Rebirth of science and technology to rejuvenate the country

The countryside in winter is a bit boring, the grass is withered and yellow, the birds are flying and the rabbits are hiding, the water is cold and bitter, and the scenery and fun will be more than halved.

They can neither go up the mountain to pick fruits and mushrooms, nor go down the river to catch fish and snails. The children can only get together to play games of fighting and catching thieves, or fighting cocks and squeezing oil to keep warm. .

Yuan Xia and Yu Xingyi naturally couldn't play children's games, they climbed the mountain twice with their aunt's cousin, went to see some more characteristic scenery, and took some photos.

I went hunting with my uncle into the mountains, mainly hunting rabbits and pheasants. There is no concept of environmental protection these days. Except for protecting animals, all the living things in the mountains can be caught are Chinese food, a gift from nature.

I don't know if it was because they were too many people and disturbed the small animals. I didn't even see a rabbit or chicken feather on this trip.

This made the little uncle feel a little embarrassed, and said that it would be fine if it snowed, and he just set a trap to catch rabbits. If he was lucky, he could catch more than a dozen rabbits at a time.

It's snowing, but it's good to catch birds. Sweep out a field in the snow, sprinkle millet and wheat, and set up bamboo baskets to cover it.

Yu Xingyi listened with gusto: "Ah, the reappearance of Lu Xun's "Hometown" vividly, I really hope to try it once."

Yuan Xia smiled and said, "It's already February, so it won't be snowing."

The little uncle took the words: "Not necessarily, we have snowed here in March, and it is common to snow during Chinese New Year."

Yu Xing rubbed his hands together: "Really? Then let it snow, let me experience the life of Runtu."

Seeing that he was rarely as excited as a child, Yuan Xia raised his head and said with a smile: "God, did you hear me, it's going to snow for you, please show me some face."

The little uncle said: "But light snow won't make it, there will be heavy snow."

Yu Xing's eyes sparkled: "It's exactly the same as in the novel."

Yuan Xiaxin said that it would be nice if it snowed, so that his wish could be fulfilled.

When Yuan Xia's family came back, they ate fine grains, meat and eggs. The neighbors knew that their family really came back for the New Year, and they must have lived comfortably in the city.

So if the neighbors catch rabbits and pheasants, they will take the initiative to send them to their door.

If there is no food at home, Yuan Dehou will buy it. Such a big family, except him, are all at the right age to eat, so we can't be too frugal.

He bought everyone's things, in fact, he meant to help a little bit. Although their bookstore didn't make a lot of money, the conditions were much better than those of the neighbors who didn't get to go to the street once a year. .

So in the past few days in his hometown, the quality of life of Yuan Xia's family has risen in a straight line, and they are full of fish and meat.

Dumplings, braised noodles, lo mein, and steamed buns can be eaten in different ways, which is enviable.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, Yuan Dehou took Yuan Xia brothers and sisters to visit their grandma and father's graves, and Yu Xingyi naturally went with them.

Due to neglect of care, father's grave was covered with weeds, Yuan Xia and Yuan Dong took hoes and cleared the grass on father and grandma's grave, added some soil and compacted it.

Yuan Xia brought his younger brothers and sisters to kneel in front of the grave, burned paper money for his father, and reported to him the situation of the family over the years, which was considered good news.

Yu Xingyi stood aside silently, and couldn't help but think of his grandparents.Their ashes have not been buried so far, is it time for grandparents to be buried in peace?Still waiting for the parents to come back to make a decision?He was a little uncertain whether to be buried in the cemetery or sent back to his hometown for burial.

On the way back from sweeping the grave, Yuan Chun couldn't help asking: "Brother, why didn't you bury Dad in Suyang? He's so lonely in his hometown, we can't even visit him every year."

Yuan Xia didn't speak, but Yuan Dong said, "How could Dad be alone? Grandma is here too."

Yuan Dehou said: "Ye Luo returns to his roots. This is our home. Many ancestors were buried on this ancestral mountain. Of course, your father will also be buried. If I am no longer here in the future, you will send me back for burial."

Several children couldn't help shouting: "Grandpa!" They were a little afraid of this topic.

Yuan Dehou said with a smile: "I'm talking about the future. Grandpa is still in good health, and I still have to wait to see Yang Yang go to college."

