Chapter 7 Autumn (moving with stillness)

Autumn matures everything.What you can see by the riverside is all the symbols formed by the power of sunshine and rain in the past year, affecting all things in Wanhui.Wildflowers often adorn the grounds with more beautiful and dazzling colors than in spring.The tall poplars and ginkgo trees along the river all embellish the nature with moving colors, which are bright and full everywhere.However, in such a bright scene and the joyful laughter of personnel, there seems to be a bit of desolation.There seems to be life moving everywhere, and everything is too quiet.The autumns of the past thousand years may have been almost exactly the same as this time, and the loneliness and desolation can be seen from this "quietness".

At Lujiaping, a small port in the middle of the Chenhe River, there is a small soil slope about four miles downstream of the river, called "Fengshuao", on which there is an ancestral hall of the knee.There are more than a dozen old maple trees in the front and back of the ancestral hall. The leaves have been plated with yellow, red and purple by the severe frost of several mornings.This beautiful, colorful mottled fall foliage is everywhere under the maple trees.There is a small stall under the maple tree in front of the ancestral hall, and there are three dustpans of different sizes. There are also such beautiful fallen leaves on the scattered goods in the dustpan.The location of the ancestral hall is on the mountain depression, and the location is higher. Looking towards the opposite river, you can see thousands of mountains with yellow grass and white smoke like clouds where the wildfire started.In the village, the straw prepared by the countrymen for the cattle to survive the winter is piled up next to the roots of the trees, and it is nothing like a tower like a tomb.Ginkgo biloba and poplar trees stand tall in rows, with large and small leaves fluttering in the slight sun, with yellow and green mixed colors, like flags and feathers.Another example is that there is something to invite, something to look forward to.The orange orchard along the river is particularly spectacular, with thick green leaves stretching along both sides of the river, and the fruits attached to the branches are red and bright yellow, as dense as stars in the sky.Next to the pier at the bottom of the river, there are melons and fruits, potatoes, and various agricultural products obtained from the land, piled up there, waiting to be shipped and disembarked.Three or five children, sitting on this huge pile, wrestled and played games with each other.Most of the small boats traveling down the river are also filled with this kind of harvest in late autumn, and filled with the joy and hope of the boatmen. Unloaded to the dry river beach to wait for customers.Farther away, there is the sound of leather drums and gongs, indicating that the people in a certain village are holding a ceremony of thanking the soil in the wild for the result of the cooperation between man and nature this year. A simple wish of "business as usual next year".

The earth is already tired and seems to be about to rest, and the clouds and things become more beautiful because of it.The sky is clear, and the river water is clear. Under the old maple tree in front of the ancestral hall, the person who set up a stall and sat in the depression was an old sailor who built a boat. He seemed to be tired of making ducks on the water, so he climbed ashore to make dried ducks.At that time, the fallen leaves were being removed from the dustpan.From east to west, two countrymen came on their way. Seeing that the weather was still early, they sat down on the bluestone strip.Each of them took out a dry tobacco pipe and lit it with a sickle to smoke.One said: "This year's harvest is good! For the orange orchard of the Heteng family, there will be twenty boatloads of oranges going to Changde Mansion!"

The other said with a smile: "The year is good, and meat is growing from the soil. In the fields in my village, the pumpkins are as big as buckets and weigh 22 catties. They are really as big as buckets, and they will definitely make up for it!" "It's not Polygonum multiflorum, why not make it up?" "Someone went to Yunnan and said that radishes and winter melons are as big as buckets, and they need to be pulled by bullock carts, and a cart cannot hold three or two." "You believe that he spread smallpox. Some people say that there is a lot of gold in Yunnan, and gold is everywhere.

Rice bowls made of gold cost a hundred dollars each, believe it or not?The distance is 18,000 li, and it takes two or three months to get there. If there is no guarantee, I can't believe it. " The two were talking about the local ground harvest this year, as well as various legends about pumpkins and wax gourds, when a middle-aged woman with a bamboo cage came.There were two little black pigs in the bamboo cage, with arched beaks and mischievous eyes, as if to say, "If you buy me back, I will definitely not eat food and run around. What will you do to me?" After arriving at the ancestral hall, people also rested, wiped the sweat from their foreheads, and listened to the conversation between the two at the booth.

