The end-of-life life of a mountain farmhouse

Lin Yang rubbed his nose, knowing that he was still angry about what happened this morning, so he stopped trying to persuade him.

And the two little bastards in the family who have been irritating all day are now peeling chestnut balls at home. Dad said that if they don't peel out a basket of chestnuts today, they won't give them food tonight.

"Oh, it's all your fault." Cheng Zi sighed faintly, and gave Yuzu a sideways look, how could he be so stupid.

Hmph, Yuzu rolled his eyes at him, how clever is he?

The two brothers had a little cough yesterday, so their father gave them medicine, but this time the medicine was not sweet, it was smelly and bitter, so the two brothers didn't want to drink it, especially after they got up in the morning, they didn't cough anymore, and the illness was over. Well, but Dad still let them drink a big bowl.

They didn't want to drink but they didn't dare to disobey their father's words. Of course, it was useless to ask the eldest father for help at this time, so the two brothers tried to find a way to get rid of it.

If you want to say that they are worthy of being twins, they even came up with the same solution, lying quietly on each other's pants, and then accusing each other of wetting the bed.

Can Asparagus be deceived by them, they don’t say they wet the bed when they get up, but they say they wet the bed after drinking the medicine, and then take a look at the pants, the smell of urine is the same as the medicine given to them, you don’t need to ask them to know that they did it what a bad thing.

The two brothers were held down and beaten. If it wasn't too cold, Lin Yang would have no doubt that Wenzhu would let them wash their pants.

After being beaten up, the two little brothers had to peel a basket of chestnut balls each today.

These chestnut balls were returned by the village borrowing food from their family. Some directly returned chestnut noodles, and some returned chestnut balls. However, the returned chestnut balls will of course have more weight than the chestnut noodles picked up, and the loss must be counted. .

In addition to the chestnuts returned by the villagers, most of the food Lin Yang brought from Wang Qianming's house were unpeeled chestnut balls, so as long as their family was free, they would shell the chestnuts at home.

They are not in a hurry to eat, but because the weather is getting colder and the family has not gone to the mountains to cut firewood, so everyone is burning chestnut thorns and chestnut shells to keep warm.

But this is not a long-term thing after all. Even if the chestnut shells are enough to survive this winter, what to do with the peeled chestnuts, if you don’t eat them all, they will go bad soon.

Some people from the abandoned factory are going to go back to the village together. Even if the houses in the village collapsed, there was still firewood in the house before.

In addition to firewood, there is also gas. Gas was cheap back then, and Lin Yang filled two tanks. There are several other houses in the village that charge more than he does. These can be used for a long time when they move in.

Also, the weather is getting colder and colder. They didn't bring much thick clothes in order to avoid the summer heat. Now they have to go home to get some other random things.

However, some people think that they can go back to the village now. Living in an abandoned factory is not as good as living in their own home in the village. Anyway, they are all crumbling rotten houses, but there is a big difference between rotten houses. The houses in the village are only built. A few years, but the house in the abandoned factory has been built for decades, isn't it obvious which one is better to live in.

At most, when the sun comes out, they will go back to the abandoned factory, and when the moon comes out, they will live at home.

But they also thought about it, if the others didn't leave, it would be impossible for them to go out and live by themselves.But no matter whether they go back to live in the village or not, it is imminent to go back to the village to get something to keep out the cold.

The last time Lin Yang went back to the waste factory from home, he didn't finish all the things he planned to bring in, so they planned to go out as well.

But now there is also a problem, Lin Yang's "injury" is still not healed, he was injured so badly at the time, it's only been a few days, it's fine if he can go out, if he is still carrying large and small bags of hundreds of catties, he will definitely die Some people doubt that he was not injured at all.

Originally, if he didn't go, Wenzhu could go out with the people in the village, but Wenzhu was busy planting sweet potatoes recently and didn't want to go out at all, so their family lacked this collective action.

After Lin Yang dug out all the big sweet potatoes in the field, Wen Zhu was busy opening up wasteland and farming. He was "injured" again and had to look after the children at home. After two days of doing nothing by guarding a large pile of sweet potatoes, he decided to find some for himself things to do.

Digging the sweet potatoes is inevitable, they will be rotten. Their family has passed the freshness of eating sweet potatoes, and they don’t want to eat them. They can’t exchange much if they take them out and exchange them with others. In addition, their family’s sugar is almost eaten, so Lin Yang decided Boil sweet potato sugar.

