only in this mountain

There are six members in Zhang Yunde's family, including his grandparents. He also has a younger sister named Zhang Yunmei. His father kills pigs and sells pork in the town. He is tall and sturdy. Everyone calls him Fatty Zhang.Fatty Zhang has an older sister, Zhang Yunde's aunt, who also lived in Nanxing Village at first, but later her son got married and made money from doing business outside, so he took their family and moved to the city.The house was Fatty Zhang’s sister’s former home. It was on the other side of the river in the east of the village. It was only a few hundred meters away from Nanxing Primary School where Zhang Yunde taught. The door of the closest family to the house was also locked, and it is not known whether the owner had gone out temporarily or had also moved away.

"Will I live here in the future?" It took a day to get new glasses in the city, because there is no eyewear shop in the town, and the county and the city are not far away, so they prefer to go directly to the city for things that cannot be bought in the town. After all, there were more choices, Zhang Yunde quickly took Jiang He to see the house after returning.

Their village still belongs to the old-fashioned village where the new rural construction has just started and the living standards of the villagers are uneven. Those who are unwilling to go out to work still follow the farming tradition of thousands of years. Between the trees and the low tile-roofed houses, it is also submerged and the whole picture cannot be seen.

Judging whether a place is really poor or fake is one-sided by looking at an individual or a certain group. It needs to integrate the transportation, education and overall consumption capacity of this place.At present, the traffic alone can be a hindrance. There are no cars leading to the outside world in the village. The road out of the village is narrow and winding. Tractors and motorcycles cannot drive side by side. There is a spacious new road under construction. , but it is only connected to the roadside to the town, and the cars between towns and towns are all privately operated, and there are no regular operating hours, and travel is all about luck.He can understand burning firewood for cooking. After all, he often went to the mountains to collect firewood when he was a child, but most people in the village don’t even have water heaters for bathing, let alone air-conditioning, computer washing machines.Many people who enjoy the convenient life in the city take it for granted, but here it is taken for granted that there is no such thing.

Zhang Yunde's family background is average, his own house is inhabited every year and was renovated just before Chinese New Year last year, and his aunt's old courtyard looks like it has been abandoned for at least five years.Weeds were overgrown in front of the empty house surrounded by the courtyard wall. Morning glory, mirabilis and some unknown weeds were listless in the sun, as if they did not welcome guests from afar.Pushing open the courtyard door, one sees a large piece of weeds, most of which are withered and half dead. It looks a bit like a haunted house in a TV series.

"You can pull the school's network cable here, and all the couriers in the village are sent to the school by post."

"But it doesn't look like it can live in people..."

At the beginning, he also considered where he would live in Zhang Yunde's hometown, and wondered if his family would find it troublesome if he lived in his home all the time. Now that Zhang Yunde said this, he looked at the house he was about to move into with a little complicated mood.

"Why can't people live in it? My cousin rebuilt it when he got married, and the decoration cost a lot of money. They moved out after two years of living, and the house is still new."

The old and the new understood by the two may not be on the same level.

Jiang He's displeasure was evident on his face. Zhang Yunde patted him on the shoulder, sighed and said, "If you don't want to live here, the school still has vacant dormitories. We don't have many students here. The principal is my uncle. I'll get you a room."

Feeling that he made his friend feel bad, Jiang He hurriedly waved his hands and said, "No need, this place is actually pretty good."

Although there are a lot of weeds, I can still see two fruit trees in the yard. The fruits they bear look like pears, and they can grow so tall by themselves.There was a big locust tree outside the yard, and half of the shadows cast into the yard, and they didn't feel too hot after standing for a long time.The exterior walls of the house are painted with white lime, and the red wooden door is locked. Although the door god paper on the door is faded, it is still intact.

Zhang Yunde unlocked the door of the living room again, and the pavement was covered with a heavy musty smell after years of erosion. There was a painting on the wall facing the door, covered with cobwebs and dust, and the red-faced birthday star stared at it. Uninvited guests who are trying to disturb the tranquility of this room.

Jiang He let out a strange cry and almost tripped over the threshold.

Zhang Yunde looked at him speechlessly.

"Why don't I go find my great-uncle..."

The enthusiasm for coming to the countryside to escape worldly troubles began to show signs of cooling down. Jiang He felt a little regretful. He really wanted to say "I'd better go back to City S", but he also felt that he had let down Zhang Yunde's good intentions. He knew that if he would leave After that, no one will listen carefully when he complains again.

"It's okay, I'll just stay here." Jiang He said.

Zhang Yunde nodded: "If you think it's too dirty, I'll ask someone to paint the wall first."

