Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 5 Spirituality

"Brother Red Soldier, are you at home?"

"Brother Red Soldier, open the door."

"Go, go, don't call."

"Don't bite my new pants."

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The noise of people and dogs barking woke up Li Hongbing from his dream.

In a trance, I took the phone and looked at it. It was already past 10 o'clock.

Oops!

Nier is going to be late for kindergarten.

Li Hongbing shuddered, jumped out of the bed, and shouted, "Ni'er, Dad is wrong, don't give birth..."

Halfway through the speech, my mind suddenly sobered up.

Looking at the quaint and simple bedroom, Li Hongbing finally came to his senses.

I am in Caogou Village.

A sense of loss welled up in my heart, and I turned to remember the dream I had.

Become a druid.

it's so funny.

No matter how old people are, they can still dream of such childish things.

Li Hongbing laughed at himself.

Suddenly, the Heart of Nature the size of a mung bean appeared in sight.

I am XXXX!

Not dreaming.

It's all true.

Li Hongbing froze in place, rubbing his eyes in disbelief.

"Brother Hongbing, if you don't come out, I'll steal the dog away!"

A strange man shouted again outside the window.

Li Hongbing didn't understand the words before, but he heard the word "stealing a dog" clearly.

Steal the dog!

Stealing dogs in broad daylight, dare to shout.

Don't treat Lao Tzu as a human being!

Furious, Li Hongbing grabbed the wooden stick on the ground and rushed out of the main room angrily.

Opening the courtyard door, I saw San Pao dodging left and right under the group of four puppies, and the corners of his trousers were bitten.

"Come back." Li Hongbing put down the wooden stick and shouted with a smile.

The four puppies let go of San Pao, who was in a panic, and returned to squat down at Li Hongbing's feet, staring at San Pao with their small black eyes.

Such a good dog who knows how to take care of the home at such a young age.

As expected of a soil hunter, I bought it if I knew it.

San Pao looked at the puppies enviously, felt that the puppies seemed to have grown a lot, and immediately regretted it, looked at Li Hongbing with fiery eyes, and opened his mouth.

Li Hongbing knew what he wanted to say without guessing, "Stop, dogs don't sell."

Hey!
Sanpao understands that such a good dog will be wrong if he misses it.

Suddenly he looked Li Hongbing up and down, "Brother Hongbing, where are your glasses? Your hair seems to be much darker, and your complexion is much better."

is it?

Li Hongbing touched the bridge of his nose, and sure enough he didn't have glasses. He looked into the distance, and the scenery a hundred meters away was extremely clear.

I didn't take antihypertensive drugs in the morning, I didn't feel dizzy, and my cervical spondylosis and frozen shoulder didn't hurt anymore.

Could it be the effect of the heart of nature?

Secretly rejoicing, he said to San Pao, "Go inside and have a glass of water."

"No, Uncle Da Kui treats you to dinner, let me come over and call you." San Pao waved his hand.

Note, please use here.

Even though Li Hongbing is only 36 years old, his grandfather Li Baotou has a very high seniority in the forest area. When seeing him from all over the world, people have to bend down and call him grandpa. Naturally, Li Hongbing's seniority has also risen with the tide.

And the more remote the countryside, the more rules are followed.

This kind of rule is called a bad habit by the people in the city, and it can be counted for several generations. Whose ancestors did not glorify the lintel from the bad habit.

It is precisely these bad habits that continue the inheritance of blood.

Li Hongbing asked Sanpao to wait, saying that he would burn paper for grandpa and grandma first.

Go back to the house and take out the prepared fire paper and joss sticks, lock the courtyard door, take the puppy and Sanpao to the back hill of the old house.

The graves of grandpa and grandma are buried on Fenghuang Slope on the mountain ridge in the backyard of the old house. It is a large tomb built with bluestone strips. In front of the grave, the trunks of two cypress trees are straight and straight, with dense and thick branches and leaves.

Looking at the black and white photos of grandpa and grandma on the tombstone.

Li Hongbing felt guilty for his unfilial piety these years, and knelt down on both knees.

Bang bang bang!
He kowtowed six times in a row.

"Grandma, grandma, grandson is back, and I won't leave from now on."

San Pao, who was standing aside, was stunned for a moment when he heard Li Hongbing's words, showing a thoughtful expression.

Burn out the paper.

Go down the mountain and return to the old house.

Li Hongbing carried several bottles of wine from the main room.

