Drive to the side of the village, stop in an empty space, the village is very quiet, occasionally see someone walking.


    Although it is winter, the scenery around is very beautiful. There are mountains all around. On the mountains are evergreen pine trees, and the water surface has become open, just like a beautiful picture of green mountains and clear water.


    There are two Nongjiale hotels near the vacant lot, with several cars parked. Obviously, in spring and summer, many people come here to play. Even in winter, some people still come here.


    Our arrival did not attract the attention of the surrounding villagers. It seems that they are used to having people come here to relax and play.


    Jin Jingxiu and Qiu Tong get out of the car. Jin Jingxiu looks around and her lips are tightly pressed. It seems that her mood is more excited.


    Then, she went to the river, Qiutong followed her closely.


    I got out of the car and walked around casually. I saw a stone tablet beside me. I walked over and saw three big characters carved on it: kaoshantun.


    I understood immediately that this was the backer village, the village where Lao Li cut the queue, and the place where Lao Li and aunt Jin knew each other.


    I understand the reason why Jin Jingxiu is coming here and why she looks excited.


    She came here to visit her hometown again.


    When Lao Li heard that Jin Jingxiu was coming to Shenxian Bay, he was obviously aware of something. He obviously knew why Jin Jingxiu was coming here.


    I don''t know what kind of mood Lao Li is in at this time. I don''t know if he is also very excited.


    Watching Jin Jingxiu and Qiu Tong turn a corner, the figure disappears in the river, I did not follow in the past, continue to walk around.


    Next to him, an old man was leaning against the wall to bask in the sun, smoking with a pipe. A yellow dog was lying down beside him, half squinting. It seems that it is also used to people who come here often and don''t bother to look at me.


    I went over and sat cross legged beside the old man, leaning against the wall.


    The old man gave me a blank look.


    I gave him a smile: "Hello, grandfather!"


    "Good --" the old man continued to smoke.


    "How old are you?" I said as I took out my cigarette and handed it to him.


    He looked at me again, put down the pipe in his hand, then took the cigarette and looked at it: "good cigarette."


    How do you know this is a good cigarette


    "Isn''t this Chinese tobacco? Do you think I don''t know? " Said the old man.


    With a smile, I asked again, "how old are you?"


    I took out a lighter and lit his cigarette.


    The old man took two puffs of smoke, then stretched out his right index finger and thumb and said, "I''m 88 this year!"


    Hearing this, I was stunned. The old man looked like he was more than 70 years old. I didn''t expect that he was 88 years old. I really didn''t see it.


    "You are in good health, absolutely great!" I gave him a thumbs up shake.


    "Ha ha..." The old man laughed, proud, and then modest: "old man But I can still do my work now, and I can cook and do my own housework. A few years on, I can still go fishing in the river! "


    "Good mountains, good water and good air, you can live a long life!" I paid a compliment.


    Unexpectedly, the old man suddenly became a little angry and gave me a dissatisfied look.


    I am a Leng, don''t know oneself that words is wrong.


    "How can you, a young man from other places, speak so impolitely that you don''t understand any etiquette or respect your elders?" The old man said angrily.


    "Ah -" I was a little stunned: "grandfather, I, where am I impolite?"


    "Why do you say I live a long life?" The old man is still very angry.


    "Isn''t it a good thing to say that you live a long life?" I said.


    "You''re obviously cursing me. I can only live for 12 years. Aren''t you cursing me to die early?" The old hair was on fire, and the beard on his chin was curling up.


    I can''t laugh or cry, I wipe, this old man really love life, live a hundred years old is not satisfied. I said, "Oh Oh Grandfather, I''m wrong. I apologize to you. I wish you at least 200 years old and 200 years old! I don''t know how to speak. Don''t give me the same opinion


    I kept apologizing, the old man slowly calmed down his anger, began to smoke again, looked at me: "where do you come from?"


    "Sea of stars!" I said hastily.


    "The sea of stars." The old man repeated, "it''s not near. It''s from a car."


    "Yes I said, "have you ever been to Xinghai?"


    "No:" the old man shook his head: "the biggest city I''ve ever been to is Dandong, and xinyizhou over there. I haven''t been to any other cities!"


    "Oh Dandong is a big city. Xinyi Prefecture over there is also a big city! " I said it freely.


    "In the past, xinyizhou was similar to Dandong, but these years, people from the village came back to say that the development of xinyizhou is far worse than that of Dandong, which is not a grade." the old man said, "however, you say Dandong is a big city. I don''t agree with you. I think Xinghai is a big city. Dandong seems to be a grade worse than Xinghai!""Haven''t you been to Xinghai?" I said.


    "I don''t know how to watch TV. I don''t know how to listen to the people who work outside the village come back to say that." The old man asked me.


