Farming Beneath the Changbai Mountains

Zhixin found the village chief and told him that his family wanted to see ginseng. The village chief was naturally happy when he heard that. The whole village was anxious to find someone to see ginseng. This is said to be going from house to house in shifts, but Qingming Festival is coming soon, and every household is very busy. Where can anyone go up the mountain to see ginseng?

"Okay, Zhixin, since your family is going to go, that's it. You pack up and go up after the Qingming Festival. Then the village will send out vehicles to help you move your things up. We will wait until all the land is planted. Then we went up to help build a few houses. It turned out that there was only one house there, and the rest were just shacks. Alas, no one knows how to live in this house. Whatever happens, just grit your teeth and get through it, it’ll be fine.”

Now that the village chief agreed, Zhixin hurried home and told his family. Tomb Sweeping Day falls on the second day of March this year. No matter what, we have to celebrate the Tomb Sweeping Day and pay homage to our ancestors before we can go to the mountains.

"Okay, I think I've pretty much packed up in the past few days, so I packed up my things quickly and went to the grave in the morning of Qingming Festival. Then we moved. Zhixin, you have to go up the mountain to take a look in the next two days. First, pack the kang. Burn everything. If we don't wait until we go up to burn it, we're afraid there will be smoke or something. Let the third child go with you. The two of you can look at all the houses and see if there is anything that needs to be repaired. Don't worry. It's raining or something." The old man quickly gave instructions.

Zhixin nodded, "Yes, dad, don't worry, I'll go tomorrow." Zhiming on the side also quickly said yes. This time the family has become like this, all because of him. How can he say no to it? He wishes he could do all the work by himself.

In this way, the family is busy preparing for the move. But there is one thing that everyone has ignored.

While eating dinner, Wenhan looked at the people in the room and said, "Grandpa, grandma, dad and mom, I don't want to go to school anymore. Our family is like this now, how can we still have money for me to pay for repairs? Besides, you have all gone to the mountains. , Where will I live while studying? I’ll just stop studying and go to the mountains with everyone.”

Mrs. Chen and the old man looked at each other and then remembered that they were busy with the house and forgot about Wenhan and Wencheng's studies. The old man coughed and said, "Wenhan, you have to think carefully, this matter is not a trivial matter. If you don't study, you will have to dig in the dirt in the future." The current situation of the family really cannot afford them. They have food and accommodation in the school, but it would be a pity not to let them study.

Wenhan glanced at Wencheng, Wencheng nodded, and Wenhan said, "Grandpa, we have decided to go up the mountain with you. Maybe in two years, when the family is better, we can go to school again. Anyway, we are still young. Besides, when we get to the mountain, we can't just put away all the books. We will still stick to reading and practicing calligraphy. If our family is like this, we won't feel at ease if you let us have food and accommodation in the school. "This is Wenhan after all. Be older and think more.

Jinghan listened on the sidelines and felt sour in her heart. If this hadn't happened, wouldn't the eldest brother have gone to study in the town? With such a delay, I am afraid that within two years, the eldest brother will not have the opportunity to enter the school again. At that time, will the eldest brother still have the opportunity to study again? Jinghan secretly made up her mind to find a way to earn more money so that her eldest brother and the others could go back to school as soon as possible.

Zhixin sighed on the side, "In that case, let's go up the mountain together, and we'll talk about it this winter. Maybe it will be better by then, and I'll let you go to the town to study."

When Zhiming and his wife heard this, they felt a little sad. "Wen Han, it's my third uncle who's sorry for our family and you. If it weren't for the third uncle, you could still be studying. Now, alas." Zhiming sighed. "Third uncle has no other skills besides treating people. From now on, he will work hard with the others to make money, so that you can all go to school."

Zhixin glanced at his younger brother and said, "Lao San, you don't have to say sorry anymore. Are there any ups and downs in this life? This is normal. As long as our family works together, things will get better slowly." "

After dinner, Jinghan and Jingya helped clear the table, and then everyone went back to rest. The whole family has been very frightened these past few days, and no one has been able to get a good rest. Now that we finally see the light, we are feeling tired. After a while, the entire Xu family became quiet.

On the morning of Qingming Festival, the old man took the men of the family to visit the grave early. When he arrived at the cemetery, the old man couldn't help crying and said words of repentance to his ancestors. It was just because the descendants were unfilial and destroyed the old house. Zhiming and Zhixin also knelt there in silence.

After visiting the grave, everyone returned home. The old man asked all the things to be loaded into the car, and just as several cars from the village came over, all the things were loaded. Zhixin was diligent and had saved a lot of firewood alone. It was not necessary to transport all the firewood to the mountains. There was plenty of firewood on the mountains. So what Chen wanted to do was to give all the firewood to Hui Xin and the others. Huixin's family was in a town, so they had to buy firewood for burning. They still had about ten feet of firewood, but given it to Huixin, they didn't have to buy it this year.

