Wind back to the farm

When Li Xia woke up, it was already dusk, he didn't move, reminiscing about his dream in the aroma of rice porridge.

Flying in the vast expanse of sky, shuttle singing among the dark clouds, lightning and thunder, it feels really good. Every time he has such a dream, he feels as light as a swallow after waking up, as if the dream has continued into reality.

But this continuation is too short, often can't run to the main room, the memory of the dream is blurred or even completely disappeared, and the body sensation dissipates along with the memory, so if there is nothing wrong, when the dream wakes up, Li Xia will lie down for a while, not moving If so, the memory of the dream will dissipate a little slower.

Li Xia played back the dream in his mind, thinking: Others dream of being chased, shouted, beaten, killed, unable to run, but I dream of flying more and more vigorously, especially the thicker the dark clouds, the more violent the thunder and lightning, I fly and sing The stronger the desire, they don't want me to be discharged because of this, right?

However, Li Xia also has some doubts: Could it be that I am very cruel in my heart, and I am actually a war madman?But why do I feel that I am very kind and love peace very much?Alas, here comes, amnesia comes...

The dream became farther and farther away, and finally disappeared.

Li Xia suppressed the disappointment in his heart and turned on the bedside lamp.

Almost at the same time as the lights came on, two dogs ran in, pawing at the edge of the kang and softly "whooping".

Li Xia rubbed the dog's head next to each other, and after finishing rubbing, Qiu Xia ran to the main room to report the news.

When Li Xia got dressed and came over with Shan Xia, his grandparents had cooked three dishes. His favorite drink, glutinous rice and red bean porridge, had been served on the kang table, and honey hair cake, which replaced the birthday cake, was heating in the oven.

In the end, grandma and grandpa made a total of eight vegetarian dishes that Li Xia liked, and Shan Xia and Chu Xia were two backbones with a lot of meat.

Accompanied by two big dogs, Li Xia and his grandparents had dinner.

Li Xia has been in the army for 12 years, and his eating habits have not been assimilated. It is still his style since he was a child, neither fast nor slow, calm and unhurried, as if nothing big can affect his enjoyment of food.

Grandpa and grandpa are more than 50 years older than him, and they eat a little faster than him.

It was the same today, Li Xia was the last one to finish eating, he put away the bowls and chopsticks, felt his belly comfortably and said to grandma: "It's my birthday, I'm in a good mood, and I want to play chess."

He slept for more than five hours and has fully recovered, but as long as he returns to Lihuaao, he doesn't want to leave, and it's the same today.

The birthday gave him the best excuse. Although he was very worried about problems at the farm, he decided to play chess with his grandma at home.

"Play chess? Okay, okay, hahaha, I can finally play chess." Grandma was so happy that she didn't let the dishes be washed, so she urged grandpa to get the chessboard.

After she got older, she didn't like to go out, and she didn't go to Dajiling once in three or two months, and Qi Feiyan was away for many years, so now she rarely enjoyed the joy of playing chess.

"Come." Li Xia rubbed his hands, seemingly very excited, but in fact he mustered up the courage to sit opposite his grandma.

There were four ancestors in my grandma's family. Although they lived in a remote village like Dajiling, they were still considered to be a scholarly family. Dajiling did not have a patriarchal atmosphere. Boys and girls received the same education from an early age. Therefore, grandma not only He has a lot of knowledge, and he also has a lot of experience in playing chess and painting.

My grandma played Go since she was a child, and she only started playing chess after she fell in love with her grandpa.

Li Xia was instigated by his grandfather when he was a child, saying that among chess games, only Huaxia chess is a man's game, so Li Xia only learned chess from his grandmother.

But even so, he can't play any chess with his grandma and mother.

Playing chess with his grandma, he won every three to five times in elementary school. After junior high school, he has been repeatedly defeated, and the next draw can be happy for several days.

As an adult, he resolutely refused to play chess with his grandmother, and when he had to play chess, he found someone to join forces-if he lost, he had a partner, and he felt more balanced.

Grandpa also likes to play chess, but it is played outside with other people. The experience of playing chess with grandma was over when the two of them were on their honeymoon. .

Today, the only partner Li Xia can choose to join forces with is his grandfather.

Two hours, four innings, there were no surprises in the result and process.

Li Xia and his grandpa played all kinds of rogue tricks, regretted countless times, and still lost three games in a row. After nearly an hour of hard work in the fourth game, they finally drew with grandma.

The grandfather and grandson decisively put away the chessboard, the grandfather asked to watch TV, and Li Xia asked to go back to the farm.

Grandma poked Li Xia's head bitterly: "Can't you learn something better? Do you follow him and learn to cheat? In the next draw, you will beat the victory drum and withdraw your troops, and plan to abandon the city and flee?"

Li Xia's head shook like a rattle: "If you learn well, you can't even get to a draw. You will be worried, you will lose face, and you won't learn."

Grandma threw the remote control to him: "Always partner with the stinky chess basket. If you don't want to make progress in your life, you will lose face for the rest of your life."

