The end-of-life life of a mountain farmhouse

"Dad, mine, where's mine?" Youzi was in a hurry. He searched over and over for his small watch on his father, but he couldn't find it no matter how hard he tried. , No, where did you go?

"What are you looking for?" Wenzhu grabbed him with his backhand, so anxious that his brow was covered with sweat.

"Watch!" Youzi danced and gestured, but seeing the stare at him from Wenzhu's father, she could only purse her mouth in grievance, and said pitifully, "My watch is gone."

Asparagus took a look at the two father and son squatting at the door and understood what this kid meant, but he was the same. Youzi has been good at hiding things since he was a child, and no one can find them except himself, but sometimes he hides himself They all forgot, so all they dug out from the corner of the house were oranges, and they really didn't see any of Yuzu's electronic watches.

He thought for a while and discussed with Yuzi: "Do you want a puppy watch?" The puppy watch also belongs to Orange.

"No."

"do not want!"

No, it's from the orange, not from the grapefruit.

These two little brothers can eat a bowl of rice and drink a mouthful of soup when they are good, but most of the time they are just like ordinary brothers and sisters. They start fighting in three seconds when they are good, and they even fought in the morning because of the clothes they were wearing today.

Lin Yang didn't feel much about the weather cooling down, but it's okay for the children not to give them a suit jacket, but it was a mess when they moved, and the clothes of the two children were not neatly packed, and one piece was thrown here and the other, so The same clothes I bought for the two children before did not match.

This morning, Lin Yang dug out two pieces from the closet, one was a denim jacket and the other was a football jacket. They were actually both pretty good-looking, cool and stylish.

But the two brothers both fell in love with the jersey, the denim jacket was disgusted, and the two brothers would not let the other go. No matter how many good things the fathers said, it doesn't matter. You two discuss it. Can't go out.

In the end, I don’t know how to solve it. The two children didn’t cry. They held the ball jacket and put it on the elder brother, and put the denim jacket on the younger brother.

Cheng Zi ran over and opened his hands to stop Wen Zhu's father, angrily: "The puppy watch is mine, you can't just give it to someone else."

"Hey, brat," Wen Zhu glared at him, "Who is someone else? Is Yuzu someone else?"

Thinking of the clothes lawsuit in the morning, Cheng Zi was not happy, and angrily said, "Humph, anyway, the puppy watch is mine, so don't give it to stinky grapefruit!"

"I don't want it." Yuzu flicked her head and ran back to her little stool, refusing to give in at all: "Puppy just hates it."

The orange didn't suffer, and he replied sharply: "You are the one who hates it. Grapefruit is the most annoying thing. Stinky grapefruit, bad grapefruit!"

The two brothers come and go, with one small mouth plugged and the other able to talk.

"Rotten oranges are not tasty at all, they are sour."

"Pomelo peels are the worst."

Here it is again, Lin Yang and Wenzhu looked at each other helplessly, and tacitly refused to look at them, they are used to it, the two brothers don't quarrel more than a dozen times a day, fight a few times, cry a few times, they will find it strange .

Lin Yang asked Wen Zhu: "What's for lunch, I'll get it back?"

Before they came out in the morning, they brought water tanks and basins, but no cooking pots and bowls, and no food. Thinking about it this way, if they really planned to live here, they would at least have to build a stove and set up a table. , and no stool.

Asparagus took a look around and saw that the house was empty and there was nothing he wanted. The mice would have to starve to death when they came in. He didn’t know how long it would take to move out the things needed for living. Just go back and eat?"

"No!" Before Lin Yang could reply, the brothers who had been arguing just now retorted in unison. They had already agreed, why did they have to go back to that dark place again.

"Forget it, forget it, just eat here, at worst, I'll make a few more trips." Lin Yang didn't want to go back to that suffocated place. Now the air-raid shelter is full of negative energy, and he can get sick even if he doesn't get sick.

"Then just watch and tidy up, I'll build a stove first." Wenzhu rolled up his sleeves and prepared to move some bricks outside, and it was not far away. When they built this house, some leftover bricks were piled up at the foot of the outside wall.Lin Yang stopped him and put on a bamboo hat: "Don't go out, be careful not to get rain on your body, just let me do whatever you need."

