The end-of-life life of a mountain farmhouse

"What's going on outside now? Except for Wang Qianming and a few people who went to Qilin'ao to take a look, no one in the village has been out. Now our village has generally settled down. We need to find out what's going on outside now."

"Village chief, I don't want to find out." A few people didn't want to be represented and objected: "I'm not curious about the outside world, and I don't want to go anywhere, so I just stay in the village honestly."

The person who spoke was Lin Hui. There is only one 12-year-old son left in the family. His wife and parents are gone. It has been more than a month, and now he has to put his son in front of his eyes every day when he goes out to work. How could he leave his son and go out, he didn't want to care about what happened outside, let's say first, if he doesn't do it, no one can force him to do it.

Lin Hui's words aroused the approval of some people in the village, especially the women who sat behind this group of people, looked at the children on the surface, but actually listened to them. They don't want their men to go out, and they don't know what's going on outside now. If there is an emergency, whose fault is it?Don't go, don't go, can't go, anyway, they don't agree.

The village chief knocked on the table louder, but his voice was still calm: "What's the hurry, I haven't finished talking yet, can we still stay in the village for the rest of our lives?"

He stopped those who wanted to refute his words with his eyes, and continued: "Everyone has not harvested grain this year! Some people harvested it in advance, but how much is it, you can eat for a year or two, can you still eat for a lifetime? Except Food, you don’t have anything else missing, such as clothes, shoes, and salt. I don’t need to say more about the importance of salt. You can’t lack it if you lack anything. But how much salt do you have at home now? Can the whole village survive a year? Will it be finished after one year?"

"Then let's talk about it in a year." Someone muttered in a low voice.

But what the village chief said made sense. Regardless of whether they agreed with it or not, everyone bowed their heads silently. Anyway, no one wants to be such a young bird. It is best if someone volunteers to sign up.

Village head: "We don't have these things in our village, but there will definitely be ones outside. Don't wait until the day you don't have them to look for them. Don't say whether someone will grab the question in front of us. Even if no one looks for it, you can guarantee it. It will never rain this day, after a rain, what is left outside? Think about it carefully, is this the truth. "

Chen Jianmin felt that the village chief was right: "Our village was in a terrible disaster, but at least we have the mountain gods to bless those people who survived. In other villages, I think if they were not so lucky, how many people would they have left? Don't be afraid of those people. To play tricks, as long as we are of one mind, we will not make troubles and we will not be afraid of others making troubles."

Chen Jianmin's words increased the confidence of those who wanted to go out to see to a certain extent. They also didn't want to stay in the village all the time. They didn't have any relatives or friends outside, but in front of their own lives, all of this had to be looked back.

Listening to what the village chief said now, it seems that it is not that difficult. There are no monsters and ghosts outside. Everyone is human. At worst, they are the same as Wang Qianming and the others. die.

The minds of the people in the village became active. Apart from looking for relatives and asking for help, they all wondered what they still lacked.

The few women who listened to their meeting behind them stopped saying that they would not let their men not go out, and you started discussing what they could bring back if the men went out.

"Bring food. No matter where you go, food is the most important thing. Nothing is as important as filling your stomach."

"Nonsense, if there is food, I will definitely bring it back, but I can bring some other things as well."

"That is, if my man goes out, I want him to bring some toilet paper back. Oh, I have had enough of the days without paper. I used to use half a roll when I went to the toilet. Now I only dare to use half a roll when I go to the small one. I was so stupefied that I didn’t dare to use it.”

"Tsk tsk, I want to bring more than toilet paper, I must have that..." The speaking daughter-in-law squeezed her eyes, giving a look that you understand me and everyone understands.

"Oh, don't talk about it, everything is missing, even a needle is useful. If they can get it, it would be better to move them all back."

Gua mother-in-law, you go and move, how can you be so good?

Hearing this made the scalps of the men sitting at the long table tense, and they were not afraid of exhausting your men to death.

However, these words also reflected the change of everyone's thinking about going out. Even Lin Hui, who had fiercely opposed it just now, sat on the sidelines and did not speak.

Lin Hui and his family are two people. There are not many people, but there are many things. There is no woman in the house, and the life is even more sloppy. Clothes and shoes are more expensive than other people in the village. The child has grown up these few years. Sometimes it is impossible to ask for clothes from other people in the village.

Even if it is not for daily necessities such as clothes, shoes and socks, but for food and salt, Lin Hui thinks that the child can be placed in the air-raid shelter, as long as he does not run out to bask in the sun, there should be no problem.

"Village Chief, I agree."

"Village Chief, I'll sign up too."

"Second uncle, count me in."

"Our two brothers are going to..."

Calculating gains and losses, everyone was eager to go out, discussing where they should go for the first time out of the village, whether to go to the nearest Pingshan Village or directly to Changliu Town.

"Lin Yang, how would you like to go out and have a look?" The village chief saw that Lin Yang had been silent, so he called the names directly.

