Chapter 5 A Trip to Northern Zhejiang

A woman's mind sometimes depends on guessing, and I finally know the reason why Ye Er is crying for no reason. It turned out that Ye'er missed her sister, so I asked Ye'er, didn't your sister come to your wedding when we got married? You'll be able to see your sister then. Ye'er said that the last time she corresponded with her sister, her sister told her that the eldest sister said that she was very busy at home and really couldn't spare time to attend her wedding.

Yes, all etiquette is superfluous when you are exhausted by your livelihood. I decided to let Ye'er see her eldest sister before we got married, so I said to Ye'er, it's my holiday now, why don't we go to your eldest sister's house, first, so that you can see your eldest sister, and second, it will be regarded as a holiday trip.

Since Ye'er's eldest sister got married, Ye'er has never been to her sister's house, because the distance is really far away, and the cost of a round trip is also a lot of expenses, when I told Ye'er about this decision, Ye'er was very happy at first, and then said that she didn't want to go, I know, that's because Ye'er is worried about money.

I said to Ye'er: "You don't have to worry about money, and the round-trip ticket doesn't cost much, besides, we don't plan to buy a color TV when we get married, so that our money is more abundant, if we don't use the current vacation to go to your sister's house, when we get married and have a baby, at that time, maybe we won't be able to find time to go to your sister's house for several years." ”

Ye Er was moved by what I said, but Ye Er said suspiciously: "Let's go like this, can we find my sister's house?" ”

I said, it's okay. Only your brother has been to your eldest sister's house tomorrow, so tomorrow you will go to your brother's house to inquire about the detailed route and specific address to your eldest sister's house, and then ask your brother to use the phone of their unit to call the small mountain village where your sister is located, and tell your sister that we plan to go over in the next few days, and then go to your parents and tell them that you and I have decided to go to your sister's house once in the next few days to see if they have anything to bring over. After listening to my coherent arrangement, Ye'er snuggled me tightly, and tears flowed down her cheeks again.

Early the next morning, Ye'er took the car to her brother and parents' house, and I waited anxiously at home. At five or six o'clock in the afternoon, Ye Er came back sweating profusely with a large bag of things. As soon as Ye'er entered the room, she hurriedly took out a small note and handed it to me, which was the detailed route and specific address to her brother's house written by her brother.

Then Ye Er opened the big bags and said to me, this is her parents and brother asked her to specially bring to the eldest sister of the local souvenirs, I saw that there are some dried fish, dried shrimp, kelp and other dried products, and two glass jars of the kind of small crabs. While I was checking, I said excitedly to Ye'er, this time I went to your eldest sister's house, we might just spend the ticket money, and with these hometown specialties, we don't have to buy any more gifts to bring over.

Ye Er and I got up early that morning, and according to what Ye Er's brother said, we arrived at the long-distance bus station more than an hour early.

This is Ye'er's first time going out, she looks excited and a little nervous, Ye'er always follows me inch by inch, and I always tell her to ignore those strange people and things, we take the inter-provincial long-distance bus, all the way to the south, nearly eleven hours, and finally arrived at the station that Ye'er's brother said. Get out of the car, the rolling mountains, everywhere are verdant bamboo, are the kind of thick and tall bamboo, covering the sky and the sun, this is clearly not a bamboo forest, but a piece of bamboo sea, so that you don't have time to appreciate it, you have been caught off guard by the dark and cold air.

The surroundings were wet, there was no rain, but it felt like the rain had just fallen, there seemed to be a little rain in the air, the wet and cold mountain climate made me and Ye Er very uncomfortable, we were soon taken to a car by the roadside bus conductor's soliciting shouts, this is a minibus in the direction of Ye Er's sister's house, a little shabby, the body is covered with mud.

