Chapter 19: Scenery All the Way
Shen Bing drove on the rugged mountain road, which tested Shen Bing's driving skills, and every time she met the car, she slowed down very slowly, almost to a stop. Wang En's home is in the east, the afternoon sun is gradually left behind by Shen Bing's car, the sunlight in the reflector is dazzling, Shen Bing doesn't know where the destination is, he feels that he has driven far and wide, the sun behind him is gradually approaching the mountains in the distance, and the mountains are painted in oil between the sky into a beautiful picture with bright colors and bright styles. The more the car drove on the road, the fewer vehicles it encountered, and the green and yellow thatch on both sides of the road became more and more dense, which was a sign of sparse population, in addition to the sound of the wind whistling outside the car, Shen Bing heard the insects and frogs in the field. The green rice fields in the open area of the highway are blown by the wild wind and wave of rice, the ears drawn out of the dense dark green rice leaves are hung with tender white rice flowers, the road is surrounded by rice fields, the fragrance of rice flowers covers the road, passes through the carriage, and makes people feel refreshed. In Wang En's memory, this is the charming taste of his hometown.
A weasel, wagging its big fluffy tail, jumped out of the bushes on the side of the road and crossed the road, and with grace and grace it burrowed into the thatch on the opposite side, startling a few sparrows that were caught off guard, and the sparrows flapped their wings at bewilderment, and with great difficulty dragged their bloated bodies in different directions. In the rice paddies stand a series of orderly hills, which are of different sizes but shapes, and are typical of the southeastern hills. The white clouds are fabricated into a thousand shapes in the clear blue sky, and if you have a lot of imagination, you can find what you imagine in the clouds. The clouds lazily stopped in the sky, enjoying the cool pleasure like a water buffalo soaked in clear water in summer, and did not want to move. The blue, white and emerald green are kneaded into the clear, translucent and quiet to reveal the purest beauty of nature. A few loose buffaloes at the foot of the mountain hold their heads high to reflect a sculptural gray figure, and their flapping ears break the definition of sculpture, the cow is alive.
At the fork in the road, Shen Bing stepped on the brakes, and Wang En paused forward along the inertia of the car. "Which way to go?" Shen Bing asked Wang En. Wang En was silent in the obsession of returning to his hometown and forgot to show Shen Bing the way.
"Oh! Sorry, distracted. Go to the left," Wang En said, turning back to his senses.
"Maiping Village!" Shen Bing read the words on the street sign.
"It's almost there!"
"Your home is Maiping Village? Or is it somewhere else? Shen Bing asked.
"It's Maiping Village"
"Huh! Didn't you say that your house still has to walk 15 kilometers? ”
"Oh! I'm talking about fifteen meters on foot."
"You big liar"
"I didn't lie to you, you heard it wrong"
"How far is it from here, about 3 kilometers?"
"What a beautiful view you guys have here! It feels like a European idyll."
"You've been to Europe?"
"Nope"
"And how do you know that this is what the idyllic scenery of Europe looks like?"
"I saw it on TV!"
"What TV, why haven't I seen it!"
"It's when I used to watch TV when I was a child, when all the programs were broadcast, the pictures played in the TV insert 'Please enjoy', there were place names"
"Haha...... You're still funny, you can think of it."
"You should have seen it too, maybe you forgot"
"When I was a kid, I didn't have a TV at home"
"Oh......"
"Be careful when driving, the road is a bit narrow these days"
"Hmm"
Entering the village, a banyan tree with lush foliage like a canopy provides a large shade under the tree, and the place where the sun shines is dry and hot, which is in stark contrast to the shade under the tree. Under the tree, several old people in sweat-soaked white coats were smoking dry cigarettes, shaking palm leaf fans, and children with no pants and bare buttocks were playing around the banyan tree. Seeing the oncoming car, everyone's eyes focused on the body, looking at the people in the car, and the bare-bottomed child stopped and looked at the car with his hand rubbing his nose with two black marks on the snot. The good-eyed old man recognized it as Wang En, and after greeting him, he whispered there with a little envy and a little jealousy. The children saw the departing car leaving behind a pale blue exhaust fume, and then began to chase around the big banyan tree.
There is a courtyard in front of Wang En's house, where four or five cars can be parked. Before the car drove into the yard, Wang En saw several children dancing and shouting "uncle, uncle" in the yard, which were the children of his sisters. The car was parked, and Wang En's parents, several sisters and his second uncle at the door of the house had already made a gesture of greeting at the door, and everyone's faces were filled with an expression of irrepressible excitement, but no one showed it thoroughly.
Wang En waited for Shen Bing to close the car door on her side, Shen Bing slowly approached Wang En with her head down a little shyly, Wang En took her towards the door of the house, he called the second uncle first, and then called his parents and sisters with a smile on his face. He introduced Shen Bing to the people in his family one by one, and introduced the people in his family to Shen Bing one by one. Shen Bing greeted his family with a red face, and it seemed that everyone saw the black mole on the corner of his mouth for the first time, and the originally excited expressions on their faces immediately eased a lot, especially Wang En's father almost showed a sense of loss.
Shen Bing reminded Wang En to take out the contents of the trunk, and when they walked towards the car and put the dazzling things in the trunk in the yard, Wang En's father had the excited expression on his face at the beginning.
After Wang En's sisters yelled at their children to move the yardyard things home, Shen Bing was warmly invited to the dinner table by Wang En's mother. The table is full of things that can be obtained in the countryside, local chicken, bacon, beans, eggplant, bean curd, peanuts and ......, and the vegetables on the table are stacked in two layers, and the dishes in the lower layer reveal the contents of half a plate. "It's too early to eat!" Wang En said.
"It's not early, it's almost five o'clock," his father responded.
The four children of Wang En's three sisters couldn't wait to gather around the table and stare at the drink bottles in the corner of the table with orange juice drinks. Wang En opened the bottle and poured a glass of juice for each of his nephews, and several children licked the juice dripping on the rim of the cup with a sweet sound.
Wang En accompanied his father and his second uncle to drink home-brewed rice wine, Wang En's mother and several of his sisters kept telling Shen Bing that they wanted her to be free, Shen Bing was a little embarrassed to be persuaded, looking at the table full of dishes and didn't know how to start.
Halfway through the meal, Wang En's brothers-in-law came on motorcycles one after another and joined the dinner table one after another. Wang En introduced several brothers-in-law to Shen Bing, and Shen Bing got up to say hello, and everyone came to stare at it intentionally but deliberately avoided the black mole on the corner of Shen Bing's mouth. The pungent taste of the wine poured into the stomach and pushed against the throat of every drinker, and all the words in the stomach were pushed out.