Chapter 14: Advanced (17)

Boarding the train from Hengyang to Guilin, the invincible briskness, all the way back from Tongcheng, this journey is truly freehand and relaxed. Early in the morning, he first sent away Liang Cailin who went east, and then sent Yang Hanlie who went west. Yang Hanlie rented a car in Hengyang, and today he was going to rush to Shaoyang, and then walk from Jingzhou to Rongjiang through Liping. Liang Cailin is in place today, and he cannot be absent, and his station is in Anren County, so he must arrive before noon. After sending off the east and west roads, the train from Hengyang to Guilin was also ready to drive. This time, Mo Di knew what it meant to be tight in front and tight in the rear, and took Zhou Shiming swaggering to the last carriage, no need to buy a ticket, just show his own pie, and you can get a very good arrangement, it's good to have privileges!

Hengyang Railway Station is on the east bank of Xiangshui, a car is to cross the Xiangjiang River, from the steel bridge through the speed, the steel fence in the face of Zhou Shiming is very frightened, cross the iron bridge, look back at the Xiangjiang River, Zhou Shiming only thoughtfully said to Mo Enemy: "Looking back at the Xiangjiang River, the river goes north, and the traveler is all the way to the south, the two sides deviate, naturally the more south the mood is worse." I remember reading Tang Wangbo's "Fuji Wang Pavilion Fu", which contains: the fishing boat sings at night, ringing the shore of the poor Peng Li; The geese were frightened, and the sound broke the pool of Hengyang. Could it be that in Hengyang, in addition to Xiangshui going north, there is something more nostalgic? ”

"Yes." Mo Di said: "There is a Huiyan Peak on Heng Mountain, the wild geese fly south, and when they reach the Huiyan Peak, they will no longer go south, but turn back, because in the eyes of the wild geese, further south, it is a barren land, and it must be returned." The wild goose can be like this, how can people be embarrassed, so when they return to the wild goose peak, the Xiangshui water flows north, which has become a swan song since ancient times. Wang Bo let the wild geese sing in Hengyang, instead of on Hengshan Mountain, the unity of mountains and rivers is even more meaningful. This sentence of geese is frightened, and it is no accident that it can coexist with the fishing boat singing at night, and there must be his reason. There is also a poem, which is also related to Hengshan Huiyan, but the poem is not in Hengyang, but in Guilin, the author is the Tang Dynasty Song Zhiwen, he said angrily when he ascended the Guilin Xiaoyao Tower: Xiaoyao Tower looks at the township pass, the green water is clear and the clouds are clear. Go north to Hengyang for 2,000 miles, and return the book without a cause. The loneliness and helplessness in the poem are even more floating on the paper and lifelike. ”

"Brother Fu, I'm uncomfortable." Zhou Shiming raised his head, with tears in his eyes, and said: "I am also getting farther and farther away from home, and since then, I have traveled in a foreign land, and you are the only one I know." The Xiangjiang River can still flow into the Yangtze River and flow to Anqing, I really don't know when I will have the opportunity to return to Anqing and Tongcheng. ”

Mo Di stretched out his hand and gently stroked the top of Zhou Shiming's head, and said: "The ancients Yunsheng had a foreign appearance, married her husband, and thought that where her husband was located, she was where her family was. I beg to differ, but I also don't want to deny it. We have become a family, no matter where we are, no matter where we are, at the ends of the earth or at the cape, as long as we are together, home is there. The ancients could be sad and sad, but you have me by your side, but you can't follow the ancients. ”

Zhou Shiming raised his head embarrassedly, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes on Mo Di's shoulder, and the corners of his mouth were already filled with a faint smile.

Early Hengyang Xiangshui edge, evening stay in Guilin mountains and rivers. Ten hours, in the greasy of the lover, that is, in the flick of a finger. When he got off the train at Guilin Station, it was already dusk, Mo Di sighed deeply, and took Zhou Shiming to the muddy small dirt slope outside the train station.

The city of Guilin is wet, just after the valley rain, it is the rainy season. Standing at the exit of the station, looking at the mud outside the station, Zhou Shiming felt like he had no place to stay for the first time.

