tall and rhubarb

"I used the rest myself last time, so you can take it." Gao Chang handed the medicine to Zheng Rixin, and being looked at with the eyes of a life-saver at home, really makes people feel uncomfortable.The child broke out in a sweat after catching the pine nuts, and then soaked half a pack of Bupleurum granules and fed it. I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect. Everyone said that his face looked much better, and Gao Chang also felt that it seemed better than before. It's one o'clock.

The matter was settled, and everyone had almost finished their meal, and started working in the yard again, but Zheng Rixin and his wife did not leave, and sat in the living room with their son in their arms. The young couple had some discussions about something, After a while, he walked over to Gao Chang: "Gao Chang, thank you just now."

"Thank you, a few packs of medicine are still there." Gao Chang couldn't weave bamboo boards, and the bamboo strips were not evenly split. Those were all handicrafts. He was a layman in this field, so he gave them a machete. The bamboo with burrs and thorns is removed from the miscellaneous branches first.

"I heard that your house is quite big. Look, the yard is well built. There are only three people in my family. Can I stay at your house for a while?"

"Live at my house?" Gao Chang didn't stop his hands.

"Yes."

"Aren't you afraid of being crushed to death by me?" Gao Chang couldn't help but smile with the corners of his mouth open. This guy named Zheng Rixin was about the same age and height as him, but when he was young, this person developed faster than him, and he often bullied him. Gao Chang, call him a catastrophe or something, if it is not his son who has a fever today but Zheng Rixin himself, Gao Chang will definitely not care about him.

"Hey, look at what you said, it's all happened when I was a child, do you remember?" Zheng Rixin was a little embarrassed. In the past, because Gao Chang had no parents, everyone said he was hard-fated, and the children in the village didn't understand anything. Just messing around nonsense, partnering to bully people and so on, Zheng Rixin really did a lot of those things when he was young.

"Don't expect to live in my house. What's good about living in an old dilapidated house? Doesn't this have such a big hall?"

Gao Chang’s house is indeed broken. All the houses in this yard are two-story, but their house only has one floor. It may be that Gao’s family did not catch up when everyone repaired the house together in the past, or it may be that Gao’s family is too small. , that house is quite wide, and it can be accommodated whether it is repaired or not.

"In the living room? Isn't there even a place to hide from the sun?"

"You have hands and feet, can't you take a rest? You see, this hall has two floors, but there is no floor, and there are bamboos in the back. If you cut down a few trees and lay a shop, won't you be able to live there?"

After hearing Gao Chang's words, Zheng Rixin looked up at the second floor of their hall. It was really nice. It was no different from the second floor of ordinary people's houses, except that the windows were opened a little too big. At that time, it would be fine to get something to block it. It can be saved, there is a ladder in the hall, and it is very good to use it to go up and down.

There are also a few families who have not found a place to live. The only vacant house in the yard has been occupied by Zheng Fangyi and his family. He is very reluctant to let people live in his own house, so most of his faces are not good-looking.

Zheng Rixin told several people about the idea of ​​covering the second floor of the living room with bamboo boards to live in, and three families immediately expressed the same idea, and of course it would be best not to look at people's faces.It just so happened that everyone was cutting bamboo to make bamboo boards that night, and those few people quickly joined the labor, but they had to find a place to live for themselves first.

The courtyard of the Sanheyuan is not small, but considering that the whole courtyard will only be able to move around in the courtyard in the future, everyone still plans to make the ceiling higher so that it will not be so cramped in the future.Nine tall moso bamboo pillars were erected in the yard, and then a tall bamboo frame was built based on these nine pillars. The top of the bamboo frame was as high as the roof ridge of the village. Beams can also help bear some of the weight.

The men in the village are no strangers to the work of building and repairing tents. After working hard all night, a tall roof appeared above the courtyard. Several layers of bamboo boards were laid on the roof to provide shade and ventilation. Since then, they People in this yard don't have to be so afraid of daytime.

The second floor of their living room was also refurbished, the floor was paved with split bamboo, and four rooms were cut out with bamboo boards. The front room near the window was small, and the back room was larger.Zheng Rixin's family of three lived in a small room in the front. The small room had windows that could be opened at night for ventilation. Now that a roof has been built over the courtyard, the sun can't shine in during the day.

After finishing the work and tidying up the yard, it was only 05:30 in the morning. Everyone sat around in the yard and ate the meals prepared by the women, waiting for the dawn together.

"My Guoxi is outside and I don't know what's going on." Aunt Ah Shan who was sitting at Gao Chang's table suddenly said, Guoxi is not very old, but he has a seniority, and everyone who is about his age has to call him Uncle, this is also the origin of his father's name, Uncle Ashan.

"Guoxi is in our city, right?" A woman next to him asked.

"Yes, it used to take only two hours by car."

"I don't know what's going on outside, do you think they will want to go back to the village?"

The people in the village began to talk one after another. The originally optimistic atmosphere was suddenly broken. The fence was repaired and the roof was put up. It seemed that I could survive, so all kinds of Such troubles will follow.

"The houses in the city are solid, don't think about it, it must be safer than here."

"You are so confused! How can you buy food in the city after such a commotion?"

"Yeah, isn't that going to starve to death..."

