The end-of-life life of a mountain farmhouse

"Eating chestnuts again!" Youzi sighed leisurely, he wanted to eat meat and vegetables.

The melancholy appearance made the two fathers laugh, Wen Zhu pushed the pomelo, "Hurry up and call Cheng Zi over, don't try to be lazy, work hard, and make chestnut noodles for you at noon."

Asparagus likes to eat noodles, so two bags of flour are kept at home all year round, but as the temperature fluctuates, Wenzhu recently found that the flour at home has grown worms, so he can only eat it as soon as possible.

Of course, you can't just rely on two little bean dices to beat chestnut shells. The main force is still Lin Yang and asparagus. In the past, the chestnut balls were picked and poured directly into the chestnut machine, but now, the chestnut machine is not broken, but there is no electricity. primitive way.

There was a bamboo strip bent into a clip, and a small hammer, but the bamboo strip had been rotted after not being used for a long time, so Lin Yang could only fold two sticks to clamp the chestnut ball.

The twins are the kind of head-to-head that everyone who sells goods hates. A chestnut ball can't be hammered open for a long time. Asparagus dislikes their slow work. , Chestnut is disobedient, it's not their fault anyway.

However, this kind of dried chestnut balls is really hard to open. If it is a fresh chestnut ball, you can basically get the chestnut out by stepping on it or hitting it with a hammer.

But after drying, the chestnut thorns on the outside tightly wrap the chestnut inside, and it takes a lot of effort to knock out the chestnut.

"Ah, it hurts, Dad!"

The chestnut balls are all small spikes, and adults will get pricked if they are not careful, let alone two three-year-old chickens.Sure enough, without opening a single chestnut ball, Chengzi covered her little finger and yelled, "Dad, look."

The two fathers ignored him, and the more this boy paid attention to him, the more embarrassing he became. If you hug him to comfort him now, don't even think about eating at noon.

The fathers ignored him, and even the elder brother didn't give him a look. Chengzi thought he was speaking too quietly and no one could hear him, so he raised his voice, "It hurts! Dad, Dad, I was bitten by a chestnut."

While talking, he stretched out his fingers in front of the fathers, showing his red dot that he couldn't find unless he looked carefully.

Wenzhu glanced at it, almost laughed angrily, opened his mouth and bit his little finger, "You deserve it, who told you to be careless, I told you many times, and you were stabbed, are you trying to be lazy?"

"No!" Cheng Zi was a little guilty, and rolled his big eyes twice. Seeing that his father couldn't get any benefits here, he moved to the side of the eldest father and acted like a baby: "Dad, my finger hurts."

Lin Yang raised his head and glanced at the bad boy's fingers. Thanks to his good eyesight, otherwise he couldn't find it. What's not clear about it, this kid just wanted to be lazy.

"It's okay, a small wound. Chengzi is a brave and good boy. This small wound is not difficult for you. Come on, you will definitely complete the task."

Big Chengzi puffed his mouth and was unwilling to leave. Lin Yang encouraged him: "Come on, let's compete with my brother. You see, my brother has already opened a chestnut ball."

Yuzu works very seriously and cautiously. The posture of smashing chestnut balls is like smashing bombs. He doesn’t use clips to fix them. He just hits with a small hammer, knocks once and stops, and follows wherever the chestnut balls go. It takes a lot of effort. up.

"Well, Dad, why don't you help me, I don't like to beat chestnuts, they are too ugly." Chengzi lay on Daddy's back, hugging his neck and acting like a spoiled child, he was injured, his hands hurt, he don't want to work.

"Come down quickly." Wenzhu couldn't see him being lazy, and poked his ass with a stick: "I still think you are ugly, how can I throw you away."

"It's not ugly." Cheng Zi didn't say a word, Yuzi was not happy, he and Cheng Zi looked the same, saying that Cheng Zi was ugly didn't mean he was ugly, he was not happy.

This rebuttal made Wen Zhu not know what to say, he glared at Cheng Zi: "If you don't work, you won't be given lunch at noon."

"I won't eat." Cheng Zi replied very loudly, he didn't need to eat if he wasn't hungry, and he vomited after eating chestnuts every day.

Lin Yang pulled his youngest son who was on his back to the front, and secretly told him: "Today there are dried fish, if you don't eat it, it will all belong to my brother."

