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Chapter 107 Revisiting Qingshi Village

Liang Shi was dragged back to the village to play by the principal and branch secretary of Qingshi Village Primary School.

Liang's parents knew that their son was in a bad mood, and they wanted him to go out for a walk, so they hurriedly packed his luggage, prepared some gifts for Uncle Bone, and watched their car go away expectantly.

The small car is like a small beetle, crawling among the mountains and mountains that can't be seen at a glance. The mountains on both sides are sometimes high into the clouds, sometimes rising from the ground, sometimes winding for miles like a slightly curled earthworm, sometimes Like a horned dragon just waking up and raising its head, it crosses the river.Some mountains are bare, like a mushroom growing on the ground.Some mountains are covered with green trees, like a huge green umbrella, stretched out beside the water.There are also some mountains that are all dry and compacted loess, with some sparse young forests growing there. It can be seen that these are all artificially cultivated.It is said that the survival rate of such forests is low, and a large number of seedlings must be planted on such land every year, watered and fertilized carefully, and some survived by chance, which brings people full of joy.A large number of dead seedlings were cut down and turned into fertilizer, and they were replanted in the original pits in the next spring.Just like this, I worked hard year after year until one day, the whole mountain was full of emerald green.

Uncle Gu was very happy to see Liang Shi, and took him to the garden behind the house to see the newly planted Chinese herbal medicines.The uncle said: "Now more and more people come to see me for bone diseases, and they are found all over the country. I am a bit busy, and the medicinal materials are also in short supply. Sometimes I go to the pharmacy on the street to buy some, and I always feel that it is not as good as the one I grow myself. Demand The quantity is huge, and I have almost dug up all the wild herbs on the nearby mountains. Sigh, why are there so many people with bruises in this world who need to be treated?” Uncle Bone sighed, squatted down, and took a medicinal herb Pull out the weeds under the tree.

Liang Shi was silent, staring at a field of herbs in a trance.

Uncle Bone said: "Just now when the principal and the others sent you here, they told me to keep you to stay longer, saying that the school would clean up a room for you, and you can stay as long as you want. You can go around and help me when you get bored. Say hello to those who come to heal the wounded."

Liang Shi nodded, but remained silent.

Uncle Gu led Liang Shi to the edge of the medicinal material garden, pointed to a large piece of barren hills around and said, "I'm thinking about opening up this wasteland to grow more medicinal materials. I want to ask my distant nephew to help me dig the soil. No one wants to. They just want to get ready money and don't want to give a little bit."

"I'll help you." Liang Shi said, then turned around and went back to the house to get tools.

Uncle Bone held him back and said, "There's no rush, and you don't need to turn it yourself. If you want to, I'll ask someone to bring a tiller to turn it over tomorrow. We'll dig the ones that can't be turned over by the machine. It's just Some medicinal materials are only suitable for planting in dry and hard places. I have to trouble you to help me get out of a hard place. Alas, getting old is getting worse every day. In the past two years when you were here, I didn’t find it difficult to dig the soil and water it. Now Take a break after working for a while."

Liang Shi said: "Okay, don't talk about fixing a hard ground, even a whole rocky ground, I will also fix it for you."

Uncle Bone knew that he was holding a lot of breath in his stomach, and wanted to say a few comforting words, but he swallowed them again.He smiled and said: "Don't tell me, I really planted medicinal materials in the stone."

Liang Shi raised his eyes and searched around the medicine garden, but he didn't find any stones.

Uncle Bone smiled again, and said, "Do you still remember the long grasses you picked? I couldn't grow them in the field behind this house, so I ran to the stone mountain opposite. It’s a bit similar to the cliff soil where you collect medicine, and it’s planted in the crevices of the rocks.”

"Really?" A fleeting smile flashed across Liang Shi's face, and he said, "It is really a great blessing for you to plant this. From then on, there will be a lot fewer people in this world who are disabled due to leg injuries. gone."

"I haven't planted it yet." Uncle Bone shook his head, his eyes and face were full of disappointment, "I planted it and several other medicinal materials that are hard to survive in this fertile soil, and the other several types grew out of it. It has new branches and leaves, but it hasn't."

