Chai Po Road, Sunset Town is located at the foot of the West Mountain, and it is an extremely closed place. This blockage does not refer to the blockage of traffic, but to the blockage of people's minds. In the book, it is said that the people there are simple and simple, people work at sunrise, sleep at sunset, take the mountains and forests as peace, live a simple life, and do not covet pleasures. There are some of these things, but there are no real twists and turns in the book.

"When I was a child, I lived there, and I didn't go out of the door, only the four sides of the world in the courtyard. When I grew up, I went the furthest I could be, under the plaque in front of the town, and I didn't know anything about the outside of the town. It's not that the family didn't tell me, but they had never been outside of Sunset either. ”

Chai Po recalled that the people in the town were very united and xenophobic, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, self-sufficient, and never eating anything outside the mountains and forests; It's not that people are poor, there are many people who are rich, it's just that everyone is used to living this kind of stable and simple life. As for the outsiders, they seldom come in, fearing that they will be depressed and unable to get out of Sunset Town, and those who are unwilling to assimilate, the real people of Sunset Town will gather together and violently drive them out.

So-called, everyone is like this, and you are embarrassed to be like that again. But people's hearts are varied, and Chai Po claims that she has an outward "different heart" in Sunset Town. She longs to see the world outside Sunset, to taste the delicacies she's never tasted before. Of course, her "alien heart" was well hidden in front of her family, until her sixteenth birthday, she took advantage of the unpreparedness and secretly ran out of Sunset Town and achieved her heart's wish.

"At that time, my eyes were still good. I remember the road from the town to Tiangang Village. You're going to have to ask me how I know. Just because the people in the town don't go out doesn't mean they haven't gone out before. I, ah, was premeditated. Who didn't think a little bit about being a girl? I went around the town every day, and I could spell out a road map for completion. I have been waiting for an opportunity, that is, on my sixteenth birthday, my father and mother invited the neighbors to dinner, and they had no time to take care of me. The people in town seemed to be very busy that day, and I jumped at the chance and sneaked out of Sunset Town. ”

Some things will not change for decades, and it is such a mountain road from Sunset Town to Tiangang Village. Heading west along the mountain road is the land of the sunset, while turning back to the east is a poor and dilapidated village. Chai Po walked the mountain road for most of the day, and when she walked to Tiangang Village, she was tired and hungry.

It has been proven that when people are the hungriest at all, as long as they can eat delicious food. Chai Po said that just when she was hungry and thirsty, a kind passer-by took her to her house for dinner. Chai Po still remembers the taste, the hot white noodles are wrapped in lard and sesame filling, sweet and soft, and it is the world's most delicious steamed cake that was later praised by Hu Xiaoer. Sunset may be plentiful, but it can't get a piece of steamed cake to eat when you're hungry, and it's true that Tiangang Village is poor, but in Chaipo's opinion, spending a day there is far better than the same days she'd lived in the previous sixteen years.

I remembered that when I was a child, Master asked the three of our apprentices to recite "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", and he said that mortals yearn for the Peach Blossom Spring, and mortals envy the adventures of fishermen. But how do you know that the people in the Peach Blossom Garden will not envy the complicated world outside? Just like Chai Po, Tiangang Village has a wide earth, high mountains and long waters, breaking the shackles and restrictions imposed on her by Sunset Town. She had never felt so free and easy, and the avenue to the east outside Tiangang Village was a way to a wider world. It's finally out, of course I have to see enough.

A person who knows that birds and insects can live in symbiosis, has seen the world where everything is clear, and is willing to sink into it, it will be difficult for her to go back to live a simple and monotonous life. On the tenth day that Chai Po lived in Tiangang Village, her family finally came to her and forcibly took her back to Sunset Town. She struggled to resist, crying and hunger strike in that closed quadrangular courtyard. It was the first time that such an "outlierous" girl had appeared in the town, and she united the xenophobic Sunset Town people to come over to persuade her.

On the first day, Chai's father asked her why she longed for the outside world so much?

On the second day, the Chai family A-Niang handed Chai Po a drawer of food boxes, saying that she had spent a night to get the true legend of making steamed cakes, and the steamed cakes in the food box were authentic Tiangang Village flavors. Who would have thought that Chai Po didn't even open the lid of the food box, crying and saying that even though there were steamed cakes, the sky and the vast land outside, the insects and birds, the flowers and plants, and the scenery along the way were all not found in Sunset Village. She's tired of the dullness here, and she's just going to get out. A-Niang listened to her heartfelt crying, covered her heart and wept away.

On the third day, the seven aunts and eight aunts in the family took turns to fight;

On the fourth day, the old patriarch came on crutches to persuade him;

On the fifth day, the mountain keeper wanted to persuade her with the story of the fallen leaves returning to her roots, hoping that she would change her mind and become a new person;

Day 6, Day 7......

Every day, different people came to Chai's house to talk to her, perhaps to see the true face of this out-of-character girl, or to hear her shocking thoughts. Chai Po did not reject this, in her eyes, the people of Sunset Town were ignorant and ignorant, how could people avoid the curiosity of people who were more pitiful than themselves?

It wasn't until the 10th that things finally took a turn for the better.

In Chai Po's words, that day was the most beautiful day of her life. She wore a red dress, wore a tassel hairpin, painted a touch of red lips on her beautiful face, and announced in front of her father and mother, the elders of the clan, the neighbors and the people who came to Chai's house to watch the lively Sunset Town that she was going to get married.