Zhang Yunde was very efficient in his work, and he found someone to renovate the house the next day.

First, the electricity meter was installed in the house and the electricity was re-connected. The windows that Jiang He thought were small were removed, one bedroom was reduced, and the living room was enlarged. Afterwards, aluminum alloy sliding windows were installed on each window. After a fresh coat of white paint and curtains, it doesn't look so dated anymore.After pulling out the weeds in the yard, a cement floor was paved, and two flower beds were built in consideration of what might be planted in the future.

Jiang He arranged the living room with emphasis, since there would not be any guests here anyway, so he planned the living room into two areas: a place near the window with sunlight for painting and work, carpets, specially-made bookshelves and The long table, and of course a rattan chair for reading in the sun in winter, and as the living room, I bought a sofa and coffee table after Zhang Yunde’s suggestion. It's also very warm.

Natural gas has not been popularized in the village, and only some people use gas. Many people still keep dry firewood at home all year round. It is impossible for Jiang He to go up the mountain to collect firewood. After doing some research, I filled up the original old stove and bought electric appliances such as an induction cooker that are directly plugged into the electricity. The kitchen is clean without an open fire, and the outside room can be used as a dining room by pulling a glass door to block it.

After noticing several things he cared about, Jiang He began to tidy up the small things contentedly.

"What else did you buy? I'm too embarrassed to pick up the courier." Zhang Yunde's sweat never dried up when he took the big and small packages from school to Jiang He's new home.

Jiang He was hammering unmarked nails into the wall, without raising his head, he said, "Some small things."

Photo frames, stickers, dolls, miscellaneous gadgets.

"Why do you buy these useless things?" Zhang Yunde casually opened a package, looked at it, and muttered, "I still have classes, so I'm leaving first."

Unpacking the courier and having no time to talk to him, Jiang He waved his hand at him and told him to go quickly, because he has different values ​​and cannot continue to be friends for the time being.

Except for the washing machine, air conditioner and TV, all the basic appliances in the house were bought in the town.Due to various reasons in the city, the place where Jiang He lives is only livable, but here, although it is still a little bit far from what he imagined, he tried his best to arrange it like a place to live.

After everything was settled, Jiang He moved out of Zhang Yunde's house and officially moved into his new home.

Being alone was too lonely, so Zhang Yun drew a group of friends to add fireworks to Jiang He's place.Zhang Yunde had a cheerful personality and was surrounded by relatives and friends. Jianghe's courtyard was full of people that night.Jiang He could understand some simple dialects. Even so, they all took care of him and spoke Mandarin, but because they were not familiar with each other, he didn't speak a few words to anyone all night.

Holding a glass of wine, Zhang Yunde held Jiang He's shoulders and said to everyone, "Jiang He is my classmate for four years in college. He is a very nice person. Please take care of me from now on."

Everyone expressed their affirmation. Jiang He noticed that the young man diagonally across from him was looking at him with a probing gaze. She looks better, with a thin face, handsome eyebrows, and peach eyes.

"Zhang Huai," Zhang Yunde pointed out a person's name. Jiang He somehow felt familiar, and heard him say again, "Thank you very much. If it wasn't for you last time, this kid doesn't know where he is now. In the future, there will be someone in the village. Whatever it is, just say it!"

The good-looking young man raised his wine glass, and touched Zhang Yunde in the air: "Yeah."

It turned out to be him.Jiang He watched him tilt his head up to drink, his beautifully shaped Adam's apple slipped, and his face began to feel hot for no reason.

After seeing off Zhang Yunde's friends, the lively house suddenly became quiet.The night wind was blowing, the stars were pouring down from the sky, and amidst the chirping of frogs and insects, the whole village gradually began to fall asleep surrounded by mountains.

I am used to the nightlife in the city, so it is a bit uncomfortable to be quiet so early.

Jiang He also grew up in the countryside, and seeing the stars all over the sky is not a novelty, but his home is on the side of a provincial road, and as time went by, the conditions there gradually improved. The northbound cars are sometimes more frequent at night than during the day, and the flashing lights and motors occasionally aggravate his irritability during his insomnia nights.

As if he was still dreaming, Jiang He couldn't believe that he was really going to live here.It is impossible to say that he will not feel lost in his heart. Although there are mountains, rivers, houses, Internet and express delivery here, he does not have to worry about paying the rent and squeezing the bus and getting angry from his superiors, but he still misses the convenience of transportation and the diversity of entertainment in big cities.

People, there are always sentimental moments.And in life, there is something to gain.

Comforting myself in my heart, I turned on the computer and wanted to post a Weibo, but there was no response on the webpage for a long time, and I belatedly remembered that Zhang Yunde said that the person who helped pull the network cable was free this weekend.

