Mountain stream spring water clangs

Coaches drive slowly along winding roads, because in the 80s, many winding roads were artificially carved dirt roads and were very narrow. One side is built close to the mountain, the other side is the cliff, if the driver's driving skills and psychological quality are not too hard, really dare not take this job.

The people in the car were groggy and sleeping, had been driving in the mountains for hours, and the excitement and curiosity that had just begun had passed, and no one was tired of enduring the monotonous rhythm of these hours, and I was the exception. Because I have always been in excitement, I looked out the window curiously, looking at the mountains, and the peaks were getting closer and farther away, greedily admiring the scenery between the mountains.

This is the field internship project in the sophomore year, just after the beginning of September, the school organized our students to go to the internship, to the internship base in the mountains about 100 kilometers away from the school, because the first academic year has just ended the study of "Chinese Medicine", and after the beginning of the second academic year, the "Cultivation of Medicinal Plants" course will be studied, which is a very practical course, including the previous "Chinese Medicine", starting from the external biological characteristics of plants, cultivation, growth, harvesting, specimen making, and medicine into medicine (leaves, Flowers, fruits, stems, roots, skins, seeds, whole grasses, etc.) and so on. So our whole class was pulled into the depths of the mountains to identify the medicine and make fresh specimens of medicinal plants. This is a compulsory course for every class of students.

After about 8 hours or so, we finally arrived at our destination, a state-run forest farm deep in the mountains. From the morning departure to the late arrival, a day of car exhaustion, of course, the most tired and hard work is the driver master.

Everyone got out of the car one after another to pick up their luggage and followed the local people to lead us to the accommodation. The conditions in the mountains were so poor that we were still living with local foresters, freeing up their best dormitories for our distinguished guests from the provincial capital, college students and teachers from the 1980s.

After a good night's rest, after breakfast the next day, the intern teacher with the team held a meeting with our classmates, talked about the precautions and grouping, and then the students changed into the overalls they were issued, sorted out, and set off separately to go up the mountain.

The mountain air is really good, suck it hard, feel some humidity, this is the morning air is relatively humid, clouds around the mountainside, very beautiful. In the morning of early September, the accommodation is surrounded by mountains, and the sun cannot be seen before 9:00 a.m., blocked by the mountains, and can only be seen after 9:00, just like the feeling of watching the sunrise, which is very beautiful.

We followed the intern teacher to the mountain, walked through the initial flat road and began to climb the mountain, because the deep mountain old forest, except for the forest farm workers, rarely saw people. There is no formal way up the mountain, plus the medicine needs to go to the depths of the rare mountain, secluded places, the best preserved places of the original vegetation to collect, so the teacher directly takes the mountain from the place where the vegetation is denser, the male students open the way in front, each person prepares a long stick in his hand, and when walking, he must constantly knock on the ground left and right to create a noise to frighten the snakes.

Climbing through a mountain bag, wading through a stream, into a piece of peak valley, on both sides of the ridge, towering trees, shading the sky, carefully looking for medicinal plants, if anyone finds one, there is a surprise call, everyone ran around to identify, the plant teacher explained to us on the spot, the scene taught everyone to make plant specimens, the students were very happy, very excited. At the end of the day, the harvest is not small, and there are a lot of medicinal materials, for example, my group has collected lilies, jade bamboo, southern stars, etc. and many other medicinal materials, and after a long time, they have forgotten, on the way down the mountain, the students are not exhausted, elated, are teenagers, and do not feel tired.

Back at the residence, everyone changed their clothes and took the clothes that had been soiled by the medicine in the mountains during the day to a mountain stream below the residence for washing. Female classmates twittered, giggling, three or three two in pairs, down to the stream, laundry laundry, playing with water, washing hair washing, and some students sang the most popular song in the eighties "Spring Water Ding-Dong", instantly, crisp and pleasant singing floated through the stream, through the busy water of us, floating to the surroundings, drifting to the mountains, carried by the wind to the distance.

Spring water ding-dong, spring water ding-dong,

The spring water clangs,

Over the hills, over the meadows,

Come to me,

Spring water, spring water, where are you going,

Where are you going,

Singing the song and playing the strings flowing into the distance...

This happy time of washing and singing in a mountain stream has always been imprinted in my mind, like a beautiful modern version of "Huan Sha Girl".

The next day, the third day... We are all repeating the same work, but every day the harvest is very large, in addition to collecting more and more herbs and making specimens, climbing mountains, going to more and more places, there are other additional surprises: wild kiwifruit, chestnuts, pecans, every day the students come back from the mountain, can bring back a lot of delicious, happy and harmonious.

Once on the mountain it was not easy to meet a family, said that weihu mountain hunters old chang family is not exaggerated at all, internship for half a month, the entire back mountain is only this family, when there were classmates thirsty with water to drink after drinking water, a sister and a brother in the family, enthusiastically helped us take a scoop of water in front of the small pond, small fish, small tadpoles are still swimming in the water, classmates frowned, doubtfully asked, just drink this? The little sister nodded and said: We all eat this water, there are small fish, small tadpoles, indicating that there is no poison! If you encounter water in the mountains, first see if there are any fish or the like in the water, if not, do not drink, it may be poisonous.

We thanked the little sister, stopped by to rest for a while, and chatted with the two sisters, knowing that their family had never stepped out of the mountains, and they didn't know what the outside world was like? The happiest thing is that I hope that the students of our school will come to the internship once a year, see so many people, and tell them about the outside world, and our teachers will go and see local people for free every year, so they are very popular.

Listening to my brother, I heard my brother say that I had to go to school to climb over the mountain, and there was no money to pay the tuition fee to my husband (teacher), that is, to carry a bag of corn cobs, even if it was tuition. Life is really hard, but the sister and brother are very sunny, and they don't feel that life is hard, just complaining about not seeing people, not being able to go out, and wanting to see what the outside world is like.

On the way back, the classmates were still talking about this matter, and some female classmates and male classmates joked, who of you talked to this sister about friends and took this sister out? Birds from the mountains. My sister looked like she was fourteen or fifteen years old, and we were teenagers at the time.

After fifteen days of sudden study, we are going back to school, everyone reluctantly goodbye to the mountains, this walk, can no longer see the clouds and mist of the mountainside here, just like people in the fairyland, can not see the sunrise at nine o'clock, can not see here is full of mountain streams, babbling water, can not see the sacred feeling of entering the deep mountain primeval forest surrounded by nature, can no longer go down to the mountain stream below to play in the water. Goodbye, reluctantly bid farewell to the local forest farm staff, goodbye, the bus slowly drove out, driving to the way back to the school, at this time, I don't know who took the lead and sang the song again, and several of our female voices sang along with the sound.

The spring water clanged

Jumped off the hill and walked across the meadow,

Come to me

Where are you going

Singing the song and playing the strings flowed into the distance

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October 24, 2021 15:27 PM [Original]