I don't know what's going on with the rain now, if it doesn't get wet, it doesn't get wet. Anyway, he went in and out this morning, so it can't be avoided, but if there is one less rain in the house, there will be one less.

Wenzhu stood the big black umbrella at the door, turned around and moved the tank in the house to one side, so as to make room for the people in the house to move around. While moving, he said to Lin Yang who was moving bricks outside: "If you can avoid it for a while, you won't be able to avoid it for a lifetime. We don’t drink water, but it’s impossible to completely avoid normal contact, washing clothes, washing dishes, bathing, and the vegetables grown in this field, how can we not eat at all? By the way, there is still water in the air!”

"You don't care, as long as you can avoid it." Lin Yang replied loudly.

The extra bricks were piled up at the foot of the wall behind, and he quickly moved the bricks to the door. There was a lot of rain on the bamboo hat, so he couldn't bring it into the house, so he stood at the door and took off his things.

"I can't avoid it now!" Wenzhu clicked his tongue, "These bricks are wet, I won't be able to use them later?"

As soon as Lin Yang wanted to say that he was here to do it, Wenzhu gave him a kick, "You can do whatever you want, if you are exhausted, forget it."

However, Lin Yang couldn't see the posture of the asparagus bamboo stove. Two bricks were piled up on one side, and one was placed on the back... He thought and thought, and finally couldn't hold back and said: "You can do it casually." I got it at noon today, and I'll make another one this afternoon."

"Got it, got it." Asparagus chased him away, it's really long-winded, it's fine if he can cook rice, and he wants to carve flowers, he's only picking faults in this kind of place.

Lin Yang was carrying two buckets of water and was about to go out. He looked back at the hut. Asparagus was still building the stove in a hurry, muttering while building the stove. The twins had just finished their quarrel and were still angry with each other, sitting with their backs facing each other On a log, pouting and ignoring no one.

He smiled, and strode into the rain, alas, if only he could live like this all the time.

But this was impossible, and his good mood only lasted until he stepped into the air-raid shelter.

Without the sun, the air-raid shelter is even darker now, and because they went out not only did not bring back any supplies but consumed a lot of diesel and gasoline, now everyone saves as much as they can, and almost does not turn on the lights, so the air-raid shelter is dark and steep , very scary when there is no sound.

No wonder the children didn't want to come back, even Lin Yang felt that this place was very depressing and boring.

At the entrance of the air-raid shelter, there is still some light coming in from the outside, and now almost everyone is gathered there.

There was nothing to do on rainy days, and they didn’t know where they found poker and mahjong. A few people played cards and mahjong at a table there, and even placed bets, but no one wanted the money. They all played peanuts, soybeans, Mung beans and these foodstuffs, a few in a game, in a day, as long as the luck is not bad, you can't lose a few.

"Lin Yang, is it raining a little less outside now?" Someone stuck out his head from the room to greet him.

Lin Yang looked at him the same way, it was Chen Jianwei who went out with him last time, his eyes were pretty good, so Hei could still tell it was him: "No, it's getting heavier and heavier outside now, the raindrops hurt my body, You want to go out?."

Chen Jianwei clicked his tongue: "I originally wanted to go out and fetch a load of water, so I'll wait for the rain to subside."

There is no secret in the air-raid shelter. As long as the voice is not deliberately lowered, almost everyone around can hear someone talking.

People who stayed in the house and couldn't come out to sleep began to chatter, "This is a terrible weather. It rains and sunny at times. I don't know what to do with sweet potatoes like mine now."

"Can the sweet potatoes be harvested?"

"Shut up, I planted at the end of July, now in September, what can I harvest, sweet potato vines?"

"The sweet potato vines are almost out of food. Now that there is no sun, I feel sick."

Someone suddenly asked: "Lin Yang, is the dormitory outside leaking?".

"I don't know, I didn't go in to see it." Lin Yang also answered in a loud voice. He poured the water he picked up into the water tank. They had little water at home, so they had to pour it out when people weren't looking.

Take two pots, one for cooking and one for cooking, do you want to move the earthen stove... When Lin Yang was packing up, people outside were still discussing.

"Why, do you want to move to the dormitory building?"

