"The Return" serializes 57 episodes and returns to the old place

In the mid-summer season of 2015, with Mao Jiawen's "Maojia Village - Jiangnan Potala Palace" grid map continuously forwarded and expanded among self-media, the popularity of Maojia Village suddenly opened. The party committee and government of Xuanci Town were unexpected, because there was no precursor. Maojia Village has no scenic spots, only the characteristics are the construction of villages, loess walls, built by mountains, layered on top of each other. But the entire southern Zhejiang region of the Oujiang River on both sides of the mountain villages, which one is not such a characteristic? There are also neighboring cities and counties that the government has come forward to publicize that the ancient village under its jurisdiction is the Potala Palace in Jiangnan, and the popularity is not as big as Maojia Village. The reason is that they are TV propaganda, people who do not watch TV do not know, without their own participation is also less enthusiastic. Which of the mountain villages on both sides of Maojia Creek is not such a building? Mao Jiawen is good at capturing the opportunity, both pictures and texts, WeChat publicity Maojia Village, fast and convenient, this is the creation of news publicity. More importantly, every young person in Maojia Village has actively participated, and perhaps a certain picture in the getu was taken by himself, and everyone's enthusiasm for participation was eager and active.

Maojia Village was red, and Wan Zhong, secretary of the town party committee, was happy and worried. Wan Zhong has feelings for Maojia Village. After graduating from university, the first stop was stationed in Maojia Village, fresh and with a sense of achievement. In order to build a machine cultivation road from Xuanci Town to Maojia Village, he and the village cadres ran through the traffic bureau and the county party committee and county government many times. He has done coordination work many times in the parking lot at the foot of Maojia Village. It can be said that the garrison work in Maojia Village has tempered him and given him the first step up. Although Xuanci Town is a town, because it was an old county town in history, it is also at the southern end of Shushui County, and chengguan Town, a county town at the northern end, has formed a south and a north important town. The secretaries of Chengguan Town, the county seat, are all members of the Standing Committee of the county party committee. Like Chengguan Town, the secretary of the town party committee of Xuanci Town must have served as one of the top leaders in other townships or in a certain bureau of the organ. The secretary of Xuanci Town has invisibly raised his image, and it is not surprising that he will definitely be the county leader in the future. This has become a political inertia that can only be understood as unspeakable.

After Maojia Village became a net red village, there was a problem in front of the town party committee and town government, that is, traffic safety. The machine farming road from Xuanci Town to Maojia Village was not expanded after it was completed, and later the provincial "Kangzhuang Project" paved the province's machine farming road with cement, and the road surface hardened, beautiful and clean. In the past few years, there were few private cars, and the machine ploughing road was not necessarily narrow. Now it is different, there are more private cars, two cars can not be exchanged, must be parked on the side of the road waiting for another car to pass, the machine ploughing road has not adapted to the growing contradiction of private car traffic is very prominent. Maojia Village became red, and curious hunters and photographers from all over the country poured into Maojia Village. There are several sections of the road with steep slopes and dangerous, which is prone to a traffic accident. Now that the self-media is developed and the speed of dissemination is fast, if there is a case, it will not have a negative impact on Maojia Village, but also on the image of Xuanci Town and even Shushui County. Positive does not matter, everyone is happy, if it is negative, no one is happy.

Wan Zhong decided to take a trip to Maojia Village on his own.

After Secretary Tigan of Wanzhong left Xuanci Town to take up posts in other townships, he did not return to Maojia Village once in more than twenty years. For more than twenty years, Wan Zhong has been working in the plains near the county seat. For several reasons, the higher level considers that industrial taxation is the main guarantee supporting the finances of the entire county. Wan Zhong originally grew up in the county town and was relatively familiar with the nearby situation, which made it convenient for him to open up industrial parks in the townships and towns in the plain area; second, Wan Zhong's wife Xu Lihua was assigned to teach English in a middle school on the outskirts of the county after graduating from university. Xu Lihua and Wan Zhong soon became pregnant after getting married and gave birth to their next daughter. Wan Zhong named his daughter Wan Jie, hoping that her daughter would be clean and clean in her life. After giving birth, Xu Lihua taught and took her child Wan Jie with her child. Wan Zhong's father was paralyzed in bed for a long time in a traffic accident and was cared for by his elderly mother. Wan zhong is down-to-earth and has a strong sense of responsibility. The county party committee felt that Wan Zhong could not be allowed to work while staying away from home to worry about his family. Letting Wan Zhong work in the suburbs of the county can take care of the family. Now, her parents have passed away, and her daughter Wan Jie has grown up to study in high school to meet the college entrance examination. Don't worry about things at home. Wan Zhong is more familiar with Xuanci's customs and customs, and Xuanci Town is also an important town in Shushui County, and Wan Zhong is the most suitable for him to be the number one. More importantly, the county party committee and county government consciously cultivate Wan Zhong to develop to a higher level.

When he came to Maojia Village today, Wan Zhong did not greet anyone. He wanted to find out. Taking advantage of the fact that on Sundays, people in the city have leisure time to play in Maojia Village, as long as they stay in Maojia Village for a day or half a day, they can roughly understand how many guests will come to Maojia Village to play during the week or holiday. So he arrived early.

