Mysterious city

For most students, the summer vacation after the college entrance examination is the best opportunity in life to be wild.

Wang Village has only produced a college student like Xiao Yan in the past twenty years. It stands to reason that both the Wang family and the villagers should have a good celebration.

But in fact this is not the case. There is a saying in Xin Qiji's very famous poem "Guan Mao Mao", "The Tian family has few free months, but in May people are twice as busy."

Although the busiest month of May has already passed by the time Xiaoyan's college entrance examination results came out, it is not difficult to see from this poem about mowing wheat that for farmers, there is almost no leisure time throughout the year. .

In the month when Xiaoyan got her results, she was extremely busy in a year.

Although the level of social development at that time has solved the problem of food and clothing for most people, for Wangcun, which can be said to be extremely backward in rural areas, the word "well-off life" does not exist.

If you don't work for a day, you won't have food for a day. This is not just a problem for people in big cities. If you don't work, your living standards will drop a little.

After all, in today's money-oriented society, having no savings means that it is difficult to guarantee even the most basic food and clothing issues.

As for the villagers in Wangcun, let alone savings, most of them are unable to spare a penny after meeting their basic survival needs.

Therefore, even if Xiaoyan is admitted to college, it can be regarded as great news for both the Wangcun people and his family. But at most, they can only silently support and give Xiaoyan some help. This is already It can be regarded as the most benevolent and righteous.

As for the grand celebrations held by children in towns after being admitted to a favorite university, it is simply impossible to happen in Wangcun.

For the villagers of Wangcun, the words "enjoy" and "celebrate" do not exist most of the time in their lives.

After all, just holding a job has already consumed almost all their energy, so they don't have time to think about what they have and what they don't have.

As for Xiaoyan herself, this so-called most beautiful "summer vacation" can be described as a complete mess, or it should be said that it is more appropriate to call it a "busy season".

Although Xiaoyan would help her family work during summer vacation in the past, this summer vacation is different from the past, and the workload is much larger.

As soon as Xiaoyan realized that her college tuition fees had almost wiped out their family's meager savings.

Not only does he provide for the basic life of his family, he must at least take care of himself.

After all, even if Xiaoyan's geography class score was not top-notch, he also discovered during his self-study that the Haibin Normal University where he was admitted was nearly half a mile away from his village.

Calculated in this way, the travel expenses alone are undoubtedly an astronomical figure for Xiaoyan, not to mention the expenses for food and drink on the road. No matter how much money is saved, this most basic need cannot be omitted. After all, no matter what, you can't starve yourself to death.

Secondly, Xiaoyan cannot take high-speed trains or planes, which are extremely fast vehicles, because the fares are too expensive. Even the cheapest and most common train tickets are beyond Xiaoyan’s affordability. range.

As a result, there are very few transportation options. If you take a long-distance bus, you need to leave about a month in advance.

This means that Xiaoyan needs to complete the farm work that originally took two months in just one month.

After all, due to long-term overwork, Xiaoyan's mother had already become sick from overwork and her body was broken.

Although this stubborn old mother still refuses to give up her work and wants to bear the burden of the whole family on herself, she can only do it out of sheer willpower.

So if Xiao Yan leaves, the burden of the whole family's life will fall entirely on Xiao Yan's eldest brother.

Even though Xiaoyan's eldest brother was strong and good at farm work, in order to raise enough money for Xiaoyan's college tuition, they borrowed a lot of money from relatives.

Although frankly speaking, Xiao Yan's two sisters have already married outside, and their living expenses no longer need to be included in the family expenses. In addition, once Xiao Yan leaves, only his eldest brother and old mother will be left.

It stands to reason that in this case, Xiaoyan's strong elder brother is enough to bear the burden of their mother and son.

However, the foreign debt that Xiaoyan's family incurred in order to pay for school fees was not a small sum for them, and Xiaoyan knew even more clearly that the "culprit" for putting his eldest brother and mother under such great pressure was himself. .

So if he just left and didn't help his eldest brother and old mother share the burden, even Xiaoyan wouldn't be able to forgive herself.

As a result, another complex, bitter and sad memory began to pour into Jiang Zhe's mind.