"Mr. and Mrs., do you want a sedan chair?" Someone asked.

Mo Dou looked at it, happy, a group of barefoot sedan chair drivers, carrying a simple bamboo sedan chair in the passengers, the rain in Guilin, the mud in front of the door, actually brought them business opportunities. Mo Di was worried and didn't know how to get Zhou Shiming out, the sedan chair was sleepy and met the pillow, and he didn't even say the price, and directly said: "I want two sedan chairs." ”

"Okay!" Hearing that Mo Di is a local accent, the sedan chair man immediately beckoned two bamboo sedan chairs to come over, and did not dare to shout the price, so he invited Mo Di and the two to sit on. The railway terrain of Guilin Railway Station is higher, in order to be flush with the railway, the platform and waiting room are also built higher, and when you walk out of the station, the terrain of Zhongshan South Road in front of you is much lower. A vegetable patch on the left and a fish pond on the right, it is estimated that it has rained for several days, and the fish pond is full of water and overflows, flooding the open space leading to the middle of Zhongshan South Road, and the road is not visible. Fortunately, the weather is not very cold when it rains in Guilin Valley, most of the passengers who leave the station have taken off their shoes and passed through the water.

When he arrived at Zhongshan South Road, the sedan chair man did not rush to ask Mo Di for money, but asked, "Where is the boss going?" It's still a long way from here to the cross street, so why don't I help you find a foreign car, and you won't have to work hard, ma'am. ”

Mo Di smiled, this guy can do business, and he will put himself in the shoes of others, not bad. He replied: "You're right, I'm going to Cross Street, so please find a car to come over, and I'll give you the money for the car and the sedan chair." ”

"Okay!" The sedan driver happily responded, and after a while, he called a foreign car to come over, saying that it was a foreign car, and at first glance he knew that it was a dirt car, because there was no rubber on the tire, but on the wheel hoop made of wood, wrapped with some messy strips of cloth. Mo Di was a little dumbfounded, he knew that this kind of car did not have a little shock absorption, and it was disgusting to sit on it, but he was afraid that it would not be very comfortable.

If you are uncomfortable, you have to sit, even if you walk slowly, you can't let Zhou Shiming measure from the train station to the cross street, although it is not a small foot, it is not used to walk this kind of road.

"Boss, you tell me an approximate location, and we'll calculate and collect a lot of money together." The sedan chair man said: "It's best to give the money here first, I'm afraid that I will give it when I get to the ground, just he is a cart puller, he can't keep the money, and he can't be robbed by others." ”

Mo Di nodded and said, "Guilin's security is so bad? ”

"As for it, it's too much!" The palanquin man said: "In recent years, there have been more and more people from other places, and the prices of vegetables in Guilin have become expensive for outsiders. ”

Mo Di gave him a five-dime fiat currency, and sat in a foreign car with Zhou Shiming, each of them holding a big backpack and stuffing the foreign car to the brim. The center of Guilin City is the cross street mentioned above, with an avenue extending from east, west, north and south, namely Zhongshan South Road, Zhongshan North Road, Zhongzheng East Road and Zhongzheng West Road. Guilin Railway Station is on Zhongshan South Road, just south of Cross Street. Last time, Mo Di went to Hengyang to study in the tour cadre class, and also took a train in Guilin, when the railway from Guilin to Liuzhou was still under construction, and the train road had not yet extended to the South Railway Station, and the train was from the North Railway Station. So getting off here is also the first time. This Zhongshan South Road has been there in the past, all the way to Nanxi Mountain, and further on, it is a country road, leading to Lijia Village, where the Central Military Academy is located. Mo Di remembered that Zhongshan South Road, which belongs to the city road, could only be counted as Yongning Bridgehead in the past, and after crossing Yongning Bridge, it was full of mud roads to the south. After a few years of not coming back, there has been a lot of improvement, the road in front of me has become a gray road, although both sides are still a little desolate, but the smooth road surface, the first impression is quite good.

