The end-of-life life of a mountain farmhouse

Zhou Yi also persuaded Scarface to let him stay, but Scarface had his own considerations. The villagers already had objections to him hooking up with Minghui. It belonged to Minghui, or it belonged to the man in front of Minghui.

But he is a man anyway, and he has his own self-esteem. The crab meat he went out to exchange this time was all his own hard work for several months. He wanted to use the crab meat as a bride price (dowry) to tell other people in the village Instead of farming, he can support Minghui with his own efforts.

He didn't tell anyone about this small thought, but Zhou Yi understood it after a little thought, and he patted Scarface's shoulder to comfort him: "Good job, we can stand up in the village after this trip. "

Zhou Yi had great expectations for this trip. In addition to helping the village in the past three months, they also caught crabs from the lake every day. Did not let go.

People in the village can use crab powder to farm, but they don’t have any fields, so they collected all the crab powder. This stuff is choking, but it can fill their stomachs when they are hungry. They plan to use crab powder to exchange for some other food in the stronghold. something in short supply.

If crab meat is a second-class food as he estimated, then taking the crab meat out this trip will not only pay off the village's debts, but also have a good winter.

The village is now allowing them to build houses in the village, although it is only the outermost, but no matter where they are built, this means that the villagers have slowly begun to accept them.

They feel that their future life will become more and more exciting, and their group of people will become more and more human.

At the wedding banquet between Scarface and Minghui, there was no wine, but more and more people were drunk. The thin monkey dragged people around to drink wildly, and asked with a smile: "Have I become more beautiful, hehehe, I think I have changed By the way, let me compare with you and see if I have grown taller, a full three centimeters."

"I've also turned white. Now I can sleep for a long time every day. I can sleep with my eyes closed. I don't have to suffer anymore. It's really comfortable, hehehe."

"Yes, yes, after drinking that holy grass water, I feel that I no longer want to bite people or eat meat. I used to not feel full no matter how much I ate. Now I just want to eat, eat food and vegetables, and feel warm all over my body after eating." ..."

There are a lot of things like this, everyone is thinking about the direction of development, and now they are driving them with sticks, and they don't want to leave the village to live outside.

After the wedding banquet, Zhou Yi and the others were going to go out. According to the time, the rainy season is actually over now, but there will be occasional light rain outside. When the rain stops, Zhou Yi and the others will go out. Hearing this news, the village Everyone took advantage of these days to go fishing for crabs in the lake again.

The same is true for Lin Yang and Asparagus. Their family was not short of these things, but the crabs that came ashore were so powerful that they ruined all the pots and pans in the house. These losses cannot be recovered from the crabs.

As long as it doesn't rain heavily, Lin Yang will go to the lake to catch crabs. People in this village want to cast nets, but the claws of the alienated crabs are really powerful. Honestly fishing crabs one by one on the shore.

On this day, it was raining lightly outside, Lin Yang and Wen Zhu were grilling crab meat on the promenade, and the three-year-old twins were in charge of steaming crabs and cooking crab yellow sauce in the house.

People in the village use fire to dry the crab meat and crab roe. They don’t boil the sauce, because the sauce needs salt and oil. The salt is so expensive. Who would be willing to do it, in case the stuff can’t be sold? The price is not wasted!

No one in the village wants to take this risk, not to mention the oil needed to cook the sauce. The oil stored in the past has long been eaten up. No one in the village has grown soybeans or peanuts in recent years. They rely on their families for oil. The chickens and ducks raised occasionally eat animal oil outside, but they rarely eat it, and they don't eat it unless it is a last resort.

There are only a few chickens raised in the family, and those few chickens that are killed are not enough to cook a jar of oil. If there is a lack of salt and oil, they don't cook sauce. Everyone's little calculation is well done.

Of course, if the price of crab meat and crab roe powder is good, they can consider it next year, and forget it this year. They are not like Zhou Yi's group of poor Ding Ding, who wait for the rice to cook every day.

Lin Yang’s family is not short of oil, and they can grow anything in the wild world, that is, chickens and ducks have raised a large flock without natural enemies, and now they are almost flooded. come out.

But this is not a problem for Lin Yang. Dahei doesn't sleep this rainy season, and he goes out every now and then to have a toothbrush. He squeezes a little bit between its teeth and it's enough for him to boil the crab sauce.

Of course, the crab roe sauce they eat at home is still made from meat oil from chickens, ducks, geese, and meat raised at home. He plans to sell the crab roe sauce made from wild animal oil.

