Fog Township

The Long Street Banquet involved almost all the people in the village, but their own locations were relatively fixed.A Ming skillfully shuttled through the crowd, and Yu Sheng followed closely behind him.After a while, A Ming found the table where his family used to sit. Grandma was already sitting at the table, and she waved happily, signaling A Ming and Yu Sheng to sit beside her.

A Ming sat beside his grandmother, while Yu Sheng sat down facing them.

Grandma smiled and said, "Did you go to see the dragon boat? It's very lively, right?"

A Ming and Yu Sheng nodded hurriedly.Yu Sheng said: "Well, there are so many people, I haven't seen such a lively scene for a long time."

A Ming glanced at Yu Sheng, and said indifferently: "I don't think it's any different from previous years, it's just these tricks."

The grandmother said: "It's better if you are young. Unlike me, your legs and feet are useless, and you can't go anywhere. You can only listen to the sound of firecrackers at home. Go out and have fun while you are young." Amin heard this. Saying that, I felt a little unhappy, and at the same time felt a little ashamed.

Yu Sheng smiled and said, "Grandma! Don't be sad. After dinner, Amin and I will show you around. Wherever you want to go, we will accompany you there."

Grandma giggled and said, "Good! Good!"

Yu Sheng is not a patient person, he estimated that he would have some time before leaving the banquet, so he found an excuse to slip out and take a look around.Amin sat on the stool with his grandmother.Grandma said, "Look at Yusheng, who is such an adult, he's always reckless. You need to find a wife to take care of him."

A Ming hurriedly said: "Hmph! He is not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry."

Grandmother felt a little weird when he heard his tone, and Amin seemed to sense something was wrong, so she smiled and said: "I...I mean he is a foreigner, so he is naturally different from us." Amin didn't want to say more, afraid And "disaster comes from the mouth".

After hearing this, the grandmother said, "That's right. When he is well, he will leave and go home. It has nothing to do with us. I don't want to worry about it."

Amin's heart tightened, and he pretended to be calm and asked: "Is he leaving? When did he tell you?"

The grandmother replied: "He didn't mention it, but you think about it. He is also a person with a family and parents. How could he not return home? If his parents can't contact him, he must be worried to death."

A person in a crush will think that he is the center of the world.A Ming never thought that there would be a day when Yu Sheng would leave. After his grandmother said this, he suddenly realized that, indeed, Yu Sheng should leave because his leg was healed.Thinking of this, a great sadness invaded his whole body, making him feel cold even in this hot June.

Dishes were brought to the table one after another, and A Ming lost his appetite, and the guests on the table arrived at random.There was no sign of Yusheng yet, Amin was a little flustered, and said to the grandmother beside him, "It's almost time for dinner, I'll go look for him."

Grandma waved her hand, telling him to go and come back quickly.A Ming got up, walked a few steps forward, and searched for Yu Sheng's trace in the noisy crowd.Walking two steps, looking around, he didn't want to bump into a person full of arms, he was about to get annoyed, wanted to reason with that person, didn't want to raise his eyes, and saw the thick beard stubble on that person's chin, this person was Yu Sheng.

Yu Sheng said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I didn't hurt you."

The moment A Ming pressed against Yu Sheng's chest like a stone in his heart fell to the ground, the aura emanating from him made him feel quiet and warm.He couldn't help but feel joy in his heart, and the bewilderment just now disappeared.

"I'm fine. The banquet is about to start, let's go back." Amin said softly.

"I'm also heading back, let's go."

Yu Sheng and A Ming returned to their seats.The lady who served the dishes brought the last dish and shouted: "The dishes are ready! Folks! The banquet is open! The banquet is open!" The yelling came one after another, spreading to every dining table on the street.This is the beginning of the lively Long Street Banquet.

Grandma said to Yu Sheng: "Eating banquet is just having fun, you two are welcome, you can pick whatever you want to eat yourself."

Yu Sheng nodded and said: "Okay! Okay! Grandma, you can eat by yourself, don't worry about me. I have long arms." After talking, everyone at the table laughed, and he picked up a piece of roasted rice on the opposite side with his chopsticks. White meat, feast on it.

Chaba people are real and not artificial.With a table of dishes, Huhulala ate a lot.At this time, the tea delivery person walked between the dining tables, shouting: "Here comes the herbal tea! Here comes the herbal tea! Anyone want it?..."

Yu Sheng asked curiously, "What kind of herbal tea is this?"

Amin replied: "It's Laoyin tea."

Yu Sheng asked, "What kind of tea is that?"

A Ming said mysteriously: "You will know after drinking and watching." Then, he stood up and shouted at the guy carrying the teapot: "We want three bowls here!"

The guy said in search of a voice: "Good!"

After a while, three big bowls of red Laoyin tea soup were placed in front of Yu Sheng.

Yu Sheng picked up the bowl and sniffed it, but there was no special smell, so he poured all his brains into his stomach.

"Don't tell me, this taste is sweet and clear, with a strange fragrance of plants. What is it made of?" Yu Sheng asked.

A Ming said mysteriously: "Actually, you have seen it before. When you went to cut moxa, you passed by."

Yu Sheng suddenly realized: "Oh. I remembered, you were talking about the piece that A Bao played."

