Text/Bohua
Spring has arrived, the sun is warm and soft, and the wind is filled with the fresh smell of grass and trees. At night, bathed in the afterglow of the sunset, I walked with my wife by the river, passing by a small farm yard. Through the fence wall, I saw a small vegetable garden inside. The little vegetable garden was as green as satin. The breeze passed, and the green satin still shook slightly. There are shallots, leeks, lettuce, rape, etc. in the small vegetable garden, which grow vigorously, vigorously, in the golden sunset afterglow, more bright and dazzling, a fresh and agile atmosphere, which is very attractive.
Seeing this, my wife and I stopped and approached the small courtyard with joy and admired the small vegetable garden in the courtyard. The yard is not big, about 30 square meters, of which the vegetable garden occupies most of it, and a cement road in the middle divides the vegetable garden into two, and the road leads from the courtyard gate to the door of the living room. In the middle of the courtyard is a stone table, around which there are six small stone piers. Except for an electric bicycle, there are no other sundries in the courtyard, which makes the whole courtyard look more refreshing and tidy under the backdrop of greenery.
Now that the land in the rural areas has been centrally managed by large contractors, the peasants no longer manage the land one by one as they did in the past, so the peasants who have been freed from the shackles of land have more leisure time to manage their own lives. The farming tools and livestock used by families to farm in the past have long disappeared in the countryside. Along with the gradual development of the new rural construction activities, the appearance of the rural areas has been fundamentally changed. With new houses, cement roads, running water and gas in every village, the lives of rural people are on a par with those in the cities. Walking into the countryside, the countrymen are no longer in a hurry as in the past, they live a warm, calm and poetic pastoral life with leisurely steps like the city people.
Today's countryside is full of new ideas. Walking in the countryside, I can no longer see the busy figures of the peasants "Morning Morning, Returning with the Moon and Lotus Hoe", no longer hearing the piccolo of the shepherd boy above the field, and no longer seeing the smoke rising above the thatched huts in the countryside in the morning and evening.
Standing in the distance, casually looking towards a village, the pink walls and red tiles under the shade of green trees, the wide and straight cement road, the flowers blooming on both sides of the road, the family cars on the road are weaving, and the atmosphere of modern civilization is permeated everywhere.
Wandering beside the small courtyard of the farmhouse, we admired the vegetable garden in the courtyard of the farmhouse through the wall. Suddenly, there was a car horn behind me, and when I looked back, it turned out to be the owner of the vegetable garden who had returned home. The husband and wife were about forty years old, and the male owner was a student he had taught, and he took the initiative to greet me as soon as he got out of the car. They work in the county seat and return to live in the countryside. When they saw that we were admiring their garden, they invited us to sit in their house. Unable to resist the hospitality of the hostess, we walked into the small courtyard, and after a simple greeting, we sat at the stone table in the garden, chatting while admiring the various vegetables in the small vegetable garden. The man said that this is the old yard of their house, in response to the government's call for new rural construction, under the government's subsidy, after transformation, the living environment is not only new, and the living facilities are not much different from the buildings in the county. So they originally lived in the county town, so they chose to work in the county during the day and return to the countryside at night. Every day after work, I will come to the vegetable garden in the countryside, grow vegetables, and experience the joy of agricultural planting.
Growing vegetables is not just for eating, it is completely for serving a mood, maintaining a farmer's plot, and letting yourself remember your former identity as a farmer. While talking, the hostess had plucked a large handful of fresh shallots from the vegetable garden, washed them on the water pipe, and placed them on the stone table. The green and white shallots, set off by the wet water droplets, look particularly watery, and the appearance of the beautiful and delicious looks arouses the appetite at once. My wife likes to eat all kinds of seasonal vegetables raw very much, and she has a soft spot for shallots, so she couldn't help but point to the freshly washed shallots and say, "With a plate of noodle sauce, tonight's dinner will be perfect." "After listening to my wife's words, we laughed. Green onion dipping sauce is our favorite in Shandong people's diet, and it is also a taste that we have liked since childhood.
At this time, I saw the hostess come out of the kitchen, hold a convenient bag, come to the stone table, put the shallots into the bag, and said to me while loading: "Teacher, take this green onion home and try it, this green onion is pure natural, no chemical fertilizer, no pesticide pollution." If you want to eat it in the future, come anytime. At this point, my wife immediately got up to express her gratitude and looked at the sky to remind me that it was time to go home. So we got up and said goodbye and went home.
On the way home, the street lights on the side of the street began to turn on, and the lights of each household were also turned on one after another, so the lights of thousands of homes created a quiet and peaceful atmosphere, floating in the sky over the countryside. People who walked and leisurely on the road greeted each other and walked home in laughter. Looking at the handful of shallots in my wife's hand, I suddenly had a whimsical idea and said to my wife: "When we retire, let's go back to the countryside to live, run our own vegetable garden, learn to be Tao Yuanming, and be a farmer! My wife sneered, and then gladly agreed to my whim. I am just over a year away from retirement, and I am looking forward to this day and the feeling of being a farmer freely.
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