Head back to Water Street
Yang Yanbin
My hometown is in Wangfenglou Town, Pingyuan County. I don't like many people to call it Shuiwu Street Village, because Shuiwu Street is a thousand-year-old village, in ancient times, the street is the meaning of the city, then, Shuiwu Street in ancient times was a commercial port ancient city street, now people call it Shuiwu Street Village, isn't it artificially demoted my birthplace? Therefore, it is not strange that those who do not know, but in the future, when someone calls Shuiwu street village in front of me, I will "open up" with him! Of course, if someone calls it a big water service, I have to thank him for eight generations of ancestors!
At one o'clock in the afternoon on October 1, 2021, I walked out of the Plain East Station, and as soon as I looked up, I saw Yang Xiulan, who was calling Lanzi's sister and brother-in-law Mu Shuhui. Although they have not seen each other for fifty-three years, there is no sense of alienation between them. Hearing Lan Zi's sister call me a nickname, it seemed to awaken the memory of childhood in an instant.
My father was a single cousin, he only had one uncle and sister, I called her Blue Pole Aunt, and this aunt is no longer alive, and has no contact with several brothers and sisters in the aunt's family. Although Jinan and Shuiwu Street are only a bag of high-speed rail distance, I am in the complex state of mind of my hometown but not a proper foothold, and I often miss my hometown when I don't go back to my hometown.
1, red writer Mou Shuhui will take a photo in front of Deng Youmei's former residence
My brother-in-law's Mou Shuhui, a well-known red culture writer, caught me by searching online on September 24. The cultural heritage of his hometown is in the mind of Mou Shuhui, who has published dozens of articles about the red story or historical story of his hometown in newspapers and magazines over the years. I went to his house on Shuiwu Street to settle down, which was a kind of person, to meet friends in order to avoid thick and thin saliva disputes near and far.
Mu Shuhui accompanied me all over Shuiwu Street, and those distant street scene marks gradually returned to my mind. Remembering the courtyard and familiar faces in my childhood memories, one by one unfolded in front of my eyes like a movie picture, which made me feel very close and touched. That little West Bay, Reed Bay, Dongsha River, old cooperative, East Dapo, West Dapo, Cross Street, old school building, my two old house foundations, that old road, old locust trees, through the north and south of the old set, especially built in the Ming Dynasty Yang Jiaguan, stationed in the Japanese devil's Beida Temple, everything is basically the same as fifty years ago. Because Shuiwu Street basically maintained the outline of my childhood memories, I suddenly had the psychedelic feeling of going back in time. My idea is that since Shuiwu Street is an ancient village, the more old it looks, the more it can highlight the value of Shuiwu Street's existence. And it is necessary to repair the old.
When I was taking a short rest from tea with my brother-in-law, Lan Zi's sister led a sister named Cai Feng, she was like a pirated version of my blue rod aunt, the appearance and behavior of the two women were extremely similar, and I was like seeing two people at a glance. When I left home in 1968 to go to the Northern Wilderness, Cai Feng's sister was still a seven-year-old doll with a snot bubble, but now she has touched the side of the sixty-year-old. From the perspective of blood lineage, Cai Feng and her brother are my closest people. While she and Cai Feng were talking to the family affection, Lan Zi's sister led another sister into the house.
A few people asked me to guess who she was, and I could see at a glance that she was Dong Feng, the daughter of Uncle Seven, and she not only looked exactly like The Seventh Aunt, but also because she was only a year younger than me, I suddenly remembered that she was a real bare-stomach doll. Dongfeng has been fast-talking and fast-legged since he was a child, living like a tomboy, naughty can also make tricks, all day long with our boys to play crutches, climb the wall trees, drop the dock, touch the fish and shrimp. I just forgot myself, and I couldn't forget Sister Dongfeng. In addition, there is a friendship that cannot be forgotten: when there is only a lonely little sister left in my family, it is Dongfeng's sister who accompanies her sister through one cold and lonely night after another.
