If it were not for the compulsion of life, I think not many people would have left their hometown and worked hard, only for the broken silver; if it were not for the old at the top and the small at the bottom, who would be busy for the two pieces of silver, getting up early and greedily running around? If it weren't for the fame, who would have lived in a place for many years, pitched down by people, and fought openly and secretly? If it weren't for LiLu, who would have hollowed out their minds, deceived me, and fought with each other? If a person has no worries in his life, will you live in isolation, just like this great uncle, living alone in the desolate deep mountains and valleys, sleeping until you wake up naturally every day, drinking mountain springs, eating wild vegetables, and living freely for a lifetime?
Uncle Liu introduced the life of living alone in the mountains
A few days ago, we went to the deep mountains to play, and found such a grandfather living alone in a deep mountain valley in the western mountains of Rizhao City, Shandong Province. He has lived here alone for decades, living in a stone house, raising more than a dozen native chickens, raising a ewe, a few large white geese, and raising two puppies as "companions" in life, working at sunrise every day, resting at sunset, drinking mountain spring water, eating wild vegetables, breathing fresh air, drinking some wine every day, and living leisurely and enviable.
Uncle Liu was basking in the sun
During the conversation, it was learned that the uncle's surname was Liu, his name was Minggui, and he was exactly 70 years old this year. Uncle Liu told us that when he was young, he also went south to the north and worked hard outside, and then because of asthma, he couldn't work or work, so he returned to the small mountain village where he was born and raised, and made a living by farming, raising cattle and herding sheep. In recent years, because of his age, the asthma problem has made him unable to raise cattle, and the sheep have only raised one. A few years ago, I planted two or three acres of land, but now my physical strength is not good, and I can't breathe as soon as I work, so this year I plan to plant only one acre of land to fight grain, enough to eat for myself.
Uncle Liu sat under the big tree in front of the door
"When I was young, I worked in the Languanzhuang coal mine, and then I went up to Linshu to pick up the river, and I also went out to hit the reservoir, and you didn't listen to me talking about 'sissing and whining'. Uncle Liu said that when he was young, he worked sharply and powerfully, and when the official looked at him flexibly, he let him be responsible for firing cannons and blowing stones, when the cannons were different from now, now a button is ok, but in that era, it was up to people to light the fuse of the explosives.
Uncle Liu follows the puppy wherever he goes
"When you put on the lead, you have to run fast, desperately run out for two or three miles, and you have to run against the wind, afraid of being hit by the stones that explode." Uncle Liu said that it was because of this work that he was injured by the wind and lungs, got an asthma problem, a lifetime, how can not be cured, doctors said that his lungs can not be cured. Only when it is severe, go to the hospital for a few days, take a few days of injections and breathe lightly and then be discharged, and it is impossible to get rid of the root. Over the years, thanks to living in the mountains, the air here is good, if the air is not good, I would have died long ago, if I lived in the village under the mountains, and then got angry with others, I would die faster.
This puppy became Uncle Liu's life partner
"There are four brothers, I am two, my eldest brother is gone, the two younger brothers are gone, and there is another, and they all live under the mountain." Uncle Liu said that he had asthma in his twenties, when he was young, there was no big problem. Later, he went out to work and went to the three northeastern provinces, Jilin, Liaoning, Shenyang, dalian, as far as the northernmost part of Heilongjiang, and across the river was Russia. At that time, part-time work did not earn much money, that is, to earn food and food. After staying outside for seven or eight years, he returned to the small mountain village of his hometown.
Uncle Liu sat in front of the stone house basking in the sun
"I have earned a cough in the early days (as soon as possible), a cough in five winters and six summers, whose girlfriend is willing to follow us, we have no money, the family is poor, and people can't afford to follow us." 」 Speaking of his single life, Uncle Liu introduced that when he was working in Heilongjiang, there were compatriots who took a fancy to him, honest, really capable, and wanted to marry his daughter to him, but he had to stay there, that is, to be a door-to-door son-in-law, could not return to his hometown in Shandong, he did not agree. He said that if he had stayed in the northeast and married the daughter of the fellow countryman, his life would have been stronger than it is now.
