farm life

When we got home, it was already dark outside, and Lin Jiangsui felt a little hungry, so he groped around in the house, found rice and some sweet potatoes, and prepared to cook something to fill his stomach Stomach is fine.

At this time, the voice of the cousin next door came from outside: "Suiwazi, are you at home?"

"Here!" Lin Jiang responded, wiped the water stains on his hands, and walked out.

When my cousin saw him, a smile appeared on her face, "You haven't eaten yet, have you? I just made it at my place, so come and use it together."

"Eh? No need, I just finished this."

The cousin glared at him, "You son, why are you polite? I have helped clean up your mother-in-law's house these days. What else do I not know? Walk around, go to my place to eat, it's rare to come back once, I How can this aunt not treat her well?" After speaking, he took his hand and dragged it out.

Lin Jiangsui had no choice but to follow her to her house for dinner.

Compared with the new house of the Lin family, my aunt’s house looks a bit dilapidated, with uneven black soil floor, and the surrounding walls are made of clay, which has been smudged by the years, and the clay has long since fallen off in several places. The netted bamboo strips made of bamboo underneath are exposed.

Under the dim light, a man was sitting at the table, eating with chopsticks.When they came in, the man raised his head, with gray hair, wrinkled face, and dark brown skin, which were the marks left by the long-term scorching sun.A pair of small eyes are a bit chaotic, but it makes people feel that he is very reliable.

A typical farmer old man.

He looks at least in his 60s, but Lin Jiangsui is not sure, people who are tired all the year round always look older.

"This is your eldest cousin." The cousin introduced.

Lin Jiang smiled and called for someone. He didn't have any impression of the big cousin, he only saw a vague shadow in his memory, and he knew that there was this person.

Linjia Village is a large village with hundreds of households. At first, it was developed by a few families fleeing from famine, so the village is not full of people with the surname Lin. Apart from the most surnamed Lin, there are also Wang, Zhang, and Li. The main surnames of Liu and Liu, and because the family surnamed Lin first came here at that time, it was named Linjiacun.

The eldest cousin's surname was Li, and his name was very simple, Peng Wei. He was a bit dull, but very kind. He smiled casually at Lin Jiang and beckoned him to sit down.

The cousin set the bowls and chopsticks for him, and spooned a large bowl of hot white rice, and put it in front of him, "There is no food at home, but there is definitely enough rice, you can eat as much as you can, and add more if you don't have enough. "

"Thank you, cousin, I'm not picky about eaters." Lin Jiangsui was a little embarrassed, but he was not good at communication, so he just took the bowl with a blushing face and began to eat.

As my cousin said, there are not many dishes for dinner, a bowl of stir-fried cabbage, a bowl of mapo tofu, and a large bowl of soup with pea tips and some watery meat.Such dishes are already considered rich in the farmhouse.

For a while during the meal, the eldest aunt was busy serving Lin Jiang with vegetables, and kept asking him about his life these years. She was so enthusiastic that even the eldest cousin picked up some chopsticks for him. Lin Jiangsui was very uncomfortable, but he didn't reject their kindness. After all, few people cared about him so much, so he felt a little sour.

"Is there anything you need there? Those quilts are probably a little damp after a few days. My Zheyu has gone to work in the city. Why don't you use his quilts? I just dried them yesterday. But, make sure it’s warm at night.” The aunt asked, passing the remaining pieces of meat in the soup to his bowl.

Lin Jiang hurriedly stopped her, and divided the meat into two bowls for the couple, "Big cousin is busy every day, so he should eat more meat to make up for it... It doesn't need to be so troublesome, I will just stay for one night and do it tomorrow." After completing the formalities, we will go back to school.”

The uncle who had been quietly listening to them spoke at this moment, "Do the formalities? I am more familiar with the village committee than you. I will take you there tomorrow."

"Will it be too much trouble for you, uncle?" Lin Jiangsui didn't want to disturb others, although he had no idea about these things.

"It's okay, there's not much work in the fields recently, so you can let him take you there." The cousin waved her hand indifferently, eating meat happily, thinking that this nephew is really good, unlike her family, who doesn't understand at all Be considerate.

So the hospitality was hard to give up, Lin Jiang agreed to their proposal, and after making an appointment for tomorrow's departure, he returned home.

The house without the owner is filled with an indescribable coldness and vicissitudes. It is empty and makes people feel cold.

Lin Jiangsui didn't sleep in grandma's room, but went to the master bedroom on the second floor.

Pushing open the door and turning on the light, he was taken aback by the decorations he saw.He didn't look at it carefully before, but now he noticed that most of the things in this room were things he had seen before.

Double bed, bedside table, dresser, large wardrobe, round table, round stool, all the furniture in this room is made of high-quality sandalwood rosewood, and each piece is exquisitely carved, or carved with dragons and phoenixes. , intertwined lotus patterns, or openworked unicorns, connected with cattail fans with ribbons. (Data from Baidu)

This set of furniture, Lin Jiangsui heard from his grandfather when he was young, is a treasure handed down by his ancestors, said to be something from the harem of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Jiangsui once curiously asked his grandfather how they had things from the palace , Grandpa just patted his head, and said flatly: "In those years, there was a lot of chaos, and there were a lot of things that came out of the palace. Even antiques and treasures can be bought outside, not to mention just some furniture."