"I heard people say: a king of radishes appeared in the fields of the whole family in the muddy area. He weighed thirty-two catties and was bigger than a pig's head. He brought it to the county to reward him. The people in the county said: The county magistrate saw your radish. You go back. We want to report to the province for your office, and there will be a gold medal to take you. Just wait and see. After a month, the gold medal is not available, and someone in the yamen passed through the mud, and he asked for four. Go for 1 yuan, and say that you have asked for the gold plate to approve it. If you come to report the good news, you should be rewarded. This world!" Finally, he shook his head, as if he would break a taboo if he continued, and hurriedly stuffed the cigarette stick into his mouth.

The other said: "An old saying goes: the yamen is open, and you don't come in if you have a reason and no money. It's not about spending money, what's the matter with you.The whole family had epilepsy, and there was a big radish growing in the field, so they made a fuss and sent it to the yamen to please.You don't have to lose a handful of rice to steal a chicken, it deserves it. " "However, in the last two games, some committee members went to the countryside to watch them in the fields. The head of the security guard sent people to play gongs to inform people everywhere. There were big radishes in the field at home and brought them to the committee members for viewing. If you go to the city, please reward them. Worth a lot of money!"

"And then?" "Later, the head of the security committee invited the committee members to drink. The committee members themselves said that they learned how to grow vegetables in the university hall. Those who accompany the committee members to eat wine will pay 800 yuan for each serving. One eight is like eight, eight eight six hang four, Fourteen hanging coins for a table of banquets, four plates and four bowls, plus a pot. After the banquet, the committee members brought some vegetable seeds, and caught seven or eight fat hens with the color of bamboo shoot shells to take back for research, hung them on the pole of the Sanding sedan chair, lifted the sedan chair and left.I don't know what happened afterwards. "

The old sailor sitting by the stall interjected with a smile: "The committee member passed me in a sedan chair. Someone really picked up a load of radishes and more than a dozen fat chickens. There are also two hams, which must be from the county. The chief gave it to him. They sat here eating radishes, and said as they ate: "Your county magistrate is a good person, and he can work hard without complaint. It's really rare for parents and officials. 'Speaking in Beijing dialect.He also said, 'Your soil is good, the radish is big, not hollow, it's very good, it's delicious! The mud man who picked the hen asked the committee member: "What kind of soil bag is better? Is it thin shit?" Ignore him. The committee member said 'soil bag', the mother of the bag would know!"

The countryman said: "The committee member is a person who knows magic, and he brings a lot of glass bottles with him. When he goes to a place, he grabs a handful of soil and puts it in a small bottle, and shakes it gently. : "Commissioner, what's the use of this?This is a soil bag?Is it used to refine kerosene or boil plaster? The committee member smiled and said: "Yes, yes, I want to take it back and read (test) it." "Do you have a telescope?" "I use a dangerous (microscope) microscope." I guess it must be an electro-optic microscope , invented by foreigners."

Several people sighed in unison about this question, as if it was unpredictable.But they couldn't help laughing, the thing was really funny.Although the republic of the five ethnic groups came from the Republic of China, the people in the city and the affairs in the city are all too far away from the country people. The woman stepped up and said, "Brother, let me ask you, is it true that a 'new life' is coming soon? I heard from the Taipingxi Song Tuan that he is my aunt's cousin." A man answered her casually: "Why is it not true? Some people have seen it with their own eyes. As soon as the Central Army left here, the 'new life' came again. Although the age is good, the world is not good. People are doomed. Escape No. People say that Jiangkou Heavenly King Bodhisattva has psychic powers, even killing pigs and goats to make a wish will not bless you!" Just because the woman didn't know what a "new life" was, she could only remember the past five years. The Sichuan Army came and went, the Communist Party came and went, and the Central Army came and went. "Life" is about to come up, I don't know what the "new life" looks like, and whether it will pull people to kill.So I asked many people, but none of them could understand.Now hearing this person say that someone has seen it with their own eyes below, it is obviously serious.Since it is true, it may be that the villages will be chaotic everywhere when they come, people and horses are crowded together, and they have to send husbands and grains, and every family has a share.As soon as this group of people left, another group came, and they sent their husbands to send food and grass, and every family had a share. Now I heard that "New Life" is coming soon, so I feel very depressed.The two little pigs in the bamboo