Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

(This article is about slow life and farming. The time and background of the whole text are fictitious. Please do not go too far. Kind words make good friends, and bad words hurt people’s hearts.)

3033.3 April

Seeing that he was almost there, Zhao Yeqing asked the driver of the minibus to stop, got out of the car with his suitcase, and stood at the foot of Meishan Mountain.

After the minibus closed the door again and drove away, Zhao Yeqing placed the box flat on the ground, took out a thick coat and put it on.

I couldn't help but take a deep breath. This was the fresh air I had not seen for a long time after the industrialization of cities everywhere.

The temperature this month has reached 17 or 18 degrees Celsius. Meishan, which originally has a subtropical monsoon climate, has an altitude of nearly 1,500 degrees, so the temperature is nearly 10 degrees lower than at the foot of the mountain.

Looking up, the clouds and mist are still flowing in the mountains, and my nose is filled with the smell of moist soil mixed with vegetation.

Zhao Yeqing's grandparents were both forest rangers in Meishan. Meishan was his grandfather's home when he was a child, and was later planned as a protected area. So after he retired from the army, his grandfather became a forest ranger and lived on this mountain almost all his life. Since a few years ago, they After her death, she never came back often. She carried the box and walked up the mountain, with sadness in every step.

The road up the mountain is a road around the mountain. It is said to be a road but it is not paved with cement asphalt. It is just a dirt road about 7 meters wide. Cars with high chassis can drive up it, mountain bikes, motorcycles, tractors and small three-wheelers can also go up the mountain. Cars can go up the mountain. Basically, the chassis was scratched in two steps. At the end of the road is the signal tower. Unless it needs repairs, almost no one would come here.

The Meishan Mountains are nearly 400 kilometers long. The place where my grandparents guarded is at the southern end of the mountains. The observation towers of the rangers are far apart, and the nearest village is three kilometers away.

After walking for more than an hour to reach the mountainside, Zhao Yeqing felt that she could hardly stand up straight. She had been sitting in an office for four years after graduation. Even if she usually went to the gym, carrying a box uphill for an hour was a bit unbearable for her.

I found a big stone on the side of the road to rest for a while, then left the road and walked into the woods. The end of the winding mountain road was not in the same direction as my grandfather's house, and I had to walk a small path through the woods to get there.

This path, which was originally used as a forest isolation firebreak, is three meters wide. Since the forest rangers were no longer set up here after the planning, it has become even more inaccessible. The path has already been overgrown with weeds up to the ankles, and only the boundaries of the original path can still be seen faintly. .

Probably like this

Zhao Yeqing used branches to catch grass and walked forward. She was well prepared and wore waterproof clothes and short boots to avoid dew and leeches. After about ten minutes, she finally saw her grandfather's small house built halfway up the mountain.

She grew up here with her grandparents since she was a child, and rarely came back until she lived in high school. Later, her grandma passed away and her grandfather left. After she sent the old man away, she locked the house. It was only now that she felt the belated arrival at the door. The fear of being close to home.

According to regulations, the ranger's house cannot exceed 60 square meters. When my grandparents got older, they could no longer climb up to the observation tower to see. It happened that the back of the area was no longer a protected area due to planning reasons, so my grandfather put the original A one-story house was built into a two-story building. If you stand higher, you can look at the forest as much as possible.

After I went to college, I talked about my hometown with my best friend. After I mentioned that my family was a forest ranger, I thought it was a cabin in the forest. In fact, it was not. The house was made of bricks. To prevent fire, we could not use wood to build the house. The vegetation around the base was cleared, and the distance from the surrounding woods was cleared to prevent the house fire from spreading to the side, and to prevent the wildfire from spreading to the forest rangers, so two houses were built with bricks in the middle of the open space, both of which were two-story houses. A small building.

One room is her home, and the other is Grandpa’s old comrade-in-arms, Grandpa Mu. They enlisted in the army together, retired together, and then became forest rangers together. They lived like this all their lives. When grandma and grandma Mu were still there, they often joked that Grandpa and Grandpa Mu are a couple.

Zhao Yeqing dug out a plastic bag from the corner of the wall, took out the key from it and opened the old-fashioned plum blossom lock. He carried the box and pushed the door open and walked in. He carefully checked whether there were any snakes, insects, rats, or ants in the house. Fortunately, the doors and windows were all empty when he left home. After closing it, I checked around and found nothing abnormal. Then I went to the tool room to get a sickle and prepared to check around the house.

The outside of the house has white walls, which are now a little yellow, but they match the light brown tiles on the roof better. The first floor of the house is the grandparents' room, kitchen and living room, and half of the second floor is Zhao Yeqing's room and bathroom, and half is the terrace. , the toilet and tool room are independent, and the two families share it together because they have a good relationship and are not too particular about it.

