Shenyang Hunnan Apricot Tree Village, about forty minutes by car from the newspaper office. The car was still halfway down the road, and the phone came, "When is the time, the chicken has been stewed!" Oh, it's almost time for Yingchengzi, so I'll pick the kidney beans first! ”
Chicken stewed mushrooms, kidney bean stewed potatoes, dipped pickles, in addition to mushrooms, are Wang Weixiao and Yang Fengjun two sons of their own yard production, the two retired from the city to the countryside, a flash of seven years.
Retirement doesn't like to go downstairs, then live in a bungalow
Before the interview, I asked wang Weixiao and Yang Fengjun,The son of the elderly couple, is the life of the second elderly in the countryside interesting? The second old man's son sent a passage over: get up early, fold the quilt, feed the chickens and feed the geese, cook for people, eat, and do what you have to do. Eat in the afternoon, feed the chickens and feed the geese and feed the pigs, after that, feed the sheep, feed the dogs, watch TV, sleep... Watching TV in the house when it rained heavily.
After arriving, the eyes were full of vegetables in front of the house and behind the house, and half of the yard of an acre of land was occupied by chickens, geese, sheep and pigs. The old couple did not work, but worked endlessly. Chickens, geese, sheep and pigs are fed, the vegetables in the garden need to be served, the bees are few, they have to be artificially pollinated, the weeds that cannot be removed are pulled out when they see it, and the dozen Orangutan geese that have just hatched do not know when to run out of one, and the cat is on the wall looking at the tiger...
"The main thing to do is to see if there is work in the eyes." Yang Fengjun sat on the stove and went to the fire to fill the bud rice pole, "stepping on" a "old king head" who was busy in the courtyard, "He just didn't work carefully." However, Wang Weixiao is really hard at work, and this is the main reason why Yang Fengjun urged his wife to come to the countryside to farm.
T-shirt jeans, in addition to hair, from the back, The waist bar straight Wang Weixiao is like a young man, he is now 140 pounds, and before coming to the village, he weighed 180 pounds, the third floor of the home, up to the second floor, he needed to rest his feet. "Now 50 pounds of feed to carry up and go, if I am not afraid that he is tired, 100 pounds is estimated that he can carry."
Wang Weixiao had been driving a taxi before he retired, and suddenly he was idle, and he was too lazy to even go downstairs, and every day he was lying down watching TV, "I had to support him to buy something, and then he moved." At that time, Yang Fengjun, who had to dance square dance every day, naturally knew the importance of exercise to the health of the elderly, and in total, "You don't want to go down on the third floor, then let's go to the countryside, and the bungalow is always ok." ”
Wang Weixiao did not object, anyway, wherever lying was the same, so the old couple did not make any preparations and moved to the countryside.
First of all, to show the house to relatives, just to enjoy the rural air, but also let Wang Weixiao move around more.
That yard has planted a lot of vegetables, but also raised chickens, ducks and geese, a long time, Yang Fengjun feels idle is also idle, he is also ready to plant something, but after all, just to help others to take care of the family, has been in the countryside to get used to the old two people a total, we rent a yard by ourselves.
In this way, the two went to The Apricot Tree Village, rented the current courtyard for 1200 yuan a year, and later because the poultry pigs and sheep were raised more, the feed could not be bought, so they rented more than three acres of land to plant bud rice, and really began to become farmers.
When is it time to go to your house and leave the garden?"
In front of the house is a row of shelves, in the winter to build a shed to keep warm, in the summer, it has become the world of melons. Bitter melon, loofah, melon, cucumber, snake melon are lined up, there are melons on the wall, pumpkins on the ground, and sweet potatoes in the field, and the fruits are abundant.
All the crop selection, seedlings, and sowing are all handled by Yang Fengjun, who said that from watching the seeds sprout, patiently guarding until the harvest, knowing that this year's sweat is not in vain is a very satisfying thing.
This is why their old couple lived in the countryside for seven or eight years, which is much more important than what the air is better and the food safety is.
And that satisfaction is something that can be shared. As long as the seasonal vegetables are ripe, the circle of friends of the old two will be lively, and everyone will come to this pure farm yard to sit and eat authentic farm dishes. "This year's 7 big roosters, the rest of the two, came to stew chicken stew goose!" Of course, before leaving, it is necessary to pack in a large bag.
Over the years, friends remember what dishes are ripe, and then they will call directly and ask when they can go to your house to leave the garden.
"We didn't farm to make money. Everyone is happy, and we are naturally happier. Even if you eat and take it, how much can this yard eat. Wang Weixiao, who was tired of driving, bought a car again, just to take the remaining vegetables, eggs and poultry to the market to sell, "What money to make, it is half sold and half given away." He said that the reason why he went to sell was just not to let his hard work be wasted.
I also brought a chair when I turned over the floor
Changing a habitual way of life is simple to say, but you have to convince the old couple the courage to dare to try. Just after the Spring Festival in 2015, the two of them arrived here, the house was as cold as an ice cellar, the first task of the two was to find firewood and burn the kang everywhere, and then the cat waited for the spring in the kangtou.