Under the scorching sun, he kept waving farm tools and plowing non-stop, even though the salty sweat washed over his body like a waterfall, staining all the clothes on his body.

Even though the fingers and palms have been rubbed out with countless large and small blood blisters, even though the farm tools that have been burned like cooked iron in the scorching sun bring hot and unbearable pain, Xiaoyan, or Speaking of Jiang Zhe, he was still working non-stop, like a tireless robot with mechanical movements.

Compared to the hot weather that roasts the earth like a flaming mountain, rainy days may feel much cooler and more comfortable in most cases.

But the actual situation is not like this. In an area like Wangcun, when it doesn't rain, the drought is so dry that it can bake the land to cracks. But once it starts raining, it will be a heavy rain, and it will be like this for several days in a row. Damn weather.

In the heavy rain that lasts for several days, the farm work at hand cannot be stopped, and the difficulty of doing the work is countless times higher than before.

Although the temperature will become much cooler, the heavy rain sweeping across the sky will make you look like a drowned rat just fished out of the river.

You can imagine how difficult it is to do farm work wearing soaked clothes. Clothes that feel like they are stuck to your body with strong glue will greatly affect the worker's flexibility.

Even the simplest farming becomes much more difficult and labor-intensive.

Of course, for Xiaoyan, who grew up in Wangcun, the word "spoiled" does not exist.

Of course, Xiaoyan can bear this level of impact, and at most it will just make her feel a little uncomfortable.

But what is even more frightening than this is that the risk of farm work during heavy rains will increase exponentially.

You know, the most inevitable occurrence of heavy rain is thunderstorms.

And the voltage generated by lightning is as high as tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of volts. How can human beings with just flesh and blood resist it?

In the same season last year, a villager in Wang Village was suddenly struck by lightning while doing farm work in the wild. His whole body was electrocuted in an instant and turned as black as a piece of coke, leaving no chance for other people to rescue him. possible.

Although Xiaoyan was already quite old at that time, the extremely tragic death of the villager at that time still lingers in Xiaoyan's mind for a long time.

Even though many people think that this kind of thing is just a "very small probability event", if you happen to be the unlucky guy, if it happens to you once, it is equivalent to the end of your life.

And even if we don't talk about the consequences, the momentum of the thunder and lightning alone is enough to make most people feel ashamed.

Compared to a city made of steel and concrete, a thunder and lightning in a field brings a terrifying momentum that is unmatched by "non-wild lightning" in the city.

Just imagine, you were working exhaustingly in an open field, watching a flash of lightning suddenly flash across the dark sky and black earth, followed by a terrible thunder.

And in the vast expanse of fields, you can't even find any place to hide. This is a terrible thing.

Of course, there may be something like a big tree for you to take shelter from, but anyone with a little bit of common sense will know that hiding from lightning and rain under a big tree is undoubtedly asking for death. Only the most stupid idiot would do this. act.

And as long as you are struck by lightning, even towering trees can easily break you in half, let alone the fragile human body.

Fortunately, Jiang Zhe, or Xiao Yan, was not that kind of unlucky person. Even though the weather was extremely bad for a month, he did not suffer the same tragedy as the villager from the same village last year.

Despite this, Jiang Zhe still felt the indescribable physical pain and fatigue that Xiaoyan felt at that time.

I don't know if it's because Jiang Zhe's consciousness was put into Xiaoyan's body at this moment, or because with the disappearance of his memory, Jiang Zhe's physical strength also dropped to the level of a normal person, or maybe both of them worked together. In short, After experiencing Xiaoyan's memory of that month, Jiang Zhe felt that his body's endurance had reached its limit.

In order to compress the farm work that took two months to complete within one month, Xiaoyan put in many times the effort and sweat of ordinary people.

This made Jiang Zhe feel like his body was like a machine that had been working non-stop for a long time. Almost every part was rusty and had reached the edge of collapse.

However, although being a "farmer" is hard work, fortunately, as long as you put in the effort, you will gain something. In the end, Xiaoyan finally achieved the progress he expected.

And as Jiang Zhe, whose memories and emotions are now integrated with Xiaoyan's, he can also feel firsthand how satisfied and proud this child from a poor background was at that time.