Chapter 45: A Happy Life in the Mountains

We officially settled down in Tayama Village. The village chief was invited to the first meal, and the old man of the family had a good conversation with the village chief. From the mouth of the village chief, we know that Tashan Village has also been affected by the drought, and this year the rice planted by the people in the village has not grown well, and they are all wilting and drooping. It is estimated that production will be reduced by 20 to 30 percent.

The continuous high temperature has significantly reduced the water level of the small river near the village. Fortunately, almost every house in the village has a well, so there is basically no impact on life. Our family finally took another hot shower after more than 10 days of water shortage.

There are a total of 4 rooms in the house, Jiang's father and Jiang's mother are in the outer room on the right, we take Hanhan in the inner room on the right side, Qu's father and mother are in the outer room on the left, and Liang Chen and Wang Qian live in the inner room on the left.

Hanhan has a lot of opinions about this distribution, and he wants to live with his older brothers and sisters at night. Let me even coax and pull back, because we want to bring Hanhan into the space at night to practice together.

After the last burglary, we decided to urge Hanhan to practice hard with us, and each of us should also find a skill that we are interested in and can protect ourselves.

The kids are settling in very well here. I get up early every day, scrambling to feed the old hens and yellow, orange, orange, and fluffy chicks at home. The coarse tea and light rice on the breakfast table are also eaten with relish.

Every day, I would do it by myself by the well to draw water from the well to wash, my son was too young, and Liang Chen completed the work for him.

Children's understanding of water is "inexhaustible" from an early age, and they never realize that water is also to be cherished.

Although they didn't stay for a few days before they came to Tashan Village when there was a shortage of water in D City, it was a good educational process for them who had never known the preciousness of water resources before.

When they came to Tashan Village, they also experienced the hard work of fetching water from the well every morning, so now they will make reasonable use of water resources. In the past, the leftover water from washing their faces was readily available, but now they will use it to feed the chickens and water the flowers. have become a lot more sensible.

Their daily lives are abundant. Ever since we took them up the mountain once, they've been running up the mountain every day.

My son and we go into the space every night to practice the exercises for 10 days, and the day is equivalent to a holiday and rest. He played crazy with his brothers and sisters all over the mountains.

I thought that there was no danger in the mountains anyway, and that it might be the last summer they could play so carefree and happy, so I turned a blind eye to their early and late returns.

So every morning, after the children packed themselves up, they would set off with their own small water bottles on their backs and their own small bamboo baskets. Every day, I would dig a basket of wild vegetables for the chickens before I went around playing.

In addition to the wild vegetables, they can also bring back something every day, sometimes a flower, sometimes a handful of grass. Actually, these are available in the mountains, but the children take them back like they are holding treasures.

But then I saw that they always took back these useless things, and the wild vegetables were also carried home in baskets, and the chickens couldn't eat at all, and most of them were put away for a long time, wilted, and then dried into dried wild vegetables. I think it's a waste of resources to let these three children play unorganized and undisciplined, but in fact, you can't underestimate the children, they are also very capable.

So I gave a task to a few children, and every day each child handed over ten catties of firewood. Although my brother-in-law brought us a cart of wooden blocks when we first arrived, this thing is a consumable, and the more the merrier. A few children are idle, and if they can help, they must help.

The children happily accepted the tasks assigned by the organization and completed them every day with quality and quantity. Within a few days, a pile of firewood was piled up in our yard, and every child came back every day to exceed their task.

At the beginning, Hanhan's grandmother pulled Hanhan over distressedly and said, "Are you your own mother?" Hanhan is only 5 years old, and you let him carry such a heavy thing every day. Hanhan, we won't do it tomorrow, if your mother wants firewood, let her go up the mountain to pick it up by herself. ”

The aunt also said: "Xiaoyi, isn't there enough firewood brought by your sister-in-law, if it is not enough, you will squeak and ask your sister-in-law to give you some more, why do you have to go to the mountains to pick up branches?" ”

Han Han spoke first: "Grandma, aunt, I have a lot of strength, no matter how much I move, look at me." After saying that, he stepped forward and picked up his own and his brother's baskets, and showed himself a few times in front of the two old women who were overflowing with love.

provoked a burst of praise from the two old women.

I hurriedly took advantage of the joy of the two grandmother-level figures Feng Xin Dayue and explained: "Auntie, the firewood brought by the sister-in-law is enough for us to burn these days." I don't think these children are playing blindly every day, it's better to play for some purpose. And it can also help the family do some work, and it is also a kind of education for children. Besides, I think, this weather is too abnormal, aren't everyone else, there must be a big cold after the drought? I also want to prepare more firewood to be prepared, and you should also prepare more, auntie. ”

Qu's mother laughed at me for being uneducated, saying that there must be a great heat after the great cold, and there must be a great flood after the great drought.

I don't care if what I said is right or not, I just want to take this opportunity to remind my aunt that she didn't take it to heart at all when she said what we said to the village chief last time.

After I appeased Qu's mother and aunt, Hanhan secretly told me that he also secretly hid some in his ring. When I heard this, I was very happy, my son's little little eyes looked like me, and more and more like a little hamster, I liked it.

As for the four old men, the first thing they did when they were idle was to look at the land our family had been allocated and study what else could be planted now. In short, it can't be wasted.

They discussed with their sister-in-law and decided to plant cabbage, which is now the time to plant, which is highly heat-tolerant and has a short growing period. So they are like real villagers, every day when the sun has not come out, they carry their hoes to the fields, and when the sun comes out, they go home in a hurry.

After returning for dinner in the evening, when the weather was not so hot, they took a small bench to the entrance of the village and chatted with the villagers, and soon integrated into the village. Not to mention how moisturizing this little day is.

Every day at the dinner table, they talked about who was small, who was small, and how they were, and we also got to know more about Tashan Village and the villagers of Tashan Village in their conversations.

These days we give them the old and the young, and drink the creek water and drink the goat's milk milk produced in the space. Their physique is also slowly improving, and now they are also walking like flying in the mountains.

I am very happy to see that several elderly people and children can be so happy now, and this house is worth it.