Li Xia helped his grandfather choose the program and said: "Even if I partner with you every day, I can't learn your level. Grandma, I can't train it anymore. You should persuade my mother to give me a younger sister. Let my sister pass on the high-quality genes of you and my mother."

Her mother, Qi Feiyan, won the national chess individual championship at the age of 27, but her current occupation is a painter.

After the chessboard was hidden, grandpa felt that his dignity was guaranteed, so he immediately corrected his position, jumped into grandma's trench, and helped her deal with Li Xia: "Hua Mi, you can't say that, don't say you don't have a sister, even if you do, Even if she is the world champion, she can't replace you, right? Now that you're back, you're by your grandma's side every day, just follow along, or you'll have to be like grandpa when you get old, it's no fun at all."

Li Xia said, "Grandpa, don't you know how to play the harmonica?"

Grandpa looked at Li Xia from the top of the mirror frame: "Are you deliberately pissing off Grandpa?"

In Grandpa's heart, the harmonica is not a musical instrument at all, and its status is not as high as that of a whistle, especially Li Xia's whistle, which is a universe behind.

Li Xia chuckled: "No."

Grandpa snorted, took out a card from his pocket and put it in front of Li Xia: "Your mother left it when she came back. She said she dreamed that you were discharged from the army and were digging mountains with a pickaxe. You know , She has been superstitious since she was a child, and this time, she did not say that this dream is a sign that you will start your own business, and the initial stage is very difficult, so she left some money for you."

Li Xia was shocked in his heart, his face didn't show at all, he pushed the card back: "I have money, please save this for my mother."

Grandma said, "What do you do with your little settling expenses? Your uncle said you ordered [-] carts of saplings, but you don't want them. What will you give them when you send them?"

They didn't know that a security deposit was required for renting mountain land, and they thought that Li Xia would plant thousands of fruit trees every year and take his time, so they wanted to wait until Li Xia didn't have enough money before taking out the card, so as to save Li Xia from having money. If the stall is too large, if the fruit cannot be sold, there is no room for change.

Unexpectedly, Li ordered so many saplings next time, and paid a deposit of 300 million. The old man was afraid that Li Xia would be too difficult, and he didn't care about the future, so he solved the current problem first.

Li Xia said: "Grandma, grandpa, if you can't even buy chips, will you go to the casino? I still have money now, and I will ask you for it when I run out."

Grandpa said: "Don't fool me, even if the resettlement fee now is higher than mine, it's not much more."

Li Xia said: "The resettlement fee is not much, but I still have some money from trading in stocks."

Grandma and Grandpa: "(⊙o⊙)! You know how to trade in stocks?"

Li Xia said: "I don't know, Brother Xiuxian will. From the second year of my military academy, I will transfer the allowance to him when I receive it, and the New Year's money you gave me for living expenses. I let him help me manage my finances."

Grandma and grandpa exchanged glances: Do you think it's true or not?

Grandpa: It should be true, right?Huami is a good boy and will not lie.

Grandma: That boy from Qi Lanting's family is very good at making money, and he has a really good relationship with Huami.

Grandpa: That's true.

Grandma: Really.

Grandpa reached out to put the card away: "Forget it, I will leave the card with your grandma first."

Li Xia happened to be tuned to the military channel, so he handed the remote control to his grandfather, stood up and said, "Then, watch TV, I'll go to the farm."

Grandma was surprised: "Really, it's dark today, what are you going to do?"

Li Xia said: "Twenty cars of saplings, no matter how professional the planting company is, it will take several days to plant them. After all, Shen Houren and Gongbao are ordinary employees. If I have to make up my mind, I may not come back for a few days. .”

The grandma and grandpa thought about it, so they had to say: "Then you should slow down on the road, and tell your uncle and aunt what you want to eat. They are all home, so don't be wronged by eating."

Li Xia agreed, jumped off the kang and left the main room.

Shanxia and Qiuxia were lying on the stone pier at the entrance of the main room and acted as door gods. Seeing him come out, they happily followed him.

Li Xia walked a few steps, and found a piece of white stuff on the shoe, he bent down and flicked it a few times, but it didn't fall off, it seemed to be batter or gum.

He knelt down to dig, only to hear the voices of his grandfather and grandmother in the main room.

Grandpa: "It's Huami's birthday today, you can't add a little more when you release the water, let us win once?"

Grandma: "Just now, I feel that he is suspicious. If you add more, he is so smart. You can see that he will be happy even if you win? We are not you, Hua Fan."

Grandpa: "What's wrong with me? Tell me, what's wrong with me? Old couple, what if you let me win twice?"

Grandma: "What's wrong with Li Xu, you're weak and you're justified, right? I almost closed my eyes and played against you and you won't win, so you have the nerve to stare at me?"

"Where did I stare? I'm trying to reason with you. It's Huami's birthday today, and you should let us win once. Huami didn't come back last year. It's been two years. I haven't even won a draw. You... "

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Li Xia stood up holding back a smile, and walked back to his room with light steps.

Grandpa played chess with others outside, and grandma was quietly pointing at the side. He was invincible and very proud. As soon as he got home, he tangled into balls of twine and messed with grandma in all kinds of ways.

