Chapter 4 The Fancheng Region, which is strong in the outside and dry in the middle
"This guest, don't you know which this is?" The old farmer exhaled "Phew", and the old scalper quickly stopped.
The voice is a bit like Wuxian dialect, but it sounds a little weird.
In Wu County, close to the first line of the 258th District in the north, there is this taste when you speak.
"I don't know, fellow." Wu Shan smiled bitterly: "I arrived here for some reason." ”
"That's weird," the old farmer took out a small cigarette pouch and smoked a dry cigarette, clicked the old-fashioned lighter, and lit it a few times: "You don't even have a seal in your car?" ”
This? Wushan Yilin, I didn't expect the old farmer to observe so carefully, I can't say that I don't know how to come here.
"I don't have anything in the car," he laughed, "You see, I'm alone and I have two dogs." ”
"Woohoo!" As he spoke, Pudding woke up and yelled at a man and a cow.
The old scalper didn't know what was going on, but he took two steps back in a row, and let out a "moo" sound from his mouth.
Pudding's legs kept scraping on his master's body, making a rapid whining.
"Don't make a fuss, Pudding, I'm asking for directions." Wushan picked it up and smiled at the old farmer: "Look, just this little dog, and a bigger dog." ”
The old farmer was still a little skeptical, obviously not convinced.
Jiang is old and spicy, and although he rarely sees a jeep, the township government still has it.
On the machine ploughing road, from time to time, tractors pull coal or something by, and the road surface is crushed and collapsed.
The jeep looked quite heavy, and there was no mark at all, as if it had fallen from the sky.
"Our village is called Shuangqiao Village. Listening to your accent, it doesn't look like you're a local, right? "The old peasant has the cunning of a peasant, and he always feels that something is wrong.
"Old man. You're right. Wu Shan patiently replied: "I am from Bashu, Wu County, I don't know if your family has heard of it?" ”
Your home, in the Sichuan-Shaanxi-Hubei border area, is a lingua franca, the younger generation refers to the elders, or the young people to the elders they don't know.
"Wu County?" The old man was a little incredulous: "Are you from Wuxian?" ”
"That's right," Wu Shan smiled calmly, "I drove here in the middle of the night." I was so tired that I slept and woke up without knowing the north, south, south, and north. ”
"Old man, I'm from Wuxian," he knocked his small cigarette pouch twice on the sole of his shoe: "Before liberation, I fled to the Han River." More than 40 years have passed. ”
"Oh," Wushan was not interested in where he was, so he still had to recognize his fellow countrymen, and he was anxious to get out of the small mountain village: "Where is the Shuangqiao you just said?" ”
"In the past, this village was called the Shuangqiao Brigade. It is of Twin Bridges Commune. Now the Shuangqiao commune has been demolished. And to the former Xiangba District, changed to Xiangba Township. ”
Although his speech was interrupted, the old man did not feel the slightest displeasure.
"Before the reform and opening up, the rural areas of Wuxian County were very miserable. As soon as there was a shortage of crops in March and April, they would come to us to ask for food. ”
The so-called asking for food is a very polite way of saying, that is, begging for food.
"Now it's reversed, they don't come. We ran over and no one paid any attention to us. ”
From the old man's narration, Wushan roughly understood. It should not be far from Wuxian.
It seems that the countryside with thatched huts is very poor, and I don't know whether it is Chengkou next door, which also belongs to Yizhou City, or Zhushan County on the Han River, or Zhenping County in the Qinling Mountains.
"Huh?" Wu Shan was a little surprised: "Are you still short of food now?" ”
"We are not bad for food," the old man shook his head: "The key is that we can't sell it for money." ”
"At the beginning of the reform and opening up, we had too much grain to eat, so we went to the county seat to sell it, but unfortunately no one bought it."
"Later, I picked it up and sold it in Wuxian County, and someone bought it at a low price, so they bought it and fed the pigs."
"Back then, when they begged for rice, they all wanted our mouths full of drills, like strange meat."
It means that once the people of Wuxian County came to beg for food and asked them for corn, which was as rare as meat.
