He remembered his hometown, Dawulei Village, Guihua Town, Xianning City, Hubei Province. Xianning City is China's "Osmanthus Township", also known as "Hot Spring Capital" and "Chang'e Hometown", and the osmanthus of Osmanthus Town is particularly famous, Dawulei Village is an ancient village in Osmanthus Town, famous for the folk culture of worshipping the moon, every lunar month in August, the village of golden cinnamon, silver cinnamon, osmanthus, iron cinnamon, four seasons of cinnamon, laurel and other varieties of millions of osmanthus trees bloom brilliantly, the incense wave is vast, intoxicating people's souls. The village is paved with wide asphalt roads, and the stream under the road flows into the distance. From a distance, the old houses and ancestral halls covered with black tiles in the village loom in the turquoise waves.

There is a Wu main temple built on the hillside of the village entrance, and the stone door frame is engraved with a couplet on the left and right: "Enter the door are blessed and blessed with children and grandchildren who can serve the country, and you can look for training and training Yi Shande to inherit the ancestor", the main shrine is dedicated to the Wu lord Sun Quan, holding a wooden plaque, which reads: "Ze is Jiangdong". The majestic statue of the god is placed on the left and right of Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, Lu Xun and other generals, since the temple was built, the incense is continuous.

In Dawulei Village, there is a large pond called Yuetang. His house is next to the Moon Pond, facing the majestic Zhengdao Mountain.

Zhengdao Mountain is a branch of the Mufu Mountains, the highest mountain range in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, standing on the top of Zhengdao Mountain, you can see the famous Taoist mountain that is also the Mufu Mountains - Jiugong Mountain in Tongshan County. The most fascinating thing about Jeongdo Mountain is the three natural landscapes - Hot Spring Gorge, Cherry Blossom Valley, and Wuyou Lake.

Since he was seven years old, he left the five-tile house in the village and has been living with Tang Qiang and Jin Yuhua in the hot spring gorge of Zhengdao Mountain in Dawulei Village, which is at the foot of Zhengdao Mountain, and three springs were discovered as early as the 70s. Compared with the booming development of hot spring tourism in the hot spring valley of Xianning City, the hot springs in the hot spring gorge have not been developed by the tourism company because of the obstruction and opposition of some villagers in Dawulei Village, but there are still nearly 200,000 tourists who come here every year.

And his family's hot spring hotel, the warm time, was built in the hot spring gorge. For the sake of this hot spring hotel, Tang Qiang ran to the homes of the leaders of Dawulei Village and the town. Fortunately, after his maneuvering, the warm time was successfully completed and opened.

After entering the hot spring gorge, visitors can see the eaves of the warm time, the black glazed tiles, and the red lanterns under the eaves from a distance. The hotel mainly provides accommodation and food, and the diet is mainly Xianning local cuisine, such as: Tongshan Baotuo, bacon and potato vermicelli, Southern Hunan, pagoda meat, stewed tofu residue with loach, egg twist, three fresh thousand skins, fried bacon with red cabbage moss, wild lotus root keel hanging pot......

These local dishes, belong to the fried and fried dishes, with the three hundred years of history produced in Yang Fanglin Township, Tongshan County, Xianning, using the ancient method of hand-brewed Yangfang soy sauce to season, delicious and fragrant, very appetizing, attracting a lot of repeat customers.

As you walk along the hot spring gorge, you will arrive at Cherry Blossom Valley, where the mountains on both sides of the valley are lined with wild cherry trees, and in March, the white and pink cherry blossoms bloom like a thick layer of white and pink spring snow. The spring breeze blows, the birds flutter their wings in the woods, the petals fly like snowflakes, and the fragrance of wild orchids hits people's hearts.

Halfway up the Zhengdao Mountain, you can see Wuyou Lake, which is a large alpine lake comparable to the Yunzhong Lake of Jiugong Mountain in Tongshan County, Xianning City, with an area of 80 acres, the deepest part is about 30 meters, the turquoise lake reflects the blue sky, white clouds, and green trees, so that the Zhengdao Mountain is full of beautiful atmosphere.

The air on the top of the mountain is humid, the perennial fog is filled, there is a temple on the top of the mountain that is slightly smaller than the main temple of Wu, there are no monks in the temple, there is a forest ranger in his forties, his name is Lu Zuliu, and Tang Qiang has a good relationship, often goes down the mountain to the warm time and Tang Qiang, Lin Tian drink rice wine made from rice, Kan Dashan.

At that time, the business of the warm time was not bad, Tang Long's father Tang Qiang invited the couple Lin Tian and Shi Xiaoqing from the village to come to the hotel to help, the houses of their two families were very close, the relationship had always been good, and they were very good, and no one in the town gossiped about them. In addition to being in charge of the kitchen with Lin Tian, Tang Qiang was also responsible for driving the old van to the town and downtown to purchase the daily supplies needed by the hotel, and to transport Tang Long and Lin Jiali to and from school. Tang Long's mothers, Jin Fang and Shi Xiaoqing, were in charge of guest rooms, restaurants, and entertaining guests. With them came to the warm time was their youngest daughter - Lin Jiali, Lin Jiali and Tang Long are the same age, both studying in Baidun Central Primary School in Osmanthus Town, and the two have been childhood sweethearts since childhood.

