Part 1: Going East, Chapter 9, Chapter 3
The wind with a little damp breath blew from the lush fields, the fragrance of the leaves of the trees and the fragrance of the unnamed flowers mixed together, Li Deyuan's heart was like lying in the grass pile in the ruins of the ancient city when he was a child, and his whole body was emptied.
The large and small hills are like a dark green straw hat buckled on the ground, and the clouds in the sky are lying there lazily, not moving for half a day, this is a lazy season, if you don't want to hurry, Li Deyuan wants to drive the car to a hill and find a beautiful nap under the big tree.
There are not many cars on the highway in the monkey country, and occasionally I see either the Soviet car Volga that Li Deyuan saw when he was a child, or a very old-fashioned Toyota car, and occasionally a few vans are slowly grinding on the road, and the trucks are basically old liberation, and occasionally there are heavy trucks left over by the US military.
The most encountered on the road is motorcycles, most of them are pedals and curved beams, several common old brands of vertical cars in China are almost not seen, Li Deyuan wondered at first, why do monkeys like pedals and curved beams with low chassis so much, suddenly he figured it out, vertical cars need two legs more than 80 cm off the ground, monkeys are too short, if you ride an independent car, two feet can not reach the ground!
Hahaha, thinking that the monkeys chose the pedals because they were short, Li Deyuan laughed out loud, making several monkeys driving motorcycles next to him look at him vigorously.
The run-in period of the newly bought car has not passed, Li Deyuan has not dared to let go of running, although the road in the monkey country is very smooth, there are not many cars, the new car does not dare to open up and soar, the speed is controlled at about 60 kilometers per hour, Li Deyuan has seen the map, to Haifang City is about less than 200 kilometers, before dark to no problem.
Li Deyuan braked suddenly, and the rear wheel of the motorcycle grinded out a black car mark on the asphalt road, stood up and looked around, and seemed to see a few people with large brimmed hats on the railing, and those motorcycles and cars were parked in front of the railing.
The first reaction was that he had escaped, and the monkeys began to look for him everywhere! It is estimated that the owner of the car dealership also confessed, and the monkeys only set up a card on the highway, and with their own dress and accent, they didn't need to be questioned in detail in the past, and they had to be exposed all of a sudden.
Looking back, this section of the road is a long downhill road, and there seems to be a car with a top light speeding at the pass in the distance, damn! Isn't this a police car! Attack before and after! What to do?
When I turned my face, there was a large area of farmland under the roadbed on the right, and there was no water in the field after the rice was harvested, only the dry stubble and cracked soil of the rice, and there were faint houses behind the forest not far away, probably a village, and a dirt road led from the forest through the rice fields to the road.
There was no time to think, Li Deyuan turned the front of the car, and the car roared and the rear wheel jumped up a pile of stones and mud and rushed down the road, turning onto the dirt road under the roadbed.
Li Deyuan is a frightened bird, he is a weak heart, in fact, the card in front of him is the checkpoint at the junction of the two cities, and the checkpoint at the provincial and municipal borders of our Huajia is the same, as for the car wearing the top lights in the back, Li Deyuan guessed blindly, and he didn't look at the color of the roof lights, which was blue! That's an ambulance!
I scared myself, anyway, I imagined myself to be the object of pursuit, the motorcycle bumped and roared into the woods, almost crashed into the monkey villager's house, the front of the car put a hole in the fence wall, fortunately there was no one at home, just a dog biting and barking wildly.
Passing the front of the car, I saw that behind this small grove was a large open field, or rice fields, but there were many houses dotted around, all of which were unique wooden buildings like the monkey country.
Hiding the car behind a tree, Li Deyuan slipped to the bushes near the road, squatted behind the trees and looked nervously for a while, making sure that no cars and uniformed monkeys with big brimmes appeared on the dirt road, so he went back to take the car and drove along the dirt road to the deeper village.
It's strange, this village is not like the courtyards of our flower houses are one by one, very lively crowded into a large pile, looking at the past far away on the plain, you know that it is a place to eat and sleep, in this village of the monkey country, the large and small yards are east and west, and the two yards closest to each other are also gathered dozens of meters away, saying that it is a village, in fact, it is a yard connected by trees and forks, and after a while, Li Deyuan was confused, and he didn't see a monkey!
Could it be that it was kidnapped by aliens or something, why is there no shadow of a single person except for those dogs, and the chickens in the yard? There are no young people in the prime of life, at least there should be old people and children with weak legs and feet! Nor did it!
