Chapter 11: Into the Mountain
There is little land in the mountains, and it is not easy to grow some crops, so you have to take good care of it to have a better harvest, which is the family's ration, and it must be carefully cared for. The Su family doesn't have much land, the head of the family, Su Zhiyuan, is a capable person, the work in the field is covered by Su Zhiyuan, his wife and daughters are not in good health, Su Zhiyuan feels sorry for them, even when they are busy with farming, they never let them work in the field, at most they will send a meal and a water, and he is also worried that the sun will shine on them.
He is a rough man, his parents died early, and he was used to it since he was a child, even if he followed his godfather who was born as an intellectual to learn medicine and medicine, he was also an authentic mountain baby. His daughter-in-law, with a gentle personality, was raised by her grandmother who was born in the old days, can read and write, can embroider, weave, tailor, cook, and is very skillful.
He likes and loves his daughter-in-law, so he wants to do his best to make his daughter-in-law live a good life.
If it weren't for that special turbulent era, his daughter-in-law's parents died because they were criticized and fought by the landlord capitalist faction, if not, the daughter-in-law's grandmother saw that she was old and did not have many days, and wanted to find a support for her daughter-in-law, if it were not for him to meet his daughter-in-law by chance, if he did not have a sincere heart, he would not have been able to marry such a good daughter-in-law.
Married his daughter-in-law and went home, even if he was ridiculed by the villagers for marrying a Guanyin Bodhisattva at home, he was also willing, he wanted to be good to her, let her not be burdened as much as possible, and pamper their baby daughter with her.
The dawn of early autumn is still early, there is a piece of Su's land on the edge of the village head mountain, Su Zhiyuan hoeed the grass and carried the hoe back to it is the time for breakfast in the village, the people in the mountains are diligent, and the tail of cooking smoke is still floating everywhere, and the shouting and shouting are coming and going in the village, Sujia Village is not big, the fields are around Sujia Village, most of the cooking is shouting and shouting, and the people who work in the fields can hear and go home to eat.
Su Zhiyuan couldn't help but speed up his pace, his daughter-in-law was virtuous and diligent, she should have cooked well, and Alibao should have gotten up early to study, their Alibao is a good boy who loves to learn and never needs their urging. He went faster, so that he didn't have to ask his daughter-in-law or Ali Bao to come out to find him.
When I met an acquaintance on the way, I smiled and nodded to say hello, as the only barefoot doctor in dozens of miles away, Su Zhiyuan's popularity is obviously good. Although the people in the mountains are poor, few people give money for medical treatment, Su Zhiyuan mostly does not charge any money, and it is not easy for the villagers, and most of those medicines are collected by him from the mountains, and it takes a little effort to do nothing. Find any valuable medicinal materials, and go to the town and county to help on the construction site is their family's spare time income in addition to those few acres of thin fields.
But they are simple and grateful, you give a pot of sorghum, he gives a prey, see the medicinal herbs he knows bring to him, and they help him in the busy farming season, and they repay him in their own way. Therefore, he has a strong interest in traditional Chinese medicine that can help the people in the village, and has been using the limited conditions at hand for several years to research. He thanked the godfather who taught him Chinese medicine, but the godfather was beaten into a stinky old man in that turbulent era, and he was tortured a lot before he was sent to their village, and he didn't take good care of his old man for a few years, his old man went, and he only had time to send him to the end.
"Alibao, there is a market in the town today, Abba and Grandma are going to the town to catch the market, you are at home by yourself, there are twisted steamed dumplings and frozen rice candy in the cabinet in the hall, you can take it yourself and eat it first, Grandma and your Abba will hurry back!"
The family had breakfast happily, Su Zhiyuan rushed to clean up the table and went to the kitchen to brush the pots and wash the dishes as usual, and Lin Juan instructed her daughter while packing up her things. The girl finally came back for two days, she and her husband were reluctant to go out at this time, but it happened that her husband had an old patient who needed to send medicine, and she just took advantage of the car to send an embroidery to the town to deliver, and wanted to take another back.
A few years ago, a cloth embroidery shop was opened in the town, where can you pick up embroidery and come back to embroider, the shop will give you a manual fee, and you will be rewarded after selling it. When she found out, she went to see what she could do, and began to take orders. In the last century, her grandmother, who was born in the last century, taught her Shu embroidery, and she learned it well, and even better is that she can also find a job suitable for her sick body to supplement the family.
The girl is going to take the college entrance examination next year, and they want to save more money for their daughter. For so many years, her husband has been considerate, working at home and outside the house, and she has to go to the county to help subsidize the family after doing the work in the field.
tirelessly instructed his daughter, Su Zhiyuan took Lin Juan to ride a bicycle and was sent out of the house by Su Li, seeing the back of Abba and Aunt leaving gradually disappearing until the corner was gone, Su Li did not go back to the room to study as her parents expected, brought the key, locked the door of the hall, carried a thin rattan basket, took the medicine hoe and medicine shovel that Abba put in the pharmacy, locked the door and walked in the opposite direction of her parents' departure.
Taking advantage of the departure of her parents, she just didn't have to look for a reason to go directly to the mountain. Sujia Village is located in the mountain col, the hill in front of the village circling into the village mountain road is called Lianggang Mountain by the villagers, and the mountain behind the village is connected to the Hengduan Mountain Range, which is called Erjia Liangshan because it resembles two beams parallel to each other.
Most of the terraced rice fields in Sujia Village are spread on the Erjia Liangshan Mountain and Lianggang Mountain that surround the village, and these two small mountain ranges are also the area where the people of Sujia Village often move. Further down is the taboo range for people who enter the mountains in Sujia Village. How many ancestors used death to remind them of the danger inside, and since then all the villagers have a cordon in their hearts, and they almost never cross the line, only moving on the familiar hills nearby.
Su Li's home is at the foot of Erjia Liang Mountain, and her goal is to try out what her special ability can do in Erjia Liang Mountain first, and if she proves that her ability is enough to protect herself, she will climb over Erjia Liang Mountain and want to get closer to the Hengduan Mountain Range.
The nearby mountains have long been explored and cleaned by the people in the village, even if there are any fish that the villagers don't know, and there are also Su Zhiyuan, who has traveled all over the nearby mountains and often goes into the mountains to collect medicines. Therefore, Su Li never put hope on the nearby mountain.
Lu Xun said that there is no road in the world, and when there are more people, it becomes a road. Passing through the range of terraced fields in the village, along the mountain path opened up by the villagers for many years, Su Li wore a curtain hat and carried a basket on his back, and walked quickly to the depths of Erjialiang Mountain. Today, there is a market in the town, and there is no superfluous sound of human activities in the mountains, except for the sound of birds and insects from time to time.