Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 69
Walking out of the western restaurant, the street lights are already bright, and the gentle evening breeze brings a faint fragrance of lilacs.The two walked back to Gu Yu's residence along an alley.

Gu Yu asked, "Do you have to go to Snake Island tomorrow?"

Liu Xiaonan said, "If you have other arrangements, we can go later."

"No special arrangements, you must go to Snake Island to find the bird you mentioned?"

"Nature is full of magical power. I yearn for nature. The grass in the crevices of the rocks and the wild flowers on the cliffs will fascinate and move me. Ever since I knew there was a place called Snake Island, there seemed to be a mysterious voice calling me , I have always wanted to visit the island, and I always feel that there will be unexpected gains. Now is the best time to go, and let that little bird witness our love."

Gu Yu plucked up her courage and said, "Okay, I will risk my life to accompany Junzi, and I will go on an adventure with you tomorrow."

Liu Xiaonan smiled and said, "There's no need to be so nervous. You are a dragon, so you're still afraid of snakes?"

Gu Yu joked, "You are a snake, no wonder you want to go to Snake Island, this is to find a companion."

Coming downstairs to Gu Yu's house, Gu Yu's boyfriend and girlfriend are waiting for her, wanting to invite her to play all night.Gu Yu said to go upstairs first, she has important news to announce.

After entering the house, Gu Yu held Liu Xiaonan's arm, shook the ring on his left hand, and solemnly declared: "Did you see? My heart already belongs to me. My childhood friend, Liu Xiaonan, is now officially mine." Boy friend."

There was an exclamation.The girls surrounded Gu Yu and entered the room, closed the door, laughing, envious and praising, probably Gu Yu was trying on clothes.

A few young men were fighting against each other, hugged Liu Xiaonan aside, and no one paid attention to him, only talking about his backpack.Carrying a broken backpack with the name of a movie studio on it, you think you're a celebrity.

Liu Xiaonan just pretended not to hear, she closed her eyes while sitting on the sofa, and fell asleep after a while.I'm so tired these days, I don't have enough sleep, those boring topics are just lullabies.

Gu Yu finished trying on all the clothes, walked out of the room with her female companions, saw Liu Xiaonan leaning on the sofa and fell asleep, stretched out her hand and pushed him: "You are too tired, why don't you go to Snake Island tomorrow and take a good rest .I will go again later when I have time.”

Liu Xiaonan stood up, picked up her backpack and said, "Alright, I'll go back first, you and your friends have fun."

Gu Yu wanted to send Liu Xiaonan downstairs, but Liu Xiaonan stopped her outside the door: "I'll take two more days off, and I'll go home tomorrow to arrange things at home. When you go back to the countryside with me, you will definitely live in a new house."

"I don't care too much." Gu Yu whispered to Liu Xiaonan: "They are here with me, it is not convenient for you to stay here, you will be laughed to death by them."

Liu Xiaonan smiled to express her understanding, pushed Gu Yu back to the house, and went downstairs by herself.Walking out of this high-end residential area, he looked back at the window of Gu Yu's house, feeling a little disappointed.

Gu Yu and her friends form a small circle of their own, and their parents are intertwined, not everyone can get involved, it is impossible for her not to care about the influence of this small circle.The plan to go to Snake Island fell through, and my eager anticipation turned cold.

Desolately, Liu Xiaonan took the bus back to the dormitory, saw Yu Zhiyong and Wang Ping walking ahead in the factory area, and quietly followed behind.

"Amir" and "Walter" finally got together, but they dared not talk about love, and carefully maintained the fragile relationship between master and apprentice friends and lovers.The reality does not allow them to take another step forward, otherwise, they will cause harm to each other.

The two were discussing something, Liu Xiaonan followed quickly and eavesdropped.

Wang Ping wanted to bring Yu Zhiyong back home, and to reveal this relationship to her parents. It was too painful for her to be sneaky.Yu Zhiyong is more sensible, thinking that the time is not yet ripe, and wait until certain conditions are met, and then take down her parents in one fell swoop.

Wang Ping complained: "You always say wait, wait until when? Seventy or eighty? The factory shouldn't go to the countryside to recruit workers. I haven't met you. Why should I ask for trouble?"

Yu Zhiyong smiled and comforted: "Believe me, it won't take that long. When I earn 1 yuan and become a household of [-] yuan, I will throw myself in front of your parents in front of your sisters and brothers-in-law. Look down on us both."

Wang Ping said: "I used to look down on Wang Aiqing's way of having fun while suffering, and made jokes that people were inferior to others. Now it's my turn. It's Wu Yanli who can take it easy, and get out as soon as possible, so as not to be harmed by you rural people."

Yu Zhiyong said unconvinced: "Your words are really ugly. Why did the rural people harm you? I'm afraid of being harmed by you."

