Siheyuan: My Northeastern Farmhouse

Chapter 1 A Dream 60 Years
Gu Weijun stretched out and said, "It's really good to sleep. It's better to be in the countryside. It's so comfortable! I work like a cow and horse every day, and I only get so many taels of silver every month! And I get fucked by a few people who feel good about themselves every day." , I don’t know what the so-called stupid PUA is, but he still has two faults to show how awesome he is. If during the Anti-Japanese War, he would be such a traitor and a white dog! When he exploits the people below, even the company boss will feel sweaty, bah! "

Gu Weijun, male, 45 years old, was once a mid-level cadre of a listed company. He has a happy family, owns a house and a car in Beijing, and is considered a successful person in the eyes of others.Unfortunately, after the epidemic, the general environment was not good. I was made difficult by WN Company for various reasons and was reassigned. I had no choice but to resign... It would be impossible if I didn't take the initiative to resign. If I don't take the initiative to resign, maybe people will be gone after a while. Under high pressure, Down, insomnia, hair loss, irregular heartbeat, etc...

No, the corn and potatoes in the yard of my hometown in Northeast China are ripe. I take this opportunity to come back and tidy up, relax my mind, and recuperate my body.In fact, it was a helpless move: I interviewed for several positions, and after at least three rounds of interviews, I was politely persuaded to quit... Although Mr. Gu has rich experience and good connections in the industry, we still want to find someone under 35 years old. , more energy!Where does this make sense?Not to mention private companies, even public hospitals have laid off nurses who are over 44 years old.

"How come the working class has become a laborer, and the peasant brothers have become migrant workers?"

Looking at the time, it was only about 6 o'clock in the morning. Gu Weijun fetched well water to wash up. Although it was September and the autumn tiger was still raging, the morning in the Northeast was already slightly cold. The cold well water refreshed Gu Qingjun's spirits.He boiled hot water for a pot of tea and lit a cigarette. Gu Weijun sat on the pony, drank tea and smoked while looking at the yard where he grew up.

The rural areas of Northeast China are vast and sparsely populated. Especially in recent years, the population outflow has been the highest in the country. The birth rate fell below 10 more than 1.0 years ago.Therefore, farmhouses in Northeast China are basically not small.

The house in Gu Weijun's hometown has five large tile-roofed houses facing south. The middle room is the main room as soon as you enter the door. The east room is the living room and bedroom. The west room was later converted into a clinic and pharmacy, mainly containing traditional Chinese medicine cabinets.The kitchen and storage room are in the separated back room, so that the large stove and stove can more easily heat the Kang in the bedroom.There is a cement floor nearly 5 meters wide in front of the house, and a cement walkway in the middle extends to the courtyard gate.There are two wing rooms on both sides of the house to store some sundries. There is also a bathroom behind the wall on the west side, with a solar water heater installed on the roof.

The yard is about 28 meters wide and 35 meters long. The grape trellis in the aisle near the middle of the house is already full of green and red grapes, many of which have been picked and eaten by the neighbors; several apple trees near the courtyard gate, I asked my neighbors to help me pick and divide the peach trees, plums and jujube trees. The remaining jujube trees were still early to mature, so I told my neighbors that if I didn’t have time to come back, I would ask them to pick them and divide them.

Corn, green onions, radishes, potatoes, beans, eggplants, peppers, soybeans, peanuts, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. are planted on the east and west sides of the yard respectively. Cabbage, lettuce, leeks, and pumpkins are also planted in the corners.

On the left side near the gate of the yard, there is the toilet and the original pigsty, where several chickens are now kept. On the right side are firewood piles and coal, and a big yellow dog is tied up.

Exiting the courtyard gate, there is a small road paved with cement and stones, which is regarded as the main road of the village. On the other side of the small road is a large pond. Thanks to the country's policy of "lucid waters and lush mountains are gold and silver mountains", it has been restored to the shape of a reed. , rippling blue waves, gradually many old men came here to fish again.

