The small stream in my hometown is so lovely, the water is clear, bright, soft, warm in winter and cool in summer.
The stream is actually mountain spring water, which originates from two places. One is the "White Tiger Mountain" in the north, and the other is the "Cauliflower Fairy Cave" in the east. Two clear springs burst out from the cracks in the stones, rushing down along the mountains and valleys, all the way forward, undertaking the rain and dew, not letting the trickle flow, and gradually achieving this stream. The stream is not in a hurry, it is flowing. Villagers build dams along the stream and use the stream water to irrigate their fields. The creek runs through the villages, bringing convenience to both banks. Throughout the year, villagers wash vegetables, sheets, and laundry by the stream, ...... the streamEspecially after the twentieth day of the lunar month every year, the stream is full of people and lively. Some slaughter sheep, some slaughter dogs, and some are disembowel......ing chickens, ducks and fish
The villagers are busy with the New Year.
Twenty-five, push tofu; Twenty-six, kill the pig; Twenty-seven, kill the New Year's chicken; Twenty-eighth, playing poop; Twenty-nine, there are all kinds of things; Thirty nights, a big festival. These words have been sung for a long time, and have long become the schedule of the Tujia people on both sides of the creek for a few days at the end of the year. The Tujia people here are not divided into "Chinese New Year's Eve" and "Spring Festival", and "Chinese New Year's Eve" and "Spring Festival" are all "New Year" and "New Year", until the fifteenth day of the first month of the New Year.
That year, my father and mother were alive, and I went home for the New Year.
On the night of the twenty-sixth, the sky was overcast, with a cold wind blowing and a drizzle.
The next morning, the rime covered the mountains and fields, like a light snow! As far as the eye can see, the white expanse, "White Tiger Mountain" is more like a lying white tiger. The pine and cypress trees on the opposite side of the old house, the dwarf shrubs, and the barmech all over the mountain, were all dressed in silver overnight. Some of the dwarf grass and trees are shaded by large trees, showing a small dark black color. In the mountains and wilderness, high and low are staggered, black and white, just like the artist's "rime" ink painting. On the surface of the stream, clouds of white mist are slowly steaming. On both sides of the stream, it seems that two long dark black streamers are tied - the grass and trees on both sides enjoy the blessings of the stream, and the mist drives away the ice and snow.
After breakfast, my mother told me to kill the big. I feel a little sudden, it's only twenty-seven today, why did I kill a chicken? Seeing that my face was embarrassed, my mother said, don't you know? "Twenty-seven, kill the New Year's chicken." Besides, sparrows also have thirty nights, Chinese New Year's Eve, can't kill chickens. I suddenly realized that during the Chinese New Year, the old man has compassion for chickens and ducks! Maybe it's the customs and habits of our Tujia people that have been passed down from generation to generation.
Stripped of the chicken feathers, I carried the chicken to the stream.
Ah, there are so many people!
On both sides of the stream, there are rows of small piers, large stone slabs, from top to bottom, every pier, every stone slab, there are people squatting. Each person dragged a chicken in their hands, or washed, or disemboweled, or turned over the chicken intestines......Busy in his hands, talking and laughing in his mouth. Up and down the stream, the sound of words, the sound of laughter.
There are too many docks and stone piers, and they are full of people.
From top to bottom, a whole stream, only to see the crowds of people, the water ripples. In addition to cutting chicken belly and turning chicken intestines, there are also washing tofu pads, washing tofu racks, washing yellowed pig's heads and pork legs, and washing mutton and dog ......legsThe top few were washing dried bamboo shoots and large cuttlefish ......
Alas, how can there be any vacant seats! In desperation, he spread a piece of paper on the ground and sat by the stream. Let's go again when there is a vacancy, it's still early anyway, no hurry. As soon as I sat down, I heard the sound of two women talking on the other side of the stream.
Is the dick home? When will it be back? "This is the old lady asking the **.