The old man may not have spoken Wuxian dialect for a long time, and his speech is getting smoother and smoother.
However, Wushan on the side is a little distressed, which county is it?
"What a good food, it's a pity to feed the pigs."
"Old man, don't you produce rice here?" Wu Shan asked curiously: "If there are mountains and water, you can grow rice." ”
"That thing, we have planted it, so we can harvest it in Wuxian." The old man sighed: "We can't plant on this side of the Han River and the Qinling Mountains, and we will die in a few days. ”
These words finally let Wushan know that Qingfengzi Lao Dao actually got himself to Zhushan County.
He said that there used to be a sect not far from his hometown, isn't it Shennongjia?
Whether it is the boundary Liangzi at the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Hubei or this area, the deep mountains and rivers are the remnants of Shennongjia.
"Thank you for your family," Wu Shan breathed a sigh of relief: "In which direction is Wu County?" Can my car drive through? ”
"Wuxian is over there," the old man pointed to the southwest and then to the northeast: "Follow the road along the machine farming road, turn around and drive all the way to Wuxian." ”
At this time, Wushan was a little difficult, the front of the car was in the opposite direction of the main road, on the narrow machine plow road, and it was impossible to even turn around.
"Do you know how generous it is?" He asked hopefully, "I'm going to have to turn the car over in the head." ”
"Oh, the old brigade over there is a mud dam." Old man Nunu mouth.
Seeing that Wushan was about to start the car, the old man ran over with his legs and feet: "This comrade, I haven't met anyone from Wuxian for a long time, come to my house for breakfast this morning, right?" ”
"Woo", Wu Shan didn't speak, and Pudding shook his head on the side.
There is no time in the mountains, and I don't know how long I have been cultivating in the Tianshan Sect.
Seeing the red leaves on the mountain, it should be September and October of the lunar calendar. The clear soup eaten every day is low in water, and there is no salt, and when Wushan heard about it, he couldn't help swallowing saliva in his stomach.
"That's a good idea," he laughed, "and besides, it's not the same way as your house." ”
"Who said that?" The old man's eyes widened: "My family is in the public house, and I ploughed the fields for other people's families last night." I didn't come back too late, so I got up early and went home for breakfast. ”
Public housing is the public housing of the former brigade or production team. Later, it was sold to the peasants for little use.
People who can afford public housing are still relatively powerful in rural areas.
The dam of Sanhe mud should be smooth as a mirror at the beginning.
Now it looks like a pothole, and it has obviously not been repaired for a long time.
During the conversation, Wushan finally knew that the old man's name was Yang Zhengjie, and he fled from the wilderness with his mother-in-law and doll before liberation.
The flow of peasants. It's to see if there's anything to eat in that place.
Before the liberation of Wu County, it was poor, and the land was in the hands of a few landlords, such as the Wu family.
Adjacent to the province of Han River. This is the edge of Shennongjia, and there is relatively more land in the mountainous area. In addition, in the face of liberation, the rich and powerful people are too busy to take care of themselves, how can they care about the people who open up the wasteland by themselves?
Farmers in Wu County. There are more people who run to the two provinces of Hanjiang and Qinling.
They did not have the courage of the people of Tarzan Province. Go to Kanto, after all, the northeast is still too far away from here.
Yang Zhengjie's wife has no name, her name is Yang Zhang, a typical old society woman with small feet.
He has no daughters, and all three descendants are sons.
The eldest son's name is Yang Tiancai, and he has long been separated.
The second son, Yang Tianbao, also got married and split up a few years ago.
Only the youngest son, Tian Youjun, used to be called Yang Tianshou. Although they are married, they still live with the old couple.
In rural areas, such families are common. The emperor loves the eldest son, and the people love the youngest son. When he got old, he mostly lived with his younger son.
Tian Youjun changed his name and there is an allusion, during the natural disaster in the third year, the old Yang family was a foreigner, and the rations allocated were relatively small, and they could not support their three sons.
It just so happened that there was a family surnamed Tian in the brigade who did not have children, so they adopted the past and changed their names and surnames.
