【Chapter 017】 Inside and outside the siege
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"Ninth Brother, Ninth Brother!" Just as Xiao Feng was immersed in the beautiful scenery in front of him, a familiar voice sounded in his ears.
Xiao Feng looked back, and it turned out to be the youngest son of the third uncle, Xiao Jinhao, and his twelfth brother, Xiao Qiang.
The old lady Xiao Dushan and the old lady He Xiumei have raised a total of four sons and three daughters, plus the ranking of each generation of the Xiao family is going to expand to the entire family, so there are more than 20 men in Xiao Feng's generation alone, and the power of Xiao Feng's house in Ginkgo Village can be imagined.
"Xiao Qiang, why did you get up so early today?" Xiao Feng turned around and patted Xiao Qiang's shoulder and said, "Why didn't you kid come up to eat last night?"
Xiao Qiang is two years younger than Xiao Feng, but he is not good at reading, and after repeating twice in Yunxi No. 1 Middle School, he still failed to be admitted to university, so he can only come back to farm. He wanted to go to the coastal area to work, but his mother was reluctant to go out to endure hardships with his heart, and Xiao Qiang could only live in the village, and it was common to sleep until three poles in the morning.
"Yesterday I went into the mountains with the sixth brother and a few of them to hunt, and when I came back, it was too late, so I didn't come up!" Xiao Qiang said with some excitement: "You don't know, we got a roe deer yesterday, and the sixth brother took it to Yuji Town to sell it this morning!"
Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water!
In the past, most of the villagers would go into the mountains to hunt during their off-season, and most of them used to keep their own food to improve their food, but now they sell it to game dealers in the town to supplement their families. Don't look at the publicity of animal protection outside, but in the depths of the mountains, the forestry public security department does not control so much, and the black market for wild animals abounds.
Especially in recent years, there are more and more local tyrants who like to eat wild meat in big cities, and there are even traders from Chuncheng, Yangcheng and other places in Yuji Town who are buying all kinds of wild animals.
However, a young man like Xiao Qiang is at most wandering around the periphery of the old forest, but he doesn't dare to go deep into the mountains, because leopards, Bengal tigers, black bears, jackals and other fierce beasts are frequent inside.
"It's not promising!" Xiao Feng couldn't help but hit Xiao Qiang, and said: "I know how to play all day long, it seems that I have to let Sanniang tell you a family affair and let you take care of it!"
In Ginkgo Village, there are many people who have decided to get married around the age of 20, and even many people have children before getting a marriage certificate. What seems unbelievable to the outside world is not too outrageous in remote mountainous areas, and in many cases, the power of tradition is often stronger than policy and law.
"Don't!" said that kissing was Xiao Qiang's death hole, he hurriedly shook his head and said: "If I really get married, I will have to live like an old man in Ginkgo Village in my life." Brother Jiu, you are doing well in Haizhou, why don't you take me out this time?"
Xiao Feng's status in the family is not low, and Xiao Qiang has always hoped that Xiao Feng can help persuade his parents to take him to Haizhou to see the world.
"I said that your kid came to me so early, and the fox's tail was exposed, right?" Xiao Feng smiled and said, "Maybe I won't go back to Haizhou this time, stay with my grandparents!"
Now Xiao Feng is not sure about his future path, but now he is really reluctant to leave Ginkgo Village, because it makes him feel peace of mind. Although staying in the village was to scare Xiao Qiang, Xiao Feng didn't have some thoughts in his heart?
"Brother Jiu, didn't you burn it?" Xiao Qiang reached out and touched Xiao Feng's forehead, and said, "Fourth Uncle worked hard to confess you, but you ran back to Ginkgo Village, and he still had to kill you?"
After staying in the county seat for five years, Xiao Qiang didn't look down on the backward Ginkgo Village at all, and wanted to go to the big city, but unfortunately his father and mother watched it too closely. Now that he heard that Xiao Feng, a college student, was actually coming back to live, how could he not be surprised?
"Go!" Xiao Feng slapped Xiao Qiang's hand down, and said angrily: "With Grandpa here, he dares to do it?"
Mr. Qian's "Siege of the City" is very well said: People outside the city want to go in, and people in the city want to come out! Xiao Feng, who has lived in Haizhou for five years, is tired of the busy traffic and reinforced concrete, but in Xiao Qiang's heart, the big city is always full of longing.