Yesterday, in the evening, for the New Year, there are elderly people at home, and I have to visit once a year when I am busy! ”
Well, yes. It is worthy of being cultured and knows how to be filial. ”
Your Zhang Xiao and his daughter-in-law are back, right? ”
Came back, came back the day before yesterday, they bought a car and drove it back on their own. ”
Bought a car! Definitely got rich. ”
What kind of fortune, I guess I borrowed money to buy it. Two months ago, I sent me a photograph of my daughter-in-law, who was dressed in decent clothes, but her pants were torn and there were holes in both knees. In these years, who still wears tattered clothes and pants! ”
Hahaha......Laughing out loud, "* That's how strange it is for you to see it, young women nowadays are popular to wear jeans with holes in their knees, that's not poor, that's fashionable, follow the trend!" ”
Yes. On the day I got home, I wore only a pair of shorts. In this cold day, people seem to be beaten with iron! ”
Hahaha......Hahaha......The few **s on the side all laughed in unison.
I laughed to myself, time has passed, and the older generation is really outdated.
The man on the stone pier finally left, and I strode over and stepped onto the stone pier. As soon as he put down the chicken and kitchen knife in his hand, a middle-aged man who was dressed quite well, holding two chickens in his hand, also kicked up.
Who is so reckless? When I turned my head, I was a little familiar, and I couldn't name it.
Isn't this Brother Yong? I don't recognize it, I'm Tianyi! ”
Oh, oh......I think of it, Tianyi in the opposite village, nicknamed 'tired five'. ”
Yes. When did my brother come back? ”
Twenty-four. I've heard people say that you have opened a factory outside and become a boss, is it true? ”
Don't hide it, the factory is one, and it is not a big boss, just one or two hundred people. ”
I know, you studied mold major. I heard that the original factory was not profitable, so you quit and started your own business! ”
Yes, people can't hang themselves from a tree, everything is forced out! I think everyone has potential, and it's good to stimulate it in a difficult situation. No matter what the difficulty, believe that you can handle it. If you are in a hurry, you can go to Liangshan, and the situation can create heroes. If you are poor, you will think about change, and only when people are under pressure can they be motivated. Brother Yong, what do you say! ”
Admire, admire! Brother admires you, you have ideas and actions, and you dare to act! I heard that your brother was also called by you, really? ”
Yes, you know, my brother is honest, he is still a single, and he is not young anymore, and he has no ability to cultivate the land, so it is also a matter to ask him to go to the factory to see the door. ”
Brother feels sorry for my brother, it should be, brotherhood! ”
Come to me when you have time, let's have a drink! ”
No, no! Look at you and me, how can I have free time, let's get together in a few days! ”
Good, good! ”
While the conversation was in full swing, a few young men drove a flock of goats to the stream.
Slaughter sheep, sell mutton! There was a shout. Isn't that Ma San? Where did he get his sheep? As soon as I said hello, I jumped to the shore.
Ma San is a distant relative of mine, and I am familiar with it. In the past, I only planted a few acres of land, and didn't do anything else. I walked over and saw clearly, it was indeed Ma San.
Ma San, you have learned to 'speculate', where did this group of goats come from? ”
Oh, it's Brother Yong! Coming home for the New Year? ”
Yes, one is to celebrate the New Year, and the other is to see my parents. Kill two birds with one stone. ”
Yes, both of them are old. Brother, you are a little underestimated when you say that, the sheep are not abducted, they are my free-range ......”
Hey, look at the sheep, let's talk a few words, it's rare to see each other. After greeting a few guys, Ma San started talking to me with great interest.
He said that in the past few years, he has been tending to those few acres of rice fields, and although there is water from a small stream for irrigation, there is no drought and enough to eat, but it is difficult to use money. The annual expenditure is tens of thousands, and it is not enough to just farm, so I have to find a separate way, and then I thought of raising goats. The price of goats is good, mutton sells for up to 30 yuan per catty, and three catties of mutton can buy 100 catties of rice, why not do it? Just do it, first build a few sheepfolds in a place called "Wildcat Cave" halfway up the mountain of Yanmen Creek. After that, I carried more than 10,000 yuan, and I took a boat and a car, and I traveled thousands of miles to buy a group of local goats from a small village in Laifeng, Hubei.
A year later, the cost had tripled. This year is the fourth year, and I have made a fortune. As he spoke, he laughed "hehe", looking very proud.
The more he talked, the more energetic he became, and he continued to say with his eyebrows fluttering, in fact, it is not too difficult to raise sheep, and it is necessary to learn some goat disease prevention knowledge, otherwise, it will be difficult for sheep to get sick, and if a few die of disease, it will be a big loss.
