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During this trip, they took a quick look at the Great Wall of Water and the Jiumu Tower. They didn't go to that spring at all.

The two elders directed Boss Deng to a small village called Wanquan, where they visited an old lady in her 80s.

For this, Boss Deng seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and Jin Yang's ears were so good that he listened to it almost exactly.

The aunt's surname was Su, and Jin Yang and Boss Deng called her aunt.Aunt Su is an old party member who participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, and the War of Resisting U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea; the captain of the rural women on the battlefield of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the nurse of the medical team when the Liberation Station was in charge, and the head nurse of the War of Resisting U.S. Aid Korea. Married in her hometown, now she is the mother of four children, the grandmother of three children, and the grandmother of two children. After a year or so, she may be able to be a grandma.

Unfortunately, when I came, there were only Aunt Su, my wife, and my old son at home.

There is no way, the village is too poor, the children are promising everywhere, the eldest son is in the Garden Bureau of City B, the second daughter is a teacher at the Forestry University, the third son is the deputy secretary in the town, only the old son has been in elementary school for two years. Catch up with the Cultural Revolution, everything was deserted, I didn't know a few words, stayed by my parents' side, and took care of the crops in the field.Now, the old son's wife and son are all in the town. They were on vacation, and they didn't come back because of the inconvenient transportation. The home that should be lively seems deserted instead.

Because the two younger brothers came, Aunt Su was very happy, she smiled and lit a firewood pot, cooked red bean porridge for them, and called the old son to take Jinyang and the others up the mountain to pick sour noodles and chestnuts.

Aunt Su is married to a villager, three or four years younger than her, surnamed Chen, who was originally a militiaman.The old son of the Chen family, named Chen Feiyuan, is a passionate and responsible rural person.He took Jinyang and the others to walk on the mountain path covered with weeds, occasionally picking a few wild flowers, weaving a wreath, and then fastening the wreath to a branch of a tree.

The leaves on the mountain have turned yellow, and the creepers growing on the rocks are already red, and the surrounding colors are rich and layered.

As soon as he walked halfway up the mountain, Boss Deng was tired and wanted to rest. There was no way, Jinyang picked up a stone, stood on it, and enjoyed the beautiful scenery to his heart's content.

It happened to be a golden cornfield below. This is a flat land in a mountain depression, which is about [-] acres in length and width.

Boss Deng had enough rest, and they went on the road again.

Although it is already October, Four Seas is the coldest area in City B. The chestnut trees on the mountain have not yet been harvested, and patches of reddish-brown chestnuts in the chestnut field greet relatives who come from the city with a smile.

Chen Feiyuan didn't say anything, and gave each of them a sickle and a bamboo basket. He found the biggest chestnut tree by himself, squatted down, took the big bamboo basket, and kept picking up the chestnuts with his head down.

Jinyang is fine, he was born as a farmer, although he has never seen how to pick chestnuts, he knows how to do farm work anyway, but Boss Deng is suffering, he has never seen it since he was a child, let alone done it, he is stupid with a sickle, he doesn't know how Yes, I finally picked it up with my hands.It was okay at the beginning, there were not many chestnuts wrapped in thorns under the tree, but after a while, there were only chestnuts wrapped in thorns left, Boss Deng went straight to it, only to hear, "Ouch", surprised Pick up a crow.

Chen Feiyuan looked at it, laughed, walked to the side of the culprit, turned it upside down with a sickle, patted it, and the reddish-brown chestnuts fell out of it.

"You people in the city have never done this before," Chen Feiyuan said rarely, "The thorn is hard, the more dry it is, the more painful it will be if it is old. Don't hold it in your hand, use a sickle." After finishing speaking, he picked up the chestnut and threw it into his back. basket.

Boss Deng followed suit and harvested half a basket in a short time.

Jin Yang was not very interested in chestnuts, pointing to the nearby walnut tree and asked, "Walnuts belong to your family too?"

"Well, this mountain belongs to our family!" Chen Feiyuan stood up and shook the bamboo basket, "The walnuts are smashed and they are drying in the sun. You can eat them later when you go back. The walnuts at home are huge!"

Looking at Chen Feiyuan's proud smile, Jin Yang sighed, "There are a lot of hickory trees here!"

"It's okay," Chen Feiyuan carried the bamboo basket on his back, looked at the sky and said, "Let's go down the mountain. There are a few sour pear trees on the side of the road, and we can pick up some pears. Our pears don't look small. They don't grow well, but they are sour. Sweet, but delicious!"

The three of them went down the mountain together. There were a few pear trees on the hillside, and the pears were about the size of a ping-pong ball with spots all over them.

Chen Feiyuan picked up a few pears from the ground and threw them into the basket, picked out the yellowest one and stuffed it for Jin Yang, "Taste it!"

Jin Yang rubbed it on his hand, took a bite, it was sour and sweet, it was really delicious, "Delicious!"

"Hehe..." Chen Feiyuan took another one and gave it to Boss Deng, and finally he found one that had been raped by the bird, and ate it in two or three bites.

When I went down the mountain to go home, there was laughter in the yard.

The dinner was very rich, including red bean porridge, fried cakes, pancakes, braised pork, and roasted chicken with chestnuts. A table was slowly set up. Several people, regardless of age, sat around and ate happily.

