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In the country 在鄉下

In the country people can still exchange services with vegetables. The old neighbor living next door to my host family had actually known nothing except tending his farm. He therefore had to ask help from the Monsieur to help him on electricity, moving things, oil and gas, some trivialities in life. To exchange his service, the farmer brought in vegetables not sold of the day at the market to Monsieur and Madame as a contribution. He also keeps a hedge gate unlocked so they can come in any time to take a part of his crops, which I suppose they never do.

在鄉下，以物易物的交易還是存在著的。我的接待家庭的老鄰居，今年七十五歲。因為他除了種菜之外什麼都不懂，不會修電也不會算計，所以常來找家庭的先生幫忙。做為報償他常帶來一些當天在市場上沒賣完的蔬果來答謝他們的幫助，同時兩戶間的田地也只有個小門相隔。這個門是不上鎖的，因為他歡迎先生太太去他的田園拿菜，不過我想他們應該也很少這樣直接去拿取。

在法國的鄉下，仍存在一些很酷的職業。例如知道如何將城堡的柱子裝置在天花板，將舊門和古老的門把相結合的技工。接待家庭找了很久，找到一位不會算數，不會測量，不識字的先生，卻能用兩臂的距離，準確的將門和柱子裝置得恰到好處。