There is a story in Gaoyan Village, located in the mountains of Hunan Province, that adults always use to scare children and warn them not to play in the mountains behind the village.
Legend has it that in the mountains lived an old grandmother dressed in red and with white hair. Grandma walked into the mountains when she was young, and later met bad people in the mountains, and also encountered all kinds of demons and ghosts in the mountains, and she is now crazy and full of nonsense, living alone in the cave like a savage.
Of course, the children were frightened by such stories, and did not dare to go into the mountain alone, let alone run around in the mountain. However, the adults in the village know that this story is not made up out of thin air, and the white-haired old lady in the story does have someone.
Whenever they go to the village market, people can see the old lady in red and white hair in the village at the big market. The old lady came to the village alone from the back hill with a flat shoulder to sell things, and the basket was full of various crops, not much, sometimes even a few peppers, one or two eggplants.
The old lady does not like to talk, only uses her fingers to compare the price, and the price of things she sells is also cheap, as if it is the price of twenty or thirty years ago, and a basket of vegetables is often only a few cents.
Fortunately, the villagers are kind,and they don't take advantage of the old lady like this, and everything they buy from her is barter, sometimes eggs for eggs, sometimes rice noodles, and everyone helps the old lady in a different direction. Occasionally, someone would care about the old lady and wrap up all the old lady's things.
However, few of the villagers knew exactly the old lady's origins, only that her surname was Yang, and she lived in a cave in the back mountain. The villagers saw that she was full of white hair, and she was somewhat similar to the experience of "Xi'er", so they simply called Mrs. Yang "White Haired Girl".
I am afraid that no one will know that the old lady Yang of decades ago is indeed as lively and cute, beautiful and playful as Xi'er, if it were not for a change, I am afraid that old mrs. Yang would not be the end of today.
The Yang family has a female first grown up, obsessively in love with the poor guy
In Gaoyan Village, where the white-haired old lady- Yang Girl is located, in the mountains west of Hunan Province, most of the people here are surnamed Yang, claiming to be descendants of the Yang family of the Great Song Dynasty, hiding here to avoid persecution, and the times all live by farming.
Although there are large mountain grabens isolated from the outside world, the environment here is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the soil is fertile, and people's lives are still relatively rich. Yang Girl's family is still relatively rich, her parents are only her one child, and she has loved Yang Girl since she was a child.
The water and soil of Xiangxi raise people, the girls born here are beautiful and white, and the Yang girl who has been dressed and eaten since she was a child is even more beautiful, and when she grows up, she has become one of the best handsome girls in several surrounding villages. When Lady Yang reached the age of marriage, the matchmaker in the village almost stepped on the threshold of the Yang family, but Old Man Yang refused one by one.
There is only one child in the family, and the yang family and the old two are particularly concerned about the marriage of the girl, and if it is not the door to the door, they will never let the girl go out. The old couple was cautious about their daughter's lifelong affairs, but they did not expect that Yang Girl had already secretly agreed.
It turned out that in recent years, Yang Girl had grown up and had to go out to see the world, and in recent times, Yang Girl often went to the big market in the next village to help her family buy things. When the girl reaches this age, the love sinus is just beginning, it is easy to be emotional, and it is inevitable that she will not encounter her own dishes when she goes out.
There is a young man selling baskets, bamboo baskets, and straw mats in the big set, and the things on the stall are all his own craftsmanship. The boys sometimes sell while doing on the stall, and the exquisite craftsmanship attracts the attention of passers-by, and even more hooks the eyes of Yang Girl.
Miss Yang fell in love with the young man at first sight, so she found an opportunity to talk to the boy and asked the boy to teach him the technique of weaving bamboo baskets. One after the other, the two secretly had a relationship, and When Miss Yang learned that the boy was from Jishou, she thought of taking the boy to meet her parents, imagining that she could marry Jishou one day.