Chongyang hurriedly yelled: "Yes, yes, grandpa wants to live a long life, waiting for me to go to university and marry a wife."

Yuan Chun laughed: "Tsk tsk tsk, you are only so old, you already want to marry a wife."

Chongyang stuck out her tongue at the second sister and made a face: "Can't I marry a wife when I grow up?"

Yuan Dehou laughed: "Of course. Grandpa will be relieved when Yang Yang grows up to marry a beautiful wife who is virtuous and caring for the family."

Hearing this, Yuan Xia felt a little uneasy, and quickly changed the subject: "Let's go, let's go home quickly, and we have to make New Year's Eve dinner. Let's take a family portrait for our family in a while."

Yu Xingyi said, "Okay."

After finally going back to my hometown, I definitely had to bring my camera back. I bought two rolls of film, one of which was in color.

Not only did they want to take pictures of themselves, but they also wanted to take pictures of Yuan Xia's aunts, most of whom had never taken pictures in their entire lives.

When they got home, Yuan Xia and Yuan Qiu hurriedly cooked the New Year's Eve dinner, Yuan Dong and Yuan Chun helped out, one chopped firewood and fetched water, and the other was in charge of lighting the fire.

As soon as Yu Xing was in charge of writing Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters, Chongyang was on the sidelines to help.

Yuan Dehou sweeps the yard with a big broom. In fact, his yard is already very clean, but he still needs to sweep it. For the new year and the new atmosphere, of course it must be clean.

As soon as Yu Xing finished writing the Spring Festival couplets, he and Chongyang put up the brightly red Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters, and immediately the room became lively and lively, and the flavor of the New Year also became stronger.

After pasting up the Spring Festival couplets, Yu Xingyi and Chongyang set up chairs in the yard and shouted to the few people who were busy in the kitchen: "Are you free? Hurry up and take a photo. It will be late and the light will not work."

Yuan Xia hurriedly wiped his hands, took off his apron, and said, "Here we come, here we come. Chun'er smoked some firewood and stewed it on a low fire."

It was the grandfather who was sitting with the two younger ones, Yuan Xia and his younger siblings were standing behind, taking this family portrait with the red Spring Festival couplets in their hometown as the background.

As soon as they took pictures, neighbors came to watch the excitement.

Yu Xingyi recruited a teenage boy: "Come, take a photo for us." This kid is next door to Yuan Xia's house. He is in junior high school and likes to run to Yuan Xia's house. The Yuan Xia brothers and sisters inquired about many things outside.

The child's name was Yuan Yunpeng, and when he heard Yu Xing calling him, he ran over excitedly: "Call me? I don't know how to take pictures."

Yu Xingyi taught him: "It's very simple, you frame everyone in the middle of this frame, focus well, and then press the shutter. Try it, it's very simple. You can take two more pictures."

Yuan Yunpeng blushed and nodded: "Okay, I'll try."

As soon as Yu Xing stood beside Yuan Xia, Yuan Yunpeng wiped his hands on his clothes, focused several times, and finally pressed the shutter.

Yu Xingyi said, "You can take another picture."

Yuan Yunpeng raised the camera again, adjusted it for a while, and pressed the shutter again.

"Okay? I'm going to cook, and the stew, don't burn it dry." Seeing that the filming was finally done, Yuan Xia hurried to the kitchen.

Fortunately, the dishes were not burnt.

As night fell, the New Year's Eve dinner started amidst crackling firecrackers.

The dishes are very rich. My uncle came to help kill the sheep yesterday. Naturally, the main character of today’s New Year’s Eve dinner is mutton. There are braised mutton, fried mutton with green onions, and fresh fish and sheep.

There are also steamed chicken, stir-fried air-dried rabbit meat, candied sweet potatoes that everyone loves, stewed cabbage vermicelli, and of course the must-have braised fish for the New Year’s Eve dinner.

At the dinner table, everything was perfect except that the lights were a little too dim, although they had already lit two kerosene lamps on the table, which were still incomparable to electric lights.

After eating and drinking enough, everyone gathers together to make dumplings.

After making the dumplings, the family gathered around the brazier to warm up the fire, hand out lucky money, eat, chat, play idiom Solitaire and Feihua Ling games, and insisted on staying up until midnight to watch the new year.

However, the winter nights in the mountains are too cold and long, and there are no lights. The elderly and children can't stand it. They cook a few dumplings early and fall asleep.

