Chapter 4: New Countryside, Old Stories
The memory is frozen in 1949, but it has come to 2015.
Walking through the new countryside 66 years later, Ye Rong was shocked and curious all the way, examining the huge changes like the dislocation of time and space......
Sangzhuang, still the name of the village, has not changed.
Then, everything changed, like a vicissitude!
The mulberry trees that used to spread all over the village have now been cut down, and now the villagers like to plant pepper trees and black locust trees, because the price of the fruit of the pepper tree continues to rise, and the locust rice of the black locust tree has medicinal value and can be sold for money. The price of timber has depreciated considerably, so poplars and acacia trees are no longer planted. Although the mulberry fruit of the mulberry tree is delicious and expensive, it is cut down in large quantities due to the high mountains and long roads, and it is not easy to pick, store and transport.
Modern people seem to have fallen into the eye of money, and everything pays attention to economic benefits, so the village named after the mulberry tree has almost disappeared now, and the name is empty.
The former caves were all abandoned, washed away by rainwater and left unmaintained, eventually leading to collapse and burial, and even being artificially filled in and reclaimed into farmland. For farmers, the land is everything, and abandoned caves can be cultivated and cultivated.
The country roads, the isolated winding and rugged dirt roads down the mountain, have been built into wide cement roads, and the isolated mountain villages have been quite convenient for transportation.
On the side of the road, there are all kinds of vehicles parked, including motorcycles, agricultural tricycles, agricultural four-wheelers, and unheard of various vehicles, such as harvesters, cars, heavy trucks......
On the main road in the village, there are even surveillance cameras and street lights that Ye Rong does not recognize.
The former cave has been abandoned, and the former wasteland is covered with various brick houses......
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This is the new look of the new countryside, and the changes are too great!
There are too many new things that Ye Rong is unfamiliar with.
However, the deeper sense of strangeness comes from the people of the village......
Ye Rong followed the steps of Ye Yanwu and Ye Yu, walked through the village, and the villagers who had nothing to do at breakfast time were used to sitting in the shade of the village, in groups of three or five, talking about the gossip of the neighbors after tea and dinner.
All the villagers are strangers!
Ye Rong tried his best to observe the elderly, because these people were very likely to be seventy or eighty years old, ninety years old, and 66 years ago, they should have been acquaintances.
However, at a glance, there are very few old people in the village, probably because the last century has experienced too much hardship, resulting in a life expectancy that is not so long, and acquaintances have basically passed away.
The only few old people are basically about the same age as Ye Yanwu, about 70 years old, that is, born around 1945.
In 1945, Ye Rong followed the guerrillas, and later left with the People's Liberation Army to fight the Liberation War, but he was not in his hometown, so he definitely didn't know him!
And after returning to his hometown in 1949, before he had time to get to know him, he crossed over......
The result is cruel, this hometown, this village, Ye Rong's homeland, but there are no more acquaintances for him!
Friends, comrades-in-arms, and even enemies have been buried in the soil, and in the end they are no more than a cup of loess......
The mood is inexplicably a little sad.
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Behind Ye Rong, Ye Yu kept staring at this strange uncle who was very likely to have a ghost in his heart!
He's really weird.
It's like a child who is not deeply involved in the world, and he is very curious about what he sees, and he can't help but touch it...... It seems that the world is full of strangeness and strangeness.
Combined with what the two had talked about before, he didn't know anything about contemporary Chinese history at all, and he didn't know mobile phones yet...... But he has mastered the ancient method of stopping bleeding, and his words seem to be as old as coming from the fifties of the last century!
This made Ye Yu suspicious and speculated......
Who is he?
It is especially like a soil bun crawling out of the old forest in the deep mountains, but this is an old village in the deep mountains. Even in the deep mountains that cannot be covered, the villagers there have basically moved out and moved into the migrant villages in the townships.
No!
He doesn't look like a dirt bun at all! Ye Yu suddenly refuted himself!
Although he was dressed strangely, the PLA uniform seemed to be tailor-made, particularly fitted, and he was in good spirits when he wore it. Seeing new things, he occasionally shows novelty, occasionally smiles politely at people and things, and more often, he is calm, quiet, thinking, and has a cold-blooded sense of coldness, as if he has rich experience and has seen all kinds of big scenes, and he has cultivated a special temperament that is not shocked, calm and unhurried.
Wearing a military uniform, really like a soldier! And it's a soldier who has really been honed by life and death!
How could he not be deeply involved in the world...... How can it be a dirt bun?
So what's going on with him?
Ye Yu didn't understand it at all...... That sense of time and space confusion made Ye Yu can't help but suspect that this strange uncle has traveled over from the fifties of the last century!
But in this world, in the worldview of Ye Yu, a three-good student under nine-year compulsory education, it is impossible to cross!
Could it be a mysterious military base, a special forces trained in isolation? And his masters are soldiers in the fifties of the last century, and they have not experienced the changes of time, so under the education of hearing and seeing, this strange uncle who has been brought into a secret military base for training since he was a child, his thinking has been stuck in the fifties of the last century? And now the special forces have finally retired and returned to the unrecognizable and completely unfamiliar city?
This seems to be possible, and the temperament and identity are very consistent!
But...... Why is there always a sense of déjà vu in the YY novels of the king of soldiers returning to the city on the Internet? Ye Yu shook his head secretly, he shouldn't use his mobile phone to read some online novels on the Internet during the leisure summer vacation after the college entrance examination! My own thinking has become strange. How is it possible for such a secret military base to exist in China, which has been isolated from the world for more than half a century?
