Chapter 62: Homestead

At noon, Jing Jifu said:

"Zhiyi, go, call Uncle Yongku and a few of them over, and eat together for lunch!"

Of course, Jing Zhiyi knew who Jing Jifu said about them, and they were Jing Zhiyi's brothers.

Jing Zhiyi's father and Jing Zhiguo's father are brothers, and when they come to Jing Zhiyi and Jing Zhiguo, they are uncles and brothers, and they are not much different from brothers. In addition to this layer, Jing Zhiyi and Jing Zhiguo, plus Qi Yongku and a few of them, are still brothers. Since they are uncles and brothers, why are they brothers? That's a long story.

After Jing Zhiguo arrived in Liucheng, Jing Zhiguo's father Jing Jizhong could no longer be the principal of Yuzhuang Primary School, and Jing Zhiguo also moved to Liucheng to go to school. But every summer, Jing Zhiguo has to return to Jingjiagou for the summer vacation. Jing Zhiguo and Jing Zhiyi, as well as those boys, are the brothers who became brothers in those years, and how many years have passed since then. Whenever he thinks back to those days, Jing Zhiguo feels that it was really beautiful. There are a few nodes that are most impressive, after their family moved to Liucheng, the first time he returned to Jingjiagou was the initial node.

It was an early summer morning, and Jing Zhiguo and his mother first set off from the bungalow where their family lived in Liucheng and walked for about half an hour to Wangbao Station on the outskirts of Liucheng. Hearing this name, Jing Zhiguo thought, this seems to be a rural land, but in fact, it is really a rural land, the location of this station is called Wangbao Town, and the station is named after the town. The small bungalow where Jing Zhiguo lives is next to the suburbs of Liucheng City, if you want to go out by train, you don't need to go to Liucheng Station in the center of the city to get on the train, you can get on the train at the nearest Wangbao Station. Wangbao Station is a small station. Jing Zhiguo remembered that it was a beautiful and clean house, the house was white walls, red tiles, the house was facing east, a small square in front of the door, and there was a huge flower bed in the center of the square, on which colorful flowers bloomed. On the front wall of the house is a black-painted South Manchurian railway emblem that is slightly bulging outward. There are not many people in the station. Queued up to buy a ticket and waited in line to check in. Jing Zhiguo has exceeded the height to buy a child ticket, and according to the regulations, he should buy an adult ticket, but after all, he is still a child, so his mother bought a child ticket for him. The female ticket inspector in the railway uniform was also in her twenties, with a round face, very beautiful, took the two tickets handed over by Jing Zhiguo's mother, looked at them separately, looked up and down Jing Zhiguo who was walking in front, and then glanced at Jing Zhiguo's mother behind Jing Zhiguo, didn't say anything, just put the two tickets together again, clamped one end of the ticket with the shiny ticket tongs in his hand, pinched it, and then released it, and then returned the two tickets to Jing Zhiguo. Jing Zhiguo took the ticket and glanced at it, and there was a triangular gap on the rectangular paper shell ticket with the name of the departure station, the final station, the station, and the train time printed on the front and back. Jing Zhiguo suddenly understood, the original ticket inspection was to cut a gap in the ticket. After checking the tickets, people began to rumble out of the back door of the station, almost rushing to the platform, under the command of the station staff to maintain, standing in a row every other section, big bags and small wraps, not too neat, but also smooth. After a while, I heard someone blowing a whistle, just like the whistle blown by a physical education teacher in class, and in the distance there was a majestic whistle of a train, followed by a train whirring and panting from north to south. Before the train stopped, the lined up began to thicken, the people in the middle began to squeeze forward, and the people in the back began to spread to both sides of the row. Jing Zhiguo felt that his back was being covered by a hard package, and his face was tightly attached to the back of the person in front of him, and he quickly turned his face to the side. As soon as the train stopped, the thickened row was completely messed up, and people flocked to it, and suddenly they all crowded at the door of the train, and finally squeezed onto the train, grabbed the same to find a seat, but did not sit down, but stuffed it under the seat, put it on the shelf on the head, hung it on the iron hook next to the window, and hurriedly settled the packages and objects they were carrying, and waited for everything to be disposed of, and then sat down. But the car didn't immediately fall silent, and people began to talk loudly and quietly. Jing Zhiguo looked around curiously, only to find that there were not many people in the carriage, and many seats were still empty. Jing Zhiguo thought, there are not many people in this carriage, you look at the crowd of people who got on the train just now! Thinking about it again, it's no wonder, who knows if there will be a seat after getting on the bus! At this time, I heard someone blowing a whistle outside the car window, and then I heard a long whistle, followed by a short but powerful exhale, and the sound was really loud! With this sound, with a bang, the whole body of the train shook for a moment, and then it moved, and then, the whirring sound became more and more rapid and weaker, but the speed of the train became faster and faster. There was silence in the trunk, and the loud talkers stopped talking loudly, and the voices of the chattering people lowered down a lot. Jing Zhiguo's eyes were fixed on the window, and the green field was endless, constantly rotating and changing in front of his eyes. At first, the place near the train kept reversing backwards, and it was gone, and the old was replaced by the new one, and after a while, the distant one was gone, and the old one was replaced by the new one.

