Chapter 16 sixteen

The next day, they settled the bill at Moon Bay, took the timber indicators, and rushed to Bijiawan Ferry, eighty miles away. There is a small town here with a lumber yard. The purchase procedure was done at the lumber yard first, but the goods could not be picked up until the upstream Jichanggou lumber yard brought down a batch of timber.The door said: "Instead of living here and waiting, let's go to Shangjun County to see the world." Satsuki said: "Okay, I've never been to the county seat, and the mountain nest is very suffocating." The two went to intercede with the driver, took a wooden car and arrived at Shangjun County on the same day.When I arrived at the county seat, I realized that the small street at the junction of the three provinces is actually the most suitable alley, and the Jingziguan, which the people of Shanwozi think is the most luxurious, can only be regarded as a small remote narrow alley here.There are four streets in the whole county, three are parallel, and one is cut vertically from the three parallel lines, just like the word "Feng".One street and two rows are all five-story and six-story buildings, and flowers and plants are placed on the balconies of every family.Those shops are even more colorful and full of everything.Xiaoyue's worldview changed because of it;

The world is so rich! I regret that the outside world is so big, and I know so little.Groups of young women walked by in front of them, dressed so brightly and with such crisp voices, Xiaoyue felt a little embarrassed and always walked along the wall of the shop. "What's the matter with you?" Menmen asked. "I'm afraid of being laughed at." "Look, they're all looking at you, they're amazed that you're so pretty!" "Am I really pretty?" "Pretty, you'll be even more beautiful if you straighten your chest out." Xiaoyue straightened her body upright, sometimes walking in front of her, sometimes walking behind her, as long as she reminded: "Stand up!" she immediately straightened her waist.

"Shall I buy you a pair of high-heeled shoes?" "Go! Are you spoiling me?" Walking side by side with her door to door, whispering to her from time to time: "Miss Xiaoyue, look, everyone is watching you!"The warm sun shone on her, she forgot her sadness, and tried her best to volatilize the pride and happiness in a young girl's heart and body. They walked into a restaurant and ordered a lot of dishes, but Xiaoyue stopped them: "Mate, don't be extravagant." "Miss Xiaoyue, we have a lot of money." "If you have money, you can't spend it like this. Money can't feed the bad habits of the prodigal son."

They bought four bowls of wontons and two pancakes. Xiaoyue finished eating quickly, so she walked out of the restaurant first, saw a bookstore diagonally opposite, and went in, wanting to buy some new novels.The doormen who rushed over later asked for several books such as "Electrician's Handbook" and "Motor Repair". "You bought all these books?" "I want to go back and buy some electric grinders and cotton gins. Now that I have your cooperation, I will be able to do it well." Satsuki smiled: "Did you know I would work with you?"

"I know." "I'm not afraid, so I hit your computer room with a stone?" "If he'd been smart, he wouldn't have punched him in the head!" Xiaoyue suddenly thought: just go outside for a run. This afternoon, they ran almost everywhere in the county. When the off-duty traffic passed them, Xiaoyue always looked at the pair of men and women going side by side.A pram was slowly passed by a couple. She couldn't help going up and asking the child: How old is it? What's its name? Come over and ask quietly: "Do you want a son?" "Fart!" Xiaoyue cursed.

"There will be in the future, and my son will be as happy as this child." Xiaoyue kicked him on the leg. At night, until twelve o'clock, they slept in a hotel respectively, and Tian Luming drove back to the Bijiawan lumber yard by a truck carrying wood. When all the wood was ready, two people carried it to the river one by one, cut Ge sticks and tied them into big rows.Then the gatekeeper blew the six car inner tubes round with his mouth, tied them to the bottom of the wooden raft, let Xiaoyue sit on them, and went to a small hotel by the river to buy a bottle of liquor and put it in his arms.Pushing the row to the surface of the water, he jumped up and went down the river.

The raft went fast.It was Xiaoyue's first time to sit on a wooden raft, and she felt that it was more interesting than being on a boat.The boat was at the ferry, the river level was gentle, the river here was narrow, and the bottom of the river was mostly rocky reefs, with white waves and swirling eddies everywhere, she became a little nervous, and firmly grasped the kudzu on the row with both hands.The door laughed at her timidity.He fully demonstrated his water skills.Take off the trousers, strip off the top, and stand straight at the head of the row, holding the penny.No matter how the wooden raft rises and falls, the body does not move.

