Text/Wang Yafeng
The little sister is the youngest child in the family, and she has two older brothers and an older sister. The eldest brother attends high school in the county town, the elder sister and the second brother attend junior high school in the town, and the younger sister attends primary school in Guanyin Hall. After school in the afternoon, the little sister always ran home like a wolf behind her, threw down her school bag, and went to the ravine four or five miles away to find her father who was herding cattle. Little sister loves to run into the ravine, when the apricot blossoms bloom, when can break the toon, where there is astragalus, where there is garlic, when the schisandra is red, when the wild grapes are sweet, she is clear. When the little sister arrived in the ravine, it was like a bird returning to the woods, and the deer returning to the meadow. No wonder the mother said that the little sister is a wild baby, drinking the wind is growing, eating stones can be grams.
The primary school of Guanyintang is seven or eight miles away from home, and it has to cross two mountain beams and cross a small river. There is no pontoon bridge on the river, and the little sister and her friends often step on stones to cross the river or wade across the river. If the river rises on a rainy day, the little sister will help or carry the timid little partner across the river, and the little sister can make a doll head.
The primary school of Guanyintang is a primary school, incomplete grades, going to duplex classes, few teachers, few students, difficulty in funding, and no money to hire a car to pull textbooks and homework books for children. The principal is now catching Zhuang Ding, in fact, every time he catches the little sister, enthusiastic, energetic, and popular. The little sister followed the principal, led the older children, divided the books in the education group, bundled the books, and carried them from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain, often going down the mountain in the morning, and returning to the noon.
Little sister is in the fourth grade, she said that the farthest place she has been to is the town of Dujiao under the mountain, the most money in her pocket is the green front printed with the heads of a small number of beautiful women for two dollars, her biggest wish is to go up the hill to Dujiao Town Middle School.
One evening, the little sister drove cattle from the ditch to go home, and on the luke in front of the house sat a polite middle-aged man wearing myopic glasses, who had been walking the mountain for a long time, tired, blushing, and slightly gasping for breath. The little sister went to the stove room and brought a bowl of white water to the glasses, and the glasses took over, and drank dry like a cow drink. Asked where the little sister went to school, the grades, the little sister answered one by one, the glasses said that she was the director of the teaching office of Dujiao Town Middle School, after xiaomei graduated from primary school, she came to Dujiao Town Middle School to find him, he was willing to accept it, he must accept it.
After xiaomei graduated from primary school, she went to Dujiao Town Middle School. Spending the night at a distant relative's house, he carried dry food from home on Sundays and ate his own food. Three trips a day, three meals a day. Breakfast, boiling water steamed buns, sauerkraut; lunch, potatoes, radishes, potatoes, dried noodles; dinner, wrapped grain grits, red taro. After all, it is a little baby, what can she cook, that is, not hungry. Clothes are the old clothes given by relatives in the town, wide and short, the color style is more fashionable, the little sister is skillful, will take this old clothes apart, and will sew up, change, wear is also very fit, there are also new clothes made by themselves, reluctant to wear.
Although the study of the little sister is not very good among the fifty students in the class, she has also entered the top ten, and her foundation is poor, and it is indeed not easy to learn the top ten. Partial chinese, as long as the exam, whether it is a school exam or a small exam in the class, can come out on top. The Chinese teacher also often praises the little sister for writing well, and once the composition comment said: From the study work, it can be seen that the little author faces the hard life with a sunny mentality, observes very carefully, describes very delicately, analyzes very comprehensively, the focus is very prominent, the expression is very clear, the logic is very strong, and he writes his heart with his own pen. The teacher even used six "very" to evaluate the little sister's composition, used the little sister's composition as a model text to explain and analyze, and let the little sister read her own composition in front of the whole class, which was a great honor and encouragement for the little sister. Xiaomei also has a ability, that is, the large-scale activities held by the school, such as the New Year's Day cross-country race or the 800-meter or 1500-meter long-distance running at the sports event, can get back the rank, add honor to the class collective, and one year participate in the county 1500-meter long-distance run and also get the rank. Little Sister is a good student and an excellent student cadre every year, and the award certificate is pasted on the wall of the adobe house where she lives.
