[This afternoon, my grandmother is gone, and from now on, I seem to have one less relative......]

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After making up his mind, Liu Qingshan found tools such as hoes and shovels and began to dig the soil.

Since you want to widen the ramp, you naturally have to start with the retaining stone wall in your yard.

These stacked stones, perpendicular to the ground level, are 'wild stones' of various sizes that are commonplace in the mountains.

They are neither as angular as the quarry stones, nor as neatly crafted as the processed stones.

They can be round or square, long or short, and each stone has its own unique shape.

Originally, it would have been extremely difficult to build a retaining wall with such stones, but it was difficult for the working people.

In order to keep these stones firmly together, the ancestors did not use cement, which had not yet appeared in the mountain villages at that time, nor did they use the red mud used to build the houses, but planted some saxifrage grass with strong vitality between the cracks of these stones.

Today, the stone wall on the inside of the ramp is overgrown with saxifrage that barely leaves a single gap.

Liu Qingshan held the hoe and stood in the ramp, looking at the dense saxifrage grass on this wall, and felt a little unbearable.

You know, these saxifrage plants have also disappeared.

It is said that a long time ago, this wall had saxifrage, but because of the frequent snakes in the mountains at that time, in order to prevent snakes from making nests in the yard, my grandfather killed the weeds in the yard along with the saxifrage on this wall.

Later, Liu Qingshan was born and grew up slowly.

Once, he followed his grandfather to the neighbor's house, and when he walked to the neighbor's backyard, his grandfather looked at a wall of saxifrage on the stone wall in the backyard, and said to him with a little excitement: "Qingshan, look, this is a gold-threaded hanging gourd." ”

The other name of saxifrage is golden thread hanging hibiscus, but I don't know what it is, in the local area, people call it gold thread hanging gourd.

It's probably because when the two round leaves of the saxifrage are next to each other, they look like gourds.

Grandpa pointed to a large piece of gold-threaded hanging gourd with round leaves in front of him and said, "Qingshan, look, this is also a kind of herb." ”

Liu Qingshan stood behind him and glanced at those 'weeds' from a distance, but saw clusters of small white flowers blooming in the middle of the round leaves.

The white flowers were small and thin, estimated to be the size of a grain of rice, which was really inconspicuous.

When he was a child, Qingshan was also a 'womanificent', liking the red red flowers like azaleas, and the white white flowers like the sea, but he couldn't look down on the inconspicuous millet flowers like saxifrage.

These flowers are small and thin, what can they look at, they are not as beautiful as the thorny vine flowers in the mountains.

So, he pouted his little mouth and said with great disdain: "Hmph, if you don't look at it, you don't look at it, it's not good at all." ”

Grandpa pinched his little face and laughed: "Haha, Qingshan, what you said is really interesting, is it true that only beautiful things can make you happy and let you take a look?"

Xiao Qingshan frowned, slapped his grandfather's hand away, and said seriously: "But, what are you doing with something that is not good-looking?"

"You can't say that. Grandpa thought for a while, squatted down, wrapped his hands around his small waist, and said earnestly, "Qingshan, in this world, everything has a reason for its existence, and we can't judge its quality based on its appearance alone." In fact, as long as you look at it with your heart, it is a very ordinary and ordinary thing, and you can also find some unique beauty from it. ”

Xiao Qingshan couldn't understand such profound words, but he still frowned and continued to look at the wall of saxifrage.

In the end, he thinks that he really doesn't have a pair of eyes that are good at finding beauty.

Until one time, he fell ill and had a lot of itchy red spots on his body, which could not be cured for a long time.

It was probably because the sick person was his grandson, so the grandfather didn't dare to take the medicine himself, for fear of eating the grandson, so the father took him to the township health center and some messy barefoot doctors.

However, a month has passed, and the red spots on his body still show no signs of subsiding, making Xiao Qingshan so uncomfortable that he cries all night.

As soon as the child was uncomfortable, the adults also suffered.

His mother was already weak, but she still had to serve him all night.

After his father had to work, he had to take him to the doctor for medicine.

Although Grandpa didn't have to do anything, he was in great pain in his heart. Because his only grandson was sick, and he had been sick for so long, he didn't dare to use medicine, for fear that there would be any mistakes, and the torment in his heart could be imagined.