Uncle Liu was feeding the puppy
"When I was working in the Languanzhuang coal mine, there was a little girl who was very kind to me. One night, I was undressed and went to bed, and she came to my house and called me to get up to watch TV, and at that time there was no TV at home, that is, there was a small black-and-white TV set in the coal mine office. I was going to sleep, and I didn't want to go, so she lifted my quilt and pulled me to watch TV. Uncle Liu said that at that time, the girl was very good to her, that day he lay down and prepared to sleep, he just didn't want to watch TV, lying on the bed could not pull up, and then the girl ran away crying angrily, and no longer paid attention to him.
Uncle Liu introduced his daily life
"Coming back from the northeast, I live in the small village at the bottom of the mountain, and that village is called the Wolf's Den." At that time, there were also many people who introduced me to the object, and the results were all poked, some people were too bad, good eyes did not, bad heart eyes a bag, is not good to see the good of others, and then I did not have a big, I moved to the mountain, how quiet to live here. Uncle Liu said that in the past, his father lived in this place, and then his father did not have it, so he moved from the village called the Wolf's Den to this deep mountain, where he lived for more than twenty or thirty years.
Uncle Liu usually drinks barreled liquor
Today, Uncle Liu has lived single for a lifetime, and at this age, it is impossible to find a daughter-in-law. He said that although he had been bare all his life, he had no regrets, and how to live was not a lifetime. Now think about the road of life that you have walked, everything does not matter, what is single and not single, whether there are children or children, not all of them are a lifetime, those who have children, some people do not have a good life, some people also let their sons and daughters-in-law die. What do you want those false names to do, people don't know anything when they close their eyes, and when they get there, it's the same.
Uncle Liu drank wine and ate chili sauce
"It's been five or six years, and there was a man in the city who came three times and had to buy my house, and he said that he took a fancy to my place, saying that there was a small reservoir in front of me, and a mountain in the back, and this was a treasure of feng shui." He ran a lot of places, looked at a lot of ravines, but he didn't find such a good place as me, he had to buy it. Uncle Liu said that the first time that person came, he said to give me 200,000, and I did not agree. The second time, he bid another 300,000 yuan, but I still didn't agree. The third time I came, the man came with mutton soup.
Uncle Liu introduced his life when he was young
The man told Uncle Liu not to throw away this mutton soup, it was very delicious, so that he must eat it. When Uncle Liu was drinking mutton soup, he ate the fish bones, and he asked the man, why is there still fish bones in this mutton soup? The man told him why there was fish soup in this mutton soup, which meant that he wanted him to eat fish (Yu) and sell him the house. Later, the man paid 700,000 yuan, and he still did not sell. In the past two years, the person has never come again, maybe people don't buy it, or maybe they have found a new place. However, now Uncle Liu has some regrets, he said that if he had sold it at that time, he would have been fine, and now he can no longer find anyone to buy it.
Uncle Liu's stone house is illuminated by solar energy at night
According to that person's bid, you can sell it for half or six hundred thousand, and sell it at least 500,000." If you help me sell this house, I'll give you 100,000. Uncle Liu introduced that now that he is older, he has no children and no daughters, he wants to sell the house, and when he has money in his hand, he will enjoy life well, find a ravine, build a grass shed with branches, spend the rest of his life, and live to which day it is counted. Now I am breathing heavily at work, maybe one day it will be ruined, I don't want to think so much, how much work can I do.
