When we returned to my aunt's house in the afternoon, there was no one at home, and my aunt and my husband had not yet returned.

We went out again and walked along a small river at the edge of the village, breathing in the fresh mountain air.

I heard my sister-in-law say that this river is formed by the flow of water from the mountain.

The water in the creek is crystal clear, you can see the pebbles at the bottom, and you can occasionally see fish and shrimp swimming by in the river. There are several water ducks and white geese swimming and frolicking on the river.

There is a small wooden bridge over the river, and the villagers enter the mountain from here.

On the other side of the bridge is a bamboo forest, it looks like it's been some years, now should be the time to start sending bamboo shoots, and when I have time, I will also ask my aunt to take us to dig bamboo shoots, in fact, I also want to go by myself, but I don't know it, and I don't know it, and I don't know how to dig it, and I guess Jiang Zhi can't be better than me, so it's better to find someone to accompany me.

Looking back, the entire village was shrouded in smoke. This combination is a small bridge and flowing water, I sighed.

"It's still good in the mountains, the sky is still blue, the water is still clear, and the air is so fresh, oh, with the freshness of the smell of firewood, ha~ha~." I couldn't help but laugh as I spoke.

"Well, the smell of firewood is better than the smell of car exhaust." Jiang Zhi said and took a deep breath.

"The water here is so clean, you can see that there are little white shrimp in the water. It is estimated that the taste can also be a little sweet like the agricultural * mountain spring. When we go up the mountain in two days, we will also bring some mountain spring water back. "I suddenly thought of the impending drought and wanted to solve the problem of water shortage at home.

"Okay." Jiang Zhi said very simply. There are more than 100 empty barrels in the space.

We walked hand in hand along the river, feeling as if I hadn't been so relaxed for many years, the life of the city made my nerves tense, busy every day, busy with study, busy with work, busy with work, and start busy with children again. There has never been a moment when the mind is so relaxed. But how long can such a relaxed mood last, and what kind of disasters will the coming of the end times bring to this small pure land. Who would be in the mood to admire the green trees, blue sky and white clouds.

We returned to the village along the river, and just as we were about to reach my aunt's house, we saw an aunt in her forties in a courtyard next to his house who was holding a rake in the sun to dry pine nuts. This aunt has short black hair, a round face like the aunt, and a neat energy between her eyebrows.

When she looked up and saw us, she stopped what she was doing, holding the wooden pole of the rake in one hand and fanning herself with the other, and talked to us enthusiastically. "You are relatives of Shuju's family, when you came yesterday, I happened to see it, I saw that you must have been tired when you first arrived home, and you didn't go over to say hello, but now you see it again, quick, go into the house to play for a while, Shuju They haven't come back yet." She thought we couldn't get in.

We looked inside outside the fence, not knowing how to talk to the aunt, "Thank you, auntie." ”

"Thank you, you people in the city just love to be polite. I'm your aunt's neighbor, just call me Aunt Qin. So saying, he came and opened the door for us.

We followed Aunt Qin into the courtyard and chatted with her, Aunt Qin was still very simple, and before we could talk, she told us all the big and small things in the village, and even the situation of her own family was not left behind.

She said that there are more than 40 families in the village, and now most of them are elderly people and children, and young people have gone out to work.

said that Lu Guoan's children are the most promising, and now he has opened his own company outside and become a big boss, every time he goes home, he drives a car back, carrying things home with large bags and small bags, and there is envy in his tone. There are also a few young people in the village who work in his company, so that his father is also very popular in the village, has a very high status, and usually speaks with a hard waist. There is also a child in the village who was admitted to university, Aunt Qin said that her family has a son, and he did not study well when he was in school, so he was sent to be a soldier, and he has been a soldier for 8 years, and he has not been a half-official in the army, and he always can't go home, so he wants the child to come back from the army and so on.

We chatted with Aunt Qin about the affairs of the village, and we wanted to lead the topic to her family's pine nuts, and finally Aunt Qin finished what she had to say and began to care about us.

"This mountain is different from your city, and you can stay for a long time."

"Yes, we still think this place is better than ours, how good the environment is, everything is natural." I really complimented it.

"You're right, we're here, people are real, like the things that people outside give to eat and add harmful things, we don't add them, everything here is natural in the mountains." Seeing that Aunt Qin is still quite proud in this matter, and she shows a deep hatred for the bad guys, and she will never join the crowd.

finally got to the point, "Aunt Qin, I see you're drying pine nuts, it's from last year." ”

"Yes, last year's. Look at me, you've been here for a long time, and I've been holding you to talk, and I don't bother to let you come in and sit in your room. Aunt Qin said that she was about to put down the rake in her hand and let us into the house.

