Sea of ​​people retrograde

There were not so many cars on the road on Saturday morning. When Lu Mang drove to his grandfather's house, it was just around eight o'clock. The old man had already gotten up to feed the chickens. Seeing Lu Mang parked the car, he invited her in for breakfast.

Grandpa Lu was cutting the pills in the front room. Lu Mang took a few mouthfuls and then ran to the front room to look for Grandpa Lu impatiently.

There is an old wooden Chinese medicine cabinet on the wall of the room, which exudes a strong smell of medicinal materials. The Lu family has been practicing medicine since their ancestors, but in Lu Xiaosong's generation, they switched from Chinese medicine to Western medicine.

Grandpa Lu has three sons, and Lu Xiaosong is the second. The other two sons are all sons, but Lu Xiaosong has a daughter. Originally, Grandpa Lu wanted to instill the knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine in his grandchildren, but the two grandsons did not agree with each other. He was not interested in medicine at all, and Grandpa Lu was very discouraged, but he did not expect that his granddaughter Lu Mang, who was born later, was particularly talented in medicine.

When Lu Mang was born, Lu Xiaosong and his wife were very busy, and they couldn't take care of Lu Mang, so Lu Mang grew up with his grandparents.

Grandma Lu and Grandpa Lu are both intellectuals. Grandma Lu has no daughter. When Lu Mang comes, someone dresses her up. Every day, Lu Mang wears the sky-high braid her grandma made for her, and wears the little skirt her grandma bought for her, climbing up and down. Go to the field to arrange Chinese medicine for Grandpa Lu.

Although Lu Mang failed him in the end and reported to the clinical medicine department, this will not affect their love for her.

Grandpa Lu looked up and saw Lu Mang walking around the room with his hands behind his back through the reading glasses, and joked.

"Hey, does Deputy Chief Physician Lu have any advice?"

Lu Mang pretended to nod deeply, pointed at the medicine foam on the table, and looked at the paper on the medicine cabinet.

"You need to pay attention to cleaning, and you can't read that word clearly. Let Dean Lu write it for you later."

Grandpa Lu smiled lovingly and helplessly: "You girl."

Grandma Lu also tidied up the kitchen and came out to have a chat together, asking about Lu Mang's work and what happened at home.

"Grandma, I'm going out for a walk." After chatting for a while, Lu Mang stood up from the low chair and stretched. Grandma Lu nodded. She strongly advocated that these young people who sit in offices every day in the city should go out for a walk more.

"Then you go shopping around, and when you come back, pass by the village committee and bring back the propaganda documents issued by the village chief. Your grandfather always forgets."

There are a lot of people who come to Grandpa Lu’s Chinese medicine hall to see a doctor and prescribe medicine, so if the village chief has anything to publicize, he must post a copy at Grandpa Lu’s house. Recently, the publicity map promoting the five waters has been printed out. If you pass by, you can bring it back.

The small roads in rural towns are narrow and winding, and some roads are only big enough for one car to pass. Lu Mang has not strolled so leisurely for a long time.

The village in the small town is very small, and the villages are adjacent to each other. After a few village houses, there is another village.Lu Mang walked all the way to the primary school in the town. She had never studied here. When she was in primary school, she went back to her parents to study in Longzhong Primary School, so the primary and junior high schools in the town were very strange to her.

The Lingnan Primary School in my impression is a bit old. Now the old teaching buildings have been demolished and rebuilt, and the school area has been enlarged. The large iron gates have been replaced with automatic retractable doors, and a police room has been set up next to it.

Because the students didn't have classes on Saturday, the campus was very quiet.Lu Mang walked slowly along the road to Simi Village from Lingnan Elementary School. The branches and leaves of the trees on the side of the road became lush and green due to the arrival of spring, and the faint smell of green grass lingered in her nose.

Lu Mang remembers what Zhuang Shiling wrote in his diary: When the rainy season came, the camphor trees on both sides of the road began to drop black fruits. A student riding a bicycle deliberately ran over the fruits and made a crackling sound. Chasing the rich scent of camphor, a bit astringent and fragrant, like the bitter plums at my door.

It is not raining now, and the camphor tree has just taken new leaves and bloomed. Lu Mang imagined that Zhuang Shiling was walking on this road with his schoolbag on his back. Suddenly, there was a muffled thunder and heavy rain. Zhuang Shiling walked not as calmly as before , she was wearing a big raincoat and rain boots, her hair was soaked by the rain.Lu Mang walked back and looked in the direction of the school and continued to think. At that time, Zhuang Shiling was going to school, and there was no pick-up and no umbrella at home. She was wearing her father's raincoat, and the long hem of the clothes fell to the ground.

