porridge for two

From Hongyan Township to Bamang Village Road, we first walk a section of waterway, and the wharf is not far from Uncle Wang’s house where he put things away.When Xie Xiuping came to Hongyan Township from Tunshang Village, Uncle Huang, who came to receive them from Bamang Village, had already arranged for people to move their things to the boat and put them away.

Several people came directly to the pier and boarded a fishing boat.It was a small fishing boat with a length of 6 meters and a width of 2 meters, which was just right for them and that little thing.

The crude fishing boat doesn't even have a cabin, but some wooden boards are installed on the hull for people to sit on. The bow is a diesel engine and there are two oars.

When going downstream, use the paddles to control the direction, the engine is turned off, saving fuel;

The small villages along the river are slowly being left behind. When they go to places where the river flows slowly, they will see three or five big white birds looking for something to eat in the river. Everyone is discussing whether it is an osprey or a heron. It is a fishing stork, which is called differently in different places, and in the end there was no result of the discussion.All I know is that it is a bird raised by fishermen to help catch fish.

On the surface of the river, occasionally you will encounter oncoming fishing boats, either carrying people or fish caught by fishermen.

Uncle Huang told them that these boats were fishermen along the Qinghe River, they picked up people when they were rushing to the market, and they usually fished on the river for a living.

Qinghe River, which is called a river, is actually a relatively larger river, but it has also supported generations of fishers.

Everyone stayed on the boat for about half an hour, and then the boat slowly stopped, and there was only a five-square-meter-wide concrete open space in front of it, which extended to the riverside.On the small sandy beach behind the concrete floor, there were still four or five horses with empty frames.

"Here we are, let's get off here!" Uncle Huang said to everyone as the boat docked.

"It's here so soon! Hey, it's better today!" Ai Nan went down to the concrete floor and said that he was still apprehensive about the mountains he climbed yesterday.

"Did you see Bamang? Did you see those horses?" Su Zeyu looked at him with a smile.

"Oh no!"

Hearing this, Ainan glanced around, there were some thatch, but no Bamang.The horse drivers were greeting Uncle Huang, and they were walking towards the side of the boat. A solid-looking middle-aged man jumped onto the boat and handed a bag of rice to the person on the edge of the concrete floor. When the people resisted, they put them on the horse stand that they didn't know when they were led to the concrete floor.

"Let's go first. They drive their horses to take the main road, let's take the small road closer!" Uncle Huang said a few words to a few people, and then walked over to tell Xie Xiuping and the others, pointing to the so-called "big roads and small roads" .

Several people looked at the "big road" and the "small road" they were going to take. Is there any difference? The "big road" is not so steep, there are no steps, and if two horses are walking towards each other, they can't find a place to make way.The "path" is a winding path or a step road made of stones or dug out of the head. Maybe this is the so-called narrow path.

A few people climbed over this slope and down this slope, and came to a small river ditch.They wanted to cross to the other side of the river, but there was no weir and dam, only a few round stone ledges, about [-] to [-] centimeters apart.The river is a bit narrow, and the water rushes on the stone steps, splashing white water.

"Won't that one fall off? Can the stone move?" Ai Nan looked at the round stone step, although the water was not very deep, but his heart still felt cold.

"Didn't you see that it's okay for people to carry burdens across the river?" Su Zeyu pointed to a fellow villager who carried burdens across the river.

"Above, the water is a bit shallower, so you can take off your shoes and cross the water!" Uncle Huang offered them a second way.

"I've been out of water! Is there anyone else who wants to be with me?" Ainan saw hope in the desperate situation, and shouted excitedly.

In the end, Uncle Huang took Ai Nan, Xiao Guoqing and Yang Qin across the river, and the rest went directly across the road.Those who forked the water had to take off their shoes and put on their shoes again, and the river surface had to be wider, so the speed was naturally much slower.

