The end-of-life life of a mountain farmhouse

At first, Chen Jianmin's eldest son, Chen Yu, dug up an earthworm when he was working in the field with his parents. The earthworm is now bigger than a small snake, and it is more than 1 meter long. When it was dug out, Chen Yu Yu screamed in fright. Chen Jianmin thought his son was in danger, so he ran over in a hurry.

I was too anxious to see if it was a snake, so I dug the snake in half with a hoe, but it was still moving after being cut into two halves. Chen Jianmin hoeed it into several pieces again, just in case, He added a few more hoes, smashed the snake's head to pieces, and each piece of the snake's body was no longer than 20 centimeters.

But when he passed by there the next day, he was shocked, because the ground there was drilled like a hornet's nest, and when he went down with a hoe, there were more than a dozen "little snakes" one foot long in the ground. He didn't know that what his son caught yesterday was an earthworm.

To be honest, earthworms of this size are very penetrating, but the thought of them loosening the ground seems to make them cute again.The villagers endured their nausea and took them out of the field, chopped them into small sections and put them in the field.

Needless to say, the efficiency is quite high. With their help, the work that originally took a day in the field can now be completed in half a day.

Everyone in the village went to look for earthworms. Actually, Lin Yang’s family didn’t need this because Xiao Zi helped them, but Wenzhu said that earthworms can not only loosen the soil but also increase the fertilizer, so their family also wanted to catch them.

After being wrapped in the swamp by a boa constrictor last time, Lin Yang had a psychological shadow on this mollusk, and he was unwilling to participate in this activity, so he was sent by asparagus bamboo to watch the water in the field.

It has been snowing continuously for half a year. Now that the temperature is rising, the water flowing down from the mountain after melting is very urgent. If you don't pay attention, it may damage the paddy field.

In addition to the possibility of damaging the paddy fields, all kinds of things that wash down from the mountains must also be carefully guarded against. For example, the fish they were afraid of before are now the safest, because fish are generally large and easy to be found, not easy to find Can not cause harm to people.

Now everyone in the field is most worried about leeches and various insects. These things have gradually recovered with the increase of temperature, and their body shape has also changed a lot. It used to be a big leech with the length of a finger. Now each leech is at least one The palm is long, and one bite may cause fainting due to excessive blood loss.

Lin Yang now goes to the mountains to catch a rabbit every day before going to the fields. The rabbit is bled and put into urea bags and thrown into the paddy fields.

With the smell of blood, bloodthirsty bugs and leeches would be attracted to it. Every time Lin Yang lifted the bag out of the water, he would tremble with fear from the densely packed things attached to the urea bag.

A one-acre paddy field can fish out [-] to [-] catties of such worms, and the worms are not wasted. They are directly burned in a charcoal kiln and then sprinkled on the ground to become fertilizer.

Every day is busy with endless work, but when there is something to do, everyone feels at ease, and lives step by step every day, taking Xiao Zila's bus from the abandoned factory in the morning, and returning by car at night.

The temperature is slowly rising, but the sun they were looking forward to still hasn't appeared, maybe the golden sun in their impression has not appeared, and what is hanging in the sky now is the "purple moon" they always thought of before.

This strange purple moon will always be there no matter day or night. The difference between day and night is the depth of color.It will be brighter during the day and darker at night, and the change is not obvious. It can also be said that they no longer have a clear distinction between day and night.

The reasons for the changes in the world are too far away for rural people like them. After they were surprised and afraid, they found that it was no different from the past, and gradually regained their calm. As long as people are not dead, don’t they have to live on?

Farming requires first raising seedlings. Apart from sweet potatoes and rice, the most important thing they value is the Three Holy Grass, and hard work pays off. They also cultivated new seedlings with grass seeds in this spring, and the new seedlings are tender and green. full of new hope.

In the past half a year, their village survived thanks to the Three Sacred Grass. Everyone cared more about the Three Sacred Grass than anything else in the field, and wished to see it eight times a day.

