Lu Huilan saw that Guihua was so kind to Zhang Shaofei when they were rafting and splashing in the water. She wanted to say that she and he were going to collect herbs, but Liang Shuilian and Guihua invited each other so warmly and looked at Zhang Shaofei who also wanted to go. After a long time, I was already very hungry, so I could only say roughly: "Okay then."
Liang Guihua led Liang Shuilian, Zhang Shaofei and Lu Huilan along the rugged mountain road and turned a few turns to Taijiang Village.
Stepping into the entrance of the village, smoke curls from the kitchens of every household, stewing fish, stewing chicken, frying beans... The whole village is filled with the fragrant festival smell.
"Ahua, the festival flavor in your village is so strong!" Zhang Shaofei couldn't help but say.
Osmanthus fragrans said disapprovingly, "It's a festival today, so of course it's very festive!" She pointed to the house in front of her, "This is my home, please come in."
Zhang Shaofei looked around at the courtyard house and said, "Oh, so grand! Ah Hua, you already live in a big house!" Zhang Shaofei said jokingly.
"Really? I heard Sister Alian say, Brother Afei, your new house is one of the best in Taizhen Village! When are you going to invite us to your house?" Guihua said while shouting inside, " Grandpa, Dad, Mom, we have guests."
Liang Shuilian's home is in Taiping Village, adjacent to Taijiang Village, and they drink from the same river. Guihua's family is a wealthy family in the village, with a lot of wealth. Her father, Liang Tianyou, married his wife Wang, and unfortunately passed away due to dystocia when Guihua was giving birth to Guihua. Liang Tianyou later married Shen Daying and gave birth to two boys, the eldest named Zihui and the younger named Ziming. As a result, Guihua was left out and she always liked to go to Taiping Village to play with Liang Shuilian when she had nothing to do. Naturally, the two of them became Good bestie.
Liang Shuilian and Guihua have played together since they were young, and the paparazzi in Taiping Village always like to follow them to play. Whenever they have fun, they always like to bully the paparazzi, calling him a follower and a fool...
"Sister, sister Lian, why are you back so late?" Zihui and Ziming were playing in the yard. When they heard Guihua said that a guest was coming, they hurried out.
"This is my second disciple Hui and my third disciple Ming." Guihua introduced Zhang Shaofei and Lu Huilan enthusiastically, then looked at Zhang Shaofei and Lu Huilan, "Second brother, third brother, please call Brother Afei and Sister Alan."
Zihui and Ziming said obediently: "Hello, Brother A Fei! Hello, Sister Alan!"
Zhang Shaofei saw that Zi Hui and Zi Ming were about five or six years old. They were very interesting and well-behaved at a young age. He touched their heads affectionately and said, "Hui and Ming are good! Did you go to see the splashing water?" "
"Yes! It was so fun to go with Dad and Mom." Zihui and Ziming said as they took Zhang Shaofei's hand into the courtyard.
Guihua's home is a large house with blue bricks and glazed tiles in a courtyard structure. There are six rooms on the left and right, and six rooms on the front and rear forming a courtyard. The archway in front of the courtyard has two gilt characters "Liang Mansion" written on it. The walls are covered with brilliant gold flowers. Yellow honeysuckle, clusters, clumps.
There is a vigorous magnolia tree in the middle of the yard. The locals call the magnolia tree Yutangchun. It seems that the tree is hundreds of years old. The purple-red flowers as big as fists hang on the tree, which is really beautiful.
Under the tree, there are a stone platform and several round camphor wooden pillars. An elder with a fluttering white beard and a somewhat fairy-like spirit is sitting on the wooden pillars. He is holding a long pipe in his hand and is smoking. Clouds spit out mist.
As soon as Zhang Shaofei stepped onto the threshold of the courtyard, a fat hunting dog with khaki hair ran towards him from inside, barking "woof, woof".
Seeing this, Osmanthus hurried forward and scolded her, "Ah Wang, please forgive me for being rude. This is a guest in our house."
Zhang Shaofei could tell that the hunting dog was well-trained. After being scolded by Osmanthus fragrans, he obediently waggled his tail and returned to his original place.
Osmanthus looked at the elder sitting on the wooden pillar and introduced: "The one sitting on the wooden pillar smoking is my grandfather."
