CHAPTER XXIII

"You've finished the college entrance examination, where do you want to go to college in the future?"

"To go to Beijing, my uncle said to let me go to Beijing, which is the center of economy and culture."

"It's good to go to Beijing, and it also fits your ideal of going to a big city."

"I just don't know if I can get in?"

"You'll be able to do it, you've worked so hard."

"What about you? Where do you want to go in the future? ”

"I'll just stay here, my mother is so old, she can't stand me anymore."

"It's so big out there, you don't want to go out and see it."

"Nothing compares to home, and nothing can sprout."

"If you don't go out to fight, if you don't go out, how do you know that you can't sprout?"

"Don't talk about me, talk about you! Aren't you done with the college entrance examination? Where will the wine be served? ”

"My family means to be in the city, but in fact, I want to be in the village, and I have more feelings with this place."

"It's just as lively everywhere."

"Will you come?"

"I'm not going, today's roasted sparrows will be regarded as my celebration for you."

"No, there's tomorrow's catch sparrow."

"Yes, yes, yes."

"Why don't you find a daughter-in-law? I see that the people in the village are similar to you, and they are all married and married. You don't have any ideas? ”

She didn't know how she could say it. I didn't know what kind of answer I wanted to hear, and all of a sudden, the atmosphere seemed extremely awkward.

"Remember that pair of mandarin ducks?"

"Of course I remember, didn't they fly in two nights in the end?"

"No, it's dead, and when I went the next day, it was crawling with ants, and that's its fate."

She cried, she didn't know how much time it had taken him to make up such a happy ending, and he was alone to bear that reality.

"Don't cry, I didn't mean to lie to you at the time, I just didn't want to see you sad."

"Then you're going to bear it alone?"

"I'm used to it, I'm rough and thick-skinned, and my heart is like iron, and I've lived day after year. It seems that there is a poem called something, and there seems to be iron in it, as if it is some iron, and what is the head. ”

"Why don't you just say that the iron head is good, that is called Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron and now it is stepping forward from the beginning, that is Grandpa Mao's poem."

"It's over, this time I'm really sorry for Grandpa Mao's old man, I remember the last sentence, the body is the capital of the revolution, and I am still worthy of his old man."

Both of them laughed.

"Why do you say you're always so funny, you always make people laugh."

"I told you what fun I deserved, and I'll bring it to you."

"Then you bring all the fun to others, who will bring you fun."

"You're happy, that's my greatest pleasure."

"Talking and talking, it's pulling me again."

"I won't talk to you anymore, you have to talk about why I don't find a daughter-in-law, that's a difficult question for me to answer, some people don't necessarily answer it all their lives."

"Is it that hard?"

"There may or may not be."

"Is there or isn't that?"

"I don't know. Because my heart is like iron! ”

"Let's go for a walk together! I feel like I don't even remember this place, and you can take me to get acquainted with it again. ”

"Yes, you haven't been back in a long time, since you moved to the city for high school. I'm still familiar with this place, and when I'm not busy, I'll come and walk around. ”

"Sometimes I really want to come back and see it, but I never get the chance."

"Remember that?" He gestured to a corner of the river not far away

"Of course I remember, it was my first time in the water, no, it should be called overboard."

"What about this path?"

"I don't remember very well, but I remember that you will be in good spirits as soon as you arrive on this path."

Before I knew it, I had walked to the reeds.

"And what about here?"

"We are the pair of bitter mandarin ducks we met here, and you keep saying that they are sheep."

"Haven't I been counting sheep! But the sheep are still scared away by you. ”

"What do you mean by being scared away by me, it's not a sheep at all."

"Alright! It's not a sheep, it's not a sheep, it's my mother calling me. ”

"What are you talking about?"

"I don't believe you, it's really my mother calling me."

"It seems to be, it must be calling you back to eat."

"It should be."

"I should go back too, or wait, the uncle next door will have to call me."

"I'll be waiting for you tomorrow in the paddy field behind the house."

"Okay."

Still the same as before, he went first, and after a while, she left. He was always afraid of influencing her, but she always seemed willing to accept his influence. I tried to get back to the village again and again, just to see him, to chat with him, and to do those fun things with him.