On the picture, the old man's surname Cai is called Zhonghua, 76 years old, is a rural person in Shaanzhou District, Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, because of the perennial record of the pit courtyard, the photographer and the uncle have become friends, in the words of the uncle is "old acquaintance", Uncle Cai can be said to be the last traditional old farmer in the local countryside, almost all the locals recognize the photographer's point of view, the reason is that the old man has adhered to the true color of the peasant all his life, almost does not use modern agricultural machinery for farming, and still relies on his own 20-year-old mule. Of course, what is more admirable is that he still plants 30 acres of land, runs at both ends of the field all year round, in addition to planting land to eat and eat, rarely do other things, which is very surprising that the uncle likes to eat pasta with an amazing amount of food, good health, and has not entered the hospital in his life is a very proud thing for the elderly.
Some time ago because of YQ and continuous autumn rain for the sake of disrupting our photography plan, about 2 months have not crossed the Yellow River to see Uncle Cai, recently the sky cleared a line of people rushed over, one to record the local rural pit yard after the heavy rain, the second also want to see what the old people's life has become, of course, Uncle Cai is the focus of attention, at more than 10 o'clock in the morning turned to the uncle's pit yard only saw his mule, the pit courtyard gate but placed on the iron general, The enthusiastic neighbor sister told us, "Old Cai can't stay idle, the rain is too rainy to harvest normally, this weather is just sunny, he is busy running into the field, it is estimated that the corn has been harvested, and it is estimated that he will not be able to return until lunch time." "Everyone had to go to see the other old people first, and at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon we turned back to the uncle's house, and in the distance we saw him alone with a knife rolling grass for the mules, and because he was too focused, he didn't raise his head and greet us until we came to call.
Each other are straight people, the words of greeting are very simple, when did they come? Just arrived, how about lately? The next everything is very natural, the uncle said in his mouth "pinching, pinching, taking care of the photo" continue to bow his head and do the work in his hand, originally this grass work in the countryside is two people to cooperate to complete, the strong uncle can be skillfully completed, not a big kung fu old man after feeding the mule, walked to the corn cart he just parked on the side, from the car began to get off the corn, "Uncle Cai I see that your legs and feet are a little slow this year, is it impossible to move?" Pay attention to your body. "No big problem, the body is fine, but it's getting older every year, and I don't have to work until I am 80 years old!" Natural dialogue, you know the situation of the old man.
The female shadow friend who was traveling with him took out a handful of winter dates from his pocket and handed them to the uncle, who was also unceremonious, stuffed into the toothless mouth and ate it, "Sweet and crisp, really good dates, delicious and delicious." He was talking to the uncle and suddenly a greeting came from behind him, "You just came, did you eat it, and did you come around?" "Turning back to see the only daughter of the uncle, the eldest sister came with a plastic woven bag in her waist, the female shadow friend chatted with her, the eldest sister said that he and her husband were also harvesting corn, and now they were busy running on both sides, just finished harvesting their own corn in the morning, just after eating, they rushed over to help their father harvest in the afternoon, the father was old but he liked to do farm work, he was an idle person, a few years ago he discussed with him to buy him a few cows to raise, that is more relaxed, but the old father still insisted on farming, because he always believed in his mules, If you can't do it together, you don't care about him, let yourself be happy, love to plant as much land as he wants, as long as he is happy, he didn't expect his father to contract 30 acres of land, he used his mule to cultivate, persuasion is fruitless, naturally he followed him, the eldest sister introduced and told his father a few words and hurried to the ground.
Uncle said that the old peasants have land to plant is happiness, and if you have land, what do you do if you don't plant land? I am in good health, and mule help, planting 30 acres of land can still be dealt with, planting more than 10 acres of wheat in the field, more than 10 acres of corn, harvest season daughter and son-in-law also came back to help, or relatively relaxed, recently rainy days are long, autumn harvest is a little delayed, but as long as you seize the time or no problem, now harvested more than 4 acres of corn, the rest of the children will be completed in a few days. Continuous heavy rain will be a lot of pits in the village have caused different degrees of collapse phenomenon, Uncle Cai's family is just in and out of the passage out of the situation, has now been cleaned up and repaired, he said that the rainy day daughter is not at ease to take him over to live for a few days, the day is sunny to see the cave is nothing to come back, people are old figure is free, and children live together is inconvenient, they both have to farm and go out to work, has been very busy can not add trouble to them, not to mention can not put down their old buddies, the old mule who has raised 20 years Oh, Every day without looking at it, I always feel that something is missing.
Uncle Cai's wife died of illness at the end of last year, now it is a person's life, daily life is his own casual coming, he said that sleeping naturally wakes up, eating and drinking more casually, farmers are mainly based on farming work, usually eating is not punctual, especially now when a person goes home when to eat, it is already more than 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Uncle Cai is going to start making lunch, the old man lost his parents when he was very young, he developed a self-reliant character from childhood, cooking is a small thing for him, the old man likes to eat pasta all his life, Especially like to eat noodles, lunch is almost every day noodles, today's lunch is still the same, he wants to do "bra noodles", this is his invention word, in fact, Henan people like to do "fishing noodles", uncle said to do this "bra noodles" is very simple, very fragrant, today to do egg noodles, said in the yard began to cook on the fire, the earth stove on the iron pot poured oil, fried 4 eggs even if it is today's dish.
