portable space

"Gu Gu Gu Gu..."

Zhang Taiping was awakened by the sound of a rooster crowing.

Zhang Taiping felt that he had a ridiculous but beautiful dream last night.

In the dream, I was a little over 1.9 meters tall, free from illness and disaster, had a wife and daughter, and owned a mysterious space.

Zhang Taiping closed his eyes, recalling the surprise and relaxation and joy in the dream. But as he thought about it, his brows furrowed. This dream was too clear, and it felt exactly the same as the real thing.

I opened my eyes suddenly and saw that the ceiling above my head was not a white square ceiling, but a wooden beam spanning two walls.

A light bulb filled with dust hangs from the beam with wires. This kind of 40-degree incandescent light bulb that has long since disappeared in big cities can only be seen in remote villages.

He raised his hand and touched the gauze band on his forehead. It was not a dream, everything was real.

After calming down, my mood started to get agitated again. I sat up and moved to the kang to put on my shoes.

I can't help but feel speechless about my previous hobby. A real rough man likes to wear leather shoes, and must apply shoe polish to make them black and shiny.

Zhang Taiping, who had been sleeping since yesterday afternoon, couldn't care about this. His stomach was rumbling in rebellion, and he stepped on the leather shoes that could be used to look in the mirror. He pushed open the bedroom door, stepped forward, and rushed into the northernmost kitchen.

There is no one in the kitchen, but the pot is steaming slowly, so the meal must have been prepared long ago.

Uncovering the pot, there was a fist-sized white-faced steamed bun on the wooden shelf. Zhang Taipinghou, who was starving to death, eagerly wanted to reach out to take it, but his hands were smoked by the steam that continuously overflowed.

He went away quickly and came back quickly. He put his hand to his mouth and blew. He turned around and took a pair of chopsticks from the bamboo basket beside the table.

I picked up a steamed bun and put it in the palm of my hand. I didn't care whether it was hot or not. I tore off a piece and stuffed it into my mouth. I swallowed it without even chewing. It was quite like Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit. He probably didn't even know what it tasted like after eating it.

After eating four steamed buns and an old bowl of corn porridge with potatoes, Zhang Taiping patted his belly and had some time to look at the kitchen furnishings.

The kitchen space is quite small, as big as a bedroom. In a city where land is at a premium, this is definitely a luxury plan, but in rural areas large kitchens are the most common.

There is also an earthen kang here, located under the wooden window on the west wall, and the kang is connected to the pot and stove.

This is the most basic kitchen configuration in rural areas in the Guanzhong area. The kang connected to the stove is only used for sleeping in winter, and the kang is also heated when cooking, which saves firewood and keeps you warm. It is generally left unused in the other three seasons.

There are two pots placed on the stove. This is also traditional.

The case shelf is against the north wall, with chopsticks in one corner, a knife, a spatula, and a spoon in a pot. There must be several nails on the wall above the case, and commonly used things such as filters and colanders are hung on it. Under the case, there are

A bucket and a hot water bottle, with a wooden ladle stuck sideways in the bucket.

Next to the desk stands a high and low cabinet. The cabinet has been painted with a layer of varnish. The transparent varnish protects the wood without affecting the natural dark red color of the old red chun wood. Compared with other bright paint colors, it is more suitable to be placed on

A smoky kitchen.

High and low cabinets made of pure wood like this have long been reclusive in urban history. However, they are a necessary item for dowry in rural weddings.

When I got married, I was in a hurry and did not have time to prepare this piece of furniture. It was cut and cut by myself during the period after the marriage when Zhang Taiping was born.

The "low" of the cabinet refers to the place where the bottom can be opened up and down to put noodles and rice. The "high" refers to the place where the top can be opened left and right to put dishes and seasonings.

I looked around the kitchen and saw the washbasin leaning against the door. Then I realized with embarrassment that I hadn't washed my face or brushed my teeth yet.

I scooped a ladle of cold water from the bucket, washed my face, and felt much clearer and more energetic. But I couldn't find the toothbrush bowl, so I had to use the most primitive method, sprinkle some salt on my fingers, and wipe my teeth.

I went out to the front yard and expanded my chest. When I raised my head, I was immediately shocked.

The majestic mountains lie in front of you, and you can see a lush green landscape as far as the eye can see.

This is the Qinling Mountains, which starts from Gansu Province in the west and reaches the western part of Henan Province in the east. The main body is located in the central and southern part of Shaanxi Province. It is the dividing line between the Guanzhong region and the southern Shaanxi region. It stretches for more than 3,000 miles from east to west.

