Chapter 43: One Day in the Mountains
My son is not there, I spend more time with him, Zhou Wei quiet afternoon, I sat on the floor and leaned on his leg to watch "The Sound of Music" together, I have watched this movie several times but never get tired of watching it, I saw the protagonist in the movie playing the piano elegantly, I said enviously: "Playing the piano is also a kind of enjoyment, and you can also entertain yourself when you are alone in the future"
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He stroked my hair and said, "Can you play?" ”
"Isn't it just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7? As long as we learn that, we can't learn, but we didn't have that condition when we were young."
I said disapprecantly.
He thought it was ridiculous, looked down and patted me on the head and said, "What other dreams do you want to have besides this dream?" ”
"Stand like her and sing among the green mountains and green waters"
I pointed to the TV protagonist singing and dancing on a green hillside.
"Okay, let's take a trip to the mountains at some time, you can sing and dance as much as you want."
He laughs.
I turned my head to look at him and said, "Let's go now, it's time for the mountains to be lush and the flowers are in full bloom."
He smiled and said obediently, "Okay, you can go whenever you say you want, and come back at night?" ”
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"Coming back, we just went for a ride in the mountains, and walked more than 20 kilometers south from the Qingnan Highway into the mountains, and the scenery was very good along the way."
I stood up in high spirits.
After walking nearly 10 kilometers south from the Qingnan Highway, I pointed to a fork in the road downhill and said, "From this road, walk along the bank of the Yuxi River, the scenery of this road is very good"
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The water of the Yuxi River is not big, but the riverbed is very wide, I don't know how many years to wash out the riverbed is covered with pebbles, the clear river water runs between the large and small pebbles, the wide riverbed is a stretch of mountains along the river in the west, and a wide plain in the east.
Due to the perennial erosion of the river, the wide riverbed is much lower than the plain, along the east bank of the Yuxi River is an asphalt road into the mountain, the village on the plain east of the road is called Linshui Village, all the way into the mountain can see the houses in the village hidden in the bushes in the distance, and then go less than ten kilometers into the house all the trees and houses are gone, just see the gently undulating hills covered with green grass, the grass is shallow, just stretching endless green, the more you go into the mountains, the deeper this green.
The wind blowing through the car windows dissipates the summer heat and brings more and more coolness.
Seeing a dirt road on the side of the road that led to the hills, he drove off the main road and drove along the dirt road towards the green hills, the car traveled between the winding hills, on both sides were the hills like green waves, like an endless green ocean, and after walking about three or four kilometers, we stopped.
Get off the car, full of green, cool wind on the face, make people feel refreshed, we got off the car to climb next to a hill, the hillside is very slow, easily climbed to the top of the slope, look around, all around are exactly the same green hills, if not there is this lane guidance, people will be easy to get lost in this green ocean.
"Why don't trees grow on these hills?"
He asked, looking around.
"Maybe there is less rain here, you see that the grass here is not high, and the more rain you go to the mountains, the grass is more and more lush, and there are trees, don't you see there are trees on the mountains over there?"
I pointed to Nanshan in the distance and said.
"It's not very far away, the difference is so big!"
He sighed.
"Wangshan runs a dead horse, you look close, walk up not close, now there is a car, in the past when there is no car, but you have to ride a horse for a day"
I looked at him and smiled.
He stretched out his hand to hold me and looked into the distance against the slightly blowing mountain breeze and said: "I really like this vastness, loftiness and vastness in the northwest land, which can make people forget a lot of troubles, people should walk more in these natures, and their minds will become broad-minded."
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I looked at the mountains in the distance and smiled and turned my head to say to him: "'Looking at the peak, resting the heart, looking at the valley and forgetting to return' can indeed make people who are addicted to mundane things forget a lot of troubles temporarily, but the people who were born and raised here do not have those troubles of yours in their hearts, and there is nothing to forget and there is not so much sighing from you."
He laughed and said: "Yes, Bodhi is not a tree, the mirror is not a platform, there is nothing in the first place, where is the dust, they are not in our Vanity Fair, naturally there are no troubles for us, but how do you know that they do not have their troubles?" ”
I leaned into his arms and said thoughtfully: "I have also stayed in the police station in this mountain for two years, the people in the mountains look at the people outside the mountain Mune, their ancestors have lived here for generations, their nature has the tranquility accumulated by generations of mountain people, if there is no disturbance from the outside world, they plant in spring and harvest in autumn, and live quietly with the rhythm of nature, and there are not so many troubles you think." But once they are tempted by the outside world, they are not satisfied with life in the mountains and cannot really adapt to the life outside the mountains, and the troubles will come."
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"Then do you say that it is better for them to be tempted or not to be tempted?"
He looked at me inquiringly.
I looked away and leaned my head on his shoulder and said, "I don't know, it may vary from person to person, some people will find a new way of life because of this, and their life will be rewritten, and some people may not be willing to live in the past and do not know how to face the life outside, and their life will be ruined in this entanglement and hesitation." If it were me, I wouldn't deliberately choose to change the old life, but I wouldn't run away from something new when it comes, I'd rather face it and experience its temptation than deceive myself and live an ignorant life, I'm not afraid."
I said quietly.
He hugged me behind him, his forehead resting on my head in silence.
I quietly looked at the perennial snow on the top of the mountain in the distance, and the white snow also emitted a crystal cold light in this hot summer day.
"Still, I really don't want to hurt you at all, I really want you to be happy and make yourself happier, meeting you makes me feel like a lot of good times are losing a lot of good time, so I don't want to miss it"
He whispered in my ear.