After graduating from middle school in three years, Xiaomei was admitted to the key high school in the county with excellent results. In the last semester of my sister's high school, before the college entrance examination, there was a big incident in the family and my father died of illness. The eldest brother went to college at the Provincial Agriculture and Forestry College, the sister also went to medical school, the second brother only entered the university door, the little sister gritted her teeth, and resolutely decided: she dropped out of school, went home with her mother to support the family, and let the older brother and sister complete their studies.
The little sister returned to the mountain village and followed her mother to cultivate the land and run fruit trees, which were the main source of income for the family. Farming: cattle herding, cattle grass, ploughing, sowing, managing, harvesting; fruit trees: grafting, pressing branches, sharpening, pest control, harvesting, stealing down the mountain for sale. Little Sister is a cultured person in the mountain village, relying on the mountain to eat the mountain and sell medicinal herbs. Dig up firewood and astragalus, pick white artemisia, dry Schisandra, and hand them to the medicine shop for money. Once, the little sister saw two ganoderma lucidum in the crevice of the stone on the edge of the cliff, and she climbed up like a monkey and hooked it with a hook broken from a branch. The two Ganoderma lucidum were sold to Shanghai Ala at the entrance of the research institute for more than 20 yuan, although his arm was scratched.
The little sister seriously analyzed and, in light of the reality of the mountain village, decided to do some small-cost, profitable livelihood, and small fights. Raise dustpans. Dustpan worms, some places called earth turtle worms, is a traditional Chinese medicine, can activate blood stasis, treat bruises, the result of half a year lost. Dustpan worms are raised, the courtyard dug out a few rectangular ponds, creating a dark and humid environment, paved with loose soil layers, sprinkled with bran grain bran, the heart is too heavy, the density of dustpans raised in the pond is too large, the ventilation is not handled well, all covered to death, layer by layer. Plant small potatoes again. Small potatoes, city people call small potatoes, eating small potatoes is a fashion, small potatoes are rich in starch, but not easy to make people fat, the city sells braised small potatoes, spicy small potatoes, fried small potatoes, small potato stew ribs, etc., the most favored is the small potatoes in the mountains. It turned out to be a failure, and when it was time to produce potatoes, let a group of wild boars arch and eat. Let the little sister knock on the porcelain basin, the voice hoarse and crazy roar, the wild boar mother, the wild boar cubs are still flicking their tails and no one is happy to eat, as if they have not heard or heard the same as people, but still can't help but desperately arch the food.
The policy was liberalized, the state paid more attention to and cared about the lives and wallets of farmers, and Xiaomei, with the support of the village party secretary Uncle Li, began to try to plant banlan roots. Banlan root, which is a relatively common Chinese herbal medicine, the roots and leaves of banlan root can be used for medicinal purposes, and the main effect of banlan root is to clear heat and detoxify. The climate and soil of the mountain village are suitable for planting banlan roots. The demand in the town, the county town and even the provincial city is very large all year round, very popular, the income cycle is short, and even some schools are collected, the cauldron is tormented, and the students are given to drink blue root water to prevent infectious diseases. Little sister bought books on the planting of banlan root from the county town, studied the planting of banlan root at home, and consulted the able people in the village, teacher Zhang, a soil expert, the temperature in the mountains is suitable, and there is a wasteland opened on the slope, the soil on the slope is loose, and it is convenient to get farmyard fertilizer, and the conditions for planting are available. In the spring, the little sister planed the ground, straightened the ground, the seeds sprouted, sowed, and the sky was beautiful, and there was a drizzle. The little sister's heart is beautiful, wait. Looking at the green and black leaves of the plate blue root, imagining its huge roots, a sense of pride suddenly emerged. The leaves are harvested once in mid-June and late August, and the leaves are dried to be the large green leaves of Chinese medicine. Before entering the winter, it was time to produce medicinal herbs, the little sister carried the tiger tooth pickaxe head of the family, and the sisters in the village also came to help, they carefully planed on the slope, for fear of breaking the roots, the ground was good, the roots also grew well, thick, straight. Picked up in the back cage, the yard is dried, tied into a small bundle, loaded into a car for sale, this year, the little sister fiercely made a profit. As soon as BanLan root was sold for several years, the little sister had a lot of income.
