The end-of-life life of a mountain farmhouse

Lin Yang complained to Asparagus that the rice grown by himself was unpalatable, "other people's rice is either fragrant, sweet, or crisp, or it doesn't taste good, but our rice is astringent, and it's hard to replace it with other people's rice. .”

"Stop nagging, this rice tree will last until this year, and we will have to replant it next year." Asparagus patted the rice stalk behind, shaking slightly, and the leaves had turned yellow.

Except that the rice planted is a bit astringent, Lin Yang is still very satisfied. This kind of rice tree does not need to be planted every year to raise seedlings and transplant rice seedlings. Although it can only be harvested once a year, it is enough for their family of four for a year. more than enough.

Lin Yang sighed. He didn't know if his family would grow such rice next year. Their rice trees were the best in the village. One kind was planted for three years. It is one or two crops, and the harvest is not as much as theirs.

But other people's harvest is less or less, but the rice they grow tastes good!It's frustrating.

"Don't sigh." Asparagus called him: "Hurry up and pull it back to dry, don't delay, by the way, whose turn is it to cook today? Grapefruit or orange? Are they at home now?"

The two children are 6 years old this year, and they run around all day long like a calf, and because there are Xiao Zi and Da Hei, there is no place they dare not go in the surrounding area. Give them the task of cooking at night. No matter where they go, they must come back at noon and night to cook for their fathers.

"You go back, I'll do the rest." Lin Yang looked at the sky, it was still quite hot outside, and the temperature in summer basically remained around [-] degrees, and he was in better health than Asparagus and was more resistant to heat.

"That's fine!" Wenzhu tidied up, got on the cart and asked Xiaozi to take her back.

When he got home, the grapefruit and orange had already steamed the rice. He opened the lid and looked at it. It was not bad. After talking about it several times, he finally remembered to put fruit vinegar.

The rice in their home is astringent and hard. At first, they didn’t know how to eat it. It took a long time for them to finally find out that as long as they add a few drops of sweet potato vinegar when cooking, the rice grains will become fragrant and soft.

If you add diced bacon when steaming the rice, the steamed rice will not only be hard and astringent, but also very sweet and soft. The sweetness of sorghum rice stands out very well, and it is so delicious that it can swallow people's tongues.

Don't look at Lin Yang always complaining that the rice in their family is not good, and he can't exchange for good rice in the village, but he is not willing to exchange more when others come to him, and he can eat a big pot for a meal.

Oranges and grapefruits can only steam rice at home. It is impossible to expect them to cook all the dishes well. Even if they are willing to try, asparagus will not agree.

It's not that they are afraid of getting hurt, but the main reason is that their house is really running out of salt, and if those two boys froze, they might be able to eat a month's worth of salt in one meal.

In the past three years, they didn't stick to the village completely. They organized several teams to go out to find supplies, but every time they went to Pingshan Village, they would be forced back by the blood mosquitoes, and they were driven to Qilin'ao several times. If it weren't for the village With Dahei sitting in the formation, they would definitely rush in without hesitation, but even so, those blood mosquitoes still hovered in Qilin'ao for half a month before leaving.

The only way out of the village was blocked, so they had to take a detour through the hills, and after a long detour, they arrived at Ming'an Town next door. There was no one in the town, and they found some things in the ruins of the town. It has been enough for the villagers for a while, so the plan to find someone in the city has been stopped again, mainly because they have a bad impression of the outside world, and everyone can hide in the village for a day.

Lin Yang and Wenzhu used to sneak into the city, the city was full of smog, they went there once and never went there again.

The rice was steamed, and Asparagus went to the field to cut a Chinese cabbage and came back. Now the cabbage planted in the field is really big, almost half the height of a person, but it seems that it is not very appropriate to call it cabbage now, because the original green part It has been replaced by lavender, like purple cabbage, but the taste has not changed much, it still tastes like Chinese cabbage.

Vegetarian stir-fried Chinese cabbage, sliced ​​Chinese cabbage soup, and a stir-fried bacon with chili, this lunch is complete.