Ye Yu stopped thinking, and the mystery that she couldn't figure out, the mystery of Uncle Blame, attracted her even more...... Vainly trying to find the truth, but can't help but indulge in it without knowing it.
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"Uncle Ye, cut peppercorns and come back?"
"Yes!"
The three of them walked through the village, chatting in the shade and greeting the villagers.
"Uncle Ye, it's not us talking about you, Ye Guang, the eldest son of your Ye family, is a big boss, earning more than 200,000 a year! Moreover, in the 1979 Vietnam self-defense counterattack, it belonged to the participating troops, and after being discharged from the army, there was a national war allowance, and the money was too much to spend. You are at the age of pension and happiness, what kind of pepper do you cut? What do you do? When you get older, you should pay more attention to rest! ”
"I can't be idle, I've been a farmer all my life, and if I don't do something, I can get sick at home."
"Yes."
When the villagers saw Ye Yu, their eyes showed an expression of envy for other people's children.
"Ye Yu, this kid is really getting more and more beautiful, and his academic performance is super good."
"Yes! Over the years, the national education colleges and universities have expanded their enrollment, and there are many college students in our village, but the person who has been admitted to the national first-line famous university is still the first one! Ye Yu is such a good girl! There will definitely be a future in the future, and your Ye family will have a good boy again! ”
"Thank you, uncles, for the compliment! Hee-hee----"
Ye Yu responded politely to the villagers, smiling brightly.
Ultimately.
The eyes of the villagers fell on Ye Rong's body, and they all looked sideways for a while, with a look of surprise in their eyes.
"Uncle Ye, is this ......?"
"It feels so strange, how can you wear clothes like this? Uncle Ye, your relatives? ”
"It's not."
Ye Yanwu glanced at Ye Rong and introduced it slightly, "He is a writer who goes out to collect style, specializing in looking for stories of Anti-Japanese War veterans, no, help me cut peppercorns in the morning and go to my house for a meal." ”
"Writers? It's not like ......."
"How can such a lofty profession as a writer be so down-and-out, like a homeless man who hasn't seen him for many years!"
"Hahaha-"
The villagers laughed.
Ye Rong was teased! His eyes were in vain, he was angry, and his cold eyes killed the group of people...... This is a bloodthirsty and brutal look, without experiencing the real baptism of life and death killing and bloody battle, it is impossible to have this kind of calm eyes like a night killer!
In just an instant, this kind of look disappeared, and Ye Rong returned to normal, ignoring this group of people and being silent.
The People's Liberation Army's "three disciplines and eight attentions" Ye Rong has not forgotten, still remembered, although it has passed 66 years, but to be precise, he only retired from the army yesterday and returned to his hometown, the first of the eight points of attention is "speak kindly", the fifth "do not beat and scold people", Ye Rong forcibly put away the anger in his heart.
And this glance made the group of laughing villagers dumb and silent, as silent as death.
It wasn't until Ye Rong and the three of them left far away that the discussion quietly sounded again.
"Who is that? The eyes are so fierce! Being glanced at by him scared my heart a few times! ”
"Well, it scared the hell out of us all!"
"Fierce eyes like a killer ......"
"! He's not going to be a felon, is he? Flee to our village? Mom, I don't think we'll go out in the future, don't mess with him, and call the police if necessary! ”
"What felons are on the run? Maybe it's a writer, a wandering writer! Before the writer became famous, it was also a hard profession, and he couldn't earn the manuscript fee, and the poorer he became, and he could only beg in the end. As the saying goes, useless is a scholar......"
"If it's really a writer, listen to Uncle Ye, it's a story about collecting veterans of the Anti-Japanese War? The Ye family really has such a story, have you heard of Ye Rong and Ye Ma? is Uncle Ye's predecessor, who has been a bandit and a soldier! Participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation! ”
“……”
Suddenly.
The eyes of a group of villagers all looked at a pair of brothers, and then they laughed.
"Wei Guo, Wei Jie, I think that if you two brothers don't want your ancestors to be humiliated, you must stop this down-and-out writer from collecting the stories of the Anti-Japanese War here! Otherwise, it was accidentally made into a TV series, and your Wei family is definitely the role of the villain! Haha----"
"yes...... It is rumored by the elders that the ancestors of the Ye family and the ancestors of your Wei family have a feud! Back then, they were all bandits and killed each other, but the Ye family finally followed the guerrillas and exterminated Weifeng Village. Uncle Ye's father, Ye Ma, was killed by your grandfather Wei Huzi during the buzzing period. There is also that Ye Rong, I heard that it was also Wei Huzi who caused trouble, so he disappeared mysteriously, maybe he was killed by Wei Huzi and buried in the soil of unknown places...... Wei Huzi is also very violent! ”
"I heard that the brothers Ye Rong and Ye Ma were even more fierce, killing seven members of the Wei family and almost exterminating the clan! He also dug out the heart of the old guard...... What a feud! ”
"In today's society, the feud of the older generation has basically been forgotten, and the Ye Wei family is also living in harmony, of course, they can't kill anymore. But let the ancestors be disgraced and make public the affairs of the whole world. Wei Guo, Wei Jie, don't you brothers stop it? ”
"That's right! Although your Wei family is no longer fighting with the Ye family, he is a down-and-out writer who is helpless in our village, are you brothers still afraid? Just watched him write your Wei family ancestors as supervillains? ”
“……”
In the new countryside, there are still ancient stories.
And the two brothers of Weiguo Weijie, who squatted in the shade of the tree and smoked, at this moment, showed domineering tattoos, frowned, and fierce eyes, and did not look like good stubble, just like the poor mountains and evil waters!
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