House Dad’s Literary Life Chapter 554: Ding Xiang ’s hometown and her story (3/4)
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Two days ago, Yang Huan, who came back from her hometown and started her "adventure" graduation trip with Ding Xiang, came to the mountain in western Hunan.
Accurately, Ding Xiang ’s hometown is a remote mountain range in Tuche Township, Yanye County, Maota City, Western Hunan Province.
I went to her house, but it was tossing. Yang Huan and Ding Xiang first took the train to the city, and then took a five-hour long-distance bus to Yanye County (because the mountain road was eighteen bends and went around National Road is very strenuous).
In Yanye County, Ding Xiang told Yang Huan that she used to walk back slowly when she was studying. But now it's okay. A road was repaired to Tuche Township. Ding Xiang and Yang Huan took a three-wheeled passenger car (that is, a motorcycle head followed by a large box) and took a car to Tuche Township.
This passenger car is still open-top, eating gray and soil all the way, both girls are gray-faced.
Fortunately, Yang Huan can accept that she came out of the countryside. This scene was also her normal behavior. Therefore, she also laughed with Ding Xiang and said: "Sister Ding Xiang, I found that although our hometown is all Rural, but still a bit different, my hometown is in the basin, but your hometown is on the mountain. "
After arriving in Tuche Township, Ding Xiang took Yang Huan to find a small hotel to stay first, because the night had come. They rested for one night and ate breakfast early the next morning, bought some buns to take with them, and then proceeded to set off!
The next trip is a big challenge for Yang Huan. She has to walk with Ding Xiang, walk the steep mountain road, half-turn half-way through the three high mountains, it is almost after noon, only to come Ding Xiang's Miaozhai Mountain.
They have to climb up the dangerous stone steps like a ladder. Although the scenery is beautiful along the way, and the higher the climb, the more they can pass through the gaps in the mountains and look at the distant mountains and lush, but Yang Huan I didn't have much thought to look around, I just wanted to go to Ding Xiang's house as soon as possible, and then take a good rest.
It's really two days and one night, when the sun is obviously westward, and not far from the downhill, Yang Huan and Ding Xiang finally arrived home!
There is no particularly big surprise. This is a poor and backward village. The old building, except for its wooden structure, is similar to Yang Huan ’s very poor, worn-out Wudaoku Village when he was very young. almost. Of course, Wudaoku Village is much better now. Even without Yang Yi, the people in the village also lived in brick houses. With Yang Yi, it is a step by step towards a happy life.
However, this village called Baiyaozhai, people are still very enthusiastic. When they saw Ding Xiang and Yang Huan, they all said hello in Miao language to greet Ding Xiang and Yang Huan, as well as some small children in the village, Barely **** also ran in front of Yang Huan and looked at her curiously, and their black eyes still had the liveliness of their age.
"Hello guys!" Although Yang Huan was very tired, he was still happy to take out some sweets from his backpack and distribute them to these children.
This is learned from her brother. Every time Yang Yi returns to his hometown, he will bring candy to the children in the village.
"Aunt and grandma, they asked you where you came from, and I told them that you are my classmate, come over to play here, and then they are very happy and say welcome you." Ding Xiang translated Yang Huan Hmong.
"Thank you, thank you uncle, aunt, grandpa, grandma!" Yang Huan hurriedly replied and nodded gratefully to the other party.
The people in Miao Village continued enthusiastically.
Ding Xiang ’s translation: “Everyone said that they did n’t say in advance, so they did n’t prepare anything. It ’s rude. Then I ’m going to invite you to dinner at home, and I ’ll kill you to welcome you.”
"So enthusiastic!" Yang Huan was a little flattered, but whoever asked her to eat at home, where did she have the art of doppelganger?
"Or forget it, I think everyone's life is very difficult, it is not easy to raise chickens and ducks. I just go to your house to eat some simple!" Yang Huan calmed down, she experienced a hard life So I can think about others.
Ding Xiang actually thinks the same way, but the enthusiasm of the uncles and grandmaes is the tradition of their villages, so she is not embarrassed to remind Yang Huan.
Now Yang Huan refused, and Ding Xiang helped Yang Huan organize the language, and persuaded the villagers to return.
Going back to Ding Xiang ’s home, Yang Huan also met Ding Xiang ’s grandmother. The recovered grandmother ’s body is still tough. Although her waist is rickety and her ears are not so good, she still stays behind Zhaizi all day long Grow vegetables, raise chickens in a small field, be self-sufficient, and try not to trouble others.
Ding Xiang ’s grandmother also pulled Yang Huan to say a lot of things, even if Ding Xiang could n’t hear clearly, she could n’t translate it.
Sitting with the old man for a while, Ding Xiang was busy making dinner. She and Yang Huan just ate a few buns at noon, and they were already hungry.