It's not his black heart, the beasts that Zhou Yi and the others hunted are not as good as those that Dahei eats, don't they still cook crab sauce?With such a comparison, Lin Yang felt that his heart was very good, and he felt very at ease.

Besides, when they arrive at the new base in Leping, someone will test the food for grading. If they really can't eat it, then forget it, and their family will waste some salt at most.

These mutated crabs are really big, each weighs more than seven or eight catties, and in a short while, the baskets of crab meat and crab roe next to the husband and wife are full.

Asparagus carried the crab meat basket in and spread it out on the kang to dry. The crab roe and part of the crab meat were poured directly into the pot, and the pot was bubbling with oil. The golden red crab roe was tender and sweet. I have seen crab meat and crab paste many times, but every time I see this bright and bright color, I still feel happy.

"Father, how long will it take to cook?" Yuzu weakly hugged Asparagus's leg and asked, "Can you stop cooking crabs, I dream of crabs every day now, and when I open my eyes, I smell crabs too , I feel like a crab, it’s too uncomfortable.”

He sniffed his nose lightly, it’s over, his nose is out of order, and now everything smells like the fishy smell of crabs. People in the village pass by their house and always say that their crab sauce is well boiled, the color is good, and the smell is fragrant. I don't feel it at all, and now I feel like vomiting just by smelling it.

"What do you want to do without cooking crabs?" Asparagus stirred the pot and told Cheng Zi to take out two firewood.

He turned around and poured the cooled crab sauce into the big pot next to him, and glanced at him lightly: "Now there is no need to go to class, and other children in the village are also grilling crabs at home. You just want to find someone to play with and you don't have any friends."

"Me, I can play with Yuzu." Chengzi scrambled to answer. He didn't want to cook crabs at home every day. It was boring and not fun. He might as well go to class.

"What are you two playing, are you fighting?" Lin Yang heard the voices of his father and son outside the house, and said, "Even if our family doesn't cook crabs, other people in the village cook them, so you still have to smell crabs wherever you go." Wei'er, bear with it, when Uncle Zhou Yi leaves, the villagers will stop cooking crabs."

"Father, when are Uncle Zhou Yi and the others leaving?" Yuzu looked at Wen Zhu expectantly, "Is it tomorrow?" Will go to the city with Uncle Zhou Yi.

The county town, I heard it is a bigger place than the village. Dad said that they used to go there often, and they still drove there. The round trip took less than two hours, but neither he nor Cheng Zi remembered.

Cheng Zi ran into the back room and took out his small backpack. He had already prepared his things for going out, but Uncle Zhou Yi hadn't come to tell them when to leave.

Asked three hundred times a day, Wenzhu said impatiently: "Leave when the rain stops. I have said it hundreds of times. Hurry up and light the fire. Don't burn the pot. If it burns, your big dad and I won't take you there. Stay at home and watch the house!"

This trick proved to be successful, and the twins sat down and lit the fire obediently. In order to try to behave well in front of their father, they would stand up from time to time and stir the crab sauce in the pot.

Wenzhu carried the empty basket to the door, continued to sit down to grill the crab meat, and said to Lin Yang, "I shouldn't have told them that I would take them out. My heart is so wild, I can't sit still."

Lin Yang chuckled: "It's not very good. Work harder. If you don't rush, you won't be as efficient as you are now. Our children can do it too. Look at how well the crab sauce is boiled. It's golden in color and looks good. , the taste is also amazing, rich and creamy, you can't stop eating it, it must be a good seller."

They only brought dried crab meat and crab yellow sauce with them when they went out this time, and they didn’t bring any food produced in other villages. After what Zhou Yi said last time when he came back, they were also afraid that exposing more things would bring danger to the village, so they simply Just don’t bring anything, these dried crab meat and crab yellow sauce can be exchanged for something, if you can’t exchange it, forget it, just treat it as going out to let the children relax this time, live in the village for a few years, and don’t go out to meet people, then He really became a veritable mountain guy.

Now that the two children are a few years older, they are in good health, healthy and healthy, and there is almost a month between the rainy season and the snowfall, and it is the most comfortable season of the year. It is undoubtedly a good time to choose this time to go out most appropriate.

This time, not only Lin Yang's family chose to go out with Zhou Yi and the others. Liu Mingxin wanted to go to the city to find his wife and son, Lin Ye wanted to find his parents, Lin Quan and Lin Liang brothers also went, and Lin Qun also decided to go out to see Look at the changes outside.

After Lin Qun moved out of the house, he never moved back home. Some people in the village said bad things, and his parents came to persuade him several times, but they couldn't hold him back, and there was nothing they could do about him.

