After graduation, I went home to keep bees

Rainy days always get dark very fast, and it's dark before five o'clock.Jiang Xiaoman cut a piece of tofu that was left on purpose into cubes, cut a bowl of bacon and fried it together, and stewed half a pot of sweet potato porridge. In this humid and cold weather, what is better than eating a bowl of sweet potato porridge warmly? All comfortable.

The next morning, after feeding the pigs at home, the father and son went down the mountain together to pick up fish, one carrying a fishing net and a harpoon, the other carrying a basket and a hatchet.

Picking up fish sounds simple, but it's actually a bit dangerous. The upstream flood discharge is very strong. To ensure safety, Jiang Xiaoman will first tie his father's waist with a thick hemp rope, and then firmly fix the other end to a tree. .

Jiang Youliang held a special half-faced fishing net on the shore, spotted the fish floating down from the upper reaches, covered it with the fishing net first, and then used a harpoon to bring it up. If he was lucky, he could catch a few fish in one morning. With bad luck, even the fishing net will be washed away by the current...

This is a technical job, and Jiang Xiaoman has not yet mastered the skill of fishing, so he can only hold the rope tightly behind him and watch his father fish.

At this time, Jiang Youliang, with his back tightly arched like a fully drawn bowstring, firmly held the bamboo poles on both sides of the fishing net with both hands, stared at the river surface, and when he saw fish coming down from the upper reaches, he quickly stretched out the fishing net. However, Because the current was too fast, the fish went up and down along the current, and it was very difficult to catch. Jiang Youliang fished it several times, and finally he was lucky enough to catch a fat-headed fish with long arms!

"Get the fish!" Jiang Youliang smiled brightly on his old face, raised the harpoon, and threw the fat-headed fish on the fork to the bank. ladle.

They were lucky today. After working all morning, the father and son actually picked up a basket full of fish. The biggest one was as long as Jiang Xiaoman's legs. The deepest basket in his house couldn't fit in it, and the tails of the fish were sticking out. .

"I don't think we can cook pickled fish in this weather. Let's keep two of these fish for ourselves, and send the rest to your Uncle Baichuan. The children will probably have to live in school for a few days, so take it and add something to them!" Jiang Jiang Youliang carried a basket full of fresh fish on his back, and told his son as he walked, "Let's go together in the afternoon, and look for our fungus nests in the woods along the way, and pick up the big ones first, so as not to be soaked by the rain. "

Rainy days are also a good time to pick up fungus, and because the rain has suppressed the fallen leaves, fungi are easier to find than sunny days. Local old mountain people like Jiang Youliang usually have their own fungus nests that they often go to. Run empty.

Jiang Xiaoman smiled, just about to say that his father was also greedy, when he suddenly heard a loud noise halfway up the mountain, as if something had collapsed, Jiang Xiaoman's expression changed suddenly, and he grabbed his father from behind.

The father and son raised their heads and saw the familiar old house halfway up the mountain where his house was located. The roof could no longer be seen...

The sound of heavy objects collapsing faintly came from his ears, Jiang Xiaoman's mind went blank, his father had already rushed up the mountain with big strides.

The father and son scrambled and ran to the bottom of their house. When they were tens of meters away from the door, they couldn't get past it.

The old house, which had been in disrepair for a long time, finally couldn't resist the erosion of years and wind and rain, and collapsed.

Jiang Youliang's old house was renovated when Jiang Youliang's father was alive. At that time, the family was poor and couldn't afford red bricks. His father made mud bricks by himself. It took four years to save enough to build a house. The mud bricks, beams and bamboo fences for the roof were also made by themselves. At that time, the family was so poor that they could not even afford a dollar, and they owed more than 300 yuan in foreign debts.

It is precisely because of foreign debts that even if a new house is built, Jiang Youliang has no money to marry a wife, and when he was in his thirties, he rushed to pick up Jiang Xiaoman... It can be said that this house is Jiang Youliang's unfortunate The epitome of the first half of his life is also the sustenance of his happy second half.

But now, the sustenance he relied on suddenly collapsed without any warning.

Tears of despair crawled all over Jiang Youliang's old face unconsciously.

