Chapter 1 Children don't know each other Laugh and ask the fat man, who are you?
Taohuali is located in the southwest of Guizhou, an unnamed small mountain village in the mountains.
Leaning on the mountain on three sides, facing the river on the other, every household in the village has one or two acres of peach land, and when it is in the spring of March, the pink vines bloom all over the mountain, so it is named.
The mountain is not a strange and dangerous peak, a branch vein spread out of the Hengduan Mountain Range, with an altitude of seven or eight hundred meters. The river is not a big river, it is a tributary from the Yulong Snow Mountain that melts and thunders, but it is only four or five zhang wide.
The peach blossoms are not big, but there are 100 households, five or six hundred people, and it is a remote and quiet village that has been in the mountains for a long time. It's just that in recent years, the city has vigorously developed tourism, and it has been booming, attracting many tourists who love landscape and culture.
Although there is only one waterway in front of the Emerald River, this small mountain village is much more lively than before, and there are often city people and donkey friends who come to play on bamboo rafts and ferries.
It was the moon, only half of the time before Chinese New Year's Eve, and in the past days, the entire Emerald River became deserted, and occasionally birds rushing to spend the winter swooped and flew across the water, causing ripples.
Only today, the whole Emerald River suddenly became lively, because this mountain suddenly snowed heavily since last night.
It is winter, and the snow is usually common, but the southern Qiannan region is located in the south of China, and it is a plateau subtropical climate, and there is no snow all year round, and there are occasional records in history that cannot be examined. But last night, this mountain suddenly fell with heavy snow, which made people cry out in amazement, and it was called a once-in-a-century event.
So, a large number of people in the city rushed to see this rare wonder in a hundred years when they heard the news.
Emerald River, the river water is turquoise and clear, like a crystal jade, hence the name. At this time, on the river, a small ferry boat broke through the water, with the sound of roaring wheels, and wandered in the snow of the verdant mountains.
The deck was full of people, all tourists from the city, all holding mobile phone cameras, and taking pictures of the snow scene that they had never seen in the mountains before.
The sky, the winter sun is in full bloom, and the people who are sunning are warm, but on this warm day, there is still heavy snow, like catkins wandering and flying in the air, which makes a group of people in the city cry out in amazement and are excited to catch up with this wonder.
The snow fluttered and blurred into the distance, and the snow fell all night, and the tips of the green hills on both sides were covered with a dizzying layer of white.
"Daddy, look at that, there are so many fish. ”
"Wow, it's flying. ”
On the deck, a little boy of three or four years old pointed not far away from the river, babbling excitedly.
At this time, there are dense schools of fish on the surface of the river with their mouths open, opening and closing, and many fish jump out of the water, drawing a perfect parabola in the air, and then fall back into the water heavily, splashing the water, and it seems that people are also happy with the wonder of the heavy snow flying.
"I'll go, there are so many fish, I've never seen them before. ”
"It's really strange, this emerald river is living water, and the fish are not short of oxygen, this battle is like a fish jumping over the dragon gate. ”
"Oh, strange things collided, our place never snows in winter, this time it snowed heavily, and why didn't it fall in the nearby city, so we caught up with this mountain, it's really strange. ”
A group of tourists from the city were amazed together.
After a while, the tourists saw a small bare wooden boat floating in the middle of the river. On the boat sat a young man, dressed in a cloak and a hat, holding a bamboo pole and fishing, letting the wind and snow blow on the coat and hat.
Green mountains, green water, flying snow, a black boat, a fisherman, this situation and this scene, quite a landscape painting of the ancients of "lonely boat, fishing alone in the cold river and snow".
"Damn, I'll give full marks for this wave. ”
"I'll go, pretend to be a master of the world. ”
"I'm going to try this feeling of fishing alone in the cold river and snow later, but where can I buy that equipment?"
