love you and me

This is the end of this summer, Ah Shui rented a car by herself, and she wants to take Qingyuan to live in her favorite mountain courtyard during this vacation.Qingyuan didn't keep any small animals. After hearing Ah Shui's idea, he asked the hospital for a few days off, packed up his luggage, and was ready to leave at any time.

Ah Shui was still wearing the red dress she wore when she first met Qingyuan, and Qingyuan was wearing a jumpsuit with a pattern of small dots.After Ah Shui waited for Qing Yuan to get into the car, seeing that she had also fastened her seat belt, she stepped on the accelerator and set off.

On this day, unexpectedly, there were a lot of people traveling from the city, and Ah Shui and Qingyuan were blocked on the viaduct for a while.

Qingyuan said that she was a little sleepy and wanted to sleep, Ah Shui nodded after hearing this, turned down the air conditioner, and brought her an eye mask and a thin blanket from the back seat.

Ah Shui sat quietly in the car at first, keeping his eyes on the road ahead. After about three quarters of an hour, the outside was still motionless, and Qing Yuan was already fast asleep.She opened the car door slightly, walked down, and smoked a few cigarettes against the railing of the viaduct.

When the car started to drive again, Qingyuan didn't wake up, but just faced Ah Shui's direction, with his lips together, breathing softly and evenly.Ah Shui thought she might have been too excited and tired yesterday.Because Ah Shui told her that what they were going to was a hilly area with many rolling hills. The place where Qingyuan was born and grew up had a lot of water and few mountains. Although she had made several short trips and climbed one or two landscapes Famous mountains, what I want most is to have the opportunity to live in the mountains for a period of time.In the end, Ah Shui emphasized to her that those were small hills, not tall mountains, and she didn't seem to care about the difference between them at all.

It was three hours before Qing Yuan opened his eyes again.She noticed that their car was parked at a traffic light at this time, and there was a neat flow of traffic outside the window, and there were huge advertising signs of Suguo supermarket chain and Suning Appliance not far away.Looking out from the car windows on both sides, she saw the logo of Bank of Suzhou, a medium-sized beauty salon, a branded clothing store, and Xiangjiang International Hotel... She thought they were still on the original city streets, but After the green light on the opposite side was cleared, Ah Shui turned the car and drove towards the direction perpendicular to the original road. After waiting for a while, Qingyuan gradually saw some simple local restaurants named after his family name. , there are one or two tractor repair shops, a small private bathing and massage place, and then to the intersection ahead, the road chosen by Ah Shui is also thinner and straighter.

It was only close to noon, Qingyuan adjusted the seat back to the original angle, sat up straight, regained his physical strength, and could look out the window the whole time.

She saw poplar trees planted on both sides of the road from the county town to the town they were going to, and they seemed to be more than 20 to [-] years old.On both sides of the street trees are mostly large stretches of farmland, more than half of which are planted with corn. Now it is the time when the fruits are heavy. There are also some plastic greenhouses. It is hard to see what is planted inside, but there are indeed few rice fields.On the edge of the plain carrying the farmland are those continuous distant mountains, not very far away, the dark green seems to have a little shadow, like the body of a harmless long dragon, with white piercings on the back like acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine The turbine, there is no wind, and the blades of the turbine do not move very much.

At this time, Ah Shui turned another corner at the fork in the road, drove the car onto a concrete road, and left the cover of the dense poplar forest for a while, startled the egrets in the nearby cornfields to fly high, making Qing Yuan looked at it with a wide-eyed smile.

Ah Shui said, "We'll be there in half an hour."

After nearly half an hour, Ah Shui said to Qingyuan again: "Go behind the small hill in front, and you will soon see the small courtyard in the mountain."

Qingyuan was sitting in the car, still staring out the window seriously, but the speed of the car carrying them slowed down at this time, and they were climbing a steep slope, which was exactly the steep slope connected to the small hill that Ah Shui said before.The steep slope is also paved with cement road, which is designed to be slightly curved. The maximum slope is about [-] degrees. Qingyuan and the others climbed up slowly.

