Waiting for his mother and grandmother to bring the dishes to the table, Xu Linggang brought the things to his room and put them away. His house is old-fashioned, sitting north and facing south, the wall is made of green bricks from 2 meters below to the ground, the foundation is stone, and the soil is compacted above 2 meters, which is mixed with straw and wooden strips. The advantage of this type of house is that it is warm in winter and cool in summer. There is a hall in the middle of the ground floor, two rooms on the left and right, two wings in the east and west of the courtyard outside, one in the west wing is for cooking, and the other is for vegetables, stone grinders and other things. One of the east wings is for farm tools and the other is for toilets. The cowshed is next to the farm yard and leans against the yard gate.

Grandpa took out a small bottle of medicinal wine that he treasured, poured a small glass for Xu Ling and his father, and poured a glass himself, Xu Ling has always wondered that his father and grandfather are more able to drink, and he will pour the wine when he sees it.

On the table, there are several dishes that Xu Ling likes to eat, fried garlic with bacon, stewed shiitake mushrooms with chicken, dried loach with garlic and soy sauce, fried chili peppers with yellow eel, and a few home-grown vegetables. After drinking, Xu Ling also ate three bowls of rice in one go, and his grandmother kept telling him to slow down, for fear that he would choke.

After eating, the grandfather went out to play chess with the uncle's neighbor, Xu Ling and his father sat in the courtyard, with a small table in front of them, drinking tea and chatting. It wasn't until this time that I knew that my father was because there were too many dry branches on the chestnut tree in the mountain behind the house, and he wanted to cut them down just as a piece of wood, but he didn't want to step on the air and fell from a height of more than 2 meters. On the night I got home, my mother also had a severe cold and a high fever, so I tossed my grandparents and uncle for another night, and called my grandfather in the middle of the night, until I took the medicine, and I got better.

Today is the third day, and it's almost better, but my father's foot may not be better than 2 months. The rice was about to be harvested, and it was just the right time for Xu Ling to come back.

The next morning, Xu Ling woke up to the chirping of birds, looked at his mobile phone, half past six, got dressed, opened the wooden window on the second floor, and saw the green mountains in his eyes, and the whole village was hazy in the mist, like a dream, like a fairyland on earth.

Last night, Lu Qian, Xu Bing, and Liu Yuehan all called to ask him if he was home, and the last three of them chatted with him for a full hour, and the three of them could also talk. I took out my laptop and chatted with other classmates for a while, and I went to sleep directly, so I got up early.

Perhaps his mother heard him get up and called out below, "Xiaoling, are you up?" ”

When I went down to the hall, only my father was repairing the barrel at the door, and he took a plank to fill the gap. "Dad, where's grandparents?"

"Your grandfather went to cut the pigweed, and he will come back soon, and your grandmother is doing the laundry. ”

Xu Ling entered the kitchen, and after washing, he helped his mother bring the porridge and dried radish to the table.

At breakfast, my father asked, "Your uncle came in the morning and said that you had resigned, what happened?"

"Dad, I haven't been at home for six years, my grandparents are old, and you are no longer young, my son has to come back, not to mention that I don't believe that I can't do anything at home, grandparents, what do you say?"

His grandmother didn't speak, but looked at his grandfather, after all, the old man was the head of the family.

After thinking for a while, Grandpa said, "If you really want to think about it, then try it at home first, it's really not good, you go out to work, and our old bones can survive for a few more years." ”

"Dad, what can you let him do at home? feed the pigs, raise chickens and ducks?" Xu Ling's father replied.

"There's nothing wrong with raising livestock," Xu Ling's mother said.

"Girls with long hair and short knowledge, know what. Xu Ling's father spoke with a little anger.

Indeed, it is not easy for them to train a college student, when they were just admitted to Peking University, the county magistrate and the township secretary came to congratulate them, which is called scenery. During that time, Xu Changhe walked with his head up, and his feet were floating. Now I'm going to come back to farm, isn't this slapping him in the face, and when I go out in the future, someone else will ask him, yo. Changhe, your son from a prestigious university has come back to farm, how many catties of grain have been collected in one acre of land. It's angry to think about.

"Then let's set a time, 2 years, after 2 years, there will be no improvement in the family, hurry up and go to work, Xiaoling is also 24 this year, and he is ready to get married first." After speaking, the old man took out the dry tobacco stick, pinched some tobacco, took out a match and lit it, and smoked it.

"Grandpa........." "Either do what I say, or you go outside and work now." ”

Now Xu Ling is out of line, look at his parents and grandmother, they are also constantly nodding.

I'll go, this script shouldn't be like this, scratching his short hair, Xu Ling could only reluctantly agree first, take your time.

Walking out of the yard, Xu Ling first came to the banyan tree in the south of his house, this banyan tree according to Xu Ling's grandfather, until the record, has been thousands of years, and the one that is not recorded is unknown.

The banyan tree covers an area of nearly 1,000 square meters, don't think this is an exaggeration, the trunk of the banyan tree is no longer visible, the middle trunk is surrounded by many rough roots of dozens of square meters, if it is not for his grandfather and father to cut off the air roots from time to time, it is estimated that thousands of square meters are, people will not be able to enter. The height is also twenty or thirty meters, and the top is now a paradise for small birds, big birds? Above his grandfather said that there is a nest of golden eagles that came out of nowhere, and the big birds are not looking for death and fly to it.

Under the banyan tree, there are some stone benches made of stones that his grandfather moved back, Xu Ling sat below, looking up at the green trees, the air roots fluttered with the breeze in the early morning, it felt like an old man's beard gently swaying on the chin, the vicissitudes of thousands of years, only appeared on the ground air roots of the banyan tree, watching the generations of people in the village grow old, and the banyan tree only has the increasing number of air roots, and the air roots that fall to the ground continue to grow, deeper and deeper into the ground.

Xu Ling simply stood up and walked towards the taproot, when he was a child, he remembered that he and his friends in the village were playing hide and seek and the police catching thieves here, and now he still thinks about it vaguely in front of him.

I found a gap to go into, and slowly moved inside, I haven't seen it for a few years, and the gap in is getting smaller and smaller, and it is dense all around.

After entering, Xu Ling found that the soil under the ground was wet, and the main trunk was very large, and it was estimated that it would take four or five big men to hold it. The mottled bark on the taproot shows that the banyan tree has an ancient vicissitudes of life.

At this moment, Xu Ling suddenly found that there was a person-high place on the main trunk of the tree, and the bark cracked a large opening, and there was a pale green bead in the mouth, Xu Ling looked at it suspiciously, this is who lost the glass beads when he was a child, and now it has grown into the tree, stretched out his hand and buckled it inside, but he didn't want the bark to cut the hand, the blood flowed out, slowly seeped into the tree, and then was directly absorbed by the green beads.

Seeing this strange scene, Xu Ling retreated straight, but it was on the root of the air, and at this moment, the pale green beads flew out of the tree suddenly, turning into a streamer and flying into Xu Ling's heart, making Xu Ling so shocked that he almost closed his breath.

Gasping for breath, he reached out and touched the position of his heart, seeing that there was nothing wrong, he was about to go out the same way, suddenly, Xu Ling found that he was no longer at the original banyan root, it was foggy all around, and the place where he could see clearly was only about 10 meters away. Under your feet is the black soil, and in the middle is a small stone pond with the black soil raised, and in the middle of the pond a spring water the thickness of chopsticks is bubbling out.

What's going on, Xu Ling was confused, is it a pale green bead? At this time, suddenly a thick fog surged, and a huge stream of information directly entered Xu Ling's mind, and Xu Ling also fainted directly.