There were not many people in the car, Ye Er and I sat in the front row, only to see the car start, and then it was driving in this rolling mountain, the mountain road was narrow and curved, the driver drove his minibus quickly and skillfully, one slope after another, one bend after another。。。。。。 I only saw that Ye Er and I were scared, we followed the driver's constantly changing driving routes, and the body involuntarily leaned to the left for a while, and leaned to the right for a while, I reminded Ye Er to hold the seat armrest with one hand, and one hand to hold my hand tightly, it was really a terrifying and dangerous journey, I was afraid that the driver would accidentally let the car roll down from the bend on the hillside, and roll down to the depths of the bottomless bamboo sea, maybe there was also a bamboo, and the thick and verdant bamboo pole was engraved with the same love declaration we had at the beginning.

In this torturous journey full of tension and fear, we finally arrived, we finally arrived at the junction to the small mountain village where Sister Ye'er was, and the enthusiastic minibus conductor reminded us to get off the bus, and repeatedly cared if we had pulled down any luggage or something. Ye Er and I got out of the car, just about to look up to see how the road should go, Sister Ye Er walked in front of us with a little boy in her arms, everything seemed to be a dream, we were still at home in the morning, after a long journey of hundreds of kilometers a day, we actually saw Ye Er's dream sister here. Sister Ye'er said that when the village cadres passed by her door last night, they relayed the content of Ye'er's brother's phone call to her, and she estimated that we should arrive at this time, so she took the child to wait for us here early, and it is estimated that we have been waiting for us for two hours.

The two sisters were so familiar when they met, so tacit, so red in their eyes, and even with tears in their eyes, but for a while, they all laughed, and they smiled so happily and brightly for this reunion. Only the little boy of Sister Ye'er's stood there stunned, at a loss, how could he experience the preciousness and beauty of this kind of family affection in the world at such a young age! Down

Sister Ye'er, like Ye'er, is also the kind of tall and strong figure, with short hair that reaches her ears, but her eyes are not as big as Ye'er's eyes, and her nose is not as strong as Ye'er's nose. This little boy was thin and dark, with beautiful eyes and long eyelashes, and he was estimated to be six or seven years old.

Following the mountain path, we arrived at Ye'er's sister's house in a short time. This is a typical ordinary family in the mountainous area of northern Zhejiang, a narrow two-story house, but the roof is a little exaggerated small tile covered roof, the eaves stretch out very long, always feel a little heavy and light that kind of incongruous look.

Ye'er and her sister were talking while walking, and they were talking like this when they entered the house, and they were all talking about the short of the family, which completely left me aside. After a while, Ye'er's eldest brother-in-law came back from work after being tired, it turned out that Ye'er's eldest brother-in-law was placed in a subordinate unit of the local forestry bureau after being discharged from the army and transferred jobs, and the salary was pitiful, and he couldn't support his family at all, so she had to resign her eldest brother-in-law and partner with a few locals to contract small projects such as construction.

Ye'er's eldest sister also used her free time to go up the mountain to help people drag bamboo to the bottom of the mountain, hauling the bamboo from the bamboo felling ground to the roadside of the mountain to load the car, one at a time can earn one yuan, rugged mountain roads, heavy and long bamboo, tired and tired work a day can not earn a few dollars, but this can at least supplement the family, when Ye'er's eldest sister said this, she did not feel hard, but a sense of pride from the heart.

At dinner, Sister Ye'er said that she knew that we must not be used to eating bacon, so she went to the town in the morning to cut a piece of fresh pork and went home to make bamboo shoots and stew to entertain us.

In addition to the mountains here, it is bamboo, seeing these verdant bamboos, what I think of is not the beautiful scenery, but a burst of damp cold, this kind of clammy cold really makes me and Ye'er unbearable, so that when we go to bed at night, Ye'er and I are afraid when we see the shiny fine bamboo mats laid on the bed of Ye'er's sister's house.

The summer here is so wet and cold, it turns out that it is the rainy season in their south.

Although Sister Ye'er and her eldest brother-in-law kept us again and again, we only stayed for four or five days, and we came back, because we still have a lot to do, because the rainy season in the mountainous areas of northern Zhejiang is really wet and cold.