Forest Kindergarten

Early in the morning, Ye Kong found a few nectarines wrapped in lotus leaves at the door, which must have been sent by the civet cat mother.

He washed the peaches, cut two and gave them to the civet cats, and left the remaining two for the siblings. Putting on gloves, he picked up a hoe and a shovel and went to work in the open field.

He was very motivated, and before the children came in the morning, he turned over the open space near the forest and buried the manure that Mr. Shangui helped to retting yesterday.

He plans to grow tomatoes. After all, this vegetable can be used as a fruit or a vegetable. It can be used in cold salads, stir-fries, stews, and seasonings. In the future, it can be made into tomato sauce. The taste is also liked by children. some seeds.

The little civet cats were running around on the edge of the land. When the siblings were away, they would turn back into civet cats. Ye Kong was thinking, if they lived here all the time, would they forget their instinct of foraging?

Before nine o'clock, grandma and the village head came with the siblings. Looking at the well-arranged land, the village head gave a thumbs up: "I didn't expect Mr. Xiaokong to be able to plant the land!"

Ye Kong: "I learned it from my teacher when I was young, but I almost forgot it. I still have to learn more from my fellow villagers."

Grandma: "Teacher Xiaokong, if you have any questions, just ask. I have seeds for what you want to plant."

The village chief squatted on the ground and wondered, "Is the fat buried?"

Ye Kong was a little nervous, so he found a random reason: "Ah, yes, I dug some rotten leaves and weeds by the river a few days ago."

The village head picked up the land and said: "Use that kind of leaves to bury fertilizer to avoid insects. If you are not in a hurry, it should be dried, and the newly plowed land should also be dried."

Ye Kong knew what to do, but he had long forgotten such details, so he asked, "Then can I sunbathe now?" He looked at the weather forecast, and there would be no rain in the next week.

Grandma smiled and said, "Yes, you have planted vegetables in the land here before, just let it dry for a few days, don't listen to the village chief scaring you, it's fine."

Ye Kong asked: "Who lived in this wooden house before?"

Grandma: "My grandpa told me that this house was built by a businessman from the city. My grandpa saw him when he was young, but he didn't come to live in it after it was built. Maybe it was a whim of the city people. Yes, I wanted to come to the hometown to experience the experience, but when I found it unbearable, I went back."

Grandma smiled and said: "It is said that he is a handsome young man. My grandma and a group of little girls always talk secretly, which made my grandpa very angry. Then there was a fire in the mountain one year. Maybe it was not safe, and that person never been back."

This businessman is probably Lian Pei, right?Ye Kong thought to himself, what happened to the fire?How could he die in the mountains?Did you accidentally set the fire on yourself?And why doesn't he remember anything?

The village chief patted the dirt on his legs, stood up and said, "Tonight, people from the town came, and the boy from the next village also came. Although it is the next village, he has to cross two mountains to get here. Usually let him live with you. Go back if you have something to do at home. Don’t go to class this afternoon, come here early and get to know people in the village and town.”

Now that he agreed to go to the welcome party, Ye Kong nodded generously: "Yes, I will take the children there in the afternoon."

It's called a welcome party, and it means a banquet is held in the open space of the village, and the whole village eats and drinks together in a lively manner.

There are a dozen households with 40 to [-] people in the village. Most of the young people went to work in the city, and almost all the old people left behind. In addition to doing farm work, they just wash and cook. Although they often visit, they rarely have the opportunity to be like this. gather together.

Everyone started to work in the afternoon, set up six or seven large round tables, each household cooked their special meals, and set up pots of stewed meat and fish.

At 03:30 in the afternoon, after taking a nap, Ye Kong brought his siblings to help the villagers cook together.He is handsome and handsome, tall, neat and neat. Although he is a college student in the city, he knows a lot of things in the countryside, and he is unambiguous in cooking. The old people in the village like him very much.

Ye Kong made dumplings with a few old ladies, and listened to their chats while making dumplings: "Young man has a future!"

"There are fewer young people who are willing to go to the countryside...and they are not willing to suffer..."

"My boy came back and said that he couldn't read any music without a net. I don't understand. Where can I find a net for him in the deep mountains and old forests? You have to borrow the fishing nets from the village head."

"That's right, my daughter married to the town, and she didn't bother to walk for dozens of miles, and she was only willing to come back during the holidays."

"If they don't come back in the future, what will happen to this place?"

"When we get old and die, this land will be deserted..."

"It won't be abandoned. I heard from the village chief that there are people in the town who rent land, and then we will rent the land to them. They will plant it and rent it to us every year..."

"Hey, if this is the same as Teacher Xiaokong, we won't have to worry about it..."

Ye Kong smiled and put the dumplings on the sorghum stalks in a circle. The dumplings were made of shepherd's purse pork and water chestnut corn carrot pork. The filling was filled with sesame oil, which was fragrant.A few people moved quickly, and wrapped up a few big castors in a short while.

