Chapter 38 Section 6

Although it has been three or four years, the bus from city A to county B and the roads have not changed much. The bus is still tattered, the car is still crowded, and the road still starts to bump as soon as it leaves the city. Compared with three or four years ago, Ding Yi has undergone earth-shaking changes.Three or four years ago, she was a girl who fell in love for the first time. Today she is the mother of a three-year-old child.Don't underestimate this three-year-old child. With such a little guy, her mood is completely different from three or four years ago. Love and romance are all ignored, and all her thoughts are on her daughter.

It was the first time for my daughter to take a long-distance bus and go to the countryside for the first time. She felt very fresh, and she was carefully protected by her parents. She sat on a meat stool made of two legs of her parents and slept on a meat bed made of her parents' four legs. It couldn't be squeezed on top of her head, and couldn't be bumped under her buttocks, so she was very emotional, singing and dancing all the way, and became the object of attention of everyone in the car. I changed vehicles on the way, but instead of taking the "Tuk Tuk" walking tractor, I changed to a minibus, driven by a self-employed person, which is much more expensive than a long-distance bus and much more comfortable than a long-distance bus. I drove all the way to the foot of Manjialing .

After getting out of the car, I really saw the person carrying the sedan chair, but it was not a real sedan chair, but a wooden chair with a backrest and armrests, which was tied to two wooden poles. It looked quite comfortable, but I didn't know if it was safe or not. If I sat halfway, the pole broke, or the rope tied to the chair broke, and I fell into the cliff. She didn't want to share two sedan chairs with her daughter, and she didn't want her father to hold her daughter, for fear that they would take her away and harm her daughter.She insisted that mother and daughter ride in the same sedan chair, "Bao Yazi" talked to the sedan chair bearer, and they agreed.

She carefully checked the chair bars and ropes, and felt that they would not break suddenly, so she took her daughter to sit in.When the two bearers lifted her up, she was startled, they were so tall!I didn't dare to look over the cliff, I just grabbed the arm of the chair with one hand and hugged my daughter tightly with the other. She suddenly regretted getting on the sedan chair. If the bearer had been bribed by Mr. Ling Shang, it would be too easy to lay hands on her mother and daughter. As long as the sedan chair was tilted, they would be thrown out of the sedan chair. Such a deep cliff, falling down may not even hear a "gudong".If someone checks it, the bearer can insist that it was an accident, and there is no way to investigate it.

What reassured her was that there was still a large group of people following behind.Today, I took the car all the way without walking. I arrived earlier, and there were fewer people following me, but there were seven or eight of them, and there will be more and more people in the future.With so many pairs of eyes staring at her, the bearers should not dare to do anything to her mother and son. "Bao Yazi" walked behind with her things on her back. This time she didn't carry her old clothes, because her daughter packed a big bag of things by herself. There was really no way to carry her old clothes, so I had to save them for next time.

The daughter didn't know how to be afraid, so she sat on the high sedan chair and shouted excitedly: "Father, where are you?" "I'm behind you." "Come in front of me, I can't see you." As if he had received an order from Master Ling, the father quickly got in front of his daughter's sedan chair and asked, "Can I see it now?" "I can see it. Dad, I'm so tall! I'm taller than you!" "Taller than me? That's good. Do you like it?" "like." "Is it good here?" "it is good!"

She listened to the father and daughter's question and answer, looked at his figure half covered by the big bag and small bag, and recalled his love for the child in the past three years, and she felt a little relieved. He likes his daughter so much, he probably would not allow anyone People hurt Tintin, right? Finally arrived at grandparents' house safely, the bearers and the people who followed were standing in the yard in front of the door, waiting for the biscuits to be distributed. When the daughter saw her father handing out biscuits, she became interested, clapped her little hands and said bravely, "Dad, I'm coming!"

Dad had no choice but to let his daughter send it. The father picked up the daughters, calling them names one by one, and the daughters called each other like an answering insect. At a young age, they could learn their father's pronunciation vividly. When the called person came forward, the father put a tube of biscuits in his daughter's hand and said, "Ding Ding, give him the sugar." The daughter corrected, "It's not sugar." "Okay, it's not sugar, give him the tube in your hand." The daughter held the biscuit, a little bit reluctant. Dad quickly comforted and said: "Give it to him, this tube is for him, we still have a lot more."

