Since I was a child, I have lived in the city, and I have never really experienced the village life by seeing people coming and going all day long. It was only two days and I was able to truly experience the unpretentious countryside.

At six or seven o'clock in the morning, as soon as the sun showed its eyes, the industrious rooster began to blow the horn of the early morning "Oh ~ Oh ~ Oh ~", and some of the housekeepers were not to be outdone. The whole village is shrouded in a mist and wisps of smoke rise from the chimneys, giving the impression of simplicity and nature! The mood also calmed down.

We walked with my aunt on the dirt road to Lao Jiatou's house, sighing at the beauty of the countryside.

After walking for a while, the house is at the easternmost end of the village, which is the closest to the mountain forest.

This house is similar to my aunt's house as a whole. It's bigger than my aunt's house. The courtyard wall is the same as that of the aunt's house, which is a kind of wooden fence, a kind of courtyard wall to prevent chickens and ducks and not bad guys.

I condemned it to death in my heart, and such walls are not practical in the last days. This will have to be changed in the future, there are so many secrets in our family, and the wall has to be changed to a tall one, which can isolate all the eyes of those with bad intentions. It is also necessary to change the strong gate, which can prevent all the attacks of jackals, tigers and leopards.

We pushed open the fence gate and entered the yard, which was still very large. My aunt introduced to us, "The one on the left is the chicken rack, I will ask you for a few chickens in two days, raise them for a month to grow up, and then you can lay eggs next year, I will raise them for you when you are not there, and you will catch them back to raise them when you come back." "I looked at the place my aunt pointed to, it's okay, this can be there, my son hasn't raised chickens yet!

"This is a pigsty, when your mother comes to live permanently, I will catch two piglets for her, and when she grows up, she can kill and eat meat, and she can eat at ease." I went to see the pigsty again, and decided that this must not be had, not to mention that there will be extra grain to feed the pigs in the future, just say that this taste, the summer is so hot, I must not smoke to death, it is better to completely eradicate it, plant two fruit trees in this place, and plant pomegranates and persimmons. The pomegranate represents a house full of gold and jade, with many children and grandchildren. Persimmon represents a lifetime. What a meaning.

"It's the same barn over there as ours. You can put a lot of clutter. "I know this, I see that my aunt's house has put grain, mountain goods, firewood and so on.

The aunt walked to the barn, scratched the ground, and opened a small board, "There is a cellar here, and all the winter vegetables are stored here." ”

Hey, this is a surprise. "Auntie, do we have it?" I walked over and looked at the entrance to the cellar. It was so dark down there that I didn't see anything.

"Yes, it's also in the warehouse, and it's not usually useful." My aunt took the lead and climbed down the ladder. I turned on the light in the cellar, which was only about 20 cubic meters, the size of a house.

I saw this cellar and came up with an idea. We can dig an ice cellar under the house, and then discuss this with Jiang Zhi when we go back.

Jiang Zhi was also very interested in this cellar, and went back and forth twice, but went up with us without saying anything.

My aunt took us into the house again to earn a circle, the house is quite large, the kitchen and dining room are in the hall, there is a large room on the left and right, all of them are ondols, and there is a wall of fire in the middle of the kang in each big room, dividing a large room into two rooms. The inner room is slightly larger than the outer room, and the layout of the two large rooms is the same. This is equivalent to having four rooms, that is, the inside room is a little inconvenient, and you have to go through the outside room, but this can be changed. If necessary, it is entirely possible to convert two interconnected rooms into two separate rooms. If we live in our house, we live outside, and we live inside, it's just right. Alas, I miss my son a little bit.

I'm not too satisfied with the fact that the kitchen and dining room are in the hall, so when I come to live by myself, I'll build another house next to the barn to make a kitchen, and the stove will also be a new type.

Thinking of my own thoughts, I walked out of the house with my aunt and the others, ready to go to the backyard to have a look.

As soon as he left the house, he saw a young man wandering around outside the fence.

The aunt recognized that it was Li Feng, the son of the old man Li in the village.

The aunt asked, "Li Feng, is there anything wrong with you?" ”

Li Feng looks at people with a very annoying look, this is my first impression of him. Just looking at the face, this person looks pretty good, with a square face and thick flesh, giving people a sense of honesty and honesty.

"It's okay, I'm just passing by." Li Feng came back with a stiff tone, and then ignored us and walked to the village.

The aunt said angrily: "I can't tell lies, this is all in the village, how can I pass by here." ”

It seems that the aunt doesn't like this Li Feng very much. My gossip heart was about to move, so I grabbed my aunt's arm and asked, "Auntie, who is this?" ”

"He, he is the second son of the old man Li in our village, who beckons cats and dogs all day long, and there is no one who is six.

I used to go out to work with the people of our village, but he didn't work long before he came back by himself, saying that he didn't think the job had a future and didn't do it himself, we were still thinking about it at the time, even if there was no future, it was better than staying in the village every year with his back to the loess and facing the sky, better than going up to the mountains to work hard.

As a result, the people who went to work with the village came back, and we realized what was going on. It turned out that after he went, he cheated and played tricks all day long, and he didn't work hard, and he stole the materials in the construction site at night and sold them, and was discovered by the boss, who wanted to send him to the police station, and he even cried and begged others, and the people looked at him pitiful, so they didn't care about him, so he let him lose the money.

