Tengchong | Slow Life in an Ancient Town

🌍: Heshun Road Youth Hostel, Heshun Ancient Town, Tengchong (No. 42, Shui Dui Yi She) - The best season in Tengchong has arrived. The rainy season ended in early October with a light drizzle, and the ginkgo season is coming to an end. The number of tourists will gradually decrease (there are not many people for most of the year). During the day, you can bask in the sun in the courtyard and on the rooftop, and at night, you can chat around the fire. If you get along well, you can play together. After everyone leaves to rest, you can look up and see the stars in the sky while waiting for the fire to burn out. Life in the town is always slow. In addition to work, this week's to-do list includes urging the neighbor's grandma to move the idle wardrobe and going to the mountains to find the big brothers to pull firewood. The wardrobe has been there for a week. I caught grandma several times, but she was either feeding the kittens or going home to eat rice noodles. Today, she said she went to the mountains. The wardrobe and the newly purchased clothes rack are just placed in the guest room, awkwardly, but she said she likes it. The last piece of firewood in the yard was chopped last night, exactly one year since the last time we pulled firewood. We met the big brothers from the forest farm when we were wandering around the nearby village. They contracted a forest area, and we stopped to chat with them when we passed by, asking if they could sell us some firewood. As a result, when we left, we were given a car full of wood for free. In the end, we transferred 66 yuan after some pushing and shoving. We went twice, and the firewood fee for the yard spanned nearly a year. This is life in the town, trivial and specific. After staying for a long time, I often feel like an NPC, repeating the same things every day: guiding customers to the store, providing travel guides, giving directions... But there are also many moments that touch me no matter how many times they happen: guests sitting with the dogs in the morning to bask in the sun, couples chatting and drinking quietly by the fire late at night, and children gathering to form an electric car team to go out. Life is still long and meaningless, but sincere moments will shine in the ordinary life. Another winter is here.