Ling Lang did not attend the funeral of the blind third uncle, but there were several reasons. First, the high school entrance examination is approaching, and the study is intense; second, the third uncle is not the end of his life, let alone a happy funeral, so in the countryside, participating in such a funeral is inevitably unlucky, and the mother did not let the children follow; third, before the third uncle left, he specially told him not to do his funeral, and it must not be done (the local funeral specifications are divided into seven days of Jiao, three days of full ceremony, and one day of fasting). In addition, his tomb does not erect a monument, and relatives are not allowed to worship on the Qingming Festival, remove weeds every year, renovate the grave, three incense sticks in front of the grave, and a stick on the tomb hill.

Family members and friends all know that the third uncle helped everyone judge their lives before his death, and it has always been effective, and he even has such instructions, and they all follow them one by one. The funeral was simple, and the small fast was not finished, so I went up the mountain.

In the blink of an eye, another year passed, and as soon as September arrived, Ling Lang began to study in his second year of high school.

In the past year, Ling Lang has met new classmates and doubled the number and intensity of learning. His body also began to change a lot, no longer as thin and short as before, although he was still not tall and strong, but his proportions were harmonious, and his spirit was much better. He also took up basketball and football, perhaps influenced by Ling Sheng, and he also found joy in it.

Because his physical fitness is getting better and better, when he takes physical education class, he doesn't know what it means to be clumsy. So whether it's a long run, a sprint, or a long jump, a high jump, and a shot put. In all athletics, he is the first player in the class.

Because of this, he was not able to participate in basketball and football at the school sports meeting. Basketball is because others think he is not tall enough, and he usually plays well, and the game is forgotten.

In the end, basketball and football were the "aristocratic" sports that could best exert boys' male hormones in school, and attracted the attention of girls, but finally Ling Lang was missing.

In a state of depression, he refreshed all the records of the school sports meeting in the projects he participated in, but it did not attract much attention. Except, of course, for those PE teachers in the school.

It's just that they wanted to poach Ling Lang to be a sports specialty in the past, and as soon as they inquired, the physical education teachers gave up such an idea. Why? Because our great talent is still that great talent. Language, Mathematics, English, Physics, Chemistry, Geography and Politics, each subject can be ranked in the top three in the grade. In this key high school in the county, there have never been talented students who are very smart, but it is the first time I have heard of such an all-round top student with no shortcomings.

What, he also sketches well? What, he can also play the harmonica, can tinker with the guitar a few times, and even performed at the school party? Or is he the next candidate for the president of the literary club? At this time, the physical education teachers are completely speechless, and can only regret in their hearts, what a good seedling.

It's not that Ling Lang likes to be in the limelight, it's just that his home is a little far away from the county high school, and he lives in the school, and studying is no longer much pressure on his "unforgettable" IQ. So whether it's outside of class or on weekends, he has a lot of free time, and then he participates in art and music interest classes, and as for the president of the literary club, because he is the one who ranks first in the overall score of several high schools in the county, it is completely a "political" show. The student union was not named, but the head teacher pushed it away because he couldn't delay too much time and energy. Otherwise, he has one more identity.

Ling Lang's personality has also begun to become a lot more extroverted, no longer a newcomer, with a trace of inferiority, full of indifference, and self-occlusion.

Ling Lang's life has changed a lot, and his hometown has also changed a lot. People there began to plant a fruit tree called Sanhua plum, which used to be used as a snack for children, but now it is being planted on a large scale under the government's initiative. What's more, Zijin Mining, which has a state-owned enterprise background, began to enter Yinyan, and I heard that after more than half a year of opening up the mountains and opening up roads, an integrated modern mine has been built, what drilling rigs, stone crushers, shaping machines, vibrating screens, conveyors, washing machines, all of which are huge, and the villagers have never heard of them, and the machines that have never been seen have rumbled into the Yinyan Mountains.

Of course, the biggest project has to be the huge mid-mountain reservoir. Chemical smelting is definitely inseparable from water. Moreover, in such a large mine, the lives of the workers must have water storage measures.

The Banshan Reservoir is built on the Shangfeng Mountains of the hydropower station in Sanhe Village, which is the main source of the Sanhe River. Fearing that the middle and lower reaches of the river would be polluted, Sanhe Village and residents along the river were initially strongly opposed to the construction of the reservoir, but after repeated negotiations between Zijin Mining and village representatives, the reservoir was finally completed.

The Banshan Reservoir, also known as the Baimaping Reservoir, is a hexagonal shape and a concrete structure according to the mountain shape. Each embankment is more than 30 meters long, and the side where the discharge gate valve is installed is close to 50 meters. The site of the reservoir was originally a gentle slope, and there was also a natural lake that was not too small.

Before the construction of the mine base and the dam, the lawn was full of green grass and flowers, and it was a good place for nearby people to graze cattle and horses. Because the upper peak of the mountain extending from the Yinyan Mountain Range is very much like a white horse with its head bowed and drinking water, people call this place "white horse trough" again.

After the completion of the mine, many local young and middle-aged people have entered the mine to work, and I heard that after a full year, there are also company dividends, so since the start of the mine, although there have been many small accidents, but fortunately, I heard that there is no too serious thing to happen, and these disputes have been properly handled by the mining side. So people still want to work in it.

