Chapter 1 The Gathering at the Ridge

From the exit of the double bull rush, it is another one that is not much wider, called the bullpen rush. In fact, the name is not worthy of the name, the two "cows" in it are so big, and how big are these "bars"? Obviously, the cow is big and small, and it can't be closed, so it's just a stop. Each peak of Shuangniuchong is majestic and magnificent, and the forest is dense, this bullpen chong, both sides are made of Jie-colored, not high, the small mountain range of stone hills at the top of the garden, it winds down, the front is wide and the back is narrow, it is like a small horn installed in front of Shuangniuchong. The small speaker accommodates more than 30 families of a production team.

The two houses were closest to the mountain, and there were two bungalows lined up like two screws installed at the bottom of the horns. If it weren't for the fact that there was a mound in the middle of the two houses that started from the hillside behind the house, crossed the house and then crossed the floor to forcibly separate the two houses, it would have been regarded as one family. The ridge was less than two meters high, reaching out to a large pond in front of it, like an arm of a mountain reaching into the pond to steal fish. The ridge was covered with that little bamboo and some thatch. The eye leaked from this side, and the scenery on the other side was shattered.

The curtain of water that hangs on the dam of the Shuangniuchong Reservoir throughout the year is led by a channel into the pond in front of the two families, and a curtain is hung on the dam of the reservoir.

It may be that the local atmosphere and feng shui of this house, two families gave birth to two fat dolls in one year, no, in the same month of the same year, one is the first day of the lunar calendar, and the other is the thirtieth day of this month. The first year of junior high school was a boy, and the thirtieth year was a girl.

Although the value of each labor of the production team is only two cents and eight cents, after all, it is still more work and more rewards, and the boy's father hopes that the child can compete for more work when he grows up, and he will be named Duo Lao. The girl's mother saw that a female teacher was very beautiful and had a thin waist, and she thought that maybe it was because of that teacher's thin waist that she was teaching. What kind of waist is very thin? Willow! The hair on it is fluttering, a little wind, it is particularly vivid, it is called a willow tree? No, it's a girl, and the name of the willow tree is too thick, so it's called a willow branch.

The golden turtle is like an arrow, the jade rabbit is like a shuttle, and two years have passed. Dorao and Willow are both two years old. The adults all went to work in the fields of the production team, no one paid attention to you when you cried, no one knew about your laughter, and the two children were very lonely and bored in their respective homes. Zhang Jian knew that he had access to the Western Regions, and Zheng He knew that he had gone to the Western Ocean, so he would venture to climb the ridge one day. He actually knew to choose a place with few bamboos, and began a difficult climb on this majestic and invincible ridge. In fact, he didn't know that he climbed from here to Liuzhi's house, and he usually said that his father or mother carried him around the pond embankment to her house. Now he didn't climb up to do diplomatic work, he wanted to climb up to see what it looked like, what was fun, and his mother used to say that the cat had put that piece of candy or something on the top of the mound.

Finally, he made it to the top. There was also a flat ridge on it, and if it weren't for the bamboo and thatch, he could have slept here. He was very excited, standing in this bamboo forest and looking at it, ah! It turns out that this is her home, and she is on the floor! He screamed at her, a signal he sent to her, and it was equivalent to the adults' "Hello, comrade!" ”

She staggered around a few times, where did this somewhat familiar sound come from? She even looked at the sky. But as soon as she didn't move, the voice appeared. She saw him in the bamboo on the ridge, and his hands fluttered like chicken wings, and he beckoned to her.

She trotted all the way over, and without hesitation, threw herself on the ridge and began to climb upwards. It's not an easy task, the slope is steep, and there is moss, slippery, grassy, slippery, and thatched, covering the eyes. But those small bamboos, although they are an obstacle, are also things that can be grabbed and climbed up hard. Like a thief in the movie, you can climb up with a few nails in an inclined plane, but the willow branch climbs harder than the thief, and she flutters like a frog that climbs ashore. Duo Lao, standing there was just flapping his chicken wings, on the one hand he was secretly cheering her on, and on the other hand he hoped that she would not be able to climb up. I've worked so hard, can you do it? She did, climbed up, including in her mouth, all over the dirt. In fact, he was no less dirty than her, and although he was a month older than her, he was not taller than her, maybe a little shorter than her.

I'm afraid I'm even more excited than we climbed Mount Everest, this place is so new to them. It was the first time they stood so high and looked down, everything was under their feet, the floor below became smaller, the pond was smaller, especially the chickens in the floor, it was not as big as before, and the field in the distance was a little closer. Looking at everything through the bamboo forest, the world has changed! The wind blew, and the bamboo swayed and rustled above their heads. They grabbed this bamboo and shook it, and they grabbed that bamboo and shook it......

Since then, they have spent most of their daily life here, one day three, three days nine, and here is a thread worn out by their bodies. The adults helped them dig up some bamboo, and after they were tidy, a crack appeared in the green Great Wall, as if they had been cut in the waist, and it was also like a hoop with a red color.