My brother-in-law said that a few miles away, in Zhang Shifu, there was a tomb of an unknown martyr buried with more than eighty officers of the Eighth Route Army, but I don't remember. He is an active advocate and inheritor of red culture. He drove me in an electric four-wheeler and pulled me to the martyr's grave. I prayed to the narration on the tombstone and was deeply moved by it. I am proud that more than 1,600 heroic martyrs have emerged in my hometown during the War of Resistance Against Japan. The brother-in-law of the book club recounted the fierce battle in January 1943 and the history of the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of him. I was honored to know that my birthplace is a red base area, a red hometown full of heroes.
On the way back, we passed by Deng Zhuang, the hometown of the famous writer Deng Youmei, who was only two kilometers away from the water. With respect, we visited the former residence of Elder Deng and visited the younger brother of Elder Deng Eighty-Eight. There was a small episode in between. When Mu Shuhui drove to the home of Wenyou Deng Yuanhong to inquire about Deng Youmei's brother's home, he pointed out that I asked Mu Shuhui, "Where is this guest?" ”
"He's from Jinan, and his home is in the water. He is very familiar with the great writer Deng Youmei, this is not, want to see the former residence of Teacher Deng. He wasn't a guest, he was coming home! Mou Shuhui said.
"Do you know Yang Yanbin?" Deng Yuanhong looked at me with a smile and asked.
Mu Shuhui smiled, it was the kind of laughter that seemed to blossom in his heart. He pointed at me and said, "He is Yang Yanbin." He looked at me again and said, "This is the Deng Yuanhong I told you about, and the little prose is well written!" ”
"Haha, it turns out that we are literary friends of the Shandong Prose Group." I am Yang Yanbin standing in front of you alive. A joke shook hands and felt the kindness of the hometown people.
2, The author of this article, Yang Yanbin, took a group photo with the eldest sister-in-law in the hospital. Mou Shuhui photography
Back at Shuiwu Street, I happened to meet the big sister-in-law in the courtyard at the intersection of the street. Her uncle and my father were brothers of the same lineage and had passed away. The eldest sister-in-law now lives in my family's old house. This big sister-in-law has been kind to a few of our brothers and sisters. I saw my sister-in-law feel particularly warm and intimate.
3, The author of this article, Yang Yanbin, took a group photo with Yang Yuanzhang, the fourth uncle in the hospital. Mou Shuhui photography
Mou Shuhui is worthy of being a teacher and a leader for many years, and he is also worthy of being a well-known local talent, and he arranges things very thoughtfully and comprehensively. There was no hotel on Shuiwu Street, and in the evening he and Lan Zi's sister set up a banquet at Deng Zhuang's restaurant, and invited his parents, Mu Shuyong, the secretary of the Guancun Branch, Yang Yuanzhang, the elder, and Yan Boshijie and Cai Feng of Lan Ganzi's aunt's family to accompany him. That Yang Yuanzhang, my name is Uncle Four, his father Yang Shiqing is the old doctor of Shuiwu Street, I call him Grandpa. When I was a child, I had otitis media and almost every day I let my grandfather take medicine or get injections. The fourth uncle Yang Yuanzhang was usually in Chongqing and easily did not come back. This encounter in Shuiwu Street is a kind of fate, and it also leaves a good idea.
The elder sister Yang Xiulan in the left courtyard, the sister of the aunt Mou Caifeng, the younger brother Mou Shijie, Yang Yanbin, Mou Shuhui, the branch secretary Mou Shuyong, the eldest brother Yang Yanbo, and the husband of Cai Feng, Mou Shulin
About author:Yang Yanbin, pen name Water Affairs, was born on February 18, 1956 in Shuiwu Street, Wangfenglou Town, Pingyuan County, Shandong Province. In 1968, he joined the Northern Wilderness. He joined the company in Heilongjiang in 1973. In 1991, he transferred to The Texas Fertilizer Factory, and settled in Jinan after retiring in 2016. In 1990, he joined the Beidahuang Writers Association. He is a member of the Texas Writers Association, a member of the Jinan Writers Association, a member of the Shandong Provincial Essay Literature Association, a member of the Shandong Provincial Writers Association, and a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association. His works have won several awards at or above the provincial level, and have been selected as national annual anthologies five times. He is the author of the novels "The River of Gods and Ghosts", "The Young Guerrilla", and "The Adventures of the Merchant Sea".