Only Yuan Xia and Yu Xingyi were left standing by the fire, Yuan Qiu originally wanted to stay with them, but Yuan Xia was afraid that she would freeze, so she urged her to go to sleep.

Keeping the year old is to prolong the life of the elders in the family, so tonight this year, Yuanxia must be guarded.

He insisted on keeping the year old, of course Yu Xingyi wanted to accompany him, and he also wanted to keep the year old for his parents.Although they don't know where they are at this moment, they must be missing him somewhere in this world.

Although the front was warm from the fire, the back was still chilly.

Yuan Xia asked Yu Xingyi: "Is it cold?"

Yu Xingyi said, "It's okay, are you cold?"

Yuan Xia smiled: "The front is fine, but the back is cold."

Yu Xingyi said, "How about we sit on the bed and talk until twelve o'clock?"

Yuan Xia shook his head: "No, is that still called Shou Sui? And I doubt if I can survive it, I will definitely fall asleep."

Yu Xingyi suddenly changed the direction of his stool, spread his legs on both sides of the stool, patted the empty space in front of him, pulled off his military overcoat, and said to Yuan Xia: "Come and sit in front of me, I will protect you Keep out the wind."

Yu Xingyi's padded coat was a little thin, Yuan Xia put on the military coat she brought back for him.

Yuan Xia was overjoyed, quickly got up, and sat in front of Yu Xing.

Yu Xingyi wrapped Yuan Xia up with his coat: "Isn't it cold like this?"

Yuan Xia was so excited that his heartbeat became chaotic, he chuckled: "It's not cold anymore." This posture is too ambiguous, doesn't Xing Yi feel that there is something wrong?

Yu Xing hugged Yuan Xia, put his chin on his shoulder, looked at the charcoal fire in the brazier and said, "You said it's so cold, can it snow?"

Yuan Xia casually replied: "Maybe it is possible." He was so happy that he was almost dizzy, this New Year's Eve benefit is too good.

The two hugged each other to keep warm, and sure enough they didn't feel the cold anymore, so they chatted with each other, all over the world, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, whatever came to mind.

Yuan Xia has a wealth of experience, Yu Xingyi has read a lot of books, both sides are amazed at each other's knowledge, Yu Xingyi is very surprised: "How do you know so many things about foreign countries?"

Yuan Xia lied: "I was interested in foreign history for a while, and borrowed a few books of world history from the library."

"Really? What's the name? I'll borrow it later to have a look." Yu Xingyi said.

Yuan Xia said: "I forgot the title of the book, go back to the library and look for it."

"Okay, I'll go look for it."

After a while, Yu Xing called out: "Yuan Xia."

His breath sprayed on Yuan Xia's ears, Yuan Xia's heart couldn't help trembling: "Huh?"

Yu Xing smiled and said, "Do you want to pee?"

Yuan Xia said: "You want to go to the toilet? Then go."

Yu Xingyi actually didn't want to move, but his bladder was so distended that he would explode if he didn't go. He let go of Yuan Xia, tied up his coat, and wrapped it tightly, but he still felt empty and a little cold in his arms.

Yuan Xia lost the warm wrap, and naturally became colder, he flinched a bit: "Let's go, let's go together, I'll take the flashlight."

There is a toilet in the house of Grandpa and Chongyang, of course they won't use it.

When they came back after washing their hands, there was no heat left in their bodies. The two hurriedly hugged the fire and had a meal. Yuan Xia grabbed Yu Xingyi's hand: "Is it cold to death?"

Yu Xingyi didn't refuse, and rubbed Yuan Xia's hand: "It's really cold, the temperature must be several degrees below zero."

"Well, at least six or seven degrees below zero."

As soon as Yu Xing sat back on the stool, he said, "Come quickly, report to the group to keep warm."

Yuan Xia grinned, and quickly sat back, being hugged by Yu Xingyi again, and finally warmed up again.

In this way, the two huddled together to keep warm, and stayed together until the turn of the clock. After setting off the firecrackers, Yuan Xia went to the kitchen to light a fire to cook dumplings: "How much do you want to eat?"

Yu Xingyi said: "I'm not hungry, let's have some fun."

Yuan Xia ordered more than a dozen dumplings, and then filled a bowl with two pairs of chopsticks: "Don't wash the bowl, let's eat together."

Yu Xing smiled: "Okay."

