Chapter 2 The old house under the mountain and the ancient well in the backyard

Ludong, the continuous mountains are like a winding and creeping dragon, the green wheat is endless, the wheat field is divided into pieces, it is very neat and orderly, the season of early spring, it is not the busy agricultural period, so there is no human figure in the field.

Above the mountain range, the trees are shady, verdant, and the tall trees cover the entire mountain range, covering the sky and the sun, and in the emerald green, there is a touch of red, dotted with monotonous rivers and mountains.

The country is green, not as red as a little!

It is the revival of all things, the expression of spring returning to the earth, they represent vitality and vitality.

Chu Yunqiu sat on the train back to his hometown, looking at the mountains, hills, and ravines in the distance, and felt unusually cordial, "I'd rather love my hometown than another country's ten thousand taels of gold", no matter when and where, only one's hometown is the most beautiful.

Near the hometown, anxious to enter the township, timid to enter the township!

Chu Yunqiu's heart is very complicated, he wants to see his parents soon, but he also doesn't want to see his parents' old age, they are similar every year, and they are different every year! Every time he saw his parents and looked at the slight whiteness on each other's heads, Chu Yunqiu rushed to his heartache and didn't want them to work anymore.

Chu Yunqiu's family lives in a small mountain village next to JN City, Ludong Province, the village is called Chujiazhai, which used to be a cottage, but with the reform and opening up, the village has slowly changed, opened to the outside world, and absorbed foreign population, so the original population with the surname Chu has joined other surnames, such as Zhao, such as Li and so on. The population of the village is not large, there are only 200 households, but the scope is not small, from the mountains and forests in the back, to the inlet in front, all the territory of Chujiazhai, the land is vast and sparsely populated.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, almost the older generation in the village are hunters, and even now, the villagers are very good at hunting.

In front of the village there is a bay, called Yueming Bay, it is said that in ancient times on the night of the full moon, the whole inlet will be generous and bright, the villagers say that the inlet is inhabited by gods, and it is worshiped every year, but with the advent of the age of technology, almost no one does it anymore.

The water of Yueming Bay is clear and sweet, there are many fish and shrimp, because it is located in a remote area, so the ecology is perfectly preserved.

The mountains of Chujiazhai are divided into front mountains and back mountains, and the soil in front of the mountains is fertile and suitable for planting, so in addition to the trees and bamboo forests, there are some scattered fruit trees on it, and they are also stored by the older generation.

Why not develop? The land in the village can't be planted, who has the spare time to open the mountain, not to mention tired, the harvest is not certain, and it is thankful not to be spoiled by the beasts in the mountain, so each family guards their own one-third of an acre of land, and no one develops it.

As for the mountains and forests in the back mountains, the older generation said that there were beasts eating people inside, and they never let their children walk in to take a look, if anyone's children were curious to go in and play, they would definitely be beaten up when they went home, because of this, Chu Yunqiu was beaten by his mother.

Later, he stayed away and didn't dare to go again, but he knew that there were many interesting animals in it, and he had seen little monkeys, elk, and cute squirrels in it, but under the education of his mother, he was scared of being beaten.

The whole Chujiazhai is beautiful and the environment is pleasant, not worse than "Jiuzhaigou", but it is not famous and cannot attract people.

How many such good places are there in the land of China, but because they are not famous, they are all buried.

Although the government is very powerful, vigorously develop tourism, and do its best, and also fund the construction of a county road to Chujiazhai, but the publicity is not in place, and some people do not care even if they see advertisements.

Chinese people are like this, everyone is the same, and what others think is good is good.

Chu Yunqiu stepped off the train, took a bus passing by the village, looked at the trees on both sides, and his mind was full of memories. Because her sister is still in school, Chu Yunqiu is working part-time every holiday, in addition to paying for her own expenses, she can also mail some food and clothes to her sister, it has been two years since she last went home.

"Dad, Mom", Chu Yunqiu walked through the bluestone road in the village, pushed open the door of the house, and shouted excitedly.

"Son", soon, a woman ran out of the house, saw Chu Yunqiu, her face was full of excitement, and hugged her son fiercely.