Guihua's grandfather, Liang Hebiao, was over seventy years old. He was an old scholar who knew astronomy and geography. He had a high prestige in the village. People from all over the country respectfully called him "Mr. Liang".
Osmanthus hurried forward, supported her grandfather, and said respectfully: "Grandpa, this is Zhang Shaofei who recently worked for the people to eliminate water monsters in the Houliang River of Xijiang River. Brother Afei, she is Sister Alan, from Houliang Village. We happened to meet on the mountain today, We went to the Water Splashing Festival together and had a great time, so we warmly invited them to come back and celebrate the festival with us.”
Liang Hebiao squinted his cloudy eyes and stared at Zhang Shaofei. He always felt that the young boy in front of him had an inexplicable fate with his Liang family. He also saw that Zhang Shaofei was born with a talented person, with a kind face, extraordinary behavior and politeness. A rare smile appeared on that weathered face. "Well, a hero is born in a boy! Fei Wazi, it's rare for you to come here and make Pengpi shine. I must celebrate the festival here today and try the flavors of Taijiang Village's dishes." After listening to his granddaughter's introduction, Liang Hebiao stood up. He raised the long pipe in his hand and said enthusiastically, "Please go to the hall to have a cup of hot tea to relieve your difficulties."
"Thank you, old lady!" Zhang Shaofei and the others thanked him repeatedly and followed old lady Liang into the hall. Guihua's father, Liang Tianyou, and stepmother, Shen Daying, were busy in the kitchen. When she heard voices in the hall, she quickly put down what she was doing.
Zhang Shaofei didn't wait for Osmanthus fragrans to introduce him, he quickly stepped forward and said politely: "Hello, sister-in-law."
Guihua's stepmother is six years younger than her father. She is about 28 years old. She is tall, plump, with a melon face, willow eyebrows and almond eyes. When she was not married, she was a famous village beauty in Shenjia Village. She was kind and upright. With the reputation of the Liang family, With family background, she committed herself to become the wife of the Liang family.
Shen Daying looked at the handsome boy in front of her calmly and said with a smile: "How handsome and handsome he is." She stared at Zhang Shaofei intently, as if a mother-in-law would drool when she saw her son-in-law.
"Mom, I smell burnt rice." Guihua felt a little embarrassed when her stepmother looked at Zhang Shaofei intently, and quickly found a topic to distract her.
"Your father is watching the fire in the kitchen! He has been absent-minded recently. He won't burn the rice and not put out the fire, right?" Shen Daying gently shook her waist, tilted her buttocks and went to the kitchen, then turned around He came over and said, "Sister, let's greet the guests for tea first. I'll go in and take a look before talking."
"Auntie, I got it." After Osmanthus said that, she went to pour tea.
After drinking tea, Guihua took Liang Shuilian and Lu Huilan to visit her boudoir.
Liang Hebiao looked at Zhang Shaofei. The old man raised his thumb and murmured: "Good... what a Buddha-like appearance! I have been traveling for decades and have never seen such a good-looking person."
Zhang Shaofei looked at Liang Hebiao, bowed his hands and said humbly: "The old man has given you too much praise." From his face full of vicissitudes of life, Zhang Shaofei felt that the person in front of him was a person who had experienced a lot of life, and seemed to have a connection and story with him.
Zhang Shaofei sat in front of Liang Hebiao. Facing this immortal elder, he couldn't help but clasp his hands together, performed a devout salute, and then let his thoughts fly.
Opening the door to the heavy history of the Liang family and traveling through time and space, the history of the Liang family mansion seems to linger in Zhang Shaofei's mind.
Zhang Shaofei quietly savored the details in every air here.
The clear sky is covered with dark clouds, and the world is in gray chaos.
A bolt of lightning pierced the sky, and a longan and phoenix tail bamboo suddenly appeared in the sky... In an instant, Zhang Shaofei was shocked by this sight!
"Chaos, lightning, longan, phoenix tail bamboo, wine glass, this scene..." Zhang Shaofei muttered in his heart, as if he had the feeling of "thinking for thousands of years and seeing thousands of miles".
Suddenly, an idea flashed through Zhang Shaofei's mind, flashing back to the scenes that Liang Hebiao and his ancestors had experienced...
