Out of the ancient village of Dong Township (novella) Zhang Baotong

After taking a group photo, the tour guide held the camera, smiled smoothly, and said, "Look, the two of us are talented and beautiful, what a match!" As he spoke, he froze the group photo just now to Wen Li. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Wen Li glanced at it with disdain, but she immediately noticed that the photo was really good, the picture was clear and colorful, so she took the camera in her hand and looked at it carefully for a while, thinking to herself: Is she really so beautiful? She didn't feel the urge to feel self-pity. The tour guide saw that Wen Li was a little addicted, and said more and more proudly, "How is it, is it a talented woman and a talented woman?" ”

Wen Li returned the camera to the tour guide, sighed and said, "I take pictures with others every day, but I still don't even have a photo." When the tour guide heard this, he smiled very smoothly, "Don't worry, there will be photos, and my brother will also have them." As he spoke, he raised his hand towards Wen Li, singing "Brother and sister have a long affection, as if the flowing water is ringing day and night", and then entered the bus that had started.

This situation is normal for Sister Ah Mei in Dong Township Ancient Village. Every day, some foreign tourists fall in love with this sister or that sister, and some tourists immediately want to take away this sister or that sister. However, these are all just jokes, and no one will take them seriously.

Two days later, the tour guide arrived with another carload of tourists. After he organized the tourists and let a sister take them into the village, he ran over, sat down in front of Wen Li, and called out to Wen Li in his smooth but very kind tone, "Little sister, hello." Wen Li knew that he was coming, but deliberately pretended not to see it, and saw the tour guide sitting in front of her, without even raising her head, and asked while embroidering flowers, "Who are you, why haven't I seen you." The tour guide widened his eyes and said in a loud voice, "I'm your brother, it's only been two days, and you can't recognize your brother?" As he spoke, he took out a photo and handed it to Wen Li.

Wen Li saw that it was a group photo taken by the two that day, and said, "I don't want it." The tour guide frowned and said, "Why?" Wen Li said, "Because there is your image on it." The guide said, "So what?" Wen Li said, "Let my family see me and ask me who this person is, how should I answer?" The tour guide said, "Just say it's your brother." Wen Li said seriously, "But they know that I don't have such a brother at all." ”

The tour guide looked a little disappointed, sighed, and said, "Didn't you say that you take pictures every day, but you don't even have a photo?" I sent me the photos today, and you don't want them again. I can't help it. Wen Li said, "I wanted a photo of myself, I didn't say I wanted a photo of yours." The tour guide couldn't help it, so he put the photo in his waist bag, and then, taking out his camera, said to Wen Li, "Okay, I'll take a picture of you alone." ”

Wen Li didn't seem to appreciate the needle and thread and embroidery cloth in her hand, stood up from the bench, stood in front of the gatehouse of the "Dong Township Ancient Village", and let the tour guide take a photo. The tour guide took several photos in a row, and each photo froze the picture for Wen Li to see. At this time, several other sisters also came over to coax and said to the tour guide, "Tour guide, you can't be too partial, only give Wen Li a photo, not give us a photo." The tour guide said, "Okay, do you want to take a group photo or a single photo?" The sisters said, "Yes." The tour guide began to take a group photo of them.

Before the photos were finished, the tourists had already started to get on the bus, so the tour guide put away the camera and said to Sister Amei, "I'm sorry, I have to take them to Yangshuo, and I have to go to Yulong River after lunch at noon." As he spoke, he urged the tourists to get on the bus quickly.

After the car drove away, Yuhua came over, secretly stuffed the photo of Wen Li and the tour guide to Wen Li, and whispered, "This is what the tour guide asked me to give you." Do you see that he seems to be in love with you. Wen Li snorted and blamed, "Sister, what are you talking nonsense." Yuhua said, "It's not me who said, you look at the words behind the photo." Wen Li looked at the back of the photo, which read:

Flowers bloom and bees come

Flowers and bees are inseparable

Bees are born to love flowers

Flowers bloom for bees

The affection of the elder brother and sister is deep

It's like a plantain

Brother is like a banana leaf

Ah Mei is the heart of the plantain

After reading it, Wen Li's nose was crooked, and she threw the photo into Yuhua's hand and said, "You return the photo to him." Yuhua seemed a little in a dilemma, so she persuaded Wen Li and said, "Actually, I think this tour guide brother is very good, and he is a good match for you, if you can combine them, it's really good." Wen Li looked angry and said angrily, "Okay, you didn't see him as oily as an oil cake." Besides, you don't know, how can our Dong sister intermarry and love the Han people? After saying that, he turned his back and sat down on the bench, ignoring Yuhua again.

Everyone has one day off every month. On this morning, Wen Li and some sisters took turns to take a break and went to the township to collect money. Wen Li not only received a salary of 500 yuan, but also received a commission reward of more than 500 yuan. For this reason, the deputy head of the township in charge of tourism affairs praised Wen Li greatly at the summary meeting. This made Wen Li happy and uneasy, because some sisters did not complete the task, so they didn't even get a penny of commissions and rewards. Therefore, as soon as she walked out of the gate of the township government, Wen Li walked slowly behind everyone with her head down.

After walking a few steps, Yuhua rushed over from behind, suddenly put her arms around Wen Li's shoulders, and said happily, "Guess how much commission I got?" Wen Li said, "I don't know." "Because the commissions and rewards issued are not public. Yuhua stretched out three fingers and made a gesture of eight, saying, "Three hundred and eight, plus a salary of five hundred yuan, it is eight hundred and eight." That's a year's worth of rice for my family of three! As he spoke, he was so excited that he couldn't wait to hug Wen Li and kiss her a few bites.

Wen Li also said happily, "No, my family of five people, in previous years, the whole family worked hard for a year, and they could earn a maximum of seven or eight thousand yuan, but now I can easily earn more than 10,000 yuan alone." This is something that I never even dreamed of in the past. Yuhua said, "Didn't the township chief say that in the future, the tourism of our township will develop greatly, and at that time, we will make more money." ”

Looking at Yuhua's extremely excited appearance, Wen Li smiled, "Sister Hua, you said, we are making more and more money, how should we spend this extra money?" Yuhua patted Wen Li's shoulder and said, "Silly girl, there are so many places to spend money." Look at the Han people in Longquan Township, although they are only across a river from us, which family does not have color TVs, refrigerators, motorcycles, washing machines, and which families do not build new houses? However, our Dong family doesn't have anything to want, and we don't even have a bicycle when we go out, so if we want to live a good life like others, there are too many places to spend money. ”

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