Journey with the Ship Girl

I didn’t go to the pedestrian street last night again. I made several turns and made mistakes on the way. Fortunately, I met a few local people and asked several times. Finally, I found the right place: it is a low brick wall. The streets and alleys are piled up.

It is said that these roads are the gathering areas of Donghuang people. There are nine turns and eighteen turns in the alleys. There are many people who have settled here for their ancestors. Most of them are Donghuang people with black hair and black eyes.

It is said that it was just an ordinary small village at the beginning, but then the sirens and the deep sea suddenly occupied the entire sea, and the ordinary people living by the sea naturally didn’t dare to live anymore, so they packed up their things and fled to the inland.

However, people in Donghuang love their families. When the sirens attacked and the deep sea occupied the sea, then the commander and the ship's wife fought back vigorously. The battle was loud and the coast was plowed several times. The group of people has not forgotten their hometown, and has been wandering far away not far from the coast.

When the war stabilized and the sea was recaptured, the descendants of that group of people inherited the behest of their ancestors and immediately moved back to rebuild their homes.Later, the headquarters of the ship's mother was built here, and enough space was left for them. Over time, they lived there with peace of mind.

This alley is inconspicuous in the huge Jianniang headquarters, and there is nothing worth visiting. It is just an ordinary residential area. Of course, it is not famous at all, but it is still famous locally. The uncle of ice cream happens to be a resident here.

Compared with the main road in the city, the alley looks quite narrow, but it is more than enough for two people to walk side by side.It wasn't until I walked in that I realized that the masonry walls on the left and right were the outer walls of a side yard. After walking a few steps, I could see the red eaves, and the iron gates that were also painted bright red stood upright, surrounded by The iron gate is covered with a circle of white tiles or tiles with landscape paintings, and there are all kinds of flowers and plants.

The tiles on the top of the iron gate neatly list a line of regular script in black letters on a white background: Family and everything prosper.

The iron gates are tightly closed, and there are small courtyards like this on both sides of the road. There are occasional differences, but they are similar.Yixian looked around at those iron gates and courtyard walls, and occasionally reached out to fiddle with the crooked branches protruding from the wall, and sighed: "Actually, Ning Hai and I wanted to find a yard like this to live in, and the front yard was built with cement bricks. In the vegetable garden, hedge cucumber vines on the left and right, and if the weather is good, you can grow some grapes along the way."

"Grapes? The grapes at home are not easy to grow, and they are not as good-looking as the ones sold." Ye Luo used to live in the countryside, and Ye Luo recalled, "The grapes sold outside are full of grains and crowded together. The bunches are all sparse, and some of the grapes on the same bunch are ripe and some are still green."

"Really? I haven't grown it before, and the ones grown in the port area are not yet ripe, but the grapes I grow myself should be very sweet."

"That's right, no matter what color it is, it's sweet, and because the ripening period is only for a short period of time, you must pick it off and eat it as soon as possible. Think about it, there can be a lot of knots on a vine," Ye Luo suddenly laughed, thinking of the past. , "Listen to me, I used to go back to my hometown and eat grapes with a washbasin in my hand."

"What do you use, a washbasin?"

Yixian laughed, and she imagined Ye Luo holding a large bowl of grapes, feeling so silly.

But, Yixian looked at Ye Luo's side face, he didn't seem to have any other expressions, just smiled.So Yixian asked after deliberation: "The commander's house... um, is it a grape grower?"

"That's definitely not the case. My hometown grows peaches. I'm not talking to you. There is a big peach tree field at home. That's why I don't eat peaches very much in the port area, because I ate too much peaches when I was young. I often eat all-you-can-eat peaches for a few weeks.”

"Really, a large peach tree field, I really want to see it."

Yixian wanted to hear an answer like "Then I'll take you to see it later", but Ye Luo didn't answer, so she didn't mention it anymore.

Ye Luo seldom mentioned his family affairs with Jianniang, and Yixian guessed that there might be some reason, so it's not easy to follow up and ask.

Walking in the alley, you can see that there are small yards connected together on both sides of the road, which makes the alley a bit crowded, but it doesn't get in the way. After walking about [-] meters, they suddenly saw a small shop on the side of the road. inside the walls.

