Ah Qin, who is in the third grade of primary school this year, is very depressed, because her mind has not been used to study in school recently, and as a result, not only has her grades dropped all the way, but she has also been late for morning classes for three days.
If this happens to a boy, the teacher may think that it is because the boy is playful or unwilling to get up in the morning and sleep, which delays the start of school. But for a girl like A Qin, who has always felt well-behaved and obedient in the eyes of the teacher, introverted, usually immersed in studying, and has always been among the top few in the class, such a situation has to attract the attention of the class teacher, Mr. Huang.
Ms. Huang is a middle-aged woman who has gone to high school in the past and has some cultural foundation, working as a Chinese teacher in the town's middle school and serving as the head of Aqin's class. She is a very gentle personality and a slow-speaking woman.
Teacher Huang took Ah Qin to the office alone and asked her if there was something at home or if she was not feeling well, but Ah Qin, who didn't like to talk, shook her head and denied Teacher Huang's questions, but she didn't say what the reason was.
Teacher Huang used Saturday to find Aqin's house in a small fishing village by the sea, met Aqin's parents, and told Aqin's parents about Aqin's recent performance in school and his worries, hoping that Aqin's parents could cooperate with the school to seriously understand what happened to Aqin recently, and urged Aqin to study, so as not to let Aqin delay his studies.
Teacher Huang's home visit made Ah Qin's parents naturally nervous, and Ah Qin's parents have always been held as a pearl in their palms. His son Haigen was not admitted to high school, and the two pinned their hopes on Aqin.
After Teacher Huang left, Ah Qin's parents naturally interrogated her and asked her what was wrong, and the family didn't let her do anything to delay her study, so why was she late?
But Ah Qin still questioned her parents as she did with Teacher Huang, answering them in silence.
This made Ah Qin's father Liu Haishan, who had been fishing in the sea for many years, lose his temper, and was so angry that he counted her from head to toe, and told Ah Qin: "My parents work all day long in this fishing village, and they have to go to the sea to fish and earn a living every day, no matter how hard and tired they are, the purpose is to support you to grow up in the future, study hard in school, be admitted to college in the future, find a decent job, fight for yourself, and let us follow us as parents in the future." But why are you so young now, just in the third grade, and you start to be late for school twice for three days? How can we as parents not be anxious about your future?"
Liu Haishan is reluctant to play Ah Qin, because in the eyes of his father, Ah Qin has always been an obedient child, his own little padded jacket, and the child is only in the third grade of primary school, and he is not fully sensible, or he runs to the sea in the morning, or he is greedy for fun on the way to school.
Therefore, although Liu Haishan was angry, he only dropped one sentence in the end: "If you don't study hard, I will let you go to the sea to fish with us in the future." ”
Ah Qin has her own secrets, but she doesn't dare to tell her parents, she is by no means the teacher and her parents say that she is not good at studying children, on the contrary, she feels that she has met a teacher who makes her happier.
Ah Qin's home is located in a small fishing village embraced by the vast sea and mountains, and the foothold of this small fishing village is like being painted by a god in a place with beautiful mountains and rivers.
The vast blue ocean in front of it, and the various fish and creatures contained in this sea not only feed the fishermen in this small fishing village, but also bring them an annual living income, so that the fishermen can rely on the sea to eat and wear without worry.
Behind the small fishing village is a lush green hill with lush foliage and forests, not only a variety of wild animals and birds, but also wild herbs and wild mountain goods. The villagers of the small fishing village do not want to be wet by the cold sea breeze and shiver on the boat in winter. Tie up the fishing boat, take the mountain chopping axe and the basket, go to the mountain to collect wild mountain goods, and collect a full basket a day and carry it to the market outside the mountain to sell it at a good price, in exchange for the family's food and drink.
The small fishing village of the Aqin family is like being placed in a cornucopia by the gods, relying on the sea in front and the mountains behind it with inexhaustible resources. Worry-free food and clothing, rich life, like a paradise, living a leisurely life that people outside the mountains do not know.