So the two of you and I, after eating a bowl of dumplings, drank a mouthful of soup by the side of the bowl, threw down the bowl and chopsticks, and went to bed.

The heat on the kang was no longer warm at the moment, the two of them got into the same bed, Yu Xingyi said: "Come here, sleep next to each other."

Yuan Xia passed by, Yu Xingyi took him into his arms, and the two stuck together again.

I didn't feel like wearing too much before, but now I only have underwear, and they are close, Yuan Xia reacted instantly, but he was reluctant to leave.

And he also found that Yu Xingyi behind him seemed to have the same reaction, he was both embarrassed and excited.Yu Xing stepped back, but he didn't let go of him completely, and the two fell asleep in this ambiguous state.

As for what was in the dream, no one knew, it was a good dream anyway.

The sweet dream was interrupted by the sound of crackling firecrackers. It was still dawn when someone got up and let go of the cannons.

It was warm in the bed, I really didn't want to wake up, Yuan Xia and Yu Xingyi closed their eyes and pretended to be asleep, Yuan Dong shouted at the side: "It's so cold, I don't want to think about it, but I feel so uncomfortable."

Yuan Xia had no choice but to open his eyes, moved away from Yu Xingyi's arms, lay flat, and said: "Then get up quickly, don't wet the bed."

Yuan Dong screamed and got up from the bed, put on cold clothes, and shouted: "It's so cold, it's so cold."

Yuan Xia said to him: "On the first day of the Lunar New Year, don't say that word."

Yuan Dong stopped and slapped his mouth: "Tongyan Wuji, Tongyan Wuji!"

Yu Xingyi couldn't help laughing, it's the beginning of a new year, it's great, it started in such a warm and loving family, he felt as if he had become a member of this family.

Visiting relatives is of course indispensable during Chinese New Year. Yuan Xia followed his grandfather to visit relatives who hadn't visited for many years. They usually left after having a meal or even seeing each other.

On the night of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the heavy snow that Yu Xing had been thinking about with all his heart finally started to fall.The snow fell heavily, and overnight, the entire mountain village became a world covered in silver, and the plan to visit relatives was naturally interrupted.

The children were extremely excited and had a great time playing snowball fights, making snowmen, and skiing.The snow here is different from the snow in the south. It will not start to melt in the first day, and it will start to melt the next day. As long as the temperature is low, it can cover for a few more days.

Yu Xingyi finally experienced the joy of catching birds in the snow. After a busy morning, he caught a small sparrow.Everyone called it the "Four Pests", but Yu Xingyi felt that it was too wronged to put the sparrow side by side with bedbugs, flies and mice, so he let the sparrow go.

To him, catching birds in the snow was a beautiful long-cherished wish, and now that it has been fulfilled, he naturally has no regrets.

The little uncle sent two rabbits, which he caught in a trap in the mountains.

Yuan Xia and his family left on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, the snow had to melt for two or three days, and the sun was out for another two days before the ground hardened before leaving.

Before leaving, the aunts and aunts came to see him off.

Yuan Xia pointed out ways to make money for them. The location of the aunt's house is good, located in the center of the village. You can open a small store at home and buy some daily necessities from the township to sell.

My sister-in-law’s home is close to the village, so I can go to the village to set up a stall and do some small businesses, such as stewed noodle stalls, fried noodles, etc. Now that the policy has been relaxed, don’t stick to the one-acre three-point land at home. The law makes life richer.

In order to support the two aunts, he lent each of them 50 yuan as start-up capital, saying that he would pay him back when he made money.

In fact, he didn't intend to let the two aunts pay back. With the capital, they have the confidence to change.

The two aunts were taken aback by their nephew's generosity, 50 yuan is a lot of money, and their family's annual income may not have this amount, so they looked at their father uneasily: "Father, we can't take this money. The brothers and sisters are all in school, and they have to spend money to drink water in the city, so you should keep the money for yourself.”

"Auntie and Auntie, you both take it, I earned the money myself." Yuan Xia said with a smile.

Yuan Dehou looked at Yuan Xia and knew that he really wanted to help the two aunts, so he said: "Xia Xia borrowed from you, you can take it. I will return it to him when I make money later."

The two aunts carefully put away the money and put it in the closest place.

When I came back, I carried big and small bags. When I came back, I only brought some souvenirs from my aunts. I kept all the quilts and gave them to my two aunts.

