Before he arrived at my door, Yuan Xiaobai's unique voice shouted crisply and loudly: "Wenbin, Cha Wenbin, you come out!" ”

A girl with an apron on her waist hurriedly pushed open the courtyard door, these two people are two fundamentally different types of people, whether it is demeanor or dress, just like the Chinese rural girls in the 80s and the modern girls on the streets of Shanghai in the 90s, but their faces are full of youthful atmosphere.

"Are you looking for Brother Wen Bin, she's not here?" Said the girl wearing floral fabric and black cloth shoes.

Yuan Xiaobai carefully probed the girl in front of her, with a pair of big watery eyes, curved and natural eyelashes, white and translucent skin, a high nose bridge, melon seed face, especially the thin lips just right. Her hair was tied with a silk handkerchief, black and shiny. Yuan Xiaobai thought to himself that this woman looked really good, she must be the daughter-in-law Xiao Yi was looking for, otherwise how could she not have seen it before.

The girl was a little embarrassed to be stared at, and rubbed her hands again and again: "Come into the house, you must be a friend of Brother Wen Bin, he has been out for a while and hasn't come back." ”

At this time, I happened to arrive, Yuan Xiaobai turned his head to me and said, "Tell me honestly, where did you turn back such a beautiful daughter-in-law." After saying that, she pinched my neck, such a move seemed normal to me, but in that relatively conservative era, Concubine Yu looked at her face was already red and blue for a while, standing there is not, not walking.

I waved again and again to finally ask this woman, and quickly explained: "Where is it, this is my goddaughter, who is also my godsister, called Concubine Yu, and lives in our house." ”

She curled her mouth and said, "Pull it off, when did you recognize my sister and still live in your house." ”

I quickly pulled her by the hand and whispered, "I'll tell you about her when I'm free." Then I cleanly pulled Xiaobai over and introduced to Concubine Yu: "This is my comrade-in-arms with Wen Bin, called Yuan Xiaobai, older than you, I will call her Sister Xiaobai if I am willing." ”

"Little White Sister." The girl screamed shyly and then came out to help me get something, I saw Yuan Xiaobai's gaze on her more or more approval, and my heart was temporarily relieved. But my gut feeling is that there will be a war between these two, and as for the battlefield, let alone the battlefield.

Yuan Xiaobai will not go back this time, and she and Professor Gu are going to return to China to work with domestic universities to carry out a restoration work on the history of ancient Chinese dynasties. With a history of 5,000 years and almost the entire Asian continent, such an ancient country is by no means clearly described in Sima Qian's "Historical Records". She has no work for the time being when she comes back this time, and her task is to play, in fact, she is responsible for collecting folk rumors, which will be recorded as clues and sent for research and confirmation. Professor Gu feels that all legends have prototypes and cannot come out of thin air, such as the great flood, why every nation in the world is recorded at the same time, why the "swastika" mark will be spread in every corner of the world, those myths and legends seem to have their own system, whether it is the East or the West, and Professor Gu is more interested in the mysterious history of the East.

"When are you going home?" I asked her after lunch, but she said disapprerovingly, "Home? Isn't this home? ”

I shrugged and said, "Aren't you going back to Shanghai?" "I've been back, my dad is going to Beijing, and I don't want to follow, so don't I just go to you, and the fat man hasn't been whereabouts yet?"

"Nope." I took a puff of my cigarette and said, "Cha Wenbin doesn't know where he went, and he didn't give a letter, but he has always been like this, and he may come out of nowhere one day." ”

She asked me, "What about you, what are your plans?" Is it so exhaustive in your hometown or do you want to go outside? ”

I pressed the cigarette butt, this topic is difficult for me to answer, according to my personality, I can't hold it at home, Cha Wenbin and Ye Qiu were here before, so they have company, and I can only stay with the dog all day when they leave. I don't want to go to Guangzhou, after all, the fat man is not there, and it doesn't make sense for me to go alone, Zhu Zihao called me, but that guy has always been unreliable.

"I'm worried about this, and I don't know where I will be in the future, my mother doesn't say it, but she doesn't want to see me go on like this."

She thought for a while and said, "That's it, if you just follow Gu Lao with us, just be a helper, and it can be regarded as a thing to do." ”

"What's in charge?" I asked.

