When Hu Kehao woke up, he was sleeping alone in the mountain temple, and the five ghosts, the smiling ghost and the tall, short, fat and thin four ghosts, were gone. The matter of the five ghosts competing for the head of the house, he didn't know if he had experienced it himself or had a dream. He looked around in the mountain temple, there were all kinds of melons and fruits in it, it seemed to have been gnawed by something, could it be the traces left by the smiling ghost after holding a ghost banquet? There is a statue of a god in the mountain temple, the face is like a heavy jujube, the lips are greased, the red phoenix eyes, the silkworm eyebrows, the appearance is dignified, the majestic is indeed Guan Gong Yun Chang, it seems that the smiling ghost and others have indeed worshiped Guan Gong, and the things he experienced are real.

Walking out of the mountain temple, Hu Kehao wanted to find someone to inquire about the home of the poor student Sun Long. There was silence all around, only the chirping of birds and birds, and no human figures. The weeds on the side of the road grow wildly, and the mountain road is almost completely covered. Hu Kehao walked down the mountain road for a while when he heard the sound of sawing trees in front of him.

Hu Kehao got closer, and the voice stopped. He saw two men in the woods standing in front of a cypress tree looking at him. With machetes and saws in their hands, they were cutting wood. Hu Kehao knew that some trees in the countryside could not be cut down casually. Many years ago, if you wanted to cut down cypress trees on the hillside, you had to apply to the village and get permission to cut them down, otherwise you had to pay a fine. Other trees, such as acacia and paulownia trees, are less strictly managed and cut down more freely. Hu Kehao didn't know what the village's current policy was on the management of trees, at least it should not be allowed to be cut down casually.

The two people who cut the tree were thieves, and after seeing Hu Kehao, they were thieves, stopped cutting, and observed the movement. Hu Kehao knew that there were also thieves in the countryside who specialized in stealing trees, and they drove to those remote mountain forests to cut down trees and sell them to others. Hu Kehao was worried that these two people were thieves who stole trees, and wanted to avoid them as soon as possible, but he wanted to ask them for directions, so he mustered up the courage to walk towards them.

"Uncle, where is this place? How to get to Sunjiawan? Hu Kehao asked.

"We are the people of Sunjiawan, who are you looking for?" The tree cutter asked.

"I'm going to Sungarry's house." Hu Kehao said. This Sun Jiali is the father of the poor Sun Long.

"What a coincidence! We're helping Sun Jiali's family cut down trees, which are his family's mountain forests. The purlins of his house were broken and needed to be replaced. The tree cutter said.

"Need help?" Hu Kehao asked.

"Okay, come and pull the saw for me, my arms are sore."

Hu Kehao took the place of the next person and pulled up the saw with another person. Sawdust kept coming out of the saw's mouth, and Hu Kehao pulled it dozens of times, and the cypress tree was about to break. They stopped, and the tree cutter pointed in one direction, pushing the trunk with both hands, and heard only a "kua", and the cypress tree fell, leaving only a smooth saw surface and a piece of bark attached to it.

The tree cutter swung his scimitar and cut off the cypress branches, leaving only a few meters of trunk with scars on it. The cypress tree can be used as firewood for cooking, or it can be used to smoke bacon, and the trunk of the tree should be carried back for purlins. They cut down two cypress trees to replace the two purlins that had broken in the Sungar family. The tree cutter grabbed handfuls of dirt from the ground and smeared them on the sawn surface of the roots of the tree, covering them with dead branches and leaves, which he said would cover up the traces and reduce the risk of fines by not knowing that the cypress trees had been cut down.

At the foot of the mountain is Sun Jiali's home, and Hu Kehao helps the tree cutters carry the trees. Fortunately, the distance was not far, and the three of them lifted it easily, and carried the cypress back to Sun's house twice back and forth.

Hu Kehao explained his intention to Sun Jiali, and also showed him the work card of the U City Polytechnic University. In these years, there are too many scammers, some pretending to be government officials to deceive, and some high-IQ scammers will pretend to be central government officials to deceive people. Sun Jiali checked Hu Kehao's work card, and was still a little skeptical. There was no way, Hu Kehao told Sun Jiali some trivial things about Sun Long's life and study, and Sun Jiali fully believed it.

"I'm really sorry, but please forgive me for the offense. I went out on the street and encountered several scammers, and I had to be on the lookout for them from time to time. Sun Jiali said embarrassedly.

"It's okay! It is right to be vigilant at all times. Hu Kehao carefully looked at Sun Jiali's house. This is a brick house, built in the 80s of the last century, and it has been around for 30 years. The roof is covered with tiles, covered with a layer of withered yellow bamboo leaves, and a thin layer of moss grows on the tiles. There was a bamboo cage with a roof in the courtyard dam, which was sprinkled with a lot of grain, including millet, wheat and corn, and a broken bowl with water in it. Sun Jiali said that this is the place to feed the chickens. The chickens fed at home are sometimes fed in the chicken coop in the yard during the day and in the chicken pen at night. The chicken pen is indoors, which prevents chicken thieves from stealing chickens.

