Chapter 116: Unwelcome Guest
Gu Yuanxiang got up early the next morning and was about to leave, because he had been shopping for too long yesterday, his muscles were sore all over his body, especially his legs, and he came back last night to relax his muscles for a long time, otherwise it was estimated that he would not be able to raise his legs and bend. When she saw Cheng Xiao walking down the stairs with five-centimeter high heels, her face was radiant, and Gu Yuanxiang began to wonder if she was the only one shopping yesterday, why didn't anyone have anything to do! She deeply realized that the president of taekwondo told her that your body is too weak and you need to exercise, and she was quite unconvinced at the time, but now she really understands it deeply, what a painful realization!
Gu Yuanxiang, who was hit, was so angry that he had no energy after getting into the car, thinking about whether he would go for a morning run with Xiao Ai in the morning after returning to school, and tie two more sandbags to his feet?
"Xiangxiang, give." Gu Yuanxiang was thinking about how suitable the sandbags were, and he didn't know if there were any sandbags with some good patterns, and he didn't want them to be all black. A hand reached out.
"What is this?" Gu Yuanxiang turned his head and asked.
"Preserved fruits, made of all kinds of fruits." Kang Lei took out a small packet.
"You didn't buy this, did you?" The transparent white plastic bag is filled with all kinds of preserved fruits, which looks so simple.
"No, it was made by my own family, and Ah Yao gave it to me when I left in the morning." Kang Lei didn't want it at the time, but the girl stuffed it into his hand and left. Seeing Gu Yuanxiang listless, I thought she was bored, and thought that eating preserved fruits could be free of leisure ~ one ~ this ~ read ~ small ~ say ~ ybdu, and took out all the big packs.
"Son, I'm bored too, why didn't you think of giving it to me to eat." Cheng Xiao teased his son.
Gu Yuanxiang saw that Kang Lei's face was red again, so he hurriedly grabbed a handful, and then gave the bag to Cheng Xiao together: "Auntie eat." ”
"Mom, you eat too." Gu Yuanxiang chose the preserved fruit in his hand and handed over the fruit that his mother loved to eat.
Today, the seats in the car have been adjusted, Dad Kang and Dad Gu are in the front row, and when they are tired, they will sit in the co-pilot and drive the other person. Next to Gu Yuanxiang was Gu's mother, and Kang Lei was transferred to the back seat to sit with his mother. Father Gu saw that the staff were all seated before finally getting into the car, hmph, under the eyes of his old man, no stinky boy would try to deceive my daughter.
Gu Yuanxiang understood why he wanted to go early in the morning, and brought food and boiling water from the store, this road was not generally difficult to walk, there was almost no road, the car drove very slowly, Gu Yuanxiang had the illusion of shuttling through the primeval forest. Now that she knows the destination this time, Gu's father had previously taken over a municipal construction project here, and a friend took him on a tour of the local area, and he discovered this good place. At that time, he wanted to bring his family to appreciate the opportunity, before coming this time, he heard that there was also going to be development, if he didn't come again, he wouldn't have a chance in the future, Gu's father decided to take his wife and children on camping.
Driving all the way, Gu Yuanxiang had already made it to a place with beautiful scenery but pristine ecology where there was no house to live in, and she found a tent when she was packing her luggage. Gu Yuanxiang didn't know how to describe her mood when she saw the tent at that time, on the one hand, it was good, it was very exciting, and on the other hand, the conditions were so difficult, could she ask to sleep in the car.
After arriving at the destination, Gu Yuanxiang was still a little surprised, because this place is not deserted, it is a small village! Probably this small village usually does not have many outsiders, but after driving in, it received a lot of attention, and many children called for friends.
"We've got to the location, let's get off." Dad Gu stopped the car.
Gu Yuanxiang felt that her group looked like intruders who had suddenly broken into someone else's peaceful life, and those curious looks made her uncomfortable.
"You're here, you've been lucky all the way, and a resting room has been prepared for you, so you can go and rest first."
Before Gu Yuanxiang got out of the car, he saw an old man with gray hair and loose skin approaching and inviting them. Gu Yuanxiang felt that he didn't seem to be very welcoming to our group of people, although the content of what he said was very thoughtful, but his expression was serious, his eyelids were relaxed, and he didn't look at them from beginning to end.
After Gu's father parked the car, the group followed the old man to rest, the people in the village pointed to the side, and the children laughed from time to time. Gu Yuanxiang felt that she was being treated like an animal in a zoo and was being viewed for free.
Cheng Xiao is very novel, she abandoned her son and husband early in the morning and took Gu Yuanxiang with her. She rarely goes out to play, because her temperament is confused, and the family is not worried about her going out alone, even though she already has a son in his twenties. Dad Kang even said that she couldn't go to a place where she needed to be away from home for a day without his company, and Dad Kang was always busy with work, so Cheng Xiao rarely had the opportunity to go out to play, let alone such a far place. Although she also felt out of place with the old man and the old man's faint resistance, these didn't matter to her, she just came to play, different styles are interesting, and she didn't live for a long time, and she still had to take herself to rest if she resisted.
