During the frost season, several senior film friends in Linfen met to go to the countryside to photograph the wind, drove out of the city to the east, went up the mountain, came to a mountain at the junction of Linfen, Xiangfen and Fushan, the scenery here is really beautiful, everywhere is yellow and red leaves, the mature hawthorn on the hawthorn tree is not harvested, it falls all over the ground, red, and there are several centuries-old trees, telling about the glory that the village once had.
Here is an abandoned village, full of abandoned and collapsed cave dwellings and houses, the courtyard is overgrown with artemisia grass, the village can hardly see people, on the terraces on the hillside in the distance, faintly see a tractor in the ploughing, down the hillside, see a family, the courtyard door is tied with sour date trees, the yard is basking millet.
Push open the door and walk in, a 69-year-old grandfather greeted him, he said that his name is Zhang Zong, is the resident of this village, only he is left in the village to live here, other villagers have moved out, he lives in the old house mainly to raise bees, every year when the frost comes, he moves to the children's home in the city, and the village becomes an empty village.
He has been beekeeping here for decades of history, spring back, winter go, the hive is placed in the yard, the yard around the flowers, no one bothered, he raised 40 boxes of bees, a year to raise bees can earn more than 40,000 yuan, piggyback in the field to plant some millet, to the autumn can also earn more than 10,000 yuan, enough for life.
The government did not allow the cave dwellings, saying that it was dangerous, and the earthen caves in the village were bulldozed clean. Several of his family's caves had also collapsed in the rain of previous years. Now I live in a simple board room, he said not to leak rain, and when it is cold, he will leave.
Uncle Zhang said that when he was young, he was a private teacher in the school, worked for fifteen years, and then he had to serve the elderly, so he resigned and returned to his hometown, where he has been working as a farmer until now. The three children all lived in Linfen City, he was not accustomed to living in the city's buildings, and he could not make money in the city, so he returned to the old mansion in the countryside, farmed the land and raised bees, chatted with the bees every day with the mountains, drank the mountain spring water, listened to the birds, and lived a quiet and free life without change.
After listening to Uncle Zhang's words, we are also proud of him, in the mountains, do not quarrel with people, do not get angry, and can earn so much money, really envious, live is comfortable.
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