"Don't worry." She smiled: "This is a project fund, there is a company in the United States to invest, it doesn't make much money, but it will definitely not starve you to death." ”

"It doesn't matter, it's just not boring." It is true that I am about to go crazy at home, just find something to do, Yuan Xiaobai's purpose is obviously not me, the person she is looking for is Cha Wenbin, because Professor Gu's research project is the origin of China's native religion, and he believes that religion and history are inseparable. There are three major religions in the world, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, and Taoism is unique to China, and its founding is more like a local myth and legend. Foreigners are obviously more interested in it, because the East has always been mysterious and fascinating, and at the moment this religion is as precarious as some of the precious animals of this country, and will disappear at some point at any time.

Sometimes I really think that my house is an inn, and people like to stay here for a few days, and I don't pay a dime for a meal, drink, and Lazar, but fortunately, my parents are cheerful and happy to meet my friends. The relationship between Yuan Xiaobai and Concubine Yu is quite harmonious, at least it looks like this is the case now, and I have to go out and try to contact that guy, he doesn't have any mailing address left, in fact, all I can do is walk back and forth between the village entrance and the bus station every day.

On the fourth day of Yuan Xiaobai's arrival, after dinner, I walked around the village with my dog as usual, there were no street lights at that time, and a group of old men on the stone ridge were smoking cigarettes and blowing cows, which was the most relaxing moment of the day. In a trance, I saw a person staggering slowly in the distance, that person seemed to be drunk, there have always been many drunkards in Hongcun, and I only regard it as common. Suddenly, the man fell to the ground, and the men around him all rushed towards him, and I was still watching in the same place, and suddenly someone called my name, and I also heard Cha Wenbin's name......

He came back, drunk, he threw up all night, I don't know where he went, he was like a begger for food now, he was covered with a sour smell, his hair was knotted, and his beard had not been shaved in a month. I have the impression that he doesn't drink, never.

The next morning, I woke up on the couch in a daze with the smell of vomit, this guy vomited all over the house yesterday. When I opened my eyes, there was no one on the **, and a pale young man was playing Tai Chi in the courtyard outside the house.

"Awake?" Instead, he spoke to me first, and I looked up and down, and he was much thinner than he had been a month ago, the flesh on his cheeks sunk in, and a sense of vicissitudes that did not correspond to our age appeared on his face.

I washed my face with well water at the door and asked, "Why did you go?" ”

He didn't answer but smiled, and I said again: "Xiaobai is back, she took care of you last night, and you vomited." ”

"Oh." In response to this, he continued to punch like a nobody. I was really not used to this look, and after shrugging helplessly, he said, "I want to build a house." ”

"Huh? Is it bad to live here? ”

"There should always be a home of his own, the old house is about to fall, and my master's spiritual seat must have a place to put it." His answer was reasonable.

"Okay, go back and find someone to give you a total."

Cha Wenbin's home is in Wulipu, a place more than ten miles away from Hongcun, which was rarely inhabited before the liberation. After the liberation, the state advocated the reclamation of fields, each commune had a task, Wulipu was still a wilderness at that time, but the terrain was flat, each commune gathered a few people to open up the wasteland, and slowly formed a small village. The village is not big, there are more than a dozen families, Cha Wenbin's home was built by his master Ma Sufeng, the yellow mud is alive with straw walls, and the roof is covered with stone slabs. The two huts, at the foot of the innermost mountain in Wulipu, are detached and quiet.

He wants to build a house, which is a good thing, it was easy to build a house in those years, and basically the village would come to help, and it could be built in three or five days. I said I wanted to build him a brick house, but he refused, saying that the adobe house was warm in winter and cool in summer. After spending a few dollars, a week's kung fu house was built, a total of four rooms, one of which enshrined the portrait of the Sanqing, and under the portrait there were also the spiritual tablets of the heads of various periods of the Tianzheng faction, a shrine, and an incense burner.

I thought that Cha Wenbin was going to become a monk, because he was in a very bad state at that time, Yuan Xiaobai had been poured cold water on several times to talk to him, but fortunately, the girl's heart quality was very high, and when Cha Wenbin's new house was completed, she also moved over with her, and she cleaned up a room and simply lived there.

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