Frogs sang in the distance and crickets neighed nearby.
"I want a home.
A place that doesn’t need to be big, I will think of it when I’m tired.”
Luo Xuan groaned and sat on the golden straw used to make thatched huts.
The frame of this house has already been erected.
Luo Xuan tied several pieces of woven bamboo fence to the pillars, and then placed them on top of one corner of the temporary house.
Cover it with a larger bamboo fence.
A small shabby room with rudimentary toiletries.
"What, are you homesick?"
Zhang Xiaoli leaned on his shoulder,
She said softly, "I used to hear my brother-in-law always say that it's good to stay at home for a thousand days, but it's always difficult to go out.
At that time, I couldn't understand that feeling.
But now...I really understand the meaning of the saying that people leave their hometown and become humble."
Zhang Xiaoli smiled softly, "Luo Xuan, don't worry, everything will be fine.
What are we afraid of when the village chief makes things difficult for us? Aren't there commune cadres who will make decisions for us?"
"He's not making things difficult. No, Lao Dao has agreed. Can we continue building the house tomorrow?"
Luo Xuan replied, "I said that I would go to the commune cadres to comment, but that was just to scare Lao Dao.
I believe that no leader would like a guy who causes a lot of trouble as soon as he comes to the field."
"Solving trouble is very troublesome."
Luo Xuan laughed and said, "But it's very simple to deal with that guy who is causing trouble for the leader."
Zhang Xiaoli smiled slightly and said, "Luo Xuan, are you homesick?"
Luo Xuan shook his head, "The place where the heart is concerned is my hometown. The place where the heart is concerned is home."
"Are you concerned here?"
Zhang Xiaoli asked, "I miss my sister a little bit, and my lovely nephews and nieces.
Don’t you care about some people in Xiao Laojun Mountain?”
Luo Xuan was speechless.
Do you have any concerns in your heart? If so, who are you concerned about?
"Keke...Luo Xuan, Zhang Xiaoli, come over and have a drink!"
Not far behind the house, Namu and the others were still drinking and eating meat.
The girls in this area get married very early...so early that people dare not say their age.
And the age at which they first drank alcohol was also very young.
Parents don't care about the children in the village drinking. Not to mention, do they go home every day, or when do they go home?
These little things.
Those people in the village don't care at all: whether love comes back or not!
You can go home whenever you want.
The snake Namu, Nali and the others caught today was quite big.
So Namu, a ghostly spirit, cut out a piece of meat and took it to the village.
She didn't know who she was looking for, so she bought a can of wine from someone else's hand.
Namu, who was now drunk, and Nali, a total of about 10 girls, were still sitting around a bonfire under the big tree.
There, they barbecued, played and drank.
I don’t know where they got so many topics and where they got so many happy things?
Anyway, since Da Namu and the others started drinking, their giggles have not stopped...
"Come on, come on, have a drink."
Namu's face turned red as she staggered into Luo Xuan, where she and Zhang Xiaoli were resting.
I saw her raising the bamboo tube in her hand,
He handed it to Zhang Xiaoli and said, "Sister Xiaoli, let's go outside to drink. It's so nice to sing and dance!"
Why are you hiding here and whispering?
How can there be so much to talk between men and women? If you have to do something, just do it three times, five times, two times, and that’s it.”
Namu chuckled, "Those people in our village are all like this. There are very few intimate words between the men in the family and his mother-in-law."
"Drink! Take a sip."
Namu had to let Zhang Xiaoli take a sip, "Whenever we women encounter, we always talk to our companions... We can't talk to men. We just do it!"
Zhang Xiaoli's face turned red, even more red than Na Mu who was already drunk.
"I, I don't know how to drink."
Zhang Xiaoli said Nunuo, "I have never had a drink in my life."
Namu raised the bamboo tube and started drinking, "There has to be a first time for everything. Drink! Once you drink this can of wine, you will know how happy you will be."
Zhang Xiaoli is not a person who is good at rejecting others.
Namu, who was drunk, was very enthusiastic.
One hand held up the bamboo tube, and the other hand hooked Zhang Xiaoli's neck, trying to forcefully drink her.
Zhang Xiaoli, who was a little panicked, could only turn around and look at Luo Xuan.
"Go ahead and play with them for a while. You can't eat what Namu makes."
Luo Xuan encouraged Zhang Xiaoli, “But you can chat and dance with them.
Integrate with them as soon as possible and understand their way of thinking and work habits. This will also be beneficial for you to take root here in the future."
Zhang Xiaoli hesitated for a moment,
After all, she couldn't hold back Namu's enthusiasm, so she got up and followed Namu.
Zhang Xiaoli has lived a very reserved life since she was a child.
Now let her follow Namu to relax properly and let Zhang Xiaoli gradually become more outgoing.
It's not a bad thing.
It's like a bullet that is always pressed tightly, which is not a good thing.
It is good to be relaxed and serious, but also lively and lively.
Zhang Xiaoli followed Namu away, and within 10 minutes, Zhang Xiaoli was completely drunk.
I have been tired from traveling for a while, and building a house is also tiring and scary.
Zhang Xiaoli, who was extremely exhausted physically and mentally, drank on an empty stomach. How could she not get drunk?
In fact, it’s not that Zhang Xiaoli doesn’t want to eat. It’s the food made by Namu and the others.
It can scare Zhang Xiaoli half to death!
How dare you try to eat it?
