A little girl in a mountain pass
Text/Yang Zhenglin
In Sichuan Mianyang Luofu Mountain tour, the car travels on the winding and steep mountain road, on the right is the rolling mountains, on the left is the smoke wave, the blue waves of the white water lake.
It was near noon, and everyone had no intention of appreciating the scenery, but only wanted to find a place to replenish their energy, and it was difficult to find a small farm shop in a mountain pass surrounded by greenery.
Exhausted, we parked our car in front of the small farm yard, and when we entered the courtyard, we happened to meet a cute little peasant girl who was eating.
She wore a gray coat with two yellow rubber bands on her head, and the cold wind blew through, and the red fluttering little face had two pale yellow snots. On the table is a large stainless steel bowl and a paper cup containing water.
The little girl was feeding the spoon into her mouth as she kept sticking out her little tongue to lick the snot.
When they saw us coming to her, they called out to us enthusiastically, "Sit fast, sit fast." Seeing us sit down, she put down the spice spoon in her hand and excitedly raised the paper cup to touch the cup with the water cup we had brought up.
We used our mobile phones to take pictures of the surrounding countryside, the little girl was very curious, came to me to see my mobile phone photos, I flipped through a few photos of the scenery for her. She was surprised and said, "It's so pretty." ”
I offered to take a picture of her, and she wiped her nose with her sleeve and then took a deep breath, trying to suck it in.
I smiled, reached out and handed her a piece of tissue, she wiped it, smiled shyly, and said, "I have paper at home, I'll pay you back later." I replied, "No, start taking pictures." He encouraged her and said, "Little sister, you are so beautiful!" ”
The shy little sister smiled, opening her small mouth and narrowing her eyes into a slit.
After taking the photo, my little sister looked at her own photo on my mobile phone and smiled happily.
Suddenly she remembered something, got up naturally and calmly in front of us and waddled down the hillside path.
There was silence all around, the mountain wind blew the branches swaying, there was no adult company, I was worried that she would fall down the hillside, get up and pay attention to her, after all, only four or five years old, and alone.
I saw the little girl skillfully picking a bunch of red flowers in the grass on the side of the road, picking a few branches and then slowly returning to me, holding up the bright red flowers and whispering, "Thank you Grandpa!" "And stuff all the flowers into my hand."
I was a little excited, and I took the little girl in my arms and asked, "Little sister, are you in kindergarten?" She sniffed again and shook her head. I asked again, "Do you want to go up?" She nodded forward again.
Then she looked up at me and said, "Kindergarten is good, you can teach me to sing, and the teacher will tell a lot of stories." I asked again, "Mommy and Daddy?" She replied: "When I went to the city to earn money, there was only my grandfather and grandmother at home, and no one sent me to kindergarten." ”
At the mention of mom and dad in the distance, the little girl's eyes were red.
At this time, the child's grandmother, who was cooking for us in the kitchen, was shouting: "Swallow, have you finished eating?" It's time to scoop corn to feed the chickens. As soon as the sound stopped, the little girl jumped up with a snort, took a large stainless steel bowl and went into the house to feed the corn to the chickens.
After lunch, when our group left the farmhouse, the little sister ran over to send her off, she stood in the middle of the road, holding a small flower dog with a wagging tail in her left hand, and her right hand kept waving at us, her eyes were tearful, and her snot could not stop flowing.
Our group also turned back step by step, and kept shouting: "Little sister, go back soon." "Get along, everyone can't bear this cute little sister with a runny nose."
【About the author】Yang Zhenglin (male), pen name: Yang Laosan, a middle school student in Chengdu, who once went to the countryside to the pioneer commune of Lugu District, Mianning County, Xichang. Senior engineer, construction equipment expert, visiting professor of Chengdu Aeronautical Institute. Hobby travel, writing, publishing dozens of newsletters, poetry essays, etc. in Sichuan Workers Daily, Architecture Daily, etc. He is the author of the "Building Air Conditioning Killer" series of short articles and "The Biography of Supervisor Hao Ren". Zhiqing's story "Chengdu Zhiqing in Mianning" won the first prize for excellent works in the China Zhiqing Writers Cup in 2019.