"How did I harm you?"

"How easy is it for me to live alone? Now I'm trying my best to make money, and I'm losing a lot of hair. I want to make people carefree in the future. Who do you think is the harm?"

"That's what you want, I didn't force you. If you have Liu Xiaonan's behavior, my parents will definitely agree."

"How many Liu Xiaonans are there? You really will find someone to compare with me. Hey, tell me, if Wu Yanli's parents know that Liu Xiaonan has become a celebrity, will they regret it?"

Hearing that she and Wu Yanli were being talked about, Liu Xiaonan quickened her pace and dashed through the middle of the two of them, knocking them to the left and right.

Yu Zhiyong punched Liu Xiaonan on the back: "Brat, it's been almost a month since I've seen him. Writing a movie is amazing. Forget about us."

Liu Xiaonan turned around, ignored Yu Zhiyong, and said to Wang Ping seriously: "Master Wang, you should say that the rural people gave you another choice."

Wang Ping glared at Yu Zhiyong and said, "I don't care about people from rural areas and people from cities. Who made me blind, I'm afraid that there will be a lot of fun in vain, and I won't make it as good as it sounds."

Yu Zhiyong said to Liu Xiaonan: "Listen, this is typical household registration discrimination, as if we rural people are inherently untrustworthy."

Liu Xiaonan took out two "Three Five" brand cigarettes from her backpack and handed them to Yu Zhiyong: "Others gave it to the director, but the director gave me two. I don't smoke, so I'll give it to you."

Yu Zhiyong took the cigarette, smelled it, weighed it, handed it to Wang Ping, and said, "I'm not used to smoking this kind of foreign cigarette. Take it home and give it to your father, and say that I honor him. Tell your father, it's worth a cigarette." Don't treat it like an ordinary cigarette and smoke casually with multiple months' salary."

Wang Ping took the cigarette and said to Liu Xiaonan, "Thank you, Xiaonan."

Liu Xiaonan hugged Yu Zhiyong's shoulder and said: "I didn't give it to you, don't thank me. My old classmate is trustworthy. The hardships in life have never crushed him. If anyone gives him a home, he will Doubly cherish it.”

Wang Ping walked forward silently, with Liu Xiaonan and Yu Zhiyong following behind, talking to each other about what they had seen and heard these days.In front of the collective dormitory, Yu Zhiyong sent Wang Ping home, and Liu Xiaonan went back to the attic on the top floor of the dormitory alone.

No one lived there for more than 20 days, and the house was a bit dirty.Liu Xiaonan put down her backpack and opened the window, mopped the floor and wiped the table, and changed the sheets and pillow covers.As he was busy with his work, Guan Xiaoyun heard the news, so he washed his bed sheets and pillow towels without saying a word.

Soon, the "boss" and "second child" also came, and the room was full of people, congratulating Liu Xiaonan with sincere enthusiasm.Liu Xiaonan's success alone has become the common honor and bragging rights of these peasant children.

Liu Xiaonan was sleepy at first, but now her emotions were high, and she felt like returning to the "base area" and among "our own people".

The director has traveled far and wide, and has seen a lot. When chatting, Liu Xiaonan learned a lot of important information from him, and shared it with everyone.

With the increasing abundance of commodities, some tickets such as food stamps and food books will be gradually cancelled, the household registration system will be further reformed and liberalized, and the dividing line between urban and rural areas will no longer be obvious.Even housing is commoditized and anyone can buy it.Several special economic zones in the south have gradually abolished the welfare housing allocation system.

This information brings new hope, but it also brings greater pressure. With a salary of 300 yuan per month, how can we afford commercial housing?Even if it is to raise funds to build a house, it still needs to be sorted by length of service, and it still needs a lot of money, which is by no means an easy solution.

Everyone discussed Zhanwang enthusiastically, and they didn't leave until midnight.

Guan Xiaoyun was the last to leave and helped Liu Xiaonan clean the house again.She transported the sewing machine and tailoring tools to Dong Xiaojun's home, and really reopened a tailor shop in the side room of Dong Xiaojun's home. She used her spare time to make clothes for the city people, and gradually became famous and earned a lot of money.

Diligent, capable and skilled in craftsmanship, Guan Xiaoyun won the appreciation and love of Dong Xiaojun's parents, and marriage was included in the daily agenda of both urban and rural families.

Before leaving, Guan Xiaoyun asked Liu Xiaonan: "Why aren't you with that 'villain'?"

Liu Xiaonan said: "Gu Yu is your future sister-in-law, you can't call her that in the future."

Guan Xiaoyun said bluntly: "Screaming a few times in front of your back, especially to relieve hatred."

Liu Xiaonan said: "I'm about to get married, think more about how to live your little life well."

