Sitting on the green train that went all the way to the southwest, I leaned on the shaking carriage at the junction of the carriages and smoked a cigarette, and saw the reeds in a plain area.

In an instant, the flash of inspiration stimulated a tingling of the cerebral cortex, so I happened to write a poem:

Are you still there,

Under the lemon-like moon,

Swinging a light stride?

The ferryman is still murmuring,

Golden bamboo ancient water, white walls and gray tiles,

What a hasty pulse,

Like the seawall—

call

With the sunset, with the sunset,

Sing that ancient hymn.

If you have fallen asleep,

And just as a meteor crossed,

I

Put your hands together,

Make a wish to love you,

Shining on the glazed tiles,

Slip through the corrugated and into the lattice,

On the shells on that wall,

Bless you.

O me from afar,

will know,

The Milky Way lies in the village,

Hiding a pond of reeds,

In the depths of the reeds,

There should also be a girl named Luhua.

In the headphones was Yao Shisan's "Blind Man", a peculiar and unusual ballad, which I consider to be the pinnacle of Yao Shisan.

Listening to this song without any state of mind, you may be amused by this song, whether it is the dialect of the lyrics or the singer's tone singing, it will make people laugh somewhat, and even too many people feel that this is simply a neurotic singing, let's not talk about the absurdist color of the tiger pilla, from the idea of the song to the summary, it is just a local love that makes people feel despised.

However, if you listen to this song in a specific state of mind, you will find that your tears will be "brewed", even if you don't understand the dialect of Guizhou. But the crying of this song is wrapped in a wild native power, which makes people sad. Just like on this green train, the crowd goes up and down, the first second of talking happily, the next second of teasing and parting, I can always give the green train a unique, exuding a faint and sad halo to satisfy my touch.

The unique karst landform has also created that most of the road trains in Guizhou have to bypass the giant mountains, so the scene of eighteen bends of mountain roads and nine links of waterways can be seen everywhere in Guizhou. I simply got off the train in Zhenyuan Ancient Town, ready to take the bus home the next day.

I have always been familiar with the ancient town of Zhenyuan, because Xia Yao's home is here. My acquaintance with Xia Yao is indeed fate, and God is beautiful.

In Guizhou, the only mountainous province without plains, most cities can only expand in the cracks of the mountains. So people went all over the world, broke into the east of the Guandong, and went to the South China Sea just for a few taels of broken silver, Xia Yao of Zhenyuan Ancient Town was entrusted by his parents to his aunt's house in the border county of Zunyi since he was a child, and then we met.

Walking out of the simple and dilapidated Zhenyuan Railway Station, you are greeted by the noise of the crowd. The biggest advantage of the tourist city is that the people are full of people, people from all over the world are singing ballads in pairs, telling jokes and walking towards the Qinglong Cave in the distance.

Facing the sorrow of the ancient town of Zhenyuan, like the moaning of the wind-moving stone hanging on the top of the mountain that is about to fall through hundreds of millions of years, like the confusing history of the thousand-year-old tree rings by the tower next to the Wuyang River, like the bridge railing of the pulp reflecting lantern on the hundred-year-old bridge, like the unique charm of the boat in the Wuyang River that is slowly like a dancing girl, born in my heart, I have not wanted to disperse for a long time.

Since Xitang parted, Xia Yao and I haven't seen each other for several months. I never understood what my feelings for Xia Yao were: was it the obsession with the fusion of water and milk? Or is it full of guilt for the hurt she once had? Or is it the reluctance to give up the simple youthful ignorant love that Xia Yao gave me?

It turns out that there will really be someone who occupies a certain place in your heart, and you are happy to hide her in the depths of your heart, like wine, to screen and remove the memories of the two of them, ferment and precipitate, take a sip, the taste, the sweet and sour have become an unrelenting taste, and you are drunk in a mess.

After leaving Xitang, Xia Yao and I had contact, we shared our anecdotes in college, and my shamelessness naturally always found many topics to talk about. It's just that everyone retains the last bottom line and dignity of their feelings, until they slowly fade out of their respective lives and no longer care.

There are no clouds in the far part of the town, and the sunset falls on the Wuyang River.

The afterglow is like a gentle firelight, and the laughter of wind chimes and the frolic of the crowd are mixed with the shouts of the residents of the ancient town, like a peaceful peach blossom paradise.

I walked alone. Maybe it's because the water is too stunning, or maybe it's the sadness in the air, I opened my phone to find the chat box with her, and a "good night" message was two months ago.

