Zhang Laogen got up a little early on the 30th, probably because of the cold weather. The dogs in his yard were a little hungry. Early in the morning, the stray dogs that Zhang Laogen took in in his yard made an appointment. The old man got up early, but when the dogs in the yard barked, Zhang Laogen couldn't sleep anymore. The old man got up from the bed, washed himself a little, and then started busy treating the stray dogs. Get something to eat.
Zhang Laogen has started to eat vegetarian food in recent years, and even the dog he adopted has also started eating vegetarian food. He cooked a big pot of cornmeal, eggs, mashed potatoes and other messy things, and the aroma was just brought out from the house. When we came out, seven or eight dogs wagging their tails immediately surrounded us. As soon as the dog food was distributed, the dogs started eating eagerly.
"You bitches, slow down. It's not like you didn't eat last night. If I follow the old man, I can still starve you. Be careful!" Zhang Laogen squatted on the ground, his old face smiling like a flower. He touched the belly of the big yellow dog closest to him, and his movements were as gentle as if he were touching something. The belly of that big yellow dog was obviously much larger than the other dogs. It looked like there was a puppy in its belly. Judging from the feel, Judging, there may be more than five in this litter. This dog is a love-matched breed that was born last fall. As the saying goes, there are three cats and four dogs. It is already the end of January. Zhang Laogen is thinking, in a few days, this dog will be born. The dog is almost ready to give birth. When the puppies are born, I will keep two of them and let the two puppies follow the mother dog. The other puppies have long been cared about by some young people in the village. , just brought it as a gift. Zhang Laogen's dog is now a specialty in Xiaogou Village - not only can he eat vegetarian food with him, but he can also find places to poop and urinate. He has given away all the previous litters of puppies. This man has lived a lifetime, and Zhang Laogen feels that he has lived a better life now. Every time he sees himself giving away the litters of puppies to people in and outside the village who like to raise dogs, he looks at others. With a happy smile, seeing these puppies no longer browsing and suffering, Zhang Laogen always felt a warm and indescribable comfort in his chest and abdomen. What is the foundation of happiness in helping others. He now understands that, according to Zhang Laogen, it is not just helping others, even if it is a cat, a dog, an ant or a piece of grass. As long as it has life and feelings, you can get happiness by helping it.
After squatting on the ground and touching for a while, Zhang Laogen stood up and walked around twice in front of the row of kennels in the yard. He rubbed his chin with one hand and used the other hand to use a cigarette rod as a steel ruler to make a few horizontal and vertical gestures in the yard. He nodded and already had the idea of ??building two kennels in the yard after the Chinese New Year.
It¡¯s said to be a yard. The yard of the house where Zhang Laogen lives now is no longer the kind of yard that was made up of lumps of earth and a few firewood sticks. The entire yard is almost 40 square meters in size. The lower part of the courtyard's exterior wall is covered with beautiful dark red wall tiles. The upper part is a uniform wrought iron fence. The wrought iron fence is covered with vines, like a green wall. The courtyard wall is more than three meters high. It is much better than the outside of the parks that Zhang Laogen saw before in the provincial capital. The walls are beautiful, and connected to the courtyard is a beautiful three-story villa-style building with several balconies. It is as beautiful as the painting. No, it is even more beautiful than the painting. Take the words of the elders in the village. He said, just look at this building. If it were placed in the old society in the past, only the then governor xxx could afford to live there. This small building is not only owned by Zhang Laogen. In Xiaogou Village, as long as it is a family who cooks alone, each family has a unified design, unified decoration, and unified planning. After the new village of Xiaogou Village is built, the old one The old village, which was dirty and messy. You couldn't even find a dry road without mud on a rainy day. It completely disappeared from people's sight. Only a few of the memories of the old village today can be found in the village master's showroom. Clear photos and old objects remind the newly born children in Xiaogou Village what Xiaogou Village was like in the past. Nowadays, even people from big cities are impressed by the small buildings where the villagers of Xiaogou Village live.
In the yards of other people¡¯s homes, there are people who build flower beds, there are those who are more showy and have fountains in front of their homes, there are people who plant trees and grass, and there are people who dig ditches and pits to raise goldfish. The whole Xiaogou Village also Only Zhang Laogen, a childless man, turned his yard into a big doghouse.
After finishing the dog food, as usual, Zhang Laogen lit up his cigarette and went out leisurely. This is Zhang Laogen's "homework" every morning, not only to go for a walk to exercise, but also to take a look at the village. What's new? I met a few old friends and we could chat and bask in the sun. Now that I'm interested, we might even make an appointment to play there together. In the past, if we made an appointment to go out to play, we would end up in the provincial capital at most, but now we can't It¡¯s the same. In the past few years, with more and more money in my pocket, life has become easier and easier. Not to mention those young people who follow the trend, there are also a group of old men and women from the village Senior Citizens Association. The village pays for it, and there are two events every year. In the past few years, a group of old men and women in Xiaogou Village have traveled all over the province and a small part of the country for travel opportunities. Now some people are already shouting that they want to travel after the Chinese New Year.??Singapore and Malaysia are very happy, and they say they want to go abroad to see how foreigners are doing, and also to see those ladyboys who are rumored to be as beautiful as gods by people who come back from outside, but they are actually big men. What kind of magic is this?