Dried fish, haven't eaten for a long time!Chengzi's eyes lit up, but he still wanted to save face. I said just now that I didn't want to eat it, and now it's not good to regret it. He turned around in front of his father and didn't speak. You can think about it.

Asparagus doesn't know this kid's petty thoughts, so he doesn't care about it, what a stinking problem.

Seeing that he couldn't get down the steps with his father, Cheng Zi got tired of wandering around next to his eldest father, and his little eyes were so funny no matter how you looked at it.

Lin Yang suppressed his laughter, "Chengzi, help Dad. If there is no help from Xiao Chengzi, Dad won't be able to finish smashing the chestnut balls, okay?"

"Okay." Cheng Zi opened his mouth and smiled, he was happy, and he was willing to help Dad.

They actually had ready-made chestnut powder in the abandoned factory, but Wenzhu felt that there was no need to take out the powder because there were dried chestnuts outside anyway, not to mention that what they said this time was to use a stone mill at home to grind chestnut powder.

There is no stone mill in the abandoned factory. It is very troublesome for them to eat chestnuts, it is troublesome to shed their shells, and it is also troublesome to make them into powder.

Before there was no firewood, many people peeled chestnuts and burned chestnut balls, but after the chestnut balls were molted, if the chestnuts were not ground into powder and eaten in time, they would soon become moldy and deteriorate, especially now that it rains every day and everywhere is wet of.

Chestnut in Lin Yang’s family doesn’t worry about this, because he hides most of his family’s food in the Great Wilderness World. The house on the top of the mountain has more than a thousand catties, and the amount in the abandoned factory is almost the same, so if the chestnut or grain Because of mold in rainy days, the loss of their home is acceptable.

But if the rain continues, the villagers will have to jump their feet. Their food must be hidden in several places like Lin Yang, but no matter whether it is in the original home, an air-raid shelter or a shed on the mountain, there must be no food. Lin Yang put it in the wild world to ensure quality.

Lin Yang shook his head. He couldn't even worry about it himself, so he had better not worry about other people's homes. With great strength, he quickly got a bag of chestnuts out of the chestnut ball.

But this is only the first step. After shedding the outer layer of thorn balls, there is still a layer of brown hard shell inside. After the hard shell is shed, there is still a layer of brown film inside. Yes, the shell, membrane, and pulp are all glued together. I'm impatient, and I can't even eat chestnuts.

Asparagus is that impatient person, the more he got more and more irritable, he simply threw the chestnut in his hand on the ground, "You do it, I'll go wash the stone mill."

The stone mills in their house have not been used for at least ten years, and they are piled up in corners as stepping stones. If Lin Yang hadn't said that they had them, he really wouldn't have remembered.

Since Wenzhu came to this world, he has never seen them use a stone mill at home. If they want to mill rice or flour, they go directly to the rice mill.

Not only does their family not use it, but no one in the village uses it. He only knew when someone said that their village had it when they made tofu in an abandoned factory last time.

Lin Yang said that he would move his family's stone mill to the abandoned factory, and he would use it for free. When he grinds 100 catties of grain, he will charge 1 catty. Wenzhu thinks this is a good business.

Now the temperature has dropped, but because of the rain and fog, the visibility is very low, and the people in the abandoned factory are reluctant to go out, so even if they leave the abandoned factory and return to their homes in the village, they are unable to carry the stone mill from the village to the abandoned factory. factory.

In order to be worthy of Lin Yang's strength, Wen Zhu felt that it was a very affordable price to charge them 100 catty of grain for 1 catties.

There is no shortage of food in the family, but he just likes to do this job of collecting money, which is why Wenzhu gave up knocking chestnuts to clean the stone mill.

Lin Yang shook his head, but he didn't care. He put the thornless chestnuts into the bag. He didn't plan to peel the chestnuts one by one. If he did that, he wouldn't even be able to eat dinner, let alone lunch.

"Father, mine." Youzi carefully brought the chestnuts she had peeled to Lin Yang, her big eyes flickered, and she knew she was asking for praise.

"Great, grapefruit is really powerful, I will have dinner later, and I will reward you with the biggest dried fish."

"Father, what about me!" Cheng Zi also grabbed his own chestnuts and came over to ask for the prize, but compared to his brother's full handful, Cheng Zi only had a few sporadic chestnuts in his hand.