There are many famous mountains in the Qinling Mountains. The steep and unique Huashan Mountain, the Lishan Mountain with rich historical heritage, the beautiful Maiji Mountain, etc. are all part of it.

The tallest one, Taibai Mountain, is more than 3,700 meters high. It is the highest peak in the eastern half of mainland China and is known as the crown of all peaks.

The mountain in front of him was at least more than a thousand meters high. The impact on Zhang Taiping, who had been hiding in a small building in the city, can be imagined.

Although my memory has the concept of the Qinling Mountains, it does not have the shock of being directly faced.

This place is called Xiaofengyukou Village, and it is surrounded by mountains. Standing at the foot of the mountains, you feel like a little ant, as if a worm is shaking a tree.

I wonder if those travel enthusiasts in the city who take photos for a long time when they see a small mound will be so shocked that they can put an egg in their mouths when they see such a breathtaking mountain.

Zhang Taiping came back to his senses and breathed in the fresh and slightly earthy air in the mountains in the morning, and his heart felt open. This natural smell is better than the so-called oxygen bars in the so-called most livable communities in the city. I don’t know.

Hundreds of times more comfortable.

Looking at the smoke rising from the sparse rooftops, Zhang Taiping realized that he never wanted to return to a city with tall buildings and polluted air.

The weather in early autumn does not cool down immediately. According to the long-term experience of the working people, there are still 24 fire rats in late summer.

The term "fire rat" is a rural proverb, which means that the heat of early autumn will continue for more than 20 days.

So you can hear the crow of roosters at five o'clock, and the sky will light up around six o'clock. Now it's past seven o'clock, and there are scattered people who get up early to work in the terraced fields on the slopes. The rising sun dyes everything into gold, and it shines on them.

Cast a faint halo.

Zhang Taiping smiled self-deprecatingly: "The one who called Ming just now must be a lazy chicken. He didn't wake up until the sun came out."

I moved my body for a while at the door, and then started to look at the courtyard facing east and west.

The front yard is flat and flat, with a stone roll beside it, which must have been used to flatten it.

In rural areas, especially in small villages like this deep in the mountains, concrete floors are rare. The front door is flattened, and it can be used to dry the wild vegetables, mushrooms and other mountain by-products picked in leisure time. When farming is busy, wheat can be dried.

Main crops such as corn, soybeans and millet.

The front room is divided into three rooms. The southernmost room is the bedroom, where Zhang Taiping rested for half a day and one night. The northernmost room is the kitchen, and the middle is the large living room.

Zhang Taiping opened the door to the front room, and the sun shone into the empty living room. As the air moved, golden light images spread across the sky.

The doors to the bedroom and kitchen are open on the north and south walls near the main entrance. On the south wall in the back is an Eight Immortals table cut from red chun wood. Apart from that, there is nothing else.

At the very end of the living room is another door, leading to the central courtyard.

Pulling off the long wooden door bars, I stepped into the central courtyard with the creaking sound of the wooden door slowly opening.

The first thing that catches the eye is a laurel tree that is not round when it is held in one hand. In the memory of the body, this tree was planted by my grandfather when he built the hospital. It must be more than fifty years ago at least.

According to Zhang Taiping's knowledge of the Huafen tree market in his previous life, such an old osmanthus tree is worth at least ten or two hundred thousand.

There is a stone table propped under the osmanthus tree, with chess scores engraved on it, and four stone stools surrounding the circle. The osmanthus trees provide shade like a canopy, and next to the chess table is a perfect place to enjoy the cool air and chat in the summer.

On the north and south sides are guest rooms that retract outward. In ancient times, they were called wing rooms. The front eaves of the house are flush with the north and south side walls of the front and rear houses. The four houses just form a central courtyard of more than 150 square meters. The ground is covered with green

The bricks are paved with a crisscross pattern.

After opening the iron buckle on the door eaves of the south wing, as soon as I opened the door, I was greeted by a musty smell. It had obviously been unoccupied for many years.

There was only an earthen bed and a large cabinet in the room. After exiting and looking in through the window, I saw that the furnishings in the north room were also the same.

Following the light spots coming through the cracks in the osmanthus trees, we arrived at the door of the back room.

Zhang Taiping felt that this door should not be hidden in the inner room, but should be placed in the front yard. Because this door looks more dignified and grand.

Maybe this is the expression of different thoughts in different eras. People nowadays tend to hang the good parts in the most conspicuous places, no matter whether they are beautiful jade or dross. But the older generations who have experienced the barbaric era like to give distant and refined connotations.