cage can lead her to a good dream.The other "new life" hit the dream like a hammer and shattered it. She still wanted to know more, so she asked the countryman who knew everything, "Brother, do you hear that they want to pass here? Are there many people?" The man saw that the woman was serious and looked worried, so he deliberately said seriously: "If you don't come by this way, how can there be a second way? They come when they say they come, and leave when they say they go. I heard people from Gao Village say that when he arrived at Chenzhou Prefecture, he saw 'New Life' get off the boat by the river. There were so many people!Machine guns, machine cannons, Liuzi Company, Qizizhen, Thirteen Taibao, everything.The commander-in-chief rode on a big white horse, crossed his arms and spoke to the people, (with buzzing nose, imitating the tone of the officer) fellow countrymen, comrades, brothers and sisters, I am 'New Life'.I am Commander.I want to fight! " The woman believed the speech completely, and before she finished speaking, she asked, "Is the Central Army in pursuit?" "Then who knows. He's a scud, and he even chased the Central Army! However, the Generalissimo has a solution. He must have sent someone behind, because there are more people and more artillery fire, so they walk slower." The woman said, "Can't I go to Yunnan?" "No, this group of people will go to Yunnan sooner or later! As the old saying goes: If you go to Yunnan, you will be able to beat melons. If you obey the old saying, they will all go to Yunnan. They will only stop if they are successful!" After the woman asked enough questions, she simply concluded that the "new life" was really about to come up again, and she couldn't help but panic.She thought of the twenty-four foreign cash buried in the brick floor under the bed at home, and felt extremely uneasy, thinking that the situation was really wrong, and she had to find a way as soon as possible, so she picked up the pig cage and hurried away.The two little pigs probably felt a little frightened indirectly, and screamed all the way to go down. In fact, the two country men, like the woman, are still baffled by the name "new life", but they are not very afraid, so they continue to talk.The two talked about the past of Si Laizi, the king of Taipingxi.This Wang Silei is a rich man who made a fortune from Taipingxi Kaiyoufang.When the Communist Party came the year before last, the family hurried up the mountain.Because of being rich and unkind, he was pointed out where he was hiding, and he was arrested and donated 20,000 yuan before he was released.Then the soldiers from the central government came after them, and hurried up the mountain again.But since he is a local rich man, people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong, so he is still favored, and he still donates 20,000 yuan to be released on bail.After the team had completely crossed the border, the little savings were exhausted, the oil workshop was destroyed, and several ships were sealed off and sunk.Wang Silei got angry, stretched his feet, fell down on the bed and died.Wang Silaizi had no children before his death, and his two wives and concubines did not match each other. They each carried a son from a distant house to receive incense, and they were all still at school. , So suddenly three filial sons came at the same time, each wearing white filial robes and competing to kowtow in front of the spirit.After prostrating his head, he raised his head to look, but there was no filial man's name on the spirit tablet, and his name was unclear, so several people started fighting in front of the coffin.Since there are many down-and-out children of the clan who will be doing the funeral, when it comes to group fights, there will be too many people and too many hands, so the situation is naturally extremely chaotic.Some reckless man picked up a big pewter stand in front of the coffin and flew away, one of the filial sons was knocked over by the wax stand in front of the coffin, and he died at that time.After the murder case, everyone broke up and ran away.The patriarch had no choice, so the county magistrate sat in a sedan chair, brought a large group of security guards, Wu Zuoren, and others, and went to the countryside for an autopsy in person.After eating all the hens in the village, he felt that the matter was difficult, so he said: "It is difficult for an honest official to decide on housework. You should hold a family meeting in the ancestral hall to arbitrate this matter." After finishing speaking, he led a thousand people back to the county seat went.The family meeting couldn't be held, and finally the county party committee members went to the countryside again to investigate and write a report to the province, thinking that there was no way to find the murderer in the murder case, and all the oil farms and fields should be confiscated to run schools.The matter has not been closed for three years, and Wang Silei's coffin cannot be buried in the ground. "New life" is coming again, who can guarantee that the same thing will not happen. The old sailor didn't speak, and seemed to see far away.Usually looking far away, you can see the orange trees in the orange garden across the river, the clusters of old trees at the head of Lujiaping village, and the mast tips among the trees.At this time, if you look into the distance, you