I thanked Daoist Ge, asked about the location of Chongzhen Palace, and took his car to the train station. Jiang Ming was a little seriously injured, but now that he has a master, naturally a master will take care of him.

The train didn't go to our county, but you can get off in Foshan, or get off in Maoming, and I bought a ticket to Maoming. As soon as the green train stopped, I climbed out of the toilet window to find a place where no one could see, and climbed into a coal car.

When I arrived at Shirong Station in our county, I secretly came down again when unloading coal, found a passing motorcycle, and let me take it to the side of the road to Yongning Town. Waiting for the passing car in Xinyi County, after taking the car, I got off the bus before entering Xinbao Town, and walked all the way to the entrance of Brown Sugar Girl's village.

Life is like a show without rehearsal, you don't know what you're going to do in the next moment, and you don't know if you're going to regret or be happy, sad or happy. I ran to the brown sugar girl by feeling.

There are still ten days to go before the New Year, and the village of Brown Sugar Girl is cutting sugarcane, and it is busy, and the hand-held tractor is running around on the road. I came to a small shop at the entrance of the village, hesitating whether to call the brown sugar girl, I haven't seen her for half a year, I don't know if she has forgotten me.

At this time, a woman loading the cart next to her, carrying a handful of sugarcane, but her foot slipped and she was about to fall, so I went up and held the bundle of sugarcane with both hands, and pushed it to the roof of the car. The woman quickly said thank you, then leaned on her waist and said she had twisted.

I said I'll help you, I saw twenty or thirty bundles of sugar cane on the ground, picked them all up and threw them all on the tractor, and the driver who sorted out and loaded the car couldn't stop dodging in the car, and ran to the roof of the car in fright. After throwing away the pile of sugar cane, I called Brown Sugar Girl on the landline in the small store.

"Xiaoxiao, I'm Daheng." I don't know how to go on when I'm done.

"Daheng? Chen Daheng? Oh, remember, are you going to buy brown sugar? Wait, your phone number seems to be from our small shop at the entrance of the village. Are you here? "Yang Xiaoxiao's big pile of question marks, I don't know how to answer.

When she saw that I was silent, she said that since she had come, she should come to the house and sit down, and she was in the field, and she would come back at once. After a while, she came over on a scooter. Seeing me covered in dust, with a stubbled beard, long hair, and a few days without a shower, I frowned and said, "You have joined the beggar gang?"

Her words made us all laugh, and the people who came to the shop to buy things were very curious, looking at this Yang Xiaoxiao, how could she talk to a beggar? Brown sugar girl said, get in the car, I'll take you to get a haircut. I was a little hesitant, how dare I get in the car so dirty?

Brown Sugar glared back at me, and I quickly climbed into the motorcycle, trying to stay as far away as I could from her. Although she was wearing overalls and sleeves, and it was actually quite dirty to chop sugarcane, the sweat and fragrance of the wind still made me feel refreshed for a while.

She saw me in the rearview mirror and looked intoxicated and asked you what's going on? How is it alone? What about the fat man and the four eyes? A series of questions, this brown sugar girl is a chatterbox, maybe this is lively and cheerful. She didn't know the names of the fat man and Jiang Ming.

I said that the fat man's name was Wu Huisheng, and he had been grounded by his master for a year. The four-eyed name is Jiang Ming, and he worships a master in Chongzhen Palace in Yichun, Jiangxi. So I came alone. She said it's almost the New Year, why don't you go home? I didn't say anything, she looked at me in the rearview mirror and continued driving.

I took a shower at the town inn, took out spare clothes from my backpack and put them on, and went to the barber shop opposite to get a haircut. The sister-in-law who got the haircut joked, Xiaoxiao, where did you pick up a handsome guy? Don't pick up a fool and come back. Brown Sugar Sister blushed and said, which one was picked up, he came by himself, there is a lack of labor at home, so let him cut the sugarcane when he turns around.

After the haircut, I bought a pair of cloth shoes at a small supermarket, and threw away the previous torn leather shoes. Brown Sugar Girl bought another pair of male slippers and drove back. Many people on the road paid attention, and when I entered the village, I saw the woman who was loading the car, rushing over with a large group of men, holding her waist and pointing at me, "It's him!"

Then the brown sugar girl stopped, and the men surrounded her, and the leader said, "Do you do a hundred?" Brown Sugar Sister and I were both inexplicable, the man said, one hundred and two, it can't be more, eat and live! Brown Sugar looked back at me and said what's wrong? I said I don't know.

The man said that the daily worker is generally 50 yuan a day for lunch, and I give 12, and the whole town is not as much as me, and it also includes food and accommodation, how about it? Brown Sugar Sister said, village chief, do you want to ask him to cut sugar cane? Even if you please, you don't have to pay for two people, right?

