"Goo-goo-goo"

Zhang Taiping was woken up by a rooster crowing.

Zhang Taiping felt that he had an absurd and beautiful dream last night.

In the dream, he is more than 1.9 meters, free of illness and disaster, has a wife and daughter, and has a mysterious space.

Zhang Taiping closed his eyes, reminiscing about the surprise and light-hearted joy in his dream. Just thinking about it, my brow furrowed. The dream was so clear that it felt exactly like the real thing.

Suddenly he opened his eyes, and instead of a white checkered ceiling, there was a wooden beam straddling two walls.

A dusty light bulb hangs from a wire on the beam. The 40-degree incandescent light bulb, which has long since disappeared from the big cities, can only be found in remote villages.

Raised his hand and touched the ribbon on his forehead, it was not a dream, everything was real.

After settling down and stirring up again, he sat up, moved to the side of the kang and put on his shoes.

I have to be speechless about my previous hobbies, but the authentic old man likes to wear leather shoes, and he must be put on shoe polish and rubbed to make it black and shiny.

Zhang Taiping, who has been sleeping since yesterday afternoon, can't care about this. With his stomach rumbling in rebellion, he kicked on his leather shoes that could look in the mirror. Push open the bedroom door, take a step, and rush into the northernmost kitchen.

There was no one in the kitchen, but the pot was steaming, and the meal must have been ready.

When the pot is lifted, the wooden shelves are fist-sized white flour steamed buns. Zhang Taiping, who was a starving ghost, was anxious to reach out and take it directly, but he didn't want to be smoked by the endless overflowing steam.

Go fast, go back fast, put your hand to your mouth and blow. turned around and pinched a pair of chopsticks from the bamboo basket on the side of the desk.

I put a steamed bun in the palm of my hand, and it doesn't matter if it's hot or not, I tear off a piece and stuff it into my mouth, and swallow it without chewing a bone. It's quite like Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit, and he probably doesn't know what it tastes like after eating.

After four steamed buns in a row, plus an old bowl of corn porridge boiled with artichokes, Zhang Taiping patted his belly and had time to look at the kitchen furnishings.

The kitchen space is not small, the size of a bedroom. In a city where every inch of land is at a premium, this is definitely a luxury plan, but in the countryside, large kitchens are the most common.

There is also an earthen kang here, which is located under the wooden window on the west wall, and the kang and the pot stove are connected.

This is the most basic kitchen configuration in the rural areas of Guanzhong. The kang connected to the pot stove only sleeps in winter, and when cooking, even the kang is also hot, which saves firewood and warms. Generally, the other three seasons are deserted.

Two pots were placed on the stove. It's also traditional.

The desk is against the north wall, with chopsticks in one corner, knives and shovels in the other, and spoons in the pot. There are a few nails on the wall above the desk, and there are commonly used things such as hoods and colanders. There are buckets and kettles standing under the desk, and wooden ladles are diagonally inserted in the buckets.

Next to the east of the case stood a high and low cabinet, which was painted with a layer of varnish. The transparent varnish not only protects the wood, but does not affect the natural dark red color of the old red almond wood. Compared to other bright lacquer colors, it is more suitable for smoky kitchens.

High and low cabinets like this made of pure wood have long been secluded in the city's history. However, in the countryside it is necessary for the marriage.

At that time, when I got married, I didn't have time to prepare this furniture because of my haste and hurry. This is still the time when Zhang Taiping was born after marriage, and he cut wood by himself.

The "low" of the cabinet refers to the place where the bottom can be uncovered up and down and the rice can be placed on the surface. "High" refers to the place where the dishes and seasonings can be pulled from side to side.

After looking around the kitchen and seeing the basin stand leaning against the door, I woke up embarrassedly that I hadn't washed my face and brushed my teeth.

I scooped a scoop of cold water from the bucket, and after washing my face, I felt much more sober. But I couldn't find a toothbrush jar, so I had to use the most primitive method, sprinkle some salt on my fingers, and wipe my teeth.

went out into the front yard and enlarged his chest. When I raised my head, I was immediately shocked.

The majestic mountains are in front of you, and you can see a patch of verdant greenery as far as the eye can see.

This is the Qinling Mountains, which start from Gansu Province in the west and reach the west of Henan Province in the east, and the main body is located in the central and southern parts of Shaanxi Province, which is the boundary between the Guanzhong region and the southern Shaanxi region. It stretches for more than 3,000 miles from east to west.