About 500 meters behind the yard is a series of small mountains. The mountain belonging to the village is called Guanma Mountain. Legend has it that during the Taizong period of the Tang Dynasty, Xue Rengui once herded horses here and rescued Li Shimin with them, hence the name Guanma Mountain. Mountain.In the 90s, Guanma Mountain was contracted by the villagers to build a mine and lime plant. The pits were dug out, and now they are all closed. Various fruit trees have been planted, and the mountain is once again full of green, with wild birds and Rabbits have also returned and occasionally wild boars are spotted.

Gu Weijun remembered that when he was a child, he and his friends skipped class and went to the mountains to pick wild fruits. They had peaches, apricots, plums, and apples, all of which tasted sour and sweet.You can also set up traps to catch rabbits, pheasants, and wild ducks.Rabbits, pheasants, etc. all depend on your luck, but you can build a small dam with mud at the bottom of the pond, dig out the water, touch fish, and catch loaches.Every time I can get a small pot of small crucian carp and loach, smother it with miso, pick a few green onions from the yard, wash a few cabbage, and serve it with sorghum rice or large dregs rice (corn is broken into particles) shape), the taste is amazing!

"Woof woof" the big yellow dog shouted twice, glanced at the visitor and climbed down again.

"The army is back!" The voice of the visitor was loud.

"Hey, uncle, why are you here? Have you had breakfast? Let's have some together." Gu Weijun stood up quickly, greeted the visitor, and handed over cigarettes immediately.

The visitor's surname is Shen, he is in his early 70s, has slightly white hair, is slender, wears a pair of glasses, a long-sleeved T-shirt, and is carrying a black plastic bag in his hand.

He lit the cigarette and took a long drag, "I just came back from the morning market. My grandson likes to eat black pork. Buy some black pork and dried tofu (called Qianzhang or Baiye in the south). It doesn't matter if your courtyard door is open." I'm wondering if your parents are back. I haven't had tea with Dad for a long time." He turned his head and looked around, "When did you arrive? Is your second uncle home?"

"Yes, that's right. I got home yesterday afternoon, and my second uncle went back. He said that his yard had not been plowed yet, so he had to go back and clean it up quickly." Gu Weijun accompanied Uncle Shen to light another cigarette, and then returned to the house. He took the teacup, filled it with tea, and carried it over with both hands.

Uncle Shen took the tea cup and blew it gently, took a sip, picked up another matza next to him and sat down, "Did your dad say when will he come back? Why did you come back at this time this time?"

"My father estimates that it will take another two weeks, when my brother and father-in-law will come to replace the two of them. No, the old couple is thinking about the yard at home, and I happened to come back to tidy it up (Northeast dialect: tidy up, tidy up) when I have free time recently. Come, harvest the corn, potatoes, peanuts and everything else (dig together). Share it when the time comes, and take some back to eat freshly."

"Haha, what else will you do? I'll go back and tell your aunt and ask her to come over and help you pick it up later." Uncle Shen smiled heartily, "Your parents take good care of the yard and the things grow well. , there is no shortage of people to share. Last year your dad even bought a few tons of soil, and the growth is better this year." "No, no, just give us some work. Can you do it since you were a child? I just exercise to lose weight. Yes." Gu Weijun smiled and waved his hand.

"It has to be your dad! Not only is he good at medicine, he is also good at growing vegetables, and he also raised his two sons well. They are both established in the capital. We are the only ones in Puzi (pu, from the same village)!"

"Come on, gentlemen, let's go back now. Come and eat dumplings at home for lunch later." Uncle Shen raised the bag in his hand, took a deep puff of the butt of his cigarette, took a sip of tea, stood up, waved his hands and left.

After Gu Weijun sent Uncle Shen off, he also went back to the house and made a bowl of noodles, cooked two poached eggs, peeled a few cloves of garlic, and slurped until he was full.

A cigarette after a meal makes you feel as happy as a god.After Gu Weijun rested and changed his clothes, he began to clean up the yard.Break the corn first and pick out the tender ones. Just cook the corn in the evening.Then pick the potatoes, peanuts, soybeans, eggplants and peppers first. Then eat the corn. The potatoes are mixed with the big eggplants, it’s a perfect match!Once fresh flowers, peanuts and soybeans are boiled in salt water, it is a perfect side dish to go with wine.

