Mingfengfang is a 3-story small building located at the end of the eastern section of Binjiang Road. It is surrounded by large areas of Triangle Plum and Hope Crane. Among the purple flowers of Triangle Plum, there are sometimes some Hope Crane.

Yellow and purple like fairy

Strange-shaped flowers like cranes. On the periphery of Crane Crane and Triangle Plum, there are a few clusters of Xiangfei Bamboo with tear spots. Although the clusters of Xiangfei Bamboo are not densely packed, they effectively block Binjiang Road and lead to the tea house.

sight.

Unlike other shops located on the right side of Binjiang Road, this three-story building with red bricks and blue tiles is located alone on the left side of Binjiang Road, which is the side near the river. Buildings like this are usually government departments.

Of course, if it is built for public facilities, it is not impossible to rent it out, but if it is said to be rented out, it is basically internalized.

The view on the left side of Mingfengfang is very broad, facing the broad river. It is mid-June, when heavy rains and high water levels occur in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The rocks in the middle of the river have been submerged, and the dim yellow river water

It carries trees and other debris washed down from the upstream, carrying white foam and swirling in the center of the river.

On the right is the newly built Eastern New Town in Jincheng. The main building is almost completed. Judging from the appearance alone, this piece of land should be planned to be used as community land. Except for the villa community near Binjiang Road, most of the other

The buildings are all about 33 stories high. Only the side facing the street is used as a store, and most of the stores are still empty.

Directly in front of Mingfengfang, a large memorial square should be built. The land has been almost leveled, but the subsequent construction has not caught up, and large areas of weeds and shrubs have regrown on the leveled land.

There is a lot of greenery. The entire city is basically connected with Mingfengfang. One step forward is the wilderness, and one step back is the modern city.

Chu Chengmu found a shady temporary parking space on the right side of the road and parked his car. The municipal management here had not caught up yet, so many parking spaces were vacant and no one came to charge.

Following Chu Chengmu 1 to Mingfengfang, Meng Lao 2 rubbed her hands awkwardly and carefully looked at the surrounding scenery. The cobblestone road under her feet made her almost fall when she looked around. She

Wearing a white shirt with small flowers on the coarse cloth, a pair of black trousers, and a pair of plastic-soled sandals, the whole person looks a bit rustic and unique to rural women.

Meng Lao 2 has a ponytail. She doesn’t look like anyone else. Her nose is a little round and her lips are a little thick. Except for her eyes, she has almost no similarities with the other brothers and sisters of the Meng family. Compared with Lao Meng and Meng Meng,

With Lao 4’s delicate and beautiful facial features and tall figure, just looking at Lao Meng 2’s appearance would make people think that this middle-aged woman is a bit stupid.

"Aunt 2, don't be nervous. The little girl who was chatting with my mother at our house yesterday wanted to meet you and talk about something. Planting crops or something like that, isn't that what we are good at? Besides, this place looks beautiful.

, it’s just taking advantage of the government, and it actually doesn’t cost much. Let’s just find a roadside stall to eat a bowl of cold noodles and drink a cup of Laoyin tea.”

Standing at the door of Mingfengfang, Chu Chengmu glanced inside and found that all the wooden tea tables on the first floor were empty and there was no one there. Except for the whirring sound of the air conditioner, it was a bit quiet inside.

Shamelessly, he turned to look at Mr. Meng 2 and found that she looked a little nervous, so he comforted her in a low voice.

Hearing this, Mr. Meng 2 tried his best to smile and said: "Who comes to such a beautiful place to eat a bowl of cold noodles? You kid can't even comfort people."

Chu Chengmu raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He really didn't think this place was beautiful. For drinking tea, the decoration of this place was too new. Apart from the good view of the river, it really didn't have any elegance at all. I guess.

When we arrived at Zhong Qingqing's teahouse, which specializes in old-fashioned tea, Aunt 2 might not be so nervous.

After coughing twice at the door, Chu Chengmu waited for a moment, but found that no one came out to receive him. He couldn't help but feel a little strange, so he stopped standing stupidly and led Mr. Meng 2 to the second floor as agreed with Weiwei.

. As soon as I got to the second floor, I saw Chang Weiwei, wearing a goose yellow suspender dress, sitting by the window in the hall at the stairway on the second floor, holding her chin with one hand, looking attentively through the window.

What.

