Chapter Twenty-Five: The Old Mansion and the Peach Grove
The uphill road was a bit steep, so Lin Musen didn't drive very fast, although he had returned to his heart like an arrow, but at this time he still had to suppress his heart.
Lin Musen's home is a little further back at the end of the village, and there are no other families nearby, so it is easy to recognize and find.
A small courtyard with blue bricks and tiles appeared in front of Lin Musen, similar to the appearance in the depths of Lin Musen's memory.
It's just that it looks a lot old, and the color of the surrounding green bricks has become very deep, heavy, full of age and history, and you can see that it is an old house with a story.
Indeed, this house is Lin Musen's house, which contains memories that he can't erase in his life, such as his birthday when he was six years old, Lin Musen's father and mother were arguing fiercely in the yard, clamoring for a divorce.
It may be that Lin Musen has been noisy like this for as long as he can remember, and they are used to it, but that day the quarrel was particularly fierce, and it has reached the point where it is indispensable.
Lin Musen's mother pulled herself between them hard, and Lin Musen felt pain in his skin.
Then her mother Huang Li pointed at her father Lin Qingrong and said loudly: "If you leave, you will leave, I'm afraid of you, this child is your Lin family's species, I don't want to bring trouble." ”
After speaking, her mother Huang Li pushed herself in front of her father Lin Qingrong, "If you don't want me, I'm willing." ”
Father Lin Qingrong's eyes were bright, but there was a kind of ruthlessness in his eyes that could not be hidden, and when he saw Lin Musen in front of him, he also pushed Lin Musen.
But he used too much force and pushed Lin Musen to the ground, so painful that Lin Musen began to cry, and the two ignored Lin Musen at all and began to continue to argue.
Seeing this, the grandmother on the side rushed out, picked up Lin Musen, patted him lightly on the back, and comforted him, "It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt, Sensen is the most well-behaved, let's stop crying............"
Lin Musen's sister-in-law, Lin Chunli, also took out the candy from the bag to coax herself, and he stopped crying.
Grandpa looked at Lin Musen's parents who were about to become enemies, called them to the hall, closed the door, and then there was a more violent noise inside, and then Lin Musen heard Grandpa Lin Guangxing's simple words: "You don't raise it, we raise it, get out!"
After that, Lin Musen's parents rushed out of the hall with angry faces, and also left the old mansion and never returned.
Grandpa took Lin Musen from his grandmother's hand, and said to him kindly: "Sensen, from now on, you will have to live with grandparents, don't be naughty." ”
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Memories sometimes come like a tide, and they come so fiercely that people are caught off guard.
The closer he got to the old mansion, the more uneasy Lin Musen's mood became, as if something was going to happen.
Lin Musen's old house is in this uphill position of dozens of meters, on a flat land, behind is the back mountain, and then the back mountain is a piece of mountain, and then there is a deep mountain, there is no one in it, Lin Musen's Daao Village is the innermost village in Qingshan Town.
Behind the mountain to the left, there is a large bamboo forest, the bamboo forest is evergreen all year round, and you can't see the edge at a glance.
The area around the old mansion was empty, and the car could be driven in, and seeing the same position, Lin Musen turned the car around and drove towards the old mansion, driving very slowly.
The short journey seemed very long, and he had a thought in his heart at this time: he was home.
The car stopped in front of the old house, Lin Musen turned off the car, sat in the car with Mu Mu in his arms for a long time, removed some distracting thoughts from his mind, and got out of the car.
Mu Mu followed behind Lin Musen, and found the key that was placed on the door beam with his memory, the key was rusty like the lock, but it was still opened.
"Squeak......
The two heavy solid wood doors were pushed open by Lin Musen.
What appeared in front of Lin Musen's eyes was still the original yard, but the yard in Lin Musen's impression was depressed and dilapidated, probably because no one lived in it for too long.
Without closing the door, Lin Musen walked in, and Mu Mu began to shake his head left and right when he came to the new environment.
On both sides of the courtyard are two rooms that are not big, Lin Musen remembers that the right is his own room, and the left one used to be his sister-in-law's room, at that time the sister-in-law was not married so she still lived in the old house, except for Lin Musen's father, several other uncles and aunts will move out as long as they are married.
