The end-of-life life of a mountain farmhouse

Ma De, there is not a drop of water, and there is a fire everywhere, but now grass suddenly grows on the ground, and the treetops sprout!

Seeing this ghostly scene in front of them, everyone's heart will definitely not be filled with joy.

"Hurry up, go back to the village, the trees in the village haven't sprouted!" Lin Yang's voice trembled a little. I don't know if this change is good or bad, but it's definitely weird.

There is no need for him to remind, the group of people who have seen this strange change are not afraid. From the Qilinao as the boundary, there are two worlds inside the village and outside the village. Even if they climb, they will climb back to the village.

While climbing, I muttered, God... Bah, God will not bless them anymore, I still pray to the ancestors and mountain gods to bless their village safe and sound, and the ghosts and ghosts outside cannot enter their village.

It stands to reason that the whole of Qilin'ao belongs to their Lianhua Village, but there is a change outside the mountain, but there is no change on the side near the village. A group of people rolled into the side of the village as if driven by ghosts.

After running to a place where there was no change, they stopped, panting and staring at everything in front of them.

"They, they won't come in, will they?"

The bulge on the ground stopped at Qilinao, as if it was blocked by something and couldn't get in.

"Ha, ha, I knew our village was the safest, what, what..." Before he could finish his sentence, he saw those bumps on the ground spreading inch by inch towards the village, although the speed was very slow , but definitely getting closer to them.

The man's voice changed in fright: "Fuck, they came in."

"Why did you come in? Don't we have protective shields and mountain gods in our village?"

"Fuck, the protective cover has been broken long ago!"

"Run, run."

A group of people ran down the mountain again. After returning to the entrance of the village, they couldn't run anymore, but for safety, they still moved to the mountain temple.

From 5 pm yesterday to 5 pm now, I only rested for two hours in the middle. After eating, they are tired, hungry and sleepy now, and when the sun comes out, they are not sure if they still have the strength to walk back to the abandoned factory.

But soon they realized something was wrong. Usually, the sun had jumped out at this time, but now, the purple moon with only a silhouette was still hanging high in the sky, and it was hazy and dark everywhere!

Lin Yang suddenly had a terrible idea, "Will the moon only appear in the future?" Someone in the team first raised it.

The first two months, no, it should be three months, now it is the end of September, the high temperature weather started around the end of June, and the sun has been out for three months, so will it be the moon’s turn now? And then three months?

It's very possible that everyone is silent and doesn't speak, but they can't help thinking along this line of thought. The sun is hot, so what about the moon?

Will the weather get colder, like a high temperature, people who die from heat will become people who are dead from cold! ! !

As soon as they opened their minds, they really felt that the surrounding temperature was dropping.

"Did I feel wrong? I seem to be a little cold!" Someone asked with a trembling voice.

It is impossible to be cold. They are wrapped in tight clothes and have run for such a long distance. The hot sweat on their bodies has not yet finished, so how could they feel cold.

However, he was not the only one who felt the surrounding temperature drop, and there were new changes nearby.

"It's windy, look, look, the branches are shaking, and the plastic bag over there is flying!"

Since the weather has changed, they have almost forgotten what the natural wind is like except for the wind generated by their own fans.

"It's so comfortable, hahaha, it's windy, so cool."

The wind blew up the dry branches and made a rustling sound, the dust on the ground was lifted into the sky one after another, and the plastic bags on the ground that had been bleached by the sun also flew around in the air like kites.

These are not pretty, but for those who have been exposed to the sun for three months, they are no less than miracles.

If it's windy, it's likely to rain next.

The sun didn't come out, so they rested here for a while.

Those who were still alive in the village moved to the abandoned factory. The mountain temple outside had not been cleaned and worshiped for a long time, so a group of people cleaned up the mountain temple again during the break, and the collapsed roof was propped up with pillars. .

The sun didn't come out at six o'clock, and at seven o'clock, eight o'clock, nine o'clock, the purple moon was still hanging high in the dark sky, and their worry and fear from the beginning gradually became normal.