Xiao Feng can't say who chooses better, perhaps, the vast majority of people in this world can't choose their own lives.
"Let's go fishing!" Xiao Qiang used an affirmative sentence, indicating that he was already ready, and he just came up to pull Xiao Feng.
Now is the slack season, there is no work to do in the field, the Xiao family is strict, Xiao Qiang can't go to play cards, he can only go up the mountain to hunt and go down to the lake to fish every day. Usually he messes with his partners, but when Xiao Feng is back, he naturally wants to find Xiao Feng, and his hope of going out to work still falls on Xiao Feng.
"No problem!" Xiao Feng nodded and said, "I'll go talk to Grandpa and Grandma!"
Xiao Feng first went to his bedroom and took out the gifts he bought for Sanbo, Sanniang and Xiao Qiang, and after the brothers said something to the old man, they left the old house.
After the third uncle Xiao Jinhao got married, he did not live in the old house, but moved to a new house near the ginkgo forest, not only him, but also the eldest uncle Xiao Jinxu and the second uncle Xiao Jinming also built a two-story small building near the ginkgo forest, and the small life was enjoyable.
Compared with traditional stone buildings, these new houses built with red bricks, cement, and steel bars are more comfortable to live in and more popular with people. Nowadays, the flat area around the thousand-year-old ginkgo forest has become a world of new houses, and only the old people who are nostalgic for the old still live in the old houses on the mountain.
This time, Xiao Feng prepared a large number of gifts in the Zizhu space, basically every relative has one, although it is limited to the reason that he cannot expose his huge wealth and cannot buy too expensive gifts, but this also represents a heart.
Xiao Feng prepared two bottles of good wine for Sanbo, bought a cotton coat for Sanniang, and Xiao Qiang was a pair of Li Ning's sneakers.
"Do I have a share?" Xiao Qiang looked at the sneakers in his hand over and over again, a little surprised.
"You don't leave it to the old thirteen!" Xiao Feng made a gesture to snatch it back, scaring Xiao Qiang all the way.
After sending the things home and chatting with Sanbo and Sanniang for a while, the two brothers Xiao Feng walked to the edge of Jinghu with fishing rods.
Although Jinghu Lake is a snow-water lake and is not connected to the big rivers, because the ancestors of Ginkgo Village stocked a large number of fish fry into the lake, for hundreds of years, Jinghu Lake has been full of fish and shrimp, which is an important way for the villagers of Ginkgo Village to improve their food.
Many bosses from other places also took a fancy to the superior conditions of Jinghu Lake and wanted to contract Jinghu to start farming, but because Ginkgo Village was too remote and inconvenient, it was not enough. However, Xiao Feng, who is well aware of the damage caused by large-scale aquaculture to water quality, naturally does not let people meddle in the affairs of Jinghu Lake.
Fishing was just for time, and the brothers didn't care much about the location of the fish nest, so they found a place by the lake with their backs to a row of willow trees and threw down the hooks.
Xiao Qiang was also restless when fishing, and always asked Xiao Feng about various things in Haizhou, and the idea of leaving Ginkgo Village was so strong that Xiao Feng smiled bitterly.
"Xiao Qiang, do you really want to go out so much?" After a while, Xiao Feng asked sternly.
"I feel like a waste at home!" Xiao Qiang was silent for a while, and said: "The work in the fields and in the forest has been done by my father, sister, and brother-in-law, and I have nothing to do all day, and I am almost moldy!"
After listening to Xiao Qiang's words, Xiao Feng fell into deep thought!
It seems that the third uncle and Sanniang are pampered by Xiao Qiang, but they have not been able to take into account his thoughts, if this continues, Xiao Qiang will definitely be abolished in a few years.
"At your age, are there not many people who don't go out to work?" After going to college, Xiao Feng returned to Ginkgo Village only a handful of times, and every time he was in a hurry, he really didn't know much about the current situation in the village.
"Nowadays it is not only the unmarried young people who go out, but also many married couples who go out together, and the children are left to the care of the elderly. Xiao Qiang seemed to know the situation very well, and said: "The income in the fields and forests can make ends meet, and there is no money to save, and there is no electricity in the village, so everyone doesn't want to stay at home!"
Today's fishing finally became an opportunity for Xiao Feng to learn about the situation in the village, and through the communication between Guò and Xiao Qiang, Xiao Feng knew some about the situation in Ginkgo Village, and felt that he should do something for this place where he raised his childhood!