Don't invest too much in raising sheep, eat, there is grass on the mountain; Drinking, the brook has water. The grass that goats eat is green and natural; Drinking water, pure mountain spring, no pollution. There are about 300 sheep per year.
Villagers have happy events to buy, and restaurants in the city use cars to tow them, so they don't have to worry about sales. Calculate it this way, how much income you get, it's strange if you don't make it! The 10 who came today are ready to slaughter and sell mutton for everyone to celebrate the New Year.
Slaughtering by the stream, shaving, rinsing, and turning the intestines are all convenient. The creek has a lot of water, and it is used unbridledly; The water is clean, the meat is good-looking, and the lamb is in demand.
He estimated that 10 sheep, each with more than 50 catties of meat, could be sold for more than 10,000 yuan. It's changed, the little brother has more elves than before.
On the morning of the 28th, when I came back and walked through the creek, I saw the eldest aunt and sister-in-law in the village washing the retorts and soaking the baba in the stream.
So he bent down and asked his cousin and sister-in-law beside him: "Sister-in-law, what are you doing washing this bucket?" ”
It's not a bucket, it's a retort. The retort is steamed glutinous rice, and the gas is beaten into baba. 'Twenty-eight, hit the baba', today on the twenty-eighth, make glutinous rice baba in the afternoon, come and eat! ”
Oh, I forgot. Come, come, come! In the afternoon, when I came to my cousin's house, I saw the scene of pooping. The scene was lively enough, a few strong guys in the house were in charge of the beating, and a group of women were in charge of making poop. Everyone talked and laughed while doing things, and the smile opened up one by one, filling the room with a festive atmosphere.
A little flower dog scurried around in the crowd, sniffing this and looking at that. As soon as the poop was ready, a group of laughing children clamored to eat it, and the adults gave it to each of them.
As soon as the poop arrived, a little girl made a coughing sound of "click, click".
The mother next to her hurriedly put down her work, held the child's cheeks with both hands, and scolded the child repeatedly: "Who told you to eat while making trouble, poop choked, spit out, spit out!" ”
Wow", a ball of poop fell from the child's mouth.
The little girl laughed again and turned to burrow into the crowd of children. The little flower dog saw it, and rushed over, quickly picking up the lump of poop into his mouth ......In less than two minutes, the little flower dog hid in the corner of the wall and barked "hum, hum, hum".
The puppy was squatting on the ground, and the two front **s were scratching their cheeks in exchange and looking uncomfortable - the poop stuck its mouth.
Twenty-nine, there is everything. The weather was also good that day, and I heard that Teng Xuan was breeding "rice fish" in the paddy field by the Yanmen Creek and made a fortune.
So, I wanted to see the fish farm he built by the stream.
People in the village, I understand. He is lower than me, so he should call me "uncle".
Teng Xuan had polio, his right foot was disabled, and he walked with a limp, which made people sympathetic.
Although he is physically disabled, he is very smart, and now he has really done a career.
I walked up the creek and came to the bottom of the fish farm in a short time.
The first thing that catches your eye is a huge billboard - "Village Rice and Flower Fish Breeding Base", which stands on the right bank of the creek and is particularly conspicuous.
Looking up along the stream, on both sides of the creek, more than 100 acres of rice fields of all sizes have been changed into fish ponds, and between the fish ponds and fish ponds, cement partition walls have been built.
Standing on a high place and looking down, it looks like two huge chessboards.
You kid, you have courage! "I can't help but be amazed.
Uncle, it's you! Come in and sit! Unexpectedly, Teng Xuan rushed out from behind me.
I heard that you have fish, so let's take a look. So much, get rich! ”
Let's go, let's go inside and have a cup of tea, let's talk about it in detail. ”
In front of me, a brick and wood structure house, with two floors, red tiles and white walls, curtains and glass, quite beautiful.
After entering the house, Teng Xuan made a cup of "Jietan" tea and handed it over, and then opened the conversation - he said that although he was not in good health, his brain was still good. If you are in good health, you may not be able to do fish farming.
Human potential is unlimited, if you can't do big things, just do small things! Fish farming has also been considered a success, and the "rice fish" has "swam" to the wholesale market in the city and "jumped" to the high-end tables in the city.
