Cold and warm life!

About author:Teacher, member of Heilongjiang Writers Association.

Chapter One: Thanksgiving for Spring

"Cluck..." A rooster chirp awakened the sleeping people of Butterfly Village. Hearing the rooster report that Ma Xiaoshun got up, he was afraid of waking up his wife and children, so his actions were gentle. He gently got up from the hot kang, gently got dressed on the ground, and walked out the door. He took a machete from the barn, put it in the glass filament bag prepared for his wife last night, and walked toward the mountain at dawn.

In the spring, the air in butterfly village is particularly fresh, the grass on the side of the road under the dawn is still a little dark green, a shallow one or two leaves seem to smile at him, the mountain road is curved, the trees on both sides are quiet, it may be that Ma Xiaoshun's footsteps disturb the mountain forest, occasionally there are one or two birdsong, a bag of cigarette kung fu, Ma Xiaoshun walked to the foot of a higher mountain lined with rocks, the mountain road is rugged, he carefully stepped over every stone, climbed to the top of the mountain, climbed over this mountain to pick cattle maoguang (Wei cai), is a high value of mountain wild vegetables.

Ma Xiaoshun quickly climbed to the top of the mountain, by this time the sky was already bright, the sun was rising from the horizon, and the red glow shone on Ma Xiaoshun's face. Bathed in the morning sun, Ma Xiaoshun began to gleefully pick wild vegetables from the mountains. Since the beginning of spring, he is still the first time to come, this mountain is called Da Bald Lingzi, don't look at the mountain road so steep, but as long as you climb to the top of the mountain you can see the endless grassland, there is not much water here, in the north, spring rain is as expensive as oil, the soil here in the spring is also very dry, although the tower meadow is next to each other, but there is no water, the grassland is full of cattle hair, they have just sprouted, the head is covered with dry grass, Ma Xiaoshun took out a knife, peeled off the dry grass, and the oily green cow hair Guang appeared. For more than an hour, Ma Xiaoshun filled a bag.

Seeing that the bag was already full of cattle hair, Ma Xiaoshun was satisfied to take out from his pocket the oil cakes and green onions that his wife had prepared for him last night. He ate while admiring the beautiful nature, the sky is so blue, the grassland is dotted with small flowers and purple, under the breeze, it is particularly enchanting. Although picking vegetables is very hard, Ma Xiaoshun does not feel tired at all, he is grateful for nature, grateful for the gifts of spring, after eating, he picked up the mountain vegetables and walked down the mountain.

When he reached the bottom of the mountain, he saw a group of people, they were all ready to go up the mountain, everyone knew that the Big Bald Ridge was much broader, but not many people could climb it. Sister-in-law Zhang looked enviously at Ma Xiaoshun's bag and smiled: "Cai Fan, go so early, this bag must have two hundred pounds, is it that the vegetables on the mountain have been picked by you?" Ma Xiaoshun also smiled back and said, "Yes, you all don't go, there are no cattle hair on the mountain, they all went into my bag." Everyone laughed.

When Ma Xiaoshun returned home, his wife saw that he had returned with a large bag of cattle hair guang, and asked happily: "The cow hair guang of the big bald ridge has come out?" "Come out, a lot, get me some food, and I'll go again after eating." Ma Xiaoshun said excitedly.

Wife Wang Dani scrambled several eggs for her husband, filled a bowl of cornmeal porridge, took out two steamed buns from the pot, put them on the table, and asked with concern: "Have you eaten in the mountains?" Did you see the oil cakes and green onions I brought you? Eat it? Ma Xiaoshun said while washing his face: "Eat, your baked cake is really delicious." Wang Dani said: "You like to eat tomorrow I will burn you again." Ma Xiaoshun sat on the edge of the kang, devoured the steamed bun, and said: "Climbing the mountain is really tired, just finished eating the cake after a while and then hungry again." The steamed bun is really fragrant, the eggs are also fragrant, and the daughter-in-law is so good! Wang Dani smiled and said, "As long as you like to eat." ”

After eating, Ma Xiaoshun picked up the bag and walked toward the mountain again. Ma Xiaoshun is very tall and thin, very handsome, but overworked and somewhat hunched, he is very kind, very industrious, and is a good villager in the mountain village.

At this time, the sun had risen very high, and the bright sunlight enveloped his athletic figure.