This time I heard that he was going to go out with Zhou Yi and the others, so he was in a hurry. Even if he didn't live with them in the village, it would still be a village after all, and he would be there in just a few steps. If he was away from home, who could guarantee his safety?

Isn't this killing her? Lin Qun's mother's eyes were swollen from crying, but this did not stop Lin Qun's determination to go out in the slightest.

The village is safe, but being locked up in the village all day, living a trivial life, people will be locked up stupid!Both Lin Yang and Wenzhu dared to take two children who were a little over six years old to go out, so why would he dare not go out as a man in his twenties.

Except for a few of them, everyone else in the village is watching. They also want to go out and see the outside world. They are the only people who come and go in the village. The first contact with the outside made them terrified, so they had better wait, it didn't matter if it was later.

It was not the first time for Zhou Yi and the others to go out, and they returned to the village smoothly last time, but they felt that the road to the city was still not familiar, and the villagers decided to wait until they had completely leveled the road to the city before going.

Moreover, people from their own village went together this time. Is it the same as what Zhou Yi and the others said outside? They are more willing to trust the people in their own village.

Wenzhu felt that those people were thinking too much, they were just going to the city, not going abroad or going to outer space. Before the world changed, they could drive more than a dozen times a day, so what?

But I think so, but with the children, the two are still very cautious. They have considered food, clothing and travel. According to Lin Yang's footsteps, he can actually travel back and forth in the county in a day, but following Zhou Yi and the others, it took nearly ten days just to go back and forth on the road, and they planned to stay in the city for three days, so this trip is estimated to be half a month, and when they return to the village, they can still chop firewood and burn charcoal for the winter.

The rain has stopped and the road has become dry. Tomorrow is the day to set off into the city.

Early in the morning, Lin Yang and Wenzhu put the burden bags prepared by the two on Xiao Zi. They were planning to get a pair of scooters, but they thought the road would be difficult, so they gave up. A big basket is placed beside Xiao Zi, and the twins sit on the other side. When it is really difficult to walk, let them be on Xiao Zi's back. Otherwise, he and Asparagus can carry it .

This trip, the coolie is Xiao Zi, and hundreds of catties of crab meat and crab yellow sauce are placed on its back. In order to appease it, some dried sweet potatoes must bring enough snacks. Finally, let it eat the colorful grapes, otherwise it wouldn't be so honest.

Clothes, shoes and socks, tents, all kinds of medicines... Asparagus tidied up and talked to Lin Yang, taking the children out is troublesome, whether it was before or now, when the two children were young, taking them out was like fleeing Same thing, milk powder, diapers, feeding bottles, small carts... It's not as easy as it is now.

The two children shrank to one side like quails, their usually small mouths were tightly closed and they didn't speak. Dad asked him to put on clothes, and he asked him to drink medicine. Everything Dad said was right now.

They didn't dare to provoke him when they were going out, because they were afraid that they would accidentally annoy Dad, and then Dad said no, and they would be ruined when they went to the city. Just wait until you get out of the house. Oxtail crossed the river, and I have no choice but to regret it, hee hee hee.

Wenzhu could miss the small thoughts of these two poor children. He warned: "Papas can still handle mischief at home, but when they go out, people outside are not as easy to talk to as villagers. Don't run around, you I also heard from Uncle Zhou Yi that the grown-ups out there eat children, and they especially like children with delicate skin and tender flesh like you, so you must never leave your father's side, you know?"

The two children swore to their father: "I know." "Remember!"

After checking the luggage a dozen times, Lin Yang couldn't help but say to Wenzhu, "Why scare them? What about nightmares?"

Wen Zhu gouged him out: "You underestimate your two sons too much, and you want to make them have nightmares with such a little word? Have you forgotten where Xiao Zi and Da Hei often go? Should I remind you."

"Hehehe." Lin Yang smirked.

They knew that the twins often rode Xiaozi to play with Dahei, but who knew that the children were so courageous, and Dahei went hunting with them. Bloody hunting scenes, and can come back with great interest to discuss how powerful the demonized wild animals are.

Maybe Lin Yang has never seen as many as the two of them.

The family of four, including Xiao Zi, went out together. Dahei, who thought he was also a member of the family, was unhappy. Since the day he told it, he had been whining in the den, stomping his feet and beating the ground from time to time, making the surrounding area panic. It was so earth-shattering that even a bird dared not stand out at this time.

Xiao Zi walked along with her eyebrows lowered and pleasing to the eye. Originally, there were so many things that were bent over so she wanted to turn her face, but when she thought that Da Hei was so angry because he ran in front of him, he was very honest now. What did Lin Yang ask him to do? Just like what the twins are afraid of asparagus bamboo, it is also very afraid of Lin Yang, Lin Yang never discounts it.