So the daughter handed the biscuit to the man and said, "Thank you." It may be due to the TV. People in Manjialing seem to be able to understand Mandarin, and some can even speak a few words. When they heard Tintin calling them to thank her, they all thought it was very interesting. They laughed and even used Mandarin if they were brave enough. Say, "Thank you!" Ding Ding replied proudly, "You're welcome." After the biscuits were distributed, some people left, but some people stayed in the field. Some talked to "Bao Yazi", and some communicated with each other, twittering, but she couldn't understand a word, and she was a little nervous, afraid of them They are discussing how to deal with her mother and daughter.

She couldn't help it, pulled him aside, and asked in a low voice, "What are they talking about?" He proudly said: "They say Ding Ding looks like a fairy, I'm afraid it's a fairy from the sky who came down to earth." She was skeptical, but looking at the expressions of those people, it didn't look like they were conspiring to kill someone, but they really seemed to see the expressions of a fairy descending to earth, a bit silly, but extremely admirable. The grandparents also looked at Tintin respectfully as if they saw a fairy descending to earth, as if they didn't believe that it was their little granddaughter.

She said to her daughter: "This is your grandpa and grandma, quickly call grandpa, call grandma." Ding Ding refused to call: "They are not my grandparents, my grandparents are white, they are so black." She hurriedly stopped, but Ding Ding said again: "My grandparents are fat, they are so thin." She explained: "Those are your grandparents from City A, and these are your grandparents from Manjialing." "Mom, are my grandparents in Manjialing beggars?" She scolded: "Stop talking nonsense, mom is upset." When did my daughter suffer this kind of grievance?Immediately pursed his lips, and tears were about to fall.Dad hurriedly coaxed: "Ding Ding is good, call grandpa and grandma quickly, and tell me to take you to swim." Ding Ding immediately called grandpa and grandma crisply. The two old people were overwhelmed by the flattery. They wanted to hug but didn't dare to hug them, and they couldn't bear to hug them. Grandma was so excited that she lifted the corner of her clothes to wipe her tears, and choked up a sigh of relief in the local dialect. "Bao Yazi" translated: "My mother told you to take Ding Ding home to visit often. She misses you very much. She hasn't seen you for several years. She wants to be sick." What she said made her extremely ashamed, and she couldn't figure out why she had been so careful to guard against people in Manjialing all these years. Would such a kind old man harm Ding Ding? She repeatedly promised: "I will come, I will come. In the past, the child was young and the transportation was inconvenient, so I couldn't come back to see you. I will come often in the future." He translated her words to his parents. The two old people nodded and went to cook happily. After dinner, the family of three went to see the hot spring resort in Houshan. The road to the back mountain has also been repaired. Although it is still a dirt road, it is wider than before.The father hugged his daughter, and the mother followed, walking side by side, followed by some spectators. When she got to the hot spring, she found that the old pond was no longer visible, it was surrounded by a wall, and if she wanted to go in, she had to go to the front door to buy a ticket. She asked: "People on the mountain have to pay to take a bath?" "Well. But no one spends that wrong money." "It doesn't seem fair. This is their pond. How can it be fenced and not let them use it?" "The government says it's state property." She choked and said after a while: "Didn't you say before that if someone forcibly develops this pond, the people on the mountain will blow it up? Why didn't they blow it up?" "It exploded, but there was not enough explosives to blow it up." "Who blew it up?" "Uncle on the Ridge." She didn't expect the old man on Lingshang to take the lead and be so brave and tenacious, and she immediately felt a little admiration: "Then what happened after that? If it blows up, it will blow up. The government didn't do anything to him?" "Caught it." "Ah? Captured? Uncle is in jail?" "No, it's passed away." She breathed a sigh of relief and held back: "Master passed away? Was he shot?" "No, I jumped off a cliff." She was stunned: "Why did you jump off the cliff?" "The government fined him a lot of money. If he couldn't pay, he jumped off the cliff." She was dumbstruck, and asked after a while, "How much... How much is the fine?" "Five thousand." "Five thousand will cost one life? Why don't you people from Manjialing help raise some money?" "It's done, it's not done." "Why didn't you tell me? We always have five thousand in our bank account." "I didn't know then." Her heart was very heavy, maybe if he didn't ask him to take all the money to her that time, his parents could take out the money and hand it over for the uncle, and the uncle didn't have to jump off the cliff. She sighed and said: "Uncle, he is too pitiful. Then there is no uncle on your mountain now?" "Yes, Second Master." "When the uncle dies, the second master will be promoted to the uncle?" "Ok." This made her feel a lot of emotion, a person's life is a top priority to himself, but it seems to be of little importance to the whole society.You are dead, people are still living as usual, and someone