Originally, he wanted to make sweet potato flour, but their sweet potatoes produced very little flour, which was not cost-effective. It would be better to boil sweet potato sugar and exchange the sugar with others for sweet potato vermicelli.

On November 11th, the day of Singles’ Day, those in the abandoned factory who needed to go back to the village set off in groups early in the morning. Asparagus hadn’t finished cutting all the sweet potato vines, so he went to the Great Wilderness World as usual today Plant sweet potatoes.

As Lin Yang is left behind, the only ones who can help him are these two three-year-olds at home.

But it's cold, and it's almost zero degrees now. The twins can't do the work of getting wet, but they can't make a fire, so it's Lin Yang who is busy cooking sweet potato candy alone, while the twins sit Watch the fun from the sidelines.

But the two brothers didn't think they were watching the fun. They were serious about helping their father to see if the sweet potatoes had been cleaned.

The rotten sweet potatoes in their family weighed more than 1000 catties. The main reason was that Lin Yang dug up two big sweet potatoes, and the small sweet potatoes were less. It became small pieces, which made it even harder to preserve, which is why he was in a hurry to boil sweet potato candy.

But also because the sweet potatoes were dug up and damaged, it was not easy to wash. There was mud all over the place, and the mud spots were embedded in the flesh. Every corner had to be rubbed carefully. After washing it with great difficulty, Lin Yang's waist was about to break into pieces. two cuts.

After washing the sweet potatoes, they have to be cut into small pieces, which is also a time-consuming manual work.

But I want to eat sweet potato candy... Forget it, Lin Yang sighed, he has washed everything, so he can't give up now.

After cutting half a pot, Lin Yang felt that the efficiency was too low, and he would not want any more boiled sweet potatoes, so he packed the washed sweet potatoes in gauze and tied them tightly, and beat them with a mallet. How long does it take to smash the sweet potatoes in the bag into pieces, and pour the hammered sweet potatoes directly into the pot. Although it looks ugly, it does not affect the cooking of sweet potato sugar.

More than 1 catties of bruised sweet potatoes can fill all the pots, barrels, and vats in their house after washing, and the pot for cooking sugar here is not big, it is a small iron pot with a diameter of 50 cm. Miduo's didn't bring in, so Lin Yang had to wash a pot and beat a pot, and then cook a pot of sweet potato sugar.

After the sweet potatoes are boiled until soft, they are poured into the malt that was prepared earlier. As soon as the thick sweet potato mash in the pot meets the malt, blue-yellow sugar water will soon ooze out.

When the sugar water is almost seeped, filter out the mashed sweet potato, and continue to boil and stir the remaining sugar water. As the water evaporates slowly, switch to a low heat.

Except for the fire on the stove, the room was dark, but the steam was rising and the smoke was lingering. The narrow room was filled with a unique sweet smell of sweet potato candies. Occasionally, when the fire was too big, there would be bursts of burnt aroma.

Seeing that the sweet potato sugar was almost cooked, Lin Yang picked it up with his chopsticks, and the brown-red translucent syrup was pulled into continuous filaments, and then he turned the syrup around the chopsticks a few times, and a simple lollipop was ready.

The twins have long been jumping up and down from the aroma of sweet potato candy, jumping their feet back and forth, fanning their little hands, like little chicks anxious to be fed, opening their tender mouths and shouting, "Daddy, Daddy."

Lin Yang handed the lollipops to the drooling twins one by one, and he licked the syrup dripping into his hands, feeling that this pot of sweet potato candy was sweeter and more delicious than any he had cooked before. It's so delicious, it's worthy of the sweet potato candy he planted and boiled himself.

When Asparagus came home in the evening, what he saw when he opened the door was such a warm and harmonious picture. The room was full of sweet fragrance, and the air was full of sweet smell.

Lin Yang bowed his tall body and lowered his head to carefully stir the sugar water in the pot, while the twins sat in front of the stove and concentrated on eating sugar. The fire was burning, and their faces were covered with sugar stains without knowing it.

Hearing the sound of pushing the door, Lin Yang saw that it was him, and immediately showed surprise on his face: "Little pig, you are back, come over and eat candies, there are original flavors and caramel ones, whichever you like Kind? I think both are delicious..."