"I know, I feel that way, so it's my choice, not just for you."
I said with a soft smile.
I didn't want to make our trip so sad, I didn't intend to talk about our relationship at such a high level in the past, we knew the outcome from the beginning, so we never touched on the topic.
I turned to face him, looked at him with a smile, and said, "Okay, let's keep walking, there's still a long way to go!" Only then did I see the grass, flowers and trees! ”
He put his arm around me and kissed me on the forehead and said, "Okay, let's keep walking"
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The car drove onto the asphalt road, the road in front of me was winding and circling among the greener and greener hills, and I didn't know where the road would go at the bend in front of me on the zigzag road, he suddenly stretched out his right hand and held my left hand tightly, I watched him hold his hand with his backhand for a moment and then let go, chuckled and said: "Concentrate on driving, this is a mountain road, and others think we are in love when something happens!" I think we're both okay."
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He looked at the road ahead and smiled, reached out and stroked my face, and drove silently without talking.
The higher and higher the mountain, gradually there are shrubs and small trees on the mountains on both sides of the road, and climb a big hillside is the top of the mountain, see an open land in the distance, leaning on the foot of the mountain in the distance is the Yuxi River, we follow the winding mountain road to the ravine, see a small gas station on the side of the road in the middle of the mountainside, there is a col behind the gas station, there is a family not far from the gas station, there is a fence in front of the door, a lot of flowers are planted, at this time it is blooming brilliantly, there are a few beautiful big roosters wandering unhurriedly near the gas station, There are also old hens leading chicks to forage in the grass by the fence.
"Let's park here, let's take a look around the neighborhood"
I say.
He parked the car next to the gas station, we got out of the car and looked around, there were few cars passing on the road, there was a village in the distance in the ravine, I knew that there was a fork in the road not far ahead, there were still a few villages going inside, and there were a few coal mines in the mountains.
Hearing that a car stopped, an old man about sixty years old came out and asked if he wanted to refuel, I looked at the old man and then looked at him and said with a smile: "The car is parked here, let's add some gas!" ”
He shook his head and smiled and said, "Okay, then fill it up."
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They were cheering, I went to the house, and I saw that there was a big garden behind the house, and there was an old woman working in the field, so I walked over, and the old woman felt that someone was approaching and straightened up, and I opened the fence door and went into the garden, and saw that it was full of all kinds of vegetables, tomatoes, spicy seeds, eggplants, celery, etc., and I went to the old woman, and saw that she was holding a handful of weeds in her hand.
"The vegetables you grow are so good, they are green, and they are better than the ones you sell on the street."
I said to the old woman.
"The vegetables we grow are all cow and sheep manure, and we never use chemical fertilizers, which is of course better than the vegetables you buy on the street."
The woman said with a smile.
I saw that this woman was very simple, and I also liked it very much: "Have you finished planting so many vegetables and eating them?" ”
"Only my wife and I live here, so many where to eat, often passing by the drivers here like the vegetables we grow, every time we pass by to buy some back, so we grow more every year, some of them eat by themselves, and some of them sell"
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"What do you sell besides vegetables?"
I asked the woman and said strangely, "We only have vegetables to sell, nothing else, oh, and petrol and diesel."
When I heard this, I also thought it was funny: "I mean, are there any wild mountain products such as wild mushrooms and stingers?" The woman also smiled and said, "No, there are only the two of us here, he wants to see the gas station, I have to grow vegetables and feed chickens and cows, sheep, I don't have time to go into the mountains to pick those, and the mushrooms we eat are also brought to us by others from the mountains." I looked at those big beautiful roosters running outside the fence and asked, "Do you sell your chickens?" "We sell roosters, but our chickens are expensive," said the woman, "such beautiful chickens should be sold at a higher price," I said with a smile. The woman laughed when she heard me say this: "I haven't heard the chicken buyer say this, and others have to bargain when they hear about it." "Are you lowering the price?" "Don't drop" "Then wouldn't others be too expensive and not buy it?" "If you don't buy it, forget it, that's what you just said, how can such a beautiful chicken be sold cheaply?" I have raised all these chickens for more than a year, but I can't sell any of them, and I can't bear to sell them, so I have raised all my feelings," said the woman. I looked at the old woman with a smile and thought she was a kind-hearted old man. She pointed to a big rooster with golden feathers and some redness, and said: "I have been raising this chicken for three years, and many people have taken a fancy to it, but I don't sell it for any amount of money, and there is a black one, you don't see that one is beautiful, and the feathers are like satin." "If I want to buy it, which one will you sell me?" I smiled and said, "You can grab the rest except for those two," the woman said. When I saw him and the old man who was cheering on him also go into the vegetable garden, I said to him, "Shall we buy a big rooster here and go back?" He looked at me and smiled and said, "Are you going to take it back to raise or eat?" "You can't raise it, you can only eat it" "Stir-fried spicy chicken?" He chuckled. I glared at him with a smile, thought for a moment and said to the woman, "Auntie, is this good?" Let's buy a chicken from you, you make it for us, and we can have dinner at your place, okay? "Where are you going?" When are you going to eat? "The woman was obviously very happy, and I think she was not only because she had sold a chicken, but also because someone had left her to speak, and it was a lonely place after all." We're out to play, we're going to climb the mountain," I pointed to the mountain behind the house and said, "Come back from the mountain and eat here, do you think it's okay?" "That's good, it just so happens that I sent noodles at noon to prepare steamed steamed buns, but you have to go down the mountain early, it gets dark early in the mountains, and the road is not easy to walk when you come down late," the woman said. Thank you then," I said with a smile.