The sun seemed to be about to flush the green bulls. The stones under the shade of the trees are already a little hot; I don't know where the popping sound of fried beans came from, in the wood? On the branches? In the air? It seems to be neither nor neither, but in short, this voice is everywhere; The scorching heat that shrouded from the sky? Rising from the ground? I don't know, like a dissolved plaster sticking to everything; The insects that couldn't stand the torment let out a shrill moan, like the chirping of a kettle that was about to be boiled, and this sound was like a net enveloping it, everywhere. It seems that everything here is going to a boiling point.

It is not so much that they are chopping wood, but that they are swimming in this heat wave, and their clothes are completely attached to the meat, and their bodies shake, and if they are impolite, they will shake like dogs climbing up from the water.

However, this pair of young people were smiling and their emotions were stirring. They are now a couple of lovers. It had been two years since the oxen had come to chop wood, but from the time they were a little over 8 years old to a little over 16, they had to come to the chongchong almost every day to chop wood. They have all reached the age of 18 this year, the boy has grown into a big man of 1.8 meters, and the girl has reached 1.7 meters in the moon.

One was admitted to Tsinghua University and the other was admitted to the Provincial Normal College. One will soon go north, and the other will go south tomorrow to work. Now, they use the activity of chopping another load of firewood in this hometown as a skeimson of their separation. From now on, the two will be separated, and from then on, thousands of miles! No, it's about to say soon, they are temporarily separated, temporarily thousands of miles.

At this time, this kind of heat is too familiar to them, not a lie, but a little kind. They and Shuangniu Chong have known each other for 8 years, and here is a record of their countless bitterness and joy from childhood to adulthood. How much sweat they have spilled here in the summer, how many shivers they have shivered here in the winter; How many times have the bodies of the firewood and wolf's fangs been coated with their blood through their straw sandals; The hacksaw-like thorns "retained" them for no reason, hooking off the pieces of cloth from their clothes and the flesh from their bodies until they brought out their tears; The stinger of the wasp here has entered their flesh, and the crows here have sung of their pity. Closing the narrow twin ox rush mountains in the middle is a grand book of legends about the young couple who stayed here for eight years.

Today, the stove of the two families will not be open, waiting for the firewood of the two woodcutters to burn, to relive the homework that has been pestering them for 8 years. It is quite possible that they will never come here again to chop wood, just as a souvenir to put an end to this legend after the space that has been empty for two years. Since they are just here to make a full stop and take a souvenir, then they can only carry a thousand loads, hold a scythe, and wear a pair of straw sandals if they are more serious, symbolically come here like a play to describe some wood-chopping actions, and then imitate the posture of picking firewood in the past, "picking" two imaginary "firewood" twisting or inserting a song in the middle to sing and go home? No way! They had to go to their hometown, where the two mountains were close and long, towering and precipitous, rugged paths, where the wolf's tooth stones were like knives, and the thorns in the mess of firewood, to find the footprints they had left here, to pick up some of their dripping sweat stains and dried and weathered blood marks, and to store them in the safe deposit box of their lifelong memories. It is necessary to practice it and repeat it once in the original text.

Since tomorrow is going to be "separated from now on", why don't you take this opportunity to find a square inch of thatched land, sweat stains, wet to hold and sleep for a while, all say that love is like fire, although the weather is the heat of the stone, but you are a direct fire! No, their love is still very immature, it has just been transformed, it is still known for a short time, it has just sprouted, but it is a new sprout of love with strong vitality and rich accumulation. They're so shy that they're dying!

Shuangniuchong is composed of two bar-shaped high mountains, majestic, steep, with edges and corners, very much like two oxen. Legend has it that these two "cows" turned out to be far apart, because one is a bull and the other is a cow, they are slowly approaching, until they are close to the nearest place only more than ten meters apart, just when the bull is elated, the cow does not come, the bull is very angry, pee on the cow. In the middle of these two mountains, a spring appears, and it does not stop all year round. Later, a dam was built in front of the spring, and a strip-shaped reservoir was created. The bull's urine is abundant and good, the water in the reservoir is clear, and a curtain of water hangs on the spillway on the embankment all year round.

On the embankment there was a large camphor tree that no one knew the date of its birth, and with its rough and hard stem, it resolutely lifted up a large mass of dense and delicate leaves, forming a large black yin on the embankment and in the water beside the embankment. It stretched out its bare roots the size of a bucket in the direction of the water, and then turned back as far as it went, and burrowed into the water until it was buried in the mud below, as if it were an arm of the tree. For eight years before that, two years ago, in such weather, the two children, Dorao and Willow Branch, when they had cut the firewood, would carry it down the mountain, and sometimes they would put a load of firewood into the shade of the tree, sit on this "arm", dip their feet in the water, pluck a handful of water, harahara in their mouths for a while, and then purse their lips and tell the water to shoot out like a bent stick.