"Dad, it's okay! It's okay, I still have tens of thousands in my card, the house collapsed, let's build a better one!"

"I'll build you a small brick western-style building made of reinforced concrete!" Jiang Xiaoman hugged his father tightly.

Jiang Youliang lay in his son's arms and couldn't help crying.Jiang Xiaoman patted his father with red eyes, and tears fell uncontrollably.

In the eyes of outsiders, their family may be really poor and dilapidated, but since he can remember, he has grown up in this dilapidated old house!He still remembers that when he was a child, there was a rainstorm in the mountains one year. It rained for several days in a row, and the roof of his house finally couldn't hold the rain.

When he was still young, his father climbed up to repair the roof by himself. Afraid that he would be afraid of staying in the house, he removed the tiles and threw the straw mushrooms growing on the roof down while repairing the roof.

The young Jiang Xiaoman dragged a bamboo basket, crawled all over the floor to pick up mushrooms, and had a great time... That night, his father used his clumsy cooking skills to make him a bowl of mushroom egg drop soup.

Jiang Xiaoman still remembers the deliciousness of that bowl of soup.

It was the best mushroom egg drop soup he had ever eaten in his life.

The father and son cried for a while, but the house collapsed, and life still had to go on.

Until now, Jiang Xiaoman couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he and his father went down the mountain to fish this morning, otherwise their family would have been "destroyed" by now, okay?

To be honest, the mud house built by his grandfather in the early years was really solid. The collapse this time was not because the house was in disrepair for a long time, but a landslide on the back hill, which broke down the back wall of his house and brought It knocked down the whole house.

There is also a large piece of bract grain planted in front of his yard, which is also crushed by the collapsed earthwork. This piece of bract grain is considered white.

But it's okay, because the four walls have collapsed completely, there is no danger now, the father and son put down their things, and carefully stepped on the collapsed mud bricks to return home, Jiang Youliang was thinking about the two most valuable big pigs in the family , ran over to take a look, suddenly happy——

"Xiao Man! Our pig is still alive! The chicken is also there!"

Jiang’s pigsty was built later. In order to save trouble, mud bricks were not made separately, but half of the wall was built with yellow mud mixed with broken grass. The top was empty, and there was only a roof made of moso bamboo. ventilation.Unexpectedly, such a crude design unexpectedly saved the Jiang family's most valuable possession——

The old house fell to the east along the direction of the landslide. The pigsty built on the west side was almost intact, only the two bamboo beams near the old house were bent. The roof of the pigsty was slightly skewed. A dozen or so chickens raised by Zhu and Jiang Youliang shivered and curled up in a corner, and some old hens even jumped on the pigs in fright... Although they were embarrassed, they were all alive.

Compared with his father, Jiang Xiaoman was more unlucky—the second-hand computer he carried back from school after so much painstaking efforts was buried tightly by the collapsed earthwork, and even if he dug it out, it would turn into a pile of waste Iron.

Fortunately, he and his father's savings were all in the card, and he followed the memory to find the location of the bedroom. Fortunately, Jiang Xiaoman found his "safe", an old-fashioned biscuit box, and pulled out his backpack. The rest of the bedding and clothes were buried in the mud and were covered with mud. If they were dug out, they probably wouldn't be able to wear them, so they had to give up.

Temporarily settled a dozen chickens in the pigsty, poured half a bag of corn into the trough, and chopped a basket of chard and threw it in. The father and son drove the two pigs first, and hurried down the mountain before it was dark. .

The rain is getting heavier and heavier. In this kind of weather, if there is no place to live in the mountains at night, people can really freeze to death.

On the way down the mountain, Jiang Xiaoman called Jiang Baichuan and briefly explained what happened at home. The main point was - he and his father probably had to live in the school temporarily.

Jiang Baichuan was cooking for the students. He was shocked when he heard that his nephew's house had collapsed. He also heard Jiang Xiaoman say that he and his father had nothing to do because they went down the mountain to catch fish. The heart was immediately placed firmly in the stomach.

