Chapter 2: A Difficult Start, an Ethereal Future

Sitting on the hill at the head of the village, it is better to say that it is a mound of soil more than ten meters high; Fu Ning still began to be silent, the bizarre experience has been shattered, in the original life, he had been stumbling for more than ten years, went to college, ran business, mixed with the underworld, worked as a waiter, worked as a security guard, ate delicacies from the mountains and seas, played eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling, and also experienced hardships and hardships, life and death tribulations, but they all survived, in the past few years as a security guard for the community, using his spare time to study and write two academic books are preparing to contact for publication, and he has just been filial to his parents for two years. After two happy days, he is now "assigned" to this inexplicable world by UFOs for no reason; Unknown causes, unknown processes, unknown tasks, and unknown futures, such an experience really scared Fu Ning, and when he encountered a car accident and a serious illness in his original life, he did not have the fear and helplessness he has now; When you have been in a car accident, you are afraid but not confused, when you are unemployed, you are confused but not afraid, and when you are seriously ill, you are helpless but not afraid; But now? Fear? Confused? Or helpless? Fu Ning really didn't know what to do. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

After pondering for a long time, the sun had set on the horizon, and the sunset was red with clouds, and he patted his clothes and stood up; If you come, you will be safe, you need a reason to live, and isn't living a reason to live? In the original life, he went through so many hardships and psychological processes and did not fall, but studied several studies; Now I can't go down, live well, maybe there is hope to return to the original world, and maybe there is a chance to do filial piety under the knees of my parents.

Live well, that's the reason to live!

On the sunny slope, a lot of old trees were collected, and some dead trees were sparsely put together, leaving some gaps between the horizontal and vertical, and some dry mountain mushrooms and oyster mushrooms were found and tore up and sprinkled on the dead wood, and then a lot of wild grass was cut densely to cover the wood tightly, and a lot of water was poured all over again; Every day, I searched for wood, cut wood, and cut grass in the mountains, and spent about a month sorting out more than a dozen of these piles of wood. Yang Tiezhu watched Fu Ning's work and stopped talking, Yang Tiezhu's wife complained that the axes at home were dulled, and persuaded Fu Ning not to be busy; However, the Shanzi brothers and sisters were curious to help Fu Ning, happy and happy.

The mountains are cool and refreshing, but the foothills are often hot and humid. Fu Ning often added some water to the pile of wood, picked up a corner every five or six days to look through it, and occasionally told some fables to the Shanzi brothers and sisters in his free time. Yang Tiezhu's wife began to complain about the large expenses of the family, vaguely pointing to Fu Ning, an outsider; However, Yang Tiezhu scolded his wife, and then still treated Fu Ning like a scholar, without a trace of dissatisfaction. Shanzi told Fu Ning that his father said that Fu Ning was not a mortal and would definitely have a great future in the future; Fu Ning smiled bitterly and said, "What is extraordinary, I just want to go home, but I can't go back!" ”

In the blink of an eye, Fu Ning remembered that he had been here for almost two months; It seems that the mid-day weather is almost over, and the weather starts to cool down a little in the morning and evening, but it is still very hot at noon. Shanzi happily told everyone that there were a lot of mushrooms on the wood! Shanzi Niang said: "What else can mushrooms grow if there are no mushrooms on wood?" What's weird? ”; Yang Tiezhu looked at Fu Ning inquiringly with puzzled eyes, so Fu Ning nodded.

Lift up a pile of rotting grass on top of a pile of wood, and pile up patches of mushrooms on top of the wood. After picking more than 100 catties of oyster mushrooms, cover them with rotten grass and sprinkle some water; Sultry, humid and dark are favorable conditions for the growth of oyster mushrooms, but the specific details are very important. In the days that followed, every time the market of Wuqiao was held, Tiezhu would pick some mushrooms and sell them. Six of the twelve piles of wood grew mushrooms, one of them was mountain mushrooms, and two of the remaining piles of wood were inedible wild mushrooms. Fu Ning secretly said that he was lucky, without a thermometer and a hygrometer, it would be good to be able to grow four or five piles of mushrooms as expected, but he didn't expect to grow a total of seven piles.

The oyster mushrooms grown on wood are far better in color and taste than those grown on wheat straw and straw, and they are much easier to sell; After more than a month, nearly 600 catties of oyster mushrooms and more than 50 catties of mountain mushrooms were picked one after another, and nearly 10 taels of silver were sold in the market. gave Tie Zhu six taels of silver, but Tie Zhu was unwilling to accept it, Fu Ning had to buy a few loads of rice for Tie Zhu, and Tie Zhu reluctantly accepted it. Fu Ning bought some candy and snacks for the Shanzi brothers and sisters, bamboo dragonfly toys, etc.; With the remaining four taels of silver, I bought a few books and some paper by myself, and tried to recognize and write traditional characters.