"It looks like the vegetables are thriving in the field, but the city is full of concrete floors, where can I plan to eat them?"

"These people must come back."

"Why? How dangerous is it outside? It's better to stay at home and wait for the sun to return."

"According to this, there is no way for them to survive?"

Everyone must have thought about these issues before, but the situation in the village is also very bad. Everyone is busy working and doesn't talk too much. Now that someone is taking the lead, they all talk about it.

In fact, not everyone wants those people from outside to come back. The supplies in the village are very limited. Now they are sending out food according to the head of the big pot, but when the people from outside come back, can the people in the village really look at them? Starve to death?But these thoughts cannot be expressed.

Just as everyone was thinking about it, another voice sounded from outside the yard: "Dad, Mom, are you there? I'm Guoxi, why is the yard blocked?"

"Guoxi! It's Guoxi!" Upon hearing this voice, Uncle and Aunt Ah Shan were overjoyed: "Guoxi, the front is blocked, you come in from the back, it's dark outside, be careful!"

"Mom, you are all in the yard, I said I saw a fire! I'll go in right away."

Not long after, Gao Chang saw Guoxi carrying a bicycle into the yard. This person seemed to have cycled all the way back from the city, and it was lucky that nothing happened.The one who came back with Zheng Guoxi was a tall man, tall and handsome, with a straight face that seemed difficult to get along with.

"Mom, this is my friend. He had nowhere to go when there was chaos two days ago, so he came back with me." Zheng Guoxi introduced with some embarrassment.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's fine when people come back, my friend lives in our house, and he eats what we eat." The world has become so chaotic, Uncle Ashan and Aunt Ashan are almost planning for the worst , now his son is standing in front of him perfectly, and when he is happy, he doesn't care about anything. When his son comes back, it is more important than anything else.

After a while, the sky dawned, the sun was still blue, and everyone's hearts were dying, so they didn't say anything, and went back to their homes one by one silently and closed the doors and windows.

In the following days, people came back from outside one after another, and the relatives of the other family lived in the house, and there was nothing wrong with it. The scattered residents outside moved a few more, which gave some benefits. A few more partitions were added to the rooms built on the second floor of the hall. The originally spacious rooms can almost only fit a bed.

In the yard next to the newly built fence, a big frame was erected, which looked like a rabbit cage. Villagers used it to raise chickens, and Gao Chang also occupied a cage to keep his old hens in it. They ate them all.

One afternoon when Gao Chang was sleeping, Da Huang pushed him hard with his front legs: "Gao Chang! Gao Chang! Get up!"

"What's the matter?" Zheng Xiang, who was sleeping for a long time in the cold weather.

"Something has entered our house!"

"What?" Gao Chang sat up in a jerk. This was what he was most worried about. He hurriedly got up and lit a candle, but there was no movement in their room. Logically speaking, it shouldn't be. It's very manic, and they can't do it for the time being.

"On the floor..." Rhubarb reminded again, but it stayed on the bed and refused to get off.

"What the hell is it?" There are many holes in the floor of their house, and it's really hard to find a mouse or something hiding under it.

"cockroach."

Following Da Huang's words, Gao Chang finally saw the true face of the intruder. "Hey, German cockroach." Gao Chang is no stranger to this thing. He lived in a big city in his previous life, and this kind of little cockroach can be seen everywhere. Later, it mutated in the sun, and it was extremely destructive, and it was really a headache. For a while, Gao Chang usually likes to use fire, and then wipe the floor with thick washing powder water, and soon disappeared.

"There's more under the floor!"

"Rhubarb, cockroaches are nothing to be afraid of." Gao Chang said with a serious face, but he couldn't help but smile in his tone. He didn't expect the descendants of Inugami to be afraid of cockroaches.

"I'm not afraid of them, I just hate them eating my hair." It doesn't want to be a bald dog.

"I forgot about this one." Everyone has a love of beauty, and this really can't be blamed on Rhubarb. It seems that the dog hair on his body is too attractive to cockroaches. When it is hairy, one or two cockroaches come out along the way.

"What can we do? Our house cannot be set on fire." He really didn't expect German cockroaches to exist in this small mountain village.

"I told you to make the concrete floor, but you just didn't listen." Rhubarb complained.

"What do you know? The more dilapidated the house, the less people will think about us." Gao Chang has always believed in this, even if the reason is not very good.Of course, the most important reason is that he needs some energy from the earth in the process of cultivation. As the old saying goes, it is grounding. Gao Chang feels that the concrete floor will block the distance between him and the earth.

"Hmph, what do you say now?"

"Don't worry, even cockroaches have natural enemies."

"What are you going to do?" Rhubarb had a very bad premonition.

"Catch two cauliflower snakes and put them at home, and they will be clean in a few days." One thing is one thing, and there may be other things coming into the house, like mice or something. Snakes are still very useful, and they are naturally environmentally friendly. pollute.

"Are you out of your mind? Raising snakes at home?" Rhubarb finally blew up. Can such slippery and cold things be brought home?

"Then there is no other way. If it's really not possible, I'll shave your hair and save Xiaoqiang from hiding inside." Gao Chang said helplessly.

"I don't shave!" Rhubarb finally resigned to his fate, hanging limply on the edge of the bed, and gave a slightly more reliable idea than raising snakes: "Let's raise toads."