Soon followed the crowd and wandered around the ancient town of Zhenyuan. From Tianhou Temple to the Fu Family Compound, from the Peace Village to the Qinglong Cave, from the Confucian Academy to the Taoist Taoist Temple and the Buddhist Temple. Xia Yao and I have walked through these places together, and now I have walked again by myself, and I naturally feel a lot of emotion in my heart, so I simply came to the bank of the Wuyang River to sit on the bank and smoke a cigarette.

Later, I thought about the worldly love between me and Xia Yao, like a boat of dreams that I dare not touch again in ordinary life, a ripple that I dare not disturb anymore in the watery years, and a pure and gentle woman who I dare not touch again in the mediocre time.

Perhaps it is only in a slow dream that I dare to let her decorate my night like a spring flower.

Looking at the sunset from the Qinglong Cave of the people, adults or groups of threes and fives, children or chasing and running, the sunset through the gap between the two mountains, like a pearl of lead bloom, for this pure people, dyed a layer of memory filter, their wrinkles disappeared, the corners of their clothes fluttered in the wind, they smoked cigarettes and the gentle sunshine danced on the road, soaring in the sky. 

I especially like the evening in the ancient town, the distant mountains are silent, the forests are full of flowers, the birds are singing and the cicadas, and the wind is Xuxu. Deliberately to abandon the hustle and bustle of the world, just a moment, a moment, I walked on a strange and unknown path, the path is made of red bricks and black stones, next to a crystal clear Wuyang River, the stones at the bottom of the river are given a halo by the setting sun, and small fish and shrimp also swim slowly, along the water.

On the right side of the Wuyang River is a food street, Guizhou's unknown but peculiar snacks exude aroma in this food street, folded ear root, tempeh, silk dolls, hand-beaten glutinous ba, Wuyang River grilled fish all kinds of flavors are noisy together, and the smoke and fire linger in the air.

When night falls, the lanterns in the far reaches of the town are lit up, dyeing the Wuyang River into red silk for the day. Most of the houses in the ancient town are retro buildings with southwest characteristics, and the left side of the Wuyang River is made into a bar and tavern by countless folk singers with literary and artistic dreams. Miss Dong Bar, Dream for Horse Tavern, Small Town Story Bar, Magic Rock Bar, Su Nian Jinshi Bar, Other Shore Bar ............

They stand on the banks of the Wuyang River, and the folk singers who sing in the bar adjust the stereo and sing their own folk songs, which flow slowly with the Wuyang River.

Naturally, I didn't dare to enter the tavern, after all, the wine in the tavern was not cheap, so I couldn't even afford to live on a tight budget. simply sat outside an open-air tavern, smoking a cigarette at Wuyanghe, listening to the singer's hoarse singing.

"Xiao Chenzi, why did you come to Zhenyuan?" A surprised voice came from behind him. When I heard the nickname "Xiao Chenzi", I subconsciously decided that it was Xia Yao. In an instant, my heart beat faster, my blood boiled, and even though the late autumn evening breeze was a little cold, my capillaries oozed sweat.

"I wanted to take a shortcut back to Zunyi from Zhenyuan, but I didn't expect to come to Zhenyuan and find that the passenger station was temporarily closed. So I can only stay in Zhenyuan for one night and go home tomorrow. My face turned red, I scratched my head, and I couldn't make sense of it.

She smiled at my embarrassment, her face like a blooming white orchid, and the smile was written on her face, overflowing with satisfied pleasure. The beautiful arc of the corners of her mouth is like the moon at the beginning of the lunar month.

"Oh, Xiao Chenzi, this is my best friend in Zhenyuan, Li Liwen, as for Anna, you should still remember it." Xia Yao introduced me to the two young and beautiful girls in front of her with a smile on her face.

"Hello, I'm Xia Yao's classmate, and I'm also ...... Friend! I greeted Li Liwen.

"Long time no see!" I squeezed out an ugly smile and faced Anna.

"Long time no see, you're still so ugly!" Anna joked with a smile.

"Although I'm not handsome enough, I'm surprisingly ugly, which is also one of my strengths." I laughed at Anna's answer.

When I was with Xia Yao in the past, Anna always laughed at me for being ugly, and Xia Yao and I used flowers to stick on cow dung to describe it as the most unexaggerated. Fortunately, I have some talent and gentleness to dispel Anna's idea of breaking up me and Xia Yao.

"Lily, let's go, let the two of them stay for a while!" Anna pulled Li Liwen on the side and pushed Xia Yao to my side, and before Xia Yao could react, the two of them had already left their backs to us.

Xia Yao and I stood side by side, I could clearly hear Xia Yao's breathing, and I could smell the pure milk smell on Xia Yao's body.

The two watched the lively crowd and the cheering tourists on the huge cruise ship on the Wuyang River. The two of them didn't say a word, which made me feel nervous.

"Xiao Chenzi, to be honest, I really don't understand you, why did you suddenly ignore me later?" Xia Yao changed her previous smart and lively appearance, and asked me helplessly.

