Plant peaches with uncle

Once the Lantern Festival is over, the year is over. Those who go to school and go to work leave the small town at the foot of the Daqing Mountain one after another. The hustle and bustle of the New Year period suddenly disappears without a trace, and the town becomes deserted and depressed. It makes people feel that Xiantao Town is an empty city.

In the alley next to the station, a middle-aged man was sitting on an electric tricycle and smoking a cigarette. The bright sun shone on his body, which barely made people feel warm, but when the wind blew, he immediately felt chilly, and the heavy down jacket on his body couldn't stop him. The coldness of early spring in the city.

The smoke burned until the butt of the cigarette was almost hot, but he didn't let go. He took a puff vigorously, and his thoughts drifted to the person who was going to pick him up today. That person was the grandson of a family in the village. If they want to buy a peach orchard in their empty village, the land is not good and the roads are not easy to walk. Even if the peaches are grown, it will be difficult to pull them out. What's more, the peach orchard is barren and the trees are dying.

The man shook his head, and said in his heart, I really don't know the heights of the heavens and the depths of the earth!

More than 50 meters away, Su Ruoyan walked slowly towards the alley with a flowerpot in his arms. There was a tree with flourishing branches and leaves growing in the flowerpot, which he had just spent money to buy from someone else.

The front part of the alley is full of people who go to pick up goods near the station, similar electric tricycles, men of similar age, and those blurred faces. Su Ruoyan stands blankly in the crowd and does not know which one is the one who came to pick him up. He is prosopagnosic and cannot distinguish faces.

"Xiaoyan."

Someone shouted, it was a familiar voice, Su Ruoyan hugged the tree and leaned towards the direction of the voice, "Uncle Ming?"

Lin Zhiming said angrily, "Ang, it's me, get in the car."

"Wait a minute, Uncle Ming, I'll put the peach tree in the car first. I bought it on the way. It's a pity to see people throw it away."

Not long after Su Ruoyan came out of the station, he saw a man carrying a bonsai peach tree and stuffing it into the trash can.Probably because it grows in a warm room, the bonsai peach tree has uncharacteristically dense branches and leaves, which are lush and eye-catching.And unlike other bonsai peaches, it looks more like a fruit tree in an orchard, with a height of 1.5 meters, which can be called huge in a narrow flowerpot.

After detailed questioning, I learned that the owner of the peach tree thought the bonsai peaches were growing too well, and he was afraid of getting in the way and bringing bad luck, so he threw it away.

"How much did it cost?" Lin Zhiming, who picked up Su Ruoyan, asked.

"Two hundred and five, and I even gave me a basin, which is quite a deal, haha."

"Oh." Lin Zhiming didn't express any opinion.

The old city is very windy, a gust of wind blew over, causing Su Ruoyan's slightly long hair to flutter in a mess, and the thick bangs in front of his forehead were lifted up, revealing his plump and smooth forehead.Su Ruoyan quickly reached out to block it, and caressed the glasses on his nose. They were dull black thick-rimmed glasses with thick lenses. Without them, Su Ruoyan would become blind.

After getting on the bucket of the electric tricycle, Su Ruoyan steadied himself and said, "Uncle Ming, I'm coming up."

"Yeah." The car started and went to the village.

Xiantao Town is an unremarkable small town under the old city. The destination of their trip is Taolin Village on the mountain. It takes nearly an hour to get there on a bumpy mountain road. It is the hometown of Su Ruoyan's mother, although she has not been here for a few days. Second-rate.Grandpa left the village decades ago, but the fallen leaves return to their roots. Taolin Village has always been their hometown. Their family still has an old house there, which was assigned to Su Ruoyan's mother, but it is still under the name of grandma. The whole family only has grandma. The household registration is still in the village.

Boring on the road, Lin Zhiming has a dull temperament, he will only answer the last sentence after asking, and he is not a person to chat with, so Su Ruoyan began to study the peach tree he bought.According to the climate of the old city, the peach trees still have bare branches, no leaves and no flowers in this season, but the bonsai peach trees are luxuriant and verdant, making people want to reach out and fiddle with the crown of the tree. Let Su Ruoyan find a strange place, there is actually a peach hidden in the leaf.

He held it in his hand, and the peach was as big as his palm, and weighed half a catty. It was a very attractive red color, reminiscent of a juicy and fleshy peach, and when he bit it down, his mouth was full of peach fragrance.

"Well, it's delicious." After knowing it, Su Ruoyan actually picked off the peach of unknown origin from the tree, didn't wash it, didn't rub it, and didn't think about the consequences, directly put it into his mouth, and bit it big After taking a bite, as expected, the plump peach flesh is firm and full of rich juice. It is not the hard and thick peach that is not crispy, or the "fleshless" loose that is not soft. It is the best kind in between. The taste made his mind automatically shield all the dangers of eating this strange fruit.

The phone rang, and the caller ID was a small number. Su Ruoyan pressed the answer button to answer the call.

As soon as it was connected, the other end yelled, full of gossip and gloating, "Xiaoyan, your father is at home begging grandpa to tell grandma to ask relatives for a match for the little chick. It's a pity that you are not here. It’s such a big show that I didn’t see it, your family’s [-]th this year is really noisy, and the whole community is watching the excitement.”