When the little sister was twenty-six years old, she married to the town outside the mountain despite the opposition of her family and sisters, and the people in the mountains had an unwritten rule, most of the girls in the mountains did not marry outside, the mountains said media, the mountains married, and the mountains lived. The son-in-law is Xiaomei's high school classmate, graduated from high school, did not enter the university, returned to town as a substitute teacher, two years older than Xiaomei. A large family, two old people in-laws and mother-in-law, three little brothers-in-law are still in school. The little sister is old and young in the mother's family, but the eldest in the in-laws' family. The eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, although she is still a small child, she has to bear the burden of taking care of the elderly and raising the younger brother. Although the son-in-law is a substitute teacher with a good reputation, he actually works very hard and has a low salary. The little sister went to high school, has a half-bottle culture, ideas, has her own savings, and rents a façade house in the east of the town to sell children's clothing.
There is a commercial street in the east of the town, and there are two rows of clothes selling on one street, mixed with those who sell cloth, bedding, and wedding and funeral supplies, which are quite lively. The little sister rents a small façade and opens a children's clothing store, mainly selling children's clothing, children's hats, children's shoes, but also selling children's bedding, holding lists, towel quilts, etc. No matter how nervous the rural people are at hand and how hard they are, they will not let the dolls suffer losses, and always give everything they can to let the dolls eat better and dress better. Here is the town, the villagers around the eight must rush to the market on the 2580th day of the lunar calendar, the little sister is just looking at this business opportunity, the business is unique. Children's clothing is placed in a room of less than 20 square meters, children's hats and shoes are stretched out outside the façade room, above the steps, the area of the business space is doubled, but every morning a stool must be used to lay the door panel to place the goods, and the evening is taken back.
Purchase, in the provincial city called rehabilitation road place. This place is the largest wholesale market for clothes, shoes and socks in the province and even in the northwest. The little sister carried a large bag through the streets and alleys of the crowded rehabilitation road, searching, comparing, and picking in the market. Good goods, others hire tricycles to pull to the bus station, little sister no, some are strong, never stingy with strength, and there is experience in primary school endorsement, back, hand directly to the station, really fleeing, just behind the two children wearing tatters with broken bowls and shawls. Squeeze into the car amid the driver's accusations and the disdainful eyes of the townspeople, reverse in the county seat, and return to town.
It's getting late, the son-in-law also came back from school, help, a good share of goods, the shelves that should be on the shelves, the inventory of the inventory, the son-in-law divides the children's clothes to stop and stop, fold flat and spread, neatly arranged, sometimes a small advertisement, with a brush on yellow paper or red paper to write new goods, brush rules, square, a look is the shop opened by cultural people.
Little sister opened a shop in the town to sell children's clothing for seventeen or eight years, and the business is still hot. Little sister has high eyes, will see the goods, will buy goods, children's clothing color is good, style is good, collocation is good, low, high-end, and can talk, harmony, sincerity, good reputation. It is this children's clothing store, a large number of people eat, wear and sleep from this, three younger brothers have gone to high school, admitted to college, to participate in work. The little sister also gave birth to two children, the eldest child is a male baby, going to high school, and the second is a girl, who is also in junior high school. The in-laws are very satisfied with the little sister, and the son-in-law has also turned positive and become a formal primary school teacher. The little sister's family demolished the adobe house when they were married and built a building. The life of the little sister's family is quite moist, the old man is virtuous, the children are filial piety, the people in the town cast envious eyes, and Shan Liwa is still capable.
More than twenty years have passed, the old mother has lived in the mountains for a long time, the body was originally very tough, the county's project to benefit the people - human and animal drinking water project to solve the problem of mountain people, livestock draft, no need to take the winding mountain road to the ravine to take water springs to carry water. But the old man could not idle for a lifetime, and one day after the rain, when he was stuck in a persimmon tree and sandwiched persimmons, he fell from the tree, broke his waist, and collapsed on the kang. The little sister wants to take care of the old man down the mountain, the old man says that he is not willing to say anything, the mountain is accustomed to living, idle, the air is good, reluctant to the green vegetables in the field, the chickens and ducks raised, in fact, the old man is not willing to add trouble to the babies.