After eleven o'clock, they finally returned to the abandoned factory!

"Come back, they're back!"

Because today was the tenth day they had agreed upon, there were already people standing guard on the way into the abandoned factory, and because the weather outside was very different today, almost all the people came out of the air-raid shelter and waited outside Pingzi.

"Yuanping!"

"elder brother!"

"husband……"

A call from relatives temporarily swept away the haze in everyone's heart. Those who had been wandering outside for half a month rushed up without hesitation to hug their families. It's great that they are back, Nima, this journey is too much. Hard work!

"Dad, dad, dad, where's my dad?" There were only a few of them, but Lin Hui's son couldn't find his dad anyway.

The fourth grandmother leaned on crutches tremblingly: "Jianqiao, Jianqiao, where is my Jianqiao, why didn't I see him?"

Lin Guang's wife: "Ah Guang, Ah Guang? Lin Liang, why isn't Ah Guang here? Isn't he with your brothers?"

Following the calls and questioning of these people, the scene slowly fell silent. The people who were questioned all lowered their heads sadly, not daring to look into their eyes. Other people also slowly felt ominous. Especially when Chen Jianmin brought out the three urns, the scene was in chaos.

"Dad, Dad!" Lin Yu cried while hugging Lin Hui's urn.

"Build a bridge!" The Fourth Grandma couldn't bear the stimulation, she clutched her chest and let out a short cry before passing out.

"Ah, I told you not to go out, Lin Guang, you bastard, how do you let me live!" Lin Guang's wife collapsed on the ground, holding Lin Guang's ashes jar and weeping uncontrollably.

Crying, consolation, and all kinds of scolding for those who came back safely filled everyone's mind instantly, especially when they knew that the group of them came back empty-handed, the sadness and despair almost made everyone present People drown.

There are not many people close to their family in the village, Lin Yang didn't want to participate in such an occasion, so he returned to his small home in the air-raid shelter silently with the twins and asparagus bamboo in his arms.

When Wenzhu got up in the morning, he put the white rice in the pot and put it on the fire. After cooking for so long, the white rice was all soft and rotten. Marinate with salt for a while, then pour into the white porridge and boil for 1 minute, sprinkle some chopped green onion, and the fragrant fish porridge is ready.

After serving a bowl to each of the two children, they sat down obediently and drank the porridge by themselves.

Wenzhu didn't ask Lin Yang what happened to them along the way, but just talked to him about what happened at home recently.

"The baskets in which you grow sweet potatoes are too heavy. I can't move them. I can only move half of them in a day at most. Sometimes it takes three days to let them bask in the sun once."

Lin Yang was in a trance, and nodded while drinking porridge: "It's okay, I'll come back to work."

Asparagus: "The water in Dalian Lake is getting less and less, but there are really a lot of fish in it. Everyone catches fish in it when they have time. If the caught fish can't be eaten, they dry it into dried fish. I also dried it a few times. , but no, those dried fish will become smelly after passing through my hands. I secretly poured all the fish I caught into Shuangma Lake. There are many more fish species in Shuangma Lake than before you left. have!"

"The Great Wilderness is getting better and better now. I have opened two more fields of rice. I don't know if I can survive, but it doesn't matter if I plant them first."

"By the way, the sheep that our family put into the Great Wilderness has grown very fat now, but it's also very bad. It doesn't eat the pasture that was planted for it. Kill it and eat mutton."

"The twins are much better. I don't know if it's because of the cactus fruit. I always feel that their skin has become thicker, and their nails. I helped them cut their nails a few days ago, and the nail scissors were all cut. , from now on, only scissors are left to cut nails in our house, or you can use a setback..."

Wenzhu's rambling words slowly comforted Lin Yang's anxious heart.

"Dad, Dad, it's not like this. We didn't break it." Cheng Zi refused to accept it, and complained in a small mouth: "It was broken after cutting Dad's nails first. It has nothing to do with me. I haven't even touched it."

