Healing Holy Land, Tengchong Heshun Ancient Town, if you don’t believe it, you can try it

While the north was still covered in ice and snow, the sun was already shining in Tengchong in the south of Caiyun. An Qi sat in a daze under the archway in Heshun Ancient Town, her eyes blank with sadness and desolation, and she leaned against the archway in a decadent and helpless manner. On the opposite side is a rapeseed field, where a young couple is taking pictures and playing. An Qi looked at the young couple. She used to be such a girl, and she used to laugh and play so carefree with Xiao Lin, but now things have changed.

Xiao Lin, he should have loved me. Otherwise, he would not have traveled 2,317 kilometers from Kunming to Shanghai to have breakfast with me and work overtime for a week to celebrate my birthday. An Qi vaguely thought about it. One time when she came to Kunming to see Xiao Lin, it happened to be the Water Splashing Festival. Xiao Lin took An Qi to Xishuangbanna to celebrate the Water Splashing Festival. In the carnival crowd, they were soaked through, laughing and kissing happily. Although they were not in the same city at that time, a little thing could make them happy all day long. They agreed to find the same food in the two cities, taste it together through their mobile phones, watch the same movie at the same time in the two cities, and chat. listening to the same song on the phone.

I just don’t know when it started. Xiao Lin called less and less between them. Every time An Qi called him, she spoke less and less, often only two or three sentences before hanging up perfunctorily. It took a long time to reply when sending WeChat messages, and always hung up when making video calls. She said that she was in a meeting. Meiqi began to doubt Xiao Lin, so she quarreled and had a cold war. Meiqi also thought about giving up this relationship, but she couldn't bear to pick up the phone. Say it, and then comfort yourself, "We just haven't seen each other for too long."

In 2019, after working hard all year long, she was waiting to receive her year-end bonus and take annual leave. However, in the end, her boss took away all the credit and rewards for the project, and Meiqi didn’t get even a scrap. Meiqi handed in her resignation angrily, then packed her things and came to Kunming to find Xiao Lin. She wanted to give Xiao Lin a surprise, so she sent him a WeChat message at the airport: "There will be a surprise in three hours." After a more than three-hour flight from Shanghai to Kunming, I got off the plane and turned on the phone. I didn't receive a reply from Xiao Lin, so I called him in the arrival hall of Changshui Airport.

This is a sad phone call. The phone rang for a long time before I picked it up:

"Baby, are you off work?" Xiao Lin's deep voice is still very charming

An Qi: "After get off work, do you miss me?"

Xiao Lin: "Yes! I wish I could see you right away"

An Qi: "Hahaha , your wish will come true soon, I am coming to Kunming."

Xiao Lin: "Ah! You are coming to Kunming! Why didn't you tell me in advance?" Xiao Lin's voice changed.

An Qi: "I want to give you a surprise. I don't want to be in a different place."

Xiao Lin was silent for a long time and said, "Let's break up."

Xiao Lin, who was still talking sweetly just now, suddenly said such a sentence. An Qi was stunned. Isn't it a good thing? Why are they about to break up? When she reacts, there is a beep of hang up on the phone. When she calls again, the phone number has been blocked and WeChat has been blocked, without even an explanation. An Qi wanted to cry, but she couldn't. She had nowhere to go and no way out in the huge Kunming Airport. She was filled with deep sadness and lifeless as she wandered around the Kunming Airport from the arrival hall to the departure hall. , sitting in the rest area not knowing where to go, hand sliding unconsciously on the phone, every time a message comes from WeChat, I open it with hope and close it with disappointment. A tourism advertisement is playing on the display screen in the rest area, "Tengchong Heshun Ancient Town" .

"Since there is nowhere to go, let's go see this ancient town." An Qi said to herself that she never knew what excitement was waiting for her in the town that was never her travel destination.

Heshun is very quiet and not as noisy as other ancient towns. An Qi chose an inn with unique charm to stay. The owner and his wife of the inn are locals. They are very enthusiastic and warm. An Qi When she arrived late, the landlady was worried that she hadn't eaten dinner, so she enthusiastically cooked her a bowl of shredded bait. After eating the hot shredded bait, An Qi's cold heart felt a little warm. The lady boss saw that she was very tired and still had a strong fever. So sad, I recommend An Qi to go to the hot springs tomorrow. The room was very simple and clean, with pinewood furniture and a faint rosin scent. It was a simple and unpretentious room, an inn that felt like home. An Qi washed herself and went to bed. Today, she was exhausted both physically and mentally. She had had real and fake dreams all night. She fell asleep in a daze and looked even worse when she woke up in the morning. An Qi asked the landlady to help her prepare three meals a day. She didn’t want to go anywhere now and sat next to the bougainvillea flower stand in the inn yard all day to bask in the sun. The winter sun in Tengchong was very warm, but it could not melt the ice in her heart. An Qi looked at the yard and found that the boss and his wife loved flowers very much. In addition to the bougainvillea that bloomed all year round, there was also a row of camellias under the wall of the gate. In early January, the camellias were in full bloom. An Qi looked at the camellias. , his thoughts didn’t know where to go. He was thinking about whether to fly back to Kunming to find Xiao Lin and find out what kind of beauty the vixen who seduced him was, but he didn’t even have an explanation.

