My 1995 Small Farm

Chapter 1 95 years

"Grind the scissors and sharpen the kitchen knife~"

"Grind the scissors and sharpen the kitchen knife~"

In the early morning, the red sun rises, and the golden-red sunshine passes through the clouds and shines like broken gold.

In the quiet mountain village, there were long and lasting shouts coming one after another.

Chen Ling was sitting cross-legged on the bed, staring blankly at the calendar in his hand, speechless for a long time.

"March 6, 1995, the sixth day of the second lunar month, the Waking of Insects... 1995..."

"The ancients said that a yellow beam is a dream, but I never thought that I would have such a long dream."

Chen Ling murmured to himself.

Although he still found it hard to believe, deep down in his heart he gradually accepted that this was a fantasy experience.

Who would have thought that in just three days when he was in coma, he had already lived another long life...

Apart from their different places of birth and different life experiences, the development of the times is 99% similar, and it is real and not even half false.

Let him use a popular saying in modern society: After he fell into a coma, he traveled through time and space by chance and arrived in a parallel world, where he lived for decades.

Looking back now, it feels like a long, long dream.

When he woke up, he changed from an ordinary rural youth in the 1990s to have memories that transcended the times for more than 20 years...

It's not surprising.

Looking at the familiar blue brick house, Chen Ling's eyes slowly passed over the rafters and beams on the roof, as well as the basket of eggs hanging from the beams.

Underneath me is an old-fashioned but new-looking wooden bed. On the bed is a thin plum silk quilt with a blue background.

On the south side of the bed are two pairs of small square wooden windows. The two pairs are divided into four windows and are covered with white window paper.

Against the wall on the north side of the bed are two bulky old-fashioned wardrobes, right next to the bed, both about two meters high.

The wardrobe in the corner is wider and is a combination cabinet.

The standing wardrobe outside is a separate one with a mirror on the door.

Getting out of bed and looking at his young self in the mirror and everything familiar in the room brought a smile to his face.

"This is the best time, the age of innocence, and my younger self."

only…

When his eyes fell on the other small photos on the mirror and saw clearly the delicate little woman in the photo, his smile faded and his mood became complicated again.

That is his current first wife.

The first wife who married her was gentle, caring for the family, respected the elderly, and considerate of her husband, but she never lived a happy life.

I have spent so many years in the dream and experienced many things. Now I opened my eyes and woke up from the dream, but I felt unable to face her.

This was a hurdle in his heart.

The current him is not the Chen Ling in his "dream" who went to college, served in the military, and started a career.

He is still a **** with high aspirations but low ambitions.

Although I have been married for two years, I still don’t look like a man after getting married.

I always feel that I am a person who can do great things, and I always want to get out of this poor mountain village.

He had read a book and went to high school, and his academic qualifications were very impressive. He was not willing to spend his whole life working in the land as a farmer, nor did he want to spend his whole life guarding his "rustic" wife.

Because in his eyes at this time, his daughter-in-law was just a country girl, dressed in a country style, dressed in a country style, everywhere, and he disliked her very much.

What he thinks about day and night is to go to a big city to make a lot of money and marry a woman like Wang Zuxian, so that his life will not be in vain.

He could not help but be fascinated by that charming Hong Kong actress at the first sight. Even after getting married, he was still crazy about Wang Zuxian, imagining that Wang Zuxian could marry him one day.

Every year, someone buys posters of the goddess from the city, and the bedside and walls at home are almost covered with posters.

Of course.

There are no posters on the wall now.

It was because my uncle who was far away in the mountains came here a few days ago. While beating him up, he also took off the 'goblins' on the wall and burned them all.

The reason was that I heard that Chen Ling, the brother-in-law, often beat and scolded his sister, and would always vent his anger on her because of the female star on the wall, so she couldn't help but come to teach him a lesson.

Actually.

Chen Ling never hit his wife after marriage.

But there are some aspects of what he did that, in the eyes of modern people, are even more excessive than physical beatings.

There is a proper term called "cold violence".

It's Chen Ling's behavior he's talking about.

At this time, his mind was filled with the fashionable, glamorous and amorous goddess of Xiangjiang.