I said I don't need money, help Xiaoxiao do it, and I'll do it for you after cutting her. The village chief was overjoyed and said that Xiaoxiao's family still had half an acre that had not been cut, and seven or eight of us had finished cutting it in two hours, and you still had to help me cut it. I shrugged my shoulders indifferently.

I went back to the brown sugar girl's house, put my luggage, took a sip of water, and followed the village chief. Passing by the yard, let the loader dodge, move to the left hand, grab a bundle of sugarcane with both hands, and fill a cart in a few minutes. The people who loaded the car looked at it in amazement and forgot to speak. Ten walk-behind tractors were loaded in half an hour, and the yard was empty.

The village chief said, what are you looking at, why don't you hurry up and cut sugar cane? Then a bunch of people went to chop sugar cane. I took the sickle and followed, went to the field, looked at the weak sugar cane, and said sorry to myself. Then swing the knife and slash. A long line of ridges, bending down and cutting all the way through, and then cutting all the way back from the end, walked a dozen back and forth, and a piece of sugar cane fell to the ground.

The village chief organized people to tie the sugarcane by hand, and I went to the yard to wait, and all the sugarcane I carried was loaded into the truck, and it was dark. At dinner at Brown Sugar Girl's house in the evening, her parents looked at me, I lowered my head to pick up the rice, and she kept picking up vegetables for me. There was not much to eat, and there was not much of a house, so she drove her brother to a neighbor's house to sleep and let me sleep in her brother's room.

I work with Brown Sugar Sister every day, and as long as she looks at me, I work very hard. One day when she was gone, I looked for her everywhere, and when I found her, I asked her where she had gone. Then she blushed and said, don't ask about girls, I won't ask. The people in the surrounding villages looked at us with smiles.

I worked like this for ten days, and I saw the Spring Festival, I had hot meals to eat every day, and I could take hot showers, and I didn't have to wash my clothes myself. The rest is the New Year, I don't know where to go, I don't dare to go back home, Mr. Qiu must be waiting for me in my hometown, I have already killed six of him, this feud is over.

Because of my participation, the sugarcane harvest in the whole village was supposed to be three months ago, but it may be a month earlier, so the people in the village are happy and will greet me when they see me. Brown Sugar Mei said that she started cutting sugarcane a month before the Spring Festival, and then began to squeeze sugar, and she had to cut and squeeze it two months after the Spring Festival. Half of the sugar cane had already been cut in the first month, exceeding the plan.

I didn't have any interest in any of this, and I didn't speak, and Brown Sugar Sister said, and I just laughed and listened. Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, yesterday I cleaned the house and cleaned it, and today is the day of the Spring Festival. In the morning, I squatted in the hallway and watched Brown Sugar Girl's father kill chickens and her brother bought the Spring Festival couplets from town. I didn't leave this big New Year, and I blushed when I thought about it, so I had to move the ladder and start tearing off the old Spring Festival couplets and pasting the new Spring Festival couplets, which is called saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

This New Year, the meal of the Chinese New Year's Eve is the most important, more important than the meal of any day. Because this meal is called a reunion dinner. I lit a fire in the kitchen, this is a wood stove, and my father filled a large pot with water, and after boiling, he put a whole chicken in it, which is called soaking chicken, which is the practice of cutting chicken in white.

After the chicken is soaked, take it out and put it on a tray, put a piece of pork cooked in the same circle around it, and then put it in a basket, and then go to worship the ancestors, so that the ancestors can eat and drink well first, and then the chicken can be cut and served. Many of them have different customs, but most of them are pretty much the same.

In the reunion dinner in Guangdong, the traditional one is to put a white-cut chicken in the middle, and then use the chicken soup to make vermicelli bean curd mushroom soup, and then fry a few green vegetables with dried water vegetables as ingredients, and the family pours a drink and eats it.

Brown Sugar Girl's father poured me and him a glass of wine, which is a traditional Jiujiang double steamed, 28 degrees. People in the countryside don't drink much, and they can't drink if they have a high degree, and it is also the meaning of drinking some wine during the festival. This can't be a toast like the northerners, you will be scolded, saying that you don't respect the elderly.

This old man in the southern countryside drinks alcohol, except for the low degree, he does not toast, and he drinks a lot alone with a cup. Only those drunkards in small restaurants are strongly persuaded to drink, and if you drink too much, you will have fatty liver, or you will have cirrhosis and ascites in a few years, and you will see a lot of this thing.

I don't know if it was Brown Sugar Girl who told her parents or what, they never asked me why I didn't go home for the New Year.

After dinner, when I went out to watch the fireworks, Brown Sugar Sister said What is a grounding? What is worshipping the master? On the day I first came, I told me about the fat man and the four eyes, and she only remembered to ask now, and it had been ten days. I was silent for a long time, not knowing how to speak.

