Chapter 35: Reappearance
What can I do?
Sichuan pepper was at a loss again. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Just before she could figure out why, her attention had been diverted.
It's time to go home!
When I heard the uncle say that the village was roughly cleaned up, and he discussed with his grandfather and grandmother when to go home, the pepper couldn't wait for a quarter of an hour.
She was so homesick.
It's just that when they were packed up and ready to leave, Huajiao looked back on this small courtyard, and there was still a little reluctance in his heart.
In the end, they have lived there for more than a month, and they have left a lot of traces and memories, and they can't say that they will never set foot in this courtyard again.
The ox cart creaked out of Chongtang Town, stepping on the same road, but the mood was already different.
A few little boys have only been around for a few days, and they have already made a lot of friends. When I heard that I was going back, I was a little reluctant. But as soon as I set foot on the way home, the idea was thrown to the sky in an instant, but it was like an arrow, and I couldn't wait to get home with my feet up.
Only along the way, the desolation and mess on both sides of the road still make people's hearts feel uncomfortable. I don't know when it will be back to its old self.
Fortunately, the road under the feet is already the appearance of some roads, after walking for an hour, all the way to the entrance of the village, Sichuan pepper smelled a faint smell in the air, and couldn't help frowning.
But soon, the pepper couldn't care about the smell anymore, and looked blankly at the houses along the road.
Devastation.
There are not many households in Zhoujiawan, only forty or fifty households, except for the two families of the Qin family, the rest of the Zhou clan people are built around the ancestral hall and by the mountain.
But now, the original stacked buildings are scattered.
The bricks and tiles of many people's houses have been removed, and only a lone pestle with beams remains. Several of the houses have completely collapsed, some of the bricks and beams have been removed, but others have been left in place, and nothing has been cleaned up.
How so?
When the uncle said "it's roughly cleaned up" before, the peppercorns didn't pay attention to it at all, and he didn't think about what the situation would be at all.
Unexpectedly, it has been more than ten days since the flood receded, but it is not as good as Chongtang Town, which has returned to normal life, but the villagers of Zhoujiawan have obviously not come out of their pain.
Looking all the way home, Huajiao was carried off the ox cart by the uncle in a trance, but he felt that all this was very strange.
Especially the watermarks left on the wall, which still tell about the past disaster.
Sichuan pepper looked at it twice, and ran straight to the ginkgo tree in front of the house.
The dehydrated branches were still the same, and seemed to be lifeless.
Old Lady Qin also walked over, holding on to the ginkgo tree in front of her, silent.
Huajiao heard the eldest aunt say: "I have already raked the ground, and I have applied a fertilizer." It's just that winter is approaching, but it has to recover slowly. ”
It's just that whether it can recover or not is unknown.
Qin Lao Niang also understands this truth, but these two ginkgo trees are like their own children, watching them grow to such a big size little by little, it is really big, it is easy to bloom and bear fruit, who can be willing to do it. But if you really can't survive, you can only cut it and plant another seed.
It's just that at the moment, Mrs. Qin can't take care of this for the time being, the cold dew has passed, and it is indeed the season to plant wheat, but the work in the field has just begun.
The Qin family has not a lot of fields. Over the years, the family has a little extra money, and most of it is used to buy land. Over the years, a total of more than 30 acres of high-quality fields have been added, and more than 30 acres of wasteland on the mountain and river beaches have been opened.
Nearly 70 acres of cultivated land are cultivated by families.
Only in the past, Father Qin, Qin Lianhu, and Qin Lianxiong were all busy farming, farming, and farming, plus Qin Lianlong, Qin Lianfeng, and a few small characters could also take a hand, and then hire three or five busy workers, and the spring flowers and autumn crops of two seasons a year will be dealt with.
But at this time, the previous flood washed away all the dozens of acres of cultivated land in my family. Although the flood water has receded, and the crops have long since died of drought and have not suffered much loss, it is necessary to quickly remove all the sediment, gravel and other debris scattered in the fields. Many of the ridges in all directions have been washed down by the flood, and the ridges have to be repaired or even rebuilt, and the clogged ditches are also waiting to be dredged. The land in the field should also be pushed high and filled low, and the loose soil should be turned low, and fertilizer and disinfection should be supplemented and disinfected in order to resist disease......
It's all a thing, and you can't be sloppy at all.
Although it is not difficult to find a few small workers to work in the market, it is not easy to find someone who can really work.
But the crops don't wait for anyone, Qin Lianhu has three brothers, and they can only take the three busy workers who used to work at home to hoe and plow, work day and night, and really sleep and get up at night. Not only that, but even the first female dependents in the family who had never gone to Datian also went to the ground, even Qin Lao Niang was no exception. And a group of little boys, needless to say, followed them into the field. You can do whatever you can, and you don't need to be told by anyone.
The little sisters are led by the lobby sister Dill to take care of the housework at home, mainly responsible for three meals a day. In addition, he also finds his own work to do, and cleans up the vegetable garden in the backyard with a little free time.
Zhuanghu has always been able to use melons and vegetables as half a year's grain. Not to mention the Qin family, there is always green cabbage on the table all year round.
She can't do anything about the work of the pepper at the head of the pot and the end of the stove, and she can't do the work of dividing the acres into ridges, but she can finally pick up the stones and dead branches in the ground.
Although it has been roughly cleaned up before, it is inevitable that it will be overlooked, and the peppercorns will be cleaned up little by little.
She remembers the first time she saw the backyard vegetable garden.
At that time, she was only half a year old, and the wind blew on her body and there was no cold, but it was the season when the plants and trees gradually sprouted in spring. I didn't see the green onions for half a year, and the peppercorns were shocked all of a sudden.
It was also at this time that I knew that my family used to live at the foot of the mountain, not far away is the continuous Lotus Mountain, the red, yellow and verdant mountains are all tall trees, and the nearby foot of the mountain is full of bamboo and wood fences enclosed vegetable gardens.
It is divided into acres and ridges, and there are two or three acres of land, all of which are neat and refreshing.
After a winter of rain and snow, lettuce and broad beans are not depressed at all, and they are all vibrant. Especially green onion and garlic leek, that is called a fresh and tender water. The two or three furrows in the east are not only covered with thick straw sawdust, but also two or three layers of windproof hoods with straw around them. The north is high and the south is low, blocking the north wind and getting the sun. The rest of the vegetable patches to be planted are also black and loose, and they look like they have been carefully cooked.
Looking at the sound of flowing water, there is a water pipe at the foot of the mountain to the north. The continuous bamboo pipes are hidden in the mountains and forests, and although the mountain springs that lead down are only one injection, the trickle trickles, but they are endless, watering the vegetable garden......
Such a scene, Sichuan pepper has a deep memory, and I am full of hope that it will be reproduced in the near future.
PS: My computer hasn't come back yet, it's really hard~