The villagers of the small fishing village, which is very nourished by the sea and green mountains, have also built bungalows one after another, connected to electricity, and live a happy life.
When the fishermen are satisfied with their lives, they pin their hopes on the next generation.
The fishermen know that they were born here, relying on the two resources of the sea and the mountains to survive and reproduce, but they can't let the next generation be like themselves, when an illiterate person who always revolves around the sea and green mountains, although they have not walked out of the mountains and sea environment, but every time they go out to the town and county to catch the market, they have let them know that the outside world has begun to change, people not only have money in their pockets, but also have wisdom in their brains, and ink in their stomachs.
When a school was set up in the town, and the town leaders brought teachers to the small fishing village to inform the children to go to school, the fishermen in the fishing village couldn't wait to let the children go to school, and then they were tired and tired to make money for the children's future.
A Qin's parents are such a fisherman couple, they work tirelessly, day and night, all in order to make A Qin have a good future in the future, no longer relying on physical strength to go to the sea and go up the mountains to earn a living, like themselves and their ancestors.
Born and raised in this fishing village of less than 100 households, Aqin has been with the sea since she was sensible, watching the sea roll over and over again on the beach every day, hitting and washing the beach over and over again, letting the refreshing sea breeze blow herself, sometimes walking barefoot on the beach and picking up shells and small fish brought by the sea.
The sea brings infinite happiness to Aqin, brings beautiful hope, and brings a carefree childhood.
Sometimes running happily on the beach with Ah Qin, there is also a little friend Ah Hai who was born with Ah Qin in this small fishing village.
Whenever the adults go out to sea to fish, or dry their nets on the beach, the two children will play on the beach, sometimes chasing the undulating waves, sometimes running on the golden sand, the sea is wide and unrestrained to make them full of infinite fantasy since childhood.
Sometimes they fantasize about becoming a small fish swimming in the sea, sometimes they want to become waves and jump happily on the sea, sometimes they want to become the legendary sea dragon king of adults, dedicating all the treasures of the sea to their parents who work hard all day long, and sometimes they want to become seagulls in the sea, flying freely between the sea and the blue sky.
Every day, the flat beach washed by the sea leaves countless children's footprints, which record their innocent childhood.
The carefree and happy days became boring with the two children going to school, and the two children found that although they could learn culture in school, and could make a difference in the future as the adults said, they did not have the unrestrained happiness of being free and unrestrained by the sea, and with it came the constant restraint and discipline of teachers and parents who gave them headaches.
Fortunately, the sea will always be by their side, and when they are in a troubled mood and tired of studying, they will run to the beach and shout, so that their irritable mood will fly away on the sea with the sea breeze.
The primary school of Ah Qin and Ah Hai Middle School is in the middle of the small fishing village and passes through a mountain range in the north, this mountain area has dense mountain forests, no matter whether it is winding or raining, they have to follow this winding mountain road in the mountains to the primary school, this mountain road passes under the view of the sea of cedars.
The north slope of the mountain is the town primary school, the southern foot of the mountain is the small fishing village, the highest of this mountain is only more than 1,000 meters, and the only thing that connects the primary school and the small fishing village is this pothole and uneven mountain road in the mountain. Although the road is uneven, but because it is in the mountains, every time it is windy and rainy, the rain will flood the mountain road, and many abrupt stones on the mountain road are exposed outside the water. Ah Qin and Ah Hai were like playing a childhood game, constantly jumping on the rocks that were exposed to the water, until they jumped out of the place where there was no mountain road and walked to the place where there was a beach.
Ah Qin heard the old man say that after the liberation, there were troops stationed here, it is said that it was an artillery unit, and the artillery military vehicles could not drive in when they were transported to the north slope of the mountain, because the mountain road was too narrow for the military vehicles to drive in, so the troops used manpower to push and pull the cannons to the beach through the narrow mountain road, and made an artillery position at the southern foot of the mountain. It is said that in order to guard against foreign warships invading coastal defense, the troops later planned to widen this mountain road in order to facilitate the transportation of artillery shells, but after calculation, it required the use of a large amount of explosives and the investment of huge manpower and material resources, so they dragged it out without expanding it. Later, the situation stabilized and there was no incident, so the troops withdrew, and the matter of building the mountain road was naturally in vain, and no one proposed to build the mountain road again.
