Several people were happy, Jenny said while walking, “When I get home I must go to have a meal at the bottom of the sea, a seafood buffet, and, I have to take home the cosmetics I have been thinking about for a long time.”
Fanny also laughed, “Then I’ll treat everyone to afternoon tea, Cantonese afternoon tea is very generous.”
“Then I have to go get a steak, I think I could eat a whole cow right now.” Jannings stuffed the rest of the wild lychee she had eaten during the day into her mouth, she was a pretty girl, especially when she smiled.
Cherry is still her usual nature, stopped chanting mouth said, “You can now survive, all because of the blessing of Buddha, from now on it is better to give up meat and fresh, eat more vegetarian dishes!”
This is a bit of a spoiler, several people looked at her, and did not intend to continue to take her words.
Jannings looked at me and said, “Clara, if we could go home this time, what would you like to do the most?”
What would you most like to do?
I couldn’t help but be a little distracted, what would I most like to do?
When I thought about it, I didn’t seem to have any particular favorite food, so after a moment I said, “To meet the person I want to see most, to hug him, and to say sorry to him!”
She was slightly stunned, a gossipy face looked at me and said, “It’s not going to be the person you love!”
I pursed my lips and smiled lightly, not saying much more.
Arriving at the mountain village, it was already completely dark, remote mountain, probably because of the traffic and road are not convenient, so there are not many people living here.
Look at the lights, there are only a few dozen families, extraordinarily sparse.
“Let’s find an occupant to hitch a ride!” Jannings opened his mouth and went down the long steps into a farmhouse.
“Woof woof …” The farmer had dogs in the yard, and our sudden appearance caused the dogs that were guarding the yard to bark wildly.
A few of us were also frightened to huddle together, good thing that dog rope is bolted.
Hearing the commotion, the farmer’s house out of the people, a middle-aged man, dark skin in the light looks a little naive.
He opened his mouth to say a few words, a few of us could not understand, Jenny is the people of the southwest area, after the fact, spoke, “Maybe we have crossed the border to Zuy.”
For a while several people froze, all of us going over the mountains, instead of going home, we crossed the border.
Because they couldn’t understand each other’s language, everyone panicked, and the man thought we were bad people, holding a hoe at us and telling us to hurry.
Good thing another little girl of about ten years old ran out of his house and tugged the middle-aged man’s sleeve.
After the little girl said something, the man was relieved.
Looked at us, a time with the hand gestures a few times, we do not quite understand, Jenny tried to gesture a few times.
It is not worth communicating with the open did not, and finally the middle-aged man did let us in.
Too poor place, the man’s family on a house, earth house, probably because of the relationship between the fire, the house was smoked some black.
Hanging on the roof of the lamp, is the nineties incandescent lamps used in rural areas, probably to save electricity, the lamp is only about fifteen watts, some dim.
Pots and pans are placed in a pile, next to the tent with sacks, because of the fall of ash, plus the rain seeped in.
The tent was piled up with layers of gray damp earth, looking black and a bit insect-ridden.
The middle-aged man took out two bowls of something from a black wooden cabinet and put them in front of us.
Because there is no way to communicate in words, the middle-aged man gestured a few times, probably means that we eat.
Looking at the bowl of dishes infested with chili peppers, Jannings froze and said, “What kind of dish is this?”
“This is sour papaya, pickled, because the weather here is hot, this thing relieves the heat and appetite, you guys eat it!” Jenny is a girl who grew up in the southwest and knows a little about these things.
We are also hungry all day, all thanks after also eat up, taste sour, with chili pepper a little sour and spicy feeling.
We have not eaten oil, salt and vinegar for a few days, at this time is also considered to meet the oral appetite.
After eating, I saw father and daughter squatting aside watching us, curious and worried, and also a little scared.
Jannings know that they and we do not speak the same language, so they gestured with their hands, and also tried to speak a few words of English.
The father and daughter personally understood, and originally we were thinking of borrowing the phone to call the family.
But the father and daughter are a little confused, it seems that they do not know what the phone is like.
We can only wait until tomorrow and then ask other villagers, this night we five people squatting under the eaves of the dilapidated rest for the night, is always stronger than in the mountains with.
The next day.
The middle-aged man was already awake, standing in the yard climbing up the tree to pick mangoes.
The little girl was in the yard with a basket picking up the mangoes that he had accidentally dropped and smashed a bit thin and soft.
Every time she picked up a mango she looked back at us happily and laughed, as if she was passing on her happiness.
“In fact, rich and poor are not the meaning of defining happiness, right?” Jenny spoke up, thin and small, looking a bit forlorn.
Jannings clasped her hands against the door frame and raised her eyebrows, “What? Something unhappy come to mind?”
She shrugged her shoulders, “Not really, just sighing. I suddenly figured out that how I want to live my life is up to me, so why bother with others.”
“Buddha said there is a fixed number!” Cherry opened his mouth, but finally did not continue to recite the scriptures.
Jannings forehead, muttering, “the mouth is the Buddha, do not bother?”
Cherry didn’t seem to hear this, and went straight to the yard, picking up the mangoes on the ground with the little girl.
Although the two people do not speak the same language, but it is good that they will than the action.
Because of the thought of going back as soon as possible, Jannings dragged me through the village looking for people with cell phones.
In the 21st century, there are very few people who do not have a cell phone. When we found a family, Jannings used sign language to communicate with them and wanted them to lend us a cell phone to call.
But the other side still didn’t get it, so we finally had to leave unhappy.
Fanny and Jenny are also the same, some frustrated sitting together, Fanny said, “If not, we will continue to walk down the road to see, maybe we will go to the city? Then we might even meet our compatriots from the motherland!”
“The probability of that is too small, and how far the next road is, no one knows, we are also considered a stowaway, once found will be taken away by the police.” Jannings opened his mouth and sat cross-legged on the ground with a little sigh.
“What’s wrong with being taken away by the police?” Cherry opened his mouth, “If we are taken away by the police, they among them must have moved the Chinese, when we speak to them about the situation, we can have a chance to go home.”