Wind back to the farm

Great-grandmother's house is No. 39 South Street, five houses away from my uncle's yard. After my great-grandmother passed away, this place was empty most of the time, so Li Xia didn't think about coming here just now.

There are more than a dozen people in Lihuaao, which is not as many as a big family with four generations living under the same roof outside. Of course, there is no school.

Lixia lived on Daji Ridge from elementary school to high school. His great-grandmother and great-uncle also lived here. His uncle and aunt opened a shop here. He traveled back and forth between these places every day. Everyone in the village knew him. So, today he arrived at No. 39 South Street by saying hello all the way.

The houses of each family in Dajiling are spacious, sturdy and beautiful. They may lack modernity, but they are quite high-style. These were built by the ancestors of Dajiling people thousands of years ago and passed down from generation to generation.

With the level of productivity in the Middle Ages of Huaxia Kingdom, ordinary people could not afford to build such a home. The reason why Dajiling was able to do so was because in the past few dynasties that implemented the imperial examination system, Dajiling produced a large number of candidates. On average, a family of two There is still a surplus.

Although most of Juren can't be an official, they can get a good job in the local area and don't have to pay taxes. People who are attached to Juren's name can also be exempted from various taxes. Dajiling people have supported each other for thousands of years, saving money. The wealth that came down built their respective homes and public facilities in the village, and there is today's scene.

Lixia's great-grandmother's family is one of the few families that still has a few places to spare after the average number of candidates has been raised.

The history of Dajiling sounds like a lot, but in fact it is a little funny and a little sad besides the cow.

Because there have been so many Juren and countless scholars, Dajiling has never had a Jinshi. Juren is the indestructible ceiling of Dajiling.

But for the current young people in Dajiling, the achievements of their ancestors are already very good, especially when they grow up and go out and see more of the property left by other people's ancestors, they are more satisfied with their ancestors .

Just like Li Xia at this time.

He pushed open the heavy solid wood gate, walked into the simple and spacious two-entry old house, stood in the middle of the empty yard, nostalgia and gratitude surged in his chest.

According to the habit of Dajiling people, there are no people in the front yard. There are two houses in the east and west. One is a livestock house for feeding animals, wagons and fodder;

Now, there are not many livestock houses, and most of the livestock houses have become utility rooms, where bicycles and small electric donkeys are kept.

There was no one in my grandma’s house, so there were no bicycles or electric donkeys. The barn was empty, except for a black locust tree whose canopy covered more than half of the barn. A bunch of sophora rice chattering.

"Shu~~" Li Xia whistled at Turtledove.

Turtledove looked at him and continued chattering.

Li Xia patted Shan Xia's head: "Look, a man is a bird, more courageous than you."

Sugishita ignored the boring humans and ran to look at the well.

The well, the cellar and the latrine are also in the front yard. The well is usually next to the cattle house, because large animals drink a lot of water every day.

There is a small quadrangular green tile pavilion on the top of the well, which will not get wet when fetching water in rainy and snowy days, and a stone platform about half a meter high is built below to prevent dirty things from rolling in.

Li Xia jumped onto the well platform and looked into the well with the help of the potter's wheel. There was a mysterious light shining on the small surface of the well in the dark well shaft.

Sugishita: "Wow?"

Li Xia said, "Not only can you drink it, but it's also very sweet. Would you like to try it?"

Sugishita jumped away wagging his tail.

The water in the Lihua River is very clean, and it is safe to drink, but the people of Dajiling prefer to use their own well water. Li Xia also learned from his grandma.

The cellar is next to the utility room. Sweet potatoes and potatoes are afraid of cold and heat. They can only be stored for a long time in a cellar with a relatively constant temperature.

The latrine is built in the southwest corner of the courtyard, and people use the toilet in the courtyard, and the covered cesspool is outside the wall, so that the cleaning of the cesspool can be done outside without polluting the home.

Outside the house, just plant some trees, flowers and plants, which are eye-catching and comfortable.

Washing and rinsing are generally done in the front yard to keep the backyard quiet and dry.

The water well is fine, and the following things will not be a problem, Li Xia poked the chrysanthemums by the well platform twice, and pushed open the two doors with confidence.

There are an upper room and east and west wing rooms in the backyard. There are three wing rooms. In addition to the three main rooms, the upper room also has two side rooms, which are very spacious and accommodate the elders.

The juniors live in the wing rooms, and one of them will be used as a kitchen.

The kitchen door was locked, and Li Xia opened it to take a look. The pots, pans, and pans were all neatly placed in the cabinet, but there was a thin layer of dust on the stove and the cabinet, and there was no smell of fireworks. There are always several ready-made foods in the kitchen. Whenever Li Xia comes, he will go to the kitchen to eat first. He likes the buns made by his grandma the most. They are big, thin-skinned, vermicelli, eggs, and sorghum. Flowers can show color.

The houses in Dajiling do not have corridors, which is inconvenient on rainy days, but the indoor lighting is good.

Dajiling people themselves prefer to take a rest under the big trees.