This time, two loads of firewood were put into the shade of the tree, and the sickle touched the pebbles on the embankment, and the two men and women who seemed to come up from the pool not from the mountains smiled affectionately at each other, and their faces that were steamed red by the sun also flew up like the morning glow in the wind, and walked towards the arms of the camphor tree as before. The difference from the past is: today's more than the past to carry a load of firewood, he is now a man who pulls out the mountain and covers the world, it is difficult to carry firewood, and this willow branch is probably only a third of the size of the one she used to carry, she after the last two years of unloading this should be let those powerful boys do the aftermath, become a lotus step lightly moved Miss daughter, really graceful, Duo Lao could no longer bear to see her carrying such a large load of firewood, like a monkey in a performance, carrying a load of firewood, trembling and staggering.

"Peng", the sound of someone falling into the water, and then the endless water came into her mouth and nose without saying anything, choking on the taste of not being a taste, and the Grim Reaper immediately grabbed her trachea, and a boy seemed to fall from the root of a tree and lifted him up! Ah, this is the scene that they left here as children, and that time they sat on this arm after cutting a load of firewood, and the willow branch was so tired and sleepy that before she knew it, she fell asleep like a bag with something in the water, and Dolao scooped her up and gently slapped her. The adults said that the person who was fished up from the water had to slap him a few times before his soul could be turned around, and he was not taken by the water ghost, probably because this meant that the vain ghost would not dare to have a next time.

"Snakes! Hurry up"! Then a boy picked up a girl from the embankment, and a long snake was twisting towards them, and when they saw that the two people in front of them were already looking at it, they neither continued to climb forward nor turned around, and stopped there, and the girl screamed, and the sleepiness flew to the sky! Ah, it is also a scene that appeared here in childhood, the firewood carried by the willow branch slipped from her shoulder to this yin, she squatted down, swept her little hand on the gravel, thought that this was her bed, slowly fell down, fell asleep on those messy stones, washed her feet with more labor, salivaed, did not see the willow branch, climbed up the embankment to see, she fell asleep, a snake rushed towards her!

In the memories of these past events, the willow branch and Dorau moved to the camphor tree's arm.

To commemorate such a real event, if you press the index finger of your right hand at this time and leave a photo with a "click", until you can still see this scene when you are white! It's a pity that you are a prospective Tsinghua student and a student of the Provincial Normal School, but you only know the principle of imaging from the book, but you don't know whether the real camera is a curved or straight thing, here in 1984, if you want to take a picture, you have to have breakfast early, go to the photo studio in Tuoshan Town, I heard that there is this rare thing.

They sat on the roots of the tree, the size of a barrel, but kept a certain degree of isolation, and there was a gap in the middle, which was called shyness. It seems that whoever reaches over will be electrocuted!

They all put their feet into the water, which should be the largest footbasin in the world, and it should be the only stool that must have been there, and they wore old straw shoes worn two years ago, which were too small and ill-fitting, and I don't know if anyone wore a pair of such shoes to wash their feet. Liu Zhi looked at the "cow urine" that could count the sand under the bottom one by one, and thought to himself that it would only be dangerous to fall down again, and he couldn't just stand up.

They said goodbye with a gaze salute.

Farewell! The mountains here; Farewell! The water here; Farewell! This camphor tree uncle......

A gust of wind suddenly came out of nowhere, and a layer of ripples wrinkled in the reservoir at this time, probably its footprints. Farewell! The wind here; Farewell! The sun here ......

And ah! Snow here, frost here......

Shuangniu Chong, please keep everything we have left here for safekeeping. Thank you!

Since you don't have a camera, you can't write your affection, and it's not too early, so let's go back. So they climbed from the roots of the trees to the embankment at the water's edge.

The amorous "cow urine" secretly collected the full-body photos of Dorao and Willow Branch and gently washed them, and was discovered by the two of them at the same time, and the two of them made a heartfelt voice at the same time: "Thank you, please also take good care of this "photo" of theirs, when they come back, come here to take a new photo, and then see if the world has washed them differently than this one."

It was as if a basin of freshly killed pig's blood splashed on the face of the willow branch, and flowed all the way down her neck, probably from the reservoir The wind puffed up her dog's guts, and suddenly she said to him: "Let's hug it!" ”

The water gave them a photo, and they embraced! Please use this old camphor tree as a matchmaker, and they have made a lifelong commitment! The sun, you are the camera in the vast universe, please take pictures of everything here, this is how they are in this life!

Trembling tenors floated in the hot air in the mountain rush: "...... Even if you go for thousands of miles, even if you don't return for ten years or eight years, as long as you don't forget my Yinglian (brother), wait for you (me) to wear a saffron on your chest and go home. ”

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