"Why do you say hello? Half of the classrooms on the third floor of the school are empty. You and your father can live in any room you want. Your two pigs are kept in the school pigsty. I will get some paint for your pigs later. Paint it on, and you won't admit your mistake!"

All the way to the school on the muddy mountain road, the father and son were covered in mud and water, and they were so embarrassed that the two pigs turned into mud pigs.Jiang Baichuan felt distressed and helpless when he saw it. He quickly took his spare clothes and urged the father and son to go to the bathroom to take a shower. to the pigsty.

Because he couldn't find any paint that could fix the color for a while, Jiang Baichuan directly wiped off the ears of the two pigs, asked a student for a red paintbrush, and wrote the word "Jiang" on the ears of the two pigs. I can't get it wrong.

After taking a hot bath, Jiang Xiaoman suddenly felt that he was revived again.In fact, thinking about it carefully, he originally planned to demolish the old house at home and build a new one. Originally, he had to spend money to hire someone to demolish the old house.

The next step is to dig out the collapsed earthwork and throw it elsewhere, freeing up the original homestead of the family.

However, what Jiang Youliang and Jiang Xiaoman didn't expect was that at night, when they heard that their house was collapsed by a landslide, the village chief actually congratulated them with joy——

"Great! I heard that during the heavy rain, houses in several nearby towns were collapsed by landslides. The county called us to make statistics. It is estimated that there will be subsidies for you."

The village chief also knew that Jiang Xiaoman had always wanted to tear down the old house and rebuild it. He had asked him about buying building materials and hiring an engineering team before. He didn't expect that even God would help them. Just as he was about to tear down the old house and rebuild it, the old house collapsed. .

What is even more surprising is that Jiang Youliang and his son ran down the mountain to catch fish after the house collapsed for a long time, perfectly avoiding this natural disaster. Could it be that Jiang Xiaoman is really like the old witch said In that way, is it a little lucky star from heaven?

Because of the good news from the village head, the bird of good news, Jiang Youliang, who had been depressed all afternoon, finally cheered up again: "At first, I thought that the family's money might not be enough to build a house. If this subsidy is added, as long as we continue to With [-] to [-] yuan, it is enough to build two floors of our house."

"Well! If it doesn't work, let's build the lower floor first, and then build the upper one when we have money. This time our family can't save money. We must dig deeper for the foundation and use cement and steel as the frame!" Jiang Xiaoman added.

He planned to build this house for his father's retirement, so he definitely couldn't do tofu dregs projects. Jiang Xiaoman secretly calculated his current savings, and found that if he followed his plan, he would most likely only have to build a foundation and a building first. The first floor, the second floor can only wait for two years to save some money.

"Let's talk about this later, hurry up and eat!" The students had already finished their meal, and Jiang Baichuan took the leftovers and fried them with egg fried rice and seaweed egg drop soup. There was no time to cook, so he could only cut a few Bring me a salted duck egg.

The father and son were really hungry after tossing about for a long time. They wolfed down half a bowl of fried rice with eggs. Jiang Baichuan also moved two quilts out of the cabinet. He didn't have any extra quilts here, so he could only wrong the father and son. The two had to sleep on the same bed for the time being, and had to make a bed on the floor, because the classrooms on the third floor were all empty, and they couldn't even find a bed board.

Is it rare to fall into the little social expert Jiang Xiaoman?

He immediately ran to the only canteen in the village, bought two sets of underwear and long johns for him and his father, bought new shoes and socks, and asked the boss to buy a few boxes of local local liquor for him. With such a large amount of consumption, Jiang Xiaoman went much smoother when he asked the boss for a cardboard box.

I heard that the old house of the father and son had collapsed, and they lived temporarily in the empty classroom of the school. The store owner also recommended him to buy a roll of rainproof cloth, which can be placed on the ground to prevent moisture. After a while, they returned After the foundation has been cleared, it can be used to build a temporary hut for people to live in.

Jiang Xiaoman took it seriously, and immediately scanned the QR code to pay, and bought another large roll of rainproof cloth.The shop owner really reminded him that not only the ground is moisture-proof, but the classrooms on the third floor of the school are really "in disrepair". When the mountain wind blows, it is so sour!