The little sister called the sisters back in the name of the old mother to discuss the care and support of the old mother who fell. The eldest brother is a professor at the Agricultural University, and is preparing to go to Xinjiang with his graduate students to guide the planting technology of oil sunflowers, and he can't get out of his body; the eldest sister is a medical worker, and now it is said that there is a virus, there is an epidemic, this is a major national event, the little sister supports the eldest sister to fight the epidemic; the second brother is a boss, the provincial city bought a house, bought a car, said that he took his mother to him, he hired a nanny to take care of his mother, the old mother said that a hundred are not willing, and finally the old mother herself said that the dolls each have their own home, and each person also has his own affairs. Or with the little sister, the brothers and sisters are outside, the little sister is at the bottom of the mountain, the closest, just let the little sister take care of her! The brothers and sisters all feel sorry for the little sister, it can be said that the little sister who is a high school graduate has supported two older brothers and a sister to complete the university study life. The little sister happily agreed to come down, her own relatives, of course, the little sister has obtained the consent of her son-in-law and the understanding of her in-laws in advance, abandoned her husband and son, and returned to the mountain to take care of the responsibility of taking care of the old mother.
The little sister moved back to the mountain to live with the old mother, and her sisters totaled, the mountain outside the farm, the people in the city tired of the hustle and bustle of the city, ease the pressure of work, hope to go to the mountain village to breathe fresh air, taste fresh vegetables, return to the feeling of home, reminisce about the taste of their mother. The little sister and the sisters tried to start a farm with the support of the newly sent first secretary of the street, the little sister invested, the sisters worked, made a demonstration point, there was a risk, the little sister took the responsibility, the development was good, and others did it themselves. Green brick and white walls, fence walls, firewood doors in the courtyard, large iron pots, hard firewood, vegetables on the slope, stone-ground tofu, free-range cordyceps chickens, Chinese medicine sheep. The main theme is wood fire iron pot stew, this group of ladies have participated in training, willing to materials, but also pay attention to the proportion of materials, the fire is baked, the simmering is slow, the diners are around the iron pot, chatting and eating a few small dishes, syrup water vegetables, pickled radish, fresh wild vegetables alfalfa, pepper sprouts, toon, tsuki, looking at the heat rising from the wooden pot lid along the child, listening to the boiling sound of the chicken and mutton in the pot, stretching out their noses and sucking fiercely, completely relieved, there is a feeling of Meng Haoran "the old man has chicken, invite me to the Tian family" Eating is the atmosphere, eating is the mood, eating is healthy.
The little sister's cannon roared, and the sisters' families set up farms, each with its own characteristics, and the ones who could best come up with their hands were three: the little sister's dendrobium wood fire iron pot stew, a farmer's family over the face of the noodles, and a family of Chang'an walnut trees under the braised three fresh. The old branch secretary also asked Teacher Zhang to introduce the historical evolution of the village, nearby monuments and historical celebrities, and develop rural tourism resources, especially the development of red tourism resources. Murakami built a cement road into the village, and a parking lot, a cultural square, and an entertainment square were set up at the entrance of the village. Xiaomei and the farm that was later developed under the premise of maintaining the original style to carry out centralized transformation, improve internal facilities and equipment, meet the needs of life and development, not only protect the tradition, but also promote good development, formed a homestay that has begun to take shape, established a company, this mountain village has developed into a cultural and ecological tourism demonstration village recognized by the county, and Xiaomei has also become a well-known farmer entrepreneur, a leader in rural revitalization and prosperity in the county.
The little sister is a person who is about to become a mother-in-law, but she is still like when she was young, no, she is indeed still very young, because of the good policies of the party, she has endless energy, and she and her sisters are making great strides to build a new socialist countryside under the leadership of the first secretary of the village.
About the Author
Wang Yafeng, a native of Chang'an, Xi'an, was born at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution and grew up in the northern foothills of the Qinling Mountains. Not only do you like to read, climb mountains, taste tea, listen to plays, it is best to teach. Engaged in teaching work for more than 30 years, he still has not changed his original intention. Write with heart and record the joy of life.
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