Fei Ya Fei Miao was attached to him, looking at the white water chestnuts and wanting to eat them, he patted the powder on his hands, borrowed a small pot from grandma, ground the remaining water chestnuts into puree, added rock sugar and boiled them into horseshoe soup, served two A child to satisfy his hunger.

People from the town came in the evening, and the village head took Ye Kong to meet them and introduced each other: "Mr. Xiao Kong, this is Mayor Ma of Zongshan Town. Mayor Ma, this is Teacher Ye Kong who came to our village to support teachers. "

Ye Kong greeted politely: "Hello, Mayor Ma."

Mayor Ma is 50 years old, a native of Zongshan Town after graduating from high school.With a fat middle-aged belly, he shook hands with Ye Kong with a smile: "Hello, Teacher Ye. Originally, the superiors told me that Zongshan's qualification as a supporting teacher was cancelled, and the notice was issued. I didn't expect you to come anyway. Something went wrong, but we welcome you! You don’t have to go all the way to the town to go to school when you come here! And college students can come to our remote place to teach, it’s bringing us fresh blood, It can help our Zongshan Village and even Zongshan Town to make better progress and development!"

"..." Ye Kong listened to Mayor Ma's impassioned Mandarin speech with a smile on his face, and shook his head again and again, "You are too polite, this is what I should do... No, no, no, you flatter me too much..."

After finally finishing the procedure, Mayor Ma took out his handkerchief to wipe his sweat, and introduced him: "This is a boy from Lingshan Village. His grandfather asked me to bring him back, saying that he will learn from you in the future, called... What's your name?"

Standing beside him was a boy in his early ten years old, holding the hem of his clothes uncomfortably. The clothes were too small for him, showing his waist a little. He said in a low voice, "My name is Yun Daxin."

Ye Kong: "Hello, Daxin, please give me more advice in the future."

It was the first time that Yun Daxin was treated equally as an adult, and he nodded a little unaccustomed.

Only when Mayor Ma entered the table did everyone dare to move their chopsticks.Ye Kong called Feiya Feimiao over and introduced the new classmates to them. Although the school is small and there are not many students, it has three grades, Daxin in the third grade, Yaer in the first grade, and Feimiao in the kindergarten class. And civet cat babies.

Lights were on on the first floor of the wooden house, and the red clothes flew across the forest, flying towards the dim yellow light.

Lianpei went into the house to search for a long time, but there was no one there: "Where did you go?" He strode to the kitchen, where freshly picked wild flowers were placed on the dining table, and there was a transparent mesh cover next to the vase to prevent insects. Bamboo plate.

Stuffed on the plate was a golden-brown and crispy chicken, a few pancakes, two washed cucumbers, and a small plate of bean paste.

"For you have a conscience." Lord Shangui rolled up his sleeves, tore off the chicken leg and began to chew.

He poured himself a glass of purple-red mulberry wine, and ate and drank it to his heart's content.

After eating and waiting for a long time, no one came back, so I went to the yard. The ground had been in the sun for a day, and there was a fishy smell of soil and the indescribable smell of buried fertilizer.

Lian Pei sat on the porch in distaste, and three civet cats ran over from the back of the yard, and when they saw him, they rubbed their heads around him: "Where did that guy go?"

"Huh? Going to drink?" Lian Pei was inexplicably upset, got up and walked through the plane tree forest to the village down the mountain.

The noise of the village can be heard from far away, the sound of toasting, yelling, laughing and clinking of wine glasses. He stood behind a tree surrounded by two people, quietly watching the village chief's door empty. On the ground, the wires were pulled and a few bulbs were lit to illuminate the place brightly.

The calm Ye Kong was surrounded by the crowd, with a smile on his face flushed from drinking.

It was almost eleven o'clock and everyone dispersed one after another. Mayor Ma and the two stayed at the village chief's house.

Ye Kong refused the kindness of others to send him back, and walked back with Daxin. He also drank a little too much. When he drank too much, he tended to talk too much, and he taught Daxin: "Don't waste food, it is enough to eat now , and can’t be wasted, every grain of rice is obtained by predecessors’ research, land reclamation, sowing, weeding, and harvesting! Don’t waste a single grain of rice!”

Daxin helped him, and agreed: "I see, Mr. Ye, my grandfather also taught me not to waste food. Although we can harvest every year, there are still many people who can't eat..."

Ye Kong patted him: "Well, good boy!"

Walking to the sycamore forest, Ye Kong was unsteady on his feet, stepped on a stone and stumbled, and was supported by a pair of strong hands.

Daxin looked in horror at the man in red who suddenly appeared quietly, and Lianpei cast a spell to swallow the screams that had reached his throat directly into his stomach.

"Lianpei~Master Shangui~" Ye Kong turned around and hugged him, hanging on him, I don't know if he was too relaxed, what he said shocked Daxin next to him, he forgot to be afraid, "You hug me back, I , I will make chicken for you to eat..."