There are a lot of people going to the field, so it will be inconvenient to go back and forth every day, but this time they can't go back to the village. Since the last time foreigners entered their village, they were afraid that the second group of people would come back to take revenge, so they took all their belongings away. They were all moved into the abandoned factory, and there was not a single intact brick left.

Now the village is bare, there is not even a place to rest. If they were not in awe at the time, they would have planned to tear down the new temple and move it into the abandoned factory.

How clean it was at the time, and how regretful it is now, who would have thought that those who ran out would never return?Of course, it is best not to come back, but when people complain, they will inevitably say a few words: Oh!If I had known that those people would not come back, I would not have moved XXX away.

The villagers are now going to the mountain to cut down a few trees and build a shed in the village. Anyway, they will rest at noon, so there is no need to make too much trouble, as long as there is a shelter.

"Lin Yang, we are going to cut down some trees, will you go?" Lin Chen asked.

Yesterday he heard from the twins that Lin Yang was going to build a house for Xiao Zi, because everyone in the family could sleep in the house, but how could Xiao Zi be allowed to sleep in the house because of her height and size? , I don't want to do the work in the field.

In order to appease it, Lin Yang had to agree to build a new house for him.

"Okay, you guys go first, I'll be right there." Lin Yang replied.

There was no longer any major threat in the village, but with one more expert like Lin Yang, everyone's safety would definitely be more secure. Lin Yang should come down, and everyone felt that it would be okay to wait a little longer.

The place where they cut trees was not their own hill, but the more they walked, the more they felt something was wrong. Why did it feel like the trees on the hill had moved down?Looking carefully, the tree diameter seems to be thicker than yesterday, the branches are lush, and the branches grow wildly in the open space.

"This tree grows too fast. Our village has been cutting down trees in this place recently, but it seems that they can't keep up with the speed at which they grow. Look, the knife that was cut yesterday has grown back today."

"Oh, the paddy field at the foot of the mountain where I planted pomelo, I originally planned to use it to grow sweet potatoes, but when I looked at it a few days ago, it turned into a small forest, and it's a fart."

"No, it won't work like this. According to this expansion rate, none of the crops grown in our fields will be able to survive."

I don't know why, but the things they planted in the field don't grow as fast as wild things, and the grass in the field has to be hoed every three days, otherwise the field can't be seen.

But such high-intensity repetitive labor also greatly limited the number of fields they could farm. Originally, everyone planned to plant all the land allocated to them with crops, but now they can't manage it at all.

Everyone sighed, but there was no way, their hearts were full of frustration, and they had to work when they had to work.

However, after they cut down the trees they needed, they also brought down many trees. Although they knew that it would not be effective, they still wanted to delay the speed of their spreading down.

Lin Yang hadn't participated in this kind of group activity for a long time, and he didn't know much about the latest changes in the village. Only after hearing everyone's discussion today did he realize that something was wrong.

He hurried home, opened the back door and saw, my good fellow, the tree branch was about to reach into the house.

"Didn't you go to cut trees with the villagers? Why did you come back so soon?" Seeing him rushing, Wenzhu thought something had happened, followed behind him, and was shocked by the scene in front of him : "How come? We just cleaned it the day we moved out, how did it grow so fast?"

"Fortunately, I found it today, otherwise our house would be overturned by trees in two days." Lin Yang pointed to the gnarled tree roots protruding from the ground not far away, each one as thick as a child's wrist.

"It doesn't matter if you cut it down, as long as the roots are still there, they will still grow." Wenzhu found a sickle and knocked down two trees, but after a while he found that the cut wounds had sprouts.

He simply put down the sickle, found firewood, cut a cross knife in the cut stump, put dry firewood and charcoal in the cut, put pine needles on it and lit it slowly, until the firewood inside was thoroughly burned, the outside The tree stump was almost burned to death, and it was still safe, and the sparks would not cause a wildfire nearby.