"Could it be that a secret from heaven has something to do with me?" In his thoughts, Zhang Shaofei seemed to have traveled through time and space and returned to the era of Liang Hebiao and his ancestors——
Liang Hebiao was also considered a figure in the Taijiang Mountain area. During a boat trip, he met a young woman squatting by the river washing clothes. He touched the heart of this beautiful woman with his beautiful folk songs, and she was willing to marry him as his wife. , it became a favorite story within dozens of miles around.
Liang Hebiao was born in a scholarly family. His father, Liang Xuebin, was originally a Jinshi. He served as a censor in the imperial court. Because he handled the case impartially, he offended the emperor's relatives and was demoted back to his hometown. After Liang's family returned to his hometown, he always regarded "the book as a censor". Own your own gold", familiar with "Four Books and Five Classics, Policy Questions, Eight-Part Essay", etc., and take part in the imperial examination, you will definitely enter an official career. This is the family motto, and Liang Hebiao has been trained since childhood. When Liang Hebiao was seventeen years old, he took part in the examination and became famous in the academic field. He was selected as a scholar by the examiner.
However, not long after Liang Hebiao returned to his hometown, he once went sailing with the villagers. From then on, he became ambitious and had no intention of taking the exam. father.
Because he was young, strong, and talented, when he was launching his boat, there were many long and steep beaches in the canyon. The river sections on the beaches were winding and looping, and the direction of the water flow was not fixed. The rapids rushed east for a while, and rolled to the west for a while; the rapids were like Flying, plummeting thousands of miles... The rushing waves seem to have gathered huge power, making it difficult to control the boat.
Liang Hebiao stood at the bow of the ship to observe the water situation, choose a direction, and directed several other boatmen to cooperate with the stern man at the stern to always keep the cargo ship firmly on the center line of the main channel.
It wasn't until the cargo ship passed through the rapids and turned from the Taijiang River to the Xijiang River that the water became quieter and the ship stopped to rest like a galloping horse.
At this time, the boat was drifting carelessly on the water. The boatmen relaxed, slowly finished a bag of cigarettes, and then put on the oar and started rocking together.
Life on the water often makes boatmen feel tired, lonely and monotonous. They have been driving on the waterway for many years and walking through the river valleys all day long. They have just seen away the hills behind them and welcomed the mountains in front of them, so they are used to it. I am used to the scenery of rivers and seas and the fragrance of water, so I don't think it's strange at all.
The scenery moves with the boat. The fleet sails out of some deep mountains and canyons and enters the Pingba area. Some villages are located in low-lying areas, covered by lush forests and tall bamboos, making it difficult to see the houses clearly; some villages are located on gentle slopes, but rows of blue-gray tile eaves can be seen.
Most of the roads in the village are paved with bluestone slabs. Most houses have stone steps in front of them, which extend from the road to the eaves.
Around the house, ducks and geese forage in the paddy fields, and roosters crow on the peach and plum trees. There are fruit trees growing in front and back of the house. In autumn, oranges are red, pears are white, and the colors are colorful...
The house seems to be located among the woods and flowers; in autumn, yellow grapefruits and red persimmons hang on the branches, eye-catching like small lanterns: they are all shrouded in the confused sunset or misty rain.
Because they spend a lot of time working in the water, boatmen like to wear a pair of underpants and hang their wet clothes on the tiller or on the oars to dry.
Sometimes the wind blew my clothes and pants, fluttering like small flags. The man stood on the bow of the boat and shouted a folk song with his arms akimbo, frightening the waterfowl on the river to fly in all directions.
The scorching sun has been directly scorching their bodies for a long time, and each boatman's skin has been tanned as if painted with a layer of tung oil, and his complexion has become brown and bright.
They only put on their clothes when they pass by villages and ferries on their boats.
After living in such a living environment for a long time, the boatmen's words and deeds became wild and rude. This time, when the fleet reached a weir, some people saw a delicate and graceful woman near the water wheel, squatting on a large stone slab by the river and washing clothes. Someone got excited and encouraged Liang Hebiao, saying: "Ah Biao, Sing folk songs with her!"
Both sides of the Xijiang River are mostly places where Hakka people live together. Most of the Hakka young men and women like to sing folk songs.
They sing in singing competitions, in the mountains and rivers, at the end of the road, or when they are tired from working in the fields, even if they don't meet any opponents, they still have to entertain themselves by humming a few words and using the Come to relieve boredom and vent your feelings.
They may be moved by the scene and talk to each other sincerely; they may quote scriptures; or they may laugh at each other and praise each other, just having fun.
