dream village

"Your uncle pointed to the deer on the ground, and said angrily, if such a small thing is brought home, it is a trivial matter for me not to be able to eat it, and it may offend many relatives and friends. Of course I asked the reason, and he explained, my house Kouzi, what's in the house, I wish everyone would know. Not long ago, I caught two bamboo chickens, which weighed less than two catties. Of course, it was hard to divide them, so she set up a table meal at home. Invite those relatives, friends and neighbors to have a taste.

"As a result, nearly three tables of guests came after preparing a table of meals. Two bamboo chickens must not be enough, and the family had to kill two more chickens to entertain these dozens of guests. The family refrained from entertaining guests and was crowded. On the other side, I didn’t even get a piece of chicken bone. That’s not counting. Many people who didn’t eat gossip behind their backs, saying that they look at people with two eyes, and eat delicious ones, etc., etc. Anyway, whoever hears it will not be able to stand it. You say, if I bring this little deer home under such circumstances, I can’t eat it, and I can’t separate it. Isn’t that causing trouble for myself?”

After finishing speaking, Gengen started to laugh first, and said while laughing, "I never thought there would be such interesting people and things in the world!"

Xue'er also covered her mouth and smiled, but Zhang Tao didn't think it was funny.He said indifferently: "I heard from my mother about this, and later my uncle and aunt had a fight because of it. Actually, it's not just my family. Almost everyone in my family is like this. If there is something in the family Good things, it is quite uncomfortable not to share them with others. If people find out, it will become the biggest scandal in Chongli. Needless to say, this family will not be able to hold their heads up among the villagers in the future. The folks are accusing and alienating."

"Oh, such a small matter can have such serious consequences!" Xue'er said in disbelief.

Zhang Tao said proudly: "Let me tell you, this is precisely the most simple and noble quality of country people. Do people in the city have it? Do those in high positions, rich and powerful people have it? Of course it is impossible to have it." of."

Speaking of this, his voice was a little passionate, and his expression was a little bit indignant and dissatisfied.He continued: "The government uses all kinds of public opinion tools every day, drums up its mouthpiece, and yells everywhere, but the social atmosphere and morality are still unsatisfactory and the overall decline is accelerating. The people of the country are now struggling with personal desires. Mental confusion, lost faith, fame and fortune have become the only pursuit, and conscience, humanity, and virtue have become farther and farther away from us."

Xue'er looked at Zhang Tao in confusion, why did he have so many emotions?What matter was dragged by him to the national and social level.Is it so complicated?How come I don't feel this way at all?

Restricted by his education, Gengen was neither interested in Zhang Tao's words, nor could he understand them.In his heart, no matter how intoxicated you are, he has his own criteria for judging everything, and conscience will be the only judge of everything.But in his eyes now, naturally only the snake on Zhang Tao's shoulder is the most important and practical.

yes!Among Zhang Tao’s two listeners, one has no worries about food and clothing and never knows what sorrow is, like a flower living in a greenhouse; the other lives in a mountain forest that is almost isolated from the world, and the mountain forest is his home and his world. Tiredness weighed on his heart like a mountain, and his days were destined to be panting like an old scalper, living every day with ease, until he was ashamed to grow old, died of exhaustion, and finally rotted into a pile of bones and mixed into the mountains and forests In the dirt.

Where would they think about those unreliable things?Zhang Tao obviously also thought that what he said was indeed playing the piano to the cow, so he stopped talking wisely and did not continue.

The three fell into a brief silence.Gengen's eyes were still shining, and there seemed to be a strong smell of snake meat radiating from his glowing eyes, which made Zhang Tao swallow a lot of saliva unconsciously.

After a while, they came to a fork in the road, went straight up to the top of the mountain, and turned left to the home of Gengen Shoulin Farm.

"Master Gengen, go to the mountain and help me get my classmates down! I went directly to your house to peel the snake." Zhang Tao said.

Gengen agreed, and walked up the mountain happily. How could he look so agile like an old man with rheumatoid arthritis in his legs?

"Brother Tao, Mr. Gengen is quite old, why are you always teasing him?" Xue'er said lightly and angrily.

Zhang Tao snorted coldly and said: "This dead old man is a cheapskate. When I was young, he and I were almost life and death enemies!"

"What's going on here? You seem to have a good relationship." Xue'er looked at Gengen's back and asked in bewilderment.

"It's a long story. There is a peach tree in front of the house where he lives. You will see it later. It is the tallest and oldest peach tree nearby. It is probably much older than Gengen's. So The peaches produced by an old peach tree are not old at all, but are big and sweet. At that time, in our eyes, the peaches were just like the fairy peaches of the Queen Mother of Heaven. This has infinite meaning to us children. What is the attraction? So every season when peaches grow, I will take the children in the village to gather under this peach tree to watch the peaches grow up, and hope that one or two of the peaches will be my own when they grow up. At that time, I was thinking about the peaches of this tree all day long." Speaking of this, Zhang Tao swallowed again, as if he was savoring the sweetness of peaches.

"Looking at the gluttony you said, is it so delicious?" Xue'er said with a smile.

"You don't understand this. One is that it was a time of famine, and everyone's stomachs were empty. Two, the peaches are really delicious. The peaches in the village's peach trees are completely incomparable. They are sour and delicious. Astringent, hard to swallow at all. The third is that children want to have fun."

After a pause, Zhang Tao continued: "But this old man, Gengen, guards this peach tree all day long like his lifeblood. Even if a peach falls from the tree, we are not allowed to pick it up. We Begging him like begging for milk, and stealing something from home to exchange with him, don't even think about getting half a peach from him. As soon as the peaches are ripe, I heard from others, he will pick all the peaches and give them to some leader This incident made our children howl with anger, do you think it is easy for us to help him guard the peach tree for so long? We help him water the peach tree almost every day!"