will see a "new life".He thought: "If you come here, what is there to be afraid of?" So he said to himself: "'New Life' is here, and all the people in Lujiaping have left, and I will not leave. What can three heads and six arms do to me?" It means the house is empty.Don't be afraid of them.Neither the Communist Party nor the "new life" scares the poor and the poor very much. After the two passers-by had left, the old sailor was still sitting in the sun thinking about his thoughts. "Come on, I won't leave. If you want me to be a servant, to carry the fire and eat the burden, I am old and can't do it. If you want me to lead the way, I will keep the incense in the ancestral hall." This ancestral hall is not the property of Si Laizi, a rich and unkind king, but the owner of Hongfa Oil Company.As for Boss Hongfa, he moved his whole family to Dayang House in Hankou Special District, Hubei Province. There is only an empty ancestral hall left, so there is nothing to be afraid of.But if the "new life" is really coming, what will the old sailor do?That's another question.To be honest, he is not at ease!Because he didn't understand the meaning of the term at all. After a while, another monkey player came up on the col, with a young man with yellow hair and a sharp face crawling on his shoulder, looking very clever.Behind him was a short-legged, shaggy little flowery dog. Probably because he was tired from the long journey, he put his little red tongue to his mouth and sniffed everywhere when he reached the col.He looked like a foreigner playing monkey games, rested on the Ao, and asked how many miles there were to Mayang County, and where he could rest today.The old sailor was sizing up New Life, and looked at the outlander, acting silly, like a Yankee detective who must be the vanguard of New Life.So I deliberately pretended to be casual and old-fashioned, and asked the monkey player: "Old fellow, is your hometown Guide Prefecture, Henan? Are there many people behind you? Are they almost here? " The man didn't quite understand the purpose of the question, he thought he just wanted to know the ordinary country people who were going to the market that day, so he said, "There are a lot of people!" The answer was completely irrelevant. Just this one sentence was enough, and the old sailor didn't say anything more, thinking that he already knew what he needed to know, and his heart felt dull and heavy.Because although he is an old Jianghu, he is not sure what his "new life" is.Although I am not afraid, it is a bit troublesome when I really want to come. He was going to cross the river to have a look.In the village of Diaohualuoxi, there is a man who lives in a family, and has a very deep relationship with him.He had to report this important news to the leader of the village, so that he could make preparations in advance, so as not to be caught off guard and be in a hurry. He also wanted to go to the town to see first, or to get some new news from the people who ate on the water.So I cleaned up the stall, locked the door, and looked at the road.At that time, the sky was blue, and a flock of wild geese flew across the sky.At the foot of the beach under the river, there were three or five cargo ships coming up to the beach, and more than a dozen trackers crawled on the dry pebble beach, moaning and shouting slogans.In autumn, the water of the river drops a lot, the mouth is small, and many big rocks are out of the water, bleached white by the sun, scattered in the river, like a flock of white sheep.The monkey-players had already left on the way down the Au, and seven Lujiaping people who were plucking pine hairs came to the main road. Handfuls of rosy berries and blue and yellow wildflowers.Several people laughed and cursed along the road, and they came to the col together.The old sailor recalled the fame and fortune of sealing the ship, the lav, the transport team, the consolation team, etc. in the bustle of the previous year, and said to a young woman who had loosened her hair: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, you are really not afraid of crushing your shoulders, you are so strong! You I'm afraid it's more than a hundred and fifty catties." The woman and several others were resting by the ridge with the load on their backs, laughing silently.The other man teased the woman with a pun from the sidelines. "Uncle, you don't know, my sister-in-law is very capable, and she can stand no matter how heavy the pressure is." The other two young women were all cooing and laughing.The woman with the most burden, because she could hear the thorns in the words, scolded the fellow man back: "Sheng Fu, you are out of time, do you have boils on your tongue? You have boils, talk nonsense, hurry up!" Find Yang and come back, so as not to burn the incense." The man said: "Sister-in-law, I don't have boils. I said you are good at memorizing a lot, and you are not afraid of heavy ones. Where did I offend you?" "I recite more and less, it has nothing to do with your happiness!" "It's none of my business, okay. As the saying goes: If you stretch out your hand and don't make fun of others, I'm praising you. Has the world changed, and people who say good things also commit crimes?" "You have a good heart and a bad heart. You have a lot of honey in your mouth and maggots in your heart. You think I don't understand." "What do you know! A