The old couple has been living in the city, and has not gone to the mountains and the countryside, and they are completely laymen for farm work. Before and after the Qingming Dynasty, Wang Weixiao also brought a chair in addition to a hoe. After turning over the ground for a while, he collapsed in a chair and rested, and he turned over half an acre of land for 3 days, and now, it is a small half day's work.
The first crop planted was potatoes, and Yang Fengjun watched his relatives get it, only to know that he was going to take the buds and cut them into pieces and plant them.
The potatoes were planted, and some poultry had to be raised to be counted as a farmyard, so the chickens began to be raised. The heavy work of building a chicken pen naturally belonged to Wang Weixiao, and as a result, after a day of fortification, he really couldn't move, and there was only one wall opening left to be plugged. The next day I got up and looked, and when it was over, the chicken was bitten to death by the yellow skin (weasel).
The goose was so big that it was not afraid of the yellow skin and went free, and as a result, the mountain beavers (bobcats, ocelots) entered the village again, and the geese, who claimed to be the fighters among the poultry, were killed by half. Yes, the goose pen also has to be fortified.
But the loss of poultry is invincible, so let's keep a dog, now there are three dogs, Golden Retriever, Hiromi and the most capable teddy, are actually city pets.
Although it is easier said than done, as long as you start and work hard, everything will slowly get on the right track. Nagging and thirsty, Wang Weixiao casually picked a cucumber and threw it over, and then went to pick a few small persimmons, "We can grow whatever we want." ”
Want to eat watermelon, plant! As a result, because he was out of law, he blew himself up before he could eat. Unwillingly, the next year to plant again, but did not eat, by the rats preempted. So, there was another cat in the house.
Wang Weixiao said with a smile that last year, he thought he could plant some ginseng to try, and the result was naturally fruitless. He said that farming is actually playing. But his son revealed him short: always shouting tired to go back to the city. Wang Weixiao still laughed: living in the city feels breathless, but it is not easy to deal with the land.
Life itself is both interesting and troublesome
The old couple is looking for a house, because the house they live in now is too broken and too small. They want to rent a two-story one, so everyone can come and stay overnight.
However, the idea is the idea, and the two are not urgent, because there are too many reluctances here. For example, some of the big geese in the family have been raised for 5 years, and they have long laid eggs and are reluctant to sell them. Therefore, with the idea of moving, Yang Fengjun still has two crops than last year - peanuts and red beans.
What makes them even more reluctant should be the feelings of the neighbors. Every year, the old couple would invite a few people in the village to the restaurant, because when they were not familiar with the land, it was these good neighbors who extended a helping hand, "Where to collect firewood, people directly let us go to his home to get it." Looking back on the cruel winter of the first year, Yang Fengjun still had palpitations.
"Help with everything, and don't want money, at most you can fry two dishes at home and drink some wine." Yang Fengjun not only remembers the goodness of others in his heart, but also tries his best to help others, "The two sons of the next door family go out to work, the child is only 3 months, no one cares, let me go, now 6 years old do not need me to bring." ”
More than a hundred chickens and geese, seven or eight sheep, two pigs, as well as dozens of chicken chicks, geese chicks, because of the lack of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and from time to time to remove insects, weeding vegetables, has been too busy to touch the ground Yang Fengjun also helped people bring two children this year, "Adults go out to work, children have no place to eat, I said then send me here." "There are times when I'm so tired that I don't want to stay." ”
"Until I'm 70?" Wang Weixiao, 68, wasn't sure how long he would have to stay in the countryside, "Are you 70 or am I 70?" Yang Fengjun, 66, is obviously much more interested in playing with crops than in square dancing.
"While we're still moving, it's time to travel." Wang Weixiao has "seduced" his wife more than once.
"Travel? This yard of chickens, ducks and geese, can it be separated from people? The words were thus nagged to death by Yang Fengjun.
Before leaving, kidney beans, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, bitter melons... The trunk had been stuffed by Wang Weixiao, "It's all green food, and you can't eat it in the city!" ”
Yang Fengjun said with some regret: "Recently, this chicken doesn't lay eggs much..." Then he immediately said, "After a while, the bud rice has come down, and you will come together again, stew the big goose, and kill the sheep!" ”
At this time the chickens and geese began to crow again, and they were hungry again, "Old King Head, you first go to change the water for the pigs." Yang Fengjun shouted at his wife and waved goodbye to his son, casually muttering, "This work is not finished." ”
On the way back, the thick clouds sometimes sprinkle sunlight on the ridges, and suddenly remembered a line in the TV series "Mr. Tom in the Mountains" about the life of the people in the city to the countryside: I thought that I could feel comfortable by not caring about troublesome and laborious things, but life itself is both interesting and troublesome.
Liaoshen Evening News chief reporter Li Zhencun photojournalist Zha Jinhui