The reason why I remember raspberries the most is that there are a lot of raspberries growing in the place where the bridge was originally built, and my love for this thing makes me love that place. But I wanted to go, but I didn't dare to go, because if my grandmother found out, I would definitely be beaten, because there is a tèbié thing about raspberries, which likes to grow on old graves.

There was a bend, and inside the bend were people, and the road led from my door to the bend. The bend was huge, with a turn of nearly 90 degrees, and it was so cloudy that the sun didn't shine on that place very early, so the snow in that place was always the last in winter."

The fear of a grave bag is far less great for me than the temptation of raspberries, which used to be picked by my grandfather, but when my grandfather was gone, I picked it myself. Many times I could see an old woman sitting on that bend, and I called out to her, but she ignored me and sat in that position on crutches forever.

I didn't see her very often, she only went there on special days, and I didn't remember who had such an old lady in the village, so I often said to my mother, "Mom, who is the old lady sitting on the bend above?" ”

My mom would go to see it at first, but then she ignored me, she thought I was talking nonsense, and sometimes I heard her crying and saying to my father, "This kid is talking to the old god, what can you do in the future, and you don't want to ask someone to show him." ”

At that time, my father also went to look for Cha Wenbin, but he was not there, and I heard my grandmother say that he went to another place, and later my grandmother didn't see the old lady I mentioned.

It was about the time when he was about to prepare to build the bridge, and Abba heard that Cha Wenbin was back, so he put down his work and hurriedly went to look for him, and Cha Wenbin looked very different from before at that time.

In the past, when he saw me, he would always touch my head with his hand, or pinch my face, as if I had a tèbié feeling for him, but when I saw him again, his outstretched left hand tried to touch my head, but it stopped in the air and did not fall, and then changed to his right hand.

During the meal, I saw that two fingers of his left hand were always bent in the palm of his hand and did not show them, and I followed suit, thinking that posture was funny.

Cha Wenbin showed the road for my father, and said that he asked Abba to move the tap water outlet at the door from the right to the left, and make a small pool at the intersection, which he said was used to guide dragons.

Ah dad told Cha Wenbin about the situation that I was always chattering at home, Cha Wenbin went to answer Abba, but came over to me and asked: "Xiaoyi, are you scared when you see that mother-in-law?" ”

I muttered and said, "I'm not afraid, it's just that she ignores me every time I call her." ”

Then Cha Wenbin looked at me and smiled, and then he told Abba to go and see where the bridge was.

The river is not wide, it is only five or six meters, we have a small stream there, and the water is very clear, it is said that the river was quite deep a few decades ago, and there was a barrage every 100 meters. At that time, there was no decent road in the mountains, only a sheep intestine path, and the people who relied on the mountains to eat people had to rely on the waterway to transport some resources out, and when the water rose in the season, it would be used to transport bamboo and wood in the mountains, so many places were also artificially opened up later.

My father was the youngest of my siblings, and at that time, the hard work of walking by water was done by my uncle, and I had to float in the river for half a month to bring strings of bamboo rafts to the small port, and then take the money to exchange for some daily necessities. It is said that when the river was widened, many old graves were found on both sides, and in that era, the unowned graves were usually destroyed.

The bend in the bridge was about 70 meters to my house, and it was still a dirt road at that time, and Abba prepared that the two sides of the river were built with cement and stones, and only this kind of stone ridge could resist the high water season and not be washed away, so that the bridge would be strong.

Cha Wenbin looked at the location, and then said to my father: "Young, it's good to build a bridge in this place, but there are also good feelings, I'm just giving you a suggestion, how to do it, or you decide for yourself." ”

Abba said to Cha Wenbin at the time: "I must build the bridge, and I have to build it myself for that breath." "When the bridge was built, I remember that Abba borrowed money from others, and it was the first time in his life that he asked someone to borrow money, and it was also the last time, and he often said: People live in this world just for a face, and they can't be looked down upon.

