Chapter 43: Barren Mountains and Ancient Ponds
Within a few days, the village knew that the two girls were sick all over. Although Ruilin felt that it was inappropriate to make fun of this, he could not refute it. After all, this is the best excuse to reconcile the differences in culture and taste between the two sides.
The residents of this mountain village work from sunrise and rest from sunset, which has continued the habit of thousands of years. They don’t even have to look at the watch, and are as accurate as the biological clock.
I occasionally watch TV at night, and there are only a few stations, and the signals are intermittent.
There are no specialties or resources in the mountain village, and they can be self-sufficient in food and other things. Usually, they grow some melons, vegetables, vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs, and medicinal materials. The old village chief organizes people to take them out for money and goods every once in a while.
In fact, people in the mountain village are not interested in the outside world. Without your so-called necessities of life, our ancestors have lived differently for thousands of years?
Ruixi's thoughts are quite lively. He always feels that the villagers' closed life is too backward. The world is endless and prosperous. Everyone should see the cities outside, use the electric toothbrush and toilet of the city people, and experience the modern life.
The villagers expressed disdain. The ancestors survived by using sticks to wipe their butts, and they never saw anyone less meat. Now they use toilet paper, and they never saw more meat on their bodies. I think the toilet is the same as it is, and they won’t let anyone more meat on their bodies if they are used.
The values of the people in this mountain village are also very straightforward. To measure the quality of things is to use more or less meat on the body.
After several ideological confrontations, Ruixi finally lost in front of the stubborn villagers, often shaking her head and sighing that it is terrible that it is not educated.
The villagers also think that reading so much is useless, but when you come back, you are still the same as everyone else? After so many years, you have read books and have hit him with similar language.
Fortunately, the villagers in the mountains are simple and everyone is joking and making noise at the dinner table. Even if they make them blush and careless, they will not be jealous. When they meet the other day, they call each other brothers and uncles intimately. After three generations, they are relatives of the family, and no one can get along with each other.
Ruixi felt that there were only the third uncle Qin Xianghe who accepted many things outside and could get closer to himself in his thoughts.
You said that the village is humid all year round, the climate is pleasant, and the trees are green and the flowers are lush all year round. There is Tianhu on the mountain to the north, hot springs at the foot of the mountain to the south, and a thousand-year-old ancient pond in the middle. With such unique conditions, how suitable is it to develop tourism resources, rich bosses in big cities like to experience this primitive scenery.
But the villagers think that life is good now and there is no need for outsiders to enjoy it, nor do they need to enjoy the outside world.
Another problem that makes Rishi headache is: transportation!
When he was still in school, Ruixi discussed with his second uncle by phone, and went to the township government to apply for explosives, breaking mountains and opening roads, and repairing decent roads to the outside world. You can just get in and out of the car - at least you don't have to go around for a long time like you are now.
Of course, the villagers are not interested in this idea. They think that no one is going out anyway, so why are you building roads?
However, with Qin Xianghe's support, everyone was embarrassed to object. After all, he was of high seniority and was steady in his work. He was the largest and only official in the village, and the leader had the final say.
Not objecting, not supporting, not participating, not caring, this is the attitude of the people in the Qin and Han villages.
This kind of paradise is boring after too long. Soon Jin Xia went from being extremely excited at the beginning to being boring now, and she always felt that the villagers always looked at her with a strange look.
The villagers also didn't understand her style of changing into bright clothes every day.
Whenever Jin Xia dressed up with flowers and felt like she was walking through the village like a scenery, a group of people were pointing fingers behind her.
"This is the one who has half cut his stomach (for villagers, belly and stomach are the same concept)."
"It's very pitiful. There are also poor children in big cities. Look at the clothes that are torn and ragged, and they can't even cover their arms and chests, revealing such a large piece of flesh."
After dinner at Aunt Thirteenth that day, the four of them walked back. Jinxia lost interest in the singing of birds and fragrance of flowers, and sighed all the way, "You villagers are really rigid. You only eat, sleep and work all day, and there is no entertainment at all."
Ruixi stared at her eyes and said, "Who said it? There is obviously something else."
Jin Xia gave him a blank look. Ruixi has been with her for a long time, and sometimes she doesn't have a standard for joking. If she has to put it in normalcy, Jin Xia's personality will not take it seriously, and maybe she can even laugh at him. However, she happened to be in a bad mood these two days, so she was too lazy to pay attention to him.