"The phone can't be reached, there is no signal in this mountain. Hey, Sister Ding Xiang, let me help you!" He pulled out his phone and wanted to give Yang Yi Bao Ping Yang Huan walked back regretfully and saw Ding Xiang cooking. Dang Xiang couldn't help her, but also helped.
"You climbed the mountain for a day, and you were exhausted. You should take a break first." Ding Xiang's rice-washing pot was snatched by Yang Huan, so he had to take a tub to wash vegetables. Only in the village, there is no signal tower here, hey, I forgot to tell you. "
"It's okay, let's talk tomorrow! I was tired after climbing up, but I didn't feel tired after seeing so many enthusiastic folks." Yang Huan laughed while washing the rice, "Sister Ding Xiang, your physical fitness Better than me! I ’ve been practicing martial arts since I was a kid, and I ’m not as strong as you. I climbed the mountain for a long time and I ’m not tired! "
"I am used to it!"
Yang Huan chatted with Ding Xiang: "However, again, your hometown is worse than I thought. I used to think that our hometown was so remote and poor, but I did n’t expect it. You are poorer than we were when we were the poorest! Our hometown can at least build roads, but on your mountain, you do n’t see the possibility of building roads at all. "
Ding Xiang sighed softly and said, "Yeah, I used to think that after I read the book, I would definitely find a way for the villagers in the village to live a good life. Now ..."
Ding Xiang couldn't say anything, and the frustrated expression on his face had already explained everything.
"I can't change, I can only go out." Yang Huan couldn't help but whisper when he thought about his experience after going out of the countryside.
Ding Xiang smiled softly and said, "Yeah, but the thoughts of the older generation are hard to control. I can only hope for the younger generation. I also hope that my brothers and sisters will be like me. Have the opportunity to walk out of the mountains and go to the outside world to see. "
"Reading ... Reading is the best way to change destiny." Yang Huan is not her more than half a year ago. Yang Huan, who has increased her experience, has a deep understanding of the statement that reading changes destiny.
"We used to have a school in the mountain, which was established by an old grandfather who had tested talents, but he died very early. Later, the village sent us a private teacher named Tao Shuping. I followed Grandpa Tao to read , Learning arithmetic, Grandpa Tao does not speak English, but he really did his due diligence and patiently taught us the basics. Until one day, Grandpa Tao told me, Ding Xiang, you should go to the village to study, go to junior high school to learn More things ... "Ding Xiang seemed to recall his memories and told Yang Huan.
With the help of Grandpa Tao, Ding Xiang went out, but when she was in high school, Grandpa Tao did n’t work anymore and died of illness, but Grandpa Tao still left a sum of money to help Ding Xiang finish reading High school. The remaining road, of course, is that Ding Xiang himself worked part-time and saved tuition, and slowly broke out.
"Later? What happened to the school after Grandpa Tao's death?" Yang Huan heard tears in her eyes. She wiped the tears around her eyes and asked.
After Grandpa Tao left, the school was abandoned again. Although several private teachers came one after another, not everyone had the same selfless dedication as Grandpa Tao and was scared by the bitter place of Baiyaozhai. , The longest stay for two weeks, and then all ran away!
Ding Xiang wanted to come back to teach after finishing high school, but the uncles and grandmothers in Zhaizi did not agree. They said that Ding Xiang was the first college student in Baiyaozhai and had to go to school. She wanted to set up one for the children. example!
"What should I do? Another generation has no chance to study." Yang Huan said worriedly.
"It's okay, it's okay now." Ding Xiang's face showed a smile.
During the winter vacation, Ding Xiang returned home not only to take her grandmother down the hill to see a doctor, but also to the village, and found a way to solve the problem that no teacher was willing to come to the village to teach the children to study-she personally paid for the private The teacher increased the subsidy, used money to keep them, and still invited two teachers to take turns to teach in the mountain, solving the problem that they could not reunite with their family on the mountain for many months!
Yang Huan listened to Ding Xiangyun ’s bland talk, and her face was full of surprise.
"No wonder, Sister Ding Xiang, I said you can't afford to spend money at all!" Yang Huan looked at Ding Xiang very moved and said.
Yeah, that makes sense!
Yang Huan and Guo Ziyi have always felt very strange, why Yang Yi has given Ding Xiang a very high salary, but Ding Xiang has always been reluctant to spend it! She was even reluctant to buy herself a new set of clothes, which are the old clothes she usually wears!
Yang Huan is different. Although she did not spend money on anything, after all, after the family conditions are good, she is not as tight as before, and the money she should spend is willing to spend. She usually asked Ding Xiang to go shopping and buy clothes (very ordinary pedestrian street). Ding Xiang shook everything off, and even told Yang Huan the clothes that Murphy gave her before: "I have so many new clothes, I can't wear them. Now! "
Right! Guo Ziyi once advised Ding Xiang to let her buy a house with a loan from Jiangcheng, but this was only a profitable investment, but Ding Xiang did not agree.
It turned out that all the money she saved was used here.