The small train on the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway we took was walking on the rickety Yunnan Plateau, and the reason why we said to walk was because it didn't look like it was running, saying that it was a train, but the speed was like an old ox pulling a broken car, more like a long bus, and it didn't go far to stop, and I really didn't know how many stations there were on the road ahead. Asso said that our destination was Mengzi Station, but we had to go further than that. If it weren't for Asso's singing that filled me with anticipation, I honestly couldn't bear the long journey. The other four classmates, especially the two female classmates, were completely hateful. The inside of the carriage is not only stuffy, but also full of all kinds of smells. Ye Hena said almost angrily: "When will it come, if you continue like this, you will die."

Asso said, "It's almost there, it's almost there." We got off at Guogu Station in Mengzi, there are about more than 300 kilometers, and it will be faster after arriving in Mengzi, and we will arrive in Honghe County after taking the car for another day. After Xiaoxi Village, you have to pass through Chenggong, Dog Street, and Bise Village, and there are only one or twenty stations left. "This journey, in Asuo's mouth, it seems to be playing, but for Ye Hena and Song Zhiqiu, it is fatal.

I said to Asso, "It's far enough."

Asso said, "How else would it be called the frontier?"

Asso added, "Actually, this road is nothing. My Abba has been out for a long time, and he has been out this spring, and basically he will come back next spring. ”

Xia Tingquan said jokingly: "I feel like this is going to heaven."

The sun was shining outside the window, and it was approaching dusk, and the sun was falling from the distant mountains, but the sky suddenly began to rain, and there was no thunder or dark clouds, but the rain was coming.

Seeing the confusion on our faces, Asuo said: "We are like this in Yunnan, a mountain is divided into four seasons, ten wild dogs are different days, and there is snow on the peach blossom mountain under the mountain."

But I feel like the world we live in is like a magical world, and it gives you a completely different feeling, both visually and psychologically, and I like it. The train passed two stations, and the rain said no, there was no more. The sky was clear, and the cabin was cool. The glow of the sun shrouded the earth, making me think that there might really be heaven ahead. Aso got off the train at a small station, and when he came up, he had everything in his hands, and a strong smell aroused our appetite, and then we realized that we were very hungry.

Asso put some roasted potatoes on the small table and said, "The leaders of the state have specially arranged for you to make rice noodles across the bridge in Yunnan on this small train." As soon as Asso finished speaking, the waiter on the train brought several bowls of soup to the small table in front of us.

It looked like a few bowls of cold soup, and Song Zhiqiu was just about to stretch out his hand, but was stopped by Asuo, who said: "Hot hands, this is old goose soup, the temperature is covered by oil, but in fact the temperature is very high." As he spoke, Asso handed the fragrant roasted potatoes to the two girl classmates and said, "Try it, you can't eat it in Beijing."

Many years later, when I think about this day, I still can't forget the taste of that night. The two female classmates, who have always been very reserved, also look like hungry ghosts from hell, and they don't have any Sven who reads at all. Xia Tingquan couldn't stand it anymore, and reminded: "Why do you two seem to be hungry for eight hundred years."

"Sven is not on the diet, Sven is not on the diet," Aso said. I'm relieved, I'm afraid that you will come from the north, and the taste will be light, and you will not be used to this taste. ”

I said to Asso, "Get used to it, get used to it."

At this moment, Asso took out a wooden leaf as if by magic and said, "You guys are ready, I'll have fun with you." Asso said, put the wooden leaves to his mouth, it seemed that it was a gentle blow, and the moonlight flowed, and Asso played a song that is familiar to the people of the whole country, "Phoenix Tail Bamboo in the Moonlight". The moonlight is like a pour, the bamboo forest dances, the tube skirt of the Dai girl floats on the river, the long black hair falls in the sun, the slender waist of the snake and the peacock dance in the wind by the river---- a painting of style in the leaves shows in front of our eyes. I looked at Asso, and suddenly I felt like my taste had faded. It is the taste of music that dilutes the spicy taste in the mouth. The mental pleasure diluted the gustatory pleasure, and I stopped plundering the food. I looked at Aso like a monster, how much magic did this black-faced chariot man have that we didn't know. It's just a piece of Konoha that has such magic in his mouth. It makes me feel like I've read this music school in vain. What profound musical concepts, what violin and cello, if you can't move people, what is the meaning of music? I remembered the detail of playing Guanglingsan in "Jin Yong Smiling and Proud Jianghu", is that music? That's a promise of life. Therefore, it makes no sense for us to emphasize the form of music alone, or to emphasize the content of music alone. For example, what is so great about a symphony, if the symphony does not have the effect of a single leaf, the value of the symphony is there. On the other hand, even if the lyrics are good, if there is no expressiveness in the art form, the value of the lyrics is there.