"Menmen, are you supporting the firewood row, and Yuntongzi is here?" Xiaoyue asked. "It's still upstream, more than thirty miles away from here." They talked about the matter of supporting the firewood raft, how he once tied a firewood raft of 7000 catties, but in the next rush, he couldn't grasp it well, and the raft hit the stone spout and fell apart, and how he jumped into the water Li pulled the bundle of firewood ashore and tied it up again, and the cock crowed three times when he rushed back to the village.He also said that when the water rose in summer and the waves were overwhelming, he could support four rows in a row and go down the river at the same time.

"Has anything happened on this river?" Xiaoyue asked. "Of course I did. In Jiwan, the platoons often overturned, and people were trapped under the water. Sometimes the corpses were embedded in the rock crevices at the bottom of the water, and they could never be found." Xiaoyue was so frightened that she trembled all over and said: "You must be careful, you don't stand so sideways, what can you do?" "It's okay, with you at the top of the line, what are you afraid of!" On the river bank, the cliffs were cut straight up and down like knives, without a single tree or grass. Groups of waterfowl perched on it, dropping streaks of white feces.When the raft turned a corner, it passed the cliff tightly. Xiaoyue couldn't see the bottom of the raft, so she used another penny to probe down. , Looking up at the mouth of the cliff, the spherical mud nest of the earth gourd leopard wasp was hanging there, and he quickly closed his eyes.

"Are you scared?" Menmen put down the penny, jumped over from the head of the row, sat beside Xiaoyue, then lay down on his back, opened the wine bottle, and took a gulp. "You drink too, the wine will strengthen your courage!" Xiaoyue took a sip, her face turned red and her eyes became dazzled.Menmen was still drinking, Xiaoyue saw the bumpy muscles on his arms, chest, and thighs, and thought they were so strong, powerful and beautiful.The eyes are looking at the sky, the double eyelids are very obvious, the high and straight nose, the nostrils retract with the ups and downs of the chest, and the beard on the lips matches this angular face It was just right, and the mouth, the corners of the mouth were slightly upturned... Xiaoyue suddenly remembered what happened, and couldn't help laughing "chi".

