梦圆马路湾 (English)
四川 花丛中学 倪正非
我们家的后面是一座山，山路弯又弯。这条山路是通向乡场的必经之处，买东西、卖东西，我们走过了祖祖辈辈。
这条山路有一个好听的名字，它叫马路湾。说起它，家乡人是津津乐道，很是自豪。
爷爷最爱讲它的故事，那还是爷爷的爸爸小时候的事。据说是上一个世纪二三十年代的时候，国民党要修唐巴公路。当地出了一个大人物，跟上面说得上话，上面答应马路（当时人们把公路叫着马路）从我们这里过。某天来了几个勘探人员，带着叫不上名字的洋机器，东一比划，西一比划，决定马路从我家背后修过。那几天，男女老少都来看热闹，勘探队走到哪，他们就跟到哪。
勘探队还说我们山里有宝贝，洋机器给照出来的。这件事成了几代人的发财梦：有人说山里有只金兔子，拉出来的屎就是金子。有人说山里有座金碾坊，有个老太婆日日夜夜在碾米，半夜里开山门，有运气的人向老太婆讨些米，拿回来一看全是金米。
谁也没有见过山里的金子，倒是修马路的事不见动静了。再后来马路从隔了几十里的八庙场修过，家乡人错过了看汽车的机会。不过，我家后面的山路，人们还是把它叫着马路湾，这一叫就叫了七八十年。
马路湾的马路梦，家乡人一做就是近百年。从解放前做到了解放后，又从解放后做到了新时代。
爷爷的爸爸是做着梦去的，带着遗憾走的。老人家的晚年已经吃穿不愁，但没坐过车，没去过县城。
随着巴中新农村建设的推进，公路实现了村村通。马路湾终于修通了马路，马路湾成了名副其实的马路湾。
家乡人永远也忘不了2012年的那个夏天。先是推土机开到了马路湾，不几天一条马路已具雏形。然后一车车石子拉到了马路湾，铺到了马路上。再后来是水泥罐车开到了马路湾，一条宽宽的水泥路通到了家门前，圆了近百年前的那个梦。
通车典礼那天，远在几千里外打工的家乡人回了家。又是锣鼓唢呐，又是鞭炮烟花，比逢年过节还热闹。
打工的不再外出，留在了家。有买客车跑运输的，娃娃上学、大人赶场要坐车；有买货车跑生意的，把山里的土特产卖到了城里。有办养殖场的，养山鸡土猪发财；有办种植园的，种果树药材赚钱。还有人想起了勘探队的预言，说山里一定有矿藏，也许是煤，也许是铁，说不一定就是金子。
家乡的人还做着梦，做着美梦，做着守住大山就能发大财的美梦。
The Winding Road
Just behind my house is a mountain.On the mountain there is a windy road that bends and winds all the way to the top.Along this road is a local marketplace where you can and sell lots of things.The market place and the road have been around for generations and generations.
The mountains name is very beautiful, 'Winding Road Mountain'. This mountain has a very close place in the hearts of my family and the other villagers. My grandfather loves telling old stories about the mountain. He once told me that in the 1920's the Nationalist Party came through our town and decided that the main road needed repairing. Not too long after a group of explorers came to our town carrying a device no one had ever seen before. Using this device the started to surgery the area. Wherever they went, the villagers followed them to see what they were doing. Not before long they decided that a road should be built, and what’s more that it would go right by my grandfather’s house!
After some time studying the mountain, the exhibition team said the mountain had something precious inside it. The tale went that there were golden rabbits that popped gold into the river living in the mountains. There was also another tale that there was a golden millhouse inside the mountain. In the millhouse worked an old woman who would grind rice every day and night. Every night she would open the mountain door and give a bag of rice to any villagers lucky enough to meet her. When the villagers would get back home the rice would have turned to gold!
However, unfortunately no gold was ever found on the mountain. However one of the good things that came from the explorers coming to our town, is that they helped build our road. That was around 80 years ago, the mysterious road still stands proudly today.
The winding road has a history of over 100 years which ranges from before the opening up of China up until present modern day China.
When my grandparents were younger, they both had lots of dreams and hopes, but none of them were realized. One of the reasons was because it wasn’t easy for them to get to any bigger cities or towns. In fact, they have never even been to the nearby city. Now they are older and settled, so they don't mind so much any more.
Recently, our province began concentrating on improving the public works. As a result, new highways began springing up connecting the neighboring towns. The winding road was amongst one of the country roads that got turned into a highway! My family and I will never forget the summer of 2012. Dozens of bulldozers, cement trucks and other big machines all came storming up the hill helping to turn the small mountain road into a highway.
On the day that road was opened, all the workers began packing up and headed back to their homes amongst sounds of fireworks and traditional Chinese instruments. This was celebration was not just for the new road, but for the new opportunity that the road would bring to my village.
Having this road meant that workers no longer had to leave home to go to find work, work came to find them, or they could go out and come home on the same day. Also teenagers could go to and from university, the elderly could take the bus into the city, small businesses could expand to other towns. What’s more is that farmers could drive their crops and animals to the nearby towns and markets to make more profit.
Now with the new road, new dreams can be made. New dreams can be realized.
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