have been wearing their clothes, drinking their rice wine, and singing their mountain songs since childhood, which is no different from the local mountain people. When it came to Li He's generation, they all entered the city, and among the brothers and sisters, except for Li He, that is, Li Di could speak a little local language, and as for singing mountain songs, Li He himself had never tried it.
However, when he opened his throat and sang in the local national language, although the pronunciation was not very pure, he kept practicing singing for a while, and his loud singing voice was quite charming. Li Chun clapped his hands excitedly and applauded vigorously, Li Di also looked at Li He in surprise, while Jiaxiu pursed his lips and smiled.
Li He smiled, sang and sang, and roared a few times with his throat, only to feel that his chest was filled with a fresh vitality mixed with soil and grass, that kind of pleasure, but it can never be found in the city's KTV.
But none of them expected that after Li He's singing was finished, a female voice sang a duet from behind the big banyan tree.
"Ahhh There are unmarried girls in our village, and there are unmarried girls in our village!"
This is a young girl's voice, compared with Li He's vague and unclear fake national language, this song is clear, and the high pitch is so high that it floats to the sky, but it doesn't worry at all that it will suddenly break, and it's not like Li He is roaring at the top of his voice, singing such a high note, obviously not using all his strength. What's more, the sound quality is beautiful, as clear as a deep pool in the mountains, as bright as autumn leaves washed by autumn rain. Moreover, he is still very young, unless it is that kind of old demon, according to Li He's experience, the owner of this voice must be a girl.
At this time, even Jia Xiu was surprised, and said in surprise: "Ah! What a good singing! There is no such girl in our village, and there is no girl in the whole Huanchun Township who can sing such a beautiful song." But it's the same song as you, it's called "Meeting Song"! Will you still sing it in the future? Don't throw in the towel!"
Li He Khan said, "If you remember so much, you will be able to start the first paragraph and the last paragraph!" He smiled and didn't care, and sang what he could sing: "Ahh Brother wants to climb trees, brother wants to climb branches, climb trees and be afraid of dragonflies, and climb branches and afraid of flying dragonflies!"
The female voice behind the big banyan tree paused for a moment, and seemed to be a little dissatisfied with Li He's direct singing to the last paragraph, but she still sang according to the passage of the song: "Ah! Brother! The thrush sings crisply, making people listen carefully." If what you say is from the heart, if the song you sing is the inner song, we will meet on the day of the rabbit farm, and we will meet on the day of the rabbit farm! Hey, we will meet behind the banyan tree!" The last sentence is obviously not the original lyrics, but improvised, and it is obviously full of curiosity about Li He.
Li Chun and Li Di couldn't understand much, but as soon as Dangjiaxiu translated a few simple sentences to them, Li Chun immediately said: "Let's go, let's go and see, the singing is so good, she must be a very beautiful sister!"
Li He waved his hand again and again, saying: "Don't make the mistake of subjectivity, many radio hosts have very good voices, but they will scare people to death when they meet! ”
Li Chun pulled Li He to the side of the big banyan tree, and said as he walked: "No, no, no! Such a beautiful voice, it must be a beautiful sister, brother, you are, won't you regret if you don't go to see it?"
Pulled by this little devil who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, Li He and his sisters walked to the bottom of the big banyan tree, but under the big banyan tree that needed to be hugged by ten people, there were not many old people who came and went, and there was a shrine under the tree, in which incense was enshrined. In the whole racecourse, the really lively area is the wind and rain bridge and the grove, which is the center of the song.
Li He was about to tell Li Chun that the reason why myths and legends are myths and legends is because we ordinary people can't meet them, but a shaving hen suddenly appeared in front of Li Chun, Li Chun was startled and fell backwards, Li He quickly reached out to hug her while he also took a few steps back, and as a result, he hit someone.
The other party said "ah", Li He hit it when he turned sideways, the force is not small, it is estimated that the other party will be a little painful, Li He hurriedly put down Li Chun, apologized in the three or five sentences of the national language he has known since he was a child, stretched out his hand to pull others up, and then his eyes were blinded.
The sharp tip of the nose, the eyes that look like paint, the melon seed face, the head wrapped in a light blue headband, some green silk floats out, the gray and blue cloth cardigan, it is clearly a local girl, but it is not the same thing when you look closely, and the white complexion like celadon is not owned by the local girl, after all, the girl in the mountains has to work, and she has to be exposed to the wind and rain.
However, Li He is already drunk, Nima, this is the kind of bridge that can only be found in love legend novels, and he even met him?
Then Li He smiled happily, and said that if he wanted to meet a beautiful girl, he would meet a beautiful girl, and he made a wish on the big banyan tree. Although wearing the same national costume as him is also a fake, in such a place and in such a scene, there will really be no second chance encounter. The costume is fake, but it is beautiful but it is real, even if Li He's heart is a thirty-five-year-old man, he can't help but feel heartbeat at this moment, yes, it is the moment when this sister paper looks at him with surprise and joy and smiles.