"I have rice too!" Yuzu gulped down the porridge, but did not forget to defend herself between meals.

Lin Yang listened to them with a smile while drinking porridge, and nodded and laughed cooperatively when he heard the excitement.

"...You don't know how irritating the two of them are." Wen Zhu's voice became smaller and smaller, his eyes looked straight at Lin Yang, his eyes became more and more red, and finally he couldn't help but stepped forward to hug him: "Really good!"

Good thing it wasn't you in the urn.

Lin Yang understood what he meant, put the bowl in his hand aside, and hugged him back: "I'm fine, I'll be fine, I still have to protect you and the twins."

Wenzhu wiped his face, holding back the fear in his heart, "Then what happened to the other people, how could they?"

Lin Yang sighed, and told him everything that happened along the way, including the strange changes he saw on the way back.

Wenzhu knew him very well, and after listening to him, he asked, "Do you want to go out alone?"

Materials and so on are secondary, but Wen Zhu knew that the person in front of him was moved when he heard the formation stone.

Lin Yang put his arms around his waist, buried his head in his arms, and said in a vague voice, "I'll go and have a look, don't go too far, and make a round trip every day. If there are really formation stones, we can harvest more Lots of prickly pear, isn't it?"

In addition to the cacti, the fruit trees they transplanted into the wild world, he wondered if those fruit trees would also mutate and produce curative effects.

Asparagus didn't think too much about it, but when it came to prickly pear fruit, he was also silent. This thing is like a life-saving medicine, and there is no harm in preparing more. Now they don't have any in their hands, no wonder Lin Yang feels uneasy.

The incident with the twins last time not only frightened him, but also frightened Lin Yang.

Wenzhu knew that Lin Yang had already made up his mind, and it was useless to persuade him, but he disagreed with Lin Yang going out now. According to what he said, it is still unclear what is going on outside now that "the dead wood is in spring" at this time. It's not a good time to go out.

There was a commotion in the air-raid shelter for many days. Every night, people whimpered and cried. The echo in the air-raid shelter was loud, and this sound penetrated deeply into people's hearts like an electric drill.

Those who cry are not necessarily the ones who can’t come back from crying. Everyone’s heart is empty, and they have completely lost the purpose of life. Throwing things to the ground, do you still want to plant a field, plant a fart field, anyway, you will die sooner or later!

Negative emotions continue to spread in the village. Compared with the previous temper tantrums, everyone is now depressed and lifeless. The water is stopped and the ground is not watered. What the hell!

But soon they found that they didn't need to go out to water anymore, it was raining outside!

The rain fell a week after they came back. On the day they came back, the sun never rose again, and the hazy purple moon hung in the sky all the time. The dried trees in the village have not changed significantly so far, but as soon as they leave the village , a little farther away, you can find the difference outside.

It was windy outside, and the wind was not strong enough to blow away the clothes hanging outside to dry. With the wind, the scorching temperature in the air also slowly dropped, and the outside temperature continued to drop, 40 , 35 degrees, 30 degrees, 25 degrees, 20 degrees... The long clothes, long johns, coats and blankets were turned out. When they thought the temperature would keep dropping, when it dropped to a few degrees, it was foggy outside. The fog was very heavy, and it was a vast expanse of whiteness, and things beyond 2 meters could not be seen at all.

The foggy weather lasted for three days. On the fourth day, the fog lightened a little, and objects within 5 meters could be distinguished. As the fog lightened, light rain began to fall from the sky.

But the rain did not make everyone happier, because they found that the rain in the sky was completely different from the rain they had known before.

This kind of rain has colors, black, purple, lavender, in short, there is no familiar colorless rain.

And because they didn't have any preparations, except for a little water collected at home the day before, there was this kind of colored rain in the lotus lakes outside.

"Is this water still edible?" After fetching water, this is a common question in everyone's mind, but without drinking water, it will not work at all. Lack of water will only lead to faster death.

