The sun is warm today, so I want to drive out as a family to enjoy the warm sunshine in winter. I've got half a day to spare, and let's go see the scenery.
Destination, Rouge Lake Village. I have been here many times and it has beautiful scenery. Every time I go there I have a different feeling. Either excited or confused or regretful.
After speeding along the first-level road, I turned the corner and headed deeper into the village. The gatehouse that used to stand at the entrance of the village had long since disappeared. The asphalt road had been repaired. Later I found out that the gatehouse would be moved to the intersection of another major highway. It was just right there. It is connected to a factory of Zoomlion, making it more convenient and atmospheric.
The trees on the roadside are scattered and unassuming, swaying gently, bathed in the golden sunshine. The fields where the rice has been cut are empty, and the remaining rice stubble is still neat, waiting quietly to survive the cold winter and give birth to spring. The water in the river branches spreading everywhere has dropped a lot, and riverbed islands are exposed in some places, making it look even quieter. Some houses on the roadside face the road, and art workers use colorful graffiti to paint exquisite wall paintings. They are all classical works, or the clothes are fluttering, or the robes are on the back of the coat. These works have become a part of the scenery along the way.
Our first stop, the Home of Educated Youth. This place was invested and established by the famous educated youth entrepreneur Huzi Jing in order to preserve the hot memories of youth. When it was first built, the educated youth who had been sent to Yuanjiang reunited here decades later, looking for relatives and friends, hugging and chatting, drinking and talking, sighing that time flies by, the years are great, and reminiscing about the stories of the past, it was very lively. The courtyard has white walls, red eaves, red pillars and swallow tiles. Many photos of educated youth going to the countryside are hung on the corridor walls. Black and white photos, innocent smiles. When I recall that period of youth, there are no ripples in my heart. However, this hot spot for educated youth later became It was not built yet, but now, the place is deserted. The sale of local specialty mushrooms has occupied the home of educated youth. It is surrounded by large greenhouses for growing mushrooms. In front of the house, the remaining lotus leaves are yellow, and the iron chain wood is shaking in the pond. The plank road has also been abandoned. The pond is shallow and muddy, with teal ducks playing in it. The bamboo forest next to the house is still making rustling sounds.
The second stop is Luguzhai. This is a check-in spot for Internet celebrities. It is close to the home of educated youths. Recently, a film and television drama was filmed here, and local Internet celebrities gathered together and sang at the campfire, so it became popular. .
In the past, the reeds that were everywhere in the Dongting Wetland were the best raw materials for papermaking. However, with the intensification of environmental protection, those paper mills were closed one after another. When the clear water and blue sky appeared, the reeds rotted silently on the lake shore. , no one cares.
Reed resources must find a new outlet, so scientific and technological workers, entrepreneurs, and the government are working together to explore the creation of the Yuanjiang Reed Mushroom brand, using reeds as the substrate to produce other types of edible fungi, such as Coelus gallii. , oyster mushrooms, fragrant flower mushrooms, Pleurotus pleurotus, enoki mushrooms, etc. Yuanjiang reed mushrooms are rich in nutrients, unique in flavor, and ecologically green.
This mushroom village is actually a place for mushroom sales promotion. It restores many rural scenes of Huxiang in the past, and is also the memory of the educated youth when they went to the countryside. The mud-walled thatched houses, field haystacks, sack walls, wooden pens and pig pens, blacksmith shops, as well as those raincoats, windmills, rakes and shovels, etc., make people look at them with emotion. It’s true that time flies by and time flies by.
My son fell in love with the wooden swing, and he quickly sat on it and began to float. The gauze on both sides danced lightly, hazy and elegant. The decorated plum tree in front of the house has pink and delicate flowers that bloom cheerfully. A romantic atmosphere suddenly spreads, pushing people from painful memories to beautiful illusions.
The fiery red lantern is hung high, bringing celebration and joy, and outside the house, the sun is shining brightly, warm and soft.
Our third stop, Rouge Lake. Just behind Luguzhai Educated Youth Home. The sky is blue, the clouds are white, and the water is beautiful. A coconut tree decorates the entire scene, and straw mushroom umbrellas are waiting quietly on the beach.
Rouge Lake also has a beautiful legend. Fan Li and Xi Shi retreated here and went boating in Dongting to watch the sunrise and sunset. The beauty of Xi Shi washes her face in the water, and the lake is filled with smoke, which is as wonderful as a fairyland. The beauty's rouge is scattered in the lake, and the fragrance is permeated, and the fish sink in forgetfulness.
Tourists are coming one after another. The girl holding the dog, a line of scenery across the water and the sky, the handsome guy on the motorcycle staring into the distance without saying a word, and a couple sitting on the rocks whispering in the sun. Whispering, those driving naked on the lakeside may be seeking spiritual freedom.
Rouge Lake in winter does not have the green vibrancy of spring, nor the unrestrained enthusiasm of summer, and of course does not have the joy of harvest in autumn. It has an extra sense of tranquility, as if it is waiting, Waiting for everyone to pursue their hearts.