This... is really pitifully small, Lin Yang doesn't want to hit him, but he can't develop this bad boy's bad habit of being lazy.

He tried to reason with him: "Chengzi, look at my brother's chestnuts, and then look at your own. My brother eats the biggest dried fish, how big do you think you can eat?"

"The second biggest!" Cheng Zi replied without even thinking about it. He still felt wronged by this answer, and he didn't even compete with his brother for the biggest one.

This brat is really shameless. Seeing that he couldn't make sense, Lin Yang asked his brother who was standing silently: "Grapefruit, how big do you think oranges can be eaten?"

"Don't eat it!" Grapefruits don't have to think about it either, just these few still want to eat, let's eat sticks, it's best to let Dad beat him up.

"Bad guy!" Cheng Zi's eyes widened. This bad brother, stinky pomelo, didn't even give him food. He hurriedly stuffed these chestnuts into his father's hand: "Dad, Dad, I've been working!" !"

It is the logic of his petty person to eat when he works, and he doesn't care if he does a good job or not.

"But Dad did it too." Lin Yang motioned him to look at the full bag next to him: "Look, these are the chestnuts peeled by the two dads."

He pointed to the grapefruit in his hand again, "This is peeled by my brother."

He grabbed the few chestnuts that the orange had just stuffed into his hand and asked him, "Where do you think our family is, and how big a small dried fish can we eat?"

Chengzi looked around, and it seemed that he was indeed the least. He pouted, but still answered his father in a low voice: "The youngest."

Yes, knowing that he ate the smallest one, Lin Yang was satisfied, and stroked his round head: "Okay, then you will eat the smallest one later, don't make a mistake."

Chengzi said with a sullen face, "Got it." Woohoo, he will never be lazy again.

snort!It's best not to feed him, Yuzu thought arrogantly, lazy guy, always lazy.

"Grapefruit, oranges, go to the corridor outside and help Dad bring in the firewood, take them one by one, slow down, you know?"

Lin Yang didn't want them to get in the way in the kitchen, but he also didn't want them to be too far away from his sight, so he assigned tasks to them.

The two children were just at the time of rivalry, and when they heard their father's order, they ran out cheerfully where they could not agree.

After sending the child out, Lin Yang tied the cloth bag tightly and put it flat on the dustpan. In fact, he could take it to the stone mill outside to press it, but the asparagus bamboo is being washed, and the stone mill must be wet, so Lin Yang decided to do it himself Pressing, he put the cutting board flat on top of the cloth bag, and crushed it down hard. He was strong enough, and the chestnut shells burst open one after another. After repeated several times, the chestnuts in the bag were almost fully opened.

After crushing, use a dustpan to sieve out the chestnut shells. After going back and forth several times, all the hard shells are sieved out, and the chestnuts are also crushed into powder, but the film inside the chestnuts is difficult to sieve out. The chestnuts produced in this way Flour is a bit like flour mixed with bran, which makes your throat sting.

Lin Yang opened the bag and checked, and found that the chestnut powder was still a bit rough, so he changed to a mallet for grinding, and after the grinding was almost done, he changed to a sieve with smaller holes. Repeat this several times, and the chestnut powder that comes out of the sieve will be finer.

The leftover flour asparagus at home has been taken out. Lin Yang mixed the two kinds of flour together. He doesn't pay attention to the technique of kneading the dough. It all depends on his own strength. He kneads it almost and then cuts it into noodles. His knife skills are very good. , each noodle is the same size as the thick noodles sold outside, and it is yellow and clear. Just by looking at the color of the noodles, you know it will be very delicious.

Lin Yang has a sense of accomplishment, and it's not difficult!If the phone is still working, he will definitely have to show off in his circle of friends.

To eat noodles, he needed toppings. He looked through the things he still had at home, such as chopped chili sauce, tomato sauce, dried tofu, dried fish, and bean sprouts. Stewed with dried tofu after eating, although it has no special features, it is full of taste, and it has been a long time since they have eaten such an ordinary meal.

After half an hour, everything was done. Lin Yang scooped up the noodles and shouted outside while setting the table: "It's time to eat, Asparagus."

"Here we come!" Asparagus used to brush the stone mill with a big brush while flushing water, but as he brushed, he found that there seemed to be something on the miscellaneous trees at the foot of the wall, which kept attracting his attention like a magnet. force.