Next Uncle cut half of the pumpkin, in the iron pot began to stir-fry, pumpkin pieces cut very large, this may be convenient, and finally poured into the cold water of 3 iron scoops, the mouth also read the words "4 eggs 3 scoops of water, pumpkin poured into the tiger mound roll." Then the fire boiled for more than 10 minutes, after checking the pumpkin soft rotten, and then took out a handful of noodles from the cave, he said that this package is 500 grams is 1 pound of dry noodles, this year's lunch can eat two bowls is a large half, the rest of the rice comes back at night to come back hot and hot to eat, "people are iron rice is steel, a meal does not eat panic, not to mention to do farm work, rice is support." "When Uncle Finished cooking, we saw that there were half a pot, and this large amount of rice was really amazing."
Uncle Cai scooped the noodles well and did not rush to eat but introduced us to his pit yard, he said that this pit yard was handed down from the hands of grandpa, the pit lived in the father and mother, the second father and the aunt, to his life is even three generations, on its age at least 200 years, because the kiln was built when the quality was good, usually I also pay attention to maintenance, so I survived this year's heavy rain, although most of the pits of other people's homes have collapsed, but their own pits only have entrances and exits have collapsed, Other places are still relatively safe, now it seems that even the heavy rain has passed, there is no problem with the occupants, and I have moved back from my daughter's house in the past few days.
Uncle Cai was about to eat and picked up the bowl and sat down in front of the cave on the north side where the sun shone, "Scoop 2 bowls of rice for you too?" I eat you guys how bad it is! Everyone thanked the old man for his kindness, watched him eat up, uncle's mouth almost no teeth, purring and eating very fragrant, not so much to eat as to smoke in, watching his mouth just slightly squirm a few times, a large chopsticks of noodles on the stomach, maybe the old man is hungry for the sake of it, anyway eat quickly, while eating and not forgetting to tell us some truths: "Life is good, eat full, eat chaff vegetables live well, now the society is good, white noodle steamed bun tube is full to eat, live is not much, usually can not eat too good, usually can not eat too good, Eating too fine is not good for the body, only eating more pasta is good for the body, you see I am almost every day white noodles and noodles, now the body is very healthy, usually rarely sick, a lifetime has not been in the hospital, mainly the result of eating the crops and grain grown in the countryside."
Uncle Cai is tall, he said that when he was young, he was taller than 1.86 meters, at that time he could eat more, if he ate noodles, it was more than 3 bowls, and now it is still maintained in 2 bowls, rural people pay attention to being able to eat and do, as long as they can eat, they have the strength to make the whole body endless, when they play wrestled with the village's team, he alone can deal with five or six city babies, of course, the work is also one of the best in the village, heavy work and tired work are their own things, just say that now it is not possible to eat, 30 acres of crop land can not be taken down. Uncle has several old hens and 2 puppies at home, all around him when eating, and Uncle will occasionally pick up a few chopsticks to feed them, "Chickens lay eggs, puppies look after the house, all are useful."
Uncle Cai has a straightforward personality, not informal, rural people have not been able to knock the rice bowl exquisite, but he completely disregarded the completion of a bowl of happy knocking a few times, and then showed us the empty bowl, and then got up and scooped a large bowl, this time he carried the rice bowl out of the kang, sitting on the shelf on the ground there are steamed buns on the car will be whistling and eating, watching the old man eat very fragrant, we all feel very envious.
Uncle Cai was very kind and kind, and at the beginning of the meal came an old neighbor who had moved to the city and asked him to help look at the persimmons on the tree, "Old neighbor, you can rest assured, I am watching." Then a pair of middle-aged men borrowed them from him and wanted to go home to clean up the collapsed pit, and the uncle told them where the tools were placed without looking back, and let them get them themselves, looking very relieved about them. The second bowl of noodle soup is more, uncle and eat and drink very enjoyable, or keep introducing us to him can eat capable, good health reason, is like to eat noodles, usually as long as there is time is to roll their own noodles, time is tight to eat the bought noodles, today ate two bowls of noodles to eat half, also stirred 4 scrambled eggs, the leftovers in the iron pot came back at night to eat.
After eating, Uncle Grandpa held up the empty bowl and said, "It's really fragrant, I want to eat the bowl too!" "I heard that we were leaving, immediately stood up to point out the dangerous place for us, he said that a few days ago came a local beauty anchor, just rained without paying attention, just know to look down at the mobile phone and talk to the phone, who knows to go to a lower empty place, the result is that all people fell into it, fortunately there is a collapsed wet soil bottom, otherwise it is a big mess.
Uncle Cai raised mules to plant 30 acres of contracted land, and adhere to the traditional farming method, some people may not believe it, but this is the true story, can eat to do is the truth that Uncle believes, an old farmer on the Yellow River, a lifetime of no desire and no demand, his standard of good life is to have land to plant, there is food to eat, only people who have suffered will have such a sense of satisfaction, for our life today, look at Uncle Cai, will you still complain?
We walked far away and looked back to see Uncle Cai waving at the courtyard of the pit, and after everyone waved goodbye to the old man, he bent down and cleaned up the grain dried on the ground, and it seemed that Uncle Cai's afternoon was another busy half day. A small story of an ordinary rural elderly may bring us a little enlightenment in life, guys, what are your feelings Welcome to leave a message. 【If you want to see more stories of the people, please click to pay attention】