"why are you laughing?" "I'm not laughing at anything." "I'm really getting drunk." "me too." "Let's just let the raft float all the way down, all the way out to sea." "Float into the sea." The door hugged Xiaoyue, Xiaoyue struggled, and hurriedly turned her head to look at the shore on both sides.There was no one on shore. The clouds in the sky suddenly increased, rolling from the east side of the mountain to this side, and the sun disappeared.Xiaoyue looked at the black cliff above her head, and felt that the cliff seemed to be flattened down. "Xiaoyue!" Menmen yelled - sentence. "Call me sister!" Xiaoyue said. "Sister Xiaoyue, sister, look, what is that cloud?" "Like a lamb." "Like a lion, look again." When Xiaoyue looked at it, the cloud changed, and it really looked like a lion, aggressive. At this moment, with a "kuang", the wooden raft swung violently, almost throwing them into the water.Menmen got up and yelled loudly. It turned out that the wooden raft hit a pile of rocks and got stuck there.Xiaoyue panicked, jumped from the row to the stone pile with a "shua", and pushed the wooden raft with all her body. After one minute, two minutes, the wooden raft moved outward with difficulty, suddenly reached the middle stream, and suddenly rushed up Go, each door leaped forward, but their feet did not step on the raft, and they fell into the water, but their hands grabbed the two rafters of the raft.Xiaoyue couldn't make a sound "ah" Coming, Menmen swung his body along the wooden raft, and finally turned up, the confrontation of strength made his face completely distorted. Xiaoyue refused to let Menmen sleep on the wooden raft, forced him to stand at the head of the row, and sternly ordered him to be careful. The river narrows for a while, widens for a while, and keeps crossing the beach and turning the bay. The weather in the valley was getting worse and worse. The wind was blowing down from the ravines on both sides and entangled with each other on the river surface.It often stops there as if standing still, or turns around suddenly.The door called: "It's bad, it's going to rain!" Before a sentence was finished, the rain began to slap down, and the raindrops were like stones, making people unable to open their eyes.The two of them were immediately soaked, and Xiaoyue asked to pull the platoon to the shore to avoid the rain.door said: "No, this place is not as good as the place in front of our door. If it rains, it will rain, and the mountain torrent will come down immediately." Sure enough, not long after, the canyon became even darker, and hailstones were caught in the rain. The continuous wind swept up a lot of dead branches and leaves, and there was a huge bang on the cliffs on both sides. Some old trees were destroyed, and some The hillside peeled off like a piece, and the gravel and mud poured straight into the rapids.On many hills, terrified animals of all kinds could be seen crowding together, including wolves, foxes, snakes, and goats.Xiaoyue saw the corpses of a rabbit and pheasant rushing to the edge of the wooden raft, and suddenly disappeared.The dark clouds in the sky are getting heavier and heavier, split by the tortuous journey of thunder and lightning from time to time, the lightning flashes here and there, illuminating the deep gloom.A bird whirled wildly in the air, then slanted, and fell to the raft with a "smack" and died without moving. Xiaoyue has been in a state of bewilderment, the instinct of survival made her cling to the kudzu sticks on the wooden raft, she was extremely frightened, bit her teeth fiercely, and blood flowed from the corner of her mouth. "Miss Xiaoyue! Hold on tight! Don't be afraid, I'm here!" The door shouted loudly, but he didn't lie down on the row, nor did he bend over. He knew that if he was a little timid at this time, the wooden raft would hit the cliff and fall into the water, and Miss Yue would be finished. , he is finished. "Be strong, Sister Xiaoyue!" When Xiaoyue saw the door standing at the head of the row, her heart was filled with a kind of extreme gratitude: he was a brave man, a great hero who saved her life. "Trust me, Sister Xiaoyue!" She answered loudly: "Menmen, I can trust you!" "Okay, cheer me on!" "come on! Come on!" Xiaoyue forgot her fear and panic, she was full of strength and confidence.She climbed to the head of the row, sat under Menmen, and loudly echoed "Come on!" The wooden raft rushed out of the river for thirty miles at an extremely fast speed. The wind and rain gradually became smaller.Xiaoyue felt strange, and said to each other: the valley is like this, one place has one weather, and one time has one weather.After going down another ten miles, we turned around a huge bend in the river, where the wind stopped and the rain stopped. Although the river surface was covered with gray-yellow turbid current, the sky and mountains were bright. Exhausted, the two of them sat on the raft and started drinking again. "It's fine." "It's fine." The two hugged each other tightly, and neither of them spoke, silently celebrating their victory. Another ten miles of waterway will arrive at their Shanwozi village.Lovely hometown, how much they wanted to see it, but they all felt empty again, afraid that the waterway would end so soon, and they would have to return to this difficult hometown for them. "Let me go down from here, lest the villagers gossip after seeing it." Xiaoyue said with a sad face. "No no! Sister Xiaoyue, what are we afraid of?" "Aren't you afraid?" "Don't be afraid!" "You are not afraid, and neither am I!" "Broken son!" Xiaoyue suddenly called the door like this again, "Tell me, what will the villagers say about us?" "Don't talk about it, Miss Xiaoyue, I don't want to hear it." "But they want to say, we still have to live in the village!" "We're not bad guys, are we?" "Good guy." "He's a good person, Miss Xiaoyue." "But why don't the villagers understand?" "..." "There will always be a time when we get to know each other, right?" "There will be!" The two watched silently and smiled wryly. "Tell me, everyone in the village talks about talent. Am I really not as good as talent?" "all good." "all good?" "But I think you're better." "better?!" "He is honest, he is a good man like my father, but I think he seems to be a good man in ancient times..." "what about me?" "Hello is just in time." "it's time to?" "Don't ask, Menmen, I can't tell, anyway, you are you, I think it's good." They were silent again for a long time.The river was so calm that it couldn't see the flow, but the raft moved very fast without knowing it. Xiaoyue looked at the river, tried her best not to think about anything, but Cai Cai's shadow could not be erased all at once.Finally he said: "Menmen, let me tell you one more thing, you have to get along slowly to get better, will you promise me?" "Yes, Miss Xiaoyue." "We have to do what we want to do well. Now we must plant the land at home. After all, we are farmers. After planting the land, no one will gossip. Let's not be like Cai Cai, he is too Rigid, if it goes on like this, he is a good farmer, a poor farmer, and he can only be a poor farmer. If you have time to read more books, people in the village are not used to your "oil" gas, if you have ambition, just Cut down on that cigarette, won't you order more newspapers? Also, you are rich now, but you can't speak loudly, take up space, spend a lot of money, and raise some bad habits. You did what I said, village people will Knowing that you are a good person, no one will laugh at me. " "I remember, Miss Xiaoyue." Menmen stood at the head of the row, turned around and nodded to Xiaoyue, then smiled softly.Satsuki also laughed.Looking at the amiable and lovely square face with a light beard on her lips, she said sourly in her heart: "Hey, isn't everything perfect in this world? It would be great if we could be one person only if we get along with each other!" Grass in May 1983 Changed to July 1983