However, all of this has little to do with Ling Lang's family, his family is still some distance away from the Yinyan Mountains and Baimaping, so the mine's policy of meritocratically charging related villagers as employees does not fall on their families. The second uncle in the family wanted his father to go away, saying that he wanted to go in and try it, but his father was resentful that the "treasure land" of Yinyan was mined by outsiders, and there was nothing to do with it, so in the end the second uncle failed to do so.

Over the years, my father's body has gradually become blessed, and over the years, the living conditions of the family have improved, and my father is close to forty years old, and when he reaches middle age, his family feels that it is normal to be blessed, and he sees his father full of energy all day long, and no one thinks about bad things.

The matter of moving was finally brought up by my mother again, and my father also purchased a batch of trusses, purlins, and rafters with some craftsmen who went into the mountains to cut wood, thinking that when the money in hand was more abundant, he asked someone to bring bricks and tiles, and then find a group of plasterers to build a new house first.

Ling Lang looked at his father, who was smiling all day long, looking at his originally sturdy body, with a shy belly, and his face was so fat that he couldn't see the original knife-like three-dimensional facial features, and he didn't know whether he imagined it or really saw it, he always felt that he saw a very peculiar phenomenon from his father - the outside of the body was surrounded by red light, and the momentum was steaming, but the inside was gray and white, and the water was not prosperous.

"Abel, you have gained too much weight this year, have you ever been to the hospital for a check-up? On weekdays, do you feel uncomfortable there?" Ling Lang was really a little worried about his father's body, although he rarely communicated with his father, but his father's preference and dedication to him, he always experienced it.

"What can happen, strong like a cow, fat is fat, but fat is a blessing, blessed people will be fat, you look around in the geography of the food, there is that fat up, only the landlord rich man, is fat for nothing, hehe, hehe. It's a blessing, a blessing. "My father has always been like a big child, his mouth is a little poor, he loves to joke, I remember that when Ling Jie was young, he was pulled out a lot, and he fought with the child next door, bullfighting, and whoever won would give a snack or five yuan. Sometimes Xiaojie loses, he is not only unhappy, but also not angry, and says to come back next time. There are also other people's children who make them cry, and other people's parents come to ask for explanations, and he has been making amends, just quiet for a while, and he should still make amends.

However, my father has good craftsmanship and has a small reputation in the village and outside the village; second, he has never been in a hurry with people, and he has a big child character, and others can't do anything about him; third, he also helps isolated neighbors, relatives and friends from time to time, so there is nothing to say about his character. It is rare for the five children to see him really angry, and in his memory, his parents seem to have quarreled only once or twice, and they don't remember the specific reason.

Then, the father began to boast to his eldest son that he had never been to the hospital or seen a doctor. He also said that he could cure all diseases with a pack of antipyretic powder and a bottle of andrographis. And in the face of such an old man, Ling Lang had no choice but to keep his mouth shut and listen to him continue to say the thing no less than eight hundred times.

On the third day of the first lunar month of this year, there was a water penetration accident in the small mine contracted by my father outside. The father hurriedly asked his mother, who had gone to his grandmother's house to avoid meeting him, to come back, saying that he didn't know where to get the key to the big cabinet, and asked his mother to come back and use the spare key to open the cabinet and get the money. And the place where his mother said that he hid the key, he couldn't find it, and at first his mother refused to say anything. Searching for it, my father got impatient, so he ignored it, started a big fire, and roared on the phone for his mother to come back immediately, and said that he would leave immediately, and it would be okay to see it.

Seeing her husband, for the first time in so many years, yelling at herself, my mother didn't beat my father after all, and hurried home to find the key, opened the cabinet, and my father picked up a wad of coins wrapped in newspaper, black-headed and black-faced, and rushed to the town to take the car away.

In the first month of this year, Ling Lang's family was not happy, and there was an accident in his father's mine, although no one was killed, but three people were injured, a lot of money was lost, and the mine could not be opened. For this matter, the eldest sister in the third year of high school chose to drop out of school. And Ling Lang didn't experience any changes at school, except for feeling that the food at home had deteriorated when he went home, and his parents never mentioned the specific situation at home.

One day, when my father sat at the door and thought about the problem, the swallows under the eaves flew around to feed, squeaking non-stop, he was irritable, not only stabbed the swallow's nest down, but also killed a big swallow, and another big swallow flew to the wire not far away, and cried for a day before flying away. Falling to the ground, the three little chicks whose hair had not yet grown were open wide and screaming hoarsely, which made people feel sad. The mother asked the children to find insects and earthworms from the field and feed them rice soup, and the last one did not survive the third day.

After Xiaoyanzi died, her mother remembered what her third uncle had said to her before her death, and she was shocked and hurried to find an uncle who could also tell fortunes to find a remedy. The uncle solemnly instructed his mother to let his mother, no matter how busy she is, go to the dragon temple in the head to worship, as long as there is meat at home, you must not forget to sacrifice to the grandparents, as well as the god of the land stove of the commune. This set of etiquette procedures is very cumbersome, and my father complained several times because of this, but his mother said that he endured it.