When the village chief opened his mouth, there was silence in the air-raid shelter, and everyone stared at Lin Yang intently, fearing that he would disagree.

In fact, Lin Yang's disapproval did not affect them going out, but Lin Yang's force value is there. If he is with them, the safety of the villagers is greatly guaranteed.

Lin Yang tugged on Wenzhu's sleeve, motioning him to speak for him, and told everyone that Wenzhu was the master of their family, and what Wenzhu meant was what he meant.

Someone was very polite, and immediately said: "Yes, yes, Wen Zhu also said something, everyone said, you two, no matter who you are, you can say it boldly if you want to say it."

"Then we can talk too?" The family members sitting behind hurriedly spoke up, fighting for the right to speak for themselves.

"Yes, why not, men and women are equal, everyone speaks out actively." The person who spoke is very good at winking, not to mention that there is nothing to say, it is related to the interests of each family, even if the man agrees now, if the woman in the family does not Agreed, sooner or later something will happen.

After getting an affirmative answer, the family members began to complain in a low voice: "That's how it should be. This table is too small. We should move another table and put it together. Otherwise, it wouldn't be enough to sit on, and I would be too embarrassed to go forward."

"Hee hee hee, you can let your man give up the position to you, isn't your family the head of the house, he sits for nothing..."

The topic was dragged so far that the village head had to knock on the table again to remind them: "Hurry up and express your opinions, don't waste everyone's time by talking about what you have."

Although the village chief asked them to express their opinions, everyone knew that Lin Yang's family was the only one he wanted to hear.

Wenzhu was not stage-frightened, and asked directly: "How do you plan to go to the village? Walk? But the weather is so hot now, how can you avoid the heat on the way? Wang Qianming and the others walked for more than a day just to Qilinao. If they want to go out, let alone go to the Liuzhen, that is, Pingshan Village, you can’t call back and forth for ten days or a week, let alone everyone has to come back with their things, what should we do?”

And the few questions he raised did not include various unexpected situations: For example, what should we do if someone suffers heat stroke or gets injured halfway, should they be sent back or wait in place?How should the searched materials be distributed, should each family manage their own, or should the village share them equally?What should I do if I meet bad people outside? Do you want to save someone if someone asks for help?If those people open their mouths to follow them back to the village, how will they be resettled when they come back, and who will be responsible at that time?

As questions were raised one after another, Wenzhu's words made everyone feel that going out might not be a decision that can be made with a slap on the head. If you think about it carefully, there are really problems everywhere.

Among other things, the first thing to consider is the traffic. Now is not the good time before. Once you step on the accelerator, you can travel back and forth between the county and the city in a day. It is so hot outside that it is not surprising that you will be burned to death on the mountain road for a day. ...

Thinking about it this way, it seems that I can't go. Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and the atmosphere of excitement just now disappeared.

"Yeah, you can't say that." Everyone was a little depressed, and Chen Jianmin came out to smooth things over: "We can't go now, but we can always go out in the future. Of course, these issues are very good. We can discuss them first. When the weather improves, You can leave immediately without delay, anyway, everyone has no objection to the issue of going out, right?"

"Yes, yes, no objection." Everyone nodded.

"I should go out, but I can't get out." "I'm so happy because I can go out and pick up some junk."

"It seems impossible to get some paper back."

"I just miss your piece of paper."

……

"There is another way out of our village besides Qilin'ao." The village chief said suddenly: "Our village didn't use Qilin'ao before. There is a tunnel at the foot of Qilin'ao, and we went out from there a long time ago."

Someone immediately exclaimed: "What, there is a tunnel. Why have I never heard of it? I never heard of my grandfather when he was here."

"Tsk tsk, why do I think our Lianhua Village is so unusual?"

"How long ago was this?"

It's been so long that the village chief was embarrassed to say, "A few hundred years ago, maybe two or three hundred, three or four hundred years."

Villagers...

Is there still a way?Even if there is, it is not called a tunnel, but a hole, a mouse hole or a rabbit hole, maybe there are no holes at all.

"Lin Yang, have you heard from your grandfather?" the village chief asked him. He didn't believe that Lin Yang didn't know that Lin Yang's grandfather took him to drill this hole when he was a child.

Who knew that Lin Yang was so shameless, he opened his mouth wide and refused to admit it: "I don't know, I haven't heard of it." So don't ask me, I am not responsible for what happened.

Before the village chief got angry, someone complained: "Village chief, it's useless to have a tunnel. It's something that has been around for hundreds of years, and it must not work now. Is it possible that we still have to dig a hole to get out? When will we have to do it?"

Some people were not convinced by his words, and retorted: "Drilling holes is better than being exposed to the sun. What else can we do now besides working in the two sweet potato fields opened up wasteland? Why not spend our sleeping time digging holes? It will last forever." Yes, it is a way out."