will fill your place, there is nothing irreplaceable. She thought of the cheating couple who were tied up by the uncle and pushed them down the cliff, and also thought of the uncle who couldn't pay the fine and jumped off the cliff. What else can I say. When they arrived at the front gate of the hot spring, they bought two tickets and went in to take a bath in the hot spring.The interior decoration of the hot spring is very good, but it has lost the taste of the mountains in the past, lost its vitality, and turned into a commercial place. Maybe the advertisement is not done well. Although it is a festival, there are not many tourists inside. It seems that it is a loss of money. goods. She had heard the story of the uncle who was caught frying the pond and was fined to jump off the cliff, so she had no interest in bathing in the hot springs.He doesn't seem to be too used to this kind of public performance washing method, he is a bit restrained.Only Ding Ding, a free tourist, was the most carefree and happiest. He crawled around in the shallow water area, and asked his father to carry him to the deep water area, yelling loudly all the way, and finally brought a little life to the hot spring. In the evening, people still watch TV, "Bao Yazi" still goes out to watch with her, and she still wants to go to bed early.Only Ding Ding has had enough sleep in the car, and now he is not dozing off, and he is determined not to sleep. He wants to go out to join in the fun, sneaking around in the crowd, singing and dancing to attract everyone's attention, but no one agrees. Watching TV, watching Tintin show, said it is better than TV. Although Ding Yi was a bit tired, he had no choice but to give up his life to accompany the gentleman and stay in the main room to take care of his daughter. She watched her daughter dance, but those old scenes flashed through her mind one after another. Her first night in Manjialing, her first night with him, felt like a world away. The next day, "Bao Yazi" got up very early to deliver gifts to the men on the mountain. The mother and daughter continued to sleep until he came back.He called them to wash their faces and mouthwash, and she found that his house had already used red, green and green plastic basins, and the previous earthen basins had been turned into urinals, and they were placed in the bedroom last night, saving them the trouble of running out in the middle of the night . There are roasted corn and porridge for breakfast. Ding Ding likes to eat that corn. He stretched out his little hand and asked his mother to peel a few grains and put them in the palm of his hand. Then he covered his small mouth with the palm, and the corn kernels went into his mouth. Chew it for a while, swallow it, and then ran to my mother and stretched out my little hand.After a while, my mother had already opened a path on the corn cob, and Ding Ding snatched it and gnawed it by himself, until his face was covered with corn crumbs. After dinner, the father took his daughter to see various animals, such as the pigs raised in the pen, the chickens raised in the cage, the birds flying in the sky, and the insects crawling in the grass, many of which Tintin had never seen before. Excited to watch. In the end, no matter who asked Ding Ding if he would like to stay with his grandparents, Ding Ding would answer: "Yes!" Mom made a gesture and said: "Okay, you stay here, Mom and Dad have gone back to City A." Unexpectedly, the daughter said: "You go back, I am here with Dad." She was terrified, and quickly retracted her words, for fear that her daughter would not want to go home with her. It wasn't until she safely returned to her home in City A that she completely let go of her hanging heart.And once I let it go, I immediately don't understand why I am worried. When she returned to Manjialing this time, she didn't feel that her daughter was being discriminated against at all. On the contrary, her daughter made a big splash in Manjialing and was honored by the people of Manjialing. It was really like a fairy descending to earth. She didn't know what was going on, whether it was because Manjialing opened up to the outside world, and the people there kept pace with the times, or the people in Manjialing didn't favor boys over girls, and it was "Bao Yazi" who had those strange things. Or because the uncle on Lingshang has passed away, no one is playing patriarchal. When she called her sister, she talked about going to Manjialing, and her sister couldn't understand: "Really? They worship Ding Ding so much? Is it because she is a child in the city and they haven't seen her before?" "Maybe, anyway, they all said that she descended from a fairy." "Is that because Manjialing has a custom of worshiping fairies? Do you really think of Ding Ding as a fairy?" "Maybe." "Anyway, as long as they like Tintin." "I think so." "Ding Ding is such a cute child, it's hard for anyone not to like it. Xiao Man is also good, he loves Ding Ding very much." She beamed with joy: "Well, he's the one who dotes on her, even more than me. He clings to Tintin in everything. I'm really afraid that he will spoil her." "I didn't expect him to spoil his daughter so much. I used to be afraid that he would neglect Ding Ding." "Sister, what do you think is going on? Did we misunderstand him before, or has he changed?" My sister smiled and said, "Of course he has changed, how can we admit that we misjudged him?" She also laughed: "That's right, we two sisters who are so smart will never misjudge someone."