Where there is a place to work, there is no home, there is no job in a place where there is a home, there is no place for the soul in the hometown, there is no body in the hometown, and from then on, there is wandering, there is a distant place, and there is nostalgia - homecoming
About February 5th, I took the subway to find that there were surprisingly few people, and the Yulin side had already been illuminated, red and red, trance, the atmosphere packaging of the sales department was almost carried out, only the bits and pieces of small work needed to be pounded, just these days there was nothing to do, just help Fei Ge to paste the lantern and window flower together. Feel the atmosphere of the New Year. According to traditional customs, should the chairman give a couplet, uplink: red and red over the year, downlink: happy to go home. Horizontal batch: The Year of the Ox. Or maybe the leaders are too busy to take care of our staff who are struggling on the front line.
Set to go home on February 10, the day on a good night's sleep, every time you sleep a good night can be happy for a long time, in the afternoon from Chengdu to drive home, homecoming, the speed is naturally on the head, the scenery used to be familiar, but the year is approaching, there are many vehicles on the road, back home is already 11 o'clock at night.
The memory of my hometown is indelible in my heart, the soul is haunted but wants to escape, the escape is a backward way of life, the soul is haunted by the friendship of blood dissolved in water, it is undeniable that I have not adapted to the rhythm of life in my hometown, I am used to living in the city, and all the contact with my hometown comes only from relatives and friends, but they are indeed the place where I was born and raised. The so-called root-seeking culture is to return.
Guang'an is a small city, the small city is not large, take a taxi from the south of the city to the north of the city is also more than ten yuan fare, the city has all the facilities that the small city should have, the city is built by the river, probably because of its reasons, civilization can continue, this river feeds tens of millions of people along the river, the Canal River is a tributary of the Jialing River, the Jialing River is a tributary of the Yangtze River, the river rolls down,
I once brought distress to the people of Guang'an, I personally witnessed the spread of the river, across the river embankment, arriving at the residence, the school, touching the soles of the statue of Deng Xiaoping in a middle school, this school is one of the best schools in the local area, once called Guang'an State Middle School, Deng Xiaoping was called Guang'an Middle School in Sichuan Province when he was studying, fortunately, we are also alumni.
The same as the water control logic of all cities, the government adopted the way of building high embankments, repairing power stations, and dredging rivers, raising the river embankments along the river by more than ten meters, changing the high platform into a civic activity square, opening to traffic at the bottom, and the side of the river was a high embankment, which finally solved the headache of flooding. But the river also brings joy to the people of Guang'an, every summer, the Qujiang River will become a natural pool for the people of Guang'an, along the river, there is a swimming base under the garden bridge, every summer, the elderly, children, beautiful women and handsome men will go to spend a summer of fatigue, groups of three or five, so unhappy.
Further up the river, is Xiexing Town, here is a paifang village, paifang village has a small child, especially naughty, in Paifang village, there are two 3 meters high, 1 meter wide stone stele, standing on the back of two huge stone turtles. It was given by the imperial court during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty in recognition of the merits of two high-ranking officials from Guang'an, Deng Shimin and Zheng Renqing.
The local people are very much in awe of it, and no one dares to touch it or touch it, so as not to invite disaster. One day, this child and a group of friends in the village played here, looking at the huge stone turtle, his eyes rolled, greeting the friends: "Let's climb on the back of the turtle to play okay?" Don't look at the little friends usually listen to him, but at this time they are frightened and retreat and say: "I don't dare, listen to the adults, this sacred monument is untouchable, touch it, you will get sick." ”
But this child king resolutely did not believe in this evil, he said: "Is a turtle hit by a stone so god? I don't believe it, you don't dare to climb, I will climb" Sure enough, he climbed up in the frightened eyes of his friends, and happily said to the little friends standing below stunned: "It's really fun, it's really fun!" Later, the friends saw that he did not attract any diseases, and they also had the courage to climb up and play.
He was the great man of a generation, Deng Xiaoping. Now have become tourist areas, especially the majority of outsiders, come to hang a great man, understand the history, Xiexing town to the front of a sheep gut trail, mountain road spread, the road on both sides, tall paulownia trees standing around, the road is rugged, the country bus drive about thirty minutes by car, just to a small town.