Standing in front of the red sandalwood five-screen phoenix-pattern dressing table, touching those ancient patterns, Lin Jiangsui has no impression of it, but only remembers vaguely hearing an adult mention that his father's college tuition was pawned off by it Yes, I didn't expect it to come back now.

Lin Jiangsui didn't know the value of these things, but he also knew that the things in the palace of the Qing Dynasty were antiques and must be very valuable, but he didn't expect that not only his grandma left it for him, but even the man's family didn't say anything.

There is a neat quilt on the bed. Although no one has slept for a long time, it is still clean. It is obvious that someone often tidies it.Touch the quilt, it's a little damp, but it's about to go.

He went downstairs to boil hot water to wash, and closed the front and back doors. He returned to the room, shook the quilt, got into bed, turned off the light, and fell asleep in the faint sandalwood.

In the early morning of the next day, Lin Jiang got up immediately, heated up the rice cooked last night, and ate a few mouthfuls indiscriminately, when there was a knock on the door outside the door, with shouts.

"Suiwazi, are you up yet?"

"Get up." Lin Jiangsui hurriedly went to open the door.

Standing outside the door, Li Pengwei smiled when he saw the door open: "Did I come too early? Have you eaten yet?"

"I've already eaten, big cousin, wait a minute, I'll go in and get the food."

"Remember not to forget to bring all the documents, it will be difficult to do things without them." He reminded.

"Hey, I know." Lin Jiang replied, and then went into the back room, checked all the documents found yesterday according to the contents of the letter and the will written by grandma, and put them in the bag , and then went out to follow Li Pengwei.

"Big cousin, do you smoke?" On the way, Lin Jiang took out a pack of cigarettes from his bag, the normal kind. Bought one at the commissary, which cost him a hundred oceans.I didn't think about it last night, but now I just give it to him.

"I'm an old smoker. How many people here don't smoke?" Li Pengwei was not polite, took the cigarette and took out one, lit it with the lighter that Lin Jiangsui brought over, hesitated, "It's a good smoke, better than what we usually smoke."

"It's not good to go to work today with empty hands."

The address of the village committee is next to the small river at the entrance of the village. Lin Jiangsui passed by there when he came back yesterday. It is a four-story office building with a high wall surrounded by fences. There is a green belt with flowers and plants, and there is a concrete open space near the gate, where many bicycles and two cars are parked.

After greeting the guard, Li Pengwei led Lin Jiang into the office building without asking for directions, and found the place directly.

Lin Jiangsui was very curious about how Li Pengwei was so familiar with this place, but it was not surprising that he had lived here for so many years. Later, he found out that his son's best friend worked here. The more you get, the more familiar you will be.

With the help of Li Pengwei, plus the cigarettes sent out, the transfer procedures went smoothly. In just one morning, Lin Jiang inherited everything left by his grandmother, a house—including all the furniture and everything in it— — and ten acres of land.

Lin Jiangsui is a little strange, the land belongs to the country, how can he inherit it?So he specifically asked the person who helped him with the formalities about the land to understand clearly.

"These lands are contracted by your family. The land still belongs to the state, but you have the right to use it. According to the usage time above, you can use it for a lifetime. However, this land can only be used for agriculture and cannot be used for other purposes. , Of course, if the state wants to recycle, it will give you corresponding subsidies.” The man pointed to the service life on the document, Lin Jiang looked at it casually, the signing time was ten years ago, and there are still at least 60 years left The period of use is indeed enough for him to use for a lifetime.

So he began to worry about what to do with the ten acres of land.After all, I don't know how to farm, and I can't stand on the ground without wasting money, and I have to pay a lot of contracting fees every year.

Li Pengwei gave him some advice, "Out of your ten acres of land, there are five acres of paddy fields and five acres of dry fields. The five acres of paddy fields are all good land, although the dry fields are almost medium-sized, and there are fruit trees planted in the dry fields. , it doesn’t take too much time, as for the paddy field, if you don’t grow it yourself, you can rent it out, when your mother-in-law was here, she couldn’t work in the field by herself, so she rented it out.”

Lin Jiang thought about the fruit forest on the mountain behind his home, so he asked him if it was there.Li Pengwei nodded, so Lin Jiangsu asked him if he knew which companies the paddy fields were leased to.

"Our family only rented two acres of paddy fields, and the remaining three acres were rented by Lin Jie's family on the other side of the stream. The land rent is paid after the autumn harvest every year. This year's has already been paid. If you want to continue renting out, I'll help you say hello to his family."

"Then I will trouble my uncle."

It was almost noon when he came out of the village committee. In order to express his gratitude, Lin Jiang invited him to a small restaurant in the village for a meal, and then went back to call his cousin, and the three went to the restaurant lively.

After dinner, they were led by Li Pengwei and his wife to go around the neighborhood to familiarize themselves with their own land. Then the three went home and rested in the house for a while, then Lin Jiang packed up his things and went back to school.