The end-of-life life of a mountain farmhouse

Entrance of Lianhuashan Village, Leping County

A man in his 20s is squatting next to a tricycle that looks like a vicissitudes of history, swiping his mobile phone. He has a leisurely posture and a comfortable expression, with a lollipop in his mouth. His dark and rough fingers occasionally touch the phone. Comments were posted on the video, chatting on and off, and looking up at the cement road at the entrance of the village from time to time, obviously not all attention was on the mobile phone in front of him.

This man is Lin Yang, a native farmer in Lianhuashan Village, Leping County. When the army of migrant workers is sweeping across the country, he is stubbornly stationed in his own one-acre land in the village. don't worry.

He is 26 years old, and the house in the village has been built. Although there is only one floor, it is brand new. His small life is very comfortable, his wife and children are healthy and healthy, not to mention how lively he is.

Today is Friday, the weekend is coming soon, and he is waiting for the kindergarten school bus at the entrance of the village to bring his three-year-old twin sons back.

The place where he was waiting for the car happened to be not far from his childhood and cousin Lin Chen's house. Seeing that it was almost time for school to end, Lin Chen also got away from his work, wandered over to Lin Yang and squatted down.

He glanced at the lollipop in Lin Yang's mouth, took out a cigarette and lit it, took a deep breath and let it out, teasing Lin Yang with a smile: "Hey, how about it, do you want to have a bite, I promise Don't tell Wenzhu."

Asparagus is Lin Yang's wife, to be precise, his partner. Asparagus is a bereaved, and he is also a man in terms of gender, but bereaved men also have the ability to conceive children. The twins Lin Yang received today are asparagus pregnant ten born on the moon.

"Get out, stay away from me." Lin Yang hurriedly took a step to the side, and said disgustedly: "Your little princess smells the smoke on you, can you hug me later?"

Lin Chen's family is a girl, half a year older than Lin Yang's twins, and she also attends a small class. Usually, several children in the village play together, so Lin Chen and Lin Yang's family are very close.

Hearing Lin Yang's words, Lin Chen was embarrassed, and his face was a little unwilling, but he immediately pressed the cigarette in his hand to the cement road, raised the corner of his mouth, half showing off and half complaining: "Oh! It's troublesome to have a baby girl at home. You can't eat, you can't drink, you can't touch it, you just have to be particular about it, and you have to braid her every day! You still have the foresight, take a male wife, have two sons, and in the future hehehe...just wait and enjoy yourself!"

Here it is again, Lin Yang gave him a squinting glance, he has long been invulnerable to this cousin's Versailles-style speech.

"Tsk, Dachen, it's almost over. I've been chattering for several years, are you annoying?" Chen Jianmin walked up to them while patting the dust off his body.

Like Lin Yang, Chen Jianmin also has two sons. The eldest son is in the third grade, and the youngest son is in the big class. They share the same kindergarten with Lin Chen and Lin Yang's children.

Lin Chen raised his eyebrows: "Why, you forgot how embarrassing you were when you gave birth to your son. I am embarrassing my daughter, you are jealous. If you have the ability, give birth to one!"

"He really wants to beat you." Chen Jianmin shook his head helplessly and squatted down: "In the past, everyone in the family who gave birth to a son was smiling, but now the birth of a son is purely for debt collection, and those who can worry will lose their hair in handfuls."

Raising children now is not like the generation of grandparents, who just give birth to stutterers and raise them up. Nowadays, food, clothing, housing, education, medical care, marriage and childbearing are all top priorities, and parents who can be parents are worried to death.

When Chen Jianmin gave birth to his first son, he was still grinning from ear to ear. When the second son landed on the ground, he looked at other people's petite girls, not to mention how sad and greedy he was. Isn't it a daughter?

What's more, the two sons he gave birth to, although the youngest is only four years old, but judging by his temperament, he is not far from the eldest, going up mountains and down rivers, hunting birds and fish, a good skill, can poke a hole in the sky, There are his parents and daughter-in-law at home, and the four adults sometimes can't handle the two hairy children. Looking after the children at home for a day is more tiring than him working in the fields for a day, exhausting both physically and mentally.

There was still a little bit of lollipop left, Lin Yang chewed it twice, and swallowed it, thinking about his two sons, he said casually, "Why, your eldest is called the parent again?"

"It's a strange thing not to be called a parent." Lin Chen was very sure, gloating and said, "No wonder you came to pick up the child today, and my sister-in-law didn't come, hehehe, there must be a school teacher in the car later, and today I came to complain gone."

"Alas!" Chen Jianmin did not refute, but heaved a long sigh.

When he saw his son's head teacher now, he was even more frightened than when he saw his own head teacher when he was studying. When the phone rang and saw that it was the teacher calling, he trembled and dared not answer the phone. The child's mother was the same, because she was often called by the teacher. I called to file a complaint, and the endocrine disorder was caused by trembling all day long, and my hair fell out in handfuls.

Seeing that after five o'clock, families with children going to school gathered at the entrance of the village, and the village, which had been deserted and quiet for a day, slowly began to become lively.