There are many mountains in the Qinling Mountains. The steep and peculiar Huashan, the rich historical Lishan, the beautiful Maijishan and so on are all part of it.

The tallest of them, Taibai Mountain, is more than 3,700 meters high, the highest peak in the eastern half of Chinese mainland, known as the crown of the peaks.

The mountain in front of him is more than 1,000 meters high, and the impact on Zhang Taiping, who has been hiding in a small building in the city, can be imagined.

Although the memory has the concept of the height of the Qinling Mountains, it does not have this kind of shock of direct confronting.

This place is called Kotoyukou Village, and it is surrounded by mountains. Standing at the foot of the mountain, like a small ant, there is a feeling of a grasshopper shaking a tree.

I wonder if the travelers in the city who have to take pictures for half a day when they see the small mounds will be so shocked that they can stuff an egg in their mouths when they see such a shocking mountain.

Zhang Taiping returned to his soul, exhaling the fresh and slightly earthy air in the mountains in the morning, and his heart was open. This natural taste is hundreds of times more comfortable than the so-called most suitable residential areas in the city, the so-called oxygen bar.

Looking at the smoke rising from the sparsely located rooftop, Zhang Taiping knew that he would never want to return to a city with high-rise buildings and dirty air for the rest of his life.

The weather in early autumn does not cool down all at once, and according to the long-term experience of the working people, there are still 24 fire rats at the end of summer.

The saying of fire rat is a rural saying, which means that the heat of early autumn will last for more than 20 days.

So you can hear the rooster crowing at five o'clock, and the sky will be bright around six o'clock. It's past seven o'clock, and the terraces on the slope are scattered with people who get up early to work. The rising sun dyed everything golden, casting a faint halo of light on them.

Zhang Taiping smiled self-deprecatingly: "The one who called Ming just now must be a lazy chicken, and he didn't wake up until the sun came out." ”

After moving his body at the door for a while, he began to look at the courtyard that sat west and east.

The front yard is flat and neat, and there is a stone stone on the side, which must have been smoothed with this.

In rural areas, especially small villages like this one deep in the mountains, concrete floors are rare. The front door is flattened, and it can be used to dry wild vegetables, mushrooms and other by-products of the mountain that can be picked in your spare time. When the farm is busy, it can dry wheat, corn, soybean millet and other main crops.

The front room is divided into three rooms. The southernmost room is the bedroom, which is the one where Zhang Taiping rested for half a day and a night. The northernmost is the kitchen, and in the middle is the large living room.

Zhang Taiping opened the door of the front room, and the sunlight shone on the empty living room. As the air flowed, the golden light image rippled in the haze.

The north and south walls open near the entrance to the bedroom and kitchen. On the south wall of the back is a table of eight immortals cut from red chunwood. Other than that, there is nothing else.

At the very back of the living room is a door that leads to the middle courtyard.

Pulled out the long wooden door bar, and entered the middle courtyard with the creak of the wooden door slowly pushing open.

The first thing that catches your eye is a laurel tree that is not round with one hand together. In my body's memory, this tree was planted by my grandfather when he built the hospital, and it has been more than 50 years ago.

According to Zhang Taiping's understanding of the Huafen tree market in his previous life, such an elderly laurel tree is worth at least more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan.

Under the laurel tree is a stone table with chess scores engraved on the table and four stone benches in a circle. The laurel trees are shady, and the chess table is the best place to chat in the cool in summer.

On the north and south sides are guest rooms that are shrunk outward. In ancient times, it was called a chamber. The front eaves and the north and south side walls of the front and rear rooms are flush. The four houses are just enclosed in a courtyard of more than 150 square meters. The ground is paved with green bricks with criss-cross patterns.

Breaking open the iron buckle on the eaves of the south wing, as soon as I pushed the door open, a musty smell rushed to my face. Apparently uninhabited for many years.

There was only one earthen kang and a large cabinet in the room. When I exited, I looked through the window, and the furnishings of the north room were the same.

Stepping on the light points that came through the cracks of the laurel tree, I came to the door of the back room.

Zhang Taiping felt that the door should not be hidden in the inner room, but should be placed in the front yard. Because this door appears more decent and atmospheric.