Aso's Konoha obsesses me. I looked at Asso fixedly, and Asso said, "Blow it casually, blow it casually, you can't get on the stage, and a few teachers laughed."

I said to Asso sincerely, "You are the teacher."

The train passed through the night and arrived at Guogu Station, our journey was almost all the way to Honghe County, no matter what kind of charm the mountains on the plateau had, except for Asuo and the driver, we all fell into a deep sleep.

We finally arrived at the destination of our trip, Zosa.

The city is the county seat of Honghe County, the sun at noon is very good, bright and dazzling, it feels a little stuffy, we are like a group of deserters scattered in the war, tired and embarrassed, living in the compound of Asuo's family, the Huisa Mansion, an ancient village, through the ancient alleys of bluestone slabs, are antique one after another compound, Aso said while walking: "Our parents and ancestors are all horse gangs, the first and biggest thing to make money back is to build a house, and then go out to make money, There are only women and children left in the family, some only one woman is left, some are just after the happy event, the man leaves, some the man goes out and does not come back, the woman does not know what happened, so she has to wait, and some have waited for a lifetime and have not seen the man come back. The courtyard is a three-story wooden building with a patio, and the decoration of the gate is a Western-style pattern, majestic and tall and full of lines, and the sculpture of Roman columns, but it is not clear that it belongs to the style of that country. Sunlight fell from the patio and smashed on the stone tables and stone benches in the patio, and hung on the wood carvings of the eaves.

Aso said: "The leaders above said that the county party committee guest house is a cement house in the sixties and seventies, which is the same as the county party committee guest house in the whole country, so I specially arranged to live in this kind of old house, saying that you art people like this kind of classical folk house with history and story."

Song Zhiqiu, who is known for cleanliness, looked confused, but it was not good to write disgust on his face, and said to Asuo: "Is it convenient to use water?" Is her subtext clean?

Aso pointed to the well in the corner of the patio and said, "It's very convenient, the water in the well is clear and sweet, you can use it for anything."

Yehena said, "I'm so sleepy, I have to sleep for a day, and you don't have to call me when you eat." ”

Xia Tingquan and Du Runjian also said in unison: "Me too, me too."

I said to Aso, "Leave me alone, they sleep, and I'll go out into the streets by myself."

Aso said, "Don't you need me to accompany you?"

I said, "No." Asso said, "Yes." You people from Beijing will not get lost. I guess I'll be back when it's time to eat. ”

I said yes and went out the door. I was curious about this classical city of Quesa.

I walked along the old bluestone alleys, and as I looked, I felt that this city was full of questions. Who came up with the idea of building the city on top of this hill? If you look up from the bottom of the mountain, you will feel that the city is on top of a group of peaks. The architectural styles of the buildings and courtyards are completely different, and the styles of different countries can be found here, which is really strange, how did they do it, the different styles of buildings are pieced together here, and they reach perfection in the chaos, as if this is a city of all nations, and it is as if this is an exhibition hall of all nations. Looking at the people coming and going on the street, I felt dazzled, as if I was in another completely strange country, whether it was men, women and children, they were dressed strangely, as if they were wearing all the colors of the world on their bodies, when they were on the train, I heard Asso say that they were inhabited by Hani and Yiche people. I walked among them, and I felt that I was a minority, and I was a foreigner in relation to them. Especially the clothes of the Yiche girls, I didn't know that their Yiche people were a branch of the Hani tribe at that time. If the Hani people dress in a colorful way, the clothes of the Yiche girls are sexy and fashionable. Of course, there was no such thing as fashionable sexiness in those days. In the dazzling sunlight of the border city, the eyes were full of Yiche girls blooming like summer flowers, and in China at that time, no one dared to wear such a dress, even if it was out of Beijing. A Yiche girl walked over in the sunshine, she was wearing an indigo round-neck short-sleeved top, a pair of black shorts, a pair of black high heels on her feet, and her chest was full of silverware like wind chimes, her plump body was like a spring flower, because the pants were super short, making her thighs look particularly long, she hung a bag on her left shoulder, held a white umbrella in her right hand, like a cloud floating on her head, her long hair rose with the wind, no one would suspect that this was the kind of charm that came out of the fashion show on the catwalk, But it was all so natural and random at this time, and just when I thought it was unbelievable, the unthinkable happened. A couple of boys on bicycles surrounded the girl, looking at the boy's colorful outfits, they should be of a nation, they giggled, they laughed wildly, and they carnivaled around a girl. I rushed forward, and I threw the tallest boy to the ground, and I punched him in the face, and blood flew out, and I was about to hit the other boys, when suddenly there was darkness in front of me, and my head and body fell to the ground. When I woke up, I found myself lying on a hospital bed, with the bullied girl sitting next to her, and a policeman wearing a big cap.