The near one is happy, the far one comes, and the word "yue lai" comes from the Analects of the ZiLu. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius traveled around the world to Yeyi in the Chu Kingdom, and Ye Gong asked him for advice on how to govern a place. Confucius replied, "Those who are near are pleased, and those who are far away come." "It means to make the people in the territory happy and complaining first, so that people from afar will come to the place." The heart is good, and now it can be regarded as everyone living and working in peace and contentment, and it is coincidental that the hometown of the poet Yu Guangzhong is also Yuelai Town.
The town is not big. Inside and outside there are two streets, but it is this small place, but it is indispensable in memory, every 258 will catch a market, this is called "rushing", the town is called the field town, but the town belonging to Yuelai Town is the land around dozens of miles, the residents live scattered, when they arrive at the scene, they will get up early, the family's crops or the guy who can exchange money will be taken to the town, selling shochu or some necessities of life home, and the children in the family are most looking forward to rushing, Whether it is waiting at home or going by yourself, you can see the strange by yourself, or ask adults for some money to buy food, such as burnt cakes, tortillas, etc., at home, looking forward to the cookies brought back by your parents or a delicious lunch, these have become a small blessing in childhood life.
Of course, the liveliness belongs to the market, the bluestone street that can only accommodate a small car, the streets are stalls, there are all kinds of gadgets, children, do not pay attention, they are drowned in the crowd, the flow of people slowly forward, the shouting and selling are endless, can't help but think of "the city column Zhujie, Huying Luoqi, competitive luxury" in the eyes of children, tired on the tea house along the street to a cup of bowl tea, eat tea casually talk about the trivia around them, many major decisions come out of here, the end, People returned home one after another, changed into home clothes, began to work on lunch, and in the afternoon they were busy with farm work in the fields, rushing to become an embellishment of men's busy farming, and rushing to become a concentration camp for women's daily necessities.
The old house is about half an hour away from the town, I like the feeling of walking on the road, sometimes it is me and my grandfather, sometimes it is me and my mother-in-law, sometimes it is me and my brother, most of them are a person, a person goes to a relative's house to deliver letters, sometimes just bring him a very small and very small thing, sometimes it is a cow to lead over, more often it is a person walking on the country road, changing the years, the same is the memory of the grass, trees, mountains, rivers.
A minute away from the road, I arrived at a row of six two-storey houses facing north and south, celadon strip bricks, tiles on the doorpost of the hall house with a couplet, the upper link: Xiju Baodi's wealth is prosperous, the lower link: Fu to the home is rich and radiant, the horizontal batch: happy home, the side horizontal house couplet, the upper link: spring wind and rain Qianshan Show, the lower link: green tree red building Ten Thousand Households Spring, horizontal batch: Wufu Linmen, three pictures of welcome pine tiles on the tiles outside the second floor guardrail, the horizontal house is two flying bird spring pictures, the middle of a "Fu" word,
The old house was the same age as me, my grandfather spent a large rape field to change this homestead, and then used his savings over the years to repair this house that was magnificent at that time, and all the stones were carried back bit by bit, and the taste of hard work, needless to say. Where there are some years quiet, but someone for you to carry the weight forward, but in the end the old house will be sealed in your and my memory, but this day came relatively early, the news of demolition spread very early, but has not started, no one cares about the fate of a house, because in the years of history, people's fate is fluctuating, there is no time to take care of, not to mention an ordinary old house that can no longer be ordinary, every time you listen to Li Ronghao's "Old Street", you can pull the memory into a special place, And the best place to store this place is memory.
Later, it was finally demolished, here will pass a two-way four-lane county-level road, and the people in the village have moved a lot, I moved my family into the town, after that may never have much to do with the two words of the countryside, this product of history will eventually be annihilated with the changes in society, we are participants in the historical process and witnesses, whether it is heard or seen, those thrilling stories in the countryside are still going on, about eating, about clothing, the cycle of life, is great and worthy of awe, every strivers should be remembered.
Fragmented, indescribable, home with a feeling, so remember it! 2021.2.25
-Yu Xiaotu.