The small reservoir in front of Uncle Liu's house
"Now I don't usually go out, there are people who come to play, I just let them bring me some pancakes and steamed buns from the bottom of the mountain." Eat vegetables are my own plants, in the winter there are cabbage, turnips, then in the summer there are more, there are square melons, eggplants, beans, and wild vegetables on the mountain, want to eat what you want to dig on the mountain. Uncle Liu introduced that eating costs very little money, vegetables do not have to be bought, the vegetables grown by themselves cannot be eaten, and only two dishes, cabbage and radishes are eaten in winter. Digging a few holes in the hillside yourself is a natural "refrigerator" and putting cabbage and turnips in it. It wasn't very cold this winter, and the cabbage stored was rotten. But it doesn't matter, take off the outer layers of leaves, the inside is still good, you can eat it.
Uncle Liu inspected the stored cabbage
"I usually plant land, that is, plant some jade beans, plant some sweet potatoes, and peanuts, all of which I eat myself and do not sell." Yudou kept to feed chickens and geese, and sweet potatoes were also fed to their own kittens and puppies in addition to eating themselves. Uncle Liu said that in the past, after planting two or three acres of land, the grain that was beaten could not sell for a few dollars a year, and now he is unwilling to cultivate the land, mainly saying that he planted the land and beat the grain to eat by himself. Besides, now that I am older, I have asthma at work, and I don't have to do so much. The pension money issued by the state, plus the money that he usually accumulates, is enough to live.
The surface of the cabbage is rotten
"The biggest thing I spend on is drinking. I eat three meals a day, and I have to drink a tea bowl for each meal. Before I smoked, the doctor said that I could not smoke or drink alcohol for this disease, so I quit smoking, and I still drank alcohol. If you don't smoke, if you don't drink, what's the point of being alive? Uncle Liu introduced that a tea bowl of liquor gets more than three or two, three times a day, and one pound of wine a day. You have to drink more than 400 pounds a year. However, this drink is not a good wine, sometimes drink bottled, most of the time drink the kind of wine in plastic barrels, a barrel of three pounds, 20 yuan a barrel, drink for three days. Sometimes many people go up the mountain to find him to drink, but they all bring their own wine dishes, and he follows them.
Uncle Liu's living environment
"I don't eat much meat, and I cut three pounds and two pounds of pork a year. Don't you see that I have a lot of chickens, I want to eat meat and eat my own running pheasant. A man came that day and looked at the big rooster I raised was very good, more than seven pounds, gave me 200 yuan, I did not sell. I said I don't sell chicken, I eat it myself, and sometimes I give it to people who help me. Uncle Liu said that often when people go up the mountain to play, they want to buy the chickens they raise, but he never sells them. The chickens he raised, are raised from a young chicken, usually the chicken is running on the mountain, looking for food to eat, this is the real running pheasant, eat it, that is called a fragrant it.
Uncle Liu drank mountain spring water
"The water I drink is this mountain spring, sweet, no matter how dry the day is, this spring has never dried." In winter, it is not frozen, and the water is still very hot and steaming. In the summer, this spring water is cold, I bought meat and put it in this water, which is a natural refrigerator. Uncle Liu said that people often drive to pull water, saying that they are going home to make tea. That time, there was also a person who said that he had run more than a hundred miles to get this water, just to make tea and drink.
Uncle Liu basked in the sun on the hillside
"This year's New Year, I did not paste the couplet, I posted a blessing word, the post is also the New Year, not pasted also the New Year, the word Fu long ago told me to tear it off." I myself live on this mountain, and I am not afraid, we do not do bad things, we are afraid of anything. It's just that someone comes to steal something, and we don't have any money, so we're afraid of anything. Uncle Liu said that he was an ordinary life, others looked at him alone, in fact, he lived a very happy life, with puppies, kittens as companions, as well as chickens, ducks, geese, sheep as companions. Usually there are birds and pheasants as neighbors, breathing fresh air, drinking mountain spring water, eating mountain wild vegetables, which is how comfortable and happy to live. Living alone in the mountains, there is no hook and horn, and there is no relationship between the interests of neighbors, here, live more freely.
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