travel starts with photography

"Can I?"

"I think there's no problem. You'll know when you get here. I can even take you around Chengdu by then."

In fact, he himself has not visited all of Chengdu, but as a half-local, it is still okay to take a foreign friend like Bai Yuzhu around.

"I want to ask my parents." She sounded a little yearning.

She has never traveled too far since she was born, and Chengdu is a big city. There are very tall houses, so many people, zoos, amusement parks, and giant pandas... The more she thinks about it, the more she grows up. expect.

"Row."

Chen Xing said that of course she had to ask her parents about this kind of thing, and she could even bring her parents with her.

Otherwise, people would definitely not worry about their daughters running around.

Amidst the sound of rain, the sound of the stage over there quickly disappeared. Chen Xing could only hear the sound of rain falling on the umbrella, and the collective bow just now appeared in his mind again.Chen Xing asked: "When will they get off work? It means ending the show."

"It's pretty quick. This kind of play usually takes more than two hours to finish."

The performance starts in the morning and is almost over by noon. After a meal, the troupe will go to the next village.

"Is it such a rush? Two games in one day?"

"It's always been like this."

Bai Yuzhu even envies these people. At least she feels that other people's lives are very meaningful. Unlike her own, she still can't imagine what she can do in the future.

The village was relatively small, and the two quickly returned to Bai Yuzhu's home.

Her parents have come back. Since it rained quickly, they didn't bring an umbrella to go out. Now their heads are wet and they are wiping them with a dry towel.

Seeing her daughter and Chen Xing so close, her mother's heart skipped a beat and she quickly pulled her daughter over.

Her father was okay. He glanced at his daughter and said to Chen Xing, "You are still smart and found the umbrella."

Bai Yuzhu laughed a few times, and then said to her parents in local dialect: "We just said it would rain, right? Look, it really rained."

"Yes yes yes, you are right."

It's just a rain, you will be proud of it.

Bai Yuzhu went to cook with her mother. Her father didn't know what to talk about with Chen Xing. He felt that it was not good to leave the guests alone to play with their mobile phones, so he asked: "You guys went to the theater just now. What do you think of us?" How about the drama on the side?"

"It's very beautiful, and the instrument masters played it very well."

"Oh, those are called Buyi eight-yin sitting singing."

My uncle seemed to know a lot about this and told Chen Xing a lot about the characteristics of bayin sitting singing and how this music form developed.

If you want to ask him how this is different from playing musical instruments outside?Bai Yuzhu's father probably couldn't tell the difference. He only knew about eight-tone sitting singing, and he knew very little about anything outside.

"I have learned a little bit about Yueqin before." My uncle said with some nostalgia.

Chen Xing has seen Yueqin in Jiangnan, but the Yueqin here is a little different from that there. Generally speaking, the belly of Yueqin is round, but the Yueqin of Buyi people is not. Their belly is really like the moon, it is curved. Curved, with a gap.

"Then will uncle still do it now?"

"I would like to practice, but if you don't buy it for me, there's nothing I can do."

He sighed and shook his head.

Before the food was ready, Chen Xing smelled the hot and sour smell coming from the kitchen.

He knew that they were going to make a local special dish today at noon, called Fish in Buyi Sour Soup. Before, Chen Xing only regarded this dish as the dish he ate in southern Yunnan... But it seems that it is not the case anymore. The taste is completely different.

Chen Xing was not kept waiting for long. After hearing the shouts from the kitchen, Bai Yuzhu's father took Chen Xing to the fire pit room, where soup was cooking gurglingly on the fire.

It was the fragrance that Chen Xing always smelled outside.

Other dishes have been placed on the table, and they look much richer than the last night's impromptu dish. There is roasted chicken with chestnuts, a potato dish that looks good, and another dish that Chen Xing can't recognize. It's broken into pieces. The broken things seem to be pickles?
Mainly because Chen Xing smelled a bit of pickles.

Pickles are generally only found in the south and rarely seen in the north, let alone used for cooking.

Different from the sour and salty taste of kimchi, pickles are mainly salty and sour.This may sound similar, but once this kind of food is eaten in your mouth, the smallest differences will be magnified many times.

Chopped and fried pickles were fried together with another kind of white meatballs. Chen Xing still didn't know what these white meatballs were.

The strongest smell in the room was naturally the fish in sour soup that was still boiling on the fire.

The soup looked bright yellow, and the red oil was squeezed to the edge of the pot by the boiling water. The red oil was mixed with the yellow soup, and the smell of the sour smell with a slight tomato flavor made the mouth water.

