Qingwei | over swallow mountain

Text | Zhang Qingmei

Compared with the solid layers of Jin Yong's novels, Gu Long's novels are more like castles in the air, and the clouds and mountains are shrouded in nothingness. For example, Chu Liuxiang, who can lie down and never sit, can never sit, such a person who "saves strength", where does his unique martial arts come from? Is it not like Jia Baoyu's psychic treasure jade, brought from the womb? It's incredible. Guo Jing and Xuan Zhu are different, they have been talented and stupid since childhood, they are through one move and one style of hard work to practice martial arts, and later met Gao Ren, and gradually grew into martial arts masters.

I'm a stupid person, so I can stand and never sit, I can never sit, and I can learn to exercise like this. Of all the fitness exercises, I like hiking the most, I can exercise and lose weight, why not? So when I walked out of the herb-scented hall of Zhonglu Hospital on Shanshi East Road, I decided to hike home over Swallow Mountain.

I still made some preparations for this hike, such as a full meal--- ate three or two shallot oil cakes plus a bowl of cornmeal porridge; such as packing up the battle robe--- changing into loose and comfortable sweatpants and a short cotton jacket. I was carrying an easy-to-carry backpack, but unfortunately I forgot to put a bottle of water in addition to my wallet and mobile phone. Such preparation is also OK, after all, it is not a hike. After taking a deep breath, I walked with my head held high and into the not-so-bright sunshine of the mid-winter of the Year of Pentagram.

Swallow Mountain, a small mountain running north-south, is located in the southeast corner of the old Jinan City, and is named for its shape like a swallow that spreads its wings and wants to fly. Follow Yanxiang Road to the east, and then turn north from Yanzishan West Road to the foot of the mountain. Swallow Mountain was originally a wild mountain, in recent years the government has strengthened the construction of people's livelihood, and built a flat fitness ring road in the middle of the mountain, making Swallow Mountain a good place for the surrounding masses to exercise. Therefore, to say that I "crossed" Swallow Mountain, in fact, I was "bypassing" Swallow Mountain along the Ring Mountain Road, in this sense, the title of the article was changed to "Circumnavigating" Swallow Mountain is more accurate.

The sudden cold wave a few days ago dragged the temperature of Jinan City from late autumn to cold winter, and the cypress trees on the mountain appeared more green after experiencing low temperatures. There is a famous saying in the Analects: Zi Yue: Years are cold, and then after knowing the pine cypress, it withers. In fact, what Kong Shengren said is not right, the pine cypress will not wither at all, how to divide it? Most of these cypress trees have the thickness of the bowl mouth, and the branches and leaves are densely woven and airtight. A gray-and-white magpie suddenly flew up from the branches, crunched a few times and flapped its wings and flew away. The wild grass and wild vegetables under the trees were really powerless to compete with the harsh winter, and they were stuck to the ground and could no longer support themselves. The flat road around the mountain has a miserable white face, like a squashed white snake, winding and stretching among the pines and cypresses.

A dark wild cat emerged from the woods and stared at me with a pair of golden eyes, and I bent down to look at it, and finally it couldn't stare at me, meow and fled. The mountain road rises and falls. I was breathless when I went uphill and had to take off my mask to breathe freely. When descending, the mountain wind is gusting, and the footsteps are brisk as if stepping on the hot wheel. I remember that there is a road called "Happy Three" on the Taishan Mountain Road, which describes the brisk mood when going uphill and then going downhill. Suddenly, a turn, several neem trees greeted, the trees were full of golden balls, and the wind blew as if they could hear the clanging crashing sound.

If it is the blooming season of neem in late spring, it must be a purple cloud piece of flowers full of flowers. Well, for the time being, it will come next year. From time to time, a cemetery flashes out under the cypress tree, and the tombstone of "First Kaobi so-and-so" is engraved, standing there solemnly, some new and some old. The new tombstones are clearly written, and the old tombstones are full of handwriting. Remembering that a few days ago in the calligraphy creation improvement class of the Provincial Book Association, the teacher said that it was not possible to write too smooth and rounded, which would lack the golden stone qi and vicissitudes, and also cited "Zhang Qianbei" as an example.

Of course, I can't say that what the teacher said is not right, but the Zhang Qianbei we see now has a history of two thousand years, and I think that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, at the beginning of the Zhang Qianbei became a monument, the inscriptions that had not been baptized by the years must not have been so and potholed, right? Surely it's also smooth and rounded, right? Like the new tombstone I saw right in front of my eyes, right? In order to pursue the so-called "golden stone qi vicissitudes", deliberately writing the words intermittently, is it really good? It's true?