Chen Jianmin slipped over the chickens that had been raised for several months and hadn't laid eggs: "Give it to the chickens. If the chickens are fine, people should be able to eat them too!"

Mrs. Chen Jianmin is a capable person. Because of the high temperature, all the chickens, ducks and livestock in the village died, but she picked out the eggs that could hatch chickens from a pile of broken eggs and hatched them artificially.

The village head also said: "Yes, besides chickens, if any of you raise ducks and geese, try it."

There are also people who are not happy: "Village chief, what if the chickens and ducks die, who will compensate for the loss?"

The village chief said with a sullen face, "What compensation do you want? If these livestock can't survive, you will go down and be buried with them soon!"

idiot!Chickens and ducks can't eat the water, but people can, and they want compensation. It's best to pray that the poultry is okay, otherwise all the people here will die.

People in the air-raid shelter are used to returning the next day's water the day before, so they save some water, and it is no problem to support it for two or three days.

Because there are three colors, they feed the lightest lavender water to the chickens, dark purple water to the ducks, and black water to the geese.

Except for the control group, the other chickens, ducks and geese were mixed and fed with water of three colors.

On the first day, the chickens, ducks and geese fed with water did not see any problems; on the second day, the appetite of the livestock that drank the dark water was not as good as that of the livestock that drank the light water; All the chickens, ducks, and geese in the water are still alive, but under the same conditions, the chickens are in the worst condition, and the geese are in the best condition. In the same species, the darker the drinking water, the worse the appetite.

The observation results obtained in three days are not rigorous, but they have no time, and almost all the water stored in the house has been drunk.

Now, do they want to drink the water?

Before they could make a decision, the rain outside changed again.

The light rain turned into a heavy rainstorm, and the color of the rain changed again, but this time it became colorless, just like the rain in their impression.

The torrential rain filled up the dry lotus lakes, and also diluted the black and purple color of the lake water. Now there is only a faint layer. If you don't pay attention, you may ignore it and think it is formed by the moonlight reflected by the lake water.

Everyone in the air-raid shelter was dying of thirst, but no one dared to drink the lake water, so everyone took out their own pots and pans, and as long as they could hold water, they put them on the open space of the waste factory to pick up colorless water. rainwater.

The same goes for Lin Yang's family, but he discussed with Asparagus that they still use the water from Shuangma Lake, and the water is just for display at home.

The open space at the entrance of the air-raid shelter is not large. Many people carried their belongings to other places to catch the rainwater. The same is true for Lin Yang’s house. Several places were found that were not suitable. After looking around, I finally felt that I was in the canteen of the abandoned factory. The sweet potato field in front of the small house I built is the best.

The sweet potatoes originally planted in this field have long been sun-dried, and the piled up ridges have been dried and cracked, but it is not difficult to bulldoze the sweet potato fields when it rains from the sky.

Today, their family is in this small single room at home. When the house was built, Lin Yang thought that his family would live here for at least a period of time. Unexpectedly, they never came in after the roof was sealed. Now the house is empty. Nothing but four walls.

But now this small single room is filled with water tanks and buckets from their family.

Wenzhu took out a leaky plastic basin. He disliked Lin Yang who was squatting at the door to watch the rain outside, blocking the way, and pushed him: "Clean up the room, or it will be full of water."

Lin Yang glanced back at the room, scratched his head, a little helpless: "How do I clean this up?"

The floor of this room is the original mud floor, which is the same inside and outside the house, but if it is left alone, even if the outside rain cannot enter the house, the water will make the house more and more humid.

Wenzhu stood at the door, frowning, "Why don't you get some small stones to lay a layer in the house?"

Lin Yang was not happy: "It's raining heavily, it's not troublesome enough, we don't live anyway, just store water, you don't care if it's wet or not."

Cheng Zi, who was circling around the big water tank, heard his father's words, ran to his side, raised his head and said seriously: "Dad, I want to live here, I don't want to live in a dark house anymore."

