Wind back to the farm

The endless hills and hills, the yellow leaves of Cotinus cotinus and red elm, the autumn color is just right.

A small car was driving unhurriedly on the hilly road from east to west. The orange-red color blended perfectly with the surrounding scenery, like a large beetle leisurely looking for food among the fallen leaves in the forest.

The car turned over a hill again, Li Xia lowered the car window to the bottom, and took a deep breath.

The familiar fragrance of grass and trees came to his face, he stretched comfortably, and reached out to touch his head lying on the driver's platform: "Shanxia, ​​you'll be home soon, are you happy?"

The yellow dog with shiny fur didn't even lift its eyelids, turned its head in the other direction, and continued to sleep.

Li Xia withdrew his hand: "This time it's true, we just passed through Jiushang City, and now we have entered Qinghe County, and we will reach Dajiling in at most two hours."

The dog simply snored.

Li Xia had no choice but to concentrate on driving.

An hour and a half later, Li Xia patted the dog's head again: "Shanxia, ​​wake up, look, that's Fenghuiling, we're really almost home."

Only then did Gouzi open his eyes, and looked forward carefully.

It was too far away to see clearly, it skillfully jumped onto the back of the seat, opened the sunroof and climbed onto the roof.

Li Xia said: "Didn't I lie to you? It's different at first glance. It's much more majestic than the small hills here."

The purebred pastoral dog of Huaxia Country has been walking under the fir tree for many years. He has seen a lot and learned a lot. What kind of scenery have you never seen?So even though he was very excited to see Fenghuiling, he just let out a soft "woo".

Li Xia didn't mind either, he knew it was his fault, he had lied to Gouzi for half a year with the name Fenghuiling, so it's no wonder he could give him a compliment at this moment.

A quarter of an hour later, the car was already running parallel to Fenghuiling. Gouzi was lying on the center console, his eyes narrowed, watching the scenery of Fenghuiling secretly.

Li Xia said: "How about it? It's beautiful. Although it can't compare with Lihuaao, it's much more beautiful than the scenery with dead eyebrows and drooping eyes."

Even though he was seen through and was pretending to be asleep, Xia Fir didn't move and continued to squint his eyes.

After driving for another ten minutes, the car drove up to a ridge. Li Xia stopped and picked the dog's ear: "Look, Dajiling."

In fact, he didn't need to shout. The moment the picturesque village below came into view, Xia Fir had already opened his eyes wide.

The clear river is accompanied by Fenghui Ridge. It comes from the west, and divides into two branches outside the wall in the southwest corner of the small village. They circle the wall for a week. After meeting in the northeast corner, Haohaotangtang goes north.

The village surrounded by the river is full of antiquity, with the tall Dazhai gate carved out of a single huge stone, the wide and sparse bluestone streets lined with ancient trees, the courtyard shaded by trees, the old houses with blue bricks and black tiles, and chatting under the old trees The old man, the toddler who is stumbling, the cat walking leisurely on the wall, the dog sleeping in front of the gate...

Shan Xia turned to look at Li Xia: "Woof."

Li Xia sighed: "What is this, Lihuaao is much more beautiful than it, I guarantee that you will never want to leave after taking a look at it."

Shan Xia patted his hairy paw: "Wow."

Li Xia put into gear and started: "Got it, let's go now, I guarantee you can see Brother Huaniu tonight and enjoy the intoxicating fruity fragrance of Lihuaao."

The car got off the small hill and drove up the vicissitudes of the old stone bridge. Shanxia leaned out of the car again and looked curiously at the gate of the opposite village.

Daji Ridge has two village gates, east and west. The east gate is the main gate, and outsiders almost come in and out through the east gate. The bus coming from Qinghe stops beside the Daji Bridge outside the east gate.

Approaching the gate of the village, Shan Xia's eyes widened.

"They are all monsters with teeth and claws, products of ancient superstition, nothing to see." Li Xia glanced at the carvings on the gate of the village that were blurred due to too much moss, and entered the village familiarly.

There were children chasing and playing on the street, Li Xia reduced the speed to [-], walked west slowly, reached the intersection in the middle of the street, turned south, and continued west along another street.