"Yeah, the sun doesn't shine outside, and it's not a problem to live in an air-raid shelter all the time. It's inconvenient to do anything without electricity or light!"

"That's right, my kind of sweet potato vines are going to get albinism. If this goes on, there will be no sweet potatoes to harvest."

"Sweet potato vines bask in the purple moonlight, what color are the sweet potatoes growing, can they be eaten?"

"Purple sweet potato? Purple sweet potato is quite delicious, and it's quite expensive. I remember it sold for two or three yuan a catty in the market."

"I don't like to eat purple potatoes. I like to eat red egg potatoes. They are sweet, fragrant and glutinous. Not to mention how delicious they are!"

"Is it time to say that sweet potatoes are better than purple potatoes?"

.......

But from this discussion, we also know that everyone is thinking about moving out. When Lin Yang was going back and forth to get things, the people who stayed at home also walked out of the air-raid shelter.

The dormitory they lived in was pretty good, because most people chose the second floor, so except for the part that collapsed, the rest was pretty good, except that the walls were cracked and water seeped.

Few of the dormitory buildings are intact, and someone put the target in the warehouse that was moved in first. The warehouse was more completely destroyed, but when it collapsed, there were also a few places that became airtight spaces, and a hole was dug out as a door to live in. no problem.

Lin Chen found such a place. He was the last group to move in. He had no part in the dormitory building, so he searched in these collapsed places from the beginning, but he did not expect to find it for him. up.

At the corner of Warehouse No. 2, one wall leans over the other. It looks a bit like a triangular tent, but the upper and rear opening windows are relatively large, and the entrance and exit door are too small, but compared to other places, this is the best After choosing a place, he came to ask Lin Yang for help.

At that time, Lin Yang was building a stove in the house. He didn't plan to do something particularly complicated, so he built two stove holes. The location was chosen in the corner on the left side of the entrance, along the base of the wall, so that it would be convenient for the chimney to be repaired. The cooking room was smoky.

When Lin Chen came in to look for him, he was chipping stone chips, and the materials were not enough. The two stoves in his house were made of yellow mud, sandstone, and broken bricks, which certainly did not affect the use, but they were not good-looking, especially the stove top. Potholes look ugly no matter how they look.

But now there are no tiles, Lin Yang searched around and found no suitable ones, so he prepared to chip stones and stick them on. Anyway, he is strong, and the special hatchet is sharp enough. As long as there are enough stones, he can easily cut them. Come out, the excess can also be used to lay the floor.

Lin Chen opened the door and came in, picked up the stone and teased, "Okay, you boy, you are really good, you can fix this thing."

In fact, it is really good, the cross section is smooth and flat, although it is not as good as the white tiles sold outside, but it is not bad to have it in the current situation.

Lin Yang looked at him in a good mood. It seems that Xiao Yu'er is in good health. They didn't bring anything back last time. They thought Xiao Yu'er would not be able to survive...

But unexpectedly, as the outside temperature dropped, Xiao Yuer's appetite slowly recovered, and now he can sit up and eat by himself.

"Do whatever you want, it's fine in the house anyway." Lin Yang handed him a tree stump, motioning him to sit down.

"That's right, I don't even know what I'm going to do now, I always have to find something to do." Lin Chen waved his hand without taking the tree stump that Lin Yang handed him: "I won't sit anymore, I came here to ask for your help, You are strong, and you will help me lift the beam later."

Lin Yang was a little puzzled, lift the beam?When did Lin Chen build a house?

Lin Chen patted his head, cheerfully: "I forgot to say, I'm going to move out, it's at the corner of Warehouse No. You go and do me a favor, the roof of the place I chose is a bit low and needs to be raised a little higher."

"Warehouse No. 2, isn't it too far away, and no one lives there?" Lin Yang was cutting stone chips, and asparagus was in charge of pasting them. He also heard Lin Chen's words, and he asked, "Your family of three lives alone there. Will it be unsafe?"

"It's not just our family. My second uncle and Lin Qun also live nearby. You can see them all when you go out. Don't worry. And the dormitory building is not far from my place. You can hear me if you shout."

That's okay, Wenzhu nodded, and agreed for Lin Yang: "Okay, we'll go there right away, do we need to bring anything?"