Unexpectedly, within a few years of hugging, the mother-in-law of the Lao Tian family gave birth to a son, and there were two or three in her life.
Life improved slightly, Tian Youjun returned to Lao Yang's house, but this name has been called out, even if his biological parents also call him Tian Youjun, so they don't bother to change it.
Yang Zhang saw that there was a visitor at home, came out and said hello solemnly, and went into the stove house to work on breakfast.
As for the youngest son Tian Youjun, he was born in the army and drove a tractor in the brigade after changing jobs.
Later, the brigade was changed to a village, and he simply bought a tractor himself to run the transportation.
As soon as the meal was served on the table, Tian Youjun came back with a rattling tractor.
"Mom, old man, I'll be back!" The voice of the voice was high and the throat was loud, with the boldness of a soldier, and the tractor was turned off and the belt was still turning.
"Hahahaha, it turns out that there are rare guests at home?" The man had a beard on his face, and handed the child in his hand to the woman who came in: "Daughter-in-law, you hug it, and I will accompany the guest." ”
"You are Comrade Tian Youjun, right?" Wu Shan stood up: "I was talking to your father about you just now!" ”
"Those who serve as soldiers are brothers!" He stretched out his hands briskly: "Hello, I have served in a certain army of the Central China Military Region. ”
There was a military vehicle parked at the door, and he took it for granted that it was a soldier.
"Commander Sword's subordinates?" Wu Shan was a little surprised, holding the powerful big hand: "Speaking of which, we still have some origins, I am Dao Chaoren's comrade-in-arms!" ”
"Hahahaha, it's not that a family doesn't enter the door!" Tian Youjun said with a smile, and shouted at the stove house: "Mom, add two more dishes, me and this, by the way, what's your name?" ”
"My name is Wushan!" He looked at the rough demobilized soldier with interest.
"I'll have some wine with Wushan," Tian Youjun greeted happily: "Dad, do you still have wine at home?" That kind of original wine. ”
Seeing that he was shaking his head, he took out five yuan from his pocket: "Go to the winery to get a plastic pot, tell Director Wang, and send a wine pot back in two days." ”
The Yang family is very hospitable, eating not only rice, but also the dishes on the table are basically meat dishes.
It should be related to Tian Youjun's running of freight, otherwise, the money to buy rice will be a huge burden for farmers.
Seeing that Wushan drinking liquor was like drinking water, this guy was dumbfounded, and he accompanied a bowl at first, and he didn't dare to drink the second bowl anyway.
As soon as the man drank, he began to talk more.
"Reform and opening up is good," Tian Youjun picked a crispy bone and chewed it in his mouth: "At least I can buy a public tractor." ”
"However, I see that the countryside here is really not good." Wushan also saw the embarrassment of the other party, no longer quenched his thirst with wine, and sipped a little: "There are still a lot of thatched houses." ”
"We don't lack food now, we lack everything else." With the strength of the wine, Tian Youjun complained: "The people in the area don't let us go to Wuxian." ”
"People's roads have long been concrete floors, and our roads are still gravel pavement."
"Our Shiyan used to be an area. Fortunately, a person surnamed Mei came over and was assigned to Fancheng. ”
"I don't see the good, the bad is everywhere. Let's take an analogy, paddy fields need to store water, and they don't have people from above to guide them. ”
"Bud Valley used to be more valuable than anything else, but now it can't be sold, so I can only eat it at home."
"Two years ago, the Japanese people invested in a vermicelli factory in our county, requiring every household to grow two crops of potatoes. This is good, the seedlings of the artichoke in the summer have not grown completely, and the frost has fallen. ”
"Didn't your father just say that Wuxian can sell the bud valley?" Wu Shan was a little puzzled: "Isn't it very profitable for you to use a tractor to pull more and sell it?" Anyway, the price of buds here is low. ”
"You think I don't want to?" Tian Youjun smiled bitterly: "It's no problem for people to carry the mountain road on their backs, I use a tractor?" Maybe the car will be detained. ”
"Huh?" Wu Shan was a little angry and was speechless for a while. (To be continued......)