The land of black soil, fertile fields for thousands of miles, and there is an ordinary village called Duanlonggang on the reckless plain. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Legend has it that in a Dragon Boat Festival in the early years, a golden carp that had cultivated for 3,000 years jumped up from the Heiyuantan in the northeast and flew to Yunnan. As long as you jump over Longmen Mountain on the south bank of the Bailong River, you can transform into a dragon and enter the South China Sea. In the clouds and mist, the golden carp gradually gave birth to dragon scales, dragon claws, dragon body, and dragon head in the sky, and ran a true dragon that soared into the sky. When the golden carp was proud, the sky was suddenly covered with black clouds, and a black fog barrier suddenly rose from the Bali City in the north of the Bailong River, blocking the way of the golden carp, and the complacent golden carp was caught off guard, and fell on the Pingchuan River a few miles away from the Bali City, and turned into a moundan that ran towards the Bailongjiang River with its head held high. Later generations called this post Duanlonggang, and the village under the post was also named.

Duanlonggang is the black soil of Pingchuan before and after, rich in products, and is a famous feng shui treasure land within a radius of dozens of miles. The village is built on the south side of the dragon body, and there are 100 households living in a patchwork. At the east end of the village lives the largest wealthy family in the village, the Yun family.

The Yunjia compound is more than 80 zhang long from north to south, and more than 30 zhang wide from east to west. It is the largest and most imposing building in this area, showing the wealth and domineering of the owner. The southernmost end of the Yunjia compound is the field courtyard, which is 30 zhang long and more than 20 zhang wide. On the east side of the yard is a granary, and on the east side of the north side are five bungalows, which are inhabited by the third family of the family. The rest to the north is a row of pigsties, chicken coops, and duck houses. There is a wide gate on each side of the east and west, for people and animals to enter and exit. On the south side of the yard is a haystack and firewood stack, which is the firewood for the entire compound population to make a fire for cooking, and the forage for cattle and horses in winter. The open space in the center of the yard is flat and wide, and it is a place to store crops and to raise the field after the autumn harvest. The crops harvested throughout the year are threshed and dried here. There is a four-zhang wide interval between the courtyard and the compound for people and vehicles in the compound to enter and exit. The eastern side of the interval was blocked and an open cattle pen was built. On the north side in front of the cattle pen is a well, and a drinking trough for cattle and horses is set up. On the west side is an open access avenue. The wall of the courtyard is one zhang and two high, the wall is three feet thick, it is made of loess ramming, and a layer of alkaline soil mud is smeared outside, it is a unique courtyard wall in the north. The four corners of the wall are the towers that are raised, the scale is not large, only three or four people can stand and look, it is a typical defense facility of the large households in the north. There are two main houses in the courtyard, and the east side of the front yard from north to south is the forage house and the husband's living room, the horse pen, the cattle pen, and the thatched house. On the west side are the mill room, powder room, tofu room and workshop. On the landlord side of the front yard is the long-term work room, in the middle is the dormitory, and on the west side is the warehouse. There are four rubber-tyred carts and two steel-axle carts parked in the courtyard, and various farm tools are placed against the south wall. There is a moon gate leading to the backyard on the east and west sides, and usually only the east door opens, and the west door rarely opens. The main house in the backyard is different from the adobe house in the front yard, which is nine blue brick and red tile houses, which looks solemn and magnificent. There are four granaries on each side of the backyard, which are places for the owner to store grain for a long time. There is a corridor wide in the courtyard, and on both sides are small gardens of all kinds of seasonal vegetables, melons and fruits planted by the owner. At the back of the house and between the courtyard wall, there are northern fruit trees such as begonias, autumn fruits, red bells, cherries, plums, and apricots carefully planted by the owner.

The owner who dominates this compound is called Yun Fugui, known as Yun Erye, a northern man in his fifties who is about to run to sixty. He, his current wife, Yun Erniang, and their seven-year-old daughter occupy the west four of the nine brick houses. His original wife, He, died in her forties and had two sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Yun Mengze, served as an adjutant in Zhang Dashuai's army and studied in Japan in his early years. The second son, Yun Mengyu, heard that he was learning to do business in the south. The 16-year-old eldest daughter Yun Monroe has already been very moving and is waiting to be married. The east three rooms of the brick house are inhabited by the old lady, Yun Monroe and the eldest lady. The fourth room on the east side is the small kitchen and the Yun family's dining place, and in the middle is the Yun family's place for discussion, reception, and office, which is of course occupied by Yun Erye. The uncle of the Yun family died early, and the eldest son who was born led his daughter-in-law and children to do business in Harbin. The daughter has already been married, and the eldest mother is left alone to stay in the Yun family compound to help take care of the old lady. There are five bungalows in the courtyard, and the third child of the Yun family lives. Yun Laosan was sick when he was young, tuberculosis, and he coughed incessantly in winter, and he couldn't go to the field to do heavy work. But the third child's reproductive ability is particularly strong, and now he has five children, two boys and three girls, the eldest daughter, the second daughter has been married, and now lives with two sons and a daughter, but the nearly fifty-year-old Sanniang is pregnant with a child again, and will give birth after the autumn.

