Forest Kindergarten

Sparrows and turtledoves are pecking at the leftover rice in the deserted fields, each of them eating plumply for the winter.

People in the village already know that Teacher Lianpei is also helping to take care of the cubs in the kindergarten. Usually, he and Teacher Xiaokong always sing a good show and a bad face, taming the cubs, and there is no wages, only meat and wine Just drink it.

Several villagers smiled and looked at the two people embracing each other. They both came here when they were young. In their eyes, if these two people lived in the city, they would be people who did great things and made a lot of money. education, and staying in this remote mountain village for the villagers to get rich shows that they are kind-hearted people who do not expect anything in return.They really appreciate these two people.

Emotional matters have nothing to do with gender, and true love is worthy of blessing.

Knowing that he lost his composure, Ye Kong let go of Lianpei in embarrassment, and wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve: "I'm going to bundle..."

As soon as he picked up a bundle of straw thrown by the cubs on the edge of the field, his grandma came over and snatched it away.The old lady smiled and said: "It's almost done, you two go, young man, you can't work all the time, you have to take a holiday. What is that called? Go... let's go on a date! The boys will go to Lao Liu's house for dinner later, Don't worry, ah."

Ye Kong smiled embarrassedly: "Thank you grandma."

Grandma: "You are welcome, you are just like my own son." She looked at Lian Pei, the handsome young man nodded softly, expressing his gratitude, and took Ye Kong's hand to walk towards the kindergarten.

Grandma was stared at by the clear eyes that seemed to be pity, and she couldn't move for a while. After the two of them walked hand in hand for a certain distance, they folded their hands together and bowed down to worship in fear.

Maybe it's because the weather is cold. In comparison, Lianpei's hands are not as cold as before, they seem to have a trace of human body temperature.

After finally having free time, the two walked around the kindergarten and walked into the mountains.

Ye Kong told Lian Pei about the matter, Master Shangui didn't care: "I was originally a ghost, and humans can't see ghosts, so it's normal that they don't remember me."

Ye Kong felt that it made sense. On the night of the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk on the Ghost Festival, he drank a little of Lianpei's ghost blood to see those ghosts.

"But they remember their loved ones." When people die, they are not immediately forgotten.

Lian Pei smiled and said, "I've been dead for 100 years, and no one in this world may remember me anymore." He squeezed Ye Kong's fingers, "You, don't think too much, and I still have you , and you guys, just remember me, I don’t care about others.”

Ye Kong also smiled, feeling relieved: "You are right."

He asked, "Did you really send Xiao Hua back?"

Lianpei: "Well, she needs to live in Zongshan and absorb the spiritual power in Zongshan." He looked at the other party's expression of disbelief, and frowned, "What are you thinking? Who do you think I am? I Is it the kind of person who drives her away because she hinders me and you?"

"..."

You are.

Lian Pei: "She is my apprentice anyway, I won't harm her, wild beasts need to live in the mountains and forests, and always live with humans, they are contaminated with too many human habits, it will be difficult to go back in the future."

"What about the big raccoon, the second raccoon and the third raccoon?"

"The three of them are civet cats, animals that can transform, and are the closest to humans. Don't worry about them. They can choose freely in the future, whether to live in Zongshan as civet cats, or stay in the village as humans."

Lian Pei has always shown others with an indifferent and arrogant attitude, but he did not expect that he had already arranged the cubs properly in his heart.Ye Kong couldn't help but smile: "You are a good person."

Time flies, and the New Year is approaching in a blink of an eye. This year Zongshan Village is very lively, because this year's harvest is good, and there is new income. In addition, several young people have returned, and a special management team for adopting land has been established in the village. Hu Longying and Zhuo Qun also applied to reclaim a large flower field, intending to plant it by themselves, produce and sell it themselves, so the atmosphere in the village is more joyful and peaceful than in previous years.

The most important thing is that this year there are more Ye Kong, Lian Pei and the cubs.

Since December, the village has been bustling.In autumn, the fields were prepared to make beds and the fruit trees were pruned, and everyone was free. The women knit sweaters while chatting, and prepared new clothes for the children. The children of relatives say kiss.

Zongshan Village is not big, and every household lives in harmony with relatives. During Maodong, everyone takes turns to make some fried goods or pickled vegetables and sweets, and the whole village shares them together.

The cubs like sugar chestnuts best.

In September, I went to the mountain to hunt chestnuts. Daxin climbed up the chestnut tree, sat in the middle of the branches and shook the branches, and the chestnut thorns would fall off. The thorns were green in summer and turned brown in autumn. With the loss of water and the maturity of the chestnut rice, the prickly bag will burst open, revealing the fresh and shiny chestnut rice.

In October and November, the thorns left by the branches will fall off by themselves, and then just pick them up with a small basket and a small sickle.

The chestnuts brought back are made by the villagers into candied chestnuts, fried chestnuts with sugar, or used to stew chicken.