These are all secretly hidden by the old man in the old house. The old man has a heart disease, and the mother has never allowed him to drink alcohol. When he returned to the village, he secretly drank a few sips to enjoy himself. Now he just took them out, which can be regarded as helping the old man quit drinking.

Come out with the wine and lock the courtyard door.

Walked out towards the village with four puppies.

Looking around, Yuanbao Mountain is winding and undulating with dense forests showing green color, guarding the vast meadow at the bottom of the valley.

Looking down, the meadow is like a giant green blanket woven by nature, with many unknown flowers in pink, white, yellow or blue sandwiched in the grass, and the crystal clear stream and river seem to be shaking. Streamers are gurgling and flowing into the distance.

It really makes people feel happy.

"What a beautiful place." Li Hongbing sighed from the bottom of his heart.

However, San Pao kept staring at the four pups, with more and more love on his face.

These four puppies are too spiritual.

A puppy quickly ran to a distance of more than ten meters ahead, looking around, the other two puppy followed closely beside Li Hongbing, and the last puppy trailed behind.

At first, San Pao thought it was the puppies playing, but after watching for a while, he realized it.

They have a clear division of labor, one is the pioneer, the two guards are in the middle, and the last one is the rear guard.

Mother!
The team committing crimes are all very good.

Hearing Li Hongbing's emotion, San Pao showed a disgusted expression instead.

"People in the city think it looks good, but in the eyes of us mountain people, it is a poor land and bad waters. Logging is not allowed and land reclamation is not allowed. It is hard to raise a few animals, and it turns into a muddy pit during the rainy season. Mosquitoes can kill people."

Yes!

Li Hongbing thought of the rainy season in the forest area, and his hair stood on end.

From June to August every year, the forest area is flooded with rainwater. Caogou Village has high mountains and low terrain, which has become a cheap water storage pool.

By this season, the nightmare in Caogou Village has just begun.

A large amount of rainwater and flooding turned the vast meadow into a vast swamp with an average water depth of 1 meter, making it the best breeding ground for mosquitoes.

The total number of eggs produced by a female mosquito is about 1000 to 3000, which can hatch into adult mosquitoes in 20 days.

Imagine how many female mosquitoes such a large swamp can hold.

Li Hongbing was quite impressed. In summer, the sky was dark and filled with mosquitoes.

When going out to work, you have to wear a hood, and your whole body must be covered airtight.

As for Li Hongbing, hiding in the courtyard for three months is the most annoying memory.

Because there are no mosquitoes in the Li family's old house, according to my father, the wood used by my grandfather to build the house has the effect of repelling insects. Now it seems that the old oak tree also has a part in the credit.

Walk into the village along the stone road.

I was in a hurry to go back to the old house yesterday, and I didn't have time to see the village clearly.

Now that I have seen it clearly, Li Hongbing feels inexplicably sad,
If you use words to describe it, it would be "desolate, dead silent!"

Except for the gurgling water in the ditch in front of the house, the other buildings have long since been emptied, the front and back of the house are occupied by weeds, a layer of rotten gray moss is floating in the pond, thorns are overgrown in the vegetable garden, and some houses have even collapsed in half. It is only supported by a few beams and columns.

Familiar villagers and childhood friends also disappeared.

The rice farm at the head of the village used to be the busiest place in the village. Li Hongbing remembered that every evening, men from each household sat down with big bowls and ate and chatted together. Chickens playing in the water with their buttocks bare in the weir pond.

Now there is only a millstone lying on the ground alone, letting the weeds grow through the holes.

The old persimmon tree at the entrance of the village looked withered and withered. It was supposed to be a season of warm spring and the revival of all things, but it felt like it was about to die.

Tree dead village scattered.

It witnessed the rise and fall of Caogou Village, and also accompanied Caogou Village to the end.

San Pao was used to the desolation of the village, so he said heartlessly.

"Now the forest area asks for samples one at a time, the old ones die, and the young ones don't come back."

Yes!

The old ones are all dead, and the young ones don't come back.

Li Hongbing understands that this is the sequelae of rapid urban development and population migration.

No one can stop the pace of the times.

There are many more villages like Caogou Village that are being abandoned.

The sweat money earned through hard work for a year is not enough for the people in the city to have supper.

Why don't you go out and wait in the village to die?
Ow!Ow!
The pups barked at San Pao, who was holding a tree branch at some point in his hand, and was considered a threat to Li Hongbing by the pups.

"Brother Hongbing, 5000 yuan, discuss it, sell me a puppy!"

Li Hongbing replied with a smile.

"roll!"

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(End of this chapter)