bachelor has a lot of heart, so people can't speak." Another young woman, who seemed to have some affection for the man, interjected, "Hey, hey. Come on, it's not peaches and plums. Moths have eaten the heart, what's wrong?" The man said: "Really, it's not peaches and plums. How can the heart be broken? It's not clairvoyance. Some things are broken from the inside, and the eyes can't see it!" Because this sentence hurt the original woman secretly, the woman said, "Blessed be your tongue." The man deliberately pretended not to understand her, "What did you say? If you don't bite your tongue, it won't rot!" "A dog bites you. A mad dog bites you!" "Yes, the dog bit me. My tongue was bitten by a crazy bitch! Under the shade of a big paulownia tree..." Because the woman was talking about a little secret that the woman didn't want to mention, the woman became anxious , blushing and said: "It's time to chop off your head, Shengfu, if you talk about it again, I will really scold you!" The man said with a salivating smile, "Sister-in-law Aqiu, you scold me! You can scold me too. You can't scold me." "You have a tongue and a tongue, and you will die in the future. After you die, you will go to the tongue-pulling hell to suffer the punishment of living, and you will repay it now." Another woman wanted to save her, "That's enough, it's not too late to die if you're tired of life. Sister-in-law Aqiu, just listen to him gossiping and yelling nonsense. It's nothing to be a windfall." "He took advantage of me!" "Just let him do it at all. Come by mouth, go by ear, I can assure you, it won't take anything." The man just laughed, "Yes, the fat and water don't fall into the fields of outsiders, and the eyes of the radish are pulled out. It's a little advantage, what's missing?" Because the more you talk, the more presumptuous you are, and things can't be separated from that point.The woman who was mentioned was afraid that what she said would be even more unpleasant, so she became anxious and angry, and wanted to use a bamboo rake to drive the man to beat him twice.The man saw that something was wrong, and the bamboo rake was almost on his head, remembering the adage that "men don't fight women", thirty-six strategies, the best strategy is to walk, so he laughed, bowed his waist, and loosened his hair. Go down the col first. Several other women and men also walked away with laughter. It turned out that the quarreling woman, holding her breath, said to the old sailor who was looking at the ancestral hall: "Uncle, you see, when the water flooded in our place last year, the pulse of the mountain was broken, the geomantic omen was broken, and the young men became wild boars. It weighs a hundred catties and is covered in skin and bones, but a mouth alone is useful. A mouth can hurt people everywhere." The old sailor replied with a smile: "If you don't talk or laugh, you will mess around. Mouth also has its uses. When you have nothing to do, sing some songs, so happy! * It turned out that under the maple tree on another depression in front of the mountain, there was a young man mowing the lawn singing, and the scene gave birth to love. He sang: three maple trees are as tall, and there is love under the maple tree; there are many yellow flower girls in love , Wearing countless flower purses. Because there was no one to talk to, so I continued to sing: There is a steep slope in front of Jiao's house, and others walk more than others; the iron straw sandals are worn out, not for you? The woman was so angry that she couldn't get out, she spat out the word "Bah" to the young man who was mowing the grass in the distance, and said with a smile: "Flower purses, flowers hug belly; your mother will do it for you when you have free time!" Booed, and left with Songmao on his back. The old sailor watched several women walk down the col, and said to himself: "Flower purses, flowers to hold belly, wear torn, wear torn, children and children have grown up. The days are long. 'New life' Come on, send a consolation team to find young women, you should all suffer!" The old sailor immediately got on the road and walked towards Lujiaping Town.When I passed by the gate of a bureau, I saw a few officials who had nothing to do and were playing chess by the small stool in front of the gate. It didn't look like a "new life" was coming.I went to the oil shop to have a look again. The manager of the farm had already rushed to the market to buy gallnuts. There were many oil baskets slanted against the wall in front of the door. A white hen had just laid eggs behind the oil basket and was frightened. Shouting and flying up the wall, it doesn't look like a "new life" is coming.I went to the Tuanlian office again, and saw the master wearing presbyopic glasses, tilting his head and licking the tip of his pen, writing a letter home for the woman in the town, and reading the letter to the woman after he finished writing.The woman wiped her tears with her sleeves while listening, as if it had something to do with the "new life".So the old sailor held his cheeks, and asked the master inquiringly: "Master, did the regiment head go to the field? When will you be back?" The master saw that it was the boatman, "Oh, sir. The regiment boss will come back tonight." "Is there someone from the county?" "The committee member left early." "What committee?" "The committee member looking