Sun Jiali pointed to the roof and said: "These two purlins have been broken for several days, and they may collapse at any time, and we can't sleep well at night these days." There are very few young people in the village, and it is not easy to cut down these two cypress trees. ”

The two tree cutters put the cypress tree in the courtyard dam and said to Sun Jiali: "Old man, you have guests at home today, and tomorrow you will come to tear down the roof and change the purlin." In my opinion, all the tiles in your house should be turned over, and there are holes in many places that will leak rain. ”

"I've been going to turn over the house for a long time, and a lot of purlins and rafters are rotten, and it's dangerous for people to stand on them. Let's replace these two purlins first, and then I will ask you for help in turning over the house. Sun Jiali said.

"No problem, we've been dealing with each other for decades, and there's something to call out." The tree cutter took the cigarette handed over by Sun Jiali, took a few puffs, and was about to go home.

"Brother, let's eat here." Sun Jiali said.

"Let's come back another day, we are two bosses, and we can't affect Mr. Hu's work here." No matter how Sun Jiali and Hu Kehao stayed, the two tree cutters insisted on refusing to stay for dinner, so they had to go with them.

According to Hu Kehao's understanding, Sun Jiali did not do business in Chengdu, but was introduced by an acquaintance to help guard a construction site in Chengdu. Last month, he was replaced by someone else, so he returned home to farm, occasionally doing odd jobs. The job of the gatekeeper on the construction site is relatively easy, and although the salary is not high, there are still many people competing for it. There is no way, Sun Jiali's relationship is not strong enough, so the position was taken away by others. Sun Jiali's wife planted crops at home and did not go out, and she almost never left the county seat in her life, just going around the nearby towns.

Sun Jiali's family has a heavy burden, not only to support his 80-year-old mother, who is sick, but also to support his son Sun Long to go to college. Sun Long lives on 300 yuan a month, and occasionally goes to work part-time, barely able to live in an economic environment where prices are soaring. Through this home visit and research, Hu Kehao judged that Sun Long was indeed a poor student, and it seems that the rumors that reported him were not credible. Maybe Sun Long offended some classmates, or maybe some classmates also wanted to get a bursary for poor students, so they went to expose him.

Hu Kehao went to check on the Sun family's pigsty, and there was not a single pig in it, and he felt a little lonely. When Hu Kehao was a child, his family had been raising pigs, and he often went to the hillsides and fields to hunt pigweed. His father told him, "If you are poor, you will not lose your books, and if you are rich, you will not lose your pigs." This is a bit of a "ploughing and reading heirloom". Hu Kehao looked at the empty pigsty and asked, "Why don't you raise pigs?" ”

"I also want to raise pigs, but raising pigs requires feeding grain and feed, and excluding costs, they can't make money at all, which is one of them. Second, I don't know which experts said that pig raising should pollute the environment, and told farmers not to raise pigs. Our old couple is old and has no energy to serve pigs, so we don't raise them, and it's easier to raise some chickens and ducks. Sun Jiali said.

Hu Kehao listened and sighed. He used to cook and feed pigs, and he had a deep affection for pigs. There were no pigs in the farmer's pigsty, and he always felt that something was missing. According to experts, not only are there fewer pigs in the countryside, but the number of people will gradually decrease, and the countryside will not know how to develop in the future, where to find people's rural memories and rural feelings? For example, the golden rape flowers, the ancient well at the edge of the village, the old trees in the hometown, the fat pigs in the pen, the wheat fields and rice fields, the high grain piles, and the things of the past that my mother told...... There is Qu Xixian and Guan Hua's song "Listen to Mother Tell Me About the Past" as evidence:

The moon travels through the white lotus-like clouds

The evening breeze blew a burst of happy singing

We sat next to a high pile of grain

Listen to Mom talk about the past

At that time, my mother had no land

All life is on two hands

Sweat flowed in the fiery fields of the landlords

But my mother ate wild vegetables and chaff

The wind and snow howl like a wolf in winter

But my mother was dressed in tattered clothes

She went to sew a fox fur robe for the landlord

Cold and hungry, he fell on the snow

How many years of suffering have passed

Mom is looking forward to today's good situation......

Hu Kehao ate at Sun Jiali's house, and the food was all those familiar foods and familiar tastes, the ingredients were free of pesticides, and pure natural and organic food. At the end of the home visit, Hu Kehao plans to go to the hotel in the countryside to stay for one night, and then catch the shuttle bus and train back to U City Polytechnic University tomorrow. Sun Jiali was hospitable and invited Hu Kehao to stay overnight, and he stayed unceremoniously.

In the middle of the night, Sun Jiali's wife suddenly had a stomachache, and Sun Jiali took out some home remedies for her to eat, but it didn't work, so she had to call a doctor. There is a hospital in the township, but it is far away from Sunjiawan, so it is inconvenient to send patients to the township hospital, and it is also very troublesome to ask the doctor from the township hospital to visit them. Sun Jiali said that it is best to go to Dr. Chen, a barefoot doctor in the village, who often travels from village to house to see patients. Considering that Sun Jiali was very old, it was inconvenient to walk at night, and he had to take care of patients, Hu Kehao volunteered to ask Dr. Chen.