Volume 3 Strange Tales in the Countryside (27)
"I said fellow countryman, why doesn't the government build a road for you?" Li Minghao complained, his old waist on which he relied for his life^ blessing was about to be turned upside down, and he finally crossed the mountain, and only then did he almost reach his destination, and he could faintly see wisps of cooking smoke. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Alas...... Don't mention it!" The sun was about to go down, the old man who was driving the car took off his straw hat, flashed twice to dry his sweat, and then said: "Our village, there are basically no young people, since a few years ago there was a college student, the young people have gone out one by two, and they will come back to take a look at it during the New Year, there are basically some old men and old ladies left in the village, planting some land to eat by themselves, and there is no money, and they are too lazy to ask people to disturb us, and the road construction has been delayed again and again, and everyone has forgotten it until now, and I am afraid that the government will also forget!"
The old man sighed twice and wanted to take out his cigarette pouch and take two puffs, but when he saw the eyes of the people staring at him, he swallowed his saliva and put it back, joking! Who would have trouble with money? The rest of the village may not need any money to spend, but he still needs to save some money to buy tobacco leaves at the market. It is rare for anyone to think that they came from this poor country, but this group of people promised 500 yuan for the journey, and in any case, they must not be offended.
For the first time in his life, this old man's addiction to smoking could be endured.
"Don't you have to go to the town to buy daily necessities? Also, what should I do if I get sick?" Meng Yi'er asked.
"What kind of daily necessities can they have?" The old man was very stunned, what is the inevitable connection between these so-called modern daily necessities and them? In ancient times, people had nothing, and they still lived a good life, and they were much happier than these people now. As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains depends on the water to eat the water, there are mountains and water, there is food and drink, what else is needed?
Meng Li'er sighed, she can't live this kind of primitive life, without modern scientific and technological products, she Meng Li'er can't even publish a novel, let alone order takeout or something, what is the meaning of life? As a senior otaku girl, her thoughts express the most real side of the new new human being.
The most incomprehensible thing for Li Minghao is that he doesn't have the most important tool for making a ^cannon - a mobile phone, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't have a ^gun, but it's so inconvenient to have no mobile phone these days. Thinking of this, Li Minghao suddenly had an ominous premonition, he flew out of his backpack and took out his mobile phone, and sure enough, the mobile phone showed no signal.
"Hey, let's see if your mobile phone has a signal!" Li Minghao is most afraid of this, without a mobile phone signal, even if something happens to them in the mountains, they should not call the earth and the earth to be ineffective.
"Nope!"
"Nope. ”
Everyone fumbled and took out their mobile phones, looked at them, and found that the answers were the same.
"Hey, hey, hey. The old man who drove the car smiled: "Don't look for a signal, we don't even have a signal base station within a radius of dozens of miles here, how can there be a signal!"
Everyone was dumbfounded when they heard this, Li Minghao squeezed Duan Qingqing away with a hippie smile, approached the old man, and said with a smile: "Hey! Uncle, I said that you are really a god! Even the signal base station knows." How's it going???!
The old man turned his head and glared at Li Minghao, and said angrily: "You young man! What are you doing laughing at my old man!"
Li Minghao saw that the old man was a little angry, and hurriedly soothed: "Don't mind! Uncle, I'm saying that you are very knowledgeable, like a university professor!"
The old man calmed down, turned around again, looked at the little mule driving, and muttered to himself: "I also heard from the village chief, there are young people who have returned to the village, thinking about the convenience of contact, to buy mobile phones for the elderly at home, but they found that there is no signal in the village and on these mountains around the village, they went to the town to ask, and also asked the village chief to report to the town to ask for a signal station, and it is estimated that the signal station can be built by the end of this year!"
Everyone looked at each other, not knowing how to talk.
Fortunately, this old man is also a familiar man, and he continued to babble: "What's so good about a university professor, that college student from us here has been gone for eight or nine years, and he hasn't come back once!
The old man shook his head as if he were talking about his own daughter.