When Wan Zhong left Maojia Village, the machine cultivation road was already being done. Although the plan for the village roof parking lot has been determined, it has not yet been built. For the first time, his private car was parked on this empty floor— a place that had troubled him once.

Next to the parking lot, there is a small stream, the sound of the water is loud and clear. Wan Zhong came to a shiny stone by the stream, stepped down, picked up a handful of water with both hands, put it on his face, and rubbed it, feeling much fresher. Wan Zhong returned to the car, took out a few paper towels to dry the water beads on his face, wiped his hands again, and threw the paper towel on the ground; Wan Zhong felt that it was inappropriate, picked up the paper towel again, walked to a pile of garbage, and threw the paper towel on the garbage heap.

At this time, there was a person from the village coming. Dressed in the grass-green colorful clothes worn by the militia during training, his skin was dark and one eye was white. Ask Wan Zhong in Mandarin:

"Guest, where did you come from?"

"I'm from the county seat. Are there many people who come here to play? ”

"Today week, there are many people who come to play. Wait a minute, the parking lot can't be parked. Your car has to be parked a little better, otherwise, your own car will not be able to get out. ”

"How many people come to play every day?"

"On a normal day, there are about thirty people. Holidays are generally in the hundreds. ”

"When the guests come, is there anyone in the village who burns it?"

"No, they'll come and play for a while, take a picture and go."

……

Wan Zhong quickly remembered that this person was Mao Hao. Twenty years ago, the people of Mao Rong Ancestral Hall elected the village chief at the instigation of Lao Hou's strategy. It embarrassed Wan Zhong and Mao Rongqi.

When Wan Zhong stepped into the stone threshold of the Maojia Village Bookstore, he suddenly felt that the Maojia Village no longer had the lively scene of the past. This book hall, Wan Zhong is not unfamiliar. After graduating from Wanzhong University, he was assigned to work in Xuanci Town, and the first stop he followed Secretary Yang Yong to Maojia Village was this library. At that time, the library had a large room upstairs, which was the village conference room. Several of the other rooms are teachers' dormitories. Standing in the hall, I could occasionally hear the tapping sound of teachers walking on the floor. There is a distributor shop in the hall of the bookstore. Children or women always buy what they need from the store, go in and out of the hall. None of this is now. The whole hall was empty. There were cobwebs hanging on the floor slabs of the hall, and no one had cleaned the dust for a long time.

Wan Zhong saw the kitchen door outside the hall open and walked over. The stove was still there, the iron pot was covered, and the countertop was covered with dust. The tap was not screwed in place, and the water particles slowly swallowed and dripped from the mouth of the tap. The bottom of the pipe was soaked with mud and rotten flowers. A spider pulls a line on the water pipe, and the other end uses the protruding stones of the mud wall as a tie point, slowly weaving a web in a circle. When the guest came in, the spider suddenly stopped, staring nervously at the guest's every move with its eyes open.

Mao Luhou, the village secretary who accompanied Wan Zhong, said to Wan Zhong: "This kitchen is still used several times a year. ”

"Oh, what to do?"

"In the past, to do the blessing sacrifice, you had to go to the Xiyuan Hall. Now the village is full of old people, the road is far away, and it is impossible to walk. The blessing offering is placed in the library. The kitchen is not burned until the blessing is made. ”

Wan Zhong nodded.

The Xiyuan Hall enshrines the three great gods of Tang Hong, Ge Yong and Zhou Wu. Every year, on a fixed day, the villagers went to the gate of the Xiyuan Hall to slaughter pigs and sheep to celebrate and pray to the three old gods for blessings. With the development of the times, praying for blessings has lost its original meaning and has gradually become a rural custom. Wan Zhong was born in the city and grew up in the city, and before graduating from college, he only saw these in books or film and television dramas. Only after stationing in Maojia Village did I have the opportunity to participate in person. At that time, there was no other feeling than curiosity and freshness. The source of the story of praying to the old god for blessings and blessings to Antai was obtained from Lao Hou's explanation from beginning to end or the scattered oral accounts of other villagers.

Listening to Mao Luhou's words, Wan Zhong's heart surged with a wave of loss and desolation.

"The age of the library is very far away." Mao Luhou explained on the side.

"When I was stationed in the village before, I heard Lao Hou say it. It is said to have been made in the late Qing Dynasty. At the earliest, it was used for private school, and later used as a dojo. After 1949, it was used for classes in the winter and at night. ”

"Secretary Wan knows the library very well." Mao Luhou did not know Secretary Wan Zhong, and during the years when Wan Zhong was stationed in Maojia Village, he consciously or unconsciously had a preliminary understanding of the history of Shanghuang.

"I just graduated from college and was stationed in Maojia Village. In Xuanci Town for three years, they were all stationed in Maojia Village, and they definitely knew more about Maojia Village. ”

Of course, in addition to his classmate Lin Yuexian, the two people who are most familiar to Wan Zhong are the old secretary Mao Rongqi and Lao Hou. He wanted to see how their home was.

Wan Zhong didn't say a word and walked forward with self-care. Mao Luhou followed behind, making no sound. Wan Zhong walked all the way and came to the Qingshimen compound. The home of the old secretary Mao Rongqi.