Only the north of this street has a courtyard, and the south of the road is a 50-meter-wide garden belt. Next to the garden is a [-]-[-]-meter-wide river. The clear and shallow river flows slowly along the Qingshizhai wall.

Sugishita: "Huh?"

Li Xia: "I don't know. It has been passed down for thousands of years. North Street is similar to this. There are also houses on the north side of Guanglu Road."

Sugishita raised his head and looked forward, not wanting to talk to ignorant humans.

The car stopped near the end of the street, in front of a yard engraved with "No. [-], South Street".

"Here." Li Xia got out of the car with the key in hand.

Now at this point, it is the rest time for uncle and aunt. They will come back to have a cup of tea, lie down for about an hour, and then go to the store.

Sugishita closed the car window, opened the door and jumped down, looking around curiously.

There are a few middle-aged and elderly women sitting at the door of the west neighbor's house. They are looking after two baby carriages, talking and laughing while choosing vegetables.

Li Xia greeted: "Grandma Shitou, Aunt Yushu, are you alright?"

Several women responded with smiles, and the well-built Grandma Shito asked him affectionately: "Flower fans? Why are you back at this time?"

Li Xia patted Shan Xia's head, beckoning it to follow him: "I'm discharged from the army, I'm free now."

Another grandmother was surprised: "Retired from the army? Oh, how did you retire? You did such a good job, shouldn't you be in the army for the rest of your life?"

Several people looked at Li Xia curiously, waiting for his answer.

Most of the young people have gone to the city. Although the old people who stay in the village are comfortable, they are also bored. It is rare to find something new. Curiosity is normal.

Li Xia said: "There is no war now, just a few years of service is enough, and you don't have to be a soldier for a lifetime."

The middle-aged woman who was called Aunt Yushu by Li Xia nodded: "Yes, then, where did you go to work?"

Li Xia's military rank, according to the relevant policies of the Huaxia Kingdom, after retiring from the army, he can enter a good government unit.

Li Xia said, "It hasn't been decided yet, let me tell everyone."

"Okay." Grandma Shitou said, "Then you go to the store. I don't know what happened today. Many people from outside came to the village. Your uncle and aunt were called back just a few minutes after they came back. I'm busy right now."

"Oh, okay, I'll go in and put things away first.

There was no padlock on the gate of my uncle's house. When Li Xia entered the yard, the sparrows jumping on the livestock house and well house heard the movement and flew away with a "boom".

The two doors were not closed. When Li Yi came in, he saw that the doors of the three houses were all locked. There was a tea set on the stone table under the tallow tree. He walked over to touch it and found that the tea pot was still hot.

He looked around and greeted Sugishita: "I can't enter the house, let's go to the store."

Uncle's snack bar is on North Street, and the two of them have to turn back half a street now, which is a bit far.

In Dajiling, most of the courtyards between neighbors are not close to each other. There will be some open space between two households. The open space is usually filled with trees that grow naturally. Many families also plant some beautiful and practical flowers. If you don't drive, it is very convenient for people to travel between the three streets.

Li Xia and Shan Xia walked north through the small garden between No. 33 and No. 32 South Street, and then passed through the small garden between the four houses on Middle Street to North Street.

North Street is actually the CBD of Dajiling, because there are no households on North Street, and there are wide woods and gardens at both ends of the street. Only the area facing the intersection has a large building, including ancestral halls, schools, village offices, clinics, supermarkets, repair shops, etc. The car shop and Uncle Li's snack bar are all in this area.

The snack bar is on the west side of Dajiling Middle School. Li Yi could see it as soon as he entered North Street. The tables under the old and black locust trees in front of the shop were full.

There are tens of meters away from the snack bar, next to a field of wild chrysanthemums in full bloom, Li Xia patted Shan Xia on the head: "Those customers are city people traveling by car, big dogs cannot be kept in the city, you will scare them in the past , go play in the garden for a while, I'll go in and cook for you."

Sugishita gave a soft "woo hoo" twice, expressing his understanding.

