My 1995 Small Farm

   For the matter of changing the baby's name, Chen Ling thought it was unreliable at first glance.

   Coincidentally, Wang Susu and her mother-in-law came out at this moment, and they came over to hear the reason, but they believed it very much.

  Because this old man Gao Xiulan knew him, he had calculated it for his family before, and he also explained the situation of the family in a straight-forward way. Wang Cunye broke his leg and told him that he was a big celebrity in Yaowang Temple.

   The same name as this old man is a little blind man from Lin County, who is good at fortune-telling by touching bones.

   Every year, the King of Medicine will come here with a banner and a bamboo stick.

   This old man is very accurate in looking after family affairs, and that little blind man is for marriage and fortune.

   So the old man said that the baby's name "Chen Rui" was not good, and when he wanted to change it again, Gao Xiulan was very cautious.

   Wang Susu also quickly asked how to change the name.

   The old man who fortune-teller saw that his mother and daughter respected him so much, he straightened his chest again, and spoke proudly of heaven, earth, and good fortune, and began to talk nonsense.

   Finally, Chen Ling took out the money, and the family took a small note and left.

  On the note, it is naturally the name given to the baby.

   "What word did you add to Rui Rui?"

   "I don't know, let's go home and open it again."

   "Don't worry about this, this stinky boy, he is fast asleep."

  Chen Ling glanced at the little guy who was sleeping soundly in his arms and smiled helplessly.

  This doll is different from other dolls since childhood.

   Most of the dolls from other families like to sleep when they are on the road. No matter what kind of car, they will get drowsy when they are swaying on the road, and they will wake up when they get off the car.

   He was completely the other way around.

  When he was on the road, he was happy to see the scenery everywhere, and when he got there, he took him out of the car.

   I can't wake up even if I scream.

   "Let him sleep, I went out today, I guess they slept together in the morning."

  Wang Susu carefully adjusted his son's clothes and said.

   "Come on, it's already past twelve o'clock, I think he fell asleep even after the afternoon nap." Chen Ling shook his head, and the three of them went to the back of the temple to eat.

   At this time, the time has long passed noon, and there is lunch in the temple, and you can eat it with money.

   Simple lunch.

When going down the mountain, Gao Xiulan pointed to the river at the foot of the mountain and said to him: "There are a lot of handkerchiefs in the shallow part of the river here, you can come and fish them later, take them back and raise them, and then find someone to sell them for money in the fall. ."

   Gao Xiulan had said this when we discussed this matter before, so Chen Ling brought a bucket on purpose.

"No, mother, it's not that easy to sell it after the autumn. It must be raised a few times to get it back, and someone will want it if it looks good. Otherwise, if it doesn't look good and can't be eaten, why would people buy it? "

  Chen Ling pouted, "At least until next year, I have to grow fish roe five or six times, and raise a beautiful flower handkerchief."

  Wang Susu said: "Then let's see where there is, anyway, we're not in a hurry to go back."

   "Okay, let's go take a look first."

   This trip is for fun, and it is to bring Wang Susu out to play.

  Since she wants to see it, then go.

  Chen Ling took a look, found a place where the water was shallow, found a branch, and took a closer look at the water with the grass.

   I found out that there are indeed many fork-tailed bettas here.

  The little fish are in groups, and they run around when the stick hits them.

   As for the beautiful colors, this is normal. It is not easy to find the best fish in the wild like ornamental fish.

   And the little fish hasn't developed or colored yet, and it doesn't look good either.

   "Hey, is this a thin-scaled fish like ours?" Wang Susu suddenly pointed to the left side and said.

   The river here is fairly clear, and you can clearly see fish in the shallow waters on the shore.

   "No, the thin-scaled fish must be on the mountain. This is a group of small mouths." Chen Ling glanced at it and shook his head.

They were looking for fish by the water. At this time, a group of people came across the river from the northeast, mainly young and strong, in groups of three or five. When they saw that they were hunting grass and stirring the water, they gathered together. Come and see.

   "What are you doing?" a red-faced man asked curiously.

   "Looking at the fish, I want to get some flower handkerchiefs."

  Chen Ling turned around and glanced at the group of people, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Did you guys just come back from collecting medicine from the mountain?"

  I saw this group of people, all with a stick in their hands, which looked like a cane from a distance, but only when I saw it up close did I know that it was a mountain hoe.

   In addition, each person has a rope tied around his waist, a hatchet and other objects, and a snakeskin bag is also draped over his body.

  This snakeskin bag can be used as a raincoat when it rains. It can also be used to collect herbs.

   is the standard attire of local herb collectors.

   "Yeah, I just came back from collecting medicine."

The red-faced man looks like he is in his forties, with a short stature, holding his trouser legs, he smiled and said: "What's so good about handkerchiefs, you can go north, there is a mountain loach in the river on the mountain, and that one is delicious. ."

   "Haha, thank you, we just look good and have fun."