Asparagus bamboo also put the family's tea hanging on the stump, and the water inside was boiled in a short while.

Lin Yang was amazed to see it, so he brought out his own steamer and steamed the buns and steamed buns.

This kind of tree stump fire can make more than a dozen at once, and if there are too many, it may not be taken care of, and it may cause a mountain fire, and they would rather slow down than set fire to the mountain.

The twins are very interested in this kind of tree stump fire, so they went to Lianhua Mountain to find Dahei without arguing. If they splashed out, they would tell Dad in time to try to get his praise.

Besides father's praise, they can also barbecue around the tree stump, grilling sweet potatoes, grilling fish, grilling meat, everything can be grilled. After staying here for a day, the stomachs of the two younger brothers are bulging.

Xiao Zi is also a guy who doesn't care about meat and vegetables, he likes to eat sweet potatoes, and he also eats meat, so now the twins don't need their father to catch them if they want to eat meat, they just need to find Xiao Zi.

It has been like this for more than a week. The two little guys are so happy that they no longer pester their father to find Dahei every day.

But Dahei, who was abandoned by them, stayed quiet for a few days at first, but after a few days, they still didn't come in, and he didn't have any snacks, so he began to miss the two little ones, and after a few days, he finally couldn't bear to enter. Village to find them.

Before it enters the village, it will roar to remind others to make way for it. The villagers actually don't want it to walk around in the village, but who can stop it if it wants to go?

Lin Yang knew that the big black bear was coming without anyone notifying him. After it came, it sat down in front of his house, and the ground was crushed to pieces. If he hadn't reminded him early, it might have been crushed It is my own house.

Asparagus was about to send the twins and the big black bear to other open places in the village, but Lin Yang stopped him and gave him a wink: "We have been struggling to cut down the trees for more than a week before Jiang Jiang cleaned up the back of our house. With so many sweet potatoes in our family, Xiao Zi knows that labor is exchanged for food, and it has to pay corresponding labor."

The corners of Wenzhu's eyes twitched, and he was always shocked by his whimsical ideas, but he didn't stop him, Lin Yang was in the mood for it now, it was useless to stop him, maybe he would make it happen.

Lin Yang tried to communicate with Dahei, but Dahei came out only after he was full, and now he wanted to lie on his stomach and not move. It was absolutely impossible for him to work. No matter what Lin Yang said, he just didn’t move. Big ass blocked the door of his house.

Lin Yang was about to die of anger, he knew that Dahei could understand, unlike Xiaozi who was only clever and human, Dahei had already begun to have his own sense of thinking and touch, and Lin Yang could communicate with it through his own spiritual power.

He used his mental strength to talk to it a lot, but this guy just ignored it with drooping eyelids, and when he told it again, he turned around and pointed his butt at him.

Lin Yang threatened it with sweet potatoes and grapes, but Dahei didn't like it at all. He had better not take out the snacks, and he would grab them as soon as he took them out. If he couldn't grab Lin Yang, couldn't he also grab Xiao Zi?

The saliva was dry, but Dahei still didn't move at all, Wen Zhu held back his amusedness and came over to persuade him: "Forget it, forget it, what are you fussing about with it, if you have the time to persuade, it's better to go to the field to pull two weeds, and the two at the foot of the mountain." The grass is growing again in a field."

After kicking the big black butt to get discouraged, Lin Yang couldn't help complaining to Asparagus: "One by one, no matter the big one or the small one, they can't be manipulated. It's really against the sky."

"What do you want to order them to do? The big ones are too big, and the small ones are too small. If you take them to the field, you have to prevent them from trampling the crops. It's not annoying enough." Picks, shovels, etc. were all over the floor, and he was not particularly satisfied after picking them for a while.

"What do you want? Why haven't you found it after searching for so long?" Lin Yang asked.

"I just wanted to find a handy hoe, but take a look," Wenzhu pointed out the pile to him, "they are all rusted, and none of them are useful."