"What are you looking at? You are so fascinated!" Chu Chengmu walked to Chang Weiwei in a few steps, lowered his head and looked out the window, only to find a skinny old man sitting on the riverside with a cigarette in his mouth and moving a bamboo raft.

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The so-called bamboo raft is made by rolling one end of four long bamboo poles together, and stretching the other four corners in a cross shape to tie the fishing net. Then use another bamboo pole about 8 meters long or a bamboo pole frame to make the bamboo raft.

After putting the fishing net down, rely on the fishing rod to lift the fishing net. Repeat this. If you are lucky, the harvest in one day will be good.

"Hey, when did you come? I didn't hear you go upstairs? Aunt 2 is here too! Come on, Aunt 2, sit over here!" Chang Weiwei reacted and looked up after hearing Chu Chengmu's voice.

He glanced at Chu Chengmu, then turned to look at Mr. Meng 2 who was following him. He quickly stood up and asked Mr. Meng to find a tea table and sit down.

When Chu Chengmu saw Chang Weiwei getting up to greet Mr. Meng, he didn't want to be polite to Chang Weiwei, so he sat down directly where she had just sat, lit a cigarette, and continued to look at the little old man.

, then smiled at Chang Weiwei and said:

"Uncle 3 looks skinny, and he has a really good physique. He can move a 4-meter large boat by himself. He is interested in such a sunny day. So this is Uncle 3's place? What do you think?

We have an appointment to meet so far away! Isn’t this place open for business yet?”

Chang Weiwei covered her chest with one hand, leaned over and picked up a few teacups, lifted the teapot, poured some herbal tea into several teacups, handed one cup to Mr. Meng who was sitting opposite her, and then put the other one

He sent a tea cup to Chu Chengmu and said with a smile:

"The weather was too hot, so I didn't make any good tea, so I made some Laoyin tea myself. It has been cooling for a while. Uncle 3 only looks older because he runs outside all year round. In fact, he is older than my dad.

You have to be 78 years younger and your body is bad

Well. He just couldn't stay idle. He saw the Yangtze River rising two days ago, so he was thinking about getting some river fish to eat. As a result, he cut several Xiangfei bamboos at the door yesterday. Why don't he go and move them today?

Is it broken?"

Chu Chengmu took the tea cup, drank the tea in one gulp, then smiled unexpectedly and said:

"I just told my second aunt to come over and have a cup of Lao Yin tea, but you really prepared this. Drinking this stuff in the summer will kill the fire. I brought you here. You can talk to my second aunt! I'll go down.

Look at Uncle 3, I caused a lot of trouble for my friend yesterday, so I have to thank him in person."

Hearing this, Chang Weiwei took the tea cup from Chu Chengmu's hand, then glanced sideways at Mr. Meng who was still looking at him very reservedly, and said softly to Chu Chengmu: "You and your aunt

Did you say it was because of something?"

Chu Chengmu nodded and replied softly:

"I briefly talked to her on the way here. You haven't even started class yet. How can you expect to achieve anything from today's talks? I just brought her here to get acquainted with you and keep in touch.

Feelings. The people in that village are too lazy. If you really want to do something, you have to look at my second aunt."

"By the way, shouldn't you study in a government agency for your major? Why do you suddenly want to go to the countryside?"

When Chang Weiwei heard this, she pursed her lips, rolled her eyes at Chu Chengmu, and chuckled:

"Of course that was my plan in the past. I would slowly gain qualifications in the agency, and then my partner would take the grassroots promotion route. But then didn't things like Tai Ming happen? After thinking about it, instead of pinning my hopes on

It’s better for me to make the decision myself when it comes to others!”

"Tai Ming is a horse-dung man who is bright on the outside but a fool on the inside. Anyway, I don't plan to fall in love in the short term. I will find someone who is a good match in the future, so that I don't have to train myself and help others."

It’s really tiring to train a husband. To be honest, I can get help from you in the first step, and this start is already much better than I imagined.”

Chu Chengmu smiled when he heard this and said: "It's really a coincidence. If I had known these things from the beginning and really wanted to invest in you from the beginning, I wouldn't be so petty."

Hearing this, Chang Weiwei glanced at Chu Chengmu with a seemingly resentful look, and then burst into laughter and said: "I know you men don't have a word of truth in your mouth, so why invest in me? You are obviously investing in my dad."

!And it’s easy to invest.”

Chu Chengmu stood up with a smile and replied: "If you see through it, don't say it! If you are so smart, how can we be friends in the future? If there are money problems in the future, if you have a better attitude, maybe I will add more."

