My 1995 Small Farm

   It rained intermittently for two days.

  Wang Zhenzhen and the children in the village finally started school.

  Wang Zhenzhen is doing well in school in the county seat, and the dolls in the village have to brave the light rain to queue up to receive new books.

  Children from Chenwangzhuang, Jinmen Village, Taoshugou, and several nearby villages make up three grades, which is really a lot of people.

  The two families of Zhao Yubao and Zhong Laotou are both educated people, and they couldn't bear to see the little radish heads picking up books in the rain.

  They live on the slope, which is relatively close to the school, and the four members of the two families went to help.

   After Chen Ling, father and son and Shan Mao came over, they also followed to help, and Ruirui followed and walked around in the classroom, pulling desks one by one.

  After cleaning up, two female teachers failed to come because of the rain and the difficult mountain road.

  Zhao Yubao and his wife also saw Lie Xinxi, flipped through the textbooks on the spot, and started teaching the students of the two grades.

  Great writers and professors give lectures.

  Several senior old teachers and the vice-principal moved small benches and listened carefully.

   But Chen Ling and the others were not interested, and took advantage of the rain to stop, so they went back to the small courtyard of the hut on the **** with Mr. Zhong's family.

  Today is Mr. Zhong’s birthday.

  Bobcat used to run around all over the place, so that he was not too young, and he hadn't given his old father a serious birthday.

  Yesterday, after Chen Ling finished making the phone call, he called his elder brother and sister, and promised that he would give his old father a good birthday this year, and at least he had to make a bowl of longevity noodles himself.

   Now that the big talk is over, it must be done beautifully.

   No, early in the morning, before the rain stopped, Bobcat dragged Chen Ling to the scene to give guidance.

  Chen Ling knew that this old boy had never cooked a serious meal.

   It’s no joke that he can’t even make noodles by hand.

   After all, it is filial piety, filial piety is commendable.

  After returning from school, Shanmao started kneading and kneading dough under Chen Ling's guidance.

   "Fugui, kneading the dough is a bit tiring. I've only been kneading for a few minutes, why do my arms start to feel sore?"

  Bobcat wiped the sweat off his face with his elbow, then complained in a low voice while rubbing his white-stained hands.

At this time, Chen Ling and old man Zhong were like old rich men, sitting under the low eaves of a thatched eaves, each with a pot of tea beside them, and took a sip of tea from time to time, then stared at the small chess table in front of them, Take two steps leisurely.

   also didn't bother to talk.

   Mrs. Zhong was picking vegetables on the vegetable shelf next to her, she raised her head and smiled at her youngest son: "Third son, you now know that your mother and I are not easy to cook, right?"

   "That's different, Mom, how many years have you been cooking...I don't think this is a job for old men, and it feels uncomfortable everywhere."

   Bobcat sighed and continued kneading the dough clumsily.

  Chen Ling raised his head and smiled at this time: "It's okay if it's not easy, it has to be the longevity noodles you made in this way, old Uncle Zhong eats it to be meaningful."

"Yes, third son, your dad and I are waiting to eat your longevity noodles today. I haven't eaten your cooking in half my life. I won't be able to eat your longevity noodles today, and I won't be able to close my eyes when I die in the ground." .”

  Old man Zhong held the chess piece and sighed.

   "Dad, this is too exaggerated. Two days ago, I said that I will not have a baby and you will die with peace. It is not like this if you eat longevity noodles.

  I have issued a military order with my brother and sister. Even if the batter is half cooked, I have to make a bowl of longevity noodles for you. "

   Bobcat grinned.

  Old man Zhong stared suddenly: "What you said is like the sea, out of tune."

Chen Ling took a move, turned his gaze from the chessboard to the basin in the kitchen again, and looked at the dough, "Lynx, knead a few more times, be patient, and knead the dough with the mentality of playing with mud, so you won't be tired. "

   "What? Playing with mud? You're not kidding me, are you?"

   Bobcat looked suspicious.

  Chen Ling's attention was back to the chessboard, nothing else, he noticed that old man Zhong wanted to steal his [rook] while he was not paying attention.

  Old man Zhong is not as ostentatious as Zhao Yubao, but he is not a gentleman, he is also a bad old man.

  Chen Ling was on guard against him, rubbing his chin, thinking about how to deal with it next.

  Listening to Bobcat fidgeting with the dough beside him, the two of them ignored him at all.

   "Come on, two stinky chess baskets, it's quite exciting to play."

   There was no response when he said anything else, and the old man Zhong must not be able to bear the stinky chess basket, and said with a serious expression: "What do you know?! Fugui and I are rivals in chess, and we will meet good talents.

   Opponents of the same level can only be killed inextricably when they meet.

