Prose on the benefits of rural homes

I was born in a farmhouse and grew up in the countryside. I have never been afraid of this identity. However, although we are in the countryside, it is also true that we have never done farm work, dug land or cut firewood. Because I read a book and became a teacher a few years later, I belong to the category of "Mr." in rural areas. In our family, there are not many women who do farm work, just picking tea, and some cut rice for a few days in autumn. It is still a tradition that men dominate the outside and women dominate the inside. Cooking and washing are women's jobs. I am a husband, but I can be a "housewife" or an older "panting washing machine".

I have been outside for more than ten years. Although there are many opportunities to earn money outside, I always feel uneasy, insecure and inconvenient. Because the water for washing clothes in my house comes from the mountains, which is absorbed by bamboo and trees. Once I bottled a bottle of mineral water and asked my students to take it to Shanghai for testing. The result is pure water. We use it to wash clothes, drink water, wash our hair and take a bath. Its advantages are constant temperature, warm in winter and cool in summer. Through the water pipe to the pool at home. It is cold to wash clothes in the pool in winter, but not in the river.

I stayed in Xidian, where the water was very clear, but after boiling, I poured it into a thermos bottle, and the scale was very thick. The thermos bottle with scale is taken home, and the water will be gone after being poured at home for a period of time. Chemically, the water there is alkaline and our family is acidic. I stayed there for five years and found that many women lost their hair after 50. I thought it was water, so I went home for fear of getting old. This phenomenon does not exist in our family.

Whether in Xidi or later in the county seat, I often doubt that my quilt and clothes are not cleaned. Because Xidi River is in the middle of the village, all the wastewater from residents flows into the river. Wash in a basin at home, because it is a basin of stagnant water, I always suspect that bacteria are still on the quilt. In the county town, it is impossible to wash the quilt cover in a small pool of washbasin. It is better to use a basin than a washing machine. A little water is turning. I always suspected that the bacteria and dander on the quilt remained in the washing machine. So, I always take the quilt home to wash in the county. In the river, I am relieved to let the running water take away the bacteria.

Others have cleanliness addiction, and I have "sun addiction". Bask in the quilt, drying pillows, drying drawers, drying books, and even moving out the bedside table and writing desk to dry drawers. The windows of the room like to be open and ventilated all day. However, in the county, my sun addiction is strictly limited. First of all, the rented place is small, and I can't dry the mattress and quilt after washing the quilt cover and sheets. And the sun is blocked in the morning and afternoon. The quilt that has not been thoroughly sunburned is really uncomfortable. Later, when there was smog and the red sun could not shine, it was even more urgent. My quilt is aired once a week and washed once every three weeks. If it can't be washed dry, it will be terrible.

In the summer of 20 13, I finally went home. After returning home, I found that the benefits of rural life are much more than those of cities. First, the air is good. My hometown is basin-shaped, surrounded by mountains. There are evergreen bamboos and all kinds of trees on the mountain. The low-lying place at the foot of the mountain used to be rice fields. Because paddy fields are terraced fields, it is not convenient for machine farming, so I return farmland to forests. Those who are far away from the village eat tea, trees and bamboo; People only plant crops when they are close to home, so the forest coverage rate in our village has reached 80%. There are no factories, no need to burn coal and straw, and few cars. Villagers travel by motorcycle. Blue sky and white clouds, green mountains and green waters, and stars at night can be seen in our home every day except rainy days. We have a special room in winter. We can put a small pot of charcoal fire to keep warm and sleep with an electric blanket. My mother is over seventy years old, and I can't understand how to describe the smog with her! Because there are few foggy days in our house, it is still the kind of fog that is foggy in spring and rainy in summer, foggy in winter and snowy in winter.

The winter before last, I went to the county town early in the morning. After getting off the bus, the visibility is less than 20 meters. It's almost noon, and the sun is high in the sky and can't shine. Going home by car, out of the county, the smog began to decrease, and it turned into mist on Panshan Road. When I got home, the blue sky and white clouds were shining brightly, and my family was busy washing the quilt. Bask in the quilt had no idea that the county town dozens of miles away had been shrouded in smog for several days.

I saw a netizen complaining in the group that the water and electricity bill was 500 yuan a month. I said, why so many? My electricity bill is only forty yuan a month. I have two TVs, a desktop computer, a refrigerator and a rice cooker that can cook two meals. We are used to eating rice in the morning. However, most of our baths are solar energy, so we don't need to spend electricity. And in summer, you can blow an electric fan at most, without air conditioning. In our summer, the sun rises at 7 o'clock in the morning and sets at 5: 30 in the evening. Not very hot! Only people with architecture need it. The bungalow should be covered with a quilt at night, and no one in the village uses a mat. My bamboo mat has been used in the county for half a year, and going home has become a burden. This year, I installed a water heater to take a bath when it rains, and the electricity bill is only 70 yuan a month! I want to know how people in the city use electricity.

We don't have to spend money on water, but all the equipment is our own. Water pipes, connectors and tees are all bought by ourselves. Water will be pumped at the foot of the mountain, which requires one-time investment and management for many years. Even women can fix running water. When the rain is too heavy, the water pipe will be washed aside or blocked. Just unplug it. Generally, the pool at home can store one ton of water for washing clothes. The only purpose of the faucet on the pool is to turn it off when supplying water to the solar energy, and then turn it on immediately. Otherwise, the water was too big, and the faucet rushed into the pool without breaking the water pipe. Many foreigners see our tap on and turn it off subconsciously, which often doesn't help. There are many ditches in our village. Tap water flows from the pool to the ditch and finally to the river in the village below.