"Get out of the way and play, don't freeze to death you hemp batch, pretend to be forced to take your life. ”
There were many young people on the ferry who enjoyed the scenery together, and when they saw this picture, they interjected and laughed. However, there are really many people who are infected by this landscape and snow, and their faces are excited, obviously moved.
"Fellow, you're not cold, are you catching fish?"
A fat young man, leaning on the iron railing on the deck, stretched out his body, and shouted at the sling-clothed fisherman a few meters away, full of lively laughter, and his fat face was piled up with folds.
The fisherman was a young man, with a simple and ordinary face under his wide hat, but the black slightly raised sword eyebrows were the finishing touch, with a restrained edge.
When the young man heard the shouting from the opposite side, he raised his eyebrows and was about to raise his head, when there was movement from the pontoon, and he suddenly smiled, and when he raised his hand, the river was rippling together, and a white-flowered, foot-long high-backed crucian carp was caught in the air with its tail flicking.
"Yo, okay!"
"As soon as I said that, I caught one. ”
"When I got to the peach blossoms, I went to the villager's house to borrow a pair of fishing tackle, I haven't fished for a long time, and I have itchy hands when I see it. ”
The tourists cheered when they saw it, and the young man on the wooden boat did not say anything, but smiled kindly.
As the rumble faded away, the young man on the wooden boat put his hook back into the water, waiting for the next fish to take the bait.
Heaven and earth have returned to purity, and one person and one boat have become a faint touch of brush and ink in this landscape and snowy scene.
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The snow is falling, the branches are white, and the winter is cold.
With the sudden heavy snowfall, the peach blossoms suddenly became lively in this cold winter. People from the city rushed to this stretching mountain one after another to enjoy the strange snow that occurs once in a century.
The snow is getting heavier and thicker, and it hasn't stopped since last night, which makes tourists too addicted.
The sky is getting dark, and many people in the city are still unsatisfied, and they have stayed in the farmhouses in the village. However, there are too many people coming, several times more than in the usual tourist season, and the supply of housing for a while at night is not available, and every empty house is rented by the city people in the big air.
"Fellow, is there any room available in your house, we are tourists who come here to play, and we can't go back so late, so I want to spend a night at your house." Hehe, don't worry, I'll pay. ”
In a courtyard at the west end of the village, a fat young man asked a villager in his forties, with a smile on his face.
This fat man is the one who shouted on the ferry just now, and with him is a woman with long hair and a shawl, with a material figure, with delicate facial features, but the makeup is thicker, and the stockings on her legs look a little charming.
The woman had a tense face, and she was looking unhappy, obviously very unhappy that the housing problem had not been solved at night, and she was making a fuss.
"Young man, I'm really sorry, it's unfortunate that you came, the remaining vacant house of my family has just been rented by an old couple in the city, tsk, this snow is strange, there are many people in the city who came to see the excitement, and the houses in the village are not enough. ”
The fellow was full of kindness, a little apologetic, and looked up at the snow flying in the sky, and sighed. However, the people in the mountains are simple and enthusiastic, and immediately gave a suggestion to the fat man.
"Or, go over there and take a look, and see that there is no house on the hill, and there are only two people in that house, and maybe there is still a room empty. ”
The fellow pointed to a place 100 meters high on the mountain to the north, and in the snow, a family with blue bricks and red tiles could be faintly seen, standing there alone.
In the snowy sky, there is some loneliness and loneliness outside the world.
"Thank you, fellow!"
The fat man thanked him politely, and then led the woman out of the courtyard.
"What a broken village, there is not even a place to live. ”
Out of the courtyard, the woman couldn't help but go crazy, her face was resentful, her mouth was a little blue, and she exhaled a few mouthfuls of white air into her hand, obviously feeling cold now.
"Xiaole, don't be angry, it's frozen, I'll cover you, but you're really, you wear stockings on your legs, what if you're frozen. ”
The fat man dotingly grabbed the woman's hand and put it into his orange-red down jacket, and muttered a word of blame.
