April 12, 1982, evening.

The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the land of Saltpeter Village, dyeing the entire Saltpeter Village golden. In the green grass on the bank of the river in the east of the village, Liu Xing, a young man who was sleeping soundly, felt the warmth brought by the sun and couldn't help but open his eyes in a daze.

When looking at your surroundings clearly.

The whole person couldn't help but be stunned.

He was actually in a mountain village with green mountains and clear waters.

The mud-brick houses in the mountain village are scattered, the smoke curls from the cooking, and a small babbling river runs through it. In the river, ducks frolic and egg-sized crabs emerge from cracks in the rocks to enjoy the last rays of the day.

The comfortable and bold and arrogant appearance did not seem to take the villagers passing by to carry water in their eyes at all.

"Where am I?"

"Why is the environment of this mountain village so familiar?"

"But why can't I remember what this place is?"

"Ouch! My head hurts. ”

Liu Xing was stunned for a moment when he saw the surrounding environment, and then covered his head and shouted out in a lost voice, and at the same time, he recognized a long-sealed memory in the sea, like a 'flood' that broke through the embankment, all exploded.

These memories ......

It has to do with 'him' in this life.

Muddy ...... It's like fast-forward to a movie, some of it is vivid, some of it is forgotten in the blink of an eye, as if it never existed in his mind.

Soon, the dreamlike feeling came to an end.

Liu Xing also came back to his senses.

Looking at the green mountains and green waters around him, as well as the buffaloes grazing slowly around him, his eyes gradually widened, and in the end, he was speechless in a daze.

According to the overlapping memories in his mind, if he is not mistaken, he was reborn from a sudden death due to continuous overtime, and returned to the saltpeter village 38 years ago, that is, the saltpeter village in 1982.

In 1982, he graduated from junior high school less than a year ago, and he was still an ignorant teenager at the age of sixteen.

As for the saltpeter village, it is where he was born.

It is also the place where he was adrift before his rebirth, and he most wanted to go back and see.

It's a pity that as a post-60s generation, the family is burdened, and the life is not rich, so this wish cannot be realized at all. And now, because the rebirth has been achieved inadvertently, it is really a bit unexpected.

In the memory of rebirth, saltpeter village is a small mountain village in the middle of nowhere.

But at this time, there is an indescribable sense of intimacy. Even the sky feels extraordinarily basketed, and the river water is exceptionally clear.

However, Liu Xing knew that in this green mountain and green water environment, the saltpeter village was particularly poor.

Some families don't even have enough to eat, and his family is afraid that they are one of them.

It can be seen from the patched clothes and pants on his body, as well as the straw sandals under his feet.

"By the way, I was reborn thirty-eight years ago, so aren't my dead parents still alive?" Liu Xing, who thought of this, quickly got up from the grass with an excited grunt, and was about to run in the direction of home, but the next second he almost tripped over.

Looking down, I couldn't help but smile.

What tripped him was a bull rope tied to a small tree.

Looking along the cow rope, a strong buffalo was staring at him with big eyes like copper bells, and the tail of the cow behind the buttocks rhythmically slapped the cowflies attached to the body to suck blood.

"Black calf, it's good to see you again. Liu Xing untied the cow rope from the small tree, walked to the side of the buffalo, stretched out his hand and touched the horns, and there was happiness in his eyes.

The black calf is the name he gave to the buffalo.

Originally, it was called 'Rolling Calf', because it was born round like a ball.

But his father 'Liu Dazhao' was not happy, and the calf was not good to shout around, and he was suspected of scolding. In the end, under the coercion of the bamboo strips, Liu Xing changed his name to 'Black Calf' and didn't say much.

The reason why this is the case is because in saltpeter villages, especially in the eighties and nineties, almost every household will raise cattle, or several peasant families will raise a cow, because of the preciousness, many will take a name and hang a tag on the neck of the cow to prevent loss.

Liu Xing gave his family's big buffalo the name Black Calf, which is exactly what it means.

As for the use of cattle, those who have been farmers know that they are used to plow the fields.

Liu Xing's family has seven people, with two older sisters and a younger brother and a younger sister, and so many people have at least more than 10 acres of land according to the rule of 'dividing fields into households' in 81 years, not including those dry fields.

If there were not a single ploughing ox in so many fields, it would obviously not be possible to cultivate them by manpower alone.

So in the year when the field was divided into households, my father ruthlessly scraped together and bought a freshly weaned buffalo in the production team, and when it grew up, it was convenient for agricultural production.

This little buffalo is the black calf.

Since he was bought home, it was all Liu Xing free-range.

From eighty-one to eighty-two years, the black calf has grown from the size of a puppy to a strong buffalo, and the relationship between him and Liu Xing is self-evident.

It's just that the end of the black calf is a bit miserable, with the change of the times, the farmland has been greatly reduced, and finally it has become food on the human table.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing couldn't help but sigh: "Since God has given me a chance to be reborn, then I must treat the black calf well in this life, at least let it die of natural aging, instead of being sold and become food on the table." ”

It's not that he's sentimental, it's the fifteen to nineteen years old in his memory, all spent with the black calf, and there are joys and tears.

When I reminisce, I feel a lot in my heart.

"Brother, brother...... Guan Niu is just right to go home!" On the bank of the river, a sweet and glutinous shout came out, breaking Liu Xing's thoughts.

Cha Rice means to eat.

"Huh?" Liu Xing turned his head to look, and when he saw a thin little girl about four or five years old with a ponytail calling him, a faint smile appeared in his eyes when he was stunned.