After leaving Zhang Laogen's house, the main entrance faces a spacious and brand-new cement road that can accommodate four or two cars abreast. This road is the village road of Xiaogou Village. There are street lights and green belts in the middle of the road. There is a green belt in the middle. There is a stream leading down from the mountain. On both sides of the stream are flower beds. There are pine trees, evergreens and other plants planted in the flower beds. The sun has not come out yet, and some white frost caltrops are still hanging on the evergreen leaves. On both sides of the village road are The new village of Xiaogou Village was built on the slope of a mountain on the original side of Xiaogou Village. Rows of uniformly styled three-story foreign-style buildings with yards stood neatly and at random on the roadside. , it is extremely pleasing to the eye. Many people have light boxes in front of their doors, with words such as "xxx Farmhouse" written on the light boxes. Now almost one-third of the households in Xiaogou Village are engaged in farmhouse entertainment. Those who come from the city People who come here from here or elsewhere can generally spend a minimum of 30 yuan to stay in a farmhouse for one night and have three meals a day. Those who run farmhouses can't live in the house themselves, so they use one or two floors to entertain guests, the rooms in the farmhouse. It¡¯s no worse than the hotels in the city. It¡¯s really high-quality and low-priced. As Xiaogou Village¡¯s reputation becomes more and more famous outside, the farmhouse business in Xiaogou Village is becoming more and more popular. In the past, it was just a small business. Well, many farmhouses in Xiaogou Village now have to hire chefs and waiters from outside to take care of them. Some employ more than six people, according to the past. He can already be considered a capitalist.
Now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, the business of the farmhouse has naturally become much deserted, but the joy of the New Year has diluted this desertedness, so early in the morning. Some people are already busy hanging lanterns and posting door gods. Zhang Laogen had not taken a few steps out when he was blocked by two young men who had already "ambushed" him by the roadside.
"Dad Zhang, good morning!"
"Hey, aren't you two brats going to sleep in today?"
The two little guys grinned and giggled, and one of them poked the other with his arm. The little guy who was stabbed came over with saliva on his face, "Dad Zhang, has your door god posted it yet?"
Zhang Laogen is alone in his family. During the Chinese New Year in previous years, he basically didn¡¯t bother to post any doorkeepers. An old man who has lived to his age has to climb up and down on a stool to do this job every year when he is thirty, which is a bit lonely. In the past few years, this matter was handled by the young people when the village organized group members to express condolences before the Chinese New Year. In the past two years, Zhang Laogen has become famous for raising dogs. There is no need for him to do this.
Looking at the pair of goalkeepers that the two little guys had already held in their hands, the already mature Zhang Laogen still didn¡¯t understand what these two little guys were planning. Zhang Laogen laughed and tapped the two little furry heads twice with the cigarette rod, "You two little brats, okay, I will remember you two, and I will let you each carry one back when the rhubarb gives birth!" "
"Thank you, Dad Zhang!" "Thank you, Dad Zhang!" The two little guys jumped up with joy, took the things in their hands, and ran to Zhang Laogen's house in a hurry, as if they were afraid of being robbed of their credit.
"Hey, you two, be careful when climbing up on the stools. If you can't reach it, don't force it. Be careful of falling!" Zhang Laogen said behind the two of them, then shook his head with a smile.
When Zhang Laogen was about to walk more than half of the village along the old road he often walked, the early sun finally climbed higher, and the frost marks on the flowers and plants on the roadside turned into water vapor and slowly dissipated. , indicating that there will be good weather today. At this time, people began to be busy on the balconies on the roofs of the three-story buildings of every household in Xiaogou Village. Bundles of mugwort were taken by each household. After coming out to dry in the sun and walking on the village road of Xiaogou Village, the faint fragrance of mugwort leaves began to permeate the whole village, making people feel refreshed.
If it had been a few years ago, someone had told Zhang Laogen that the mugwort that was everywhere in the mountains and on the roadsides of villages without planting could be sold for money, and that a pound of mugwort could be sold for as much as a pound of pork, Zhang Laogen would have I'm sure I'll jump up and slap that person hard, and then spit in that person's face. Although I, Zhang Laogen, am old, I still have my brains and knowledge, and this miscellaneous Grass-like things can be sold for the price of pork. The farmers in Xiaogou Village don't have to do anything. Each family can make a fortune by selling some weeds every year. This is such a beautiful thing. You really think I'm a pig. Beat you up for being such a bastard who talks so much about trains
At this moment, Zhang Laogen didn't dare anymore. Three years ago, when Xiaogou Village established a village-run joint-stock company called "Guocao" that specializes in mugwort processing, everyone thought it was too unreliable. Now, when will those mugworts that are cut and fed to the pigs not eaten by the pigs be sold for money? And now, especiallyAfter the domestic martial arts sect called Xuanyuan Dao won the World Martial Arts Competition in 2016, the "national grass" of Xiaogou Village, which had been cooperating with Xuanyuan Dao, also soared into the sky with that little mugwort. The "National Grass" that no one knows about is now receiving orders from merchants from all over the country. There was a meeting in the village two months ago. I heard that they are already tinkering with the listing of the "National Grass". What will be launched? Zhang Laogen doesn't understand. What he knows is that no matter how it is done, it is a collective enterprise anyway, and he is a part of it
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