"Dad, Dad, hurry up and eat candy..."

Asparagus unconsciously showed a happy smile.

But even though Asparagus came back to help, Lin Yang didn't boil all the sweet potatoes into sweet potato candy. The pot currently used at home is still too small.Cheng Zi, the complainant, rushed forward to complain to Dad: "Dad, Daddy didn't cook sweet potato candies all the time today, he, he played with water, and he will pee his pants tomorrow!"

The fart was playing with water, it was washing sweet potatoes, Lin Yang was so tired that he didn't want to talk, and he peed his pants, didn't he just hold grudges and laughed at him, brat, what a shame!

This is obviously a complaint, but seeing that they haven't caused any trouble for a day, Wen Zhu comforted him with kind words, and after condemning Big Daddy with him, Cheng Zi was satisfied.

After comforting the twins, I looked around inside and outside the Wenzhu house, and felt that Lin Yang's progress today was not bad, so he said, "You have to continue cooking sweet potato candies tomorrow, then I won't go out, I will help you at home."

He also has to cook a pot of sweet sweet potato candy by himself.

Casually, with a sore back and hands, Lin Yang waved his hands weakly: "Have you planted all the sweet potato vines?"

Wenzhu chewed sweet potato candy, feeling very happy: "No, I just picked some good seeds, and threw the rest into the sheep pen."

"By the way!" Asparagus suddenly approached Lin Yang mysteriously, and whispered to him, "The big sweet potato I replanted has sprouted."

In fact, the only ones that grew buds were the ones with the formations. Since Lin Yang went out to find the formation stones last time, he used these stones to replace the ones placed in the cactus. The new formation stones are more effective than the original ones. , the largest cactus is about to bear fruit for the second time.

Lin Yang, who was replaced, didn't intend to waste it, but he was arranged by Asparagus to Da Sweet Potato before he could figure out how to use it.

Now the big sweet potato has sprouted, so the asparagus is happy, which shows that his idea is right, the sweet potato can really grow again, as for what to do when it grows up, it looks happy, it is so willful.

After talking, the two began to cook. Recently, the family still has vegetarian dishes, so Lin Yang plans to cook a different vegetarian dish tonight.

Lin Yang was reluctant to pour out the water from beating sweet potatoes today, but after a day of precipitation, white sweet potato powder had already remained in the basin. He scooped up two bowls of powder slurry, mixed it with clean water, and then poured it into the oil. Make sweet potato cakes in the pot.

The sweet potato cakes are fried on both sides, cut into small pieces, and then poured into the oil pan with hot pepper, ginger, onion and garlic and stir-fried.

The taste is very fragrant, but it is still a bit of a pity. Asparagus grabbed the sweet potato cubes that Lin Yang fed him with a spatula, tasted it, and said: "Add some soy sauce and bean paste, it will taste better."

Isn't this nonsense, but let him look for it, Lin Yang fed two pieces of slightly cooled sweet potato cakes into the mouths of the twins who were already jumping in anxiety.

He said angrily: "Then you might as well say that it will be more fragrant when fried with pork belly."

"Meat." He was about to go crazy, Wenzhu sighed, he went in to work every day, and the eyes of the sheep that he raised were about to glow green, and those old chickens that did not lay eggs .

He decided to give them another half a month, and if they still haven't laid eggs after half a month, they should obediently put them into the bowl.

The staple food for dinner is rice. If you don’t want to eat, you can eat all the sweet potato cakes. After the meal, everyone in the family has a cup of sweet and sour sweet potato drink. Except that there is no meat to eat, everything is perfect.

Their family had dinner early today, so when Xiao Yu'er's mother came over with Xiao Yu'er in her arms, they had already started to clean up the dishes.

Wen Zhu let them in, poured some drinks, and hurriedly asked: "Second sister-in-law, have you had dinner with Xiao Yu'er? The pot is still hot, do you want some?"

Xiao Yu'er's mother put Xiao Yu'er down and sent her to play with the twins, then stopped Wen Zhu: "Don't worry, I came here to ask you for help."

Today, Lin Chen went out with other people in the village to get things early in the morning, and promised to come back in the evening, but it was already 5:[-] and there was no one. She was really worried, so she wanted Lin Yang. She knew he was still there. If there is an injury, he doesn't need to go out to find someone in person. He just needs to go to other people in the village who have gone out to inquire about the situation and ask Lin Chen why he hasn't come back yet.