Lin Yang just came back from work at this time, and Wen Zhu looked at him with his head, "It's just in time to come back, I told the children to call you, and you came back, wash your hands and eat."

children?The room is so quiet, it doesn't look like there are children!

Lin Yang took off all his clothes until only a pair of underpants were left, and went to the kitchen to ask Wenzhu, "Why are you alone, where are those two little troublemakers?"

"Don't do your homework in the house?" Wen Zhu was surprised.

Although they don’t need to go to school now, the two children can’t eat and play foolishly all day long. At least literacy is still very necessary. Asparagus and Lin Yang are not at a high level, but there is no problem teaching the children to read, so They went out to work, and the two children were assigned homework at home.

"Yeah, I must have gone crazy." Wenzhu realized that something was wrong. When he came back, he only saw that the rice was steamed, but he didn't hear the children's voices at all, so he said why it was so quiet.

Lin Yang fished out two little dolls wearing their clothes from the small table where they were doing their homework, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "When you came back, you wouldn't have thought that the people sitting here were grapefruits and oranges, would you?"

I casually flipped through the homework the twins had put on the table. After finishing it, it was true. Asparagus was a little helpless: "The bigger the homework, the less homework, and I can even run out to play."

"Forget it, at least finish homework and lunch before running out." Lin Yang pulled the asparagus to the dining table and sat down: "Leave them alone, they will come back when they are hungry, let's eat first."

When he came back, Xiao Zi was not there, it seemed that he was with the twins, and the surroundings were filled with the smell of a big black bear, so he was not worried that something would happen to the two children.

After the couple finished their meal, the two children still didn't come back. Lin Yang couldn't sit still. He walked around the room, "Little pig, why haven't the children come back? Forget it, I'll go find Find it!"

Wenzhu was already planning to take a nap, but was woken up by Lin Yang again, he half-closed his eyes and yawned: "Xiao Zi ran out after sending me back, the two children should not be far away, you can see if it is On the other side of the small fish pond, I seemed to hear them say that there are crayfish there, so I guess they hang crayfish there."

"Small fish pond? The one at Lin Qun's house?" If so, it is indeed not far from home. The small fish pond that Wen Zhu mentioned was the one that he took a photo and sent to the group to remind everyone that the fish turned white.

After confirming the destination, Lin Yang put on his hat and prepared to go down the mountain. Asparagus suddenly opened his eyes and reminded him: "Hey, if you really have crayfish, remember to bring more. I haven't eaten crayfish for a long time." Thinking about the saliva will stay.

Lin Yang felt that it was an ordinary fish pond, and he had never heard that Lin Qun had raised crayfish in it. How could there be such a thing? The two children probably saw wild river prawns.

But the wild river prawns are also quite delicious, he can smash his mouth, if there is any, he doesn't mind adding a dish to the family.

It's so lively!From far away, Lin Yang heard the children's laughter and laughter. At noon, none of them were afraid of the sun, and they didn't wear a hat. They were all catching fish and prawns in the ditch with their trousers rolled up, and their faces and heads were covered with mud. Ideas, unless you look closely, you can't tell who is who.

"I caught a huge lobster, hahaha, look."

"Cut, it's not as big as the one I caught just now."

"Oh, I'm so annoying, Lin Yan, can you stop moving around all the time, the water is muddy by you, and you can't touch anything."

"Fart, it's because you can't handle it yourself, and you still want to rely on me."

"bump!"

"Hahaha, Lin Hao, did you have uncoordinated limbs and fell again! Fuck, your mother is here with a stick, run quickly."

Just as Lin Yang wanted to greet his two children, he was stopped.

"Lin Yang, here, come here." It turned out that Lin Chen and the others who were squatting under the vine trellis in the field also came out to look for the children.

Lin Yang walked over to say hello to them and then squatted on the ridge together, Lin Chen looked at the small bucket in Lin Yang's hand and teased him: "Why, are you planning to go into the water by yourself or do you think your twins can reap a lot? "I also deliberately brought a bucket.