The old patriarch in the crowd walked out tremblingly and said to Chai Po, it's good to marry, which one does Chai Po, an unmarried guy in Sunset Town, like, and his old patriarch went to ask for a kiss in person. Chai Po flicked her red sleeves and said, don't bother the patriarch, she has made a private life, and she wants to marry a cloth boy in Tiangang Village, that is, the person who took her to eat steamed cakes at home that day.

After finishing speaking, there was an uproar all around, and the Chai family's aunt almost fainted. Yes, the girl is single-minded, in addition to thinking about the food and scenery there, there should be a clear and windy young man, so that her love is beginning to open, a glance for ten thousand years. Ten days of beautiful scenery defeated sixteen years of stability. They agreed to meet under the sunset in another ten days, and no matter what, they would hold hands and walk together, and they would be with each other for the rest of their lives. At this time, the crowd split up, and the young man in red slowly walked out and stretched out his hand to her.

Xiao Chai, come with me.

That day, it suddenly rained heavily in Sunset Town, which had been dry for a long time, and when she left Sunset Town, Chai Po was drenched all over, tears and rain were intertwined on her face, and her heart was happy and sad.

The last thing the Chai family's father said to her was that if she went out of this door today, they would only treat her as a daughter, and from now on, she would not be allowed to set foot in Sunset Town for half a step.

The mother of the Chai family cried and begged her, daughter, poor couple and pessimist......

The young man in red stood side by side with her in the rain, clasped her hand and said, Xiao Chai, from now on, the world is vast and free to travel, they have each other, and everything will be fine.

Chai Po nodded firmly. Since she has the determination to come out, she does not believe in fate. It is said that poor couples mourn everything, and she and her husband should live more nourishingly than anyone else according to their own way of life.

Since then, Chai Po and his wife have made a living selling pastries. In the 30 days of a synodic month, there are 20 days when Chai Po accompanies Lang Jun to carry the burden and sell pastries in neighboring villages and towns, among which the steamed cake with lard filling has the best reputation. Although it was hard, the husband and wife relied on this to earn a lot of money, and in the remaining ten days, they used the money they saved to go to farther places to enjoy the mountains and rivers. Lang Jun sympathized with her and said that he wanted to fill her monotony of the previous sixteen years. It was the most touching love story she had ever heard.

They are not burdened by money, and they are free and easy. But God makes people and doesn't give Chai Po this consummation.

In the second year of marriage, Chai Po's Lang Jun died in an accident. On that day, Chai Po was unwell for the first time without accompaniment, and Lang Jun encountered heavy rain while climbing the mountain road, resulting in a landslide, and he fell to the bottom of the valley, and his bones were gone. When Chai Po learned about it, she was in a coma for three days and three nights. When she woke up, she couldn't eat or do anything, she only shed tears until her eyes were blind and her tears dried up.

Chai Po later thought that maybe this was the karma of her fighting against fate, teaching her to insist on getting out of Sunset Town, and teaching her to abandon her father and mother at home. A-Niang said that poor couples mourn everything. But she lived well, she won her life, but she couldn't fight God, and in the end she lost the love of her life.

When Chai Po talked to us about the old things, her expression was always as calm as water. The steamed cake on the table was already cold, and Hu Xiaoer and I didn't move our chopsticks for a long time, and we all looked at Chai Po with a peaceful face with great embarrassment. Even the Black Mountain Divine Catcher, who has always been known for his "black face", has two drooping eyebrows, and his eyes show heartache and sourness.

"Oh, I said what you're all going to say. In fact, these things seem to be things from the previous life, and I've figured it out a long time ago. Later, I was left alone, and my eyes were not good, so there were many inconveniences. But no matter how hard and tired I was, I never shed a single tear. Because these eyes are useless, the tears have long since flowed. The people of Tiangang Village took pity on me for being blind and widowed, and helped me build a tea shed on the road outside the village. I've been like this for decades since, and I've never been to Sunset...... I just thought that it would be nice if he had left a child for me at that time, and he still had a thought...... After that, you guessed what was going on, and I came across a hill when I thought about it. At that time, Xiaoshan had not grown so tall, thin and thin, with a stubborn temper and hard bones, and he also liked to eat steamed cakes, like when I was young......"

The black catcher head moved slightly, and couldn't help but hold Chai Po's hand, and Chai Po patted the back of his hand in turn to show comfort.

"Xiaoshan, I'm very relieved all these years, God let two lonely people meet and let them depend on each other. I also know that you have big ambitions and have a place outside of Tiangang Village in your heart, which is very good. You often tell me about the scenery and things you have seen and heard everywhere you have visited, and I am quite touched by the great hope given to me this blind woman. It's just that, you have to remember that when you look at the world, one person looks at it as a lonely, two people look at it as love, and a group of people slowly know its joy when you look at it. People can't always be alone, I don't care what you have in your heart, you still need some fireworks, you understand?"

The black catcher only lowered his head and said nothing, and he was also silent Hu Xiaoer, who frowned and didn't know what he was thinking. I sighed in my heart to calm the heat that had been stirring for a long time, although Chai Po had lived in Tiangang Village in the dark for decades, she saw it better than anyone else like a mirror in her heart.

"In front of us is Sunset Town, the town has been closed for a hundred years, maybe this hurdle is not easy to pass. Xiaoshan, girl, little brother, listen to Chai Po's words, the three of you will go together, and if you don't mess up, you will be able to turn the danger into a disaster. ”