Get off the train at Gaotai Station, you have to walk more than ten miles of hilly mountain roads to Jingjiagou, look at the hilly and mountainous areas from a distance, the huge green waves are undulating, it is really beautiful! It was a false cloudy day, and the field was shrouded in a light gray sky, and the green was particularly vivid, and from time to time birds flew through the sky, leaving behind chirping. The wind rushed gently from the rolling hills, and hurried away, blowing the rustling of the crops, and the earth was so cool and clean. Walking and walking, more than ten miles of mountain roads, Jing Zhiguo did not feel tired and panicked, and his heart was just endlessly happy.

From Gaotai Station to Jingjiagou, you have to pass through Yuzhuang, where Jing Zhiguo once studied at Yuzhuang Primary School, not far from the side of the road where they walked. Red brick walls with white lime tiles. At this time, it must have been a holiday for the school, and under the shade of the willow trees, it was quiet. Jing Zhiguo and his mother walked not far from the school and kept looking towards the school.

Coming out of Yuzhuang, to the southeast, is the wicker ditch. The wicker ditch is a long and narrow ravine, more than two miles long, the slope is long but not steep, the slopes on both sides of the ditch are full of elm trees, locust trees, wicker, trees are thick, wild grass is abundant. The mountain road that Jing Zhiguo's mother and Jing Zhiguo walked crossed from the wicker ditch. Go down to the bottom of the ditch, and then go up to the top of the slope in front, you can see Jingjiagou.

At this moment, something happened that Jing Zhiguo will never forget.

As soon as he went down to the bottom of the wicker ditch and stepped over the clear flowing water, Jing Zhiguo's mother suddenly dragged him to the other side of her body, blocking his view, and at the same time whispered urgently, go quickly! But Jing Zhiguo had already seen that the snow-white skin of a woman was revealing from behind the furrow elm bushes in the distance, and at the same time he heard a strange voice coming from there, as if someone was panting rapidly. Jing Zhiguo and his mother hurriedly went up the ditch slope. At this time, I don't know why, Jing Zhiguo felt that his heart was beating wildly. But the wild jump at this time was not because of fear, but an inexplicable shock, Jing Zhiguo felt that all this was very wonderful, and it could even be said to be very beautiful. Jing Zhiguo heard his mother sigh hatefully, and sighed - it's really unlucky! Mom, what's unlucky? Don't talk, go! Jing Zhiguo looked at his mother, a little strange. Mom, who is that? Oh! It's not Zhiyi's kid yet. Huh? Jing Zhiguo thought, what he saw and heard just now was clearly a woman!

The family was in Liucheng, and my mother had to put Jing Zhiguo in Jing Zhiyi's house. Although it has been less than a year since he left Jingjiagou, Jing Zhiguo returned to Jingjiagou, and he felt that his eyes were a little insufficient. That's right, after all, this is the countryside, and it's not the same thing as the city! I've been crazy for a few days in front of the house in the village, and I'm a little distracted. Jing Zhiguo stood in the courtyard and looked at the east side from afar, and the east side was the mountain, the mountain was tall, and the mountain was full of forests and trees, lush and green. Jing Zhiyi stopped studying at this time, and followed his father Jing Jifu to run business all day long, take care of the farmland, and had no time to play with Jing Zhiguo. In the evening, when eating, Jing Zhiguo said to Jing Zhiyi, brother, Ming'er, let's go to Dongshan to play for a while! Jing Zhiyi glanced at Jing Zhiguo, lowered his head to eat, as if he had expected it, and said, we have something to do tomorrow morning! After a pause, he said, "It's fun, don't run around!" He groaned for a while and said, "Okay, let the second son of the old Qi family take you there tomorrow." Who is the second boy? Jing Zhiguo didn't even know who the second boy of the Qi family was! Qi Yonghe, herding cattle! Jing Zhiyi said. Tomorrow morning, let's let the second boy come home and call you. At this time, Jing Zhiguo remembered who this second boy of the Qi family was. Oh! It's the kid who drives the cow past our door every day! Be. What did you just say his name was? Qi Yonghe, we still have to call him master! Jing Zhiyi smiled slightly, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and stopped the chopsticks in his hand. Guozi, you and the second boy are playing together, the two of you have to be good! It's not easy for the second boy's family! After a long while, Jing Zhiyi continued as if talking to himself, the second boy's family is all honest-eyed, the thief is honest and the thief is sincere, I have never seen such a sincere person! Brother, what's the matter? Guozi, you are still young, I don't know, if people are unlucky, they will stuff their teeth when they drink cold water! At the beginning, his father looked at the orchard, which was the perfume pear tree in Dongshan, and saw that someone was stealing pears, it was midnight, and you just got it when you drove it away! No, it's a chase! After chasing for a while, no one caught up, ran out of breath, even held his breath and nested the fire, and came back without stopping for a while, he drank a scoop of cold water, drank it and blew up his lungs, and died in a few days. In the past few days, you haven't seen the second boy and his brother Qi Yongku. Qi Yongku was quarrying stones in the Dongshan Quarry, and his legs were blown off by the cannon. It's okay, people are still alive. His leg was blown off, his bones were connected, but he was sick and could only walk with a limp. I can't do heavy work, I can only do some odd jobs, my father takes care of him, it's good, like his father, or look at the orchard! The second boy's mother is a thief who loves cleanliness, and she has a heartbeat problem when she comes and goes, and she has to lie down when she is in a hurry. That house, except for three adobe houses, is really clean! Nothing! Jing Zhiguo forgot to eat and sat there.