At the same time, there are also walnuts, myrtle, sugar pears, etc. that are ripe in the mountains, so that the cubs can eat their fill in autumn.

In addition to good food, the villagers will also go to the market in Zongshan Town collectively. The village chief drives and Lao Hu drives a tractor, sending a dozen people there each time. The market is also the busiest at this time. There are fewer tourists coming from other places, and the town is full of locals who speak a dialect.

It's been a busy year for everyone, and winter is a time for holidays, celebrations, and relaxation.

It has been snowing since mid-December, and the snow is falling, covering the farmland and farmhouses and even the entire Zongshan Mountain.In the other three seasons, the mountains are either beautiful or sharp. In winter, most of the exposed rocks and trees will be covered with snow, and they will look round and cute from a distance.

Neither the city where Ye Kong grew up nor the city where he studied at university would have such a heavy snowfall.The first snow falls at night in December.The village used the money earned this year to replace the kindergarten with a new heater, built a furnace outside the house to burn carbon, and heated the water to a certain temperature before circulating it into the radiators in each room, so that there is no need to worry about gas poisoning problem.

The temperature in the room is constant, and there is no need to check on the cubs in the middle of the night. Ye Kong can sleep until morning in Lianpei's arms.

When he woke up, he felt that the air was very humid. He got up wrapped in a quilt, pushed open the window covered in white mist, and cried out softly.

When he got up, Lian Pei woke up, leaned over to ask for a good morning kiss, Ye Kong kissed it perfunctorily, put on his clothes and rushed downstairs, took off a door panel and jumped out.

He didn't even wear a coat, he jumped directly into the snow, sank half of his body, and suddenly went from a warm place to a cold outdoor, his nose and cheeks were red from the cold, but he was still as happy as a child, with hands and feet up and down Swipe left and right to draw four fan shapes.

Lian Pei boiled the hot water, made hot corn tea, and sat on the porch and called him, "Come back, don't catch a cold."

Little friend Ye Kong climbed up tremblingly, slipped into his arms and took a sip of tea before recovering: "I like snow."

Lian Pei: "You like it now, when it snows, the village has to shovel snow..."

Before he finished speaking, Ye Kong got up and went upstairs, and shouted at the door of the cubs' room: "Children, get up quickly, it's snowing!"

The cubs who usually don't want to get up when the sun is shining on their buttocks, all jumped up from the quilt, cheered and ran downstairs barefoot, jumping into the snow one by one impatiently.

Daxin Jianxue has seen a lot, and at the age when he can't save face and get excited with the kids, he calmly holds his coat and shoes, puts them on one by one for his five younger brothers and sisters, takes out a shovel from the warehouse, and starts to clean up the accumulation at the door. Snow.

Ye Kong made breakfast, steaming hot tomato and rapeseed noodle soup, steamed sweet potatoes and corn topped with honey, and steamed egg custard with shrimps and shiitake mushrooms.He called the cubs to eat, and after the meal, he put on each cub a new scarf and hat woven by the villagers, put on thick waterproof boots, and started shoveling snow.

Snow shoveling is hard work, but for children, it is because adults are bored and only regard snow as a trouble.

They played and worked, starting from the door, following the original position of the dirt road, and shoveling the snow to the sides. The new snow is very soft, and it can be lifted up when the shovel touches the hard ground.

The large flakes of snow that no one has stepped on, like a thick layer of cream soufflé, even stimulate people's appetite.In the countryside with fresh air, the snow is indeed sweet.

The third raccoon couldn't bear it the fastest, threw down the shovel, jumped up, plunged into the snowdrift and disappeared, the next second, the young civet cat who was born in spring and is now close to adulthood, shed all his brown and black hair, emerged from the snow Jumped out of the pile, fell into the large snow, and began to run furiously.

The big raccoon and the second raccoon also changed back, and chased after them with a howl, leaving three traces of civet cats pushing the snow on the large soufflé in the open space.

Feiya Feimiao also played crazy, laughing loudly, grabbed the snow, rolled it up, and threw it towards the civet cats.

Daxin shouted: "You guys, shovel the snow hard!"

No one cares about him.

Angrily, he plunged his shovel into the snow, grabbed a handful of snow, and chased after him, shouting, "Ahhh, I'm making you disobedient!"

It was almost nine o'clock, and the village chief came over with a snowplow cart, wanting to help the kindergarten shovel snow. He walked through the plane tree forest humming, his feet creaking in time, and suddenly there was a soft bang, and he lowered his head and walked into the cart. Look, I was surprised, it turned out to be a raccoon dog!

The third raccoon looked at the village head, getting carried away with the game, and smiled at him, while the big raccoon and the second raccoon stood in the distance.The village chief grabbed Sanli by the back of his neck and lifted him up: "Hehe, where did you come from?"

His tone was very gentle, and Sanli realized that he had caused trouble, and put his heart back into his stomach, thinking that the village head grandpa would let him go, but the village head smiled and said: "I just took you to the town Sell ​​money!"