Gu Weijun stretched out for a long time, "It's really good to sleep. It's better to live in the countryside and be comfortable! This special thing is to work hard every day. Every month, it's just a few taels of silver! Moreover, several people feel good about themselves every day. I don't know the so-called stupid PUA, but they also have to pick two problems if they have nothing to do with it. How awesome they are! If they were during the Anti Japanese War, they would be special traitors and white dogs! Even the boss of the company feels sweaty after squeezing the people below. I bah! "
Gu Weijun, male, 45 years old, was also a middle-level cadre of a listed company. His family is happy. He has a house and a car in Beijing. Others regard him as a successful person. Unfortunately, after the epidemic, the general environment was not good, and WN Company created difficulties and transferred jobs for various reasons, so they had no choice but to resign on their own initiative... It's no good not to resign on their own initiative, or resign on their own initiative again. Maybe there will be no more people after a period of time. Under pressure, insomnia, hair loss, irregular heartbeat, and so on
Well, the corn and potatoes in the yard of my hometown in Northeast China are ripe. Take this opportunity to come back and clean up, relax and recuperate. In fact, it is also a helpless move: after interviewing for several positions, at least three rounds of interviews, we were politely persuaded to quit... Although you have rich experience and good contacts in the industry, we still want to find someone under 35, with more energy! Where can I reason. Not to mention private enterprises, even public hospitals have dismissed nurses over 44 years old.
"How can the working class become migrant workers and peasant brothers become migrant workers?"
Seeing the time, Gu Weijun washed with well water just after 6:00 in the morning. Although it was September and autumn tigers were still raging, it was cold in the morning of Northeast China. The cold well water refreshed Gu Weijun. Using tap water to make a pot of tea and light a cigarette, Gu Weijun sits on the pony, drinking tea and smoking while looking at the yard he grew up in.
Northeast rural areas are sparsely populated, especially in recent years, the population outflow is the first in the country. As early as 10 years ago, the birth rate was below 1.0. Therefore, the farmyard in Northeast China is basically large.
The house of Gu Weijun's hometown faces south from the north and is divided into five large tile houses. The middle door is the main room, the east room is the living room and bedroom, and the west room was later transformed into a consulting room and pharmacy, mainly a medicine cabinet. The kitchen and storage room are in the back room separated from each other, so that the large stove and stove are more likely to heat the kang in the bedroom. In front of the house, nearly 2m wide cement floor was plastered, and the middle cement corridor extended to the courtyard gate. On both sides of the house, there are two side rooms to install some sundries. On the west side, there is a bathroom behind the wall, with solar water heaters installed on the top.
The courtyard is about 28 meters wide and 35 meters long. The grape trellis on the aisle in the middle of the house has been covered with green and red grapes, and many of them have been picked and eaten by the neighbors; Several apple trees, peach trees, plum and jujube trees near the gate of the courtyard all asked the neighbors to help pick them up and divide them. The remaining jujube trees were still too early to mature. They also told the neighbors that if they didn't have time to come back, they would ask the neighbors to divide them.
The east and west sides of the yard are planted with Lianglong corn, scallions, radishes, potatoes, beans, eggplants, peppers, soybeans, peanuts, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc., and the corners are also planted with cabbages, lettuce, leeks, and pumpkins.
On the left side near the gate of the yard is the toilet and the original pigsty. Now there are several chickens in it. On the right side are firewood stacks and coal, and a yellow dog is tied.
Out of the courtyard, it is a small road paved with cement and stone, which can be regarded as the main road of the village. On the other side of the road is a large pond. Thanks to the national policy of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", it has recovered to the appearance of swaying reeds and rippling waves. Gradually, many old men come here again to fish.
About 500 meters behind the courtyard is a continuous mountain range. The mountain belonging to the village is called Guanma Mountain. It is said that Xue Rengui once set off his horse here and saved Li Shimin, so it was named Guanma Mountain. In the 1990s, Guanma Mountain was contracted by the villagers to be a mining plant and a lime factory. The hollows dug by the villagers have also been closed, and various fruit trees have been planted, which once again show the green of the mountain. Wild birds and hares have also reappeared, and wild boars are occasionally found.
Gu Weijun remembered that when he was young, he played truant with his friends and went to the mountain to pick wild fruits. Peaches, apricots, plums and apples all tasted sour and sweet. You can also catch rabbits, pheasants and ducks. Rabbits and pheasants depend on luck, but go to the pond to build a small dam with bottom mud, drain the water, fish and catch loaches. Every time, I can make a small pot of small crucian carp and loach. I can use the big sauce to suffocate them. I can pick up some onions in the yard, wash a few small cabbages, and serve them with sorghum rice rice rice or big dregs rice rice (the corn is broken into grains). It's delicious!
"Bark, bark," yelled the yellow dog twice, gave a glance, and the man climbed down again.
"Army, come back!" The voice of the visitor was loud.
"Yo, uncle, why are you here? Did you have breakfast? Let's have some together." Gu Weijun quickly got up, greeted the visitor, and immediately handed the cigarette.
The visitor's surname is Shen. He is in his early 70s. His hair is slightly white, his body is slender, and he wears a pair of glasses, a long sleeved T-shirt, and a black plastic bag in his hand.
He lit a cigarette and took a long breath. "I just came back from the morning market. My grandson doesn't like to eat black pork. He buys some black pork and dried tofu (called Qianzhang or Baiye in the south). It doesn't depend on whether your courtyard door is open. I wonder if your parents have come back. I haven't had tea with your father for a long time." He turned around and looked around. "When did you arrive? Did your second uncle go home?"