After working for a while and seeing that the time was almost up, Gu Weijun rinsed himself off, changed his clothes, picked up a bottle of Fenjiu, two packs of cigarettes and walked towards Uncle Shen's house.

The dumplings at noon were delicious to Gu Weijun. The local pork was fragrant and it was just simple pork with green onions.The more we drank, the more dumplings we had. The bottle of white wine I brought with me was not enough, so I opened another bottle of local Da Shuai Zui. I drank about 8 taels with Uncle Shen each, and we stopped when we were half drunk.

I went home and made another pot of tea to sober up. I saw that the time was still a quarter of an hour away from two o'clock in the afternoon. It was the hottest time and I didn't want to work in the sun.Gu Weijun suddenly remembered that Aunt Shen said at the dinner table that today was the last day of the temple fair. Wouldn't it be good to cool down after visiting the temple fair before working?Just leave as soon as possible, call the black taxi driver in the village to arrange a ride, and go straight to the Sanxian Empress Temple.

The Three Immortals refer to the three empresses: Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao. When Gu Weijun was in junior high school, he only learned about the origins of these three empresses after watching the TV series Fengshen Yanyi. It turned out that they were the three female immortals from Jiejiao. They were so powerful. The Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation cut off the three flowers on the top of the head of the Twelve Golden Immortal of Chanjiao, extinguished the five qi in the chest, and turned into a mortal.In the end, it was the original Tianzun who was defeated. Who is the original Tianzun?To use the current buzzword on the Internet, that is the big boss!
Gu Weijun also wondered why there was a Temple of the Three Immortals in a small northeastern county that he hadn't seen anywhere else in the country.

The mountain is named after the temple. The mountain of Niangniang Temple is not high. It is estimated that the altitude is only 2 or 300 meters. I remember when I was in junior high school, there were no steps when I came with my parents. I climbed the mountain along the path. The temple was also shabby. I walked past the temple to reach it. There is a spring on the top of the mountain. According to legend, it is the place where the Three Immortals took a bath. Then many people filled mineral water bottles to drink...

The temple fair was really lively, with all kinds of food and fun available from the foot of the mountain to the entrance of Sanxian Temple.Gu Weijun followed the flow along the built steps and first offered incense to Zhao Gongming, the God of Wealth, and then offered incense to the Three Immortals Empress respectively, and finally arrived at the "bath" of the Three Immortals Empress. The "baths" have also changed a lot now. They are built with stones and look well-proportioned. The spring water is no longer turbid. What remains the same is that many people still drink it from mineral water bottles.Gu Weijun also joined in the fun, spent 10 yuan to buy a bottle of water, poured it out and carefully squatted by the water to drink some "fairy bath water".

"Fuck, don't squeeze" "Fuck, it hurts!"

Gu Weijun staggered due to the squeeze and was almost pushed into the water. Fortunately, he reacted in time and pressed his left hand on the edge of the water. Unexpectedly, he happened to press it on a stone with two sharp tips, making his hand full of blood.I picked up the stone and stood up to throw it away, but suddenly I felt an inexplicable feeling in my heart, so I put the stone into my trouser pocket.I rinsed my hands with the freshly poured water, glanced at the old lady behind me, muttered something bad, turned around and went down the mountain to go home.

After returning home, Gu Weijun immediately went to Westinghouse's clinic to disinfect the wound with iodine, put a band-aid on it, and then threw the dirty clothes into the washing machine.He took out the blood-stained stone and shook his head, placed it on the ground in the main room, and went out to continue tidying up the yard.Gu Weijun, who was going out, didn't see two faint lights flashing past the stone.

After a busy day of physical work, Gu Weijun lay on the kang, feeling the soreness of his muscles. He watched "Love in the Courtyard" played on TV and secretly cheered himself up, "Tomorrow is a good day!"

“Another good night’s sleep!”

"Fuck, where am I? Who am I?"

The confused Gu Weijun looked around the dilapidated house and glanced at the perpetual calendar hanging on the wall: September 1962, 9...

"What's going on? Prank? Making a movie?" Then a stream of memories appeared in his mind, and Gu Weijun fell asleep again.

(End of this chapter)