It is said that the Yun family moved here from the Yungui area, and it has been eight generations now. However, the land here is fertile, the water and grass are abundant, and the black and swarthy land is full of oil, especially to raise people, as long as you are willing to work, you don't have to worry about food and clothing. However, the Yun family's family business of more than 200 rings could not be earned by hard work alone. As the saying goes, horses have no night grass and no fertilizer, and people are not rich without foreign wealth. What kind of foreign wealth did the Yun family get? People don't know, they only know that since the time of Yun Erye's grandfather, the Yun family has become rich and has become a well-known family.

In addition to renting out remote land, most of the more than 200 land of the Yun family relied on hiring long-term laborers to plant. Now is the busy season for spring sowing, and before dawn, Yun Erye dressed up early and beckoned the long-term workers to get up and go to work.

When more than thirty long-term workers were still sleepy-eyed and gathered in the courtyard, Yun Erye held a teapot in one hand, took a sip, and made a powerful gesture with the other hand: "You have to finish the remaining plots of yesterday today, I will send you food in the morning, and I will finish the work later in the dark." Big guy, you take two rakes to the Nanda Pai to rake the millet, the seeds should be a little denser, and the germination rate of this year's grain seeds is not good. For the first two, you take two pear sticks to the eighteen-ringing buds. Silly Jiuzi, you still lead people to blow dung. Remember to raise evenly, don't tidy this crunch, that piece. ”

While sipping tea, Yun Erye arranged his work in an orderly manner, like a general who was sure to win.

"Haizi, you go and call Sixizi up later, and ask him to go to the big guy's pressure and press it twice. You go north to turn the mountain and press the rock, and you press it twice. ”

The boy known as 'Haizi' has just turned fifteen this year, but he has become masculine and straight, with the dignified heroic spirit of a northern man between his eyebrows, and a faint beard growing on his confined lips. Haizi's real name is Yu Yuehai, the word Jackie Chan, and his father has passed away. At present, Yu Yuehai lives with his mother, thirteen-year-old sister, and ten-year-old brother.

Yu Yuehai's father was a teacher, who fled from Shandong to the Northeast in his early years and settled in Duanlonggang. When his father was alive, he opened a school with the help of Second Master Yun. The school is close to the west of the Yun family's compound, after the death of his father, the school was abandoned, and now a distant relative of Yun Erye is guarding over there. Yu Yuehai studied with his father in the academy from the age of five until his father died at the age of fourteen. Most of the young masters and young ladies in the Yun family's compound have studied in the school opened by their father, and many of them have been classmates with Yu Yuehai.

As the saying goes, 'a family with two buckets of food is not the king of children'. Although Yu Yuehai's father is literate and hyphenated, he can't earn a lot of money from teaching, and the family is still very poor. Fortunately, Yuehai's mother is still very diligent and thrifty, dragging a pair of small feet to serve the family's five acres of thin land, which is a big subsidy for the family. Yu Yuehai often finds time to help his mother work in the fields when he is busy farming. But the mother is a typical Chinese woman who is very spoiled to her children, pinning her hopes on the children, hoping that the children will grow up to be productive, saving money to let the children study, and reluctant to let the children work. Yu Yuehai's father was a poor teacher, dragging his sick body all day long, and he couldn't do farm work at all, so the burden of the family fell on his mother. Fortunately, with his father's stable income and his mother's hard work, although life is hard, he is also harmonious and stable, and his children are gradually growing up in barely making ends meet. But there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, people have good and bad luck, when the children are about to grow up, Mr. Yu can't afford to get sick and die. This hit the Yu family hugely, and the children of the Yu family had to drop out of school and work hard with their mother to make a living.

Yun Er Ye remembered the old love of Mr. Yu when he was alive, and asked his eldest son Yu Yuehai to go to his house to carry long-term labor, and he had two buckets of high grain every year. Let the youngest son herd pigs for his family in the summer, and five buckets of high grain every year. Although it is said that it is given to high grain, most of the rations given are daily rations, and high grain is just a unit of pricing. In addition, Yu's mother led her daughter to farm some land at home, and she could barely make ends meet.

At this time, Yu Yuehai has been working in the Yun family's compound for more than a year, and he has long been familiar with everything about the Yun family, plus he is literate and hyphenated, and he helps Yun Erye remember working hours, settle accounts, and run errands all year round, plus Yun Erye often remembers that Mr. Yu was good when he was alive, Yu Yuehai's status in the Yun family is stronger than other work, and he often gets the sympathy of the Yun family.