He had no money and no place to go, so he went back to the village. ”

"Then what do you mean, he came here today, I don't think he was passing by." The eyes are the window of the soul, to see whether a person is right or not, you can't look at the appearance, the appearance is very deceptive, you still have to look at the eyes. I was complacent that I could recognize Li Feng as a wolf and not a sheep at first sight.

"It's hard to say." The aunt was also very confused, "Could it be that he wants to buy this house, but he can't, and he hasn't heard of it!" ”

We can't guess Li Feng's intention to come here, so we don't want to bother ourselves.

Then we went to see the backyard, which was huge, the size of a basketball court. It used to be a vegetable patch, but now it is overgrown with weeds, and there are just a few stubbles left on the land. I think it's nice to have a greenhouse here.

The house is basically finished, there is nothing in the house except the kang, and the big black pot on the stove does not know who took it, so it's okay, if this stays, I don't know what to do with it, keep it, it was used by others, and I should do it. If you don't keep this, throw away the good things, isn't it a waste, Chairman Mao said that waste is a crime. So it's best now, if we're going to come and stay, we're buying everything from scratch.

Before we finished looking at the house and went back to my aunt's house, I took out the tape measure I had prepared in advance, measured the size of the kang and windows one by one, and prepared to go back and ask Qu Ma to make a few thick kang quilts.

Back at my aunt's house, we went together to pick up the village chief and go to the county to go through the transfer procedures.

We also told the village chief that Li Feng also went to Lao Jiatou's house today, and the village chief told us that Li Feng and his father also wanted to buy this house.

It turned out that Lao Li Tou wanted to buy a house for Li Feng to marry his daughter-in-law, so he fell in love with Lao Jiatou's house, but he felt that it was too expensive, so he wanted to wait, thinking that if no one bought it for a while, the village would have to sell it cheaply, and he would buy it again at that time. I didn't expect to kill our Cheng Xiaojin halfway, and after asking the price, he set the house without saying anything.

He went to Lao Jiatou's house today, probably to see that we were not satisfied with the house.

I didn't expect us to have competitors!

We really can't do anything about this, and we can't stop us from buying it because you're too expensive, we don't want to buy it, we're not too expensive.

There are people above the village chief, and we quickly completed the formalities under the leadership of an acquaintance. After a banquet in the county, the village chief and the people he invited to help had a lunch and separated, because we still had to buy some things in the county, and we also had to go to the bank to "withdraw" money to pay off Chen Cuihua's debt, ha~ha~

There is a market on this small street where we visited today, and it is very lively, and there are all kinds of people selling everything.

We walked and walked, and when we saw something we hadn't seen before, we stopped and looked at it, and if it was fun or that we would use in the future, we bought it. When I saw snacks that I hadn't eaten, I bought more of everything and gave them back to my aunt, and I also divided a small portion, which I put in the ring as a gift for my son.

In one corner of the bazaar, we found something that could be used in the space, bamboo baskets. This is a barrel-shaped basket with a mouth slightly larger than the bottom. Now we still use plastic bags for vegetables and fruits in the space, which is not easy to use, and we can't hold things that are afraid of pressure, such as strawberries. So if the price is right, we should buy more spare.

When I walked to the stall selling bamboo baskets, I saw that there were many sizes of bamboo baskets on the stall, the smallest one was 15 cm in diameter and 5 cm in height, and the largest was about 80 cm in diameter and 80 cm in height. There are also different shapes, gardens, squares, and many types. I'm a little unable to walk when I see this, look at this cuteness, look at that cuteness, what should I do?

I look at the shape, and Jiang Zhi looks at the quality and practicality. He saw that the bamboo baskets here should be made of machines, and the quality was good, so he talked with the seller.

After understanding, the stall owner can provide a large number of high-quality, as well as cute bamboo baskets, we negotiated the price, and he went to the factory to get the goods, this time we bought 3,000 baskets, small, cute, practical (square flat can be used to hold strawberries or eggs is very good, very practical. I also bought a lot of bamboo baskets. Jiang Zhi also said that he knew that there were also people selling bamboo baskets in Tashan Village, but they were purely handmade, and the speed of weaving was very slow, so they could not be supplied in large quantities. But if we don't have enough bamboo baskets in the future, we can also book them with him, as long as we are not in a hurry to use them.

I also want to pickle some salted duck eggs in the space, pickle some sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles in winter, and make some fruit wine, liquor, etc., which requires a container that is a "tank". We didn't find it in the bazaar, we bought it in the hardware store on the side of the street, and we rounded all the jars for people, including those in the storeroom.

I looked at these things in the ring stupidly, Jiang Zhi patted my head, "What are you silly, this is not a good thing." ”

"Who said it, this is very useful, it solves my big problem, you don't know, every time I go into the space to pick up eggs, I have to be careful, for fear of breaking one. Now that I have this kind of basket, it's a lot more convenient for me. ”

"Why don't I do the farm work?" Jiang Zhi took my hand distressedly, trying to find traces of hard work all day from my soft and white palm, but he was disappointed. Although I now do farm work every day, picking vegetables and eggs, my hands are still very tender.

"No, you can't take my job." I said toughly, it's my fun, I'm just a stingy person, I like to pick vegetables in the field, I like to pick eggs in the grass, I like the feeling of harvesting. "You have to do your own job." I left all the things I didn't like to do to Jiang Zhi, who is now in charge of collecting fish, honey, and all the heavy work in the space, such as digging holes and feeding the puppies.

Jiang Zhi was speechless in the face of me.