   This kind of chess game is enjoyable enough to play. "

  As soon as the old man finished speaking, the two chess players continued to focus on playing chess, kneading noodles, and choosing vegetables.

   The yard soon became quiet again.

  Besides the melodious sound of dripping water on the eaves of the thatched cottage, the whole small courtyard is peaceful.

   But this tranquility was quickly broken.

  Two little heads appeared outside the hedge garden.

   It was two little kids in crotch pants who poked their heads inside, giggled lightly, and shrank their heads back.

   back and forth several times.

   Was discovered by Mrs. Zhong.

   "Xiao Maozi, why are you sneaking around with your brother?"

  Old lady Zhong is a fat and kind mother-in-law, and the dolls in the village are not afraid of them.

   On the contrary, Aunt Zhao has the temperament of a teacher, and the dolls are a little afraid.

   "Grandma Zhong, let's find Ruirui."

  Xiao Mao is a child of Chen Ze's sister's family. At this time, he was holding Chen Ze's son and standing at the gate of the yard.

  Chen Ze's son is still very young, only a month away from turning two years old. He is a little smaller than Rui Rui, and he looks around with a pair of dark eyes.

  He likes to play with Ruirui very much.

   "Rui Rui is not here, Rui Rui is following your grandpa and grandma Zhao in the classroom."

  Aunt Zhong said with a smile.

   Said it was class, but Ruirui actually sat behind the desk with Xizi and the others to play.

   It is a joy to look at the pictures on the new book.

  Chen Ling waved: "Xiao Mao, come in and play with your dog."

  Chen Ze’s Goudan is still young and wears clothes when it rains, and Xiao Mao is more than four years old and doesn’t wear clothes at all.

  The small body is completely naked, and the body is tanned and black, like a black carbon head.

  Old man Zhong couldn't help but said: "It's cold, why don't you wear clothes."

  Xiao Mao chuckled: "I was fishing in the pond with my uncle just now, I'm not cold."

   "The same goes for your uncle. If you catch any fish on a rainy day, grandma will bring you a piece of clothing to wrap it in first, so as not to freeze."

  Aunt Zhong went to the house and took a coat to wrap Xiaowazi around.

  Actually, the older children in the village are almost naked all summer, and only a few of them wear clothes.

  Look at their small bodies that are as black as loach in the sun.

  Chen Ling came here in the same way when he was a child. At that time, he couldn't dress as well as Xiaomao. At least he bought sandals. At that time, Chen Ling was really naked, with nothing to worry about from head to toe.

   "Uncle Fugui, my little uncle caught a big fish and brought a lot of small fish with him. I came to Ruirui to catch a turtle."

   After wrapping up his clothes, Xiaomao took Puppy and sat next to Chen Ling, talking happily.

  If Ruirui doesn’t hold a toy in the village, she often grabs the little tortoise and fiddles with it back and forth. Sometimes she puts it in her pocket, and sometimes she presses it under the pillow at home.

   Doesn't know cleanliness at all, just for fun.

   It gave Wang Susu a headache.

   "Come and catch turtles, okay, uncle will go back to Zhuangzi later and catch some for you to raise."

  Chen Ling touched their heads.

  Puppy Dan still can't speak clearly, so he looked up at Chen Ling: "Look for Rui Rui, find Rui Rui to play with."

   "Hey, you just look for Rui Rui every day, okay, I'll go and bring Rui Rui back."

  Chen Ling smiled. This little boy is much older than Rui Rui, but he behaves like Rui Rui's younger brother.

   Follow Ruirui's **** to make trouble together.

  Just about to get up and go to the school to look for it, just as get out of class is over at this time, Aunt Zhao came over with Ruirui in her arms.

   Now the small yard is even more lively.

  Their small yard on the **** was already hard enough and paved with bluestones. It was clean after the rain, and the three kids just played around.

   Chen Ling saw that Shanmao's hand-rolled noodles were almost done, and after teaching him to make a whole stick of longevity noodles, he was going to go home and catch two turtles for Xiaomao and the others.

   At this time, Zhao Yubao came back and said that his house happened to have one, so grab it and let the kids play with it, so Chen Ling shouldn't go back and make trouble.

   "Hey, Uncle Zhao, you are amazing. The turtle catchers in the village can't raise them well, and they run away in a few days. You are so quiet, and you have raised them."

   Chen Ling said unexpectedly.

  The wheat field turtle is amphibious on land and water, and it can crawl very fast and far on land. It is an outstanding prison escape expert.

   It is not that the villagers did not catch the turtle and go home.

  The wheat field turtle, which has not been seen for many years, suddenly appeared this year, and everyone was very kind and excited.

  But after being caught and raised.

  Many of them ran away after a few days and could not be found.

   There are also some who are familiar with the local wheat field tortoise, but do not understand the habits of the wheat field tortoise, and put water in the water tank to raise the turtle to drown.