Put on a dull and ordinary coat.

Different experiences lead to different thoughts. What they strive to do is to protect us. In peaceful times, what we strive to show is individuality and publicity.

The back room is also divided into three rooms.

There are two large square cabinets in the south room to store grain. The rest of the space is lined with various farm tools.

The north room is both a study and a pharmacy, with a medicine cabinet over three meters high leaning against the back wall. There is also a desk directly in front of the medicine cabinet. On the corner of the table are a bamboo pen holder, a pen holder and an inkstone that has accumulated a layer of dust.

The table was quite clean. The drawer facing the medicine cabinet was opened, and there was a stack of small notebooks and a pencil lying inside.

I picked up the notebook and flipped through it. There were three books in total. A pinyin notebook, an arithmetic notebook, and a small print notebook. I remember that Aunt Yaya gave it to her when she came back last time.

Pinyin letters are written in the pinyin book in a standardized way, and 1, 2, 3, 4 is written in the arithmetic book... and one, two, three, four are written in capital letters in the small print book... See

Here, I smiled, Yaya must have used this place as a writing desk.

There is also a wooden box under the table, which contains his grandfather's medical books and years of medical practice experience. Zhang Taiping browsed through them casually for a while, some of them were from a long time ago, and some were written not so long ago.

Under the window on the west wall is the only wooden bed in the house, with the headboard next to the standing wardrobe.

In the middle, against the west wall, there is an Eight Immortals table with no visible wood. There are symmetrical bow-backed wooden chairs on both sides.

On the wall on the table hangs a picture of strange pines on a cliff, with couplets on the left and right. The upper couplet: Blessings are as long as flowing water in the East China Sea. The second couplet: Life is as long as the ever-old pines in Nanshan. It is a very tacky and popular sentence, but it is very popular among the rural people.

welcome.

During festivals, the diagram is replaced by a family tree. The table is used to place memorial tablets, tributes, candles, and incense stands.

There is a small door against the back wall leading to the backyard.

Entering the backyard, Zhang Taiping thought he had entered the vegetable garden.

The backyard is surrounded by a stone wall made of stacked stone strips. There is a 70-80 cm wide path in the middle, with vegetable patches divided into patches on both sides, where various vegetables are neatly planted.

Lunan is a summer heat-loving vegetable that is eaten nowadays.

The tomatoes haven't been taken off the shelves yet. They are covered with fruits of different colors, and small yellow flowers are still blooming on the top.

I found a bright red one, and didn’t wash it. I just wiped it with my hands. In rural areas, people pay attention to “If you don’t clean it, you won’t get sick if you eat it”, so I just followed the local customs. Besides, the food in my vegetable garden is all farmyard manure, so

I have never used pesticides before, so there is nothing to worry about.

After taking a bite, the sweet and sour juice overflows all over your mouth. It also has some cold flavor in the morning, which really challenges one's appetite.

I finished one in two or three bites, then found a big one, and started to look at it while biting.

There are quite a few. There are fist-sized black and purple eggplants. Eggplants in the north are mostly round and short, while those in the south are mostly long and strip-shaped.

Lentils and cowpeas are wrapped around the shelf set up by bamboo poles, one by one, hanging all over the shelf.

There are two types of chili peppers: short fat ones and long string shapes. After being picked, the linear chili peppers are threaded with threads and often hung on the wall in front of the door. After drying, they are fried and then crushed to be used as a seasoning for rice. Short

Spicy peppers are usually fried and eaten.

Onions and leeks are arranged neatly. These two vegetables grow all year round. After winter, you can eat them until next winter. When leeks first grow, they look a bit like winter wheat, so many children from the city go to the countryside to eat them.

What a joke, mistakenly mistook wheat for leeks.

Lubei is a cold-tolerant vegetable.

Obviously they were planted not long ago. The radish and cabbage have just sprouted two sprouts, and the coriander, spinach, lettuce and the like are not edible yet.

There is also a small piece of land that has been renovated and the surface has been pulverized with an iron rake. This piece of land may have been, or will be, planted with garlic.

After walking around for a week, I was really surprised. Although they were all home-cooked dishes, there were more than a dozen kinds of them.

The toilet is under the eaves behind the room where grain and sundries are kept in the southeast corner of the courtyard. It is surrounded by wooden boards. Next to the toilet, there is a shed made of wooden boards and thatch, which is a sheep pen. There is also a chicken coop in the pen.

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There were no sheep or chickens in the pen, so they must have been taken out to graze.