The bus pulled us to a parking lot. The layout of the parking lot is very familiar, but I can't name the place, and the parking lot of most tourist attractions is nothing more than that!
As soon as I got off the bus, three or five vendors came up to sell bracelets, and I was very curious to see that the beads were very large, the size of quail eggs, and the patterns were similar to the patterns of quail eggshells.
It's a quail egg tree that's unique to our area," says the vendor, "and the bracelets are all milled in our own workshop." ”
So these beads are the fruit of the quail egg tree, not polished from the wood of the quail egg tree, right? I asked.
The peddler looked at me in surprise and did not answer, as if no one had ever asked him this question, and he had never thought about it.
Does it matter whether it's made of fruit or wood? After a long pause, he spoke.
Yes, if I want to buy this bracelet, I must want to know how it is made, what is the meaning or cultural background behind it, why I wear it, and so ......on, and so onI replied sincerely.
"Sniff", the peddler spewed disdain from between his teeth, and turned to his companion (or accomplice), "I'm afraid there's something wrong with this man, isn't there?" ”
His accomplice looked at me with a fierce look in his eyes, as if he had some vicious plan of revenge in his mind. I was so frightened that I immediately shut up and pretended to look around for the tour leader.
Everyone, everyone, pay attention, listen carefully! Suddenly, I heard the team leader raise his voice and shout, "Now we start to tour separately, everyone is free to move, don't get separated with your family or friends, gather here at five o'clock in the evening!" ”
The team leader arranged a homestay for us, and he chartered a whole villa, which has three floors. The second and third floors are accommodating, and the first floor is catering, which is nothing peculiar. Outside the B&B is a relatively wide pedestrian street, relatively new, unlike the ancient town, the shop style is all logged decorating, with quail eggshell patterns, it seems that these woods are the "unique local trees - quail eggwood" that the vendor said before. In this way, the answer to my previous question is that the bracelet should have been polished from quail eggwood, not from the fruit of the tree.
It's just that the vendor who sells bracelets is so impatient, and it won't take much effort to explain this to me, right? He's a local and should know the answer.
It's really the world is declining, and people's hearts are not ancient! I sighed, "I only want to sell things and make a deal immediately, and I don't have any patience at all." ”
The next morning, after washing up, I went to the restaurant on the first floor for dinner. The breakfast of the B&B is not free**, a breakfast contains two dishes, one meat and one vegetable, a total of 200 yuan.
Two hundred, so expensive?! I asked the waiter in shock.
Well, you see, our environment here, okay? The fairy spirit is fluttering, and there is a ** that cleanses the soul. The waiter said, pointing to the floor of the restaurant.
I looked in the direction of his finger, and there were countless small holes in the floor of the restaurant, and white mist slowly spilled out of the small holes, like atomized dry ice, and a thick, ethereal mist floated on the ground.
The fairy spirit is fluttering, vast and misty, like a canopy, on the water side. Our restaurant is called 'Heavenly Kitchen', which makes guests feel like they are in heaven and earth when they dine here. The waiter spat lotus flowers.
It's a pity that you're a restaurant waiter here," I said.
The waiter's face was slightly red, and he smiled a little embarrassedly: "Embarrassed, embarrassed, it's all a rhetoric arranged by the team, and I'm responsible for publicity." ”
For the sake of face, I reluctantly spent 200 yuan to buy a breakfast in the "Heavenly Kitchen" restaurant, one meat and one vegetarian respectively, a plate of braised pork with chestnuts and a plate of fried shredded radish with garlic sprouts. Luckily, I like to eat this meat dish, and my mind is a little more balanced.
After eating the braised pork with chestnuts, I was about to move chopsticks to the vegetarian dishes, when I received a message from the team leader: "Gather in the parking lot, set off on time, don't wait if you are late!" ”
Suddenly I was ...... anxiousThe state of mind switches from leisurely and leisurely for a second to anxious. I was accompanied by my mother, sister and my husband. My husband was probably exercising in the gym at this time, my sister must still be in bed, and my old mother was about to press the road. I looked at the stir-fried radish shreds with garlic sprouts that had not yet moved the chopsticks in the plate, although this plate of vegetarian dishes was not worth 100 yuan, there were dozens of pieces, right? It's a waste to throw it away for no reason.
Pack this dish of shredded radish", I asked the waiter.
The waiter was slightly surprised, but he didn't show it obviously, and began to pack as I asked, slowly.
Can you hurry up? Hurry up! I was anxious.
The slow-moving waiter finally packed the shredded garlic sprouts and radish, and he took out the payment code and asked me to scan the code: "The packaging fee is 20 yuan, please pay." ”
My eyes widened, and my mind was almost in a state of gnashing of teeth: "Okay, good......."”
But in the end, I suppressed my shock and anger, and only regretted that I had accidentally fallen into a big pit of consumption.