OK. I’ll go downstairs to talk to Uncle 3 first. You and Aunt 2 can chat with me!”

After speaking, Chu Chengmu said hello to Mr. Meng 2, leaving her and Chang Weiwei to chat alone, and then went straight downstairs to the riverside.

The sun's temperature in the morning had risen to the early 30s. Chu Chengmu walked along the stone steps beside the river embankment and walked a few steps to Chang Hu, who was also sitting at the bottom of the stone steps. The water level here had risen.

A large section, the lowest stone steps have been completely submerged by the turbid Yangtze River water.

Chang Hu rarely changed into a light brown cotton double-breasted Tang suit short shirt with a stand-up collar, and also wore a pair of trousers of the same color on his lower body. But the trousers were rolled up to his knees, and a pair of big feet were submerged in the turbid river water.

The cloth shoes were thrown aside by him, and the buttons on his short shirt were also unbuttoned, revealing his thin, dark and shriveled chest with a faint sternum visible.

Compared with Chang Weiwei's casualness, Chang Hu was a little more reserved. As soon as Chu Chengmu came over, he planned to stand up from the water. Seeing this, Chu Chengmu hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold Chang Hu's thin shoulder.

Then he sat down next to him, handed him a cigarette, and said with a smile: "Uncle 3, why are you so polite to me? We don't know each other, and we don't interact with each other more than once or twice."

Chang Hu threw away the dry cigarette pot in his hand, reached out to take the cigarettes scattered by Chu Chengmu, smiled awkwardly and said: "I saw Principal Chu at my elder brother's place a few days ago, and he even hit me

It was a face-to-face meeting. His eyes looked me up and down, and I felt a little nervous. I thought he was still thinking about the incident at Wugong Mountain. Don't I feel a little uneasy?"

Chu Chengmu lowered his head and lit the cigarette, smiled and said: "You have a guilty conscience. It's been a month or two, who is still thinking about that trivial matter. If you really want to care about me, I wouldn't care about you earlier.

?Besides, it’s really just a mass grave, where people who died suddenly are buried. Why, you still think it’s a geomantic treasure land?”

Hearing this, Chang Hu smiled awkwardly again, rubbed his hands and said: "Afterwards, I went to a few local Feng Shui masters to take a look and found that the Feng Shui there had been broken for a long time. This is really serious.

If the ancestral hall is built there, the Chang family may die badly. What a charlatan a master from Hong Kong City is, bah!"

Hearing this, Chu Cheng Mu smiled with a hint of meaning and said: "If I hadn't gone back then, you would have really built your ancestral hall and moved out all the bones of my old Chu family. Your Chang family

Isn’t that bad luck? This Feng Shui thing is really interesting.”

Chang Hu 1 looked even more embarrassed when he heard this. Chu Chengmu couldn't help but laugh when he saw this old man who was several decades old. He had been in the sun for most of the day without sweating.

He shook his head and said:

"It's a long time ago. Don't worry about it, uncle 3. I, Chu Chengmu, won't care about it if I say I don't care about it. Besides, don't I have to go around with Secretary Chang often? What are you afraid of? That's right.

,Uncle 3, thank you for what happened yesterday.”

Chang Hu shook his head when he heard this and said: "It's a small matter not worth mentioning, but Boss Chu's words are serious. Principal Chu is staying in Jincheng. I, Chang Lao3, must only be a protector. How dare I do that?"

What other thoughts are there? But there is one thing, my eldest brother gave me the opportunity to ask you, I don’t know if it is convenient or not!”

Chu Chengmu held the cigarette in the corner of his mouth, stretched out his hand to take the bamboo pole from Chang Hu's hand, then stood up, using the bottom of the pole as the base point, exerting force on his hands and waist at the same time, he pulled up the bamboo net and followed it.

The net broke away from the water, and a herring weighing about 45 kilograms appeared from the bottom of the net.

"Oh, you're lucky. Why did the herring come to the shore? Secretary Chang wanted to ask, did I deliberately get involved in Chang Weiwei's incident?" Chu Chengmu turned the reel pole and the net to 1

On the other side, Chang Hu saw this, stood up quickly, walked over in a few steps, grabbed the gills of the herring, and then stuffed it into a plastic bucket next to it.

"What kind of fish are there in the rising water? I just moved a few tulle fish. I guess these things were washed down from the hydropower station upstream. Our group has been eaten up by the people in Jincheng."
To be continued...