My uncle and aunt said that there is no need to persuade me about this kind of thing. The two people in the family usually quarrel twice a day, which can activate thinking and prevent Alzheimer's disease.

Today, Li Xia wondered whether to use another method to prevent dementia.

Or, let grandma and grandpa go to Dajiling together during the day after a few important things in the early stage of the farm are arranged. Grandma's relatives and best friends are there, so she can talk to more people, and grandpa will just play chess with others. Lezi, maybe this preventive effect is better.

Seeing Li Xia changing clothes, Shanxia and Qiuxia knew that he was going to Dajiling again, they stood at the door and got ready to go.

Li Xialin went out, opened the crate again, touched the small stone jar in the corner, and then turned to leave.

After greeting grandma and grandpa through the window, Li Xia stepped onto Wuya, exited from a small gate in the southeast corner of the yard, and walked up a small tree pruned from various shrubs and real small trees that naturally form arched branches and leaves. The long, covered path.

This is not the road from Dajiling to Lihuaao. That road exits from the Xizhai Gate of Dajiling, crosses the Lihua River twice, and crosses Fenghuiling in a zigzag shape. At the foot of the south side of Fenghuiling, it divides into two branches, one The branch goes slightly west, leading to Li's house, and the branch goes southeast, leading to three families surnamed Zhong. There are only four families in Lihuaao.

The road that Li Xia is walking now is only taken by the Li family, and it cannot be seen from the main road.

Li Xia has always felt that there are many miracles in Lihuaao, such as the bluestone road and the small road under his feet. No matter it rains or snows, these two roads will not be very slippery, and no matter what time of day, he will never have to worry about seeing them. The road is not clear, even at three o'clock in the morning on a rainy day, every stone on these two roads is clearly visible, but those stones absolutely do not shine.

It is said that the bluestone road was built by my grandfather’s generation. The path under his feet was formed naturally. The path is less than one meter wide and about one kilometer long. All the stones are in a natural state without any gaps in the middle, just like Underneath is a boulder with an overall length of more than 1000 meters.

Li Xia asked his grandparents how they found this road.

Grandma said: "You discovered it, you were naughty when you were young, and you liked to drill grass and barley to play.

It seems to be the spring when you were four years old. At that time, your grandpa hadn’t retired yet, and there were only the two of us at home. One day, your mother and I made dumplings and let you play in the yard. Then I looked up and found that you were not there. In the yard, there was no answer to your yelling, so your mother went out to look for it. After yelling for a long time, she heard you agreeing there.

At that time, there was no such small gate on the fence here, so your mother had to go out through the gate, and then climb over there by grabbing a tree from the half slope.

She said that after she went up, she followed your voice to find it, and it felt very easy to walk. Then she noticed that there was a natural path there. The trees and grass on both sides of the road had no thorns, and she didn't have to worry about hanging clothes on her face when walking. .

It just so happens that you are very smart, and we are discussing to get you to go to school earlier. If you take this road to Dajiling, it will be much closer.

Your uncle will prune the trees on both sides of this road so that they don’t grow in the horizontal direction, so that your brother and you can save three or four miles a day when going to school. "

Dajiling Mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and the school is not as well-regulated as in the city. In addition, the parents of Dajiling are all educated, and they will teach their children a lot of simple knowledge unintentionally. Therefore, the age of admission to Dajiling is very flexible. Schooling is generally earlier, and the children in Lihuaao followed this habit. Li Qu, Li Xia, Li Chen and the previous generation in the family all started school at the age of five.

Li Xia's birthday falls in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and he was two months and five years old when he started school.

Recalling the stupidity of myself and my elder brother Li Quqiu going to school in the early morning when I was a child, jumping up and down the road to drink dew, Li's lower lip curled up.

The road is narrow and there are trees on both sides, and it is night, even if the road is clearly visible, people will instinctively be more careful, so Li Xia can't ride fast.

Shanxia and Qiuxia had fun around him, kicked off their hooves and ran forward for a while, and then waited for him to catch up, then had fun around him and ran again, one person and two dogs were very happy.

Coming down from the north slope of Fenghui Ridge and passing Fenghui Bridge, Li Xia's heart moved, and he said to Gouzi: "Let's put the car outside the gate of the village, and go over there first to have a look."

Gouzi naturally has no objection.

Li Xia put Wu Ya away, and quietly entered the mountain with his two pet dogs.

The sky is full of stars, there is no moon, and in the night, Gongbao sits cross-legged on the top of the mountain, typing on his notebook, looking up at the distance from time to time. If he only looks at the silhouette, he looks like a young artist of literature and art.

Shen Houren was not far away from him, humming a song in a desolate tone, and pruning the saplings solemnly. He moved the shears like flying, and repaired a sapling with a crown diameter of about three meters. It only took more than ten seconds. Li Xia It was amazing to see.

The two of them are still dressed in the classic old farmer's appearance, covered in mud, but the trouser legs are not so standard anymore.

Li Xia sucked his mouth and blew softly: "Shu--~~~..."

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感谢在2020-03-1320:35:18~2020-03-1420:38:25期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

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