Therefore, the trees planted in the backyard are usually both ornamental and practical. Chinese tallow tree, Chinese toon tree, Chinese oak tree, oak tree, flower red, crabapple, jujube tree, persimmon tree, pomegranate tree, there is always a tree with a tall trunk and a lush crown suitable for enjoying the shade below. of.

Because the yard of the great-grandmother’s house is more spacious, there are more trees planted in the backyard. In front of the upper house, there is an old jujube tree with gnarled branches, an old long-growth tree with two people hugging each other, and two crabapple trees. Toon and elm.

At this time, all the leaves of the trees have changed color, and the courtyard is full of golden autumn.

Li Xia opened the door of the upper room and smelled a faint smell of dust, which happens when the house is left unoccupied for a long time.

When he went to school here, the school provided a lunch for the students in other villages, but he didn't like to eat it. The lunch time of his uncle and aunt's shop was very busy. I also live here at night when it rains, and I have never had this smell.

On the contrary, because the air in Dajiling is clean, and my grandmother is diligent, the doors and windows of the house are always open, and the house is always filled with the fragrance of flowers and plants.

Sitting next to the great grandma and grandpa and whistling to them seems like yesterday, but the two old people have been gone for five years, and there is nothing left of this family belonging to them.

Li Xia's throat was choked, and his heart was a little swollen.

God generously allows human beings to have feelings and make them infinitely attached to their family and the world, but they are stingy and only willing to give them a hundred years of life.

Li Xia took the portraits of his great-grandmother and great-grandfather on the long table, wiped off the dust, stared at it for a long time, and then put it back again. Then he entered the west apartment—if his mother came, she would live in the west apartment.

There was nothing, my mother put the bedding into the cabinet before leaving, the cabinet was not locked, but Li Xia did not open it.

When he was here, he always lived in the west wing room, where there was a complete set of furniture specially made for him by his grandma and grandpa.

He was stunned for a moment, locked the door, came to the yard, sat down with his back against the tree, stretched his legs and closed his eyes.

Shanxia was slipping under the wall to enclose the land, when he saw him come out, he gave two happy "woo woo" and continued to enclose the land.

Li Xia closed his eyes and said, "What's mine is yours, what are you doing Fei Napier?"

When the great-grandmother passed away, she left this house to her grandma. Grandma and grandfather had already decided that they would leave this place to their daughter Qi Feiyan after a hundred years. Qi Feiyan had only one child of Li Xia, so the whole family thought that this place would belong to Li Xia in the future.

But Li Xia didn't think so, he always hoped that his mother could meet someone worthy of trust, and have another child, preferably a daughter, a daughter is caring, and it is a blessing to have a caring daughter by her side when she gets old.

Li Xia's life is very rough, and he feels that no matter how hard he tries, he will not be caring enough.

If his idea can be realistic, this place will definitely belong to my little sister in the future. Even if my mother and little sister live in the city and have a home in a place like Dajiling, it would be nice to come back and relax during vacation.

In Li Xia's heart, apart from Lihuaao, no place is his real home. This feeling is innate, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't change it.

The problem now is that my mother doesn't plan to get married at all, but she is alone. She was fine when she was young, but when she gets old...

Li Xia opened his eyes, it was almost dark.

He shook his head, shaking out the messy thoughts inside, and stood up: "Shanxia, ​​open the way."

Shanxia was patrolling after finishing the enclosure, when he heard Li Xia's words, he ran to the street.

When Li Xia locked the door, he turned his head and glanced at No. 40 to the west.

No. 40 turned out to be the house of Le Ha's great-uncle, that is, the house of his great-grandmother's elder brother.

After the death of the great uncle and uncle and grandma, it is now my cousin’s house. My cousin Qi Qin took over a bookstore next to the school after graduating from Jiushang University, and my cousin Qi Mian opened next to the bookstore after graduating from Jiushang University. There is a cake shop, and my uncle and aunt go to help look after the shop and come back three to five days a month. Only Qi Mian can come back and stay for a few more days when he travels every summer.

Today, there is still no one at my cousin’s house.

Li Xia went to Qi Xiuxian's house.

Qi Xiuxian's home is at No. 9 Middle Street, at the east end of the village, and Lixia and Shanxia had to cross almost the entire street.

Li Xia never thought of opening a farm in Lihuaao, not only because there is no land suitable for planting in Lihuaao, but he never thought about it at all. From the very beginning, the farm he planned was outside Fenghuiling , Daji Ridge or Jiming Ridge, the farthest is no more than Qinglong Town and Ancient Blind Ridge. Working within this range, he can go home every day.

What he hopes most is in Dajiling. One is that it is the closest to home, and the other is that he has feelings for Dajiling. If the farm is run well, he can bring Dajiling people to make money together.

Therefore, he wanted to ask Qi Xiuxian about the situation. If the Dajiling Village Office did not intend to lease out the mountain land belonging to their village, Li Xia would go to the people in Jimingling to discuss it.