"Oh, I'm not prepared. If they can't touch me, I'll do it myself. Besides, our Xiaozi is here too." Lin Yang raised his chin, motioning them to look forward.

"Tsk tsk, it's amazing, your little Zi is about to become a genius."

"What's more, it's about the same size as a half-sized kid. I wouldn't be surprised if it speaks human words someday."

Xiaozi occupies a small river ditch by herself. She puts a dustpan she found at home on one side of the small river ditch, and then walks over from the other side. At the end, he lifts the dustpan with his mouth.

Yuzi and Chengzi were responsible for picking up the river shrimp and small fish in the dustpan into the bucket. The two cooperated tacitly. The group of children is the largest.

Lin Chen pouted: "Xiao Zi is so obedient that every child in the village wants to raise one now. Lin Yang, where did you find it? Why have we never met each other in the past few years?" However, I haven’t even encountered anything similar to it.”

Now farming is very hard work, but the harvest is also good, so even if Xiaozi eats a lot, they want to raise one. As for Dahei, forget it, it is not a pet, it is the guardian of the mountain, and it must be respected.

Lin Yang waved his hand and didn't want to say any more, he had said it hundreds of times, but they just couldn't meet him, what could he do, let alone them, he often went to the old woods, no nothing Did you find it?

"I don't necessarily have to raise someone like Xiao Zi. I think Uncle Chunshan's food is not bad, so I want to raise someone like that." Lin Quan said enviously.

The appearance of Lin Quan seems to be out of place among this group of fathers, but this kid likes to join in the fun. He wants to come out to fish when he works nearby in the morning, so he doesn't care if this is a child's or an adult's territory, he just came here with a bucket.

But after touching it a few times, he lost interest again. They were all wild river prawns, and it wasn't hard enough just to clean them up, so he squatted down with the waiting dads with a bucket in his hand.

"Youliang is a mountain leopard, right?"

"It should be a bobcat, but now it's grown into a bobcat."

"This body shape is just right, I don't eat much, I can afford it, and I can take care of the house."

Everyone began to discuss a cub that Uncle Chunshan picked up in the mountains two years ago. When they brought it back, everyone was worried that it would bite, but now they have all turned into envy and jealousy.

Youliang is the name given to it by Uncle Chunshan, and it is worthy of the name. When it is a little bit older, it will hunt and feed itself, and when it is bigger, it will drag the prey back to Uncle Chunshan. , Lin Chuntian, who used to love to choke with Uncle Chunshan, also closed his mouth. Who made Youliang very powerful in fighting, and he would bite whoever and Uncle Chunshan didn't deal with it, and Youliang was flexible, and ordinary people Not its opponent at all.

"Ooooooooooo..."

Several people were discussing vigorously, when they suddenly heard the cry of food coming from the entrance of the village, and this cry was different from the past, it was very short and sharp, like a warning.

And at this time, Xiao Zi also stopped, it pricked up its ears, looked in the direction of Qilin'ao with big eyes, and then called out without hesitation.

Xiaozi ran ashore in no time, picked up the twins and threw them on her back. If she wanted to run, she remembered to turn her head to remind the children rolling in the ditch.

The children were in a daze, not knowing what was going on, Xiao Zi could only pick them up to the side of the road one by one, it didn't pull the cart out just now, so it couldn't drag so many children now, and screamed anxiously.

"No, someone from outside has entered the village." Lin Yang stood up abruptly, before he had time to explain to others, he walked over to Xiao Zi.

He saw Xiaozi's embarrassment at the moment, and walked over to comfort it: "It's okay, Xiaozi, don't worry, you go home first, and then let Xiaozhu put the cart on you and come back to pick up the children."

The twins asked in a daze, "Dad, what happened?" "Dad, are there bad people?"