Seeing Liang Shi's suspicious expression, Uncle Gu's face became firm again, and he said, "I'll go to the crevices of the rocks on the cliff every once in a while to have a look, I believe it will grow new shoots sooner or later."

"Come on, let's go over there."

When they passed the school gate, they only heard a shout: "Uncle Liang!" Following the sound, a child quickly passed through the school playground and ran to Liang Shi's side. It turned out to be a dog egg.

Goudan's hair was disheveled, his face was dusty, two buttons were missing from his clothes, and his trousers might have been torn and twisted together with thick needles and threads.He wiped off his sweat and asked, "Uncle Liang, the principal said that minced meat goes to a good school in your place and won't be coming back for a while. Is it true?"

Liang Shi nodded.

"Uncle Liang, can you take me there to go to school too?" Goudan looked at Liang Shi and asked seriously.

Uncle Gu told Liang Shi softly: "The child's mother went out to work and married another person in the city, and he followed his father." Then he said to Goudan: "Goudan, the minced meat is gone. Both parents don't have it. Although your mother Not here anymore, but she will still take care of you, besides, your father is very kind to you, your situation is much better than minced meat."

Goudan lowered his head, drew circles on the ground with his toes, and said softly: "I want to go to a good school in the city and learn more knowledge." He raised his head, looked into the distance, and said with infinite yearning: " I want to pass the exam!"

When Liang Shi heard this, he didn't know what to say.

Uncle Bone said: "Goudan, as long as you work hard, you can get into a better school from our school."

"That's different." Goudan said: "The best grades in our school can only be admitted to the middle school in the school in the town. In the future, they will only be admitted to ordinary universities. I want to do well in universities."

Liang Shi was silent for a long time, squatted down, held Goudan's hand, and said, "Goudan, I admire your ideal. However, where to go to school is not something I can do just because I want you to go. During the semester, I may also go back to Qingshi Village."

Before he could finish speaking, Goudan interrupted him eagerly and said, "Don't let Minced Meat come back. As soon as he comes back, he'll end up just like me. He's there, tell him to write to me, tell him What I have learned tells me that in this way, I may be as hopeful as him."

Liang Shi nodded repeatedly, and said, "This is fine, this is fine, I told him to definitely write to you."

Uncle Bone smiled and patted Goudan's head, "I didn't expect that Goudan is so thoughtful. Is it your father who taught you?"

Goudan nodded, "Dad said he's going to be like this all his life, but I still have hope, so tell me to work hard."

Liang Shi held Goudan into his arms with great distress, and said, "Goudan, come on, you must have hope."

Liang Shi stood by the school playground, watching Goudan gallop into the classroom with the ringing of the class bell, the sun's radiance warmly shone on the earth, illuminated their school, and coated everything around them with a layer of golden light, Splendid and bright.He had mixed feelings in his heart, he helped Minced Meat, and Goudan also needed help. ． ． ． ． ．
Liang Shi and Uncle Gu walked up a steep loess slope, passed through a mountain forest full of thorns, and then carefully climbed a long section of strange rocky and unreasonable stone road that was thinner than sheep intestines, and came to a In a small relatively flat place, in the crevices of the stones, there are nests of soil scattered here and there. I don't know whether these soils grow naturally or are blown by the wind.In these soil nests, there are seedlings of different shapes growing, which are the medicinal materials that Uncle Gu said.

Mr. Bone stood on tiptoe, stepped over one sharp stone after another carefully, and came to the middle stone, pointed to the soil in the nest and said: "I buried the roots of the long grass here, I don't know When will it take root and sprout."

Liang Shi looked at the nest of soil and saw nothing but mud. Maybe, one day, a rare plant would grow out of it, or maybe it never grew out.But he knew that there was a kind-hearted old doctor of Chinese medicine here who was eagerly hoping.

Liang Shi couldn't bear to say anything, he just supported Uncle Gu, and the two sat down slowly on the edge of the stone, the mountains in front of them were shrouded in the afterglow of the setting sun, the sun's light was incomparably soft and incomparably gorgeous, A few returning birds, covered in the setting sun, flew into their respective nests to go to sleep. They chirped farewell, as if they were making an appointment for tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)