It is said that it is a small village is really a small village, Gu Yuanxiang estimates that there are only a dozen households, and the houses here are all bamboo buildings, with items on the first floor and people on the second floor. After walking for a long time, the old man stopped and pointed to a bamboo building in front of him to signal everyone to go up.
The house is very spacious, with a total of four rooms on the second floor, which only contains the simplest daily necessities, such as a kettle, and even a towel mirror, and there is no empty view. The preparations made before coming were relatively sufficient, and they were all ready to live in no man's land, so the things in a few large boxes were very useful, and not long after the two families divided the rooms, the originally empty room was a little more popular.
Everything was packed up, and after a few minutes the old man appeared and took them to dinner. At this time, it was not completely dark, and Gu Yuanxiang followed the old man to a flat and open place. It was made up of three rectangular tables with a variety of dishes on them, already full.
Gu Yuanxiang and his entourage sat down in the vacant seat, and the old man sat on the top, and after briefly introducing them to the villagers, they were guests from afar, and everyone started eating.
There is no excitement of pushing cups and changing lamps, there is no enthusiasm for introducing each other, and there is no hush and warmth who cares about whether life is adaptable. With so many people gathered around for dinner, Gu Yuanxiang could only see their black heads. It seems that she is really an unwelcome intruder, Gu Yuanxiang thought about it self-deprecatingly, and continued to pick up the rice in front of her, there were a lot of dishes on the table, but she tasted a few things, almost the same as they were, only with a little salt, although the mushrooms were very delicious, she still couldn't eat them. There are a few things in front of Gu Yuanxiang who don't like to eat, she can't clip them far away, stand up and clip them, don't be kidding!
Fortunately, the efficiency of everyone not talking and only eating was very high, and Gu Yuanxiang had not finished counting the grains of rice, and the villagers began to leave one after another. Father Gu and the old man exchanged two words of thanks, and after warm hospitality, the group returned to the bamboo building. It was completely dark, there were no street lights here, Gu Yuanxiang suspected that there seemed to be no electricity here, and the lights coming from the bamboo building were very dim, it seemed to be the light of a candle flame.
Gu's father took the flashlight with him when he went out, turned on the flashlight, and the light shone out, and the surprise on the faces of the villagers who were preparing to go back on the way also shone out. Then there was a burst of whispering, Gu Yuanxiang heard someone say that this was a flashlight, and people outside used it to shine very brightly at night. It didn't take long for the child to come out, not near or far from pointing at the flashlight. The children did not participate in tonight's big dinner, probably the children are not easy to control, and the serious atmosphere and the children are easy to become relaxed and noisy, and the old man probably did not agree to the children to eat at the table in consideration of this.
The children followed the light of the flashlight until they walked to the bamboo building where Gu Yuanxiang and they lived, and Gu Yuanxiang only then found that their bamboo building seemed to be in the outermost part of the village, and there was no candle light outside. Gu Yuanxiang walked into the bamboo building and saw the children still standing downstairs from the second floor, shining a flashlight downward, seeing the children's curious eyes looking up, and then hearing the children's more lively discussion.
Although there is no electricity, this time the preparation is really sufficient, with solar emergency lights, and a few solar panels. Although there is no electricity, the house is still bright.
When I washed before going to bed, I found that there was no bathroom here, and on such a hot day, it would be rancid if I didn't take a bath! Gu Yuanxiang is not the only one who is worried about spoiling. Fortunately, there are four rooms, one of the most marginal rooms is used as a bathing room, fortunately, the water in the water tank in the room is full, otherwise if you want to take a bath, you have to go to fetch water so late, the black village, I don't know where the well is, it is really unimaginable difficulty to fetch water, if it is estimated that there will be no bathing tonight, and the next day it will be six rancid human-shaped steamed buns.
After boiling a large pot of water in the kettle that had been allocated here, the six people took turns to wash up with cold water.
"Dad, you've really been here before?" Gu Yuanxiangjue asked before going to bed.
"I was passing by here before and didn't stay." Gu's father came here with a friend last time, because of his work, he just came and left, and didn't stay long.
"Isn't it just this small village, I don't think the lake is as beautiful as the sunset." Gu Yuanxiang felt that this place was usually like any small village, and there was too much distance between his father's mysterious mystery before and the beauty behind him.
"We're just staying here temporarily, this is not where I said, we're going tomorrow. There are no villages and no people there, so we have to stay here and go back tomorrow. Remember to wear sneakers tomorrow, the car won't be able to drive in front of us, so we'll have to walk on our own. Gu's father reminded his daughter.
If you want to walk, Gu Yuanxiang heard the sound of heartbreak, there is no electricity, there is no road, you have to walk by legs! Gu Yuanxiang had already imagined the difficult test he would face tomorrow. When he went back and started exercising, Gu Yuanxiang silently clenched his fists in his heart.