Lin Yang shook his head alone: ​​"I don't know, I don't know, you go home with Xiaozi first, then let Xiaozi take you to the abandoned factory, and then hide in the air-raid shelter. If you are in danger, go to Dahei , remember?"

"Remember." The twins nodded solemnly.

Xiao Zi also understood, and ran home with the twins in a hurry.

Listening to Lin Yang's instructions, the fathers who came to their senses pulled their children to their side one after another. Although they didn't know the purpose of the people who entered the village, everyone felt faintly uneasy.

The sound of food in the distance became more urgent and louder, and all the people who had rested in the village at noon and did not return to the abandoned factory were attracted out.

"No, we can't wait here. It's enough to leave an adult here to watch over the children. The adult will follow Xiaozi and send the children to the abandoned factory to settle down. Everyone else will go to the entrance of the village."

Lin Yang ran to the entrance of the village with the others, and at this time, those outsiders could not have reached Dashaping at the entrance of the village.

When the people got closer, Lin Yang could see the group of people clearly. There were about 20 people who came, their skin color was very dark, and they had a strong bloody smell. into their village.

And the injuries on their bodies are also very familiar to the villagers, the blood mosquitoes in Pingshan Village!

Everyone looked at each other silently, and knew where this group of people came from.

Zhou Yi didn't expect that he would be so unlucky. They fled from the north to Leping County last year, but because they came too late and there were not many people, life was very difficult.

They have long heard that there is a group of blood mosquitoes in Changliu Town that cannot be provoked, but the brothers who came with him can't eat anymore, so they want to try their luck in Changliu Town as a last resort.

Before today, they had been to Changliu Town twice, both times were safe, and because Changliu Town had a reputation for viciousness, few people went there to search for supplies. They found a lot of things in the town twice, and slowly They became more courageous, and relaxed their vigilance against rumors of blood mosquitoes.

There was nothing to be found on the side near Leping County, so they went deeper and deeper into Changliu Town, and accidentally approached Pingshan Village.

I don't know how I came across this group of blood mosquitoes. When I found it, it was already overwhelming, and they couldn't run back even if they wanted to.

As a last resort, they had to flee in another direction. Unexpectedly, they ran directly to the lair of blood mosquitoes. When they went out, there were more than 70 brothers. Now there are only more than 20 people left. In just a few hours, they were broken Most of the staff were almost made dumplings by blood mosquitoes.

They fled all the way, and no one is familiar with the road here, they all walked indiscriminately, but the closer they got to this place, the blood mosquitoes seemed to be more afraid. When they ran to the front of the mountain col, they even stopped directly. Dare to enter here.

They were terrified of the place where even the blood mosquitoes were afraid, but they didn't know where they were until they stepped here!

This is heaven, a paradise-like existence.

They couldn't believe that there is still such a comfortable place in the world. The atmosphere here is very soothing and peaceful, which is a hundred times better than Leping County.

The village is full of grains that they have never seen before, and it is the harvest season now, purple and golden, with so many fruits that the branches are bent over with laughter, and the whole village is full of fragrance.

The house is decorated in this harvested field. Although no one is seen, the smoke rising from the kitchen, the craving smell of food coming from the house, and the feeling of being so familiar that it makes people weep, made the group of them People seem to be dreaming.

But now, after waking up from the dream, they were standing in front of this group of villagers, and they were greeted with guarded eyes.

It wasn't a dream, Zhou Yi pinched himself, but there was also a trace of precaution in addition to the pain and surprise. He still hasn't seen how powerful these villagers hidden in the mountains are, and they don't even have a trace of blood on them. smell.

But this is precisely the biggest abnormality. He doesn't believe that if this group of villagers had nothing strange, the group of blood mosquitoes would stop at the entrance of the village and dare not come in?

And since he entered the village, he felt a sense of uneasiness, which frightened him, made him fidget and even turned around and wanted to run away.

But this place is so beautiful, it's very suitable to stay here, besides, almost all of his brothers were injured, and there is a group of blood mosquitoes staring at them outside, so they don't dare to leave the village now.