"Ah...... No, I was busy with exams and certifications, so I didn't have much time to contact you! "I blushed and my heart was beating and I looked around and answered Xia Yao in a hurry." Then didn't you contact me later, if you send me a message, there is a high probability that I will reply to your message! "In order to grasp the initiative and not embarrass myself, I shifted the problem to Xia Yao.

"If you deliberately avoid it, then I have to pretend to be relaxed, if I miss it, I will miss it, after all, I, Xia Yao, always have a little character." Xia Yao pouted.

"How to say love, it's so uncomfortable to block in my heart, at that time in the desert of red twilight, who can unravel the whirlpool that has been entangled for thousands of years." In order to relax the atmosphere of the reunion after a long absence, I sang in a funny key.

"Alright, alright, no one is doing it, your singing is getting worse and worse now." Xia Yao was finally amused by me and smiled. With the Wuyang River as the background, Xia Yao is like a fairy.

"Really leave tomorrow and don't play for a few more days?" Xia Yao asked.

"To tell you the truth, do you think I came to Zhenyuan by mistake? With my ingenuity, how could I miss the bus, in fact, I came with a purpose! I looked at the Wuyang River, and a majestic and awe-inspiring posture was pretended by me vividly.

"By the way, did your parents come back? Although we have parted ways, there is no need to be inseparable from them, so I decided to visit my former father-in-law and mother-in-law. I joked and teased.

Xia Yao's face gradually turned crimson, and a little surprise shot out of her childlike eyes, but with a little suspicious light, she tried her best to avoid my sight, and she seemed to be about to take off.

Later, the flush became more vivid, and it spread to the neck behind him, as if the smell of gentle and luscious flesh was coming out.

Xia Yao seemed to calm down, so she smiled at me very shyly and said, "If they don't come back for the New Year this year, you will die of this heart!"

I followed Xia Yao through the crowd, and we were like two free fish.

She took me to run on the blue brick road, eat food in the red lantern alley, listen to the soulful singing of wandering singers in the folk bar, and choose a dazzling variety of ornaments in the black tile building. Tie a red rope under a thousand-year-old tree and make a wish.

"What wish did you make?" Xia Yao asked me with a wink.

"If you can't tell you, your wishes won't work if you tell you." I coaxed Xia Yao like a child.

"Tell me, tell me, if you don't tell me, I'll not think about it, you know I'm curious to kill the cat!" Xia Yao pretended to be full of grievances, and in a begging tone, it seemed that she could drip water.

"Then I'll tell you reluctantly, my wish is world peace." I smiled at Xia Yao.

"Cut!" Xia Yao hugged her arms and walked forward.

"What, don't you believe it?" I asked.

"I believe that from the time we were together, you used to hope for world peace, at that time I didn't understand anything except burying my head in study every day, but you told me that there are still wars in the world, some people have lost their relatives in the ruins filled with gunpowder, tell me that every moment people die of hunger, every moment there are people who are dried up because they can't drink water, you tell me that we are not living in a peaceful era, but living in a peaceful country, and you also tell me that there are no quiet years in this world, It's just that someone carries the weight for us, do you remember? Once you told me these big truths, I didn't listen, and even thought you were making a big fuss, and then you got angry, and we broke up. Xia Yao smiled and said the memories of the past.

"After nearly half a century of peace, where do people know what war is, war has become a glorious and romantic legend, into a story in textbooks and into a museum painting, full of heroic soldiers in beautiful uniforms who are as fast as the wind on the battlefield, and who have won without a single soldier, and they think that war is a heroic and generous adventure, a wonderful experience of the world, so they cheer, jump, and pick up the keyboard and mouse in their hands, thinking that this is the expression of heroes." While smoking a cigarette, I walked to the shore and raised my voice, pretending to be really calm at the moment.

"Xiao Chenzi, sometimes I really can't see through you. You say you, obviously you are a wolf-hearted and cynical person, but sometimes you feel that you have the world in mind. When I watch you fight, I always think that you are a heinous villain and hooligan, but you can always pay attention to the world's news, history and politics. Looking at your sometimes emotional madness, I think you are a masochist, but you are extremely gentle with me and others, do you have dual personality schizophrenia? Xia Yao said jokingly behind her back.

"That's right, I'm another personality of Xiao Chenzi. Now I'm a tyranno, you're done, I'm going to catch you! I looked angry, and pounced on Xia Yao with my teeth and claws.

Xia Yao was so frightened that Hua Rongyue trembled, screamed and ran away, I laughed, imitating the voice of the devil chasing after Xia Yao.

We ran like two butterflies in the sunset, and people along the way looked at us with smiles and envy of youth.