The daily life of a farm girl raising a family

In the early morning, a black-haired young man wearing a white T-shirt and dark jeans stood on the balcony of an old community. His chiseled face added a bit of resoluteness and handsomeness to him.

At this time, he was looking at the rising sun that had just revealed half of his face in the distance, letting the first ray of sunshine in the morning shine gently on his body, enjoying the sunshine of early summer. The sunlight reflected a pale golden light on his eyes.

Lu Xiaoxiao, 23 years old, is a college student majoring in finance who just graduated from Jincheng University of Finance and Economics. Like the nearly million outsiders in Jincheng, they also want to take root in this quasi-first-tier city in southwest China. He was born with light golden eyes. If he didn't have an oriental face, he would have been thought to be a foreigner.

Although university teachers often boasted about how good the remuneration in the financial industry was when I was in school, as a fresh graduate, I didn’t have such an intuitive feeling. He is currently working as a financial analyst assistant in a securities company, but the salary for newcomers is not high, but Lu Xiaoxiao is still very satisfied. After all, it is his first formal job in life.

Fortunately, I passed all the financial certificates I should take during college, otherwise even undergraduates would be blocked from the threshold of securities companies.

Today is the first Saturday in June 2022. Lu Xiaoxiao, who is not at work, does not actually need to get up so early. But as early as the end of last month, I made an appointment with a few college buddies to go to Qingcheng Mountain together today. So Lu Xiaoxiao got up early, washed up, and stood on the balcony watching the sunrise, waiting for his college buddies to pick him up.

While Lu Xiaoxiao was still enjoying the sunbathing in the morning sun, two car horns were heard outside the community. Lu Xiaoxiao looked down and saw an Audi A6 parked outside the gate of the community. A short-haired young man in the driver's seat was waving to Lu Xiaoxiao. This was Wan Feng, Lu Xiaoxiao's college dormitory buddy. Sitting in the passenger seat was Wan Feng's girlfriend Li Lan. There was also a man and a woman sitting in the back seat of the car. They were Liao Fan, another buddy of Lu Xiaoxiao's dormitory at university, and his girlfriend Liu Yulin.

Lu Xiaoxiao waved to them, then turned back to the room, put on his backpack, walked through the living room, closed the door and quickly went downstairs.

Lu Xiaoxiao came to the car driven by Wan Feng, opened the left rear door, sat next to Liao Fan and greeted everyone.

Wan Feng, who was sitting in the driver's seat, turned his head and smiled at Lu Lu and said, "Fourth, you didn't have breakfast, right? We didn't eat either. But we have to set off directly now. Second and fifth are on a different road from us and have already set off first. We are in the mountains." Meet them at your feet. If you are hungry, eat a few pieces of bread and put them in a plastic bag behind you."

After Wan Feng finished speaking, he started the car and set off.

There are six people in Lu Xiaoxiao's dormitory at university, and they are called according to their age during school. It's kind and simple to call me this way. Even though everyone has graduated, the names they call each other remain the same.

Wan Feng is the oldest among the people in his dormitory at the university, so he is the eldest and the only Jincheng native among them. His parents run a clothing wholesale company in Jincheng Trade City, so their family background is considered well-off.

The second child who had already set off first was named Wu Qingyun, a native of Miancheng, the second largest city in the province. Lao Wu Jian is a native of Huachong City, and his family lives in the ancient city. The third child is Liao Fan, who is sitting next to Lu Xiaoxiao. He and his girlfriend Liu Yulin are both ethnic minority compatriots, and their hometown is Huacheng in the south of Shu. The fourth child is Lu Xiaoxiao, a rural boy from Ancheng, the hometown of the great man. There is also a sixth child named Cheng Xiao, who is from Chongqing. After graduation, he returned to Chongqing and worked in a bank. So he didn't come to Qingcheng Mountain this time.

Wan Feng drove the car with sparks and lightning all the way. The journey of more than 100 kilometers actually took less than an hour, and this included the time spent in traffic jams out of the city.

When the car arrived at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain, we saw a white Volkswagen parked on the outside of the parking lot in the distance. Because there were too many people on weekends, the parking lot was already full of all kinds of cars at such an early time, and late-arriving cars could only park on the outside. .

Wu Qingyun was sitting in the driver's seat of the white Volkswagen. At this time, he was chatting with his girlfriend Tang Qi in the passenger seat. Everyone in Wu Qingyun's circle of friends knows one thing. The relationship between Wu Qingyun and Tang Qi is the strongest, because they have experienced life and death together. They were both buried during the earthquake, and Tang Qi was dug out by Wu Qingyun with his hands. Jian Hua, the fifth child in the back row, had a hat covering his face, leaning on the back of the seat with his head raised, as if he was sleeping.

Wan Feng parked the car and honked the horn twice. The sound of the horn attracted the attention of the three people in the Volkswagen. Then everyone got out of the car and said hello.

Everyone agreed to have breakfast at the breakfast shop at the foot of the mountain and rest for a while before climbing the mountain. After all, it was still early and it was not even eight in the morning.

When we arrived at a steamed stuffed bun restaurant not far from the parking lot, as soon as we sat down, we heard the breakfast guests at the table next to us talking about a strange thing that had happened recently in Qingcheng Mountain.

Lu Xiaoxiao and others first ordered a few small steamed buns, a few fried dough sticks and porridge, and then listened to the people at the table next to them talking about things while eating.

One of the fat-bellied middle-aged men with a flat head asked the person opposite him: "Is there really a fairyland-like golden glow on the top of the mountain? I just came here last night and have never seen such a scenery. I have been to Qingcheng Mountain too many times." I've never heard of it before. Mengzi, did you say you saw it?"

Then, the man named Mengzi replied: "Yes, Brother Zhang, I have been here with my wife and her family for three days. I saw it on the top of the mountain when I was hiking the day before yesterday. There were many people kneeling down and worshiping on the spot. , you haven’t seen it but you don’t know, it’s more beautiful than the aurora seen on TV.”

At this time, Lu Xiaoxiao and others finally understood what was going on. It turned out that in the past half month, the top of Qingcheng Mountain had occasionally emitted a strange golden light, just like a real golden top. People feel refreshed and refreshed under the golden light. It seems that some people who are in poor health and come to pray for blessings feel much better after being illuminated by this golden light.

However, for contemporary college graduates who were born under the red flag and grew up, this kind of thing is more of a story. How could it be so magical, otherwise it would never have been recorded by predecessors for thousands of years. Or maybe it’s just a way of promoting tourist attractions.

After breakfast, everyone slowly walked towards the gate of the scenic spot at the foot of the mountain. Because the tickets have been purchased online, you can enter the scenic spot directly after asking the staff to verify your identity.

Qingcheng Mountain actually has two climbing roads, the front mountain and the back mountain, and both can reach the top of the mountain. But the road to the back mountain was steeper. Considering that there were girls, everyone decided to start from the front mountain.

When the time came to around nine o'clock, everyone began to head towards the top of the mountain. According to the itinerary, it may take four or five hours to reach the top of the mountain. It was already one or two o'clock in the afternoon. Then it will take several hours to go down from the top of the mountain. If you don't have enough time, you will have to take the cable car down.

Everyone was taking photos, chatting and laughing along the way, but I didn’t feel tired after climbing for an hour or two. But considering the girls in the team, I decided to rest for a while before continuing.

Everyone found a small platform where they could see the distant view. There was an iron guardrail about half a person high on the edge of the platform, and a cliff hundreds of meters below. I took out the water and snacks in my backpack, including potato chips, chicken feet, spicy sticks, beef jerky, biscuits, etc.