Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 4 Exchange of Farm Tools and Branches
"You can think about it. Mom doesn't ask for anything else. I just hope that you can find a virtuous wife like your second sister-in-law.

As for women, it doesn't matter whether they are good-looking or not, whether they are tall, short, fat or thin. They just need to be nice and kind-hearted. Only such good women can prosper their husbands.

If you meet those people who are like monsters, don’t mess with them. They are reincarnations of vixens who specialize in sucking men’s yang energy..."

"Mom, I know."

Li Muyang looked at the time and knew that he could not delay any longer.

Mother is so verbose, I don’t know when it will end.

"I'll put some leaves in the kang for you later. If it's hot, you can lift the quilt..."

As Li Muyang spoke, he helped his mother change the diaper underneath her.

When he started taking care of his mother, he was still a little unaccustomed and a little embarrassed, but he thought about what his mother couldn't take care of. He was her child, so what should he be afraid of?

Then he felt at ease.

He can't expect his sisters or sisters-in-law to do all these things, that's up to him.If he is my only son and I don’t have a wife, shouldn’t I still take care of her?

But he agreed, but his mother disagreed.

His attentiveness is limited to changing diapers. If he wants to go to the toilet, he will go to the second sister-in-law or the eldest sister-in-law to come over.

The second sister-in-law usually has no objections.

As for the sister-in-law, she was always mumbling, but in the end she didn’t refuse.

She is not a bad person, but she talks too much.He seems to be extremely strong and unwilling to give in on even the smallest matters, but he is able to level up the water bowl even when it comes to big matters.

After helping his mother take care of everything, Li Muyang rushed to his second brother's house.

Li Muyang's village is called Lijia Village, which is one of the many small villages surrounding the mountains at the foot of Taoshan Mountain.

There are about two to three hundred households in the village, with more than 1000 people.

The mountain range to which Taoshan belongs is called Guozi Mountain. As the name suggests, various fruit trees grow on the mountain.

There are wild ones and there are human species.

Wild ones such as mountain apple, mountain peach, mountain pear, mountain chestnut, mountain plum, mountain jujube, mountain pear, mountain persimmon, mountain apricot, mountain cherry, etc...

There are also two types of artificial planting.

One is for the villagers to plant their own seeds.

Most of them are varieties that were planted randomly in the early years.

Mainly small seedlings such as mountain apricot and mountain pear.

The most difficult problems on the Loess Plateau are soil erosion and soil desertification. In the early years, under the call of the government, everyone had to volunteer to plant trees.

Basically, a production team contracts several hills, and it ends when the planting is completed.At that time, saplings were delivered in trucks and trucks, and they were as thick as a thumb.

Planting trees is not an easy task.

No matter how small a tree is, it is necessary to dig a tree pit, fill it with water and add fertilizer. After the tree is planted, it is necessary to cultivate the soil and wrap it up.If the steps are strictly followed, the survival rate will not be particularly high due to the dry climate.

What's more, doing voluntary work is just a day job, and it depends on the time but not the effect.Two hours counts as one work point, and people use it to make up for the work points. What the tree will look like and whether it will grow or not is another matter.

Who can control it in the long run?

Just get the work points.

Work points can be used to reduce or reduce the amount of public food paid. If not used, they can also be converted into money to subsidize it.

Therefore, people plant trees very casually.

Basically, you dig a hole at will. You won't dig it to [-] centimeters as required. You will probably just throw the saplings in when it is [-] or [-] centimeters.If I'm too lazy, I won't water it, let alone put fertilizer in it.

If you plant like this day after day, half of the trees that will survive will not survive.

But it doesn't matter.

Village committees and town councils organize such activities again and again. If it doesn't work this time, we will continue to make up for it next time.

Even if only half of the trees survive each time, over time, the entire fruit ridge will gradually be covered by fruit trees.

Guoziling is a small winding mountain range that connects many different hills.Basically, the mountain is named after the fruit trees on the mountain.

Therefore, there are names such as Taoshan, Xingshan, Lishan, etc.

Dozens of small villages are scattered along the mountains. The larger ones are like Lijia Village, which can have a population of 2000.

In small villages, there are also thirty or forty households, with a maximum of three or four hundred people.

In later years, small villages slowly began to merge, and they basically became villages of about 3000 or [-] people.

Along Guozi Mountain to the west, there is a large valley called Malian Valley.

The length of Malian Valley is unknown. The terrain of the natural chasm divides the east and west into two mountain ranges.

The east side is called Guoziling, and the west side is called Xishan.

Although Xishan is only separated from Guoziling by a canyon, it no longer belongs to Qingquan Town, or even Chi County, but belongs to Yong'an County, which is also under the jurisdiction of QY City.

Yongan County and Chi County are adjacent to each other, but their relationship is very general.

There are long historical reasons.

It is said that in the early years, Yong'an County did not belong to Qingyang, but to other prefecture-level cities. Later, the area was re-divided. Based on the principle of easier management, it was separated from the original city and placed under the jurisdiction of QY City.

But in fact, the customs, dialects, accents, and even nationalities of the people in the two places are very different.

Therefore, the people of the two counties often have some conflicts.

It’s not a particularly big place, just a few hundred people, using farm tools and tree branches to communicate deeply with each other.

Interestingly, the county seat of Yong'an County is far away from Malian Valley. If the communication is too thorough and they need to go to the hospital to see the degree of battle damage, the people in Yong'an County will have to endure the humiliation and go to Chi County People's Hospital for a check-up.

It seems like a black absurd comedy.

Li Muyang has lived in this place for generations and has long been accustomed to the cultural environment here.

He had seen descriptions of the customs and customs of his hometown in some novels, and felt that they were not very fair.

In order to stimulate conflicts in novels, many ordinary things are always artistically processed and turned into extremes.

The fact is that the people here are not as ignorant and ignorant as described in the book, but they are also not as kind and tolerant as in the book.

To put it simply, the people around Guozi Mountain are just like the civets on the mountain.

Don't mess with me, I won't bother to pay attention to you.

If you push me too hard, I will bite you even if I die.

The most primitive simplicity is truth, kindness is true kindness, and the villain's face is also treacherous truth.

Good or bad, it has nothing to do with hypocrisy.

The village where Li Muyang lives is called Lijiacun.

Except for the married young daughters-in-law and some sons-in-law who came to marry into the family, everyone else in the village was surnamed Li.

The layout of the courtyard in Lijiacun is like a bag of cotton dropped from the sky and scattered casually on the ground.

Some groups are large, with several families living close to each other.

Some groups have only two or three families.

There are also some individual small cotton grains, which are single households and single courtyards, kept at a distance from the surrounding homes.

Anyway, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the base of the village is very casual.

There is no need to worry about whose tree blocks whose sun, whose chicken eats whose green shoots.

We get together when we have something to do, and go home when we have nothing to do.

This is the daily life of people in Lijia Village.

Li Muyang came to a courtyard built against the mountain, about an acre of land. The courtyard walls were made of red bricks, the roof was made of gray tiles, there were flying corners on the eaves, and there were locust trees behind the walls, which made it look very elegant.

This is Li Muchi, his second brother's home.

(End of this chapter)