When Duan Qingqing heard this, she hurriedly said, "No, it's not like that! She must have a hard time not coming back! She definitely didn't mean to!"
The rest of the people were stunned for a moment, and this Qingqing didn't say anything important along the way, it was nothing more than asking everyone "when will you arrive", "thirsty or not", "hungry or not", "sunbath" and other topics, everyone has heard enough, but they didn't expect that when it came to this topic, Duan Qingqing actually had an obvious rebuttal.
"Qingqing...... You ......" He Huan just wanted to ask her if she was uncomfortable, and remembered a very important thing - Duan Qingqing was also from a mountainous village, and He Huan had never heard her mention her hometown, could it be that Duan Qingqing also had a similar experience to the college student mentioned in the old man's story? That's why she was so sensitive. It is even possible that Duan Qingqing, like that college student, has never wanted to go back since she left her hometown in the mountains.
Duan Qingqing realized that she was out of shape, so she quickly shut up, turned her face to the side, and stopped talking.
"Didn't you mean it?" The old man didn't know the reaction of Duan Qingqing and the others, and continued to say disdainfully: "Hmph! That little girl, the money for going to school was all made up by our village, I thought that she would be able to come back to repair a road to the village after graduating from college, but I didn't expect that when she left, she was like a lost livestock, and she never came back!"
"Enough!"
As soon as the old man finished speaking, he heard a woman's voice behind him burst out, and he was so frightened that a spirit turned around and looked at the person who spoke.
This time, it was not Duan Qingqing who was drinking, but Meng Qi'er!
I saw Meng Li'er's eyes narrowed slightly, revealing the expression that she usually wants to eat people when she is angry, her chest rose and fell strongly, and she frowned and said: "I said, old man, who are the people in your village? You old guys haven't done it, why do you ask a little girl to do it?"
He Huan tugged at Meng Li'er's sleeve and signaled her not to continue, but once this girl encountered the behavior of being tied to the so-called justice, she would become impulsive and chattering, she shook off He Huan's hand and continued: "You yourself are ignorant, forget it, you have watched TV anyway? I don't know how difficult it is for college students to find employment now? It's funny to come back and build roads for you! I don't have a job, I can't support myself, and I have to build roads for you! I'm sorry!"
After Meng Qi'er's anger was released, in the end, she was laughed at by this group of ignorant and ignorant people.
The old man just sneered disagreeingly, and didn't answer Meng Li'er's words, he didn't want to get along with money. The people in the mountainous areas, the ignorant thinking has been deeply rooted, and it is impossible to be scolded by Meng Li'er in a short time, after all, the people in the mountainous areas have not seen many things in society, so they can't understand many things, this ignorance is caused by the environment, in fact, they are not to blame.
"Okay, Qi'er, there's still business, don't dwell on this, they don't want to do this, they just don't have the opportunity to see a better world. He Hao took Meng Yi'er's hand and murmured softly, wanting to comfort this undocile cat.
Meng Li'er's anger had subsided, and she naturally became docile, and she realized that she was reckless again, so she hurriedly said: "I don't have any other ideas, I just don't want to put the blame on a little girl who can't do anything." ”
Duan Qingqing looked at Meng Meng'er in agreement, but retracted her gaze the moment she saw He Huan holding Meng Meng'er's hand.
"By the way, uncle, even if you don't have a mobile phone, you always need toilet paper or something, and soap or something?" Li Minghao quickly turned back to the question just now in order to alleviate the embarrassment.
"Oh, that's it. The old man didn't want to worry about the troublesome woman, so he smiled again and said, "With me here, you don't have to worry about this!
The crowd also did not understand, it is said that it is normal to get some straw from the village and sell it in the city, but it is a little strange to pull straw back from the city.
"Then your old man is ......"
"You turn over the straw!" the old man sold.
Li Minghao hurriedly raised his buttocks, no wonder he felt that there was something under the straw just now.
"I'll ......" Li Minghao took out the bag of things from the straw and quickly stuffed it back.