Of course, it would be even better if he could go home, Cheng Zi thought for a while, alas, but the parents would rather not agree.

Wen Zhu and Lin Yang exchanged glances, and after careful consideration, they felt that Cheng Zi's proposal was not bad, but moving is not something that can be done with a slap in the head.

Lin Yang discussed with his son in a good voice: "But there is no bed here, and there is food, Chengzi, there is no food to live here!"

"Move here!" Youzi also hates the air-raid shelter very much. Ever since Chengzi said that he was going to move, he has been paying attention to this place with his ears pricked up. Now that he heard his father's question, he hurried to the two fathers: " Move, don't go back."

Asparagus knocked on Yuzu's head, "Yuzi, didn't I tell you to complete the sentence, why did you forget it again?" He was three years old, and he was always jumping up and down with a few words. It was exhausting to listen to Panic.

Yuzu pouted, a little unhappy, but Dad said it, and he had to say it again: "Move here to live, don't go back to the dark house, I don't like it there."

"What's wrong, I can clearly explain it." Asparagus slapped the kid unceremoniously, really owed a lesson.

Lin Yang rubbed his head for Youzi, he was also excited about moving here, now the temperature outside is about seven or eight degrees, there is no need to live in an air-raid shelter anymore.

The reason why other people still live there is because they can't find a house that is not leaky except for the air-raid shelter. Their home is different.

It’s not that Lin Yang is boasting. The house he built is not afraid of rain, even hail the size of a football, but he is afraid of moving out. He will have to move back in a few days because of changes outside. It’s not troublesome enough. .

Wenzhu discussed with him: "Well, how about we stay here during the day and go back to the air-raid shelter to sleep at night?"

He and Lin Yang had the same worries. It's a weird day now. It's safer for people to get together. Children can ignore these issues according to their own preferences, but as adults, they have to think clearly in advance.

Lin Yang nodded. After all, their home is different from other homes. It would be much more comfortable to move out and live alone. At least, there is no need to hide it if you add a dish.

When the sun was shining before, black and white were distinct during the day and night, but now there is no particularly obvious day and night. The weird purple moon hangs in the sky all the time. Of course, they can’t see it when it’s raining, and they can’t see it when the fog is too thick. But they just have a feeling that it hasn't gone, it's still in the sky.

The reason why Lianhua Village can still tell the time is because there are several houses in the village that still have the old-fashioned chain clocks. Last time, the chain could run for a long time. Now they rely on these houses to tell the time in their village.

However, most of those who have children at home have toy electronic clocks, the ones with batteries, they have bought several, such as kitten’s, bear’s... buy it after losing it, throw it away after selling it, and move. I found several of them when I entered the air-raid shelter, so their family can now know the exact time.

Lin Yang now has a cute white rabbit electronic clock hanging on his hand. The strap is not long enough, so he still uses hemp rope to lengthen it. It is strange for such a burly man to wear it, but the clothes he is wearing today have no pockets. Can be worn on the wrist.

He raised his wrist and took a look. At 11:20, it was time to have lunch.

After the temperature returned to normal, their family returned to the normal three meals. The normal three meals were not enough. Lin Yang felt hungry from time to time during this period, and the family had to prepare dry food for him from time to time.

The twins held on to their father's hand, Cheng Zi stared and shouted, "Dad, this is my little rabbit."

"Don't you dislike it?" Lin Yang wanted to hide the watch, but the two sons held him tightly, and he couldn't use his strength, alas!He just knew that children should not be able to see this thing.

"But, this is mine, a child's." Orange replied solemnly: "How can a child's watch be worn by an adult? It doesn't fit. Look, it's not long enough."

Lin Yang thought about what to have for lunch, and answered him absent-mindedly: "Chengzi is a good boy, can I lend it to my dad for two days? Dad needs a watch?"

Dad needs it, being needed and being affirmed, Cheng Zi is happy, and nods seriously, "Okay!" He is very willing to help Dad.