When there are too many people, it’s easy to chatter and gossip. I heard someone in the village say: “I heard that there are too few children studying in our village. In the future, the school bus will not take a special trip to our village. We need those with children at home.” Pick it up by yourself."

"Oh, I also listened to it, but instead of going to the school to pick up the child, the school bus will send the child to Pingshan Village, and we can go to Pingshan Village to pick up the child."

"I don't agree with this. The school bus can go to Pingshan Village, but why can't it go to our Lianhua Village? Isn't this discriminatory?"

"What about the village chief, Uncle Chang Ping, Uncle Chang Ping, what do you mean? Will the baby's school bus really stop leaving our village in the future!"

"Stop yelling, Uncle Chang Ping is not here, go to his house at night or call to ask!"

"It's a fucking thing. We didn't have the share of Lianhua Village to do rural tourism and rural development a few years ago. What's the matter, now we don't even care about the children going to school. Is there any reason for this?"

"Hey, I heard it's because the roads in our village are not easy to walk, and the school bus is not only picking up and dropping off children from our village. The bus almost flipped over at Qilin'ao last time. Several other villages have objections!"

"It's not easy to go. Aren't they all cement roads? Why, the roads in their village are inlaid with gold or silver. Which village has an opinion? I have to scold them. You bastard, you have no conscience. You should also complain to the Education Bureau!"

"That's right, the overturned car can't be caused by the driver's inability to drive, or the school bus is faulty, so it's unreasonable to rely on our village's road!"

Everyone denounced with righteous indignation, and suddenly someone said: "There must be a lot of vehicles in the Qilinao accident!"

The crowd was silent, and then they all acted as if they didn't hear it in a very tacit understanding, and talked about other gossip loudly.

Who wants to admit that something is wrong in their village?

Lin Yang, Lin Chen, and Chen Jianmin, who were standing by the side waiting for the school bus, also heard everyone's discussion. Lin Chen took another cigarette out of the cigarette case and put it in his mouth, "It's really a lot of shit, if you do it like this If we go on, our Lianhua Village will be crossed off the map sooner or later."

"You can search now, but you can't find our Lianhua Village on the map." Lin Yang also got a little angry, and his addiction to cigarettes started, he took out another lollipop from his pocket, and put it in his mouth without opening it.

No wonder they are holding their breath. Judging from the map, Lianhua Village must be a big village, but due to some reasons, there have been fewer and fewer people in the past few years. Those who have moved out to live, and those who have gone out to work and never come back. More than a hundred households.

With fewer people, there will naturally be fewer children going to school. Even if there is no reason for the school bus overturning, their Lianhua Village will slowly dissipate. What's more, some leaders who know the inside story are also erasing traces of their village intentionally or unintentionally. , Opening the map now, only Pingshan Village next door can be located. Lianhua Village seems to have become a small village group affiliated to Pingshan Village.

"Hey! Look at what Uncle Chang Ping said, no matter what, we can't swallow this breath, or we will keep pushing forward again and again, and sooner or later we will lose our village station." Chen Jianmin's expression was serious, he had no skills. , a native of Lianhua Village, neither wants nor has the ability to buy a house outside and settle down, so he has to stand up for some welfare policies in the village, especially regarding the education of the children at home.

The same is true for Lin Chen: "If you don't listen, I'll post it online to see who is afraid of whom."

Lin Yang...

"Hey, the car is here, the doll is back..."

The school bus came to a stop slowly, and the parents who had been discussing passionately and loudly just now swarmed to the school bus door, the door opened, and every time a child came out, before their feet touched the ground, they were carried away by the parents who hugged and hugged each other.

There were not many dolls in the car, and soon it was Lin Yang's turn. He occupied two of them, and carried the twins on his shoulders one by one.

"Dad." The boss Yuzi stretched out her small hand to grab the unopened lollipop in Lin Yang's mouth, and softly discussed with Lin Yang: "Dad, take it apart."

"Father, I'll help you take it apart." The second child, Chengzi, also squeezed over in groups, eagerly stretching out his little hand to snatch the lollipop from Lin Yang's mouth.

"Go, go, don't worry about this candy, I won't eat it, and neither can you!" Lin Yang swayed his head from side to side to avoid their chubby hands, and put them on the tricycle parked aside with difficulty.

"I still want to eat sweets, you two should lose weight, isn't your body weight forty catties, obese baby, the children will laugh at you."

The road was not long, but holding these two fat boys, Lin Yang felt more tired than carrying the burden. He wiped his forehead and was sweating all over his body, alas!Without any strength, I really can't handle the two little ancestors in the family.

"Not fat!" Youzi stared at her big round eyes, and danced anxiously to tell her father, "I, we are tall."

Youzi just had a health checkup in the hospital not long ago, and the doctor said that he is a healthy baby, not at all the fat baby that his father said.

Cheng Zi is her brother's answer, she clenched her little claws and nodded seriously: "Yes, not fat, we are tall."

"Tsk, two pieces of tofu are tall." Lin Yang snorted his head alone, fixed them on the safety seat of the tricycle made by himself, and ordered: "Don't move around, go home."