The two aunts discussed it, and each of them took a bed back, washed it and dried it, and helped put it away. When the nephews came back, they would cover it for them.

They returned two days later than expected. They dared not leave before the snow had melted, for fear that the car would be unsafe, and they dared not leave when the snow had just melted. They were afraid that their shoes and trousers would get soaked. This kind of weather was unbearable.

After a lot of effort, they finally returned home, Yu Xing went straight back to school, Yuan Xia returned to Suyang with his family, and it was almost time for school to start.

Compared with living in the countryside, it is indeed more convenient to live in the city. At least in their hometown, they barely took a bath after so many days, and they were still shivering.

Yuan Xia settles down with her family, and returns to Yuecheng with Yuan Qiu to report to school.

This is the last semester of Yuan Xia's university career, and there are not many new classes. His task is to do graduation projects, write graduation thesis, and go to a factory for two months as an internship. The next step is to wait for the assignment of work.

Those with well-established families, such as Liu Yang and Xu Tuanjie, have already arranged for them to receive units.

Wu Jinsong is not in a hurry, his family belongs to Yuecheng, no matter how it is divided, it can only be a unit in Yuecheng, and he is also looking for a way to be assigned to Yuecheng Machinery Factory.

Yuan Xia was not in a hurry, he didn't care where he went, but he wanted to stay in Yuecheng because he wanted to be closer to Yu Xing.

Even if he was not assigned to Yuecheng, he would return to Yuecheng soon, so he didn't run around for the assignment at all.

Yuan Xia won the highest scholarship for several years, and joined the party at school. It is said that the professors will help recommend it. It is not a problem to enter a large factory in Yuecheng.

Not long after returning to school, Yuan Xia received a letter from Si Haibo, telling him about his recent situation. He had paid part of the tax back, but the government did not hold him accountable. His factory and shop had reopened, and he was welcome. Go to his place to buy more.

Yuan Xia was very happy for him, and wrote back to tell him that he had no plans to purchase, but asked him to help buy some small items such as buttons, elastic bands, handkerchiefs and other small items and send them to his aunt in Nanyang. Three or 40 yuan is enough, and write down the unit price of each commodity by the way.

The eldest cousin of Aunt Yuan Xia's family, Liu Xinfeng, farms at home, but he is not very peaceful inside. He wants to find a way to make a living, but suffers from no way out.

Yuan Xia mentioned to him that if there is an opportunity, he can help him contact friends in Wenzhou, so that he can start a small business.

After replying to Si Haibo's letter, Yuan Xia hurriedly wrote to Liu Xinfeng again, telling him Si Haibo's contact information and transaction method, and telling him to remember to be honest, and the payment and postage should not be less than a penny. The other party, because the other party trusts himself to help him, unless he doesn't want to do business anymore.

He wrote so solemnly, in fact, just in case.According to his contact with his cousin, Liu Xinfeng is a typical Central Plains person, simple, patriarchal, responsible, and not afraid of suffering. This is why Yuan Xia is willing to help him.

He had achieved fame in his previous life, and this cousin came to borrow tens of thousands of dollars from him when he first started his career, but he never came to play the autumn wind again, and he was his contractor steadily.

Since April, there have been employment units coming to the school to receive graduates. Of course, at the beginning, it is usually the students from the receiving units that they have found.In May, the school made a unified distribution to other students.

Yuan Xia was a little surprised when he got the distribution list. His work unit was not any factory in Yuecheng, but Hongxing Iron and Steel Factory in Jianning City.

When Yuan Xia got the notice, he couldn't laugh or cry. He didn't ask for help, but he actually wanted to open a blind box. He didn't expect it to be so unexpected.

This is great, why did I explain to Yu Xingyi, Yu Xingyi was sure that he would be assigned to the machinery factory, and he himself thought that he could be assigned to Yuecheng, but he did not expect to make a big joke, he could already imagine Yu Xingyi Anxious expression.

Qu Junqing was the first to find Yuan Xia: "I saw your assignment form, how did you get assigned to Jianning? I even recommended you to the machinery factory to the school, why did you get assigned to Jianning?" .Did you ask for it yourself?"

Yuan Xia said: "No, I didn't go to any employer. Thank you teacher for your help."

Qu Junqing frowned: "It is estimated that your quota was given by someone."