Whether people in small fishing villages want to go outside the mountains to buy daily necessities or go to the market to sell seafood to make money, they can only carry the mountain road on their shoulders. The weather is good, the mountain road is easy to walk, and it is good to say, when it is windy and rainy, the mountain road is not easy to walk, so you can only stay at home and not go out.
As soon as the morning dawned, Ah Qin had to get up an hour early to wash, then prepare her school bag, open the door and prepare to go to school, but the weather in front of her made her dumbfounded. It was a rainy day, and the drizzle was obscured less than a few steps in front of the door, and it was impossible to see the houses, trees, sea, and mountains in the distance.
Everything was shrouded in a gauzy of rain and mist.
When the weather is good, you can hear the seagulls chirping on the beach in the morning, but today it rains and the whole seaside is silent, and even the waves that continue to wash the beach every day are calm, only to hear the sound of the rain falling into the sea.
Yesterday evening, Aqin lied to her parents for the first time, and today she had to rush to school early for morning self-study, because it was raining at home, Aqin prepared a meal at school at noon for Aqin, and put on a raincoat and rain boots for her, and told her to study hard at school, not to do things that make herself and the teacher unhappy, Aqin's mother in order to let her study with peace of mind, and promised Aqin that if she can rank in the top ten in the class in this semester's exam, she will buy her a set of good-looking clothes when she goes to the town to catch the market.
Ah Qin could only endure listening to her mother's tireless nagging, and just begged to hurry out of the house and clear her ears.
When her mother packed up everything and handed it over to her, she couldn't wait to rush out of the house and disappear into the hazy rain and fog, and her mother shouted from behind: "Tell Ah Hai, pay attention to safety on the road!"
There are many children who go to school in the small fishing village, but the only classmates in the same year are her and Ah Hai. Therefore, whether she goes to school in the morning or comes back for dinner at noon, she and Ah Hai go together, and with Ah Hai, a boy, to protect her, her parents are naturally much more relieved.
Although it was autumn, the morning was still early at five o'clock, and the school started at seven o'clock in the morning, but the two of them made excuses to their parents today that the school had to study in the morning, and they had to go to school at six o'clock in the morning.
In fact, the two children calculated that it would take half an hour to walk from the small fishing village to school, and the extra half hour was the time they prepared today to satisfy their curiosity.
The rolling mountains and trees in the north of the small fishing village of Aqinjia cover the sky and the sun, I don't know how many dynasties and spring and autumn have passed, and the mountains are full of soft leaves, and it is soft to step on. In addition to precious wild herbs, there are also animals such as sika deer, wild foxes, and hares. Ah Qin's father Liu Haishan and brother Haigen don't go to sea in winter, and when they have nothing to do at home, they like to carry a basket on their backs and a shotgun to go up the mountain to hunt and collect Chinese herbs. After returning home from the mountain, the prey is cleaned up and taken to the market outside the mountain with the Chinese herbs to be sold, and the prey is sold to the street restaurant, and the herbs are sold in the medicinal herb market.
Father Liu Haishan and elder brother Haigen would bring delicious snacks to Ah Qin and mother every time they came back.
So every time my father and brother went up the mountain, when the sun went down in the evening, Ah Qin would sit on the stone in front of the house and wait for my father and brother to bring back delicious food.
The mountain road leading from the fishing village to the mountain, a fork in the mountain next to a crooked neck pine tree, winding into the depths of the mountain, there is surrounded by mountains and cedar seas, covering an area of hundreds of acres of land.