Last night, Jin Xia changed into a swimsuit and thought of swimming in the pool in front of the village. She almost got beaten by an old lady with a crutch.
After a long time of trouble, I realized that the pool of water is so famous that it is served by the villagers as holy water. No one has ever been in the water for thousands of years, let alone taking a bath inside.
Ruixi explained to her, "The villagers communicate little with the outside world and are not civilized. Many old customs have been passed down for thousands of years - it will be much better for our generation. When we have the next generation, our thinking will basically change." Ruixi joked with Jin Xia with a smile, but she rolled her eyes again.
Ruilin hesitated and said, "How about we go back in a few days, right? School will start soon."
Ruixi was anxious when she heard this. Why did she send someone away when she was fighting Wang Juan? You are a full man and don’t know that the hungry man is hungry!
Things have just begun to make progress. She smiled at me for one-five seconds yesterday at dinner. Today’s conversation time was three more seconds longer than yesterday. I saw that I was going to catch up tomorrow, but you would send someone away!
But thinking about it, in addition to eating and shopping these days, the small village is not that big, and I am really tired of going back and forth for a few days.
Then he suggested, "Don't hurry to leave. We haven't had enough fun yet. We still have several plans that have not been implemented, such as camping!"
Jin Xia said angrily, "Stop funny, what's the best place to camp in this small broken village? You can see everything at first glance. Let's set up a tent under someone's nose? You are still camping, you don't feel embarrassed, I'm still afraid of seeing you." Thinking of the old lady's fierce appearance yesterday, I'm still scared now.
Ruixi shook her head and said, "It's not camping here, it's there!" As she said that, she pointed to the distance with great enthusiasm.
Everyone looked far and high in his direction. At the end of the river opposite, there was a steep mountain peak. Against the setting sun, the top of the mountain was faintly filled with fog, which looked like a fairyland on earth.
Ruilin's face changed, "You can't go to that place."
Jin Xia was intrigued at this time, "Why can't you go?"
Ruilin said, "The mountain is dangerous and rarely visited. The villagers all called it the Broken Soul Peak. There was a peak lake on the top of the mountain. When I was a child, several children climbed up the mountain to play, but later something happened. The villagers said that it touched the mountain god and was retribution."
"Our small village has been in good weather for thousands of years and is peaceful. My ancestors said it was thanks to the mountain gods of this mountain. Adults usually teach that we should be respectful to the mountain gods."
Jin Xia said, "What a mess? It's both a mountain god and a water god. This is the 21st century. As a college student who receives modern science and technology education, do you actually believe in these monsters and monsters?"
Wang Juan said carefully next to her: "We should respect the customs in the village. We have been following this place for so many years, and maybe it makes sense."
Jin Xia curled her lips and said, "Other foreign explorers like to climb mountains that have not been conquered by humans and developed. Aren't we here just for adventure and curiosity? Can you be a little adventurous at such a big man?" The last sentence was obviously for Ruilin standing beside him.
As he said that, he pouted and shook Ruilin's arm, he acted coquettishly: "Look at how foreigners are good at living, many couples like to climb mountains, and they hang on the cliffs on the mountainside in the middle of the night and read at night with a light. It's fun to think about it."
Ruixi interjected, "Yes, there are also couples hanging in the air to make love and do things, how exciting!"
Jin Xia spat at him and said, "Ignorance!" But there was a look of praise in her eyes.
He also said to Ruilin, "We must believe in science. There is no legend of gods and ghosts in this world. Even if there are abnormal phenomena, it can be explained by physics and science."
After saying that, he shook Ruilin's arm and stamped his feet, saying, "Go, go, this is a great time for us to explore and discover. People stay in the village all day and get along with your aunts and aunts, so boring..."
Ruilin has never had any opinion. At this time, under Ruixi's instigation and Jinxia's tender humming, he surrendered again, but only symbolically resisted: "I believe that science is not wrong, but what the old man said always makes sense..."
Ruixi exclaimed from the side: "I see mountain gods and the like, it's just a trick for the elderly to scare children. We are all college students with comprehensive development in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor, and have mastered advanced science and have armed knowledge theory, even if there is any mysterious force, it will conquer him!"
Wang Juan quietly watched the three people arguing, looking at Ruilin with some pity.
Chapter completed!