Adults have also begun to pass here, and although there are uphill and downhill slopes for adults, it is many times closer than the previous one from the pond embankment. The opening of the new transportation line ushered in a new era in the history of transportation for the two households.

Tan Kang said that when he saw that his son and Liu Zhi were not only sleeping at home at night, but also playing on the mounds during the day, he helped them build a "club" there: get a few wooden strips and set up a one-square-meter grass hut on it, and the height of the grass hut can be passed from below when adults reach the height. Duo Lao was so happy that he fluttered his wings again, and Willow Branch was so happy that his two little hands rubbed each other for a long time.

One day, Kang Yue got two osmanthus saplings out of nowhere and planted them in front of the grass shed. He thought that when the children grew up, they would build a "pavilion" here, called the Osmanthus Pavilion, and let them play here, and there would be a fragrance in August.

Osmanthus Pavilion was born for more than a year, and the two hairy children are also a year older. The content of their activities around the gazebo has also increased. The pretending to be "Dad" brought a few stones, and the pretending to be "Mom" got a piece of broken iron, and after many times of placing it, arguing many times, the "stove" was built, and then "Dad" and "Mom" went to pull wild vegetables together. Where are the wild vegetables, still in the pond outside the pond, they heard that there is a weasel hiding in the culvert at the edge of the field, and it is afraid to bite the adults, and it dares to bully the children. So they only held hands, walked slowly, and pretended not to be afraid at all, so that the weasel did not dare to come out.

Tian Zhen arrived, there were wild vegetables in it, but it grew in the water, and there was mud, and the adults told them that this wild vegetable is called water celery, and children eat it and grow quickly. Of course, "Dad" slipped down the water, and "Mom" collected on it. After a long time, "Dad" climbed up and washed the wild vegetables collected by "Mom", in fact, there were only a dozen of them, and adults could eat them in one bite.

I was not afraid of the weasel, so I ran all the way back to the straw hut, found a handful of straw, scraped a match, "Dad" lit a fire on his stomach, and "Mom" knelt to fry vegetables. Smoke billowed from the gazebo. For the first time since ancient times, a wisp of "cooking" smoke rose on the ridge of this ridge, churning a smoke ring that rolled like a pig's tail, slowly rising, spreading, and finally I don't know where it went.

Liu Zhi's mother walked up to the mound and told her to go back for lunch, and this "mother" was eating wild vegetables that "grew fast", and when her mother looked at her mouth, it was like a little rabbit who had drunk ink by mistake.

In less than fifteen minutes, Willow Branch's lunch was finished, and she came out of the house with a glass bottle in her mouth and chewing on the rice. Because she had lunch, the time was even afternoon for her. This glass bottle was pulled back by her mother like a bull in the morning, and Duolao used her thumb and forefinger to show her: catch ants. The afternoon program was updated, so bring a glass bottle.

Even walked and climbed, and when he arrived at the grass hut, why didn't Brother Duolao come yet? Just thinking about it, suddenly a dog barked, his foot was bitten, and he screamed in fright, and the glass bottle also fell. Hearing an ouch below, Dorau rolled at her feet holding her skull, and it turned out that the bottle had fallen on his head.

The smash was not light, but the pain in the skull was better than the painkiller injection given by the doctor, and Duo Lao only rolled the skull for a while, rubbed it a few times, wiped a handful of tears, and picked up the glass bottle he brought with one hand.

The game is simple and well-behaved, put a straw at the midpoint of the ridge, even if it is the Chu River Han Realm, whoever catches the ants on the side of the family, and whoever catches more ants wins.

Today's ants probably knew that they were going to compete, and they all crawled to the side of the willow branch, and seemed to be honestly letting her catch them. It wasn't too long before the ant in the bottle in her hand was covered. There are only a few of them in Duolao's bottle, and each one seems to be very thin.

Dorau's eyes were red, and he was in a hurry, probably worse than being knocked out of the Olympics now. He felt the wound on his skull suddenly hurt again. His bad idea came, he picked up the straw that was the boundary line and walked to her, but he was stopped by the willow branch, and the stalemate was imminent, and the war was about to break out. Finally he pushed her, she pushed him, you grabbed my clothes, I grabbed your head, no one's strength was there, it was really evenly matched. They both fell to the ground.

In fact, where can they figure it out, if it is in the morning, it must be more ants on the side of Duolao, and in the afternoon, there are more willow branches. A ghost shining from the sun's rays.

The war did not distinguish between victory and defeat, so there was a war of words, and Liu Zhi praised her side vigorously: "I just have ants, you just don't have ants!" ”

Duo Lao only felt that his skull was getting more and more painful, thought for a while, and angrily put a hand into his open crotch pants and held a thing: "I just have a little **, I have seen you just don't have a little **!" ”

They parted unhappily and went home.

Fifteen minutes later, with a few pretended cat meows from Dolao, they were together again, again under the straw hut. Another renewed event has begun.

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