happy apocalypse

Chapter 16 The Neighbor Aunt Qin
When we returned to my aunt's house in the afternoon, there was no one in the house, and my aunt and uncle hadn't come back yet.

We went out again and strolled along a small river beside the village, breathing the fresh air in the mountains.

I heard from my little uncle that this river is formed by the flow of streams from the mountains.

The water in the small river is crystal clear, and pebbles at the bottom can be seen. Occasionally, fish and small white shrimps can be seen swimming by in the river.There are several water ducks and white geese swimming and playing on the river.

There is a small wooden bridge on the small river, and the villagers enter the mountain from here.

There is a bamboo forest on the other side of the bridge. It looks like it has been around for a few years. Now it should be time to start sending out bamboo shoots. When I have time, I will ask my aunt to take us to dig bamboo shoots. In fact, I really want to go by myself, but I don’t know Ah, I don't know how to dig, and I don't think Jiang Zhi is much better than me, so I'd better find someone to accompany me.

Looking back, the whole village was shrouded in smoke.This combination is Xiaoqiao Liushui family, I sighed.

"It's better to be in the mountains, the sky is still blue, the water is still clear, and the air is so fresh, oh, it's fresh with the smell of firewood, ha~ha~." I couldn't help laughing as I said that .

"Well, the smell of firewood is better than the smell of car exhaust." Jiang Zhi said and took a deep breath.

"The water here is really clean. You can see that there are small white shrimps in the water. I guess it tastes a bit sweet like Nong* mountain spring. When we go up the mountain in two days, we will also bring some mountain spring water back." I said Suddenly thinking of the coming drought, I wanted to solve the problem of water shortage at home.

"Okay." Jiang Zhi said simply.There are more than 100 empty barrels in the space.

We walked hand in hand by the small river, feeling as if I haven’t been so relaxed for many years. The life in the city makes my nerves tense, and I keep busy every day. Start working on the kids again.The mind has never been so relaxed as it is now.But how long can such a relaxed mood last, and what kind of disaster will the arrival of the end times bring to this small piece of pure land.Who would have the mood to appreciate the green trees, blue sky and white clouds.

We returned to the village along the river, and when we were about to reach my aunt's house, I saw a 40-something-year-old aunt in the sun drying pine nuts with a rake in a yard next to his house.This aunt has short black hair, and has a round face like the aunt's, with a sharp look in her eyes.

When she looked up and saw us, she stopped what she was doing, leaned on the wooden pole of the rake with one hand, and fanned herself with the other, talking to us enthusiastically. "You are relatives of Shuju's family. I happened to see you when you came here yesterday. You must have been tired when you got home, and you didn't go to say hello. I just saw it again now. Come on, come in and play for a while, Shuju." They haven't come back yet." She thought we couldn't get in the house.

We poked our heads outside the fence and looked in. We didn't know how to talk to this aunt, "Thank you, aunt."

"Thank you, you people in the city are polite. I am your aunt's neighbor, you can call me Aunt Qin." Then he came to open the courtyard door for us.

We followed Aunt Qin into the courtyard and chatted with her. Aunt Qin was still very simple, and she told us all the big and small things in the village, even the situation of her own family. Nor did it fall.

She said that there are a total of more than 40 families in this village, and most of them are old people and children now, and young people have gone out to work.

Said that the children of Lu Guoan's family are the most promising, and now he has opened his own company outside, and has become a big boss. Every time he goes home, he will drive a car back home, carrying things home with big and small bags, and his tone is not without envy .There are also several young people in the village who work in his company, which makes his father very popular and prestigious in the village, and he usually has a hard waist when he speaks.There are also so-and-so children in the village who have been admitted to college. Aunt Qin said that her family has only one son. When he was in school, he did not study well, so he was sent to serve as a soldier. He has been a soldier for 8 years and has never been in the army. He is a half-time official, and he can't go home all the time, so he wants his children to be discharged from the army and so on.

We were chatting with Aunt Qin about things in the village, and we wanted to bring the topic to her family's pine nuts. Finally, Aunt Qin finished what she wanted to say and began to care about us.

"This mountain is different from your city, and you can't get used to it."

"Yes, we still think this place is better than ours. The environment is so good, everything is pure natural." I sincerely praised.

"You're right. Here, people are real. We don't add harmful things to food like outsiders. The things here are all natural from the mountains." See Aunt Qin on this matter Still very proud, and showed a deep hatred for the bad guys, and never collude.

Finally got to the point, "Aunt Qin, I see you are drying pine nuts, it must have been last year."

"Yes, from last year. Look at me, you've been here for a long time, and I dragged you to talk, and I didn't bother to let you come in and sit in your room." Aunt Qin said and was about to Put down the rake in her hand, and let us into the house.