Qi Xiuxian was Li Xia's senior when he was studying in Dajiling, one year higher than him, and the two of them knew each other well before elementary school but had never dealt with each other.

Apart from studying well, Qi Xiuxian also has a special hobby - whistling.

And Le Ha whistles very well, or in other words, Le Ha is particularly talented in music.

No matter how complicated the song is, listen to it twice at most, and Li Xia can whistle it fluently. Even if it's not a song, when Li Xia is in the mood, he can play a tune casually, which is very pleasant to the ear, and everyone loves it.

Li Xia's speech is also very nice. This niceness does not refer to his speaking skills, but the texture of his voice, which is clear and mellow, and the rhythm of his breath and breath.

He got the nickname "Flower Fan" in Dajiling because of this.

Huami is the dialect pronunciation of thrush bird in Jiushang area.

Before outsiders gave Li Xia this nickname, Li Xia's nickname at home was also "Flower Fan".

In the eyes of grandma, there is nothing wrong with Li Xia's whole body. She said that Li Xia's crying sound is ten thousand times better than other people's singing. The migraine she had since childhood was cured by Li Xia's crying , the family still supports grandma's statement, so the time when Li Xia really had the nickname "Flower Fan" was when he was still only crying and sleeping in his swaddling baby.

Li Xia was in the first grade of junior high school, and Qi Xiuxian was in the second grade of junior high school. The two classes were next to each other.

During a class break, Qi Xiuxian heard Li Xia and the oriole on the tree whistling to each other. The background music of a documentary about birds in the Jiuzhou forest that I heard on the Internet.

After Qi Xiuxian listened to it, he didn't compare. He insisted on being a teacher, but Li Xia refused. He was born with a good whistle, and he didn't have any special love for it.

I don't even know how to practice it, so what did he use to teach it?

However, he felt that Qi Xiuxian was a good person, so he promised to blow it a few times as much as possible when he was free, so that Qi Xiuxian could comprehend the skills.

In this way, the two became good friends.

But even if the two became friends because of whistles, Li Xia still seldom whistled when they played together. He whistled subconsciously when he was in a very happy or excited mood, and he couldn't remember it at all.

Qi Xiuxian later went to Jiushang University to major in financial engineering. Because of his excellent grades, he joined a famous investment company in the capital after graduating from the master's degree. He became successful and spent more than 100 million yuan to buy a giant country manufacturing company for his father Qi Lanting in the second year. , known as the safest Eagle car in the world, paid for his younger sister Qi Sixian to travel around the world in the third year, and sent her to study in the UK after the end, but he himself suddenly resigned and returned home five years later, at the end of last year , became the accountant of the village office.

Li Xia had a phone call with Qi Xiuxian a few years ago and asked him what was going on. Li Xia thought that the cost of living in the capital was too high, and his job was too mentally exhausting and stressful.

But Qi Xiuxian said: "As long as you live, you have to bear the pressure. As a person, you can't escape it. I didn't come back because of this.

I feel more and more uncomfortable, from body to spirit, I have never had a relaxing day, and nothing can make me happy from the bottom of my heart, but as soon as I return to Dajiling, everything will be fine.

The original intention of my work is to make myself better. When I found that my choice was contrary to my original intention, I decided to adjust in time.Now, I enjoy it every day, just like when we were in school. "

Li Xia can understand Qi Xiuxian's feelings. His military life is very happy. Even on the most difficult days of training, he is too tired to climb out of bed. He is only physically tired, but his spirit is still relaxed and happy, but he still wants to go home. The ease and joy of Lihuaao is different from that of other places.

Dajiling is remote, but because of the culture of reading that has been passed down for countless generations, people in Dajiling are generally highly educated, and there are many people who go out and most of them are doing well. Everyone likes to come back when they have some free time, so Dajiling is neither poor nor backward. It cannot compare with the prosperity of the metropolis, but there are other nearby villages, and Dajiling has them.

For example, Dajiling not only has street lamps, but its simple and simple shape also matches the style of Dajiling, and it is well maintained, and none of them is not lit.

Li Xia and Fir Shanxia stepped on the warm light of the street lamps and walked eastward.

When passing by the central area, Li Xia walked a few steps to the north to see if there were many customers in the snack bar, but when he saw the light on the gate of the village office, there seemed to be someone inside, so Li Xia decided to go and have a look.

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The author has something to say:

Sorry, I misunderstood Jinjiang's definition of "derivative". I posted the wrong label yesterday. After consulting the editor today, I changed it back to "original".

I don't want to spoil any spoilers, so I won't talk about the factors that I misunderstood as "derivatives". Everyone will know after seeing it.

感谢在2020-03-0519:59:55~2020-03-0618:37:49期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: 10 for dnxm; 5 for the snail with a bulletproof shell; 1 for wsxhbs in the state of rotten mouth;

Thanks to the little angels of the irrigation nutrient solution: 12 bottles of Lanlan; 10 bottles in the mountains and rivers; 9 bottles of Fengluo;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!