  Chen Ling smiled at the man, "When I came here in the morning, on the way, I saw someone on the top of the mountain on the northeast side of the cliff. Are you gathering herbs?"

   "Ah? Yes, your little brother has such good eyesight that you can see us when you are walking on the business road?" The red-faced man was stunned for a moment and said strangely.

   "I can see it, but I can't see it clearly. The mountains here are high. In the morning, the clouds and mountains on the top of the mountain were covered with fog. It just swayed in front of my eyes for a while. I thought I saw it wrong."

   "Hey, then your eyesight is incredible. Ordinary people can't see clearly in Shangdao when they are so high and so far away."

  This is a rather talkative man. After Chen Ling stopped and talked with him for a while, he learned that his surname was Xing, he was a local, and he lived in the mountains. Generally, except for selling and drying medicines, he basically didn’t come down the mountain much.

   This time I went down the mountain to dry the medicine.

   Of course, you can also dry the medicine on the mountain, but the process of picking valuable medicinal materials will be very cumbersome and difficult to concoct.

   They also have a residence at the foot of the mountain, and most of their children moved to the foot of the mountain to live.

  Most of my children still live in the mountains with my old parents and live a life of collecting herbs.

   But the children moved to the foot of the mountain, which also means that the work of collecting herbs is basically broken by their generation.

   After Chen Ling got to know him a little, he called out Lao Xing one by one, and followed them back to the village. He wanted to see if they had picked any special medicinal materials.

   If there is, buy it yourself.

  Lao Xing and these people, although they are very enthusiastic, but they don't care about him being young, and they even change the subject and don't want to show him the herbs in his pocket.

   After all, this is the first time we meet, and it is human nature to be a little defensive.

  Chen Ling is no wonder.

   But when he stopped asking more questions, Lao Xing and the others saw that he came by car, but suddenly changed their attitude and were willing to show him the herbs that were just picked.

   This made Chen Ling speechless.

  I thought I had to add a car next year. This guy doesn't show off, he doesn't mean it, but I have to say that sometimes it works.

   Looking at the medicinal herbs, the most valuable one is Dendrobium, and there are several other items at home and in the cave, but there is no new product that Chen Ling wanted.

   went to Lao Xing and others' house in Halongkou and found three or four kinds of good herbs. Chen Ling bought them together with the medicine, and told Wang Susu and his mother-in-law that they had bought them back to make wine, and they didn't care about him.

After spending the money and buying things, Chen Ling proposed to follow Lao Xing and the others to go to the mountains, and they agreed, just as Lao Xing had dried the herbs at home, he was going to take his grandson back to the mountains for two days, and he was there. Lead the way ahead.

"In the past two years, more and more foreigners have come to Yaowang Temple to burn incense. Many people are just like you. When they meet us, they want to let people from our village take them around, take a look at the mountains and water, and take care of them. A few meals, let them stay for one night, and it is very strange to ask for a lot, but, any place is willing to pay generously, without saying anything else. The dolls in the village are also very envious and itchy, and they all want to go out and earn money. Big money."

   Lao Xing walked in front with his little grandson, and the voice came from the front.

   "Yeah, we are there too. Many young people can't stay at home and want to go out to make money. It started three or four years ago and went out to work in groups."

  Chen Wangzhuang only started working in 1992. People like Wang Lixian didn't count, they just worked in two or three nearby counties.

   "Part-time work is good, far better than picking herbs. We are the busiest in the two or three months of each year, collecting herbs all over the mountains and plains."

  The seventh and eighth month of the lunar calendar is the busiest time for herb collectors. Codonopsis, Tianma, Bupleurum, Scutellaria, Astragalus, Coptidis, Treats... Oh, and Polyporus, which is a kind of fungus.

   These herbs have been dug up, and there are others waiting for you to dig.

What Shiwei, Dendrobium, Mutong, an arrow, ten merits, star anise lotus... There are thousands of herbal medicines in the mountains, and it is impossible to dig them out, so we have to pick the valuable ones. Can be at risk.

   This is not comparable to the stability and safety of part-time work.

  Chen Ling said that his husband is also a medicinal farmer who collects herbs. He once fell from the mountain and broke his leg.

  Lao Xing, a talkative man, was taken aback for a while, and he sighed a few times, but he couldn't say anything.

   But then they got along and became more enthusiastic about Chen Ling.

  The mountain where Lao Xing lives is diagonally opposite to the mountain where Yaowang Temple is located, in the northeast direction of Yaowang Temple, and the mountain is much higher.

  Chen Ling's family followed behind him, and after walking for nearly ten minutes, they saw a waterfall rushing down from the mountain wall.

  When there is a lot of rain in summer, the waterfall is plump, rumbling, and very imposing. At this time, he was already sluggish, thin into a little white snake.

   Further back is a deep valley, the autumn leaves are already gorgeous, the trail is rugged, and you can go up the mountain here.

  The higher you go, the steeper and cramped the mountain road.