The girl laughed happily when she saw me awake, and she spoke like a bird, and I couldn't understand a word. After the girl finished speaking, the police said to me in what they thought was Mandarin: "It's good to wake up, you won't die, the doctor said it's just a skin injury, they hit you on the head, just rest for two days."

I said to the police, "Did the group arrest them?" Assaulting a girl in broad daylight is punishable. The law and order in your place is too chaotic, can this be repaid? They must be brought to justice. Otherwise, would this girl dare to walk on the street? ”

The policeman said to me, "If you think you can speak, I'm going to make a note with you."

I said to the police, "Of course, didn't you just say you can't die?"

The policeman said to me, "I just saw your student ID, you are still a student, what are you doing here with us?" Why are you hitting someone? ”

I said to the police, "Wait, wait." I thought he was going to ask me about my heroic deeds, how I acted like a prisoner. "I'm a righteous and brave act, why did you interrogate me?"

The policeman said to me, "It's not an interrogation, it's an inquiry." I have already done an investigation at the scene of the incident, and you were the first to hit someone. ”

It was so surprising to me, what the hell is this place? Will there be such a policeman? I said excitedly, "Won't I do it?" That group of young men besieged a good girl, I regarded death as home, why did I start beating people first, if I didn't step forward and stop it in time, I didn't dare to imagine what would happen next. ”

The policeman smiled and said to me: "People are just games, only beautiful girls will be attractive, boys are because they like it, they don't break the law, that's their way of expressing love."

"Wait, wait, just the game? They are messing around with a girl, and this is still an expression of love. I said. Is this on earth? Is this guy brain-burned, talking nonsense to me here. Either this guy has benefited from that group of people, and there is such a ridiculous thing. No, I wanted to see their leaders, and I said to the police, "I want to see your leaders." Instead of arresting them, they came to interrogate me, a man who acted bravely.

The policeman said to me: "I am the leader, the director of the police station, and I am on duty today." Men surround girls because girls are beautiful and because they like it, this is the custom of our place, it is not in the way, but if you hit someone, you will break the law. But you don't know the customs of our place, so if you hit someone without causing harm, I won't hold you accountable. It's a misunderstanding."

"Customs? Is there such a custom in the world? You also say it's customary. I said to the police. Looking at the girl next to me helplessly, I said to her, "Why don't you say it, if you are willing, then I will take the wrong medicine and take care of this idle matter." The girl looked at me in a hurry, but she didn't say a word, and the policeman said to me, "She is a Yiche person and can't speak Chinese."

The girl shook and nodded at the policeman, not knowing what she was trying to say.

The policeman said to me, "Ah Yue said," the girl's name is Ah Yue, "Ah Yue said that you are a good person, and you don't know the stranger here, so there is no need to investigate this matter." She will pay for the medical expenses, you go. Ah Yue said, where do you live? ”

I said, "I live in Aso's house."

The police told this girl named Ah Yue what I said in their language. The girl Ah Yue heard the policeman's words and laughed and danced.

The policeman said to me, "Ah Yue said that you live in her house, you can go with her." Aso is her brother. ”

Laughing, what's so funny, for her, I've been beaten like this, she actually laughed, as if this matter has nothing to do with her at all, I'm really a dog with a mouse and a nosy, no wonder when I was a child, my mother always liked to say that when I was out, I must "see the bow and don't shoot, don't ride the horse", this is good, I made myself into this embarrassment, who is to blame? If the hero is not regarded as a hero, he will not talk about it, but he has done something wrong, what is the custom of the locals? What customs? Is there such a custom of touching a girl and touching it right? What a strange place. I struggled to get up from the hospital bed, I felt unbearable pain in my body, these boys really got their hands on, fortunately, in addition to the bandages on their heads, I saw that there were no missing parts on my body, but the pain still made me moan, Ah Yue stepped forward to help me with that look seemed to ask me, "Can you go?"

"It's okay, I can't die," I said to Yue. How did I encounter this kind of thing that makes people cry and laugh. When I said this, I laughed again, isn't this playing the piano to a cow? She couldn't understand what she was saying.

Ah Yue turned her head and said a bunch of muttering words to the police.

The policeman said to me in stiff Chinese: "Ah Yue said that the doctor said, it doesn't matter, what you can't die is just a little skin injury, you can rest at her house for a few days, she said that she will make delicious food for you, just like she serves you like an old hen that lays eggs." Ah Yue also said: "If you can't go, she can help you go."