"No need, Aunt Qin, we just happened to be basking in the sun, and we didn't have this chance when we were at home." I hurriedly stopped Aunt Qin, how could I leave before I finished speaking.Jiang Zhi snatched the target from Aunt Qin's hand, bent over and continued to turn over the pine nuts.

"Quick, put it down, you don't need to do it, you have never done it before." Aunt Qin was about to snatch the rake from Jiang Zhi's hand.

"It's okay, Aunt Qin, just let me exercise. I've been sitting in the house every day in the city, and people are rusted from sitting." Jiang Zhi avoided Aunt Qin, waving the rake in his hand even more Soon.

"Yes, it's good to have more sun exposure and more activities, so you don't get sick. A while ago, the old Jia Tou in our village was writing and drawing at home every day, and he didn't go out much. That small body is too useless. I didn’t get over a cold this spring, so I left. There is no descendant in the family, and our villagers saw him as helpless and pitiful, so we sent him away.” Aunt Qin took my hand and stood Beside me, I listened helplessly to Aunt Qin's seriously off-topic words, but as I listened, I found another surprise.

Jiang Zhi and I looked at each other and saw the same longing in each other's eyes.

I asked seemingly casually. "This old Jiatou doesn't have any relatives in his family. Did everyone pay for his funeral?"

Aunt Qin seemed to be sighing. "Old Jiatou is a widowed old man. He was originally an orphan. He had a son who failed to grow up and lost his wife. Alas, his life is bad. All the money for his funeral was paid by the village. Sell ​​his house to settle the debt."

"Is it sold now?" I asked cautiously.

"How can it be sold so quickly? Nowadays, people are rushing to the city. Who can take a fancy to our corner of the mountain!"

I really wanted to say I bought it, but Jiang Zhi's eyes stopped me.Let's get back to the topic.

"It's okay, someone must be interested in this. Aunt Qin, why didn't you sell the pine nuts last year?" I bent over and grabbed a handful of pine nuts, and looked carefully.

"It's not like last year that I thought the purchase price of mountain goods was too low. I didn't see a few of them selling, and I didn't sell them all. I kept some. I wondered if the price would rise in the spring, but now that the price is even lower, it's better to sell it last year. Now, your uncle (Aunt Qin’s husband) is still blaming me.” Aunt Qin flipped the pine nuts on the side with her hand and said, “It’ll be even more loss if you keep it, and you’ll have to take it out to dry if you’re afraid of covering it up. The drier the pine nuts and walnuts, they are much lighter than last year."

"Aunt Qin, do you still have walnuts at home?" I also squatted down and asked happily.

"Yes, those things on the mountain, pine nuts, walnuts, and hazelnuts, are all piled up in the warehouse. When you go back later, take some back and try something new." Aunt Qin was busy with her hands, pointing to the left side with her chin The barn with the door open.

Following the direction she pointed, Jiang Zhi and I saw several big bags piled up on the ground in the warehouse, but we didn't know what was inside.

Jiang Zhi glanced at me, which meant that he asked me to ask if we could buy it.

"Aunt Qin, I can't take a little. I'm so rare for your wild goods. I can take you away." I said jokingly.

Aunt Qin was obviously taken aback for a moment, and then reflected. "Don't bring this kind of thing. I have talked so much with you but it doesn't mean anything. Don't take it to your heart. You just take what you want from your aunt. They didn't sell it last year. Your aunt and I are like this I have lived with neighbors for many years, and I am not the kind of person who digs people's corners."

This is because Aunt Qin misunderstood that we bought her mountain goods because we wanted to help him.

At this moment, Jiang Zhi stopped what he was doing and said, "Aunt Qin, we not only want to buy yours and my aunt's mountain goods, but we also want to see what other people have. You may not know that we opened a I went to a store and wanted to sell some mountain products. And when I came, an old classmate asked me to send him back some mountain products, and he wanted to send them to the employees of the unit. So the quantity we asked for was really quite large. "

After hearing what Jiang Zhi said, Aunt Qin understood that we really wanted to buy her things. She was so happy that she stood up abruptly and took the rake from Jiang Zhi's hand. "Okay, nephew, since you guys really want to buy it, I won't be hypocritical, and I will sell it to you cheaply."

"Well, Aunt Qin, I have to trouble you to take all the mountain goods to my aunt's house for weighing at night."

"No trouble, no trouble, the distance of these few steps is not too far. I will really send it to you that night?" Aunt Qin confirmed again.

"You must send it to me. Then we will go back first." Seeing that the conversation was almost over, Jiang Zhi was about to leave.

When we left, we still didn't leave empty-handed. Aunt Qin insisted on grabbing a lot of pine nuts for each of us, saying that we have good teeth and we should eat more pine nuts if we can.

(End of this chapter)