The Story of Qingfeng Village

Chapter 8 Qingfeng Village in Memories II
Li Qiang laughed.

After Liu Jianguo and Li Ying helped each other to change their shoes, Li Qiang took out a handful of straw from the basket.

Liu Jianguo asked curiously, "Your basket is like a treasure chest. What else is in it?"

Li Qiang: "There's nothing else, it's all straw."

Li Ying took the straw, braided it into a straw rope, and tied it to Liu Jianguo's rain boots.

Liu Jianguo: "What is this for?"

Li Ying: "Climb up hills and ridges without slipping."

He also tied on his rain boots in the same way, and his movements were smooth and neat, which seemed to be that he often did this job.

On the other side, Li Qiang found two small sticks, scraped off the mud on Liu Jianguo's white sneakers and Li Ying's cotton shoes, wrapped them in straw and put them in the back basket, and then put their luggage bags in. Putting on the pannier, he put the tape poncho over the pannier and said, "Sister, brother Jianguo, please take the main road. Although the main road is farther, it is smoother. I will go up the slope and go back to report first."

Seeing that Li Qiang carried all the luggage on his back, Liu Jianguo felt a little sorry: "Brother Li Qiang, how can you carry it alone, let's go together, let's switch our backs."

Li Qiang: "No need, brother Jianguo, I am familiar with the mountain roads, and I can walk on flat ground with a backpack on my back... I'll go first..."

Ruoluoren had already rushed out and climbed up the path on the slope.

Li Ying: "Let's go too. We have raincoats and boots so we don't have to worry about getting caught in the rain, so let's take the road of machine farming."

Liu Jianguo: "Listen to you."

Now that the two of them have no luggage to take, they can justifiably hold hands.

The machine farming road turns around this slope. It is said to be smooth, but it is actually full of potholes. The ravines made by tractors are one foot deep.

The two walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow. At the beginning, Liu Jianguo was still high-spirited and talked all the way, but then he shut up. This was the first time he walked such a road. It was covered with mud, and the mud was very sticky, and it couldn't be shaken off if it got stuck. You had to scrape it off with a stick, otherwise it seemed that there were heavy objects hanging on your feet, and you couldn't even lift your feet after walking.

The two walked for a while and scraped for a while.

Li Ying: "Now you know what it's like to walk in the countryside on a rainy day."

Liu Jianguo: "I've realized it. Now I really want to go barefoot. I'm afraid I can run faster. I understand why your brother is barefoot."

Li Ying: "You don't understand...he..."

Seeing that Li Ying did not continue, Liu Jianguo was about to ask, when he heard a burst of thunder in the sky.

Liu Jianguo: "Thunderstorms in winter are rare!"

Li Ying: "This is to show you off."

"It's raining and thundering again, it's really a blow to me."

"What? Are you afraid? Regret this trip?"

Liu Jianguo: "I don't regret it."

For the initial acquaintance of Li Ying's hometown, Liu Jianguo heard it from Li Ying's mouth. In the beginning of the relationship with Li Ying, Li Ying more or less said that her hometown is very remote, very poor, and the means of transportation are very poor. Except the tractor is the chicken bus.

Tractors are only available in towns and villages, not in villages.

It takes more than ten miles to go to the village, and even further to the town and county.

Li Ying told the truth that she wanted Liu Jianguo to be mentally prepared. She is a child from a poor family in the countryside.

What Liu Jianguo liked was Li Ying. As for the others, he didn't think much about it, and he didn't mean to dislike it. Instead, he felt a heartache that such an excellent girl deserved better.

Liu Jianguo is a child in the city, and his parents are workers. Although he is not as good as the rich and powerful, he has never suffered from hardship since he was a child. Although his mother died of illness early, fortunately, his father did not remarry. I didn't meet the legendary stepmother, and my life was happy.

Now I personally experience the life that Li Ying said, and the walking alone has deeply affected him.

Li Ying said that she used to go to the countryside to go to middle school, no matter it was windy or rainy, she had to walk such a long way to go to school every day, and she would go out when it was dark and go home when it was dark.

Later, I went to the town to study high school, and I could live on campus, and I came back once a month.

Li Ying said it very casually, and said with a smile: "It's all over."

But Liu Jianguo listened very nervously.

He seemed to see a thin little girl, carrying a schoolbag and trekking hard on the muddy road alone.

So he held Li Ying's hand tightly and made up his mind that he would never let go in this life, and he must let Li Ying live a happy life in the future.

There was a winter thunder, and the rain became heavier and heavier.

Looking at the rain that was getting heavier, Liu Jianguo said, "Li Ying, what you said is true. If your brother hadn't brought us a raincoat, we would have been drowned. Your brother wouldn't have gotten wet."

Li Ying: "I guess he's already home. Let's hurry up, talk and pull Liu Jianguo, and continue to move forward."

Finally, I arrived at Qingfeng Village before dark.

At this time, the rain is gradually lightening. Through the rain curtain, a small mountain village stands quietly under a hillside.

From a distance, I saw several big yellow fruit trees under the hillside.

Huangguoshu didn't know how old it was, and how many winds and rains it had experienced. It opened a bunch of big umbrellas to shade passers-by when the weather was fine, and when it rained, the bluestone slabs under the tree turned white.

Under the tree, there are a few tile-roofed houses with black tiles, and a slogan written on the yellow muddy wall: If you want to get rich, build roads first.Fewer births and better education.

There is a rabbit at home, and there is no shortage of oil, salt and vinegar.etc.

Liu Jianguo: "This is Qingfeng Village? It's so small, there are only a few houses, and how many families are there?"

Li Ying: "Affected by the terrain, the villagers in Qingfeng Village live in scattered places. This is just the village committee and a consignment store. There is a school on the slope. I studied here in elementary school. I will take you to visit it later. Our family Just behind the slope, it can be regarded as a place where people in the village are more concentrated."

The door of the village committee is closed. At this time of the weather, most of them are staying at home to prepare for dinner.

The consignment store is next to the village committee, and the door is open, but the inside cannot be seen clearly in the dark.

The two walked through the door,
A middle-aged man came out of the room, saw Li Ying and shouted: "Yingzi, you're back. Hey, you still have some rare guests with you. The road is difficult, isn't it? Why don't you come in first and take a rest?"

While talking, he looked at Liu Jianguo intently.

Liu Jianguo nodded towards him, waiting for Li Ying to introduce him.

But Li Ying said: "Uncle Wang, no, we'll be home in a few steps, we'll go back first, you can go and sit at home when you have time."

That Uncle Wang replied: "I must be going. Tomorrow your family will kill a pig to entertain the distinguished guests. Uncle Wang will also come to drink a bowl of soup."

Li Ying: "Yes, please be early tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)