"Wang Dazhi, you have no conscience, my mother is not dressed like this for you. ”
The woman's name was Lin Le, and she kicked the fat man Wang Qing angrily, and a flattery flowed from her angry eyebrows.
"Yo", Wang Dazhi was in pain, but he was not annoyed, but kissed Lin Le's cheek cheaply, and his shining little eyes narrowed into a slit.
"Or baby, you know me, I know I like this mouthful, hehe. ”
How obscene and obscene this gloomy wave of laughter is.
"Look at your dead appearance, find a place to live, or you will become frozen pork today." ”
"Gotcha, let's go!"
So, the young couple flirted and walked to the house on the hill pointed out by the fellow.
A quarter of an hour later, the two came to the front of the courtyard of the house with blue bricks and tiles on the mountain.
"Huhu, it's finally here, why does this family want to build their house on the mountain. Tsk, but the scenery around here is wonderful. ”
The fat man Wang Dazhi climbed a hundred meters of mountain road because of his wide body and fat body, and the whole person felt bad and panting. When he took a breath, his eyes swept the scenery around him, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
The location of this family is located in a flat land with a mountain protruding, there is no dense forest in front of the door, the lighting is smooth, the west side is a mountain cliff, not high, look down, there is a small waterfall two or three zhang wide in the canyon below, the water flow is turbulent, splashing with white water.
The snow on the mountain is already more than two feet thick, and looking at the entire peach blossom from top to bottom, it is white and expansive, which is refreshing.
"The scenery in this place is really good!" Lin Le also felt that the scenery was quite beautiful.
"Squeak"
Pushing open the fence gate, the soft snowflakes on it fell, and Wang Dazhi and Lin Le walked into the courtyard.
As soon as I entered the courtyard, there were bursts of immature children's voices.
"The young and the old man left home, the native accent has not changed, the sideburns have declined, the children do not know each other, and they ask with a smile....ask with a smile..."
I saw that at the threshold of the hall, a little girl of three or four years old with pigtails was sitting on a stone sill, with a small chair in front of her, and was reciting poems with a copy of "Three Hundred Tang Poems".
And next to her small body, an old yellow dog with grayish hair lay quietly on the ground, shrugging listlessly, like a sleepy old man.
At this moment, the little girl's big obsidian eyes were purring, and her face was full of innocent chagrin, and it was obvious that the latter line of the poem could not be remembered for a while.
Hearing the movement in the courtyard, the little girl's annoyed little face suddenly jumped with joy, and Mali put down the book.
Next to him, the listless old yellow dog also heard the movement, raised his eyelids, and got up.
"Brother..."
As soon as the immature child's voice came to an abrupt end, the little girl's excited little face collapsed instantly when she saw the two strangers in the yard.
"Fatty, who are you?"
The little girl didn't know if she was still thinking about the last sentence of the "Homecoming Doll Book" that she didn't remember just now, "Where did the guest come from", so she looked at Wang Dazhi who came in and blurted out such a sentence, and her immature voice sounded very rhyming.
It can be said that it has really become a "stroke of genius"!
Wang Dazhi, who had just entered the courtyard, froze instantly, feeling extremely messy by the wind and snow in the mountains, and his mind was full of black lines.
He just thought that the little girl of this family was really good-looking, and the appearance of reciting poems was also very cute, but he didn't expect to suffer 10,000 critical hits so suddenly.
Wang Dazhi felt so painful.
"Haha. ”
Lin Le next to him was stunned for a moment, his face became wonderful in a blink of an eye, and then he couldn't help but cover his mouth and laugh, and even tears flowed out of his laughter.
"Hey, who's this little girl, she's so cute, I'm laughing to death. ”
And the reason why Lin Le laughed so much was because the word was so good.
"The young man who left home and returned to the eldest child, the hometown accent has not changed and the sideburns have declined, and the children do not know each other, so they ask the fat man with a smile, who are you?"