"What? God is mysterious!" He Huan didn't know what to do, but he also fumbled, and soon took out a bag of things, and looked at it that it said "XX sanitary napkins".
"Forehead ......"
No wonder this old man wants to cover it up with straw, so it is.
"Then how do you see a doctor, you will inevitably have a little headache and brain fever or something, right?" Li Minghao was very embarrassed, and quickly changed the topic again.
"Hey, see a doctor?" the old man smiled back, a smug look on his face.
The people were amazed at what the old man had to be proud of, and they all pricked up their ears and listened to him.
The old man smiled proudly and said, "In our village, there is a great miracle doctor! We all look for her if we have any headaches and brain fevers! Not only us, but also in the surrounding towns and villages, as long as there is an incurable disease, they all have to find us as a miracle doctor!" But, ah, our miracle doctor is also a person who is awkward, whoever wants her to see a doctor, you must first show her the photo, she agreed to find someone to pass the word, before she can come to her for treatment, otherwise, you are the whole family kneeling there She won't take a look, if you make her annoying, she will not be cured for the rest of her life!"
"What? such a strange thing!" Li Minghao couldn't help but "admire".
"You can't say that when you enter the village!" the old man suddenly became solemn, turned his head solemnly, and ordered: "The divine doctor is the most prestigious person in our village, even the village chief must respect her a little, almost all the women in the village give birth to children by her, as long as someone in the village is sick, no matter how serious, Grandma He can save her! This is the most important person in our village, and we must not provoke her!"
When the words "Grandma He" were mentioned, He Harmony was shocked, such a coincidence, this old man also has the surname He?
The Taoist chief smiled slightly, and said in his heart, the old divine doctor is really respected in this village.
As he spoke, the curling smoke was getting closer and closer, and before he knew it, he had reached the entrance of the village.
"When you arrive, you get off the bus first, wait for me at the entrance of the village, I will go and deliver the things first, and then come and take you to the village chief's house!" The old man urged a few people to get out of the car, and told them to wait in place.
"Isn't it over with us?" Meng Yi'er didn't understand why the old man asked them to wait here.
"This ......" The old man hesitated for a moment, thought for a while and said: "This is the rule of our village, outsiders must be taken to the village chief's house first, and the village chief said that they can stay before they can stay, otherwise they can only be driven out of the village......"
"This ...... What kind of rules is this!" He Hui thinks that this kind of rule is simply unreasonable place protection, the whole world is not the king's land, we are a society under the rule of law, is there any place where a village chief can only enter with the consent of a village head?
Meng Li'er grabbed He Huan's arm and said in a low voice: "Xiao Huan, this kind of closed mountain village has its own rules, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, no one can control them, if you want to enter smoothly, we will wait." ”
Only then did He Huan realize that this time he was impulsive, and in major matters, Meng Li'er was still more secure than him.
"Then you wait for a while, I'll go first and I'll go back. The old man who was driving the car said this, but he didn't move at all.
The old man looked at the group with a grin, and there was a cunning air in his smile.
"Go and get back, man. The Taoist reminded him.
The old man didn't move, just smiled.
"Oh......" Li Minghao reacted very quickly, and immediately understood what the old man meant, he quickly took out his wallet from his backpack, took out five hundred yuan from it, stuffed it into the old man's hand, and said with a smile: "Uncle, I have worked hard for you all the way, this is your travel expenses." ”
The old man was very happy when he took the money, and the 500 yuan he couldn't earn for several months as a "purchasing agent" in the village and town.
"Thank you! Thank you!" the old man thanked him one after another.
Li Minghao took out a few more banknotes, stuffed them directly into the pocket of the old man's cloth coat, blinked an eye, and said: "Uncle, this is the money to buy cigarettes for you, as long as you can help us stay in the village, we can still flow for a long time......
The old man was forced to stuff a few more yuan, and his face was about to bloom with gold, he didn't make a living in this ravine, and he might not be able to earn nearly a thousand yuan a year. This is really good luck from heaven, and it has been given to these gods of wealth!