293, Taoyuan
In the early morning, the warm morning sun shines through the gaps between the leaves, scattering into the brown-yellow soil, and the dew still stays on the tender green leaves, and is blown by the breeze and slides down to the golden ridges.
In the autumn of October, the wheat fields welcome early farmers, who carry bamboo baskets, crossed trouser legs, and are barefoot. During the harvest season, they smile so brightly.
At the edge of the wheat field, pale yellow ploughing oxen lie leisurely on the ground, flicking their tails to drive away mosquitoes and flies. Beside him were children playing with ears of wheat, all of them about the age of the horn, and they were laughing and carefree.
Scattered around the fields, the smoke of cooking has risen, the barking of dogs and chickens, and the sound of pots and pans and the faint sound of people form the beautiful music of the early morning.
People pushed their wheelbarrows out of the courtyard, carrying their goods, and walked briskly towards the market, where the morning market was about to begin, and it was also the busiest time of the day.
This village is called Taoyuan Village, located at the junction of Shuixiang City and Nanling City, and there is a mountain range there, called Nanzeling, in the middle of the mountains and rivers, there is such a small mountain village.
Taoyuan Village is surrounded by peach blossom pools, and a large number of peach trees block the intersection outside, looking like an elf hiding in pink flowers from a distance.
There are a total of 533 villagers in Taoyuan Village, with more than 200 houses standing in a circle, relying on Taohua Mountain.
Peach Blossom Mountain is rich in products, and the villagers are self-sufficient, although their lives are simple, but they are carefree.
At this moment, in a farmhouse on the mountainside, a stick of incense is slowly burning out, and under this incense, a silk thread hangs.
At the end of the incense candle, the silk thread was burned, only a crisp sound was heard, and the copper beads hanging above the silk thread fell on the gong plate, and after jumping for a while, they were dripping and spinning in circles.
A man sleeping at the desk sat up sharply, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and looked out at the sky.
It was a bald man, his face was clean, and although there were some pitted scars, with his dark and shiny skin, he outlined the honest appearance of a farmer.
The man jumped up from the bed, came to the water tank, scooped up a little cold water with his hand, hit it in the face, rubbed it vigorously, and then put on a coarse cloth coat, took up the bamboo basket and sickle, tied it around his waist, and walked out of the farmhouse quickly.
It was a sunny day, the autumn sun was shining comfortably, and the man was humming a little song and walking briskly down the hill, and there were some merchants in a hurry not far away.
"Yo, Big Rock, you're so early, it looks like you're going to work part-time?"
A cheerful voice came from behind, and a shoehorn face appeared in front of him as a rough palm pressed against the man's shoulder.
This man's name is Fan Fatzi, he is short and frustrated, and he is doing the work of a carpenter and cement maker.
Fan Fat Man is a mouthy, he likes to joke with people, men are honest by nature, and they are not angry when they are joked, but they can talk to Fan Fat Man very well.
The man is called Dashi, this is still the name given by Fan Fatzi, and it has become a habit to scream, and the whole village calls it that.
Dashi looked at Fan Fatzi, touched his head and said: "Hehe, yesterday Lao Wang invited me to cut wheat, one penny a day, six hours, plus two meals, very good." ”
Fan Fatzi showed an exaggerated expression and said: "Wow, what a big deal, congratulations, work hard, and introduce you to a daughter-in-law another day." ”
Dashi looked a little shy and said: "I'm like this, I'm not rich and ugly, where can I marry a daughter-in-law." ”
For this sentence, Fan Fat Man was obviously very happy, hugged Dashi's shoulders and said happily: "No problem, with your Brother Fan here, the matter of finding a daughter-in-law will be wrapped up in me." ”
Big Stone just smiled innocently and didn't say anything more.
After laughing for a while, Fan Fatzi let go of the big stone, because he saw the little beautiful girl at the mountain gate, this girl was twenty-eight years old, and she was very smart, and Fan Fatzi had been staring at it for a long time.
Seeing Fan Fatzi chasing Xiaomei, Dashi tightened the strap on his body and walked towards Wang Dafu's house with a bamboo basket on his back.
Wang Dafu is a rich peasant in the village, contracted 200 acres of farmland, the family can not finish it, so they hire short-term workers to do it, the big stone has no other craft, that is, there is a strength, and it has become the royal short-term worker of Wang Dafu's family.
It is only five miles from the middle of the mountain to Wang Dafu's house, and you will arrive through the bazaar, and you will arrive in a moment with the foot of a big stone.
When the big stone passed by the wheat field, they saw people busy in the field, and they also saw the big stone.
Everyone stretched out their hands to say hello, always smiling, and the children gathered around and asked for candy from the good old man.
Every time Dashi goes out to work, he will prepare some candy, and when he meets children halfway, he will distribute some, and sometimes he will rob some urchins when he encounters them, but Dashi is always not angry.
Smiling and watching the children eat candy and watching the adults farming, Dashi felt warm in his heart, as if such a day was extremely pleasant.
Walk through the farmland and past the liquor store to the market. It was early in the morning, the sun was rising, and no one would go to a liquor store on such a morning, but the doors of the liquor store were wide open, which seemed very abnormal.
Dashi felt a little strange and couldn't help but slow down, and when he passed by the wine shop, he saw the owner of the wine shop, Uncle Pang, standing by the door, and in the middle were his wife Aunt Pang and daughter Xiaojuan.
Dashi stopped, and looked into the liquor store, but saw two big men sitting on the main hall, drinking and laughing unscrupulously.
The two big men were shirtless, wearing a shirt with a shoulder and a tiger and leopard tattooed on their chest and arms.
Taoyuan Village is far away from the world, and the waterway is difficult, so few outsiders come on weekdays, and the officials of the government only come once a year, and such characters are extremely rare.
The attitude of these two people was extremely arrogant, but on the other hand, Uncle Pang's family was trembling, and when they looked over, they saw a long bench lying not far away, which was cut into three sections at this moment.
"Old man, let's have another three catties of aging!" At this time, the strong man with the leopard painted on the left raised his hand and shouted in an arrogant tone.
Uncle Pang nodded, trembling and walked to the counter, when he picked up the wine jar and just wanted to take a step, he heard a strong man with a tiger shouted: "You have dirty hands, let your daughter send it, haha." ”
Uncle Pang's face was full of reluctance, but he had to comply, and Xiao Juan took the wine jar tremblingly and slowly walked towards the two strong men.
Before the wine jar was delivered to the table, the tiger-shaped strong man hugged Xiao Juan, Xiao Juan screamed, and fell into the arms of the tiger-shaped strong man.
"Little girl, accompany your brother to drink two cups, serve well, and my brother will be rewarded!"
Xiaojuan struggled desperately, but where could she compare to the strength of a tiger-shaped strong man, the more she struggled, the more excited she was about convenience.
After three glasses of wine, the tiger-shaped strong man said to the leopard-shaped strong man: "Brother, big brother go to vent your anger, you wait a minute." ”
As he spoke, he picked up Xiaojuan and walked to the back room, Xiaojuan cried, and this sound attracted the attention of the farmers passing by, but when he saw this scene, he was stunned.
No one dared to go in and meddle in their affairs, but Uncle Pang knelt down in front of the two strong men, snorted and cried: "Two good men, okay, the girl is still a yellow flower girl, you let her go, I am grateful to you for being a cow and a horse!"
The tiger-shaped strong man kicked Uncle Pang to the ground, and then laughed and continued to walk to the back room, but at this time, Aunt Pang didn't know where to get the courage, picked up the scissors on the desk, and rushed towards the tiger-shaped strong man.