Qingyuan saw that one side of the hillside was covered with cypress trees. Under the shadow of the dense cypress trees, the bottom of the mountain side was soft grass. Occasionally, the sun’s rays leaked from the branches and leaves of the cypress forest fell on the grass leaves. It forms bright golden spots, like a baby; on the other side of the road is still a poplar forest, the trees are tall, and the appearance of the graves behind them can be clearly seen.

Qingyuan recalled what Ah Shui told her about walking alone at night, and she thought it was referring to this part.

"Do people here randomly build graves by the side of the road?"

"Yes and no. When they first built the tomb, this road was still a dirt road, and the uphill road was difficult to walk, and few people visited it. Later, someone went to mine in the nearby mountains, and this cement road was repaired. It was also at that time that there was a The village cadres wrote letters to their superiors repeatedly, and heard that the words were sincere and moved people, so they allocated funds for road construction. Mining stopped a year or two ago, and most useful things have been dug. It was also a year or two ago , A cemetery was opened in the village, and almost all the people who died later were placed there. The few places here are because their families are too lazy to move, or it may be superstition and taboo, so they are still there.”

"They live so close to the tomb, won't it affect their emotions in daily life?"

"Probably not. Some people can accept the simple fact that people will die, and some may buy some ghost coins and go to the grave to repeat something when their backs hurt."

Ah Shui drove the car to the intersection ahead and chose a downhill road. At this time, a car behind them took advantage of them changing direction and drove straight up the wider uphill road and continued to drive deep into the mountains. went.Qingyuan stared up at the driving route of the car and watched silently for a while, Ah Shui didn't wait for her to ask, and told her that there were people living in the deeper mountains.

The small car carrying Qingyuan and the others walked along the slender concrete road, passing through houses with tile-roofed houses with red roofs on both sides, and after driving about 200 meters, I saw a pond the size of two acres of land, and a In the courtyard containing the white buildings, the speed of the vehicle gradually slowed down until it came to a complete stop.

Qingyuan looked at the pond from a distance for a while, then turned to look at the nearby small courtyard.The walls of the small courtyard are low, half of which are cement and half are railings made of aluminum alloy.In the courtyard is a small building with a white two-story flat roof, with an insulated roof made of blue iron sheets on the roof.Ah Shui found the key to open the door, Qingyuan saw that the lock on the door was very new, as if it was newly bought, or there were people coming and going here often.She followed Ah Shui into the yard, and saw that the cement floor was also very clean, as if it had been cleaned in advance.She saw another pressurized well, and when she looked up, she met Ah Shui and told her that there was running water in the room, and this well was rarely used.She saw a rectangular flower bed next to the corner of a courtyard wall, but there were only a few roses in the flower bed, and they were not blooming very well.But outside the courtyard wall, a mulberry tree has grown.She followed Ah Shui into the room again. The floor of the room was covered with tiles, and the walls were whitewashed, which was much whiter and cleaner than it looked from the outside.The air that wraps people in the room is slightly cool, but it is not very stuffy. Even the large ceiling fan above the head and the wooden tables and chairs on the ground are just a fine layer of dust on the surface.Qing Yuan became more and more certain that there were always people looking after this place.There are two bedrooms, both upstairs.Below is the living room, bathroom, and kitchen.What surprised Qingyuan the most was the kitchen, its completely modern design, as if the previous residents had returned from the city center.

"Not long ago, one of my aunts came back to live here. My aunts, including my mother, are like this. If something goes wrong, or the body is very uncomfortable, they will find time to live here. Since the death of grandparents Afterwards, many places have been renovated. Many things belonging to grandparents were burned, and some of the continuation significance were divided. The excerpts of the articles I showed you before with a brush and small print were allotted to me. Things. Grandpa is a Chinese teacher, and grandma is a math teacher. The articles that grandpa likes very much are Ke Ling’s. The few children he gave birth to are not like him, and almost all of them are not good in liberal arts. They are all engaged in business. Now I am the only one, and the work I am doing is more or less related to writing. This is why grandpa and the others do not want to live with their children after retirement, but choose here not too far away."

"Let's tidy up the living room first, and eat the lunch we brought in the car."

☆, the morning market in the small town