This thin little girl is his sister 'Liu Qingmei', nicknamed Dou Gua Zi, and the people in the village like to call her Gua Wazi, because Gua Wazi has a scolding element in it, and was later changed to Gua Zi by her mother.

To be able to see his sister melon seeds for the first time after being reborn, to be honest, Liu Xing was very happy in his heart, but after seeing the bulging woven bag on the shoulder of the melon seeds, and the image of a barefoot girl, the smile on his face disappeared.

I don't know why, Liu Xing was a little inexplicably distressed.

A few decades later, children of Melon Seed's age are all in kindergarten, and Melon Seeds are carried with woven bags to the field to hunt pigweed and feed the pigs, which is not a dream, but a phenomenon that can be seen in the countryside in the 80s.

As for the barefoot girl, it was because the family really didn't have the money to buy her shoes, even the patched clothes on her body were leftover from the two sisters, so that they were as ugly as a robe on the melon seeds.

Seeing that the melon seeds were laboriously carrying the woven bag towards him, Liu Xing hurriedly led the black calf to meet him, and after taking the woven bag and putting it on the back of the black calf, he said: "What are you doing with more fruit and pigweed?

"Hee-hee...... It won't drop, my mother said that I want to add fuel to the pigweed, and there will be meat cha during the New Year. The melon seeds wiped the sweat off their foreheads with a wave of their little hands, and there was happiness in their big eyes.

'Mom' is the meaning of mother in Saltpeter Village, and the melon seeds did not go to school, so the words spoken are all dialects, and Liu Xing listens to them that are both cordial and comfortable. He knew that the melon seeds must be tired, so he immediately reached out and hugged them, and walked in the direction of home with the melon seeds.

However, for the weight of melon seeds, Liu Xing was secretly frightened.

Because a five-year-old girl seems to him to be at least thirty pounds.

But the melon seeds were in his hands, and he didn't feel the pressure, and they seemed to be blown away by the wind.

"It's definitely due to malnutrition, and I don't have enough to eat. Liu Xing glanced at the melon seeds dotingly, he knew that this situation had to be changed, otherwise when he reached the age of growing his body, he would definitely not grow tall.

However, for Liu Xing now, it should be easy to change.

After all, he is a man who has been reborn with decades of experience.

Seeing that he was about to cross the bridge, Liu Xing quickly retracted his thoughts and walked over concentrating on holding the black calf.

On the opposite side of the bridge, there were four or five children picking 'wild strawberries' on the edge of the ridge, and when they saw that the melon seeds were held by Liu Xing very affectionately, they couldn't help laughing one by one, and shouted 'melon baby seeds' to ridicule.

For such a thing, melon seeds have long been commonplace, after all, his nickname is melon baby, although there are derogatory elements in it, but she doesn't care at all, as long as the brothers and sisters in the family don't shout.

What she cares about now is the red wild strawberries in the buckets of these children in the same village, which are delicious in the world, refreshing in the mouth and sweet in the heart.

It's a pity that others can't pick it at all because they have short hands, and they only have eyes to see.

Wild strawberry is the name of the countryside.

Its real name is - prickly puffer, also known as berry, scientific name raspberry, belongs to the Rosaceae family, deciduous shrubs, the height of the tree is generally about 1 meter, the vine is full of thorns, born in the open land of the forest edge and the bank of the river, between the shrubs on the hillside and in the mixed forest.

Liu Xing had eaten a lot of wild strawberries when he was a child, and he was even more unforgettable about the deliciousness.

He saw the melon seeds biting his index finger and looking at the child on the ridge, he couldn't help but shake his head and asked softly, "Silly girl, do you want to eat wild strawberries?"

"Uh-huh!" melon seeds nodded.

"Then you wait on the bridge. Liu Xing took the woven bag from the black calf and put it beside the melon seed.

"Brother, what are you doing?" asked Guazi with her little head tilted.

"Pick wild strawberries for you to eat!" Liu Xing smiled, led the black calf and went down the river.

On both sides of the river, there are thorny vines, among which there are many wild strawberries, which are bright red and dazzling to the human eye.

But because of the turbulent water and steep banks, no one dared to set foot in it.

And Liu Xingke is different, sitting on the back of the black calf to open the way, in the turbulent river water, it is all 'like walking on the ground' for him. This is not bragging, because the black calf is a buffalo, and swimming in and out of the river is as easy as a fish.

Of course, in Saltpeter Village, only Liu Xing can do it, after all, not everyone can treat cattle like their own relatives, and not everyone can make the black calf obedient and do whatever he wants.

After getting down the river, Liu Xing, who was riding on the black calf, used the ox rope in his hand to guide the way to the patches of wild strawberries on the river bank.

Although his trouser legs were wet with the river, he didn't care at all, after all, the river was not very cold, and compared to the delicious wild strawberries, it was not worth mentioning at all.

When the melon seed saw this scene, he covered his small mouth and widened his eyes, and after coming back to his senses, he cheered and jumped up: "Nest God, brother, you are so good!"

Liu Xing smiled and didn't answer, and after asking the black calf not to move, he stood on his back and picked wild strawberries.

"Oh my God, this is all right, this black calf is too obedient, isn't it?"

"Look, that wild strawberry is so big, it's almost catching up with my eggs!"

"See, there's more than one or two!"

"It really blinded me. ”

"Why isn't my buffalo so powerful?"

The four or five children who were also picking wild strawberries on the ridge of the field ran to the bridge when they saw this scene, and when they found that the wild strawberries picked by Liu Xing were full and round, bright red, they were envious and jealous.