Perhaps this is the expression of different ideas in different eras. Nowadays, people tend to dry the good parts in the most conspicuous place, regardless of whether the inside is beautiful jade or dross. However, the older generations who have experienced the barbaric era like to put a dull and ordinary coat on the long and exquisite connotation.

Different experiences lead to different thoughts. What they do their best is to protect, and in the era of peace, we show that we have a surname and publicity.

The back room is also divided into three rooms.

There are two large square cabinets in the south room, which store grain. The rest of the space is lined with a variety of farm implements.

The north room is both a study and a pharmacy, with a medicine cabinet more than three meters high against the back wall. There is also a desk directly in front of the medicine cabinet. In the corner of the table are bamboo pen holders, pen holders, and inkstones that have accumulated a layer of dust.

The table was very clean. Pull open the drawer facing the medicine cabinet, and inside lies a stack of small notebooks and a pencil.

Picked up the notebook and flipped through it, a total of three. A pinyin book, an arithmetic book, and a small character book. I remember that it was given to her last time when Aunt Yaya came back.

Pinyin books are written with pinyin letters, and the arithmetic book is written with 1, 2, 3, 4 small characters written with capital one, two, three, and four Seeing this, I can't help but smile, it must be Yaya who uses this as a writing desk.

There is also a wooden box under the table, which holds grandpa's medical books and years of medical experience. Zhang Taiping looked at it casually for a while, some of which were old, and some of which were written not long ago.

Under the window of the west wall is the only wooden bed in the room, and the head of the bed is next to the standing wardrobe.

In the middle, against the west wall, there is also a table of eight immortals that does not show any wooden cuts. Wooden chairs with bowed backs are symmetrical on both sides.

On the wall of the table hangs a picture of a cliff with a couplet on the left and right. Shanglian: Blessing is like the long flowing water of the East China Sea. Downlink: Shoubi Nanshan Ageless Pine. It is a very cheesy sentence, but it is very popular with the vast number of rural people.

During the New Year's holidays, the diagram will be replaced with a family tree. The table is used to place tablets, offerings, candles, and incense sticks.

There is a small door next to the back wall that leads to the backyard.

After entering the backyard, Zhang Taiping thought he had entered the vegetable garden.

The backyard is enclosed with stone walls stacked with stone strips. There is a path seventy or eighty centimeters wide in the middle, and the two sides are divided into patches of vegetable beds, and various vegetables are neatly planted.

Lunan is a summer vegetable that is eating nowadays.

The tomatoes have not yet been taken off the shelves, and they are covered with fruits of varying innocence, and small yellow flowers continue to bloom on the top.

I found a red one, and I didn't wash it, but just wiped it with my hand. The countryside pays attention to "not doing it cleanly, and there is no disease after eating", so it follows the customs of the villagers. Besides, the farm manure in his vegetable garden is all on it, and he has never used pesticides, so there is nothing to worry about.

Take a bite, the sweet and sour juice overflows all over the mouth, and there are some cool silk in the early morning, which really challenges people's appetite.

Solve one in three or two bites, and find a big one, and visit it while biting.

That's a lot. The fist-sized black-purple eggplant is mostly round and short in the north, and the long in the south.

Lentils and cowpeas are wrapped around a shelf made up of bamboo poles, hanging all over the shelf.

There are two types of spicy seeds: short and fat and long-line shapes. After picking, the spicy seeds are threaded with thread and often hung on the wall in front of the door. After drying, fry and then crush as a seasoning for rice seasoning. The short spicy seeds are fried and eaten directly.

The green onions and leeks are neatly arranged. Both of these dishes are season-long. After the winter, you can eat until the next winter. When leeks first grow, they look like winter wheat, so many city children will make jokes when they go to the countryside and mistake wheat for leeks.

Lubei is a cold-tolerant vegetable.

Apparently planted not long ago. The radish and cabbage have just sprouted two sprouts, and the coriander, spinach, lettuce, and the like are not yet edible.

There was also a small piece of land that had been renovated and the surface was crumbled with an iron rake. This field may have been, or will be, planted, with garlic.

After a week, I was really shocked. Although they are all home-cooked dishes, there are more than a dozen of them.

The toilet is made of wooden planks under the eaves behind the room where food and miscellaneous items are placed in the southeast corner of the courtyard. Next to the toilet is a shed made of planks and thatch, which is a sheepfold. There was still a chicken coop in the pen.

There are no sheep or chickens in the pen, so they must have been pulled out to be raised.