Guan Xiaoyun said: "When you marry her, I will call her that every day." He slammed the door and left.

Liu Xiaonan chased her out, pulled Guan Xiaoyun into the house, and asked her, "Who did you slam the door for?"

"I'll show you." Guan Xiaoyun went straight to the point, "Wu Yanli was transferred to the Changbai class, did you secretly arrange it for her?"

"Is it important? Is it worth you slamming the door for me to see?"

Liu Xiaonan laughed, it turned out that she was angry because of this.The workshop director only did what he promised himself. Although it was for the sake of his own fame, he finally did it, and he settled his worries.

"I also want to take Changbai class."

"You and Xiao Dong go to work and leave work together, and the time is synchronized, how nice."

"In your eyes, I'm not as good as an outsider, even if I never knew you." Guan Xiaoyun slammed the door again and left.

Liu Xiaonan shook her head secretly and couldn't help sighing softly.You are stepping on the sewing machine, and someone next to you is playing the guitar and singing for you, what is there to be dissatisfied with?

Early the next morning, Liu Xiaonan got up and went straight to the train station, intending to take the train home.When he arrived at the train station, while queuing up to buy tickets, he felt uneasy all the time, as if an ancient and mysterious voice was calling him, but he didn't make any necessary response.

That signal was so strong, it was like a war drum beating non-stop in his brain, calling him and attracting him.When it was his turn to buy a ticket, he turned around and walked out of the queue without warning, heading for the long-distance bus station.

Since Gu Yu is not interested in Snake Island, why make things difficult for others?Go alone, no one will break the sense of sacredness and mystery in the heart, and explore the miracle of nature alone, why not do it?
Three hours later, Liu Xiaonan was standing on the coast of Laotieshan Snake Island Nature Reserve.

The blue sea and blue sky, the smoky waves, the Snake Island with one end high and the other low, stands dimly in the depths of the misty sea.According to relevant information, Snake Island is the only island in the world where only one kind of poisonous snake gathers, and only one kind of highly poisonous snake—the viper lives.

Liu Xiaonan went to the Snake Island Protection Station to find out that Snake Island is not open to the public.It happened that there was a boat from the protection station going to the island to deliver fresh water to Viper, so he discussed with them whether he could be taken to the island.The staff told him that you have to go to the station master about this matter.

Liu Xiaonan approached the head of the Snake Island Protection Station and explained her reason for coming.The station master judged Liu Xiaonan's origin from his strange backpack. He had read the news before and had a little impression of Liu Xiaonan, and it was true when he asked.

Liu Xiaonan gave the station master two packs of cigarettes, and the station master escorted him aboard, and told him to follow the staff after he landed on the island and not to trespass without permission.The vipers on the island are in the breeding season and are extremely ferocious.

The boat sailed towards Snake Island through the waves, and the mysterious veil of Snake Island faded away layer by layer, and it appeared more and more clearly in front of us.Snake Island is small in size, like a tiny place in the vast sea, covered by lush green vegetation.There are cliffs on three sides, and there is only a gentle slope paved with cobblestones at one corner to land on the island.

After the boat landed, Liu Xiaonan followed the staff to the island.The island is densely wooded, with jagged rocks, and misty mist shrouds the island. Birds appear and disappear from time to time. Occasionally, there are a few birdsong, which adds a bit of ethereal feeling, just like a fairyland.

Liu Xiaonan looked left and right all the way, looking for the legendary little bird who died for love.Although there are many birds on the island, he can't walk around casually.Asked the staff, he was told that he had never heard of or seen it.

He didn't feel regretful, perhaps, such a poignant story only exists in human imagination.

However, Liu Xiaonan still saw Viper with his own eyes.The triangular head, earthy brown, nearly one meter long, is wrapped around the tree trunk, motionless, as if everything that happens in the outside world has nothing to do with it, and only focuses on its own goals.

Even touching its body lightly with a branch, it will not be moved by it. What kind of concentration is this?Only when a bird flies past it or lands on the surrounding branches, it will quickly bounce up its slender body, strike like lightning, or miss nothing or gain something to eat.

The staff told Liu Xiaonan that Snake Island was formed by a crustal movement in ancient times. The animals on the island could not return to land, and faced with the harsh natural environment, they became extinct one after another.Only pit vipers have evolved to go dormant twice a year and survive tenaciously, catching a few small birds in a year to maintain their lives.

Liu Xiaonan has a question: There are no vipers on land, so why live and multiply on an isolated island?The staff of the Snake Island Protection Station couldn't explain it clearly either.

The sky is vast and the sea is vast, Liu Xiaonan stands on the top of Snake Island, looking into the distance.Unexplainable miraculous natural phenomena may be able to use literary language to construct a myth and legend.

(End of this chapter)