Ah Yue supported me at this time, I didn't seem to dare to get close to her, she had the kind of beauty that Ye Hena and Song Zhiqiu were completely different, the word "angel" jumped out of my mind, yes, yes, it was an angel, girls like Ye Hena and Song Zhiqiu belonged to the world, but the girl in front of her was not, she belonged to heaven. This girl has her arms and legs exposed, I don't know the temperature of the volcano, but this girl is a bright fire. Besides, men and women don't kiss, in fact, I want her to hold me, but I still say, "No, no, I can walk by myself." I inadvertently pushed away the girl's Ah Yue's hand and said to her, "Since this is the case, then, please lead the way in front, and I will follow you." Ah Yue stood in front of me, looking at me blankly, with a confused expression, I just reflected, she didn't know what I was talking about.

The policeman pointed at me and said to Ah Yue, "He asked you to lead the way to your house."

Ah Yue nodded to me, pointed to the door, and went out first.

I followed Ah Yue out of the hospital one after another. Walking in this alley of all nations, my mood is inexplicably better. Ah Yue turned her head to look at me from time to time, as if she was afraid that I would lose it. Ah Yue walked in front of me, convex and backward, walking can also walk out of the amorous style, as if her high heels are walking on the score, you can feel a kind of musical rhythm, I feel dry mouth. I saw Ah Yue groping in her backpack, as if she had taken out something, Ah Yue stopped, waited for me to step forward, and muttered to me, anyway, I don't know what she said, she handed me one end of a red rope, pointed at me, pointed at her, and then turned around. Is she afraid that I will lose it? Or do you think I'm walking too slowly? I don't know, a person can't speak, and it's a girl, how can I guess her mind? I'm not blind, and my body is still aching, can I walk fast? Actually, it's not that I can't go fast, I'm thinking, how do I explain to a few classmates the way I am now? How can I say that I am also the team leader, and I made it like this when I first arrived in the border city, how can I explain it? In the quaint alleys of the border city, an angel-like girl with bare arms and thighs of peerless beauty led a boy with a bandage on his head with a red rope, and this scene has been present in my long life journey for many years. That's when what scared me the most happened, at the turn of a fork in the road, I heard the click of the shutter of the camera, and a group of people appeared in front of us, it was Asso and four of my classmates. They looked at me and Ah Yue as if they had seen aliens, and this moment of time seemed to be a frozen eternity. For me, of course, eternity. Yehena had a camera in her hand, and the Nikon camera in her hand had been brought back by her mother, who was a diplomat, and it was a very expensive luxury item that ordinary people could not afford. Ah Suo looked at me and his sister Ah Yue with a confused expression, and said, "What are you guys-----? If we can't find you again, we can only call the police, and we have searched all over the city. ”

As if she was afraid that it would all disappear in front of her, the camera clicked in her hand one after another.

Song Zhiqiu said to me teasingly: "Is there a movie being made in the city?" Do you do extras? ”

Xia Tingquan and Du Runjian's eyes stayed on Ah Yue's face like nails.

Song Zhiqiu said to Xia Tingquan and Du Runjian: "Haven't you seen a girl?" There are girls who look at other people like this, and they are obsessed. ”

Xia Tingquan said self-deprecatingly: "I thought it was that movie star."

Du Runjian followed and said: "Yes, yes, yes, I am too, curious, just curious."

Ah Suo and his classmates all looked at me, and their eyes seemed to ask, hey, can you give me an explanation? How so? Tell them that I was a hero to save the United States and draw a knife to help, but I was knocked over and admitted to the hospital, thinking that I was going to be regarded as a hero and become a hero, and after returning to school, the heroic deeds were recited everywhere, I didn't think that I was nosy and almost entered the police station, and an incident of righteousness and courage almost turned into a criminal case. I said, "I accidentally fell and scratched my skin."

Xia Tingquan smiled and said: "Accidentally fell and scratched a little skin? Then you ran into this girl, stuffed the red rope into your hand and brought it home? ”

I don't know how to answer. Ah Yue muttered to Ah Suo. Before Ah Yue finished speaking, Ah Suo came over and hugged me and said, "Thank you, brother, my sister said that you are a hero, and you saved him." Although my sister was born in the city of Eusa, she grew up in Burma, where she was still educated in the English style, and she could only speak some simple words, while she could not speak a word of Chinese. Although she knew the customs of the Yiche people, she still didn't understand the ancient customs. My sister said she didn't know what would have happened if she hadn't saved her. ”

I finally have a little warmth in my heart, this is still a certainty, I think what customs can be touched casually?

Yehena and the others said in unison, "Oh, it turns out that you really became a hero?"

Asso said to everyone, "It's okay, it's okay if it's not hurt, it's good if it's not hurt, let's go home and eat." Go home for dinner. ”

Ah Yue looked at me and smiled while putting away the red rope, and the smile was pure and peaceful, I think the angel's laughter should be like this. Compassion, kindness, purity.