There are no inverted houses in the villagers’ courtyards in Dajiling. They are all green brick walls with eaves and a wide double-sloped gatehouse in the middle. When the village needed to add public buildings, the old people in the village demanded that the form of the ancestral hall and the village school must be followed in terms of materials and architectural style, otherwise it would be too messy.

My uncle's snack bar and the clinic in the village are not very big, so they share an inverted room in the same courtyard. The two rooms to the east of the gate are clinics, and the two rooms to the west are snack bars.

The same goes for supermarkets and car repair shops.

However, the utilization rate of the hall of the snack bar is very low, because the environment of Dajiling is good, except when it is very cold in winter, the guests like to eat outside, which is said to be bright and spacious.

The same goes for these tourists today.

After Li Xia entered the store, he didn't see a single customer.

He pushed open the door of the operating room: "Uncle and aunt."

The man who was laying quail eggs in the casserole and the woman carrying the tray were startled and said at the same time, "Flower fan? Why are you back?"

Li Xia casually rolled up his sleeves and said, "If I miss you, I'll be back."

Uncle turned off all the stoves, came over and pulled Li to the window, carefully observed his face: "Hua Mi, something happened to you, right?"

Li Xia served in the army for 11 years. Except for the two years when Li Qu got married and the two years when his grandparents passed away, the other nine years came back for vacation during the Spring Festival.

Li Xia said helplessly: "I don't have an uncle, I'm fine, I'll tell you slowly after I get rid of all the guests."

As he spoke, he went to pick up the tray in his aunt's hand: "What table number is it?"

The aunt turned around to avoid him: "Hey, you just came back, go and rest..., okay, okay, you go see it off."

Seeing Li Xia's expression, my aunt knew it was useless to say it, so she changed her mouth, "The cold noodles are from the mother and daughter in red jackets on table six, and the cold noodles and rolling noodles are from the three square dancers on table four." Damn."

Li Xia went out with the tray.

There are only six tables in total, and the characteristics of several customers are quite obvious. While waiting for the meal, the square dancing aunt is still gesturing with newly learned movements, and Li Xia delivered the meal smoothly.

As he walked back with an empty tray, he heard someone whisper from behind: "I can't believe that there are such neat children in a place like this."

Another person said: "It's normal, there are handsome birds out of the deep mountains. What you don't believe is that a child who grows up like this will stay in this place."

Another person answered: "Hey, don't tell me I haven't noticed. It seems that there are no particularly ugly people in this village. I used to meet a few crooked melons and cracked dates when I went out to play, but I didn't meet any of them here."

"It seems really..."

……

Li Xiaxia came back expressionlessly, put the tray away and asked his aunt: "Is there any meat? Bones are also fine. Shanxia came back with me. I'm afraid that some customers are afraid of dogs, so I let him stay there."

He pointed to the west, the snack bar was already the most west building on North Street, next to the garden.

"Shanxia?" My aunt threw away the kelp in her hand and went to wipe her hands, "Oh, how could you let it stay on the street alone after coming back from such a long distance? Dogs have spirituality, so it will be sad if you do this."

As he said that, he took out a bag from the refrigerator and went out: "I have been wronged, and I have to eat three yellow chickens to coax it. It is under the catalpa. Sometimes the grievance is too big. One is not enough, and two can be coaxed."

Li Xia hurriedly stopped her: "Aunt and aunt, Shan Xia, like Qiu Xia, doesn't eat food given by strangers, and the food just taken out of the refrigerator is too cold, I'm afraid it won't be good for its stomach."

My aunt shook her head: "Look at how confused I am, forget about this."

The uncle over there immediately put an empty casserole on the stove, and added water to it: "Give me the chicken, chop it up and boil it, and you go and take Shanxia to the yard, and come back with you from such a long distance, and you won't be allowed to enter." Home, does it make sense?"

Although Shanxia has never been back with Lixia, the whole family has heard Lixia talk about it countless times, and even made video calls with him. They have long regarded him as a member of the family, just like Rowanxia.

Li Xia smiled and ran out.

Shanxia was patrolling around the field of wild chrysanthemums, when he saw Li Xia, he happily greeted him.

Li Xia raised his hand, Shan Xia stood up, pawing affectionately on Li Xia's body.

