Thirty-three years ago, it was separated from the city, west of Xijing District.
This area is covered with traffic and is full of mountains. There are countless clear streams hidden in the endless green mountains. They gather into a big river at the foot of the mountain, which is one of the sources of Lijiang.
There is a very famous mandarin duck tree near the river. In fact, two ancient pine and cypresses are close together, with branches and leaves entangled. After years of age, you have me and I have you, and I have you, and they have merged into a big tree.
Locals would go under the mandarin duck tree to seek marriage, and the branches were covered with red ribbons.
Because of the relationship between the mandarin duck trees, this river is also called the mandarin duck river.
There is a river dam lower reaches of the river. After the water rises, it is equivalent to a small lake. Every summer, locals like to come here to swim.
Almost every year, children and even adults drown here, but they still cannot stop everyone's enthusiasm.
In the early morning, there was mist in the mountains.
A woman wearing a plain white shirt, navy blue trousers and wearing shoulder-length short hair was riding a tall horizontal bar bicycle and was running on a bumpy mountain road.
Behind the bicycle, a little boy of four or five years old was sitting, wearing a blue and white striped T-shirt, yellow shorts, and a pair of brown sandals.
The woman riding a bicycle is 25 or 26 years old, with beautiful eyebrows and eyes. Unfortunately, her cheeks are too thin, her skin is pale, her eye sockets are slightly sunken, and her face is bitter.
The little boy was well-behaved and cute, with his big dark eyes moist and clear. He lowered his head in a cowardly manner, grabbed the clothes on his mother's back with one hand and carried a small bamboo basket in the other.
The bamboo basket contained something and was covered with white cloth, which looked heavy.
The bicycle was shaking on the mountain road, and there was a not-so-steep uphill road ahead. The woman started to struggle to pedal the bicycle. She straightened up, gritted her teeth, and pedaled hard.
Mom, let me down, I'll leave myself.The little boy whispered.
No... Mom can... The woman replied with difficulty. For her, it was more laborious to stop and get on the bus.
Every time, a woman has to run a bicycle with one foot for a while, then she has to lift her foot on the bicycle with difficulty, and her son will run and catch up and jump on the back of the bicycle.
The little boy stopped talking and clenched his hand holding his mother's clothes.
The mother and son went up the slope, and it was another bumpy mountain road. The little boy's butt was numb. He held it over and didn't dare to complain at all.
Finally, my mother stopped the bicycle and saw the dam of the Yuanyang River.
It was very early and no one came to swim. The water surface was quiet and covered with faint mist. The river dam was surrounded by green trees. The cool morning breeze blew, with the sound of cicadas.
Jupiter, come here.The woman waved to her son while wiping the sweat from her forehead.
Jupiter dared not be negligent, and held a small bamboo basket in both hands, quickly caught up with her and walked towards the dam with her.
The name Jupiter was chosen by his father.
His father's name is Mu You. He claims to be an astronomy enthusiast. In fact, he only went to elementary school and became a cementitious man. His understanding of astronomy is nothing more than some basics.
My father always told Jupiter that when he goes to school, he must study hard. In the future, he will be an astronaut, take a rocket to the moon, go to Mars, fly out of the solar system, fly out of the Milky Way, and travel around the universe.
Every time my father mentioned these, his eyes flashed with light, but Jupiter was not interested in it.
Jupiter has no idea about the boundless universe. For him, the mountains around the village are already boundless. What does the stars in the sky have to do with him?
Even going to elementary school seems to be a very distant thing for Jupiter.
Jupiter’s favorite thing is to play with his father.
In spring, I pulled spring bamboo shoots and flew kites with him, went swimming with him and caught crabs in summer, played chestnuts with him and picked up wheat ears in autumn, and played snowball fights with him and roasted sweet potatoes in winter.
There are so many happy things, the universe, etc., which is not important at all.
Until last summer, Dad died.
That day was no different from usual. The weather was hot. After noon, Muyou had time to ride a horizontal bar bicycle and took Jupiter to swim in the river dam of the Yuanyang River.
The father and son took off their clothes, stood on the cement dam platform, jumped down with bare butts, and crawled into the water with a thud, like two happy fish.
The father and son started the competition to see who swam to the other side first.
Mu You always leads far, but he will deliberately slow down halfway through the swim, allowing Jupiter to catch up. In the end, the father and son tied, and they were all happy.
This time, Muyou also swam very quickly.
Halfway through the swim, he seemed to hear a call from the shore.
He looked back and found that the son behind him was missing!
Old wood!Your son is sinking!Go to the other side of the dam!An acquaintance on the shore shouted, and he took off his clothes, jumped into the water, swam over to help.