After the three of Xie Xiuping passed by, they met a fellow villager driving a horse on an empty frame along the river, ready to walk up the mountain.

"Uncle, shall we go up the mountain too?" Sun Qi asked Uncle Huang who was carrying the shoes.

"Hey, follow that person!"

"Hey, there is indeed a road, if only I can sit on the horse's shelf!" Sun Qi muttered, and Yang Qin had already put on her shoes and came over.

I saw the fellow yelled, the horse stopped, and the fellow turned around and shouted: "You two little girls can sit in!"

If it wasn't for the fellow's age, Su Zeyu would have suspected that this man was teasing him for fun, and wanted to see the little girl make jokes.The two oval bamboo baskets can hold people, but they look a little weird no matter how they look.

The two girls stepped forward excitedly. The fellow stabilized the horse, and with the help of a few boys, he finally put the two girls into bamboo baskets.

The two of them were leisurely and leisurely in the bamboo basket. Apart from the heavy smell of the horse, they were quite comfortable.Looking at the few people walking behind him, he suddenly felt a little sorry.

"Is this basket for dung?" Ainan suddenly shouted.

"Ai Nan, you can't eat grapes and say the grapes are sour! This is for rice!" Sun Qi snorted at Ai Nan.

"Look at that!"

The two girls looked in the direction Ainan said.A fellow villager was fastening the iron hook on the bamboo basket, and two piles of black animal excrement on the ground had just leaked out of the bamboo basket.

Sun Qi looked at the bottom of the basket under her buttocks, and it was indeed detachable independently.She immediately yelled: "Well, I won't sit down, I can walk!"

"It's okay, we washed it in the river after we loaded the basket with dung, so you can't smell it!" The villager thought she thought it was dirty and explained.

"It's okay, I'm a little dizzy after sitting for so long!" Sun Qi insisted, she just disliked it, and always felt itchy all over her body, but could she say it.

In the end, the two of them came down and continued on their way.And this became the butt of their jokes along the way.

Tang Seng went through ninety-nine and eighty-one tribulations to learn the scriptures. They also went through ninety-nine and eighty-one turns to Bamang Village, and finally saw a lot of Bamang along the dirt side of the road. Bamang Village should be coming soon.

Walking all the way to the village, Xie Xiuping noticed something different, pointing to the tree trunks along the roadside at a distance and asked: "This is still a telegraph pole made of tree trunks?"

On the way here, I didn't find any electric poles. I didn't think so. When I went to the village, I saw the wooden electric poles, so I realized this problem.

Xie Xiuping is a person who has experienced oil lamps, tree trunk poles, and cement poles.Although he couldn't remember the exact time point, he thought that the electricity reform work was done.It seems that some slightly remote places with bad terrain are still waiting for electricity reform.

"Yes! Our village was fully electrified the year before last, and we used tree trunks to make poles. It is easy to lose power when it is windy and rainy. This year's scale buildup, we only got electricity in February, and many poles were broken. It’s time to change it again. I don’t know how long it took to get here.” Uncle Huang chatted with Xie Xiuping while walking.

"In the first few days of electricity in our place, the concrete poles are more effective. Wait a little longer, the electricity will always be changed, and it shouldn't take long."

"It's so old! We have to wait! There are still a few kerosene lamps and vegetable oil lamps in the village! There is no way to open an account without money. After opening an account, you need money to pay the electricity bill. But the oil lamps can't keep up. The electric lights are bright, and I don’t want to suffer that if I can afford the money, and the black lights are blind, and the baby is afraid of blinding his eyes when doing homework!”

"Slowly it will get better and better!"

"Thanks to people like you who have gone out to study, are promising, and don't forget your roots. You still remember us!"

"It won't be possible to do anything by relying on any one of them alone. If everyone works together, it will get better gradually!"

As we talked, the atmosphere became a little heavy.Xie Xiuping was about to say something to change the atmosphere, so he arrived at the entrance of the village.