only in this mountain

A month passed by like this, Jiang He didn't sell a single painting, but the balance on the card dropped dramatically.

Jiang He is not from the village. He has no fields or land, and he has to spend money to buy even a handful of shallots. Every time he goes to buy vegetables, the aunt in the vegetable field will keep adding vegetables he doesn’t like to the scale with a smile. There are vegetable gardens, and there are not many people who buy vegetables. In the off-season, the source of income for the poor sales of vegetables depends on the few people who do not farm to fill the vacancy.He didn't know how to get along with people, and he had some language barriers after all, so he went out less often, and he was not very diligent at first, and he could buy frozen food and instant noodles online without cooking.And I don't know why, obviously he only eats alone, but the fruits and vegetables are consumed extremely quickly, and a box of snacks bought in less than two days has bottomed out as soon as it is opened.

Going on like this is not an option, Zhang Yunde's original intention was to let him escape to the countryside, not to make him bigu, although he would help him from time to time, it was not a long-term solution after all.So Zhang Yunde suggested to him to let him plant something in the open space outside the house, but he didn't live up to it, he dug the ground twice with a hoe, then dropped the hoe and quit.

"It's a shame that you are still from the countryside. If you can't stand on your shoulders and lift your hands, it really embarrasses your ancestors."

"I haven't done farm work since I was in high school. After graduation, I can't even bother to go to work. It hasn't rained for a month. The ground is so hard, how can you let me dig?"

Jiang He blew on the blisters that had just been rubbed out on his palms, feeling extremely wronged.

Although elementary school is on summer vacation, Zhang Yunde has to give tutoring to a few students with poor foundations, so he doesn't have time to help him.

"How about this, I'll find a few people, you pay, they contribute, first get the vegetable field out."

"Forget it, I'm not here to farm."

People in rural areas always depend on the weather for their meals. Even the high temperature does not rain. The vegetable fields need to be watered from far away. Zhang Yunde often goes to work in the vegetable fields after class.And there is only one family that sells vegetables in the village, and the bad weather does not only bring adverse effects on one family alone.

Zhang Yunde shared his concerns with Jiang He, but Jiang He didn't think about anything else, so he just said, "Old Zhang, you should stop taking things from me in the future, and you have a lot of people in your family."

Zhang Yunde's good intentions shattered to the ground, his face was a little red, and he said, "Just pretend I didn't say anything."

Jiang He's original intention was not to bother Zhang Yunde anymore. He is such a big man, he will never starve to death, but when Zhang Yunde showed his face to him three times a day before and stopped patronizing his small courtyard for several days in a row, he just I began to reflect on whether I had said something wrong.

People are in a foreign land, alone, cold and lonely, Jiang He is not feeling well if he is so chilled by his own few words for a good friend.

The mouth of personality defect is getting bigger and bigger, what should I do in the future?Jiang He almost plucked all the hair on his head, and finally left the house obediently with his hoe on his shoulders.

The area outside the door is too wide and difficult to take care of. Jiang He still has to paint most of the time, so he definitely can't take care of it.But there are two flower beds in the yard, and the area is not too small. He likes to eat fresh cucumbers, so he can plant a few. Small tomatoes seem to be good too.After Jiang He waited for the sun to set, he ran to the door with his hoe on his shoulders. He was tired and hot and dug for half an hour before filling a pot of soil.

"What are you doing?" A black head protruded from the big locust tree, startling Jiang He.

"Dig the soil." After seeing clearly that it was Xiong Xiong, Jiang He walked home with the basin in his hand.

"What are you digging for?" After Jiang He came out with an empty basin, Xiong Xiong asked again.

"Planting the land," Jiang He said.

"Is it because your family has no food to eat?" Seeing Jiang He nodding, Xiong Xiong also nodded: "Then I'll steal it after you plant it."

"Huh—eh?" Jiang He raised his head abruptly, only to see a dark figure slid down from the tree quickly, jumped back to the door of his own house, and jumped into the courtyard wall with a bang.

"Ah!" No wonder he always felt that things in his house always decreased for no reason, and it turned out that they were stolen by neighbors.Jiang He brandished a hoe to find a neighbor to argue with, but the one who opened the door was Huang Shirt, who asked him what's the matter with a smile.