Every day after school, they would run to the kitchen to help the adults wash the dishes and vegetables, or clean up with their mothers, do housework for a while, and after dinner, the two would huddle in the small study on the first floor to do their homework. In the study, there is a large bookshelf, a rectangular dining table, and a few chairs, which Tang Qiang asked the master carpenter in the town to make from cedar trees. Outside the window, there is a hundred-year-old ancient mulberry, the ancient mulberry is tall and tall, and the branches are luxuriant. There is a mountain stream next to Gusang, which rushes through the hot spring gorge against the sandstone mountain wall and flows down the mountain, and the spring of the hot spring gorge is in the crack in the mountain wall opposite Gusan. Tang Qiang chiseled the hot spring eye, stuffed it into a pipe, and introduced the steaming hot spring into the pool of warm time, and built this hot spring hotel.

Saturday and Sunday holidays are the time when warm time tourists are more busy, but despite this, in addition to helping out in the morning, after lunch, it is the free time of Tang Long and Lin Jiali. They ran all over the mountains and fields, digging honeycombs, digging wild vegetables, picking wild fruits, looking for wild flowers, fishing for wild fish, and bathing in mountain streams......

It was a Sunday afternoon in mid-June, and at about two o'clock, Tang Long, who was taking a nap, was awakened by Lin Jiali's knocking on the door.

"Aaron, Aaron......" Lin Jiali shouted as she banged on the door.

"Uh-what's wrong?" Tang Long asked in a daze.

"Get up, lazy pig."

"What are you doing when you get up?"

"The mulberries outside the window are ripe, go pick and eat them!"

"Really?" Tang Long suddenly came to his senses.

"When did I lie to you, you can open the curtain and see for yourself." Lin Jiali laughed happily.

"Okay, you wait for me."

"Hurry up, if you don't pick it again, it will be picked by tourists in a few days."

Tang Long lifted the sheet on his stomach, got up from the bed, and opened the door with his slippers. Outside the door, Lin Jiali, with bangs and long hair, was looking at him with wide smiling eyes, wearing a light blue headband with a red bow on the headband, and wearing a white dress and pink sandals. That dress was a gift from Tang Qiang when she celebrated her ninth birthday the day before yesterday. Seeing Tang Long coming out, Lin Jiali grabbed his wrist and led him out quickly.

When they walked out of the gate of warm time and came to the courtyard, Tang Qiang, who was mopping the floor, saw these two thin figures, so he asked them:

"Why are you going?"

"Picking mulberries." Tang Longtou replied without replying.

"The mulberry tree is very tall, a small snack."

"Got it, Dad!"

When he was about to walk out of the yard, Tang Long looked back at Tang Qiang, he saw that Tang Qiang was frowning and looking at their figures, and behind Tang Qiang was Lin Jiali's mother Shi Xiaoqing, Shi Xiaoqing was wearing an apron and holding a pot of verdant quinoa in his hand. After seeing Tang Long's gaze, she smiled at the two figures that were glued together.

They went around from the main gate of the warm time to the mulberry tree, on the green ancient mulberry, the red and black mulberry of the stars were added, full of size, the juice was dripping, the birds sang on the top of the tree, the blue shade fluttered on the stream, the summer breeze blew, the ripe mulberry fruit fell into the stream, attracting the chase of wild fish. Lin Jiali handed Tang Long a white plastic bag folded into a square, Tang Long took off his shoes, and under Lin Jiali's upward gaze, he climbed the mulberry tree neatly, took out the plastic bag from his trouser pocket, opened it, hung it on the branch, looked at the black mulberry, and ate it while picking it.

"Tang Long, how does it taste? Is it tasty? Lin Jiali asked by licking her lips with her tongue.

"There are sweet, sour, sweet and sour, delicious."

"Hurry up and pick it, don't eat it patronizing!" Lin Jiali watched Tang Long chewing on the mulberries, the bright red juice overflowing from the corners of his mouth to his chin, and he looked a little annoyed.

"Okay, don't worry." Tang Long said.

As soon as he finished speaking, he shook the branch vigorously, and the mulberry fell down like a black hail rain, hitting Lin Jiali on her head and face, Lin Jiali screamed, and quickly squatted on the ground with her head in her arms, the white T-shirt on her upper body and the jeans on her lower body were covered with red marks, and Tang Long laughed.

"What's wrong?" Someone pushed open the window of a guest room on the second floor of Warm Time, poked his head out and shouted.

Tang Long and Lin Jiali looked back and saw that it was Lin Jiali's mother Shi Xiaoqing.

Lin Jiali hurriedly replied: "It's okay, we're joking!" ”

"The tree is tall, be careful."

"Got it, Mom!" Lin Jiali nodded.

Shi Xiaoqing's head retracted, and the window of the guest room closed. Tang Long whistled "The Lonely Shepherd" while picking mulberries quickly, and soon picked most of the bags. After slipping down from the tree, Tang Long handed the mulberry to Lin Jiali, who was full of laughter, and the two happily ate the mulberry and walked quickly towards Wuyou Lake.

