In the past few days, the weather in Linfen, Shanxi is sunny, the author drove to the countryside around, out of yaodu district to the east, to the typical loess gully landform, a family's earth cave courtyard attracted me, into the courtyard to see this earth cave.
When I met the owner of this family, her surname is Yan, 75 years old this year, their small village is called Qujiagou, is a small village with only a dozen families, and the villagers mainly grow corn as a source of livelihood.
Their village belongs to the flooded town of Hongdong County, two kilometers away from neibi Village in Dayang Town, Yaodu District, and two kilometers away from Beiwang Township in Fushan County.
Their ancestors fled the wilderness in Henan, when their ancestors pushed a wheelbarrow to the west, over the Taihang Mountains, came here, dug caves on the slopes, reclaimed the barren slopes of the barren mountains, planted grain to breed their descendants, and lived so far, they should be the third and fourth generations, and they have never left this mountain.
The children built new houses in the flat area of the village, and now only the two of them live in the old cave, and on weekdays, they feed cattle and raise chickens in front of the cave, and live a quiet and peaceful life.
The children all hope that they can move to a house with good conditions, but their old two families are reluctant to leave the earthen cave where they have lived for a lifetime, saying that they are accustomed to living in the earthen cave, the earthen cave is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the earthen kiln where they sleep is still a fire, and the winter can be warm. The sweet potatoes in the cave can't be broken, the yard in front of the cave is also large, and it is good to dry a grain in the summer and raise a chicken.......
Listening to Aunt Yan's words, there is no pursuit of them, and the simple peasant life is also envious, quiet and peaceful with the world, which is really good.
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