I remember reading a material that said that in the Qing Dynasty, in order to pursue the feeling of ancient monuments, when writing everywhere, he would make the book boy shake the desk next to him. After a few more steps, we reached the "wind gate". The wind gate, located between the two peaks of swallow mountain, is the dividing line between the east and west of swallow mountain, because it is at the joint of the swallow's wings, the terrain is low, and the mountain wind can be easily passed through, so it is called "wind gate". Because of this, it is located in the west of Jingshan Villa, and the people in our village call this place "West Wind Gate". I think this "West" word is added very well, although it is only a word, but it adds a lot of mysterious atmosphere to this place, which is simply comparable to the "Black Wind Mouth", "Wild Boar Forest" and "Feiyunpu" in "Water Margin".

Looking north from the "West Wind Gate", you can see the highest peak of Swallow Mountain, which is also where the head of the swallow is located. At the highest point of Swallow Mountain, there is a higher rail frame, which is a transmission tower, as if silver wings have grown on the head of the swallow. This tower is certainly not short, when I was in high school, there was a male classmate who lived under the tower.

One weekend in the winter of that year, when heavy snow suddenly fell, I took the No. 1 bus from Hongjialou to Jiefang Bridge and transferred to No. 31 to go home. When I got to the slope of Yangtouyu under Yanzi Mountain, I couldn't move forward because of the cold road, so I had to get off the car and hike home. My classmate and I were in a car, but we never spoke because the male and female classmates ignored each other. The classmate was more than one meter and nine meters tall, and his figure was as thin as a bamboo pole.

After we got out of the car, we saw him crawling on two long legs to the highest part of Swallow Mountain, the yellow canvas school bag swinging left and right behind his ass, and his bamboo pole-like figure gradually disappeared into the white snow field. Through the "Wind Gate" to the east, it is all the way downhill, and there is a spring at the foot of the mountain, called "Pipa Spring". This place in Jinan can be called a spring city, it is not a vain name, and it is a spring in the middle of nowhere. This "Pipa Spring" was originally called "Pipa Spring", which means the spring water pulled out by the cat (a small animal that resembles a weasel).

Later people probably disliked the name Taiyuan ecology, so they changed it to the "Pipa Spring" of the literary and artistic style. This spring was originally a drinking water place for mountain laborers and shepherds, and now it is forbidden by a restaurant called "Pipa Source", and gradually forgotten by people, only when the summer rain is heavy, the spring water gushes out and flows all the way to the Second Ring East Road, and everyone remembers this mountain spring called "Pipa Spring".

There was originally a troop station under Pipa Spring, and when I was a child, I used to run over with my friends to watch open-air movies. There is a couple in our village who have some IQ problems, although they are not very old, but they are one generation older than my father, and I call them "Muzi Grandpa" and "Muzi Grandma". Grandma Muzi did not know whether it was because of mental retardation or laziness, her hair was always unkempt and bird's nest-like, and her clothes were also black patches stacked with white patches. The couple has a pair of children and has limited ability to work, so Grandma Muzi inevitably does some petty theft to make ends meet.

Grandma Muzi's daughter was the same age as me, a classmate of mine when I entered school, and like her mother, she was also a bit mentally retarded, named "Button". In the Jinan dialect, "buckle" is a yang sound, which contains the meaning of temper and cunning. She also has a very literary name, called "Su Chongzheng". Su Chongzheng was often late for school because her mother did not cook a cooked meal, and every time we took two classes, she only staggered to the school, and until the end of the first grade, she could not write the number of 1-10, and finally had to withdraw from school.

When she grew up, she recruited a man from a foreign village as a door-to-door son-in-law and gave birth to two children. A few years ago, the village was developed, and a large amount of compensation was obtained, and since then it has lived a rich life. After the prosperity, Su Chongzheng's body quickly became blessed, swollen like a black hair noodle bun. Once on the road, I asked her if she knew me? She smiled and said, "Aren't you a little plum?" We are classmates, and you have to call me aunt.

Coming down from the mountain road outside Pipa Spring, there is the East Outer Ring Road, and I will arrive home after walking north along the East Outer Ring Road and then turning east.

The hike lasted one hour and thirty-five minutes, counting more than 11,300 steps and consuming a number of calories. When I got home, I first took a drink from my glass of water and rested for a while, without feeling very tired. It's just a faint sound in the abdomen, and the stomach seems to be shouting: empty....empty...., three or two scallion oil cakes and a bowl of cornmeal porridge eaten in the morning have long gone. Whoever is there, hurry up and prepare a meal, and the palace will eat a big meal without guilt, and make up for the energy that has been consumed.

About author:Zhang Qingmei, member of Shandong Writers Association, Shandong Prose Literature Society, Shandong Female Photographers, Jinan Writers Association, Jinan Calligraphers Association. Qilu Evening News Qingwei signed the supplement.

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