He doesn't even look at his own little daughter-in-law seriously.

In addition, in order to establish relationships with some so-called respectable people, I went to the county town to hang out with others all day long. Gradually, I also imitated those young people in the county town and spent their time in game arcades and video parlors.

This is how he squandered the family's money.

Just like that, when I ran out of money, I started rummaging through boxes and cabinets at home to find it.

When he couldn't find her, he thought his wife was hiding and lost his temper.

Although he doesn't hit anyone, how can a woman endure a man's yelling and scolding?

There is also the temple fair in the county town in the first month of this year.

The family’s money was all spent, and they still wanted to play with their friends. My wife didn’t give her any money, so she pushed her around and didn’t let her sleep on the bed at night.

How can any serious person live like this?

As time passed, his wife would always hide outside and cry secretly.

When the villagers in the same village saw their daughter-in-law like this, they thought she had been beaten by Chen Ling, so the rumor spread.

The consequence was that his uncle who was far away in the mountains somehow heard about this, came over and beat him up, and warned him that if he bullied his sister again, he would rather make her a widow than kill him.

Chen Ling was beaten severely and was threatened by his uncle, so he developed a high fever and was unconscious in bed for three days...

"It's hard to look back on the past."

Shaking his head in pain, Chen Ling's heart was once again filled with guilt and regret.

Now he has decades of life experience.

I have also seen enough warmth and warmth in human relationships.

How can we not understand what is good and what is bad?

Wife, father, elder...

I have let down so many people who were kind to me, and I have let down so many loved ones.

Fortunately, God is with us.

Not only did it give him the opportunity to re-recognize himself and change his ways, it also helped him get rid of the fog of the times and no longer be confused.

...Putting the calendar card back, Chen Ling opened the curtain, walked out of the room, and looked around to see the steep spring branches, and under the lazy red sun, a few wisps of smoke rising from each house in the village.

His own yard is a simple mountain village yard. There are pressurized water wells, grape trellises, pear trees, peach trees, and chicken coops in the yard...

Slowly walking out of the yard, walking on the bluestone path, wandering in the familiar small mountain village.

Pig pens, livestock sheds, village committees, wheat fields, and old stages were all seen in passing.

He also met many villagers from the same village on the road, but even if he met, no one was willing to talk to him.

Because in the eyes of the villagers, he was just a worthless lazy man and a prodigal.

Moreover, his reputation as a lazy man has long been spread. Who doesn't know about him from all over the country?

After dropping out of high school, he went out to work with others.

I have worked as a security guard, waiter, and porter, but none of them lasted long.

It's because he is too lazy to endure hardship.

He is picky every time he works. He doesn't want to do the heavy and tiring work, he doesn't want to do the night shift, and he often slacks off. If he does this all the time, what boss would want to use him?

At first, the villagers put in good words for him, but he refused to listen to his advice several times, causing several people to lose their jobs. Later, no one wanted to talk to him anymore.

Just like that, after living outside for only two months and failing to do anything, I returned to the village in despair.

He is the only child in the family. After his mother disappeared when he was ten years old, he lived with his father.

The old man loved him so much that he was reluctant to hit him and scold him. He would not even say a few harsh words except sighing.

This only made him worse and worse, and his reputation became worse and worse.

Originally, such a person could not find a wife in the countryside.

However, his father was a rural postman in the county, responsible for delivering mail and letters to two towns. Once when he was delivering letters to a village in the mountains, he saved a medicine farmer in the mountains.

Due to the nature of my work, I have to run into the mountains several times every six months.

Over time, the friendship gradually deepened. The drug farmer felt that Chen Ling's father had good conduct and a good family tradition, so he wanted to marry his daughter to him.

At that time, Chen Ling's father was worried about his son's marriage. Hearing this, he was overjoyed. How could he not agree?

In fact, this village is even more remote than Chen Wangzhuang where Chen Ling is located. It is further away in the mountains. I don't know what Chen Ling's virtues are.

Otherwise, I'm afraid we have to think carefully.

…

Going out in the morning, Chen Ling lingered in the mountains, forests, reservoirs, and wheat fields, greedily enjoying the beautiful scenery of his hometown.