The little chick in Fa Xiaokou is the illegitimate child of the third child that Su Ruoyan's father found outside. It is probably a disease brought out in the mother's womb. He was in poor health when he was born, and he got kidney disease when he was [-] or [-] years old. I need a kidney transplant.

"Let him do whatever he wants, anyway, my mother is going to leave him."

"It's not easy, Auntie can finally get out of the sea of ​​suffering."

"Yes."

Hearing the bad news, but because of the sweetness of the peach flesh in his mouth, it didn't spoil his mood. It's a pity that no matter how big the peach is, the flesh is limited, and he ate it up so quickly. fruity.

The road up the mountain has been built for several years, and it has not been properly maintained. Now it is full of potholes. The wheels of the electric tricycle ran over a big hole that cannot be avoided. With a "bang", Su Ruoyan, who was sitting in the back bucket After a moment of madness, one didn't pay attention, the peach pit in his mouth slid towards his throat, and the big peach pit got stuck in his throat.

"Your father will definitely come to you, I said you..."

"Crack!" The phone dropped on the car and hung up. Su Ruoyan grabbed his throat with one hand, and reached for Lin Zhiming who was driving with the other. His face was flushed red, his eyeballs protruded from choking. Confused "ah ah" sound.

Lin Zhiming was so immersed in the driving that he didn't notice that Su Ruoyan was on the verge of life and death on the back of the car.

Rolling his eyes, Su Ruoyan felt that his brain was short of oxygen, and there was a "buzzing" tinnitus in his ears. He felt that his life was about to be accounted for here.

The car was still driving, and there were many rocks and soil clods on the road. The wheels ran over and started to bump again, "crack, clump". As the car bounced up and down, Su Ruoyan, who was half lying in the car body and half dead, also moved, The peach pit stuck in the throat suddenly jumped in, and there was a loud "gudong" sound in my mind, and the peach pit seemed to fall heavily into the stomach along the esophagus.

Su Ruoyan was lying on the back of the truck, holding her throat and gasping for breath, her mind was a little fuzzy, and her posture remained unchanged for a long time.

"Here we are." Lin Zhiming stopped the car and said shortly.

Taolin Village is located in Daqing Mountain. It was originally one of the largest villages on the mountain, but people moved down one after another. Now, the entire village has a permanent population of less than twenty households.Not to mention Taolin Village, there used to be [-] to [-] natural villages in Daqing Mountain, but now there are less than seven or eight left. The government's policy of relocation of mountain residents for more than ten years is one aspect, and the other is life in the mountains. It's really not easy.

The village is surrounded by mountains on three sides. There is an old locust tree at the entrance of the village. Under the tree is a large bluestone like a reclining cow. On the bluestone sits an old man in old-fashioned navy blue overalls, smoking a dry cigarette "Badabada".

Seeing people coming, the cigarette pot knocked on the stone and stood up, "Zhiming, where's Xiaoyan?"

"It's not at the back." Jumping off the car, Lin Zhiming looked behind and saw Su Ruoyan lying on the back of the car, touching his neck, but he was a taciturn and inarticulate person, so he looked at him a little helplessly Dad, and then stood silently beside the car.

Lin Sanye walked over with his back hooked, and asked Su Ruoyan in the car what's wrong with concern, "What's wrong with Yan Wazi, it can't be that the road is too bumpy and you get motion sickness?"

Su Ruoyan's face was as white as paper, and he sat up straight tremblingly, "Yes, a little bit." He touched his stomach unnaturally, but the big peach pit didn't get stuck in the esophagus, but went directly into the stomach. Can't be digested?

"Come down for a walk, first go to my house to drink water and then go to the village chief."

"Third Grandfather, it's not good to be late at the scheduled time. I'll take a few steps and it's fine." After getting down on the ground, she felt a little more comfortable, and felt that the swelling in her stomach was much lighter. Su Ruoyan let out a long breath, Putting aside the fact that he almost choked to death on a peach pit, he came today to pay a deposit to buy Taoyuan.

The first time he came here, Su Ruoyan fell in love with the Taoshu Garden in the village. It was just that he was just a freshman at that time, and he didn’t have the time to take care of the Taoyuan. things are put into practice.

Every time he arrived at the entrance of the village, Lin Zhiming's car ran out of electricity, and he could only push it to go home.Su Ruoyan and Lin Sanye walked in front, and Lin Zhiming followed behind pushing the cart. The three of them walked on the winding path in the village, and it took about [-] minutes to reach the village head's house.

Taolin Village is now sparsely populated. Many houses have been abandoned, and the fields are uncultivated. There are tall weeds on the ground, blocking the view.There is only one road in the village, which is the one they are stepping on. It looks like a twisted "w". Most of the houses live in the two corners.

Walking on the road, Lin Sanye still persuaded Su Ruoyan, "Yanzi, you have to think about it clearly. There is no water source in the Taoyuan, and the land is not very good. If you buy it, you might not get anything after a lot of work. Money You can hear a sound when you throw it into the water, you may lose all your money if you buy Taoyuan, and it is not easy for you to save so much money as a little child, so don’t waste it.”