When someone asks me about my hometown, I will answer like this: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Chifeng City, Wengniuet Banner, Wutonghua Town, Toupai Zi Township, Zhaojia Wupu Brigade, Xiaoheishan Village, East Group. Aren't the place names long? Indeed, I also think so, but this is the birth of me to raise me that place.
Now, after my parents, my wife and I work together, finally left there, to shorten the residential address, settled in the city of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. It is also a fulfillment of my parents' greatest expectation of me as a child: even if I go to the city as a watchdog, I have to leave this dead mountain valley!
Whenever I think back to my hometown, I can't think of any more representative words than poverty and mountain valley.
Every Spring Festival, go back to their hometowns to pay tribute to their ancestors is a traditional custom of the Chinese people, and our place is the same. Here the so-called hometown ancestor worship, that is, buy some incense and candles paper money, to the deceased ancestors ancestors graves lit, kneeling, pay homage to a little.
This year is no exception, on the sixth day of the lunar month, I drove from Chifeng to go back to his hometown to pay tribute to his ancestors.
Before I left, I gave my third uncle a call. He said, "Come back, the road is better now."
In my father's generation, there were four brothers and one sister, and my father was the oldest. In my generation, I am the only boy, and I am still the oldest, with ten sisters. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a long journey, and I was able to get to the bottom of it. Nowadays, there are only two families in my hometown: my third uncle and my aunt. The other uncles and aunts and my ten sisters are all out of town. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and you'll be able to do that with your own personalized products.
I drove down the highway and felt that the road was really much better. The "ten full coverage" project in Inner Mongolia has made the countryside roads from Wengniuet Banner to my hometown all cemented, spacious, flat, and no more potholes and dusty.
The first thing I felt when I entered the village was that the houses were neat and beautiful. According to Uncle Sam, last year, the government paid for the village houses in the repair, the original mud courtyard wall knocked down, built into brick walls. Solar streetlights were installed on both sides of the road. The village also connected to the tap water.
Then the feeling is very quiet, can't hear the chicken barking, more can't hear the bustling people. The first time I saw this, I couldn't help but sigh: "Although the houses are quite nice, but there are not many people in the village, dead, gone, the rest, I can count them on my fingers. There are still four households in the west end of the village, and a little more in the east end of the village, with seven households. The total number of people, all at home, is less than twenty people, a household can not spread two people!"
On the graveyard, Uncle Sam and I lit incense and candles, picked up the paper money and burned it from grave to grave, paying homage. Every grave, three uncle will introduce me to the ancestors in this tomb. To tell you the truth, even if we were introduced every year, what I, as an ungrateful grandson, could remember was very limited. The new graves on the cemetery, the three uncle is even more inevitable to have to lament.
From the cemetery, we went to the neighbor's house with Uncle Sam to visit her old lady.
The grandmother is over 80 years old, one eye is blind, but the other is still bright. When I walked into the house with my uncle, she recognized me on the kang and said excitedly, "Aiya Aiya! If it isn't Little Feilong (my nickname)! Hey, you've grown up again, you're still in the city!" From the time I left the village in my teens, to now I'm nearly there, her old man every time I see me is this talk.
I went up to her and held her dry but warm hand, sat down next to her and said, "Granny, you are still so tough, your body and spirit are very good!"
When she heard this, she laughed with tears in her eyes and said, "Hey! Look at my eldest grandson, really good at talking, hey! I'm not going to be able to do that, I'm going to be able to do that! The next one to die will be me," she said! I can't do it anymore, I'm spoiling the food for nothing, I'll be damned."
I hastened to talk to her about the weather and rain this year, the price of food, the harvest situation, to change the subject.
The first time I saw the movie, I was able to get a good look at the movie, and I was able to get a good look at the movie.
The hillside field behind the village was rented by a listed company in Henan Province for a long time, and a large farm was built. The company's main business is raising pigs and producing fertilizers. Although there are not many families in the village, but they are installed with mobile networks, cell phones can be online, watching short videos and online K song. In the evening, there will also be villagers to go to the small square in the middle of the village to dance square dance.
"Six people, four old ladies, two old men, three crooked to the left, two swaying to the right, and one twisted twice and had to sit down to rest, haha!" Third uncle said with a smile.
The topic of conversation is still the farm of this listed company. After all, this is for many years, happened in the village's biggest new thing. It is said that a lot of money has been invested and a lot of pigs have been raised in it. Only, the workers are not well recruited.
I was wondering, listed companies, treatment is very good, how can it be bad to recruit workers?
The third uncle laughed: "They only need young people under forty-five years old to recruit workers, and there are no young people in the village. Then, they went to the city to recruit, I heard it is a listed company, came a lot of college students. They came here to take a look! Oh, my God! After all this time, they were feeding pigs, giving injections to pigs, breeding pigs, delivering babies, bathing pigs, massaging pigs, and cleaning up pig manure in the ravine! Haha! Some of them lasted three months, while others left without putting down their luggage."
Hearing him say this, everyone laughed again.