Reaching out without hitting the smiling face, Jiang He's face was rosy after hard work, and he held back for a long time before saying, "Where's your cousin Xiong Xiong?"

Huang Shan smiled and replied, "Go to the bathroom."

He used an uncertain tone, and Jiang He felt that he must be guilty, so his tone became a little stronger: "He stole something from my house!"

Huang Shirt had a look of disbelief, and responded: "I don't know if there is some misunderstanding, but my cousin and I have always kept our law and order, and never did anything like chicken and dog robbery."

Jiang He had already heard Xiong Xiong say the word "steal", so he didn't believe him, and said, "You stole my food, as well as fruits and snacks." Otherwise, how could he eat so fast by himself?

Huang Shan made a dumbfounding expression, and led Jiang He to the yard of his house: "Why don't you come and see for yourself what my house lacks."

The yard of Huangshan’s house is really big, like a mini herb garden. The vegetables in the rows are bright and lovely, such as green bamboo shoots, peas, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, lettuce, spinach, carrots... cucumbers, loofahs, and long beans. Hanging on the shelf, it is deliciously tender.

Jiang He knew that he had wronged them, so he stood aside awkwardly, feeling that the hoe on his shoulder was too heavy to crush him.

Xiong Xiong poked his head out from behind the cucumber stand, and asked suspiciously, "What's the matter?" There was an unfamiliar dialect in his accent.

Huang Shan smiled and said, "It's nothing, just a misunderstanding." Finally, he said to Jiang He, "There must be rats in your house, you should hide things well in the future."

When he came out of Huang Shan's house, the sky had become a bit dark, and Jiang He's palms were extremely sore.The neighbor grows so many vegetables, it would be great if he could share some of them.He resigned to his fate and continued digging the soil. After all, whimsy will not come true, and no effort will not yield anything.

The second idiot ran around in the yard like the wind, chasing Jiang He's trousers and barking all the time: "Two-legged monster, hungry, hungry, hungry..."

Jiang He gently kicked it away, and said, "It's not easy to look after the house. You know how to eat every day. If you don't catch two mice tonight, you won't even think about eating tomorrow." Digging another pot is almost time to cook. Putting down the basin, I saw Zhang Huai pushing a bicycle passing by the path in front of the door.He lowered his head and continued to work, and the two idiots chased him to the door, standing on the threshold majestically like the head of the family.

"Two-legged monsters, work quickly, cook for me when you're done!"

"Be your sister! Uncle, your sister! Where did you learn it from?"

"I don't eat anymore, I want to eat watermelon, don't grow vegetables, let's grow watermelon."

"Grow your sister!"

Because Zhang Yunde ignored him, Jiang He vented all his anger on the second idiot, pushing the second idiot back and forth with his feet.

The second idiot didn't do anything, and chased and bit Jiang He's pants.

The cry of the two idiots attracted Zhang Huai's attention, but Zhang Huai turned his head after pushing his bicycle across the bridge. Kicked down from the threshold.

After dinner, Jiang He took a shower and sat in the yard to enjoy the cool and played with his mobile phone. When he searched for vegetable seeds on Taobao, the more he thought about it, the more he thought something was wrong. According to common sense, it takes one to two weeks for the seeds to germinate, and it may take two months for the slow growth period. It can only mature, and different vegetables are planted in different seasons. Chinese cabbage has just been planted at this time, right?Although there are out-of-season vegetables and fruits everywhere in the big cities, this is the countryside with four distinct seasons.

He felt that it was very abnormal, that he might be deceived—but can what the eyes see be false?

The second idiot nervously ran around in the yard chasing a fruit that fell from the tree, biting it, and the fruit was thrown away by him. The fruit was kicked away.

The second idiot shouted: "Don't run away! Smelly rat!"

Jiang He: "..."

In the evening, Jiang He drew a scene of the two idiots confronting a bunch of pear monsters with eyes and noses, and posted it on his Weibo at three o'clock in the morning.He was woken up by the notification sound of his mobile phone at seven o'clock. When he opened it, it was Zhang Yunde's comment: "Staying up late again/angry, I have to find someone to take care of you! Today I will go to the town to help my dad sell pork. What do you want to bring?" What?" Jiang He hurriedly asked him to bring some vegetable seeds for himself.

The friend took the initiative to reconcile with him, and Jiang He was in an extremely good mood. He got up and planned to cook instant noodles, but when he opened the cupboard, there was a huge golden mouse lying inside.