I found a reference for a similar room type.

There is a cellar between the two houses. Because it is located in the south, the soil in the south is not as soft as in the north, and the humidity is higher. This cellar can also be said to be a basement. It is dug very deep to avoid underground water, and the four walls are sealed with stone bricks. The feet are filled with red bricks and sand, which is moisture-proof, water-proof and breathable.

The bathroom on the second floor of the house was installed at the back, because grandma thought it would be more convenient for the little girl to have a separate bathing place in the room as she was older.

This time she came back with the intention of staying for a year or two. After working for a few years, she found that she had gained nothing except a savings of hundreds of thousands and cervical spondylosis, and she had also been rumored for some reason.

Only a person with a heart will see others as dirty. Zhao Yeqing walked up to the rumor maker with a smile, pulled up a chair and slapped him in the face, then sent the unclear evidence about himself and his clients to the company group and resolutely Resolutely resigned.

It was also because of this incident that she understood what she wanted.

Zhao Yeqing stood in the yard and looked forward to his next pastoral life.

Now that you have decided to live for a long time, you need to take good care of it and clean up the grass around the house to prevent snakes from crawling here when the weather gets hot. The sickle that has not been used for several years is somewhat rusty. Zhao Yeqing tried After cutting the weeds at the door, I thought it was still useful, so I started cleaning it from the door outward.

After roughly clearing the two-meter-wide grass around the house, shoveling away the moss growing in the corners, and cleaning up the cobwebs outside, the cleaning work came to an end for the time being. Zhao Yeqing looked at his phone. It was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was ten o'clock when he went up the mountain. It took more than an hour to walk, and it took almost two hours to clean up.

She didn't eat much in the morning, and she felt really hungry now that she was so busy. The house hadn't been cleaned yet, so she couldn't start the fire. She took out the scallion pancakes she bought outside the town station, which were as big as two palms. The scallion pancakes only cost one yuan and fifty cents. This happy price made Zhao Yeqing order three pancakes without saying a word. These pancakes are not fried, but fried with a little more oil in the pan. The outside is crispy on the inside. But it was very soft and not greasy, with a slight chewy texture and a strong aroma of green onions. She ate it with satisfaction while looking at the house that had been cleaned up.

There was still a wide space around the house. Zhao Yeqing was planning to build a wall. If he lived here alone later, it would be safer to have a wall. There was also a piece of glass in the window of the house broken, which was caused by someone throwing stones.

At that time, someone came to the forest to steal a tree and was caught by my grandfather. Since no actual damage was caused, he was not punished. However, this person later came with a grudge and threw rocks and smashed the glass at night. He was also caught by Mu who happened to be using the toilet outside. Grandpa caught him on the spot and threw him into the police station and detained him for five days. Grandpa found a piece of cardboard to block the broken piece of glass, and he used it like this for five or six years.

The two houses are not side by side. Her house is facing down the mountain, and Grandpa Mu's house is facing her house on the side. Originally, the two houses planned to build another one on the other side, so that they are surrounded by each other. It looks like a two-story courtyard house, but after grandma passed away, grandpa never mentioned it again.

Zhao Yeqing estimated the area. She planned to surround the two houses together, and the windows on the first floor of the house also wanted to be replaced with security windows and security doors. .

I found the brick factory in the town on the map app and called it using the phone number above. I reported the area, length and width. The reply was that approximately 4500 bricks were needed. Zhao Yeqing chose hollow bricks, which cost about 3 cents each. In addition, cement is 450 yuan per ton and river sand is 180 yuan per square meter. The owner of the brick factory enthusiastically introduced the workers, saying that the labor cost is not expensive. Four workers only cost 500 yuan a day. The material cost of putty and the labor cost of painting the wall are also included. , it can be completed in one week.

She thought it was a good deal and readily agreed. She compared it while taking the bus. The labor cost in the town was basically 460 per day, but after all, people had to help her transport the materials up the mountain. If you drive, you can only rely on manual labor or motorcycle towing.

He also contacted the door and window factory. Because there were many styles, Zhao Yeqing finally decided to go to the factory to choose one by himself.

After entering the house, he opened all the faucets and ran the water for a while. He carefully wiped the dusty places in the house. The original quilt in the closet must have been there for so many years. Zhao Yeqing put on his small backpack. After bringing the necessities, locking the door again, and carrying the sickle down the mountain, she planned to go to a hotel in the town to sleep for one night, and then go directly to fix the doors and windows tomorrow, and buy some bedding and daily necessities.