Bai Yuzhu quietly said to Chen Xing: "Brother Chen Xing, have you ever eaten fish in sour soup outside?"

"I ate it once in southern Yunnan."

"Ah? You've eaten it."

Seeing that she was a little discouraged, Chen Xing said, "It doesn't matter whether she has eaten it or not, as long as it tastes good, did you make this?"

"Ah."

In the past, when they ate this dish, they usually didn't cook other dishes. Everyone took a rice bowl to put the rice in, and then gathered around the fire pit to warm themselves up while eating. The pot was not put on the table, but kept on the fire. .

If you feel that the food is not enough, you can add some other vegetables to it.

It's similar to the soup pot you eat in restaurants outside.

Today, I didn't want Chen Xing, the distinguished guest, to feel too shabby, so I specially prepared a few more dishes.

Chen Xing asked what the white meatball was.

Bai Yuzhu said: "Those are glutinous rice balls, fried glutinous rice balls with pickles. Have you ever eaten them?"

"No."

I’ve never tasted this before. So glutinous rice balls can also be fried?

Can they still be called glutinous rice balls?

"This dish is also delicious." Bai Yuzhu was a little excited knowing that there was a dish that Chen Xing had never seen before.

The fish meat in the fish in sour soup was very fresh. Bai Yuzhu's mother took a big bowl and scooped out the fish meat from the pot. Now there is only a pot of soup left sizzling over there, and the fragrance is in the room. It permeates the inside.

Chen Xing felt that after eating, he must find a place to take a shower and change his clothes, otherwise his clothes might smell like fish in sour soup.

When eating, the first thing he eats with chopsticks is the fried glutinous rice balls.

Most of the time, humans have a fixed concept of what they eat.

People in Sichuan Province like to eat sweet glutinous rice balls, rice wine glutinous rice balls, and sesame glutinous rice balls. In a place like this, a salty glutinous rice dumpling suddenly appeared in a restaurant. Many people may feel uncomfortable when they see the name of this dish, let alone eat it.

But if the name were changed, it would be fried glutinous rice balls.

Chen Xing felt that he was somehow able to accept it.

The fried pickles are very crispy and the water is completely squeezed out. When paired with the fried glutinous rice balls, it feels crispy at first when you eat it. After taking a few bites, you quickly taste the sweet and glutinous texture of the glutinous rice balls.

The mouth that had just eaten the salt suddenly felt a little sweet.This feeling is amazing, but I can’t say it’s not delicious, I can only say it’s a little bit addictive.

Although Chen Xing has eaten the fish in sour soup in southern Yunnan once, it still tastes delicious and the soup is delicious. The difference between the fish in sour soup in southern Yunnan and the fish in sour soup in southern Yunnan may be that the soup base in southern Yunnan is spicier. , this meal has a lot of tomato flavor in it.

But the fish was extremely tender, which was better than the one I had before.

This fish might have been alive and kicking half an hour ago. It was so fresh that it was hard to think whether it tasted good or not.

While eating, Bai Yuzhu mentioned to her mother that she wanted to go to Chengdu next year.

My mother didn't even listen to what she said. She shook her head and said, "No way, I won't allow you to go."

"why?"

Bai Yuzhu was surprised.

This is not a bad thing. The tuition for my sister’s education is so expensive, and her family is also facing difficulties.Now with the help of noble people, you can find a job you like in a big city like Chengdu. Why not let yourself go?

Being a photographer sounds like a job that only educated people can do.

"You're getting married next year, remember?"

"I...even if I get married, it won't affect my part-time job."

She has to go out to work anyway, and she can't spend her whole life taking photos with people at the scenic spot. It's just a job she finds casually when she has nothing to do, and she can't work for a long time.

"Don't go!"

Bai Yuzhu's mother was a little angry. Why was the child disobedient?
It's all this foreigner's fault!

Her daughter has been by her side since she was a child, and she has always been well-behaved and down-to-earth. If she went to a big city with a rich man to see the world, would she still be able to be a good wife and mother when she came back?Aren't you wild at heart?

Don't know why.

She was very scared when her daughter said she was going to a big city.

…………

Chen Xing was eating happily, but while eating, he saw Bai Yuzhu and her mother quarreling.

Oh, it can't be said that it was a quarrel, it was auntie's unilateral lesson to Bai Yuzhu.

Chen Xing couldn't understand what they were saying, but he instinctively felt that it was what he and Bai Yuzhu had talked about before, that is, about going to Rongcheng after the new year.