If there is no internet, then sleep well.It was July at this time, and it was sure to be stuffy, because it was okay to have a fan, and being woken up by mosquito bites in the middle of the night was the most painful.

"Ah, why did you forget to buy a mosquito net?"

He vaguely heard the tiles on the roof move, because he was so sleepy, he thought it was a mouse and didn't care.

The next morning, the sound of the school broadcast did not wake Jiang He up. He slept until eleven o'clock in the morning. There were still a lot of leftovers from last night, so he planned to warm them up for lunch.Lying on the sofa and reading a book at noon, I accidentally fell asleep again. After waking up, I walked around the yard alone. sketch.

In the past, due to work content, he didn’t draw much when he was at work, and he wanted to take a break from work to catch up on dramas and play games during non-working hours. In fact, he could count the private drafts he received with two hands.The dream is perfect, but the reality is very cruel. He can't be blindly optimistic. If he doesn't work harder, he might not even have the travel expenses left when he returns to his hometown.

As soon as I started to draw two strokes, someone knocked on the door outside.

"You are Xiaode's classmate? I heard that you plan to live in the village for a long time. Did you buy this house?" A middle-aged man with half-white hair stood outside the door, facing the scorching sun, with a serious face.

Jiang He didn't know who he was, and he didn't hear Zhang Yunde say who was coming today, so he stumbled a bit: "I'm his classmate, I just live here temporarily."

The man nodded and said, "Alright then, I'll ask Zhang Huai to give you something later and you fill it in. We have to obey the rules in our village."

Hearing Zhang Huai's name, Jiang He couldn't help but scrutinized the middle-aged man in front of him. Although his hair was a little gray, he was tall and tall with deep features. The look on his face was even better than Zhang Huai's.He guessed that this should be the head of Nanxing Village and Zhang Huai's father, so he nodded quickly.

The village head came here on purpose to find this stranger, and turned around and left after only a few words. Jiang He noticed that his walking posture was a bit awkward. After asking Zhang Yunde at night, he found out that he had a prosthetic leg. The car ran over, and he didn't like going out of the village, and he didn't like people outside the village, so he came to warn Jiang He.

"Father and son, it looks like that Zhang Huai doesn't like people outside the village either?" Jiang He was deeply worried about his future life, thinking that he would be free in the countryside.

Zhang Yunde said with a smile: "Zhang Huai won't have any opinions on you. He has been like that since he was a child, and he is not cold or warm to anyone. You will know that he is better if you get along with him for a while. Haha, don't Whenever something happens, I feel like the sky is going to fall, everyone doesn’t interfere with each other, and I don’t even know the rules.”

When he was sleeping that night, Jiang He heard movement on the roof again, and there was also a faint voice: "Grandpa Huang, here we are again today." He spoke in dialect, and it was too far away to hear clearly.Then a voice in the same dialect replied: "I beat you up yesterday, but today you are well-behaved. When your grandpa Huang finishes his important work, you will naturally benefit from you." After that, the voice became even more inaudible. After leaving, he is still doing big things.

"Alas! Still no mosquito net!"

After a few days like this, Zhang Yunde asked someone to connect the network cable on the weekend, and finally got a mosquito net at night, but he would still be woken up by a little sound at night, and finally fell asleep, and dreamed of a cat that was bigger than a cat. Big mice want to gnaw on his feet.

"It's so high, let me go down quickly, woo woo..."

The school would not play the radio on weekends, and it was only eight o'clock in the morning, and Jiang He was still completely immersed in his sleep, when he suddenly heard a pitiful voice echoing in his ears.

There was a piece of warm and fluffy down next to his face. He remembered that his pillow and quilt were all hairless.

"It's like a horse, it can be poked..."

Something with a little moisture touched the ear, and then heard a "woo hoo", and the ear was bitten.

"what!"

"Ahhhh!"

"Hahahahahaha..." Zhang Yunde caught the little black dog who fell off the bed in fright, and finally burst into laughter after holding back for a long time.

Jiang He covered his ears and didn't know what happened. He touched the glasses on the bedside table and put them on. At first he saw Zhang Yunde, almost bursting into tears, and then he saw the little black dog in his arms.The little black dog drooped its ears, and there were two tufts of khaki-colored fur on top of its round eyes. The eyeballs blended with the surrounding fur, and the two tufts of fur looked like eyes. It was already funny like this, but it There is also a little yellow in the center of the forehead.The little black dog is fluffy, naive and extremely cute.