Jiang He was frightened and casually touched a basin and threw it over. The big mouse dodged gracefully and jumped to the top of the cabinet. With contemptuous eyes, he said in a haughty tone, "Stupid human beings have no manners at all when they see this great immortal."

Jiang He didn't care what it said, if he didn't understand what he was saying, he would just be chirping and chirping.Throwing another basin over, he shouted, "It turns out that you are the one who has been stealing things!"

"What are you talking about stealing? If you don't make an offering to me, it's already disrespectful, and you dare to speak insultingly." The big yellow mouse sneered: "Look at how poor you are, you can't even afford meat, so I don't care about it." Stay here for a while."

It kept saying that it was a great fairy or something, but Jiang He took a closer look, and saw that it had a long body, a very long tail, eyes that rolled around like two black pearls, and a cunning and clever face, it seemed to be a weasel.This kind of small animal has never been very popular in the countryside. When Jiang He was a child, he had only seen a few times when he was a child by the pile of firewood in the backyard and was frightened and fled around. This was the first time he had faced a weasel at close range.

He naturally likes furry animals. He also raised hamsters and guinea pigs before. Although the weasel in front of him ate his food, he was not particularly angry. He watched the little thing slowly walk through a small hole in the wall Drilled out, he just smiled.

While boiling the water, Jiang He thought about it and felt that he had wrongly blamed his neighbors yesterday, and felt very sorry. He turned off the fire and found a few packs of unopened biscuits to apologize to the neighbors, and borrowed a handful of vegetables and shallots from them.

Not far away, Jiang He had prepared a draft in his mind, and knocked on the door confidently. After a long time, the door opened, and a yawning voice asked, "Who is it?"

Jiang He's eyes straightened instantly, and he pointed at the door, his gums chattering: "Bear...bear..." No matter how good his mental quality is, he is also inexpressibly afraid of the scene in front of him. There are still bears? !

That big black bear was more than two meters tall, and stood at the door like a black iron tower. Jiang He didn't know if it was because he could understand animals or the bear could speak human words, but he subconsciously wanted to turn around and run away .

The black iron tower was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly stepped forward to embrace him, covering his mouth with its big furry paws.He was already terribly frightened, but after being covered, he began to struggle violently, and then the big black man directly picked him up and dragged him into the door.

Where is the vibrant scene seen yesterday in the yard? Weeds and rubble are everywhere, spider webs are everywhere, and there are some food packaging bags that obviously don't belong to this place.Looking at the big black man who was dragging himself like a chicken, his appearance was a bear but his movements were very anthropomorphic, Jiang He made a wise decision - pretend to be dizzy.

After walking around the yard a few times, it was obvious that the bear was a little bit at a loss by the situation. Its fur paws fiddled with Jiang He's face twice. Seeing that he didn't move at all, he threw him in the yard. .

"You stupid bear! It's not enough to succeed, but it's more than failure!"

"I didn't expect it to be him..."

"Even if it wasn't for him, you shouldn't have opened the door. No one knows about us living here. Do you think there are still other bears visiting the cave every day?"

"I... I didn't do it on purpose... Then... what should I do now?"

"Forget it, it's also my fault. I pretended to be smart and ran to let him find out that you were not the one who stole the things. Judging by his appearance, he still came to deliver food to us. It seems that he felt that he wrongly blamed you yesterday. We can't treat him right if he is not dead. He did it, moved him outside the door, and acted like nothing happened."

Jiang He pretended to be dizzy with his eyes closed, but due to the lack of sleep last night, he actually started to doze off. After an unknown amount of time, he vaguely heard something talking.

One was the weasel's voice he heard not long ago, and the other was Xiong Xiong. He thought to himself, could it be that he had actually had a dream for more than a month, and it was no longer a reality since he came here?There are only two people living in this house. If Xiong Xiong is the big black bear just now, then the yellow shirt is a weasel, and they have become spirits. No wonder they can understand what he said.

But the combination of these two animals still has plans for him, and they are still waiting for him to die. What kind of world is this?

Xiong Xiong picked up Jiang He again, and said, "Is there really no other way to get out the mountain god stone?"

Huangshan said: "Yes, go to Fenghuang and see if he is willing to give it to us after taking it out."