The mountain path was like a serpent that didn't enter the trees, guiding them in the right direction. The road is full of unknown flower petals, chirps and knowers sing and I sing, the joy is non-stop, and the surrounding trees are full of vigorous vitality, and the pulse of this vitality is perfectly integrated with the rhythm of the pulse on their bodies.

They followed the mountain road and slowly walked to the shore of Wuyou Lake, sitting in the grass, and two or three meters in front of them was the slightly rippling lake. Countless red dragonflies are flying around on the surface of the lake, which is very moving. In a short time, most of the bags of mulberries had been eaten by them. It was around half past four in the afternoon, Wu Youhu looked at the sky like a deep green eye, flashing with mysterious light, in the dense grass by the lake, there were a few white goats chewing, and a ram saw Tang Long and Lin Jiali coming over, raised his head, bleated at them a few times, and continued to bow his head and chew the tips of the tender grass with relish.

These sheep were raised by the forest ranger Lu Zuliu, who never cared about them and let them roam in Zhengdao Mountain. Every day before dawn, the sheep come out of their nests and forage for food. At dusk, the sheep will slowly return to the sheepfold next to the broken temple under the leadership of the ram, which makes Lu Zuliu very worry-free.

After being in contact with these goats for a long time, they gradually became familiar with Tang Long and Lin Jiali, and sometimes when they saw the two of them, these goats would slowly come over and let Tang Long and Lin Jiali stroke them with their hands. And Tang Long and Lin Jiali are also happy to see these goats, which makes their peaceful and simple life more joyful, and in their world, these sheep have become their childhood companions.

Lin Jiali faced the cool mountain breeze, looked at the red dragonflies flying on the lake, and sang the Japanese folk song "Red Dragonfly" in a cheerful and crisp voice: "

Red dragonflies in the sunset,

Where are you, I met you in my childhood,

What day was that?

Pick up the basket and come to the mountain,

The mulberry tree is as green as the shade, and the mulberry fruit is picked and put into a small basket.

Could it be a dream shadow?

Fifteen-year-old young lady,

Married to a distant place, farewell to the hometown for a long time and can't go back,

There is also little news.

Red dragonflies in the sunset,

Where are you, resting on the tip of the pole,

It's the red dragonfly. ”

This folk song was sung by Lin Jiali's father Lin Tianjiao, who often sat in the courtyard of the warm time in his spare time, while looking at the sunset on the top of the mountain, while teaching Lin Jiali and Tang Long to sing "Red Dragonfly". This song is widely circulated in China, but the lyrics are incomplete, "The fifteen-year-old young lady, married to a distant place, and can't return to her hometown for a long time" - this paragraph is generally eliminated, and only three paragraphs are retained, but Lin Tian taught them to sing the complete version of "Red Dragonfly".

Lin Tian's voice was low and hoarse, and his singing was full of vicissitudes, Tang Long remembered this song the first time he heard Lin Tian sing it.

After singing once, Lin Jiali continued to sing a second time, Tang Long also sang, and the two immature voices followed the red dragonfly to fly freely on Wuyou Lake.

The sun hides in the clouds in the west, and the beams of light that shoot out of the gaps in the clouds become brighter and more dazzling. Tourists are descending the mountain, and the forest is becoming less and less crowded, and finally it is silent. Tang Long patted his bulging belly, lay on the grass, squinted his eyes slightly, looking at the blue sky and roaming white clouds, his thoughts were also entwined by the clouds, and he was taken to a distant place.

Lin Jiali patted Tang Long's palm with her hand and said, "Tang Long, it's not too early, let's go home!" ”

Tang Long came back to his senses in an instant, so he stretched out his hand, smiled and said, "Okay, let's go!" ”

Lin Jiali stood up, clasped his palm, and was about to pull him up, when Tang Long pulled hard, and Lin Jiali immediately rolled on the soft grass. Tang Long rolled and pressed on Lin Jiali's body, Lin Jiali stretched out her hands and wanted to push Tang Long away, but Tang Long grabbed her wrist and pressed it on the grass. From when they were children, when they first became playmates, to now, Tang Long and Lin Jiali, who have a somewhat wild personality, don't know how many times they have played similar games of wrestling on the grass, but this time today is different from any previous time. Tang Long looked at Lin Jiali under him, Lin Jiali opened her eyes wide, looking up at him, the sunset drilled out of the clouds, boiling the lake red, as if it was like a hot steel furnace, it was about to boil. The setting sun dyed Lin Jiali's face crimson, becoming more and more beautiful and moving, Tang Long looked at Lin Jiali's eyes in a daze, her eyes were like two black lakes with golden light, reflecting his face.

He lowered his face, and the two black lakes vanished, and he looked up, only to see a transparent kiss mark on her forehead. So he got up in a panic, turned his back to her, and ran briskly along the way he had come from the grass.

"Hey, wait for me." Lin Jiali pursed her pink mouth and shouted at his back with some anger.