It looks like it was remodeled from a small house. The door is wide open, and there are several rows of shelves neatly placed inside. There are two tall magnolia trees outside the house. An old man who seems to be the owner is lying in the shade under the tree. Dozing off on the bamboo chair.

He was holding a straw cattail fan in his hand, and there was a dark brown teapot on the ground beside the chair. The cattail fan was pasted several times with scotch tape, and the lid of the teapot was missing a gap. It looked quite old and antique.

Ye Luo and Yixian looked at each other, walked lightly, and were about to walk slowly, when the old man suddenly raised his eyelids and looked over in surprise.

"Outlander?"

Seeing this, Ye Luo pulled Yixian to stop, nodded and said: "Hi, sir, we just came in for a stroll and disturbed your sleep."

"Hey, are you still from Donghuang?"

The old man supported the armrests of the bamboo chair with both hands, sat up quite easily, looked at Ye Luo and Yixian with great interest, nodded his head and said: "It's rare to see the commander of Donghuang bring Donghuang's ship lady here. Let’s farm, okay, go to the house and feel for a pair of combs before leaving, and I will be blamed.”

Can you recognize this too?Yixian is a first-class black-haired beauty, but to be honest, if a beautiful black-haired girl is put in front of him now, Ye Luo himself can't be sure whether she is the wife of the ship, let alone Donghuang ship. Damn.

I just chatted with two strangers, why do I feel that ordinary people here can easily recognize the ship girl?

A little curious, Ye Luo asked, "Master, how did you recognize us?"

"Otherwise, I can recognize the people in our village even with my eyes closed, but you are unfamiliar."

"No, what I mean is, how did you recognize her as Donghuang's wife?"

The old man was immediately happy: "Take a half step back, put your hand on your left hip, tie your wrist with a red rope, nod your head and lower your eyebrows, and listen with a smile on your face. It's very polite. Who is so particular about young people nowadays? What else can it be if it’s not the Donghuang Ship Lady?”

What kind of detail is this, and does the red string on the wrist mean anything?Ye Luo looked back at Yixian carefully.

It seemed like this, just now they were walking side by side and talking together, now Yixian was half a step behind him, watching Ye Luo talk to that old man, without interrupting, just listening quietly.

Seeing Ye Luo looking over, he pursed his lips and smiled at him.

Ye Luo suddenly understood what Yixian had said to him before.

Just talking about gentleness and good cooking skills, how can such dry words represent a person?You say gentle, Lexington is gentle, Tiancheng is also gentle, as long as they want, most of the aircraft carrier girls can become gentle, but sure enough, everyone is different.

Yixian's gentleness comes from the bottom of his heart. He likes to move his hands far more than open his mouth. Every detail of his life behavior shows caring and gentleness. That temperament is reserved and introverted only for Donghuang women, without saying a word , Gentle as water.

Ye Luo often feels very comfortable when staying with Yixian, whether they go for a walk or chat together, all kinds of tacit understanding comes quietly.

That's probably because there is one party who is giving heartily all the time.

The old man looked at the two of them with great interest, he could still understand the charming atmosphere that belonged only to young people, and glanced at Yixian's pure white onion fingers, there was no trace of jewelry on them.

"Boy, you stand and wait."

Holding on to the armrest of the bamboo chair, the old man walked into the canteen wearing slippers, groped around the counter, and then walked out slowly: "Look at you, the comb is gone, and this girl still wears a There is a red thread, haven’t you seen it? There’s no reason for the red thread to be tied alone, I’ll give you one, and you can hang it too.”

As he said that, the old man held a red thread and handed it over, he didn't force it, it's up to you to take it or not.

Ye Luo nodded, stretched out his hands to take the red thread: "Thank you, sir."

"Thank you, let's go."

The old man lazily sat back on the bamboo chair, waved the cattail fan casually in his hand: "I came in for a stroll, today we happen to have a fair in the village, go over there, keep walking, everyone is there."

"Okay, thank you."

"Thank you, counting up to eighteen generations, I and you are a family."