I said, "Then the young people outside do not come, our local young people, close to the employment, is not quite good?"
"Haha! What? I'm not going to be able to get a good deal on a new one, but I'm going to be able to get a good deal on a new one. This is not a good idea. Even if the child is willing, we as parents will not do it! The first time I saw this, it was a very good idea to go back to the house and get a new one. The first time I saw this, I was able to see it in the back of my head.
Everyone laughed again.
The so-called everyone, in fact, because I this "city people" back to the village, the whole village east of the people can get out of the house came!
I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that!
The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night. Nowadays, the standard of living in the village is not worse than that in the city, but also big fish and meat, and then warmed up two bottles of Erguotou in a big teapot, not much longer, we all drank too much. Then, the dishes on the kang table were removed, wiped with a rag, and the poker was brought up. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
Speaking of landlords, my aunt's family is a real landlord in the village nowadays. Most of the people in the village have gone to the city, there is a lot of unused land, so my aunt has contracted some of it, plus her own family, a total of more than 200 acres, of course, most of them are mountainous.
As soon as I talked about my aunt as a landlord, she herself was very calm. She said: "The field is indeed a lot, but because most of them are mountains, so planting is a bit like betting, whether to make money depends on luck. Good luck, catch a good year, rainfall has a good harvest. Bad luck, drought, hail, pests and diseases, not only do not make money, but also to lose seed fertilizer and labor costs. Now the labor costs can be great, busy, to those fields less village to pick up the workers (fields less moncler jackets outlet), car pick up and delivery, lunch, wine and meat, only nine hours a day, wages per day more than a hundred, even if the distance from the ridge is only ten meters away, a time to see, immediately quit. Said it was rushing back to the square dance! Hey! Idle hearts are really big! We farmers, it's not easy to dig up food in the soil!"
But when it comes to rural life, everyone is happy. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots, and you'll be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots. Even in the event of a disaster year is not afraid, agricultural insurance and various relief combined, more than the good years income, so do not worry. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
I said: "In the past, the family raised donkeys, pigs, goats, chickens and so on, at least have to raise a dog, right? How come you don't have a dog now?"
The third uncle, while fighting the landlord, said: "Well! In the past, donkeys were raised for the purpose of planting, and now all use tractors, the donkeys are idle, in the circle jumping high backward (liao four sound) prostrate, the village west of the old Yangtou let the donkeys to the ribs kicked out of the broken bones, almost did not die in the hospital. Pig farming also requires three meals a day, which is troublesome. Sheep used to be able to go to the mountains, but now they are not allowed, saying that they damage the environment, so they are raised at home, which is also quite troublesome. This year, the family did raise eight roosters, ready to kill the New Year's Eve chicken, but just to the summer on the weasel bites five dead, the remaining three I hurriedly killed and ate, or else all into it. Raising a dog is useless, used to be a watchman, now the village is left with these people, money are deposited in the bank, the family is just a bag of rice, you give him a bag of rice, let him to carry, are too lazy to move! For two! He has to shovel dog shit every day, so he doesn't raise anything anymore. The farm is busy on the work, the farm is free to play mahjong, fight the landlord, play the right tune (Chifeng region of a poker game), in addition to the small number of people is not good to put together the game, the other are good!"
He spoke in a set of words, I can not hold back the laughter.
Now, rural children do not spend money to study, elementary school students to school bus transportation, the university not only has a student loan, the village and townships and city halls to more than a few tens of thousands of less than a few thousand dollars in scholarships. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to pay for this! I really sigh that I was born a little early, did not catch these good things! However, nowadays, the children in the rural areas are not in the village, but live with their parents in the towns and cities.
We all laughed when we talked about rural development.
The third uncle said: "Rural development depends on what (resources) are available in the village, relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to eat water. We've got poor mountains and no water," he said! What development? What development? The old ones who can work the land, the old ones are old and the dead ones are dead. The younger ones, not to mention farming to make money, you let them go back to the countryside to pick up money, they may not even come back! Oh, of course, you can't say that absolutely. There are, but there are few! Yes! Your aunt will be the biggest landowner in our village! Don't move! Bomb! Haha! I've won!" The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a card and drop it on the table.
There was another round of laughter.
As night fell, the streetlights came on, and the village quieted down!
I was lying under the covers, the house was heated, but my nose was cold. I tossed and turned, the bed was too hot! Listening to the TV set star big shot jokes, listening to Uncle Sam's thunderous snoring, it was hard to sleep for a long time.
The next day, the sun rose, the distant mountains remain, I drove away: hometown! I'll see you in the coming year!
The car stereo is playing Zhao Lei's "Chengdu", my heart is really difficult to calm: hometown! You keep our hearts, give us so many eternal memories, but how to keep our people, so that the children away from home happy to return, no longer leave!
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PS: I heard that I want to write a handbook for returning home, Uncle Sam sent me a few photos of his hometown that he took with his cell phone in the fall. I thought the shots were pretty good, so I gladly used them.