    "Oh That''s right, that''s right I nodded.


    "Although I haven''t been to Xinghai, I''m really familiar with it. I knew it many years ago, and I knew it was a big city!" The old man said complacently.


    "How do you know?" I said.


    "Many years ago, a group of educated youth came to the village to jump the queue, including Shenyang and Xinghai!" Said the old man.


    My heart moved and said, "do you know them?"


    "Of course, I was the leader of the production team in the village. Do you think I didn''t know him? I''m not only acquainted with them, but also familiar with them! " Said the old man.


    "Oh, they''ve been jumping in here for years, haven''t they?" I said.


    "For a few years, but later, they all left one after another and returned to the city! A few years ago, some of them came back in groups and visited the old place again. When I met them, I could still name them! " The old man looked proud again.


    "Well..." I nodded: "your old man''s memory is very good!"


    "Of course, these young people followed me to work in the fields. I assigned them all the jobs they did!" The old man said with emotion: "thirty years have passed. When they came back, they were all over 50 years old from the young people of that year. Many people have become grandparents. How time flies and people have changed a lot."


    I don''t know if there was Lao Li among the people who came back from the group that time. A few years ago, Lao Li was in the limelight, and he might not come back.


    I said: "listen to you, it seems that they were here to jump in line, they were together, but they left, but not together?"


    "Yes, they came together and left one after another. When there were places to go back to the city or go to university, everyone would fight for them. It depends on who has a hard relationship. Those who have a hard relationship go back to the city first, and those who have no relationship can only wait I remember the last one to leave was a young man named Li. By the way, that young man was the educated youth from Xinghai! "


    My heart is a little excited, said: "that is to say this last back to the city of the young man surnamed Li is the most irrelevant?"


    "Ah --" the old man sighed and said: "the young man''s parents are right-wing, and his family background is not good. Naturally, it''s not his turn to do good things. However, in the end, he also left. However, among the group of educated youth who cut the queue in those years, he was the best one who got along after returning to the city..."


    "Oh, how did you do the best?" I said.


    "I heard that he became a public security chief in Xinghai later, or vice mayor of Xinghai. You came from Xinghai, you should know?" Said the old man.


    Obviously, the old man''s news is still a bit closed. Although he knows that Lao Li became the director of public security, he doesn''t know about Lao Li''s downfall later.


    I said: "I don''t know about the senior officials of Xinghai. I don''t care about them. I just came to Xinghai from other places to work!"


    "Oh..." The old man nodded: "no wonder!"


    "It seems that it is not necessarily a good thing to leave at last." I said with a smile.


    The old man didn''t speak. After smoking a cigarette, he threw away the cigarette end. I handed him another cigarette. He waved his hand and touched his pipe: "forget it, your cigarette is boring. I''ll smoke mine! Would you like to have a couple? I planted the dry tobacco myself. I''m very energetic. "


    I smile and wave.


    The old man continued to smoke his dry tobacco with a good taste. He was silent for a long time and said, "in fact, the young man who left at last didn''t walk very fast. Although he left, he didn''t have a good reputation in the village, although he became a big man later."


    "Why?" I said.


    Looking at the river, the old man was silent for a long time. He said, "there is a story in it. The young man named Li was not gregarious when he came to cut the line. Because he was born in a bad family, some of them were pushed out. I specially took care of him. I didn''t let him go down to work with everyone and arranged him to release the cattle of the production team.


    "This arrangement, on the one hand, can avoid conflicts between him and others when they are working; on the other hand, it can be regarded as a light pleasure to take care of him. Later, when he was herding cattle, he saved a girl who was fishing there and fell into the water. As soon as he came and went, they got on well. I knew about it at that time. I think the girl was really good. She was good-looking and kind-hearted, so she deliberately set them up.


    "But unexpectedly, in order to go back to the city, the young man fell in love with a girl classmate in the city, married someone else, and abandoned the girl The girl used to come to see him. Since he married the woman in the city and left here, the girl never came again.


    "Later, I heard from a relative in Lijiang village that something happened to the girl. I don''t know what it is. I only know that the girl is missing, I don''t know where she is, and I still don''t know whether she is alive or dead Well, it hurts to think about it. What a good girl, poor girl. "I didn''t speak for a while.


    "For this reason, some people in the village have some opinions on the young man. Later, although they heard that he had become a senior official, they still looked down on him. The educated youth who came back a few years ago did not come with him. I think he may have no face to come back! Such a good girl is so kind to him. In order to get back to the city, she dumped others. Alas Do evil The old man sighed.


    I sighed. It''s really a sin. I just don''t know whether it was caused by Lao Li or by that era.


    In the face of an era, the fate of an individual is negligible.