"Mom", Chu Yunqiu also tightened his arm, looking at the gray hair on his mother's forehead, his heart ached.

He didn't want to repeat such a tragedy, so he wanted to stay with his parents for two more days, and then try his best to find a good job and take his parents to his side.

Father Chu Tianhe silently lit a cigarette and looked at the two of them with a look of relief.

"Dad", Chu Yunqiu didn't say anything, and had a deep hug with his father, a thousand words, all in it.

"It's good to come back", Chu Tianhe nodded, "You haven't eaten yet, let your mother cook something."

"Well, it's been a long time since I've tasted my mother's craft, and I'm panicking about missing it." Chu Yunqiu smiled.

"Dad, Mom, I want to move to the old house to live, it's quiet", in the evening, Chu Yunqiu and his parents chatted and said.

"What are you doing there? No one has lived in it for decades, I don't know if I can live it, there are no people around, if there are three long and two short, no one will know if there are three long and two short, no one will know if they call for help", Chu's father has not spoken, and Chu's mother is not happy.

"Mom, I have some work to do at night, the old mansion is quiet, besides, I am a young man, what danger can there be", Chu Yunqiu took Chu's mother and said coquettishly.

Chu Yunqiu said that the old house is a large courtyard handed down from the ancestors, because the Chu family was the only big landlord in the village at that time, very prestigious, so the village was named Chu Jiazhai, although later hit the landlord, swept the four old, confiscated the field, but the old man Chu was good all his life, and also made contributions to the revolution, so he did not confiscate the old house, and still belonged to the Chu family.

But the old man Chu felt unlucky, and he also moved down from the foot of the mountain and lived with everyone, so the big courtyard has been deserted.

Chu Yunqiu often went there when he was a child, and there was a big orchard in it, with a lot of delicious fruits, and the place was very large, which was a good place to play.

The whole large courtyard was built in the Qing Dynasty, with high buildings, high eaves and high teeth, full of ancient style, Chu Yunqiu didn't know how much money it cost to build a yard on a high place, but it was certain that it was definitely not cheap.

The main hall is located in the center, it can be said that the axis position of the whole compound, the main hall is facing the door, the left side of both sides is the master bedroom, the right is the study, with the carved wooden door, in addition to the main room, there are four small houses on the left and right, symmetrically distributed, two on the right, one is the kitchen, one is to store sundries, two on the left, one is the bedroom where the children sleep, the other is the granary for storing grain, and the toilet is arranged in the corner.

Several houses are scattered, very symmetrical, surrounded by a small wall, why is it called a small wall, because there is also a large wall in the outer circle, which encloses all the territory of the ancient house.

Outside a few rooms, two long corridors extend east and west to the arched doors above the small enclosure wall.

The arched gate on the left side of Tongguò is an orchard, the orchard is lush and blooming, and the arched gate on the right side of Tongguò is a place to enjoy the flowers, but because of the principle of long-term neglect, many flowers have died, leaving only a bamboo forest.

The place where the orchard and the garden are connected is a vegetable patch, located behind the main hall, is a backyard, and in the center of the backyard there is an ancient well.

And what we want to talk about is this ancient well, the ancient well is hexagonal, all made of bluestone, it is strange to say, this well has a very ancient origin, it is said that before the construction of the house, this ancient well is stored zài, the well water is sweet, refreshing, whether it is drought or flood, the water level of this well has not changed, it seems that the bottom of the well is connected to something, very miraculous,

That's why it was directly occupied by the Chu family, and it can be seen from this that Chu Yunqiu's ancestor is also a local tyrant, which is very luxurious.

Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, who would have thought that the Chu family, which was very prosperous at the beginning, was also reduced to a commoner, and the old mansion was not lived.

And the most commendable thing about this ancient well is that no one knows the origin of this well, it seems that there is a general since ancient times, and there is no record in the genealogy in the cottage.

The old people in the village also avoided talking about it, shaking their heads in ignorance.

And the place where Chu Yunqiu is going is this ancient mansion.