"My aunt's puppy has just reached the full moon, and I sent it to you as a companion." Zhang Yunde shook the little black dog's meaty paws, and said proudly: "We can't get huskies here, and the Chinese pastoral dog is just a pick. !"

Jiang He likes small animals, especially dogs. Among dogs, huskies are his favorite, but his wish to raise huskies has not come true whether it is for school or work.Zhang Yunde knew that he followed many husky-related Weibo accounts, so when he first saw this puppy that looked a little like a husky, he decided to hug him.

"Second time?" The little black dog stared at Zhang Yunde with its wet eyes, sticking out its tongue and drooling.

But even though there are three fires, this little black dog is just as stupid as a husky, not handsome at all, and can't form that kind of cute contrast.

"Stupid, I'll call him the second idiot from now on." He tried to communicate with the little black dog when Zhang Yunde was not paying attention, but the little black dog either bit his finger or tilted his head in a daze, apparently unable to understand his words.Although a little discouraged, Jiang He was still full of joy, after all, this was the first dog in his life.

"Uneducated!" Zhang Yunde said with disgust.

"Who dares to say that he is a cultural person in front of the great talents in the literature department?"

"Look at the three tufts of hair on its head, why not call it Sanhuo?"

"No, just call me the second idiot!"

After gradually accepting the reality, Jiang He tried to make his life a little happier.I fought with Zhang Yunde for a long time early in the morning, but in the end no one convinced the other.After Zhang Yunde left, Jiang He raised the little black dog to the top of his head and threatened, "Are you calling me the second idiot? If you don't, I'll throw you out and feed you to the cat!" The little black dog was tortured by Jiang He with tears in his eyes, and he put it on the ground. The rear two hind legs were still trembling.

At night, Jiang He heard the little black dog complaining to someone: "That two-legged monster is too hateful."

A shrill voice said, "You are still young, you can bite him to death when you grow up."

The little black dog said angrily: "I'm going to start practicing now. I'm going to bite the Two-legged monster's slippers so that he has no shoes tomorrow morning, and I'm going to bite his sofa so that he has no place to sit. Also..."

The shrill voice was full of regret: "It's a pity that Grandpa Huang didn't succeed, otherwise..."

Jiang He didn't hear clearly, because the little black dog started biting wildly with his slippers in its mouth, and all he could hear was its panting.

Early the next morning, Jiang He's dream was disturbed by the sound of firecrackers again. He covered himself up in the blanket and waited for the sound of firecrackers to stop. Before it was over, the door was suddenly slammed.

It couldn't be Zhang Yunde, he would jump over the wall directly, and the others didn't know him, so it was impossible to knock on the door early in the morning.Jiang He thought it was the village chief who asked him to fill out the form again, so he quickly put on his clothes and ran to open the door.After opening the door, he saw a short and thin young man with a pair of round eyes on his palm-sized face, looking at him with a smile.In front of a house not far away, a tall man in black ran towards here while setting off firecrackers.

Jiang He couldn't figure out the situation, so he rubbed the back of his head and asked, "What's the matter with you?"

The thin man smiled and said, "I'm your new neighbor, my name is Huangshan."

When the man in black arrived in front of Jiang He, the firecrackers had just been set off, and he opened his mouth and said honestly, "My name is Xiong Xiong."

He spoke Putonghua with a perfect accent. Jiang He had never heard such standard Chinese when he was in school, so he was even more puzzled.

Huang Shan continued: "Please take care of me in the future." Xiong Xiong repeated.

"Did you just move here?" Jiang He asked.

Huang Shan said: "The flood in Huangjiang Village destroyed our house. My cousin Xiong Xiong and I moved to my third grandpa's old house first. Here, it's right there." In front of the gate of firecrackers, he always has a smile full of spring breeze when he speaks.

He looks very cute, although Xiong Xiong behind him is nearly two meters tall and looks like a black iron tower, but Xiong Xiong is like the second idiot brother in Jianghe's yard, completely non-existent.

"Outsiders need to register with the village head first. I've only been here soon." Jiang He kindly reminded them, so that the village head wouldn't have to visit the door himself to warn them.

Huang Shan bowed to him, thanked him, and stayed polite for a long time before taking Xiong Xiong back.

The second idiot dragged Jiang He's sketchbook to the ground and urinated on it, so angry that Jiang He wanted to beat it with a broom.

The second idiot yelled while running: "Two feet blame you, don't be too arrogant!"

After a while of jumping around, Jiang He threw the second idiot on the top of the big cabinet, watched it wandering around without thinking, but didn't dare to jump down, and took a picture of its stupid appearance with his mobile phone.Edit Weibo, click send, and then go make breakfast.