Chapter 1 Mountain Village

In early autumn, the afternoon sun shines on an ordinary courtyard in a mountain village. Through the slightly tall osmanthus trees, it is reflected on a bluestone path in the yard.

Nie Yun stood in the courtyard, staring at the mottled shadow of the tree.

The sound of birds singing in the mountain forest not far away is clearly in my ears...

Everything is like a different world!

In Nie Yun's memory, it seems that he hasn't set foot in this small courtyard for more than ten years, either fifteen or sixteen years. In short, at that time, Nie Yun had not yet gone to primary school and lived in his grandfather's house in the countryside. And this small courtyard is the small courtyard of his grandfather's house in Nie Yun's memory.

Since the first grade of primary school, Nie Yun has been picked up by his parents who are far away in the provincial capital and never came back. Even when his grandfather died, Nie Yun couldn't come back because of academic delays. Until now, Nie Yun graduated from college at the age of 22. I'm afraid it's really fifteen or sixteen years!

"If it weren't for the damn civil service exam, I'm afraid I wouldn't have come back in my life. Even if you come back, you can at most take a look and sweep Grandpa's tomb..."

With his hands in his trousers pocket, Nie Yun laughed at himself.

When he took the college entrance examination, Nie Yun didn't know which nerve went wrong. He actually applied for a "urban garden" major. After four years of college, because of his professional chicken ribs, those high-tech companies could not enter. It seemed that there was only one road in front of Nie Yun - the civil service examination.

However, Nie Yun took the exam three times in a row, all of which were the same result. He passed the written examination and failed the interview!

This is not that Nie Yun's interview performance is too bad. The main reason is that those civil service positions usually only recruit three or two people. The competition is already fierce enough. In addition, there are several related households, such as Nie Yun, who have little chance of passing the exam.

Although Nie Yun's father was the first college student to walk out of the village, he just barely gained a foothold in the provincial capital over the years.

Both parents are ordinary employees, and it has nothing to do with it. Nie Yun wants to cross the threshold of civil servants, which is even more difficult!

Several unsuccessful times in a row made Nie Yun a little frustrated. Seeing that Nie Yun was a little depressed, Nie Yun's father simply sent Nie Yun back to his hometown in the countryside to worship his grandfather and live for two months at the same time to cultivate.

This is the scene of Nie Yun returning to the small courtyard of his grandfather's house...

Standing in the small courtyard, Nie Yun looked around the small courtyard.

It is almost no different from the small courtyard in my memory. My grandfather's house only has three main houses made of blue stones, and the courtyard is not large. The width is only seven or eight meters, and the length is only about ten meters, with a total of one hundred bungalows. A stone road in the small courtyard leads from the main door to the main door. There is also a small west house in the yard for the kitchen. On the east side of the yard is a osmanthus tree more than three meters high, and the crown is also two meters in diameter. It is a silver osmanthus variety. At this time, it is approaching the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and there are already a little white flowers on the osmanthus tree, which is fragrant and pleasant.

Grandpa likes osmanthus, but Nie Yun has this impression in his memory.

I heard from my father that in the early years, my grandfather also had several pots of precious osmanthus bonsai, with ancient roots, lush crowns and good varieties. Unfortunately, in the ten years of turmoil, all these osmanthus bonsai were smashed...

"If Grandpa's bonsai in those years could be preserved, I'm afraid I wouldn't be so depressed now!"

Thinking of this, Nie Yun seemed to think of something again and couldn't help smiling bitterly.

In recent years, people's living standards have generally improved, and flowers, birds and antiques have been on the rise. Some decades of treasures and old pile bonsai can often be sold at a high price of hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan, which is comparable to national treasure-level antique calligraphy and painting.

Nie Yun expected that if Grandpa's precious osmanthus flower bonsai were left until now, it would be worth it!

If Nie Yun's idea falls into the ears of those who play with flowers and birds, he will definitely scold Nie Yun for being vulgar and puzzled, and there is only money left in his eyes.

But the reality is like this, Nie Yun has no way!

Nie Yun still clearly remembers that when he just graduated, he and his girlfriend Li Xiaoli went to see her parents. Li's mother took a roundabout reminder to remind Nie Yun that there was no three-bedroom house of more than 100 square meters in the provincial capital. Don't continue to be friendly with women!

Nie Yun's parents are just ordinary employees, and their hometown is in the countryside. They haven't saved much money over the years. Nie Yun spent a lot of money on school and grandfather Nie Yun's illness. Nowadays, the housing prices in the provincial capital have been speculated to an outrageous level. If you want to buy a house for Nie Yun in the city, I'm afraid he can't even afford the down payment.

Originally, I expected Nie Yun to be admitted to the civil service, and his girlfriend's mother's attitude would be a little more relaxed.

But I didn't expect Nie Yun to be defeated repeatedly, and none of them succeeded...

In the past few months after graduation, his girlfriend went to work in a company in the provincial capital. Nie Yun was "unemployed" at home, and the connection between them was unconsciously less. The glutish feelings between the two in college seemed to have been diluted a lot by the cruel reality...

In this case, Nie Yun had the previous idea.

"It's a pity that I know a little about flowers and trees bonsai. Otherwise, it is also a good way to develop flowers and trees bonsai cultivation..."