And when he was sick for a long time, his grandmother also fell ill, and was sick in bed, refusing to see anyone. Grandpa wanted to go to see her, but she didn't allow her grandfather to go in, and only let the second uncle pass the word.

Knowing that the eldest grandmother was also covered with red spots and extremely itchy, the grandfather didn't say a word, found fresh saxifrage grass, and asked the second uncle to fry water for the eldest grandmother to drink.

But the grandmother is old, but she has played the temper of a child, no matter how everyone persuades, she refuses to take medicine.

So, the second uncle found his grandfather and said, "The eldest aunt loves Qingshan the most, let Qingshan feed her medicine, she will definitely be willing to drink it." ”

In the absence of any way, he could only let Aoyama, who was still sick, go to feed the medicine to the eldest grandmother.

The grandmother is well-behaved, as long as Qingshan goes to feed her medicine, she will drink the medicine cleanly, which finally solves everyone's urgent need.

Strange things happen.

About a week or so, Grandpa found that the red spots on Aoyama's body were mysteriously gone.

He peeled off his grandson's clothes, looked back and forth, left and right, and called it magical.

Liu Yuanhe also felt incredible, and said in amazement: "I have taken it to the doctor for almost two months, and it has not been better, why did it get better this week?"

Xiao Qingshan stood in front of the adults with his bare buttocks, and said with a smile: "Grandma gave me all the sugar water to drink." ”

Liu Yuanhe's father and son were quite puzzled. What kind of sugar water?

It happened that the second uncle came to pick up Qingshan again to feed the eldest grandmother, and when he saw that the matter was revealed, he told the truth.

In fact, the eldest grandmother has not been sick since the beginning, not to mention that she has red spots all over her body, and she does not have a mosquito bag. And the reason why she called her sick was because her grandfather didn't dare to give Xiao Qingshan medicine, and seeing that Xiao Qingshan had been uncomfortable, she came up with this method.

Grandpa suddenly realized: "I said, I said how the red spots on Qingshan's body are bizarre, it turns out that the potion you fried was all for Qingshan to drink." ”

"yes. The second uncle smiled, "If it weren't for the eldest aunt who came up with this method, how could Qingshan be so fast." ”

Xiao Qingshan looked at everyone with a confused expression. What potion is it? Isn't it sugar water?

Grandpa laughed: "Haha, although I know that the golden thread gourd can cure erythema, but when I think that it is a three-point poison and is used on my grandson, I really don't dare to do it." Alas, in the final analysis, there is still not enough culture and bad technology. ”

"Dad, your technique is okay, if it doesn't work, Qingshan can't be so fast, I said this child, why don't you cry these nights, it turns out that the red spots are slowly fading. As he spoke, Dad picked up Xiao Qingshan again, turned him over and over again, and looked at it carefully, and said happily, "It's okay now, the red spots are all gone, and in the future, you can sleep peacefully." ”

After that, Grandpa went through the matter in detail and told Xiao Qingshan that the reason why his illness was able to get better was because of the inconspicuous gold-threaded hanging gourd.

"You see, grandpa was right before, to see the quality of a thing, you can't judge it purely by its appearance, just like this saxifrage, mediocre, neither beautiful flowers, nor with a straight body, but it cures your red spots. ”

When Liu Qingshan heard this, he was immediately filled with infinite admiration for those creeping and growing gold-threaded hanging gourds.

I feel that the golden thread gourd is like a hero in the TV series, although it is not good-looking, and it is not a famous family, but the appearance of people walking the rivers and lakes with swords is really handsome!

"Grandpa, let's also plant a little gold thread hanging hoist. Koaoyama said.

Grandpa looked at him with satisfaction and nodded: "Okay, let's go, let's go and pull some back and plant this wall." ”

So, since then, this stone wall has been covered with saxifrage.

When Liu Qingshan grew up a little, he learned that saxifrage was the scientific name of the golden thread gourd, and the disease he got when he was a child was actually chronic urticaria.

Saxifrage is also known as Shihe leaf, which belongs to the saxifrage family of perennial herbaceous plants, and most of the time grows in shrubs, grasslands or shady rock crevices at an altitude of 400~4500 meters.