Li Xia rubbed it with redoubled affection: "Let's go to the yard, there are chickens to eat."

Watching Shanxia eat up a chicken, Li Xia went back to the shop.

My aunt was boiling water to scald the wild vegetables. Seeing him come back, she said, "Flower fan, you didn't come back for the holidays this year. Grandma and grandpa can't think about it. I'll make you a bowl of noodles. After you finish eating, this wave of guests should leave. I'll tidy up and hang up the sign, we won't be selling dinner today, let's go home early."

Li Xia said: "Auntie, don't hang up the sign and close the door. I have retired from the army, and I will always be in front of grandma and grandpa in the future. It won't take long."

Uncle and aunt looked at him at the same time: "Retired? You did such a good job in the army, why did you suddenly retire?"

Li Xia put a casserole on the tray with tongs: "It's a long story, I'll tell you when the guests leave."

Half an hour later, all the guests had finished eating and left, and the noodles with wild vegetables were ready. Uncle and aunt sat in front of Li Xia, waiting for his explanation.

Li Xia pointed to his uncle and aunt and said to Shanxia: "This is my uncle and aunt. In the future, besides me, they will also have the food given by my grandparents, and they can also eat."

Sugishita gave a soft "woo" to express his understanding.

The aunt was anxious and urged Li Xia to talk about her own business.

Li Xia said: "Don't you know that when I entered the military academy, it was to satisfy my grandparents' wishes. Of course, I also have aspirations to be a soldier, but my ultimate dream is to farm in Lihuaao.

Now, I have fulfilled the wishes of my grandparents and grandparents, and I want to come back to rent two hills and open a small farm. "

Uncle and aunt looked at each other: "No, did you really mean it when you said you wanted to stay at home forever?"

Li Xia nodded: "Yes."

He likes Lihuaao, swimming in the Lihua River, playing hide-and-seek with hares, pheasants, and squirrels in the Shenyi Tomb, singing with thrushes and orioles, and taking a nap in the sun on the old persimmon tree...

Lihuaao is his paradise.

But Lihua'ao has no job opportunities and can't earn money, and his grandparents don't want him to become an ignorant mountain boy.

Grandma believes that young people should live in a big city full of people, make a lot of friends, drink beer and sing songs when they are free, do charity trips every now and then, and occasionally have an office fight and your love I love his affectionate sadomasochism, so that I can live up to my great youth; the worst thing is, I should go to a university in a bustling metropolis, and spend a few years outside while I am young, broaden my horizons, and hand in three or five A friend with a knife in his chest, otherwise life would be too boring, and he would not even have a memory when he was old.

Grandpa believed that a man should be bloody on the battlefield immediately. Even if he had no chance to make achievements on the battlefield in peacetime, he should go to the army to practice for a few years, otherwise he would not be able to bear setbacks and accidents when he entered the society.

The two agreed that Lihuaao is a place for the elderly, not suitable for young people.

Li Xia knew that his grandma had watched too many goofy dramas, so he imagined the life of a domineering president with ups and downs and counterattacks.

However, Li Xia also understands that in this day and age, it is unrealistic to want to be a farmer who stays at home. His grandparents were right, so during the college entrance examination, he gave up Jiushang Agricultural University, which he had long dreamed of, and applied for a military academy in the capital. .

Now, he has fulfilled his grandparents' wish and can live the life he yearns for.

Uncle and aunt actually like Li Ha by their side, but like their grandparents, they think the life in Lihuaao and Dajiling is too dull for young people, so they haven’t clearly expressed their attitude towards Li Ha’s future development. Now hearing what Li Xia said, uncle and aunt exchanged a happy look.

The uncle said: "If you really don't like life outside, then come back. Your aunt and I have also saved some money over the years. Your brother and Xiao Chen won't need it for a while. If you open a farm, you can take it." to use."

Li Xia nodded: "I will tell you when I need it."

The uncle glanced at the phone: "It's nothing right now. I'll give you the key. You can go and see your grandma. When your mother comes back in July, she lived there with your grandma for a few days."

"Okay." Li Xia stood up, "I just wanted to find brother Xiuxian."

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