The uncle understood clearly, but there was no change on his face. He still smiled and said to Chen Xing: "Eat, eat. She has this temper. She likes to talk to Yuzhu during meals when she has nothing to do. It's okay."

Chen Xing felt that there was his own reason for this, and the food suddenly lost its flavor.

Listening to his aunt's angry voice, Chen Xing himself felt a little frightened.Although this aunt is usually gentle and gentle, when she gets fierce, she also has the aura of "labor and management, Shu Daoshan".

I don't know if it was a psychological reaction, but from this moment on, Chen Xing felt that the way his aunt looked at him was strange.

After eating, Bai Yuzhu pulled Chen Xing aside and said, "Brother Chen Xing, I may not be able to go to Rongcheng to find you."

"Why, Auntie doesn't agree?"

"Ah."

Bai Yuzhu didn't want to say the specific reason, anyway...if you don't want to go, just go, just pretend that you have never met Chen Xing.

But the experience of these two days was even better than in my dreams.

It is easy to pretend that this has never happened, but can you deceive your heart?
Bai Yuzhu's tears quickly flowed out.

After all, she is still a girl under the age of 18. She feels that she has nothing wrong with this matter, so it feels aggrieved for her to be so determined to not let herself go to Chengdu.Especially when her mother taught her a lesson in front of Chen Xing, which made her feel very embarrassed and wanted to die.

"Don't cry."

Chen Xing took a tissue to her, then sighed and said, "If I don't let you go, I won't let you go. You guys have your own way of life, and I shouldn't disturb you. But even if you don't go to Rongcheng, we are still friends, right?" ? If you have any questions in the future, you can call me."

"I, I just want to go to Chengdu and learn to take photos..."

She finally found something she liked, but because she wanted to marry a strange man she had never met, her mother rejected her for no reason.

"There will always be opportunities in the future." Chen Xing said.

This is a matter for someone else's own family. As an outsider, Chen Xing is not qualified to say anything.

He thinks this is a good thing for Bai Yuzhu, but Chen Xing really doesn't know what consequences it will have on her family, and has never thought about it.He just proposed such a plan. Whether Bai Yuzhu goes or not is up to her.

The rain had stopped long ago, and Chen Xing looked at the time.

He is leaving too.

He went to the room and put on his backpack again. When he went out, Bai Yuzhu's mother didn't give Chen Xing a good look. This made Chen Xing wonder if he had done something wrong?
But he really doesn't understand.

It was his uncle who asked Bai Yuzhu to see him off, but when Chen Xing reached the main road at the entrance of the village, he asked Bai Yuzhu to go back quickly.

"I'm really sorry today."

Bai Yuzhu lowered his head, occasionally looked up at Chen Xing, and then lowered his head again.

Chen Xing still has the same smile as when we first met him, which is so beautiful.

"fine."

Chen Xing's hand hung on her shoulder, and then he patted her twice hard.

"Live a good life." Chen Xing said.

From here to the scenic spot is a newly built road, which is only a short walk for Chen Xing. Soon Chen Xing's back disappeared from Bai Yuzhu's eyes. She pursed her lips and rubbed He rubbed his eyes and walked back.

Chen Xing felt a little pity, but didn't think too much about it.

He has also encountered some such situations while traveling at home and abroad, and not everything is something he can help with.

In less than an hour, Chen Xing reached the scenic spot where he watched the bullfight.

The bullring is only open on Saturdays and Sundays. Today is a working day, the bullring is not open, and there are not many tourists here.

But no matter how few tourists there are, there are still plenty of buses at the scenic spots.

The next target is Boyu County.

He stayed in Guizhou to watch the Village Super League. His next game was in Boyu County, Liupanshui. Chen Xing went two days in advance to find a hotel to stay.This county doesn't sound like a big tourist county, and there certainly aren't as many hotels as there are in normal tourist counties.

If they don't find a hotel room early, those who have cars can go home directly after the game. What will those like Chen Xing who don't have cars do?

I just came from Liangdu a few days ago, and now I have to go back again, and I have to ride a car for several hours.

But there's nothing I can do about it, Liangdu doesn't have any bullfights to watch during this period.

Before coming here, he thought that bullfighting was quite barbaric and not very entertaining. It was just a Guizhou custom and hobby. However, he didn't expect it to be pretty good-looking. He just didn't know how it was different from bullfighting in Spain.Let’s find a chance to visit Spain when the time comes.