Someone once flaunted his wealth and thought that cooking with mineral water was as rich as cooking with candles in Wang Kai. How do you know that we bathe, wash clothes, water vegetables and feed pigs with pure water?

Foreigners come to our house for tea. They think tea tastes good. They always suspect that we will keep good tea and sell bad tea. In fact, the water in our house is good, and the water with disinfectant can't make good tea anyway.

The advantages of living in the countryside are not only no smog, fresh air and pure water, but also low living expenses. After returning farmland to forests, our family will buy rice. But vegetables are grown at home, although they are later than the market, like peppers, they can't be eaten until June at the earliest. But they have no hormones, no pesticides! Now we don't grow rice at home, but we grow a lot of corn to feed the chickens. Most chickens are hatched from old hens in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and chickens will not be killed until 10. They eat rice first, then leaves, and then corn, which has a long growth cycle. The old hen is also a real old hen, more than two years old. The hen of that year expected it to lay eggs until the end of the year, but the eggs laid were authentic native eggs, and the yolk was really yellow!

Compared with the city, the cost of living is less than buying food, and there is transportation, no property fees and parking fees. Drinking water in the city either uses a water dispenser or an electric kettle. But rural people like to boil their own water, because rice is cooked in electric cookers, bathing uses solar energy, and firewood is only used to boil water. Many people think that the water boiled by the electric kettle is not good to drink, probably because of the material of the electric kettle!

The house was expanded this year, and now it is about 80 square meters. I decorated it, covered the roof with glazed tiles and installed the ceiling inside. Hit two sets of big wardrobes with a height of two meters and a width of two meters and five, decorate a study and hit two sets of bookcases against the wall; Built a kitchen, bathroom, equipped with solar energy and water heater. The study is the floor and the bedroom is the floor tile. I bought a bed, mattress and refrigerator, poured concrete on the threshing floor of 30 square meters in front of the house, and made a cement floor. The ground behind the house was also poured with concrete and cement, and a canopy of 13 square meters was made. A total of * * * only spent sixty thousand. However, many people in the village buy houses in the county town, which is only 100 square meter, and the decoration is more than 100 thousand. I'm embarrassed to say that I only spent this money. Last year, a family in our village built two floors and only spent 200,000 yuan, including decoration. You know, all my materials are paid to carry home, and the wages of bricklayers and carpenters are the same as those in the county. In terms of materials, I didn't buy the best, but I didn't buy the cheapest!

In the past, in the county, a mop was put at the door and was taken away. The shoes were hanging at the door, and there was no food when I got home. A T-shirt hung in the window to dry, and the wind blew to the ground, and even the hanger was taken away. At home, it doesn't matter how many days clothes are left hanging at the door, or how long bamboo and trees cut by villagers are left on the roadside. There is no one at home. When it rains, neighbors will help collect clothes and shoes hanging outside. Sometimes I buy rice and oil, and the car is left on the side of the road, and it will still be there after a long time. If the tap water at home is blocked, you can wash clothes in the neighbor's pool, take a solar bath in the neighbor's house, wash the quilt or bask in the sun in the neighbor's house. Sometimes a family in the village eats wax gourd, and so do the people next to them. Because the wax gourd was too big, the owner cut it open and gave it to the neighbors to share. This kind of road does not leave a backward road, and the state of good neighborliness and friendship is impossible to understand in the city.

The benefits of living in the country also include a quiet living environment. At night, we are really quiet and there is no sound. Because no one came out at night, the dog stopped barking. A few years ago, the sister of a family in the village married in Shanghai, and two relatives came to Shanghai. Sleep until midnight, two people sat up. The host felt that his bed was uncomfortable, and the guest said, no, it's too quiet, it's terribly quiet!

We can't sleep outside, so we won't wake up when we get home. But it's not good either It was so quiet that I woke up at the slightest movement. One night, the clean mop behind the study door fell to the ground. I woke up in another bedroom opposite the living room and couldn't sleep for a long time.

Old people in rural areas like to work, grow vegetables, raise chickens and do housework, and there are no paunchy old people. I went to the county this year and met our postman. After his daughter took up this position, he retired and moved to the county. An old man next to us used to belong to our neighboring village and came to the county a few years ago. Now both of them have a cerebral infarction and walk with crutches. They asked my mother how she was, and I said she was fine, still cooking, growing vegetables and raising chickens, but she was a little deaf. They are envious and willing to make their ears completely deaf, as long as they don't have a cerebral infarction. It is said that because I have been in the city for a long time, if I am in the countryside, I will also grow vegetables and raise chickens, and I will not have a cerebral infarction!

The three elements of human life are air, water and sunshine. If these three elements are problematic, what is there to pursue in life? Regrettably, many people regard the three elements as money, house and car, preferring to squeeze into big cities rather than go back to the countryside. Especially some young people living in rural areas, go to the county to buy a house. I really don't know what to do. There is no fresh air, no pure water and smog, so the cost of living is high. There are still many young teachers who don't want to teach in the countryside and want to stay in the city. In fact, with the Internet, rural areas are much better than cities.

There is a paragraph on WeChat that a rich man's child went to the countryside and finally found himself poor when he got home. Their swimming pool is only tens of square meters, but the swimming pool in the countryside is a big river; Their own air purifiers are placed at home, and rural people put their houses in air purifiers; My family has a dog and a cat, and a group of dogs and cats in the countryside. Their family buys mineral water in bottles, while rural people pack it in barrels. You must plant your garden by the fence. There are many gardens in the countryside, so you don't have to grow them yourself. Isn't this a fact?

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