In this yellow building, surrounded by pine trees that shade the sky and the sun, this building Ah Qin heard from the old people in the fishing village that it was built by the Nationalist Government for officers and soldiers to live in, and it was also used as the headquarters of the troops. Later, there was nothing to do here in Haiphong, so naturally there was no reason to garrison, and all the troops were withdrawn overnight. After liberation, the building was used by local loggers as a storehouse and dormitory, and later, when the loggers were removed, the building was idle. I don't know how many spring and autumn seasons have passed, this building was taken as a Taoist temple by an old Taoist aunt who came from afar, cleaned up the house inside and out, and found someone to repair it, wrote "Fangcao View" on the door of the building and lit incense in the house, and explained to the women around the ten miles and eight towns that women need to know some questions, and also provided women with worship Guanyin ceremonies, soon, people called this place the Taoist temple, and this woman was also called the Taoist temple host by the people of ten miles and eight towns, every winter when the fishermen do not fish, the incense here is the most vigorous time. After Shanyuan came here 30 years ago, he settled in the Taoist temple and became a Taoist aunt.
In order to prevent the children from being curious and running around the mountains, the adults never take them to the Taoist temple to offer incense, so the children did not know that there was a Taoist temple on the mountain road they had to go to school.
Until on a light and sunny day, Ah Qin and Ah Hai walked on the mountain road to go to school in the morning, and suddenly heard from the mountain not far away from the faint and faint, suddenly far and near came a strange sound, this voice is sometimes high, sometimes unrestrained, sometimes low, sometimes soft, this sound breaks the silence in the mountains and forests, so that people walking on the mountain road have less of a sense of loneliness, this sound makes people not feel lonely, reminiscent of the suona sound seen in the market outside the mountain, but this sound is more delicate and tender than the suona sound, causing an indescribable resonance from the heart,
A few times on the way to school, Ah Qin and Ah Hai both wanted to go to the mountains to see, but considering the tight school time, they were worried that going to the mountains would affect their school, and they would be late for school, and when the time came, their parents and teachers would nag them, so they gave up their thoughts.
But this voice seemed to attract them from then on, and whenever they walked on the mountain road every morning, especially at the fork in the road, this strange sound would sound, and Ah Qin and Ah Hai found that this sound would only be heard when the weather was fine, and on windy and rainy days, it would disappear.
After a long time, this voice made Ah Qin listen to the heart began to fascinate generally, every time she heard this voice came, her steps seemed to be welded, she couldn't walk at all, she always wanted to listen to it for a while and then walk, and forgot about going to school, so she was enchanted by this voice Ah Qin took Ah Hai away and went to the fire, every morning I always have to listen to this sound on the mountain road that fascinates them, until the sound disappears, they are going to school, as a result, they are late for three days, causing the teacher to criticize and warn them one after another, and then the parents are angry and scolded。
In order to completely stop being fascinated by this sound and not delay school because of this sound, Ah Qin decided to thoroughly understand what kind of sound this is, she wants to satisfy her curiosity, and then study with peace of mind, no longer disturbed by this sound, so Ah Qin and Ah Hai discussed going to school an hour in advance, and using this time to go to the place where the sound came from the mountains to see what mysterious sound fascinated her.
In the morning, because it was drizzling, the mountain roads were not flooded by rain, but the ground was just wet with rain. I don't know that it is because I know that the two children are going to go up the mountain to explore and need to take care of them, and the land lord in the mountains is kind enough to take care of them, just now it was still rainy and rainy, at this time, suddenly the clouds opened and the fog dispersed, and the sky began to reveal a small piece of bright sky, and after a while, the entire blue sky was revealed, and the dark clouds piled up in the eastern sky in the distance were burned into brilliant and dazzling fire clouds by the rising sun.
Ah Qin and Ah Hai were in a good mood, they simply took off the raincoat wrapped around their bodies, and took the raincoat and slowly groped their way to the place in the mountain that attracted their voices.
Because of the light rain overnight, the trees in the mountains were drenched by the rain, and water droplets kept falling from the dense leaves, and the water droplets fell on the two children, who had to quickly put on the raincoats they had just taken off, otherwise their clothes would soon be wet.