When Lin Yang called him, Wenzhu picked up the miscellaneous firewood in front of him without thinking.

"Hey, Dad, what are you holding? I'm afraid." Chengzi has a natural phobia of things that are crowded together. go out.

Yuzu glanced at it calmly and didn't look at it again, and he couldn't eat it. He stared at the dining table with all his attention, and moved his little nose from time to time. It smells so good and I want to eat it. When can I really eat?

Lin Yang glanced at it and didn't bother, "Leave him alone, wash your hands first." While comforting Cheng Zi, he held the noodles to the two brothers and asked them to eat first.

Wen Zhu put the firewood on the corridor, but he didn't listen to Lin Yang's advice and went to wash his hands first, and used a long and thin stick to flick the "wood ear" back and forth.

"It feels like fungus." He said to Lin Yang who was walking towards him.

Lin Yang knelt down beside him, but he only looked at it and didn't move, and asked Wen Zhu, "Where did you find it?"

Wenzhu's tone was a little excited: "The corner where the stone mill is placed is probably because the old house has collapsed, and it has been raining a lot lately. Do you think you can eat it? If you can eat it, you can have another dish at home."

There is no shortage of food at home, why eat this thing?Lin Yang patted him and pulled him up, "Go eat when you're hungry, don't touch these messy things."

Asparagus looked a bit struggling, and was a little unhappy to be dragged away by him, turned his head to look while walking, "How do you know this is a mess, I think it's very good, so cute!" He wanted to break away from Lin Yang and go back and fiddle with him.

Lin Yang vaguely felt that something was wrong, so he grabbed him and dragged the asparagus into the house.

"Why, if you're hungry, eat first." Wenzhu still wanted to go out.

Lin Yang held him back again, with a serious tone: "Wenzhu, why do you think that 'fungus' is good-looking? You didn't like to eat fungus before, even if you go to the mountains and see it, it's common. You're a little strange."

"Dad, that one is ugly and smells bad." Cheng Zi didn't forget to slander the thing he just saw when he was eating noodles.

Asparagus seemed a little unhappy, but Lin Yang didn't let him this time, and even closed the door behind him, so he sat down angrily, and just as he was about to pick up chopsticks, he heard Cheng Zi's reminder: "Dad, you didn't Wash your hands, you touched that ugly thing."

"How ugly!" Wen Zhu raised his voice and yelled at Cheng Zi, the loud voice startled everyone, he immediately realized that something was wrong, and quickly apologized to Cheng Zi: "I'm sorry, Cheng Zi, Dad didn't mean to shout at you Talking, but Dad didn't touch the fungus."

"No, it's okay." Cheng Zi frowned at the noodles, not reacting at all, but his father told him he was sorry, and he subconsciously replied that it's okay.

Wen Zhu was stunned, at this time he also felt that something was wrong with him, he looked at Lin Yang who was standing aside and frowning at him, and asked hesitantly: "I, am I not right?"

"It's weird, something's wrong!" Before Lin Yang could answer, Youzi raised her eyes from her rice bowl to look at her father, and criticized him with a wooden face: "It's impolite to lose your temper and speak loudly."

"That's right, Dad, you just yelled at me." Cheng Zi swallowed the noodles in his mouth, put down his chopsticks, and scolded him: "You didn't listen to Dad telling you to eat, and you didn't wash your hands. I told you, you still called me loudly..."

The more I talked, the more I felt wronged, the eyeballs started to turn red, and Chengzi wanted to cry, but the noodles in the bowl were not finished yet, and now the crying dried fish was about to be eaten by grapefruit, and he miraculously wiped away the tears Take it back, and cry when you are full.

"You two eat well, big daddy takes daddy to wash your face, don't fight, you know?" Lin Yang told the twins.

After arranging the two children, he took Asparagus bamboo to the bathroom, scooped him a basin of water, soaked a towel and covered his face, "Wash your face first!"

Wenzhu was a little anxious and wanted to talk, but under Lin Yang's soothing eyes, he had to take off the towel, but after wiping it with the towel twice, he felt unsatisfactory, so he simply buried his head in the basin.

The refreshing cold water made his mind clear. Why did he want to lose his temper so much just now? After touching that little mushroom, his whole body became strange!

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