   Fortunately, Wang Susu and Gao Xiulan have long been accustomed to walking this way, and they have no discomfort at all, nor do they feel tired.

   After walking another 500 or 600 meters, the eyes suddenly opened up. Here is a relatively gentle hillside area.

After passing here, it becomes more and more gentle, and after walking for dozens of steps, there is a vegetable garden about an acre of land surrounded by a fence. The fence is covered with green vines, covering many old thorns and dried up trees. Tribulus.

   "Huh, such a big place is fenced off."

   "There are a lot of wild things on the mountain, so it's impossible not to be surrounded." Lao Xing smiled at Chen Ling, opened the fence gate, and walked through the vegetable garden, only to see that the vegetable garden was full of all kinds of vegetable melons, sweet potatoes, radishes, cabbage and the like.

  Chen Ling even saw two rows of buckwheat.

  Toufu radishes and Erfu vegetables, and Sanfu came to plant buckwheat. The buckwheat has just grown in this season.

   walked past the vegetable garden. In front of the vegetable garden was a small pond with lotus and fish.

   Next to the pond is a gourd rack.

  Beehives are placed under the gourd frame.

   There are several loess tile houses further ahead.

   "A place like this, with fields, water, and food, is no worse than our stockade." Gao Xiulan looked around and sighed.

  After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the mountains get cold early, the lotus leaves in the ponds are withered, and the blue bellflowers that once bloomed along the mountain roads were also submerged by weeds.

  This small courtyard on the mountain does not feel deserted, but more lively, with large clusters of crazy cockscombs, like the red-faced Guan Gong. The huge gourd hangs down from the shelf, like Li Yuanba who makes a hammer.

   Several people were talking, when suddenly a barking sound came, and a group of dogs rushed out of the forest behind the terracotta house.

  Chen Ling smiled when he saw it, "It's a tiger's head yellow."

  The tiger-headed yellow is vicious, easy to attack, tempered, and bites will kill you. Strangers may be bitten to death if they enter the house without guidance.

   Therefore, in Changle Township, except for hunters, most people would not keep such a fierce dog.

   On the contrary, Fenglei Town lives at the junction of the three provinces. The mountains are deep and the ditch is deep. People are mixed with fish and dragons, and wild beasts are also frequent.

  Lao Xing's family has more than ten yellow tiger heads.

  Chen Ling now feels very cordial.

   "Go, while you go." Lao Xing drove the dogs, and his little grandson learned to drive too.

   Soon, Lao Xing's mother-in-law also came from behind the house. Only then did Chen Ling and the others discover that there was still a piece of land behind the house, which was planted with corn and buckwheat.

   The two families chatted with each other, and Lao Xing and his mother-in-law invited the Chen Ling family to sit down.

   "Lao Xing, you also keep bees here."

   "What can't be raised are the wild bees that my baby collects from the mountains."

   Lao Xing said, and then asked his mother-in-law to get honey for Chen Ling and others from the room.

   Seeing that the three of Chen Ling were polite, they said, "Try it, this honey is different from other honeys, you will know after you taste it."

   said with a red face and a narrow smile, his little grandson also laughed.

  Chen Ling was suddenly curious, and waited for Mrs. Xing to take out the honey and pour it on the tea bowl to dissolve it.

  Chen Ling took the first taste and frowned: "Why is this honey so stinky?"

   "Little brother, haven't you ever had this honey? It's buckwheat honey. It smells weird." Lao Xing's wife, who was black and thin, grinned.

   Then took the pure honey and gave it to him to taste.

   "Huh? So it's buckwheat honey."

  Chen Ling was slightly stunned, "It tastes weird, I'll try it again."

   After tasting it carefully, I feel that this honey is like fake honey on the market, with obvious graininess, but if you lick your tongue carefully, it has a sweetness unique to wild honey.

   The aftertaste is particularly heavy, the pungent smell is also very strong, and the nasal cavity has a peculiar smell of smoky smoke.

   When he tasted it carefully, Lao Xing and his wife also enthusiastically let Wang Susu taste it.

   With Chen Ling in front, the mother and daughter drank two sips of honey water and frowned.

   But after taking two sips, I was unexpectedly able to adapt and accept this unusual taste.

   "Well, it's pretty good."

   "Delicious? Don't drink honey water, try this honey, this guy, this strong taste..."

  Chen Ling has recovered from two spoons of buckwheat honey, "This taste can be called stinky tofu in honey."

After   , he felt that this analogy was not appropriate, maybe it should be durian.

   asked Lao Xing again: "If this honey is made into mead, will it still taste like this?"

   Lao Xing shook his head: "I don't know, this is our third year of beekeeping, and we never thought of using honey to make wine."

   When Chen Ling heard this, not only was he not disappointed, but his eyes became brighter.

   He is such a person who loves to play.

   If you let him make mead and sell it, he might not take it too seriously.

   But let him brew this peculiar smell of buckwheat mead, and surely a hundred would, and a thousand would.

  When you get home, you have to try it, what kind of taste is the brewed wine.