Nie Yun said in his heart.

Flowers and birds antiques, flowers and birds antiques, "flowers and birds" and "ancient toys" are often linked together, among which there are definitely many ways. Although Nie Yun has been familiar with his grandfather since he was a child, exposed to some bonsai knowledge, and studied urban gardens in college, he can only be regarded as a layman in terms of flower and wood bonsai.

After all, those "knowledge" when I was a child are too long. What I learned in college is purely theoretical...

"Forget it, I don't want this anymore. Rest in your hometown for two months, study hard, and take the exam a few more times after the New Year!"

With a long breath, Nie Yun said in his heart.

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The village where Nie Yun's hometown is located is called Majiatun, backed by the continuous mountains. Most of the people in the village have Ma surnames, and there are also some other surnames, such as the Nie Yun family's " Nie" surname, which is unique.

Although Majiatun is a mountain village, its location is not remote. It is only 30 or 40 miles away from the county seat, and only ten miles away from the town. Nie Yun took a four-hour bus from the provincial capital to the county, then took a minibus to the town, got off at the nearest intersection to Majiatun, and walked for half an hour before arriving at the village.

When he entered the village, Nie Yun met several aunts. He didn't come back for more than ten years, and Nie Yun didn't know these aunts very well.

Fortunately, an aunt recognized Nie Yun, who was similar to Nie's father, and asked Nie Yun with concern.

Now back to the old house, it's past afternoon. Nie Yun put his travel bag on the kang of the old house and walked to the small yard. After a sigh in my heart, unconsciously, I was a little hungry.

Take out your mobile phone and check the time. It's already two o'clock in the afternoon. It's past breakfast.

Although there are pots and cooking utensils in the old house, the iron pot has not been used for several years. It has been rusty for a long time. The mountain village also burns firewood. There is no half bundle of firewood in the whole house, and there is no way to make a fire to cook.

It seems that I can only eat some cookies or something in my travel bag to satisfy my hunger.

Nie Yun was thinking in his heart that suddenly there was a "squeak" at the gate. The locust gate of the small courtyard had been pushed open. A long-haired girl with braids leaned in half of her body and looked inside.

The girl is only about eighteen or nineteen years old. Her skin is not the dark of the girl in the mountains, but very fair. Compared with Nie Yun's wheat-colored skin, Nie Yun looks more like a mountain man. The melon seed face, the eyebrows are bent, a pair of big eyes are flashing, full of aura, the mouth is gently squeezed, two small dimples appear on the pink cheeks, and there is a trace of curiosity between the looks.

What a beautiful girl!

While seeing this girl, Nie Yun couldn't help but wonder. Even Nie Yun had lived in the city for more than ten years and was used to seeing all kinds of beautiful women, but when he saw this girl, he couldn't help admiring her.

Who is this girl? Why did she come here? Nie Yun was a little curious about the girl who suddenly appeared in front of his house.

"E...Uncle Nie?"

Without waiting for Nie Yun to ask, the girl asked timidly when she saw Nie Yun.

The girl's voice is soft, like a clear spring in the mountains. After asking Nie Yun, before Nie Yun could answer, her pretty face turned a little red first, but the girl still resolutely walked into Nie Yun's small courtyard.

The girl wears a plaid shirt on her upper body and white trousers on her lower body. I don't know if the shirt doesn't fit or something else. The two buttons on her chest are almost stretched out. With the girl's pure face, Nie Yun had the impulse to have a nosebleed.

However, when she heard that the girl called herself "Uncle Nie" just now, she made Nie Yun have the impulse to spit blood. She was called uncle by a girl who was not a few years younger than herself. Mr. Nie Yun was still not used to it.

"Are you?"

With doubts, Nie Yun asked the girl.

"Uncle Nie, I'm next door... Next door..." The girl was a little shy. Without saying a few words, she blushed and lowered her head, and her chin was almost buried in the great shore of her chest.

"Da Nier?" Hearing the girl's self-introduction, Nie Yun's mind flashed and almost blurted out, "Are you Tian Jia Da Nier?"

For his childhood, Nie Yun has few memories. In addition to a few osmanthus flower bonsai in Grandpa's house, there is also Uncle Tian who lives next door to Grandpa's house!

The memory of Uncle Tian is mainly the two granddaughters of Uncle Tian - Nier, who is two years younger than me, and Er Nier, who is three years younger than me. The two girls are not a few years younger than themselves, but according to their generation, they call their grandfather Uncle Tian, but they want to call themselves uncles. When I was a child, at my grandfather's house, Nie Yun followed these two little followers all the time, calling himself "little uncle" and "little uncle" all day long.

Nie Yun didn't expect that the girl who followed her with a runny nose would become such a beautiful woman!

Nie Yun vaguely remembered that several times ago, his parents went back to their hometown to sweep the grandfather's tomb. They once mentioned Da Ni'er and Er Ni'er, saying that he had just returned to the provincial capital for a few years. Da Ni's father went out to work as a construction worker and died in an accident. The mother of the two girls remarried, leaving only two daughters to live with her grandfather. In the past two years, Uncle Tian's health has been getting worse and worse. Da Ni Tian Zhen dropped out of school, and Er Ni Tian Tian is still in school...

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