"What's the matter, just sharpen it with a whetstone later." Having said that, Lin Yang squatted down to check it carefully, but he didn't expect to know whether it was because his hands were too strong or the farm tools were too rusty. , He picked it up and rubbed it, not only the rust on the surface, but even the whole farm tool was crushed into several pieces by him.

He looked innocently at the asparagus bamboo: "I didn't use much force, just rubbed it casually." He picked up another sickle to demonstrate to asparagus bamboo, and he rubbed the sickle into tatters again.

"Okay, okay, don't try it." Wenzhu saw his head jumping, and snatched the sickle from his hand, but unexpectedly, the two of them pulled the handle of the sickle and snatched it into pieces.

"Look, let's see, I'll just say that their original quality is not good." Lin Yang directly blamed them.

Wenzhu glared at him, "Young poor, go and check other things in the house."

Lin Yang went into the house and looked around, and found that if the solid talisman was used, then the quality of the thing is quite good, if it is not used alone and the preservation is not so good, it is the same as the farm tools they dug out this morning , basically can't be used anymore, it will be broken into slag when touched.

And plastic, which was originally claimed to not degrade for hundreds of years, seems to be unable to withstand the attack of a certain substance in the air.

After finally finding two farm tools that could still be used normally at home, they greeted the two little ones, and the two went down the mountain to work in the field.

"Why do I feel that what we are planting is not rice, but sorghum?" Lin Yang pulled up the grass for a while and said to asparagus: "Did you take the wrong seeds when you sowed?"

It has only been planted for more than a month now, but the seedlings in the paddy field are already more than one meter high. According to this growth rate, they will not reach 3 meters by the time of harvest. It does not look like rice, and sorghum is not that long.

Asparagus straightened up and glanced at him angrily: "You raised the seedlings, so don't ask yourself if you planted the wrong ones?"

"That's definitely not wrong." Lin Yang could only hide his embarrassment with a smile, and then he looked at the paddy fields planted by other people around him. Although the quality of the seedlings varies, they are generally quite high.

At noon, everyone squatted on the ground to discuss. Lin Quan pulled out a seedling from his own field and threw it in front of everyone: "Why do I feel so hopeless? Do you have any seedlings like mine and my brother's?"

Compared with Lin Yang's rice, which kept rising upwards, the rice grown by Lin Quan and Lin Liang was at the other extreme. It grew horizontally and had very luxuriant leaves. One rice was as big as three or four rice from other people's rice plants.

The seedlings of the Lin family are not the strangest ones. The seedlings planted by Lin Ye are like bamboos, one by one. The land is full, they have to build a shelf in the paddy field.

But no one dared to pull out even though they were all kinds of strange things. After the sweet potato incident, who can guarantee that the rice they grow will be the original rice.

Let's plant it, let's grow it, and they won't be surprised when they receive winter melon on the day of delivery.

……

Three years later.

It’s the season of harvesting rice again. Asparagus jumps down from the tree growing in the field. The tree is about five meters high. If you look carefully, you will find strings of purple-red “sorghum rice” hanging on the branches. , and each grain of "sorghum rice" is the size of a peanut, which is the "rice" grown by their family.

As I guessed at the beginning, the rice grown by each family is different. The vine rice will form fist-sized fruits, and the fruits will become powder after drying, and the taste is similar to flour.

The rice planted by Lin’s family is like a pineapple. A huge sphere grows in the middle of the rice plant. Inside the sphere are densely packed seeds, and those “seeds” are rice. This kind of rice resembles them both in appearance and taste. The rice in it is about the same.

Lin Ye's bamboo-like rice is similar to Lin Yang's rice, which also grows on trees, but their rice tastes delicious and crunchy, and is about the same size as a chestnut.

Anyway, everyone doesn't know what they will grow every year now, but as long as there is a harvest, it will be fine.

Because they found that sometimes the planted crops would mutate into strange places, without flowering or fruiting, similar to the weeds and trees outside. At first they thought they were growing underground, but they turned upside down Still nothing.