"No need." Lin Chen hurried back to clean up, but after thinking about it, he decided to remind: "Do you have gloves at home? If so, it is more convenient to work with gloves."

"Okay, got it!" Lin Yang agreed without hesitation, but he didn't let Wen Zhu go with him, and it's still raining outside, so helping Lin Chen's house with work will definitely inevitably wet his clothes and get stained with rain.

Wenzhu was a little unhappy: "I agreed just now."

Lin Yang: "What's the matter? I can go alone. If you go too, who will watch the twins?"

"Don't look, I'm fine." Chengzi replied with a small yawn, he was sleepy, he didn't need anyone to watch, Yuzi was already in a deep sleep, and didn't even know what the fathers were talking about.

After lunch, the two children wanted to go to bed, but there was no bed here, so Lin Yang dismantled the cart that he used to go out last time, spread the wooden planks on the ground, and put mats and blankets on them for the two children to sleep for a day.

"You should just watch at home." Lin Yang raised his chin, motioning him to look at the full tank of water at the door, with a helpless expression on his face: "If you're not watching at home, those two boys will be able to drain all the water. "

This water is from Shuangma Lake, if they spoil it, they will have to work hard to fill it, not to mention if they decide to live in this room, they still have a lot of things to do, at least the bed needs to be solved, the table Do stools and chairs have to be prepared, and the small cabinet for the dishes and chopsticks must also be brought up, as well as the quilt for the clothes you wear... the odds and ends are always very trivial things.

Wenzhu let out a sigh of relief, "Actually, I am also very strong."

It's just that under Lin Yang's cover, everyone automatically ignores him. The bereaved man is also a man, and he is not weaker than other men!

Lin Yang calmly comforted him: "You are our family's secret weapon."

"Go away!" Wenzhu waved him off, "By the way, are you coming back for dinner at night?" He suddenly remembered and asked.

Usually, when helping to build a house, people will be left to eat, but now it’s like this, and I don’t know if Lin Chen still pays attention to this.

"Back, definitely back!" Lin Yang replied without hesitation. According to his current appetite, eating freely will definitely scare people stupid, so whether Lin Chen stays or not, it doesn't affect him to go home and make up for it pause.

Asparagus flipped through the bag of grain, and frowned helplessly: "Then you have to hurry back to pound the rice, there is no more rice at home."

Most of their family's food was moved to another world, and there was not much exposed in the open. Lin Yang usually got the food for extra meals from there, otherwise the food in their family went down too quickly and it would be suspicious.

"Understood, you wait for me to come back to fix it, you sleep with the twins for a while, it's quiet here." No matter how used to the air-raid shelter, I can't sleep well at night. If someone farts loudly in the house, the people living on the other side can hear it. can see.

Especially when young couples live at night, my God, it is a public execution, and because of this, Lin Yang has been vegetarian for as long as they have lived in the air-raid shelter. Now he looks at Asparagus with green eyes.

Asparagus blushed, but looking at the small space in the house, it also gave me a headache. It was less than forty square meters, separated by a wall in the middle, and divided into two rooms, inside and outside.

No doubt their bed and locker must have been in there, but the outside was full of water containers and other sundries and a stove, and certainly couldn't fit another bed.

The twins' cots can fit, but the oranges and grapefruits have grown a lot in the past six months, and it is no longer suitable to sleep in a cot, so they must sleep in a big bed at night.

Pooh!Asparagus pinched himself, what he was thinking, it was all Lin Yang's fault, he led him astray, he shook his head, and concentrated on pasting stone flakes on the ground.

The Fusion Talisman has already been drawn on the ground, so he only needs to press the stone piece on it. At this time, he doesn't care whether it is neat or not, as long as it is not too bad.

Because the stone flakes are irregular, it is unavoidable that there is a gap between two adjacent stone flakes. Asparagus doesn't matter, but Lin Yang can definitely pry them up and stick them again when he sees it.

In order not to let him rework again, Asparagus could only patiently search for the most suitable stone flakes one by one. All the stone flakes were broken.

Another piece of grass is broken!Can this job still be done? Asparagus is very depressed, forget it, he'd better go pounding rice, leave this kind of delicate work to Lin Yang.

However, after two poundings, the two sons complained that it was too noisy, and it was so pissed off. Asparagus closed the door, fuck a fart, and go to bed!

