The villagers wanted to uproot it, but an old man stood on the side and wept silently, muttering: "Evil! ”

This must be superstition!

But the villagers were timid, and some things would rather be believed than not. There is another sentence, if you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of you. Anyway, if it doesn't get in the way, let it stay where it is, and maybe it will be resurrected one day.

As the old saying goes, dead wood is spring.

So, the scorched tree survived and stood quietly in the mountains. Except for a few old people, few people in the younger generation know about its existence.

Based on the principle of "giving a cheap name to make a living", Gumuling was changed to Deadwood Ridge.

Sure enough, within a few years, the old sandalwood dead wood blooms new buds in spring, and after a few decades in the blink of an eye, the ancient tree with a diameter of one meter four or five meters at breast height is gradually recovering.

Of course, it may not be easy to return to the tall and mighty of the past.

"It's too small, it's not big enough, and the trunk used to be so tall and thick that it took three or four adults to hold it. Daddy Gu looked up at the huge canopy above his head and patted the thick trunk of the tree, and was very emotional.

Standing under the sandalwood tree, a faint fragrance is particularly refreshing.

"Wow, it's really big!" Luo Tianyou ran around the tree in amazement, stretching out his arms and trying to wrap around.

Old sandalwood?

Luo Qingyu raised his little face curiously, his eyes showing surprise.

She had never heard of this strange thing in her previous life, and it was no wonder that she had only been here a few times. When I was sensible, my grandfather had passed away for a long time, and no one had mentioned the origin of Deadwood Ridge at all.

Early this morning, Father Gu took his two daughters and grandchildren into the mountain, saying that they should recognize the road and see what the mountain was like for their family.

Originally, I didn't take the children up the mountain, but I didn't know that the two little ones wanted to come with me, so they had no choice but to come together.

"A-Ning, you can't dig this tree! This is something left over from the older generation, and if you dig into the backbone, someone will poke you for a lifetime. Grandpa worried.

It is light to poke the backbone, for fear of offending the wrath of the public.

According to the older generation, since the ancient tree was split, the living conditions in the village have indeed deteriorated year by year. Even if the dead wood is in spring, the economic situation of the village still does not improve, but the outsiders in the village have become rich one after another.

For example, the Ding family who lives in Leigong Mountain, Leigong Mountain is not far from Kumuling, and there is a village road and Hechong in the middle, and the area is larger than Kumuling.

There is also the Gu family who lives on the edge of Otanizhuang Village, who have many children and grandchildren, and are extremely wealthy. Some have emigrated overseas, while others have settled in developed cities.

Although there are not many children and grandchildren of the Ding family, they are all in the same vein from generation to generation, but they are extravagant.

It is reported that more than ten years ago, high-ranking officials and nobles often visited the door in person, and special cars took the Ding family in and out. Their family rarely showed their faces, and they were mysterious, and later they went to the Xiangjiang River to develop and rarely returned to their hometowns.

The villagers in both sides have an old house in the village, so that the villagers who are good friends with the two families can take care of them and give them a certain amount of remuneration every year. Among the families who became rich first in Daguzhuang were the villagers who helped Ding and Gu take care of their ancestral houses.

They became friendly with the Ding and Gu families, and quickly made a fortune with each other's support. Then the young people went out to develop, leaving the old people at home to help take care of their own families, and the old houses of the Ding and Gu families.

The villagers say that the prosperity of outsiders is due to the century-old tree on Lei Gong Mountain.

That's right, there is also an old cypress tree on Lei Gong Mountain, and the Ding family once asked experts to do an appraisal and found that it is at least 300 years old, 400 years less than the one in Dead Wood Ridge.

But people have always been alive, and the tree in Deadwood Ridge has died once, and rebirth is equal to new life, which can't be compared.

Every spring, flocks of birds fly to the old cypress trees of Leigong Mountain, overwhelming, the scene is called a spectacular!

At a glance, you can see that the feng shui is good, no wonder the fertile water flows to the fields of outsiders.

Therefore, the villagers are even more convinced that the dead wood ridge must also be a feng shui tree, which is being restored, and it must not be moved.

Unfortunately, as the years passed, the villagers in Otani Village grew old, and the young people all ran away for a better life, and they were not interested in all the allusions to their hometown.

Basically, no one in the village knows where it came from, except for the older generation.

Gu Ning was looking around, and nodded after listening, "Don't worry, Dad, I won't move it." ”

Unlike the children's activity, her tone was somewhat perfunctory and unpleasant.

In the past two days, the youngest daughter has a cough from time to time, and yesterday she took the child into the city for a check-up. The doctor said that there was nothing wrong with it, and there might be some water and soil that did not need to be taken even with medicine.

After returning from the hospital, she made white fungus lily soup for the child to eat, and did a set of massages, but it still didn't work. Daddy Gu said that the children in the city lack exercise, so he took advantage of the fact that he went up the mountain to recognize the road today, and just brought her to the event.

The effect is there, on the way, the child coughs less often, and finally a little relieved.

In addition to this, there was one thing that made her particularly depressed.

Originally, I just wanted to go back to the village to ask for a piece of land and build a house, and it didn't cost much. Now that a mountain is coming, to be honest, she has a bit of a headache.

The mountain is very good, the eye is green and refreshing, but the mountain road is not easy to walk, in addition to asking workers to open the road, but also to transport building materials up the mountain...... The thought of spending such a large amount of money made her faintly regret that she shouldn't have been hot-headed for a while.

The mountain is very large, it is said that there are as many as 30 acres, and only seven or eight acres can be cultivated, and if it is barely cultivated, the cultivated land does not exceed ten acres.

The key is, will the family live in the mountains in the future? The mountains are so backward that they can't even receive a mobile phone signal. Speaking of children, they thought it was interesting when they were young, and they definitely won't come back when they grow up, it's too inconvenient.

When my husband and wife retire, is it really convenient to go back to the mountains to retire? In this deep mountain and old forest, if they get sick and they can't get out of the old age, won't no one know if they die?

Alas, the more I think about it, the more I feel that the future is not bright~.

The farther he went up the mountain, the more conflicted Gu Ning became. Fearless on the surface, but constantly wailing inside.

On the contrary, Luo Qingyu, who was lying on her aunt's back, was very excited and greedily enjoyed the scenery of the deep mountains. She was young and lacked physical strength, so she walked for a while and was carried for a while.

Despite her exhaustion, her excitement could not be calmed. Psychology affects physiology, and I coughed a few times in a row.

Mom is so powerful!

The environment in the mountains is beautiful, the air is fresh, the branches are luxuriant, and it is a scene full of vitality. The road that my grandfather said had been covered by wild grasses and flowers, and all kinds of trees and plants were planted in a disorderly manner.

It's good, it looks like the whole mountain is full of life, like the eucalyptus forest they passed by. The massive planting of eucalyptus trees has led to desertification of the land on that hilltop, inhibiting the vitality of native species.

Fortunately, my grandfather didn't listen to others and planted eucalyptus trees, and now the owner of the mountain has moved away. Because the eucalyptus trees planted were not purchased, and in those years there was a drought, and the harvest of the cultivated land was dismal.

They had no choice but to move out of the village to find another way to make a living.

The tree is dead, the person is alive, and I heard my grandfather say that the family is quite good outside.