In fact, another person can go to this matter in person, but Xiaoyuer's mother is a foreign daughter-in-law who has not been married for a few years. There were not many wells in the village before, so it is not as convenient as Lin Yang, a local.

Wenzhu frowned, "Second sister-in-law, which one have you visited?"

"No, nothing, so I went to Wang Minghui's house. Wang Minghui said that there were not many people who came back today except for going out." Wang Minghui was Lin Guang's wife. After Lin Guang died, she moved in alone. The house I live in, where I can see the road to the abandoned factory in the village.

Wang Minghui said that she was not familiar with the people who came back, so she wanted Lin Yang to ask for help.

It's just a door-to-door help to ask about the situation. It's a simple matter. Lin Yang agreed, and he said to her while putting on the coat he went out with: "Second sister-in-law, you wait here. I'll be back soon after I ask."

"No, I'll go with you." Xiaoyu'er's mother didn't want to wait any longer, she stood up immediately, and found that she was too anxious, she turned her head and said to Wen Zhu in embarrassment: "Wen Zhu, can you help me see Xiao Yu'er, I'll pick her up after I inquire with Lin Yang about the situation."

Xiao Yu'er is not difficult to take care of, and the two families are familiar with each other, Wenzhu didn't refuse: "Second sister-in-law, don't worry!"

The two went to Lin Aiping's house first. On the road, Wang Minghui saw Lin Lin coming back from the outside. When they knocked on the door, Lin Lin was still very vigilant, and opened the door when she heard that she was asking if anyone had come back.

"Third brother, second sister-in-law." Lin Lin let them in.

"We won't go in." Xiaoyu'er's mother ignored the politeness and asked her directly at the door: "Lin Lin, Wang Minghui said that you came back very early. Did you see my Lin Chen when you came back? Why didn't he follow me?" You come back together?"

"Second sister-in-law, I didn't go back to the village. My father and mother are the ones who went back to the village today." Lin Lin was also anxious, two of them went to the village.

"Then why did you come back from outside?" Lin Yang asked.

"I went to wait outside. I was afraid that my parents brought back too many things, so I wanted to go out to meet them." But after waiting for a long time, no one came back. I went home by myself.

Hearing her answer, Xiao Yu'er's mother became even more uneasy: "You didn't go out!"

They couldn't get any news from Lin Lin, so they went to another house, and Lin Lin wanted to go with her because she was worried about his parents.

But I asked everyone who appeared at the intersection today, none of them came back from outside today, they just happened to go out for something, and then came back and were seen.

Today, people from almost every household went out, but no one has come back so far. Those who stayed in the abandoned factory said they were worried, but they didn't seem to be in a hurry considering that there were so many people there.

Xiaoyu'er's mother was very worried. If Lin Yang and Wenzhu didn't stop her, she would even want to go out to find Lin Chen now.

She kept emphasizing: "Lin Chen agreed with me, he will definitely go home today, so something must have happened to him, otherwise he wouldn't rest assured that Xiao Yu'er and I are alone at home."

Lin Yang comforted her: "Second sister-in-law, it's dark now, even if you go out now, you can't see the way clearly!"

"Lin Yang, can you, can you..." Xiao Yu'er's mother was in a panic, not knowing what to do, she begged Lin Yang directly: "Lin Yang, you and I..."

"Second sister-in-law!" Wenzhu is not happy, you can't let my family Lin Yang go out to find someone at night just because you are worried about Lin Chen, does he not have a family?Does he have no children?

"Second sister-in-law, Lin Yang is still injured, and I have been out to work these few days." Seeing Xiao Yu'er's mother's face becoming more and more hollow, Wen Zhu softened his tone: "Second sister-in-law , Lin Chen and the others are so many, nothing will happen, and it's too late now, if you have an emergency because you went out to find Lin Chen, what will Xiao Yuer do!"

"But, but Lin Chen said he would come back."

Xiao Yu'er's mother is in a daze now, and can't listen to anything, Wen Zhu can only promise her: "Second sister-in-law, can you wait for a night, I will go out to find Lin Chen for you tomorrow morning."