Haizi went to the courtyard to call Sixizi according to the instructions of Second Master Yun. Sixizi is the eldest son of the third master of the Yun family, the same age as Yu Yuehai, his big name is Yun Mengtian, and his nickname is Xizi. Because the first three of the three families are all girls, and the fourth is a son, the whole family is happy, so the name is Xizi. In addition, Xizi is the fourth oldest in the new generation of Yun family men, so everyone calls him Sixizi. Sixizi also went to school in Yuehai's father's school, but he only studied for five years, and he was not born to read a book, so his knowledge was too far behind Yu Yuehai. Now that I have no education, and I am growing up year by year, I stay at home and do some farm work as much as I can. But in the long run, Sixizi may also be the future head of the family who will take over the Yun family's compound.

When Sixizi arrived at the compound, Haizi had already drunk the water from the two weak horses and put them on the squirts. So the two of them took a horse and went to work on their respective plots.

The sun rises early and rises slowly in early spring. Haizi had been working in the fields for an hour and a half before the sun climbed a pole high. At this time, Haizi was already a little tired, and the pace of leading the horse slowed down, and his stomach began to growl. He looked up at the sun, and then in the direction of the village, intending to rest for a while. There was an old elm tree near the ground, and when Haizi was about to approach the old elm tree, a woman in red walked in the direction of the village from a distance, and it seemed that a dog was running in front of the woman in red. Haizi thought to herself, who is this?

When Haizi walked to the ground, he gradually saw that the person who came might be Monroe, the fifth lady of the Yun family. And the dog running in front is a female dog in the backyard of the Yun family, this dog is familiar with Haizi, and Haizi usually steals some delicious food to feed it. This dog is raising seedlings right now, but Second Master Yun won't let it mate with the male dog in the backyard because it is the offspring of the big male dog. Recognizing this dog, Haizi was even more convinced that the person who came was Fifth Miss Monroe. Haizi thought to himself that he couldn't rest now, so he turned the horse around again and continued to lead the horse to press the rollers.

"Jackie Chan, don't press it, I'm bringing you food!" Monroe shouted from afar. Monroe entered the school at the age of seven, one year later than Yu Yuehai, but they also worked together as classmates for eight years.

Haizi stopped and glanced in Monroe's direction. The big black dog had already run to him, pounced on Hai Zi's body with both paws, and then rolled on the ground twice, greeting Hai Zi in this way and showing affection.

"My dad asked me to bring you food, it's still hot, eat it." Monroe put the basket in the open space under the big elm tree: "Sticky bean buns, pickles, I also brought you a steamed bun, my family has leftovers in the morning." ”

"Why are you here?" Haizi sat down, took the steamed bun handed over by Monroe, glanced at her gratefully, and whispered, "Thank you!" ”

Monroe smiled at Haizi, her face was slightly red: "My father said that there are many birds in spring, and now is a good time to hunt birds, I found a few plates of iron clips in the broken box when my brother was a child, you see if you can use it, you help me catch a few birds, and go home to burn and eat for my grandma." Monroe did not answer Haizi's question directly, but made a request to him, and took out seven or eight iron tongs from under the basket and placed them in front of Haizi.

While eating, Haizi fiddled with the iron clip with his hand: "This clip looks like it can be used, the sticks and pins are all good, but it doesn't work without bugs." ”

"Yes." Monroe said and took out a small medicine bottle from his pocket: "I asked the five nobles to help me pick up the stubble from the bud, quite a lot." ”

Haizi raised her head and looked at Monroe seriously. Monroe is wearing a pink placket jacket today, and her face seems to be powdered, and there is a faint fragrance wafting over. Haizi said: "A moment is when the birds are busy eating, and then there are many birds. It's just that now is the time to be busy, can the master know?"

"It's okay, you help me put down the clamp, I'll help you press the clamp, it's not in the way."

"It's not good to have a good clip in the light, you have to walk the birds, can you do it?"

"I used to hunt birds with my brother when I was a kid, and now you tell me how to walk it?"

"I'll go to the middle of the ground and put a clamp on you, and you lead the horse to help me press back and forth. After I have laid down the clamps, I mark the two sides of the clamps with clods of earth, and when you walk the birds, walk them between the two clods of earth. I got down the clamp and got two ridges apart, and I was too close to catch one bird, and the rest flew. When you are a bird, you have to run to the top of the ground and run to the middle of the ground, whistling as you go. Yes, you probably won't whistle. In this way, you can move forward slowly, and don't be in a hurry. When you see the bird going up the mound, you go up, and when the bird goes down, you go down, trying to get the bird to go in the direction of the clamp. Remember, let the bird go against the wind, and if there are many birds in the downwind direction, you drive it back and let it go against the wind. ”

"Why?" Monroe stared at Haizi with confused eyes.

"It's very simple, as soon as the wind blows, it lifts the bird's tail and feathers on its body, and the bird can't walk steadily, so the bird walks against the wind. As the saying goes, it doesn't mean to walk the bird against the wind and pee with the wind...... Urine. The common words that came out of his mouth suddenly made Haizi feel embarrassed, and he stopped talking, and just lowered his head to eat.

Slip the bird against the wind, pee with the wind...... Urine? Monroe is still a little puzzled, why pee with the wind? But it was inconvenient to ask more, just such a simple question made her a little uneasy.