Namu and the others' food tonight is mainly roasted snakes and roasted voles.
Snacks include grilled bamboo shoot maggots, grilled stick insects, grilled eels, grilled mountain crabs, grilled small fish...
Everything that flies in the sky, swims in the water, crawls on the ground... Anyway, there is nothing that Namu and the others don't eat.
Moreover, their eating habits mainly consist of roasted and raw foods such as chili peppers and long beans.
When it fell into the hands of Namu and Nali, they were all eaten raw... and they were so chewy that people were stunned to see them.
As for those things with a little bit of meat, there is one word: roast!
After it's cooked, dip it in coarse salt and stuff the chili noodles into your mouth.
Zhang Xiaoli originally brought a can of canned beef to a party in the past.
Unfortunately,
As soon as I opened the can, girls like Namu, Nali, and Najudi snatched it all away.
Zhang Xiaoli, who has a soft temper, does not like to compete with others or compete with others.
——Then I have no choice but to go hungry.
Under the big tree behind the house, the singing and dancing girls were still having fun there.
As for Zhang Xiaoli, Namu and the others who were drunk and already asleep, they found two pieces of bamboo fence to make an arched shack, and then spread thick straw on the ground.
A simple shelter was created.
Moreover, when Namu and others made this kind of shack, they had to lay out straw first, and then help Zhang Xiaoli to sleep on the straw.
Then two pieces of bamboo fence were arched into a figure eight above Zhang Xiaoli's head.
Wherever people sleep, they build shelters.
It’s not about where the shack is set up so people can sleep in it...
Lazy people have their own lazy ways.
They really know how to save trouble!
Now there is only Luo Xuan in the temporary house, and he is about to lie down and rest for a while!
This guy, Lao Min, came out of nowhere.
I saw him poking Luo Xuan with his elbow: "Why don't you go out and go crazy with them?"
“Do you dislike quality?”
Old Min chuckled and said, "Don't you just sing the song of the mountain you mentioned? What's wrong? You're here and you're still picky?"
Luo Xuan asked him, "Didn't you sneak out to find those Miao soldiers and talk all night long?"
"Don't mention it, I have bad luck tonight. That book! In someone's shack, someone jumped in first."
Lao Min gave a bad laugh, "Forget it, I'll just sleep plain tonight... Hey, Luo Xuan, can you tell me what your long-term plans are?"
Luo Xuan sighed, "I want to slowly change the people here, their ideas, and gradually improve their quality of life."
"It's hard."
Old Min sighed, "The people in this village are not like the people in the village next door. They are Miao soldiers there, who are more economically minded and know how to plan everything they do.
So the living conditions in the village over there are generally much higher than here."
Luo Xuan nodded, "It's really difficult to change the ideas like Lao Dao's.
But after all...since I'm here, maybe it's a kind of fate."
Luo Xuan said slowly, "Perhaps I will stay here for a relatively long time.
You can't just do nothing, just have two meals a day, and then play and fool around with those girls.
Are you going to live like this every day?"
Lao Min sighed, "Actually, when I first came here, I had the same idea as you.
But after trying it for a few years, I gave up this naive idea.
It’s a thankless job, but I feel full after being angry...What am I trying to do?”
Luo Xuan turned around and asked Lao Min, "I'm afraid you can't go back now, right?"
Lao Min nodded, "My home in Shanghai... is gone; I have no family anymore. I can't go back!"
I'm afraid I'll be here forever in a foreign land...Forget it, what's there to be sad about? Just take it one day at a time...People are buried in the loess everywhere."
During the day, Lao Min
He also said that his family sent him things, money and food.
this matter,
Either Lao Min is bragging, or it happened a few years ago.
He went to the countryside to join the queue and came early. He was second only to the group of educated young people who came down in 1955.
After so many years, the outside world has changed a lot, things have changed and people have changed.
That's why Luo Xuancai guessed: A guy with Lao Min's background probably won't be able to go back...
Lao Min asked, "Are you really going to help the people here, change their minds, and improve their living environment?"
Luo Xuan nodded, "Anyway, idleness is idleness. Instead of living in idleness like you do now... Then why not use this period of time to do something meaningful?"
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
Lao Min sighed heavily, "You are right for a spirited person like you. But it is really difficult to do it!"
“It has to be done even if it’s difficult!”
Luo Xuan gritted his teeth and said, "It's better than living in a state of confusion."
"Furthermore, we don't set a mandatory goal. We can achieve whatever level we can."
Luo Xuan warned Lao Min, "I can tell you, Lao Min. Now you are equivalent to a climber who has no motivation to climb up and is standing still."
"As for me, I belong to the kind of person who carries a little bit of ideals.
People who are trying to climb to the top of the mountain. You don’t have to give me any help, but please don’t pull my legs and try to pull me down to the bottom of the mountain.”
Luo Xuan said, "Don't use your negative emotions to affect my mental state in the future.
Of course...I'm afraid you can't influence me.
But your languid spirit will affect my final achievements."
I can do it myself, and I am not affected by the negative emotions in Lao Min.
But people like Namu, Nali, and Najudi couldn't resist Lao Min's influence.
These people are originally very lazy.
What if Lao Min said to them: Just do it, just have fun! Stop doing it, why are you so active and so tired?
Namu, Nali and the others, the Custodians immediately dropped their hoes.
He will just ignore it and just play in the dark, with the water dripping...