After all, I persuaded Xiao Yu'er's mother to calm down, but Lin Yang and Wen Zhu didn't dare to let her take Xiao Yu'er home alone. If something happened to her when she ran out suddenly at night, they would definitely I will be sorry.

Asparagus spread out the fire pit outside, and planned to let their mother live here at night.

Just after cleaning up, at about ten o'clock, Lin Yang suddenly heard shouts from outside. It seemed to be Lin Qun and Lin Quan. Something must have happened in the village in the middle of the night!

Shocked, he quickly woke Wen Zhu up, "Someone is coming outside, I'll go and see, don't go anywhere at home, don't open the door to anyone but me."

Since the last mountain temple incident, Lin Yang has reinforced all the doors, windows and roof of his house when he came back. Now if they don't take the initiative to open the door, no one can get in.

"What happened?" Wenzhu was startled, opened his eyes and sat up, "How about, I'll go with you and let the second sister-in-law..." As soon as he said it, he realized that it was impossible. If nothing happens to him, he is lucky, and it is impossible to expect her to look after the child.

Xiao Yu'er's mother didn't sleep at all, so she soon found out if there was any movement outside.

Lin Yang had already put on all his clothes at that time and was about to go out, but Xiao Yuer's mother wanted to follow her life and death. Lin Yang felt that instead of letting her go out and run around, he might as well keep her by his side, otherwise she would stay here Asparagus has to worry.

The two rushed out in a hurry, and met Lin Qun and Lin Quan who were returning to the abandoned factory on the grounds of the abandoned factory. These two boys ran back overnight, and they yelled as soon as they came back, as if no one would hear them.

Everyone got up from the bed and rushed to the mountain temple following the sound. When almost everyone came, Lin Qunlinquan startled everyone when he opened his mouth.

Someone is coming from outside!Besides, those people wanted to seize their houses and food in the village. The people who went out today had already clashed with them. The two of them came back overnight to find helpers.

The news was so shocking that no one spoke for a while.

Xiao Yu'er's mother didn't care about other things, she chased the two of them and asked, "How is our Lin Chen, is he injured? When will he come back?"

As if awakened by a start, the others gathered around and questioned Lin Qun and Lin Quan.

"Yeah, did anyone get hurt, and how is my house built?"

"Brother Qun, where are my father and mother, are they injured?"

"Lin Quan, where is my little Song, how is he?"

……

Lin Qun felt a little annoyed that the villagers couldn't find the point.

"When I came back, no one was injured much, but we have to send people out quickly. Those are our houses and food in the village. Should we let them and those outsiders ruin them?"

Lin Qun stood up on the stool, "Their group of people are very fierce and unreasonable at all. After eating the food outside, do you think they won't come to the abandoned factory to rob us?"

That group of people was completely different from those who had been staying in the village. The first thing they saw when they saw people coming from outside was to go up to say hello, socialize, and inquire about news, but when those people saw them, their eyes glowed green. The expression was even more disgusting, and there was no explanation for the seizure of the houses and food in the village, and there was only naked malice in their eyes.

There were not many people coming outside, only 11, but they were very ruthless, and the villagers were unprepared, so even if there were more than 50 people in the village who went out today, they did not have the upper hand, and instead injured several people because of their timidity.

But the rest of the village are old, weak, sick and disabled, and they seem to be unable to increase their fighting power except for worrying and worrying.

Lin Qun hated that iron could not be made into steel. This is a major issue related to the survival of the village. It seems that everyone is not very anxious.

There are also positive ones, but the positive ones are different from what Lin Qun cares about.

Some villains came to rob the door, and more than 50 people in the village did not take advantage of it. As soon as this fact came out, some people felt withdrawn, thinking that they should just give up the little things in the village and retreat to the abandoned factory. Anyway, they live here. Enough food, as long as the broken bridge is cut down, those people will not be able to enter at all, and those people will naturally leave after eating the little food outside.

Although it is a passive defense, this idea is really exciting. The most important thing is to avoid casualties. If the food in the village is not counted in the food they secretly hide in their own hills, there are not many houses in the village. .

But will those people leave honestly after eating and using up the food in the village?No one can guarantee it!

If the two sides fight again at that time, Lianhua Village will be less motivated to fight due to the previous cowardice, and their casualties will definitely be even greater. It is better to deal with that group now and rob the village. come back.

They just lacked a backbone, so Lin Qun went directly to Lin Yang.