Chapter 10: The Leaves of the Tree of Life I
As soon as Su Bei's words fell, an old lady in her seventies walked out of the hall, and when she saw Su Bei, she immediately laughed: "The third grandson is back, his grandfather, Xiaobei is back!"
Other grandchildren are around and can be seen at any time, but the most beloved third grandson is far away from work, and can only be reunited during the Chinese New Year, so when she sees Subei, the old lady is naturally very happy.
The old man stepped forward to take Su Bei's hand, and soon the old man with gray temples also came out of the east house, the old man was dressed in a green shirt, clean and decent.
In a small mountain village in the poor countryside, who can dress as carefully as his grandfather, Subei has not seen the second one.
The old man is seventy-six years old, but his body is still very tough, and he is full of anger in his speech, coupled with the majesty of the patriarch for more than 40 years, and the style of being a teacher for more than 50 years, at first glance, it makes people feel that he is a very imposing old man, and his temperament is not worse than those old men who have retired as officials in the city.
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"Third brother, third brother!"
Su Bei's return suddenly made the yard lively, and when Su Bei was about to catch an authentic mountain chicken and sacrifice it to the Five Organs Temple under the instructions of his grandmother, a familiar voice came from outside the courtyard.
Su Bei turned his head and saw that it was the uncle's youngest son, his seventh brother - Su Ming.
Grandpa Sunan Yue and grandma Zhou Xiu'e have a total of five sons and two daughters, except for the two aunts who got married, the five brothers of Subei's parents have eleven males and eight females, including Subei, and his vein adds up to more than 30 people, which is the largest room in the Su family.
Su Bei ranked third in his generation, and Su Ming ranked seventh.
Su Ming is three years younger than Su Bei, twenty-three this year, naughty since childhood, does not like to study, and his grades are not good, he was not admitted to college after graduating from high school, and he will not repeat his studies after being killed, so he can only go home to farm, but in the past two years, this kid has always wanted to go out to work, but the family does not agree, afraid that he will go out to learn, and must tell him a daughter-in-law before he is allowed to go out.
But over the years, fewer and fewer girls are willing to marry in Zishan Village.
It's too remote, it's too backward, it's too poor.
Not to mention anything else, although there is electricity in the village, there is no telephone, television, household appliances, except for flashlights, there is nothing else, which shows what kind of situation the Purple Mountain Village has reached.
Su Bei came back this time to change this situation and make Zishan Village rich.
Su Ming has had a good relationship with Subei since he was a child, and when he heard that Subei came back, he immediately rushed to his grandparents' side, as soon as he came, the two began to catch a five or six catties of local chicken in the yard together, and planned to stir-fry a chicken with the jar dish made by his grandmother herself.
Although Su Bei and Su Ming are young people, they grew up in the countryside, and they don't know how to kill chickens and fish like young people in the city.
In a remote village like Zishan Village, almost all the ingredients are grown by themselves, especially Zishan Village, which is purely self-sufficient, whether it is vegetables or meat dishes, they are all from the hands of the villagers themselves.
After packing up the chickens, Subei picked some garlic leaves, leeks and other spices in the vegetable garden next to the house, Subei's grandmother planted all kinds of vegetables in this vegetable garden, did not sprinkle any pesticides and fertilizers, and used green farm fertilizer.
Soon, under Grandma Su's simple craftsmanship, a table of fragrant farmhouse meals was out of the pot. Su Bei's food is very fragrant, for him as a foodie, even if he has eaten a lot of local delicacies, but he always feels that only the food cooked by his mother and grandmother in this world is the most delicious and fragrant.
During the meal, Su Bei told the old man that he had resigned.
"I quit my job in the city, so what are your plans?" the old man said indifferently, drinking the small wine he had brewed, looking at his most satisfied good grandson.
Although the old man has only been to junior high school, he has a lot of books, and he has been a teacher and village chief and patriarch for decades, and his knowledge is very unusual.
"After resigning this time, I plan to take a break for a while, think about doing something on my own in the future, although it is good to work in the city, but I always work for others, and it is not of much use to earn a little money. ”
Subei said a lot, but now he has the capital to say so.
"Third brother, don't you want to spend a lot of time at home? When Su Ming next to him heard this, he became excited first.
The old man glared at Su Ming, and said angrily: "You kid only knows how to play all day long, and everyone is going to play waste." Then he turned to Su Bei and said: "It's okay, come back this time and think about it, what you plan to do, I will support you, those young people in the village who are idle and have nothing to do are all carrying you, especially stupid boys like this who are idle all day long." Saying that, the old man glared at Su Ming next to him, and Su Ming shrank in fright.
The support that the old man said is not a verbal word, although Zishan Village is poor, as a big family with a heritage of more than 100 years, it still has some family background.
When Subei was admitted to university, the old man dug out a large porcelain jar from under the bed and showed him the biggest secret of the clan -- a jar of gold bars! This was the belongings brought by the ancestors of the Su family to escape the war, and it had been hidden by several generations of patriarchs for more than 100 years.
Su Bei smiled knowingly and nodded to the old man.
However, he did not intend to use the gold bars in his clan.
Some of the villages have fields, and they have their own spiritual soil, and they don't have to spend any cost to engage in agricultural planting. It's just that how to implement it depends on the actual situation and has to plan well.
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At night, after dinner, I chatted with the old man for a while, took out my mobile phone to check the time, more than eight o'clock, and looked again, the mobile phone still had no signal.
Transportation, communication, and in order for the village to become truly prosperous, these two things must be solved.
Su Bei thought in his heart, went out to the yard, looked up at the stars in the sky, very beautiful, it is difficult to see such a beautiful starry sky in the city, and in Zishan Village, as long as it does not rain, you can see it almost every day, when he was a child, Su Bei often went to the field to play in the field at night with several cousins of Su Ming's age, and he liked to lie on the straw and watch the stars the most.
Thinking like this, Su Bei walked out of the courtyard and walked towards the entrance of the village.