"Don't cry, come back and bring you delicious food." Lin Yang yelled loudly at Dahei on the hill behind: "Take care of the house, don't let other monsters raid my nest when I'm not around."

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" who dares come, I bite it to death Can't go?

This time they went out on the same road as Zhou Yi and the others last time. In just one rainy season, the traces they left were completely wiped away by nature. This trip is equivalent to opening up a new road.

Lin Yang used a hatchet to push away the branches blocking the way, and at the same time introduced the things he met on the road to the twins.

"Originally, chestnuts were planted here, but grapefruits were planted here..."

"Dad, is that the pomelo with my name?" Pomelo asked while sitting in the basket, shaking her little feet leisurely.

"That's right, it's the pomelo." Lin Yang touched his round head: "The grapefruit was the second most grown in our family before, and it's best that we harvested about 6 catties that year." Lin Yang turned and asked Asparagus: "Little pig, I remember correctly!"

Asparagus replied unhappily: "That's right, in 18, there was a bumper harvest of pomelo. Our family harvested 6 jin, but they couldn't sell it, and finally threw it all into the ditch."

"Hahaha!" Lin Qun laughed: "I also remember, hey, the grapefruit harvest was really bumper that year, but it was not easy to sell. Every household dumped a lot of grapefruits, and the mountain was full of rotten grapefruits."

"Hee hee hee, rotten grapefruit!" Cheng Zi smiled secretly, covered her mouth, made a face at her brother and asked loudly, "Dad, are oranges the most grown in our family?"

"No, our family has the most persimmons." Lin Yang also touched his round head, his tone full of nostalgia: "Our family used to dry persimmons every year, and it's almost this month. Fruits are picked in September, and fruits are picked in October. Dry persimmons in November and sell them in December and January and February of the next year..."

Lin Yang sighed, peeled the fruit, and squeezed the persimmons. At that time, he felt that this kind of life was really tiring and boring. Earning the hard money at home would be better than going out to work, but now he can't go back.

It was very interesting for the others to listen to the questions and answers of Lin Yang's family, but when Lin Yang mentioned the past, everyone fell silent in unison.

In the past, it was really an untouchable term!Who doesn't have a past, but the "previous" hurts when touched, pus bleeds when touched, and can never heal.

But children don't care about the "past", they will grow bigger and bigger, they only live in the present, yearning for the future and the future.

"Dad, Dad, what kind of trees are these now? Will they bloom and bear fruit?" Orange is like a bird that has been released from its cage. It is curious to see everything, and every leaf it grabs when passing by will be shown to the fathers.

"I don't know!" Wenzhu shook his head and slapped his hand off: "Didn't I tell you not to touch things outside casually, why did you forget?"

These roadside trees are not poisonous, they are very sure, but they can't develop the bad habit of children, touching everything they see with their hands, if they don't teach it well now, if it is really poisonous, it will be too late to regret it.

Cheng Zi pursed her mouth unhappily, but retracted her hands obediently.

The surrounding trees are nothing to look at, they are similar to the village, and the fog is heavy, but as long as they think that this is outside the village, and this is the only one of those children in the village, the two children will be so excited that they can’t see anything. Feel fresh and nice.

"It's strange to say that we have barely traveled all over the country, but in the past few years, we haven't seen any flowers and plants that bloom in the wild. They are all such dead trees." Zhou Yi broke off a branch and threw it on the ground. : "This kind of tree seems to be the same as the whole country, regardless of north and south, regardless of cold and warm climates."

Speaking of the weather, Lin Quan became interested. He asked, "Brother Yi, is the winter in the north as cold as ours?" The average temperature here is at least twenty below zero every winter, and almost half of the time is thirty below zero. He couldn't imagine how cold it would be in the south of Guangnan, how cold it would be in the north, and could people still be alive?

"Hey, winter in the north is harder than ours." Zhou Yi shook his head, "It's not only cold there, we've long been used to the cold. It's not uncommon for the days to be tens of degrees below zero when the days were good, and it's still windy over there. "

Scarface interjected: "Sandstorms, tornadoes, strong and strong winds, can scrape off human skin." Thinking of the pain he had suffered before, he couldn't help shivering now.

"I'd rather freeze to death or starve to death than suffer that kind of crime."

Speaking of this, Zhou Yi simply took off his clothes and exposed his chest and back. There was no good skin on his body, and scars of different sizes and colors squirmed on his body like centipedes. Stacked together, it is like a patch to mend clothes, which is shocking.