Cha Wenbin pointed to the high mountain on the opposite side and said: "You must build it, you can build a bridge, and the dragon you have here will follow this ridge all the way to your house, and the pond I asked you to build is for it to drink." ”

On the opposite side of my hometown, it is indeed a curved mountain, and I don't know where the other end stretches, but the foot of the mountain falls on this bend, Cha Wenbin said that this is the dragon's head, and the dragon can drink the water in the stream, but you pass the bridge, and the dragon has to go up the bridge, and that is my home.

When Dad heard him say this, he felt beautiful in his heart, so he said, "This is a good thing, the dragon has been brought home." ”

But Cha Wenbin shook his head and said: "This dragon is a water dragon, regardless of the rain of this generation, it is sometimes there, sometimes it goes to other places, and when you are there, your home is naturally a treasure of feng shui, but if it is not there, this bridge will become a Nai He bridge within a radius of 100 miles." If the dragon road is empty, it will become a yin and yang road, that is to say, when it rains, the dragon is not there, and your bridge is for the dead at some times, and the people in your family can walk, because they borrow your way, but if other people come to walk, it is easy to have an accident, and there is a way, it doesn't matter if you get a pair of stone lions to put on the bridge, let it guard when the dragon is not there. ”

But to add a pair of stone lions, this family had no money left at that time, the borrowed money was just enough for a project, the price of a pair of stone lions is not cheap, that thing is very rich and only available at the door of a large family, my family did not have this condition at that time.

But Abba decided to build a bridge here.

Because there weren't many guests coming to my house at that time, why? One is that the place is remote, not on the edge of the horse, and it is inconvenient for people to visit the door; Second, the main thing is that they are still poor, and the old foundation of the family is thin, and at that time, no one has developed the private economy in the hometown at all, and it is far from the current conditions. In that era of relying on strength to eat, the family had little labor, so they were naturally poor, and people looked down on them, so they didn't want to come to play.

The road had already been repaired, and as long as the bridge was built, it was completed. If you want to change places, you have to waste a lot of energy, and the project of building a road is quite large. So at that time, Abba hesitated, thinking that no one would come up to the house to play on a rainy night, so he decided to do it in this place.

Later, the bridge was completed on schedule, and as Cha Wenbin said, my family's road began to flourish in those years, and soon I took off the hat of the poor. As soon as this person became rich, more people began to play, and it turned out that something really happened, but that was a year later.

Then there is my problem, which is the top priority for the family at that time, a child is always suspicious and says nonsensical words, and the family is also afraid, because that year I entered the General Temple by mistake and began to do this, ah Dad thinks I still have something unclean on my body.

At night, Cha Wenbin took me out and didn't let Abba follow, although Abba was not at ease, but he had to go with him.

Cha Wenbin put me at the head of the bridge that had not yet been built, and then asked me with a smile: "Xiaoyi, are you afraid that Uncle will put you here alone?" ”

"Don't be afraid!" Here's how I answered.

Then he gave me a copper coin and put it in the palm of my hand and said, "Then Uncle will go back first, you can play here alone for a while, if you are afraid, throw the copper coin in your hand into the river, you know?" ”

I nodded, and he left.

It was the beginning of summer, and the two favorite insects of rural children began to come out, one was fireflies and the other was crickets.

The night was dark, but the moon was round, and the land was white and white. I don't know if my eyesight is good, or if it's really too white, I can see those crickets bouncing around in the grass, so I go and catch them, and when I catch them, I dig a hole in the ground and throw them in, and let them fight. When I was younger, I never knew what it meant to be afraid, I just thought it was fun to be alone.

It wasn't long before I saw the old woman across from me come out again, and she was still sitting there, as if she was looking at me, and I was looking at her. At that time, in order to facilitate the crossing of the river, Abba built a simple bamboo bridge on the bridge, and people would make a "squeak, squeak" sound when they walked on it, and they were a little trembling, which was very unstable.

So I walked over to the side of the mother-in-law, and then opened my little hand and showed her the two crickets. I don't know why I did this, probably to get her attention, and the mother-in-law laughed, and I laughed too.

Then I asked her, "Why are you sitting here all the time?" ”

The mother-in-law said, "Because this is my home." ”

I looked around and saw that there were no extra houses here, except that there was an old grave bag in Pángbiān, where my grandfather used to pick raspberries.