She was never late, even in bad weather, except that time she got beaten up for wearing her dad's raincoat.

Soon Lu Mang arrived at Simi Village. According to the footsteps of adults, it took only ten minutes, but in the eyes of children, it was a road with no end in sight.

I didn't have a watch and didn't know what time it was, so I set off when it was still daylight, so I wouldn't be afraid of being late.Zhuang Shiling wrote this in her diary.

Lu Mang's eyes got wet when she thought of these. She looked at the houses with yards and didn't know which one was Zhuang Shiling's family. As everyone's life got better and better, most of the old houses were renovated and rebuilt, and some of them were old tile-roofed houses. .

There is a river around the house, and there are acres of fields, some of which are planted with rice and others are barren.

The purpose of Lu Mang's trip is just to see the environment Zhuang Shiling lived in when she was a child and the road she walked when she was a child. It doesn't matter which home she never wants to go back to.

There are very few young people in the village, and the few people I see occasionally are grandma and grandma, or grandpa riding a tricycle.

Lu Mang saw taro with lotus-like leaves growing on the side of the field, and remembered what Zhuang Shiling wrote in his diary: When summer comes, I will go to the river pond to dig taro.

"Fool, the one in the river is Cigu, the taro doesn't grow in water." Lu Mang held Zhuang Shiling's head and kissed her forehead and said with a smile.

"I know now, I didn't know when I was a child." Zhuang Shiling rushed forward to snatch the diary from Lu Mang's hand.

"Isn't this the granddaughter of Lu Gong's family? She has grown up so much!" Lu Mang went around and returned to the village committee of his grandfather's house. Someone recognized Lu Mang and greeted her.

Lu Mang smiled and nodded. Lu Mang's family has a good reputation in the whole town. Their ancestors practiced medicine for generations and saved many people, so everyone respects them very much when they are mentioned.

"It's really grown up, and it's still so beautiful." The village chief also came out when he heard the voice, "Come here to get the promotional picture? Come, come, come in and sit for a while."

The village chief made a cup of tea for Lu Mang. There were many people sitting in the hall of the village committee, most of them were old men and women who had nothing to do. Go a little further and play mahjong under the bridge.

Lu Mang exchanged a few words with the village chief and was about to go back after taking the promotional picture. The old ladies next to him were chatting about gossip about Simi Village.

"That child is also a poor person. I heard that the salary is not going to her father, and Zhuang Jianmin is so angry that he scolds his mother at home every day."

"The child of that family should be thirty years old, and not yet married." The person who said it made a "tsk tsk" sound with his tongue, "If I didn't give it to her 800 years ago, why wait until now?"

"That's not it, you don't know about her father, she lost her job if she got into trouble with her company." The old lady shook her head, having such a father committed crimes in her previous life.

"Don't tell me, this child is very sensible. I saw her when I was a child. Sometimes her parents are not at home. I call her to my house for dinner. She scoops up a small bowl of rice. I tell her you Serve more, how can you be full with such a small amount, you say?" The old lady made a circle as small as a baby's fist with her hand to the others, "I still remember what the child said, she said I don’t dare to eat too much, for fear of stretching my stomach.”

Zhuang Shiling has kept this habit until now. After hearing what the old lady said, Lu Mang finally understood why she only ate a little for dinner every time.

"I heard that Zhuang Jianmin is going to look for her daughter again today."

"What are you looking for?"

"Isn't it just because the wages were not handed in? It's really a crime to let the girl support the family."

Zhuang Jianmin went to look for Zhuang Shiling, and Lu Mang's heart was full of alarm bells. He grabbed the promotional picture, said hello to the village chief, and ran out.

"Are you not eating at home?" Grandma Lu said to Lu Mang who was walking towards the door while stirring the vegetables in the pot.

"Yes, I left in a hurry. I put the promotional pictures on the table for you. When grandpa comes back, you can tell him that I'll come to see you when I'm free." Lu Mang closed the car door hastily, and drove to the city .

"Slow down. This child..." Grandma Lu yelled as she looked at the white car leaving in the dust. He threw down his job and went out after shouting, and he could understand Lu Mang in his heart.