0040 Night Rose, Night.40 (2900+) Where is the winding mountain road?
The mountain roads are winding everywhere.
Although the road out of the county town was paved with asphalt and was not bumpy, and Chen Shanye tried his best to slow down and cushion when turning, the narrow bend still made Ruan Mei suffer.
"The road to the village has become easier to travel in the past two years. Before, it was all gravel roads, and the entrance to the village was still a dirt road." In order to divert Ruan Mei's attention, Chen Shanye tried to say a lot of words.
Including what happened between him and Zhong Mang.
Chen Shanye's grandmother and Zhong Mang's grandmother are neighbors from the same hometown. They grew up together and have a very good relationship and even call each other sisters.
Afterwards, Grandma Chen got married and left the village, while Grandma Zhong stayed in the village, facing the few acres of land with her back to the sky, and lived like this for the rest of her life.
Grandma Zhong lost her husband early in life and raised her son alone until he got married. When Zhong Mang was born, the village's economy revitalized and everything seemed to be moving in a good direction.
But when Zhong Mang was five years old, a mudslide swallowed up Zhong Mang's parents, and Grandma Zhong's hair turned white overnight.
"After that, it was grandma who raised Zhong Mang?" Thanks to the bag of plums Sister Zhu gave her yesterday, she was able to suppress the churning stomach acid.
"Yes, they are the only ones left to depend on each other."
Zhong Mang is four years younger than Chen Shanye. He finished primary and middle school in the village. While others were still studying, he had already started working. However, he was too young and could only do odd jobs in the town at the beginning.
When Grandma Chen was still alive, she had always tried her best to help the Zhong family, but the Chen family was not a wealthy family, so the help they could provide was just a drop in the bucket.
Chen Shanye has few relatives in his family, so he has always treated Zhong Mang as his younger brother.
After Zhong Mang became an adult, Chen Shanye asked him to take a driving test and took him to work in a car repair shop first. After he had enough driving experience, he asked him to apply for a driver position and then brought him to Guangzhou to work together.
With such a family and growing environment, although Zhong Mang was not so clean in some issues, for Chen Shanye, as long as Zhong Mang did not steal, cheat, gamble or take drugs, it would be considered an explanation to the Zhong family's deceased parents.
After passing the winding road, the middle section of the road became wider and the view became wider. Ruan Mei simply rolled down the car window to get some fresh air.
The sky was weighed down with heavy, gloomy clouds, and layers of grey, cold and melancholy paint were smeared on it like a Van Gogh oil painting, while the rolling mountains covered in white mist were lush and green, as if painted with a wolf-hair brush dipped in ink.
The wind that blew into the carriage carried the smell of moist clouds and dew on the leaves in the mountains and forests.
Chen Shanye sniffed and murmured, "It's going to rain later."
The tires rolled over the gravel, making the road bumpy.
Ruan Mei was very tired last night and got up early in the morning. After a few bumps in the car, she began to doze off while listening to the music in the car. Chen Shanye closed the car window, turned on the air conditioner again, and slowed down the car.
Except for the occasional three or four vehicles coming from the opposite lane, they were the only ones on the winding mountain road.
Rubbing the fingertips of his left hand, Chen Shanye recalled the small scars he felt last night, and heavy dark clouds pressed down on his thick brows.
Normally, the secret hidden under the rose petals is covered with bright red paint, and the naked eye cannot see it. That day, after Ruan Mei received a call from her sister, she was picking at the blood-red pieces on the rattan chair, and he noticed something unusual.
He glanced at the sleeping little face and sighed, "Poor little thing, what happened to it?"
When we were almost at the village, heavy rain began to pour down from the sky.
The big raindrops hit the roof and glass, making crackling sounds. Chen Shanye parked the car on the large concrete space at the entrance of the village and let Ruan Mei sleep for a while.
Although the shower was heavy, the clouds soon cleared and the rain stopped. When he saw the rain stop, he woke up Ruan Mei.
"...Huh? How long have I been sleeping?" Ruan Mei rubbed her eyes and saw water stains on the glass: "Did it rain just now?"
"Well, the rain has stopped." Chen Shanye handed her the thermos cup: "Drink some water, and then we will go into the village. The small road leading to Zhong Mang's house is inaccessible to cars."
The main roads in the village are paved. Zhong Mang said that their village has set up a breeding farm in the past two years, and the villagers have participated in the breeding of beef cattle and black chickens. With the support of the government, many poor households have been improved.
Chen Shanye brought a lot of gifts. Ruan Mei wanted to help him carry some fruits, but Chen Shanye told her to just carry his wide-leg pants that were almost dragged on the ground and walk carefully.
"Ah... I shouldn't have worn these pants today." Ruan Mei pulled her beige trousers up a little bit, and her high-top canvas shoes carefully avoided the deep and shallow mud puddles on the loess road.
Chen Shanye washed the jeans that were stained yesterday and hung them in the bathroom. She wore this pair and now she is afraid that this pair will get stained today too.
Suddenly a motorcycle came out from the corner, and a young boy drove the motorcycle back and forth, shouting "Get out of the way".
Chen Shanye quickly protected Ruan Mei and retreated to the side, but the motorcycle wheels rolled over the mud pit quickly, and a large amount of yellow mud water was still brought up. Not to mention her pants and clothes, even Ruan Mei's chin was splashed with dirty mud.