"Yangyang, right?" Aunt Su took Jinyang's hand, "When your father was young, he liked to eat chestnuts the most, come and eat some more." As she spoke, she scooped up a spoonful of roast chicken with chestnuts and gave it to Jinyang. Knowing that the so-called father is the son of the grandfather, so he, who doesn't like chicken, smiled and ate the dishes that were served.

"Jianping, we met before, do you remember? You were so tall back then," Aunt Su stretched out her hand and gestured, and then said to Boss Deng: "At that time, I hugged you!"

In fact, Boss Deng didn't remember, and he still lied in good faith: "I remember, I remember, how can I forget?"

"Haha" Aunt Su smiled and gave Boss Deng a spoonful of braised pork: "Eat more, eat more!"

Mr. Deng was chatting with Uncle Chen at the moment: "Is the harvest good at home this year?"

"It's okay." Uncle Chen took two sips of wine, his dark face glowing red, "Threshing millet costs more than 6000 catties! Corn can also be harvested at this amount. The rest is millet and a little millet."

"Hmph," Hu Ben hummed, "I can't buy it for a few bucks!"

Mr. Deng kicked Hu Ben under the table, "How many acres of land do you have now?"

"This year is not bad. There are six acres of flat land and more than ten acres of mountain land." Chen Feiyuan answered, "Unfortunately, next year the mountain land will not be able to be planted."

Hu Ben continued to yawn: "Your legs and feet are not good, you can't go up the mountain!"

Mr. Deng stomped hard, then asked Uncle Chen, "What's wrong?"

Aunt Su clothed Jinyang with vegetables, and said, "The country allows the farmland to be returned to forests. Our family is an old party member. We want to set an example for the village, right?"

"Convert farmland to forest?"

"Well, it's about protecting water and soil, but we don't know the details, but when the second girl came back, she said that returning farmland to forests is beneficial to the country, and we must support it!"

Uncle Chen took a sip of his wine, "Yes, when the second girl came back in May, she discussed with our village that all the mountains should be planted with chestnut trees."

Boss Deng asked: "I think our pears are delicious, why don't we grow pears?"

"The pears here are delicious, but they are ugly, and few people recognize them, so they can't be sold. Keep them for yourself, and you can't help but keep them, because they are easy to spoil."

"That's it, what a pity." Boss Deng really likes pears, but he didn't expect such delicious food to be so impractical. "But chestnuts are also good, and they can be connected with HR County."

"The third son also said that I don't know anything about the chestnut industry, but after returning the farmland to forests, the country distributes rice and noodles every year. We can't lose it!"

Chen Feiyuan was a little unhappy, "Our village has little land, this time not only can't plant mountain land, but also give others an acre!"

"Give someone an acre?"

"You can't say that." Aunt Su didn't like to hear it anymore: "What do you mean by giving someone an acre? That's for the village to do practical things for the whole village!"

"What's the matter?" Mr. Deng also chatted confusedly: "One mu of land for practical things in the village?"

"Let me tell you," Chen Feiyuan said, "Although there is no shortage of water in the village, there is no running water. Every day, I go to the mountain spring to get water. Now most of the strong laborers in the village go to work in the city, leaving some old people to live in the village. The ones that are close to the spring are okay, but the ones that are far away have to walk more than two miles, which is very inconvenient. The village discussed to rent out the first-class land of [-] mu at the bottom of the mountain, and then use the rented money to repair the running water , this matter was approved by the town years ago."

"The contiguous cornfield at the foot of the mountain just now?"

Aunt Su served Jinyang a bowl of soup, "Yes, only the [-] mu of land in our village is contiguous. It used to belong to the team, but later it was divided. Basically, each household has one mu. Now it is collected for the village to manage. It’s true, that’s right!”

Jin Yang became interested and asked, "Is this land rented out?"

"Probably not?" Aunt Su said, "What's wrong?"

Jin Yang said directly: "I was originally a farmer, and I wanted to find a piece of land to start a small plantation."

Aunt Su smiled and said, "It's just right, the third child will come back tomorrow, you can ask him."

"Okay, let's talk then!"

"You will also ask in the village tomorrow," Uncle Chen said, "Listen to everything."

"No need," Aunt Su made soup for everyone: "Who in the village knows more than San'er? It's useless to ask them, why don't you talk to San'er directly!"

Uncle was a little angry, "Why are you like this! What's wrong with asking more!"

"Good! Good!" Mr. Deng ate the mutton and radish soup, laughed haha, and praised beautifully, "I haven't tasted such authentic radish taste for a long time!"

"That's right, it's from our own farm. It's just pulled out. It's fresh!" Uncle Chen immediately calmed down when he heard this, and smiled smugly: "There is nothing else in the farm. I dare not say that it is better than the ones in the city, that is for sure!"

Aunt Su answered, "If the Duan family's kid set up a garden here, you wouldn't be able to eat it every day!"

Uncle Chen said aside: "Even if you don't rent it, you come here often, it's enough for you to eat!"

"That's true," Aunt Su smiled: "However, wouldn't it be better for my two younger brothers to come here as permanent residents?"

"Yes, yes..." My uncle wanted to say something but couldn't say it, so he shook his head and stopped talking.