"No need, Aunt Qin, we happen to be basking in the sun, and we don't have this opportunity when we are at home." I hurriedly grabbed Aunt Qin, I haven't finished saying this yet, how can I leave. Jiang Zhiyi snatched the target from Aunt Qin's hand, bent over and continued to flip the pine nuts.

"Quick, let it go, you don't have to do it, you haven't done it." Saying that, Aunt Qin was about to snatch the rake in Jiang Zhi's hand.

"It's okay, Aunt Qin, just let me exercise, I sit in the house every day in the city, and everyone is rusty." Jiang Zhi dodged Aunt Qin, and the rake in his hand swung faster.

"Yes, it's good to bask in the sun and be active more, and get less sick, a while ago, the old Jia Tou in our village wrote and painted at home every day, and he didn't go out for a walk, that small body was too useless. I didn't survive a cold this spring, and I left. There was no descendant at home, and it was our villagers who saw him helpless and pitiful and sent him away. Aunt Qin took my hand and stood beside me, I was helpless to listen to Aunt Qin's serious off-topic, but listening to it, I found a surprise again.

Jiang Zhi and I looked at each other, and we saw the same longing in each other's eyes.

I asked casually. "This old Jia Tou has no relatives in his family, is his funeral expenses paid by everyone?"

Aunt Qin said with a sigh. "Lao Jiatou is a lonely old man, he was originally an orphan, he originally had a son, but he didn't grow up, and his daughter-in-law was gone. Alas, it's not a good fate. The money for his funeral was all from the village, saying that he was going to sell his house to settle the bill. ”

"Is that sold now?" I asked cautiously.

"Where can we sell it so quickly, now everyone is running to the city, who can take a fancy to our mountains!"

I really wanted to say that I bought it, but Jiang Zhi's eyes stopped me. Let's get back to business.

"It's okay, someone must be able to take a fancy to this. Aunt Qin, why didn't you sell these pine nuts last year? With that, I bent down and grabbed a handful of pine nuts and looked at them carefully.

"It's not that last year, I thought the purchase price of mountain goods was too low, and I didn't sell a few of them, and I didn't sell them all, so I kept some. Thinking that the price could rise at the beginning of spring, the price turned out to be lower now, and it was better to sell it last year, and your uncle (Aunt Qin's husband) still complained about me. Aunt Qin flipped the pine nuts on the side with her hand and said, "If you stay, you will lose even more, I am afraid that I will cover it, and I have to take it out to dry it often, the more I dry the pine nuts and walnuts, the drier it is, it is much lighter than last year." ”

"Aunt Qin, do you still have walnuts at home?" I also squatted down and asked happily.

"Yes, the things on the mountain, pine nuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, nay, are piled up in the barn. When you go back, take some and try them out. Aunt Qin was busy in her hands, and pointed to the warehouse with the open door on the left with her chin.

Jiang Zhi and I followed the direction she pointed and saw several bags of marijuana piled on the ground in the warehouse, and we didn't know what was inside.

Jiang Zhi glanced at me, which meant that I should ask, can we buy it.

"Aunt Qin, it's not okay to take a little, I'm rare with your mountain goods, you let me take them." I said jokingly.

Aunt Qin was obviously stunned, and then reflected. "But don't bring this, I don't mean anything to talk so much with you, don't take it to heart, you can take what you want from your aunt, they didn't sell it last year." I've lived with your aunt as a neighbor for so many years, and I'm not the one who digs into people's corners. ”

This is Aunt Qin's misunderstanding that we want to help him buy her mountain goods.

At this time, Jiang Zhi stopped what he was doing and spoke, "Aunt Qin, not only do we want to buy your and my aunt's mountain goods, we also want to see what other good things other people have." You may not know, but we opened a store in City D and wanted to buy some mountain goods to sell. And when I came, an old classmate begged me to send him some mountain goods, and he wanted to send them to the employees of the unit. So we're asking for a really large amount. ”

When Aunt Qin heard Jiang Zhi say this, she understood that we really wanted to buy her things, so she was overjoyed, and stood up abruptly and took the rake from Jiang Zhi's hand. "Okay, eldest nephew, since you really want to buy it, my aunt will not be hypocritical, and my aunt will sell it to you cheaply."

"Okay, Aunt Qin, I have to trouble you to take all the mountain goods to my aunt's house at night and weigh them."

"No trouble, no trouble, just the distance of these few trails, it's not far. Did I really send it to you that night? Aunt Qin confirmed again.

"You're going to send it to me. Then we'll go back first. Jiang Zhi saw that he was almost done talking, and he was about to say goodbye and leave.

When we left, we still didn't leave empty-handed, so Aunt Qin had to grab a large handful of pine nuts for each of us, saying that we had good teeth and could eat more pine nuts.