"Hurry, wipe it with my clothes." Chen Shanye held large and small bags in both hands, and could only lend the cloth on his chest to Ruan Mei for her own use.
Looking at Ruan Mei sticking out her tongue and spitting out the mud and sand that accidentally got into her mouth, Chen Shanye smiled happily.
Ruan Mei rudely pulled up his T-shirt and wiped it on her face, glaring at him with her almond-shaped eyes: "You have no conscience, how can you still laugh like this!"
Chen Shanye's nose suddenly felt itchy and he had no hands to scratch it, so he had to lower his head and rub it on Ruan Mei's head.
It was like two wild cats licking each other's fur in a mud pit.
*
Grandma Zhong opened the wooden gate of the yard and was stunned when she saw the two people standing at the door, who were covered in dirt. "Oh, Ye Zi, how did you get into this state? Come on, come on, come in!"
"I was just splashed with mud and water, grandma. Can I borrow two towels from you?"
"Hello, grandma." Ruan Mei followed Chen Shanye into the yard. Her voice was as sweet and soft as freshly baked toast. Chen Shanye raised his eyebrows and looked at her. Why didn't she usually speak to him in such a sweet voice?
Grandma Zhong's eyes had been lingering on the adorable little girl since the beginning. Chen Shanye had called her yesterday to say he would bring a friend to visit her, which had excited her for quite a while: "Hey, hello, hello, what's the little girl's name?"
"Grandma, my name is Ruan Mei, Mei means rose."
"Xiaomei? Nice, nice." The white-haired old man smiled at the corners of his weather-beaten eyes and led the two of them into the inner room.
It was not obvious that Chen Shanye's jeans were dirty, but Ruan Mei's beige trousers were a bit terrible, stained and yellow like something.
"Why don't you just change your dirty clothes?" Grandma Zhong thought for a moment and walked into the room.
"No need, grandma. I'm fine. I'll be fine after I finish it." Ruan Mei was afraid of bothering the old lady, so she quickly pulled Chen Shanye's arm and said, "Tell grandma that you don't need to bother me."
Before Chen Shanye could say anything, Grandma Zhong came out holding a black skirt with big red flowers in her hands: "Come on, Xiaomei, try this one on and see if you can wear it."
The chiffon skirt for the elderly was not very pretty, but it was better than clothes covered in mud. Ruan Mei didn't mind and thanked her grandmother repeatedly.
"Go change in your room, any room will do. Yezi, come and help me catch a chicken. Grandma will make you a delicious lunch!" Grandma Zhong patted Chen Shanye on the back and said, "Wow, you are really strong, much better than that little monkey Zhong Mang."
"No need to kill the chicken, just stir-fry some vegetables."
"That won't do." Grandma Zhong turned around and glanced into the inner room. Seeing the girl close the door, she lowered her voice and said, "You don't want to eat enough, and you won't let your wife eat enough?"
"What's the connection? How did you become my wife?" Chen Shanye smiled helplessly, but he thought the title was pretty good.
"You've brought the person here to see me, and grandma is looking forward to attending your wedding. You have to be nice this time... and you gave me such a big red envelope. Grandma invited you to eat a chicken, but you are still polite to me. Do you dislike grandma's chicken after going to the big city?" Grandma Zhong pinched the big guy's waist.
"No, that red envelope was given by Zhong Mang."
"Zhong Mang called me the other day and said he gave me a red envelope of 2,800 yuan. I just secretly counted it and it was a full 6,000 yuan... How could a red envelope give birth to a baby?"
Grandma Zhong narrowed her eyes, raised her dark, thin arm, and ruffled his frizzy short hair at the back of his head: "You, little boy, have been like this since you were a child..."
Ruan Mei changed into her skirt and looked around the room.
This room should belong to Zhong Mang. On the mottled wall beside the bed are several posters of Brother Haonan and Brother Shan Ji, which are yellowed like old movies from the last century.
The wooden table near the door was covered with a piece of glass, with a photo of a family of four on it. The plastic edges were fogged up, but the four people's faces were sunny.
She folded her dirty clothes and walked into the yard. Hearing the sound of chickens crowing behind the house, she followed the sound.
Chen Shanye had already caught a chicken and was walking towards the kitchen behind the house. Its black and shiny feathers were floating in the air.
"You can also kill chickens? Chen Shanye, how come you know everything?" Ruan.Curious Baby.Mei had never been to the countryside, and she found everything new and interesting. She had only seen chicken coops and wood stoves on TV variety shows.
Grandma Zhong handed the kitchen knife to Chen Shanye and kept praising him, "Yezi really knows how to do everything. He used to come here to help me during summer and winter vacations. He can cook for himself at such a young age. Hey, Xiaomei, have you ever tried Yezi's cooking?"
Ruan Mei shook her head, thinking that she and Chen Shanye had only known each other for a short time.
"...Oh, my waist suddenly hurts a little..." Grandma suddenly held her lower back. The old lady who was full of energy a second ago now seemed so weak that she couldn't even lift the iron spoon: "Yezi, you cook for lunch..."
Chen Shanye didn't want to expose the old man's slightly clumsy acting skills. He plucked the feathers from the black chicken's neck in clumps, raised his eyes and asked Ruan Mei: "Will you eat the food I cooked?"
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