I rushed out of the restaurant with shredded radishes and rushed out of the homestay. It's broken, if you don't come early or late, road blindness is committed again, and you can't find the north at all. The terrain also seems to have become quite complicated, and in an instant, you will enter a large garden full of flowers and trees, and even the corridors are covered with thick legume vines. Roads and buildings are hidden in the shade of trees and flowers, as if they are playing hide and seek. A row of white second-floor bungalows appeared behind the bushes, and the surrounding environment looked like the "Lukfook Inn" on the border between Sweden and Switzerland, which was opened by a couple from Jiaojiang in Taizhou, and made us a bowl of authentic potato roast beef at that time.
So I thought, "Why don't you ask my fellow countrymen?" ”
When I got downstairs to the bungalow, I found that it was completely different from the Lukfook Inn, with the exterior walls plastered and the staircase made of rudimentary steel bar. There was a room on the first floor with the door open, and inside sat a middle-aged man wearing a blue-gray overalls hat (the kind my father used to wear), but this man was definitely not my father. I asked the man where is this? The middle-aged man told me that this was the place where the little radish head was held.
I was at a loss. Small radish heads, garlic sprouts, shredded radish, why are they all radishes? Is there any connection between them? Could it be that I packed the shredded garlic radish to deliver food to the little radish head in prison? It's really ......messy to be connected anywhere and everywhere
The middle-aged man stopped speaking, and like an elongated lens, he faded away from my field of vision, along with the row of white bungalows, and finally turned into a thin white line and disappeared from view.
Mom, Mom, are you a**?! "I think I'm going to have to shout, the clock is ticking by, and I'm about to miss the allotted assembly time.
It's coming, it's coming! A familiar voice came. I turned my head and saw myself standing at the entrance of the B&B, on the side of the pedestrian street. The mother ran out of the B&B with her bag, dressed like a flower butterfly: two buns on her head, wrapped in pink satin; The dress was inlaid with lace, and the bracelets and socks were also inlaid with lace; The shoes are a pair of shiny and shiny flatform shoes; In the crook of the hand hangs a small fancy bag; The whole outfit is dressed like a fusion of Lolita and Hatsune Miku.
It's still ...... at this age"I couldn't laugh or cry, but I didn't bother complaining, I had to find the right direction and meet in the parking lot immediately.
I took my mother's hand and ran to the end of the street, Lolita's mother was wearing platform flatform shoes, she couldn't run fast, and her steps were as heavy as a large brachiosaurus. I looked ahead, at the end of the shopping street, and the afterglow of the setting sun gradually changed from a brilliant crimson to a slightly drunken crimson, and the color was gradually pale and faint. It's too late! I picked up Lolita's mother and ran in the direction of the setting sun, not realizing that she was getting lighter and lighter in my arms. When I realized this, I looked down and took a closer look, and what I was holding was actually a rag doll, which was very similar to the rag doll that I accidentally lost on the side of the Beigu Mountain when I was a child, but it was much larger.
When it comes to that rag doll when I was a child, I can't remember who gave it to me. Maybe it was a gift from my aunt or aunt in Beijing when she came to visit my family? Or maybe it's the work sewn by the aunt who works in the same factory as her mother? There may also be second-hand rag doll ...... that the neighbor doesn't wantIn short, it is impossible for the family to buy me a rag doll for no reason. After my grandmother died, no one took my wishes seriously, and rag dolls, which could not be eaten or dressed, were naturally not included in the family's budget.
It was the only rag doll in my childhood, and due to the frequency of use, it was not good to use it later, and the small floral skirt cloth was so thin that it was about to melt. I later wanted to pass on the rag doll to my sister, but she wasn't interested, after all, who would like such an old toy?
One weekend afternoon, I took my rag dolls and my friends to play on the slopes of Beigu Mountain. There is a road on the hillside, and the air-raid shelter below the road has a drop of at least ten meters high, and there is no guardrail, which is actually quite dangerous. In the process of throwing the rag doll with his friends, one of them missed and didn't catch it, and the rag doll naturally "fell off the cliff".
Do you want to go down and find it? "We struggled for a long time, but none of us wanted to go down to look for it, because the door of the bomb shelter was marked with a big black skull, which was considered a deadly and dangerous warning.
Forget it, your rag doll is old enough anyway", said the little friend.
I'll admit that I didn't really want to get the doll back, although I was a little reluctant to do so.
I ran as hard as I could, racing against the speed of the sun's down. But this commercial street seems to be very long, and every time I think I am near the end, my eyes are suddenly pulled away, and the destination is far away. The warm sunset in the distance gradually degenerated into a cold light of gray, white and blue, and the chill was approaching.
I slowed down.
If the other end of the street is light, warmth, joy, happiness, and running is full of meaning. But if it's cold, it's freezing, it's desolate, is it necessary to run in that direction?
Mom, you said yes, right? Give some advice! ”
I shook the rag doll in my hand desperately, but she couldn't make a sound.
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