In his spare time, he made a mud frame, worked some mud to make some mud and exposed it on the ground, the villagers agreed that Fu Ning settled in the village, agreed that he would build a house on the vacant land next to Tiezhu's house, and the idle villagers also took the initiative to help, making mud blanks, drying mud blanks, and erecting beams on the walls, and built three main houses in a month and a half of effort.

There are two kinds of mud to build a house, one is to build the middle of the mezzanine and mud mixed with wheat straw, every one and a half meters or so to remove the plate building and dry it naturally for two or three months and then build it up, so that the wall is strong and thick, the house is warm in winter and cool in summer, if the foundation is deep and wide, the wall can withstand decades of wind and rain, but the disadvantage is that it takes a long time to build this kind of house, and it takes half a year at the earliest; There is also a way to build a house after beating mud and drying the wall, this method is fast to build a house, the fastest is not a month, but the disadvantage is that the wall is thin, not strong, not weather-resistant, and easy to tilt and crack, ventilation, generally live for two years to repair once. Fu Ning used the second method of building a house, and some villagers persuaded Fu Ning to use the first method to build a house, but Fu Ning refused, because for the current Fu Ning, having a house to live in first is the first need, and as for the future, we will consider the future later.

The villagers are simple, take the initiative to help them build houses and beams, contribute people, no one is unhappy, everyone works enthusiastically and lively, no penny is paid, in fact, Fu Ning has no money, nothing to be embarrassed, since there is nothing to reward the villagers, so Fu Ning took the initiative to teach the villagers the technology of planting oyster mushrooms, unfortunately the weather began to cool, oyster mushrooms have not grown much, so Fu Ning taught them to dig a cave on the mound at the head of the village, pave the fire channel to plant oyster mushrooms. The old farmers are far more sensitive and flexible in controlling temperature and humidity than Fu Ning, and they quickly grow oyster mushrooms, and the success rate is much higher than that of Fu Ning.

In the days before the frost, the red sorghum hung on the branches, and the villagers in the fields were busy. Fu Ning found that his physical strength was no longer sixty or seventy catties when he first came, but about a hundred catties of strength; His skin is also starting to darken, and his hands are calloused. Helped Tiezhu's family finish the autumn harvest and calculate the days when the frost fell.

When I was fine, I wrote and painted on the ground to teach Shanzi's brothers and sisters to recognize some words, and suddenly found that Shanzi's sister and the second girl knew words very quickly, and when Shanzi knew more than 20 words, the two girls knew more than 50 words. Fu Ning happily said to Yang Tiezhu: "Brother Tiezhu, the second girl is so smart!" Give her a big name, right? ”。

Shanzi Niang said, or it's called red, right?

"There are too many people who call the word 'red', or should they be called 'lan'? The orchid of the orchid is quiet and beautiful! Fu Ning said.

"It's much better to be called 'Lan', so let's call it 'Lan'!" Tie Zhu said.

"By the way, Shanzi also changed his name, right? Shanzi should be a small name, and another big name. Fu Ning looked at the iron pillar.

"Another big name? No need, just call it Shanzi! ”

"If you don't have a name, it's called Yang Shan, and the word 'son' is removed?"

"Don't dare! The single word is precious, and the double word is cheap; How dare we little people call a single name? made a funny joke," Yang Tiezhu disagreed.

"What's not expensive or cheap!? The two girls can be called single-word names, why can't Shanzi? ”

"The second girl is a girl, you can call it anything; Shanzi is a boy who can't be named! ”

"Cut! I'm really convinced of you, this little thing is so serious! Fu Ning said angrily.

So Shanzi's name is still called like that.

A dozen or so children in the village like to listen to stories around Fu Ning, so they write and draw every day, and sit on the ground in the evening to tell fables to the children, teach them a word or two, and teach them to write their own names. Yang Qixin, the village head, was very happy to see that the children knew a few words, shouted a few times, waved his hand, and the villagers helped Fu Ning and Ni step on the courtyard wall. Fu Ning became more and more grateful for the simplicity and kindness of the villagers. So it was suggested that the village should build a small ancestral hall and double as a small private school, and the village chief was happy.

The village chief enthusiastically told Fu Ning about the matchmaker, introduced a granddaughter of his own, and suggested that Fu Ning change his surname to Yang and merge it into the genealogy of the surname Yang. Fu Ning said to think about it.