The foreign car ran very fast on the gray road, and it was also very stable, and after a while, it crossed the Yongning Bridge, which was a double-hole stone arch bridge built in the Ming Dynasty, because the name was the same as that of Modi's hometown Yongning Prefecture, so it left a deep impression in Modi's mind. In the twilight, the Yongning Bridge looks very simple, the bluestone fence, the carved dragon and the phoenix, the huge bluestone strip is paved on the bridge deck, the foreign car walks by, and the body is numb.

After crossing the Yongning Bridge, Zhou Shiming pointed to the side of the road and said to Mo Di in surprise: "There are street lights, they are really luxurious, I still saw street lights in Nanjing with you last time, and there is no such thing in Anqing." ”

The street lamp is far away, slightly dim, the sky is not completely dark, and the street lamp at this time is more for embellishment than for lighting.

"The two of us are lucky, look at the road, I'm afraid that it will rain this afternoon, and now it's a temporary break from the spring rain, it looks like it will rain again after a while." Mo Di looked at the halo of the street lamp and said to Zhou Shiming.

"The boss is right." The coachman replied in front: "It has been raining for three days, and it is difficult to stop today, otherwise, I am afraid that I will not be able to find a foreign car." ”

"Did the water rise?" Mo Di asked.

"It's up." The coachman replied: "The Hongqiao Dam is flooded, and there are still people flowing through the water the day before yesterday, but today, no one dares to go, the water is too deep, and it is urgent, and it will be washed to Nanxi Mountain if you are not careful." ”

"Brother Fu, should we go to your brother's house first, or eat something outside, and then go, at this time, I'm afraid that your brother will not be prepared and will be caught off guard." Zhou Shiming said.

"Let's go to my brother's first, I don't know where he lives, I only know that his shop is not far from Zhongzheng West Road on the cross street, I guess he is more familiar with the cart puller than me." Mo Di said: "At this time, the store has not yet closed, and we can only find my brother's home after we arrive at the store. Put down your luggage and then think about eating, if you don't prepare it at home, I'll take you out to eat when the time comes, to be honest, I haven't eaten Guilin rice noodles for a few years, and I drool when I think about it. ”

"Ahh Brother Fu, this bridge is even more beautiful than the one just now, there are lakes on both sides, what is this place? Zhou Shiming shouted in surprise again.

"These two sides used to be the moat of old Guilin, because it was wide, it was also called Huanhu Lake and Yang Lake. This bridge, called Qingdai Bridge in the Song Dynasty, took the poem of Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty: the water is the Qingluo belt, and the mountain is named after the jasper hairpin. Later, because of the expansion of the city, the surrounding lake became the inner lake Yanghu, and the bridge was renamed Yangqiao. Mo Di said: "From here, you will enter the commercial center of Guilin, and not far in front of you is the center of Guilin City, Cross Street. ”

From this moment on, Zhou Shiming never blinked again. Because of the neat arcades on the side of the road, the rows of arcade shops reflect the shining lights, and before the arcades go down to the pillars, they are facing the street vendors, selling all kinds of items to the crowd, cigarettes, accessories, snacks...... A wooden car, several large white porcelain basins, soaked in the sour smell of bright colors, even if the foreign car flashed by, the pungent fragrance had entered Zhou Shiming's six senses, and he suddenly had a big tongue, and he couldn't wait to jump out of the car immediately and eat a large bunch.

Turning the cross street, looking at the huge posters such as Huang Changdian, Zhang Yongfa, and Zijin Cinema, the hustle and bustle of the city can be seen at a glance.

"It's beautiful!" Zhou Shiming exclaimed.

"You haven't seen it yet, tomorrow, I will take you to the Li River, see the beautiful scenery of Fubo, see the mountains and rivers and the moon, watch the smoke and rain in Zizhou, and listen to the wind in Shundong." Mo Di said: "The rain scene in Guilin is better than the sunshine, and it has rained these days, and you have a blessing for your eyes." ”

"I'm going to see it." Zhou Shiming shouted angrily.

"No problem, get off!" Mo Di said with a smile.

Looking back, the lights of the cross street are still visible, the fragrance in the arcade can be smelled, and I see a wide shop on the side of the road, which is full of people and bustling, and it is the time when business is booming.