Dream Guide

Cuanjia Village is on the outskirts of Cuanzhou City, surrounded by mountains on all sides. There is only one road, which leads from Cuanzhou City and winds along the ridges of the mountains, like a thin gray-white ribbon around a giant's waist.

Yao Jingjing drove her car from Luliangkou of Chuncuan Expressway and walked onto this ribbon.

She rented the car from a car rental shop in Spring City. Yao's mother said she would go back by train. Yao Jingjing was worried about her mother's health. She had just got off the plane and had to catch another train. Moreover, she had to have a car when she was going to her hometown in the countryside to visit her grandma's grave.

Yao's mother also said that she could ask her friends to borrow a car when they arrived in Cuanzhou, but Yao Jingjing was unwilling. She doesn't want to trouble others. Borrowing a car is very annoying for people who own cars. If you don't borrow it, they'll say you're stingy or not a good friend. You can drive a car that won't break down. If you borrow it, you're afraid of something happening. If a big thing happens, everyone will be unlucky. But if it's a small thing, like running a red light and getting a small scratch, you think you still care about this with your friends?

Yao's mother doesn't think so. Relatives and relatives must move around frequently, come and go, and help each other, so that the relationship can be strong. If you don't ask for help from others, and people don't ask for help from you, as time goes by, your relatives will fade away and your friends will disappear.

Yao Jingjing feels that this is the thought of the older generation. Although it makes sense, it is no longer in line with today's times. The pace of society is so fast these days, who cares about who? When it comes to your own affairs, try not to trouble others if you can.

She still decided to rent a car. Yao's mother was shocked when she saw that she had successfully rented a car after scanning it with her mobile phone a few times: "How fast is it to rent a car now? I remember when I went out with your dad to rent a car, he had to check his ID card and pay the fee. Deposit."

Dad Yao said: "That's all from the old almanac. Later, you only needed to swipe a credit card for pre-authorization. Now that everyone uses mobile phones, it's even more convenient!"

"Only you can!" Yao's mother sneered, "Why don't you buy a car to show off that you can? And let Jingjing take care of us!"

Father Yao was not annoyed when she choked her, he just smiled and stopped talking. Of course, Yao's mother didn't mean to choke him, she just got used to it over the years. Probably because most women in Lao Cuan's family are strong, she always likes to talk to her husband. In fact, how could she not know how difficult it was for her husband to move from the countryside to the city and settle down a family? If she hadn't gotten this disease, their life would have been pretty good. They didn't buy a car just to save money and leave some dowry for their daughter.

"You just know how to giggle!" Yao's mother stretched out her hand to help her husband adjust the collar of his coat. This coat was bought by my daughter. After knowing the price, the old man felt distressed for several days.

After finishing the collar of his coat, I suddenly found that my husband had a lot more gray hair on his temples than before, and the wrinkles on his face were deeper. Yao's mother touched his face and said, "It's all my fault. I shouldn't have such a disease."

Father Yao held her hand: "Isn't it all good? The disease is cured and my daughter is making a difference. You should be happy!"

Yao's mother laughed: "Do you know what is the most successful thing you have done in your life?"

"What?" Yao's father asked.

Yao's mother said: "You just helped me give birth to such a capable daughter!"

Father Yao jumped up and hit his head on the roof of the car. He groaned and sat back down. He covered his head and said, "What do you mean I helped you give birth to a daughter? There is something wrong with what you said. You should have helped me give birth to a daughter." My daughter, Jingjing, can be named Yao!"

Yao's mother said: "Go, go, I let Jingjing take your surname, that's to give you face, but you're so angry about it, the blood in Jingjing's bones is the blood of our Lao Cuan family, otherwise she can be so successful!"

Yao's father rubbed his neck: "Then her surname is also Yao!"

Yao Jingjing looked at the two elders and wanted to laugh in her heart, so she said: "Dad, Mom, how old are you two, and you are still so annoying!"

Yao's mother said angrily: "Why are we so tired?"

"Isn't this boring? Whoever helps others give birth to children all day long, you should give me another brother!" Yao Jingjing said with a smile.

Yao's father said: "Your mother suffered a lot when giving birth to you, and she is no longer willing to give birth to you. Otherwise, she would have given birth to a child for the old Yao family."

Yao's mother said: "You have a beautiful idea. If you want to have a baby, you will have a little girl. Who will give you a son!"

Yao's father said: "My daughter is fine too! This is what you said, why don't you go back and get one? Anyway, your illness is almost healed. I've been holding it in for two years."

When Yao's mother heard that he suddenly became unserious, she took a sip and said, "What are you talking about in front of your child?"

Yao Jingjing blushed: "Dad! Mom!..."

The winding mountain road goes around and around, rising and falling. Looking out the front window of the car, I thought it was the end of the road just now, but suddenly I saw it was like the noodles in the hand of the ramen chef, growing endlessly. . The clouds and mist were lingering on the mountainside outside the car, and it really felt like I was floating in the clouds when I drove the car.

Yao Jingjing opened the car window a little to let fresh air into the car. Although it was a bit cold, it was refreshing.

Mother Yao was still blaming her husband for what he said just now. Seeing his playful smile, she wanted to pinch him a few times to vent her anger, but it was not good for her daughter. Now she could smell the fresh mountain air. He took a comfortable breath:

"Ah, I can smell the smell of my hometown again, it's so comfortable!"

"Why can't I smell it?" Yao's father raised his nose and sniffed, "Isn't it just the earthy smell!"

Yao's mother said angrily: "What an earthy smell, this is called nostalgia and uneducated!" She sighed and recited a poem, "It's only been seven days since spring, and it's been two years since I left home. After returning home, my thoughts are in front of the flowers. .”

Yao Jingjing said: "Mom, you are so amazing. You can even think of it and recite poems."

Yao's mother sighed and said, "Oh, I'm old, and my memory is getting worse and worse. I can only remember the things I memorized when I was a child."

Yao's father said: "When your mother was young, she was really a talented woman. In today's terms, she is both beautiful and smart. Otherwise, I wouldn't have fallen in love with her."

Yao's mother was happy in her heart and said angrily: "Who cares that you like her?"

Yao Jingjing said: "Mom, if you don't have any books to read, where did you learn all the poems you taught me to memorize when I was a child?"

"That's what my grandma taught me." Yao's mother said.

"My great-grandma?" Yao Jingjing asked curiously, "Isn't my great-grandma a country girl? Could it be that she was a lady before liberation?"

Yao's mother said: "Lao Cuan's family has a rich family, and your great-grandmother was a well-known figure in her time. She even went to a military academy when she was young!"

"Ah?" Yao Jingjing exclaimed in surprise, "Mom, are you kidding? When my grandma was young, it was still the Republic of China. How could there be any girls in the military academy at that time?"

Yao's mother said: "I don't know. I remember seeing a photo of my grandma in military uniform when she was young. She was so handsome! Later I asked her where it was taken, and she said it was in Wuchang."

Dad Yao said: "I know this..."

Yao's mother said: "You know nothing! How can you know something that I don't even know?"

Dad Yao said: "I really know that the Wuchang branch of the Whampoa Military Academy recruited a group of more than 200 female students. They were the first and only female officers in China before liberation. They were all amazing women who had been on the battlefield. . It was disbanded soon after the April 12 coup. Some went to the Soviet Union, some went to the propaganda teams of various military units, and some returned to their hometowns. A writer named Xie Bingying was one of the students in that group. She wrote a book "Military Diary" tells this story."

"So my great-grandmother really went to a military academy?" Yao Jingjing couldn't help but yearn for it, and the image of an old woman with two guns from a TV series came to her mind.