The two children just wanted to see what the sound that fascinated them so much, and where did it come from?
The two children came to the yellow-walled building, and just as they were looking for the gate around the yellow wall, suddenly the familiar voice came from the yellow wall, far away in the silent mountains after the rain, echoing in the valley for a long time.
The trees and birds were still, as if they were listening carefully to the sound.
The two children stood outside the yellow high wall, unable to see what was going on inside, so anxious that they circled around the high wall, and then they could see clearly that the gate was directly south of the high wall, and at this time the gate was closed, Ah Hai pushed the gate with his hand, the gate did not move at all, and the two could not enter at all, and there were three diamond-shaped windows on the east wall of the outer high wall, and there were window lattices in the middle.
They tried to look inside the three windows, but they couldn't see what was going on inside, but they heard the sound close to them, and they could accurately determine that it was coming from inside the high wall.
They turned to the north side of the wall, and at this time Ah Qin was pleasantly surprised to find that the north side of the wall was next to a small hill, which was not high, but the top of the hill was just at the level of the high wall. You can climb to the top of the hill by following the abrupt rocks below, and then you can have an unobstructed view of the courtyard.
Ah Qin told Ah Hai about his discovery, and the two children decided to climb the hill. Then look at the situation in the hospital clearly, and then make the next step.
So the two children stepped on the rocks protruding from the mountain bag, climbed to the mountain bag with quick movements, stood up straight on the top of the mountain bag, and looked up just enough to see everything in the compound.
Only then did they see clearly that a woman wearing a gray Taoist robe and draped hair was standing on the edge of a pond in the compound, holding an irregular plate in one hand and a long pole in the other. This voice seems to have a tone, which makes people's hearts get a kind of spiritual enjoyment, so that some inner troubles disappear with it.
The woman was twisting her body, one hand pulling the pole quickly, and the sound from the plate made the two children a little fascinated, and the sound made them forget everything around them, and they couldn't take their eyes off the woman in the yard performing.
They now know the source of the sounds they often hear, and they can also see clearly the appearance of the Taoist aunt in this Taoist temple that they often hear from adults, and they have always thought that the Taoist aunt in the Taoist temple must be the same as the monks in the temple, shaving their heads, meditating and chanting every day.
But today they saw that this woman was completely different from what they had in mind, and unlike all the women in the village, not only did she not shave her head like a monk, but she also had a thick shawl hair. Her body exudes a sense of freshness and refinement, her eyes are full of confidence, and her expression is firm and full.
This is the first time that Ah Qin has seen a woman who makes her feel different, and from this woman, she sees a different life from the small fishing village and the school.
Ah Qin's eyes stared at every move of the woman in the courtyard without blinking, watching her every movement, listening to the melody that intoxicated her. She didn't understand what kind of magic this woman could use to make such a nice sound on a plate with a pole.
Time flowed unconsciously, and the two children only paid attention to the women in the yard, listening to them make them like the sounds, completely forgetting the time of school, and the two of them stared at the women in the yard with four eyes.
At this time, they saw a young girl coming out of the big house of the Taoist temple, running to the woman, raising her head and not knowing what to say to the woman, so the woman handed the plate and pole in her hand to the girl, and let her carry these things into the house, and the woman also moved her arms and twisted her waist.
When the woman twisted her waist, Ah Qin could see that the woman was wearing a fat robe and her body was very slim.
Then the woman walked unhurriedly to the inside of the big house, and the whole mountain forest returned to calm, except for the nearby trees where water still dripped and made a crackling sound.
Ah Qin and Ah Hai only remembered that they still had to go to school at this time, and hurriedly came down from the mountain bag.
Walking on the mountain road to school, the two children recalled the sound they had just heard, and there was an indescribable joy in their hearts, but more than that, they satisfied their curiosity for many days.
The two children held hands and jumped along the mountain road to the school.
This day was the happiest time they had ever grown up, and the mountain road that they had always found difficult to walk in the past was now full of fun, and since then this mountain temple has become a place they often like to visit.