at the carrot." The old sailor smiled, and bent his fingers to count the days, "Master, that happened last time! I seem to have heard people say...someone else came next...I don't quite believe it." The woman who asked the master to write a letter to my family said, "Master, please add a sentence to my letter, just say, 'If you don't send money in October, I can't finish the meeting. It really forces me Go to Liangshan. Can I pay the debt or not? I'm dead!' You can write like that, I want to scare him." The master started to laugh, "Sister-in-law, don't threaten him. Your boss has money, and he will bring it." The woman burst into tears, "Master, you don't know, the three-horned little whore in Taoyuan County has fascinated him. He hasn't brought any money for three months and always says it's bad luck. Don't want me to be at home with Sanmaoer What to eat to live." The old sailor said: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, there is no unparalleled road. The three horns can't fascinate him. He will change his mind." The woman pulled the corner of her apron to wipe away her tears, and after taking the letter away, the old sailor said to the master again: "Is her man in the 36th Division? I think there will be a war!" The master said: "In a peaceful world, the world is bright and bright. Apart from the colorful faces on the stage and the itchy guns and sticks in your hands, what other battles are there? I don't believe that anyone in the province is going to fight now. Master, who are you listening to the rumors? " Originally, the old sailor said it casually when he thought of it. Next, he was going to talk about the "new life" coming soon, but he couldn't help feeling a little disgusted when the master said it was a rumor.He thinks that the master looks like a scholar, he can write a few words, so he thinks he is a "smart star". He doesn't believe in anything in the world, but in fact he is just pretending to be a scholar.So I didn't say anything else, and made a "believe it or not" look, and walked away in a long way.After leaving the group practice game, I came to the gate of Yang's ancestral hall, and saw five or six children squatting on the big bluestone board, playing dice and betting on incense sticks.The old sailor stopped and teased them, saying: "Hey, young generals, go home quickly, they are coming soon and want to catch you!" The children were curious, so they all turned around with an inquiring look, "Who caught us?" "Who, that 'New Life' wants to catch you." A child who was very angry after losing his book said: "The new life caught us, and the second ghost only caught you. He stretched out his big hairy hand and pulled your hind feet. He grabbed you and couldn't escape." Seeing something wrong, the old sailor turned around and walked towards the river.When he reached the river, he prepared to make the transition.All kinds of agricultural products are piled up on the river beach, and there are three piles of freshly picked oranges, just like three piles of flames, which are being loaded onto the ship.Four or five middle-aged men happily and hastily carried the oranges off the boat with a large dustpan, walked across the wobbly gangplank, and poured the oranges into the empty cabin when they got to the side of the boat.Someone was negotiating the price of a pile of vegetables, talking and swearing at the same time. On the ferry, the ferryman knew him and was greeting each other when two more women came by the river.A younger one, with a dark face and a pointed chin, wore a light green cloth dress, a moon blue cloth waistband, and a small flower on the waistband, bound behind his back with a finger-thick silver chain, and the end of the chain was still tied. He made a small whitebait as a pendant, a braid coiled on his head, and a small bamboo cage with thin bamboo strips on his back, and put some dried vermicelli and calico.An older one, with big eyes, a round date-shaped face, and wearing a blue cotton shirt and calico trousers.The young man's eyes were bright and his mouth was sweet. When he saw the old sailor from a distance, he called out to the old sailor: "Manman, Manman, are you crossing the river? Come to my house for dinner, and there is braised soybean sprouts with knife head meat." Seeing that it was sister Yaoyao, the old sailor said, "Yaoyao, your sister is coming back from shopping? I am going to your house. How many good things have you bought!" He then said to the girl with a long face: " Second sister, what are you doing? It seems that when you do a dowry, you always wear a cage!..." The old sailor just smiled at the two girls, because he saw that the bigger one also had a bamboo cage with a lot of cloth and groceries inside, so he joked .The woman with the jujube-shaped face was honest and honest, and the old one said, "I'm sorry, but my cheeks and neck were flushed, and I turned my head to look at the water." * The man in charge of the ferry said: "The second girl's dowry has eight shops and eight covers, and it has been done long ago. I heard what people in your village said. The head jewelry is twelve catties of silver, and the twelve ingots in the box are still out. The silversmith said it. Miss Yao, don’t want silver, but gold. Who said it? I said it.” The last words are naturally close to casual words, just to make a noise, it doesn't have to be true.Although