Mu Youxin sank and turned around and swam towards the dam entrance...
When Jupiter woke up, she found herself lying on the shore, and her neighbor's uncle was pressing his chest hard.
Wow……
Jupiter spit out a mouthful of water and saved her life.
Dad, Dad... Jupiter was both uncomfortable and scared, and trembled all over: Where is Dad?I want dad...
The uncle's face was heavy and his voice was a little unbearable: Jupiter Ah, your father... was washed away...
In order to save Jupiter, Mu You swam hard towards the entrance of the dam. The water flowed fast there, and below was a deep pool several meters high. The water flowed directly into the Lijiang River.
Mu You caught his son and swam back desperately, so that the uncle who was chasing him would catch him. At this time, Mu You had cramps in his legs and feet, and was wrapped in water and rushed towards the entrance of the dam.
The uncle first took care of saving the child. When he dragged Jupiter to the ashore, he turned around and Mu You disappeared.
My uncle ran to the pool below the dam and looked around, but he didn't see Mu You.
That afternoon, the whole village started to search for Muyou along the section of Yuanyang River to Lijiang, but there was no trace of it.
Everyone speculated that Mu You fell into the pool from the entrance of the dam, hit the head, fell into a coma, and then was washed away by the turbulent water flow and rushed directly into Lijiang.
Some superstitious old people also said that Mu You was dragged down by the water ghost in the river dam, and people died there every year, and it was the water ghosts at work.
The fact is: Mu You is missing.
A month later, the police determined that Lao Mu drowned and his body went to Lijiang and could not be found.
Mu You's wife, crying all day long, finally accepted the fact that her husband died, held a funeral for him, and performed a ritual.
But in Jupiter's view, the mother did not really accept it.
In the days after her father left, her mother's spirits collapsed. She quit her job and was absent every day. She often sat on the bed with her husband's photos and stared blankly.
Sometimes, she would suddenly feel hysterical and beat and scold Jupiter, and Jupiter would always endure it silently.
He knew that he killed his father, and that was the punishment he deserved.
In fact, Jupiter was also very sad and missed her father very much, but he didn't even dare to cry. Dad was Ah he killed. Why did he still have the face to cry?
Jupiter!My mother's voice came, with impatientness: Don't stand there, come here.
Jupiter realized that he was distracted again, so he hurriedly ran over with a small bamboo basket.
This area is covered with traffic and is full of mountains. There are countless clear streams hidden in the endless green mountains. They gather into a big river at the foot of the mountain, which is one of the sources of Lijiang.
There is a very famous mandarin duck tree near the river. In fact, two ancient pine and cypresses are close together, with branches and leaves entangled. After years of age, you have me and I have you, and I have you, and they have merged into a big tree.
Locals would go under the mandarin duck tree to seek marriage, and the branches were covered with red ribbons.
Because of the relationship between the mandarin duck trees, this river is also called the mandarin duck river.
There is a river dam lower reaches of the river. After the water rises, it is equivalent to a small lake. Every summer, locals like to come here to swim.
Almost every year, children and even adults drown here, but they still cannot stop everyone's enthusiasm.
In the early morning, there was mist in the mountains.
A woman wearing a plain white shirt, navy blue trousers and wearing shoulder-length short hair was riding a tall horizontal bar bicycle and was running on a bumpy mountain road.
Behind the bicycle, a little boy of four or five years old was sitting, wearing a blue and white striped T-shirt, yellow shorts, and a pair of brown sandals.
The woman riding a bicycle is 25 or 26 years old, with beautiful eyebrows and eyes. Unfortunately, her cheeks are too thin, her skin is pale, her eye sockets are slightly sunken, and her face is bitter.
The little boy was well-behaved and cute, with his big dark eyes moist and clear. He lowered his head in a cowardly manner, grabbed the clothes on his mother's back with one hand and carried a small bamboo basket in the other.
The bamboo basket contained something and was covered with white cloth, which looked heavy.
The bicycle was shaking on the mountain road, and there was a not-so-steep uphill road ahead. The woman started to struggle to pedal the bicycle. She straightened up, gritted her teeth, and pedaled hard.
Mom, let me down, I'll leave myself.The little boy whispered.
No... Mom can... The woman replied with difficulty. For her, it was more laborious to stop and get on the bus.
Every time, a woman has to run a bicycle with one foot for a while, then she has to lift her foot on the bicycle with difficulty, and her son will run and catch up and jump on the back of the bicycle.
The little boy stopped talking and clenched his hand holding his mother's clothes.
The mother and son went up the slope, and it was another bumpy mountain road. The little boy's butt was numb. He held it over and didn't dare to complain at all.