A Ming nodded and said: "Yes. Laoyin tea is made from the branches and leaves of camphor trees." He took a sip of the tea and continued: "Unlike other teas, Laoyin tea must be boiled with high heat first, and then cooled Only then will it be outstanding and fragrant, and hot drinks do not have this kind of taste. We drink it here in summer, it can clear away heat and relieve heat, and it is very comfortable." After speaking, he continued to take a sip.

After listening, Yu Sheng said: "Then I'll have another bowl, I'm quite angry." Standing up, he asked the waiter to deliver another bowl.

After the banquet on the long street, Yu Sheng said, "Grandma, shall we go for a walk with you? Where do you want to go?"

Grandma smiled and said, "I just mentioned it casually, but you still take it seriously."

Yu Sheng smiled and said, "We're not tired, we just treat it as an after-meal digest anyway. Where do you want to go?"

Grandma said: "Go to the bluestone."

So A Ming helped his grandmother, and Yu Sheng followed behind and walked towards the bluestone slab.

The villagers respect Grandma Zeng very much, and passers-by greet her along the way.The long banquet dissipated, and the people on the street gradually thinned out.After the morning mist dissipated, the sun shone so fiercely that people couldn't open their eyes. The road was silent except for the cicadas on the trees.

Because of the heat, the short alleys were much longer than usual, and it took the three of them twice as long as usual to get to the yellow kudzu tree.As soon as you enter the "territory" of the yellow kudzu tree, the area covered by the green shade immediately feels much cooler. The ancients said: It is true to enjoy the coolness under the big tree.

The two kudzu trees are entwined and embraced each other, and they have grown into one tree completely.Grandma walked slowly under the thick tree trunk and stared at it for a long time.

After a long time, the grandma said, "Amin, that's where I found you." She touched Amin's face and continued, "It's been 16 years in a flash, and you've grown up so much. It’s a pity.” I don’t know whether the grandmother was happy or sad, but she burst into tears.

Seeing this, A Ming quickly comforted her: "It's fine, why do you say that? A Ming will always be with you. Don't cry, grandma." He said and wiped away his grandmother's tears.

After resting for a while under the yellow kudzu tree, Grandma Zeng and the three continued to walk towards the Fengyu Pavilion at the entrance of the village.

This wind and rain pavilion is a three-story wooden structure, which can be regarded as a high-rise building in the village.The pillars and railings are all painted vermilion, but they are old and dark red due to wind and rain erosion, and the red paint has peeled off a lot in some places; Hanging red lanterns.

Grandma Zeng touched the pillars of the pavilion with her mother-in-law's hand and said: "About 200 years ago, a wife built this pavilion in order to wait for her husband. Wet, unfortunately, the woman did not wait for his man back until she died."

Amin asked, "Where did that man go?"

The grandmother looked at A Ming and said, "The descendants all blamed that man. In fact, they didn't know that the man was not from Chaba. He was also a foreigner. He didn't belong to this place in the first place."

Amin asked strangely, "Then why hasn't anyone mentioned it?"

The grandmother said: "Some people, people only want to remember what they miss; some things, people only want to spread what they believe. As for the truth, it doesn't really matter, what you believe matters." Grandma paused, then continued: " The villagers only know that the woman built the wind and rain pavilion for the man, but they forgot that the man and the woman planted the yellow kudzu tree together. That’s why the woman can keep going, because of those two trees.”

A Ming asked, "Is it the two trees at the entrance of the village?"

The grandmother said: "Yes. People are not together, but in the end the trees grow together. It is also a wish fulfilled."

After speaking, the three of Amin stood in the pavilion and couldn't help looking at the huge yellow kudzu tree below.At this time, the cool wind from the valley blew, shaking the leaves rustling, and a pair of egrets flew out from the trees, gliding to the distance of the valley.

Unconsciously, the sun has already slanted to the west, and the heat begins to recede.Grandma Zeng said, "Let's go back."

Let's go and rest, the three returned home.Grandma asked Yu Sheng to lift up his trouser legs to check his recovery from the leg injury.Grandma Zeng looked at the surface of the leg first, it was all healed, and there was no sign of any injury, then she tried to pinch his ankle and the upper part of the calf, and asked, "Does it still hurt? Is there any pain?" How does it feel?"

Yu Sheng shook his head, and replied, "It doesn't hurt anymore, it's fine, and I don't feel anything strange."

Grandma said: "It seems that the bones have grown well, and there is no need to apply ointment every day. I will give you some medicinal wine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Just wait for it to recover on its own. I suggest that you still have to persevere when you resume training, but Still avoid strenuous exercise.”

This is a good thing.Hearing what his grandmother said, and thinking of the story just now, A Ming couldn't help feeling a little sad in his heart.I thought: The woman and the man are pitiful, but they love and know each other after all, unlike him and Yu Sheng, who are nothing, I am afraid that Qiu Shui Wuhen has left hatred, the more I think about it, the more depressed I feel.

Grandma took out a small bottle of medicinal wine from the medicine cabinet, handed it to Yu Sheng, and asked him to rub it every morning and evening.Yu Sheng opened the lid and smeared it on his legs. Seeing that Yu Sheng had accidentally spilled some of the medicinal wine, A Ming hurried to help, saying, "I'll do it! Look at your clumsiness." He dipped the medicinal wine carefully first. On cotton, then apply a little bit evenly to the injured area.

Yu Sheng smiled embarrassedly and said, "Thank you. You are really good at this job."

Grandma said: "Let's rest for a while, and I have to go to the prostitute's house later."