Saxifrage can not only treat hives, but also has other medicinal properties, such as mashing Saxifrage into juice and dripping it in the ear can be used to treat otitis media;

Saxifrage can be used to treat rheumatism, rubella, itching, eczema, etc.;

In addition, when saxifrage is used in combination with other herbs, it can be used to treat a wider range of ailments.

Because it can not only have the effects of dispelling wind, clearing heat, cooling blood, and detoxifying, but also can be used to treat cough, vomiting blood, pulmonary carbuncles, leakage, hemorrhoids and other symptoms.

Although the efficacy of saxifrage is very high, however, as the old saying goes, the medicine is poisonous, and if you are not absolutely sure, the abuse of saxifrage is likely to have adverse reactions to the body.

Therefore, this is why grandpa did not dare to give Xiaoqingshan medicine at the beginning.

Today, Grandpa is gone, but the saxifrage is still lush.

It is as if the warmth that grandpa once gave is also scattered in this stone wall, giving these saxifrage plants a steady stream of warmth, making them more dense and stronger year by year.

Looking at these saxifrage plants, Liu Qingshan couldn't bear it in his heart.

Although it is important to build roads, it is a pity that the saxifrage that has plagued this wall in order to build roads.

Although saxifrage can be transplanted, they have been breeding on this wall for almost twenty years, and they have become one with this stone wall, and if they are forcibly stripped from this stone wall, although they can still continue to grow elsewhere, the saxifrage elsewhere is no longer the saxifrage in this memory.

When Liu Qingshan was looking at these saxifrage plants, Wu Cuimei came over suspiciously and asked, "Qingshan, what are you doing?"

"Huh?" Liu Qingshan came back to his senses and said with some embarrassment, "Oh, I'm going to dig this stone wall and then widen this path a little bit, so that our pickup truck can drive directly to the yard." You don't have to move around when you buy anything in the future. ”

Wu Cuimei nodded happily and said approvingly: "This is a good thing, mom supports you, if you can't be busy alone, let your dad also come to help." ”

"Not the problem. Liu Qingshan frowned and looked at the saxifrage in front of him and said, "I was thinking, if you want to build a road, then all the gold wire hanging hoists on this wall will have to be dug up, which seems to be a pity." ”

"What is a pity?" Wu Cuimei turned her head to look at the 'weed' on the inside of the ramp that was already too familiar to be familiar anymore, and in a trance, there was also a trace of reluctance flashing through her heart.

She has been married to Liu Yuanhe for decades, and in these decades, she seems to have become accustomed to the natural existence of many things.

For example, the tea mallet and tea pot that are used every day, the hat that is worn every rainy day, and the mosquito net that is put down every summer night......

Another example is that these green hills were planted with his grandfather and have grown on this wall for nearly 20 years, rain or shine.

Once something exists and quietly integrates into life, if you wake up one day and find that it is gone, there will probably still be some melancholy and sadness.

Although Wu Cuimei does not have as much attention as her son, because she is a woman, she has a little bit of the kindness that a woman should have.

She also frowned and said, "Well, these gold-threaded hanging hoists are all growing well, if only they could build roads without digging up this stone wall." ”

"yes. Liu Qingshan sighed, "But there is no other way now, the waterway of the creek is already narrow enough, and it can't shrink anymore." ”

Wu Cuimei glanced back at the rushing stream, nodded, looked at the corner below, and asked, "What about the corner below? If you don't widen the river, then you will have to dig up the land of your second grandfather's house." ”

Liu Qingshan also turned his head to look, and couldn't help but sigh again: "Yes, it must be dug up, in fact, I went to the second grandfather's house last night to discuss this matter with them, but it didn't work." ”

"Oh?" Wu Cuimei came to her senses, "How did you discuss it last night?"

"Last night, I went to my second grandfather's house, saying that I wanted to change the land, and exchanged our family's largest half-acre wide paddy field in the outer village for half of the area of the second grandfather's dry land, which is about half an acre, and my second grandfather and the second uncle agreed, but my uncle did not agree, saying that he would exchange all the paddy fields in our other villages for half an acre of dry land in his family, and he was willing, otherwise, he would not change. ”

"This, this is too greedy. Wu Cuimei was a little angry, "This Liu Daliang can't work, he can't make money, he is very shrewd in doing these things." ”