Xiong Xiong was a little reconciled: "How can Phoenix put such an important thing on a human being? This human looks very useless."

Huang Shan gave him a blank look and said, "Phoenix will not be stupider than you. He is still a pheasant before Nirvana. Once the mountain god dies, almost all the mountain elves covet the spirit stone that gathers his soul. Although Phoenix is ​​the first One step, the spiritual power is also greatly damaged. Naturally, it is impossible to continue to monopolize the mountain god stone, but he is bad because he has imprisoned this human body. on him."

Hey, what the hell is a phoenix?What the hell is a mountain god?If it was a dream, can he ask to wake up now?

Xiong Xiong put Jiang He at the door, and wanted to say something more, but Huang Shan hurriedly urged: "Hide quickly, someone is coming!"

"Jianghe..." Before Xingxing could say anything, the person who had been lying still on the ground suddenly sat up. Zhang Huai was startled, stood up and took a step back.

"Huh?" Jiang He rubbed the back of his head in a daze.

"What are you doing here?" Zhang Huai looked at the open door, then at the person still sitting on the ground, wondering, "You opened the door? What are you going to do?"

"I have nothing to do, just see if there is anyone here."

"I moved away a few years ago, and now no one lives here."

"Then..." Jiang He still wanted to ask if anyone named Huang Shan and Xiong Xiong had filled out the registration form, but then thought that when they saw someone approaching, they hurriedly hid, knowing that there must be no one, so he didn't ask any more.

Zhang Huai asked, "What?"

Jiang He shook his head and said nothing, but Zhang Huai didn't force it, he just said, "Little Eighth Uncle said yesterday that your dog hasn't been vaccinated yet, so I'll vaccinate it today."

Why do you need the village party secretary to get the vaccine?Jiang He looked at him still carrying a small box, and thought of the time he had wiped the back of his neck with disinfectant when he first met him, his face was full of doubts.

"Are you a veterinarian?" Jiang He led Zhang Huai to his home, and saw that Zhang Huai was skillfully grabbing the second idiot and giving it an injection, and after the injection, calming down the restless and about to bite him, Jiang He couldn't help asking.

"Ah."

Just a simple syllable made Jiang He's heart twitch: "Then you still treated my wound when you saw me for the first time? People are different from animals, right?"

"I majored in animal medicine in college, but I took professional courses in clinical medicine."

Jiang He was still indignant: "Even so, you are still a veterinarian."

Zhang Huai explained: "Don't worry, I'm using this for you." He put the second idiot who was still moaning and screaming in pain on the ground, took off the disposable plastic gloves, and took out a small medicine from the box. bottle.

Jiang He took the small medicine bottle: "Povidone-iodine solution, what is this?"

"Povidone iodine, which is used for disinfection by humans. Sometimes they overreact and may hurt themselves when they are given an injection, so they carry some disinfection water for human use with them."

Jiang He wanted to say something that exposed him as a science idiot, but the second idiot had already tremblingly ran to his feet and began to bite his trousers: "He stabbed me so painfully, I will bite you to death!"

No conscience to bully the weak and fear the strong, whoever stabs you, who do you bite?What about the loyal guardian?While thinking about it, Jiang He picked up the second idiot, stroked its teary dog's head, and said something softly.Although the second idiot didn't fully understand it, he could tell the information that was beneficial to Jiang He from Jiang He's tone, so he stopped shouting.

Over there, Zhang Huai had already put away his medicine box and was about to leave. Seeing that Jiang He was still rubbing the dog's head, he couldn't help but remind him: "Your dog is a bit calcium deficient, feed him more bone broth, ham sausage, etc. Eat as little as possible."

Jiang He blushed, thinking that he had already whispered enough, but he still heard him. Are his ears more sensitive than a dog's?

"I don't even have bone soup to drink myself..." Although he cooked by himself during the years when he worked in City S, he basically didn't cook meat dishes. After the idiot, the two of them haven't touched a single bit of meat - except for ham sausage.

After seeing off Zhang Huai, Jiang He turned on the computer and planned to buy some calcium supplements for Er Fool online, and he spent hundreds of dollars at once. He rubbed Er Fool's head with great distress, and said viciously: "I treat you so well, You should know how to repay your kindness!"

The second idiot didn't get what he wanted, so the very unhappy Uncle Dog bit Jiang He's thumb.