Zhixin also agreed, so he went to the town last night to tell Qingnian and asked them to find two cars to transport the firewood today. At this time, Qingnian also arrived, followed by two cars. Everyone worked together to load the firewood. The more than ten feet of firewood could not be loaded into two carts, so the village provided two more carts before it was all loaded.

"Qingnian, hurry up and take your people back. We are busy today and don't have time to go over and help. I will go to your place to have a look when I am free." Mrs. Chen asked Qingnian to go back quickly.

"Mom, I'll leave first. If you need anything, ask someone to send a message to the town." Qingnian got into the car and turned around to tell everyone.

Now that everything was packed, everyone got in the car and headed west.

After walking for less than an hour, we arrived at the ginseng field. At this time, the snow in the ginseng field had not melted much, and it was completely white. We came to this house near the roadside. It had five rooms and was made of adobe. It was quite solid. Everyone got out of the car and moved things down one by one. The house had already been tidied up, so furniture and other things could just be moved in directly.

Mrs. Chen looked at the house. It was smaller than the one at home. She sighed. Now she can only make do with it. There are five houses. The old couple lives in the inner room of the east room, and four girls live in the outer room. The outer room of the west house was occupied by Wenhan and the four boys, while the inner room was reserved for storing things. Mr. and Mrs. Zhixin and Mr. and Mrs. Zhiming lived in the other two houses. They were houses, just like shacks. It was short, only two rooms in size, with a stove in the outer room and a kang in the inner room, which meant it was fine for a couple to live in. There's nothing you can do about it. It's better than having no place to live, right?

So the family settled down. Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Zhu quickly packed their things and prepared to light a fire for cooking.

When the villagers who were helping with the move saw that all the things were unloaded, they all said goodbye and went back. When Zhixin saw the situation like this, he couldn't stay with others, so he said that he would treat everyone to drinks when he had the opportunity in the future. Jiaxing naturally followed, "Brother, you don't have to think about this. Hurry up and put your things away, and then work hard. When your life gets better, we brothers can drink whatever we want. Okay. , let’s go home. Anyway, in a few days we have to come up and make a tent or something, so we can meet again.” , The attack drove everyone back in the car.

In the village, in front of the Xu family's gate, Zhide, his wife and children looked at the empty house, somewhat confused. After finally asking someone, I found out that my family had sold their house and went up the mountain to see the ginseng.

Zhi De's eyes were red, and he shouted at Mr. Han, "It's all a waste of money like you. My eldest brother went to our house to borrow money, why can't he get some of it out? It's better now. I've harmed my parents." Even the house was sold, and they didn’t tell us at all. They treated me like an outsider.”

Han glared at Zhi and said, "Stop talking nonsense here. Didn't you say you would lend it to them at that time? Besides, why was it me who was the one who caused it? It was clearly your third brother who caused it, okay? If it hadn't been for him If something goes wrong, my family is fine, why would I think about these things? I blame your third brother for everything."

Zhide said dejectedly, "Let's go, this place doesn't belong to us anymore, what are we still doing here?" After saying that, he walked listlessly to the town.

Mr. Han muttered as he walked, "This old couple is really serious. They don't even say a word if they want to sell their house. At least we still have a stake in this house. They just sold it like this. They really don't take us seriously. What's more?" Yes, there is so much firewood at home that we don’t need on the mountain. I don’t know who gave it to you. Why don’t you think about us?”

"Okay, just shut up. You are not even willing to give out money to help, and you are still thinking about the firewood at home. What are you thinking about? You only care about yourself, right?" Zhide is in front. After hearing this, he shouted back.

"What's wrong? Why don't you let me tell you? Let me tell you, the Xu family is not divided. We have a share of everything. Why did they sell the house and land without saying a word?" Han The family is still there and is unwilling to give up.

Zhide didn't listen either, and walked more and more anxiously ahead, wishing he could go home immediately. Later, Mrs. Han was still leading the child, so naturally she couldn't keep up, so she shouted, "Slow down, who can keep up?" Zhide didn't care about that and just walked away.

Wenxing and Jinghe were both children. How could they keep up with the speed of adults? Jinghe didn't pay attention for a while. I fell down and started crying. Han was so angry that he was about to hit someone, so Zhide had no choice but to turn around, pick up his daughter, and continue walking forward. Wenxing on the side saw her father hugging her sister and refused, "Mom, why does daddy only hug my sister and not me? I can't walk either, I want a hug."

Han had no choice but to pick up Wenxing and walk slowly home.