"Yes, I got home yesterday afternoon, so my second uncle went back and said that his yard had been confiscated, so he had to hurry back to clean it up." Gu Weijun accompanied Uncle Shen to light another cigarette, and then returned to the house to fill his cup with tea, and he put his hands on it.
Uncle Shen took the tea cup and blew it gently. He took a sip, picked up another horse post on the side and sat down. "Your father said when he would come back? How did you come back this time?"
"My father estimates that it will be two weeks before my brother's father-in-law goes to replace the couple. Well, the old couple misses the yard at home, and I just came back to pick it up when I was free recently (Northeast dialect: tidy up, tidy up). I collected the corn, potatoes, and peanuts (digging together). When the time comes, I will divide them and bring them back to eat fresh."
"Ha ha, what are you going to do? I'll go back to talk to your aunt and ask her to help you pick it up later." Uncle Shen smiled heartily
"No, no, just do some work. Can you do it since childhood? It's just time to exercise and lose weight." Gu Weijun smiled and waved.
"It must be your father! Not only is he good at medicine and food, but also the two sons are well trained. They are both based in the capital. We (Pu, the same village) are the only one!"
"Come on, man, go back first, and come home to eat dumplings later in the afternoon." Uncle Shen raised the bag in his hand, took a deep breath of his cigarette butt, drank a cup of tea, stood up and waved away.
Gu Weijun sent Uncle Shen away, and went back to the house to put down a bowl of noodles, lay down two poached eggs, peeled a few cloves of garlic, and made a round belly.
A cigarette after dinner is as happy as a fairy. Gu Weijun rested, changed his clothes, and began to tidy up the yard. First break the corn, select the tender ones, and cook the corn at night. Then pull out potatoes and peanuts, soybeans, eggplants and peppers, and chew corn, which is a perfect match for potatoes mixed with large eggplants! Once the fresh peanuts and soybeans are boiled in brine, the wine and dishes will be ready.
Stop working. Seeing that the time is running out, Gu Weijun rinses himself, changes his clothes, carries a bottle of Fenjiu, carries two packs of cigarettes, and walks to Uncle Shen's house.
At noon, Gu Weijun enjoyed the dumplings. The local pork is fragrant, and it is simple pork and scallions. There was more and more wine in the dumpling. I didn't have enough white wine with me, so I opened a bottle of local Marshal Drunken. I drank with Uncle Shen alone for about 8 liang, and then stopped half drunk.
Go home and make a new pot of tea to sober up. When I saw that it was still a quarter of an hour to two 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. Isn't it just right to stay cool and work again after visiting the temple fair? Say go, call the driver of the black car in the village to arrange a car, and go straight to the Three Immortals and the Goddess Temple.
The Three Immortals Goddess refers to: Yunxiao, Bixiao and Qiong Xiao. Gu Weijun learned the origin of these three goddesses when he watched the Fengshen Romance TV play in junior high school. They turned out to be three female immortals who had been cut off from teaching. They were in a terrible mess. The Nine Yellow River Array cut off the top three flowers of the twelve golden immortals who were explaining the teachings, destroyed the five qi in the chest, and became mortals. In the end, it was the original heavenly reverence that failed. Who was the original heavenly reverence? With the popular words on the Internet, that's a big boss!
Gu Weijun was also surprised that he had never seen it in other places in China, but a small county in the northeast would have the Three Immortals and Niangniang Temple?
The mountain got its name from the Temple. The Niangniang Temple is not high, and it is estimated that the altitude is only 2 or 300 meters. I remember that when I came with my parents in junior high school, there was no step. The temple was also dilapidated when I climbed along the path. There was a hole in the spring when I crossed the temple to the top of the mountain. It is said that it was the place where the Three Immortals took a bath. Then many people filled water with mineral water bottles
The temple fair was really lively, with all kinds of food and play from the foot of the mountain to the entrance of the Sanxian Temple. Gu Weijun followed the stream along the steps he built, first incense to Zhao Gongming, the god of wealth, and then incense to the Three Immortals Empress respectively, and finally arrived at the "bathtub" of the Three Immortals Empress. "Bathtubs" are also very different now. They are all built with stones. They look well arranged and the spring water is no longer muddy. What remains unchanged is that many people drink from mineral water bottles. Gu Weijun also rushed to the party. He spent 10 yuan to buy a bottle of water and poured it out. He squatted carefully beside the water and poured some "immortal bath water".
"Fuck me, don't squeeze me" "Fuck me, it hurts!"
Gu Weijun was staggered and almost pushed into the water. Fortunately, his left hand pressed down on the water's edge in time. Unexpectedly, he just pressed on a stone with two sharp points, which made his hands full of blood. I picked up the stone and started to throw it. Suddenly, I felt a strange feeling in my heart, so I put the stone into my pants pocket. He flushed his hand with the fresh water, looked at the old lady behind him, cried out his doom, and turned down the mountain to go home.
When he got home, Gu Weijun went to the consulting room of Westinghouse to disinfect the wound with iodine, put on the band aid, and then threw the dirty clothes into the washing machine. He took out a stone stained with blood, shook his head, put it on the ground of the main room, and went out to continue to tidy the yard. Gu Weijun did not see it when he went out. Two dim lights flashed on the stone.
Gu Weijun, who had been busy doing physical work all day, lay on the kang, feeling the pain of his muscles, watching the TV show "Love Full Siheyuan", secretly cheered himself up, "Tomorrow is a good day!"
"Another good night's sleep!"
"Shit, where am I? Who am I?"
Stunned, Gu Weijun looked at the dilapidated house and scanned the perpetual calendar hanging on the wall: September 1, 1962
"What happened? A prank? Making a movie?" Then a stream of memory came to his mind, and Gu Weijun fell asleep again.