Yaoyao could hear it clearly, she pretended not to hear it. She turned her head and smiled, pointing to the wild ducks on the water for her sister to see. The old sailor said, "Yaoyao, how much hemp did you harvest in one summer? I think you must have twenty-four bolts of fine white linen." Yaoyao paid attention to the vegetable leaves floating in the water without turning her head. "I played all summer, my sister-in-law has a lot of linen!" The man in charge of the ferry interjected again: "There are many sister-in-laws, but they are no better than Yaoyao's. Yaoyao likes everything." Yaoyao argued: "Uncle rowing, you are talking nonsense. How do you know my hobby?" The man in charge of the ferry pretended to be very serious, "Why don't I know? I am old, but my eyes are still good. Why can't I see it? Just look at her thin strip cage, how delicate it is, I'm afraid it's not Guizhou. Brought from Sinan Mansion? Is it worth three taels of silver? I told you when you were young that Yaoyao must be a Guanyin when she grows up, how could she be wrong?" "How do you know Guanyin's hobbies?" "Avalokitesvara doesn't like it, so why not be afraid of the long distance, and wash your feet all day long from the purple bamboo forest to the South China Sea? How far is the road?" The ferryman leisurely drove the boat, and said to the other people in the transition: "I said I knew it. I know. I also know that Emperor Xuantong abdicated. Yuan Shikai wanted to ascend the throne with bad intentions. Cai E, a native of Hunan, was not convinced and pushed him down the Jinluan Palace with a palm. This made Yuan Datou alive. I know a lot about old people. Lie." A few words made everyone on the boat laugh. Everyone noticed Yaoyao and her exquisite bamboo cage.Compared with the cages used by ordinary women, the cages are much more delicate and exquisite.If any women in the same village recognized her, they said with a flattering air, "Yaoyao, you have to be particular about that cloak!" Yaoyao remained silent, facing the soup and running water, ignoring it.I thought: "You don't care about this!" But after a while, she turned around and shrank the corners of her mouth at the woman, and smiled, "Jin Zi, what's wrong with you! Everyone is having fun, you sing, it's worth it!" ?” Jin Jin also smiled, she was just joking.Even if you are really singing, it is as usual to make others happy and make yourself happy. When the ferry boat arrived in the river, the third girl said to the old sailor, "Manman, you've got a big maple tree. It's really beautiful these days. The leaves are like a fire, and they are so red that they burn all day long. It never burns out. We saw it on the straw pile across the river, and always thought it was really on fire." The old sailor seized the opportunity and said: "Yaoyao, you just said you don't like beautiful things, and you don't care about other things. You never care about toads fighting, but you like the maple tree on my lap. There is a young man sitting Singing under the maple tree, it's a pity you can't hear it across the river. Your orange orchard is really beautiful, how much it will produce this year!The branches are also broken a lot.There are thousands of oranges, no treat!Because it looks good, I can't bear it! " Yaoyao pretended to be angry and said, "Manman, you are so stubborn, I won't tell you." The two sisters are the daughters of Teng Changshun in the Teng Family Orange Garden in Fengmu'ao Duihe, Luoboxi.The old sailor who guards the ancestral hall is also surnamed Teng, and he is of the same clan as the distant family.It was to her house that the old sailor was going, and to speak to their father. When Yaoyao was silent, the old sailor thought of the "new life" again. He was a little worried, thinking that when the "new life" came, everything in this place would inevitably change, and sister Yaoyao's life would also be certain. To change.But at that time, I saw the two women stretching out their hands to play with the water beside the boat, picking up the leaves of melons, vines and vegetables floating on the water with their hands. After crossing the ferry, several people got off the boat together and walked along the river ridge path towards the carrot creek. The scenery by the river is particularly bright in the afternoon, with red leaves and yellow flowers, and the ground is like brocade.Looking back at the town of Lujiaping, I can see the shady trees, the roof tiles of thousands of cottages, and the smoke floating around, white as cheese, suspended in the thin forest.By the river at the end of the street, in front of the Taxation Bureau of the department store, on a tall mast hangs a letter with a long banner written in large flat red and black characters, fluttering in the autumn sun breeze.The mast tips of dozens of merchant ships protrude from the ridge beside the river dam, which makes one imagine that there must be thousands of trackers on the river beach there, chatting, laughing and drinking to relieve the fatigue of the day.On Daao on the opposite side of the river, in front of the ancestral hall where the old sailor lived, the old maple trees stand tall and straight, each wearing a colorful leaf, just like a few moving colorful pillars... It seems that everything symbolizes the prosperity of the local area , despite the disorganized personnel management, it is still very prosperous.