Lin Musen walked into the hall first, there was a boxy wooden table in the hall, as well as four wooden benches, and behind the table there was an old rectangular cabinet, which had begun to peel off its paint, revealing the wood inside.
The original gray walls around are also a little yellowed, and there are many spider webs on the wall, and the spiders have not seen a single one, maybe this place is too desolate, even flies and mosquitoes do not want to come, and the spiders will run away when they see that there is no food.
Lin Musen then walked around the old mansion, looked at it, the furnishings were still the same as in his memory, just some old furniture, and some dust on the bed, and the overall feeling to Lin Musen was still liveable, just to be cleaned, cleaned.
Then Lin Musen walked through the hall to the backyard, where there was a kitchen made of wood and stone.
There is a stove made of mud and bricks in the kitchen, the kind connected to the iron pot, the iron pot is not rusty, it is pitch black, at a glance, you know that it is the kind of iron that is very pure, it should be able to be used for washing, Lin Musen thought.
There are two mouths under the pot, one is to put wood to cook rice and cook vegetables, and the bottom one is that the wood will fall below after burning into ashes, and after a period of time take a shovel, and what comes out is what we commonly call 'plant ash', which is a good natural fertilizer.
The kitchen has a large water tank, and a bamboo that has been cut in half is attached to the water tank.
The bamboo extends from the inside of the tank to the window, connecting the other half of the bamboo, and in this way, it is connected to the back mountain, and about twenty or thirty of them, the bamboo will always be connected to a mountain spring water, forming a system similar to tap water.
Bamboo is quite a water pipe, the mountain spring water is clean and clear, and has a hint of sweetness, so it is used as water for daily life by the villagers.
However, there is no faucet to control the water, so there will be a gap in the water tank, when the water is full, it will flow along the gap to the underground canal, forming a stream, flowing slowly in the village, and finally into the stone river.
However, at this time, there was no water flowing on the bamboo water pipe, and the water tank was empty, because the bamboo water pipe connected to the spring water was removed when Lin Musen left, so there was no water flowing down from it.
Lin Musen thought that he would go up and reconnect the bamboo water pipe later, and naturally there would be water.
The backyard does not have a wall like the front yard, it is about two or three acres, because the backyard leads directly to the back mountain and there is a bamboo forest, and the surrounding rocks of one or two meters form a natural barrier, so there is no need for a wall.
Because Lin Musen's grandfather liked peach trees, he won some peach trees here before he died, and he began to plant them after he lived here with his grandmother, and planted about 100 of them.
It was transplanted by grandpa from the surrounding mountains and forests, and the variety should be regarded as a kind of peach, but it is not delicious, small astringent and not sweet and sour, so grandpa has never sold it, but it is cheaper for the birds in the back mountain.
Lin Musen looked at the kitchen for a while, and then came to the forest in the backyard, which was in March, the season of recovery.
After the weather warmed up, the leaves on the branches of the originally bare peach trees have gradually budded, and many peach trees have produced flower bones, pink and green, making the whole yard full of vitality.
Stepping on the ground, the dead leaves on the ground "squeak, squeak" sound, and there will be shallow footprints.
In the middle of the peach forest, there are stones that resemble a table, and there are some stones of different sizes that are like small stools, which were picked up by Grandpa Lin Musen from the stone river outside when he was alive, because the shape is the same as the table and chair, so he picked it up and made it like this.
When Lin Musen went to school, he liked to read his homework here, listen to the wind blowing the leaves, insects and birds, and the time would become very beautiful.
Thinking of the happy time at the beginning, he walked to the stool and sat down, feeling the memories that the peach forest gave him.
Mu Mu, whose forelimbs were plastered, had already broken free from Lin Musen's arms, limping excitedly in the backyard, spreading joy, and now it was almost noon, and the sun was shining on Lin Musen's old house, between the peach forests, it seemed very quiet and leisurely.
At this time, a breeze blew from the back mountain, blowing up the fallen leaves of the peach forest, and a marble-sized bead under the fallen leaves reflected bright light under the sunlight, and was seen by the wood in the joy, so it quickly ran to the beads and bit down hard.