Finally, my mother stopped the bicycle and saw the dam of the Yuanyang River.
It was very early and no one came to swim. The water surface was quiet and covered with faint mist. The river dam was surrounded by green trees. The cool morning breeze blew, with the sound of cicadas.
Jupiter, come here.The woman waved to her son while wiping the sweat from her forehead.
Jupiter dared not be negligent, and held a small bamboo basket in both hands, quickly caught up with her and walked towards the dam with her.
The name Jupiter was chosen by his father.
His father's name is Mu You. He claims to be an astronomy enthusiast. In fact, he only went to elementary school and became a cementitious man. His understanding of astronomy is nothing more than some basics.
My father always told Jupiter that when he goes to school, he must study hard. In the future, he will be an astronaut, take a rocket to the moon, go to Mars, fly out of the solar system, fly out of the Milky Way, and travel around the universe.
Every time my father mentioned these, his eyes flashed with light, but Jupiter was not interested in it.
Jupiter has no idea about the boundless universe. For him, the mountains around the village are already boundless. What does the stars in the sky have to do with him?
Even going to elementary school seems to be a very distant thing for Jupiter.
Jupiter’s favorite thing is to play with his father.
In spring, I pulled spring bamboo shoots and flew kites with him, went swimming with him and caught crabs in summer, played chestnuts with him and picked up wheat ears in autumn, and played snowball fights with him and roasted sweet potatoes in winter.
There are so many happy things, the universe, etc., which is not important at all.
Until last summer, Dad died.
That day was no different from usual. The weather was hot. After noon, Muyou had time to ride a horizontal bar bicycle and took Jupiter to swim in the river dam of the Yuanyang River.
The father and son took off their clothes, stood on the cement dam platform, jumped down with bare butts, and crawled into the water with a thud, like two happy fish.
The father and son started the competition to see who swam to the other side first.
Mu You always leads far, but he will deliberately slow down halfway through the swim, allowing Jupiter to catch up. In the end, the father and son tied, and they were all happy.
This time, Muyou also swam very quickly.
Halfway through the swim, he seemed to hear a call from the shore.
He looked back and found that the son behind him was missing!
Old wood!Your son is sinking!Go to the other side of the dam!An acquaintance on the shore shouted, and he took off his clothes, jumped into the water, swam over to help.
Mu Youxin sank and turned around and swam towards the dam entrance...
When Jupiter woke up, she found herself lying on the shore, and her neighbor's uncle was pressing his chest hard.
Wow……
Jupiter spit out a mouthful of water and saved her life.
Dad, Dad... Jupiter was both uncomfortable and scared, and trembled all over: Where is Dad?I want dad...
The uncle's face was heavy and his voice was a little unbearable: Jupiter Ah, your father... was washed away...
In order to save Jupiter, Mu You swam hard towards the entrance of the dam. The water flowed fast there, and below was a deep pool several meters high. The water flowed directly into the Lijiang River.
Mu You caught his son and swam back desperately, so that the uncle who was chasing him would catch him. At this time, Mu You had cramps in his legs and feet, and was wrapped in water and rushed towards the entrance of the dam.
The uncle first took care of saving the child. When he dragged Jupiter to the ashore, he turned around and Mu You disappeared.
My uncle ran to the pool below the dam and looked around, but he didn't see Mu You.
That afternoon, the whole village started to search for Muyou along the section of Yuanyang River to Lijiang, but there was no trace of it.
Everyone speculated that Mu You fell into the pool from the entrance of the dam, hit the head, fell into a coma, and then was washed away by the turbulent water flow and rushed directly into Lijiang.
Some superstitious old people also said that Mu You was dragged down by the water ghost in the river dam, and people died there every year, and it was the water ghosts at work.
The fact is: Mu You is missing.
A month later, the police determined that Lao Mu drowned and his body went to Lijiang and could not be found.
Mu You's wife, crying all day long, finally accepted the fact that her husband died, held a funeral for him, and performed a ritual.
But in Jupiter's view, the mother did not really accept it.
In the days after her father left, her mother's spirits collapsed. She quit her job and was absent every day. She often sat on the bed with her husband's photos and stared blankly.
Sometimes, she would suddenly feel hysterical and beat and scold Jupiter, and Jupiter would always endure it silently.
He knew that he killed his father, and that was the punishment he deserved.
In fact, Jupiter was also very sad and missed her father very much, but he didn't even dare to cry. Dad was Ah he killed. Why did he still have the face to cry?
Jupiter!My mother's voice came, with impatientness: Don't stand there, come here.
Jupiter realized that he was distracted again, so he hurriedly ran over with a small bamboo basket.
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