Lin Yang put on a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat and came to the house chosen by Lin Chen. The location was well chosen, but the ground was uneven, and it probably took a lot of effort to deal with it.

But when Lin Chen came out dripping wet, Lin Yang's expression was not very good: "You just came out like this, are you crazy? You can wear a raincoat without an umbrella."

Lin Chen wiped the rainwater off his face, and said indifferently: "I've already drank the water, do you still care about getting in the rain? Don't worry about it. Come here and see if you can move this wall. It's too out of place. , Push it up, and the space inside will be bigger.”

Lin Yang opened his mouth, and he really couldn't refute. The reason why their family is so particular is because they don't drink this kind of water, but other people will die of thirst if they don't drink water. Compared with drinking water, a little rain is really nothing Son.

Lin Yang didn't say anything about things that couldn't be changed, so he could only help him move the wall that fell down according to Lin Chen's words. Not to mention, it really looked like a small house with a gable roof after cleaning it up, but this The house is a long row, and the widest part is only three meters.

Lin Chen was quite satisfied, it was enough for the three of them to live together.

Lin Yang removed the big stones and bricks blocking the door. After moving away, he looked at the overall situation of the house for a while and suggested to him: "The floor in the house must be raised, otherwise the inside is low and the outside is high and it is easy to pour water go in."

Lin Chen clapped his hands, with a smile on his face: "It's a small matter, there are broken bricks everywhere, I'll pick up a few loads and put them in later." With Lin Yang's help, the house was pretty much in order, so Lin Chen invited him : "Come to my house to have dinner with Asparagus in the evening, Xiao Yu'er hasn't played with the twins for a long time."

Lin Yang waved his hand, "I still have to pound rice when I get home, let's do it later."

The rain outside started to get heavier again, and the rain hit the roof with a loud splash, so Lin Yang didn't hurry, and simply entered Lin Chen's new house.

The two cousins ​​squatted at the door and chatted against the heavy rain outside. Lin Yang asked, "Is Xiao Yu'er all right now?"

Lin Chen grinned: "Very good, I can eat by myself, and soon, I will be able to go out and run with the twins. During this period of time, being stuck in the dark house in the air-raid shelter all day will almost suffocate her. "This is also the reason why he was anxious to find a house to move out.

"By the way, I will trouble you to help me tidy up the room next to me later." Lin Chen bumped him and told him to look where he pointed.

Lin Yang was a little puzzled, and joked, "Why, the couple are going to separate?"

"It belongs to the village chief." Lin Chen shook his head: "My second uncle, didn't I eat with my uncle and the others before, and now they have moved out. Let the second uncle eat with me."

Lin Qun and Lin Chen are cousins, and the village head and their father are three brothers. In the air-raid shelter, the village head always ate with Lin Qun's family, but Lin Yang had vaguely heard a few words from the villagers. To put it bluntly, Lin Qun's mother can't tolerate the village chief. Anyway, with Lin Chen as his own nephew, it's not his turn to worry about it.

"Okay, just clean up and say hello to me whenever you want." Lin Yang agreed without hesitation. The village chief is not someone else, he's a cousin, that's right.

The two chatted for a few more words, and when the rain subsided, Lin Yang went back to his home. As for eating together as Lin Chen said, who in the air-raid shelter would be so shameless to eat at other people's homes? The invitation was definitely sincere, but Lin Yang thought he would make up for it when he went back, so he might as well just go home and eat.

When Lin Yang got home, Wenzhu had already pasted all the stone chips he had cut today, and even the broken pieces had been pasted into various gaps by him.

But it's really ugly, like a skinny patched!Lin Yang took a look and then forcibly looked away. Sure enough, the family still depends on him.

But the twins didn't let him go, the little brother saw him coming back, trotted to him and took his hand to complain: "Dad, look, it's ugly." Cheng Zi pointed to the ground and said unceremoniously: "It's very ugly. "

Youzi is not as careless as Chengzi, he saw that Wenzhu's father's expression was not looking good at this time, so he hid his small body secretly behind the eldest father's back, poked his father with his fingers, and complained in a small voice behind his back: "Ugly, Don't tell me."

As soon as he said it, he was beaten.