But contrary to her wishes, when Miss Yang took her lover to see her parents, the second elder suddenly pulled down her face. The father directly angry to drive the boy out of the house, the mother pulled The Yang girl into the room and kept preaching, how can it be so easy to take a man home, the girl's family is too unruly.
The father was even more furious, and he would never allow his precious daughter to marry a basket weaver, let alone a foreigner. Miss Yang argued that in this life, he would not marry, and her parents had no way, so they simply locked Miss Yang in the house and no longer let her go out.
In order to break Miss Yang's thoughts as soon as possible, Old Man Yang quickly found the matchmaker, asked the matchmaker to find a local rich man, and quickly married his daughter.
As the saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and Old Man Yang is too anxious about his daughter's marriage, not only can't eat hot tofu, but also makes hot tofu burn his mouth fiercely. No one could have imagined that what Old Man Yang had done had completely changed the second half of Yang Girl's life.
True love must not be forced to marry, and the Yang family daughter fled into the mountains
The parents hurriedly and panickedly arranged the marriage of the girl, and within a few days they found a suitable son-in-law, and the two sides even set up a date of marriage.
Yang girl is locked up at home every day, can't see her lover, and is forced to marry a stranger, these days can be said to be better than life and death. At this time, the boy's trustee sent a letter to Miss Yang, and the boy told Miss Yang that he was going to elope with her.
Miss Yang also told the young man the news of her engagement, and the two quietly set a date for the elopement. However, Yang Girl's heart is still very entangled, on the one hand, she is the parents who have worked hard to pull herself up, and on the other hand, it is her beloved lover, and it is too painful to have to choose between the two.
After much hesitation, on the day of the agreed elopement, Miss Yang still decided to stay at home and fight for her parents again. But the young man went to the agreed place and did not see Miss Yang, thinking that Miss Yang no longer liked herself, so she returned to Jishou in frustration, and soon after, she married a local woman.
Yang Girl, who was still struggling at home, could not imagine that she had actually waited for the news of her lover's marriage, she cried heartbreakingly, regretted that she did not have the courage to elope with her lover, and remembered that the family members were not enlightened and blocked their love. The heartbroken Yang girl did not eat or drink for several days, nor did she want to go out to meet people.
Old Man Yang heard the news of the young man's marriage, and his heart was secretly happy, this time his own girl can die. As the wedding date approached, Old Man Yang's heart became more and more solid, and the girl's lifelong affairs finally had to be solved.
But at this moment, the family suddenly found that Miss Yang was missing.
It is not easy to be bullied and pregnant by the wicked, and to live alone in the mountains for thirty years
It turned out that in order to escape marriage and real life, Yang Girl, who had a heart breakdown, ran into the mountains alone, and she made up her mind to live in this mountain forest for the rest of her life.
The hills near The village of Takaam are full of primeval forests, overgrown with grass and wild beasts, which is very dangerous for a little girl. In order to avoid the wild beasts, Yang Girl found a cave to temporarily survive, and she barely survived by the mountain stream and the wild fruits in the trees.
When she went out, Miss Yang was wearing a red dress that should have been worn when she was married, and she also held the illusion of love, believing that one day her lover would come to the mountain to pick herself up, which was also the motivation for her to go down after the deep mountain forest.
As a result, one day, someone really found Miss Yang, but that person was not a lover, but a demon.
That night, Yang Girl made a fire in the cave for warmth, but she did not notice that the fire had attracted evil people. Miss Yang heard a noise outside the cave and thought that it was the lover who came to pick her up and gladly came to the cave entrance to greet her, but she did not expect that the person who came was actually a bandit in the mountain.
The bandit didn't say a word, and pushed Yang Girl to the ground, tearing her clothes and forcing her to be unreasonable. In the deep mountains, no matter how Yang Girl shouted, no one would save her. After the bandits left, Miss Yang wrapped her clothes and took out the needle and thread she stole from home to mend the red dress, and her eyes silently shed tears.