Li Deyuan became more and more furious in his heart, he remembered to see the whole village disappearing collectively in the UFO Discovery magazine, and nervously looked around to see if there was a strange fog mentioned in the article, fortunately, except for the faint fog, there was no such thick fog, he wanted to find the way to come, it was broken! I can't find it, it's all forks in the road, which one is from the other side of the road, I don't know.
After a while, the oil gauge was about to reach the red scale cordon, Li Deyuan had to stop the car, untie the oil pot from the back seat, add the oil first, and ride away without lighting, he pushed the car and slowly looked for the way to come.
At this time, the juice of the French croissant that he ate when he was on the road in his stomach had long been digested, and the wheels were running away from riding, and the rider was also very physically exhausted, Li Deyuan calculated that he had run for more than 100 kilometers, and he looked at his watch and set off for more than three hours, if he drove the 400 displacement car in China, he would have finished the road to Haiphong in an hour, and he would not go out on a pedal ride.
I parked the car in front of a yard where there were no dogs barking, and when I looked at it, the small yard was quite quiet, and there were no chickens, ducks, or pigs, poultry and livestock, only two vines that twisted their bodies and climbed to almost cover the small yard.
There was no lock on the fence door, it was a latch made of wood hanging there, and it was taken off as soon as he stretched out his hand from the outside, Li Deyuan parked the motorcycle at the door, coughed lightly twice, and asked twice in monkey language if there was anyone, and when he saw that there was no echo, he walked in.
The small courtyard is not big, boxy, except for the two vines with small purple flowers, there are also rows of flowers and plants that Li Deyuan does not know by the courtyard wall, and under the steps in front of the main house, there is a small flat field planted with plants that seem to be vegetables, of course, Li Deyuan still does not know.
However, he knew the big water tank with a water pipe at the edge of the field, walked over quickly, lifted the cylinder head, picked up the water scoop hanging on the edge of the tank, scooped half a scoop of water, tasted it, it was cool and cool, and there was a hint of sweetness, and he didn't hesitate, and drank a few big sips.
Quenched his thirst, put the water ladle, walked over, gently pushed down the door of the main house, squeaked, the door made of bamboo strips was opened, and it was not locked and latched, as soon as he entered the door, it was a table of eight immortals facing the door, the red wooden desktop was exactly the same as the layout of the house in Li Deyuan's impression of his hometown, a feather duster was inserted in a large vase, the banner of "Heaven and Earth Jun Qinshi" was hung on the front wall, two Taishi chairs were placed on both sides, and a row of lattice furniture made of red wood was placed along the left and right wing walls. It's full of books!
Li Deyuan curiously walked over and took a random copy, unfolded it, and was surprised! It's all thread-bound books! It's still a thread-bound book with Chinese characters written on it! If he hadn't known that he was in the country of monkeys, Li Deyuan would have almost thought that he had stumbled into a time shuttle and came to the home of a scholar in ancient China.
This is the "University Chapters and Sentences" in the notes of the four books, Li Deyuan flipped through the paper and printed words, it should not be the old kind, but the master often looks at it, the edges of the book are grinded up, and the white edges of the pages inside are densely filled with small pen characters, the handwriting is not small, but it is very clear, and the pen is very strong.
Li Deyuan remembers reading some information and understanding the situation, in the 70s, there was a large-scale anti-Chinese population in the Monkey Country, which caused a large number of refugees to pour into Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and other places, and the Chinese who did not leave did not end well, and many died, but what Li Deyuan saw in front of him was clearly the home of an overseas Chinese, otherwise how could it be arranged the same as the home of our old scholars.
I still want to look through a few more books, I looked down and saw two boxes on the table of the Eight Immortals, which are bamboo boxes, although the materials are not unusual, but the boxes are very exquisitely braided, and they actually use bamboo silk to wrap colored threads to weave patterns, Li Deyuan picked it up and looked at it carefully, on the lid of the box is a picture, a small shepherd boy on a cow next to a big stone holding a flute, and there is a scholar-like adult wearing a long shirt and a high hat next to the stone.
"The old soul on the Sansheng Stone, don't talk about the moon and the wind, I am ashamed that my lover visits from afar, although this body is of the opposite sex." Li Deyuan casually chanted the allusion to the Sansheng Stone represented in this picture, and the poem sung by Master Yuanze to Li Yuan thirteen years later after his reincarnation.
"Things are vast in front of and behind me, and I want to talk about karma for fear of breaking my bowels, Wu Yue has searched all over the country, and I want to go back to Yandi to Qutang." Li Deyuan was still thinking about this allusion, and the sound of poetry sounded behind him in a trance.