Later, I asked Brown Sugar Girl, what is her faith? She said she didn't have faith, but if she had to believe in one, she would probably believe in Buddhism. I said that in addition to Buddhism, there is also Taoism, and Taoism is our own sect in China. Of course, there are no foreign sects in the countryside. I said that the fat man was actually a Taoist priest, the kind with certificates. Four Eyes also just worshipped a master, and it is also Taoist, called Lingbao School.

She said what about you? I said I didn't have a master, and she seemed relieved. The fat man went to play with us, and was punished by his master, so he couldn't go out for a year, which was called grounding. Jiang Ming was accepted as an apprentice by the head of a Taoist temple called Chongzhen Palace, and he was called worshipping the master. I guess she didn't touch these things, and she didn't ask again.

Three days after the Spring Festival, that is, on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, I started cutting sugar cane again, and I continued to help in the field until it was completed. Brown Sugar Sister said happily, this is a month earlier than usual, I have a lot of credit, and I kissed me when no one was around.

The production of brown sugar is also going on in an orderly manner, and those are skilled workers, not just a handful of strength, so I just went to see the process, and I didn't help. In the evening, when the brown sugar girl is free, we will sit by the waterwheel and watch the moon and feel the quiet life.

On this day, wandering around the village, I saw a carpenter working at home, so I squatted down and watched. The rural carpenter was not yet mechanized, and only one planer with a drilling function was electric. The rest is basically manual. I just squatted there and watched, and when it was time to eat, I went back to eat.

After watching it for several days, the master said he was interested? I shook my head and said no, I just like to watch you work. I've been watching this for more than ten days, and I'm going to help. I said, Master, what kind of furniture are you making? The master said big bed, this marriage doesn't have to play a set of furniture, the village back mountains are more fir trees, their own wood does not need money, just give a salary.

Big bed? This furniture has not yet been assembled, it is just a pile of wood, and if you don't understand it, you can't see what it is. The master said that after this set of furniture is ready, it will be put on a little varnish, and it will be delivered the next day. However, in this era, in 2007, many young people got married and bought furniture, went to the furniture store, and bought whatever they saw beautifully, and few people used their own wood to make furniture.

The master said that he would not cut corners if he could make furniture, and the store basically sold commercial tenons, that is, the joints were simplified. And many of the pieces he built were rice dumplings and tenons and large lattice shoulders, and the furniture made by this process would not shake. The commercial tenon is shoulder-level, and the bite force is poor.

So there are so many sayings?

A complete set of furniture, ready in a month. The master said, go, help carry it. This should be a set of large beds, the kind with a windmill roof. Tie it with a rope, the master walked in front, and I happily followed behind and carried it. The direction of this walk seems to be the brown sugar girl's house, and sure enough, it was really carried to the door of the brown sugar girl's house.

Brown Sugar and her father were going to make brown sugar, and her mother ran out of the kitchen and said while wiping her hands on her apron, "Ah, is this ready?" Carry it into the hall and don't get caught in the rain. That joy is really smiling. A complete set of furniture, including a dresser, writing desk, shoe rack, and bedside table, are stacked and placed against the wall in the living room.

I secretly asked the master, who is married? The master said, Xiaoxiao! How? You don't know? I shook my head. How did Brown Sugar Girl say that she got married when she got married? I've never heard her say that she wants to get married, and I don't even know who she's with, and I haven't seen her come to her.

At dinner that night, I looked at the new furniture piled up in the hall, had no appetite at all, and was chewing on rice in small bites with a bowl. Brown Sugar Girl asked me, is there anything uncomfortable? Joke! I feel sick in my heart, but can I say it?

You're getting married, and I'm living here like a fool. It also took a month to help you build a big bed, and fucking carried it to your house. I guess it's the brain. My nose was sore, I put down the bowl, and said you eat slowly, I'm full. Then he left the table and walked out.

The brown sugar girl also put down the dishes and chopsticks, chased them out, and kept asking me what was wrong. I lowered my head and walked in the direction of the waterwheel, Brown Sugar Girl pulled me from behind, she said Daheng, what's wrong with you tonight? What's upset about you saying it?

I shook off her hand and said, I've been bothering you for a few months, and it's time to go. After speaking, I walked to the waterwheel, and the brown sugar girl hugged me from behind, crying and saying, My father's furniture is all ready, and you said you want to go? I said congratulations, but I can't watch you get married and stay for a wedding drink.

"Stupid, that's our furniture." I shuddered, turned around and hugged her tightly. I'm so hungry, but I still want to eat.

I got married to Yang Xiaoxiao and came to the door. This is something to be happy about, but I don't have any friends and relatives here to congratulate me. On Xiaoxiao's side, many of her classmates from the village came to drink her wedding wine.

After marriage, life is not turbulent, that is, follow her to do some field work, work at sunrise and return at sunset every day. I am very satisfied with this kind of life, I don't care about any glory and wealth, I don't care about cars and house tickets in the eyes of others. Every day, there is a loved one by your side, and you are always content.