A few months later, Miss Yang suddenly found herself pregnant, although she was extremely reluctant to give birth to the bandit's child, but what could a person do in the deep mountains, Miss Yang had to give birth to the child. There was a shortage of food and clothing on the mountain, and the newborn baby was weak and sickly, and died shortly after birth.
The lover who can never wait, the child who died early, the unreasonable parents, Yang Girl completely fell into a collapse. Her spirit began to become abnormal, sometimes running around for life, sometimes sitting on the rocks of the cave for a day.
In the cave where Yang Girl lived, there was no bed, no table and chair bench, a few bundles of straw were spread on the stone slabs, and the slightly flat stones were stools. Someone down the hill looked at her pitifully and gave her an old cabinet, and it took her two days just to carry the cabinet up the hill.
In order to survive, Yang Girl reclaimed a wasteland in the mountains, learned the impression of her parents and began to farm alone, planted some potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other grains, she also planted some cotton, and occasionally used cotton to go down the mountain to exchange some necessities of life with others.
Yang Girl's age is getting older, from the little girl of that year to the white-haired old lady, it is the experience of the few times down the mountain to exchange goods, so that the people under the mountain slowly get to know this white-haired woman.
The white-haired woman returned to the city, and it was difficult to leave the mountain
In the more than thirty years of living in the mountains, Yang Girl is not without the opportunity to live in the mountains, but she herself is really no longer willing to return to the cruel real life.
Once, Yang Girl's cousin went up the mountain to cut firewood, and happened to meet Yang Girl who was looking for wild fruits in the mountain forest. Although they had not seen each other for many years, the cousin recognized his sister at a glance, and the two talked about family affairs in the mountains.
The cousin told Miss Yang that both of her parents had died of illness and was still very concerned about her before she died. The cousin wants to take Miss Yang to live in his home, but Miss Yang refuses her cousin's good intentions.
The death of her parents and the departure of her lover, for Miss Yang, she has no home under the mountain, and now she is more familiar with and more kind to this vast mountain, but the life of the road and electricity outside the mountain makes her feel strange and afraid.
The cousin did not forcibly take Miss Yang down the mountain, but told the villagers under the mountain about her. Well-meaning villagers organized to donate some items for Miss Yang, and everyone also discussed building a house for her on the mountain. However, Yang Girl, who has been isolated for a long time, has been difficult to get along with people, especially afraid of men, and deliberately avoids people when they see someone going up the mountain.
After a long time, the villagers will not deliberately disturb The life of Yang Girl, and every time they see her come to the big market under the mountain to change things, everyone will deliberately give her more, which is also a kind of help.
To this day, the white-haired woman still lives in that cave, still unwilling to make contact with people, and as she grows older, her legs and feet become more and more inconvenient, and the number of exchanges between the lower and lower is also less and less.
Only the cousin can get close to the white-haired girl, and the cousin also said that after two years, the cousin will be old, and then persuade her to go down the mountain and live with herself.
If At that time, Yang Girl's parents were not so radical, but reasonable to understand the situation of the young man, and face up to the marriage between the two; if Yang Girl was not so impulsive and angry to go up the mountain, but communicated and negotiated with her parents; perhaps today's white-haired girl would be another state of life.
A reporter went up to the mountain to interview Mrs. Yang and asked her what her life on the mountain had been like over the years, whether she had encountered any particularly difficult things, and how she had overcome these difficulties.
Mrs. Yang did not answer anything, she looked curiously at the camera in the reporter's hand, smashed the old and simple hoe in her hand, and smiled at the reporter.
"You have your camera to record the world and get the job done; I have my hoe to plough the fields and live as I do." This may be Mrs. Yang's answer to life.
Life is like a drama, everything in life seems to be as immutable as a script, there is no regret medicine in the world, and it is ultimately necessary to eat the consequences of the choices you make. May we all face the ups and downs of life calmly, see a little openly, and believe that there will always be a day when the peak turns around.