Today, we can sell fresh fish all year round, and we plan to expand our ...... next year
Speaking of this, I have to thank **, I care too much about the disabled in the countryside.
First it was an interest-free loan, and then it was a free fund, otherwise how could there be money to build these fish ponds! It costs money to buy fish fry!
Yes, we should thank the party and **, and don't forget to dig wells! Are there still fish now? ”
Yes, what if I don't prepare some fish? Let's go, let's see. ”
Walking on the partition wall of the fish pond made of concrete, you can see the fish pond at your feet.
The water in the pool is clear and muddy. Teng Xuan said that the water in the pond is clear when the fish is not active, and the fish will muddy the water as soon as they move.
Whoa, whoa", a large carp rolled up a string of waves, muddying a corner of the fish pond, and my shoes were also wet.
The fish pond is surrounded by tall bamboo shoots, in the middle of the pond, there are lotus leaves, although there are not many lotus leaves, it is the best decoration of the fish pond.
At this time, the sun drilled through the thick clouds, and the earth sprinkled a layer of golden light. Schools of fish, big and small, swam out, amusing each other and poking their heads out of the water from time to time.
I laughed to myself, the fish also want to see the outside world, and they also want to take advantage of the sun to move their muscles! The fish drilled out of the tall bamboo shoots and shuttled between the lotus leaves, with the poetic and picturesque meaning of "fish playing among the lotus leaves".
It's a pity that in winter, I can't see the beautiful scenery of "the lotus flowers are different red".
Seeing that I was fascinated, Teng Xuan pulled me, pointed to a dam of clear flowing water in front of him, and said to me, "Uncle, look at this water, how clear and pure, how good it is for raising fish!" ”
We talked and walked, and after a while we walked down the partition wall and stepped onto a dam.
Teng Xuan said that under his feet is a dam built from the source of the creek, which flows into the fish pond below, and the living water is continuous all year round, and the fish raised are of good meat quality and good taste. Unlike some fish, it tastes bad like eating tofu residue. For this reason, fish is in short supply.
People, as long as you have a good brain, you can make money. ”
How so? I asked.
For example, if the fish is slightly processed, the price will be doubled. He said that the fresh fish was salted and put into the pottery jar to make sour fish, and the fish was brought to the jar for 100 yuan, which was very good. A small jar is only two catties of fresh fish, and I earned it, 50 yuan a catty! I also know that this sour fish is a must-have in my place.
This stream is a mountain spring, the water temperature is lower than elsewhere, there are no impurities, no pollution. The fish that lives in the spring water tastes good, and the pickled sour fish is not strange.
Well, there's a set! Are we the only fish farmer here? I asked.
What's more, He Lan in the opposite village also raised "rice flower fish". As he spoke, he pointed to a rice field downstream of the creek, "Look at that large area, it is He Lan's 'rice flower fish'." The dam by the stream was built by him for fish farming.
We share a stream of water with me, and the quality is the same, and the fish are good. "Suddenly, my phone rang, and it was my mother urging me to go home for dinner.
The words were still unfinished, and he had to shake hands with Teng Xuan to say goodbye.
After dinner, go to the grain drying field by the stream for a walk, pass by several houses in the village, the Spring Festival couplets are pasted: "Spring harmonic scenery show, the three rural areas of the new career", "go out to seek wealth and good luck, start a business at home" ......
The Spring Festival couplets that symbolize auspiciousness and frankly express their hearts have been pasted on the small door.
The small mountain village is already in a strong spring atmosphere.
Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one. Wang Anshi's poem immediately came to mind.
Standing in the barn, looking south along the creek, a road runs through the creek.
On both sides of the creek, the lights are like day; In front of each house, the lanterns are shining, and it is a scene of a rural town.
Under the street lamps, there are small cars parked, although they are not high-end, but they are also magnificent in the countryside.
In front of several businesses on both sides of the creek, people come and go, and there is an endless stream. A wisp of sunset drifting from the sky was like a half-gray and half-red rouge ......
Knock, knock, knock......Knock, knock, knock......The "Xiying Gate" cannon rushed straight into the sky on both sides of the creek.
Crackle, crackle, crackle......Crackling ......The sound of firecrackers echoed in the villages on both sides of the stream.
It was still ...... the twenty-ninth month of the lunar month
Tomorrow, what will tomorrow look like?
I thought, and I look forward to—