Traveling | Yang Li: Looking back at Jinyun Mountain

Text/Yang Li

Every time I go to Jinyun Mountain, I want to write something for Jinyun Mountain.

To get to Jinyun Mountain, you have to pass through the North Hot Spring. North Hot Spring is not far from my hometown Tuanshan Fort. When I was a kid, I liked to spend a few cents on a two-stop bus ride to the North Hot Springs for a bath. Lying in the hot spring water, the adults are enjoying, and the children are frolicking. Enough is enough, you can look at the jinyun mountain in the high place, and the most important thing to think about is whether there are sun monkeys on the mountain.

The wild monkeys in Jinyun Mountain are rare, and coal is more common. When I was a child, in order to make a living, my two uncles got up at dawn and walked for an hour or two up the mountain road to Jinyun Mountain to dig coal. Once, I was making a fuss about going too, sitting in the basket, and the two uncles took turns picking, putting the tools and putting me on the other, gasping for breath and picking me up halfway up the mountainside, where the small coal mine was built.

Both uncles worked as cinders, pushing heavy minecarts in and out of the cave. The mountain wind is fierce, there is a large pot of charcoal burning in front of the cave, the two uncles are bare-chested, and after dumping a car of cinder, they will go to the brazier to get warm for a while, and then drill into the hole with their breath, and so on several times. The dark body was covered with slime, and the black face had only two eyes black and white, which was very hard.

During the noon break, my uncle and the workers nibbled on simple dry food. While playing with the stones, I asked without hesitation, will digging down like this hollow out the mountain? The workers didn't speak, only the uncle stood up, picked me up, pointed to the distance, and said, "Study well, and when you go out of the mountains in the future, you won't have to dig coal." ”

In the early 1980s, the two uncles stopped digging coal, and they took advantage of the wind of reform and opening up to start a vegetable trade, sending vegetables from all over the world to the table of Chongqing people. Although it was also very hard, the pocket was inflated, and the money he earned bought a truck to build a new house.

Hearing that the small coal mine was being shut down in an orderly manner, the two uncles were first silent and then relaxed. Small coal mines once solved the problem of food and clothing, but disorderly mining always made people feel unsteady. Reform and opening up have made the two uncles living in the ravine see hope and realize the dream of initial prosperity.

After I worked, I went back to my hometown every few years, went to the North Hot Spring to take a bath, and then went to Jinyun Mountain to climb Lion Peak. Although my two uncles were old, they still accompanied me to the mountainside. They rested there and left me alone to climb Lion Peak. Several times, I said half-truthfully, if possible, that I would also pick them up with a basket, with an uncle on the side. The warmth that I gave me when I was a child still has temperature to this day. As soon as these words came out, the two uncles laughed.

The last time I went to climb Lion Peak, the bluestone road has been polished by the years, and the dirt and grass next to it are still the same as yesterday, but they are completely different. The closer you get to the peak, the more you feel the power of time.

Climbing to the top of the mountain, Lion Peak has not changed, but the scenery at the far end has changed. Bird's eye view of the mountain, what you see is not what you used to see, Beibei City, which was once famous for its production instruments, has completely changed its appearance. The beautiful outline of the city has become new and atmospheric through the ingenious layout of the city designers. The New Beibei under the mountains is already a modern new city. Beibei has changed, become real and dare not recognize each other, and has become a scenery of wandering homesickness.

Back on the mountainside, the two uncles were still in a good mood drinking tea, with a comfortable face. When I braked, I understood, why I wanted to pick two uncles up the mountain and they would laugh, why would it be familiar and strange to see the dirt and grass in the mountains? Because Jinyun Mountain is changing, time has long repaired the scars of the past, ecological protection has made here a golden mountain and silver mountain, wild monkeys and creatures are also changing; Beibei is also changing, not only known as the lung leaf of the hot spring capital mountain city, but also a city business card of the beautiful mountain city; and the greater change is in people, such as my uncle, generation after generation of Beibei people, they bravely stand at the head of the tide and dare to fight, build their hometown with their hands, be down-to-earth, and become the masters of the times.

Every time I leave Jinyun Mountain, I can't help but look back repeatedly. There are dreams and hopes there, and it is the eternal home in my heart.

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