Yang Ping's daughter was still sick, and Yang Ping looked even older and bleaker, and his hair was almost white. Fu Ning went to visit Yang Ping and felt that Yang Ping was living a very bleak and lonely life.

After Fu Ning chatted with Tie Zhu, he learned that Yang Ping was only in his forties, far from being in his sixties as he looked; And Yang Ping is the only person in Xiaoyang Village who is not from the same clan as Tie Zhu except Fu Ning, Tie Zhu only knows that Yang Ping moved from other places more than fifteen years ago, and his wife was originally from Da Yang Zhai, and Yang Ping's wife fell ill when she moved over; No one knows about Yang Ping's past.

Fu Ning still changed his surname to Yang, took Yang Ping over, and counted himself as Yang Ping's stepson; Yang Qixin took Yang Ping and Fu Ning to a trip to the ancestral temple of Da Yang Zhai twenty miles away, and Yang Qixin included Yang Ping and Fu Ning in the Yang family tree in the name of his own concubines and grandchildren; Since then, Fu Ning has changed his name to Yang Ning; "Chengqi Sect Chang, Yishang Kaitai", Yang Ning is the 'long' generation, counted as Yang Qixin's grandchildren, and Yang Qixin's granddaughter Wen who is in Wuqiaoji is married. Everyone in Xiaoyang Village was very happy, and held a banquet warmly and happily, for which Tiezhu led people to hunt a mountain boar in the mountains.

The feast was very lively, and everyone was very happy; Yang Ning felt that everyone really began to treat him as a relative, and there was less alienation and strangeness in the past. The only one who was not very happy at the banquet was Yang Yongshui, whose two daughters had not yet recruited a suitable son-in-law.

When the feast was in full swing, the village came and took away a lot of food, and the mood of the people suddenly dropped to the bottom; Yang Qixin lamented: "There will be another two-month famine in the beginning of spring!" Fortunately, this year you taught everyone to grow mushrooms, and you can go to the market to exchange some food, and the days after spring must be better! ”。

The next day, the youngest son of villager Yang Zongtian was bitten by the 'Tutiao' and died without being saved.

On the third day, villager Yang Changgua said from the market that he had heard that there were bandits on the other side of the mountain, and he had robbed several villages.

"Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer"; Yang Ning began to taste it carefully, and suddenly felt that Xiaoyang Village was not a paradise in the world, although people's hearts were so simple and pure, but life was not as good as the mood of the villagers.

The mountain bandits are still here after all; Fifteen or sixteen men, riding on a horse, armed with a large sword and a red tassel spear, and three or four bows and arrows, robbed two women and a little boy. The villagers 'contributed' four loads of grain in exchange for hostages, and the bandits left.

Winter at the foot of the mountain feels colder than in the mountains, and although Xiaoyang Village is in the mountains, it should be counted as the foot of the mountain, surrounded by small hills and a few small ponds. When the weather was completely cold, Yang Ning began to teach the children Arabic numerals and some simple four arithmetic; In winter, the countryside is the idle season, there is nothing to do, everyone chats all day long, and occasionally each family takes advantage of the leisure and the New Year to walk relatives.

In the slack season, we always have to find something to do, and if the food is not enough, we must prepare in advance to deal with the spring famine of the next year, so Yang Ningtuo bought planers, saws and chisels from the market, and taught the villagers to make some simple tables and stools. The most important thing on the mountain is wood, so everyone is in full swing, and even a few little girls in the village are curious to follow the wood every day, running around and playing. Yang Ning co-ordinated and arranged everyone's division of labor, sawing, planing, chiseling, and loading each had their own arrangements, and everyone was quick to get started, easy to be proficient, and the work efficiency was very high.

There is only one mound at the head of the village that can dig caves, and the women in the village and the old people who still have some strength cannot do carpentry work, so Yang Ning asked the villagers to help dig a few cellars, pave the fire path, and instruct the women and the old people to try to grow some mushrooms in the cellar; The old people are all people who have done farm work all their lives, and they have a good grasp of the temperature, and they helped Yang Ning grow hundreds of catties of mushrooms before the beginning of spring. Yang Ning did not sell the mushrooms, but distributed them all to the villagers, plus the grain obtained from selling tables and stools several times, it is estimated that the villagers should barely be able to support the summer harvest; So this "winter of the 14th year of Qianping, the spring of the 15th year of Qianping", Xiaoyang Village had an unprecedented rich Spring Festival, and every family had one or two cloth clothes, and there was no need to worry about the spring famine after the Chinese New Year.