  So Xiaowazi wanted to play with the turtle, and the first thing he thought of was Chen Ling's house.

  Ruirui has been holding it in his hand all day long, but the tortoise still doesn’t run away, everyone knows this.

   "Of course, you, Uncle Zhao, keep it secret."

  Zhao Yubao raised his chin, looked very proud, and then grabbed the tortoise.

   In fact, this is also a tortoise raised by Chen Ling's family.

   It was just he and Wang Cunye who caught them back from Laohewan. After raising them in the farm for a period of time, they crawled around too much, so Wang Cunye asked him to catch some and bring them home to raise.

  After capturing the tortoise, Zhao Yubao said mysteriously: "Let me tell you, this tortoise will be valuable in the future, and it can be raised as well as a puppy.

   Much stronger than other turtles. "

   Chen Ling smiled, he already knew this.

  He didn’t know about turtle species before, he only knew the difference between aquatic turtles and tortoises, and he was more familiar with old turtles.

  When I was young, I just played with the wheat field turtle.

  So I didn't care much.

  Later, I heard from Han Ninggui that the wheat field tortoise on their side is a branch of the yellow-margined tortoise.

  The appearance is not outstanding among the yellow-margined tortoises in various places, but it is indeed the yellow-margined tortoise.

  Otherwise, there will be no behavior of laying eggs in the wheat field, and it will get the title of wheat field turtle.

  Other turtles simply would not have traveled so far to lay their eggs.

   "I'm too lazy to deal with these turtles now. They are mainly cattle and dogs."

  Chen Ling thought to himself, the three little men were already playing with the turtle in the yard.

   After playing around for a while, the kitchen was boiling noodles, and Shan Mao called Chen Ling over to teach him how to make a few simple dishes.

   At this time, Xiao Mao let Ruirui and Goudan play at home, and he ran out to call Chen Ze.

  Chen Ze also has something to do today. He is repairing the leaking roof tiles at home. He brought a large tin bucket and put half a bucket of fish for them to play with. He went back to continue working without saying a word.

   "Good guy, I said why your uncle went to fish in the pond on a rainy day, and it turned out that he ran into the fire."

  Chen Ling took a look in the bucket, and found a big fat black fish surrounded by many small miscellaneous fish: "Now, let's make sauerkraut fish at noon, just to celebrate Uncle Zhong's birthday."

   "This fish looks scary, can it be delicious when cooked?"

  Zhao Yubao glanced at it. The **** fish was dirty, dark in color, and with python patterns on its body, which was a bit creepy.

   "It's delicious. It's very tender. If it wasn't for running into the pond, I wouldn't be able to catch such a big one."

  Chen Ling said happily.

  Zhao Yubao was a little confused when he heard the words: "What do you mean? Going to the pond? The pond on the north side of the dam is so far away from the reservoir, and it's not close to the small river outside the village. Where did they get into the pond?"

   "Let's just jump over there, the big fire head is not happy in the river, so I just jump out of the water, it's a long jump, and I can jump into the pond.

   This thing is solid, and it won't die even if it jumps on the shore. "

  Chen Ling responded, stretching out his hand to grab the big fire head from the bucket. The big guy immediately crackled and shook his head and tail, so energetic that he threw water all over the faces of several people.

   "I'm going to kill the fish, Xiao Mao, you can feed the small fish left in the bucket to the turtle."

  He went to kill the fish, and Zhao Yubao followed closely, "Fugui, look at such a big doll in the village, don't you even go to a preschool education class or something? Are there any in the village?"

   "In the past two years, there were some people running it in the village, and some people were running it in the village, but the preschool also has to pay tuition fees. How can they be like children in the city, who have to go to primary school for two years? There is no such condition at home." Chen Ling shook his head.

As soon as he said this, old man Zhong also came over and muttered: "Then run around like this all day long, look at Liu Nier and the others, they are all good children, smart and clever, but they are far behind the real ones in study, this is education There is something missing.

  In the city, four or five-year-old children have already started to learn something. "

  Chen Ling knew about these problems, but when he thought of so many subjects in later generations, and all kinds of homework in cram schools that overwhelmed the children and their parents, he felt conflicted in his heart.

   "Uncle Zhao, Uncle Zhong, the countryside doesn't have that condition, so let's grow up according to their nature, sometimes it's not a bad thing."

  Zhao Yubao is very serious: "I said rich, I had an idea a long time ago, anyway, our two families live here, settled down, and are reluctant to leave.

  We don’t have much to do here except raise fish. We just invite friends to find some old friends to come to your village to cultivate their body and mind, and at the same time to teach in your school.

  Usually, I also hold an interest class for these underage children.

   It can also be considered as a little waste heat.

what do you think? "