For the sake of this story, today I deliberately went to Zhang Yi's house in Yucun.

At nine o'clock in the morning, I rode a motorcycle to Zhang Yi's house, the door of his house was closed, not locked, he should be at home, and I didn't call to ask if he was at home before I came. At the gate, I shouted twice, "Zhang Yi, Zhang Yi, you don't have ,,,, in the house", and it was Zhang Yi's father, who was in his early fifties, dressed neatly, and his hair was not messy at all, not like a farmer at all, but like a successful person living in the city. "O... It's Yuqi, I haven't seen her for a few years, I've grown so big, let's go, let's go to the house to drink tea first, Zhang Yi went out to buy cigarettes, and I'll be back soon. ”

Because it is winter, basically every household will set up a stove in the house to keep warm. Grandma Zhang Yi sat on the kang and pinched her braids (a kind of thing woven with wheat straw, about a centimeter wide, the length can be woven all the time, more than 70 yuan a pound on the market, and people with fast hands can only weave a pound in three or four days), "Grandma Zhang, you are in good health." "Greeting Grandma Zhang, I found a stool and sat in front of the stove, at this time Zhang Yi's father found the tea can, put it on the stove and asked, "Where has Yuqi been in the past few years, I haven't seen you for several years, are you married?" "I've been working in the south for the past few years, and I basically don't go home much, but when I go home, I spend the New Year at home, and then I go out again, so I don't see him much, and I don't come to Zhang Yi to play, uncle, is the harvest good this year?" ”

"Not this year, there is too little rain, there is not much wheat and rapeseed, and I have been outside, and there is no fertilizer in the field, so there is basically no harvest." Zhang Yi's father had a sad face. "Oh, that's it, when I was outside this year, I also heard my third uncle say that the weather was bad this year, and the land was not completed, and I heard that there is no work on the construction site now."

"Yes, now the peasants are getting more and more difficult to live, the consumption everywhere is very high, and there is no place to make money, as long as you have the strength to go out, you can find some work casually, and the family can eat at least enough for a year, but now you can't even find some work when you go out, and the apples can't be sold much by those dealers in a year, and these dog-day apple dealers are too hateful."

Just as the two of us were chatting, Zhang Yi came in, "Hey...... Marty, you're here. When did you come back from out of town? As he spoke, he handed me a Heilanzhou cigarette.

"I've been home for about a month." I took the cigarette, lit it, and started talking.

The main task of coming today is to listen to the story.

"Zhang Yi hasn't seen each other for four or five years, how have you been outside? What kind of job are you looking for? ”

I was wandering around outside for a year, and after graduating, I found a job in Lanzhou, running business, and my leg was about to break one day. The salary is still low, and it is basically a mixed meal.

"Hey~~, look at what you said. Although you are a little tired a month, your salary is tens of thousands of dollars and you are still idle, and you still say that you eat mixed rice, then I have to say that I want to eat more than 3,000 yuan a month in the south. I joked, "I used to have much better academic performance than you in two elementary schools, you see, who made me drop out of school without graduating from junior high school and run out of the house to mingle in society, and now it's too late to regret it." Now you have to ask for academic qualifications to find a job, and I, a primary school graduate, am basically illiterate, and it is not easy to find a job. ”

"yes, it's just hard to find a job right now." Zhang Yi replied. At this time, Zhang Yi's father interjected, "Yuqi, I remember being very naughty when I was a child, and it should be easy to find a job now." I was worried that I couldn't find a topic to speak, and I was overjoyed when I heard Zhang Yi's father's words, and answered, "Yes, I was so naughty at that time, I still remember running to see a dead person with Zhang Yi after school at noon, and I almost didn't take my life."

I also heard about it that time, it was scared, I heard that after Teacher Ma and Teacher Yang sent you home, your grandfather put a bowl of cold water for you before it was loosened, and there are some things that the doll can't see.

"That's right, after I was put unconscious, it was Teacher Ma and Teacher Liu who sent me to the house, Uncle Zhang, you said that Grandma Zhang is usually a good person, I just took a look, why do you still hurt me."

"It should be that your fate is at odds with Grandma Zhang, plus you are young, so you are on the way." Uncle Zhang returned.

Listening to this Uncle Zhang, I quickly asked, "I heard that Grandma Zhang has a son who also died in Xinchang, is it Uncle Zhang?" ”

At this time, Grandma Zhang Yi, who was sitting on the kang, sighed and said, "Zhang Jun's doll is a very smart doll. He died in North Korea during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the body was not found, so his mother set up a tablet at home, burned incense every day, and set up his father as the family god of his family, and did not believe in the family god of the Zhang family in the corner of the east wall. ”

I know the family god, as if a clan or a person with a surname will jointly believe in a family god, and the person who believes in this family god is a clan, whether far or near, just like the family god of our Yang family, the family god we believe in is for a village in the town, I heard that it is the famous Genghis Khan Temujin. Hearing this, a cup of tea was also boiled. I poured the tea into the cup, Zhang Yi added water to the tea jar, and began to listen again.

"I remember that it rained for three consecutive months from that day, and when the sky was clear three months later, when everyone went out, they saw Zhang Jun standing on the edge of the pond, because of the three consecutive months of heavy rain, the water in the pond was already more than three meters deep. Zhang Jun just kept standing on the edge of the pond, until the afternoon, everyone thought that Zhang Jun was looking for a short time, so they hurried over to pull Zhang Jun away, and as soon as he walked to Zhang Jun's side, he heard Zhang Jun muttering there, as if he was chatting with someone. I probably heard and said, "Ada, wait for me, the water in the pond is too deep for me to go down." When the pond is shallow, I will come back to you, and then I will bring you your favorite sour rice dough and serve you a bowl. The person who pulled Zhang Jun next to him didn't think much about it, so he pulled Zhang Jun away, and since then Zhang Jun has been standing on the edge of the pond every day, looking at the pond with both eyes, and his mouth is good: Ada, I'll bring you sour rice to stir the dough. The people in the village thought that Zhang Jun was stupid, until one night in the seventh or fourth year, which was about May, and he was not busy with the crops one night Zhang Jun's mother ran over to me and said that Zhang Jun couldn't find it, at that time Zhang Yi and his grandfather were still alive, and Zhang Yi and his grandfather, as well as Zhang Jun's mother hurriedly went door to door to look for it, and I didn't find it all night, until I found it at noon the next day, Zhang Yi's grandfather said: Zhang Jun is standing on the edge of the pond every day, do you say will it fall into the pond. As soon as they heard this, everyone hurried to the pond to look for it, but they found a bowl of sour rice stirring dough on the edge of the pond, and the chopsticks did not move. At that time, the water in the pond was still deep, and the bottom of the pond was full of silt, and no one dared to go down to take a look, and then everyone proposed to dig a ditch to drain the water from the pond and look at it again, and everyone worked together to dig a ditch out. The water in the pond was drained for two days before it was discharged, and after the water was discharged, the pond was still more than a meter deep in silt, and I saw Zhang Jun lying in the silt in the middle of the pond, and he was still holding a spiritual position in his arms. After the burial, everyone felt that the pond was too deep silt, so they decided to fill in the pond, and it took more than a month for the people of a village to fill in the pond."

Hearing this, a cup of tea on the stove turned on again