Over the years, traveling around for work, my tired and sophisticated mind gradually calmed down.

He didn't return home until it got dark.

Find the light cord in the house, turn on the light, and prepare to make some dinner.

After wandering around outside for a day, I didn't eat at noon, and now I was already hungry.

Just as he was about to prepare food, the thick cloth curtain hanging at the door was lifted.

A slender young woman with braids and a long-handled bamboo basket walked in.

Chen Ling glanced and saw that the bamboo basket contained carbon blocks.

It's early February now, and the temperature at night is still relatively low. There is still an iron stove burning in the room for warmth, otherwise it will be too cold to sleep at night.

So every day when making dinner, Wang Susu would take advantage of the time to get vegetables from the backyard cellar to load a bamboo basket with fresh charcoal for use at night.

This process happens every day.

But as soon as she entered the door today, she saw Chen Ling standing in the middle of the room, staring at her.

The two looked at each other, and Chen Ling could clearly see the fear flashing in Wang Susu's eyes. She shivered, the bamboo basket fell to the ground, and the charcoal rolled on the ground.

"You, you're back..." Wang Susu suddenly tensed up, her expression full of fear and panic.

Although her husband had never hit her, his indifference and indifference were the most painful, making her always cautious for fear of upsetting him.

After waiting for a few seconds, Wang Susu became obviously more nervous when she saw that Chen Ling was stunned and didn't move, with no extra expression on her face.

He hurriedly squatted down and picked up the charcoal pieces piece by piece back into the bamboo basket.

While picking it up, I carefully peeked at Chen Ling, fearing that he would lose his temper suddenly.

As a result, Chen Ling just looked at her blankly, with complicated eyes.

After a long time, a faint smile appeared on his face: "Did you go to the backyard to get charcoal? I thought you had gone out!"

I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but when he saw his little wife again, he actually felt a sense of surprise in his heart.

With a delicate and fair face and big, watery eyes, she stood in front of Chen Ling, as pretty and lovely as a camellia, soft yet gentle and mellow.

Such a pure woman is extremely rare in the later generations when girls of fifteen or sixteen years old start to wear makeup.

But seeing Wang Susu shivering like a little rabbit in fear of him, Chen Ling felt quite distressed and at the same time, the feeling of guilt in her heart became even more profound.

Because of my previous behavior as such a jerk.

In his heart, he wanted to get close to her, but he was afraid of scaring her.

But then he sighed softly, he had spent most of his life in another world, so what was there to be afraid of?

If you want to be nice to your wife, do you still have to hide her?

I didn’t cherish it before, so why are I hesitating now?

He walked forward and prepared to help her clean up the carbon, but this move frightened Wang Susu.

His body trembled, and his hands trembled as well. At this moment, the palms full of carbon black and cracks broke into Chen Ling's sight.

He was completely stunned.

What on earth was he thinking about? Why would such a good wife treat her like that?

No wonder my uncle is so angry.

If she had such a virtuous sister and was treated like this by her husband's family, I'd be tempted to kill someone.

Looking at the young woman in front of him, Chen Ling felt mixed emotions in his heart. He had thousands of things he wanted to say, but he couldn't say them out.

After mumbling a few times, he said softly: "Let me do it. You pour some hot water and wash your hands first."

His words made Wang Susu stunned for a moment, her watery almond eyes widened slightly, obviously a little surprised.

Then I thought about what happened in the past few days when he had a fever and was in coma, and he slowly came to his senses.

He must have been frightened by his eldest brother's visit this time. Otherwise, with his temperament, how could he be willing to talk down to him?

He has always looked down upon a silly, rustic girl like himself.

Thinking of this, Wang Susu lowered her head with sad eyes and said in a low voice: "I didn't find the eldest brother. He saw that I haven't been home in the two years since I got married, and my family missed me very much, so he came over to visit. It's really not the case." I wrote to tell my brother..."

Wang Susu choked up as she spoke and squatted on the threshold, unable to say anything else.

"I…"

Chen Ling was speechless for a moment. He didn't know how to explain it, and his heart became more and more panicked.

Warm reminder: This book is about rural farming and focuses on the mountain village life of farming and hunting. It is not about engaging in business and becoming the richest man.

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