The next morning, An Qi got up early. She didn’t want to sit around and think about it all day. The ancient town was quiet and peaceful in the morning, and the tourists were still sleeping. An Qi was walking in the twists and turns. The alleys were a bit cold, and the people I met were all the residents of the ancient town who got up early. Some were carrying vegetables to sell, some were driving cattle to the fields, and some were riding motorcycles and tractors. The busiest ones were in front of their homes. There is a stall selling breakfast. There are 4 or 5 people sitting at a square table, and the food is different. They sell Tengchong special breakfast: Tengchong bait silk, thin bean flour cake, thin bean flour rice noodles, and various ingredients. There is a square table full, which makes people just want to drool. An Qi wanted a bowl of thin soybean flour cake. The yellow, orange and orange thin soybean flour was topped with a spoonful of red oil chili pepper and fragrant chopped peanuts. A few drops of sesame oil and sesame oil were poured on it. It was paired with the roasted rice cake, which was burnt on the outside and waxy on the inside. It tastes so delicious. An Qi fell in love with it the first time she tasted it.

After breakfast, we wandered along the alleys of this small town with a history of more than 600 years. The stone-paved paths and the houses on both sides of the road had high foundation stones, dark with special holes. The stone is a volcanic stone that has experienced thousands of years. Most of the houses in Heshun Ancient Town have such foundation stones. The ancient laundry pavilion still has old people coming to do laundry, the wild ducks swimming freely by the river, the willow trees leaning along the river, the archway at the entrance of the ancient town and the ancestral temple archway that have experienced wind and rain and are full of vicissitudes of life, it seems that there is nothing more to say. , we have always guarded the tranquility here. In the evening, An Qi soaked in the hot springs near the ancient town for a long time to wash away the fatigue on her body, but her heart was filled with sadness. An Qi knew that she needed a place to vent her unscrupulous thoughts, so she returned to the inn and asked the proprietress where the memorial hall of the Expeditionary Army was. There, the landlady looked at the girl with a sad face and said, "Go to the National Memorial Cemetery, no one will laugh at you."

There are monuments to national heroes in the National Memorial Cemetery, and there are many Many of them are young people in their early 20s, heroes on the anti-Japanese battlefield. Entering the National Memorial Cemetery, in the middle of the garden is the Chinese Expeditionary Army’s directory wall. The names on the wall are densely packed. I can’t help but feel sad when I look at them. Cemetery There is a small hillside called Xiaotuanpo. It is the most shocking place in the entire cemetery. The small hillside is neatly lined with dense tombstones, all of which are the tombstones of the expeditionary soldiers who died in the war. An Qi looked at these short cemeteries with only one tombstone. The tears that Anqi had been holding back for several days finally flowed down. She cried silently with tears and gently brushed her hand along the tombstone, as if to comfort these once young people. The undead soul stopped in front of a tombstone, holding his knees and sobbing softly. On the tombstone was engraved: Second Lieutenant, Zhang Yuanchun. The tourists who came to pay their respects thought that An Qi was the descendant of the second lieutenant. Seeing An Qi's sadness, they couldn't help but shed tears. An aunt even took an apple and gently placed it in front of the tombstone. An Qi cried for a long time, until her eyes were red, swollen, sore, and without tears, she stopped. She looked at the tombstone in front of her and said silently: "Thank you," and then talked to herself a lot about the changes in China over the years and the extensive transportation. , high-speed rail, Alipay, WeChat, etc., telling them that Japan was defeated and surrendered, that China was rising, that China is now prosperous and stable, and that it has lived up to their efforts and thanked them for their protection without fear of life and death. After chatting for a long time, he stood up and bowed deeply to the tombstone. "Sorry for disturbing you today."

After leaving the National Memorial Cemetery, the melancholy in An Qi’s heart disappeared, and she felt much more relaxed. Her face no longer had the lifeless look before, as if Xiao Lin was like the wind. , only messy hair, nothing else. Then Anqi spent two days visiting the Atami Hotpot, Volcanic Geopark, Dieshui River Falls, Confucian Temple, etc. In early January 2020, I ran towards love with joy. I never thought that I would be slapped in the face as soon as I arrived in Kunming. There is no love, no explanation or reason. I set foot on the edge of the small town with a full body of emotions, thinking that... It was just a refuge, and then I left with wounds, but I didn’t expect that there was great love hidden in this peaceful and simple town. Inadvertently, it made people forget about personal love and hatred. That small emotional injury was more important than serving the country. Sacrifice for the people, the destruction of families and lives during the Anti-Japanese War are just a breeze, a fallen leaf, a trivial matter that does not break the bones or muscles.

In just one week, I was so heartbroken that I buried the wound in a corner. With infinite hope for the future and the expectations of the ancestors under the tombstones in the National Memorial Cemetery, I dedicated my life to the country. share of strength. In mid-January, An Qi said goodbye to the warm innkeeper and his wife, and returned to Shanghai from Tengchong, passing through Kunming. At this time, the sky at Changshui Airport was blue and the winter sun was warm.