That afternoon, Yu Zehai took a train directly to his hometown of Shenshui.

Speaking of the city where Yu Zehai is located, Shenshui City belongs to a typical small mountain city in the hinterland of western China. The large number of mountains naturally makes transportation inconvenient and roads difficult, so it is more difficult for its economy to develop compared with those developed cities on the southeast coast.

Due to inconvenient transportation, the impact and radiation of modern technology on some places is simply minimal, and a mountain village like Yu Zehai's house is located - Yujiaao Village is one of the typical ones!

The village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, leaving only a gap in the west of the village, if you look down from the sky, the whole Yujiaao village is located in a small basin of a canyon in the mountains, the fields in the village are more flat, and it is also a rare piece of fertile land in the villages under the jurisdiction of Panlong Town. The Qingshui River, which originates from the depths of Daqing Mountain, flows around the village, so the water resources in the village are extremely abundant.

Over the years, there have also been many people in the village who have made a fortune and gone to the city. Nowadays, except for some orphans, widows, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, there are only those who are honest and duty-bound, and they do not know how to operate, so they have not developed. Over time, as the houses were idle and collapsed, more and more fertile fields and grasses grew and warblers flew, and the once lively Yujiaao Village slowly calmed down......

Usually there is no shadow, and there is no New Year's flavor!

This is the most common sentence on the lips of most people nowadays, in fact, this sentence is used to describe today's Yujiaao Village, which is very suitable.

After getting off the bus from Shenshui City and taking a bumpy urban and rural bus for more than an hour, Yu Zehai finally arrived in Panlong Town, where his hometown is located, at noon the next day. Breathing in the incomparably familiar local atmosphere in my memory, looking at the old streets in front of me, the surrounding houses, everything, is not much different from the appearance in my memory.

While feeling gratified, Yu Zehai also had a deep sadness in his heart. Happily, nothing has changed much, and it is still the familiar look in my memory, but sadly, compared to the rapid development and changes outside, there is almost no progress in Panlong Town in front of me.

Merely.

Yu Zehai only sighed slightly, and didn't take it to heart, after all, this kind of thing has nothing to do with him, a flat-headed commoner, and he won't have too much energy to that family.

In Yu Zehai's heart, in the entire Shuiyun Star, there is only that small mountain village, and only the fathers and villagers there, as well as the mountains and rivers, flowers and trees there, are the only places worthy of his nostalgia and protection.

From Panlong Town to Yujiaao Village, there is still a distance of more than 30 kilometers. To be precise, this section of the road can be divided into two sections: one is a dirt road, which is barely passable, and the other is a rugged mountain road, which can only be climbed on foot.

Obviously, if compared with the general environment in which Yu Zehai lived in his previous life, the development speed of Huaxia on the water star is far from enough, and for the vast number of rural areas, the policy of "Rural Access Project" has not been thoroughly implemented, so there is no so-called "village access project" and "village access project" at all.

Yu Zehai called a motorcycle and set off towards his destination.

When traveling between the countryside, only a two-wheeled thing like this is the most affordable, convenient, and the most important means of transportation. Most of these masters were farmers from nearby villages and towns. When the farm is busy, they work at home, and when the farm is free, they come out to pick up passers-by, and if they are lucky, they can also earn money for oil and salt for the family at the end of the day.

After getting off the motorcycle, Yu Zehai's people had already appeared at a mountain pass, looking around, except for the gurgling stream that flowed slowly from the two valleys in the shape of a "human", there were endless mountains everywhere in sight.

Looking at the familiar mountain range in his memory in front of him in a daze, Yu Zehai couldn't help but take a long breath, he forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart, turned around and walked towards one of the valleys.

An hour later.

Yu Zehai has already appeared at the west entrance of the village. Looking at the familiar picture in front of him, Yu Zehai's eyes flashed with a touch of dazedness, although on the way back before, he tried his best to find and compare in his memory, but now it suddenly seems that the scene in front of him still has a trace of strangeness.

"Hey...... Anyway, this will be my hometown from now on!"

Yu Zehai sighed in his heart, his eyes became firm again, and then he took a heavy step suddenly, and then walked towards the village.

Yujiaao Village is located at the edge of the basin, and the entire canyon basin belongs to the village, so the area is very wide. As for the size of this small basin surrounded by mountains on three sides, no one knows except that it is very large. But what Yu Zehai knows is that the edge of the basin where Yujiaao Village is located has hundreds of square kilometers.

Yujiaao Village is surrounded by Daqing Mountain. Poisonous insects and beasts abound in the deep mountains, and in view of this, the villagers of Yujiaao Village usually cut firewood, pick wild vegetables, dig herbs, or catch game, usually do not go too far.

It is said that there was once a mountain runner who went deep into the depths of Daqing Mountain, but finally escaped back in embarrassment, if it were not for the mountain runner who had an extraordinary experience in the wilderness, he almost lost his life in the mountain. Since then, the people in the village have been very taboo about the depths of Daqing Mountain, and after that, no one has ever entered it.

The village is located in the middle of a large area of cultivated land, and there are more than 300 households in the village, except for three or five families with outdoor surnames, and all the other families have the surname Yu. According to the elders of the village, in fact, in the early days, the families who had just moved in the village did not have the surname Yu. After a long time, perhaps in order to draw in the good-neighborly and friendly relations between each other, or perhaps for the sake of ethnic integration, those people with foreign surnames have also changed their surnames, and in cases like this, it is called "Sui surname".

In ancient times, people did not treat surnames as strictly as they do today. For example, some powerful people give surnames, those who change their surnames when they commit taboos, those who change their surnames when they commit crimes, and those who have been displaced by famines, if they can be attached to some large families again, they usually change their surnames, which is the surname.

To this day, the vast natural villages still maintain a clan-based or clan-based management model. Take what Yu Zehai knows, in addition to their Yujiaao Village, there are more villages named after surnames in the nearby Shili Eight Townships, such as Zhaojiashan Village, Lijiagou Village, Shenjiazhuang Village, Sunjiahe Village, etc......

In ancient times, a village like this would have been a small clan, a small tribal group, a small group that existed independently!

Because of this, Yujiaao Village has been semi-closed almost all the time. Therefore, if the village needs to build houses, roads, water conservancy or something, then it can only be solved by one's own hands, and it is completely self-reliant!

And so.

In order to build a better home, all the villagers can be said to be eight immortals across the sea, each showing their abilities, and all kinds of housekeeping skills are on the stage. It is precisely because of this that to this day, there are various traditional crafts in the village, such as carpentry, carpentry, stone carving, embroidery, and clay tiles...... And so on, not only has it been perfectly preserved and inherited, but also fully developed.

It can be said that in the hands of most of the villagers in Yujiaao Village, everyone is more or less adept. However, there are exceptions to this, such as Yu Zehai.

Yu Zehai's home is in the easternmost part of the village, and it is a little isolated from the surrounding households, which in the words of the villagers is the "Duzhuang" household, which means detached family. But Yu Zehai will never forget, because on the way back, he has clearly known every grass, tree, brick and tile in his hometown.

Stepping on the smooth and clean stone road, Yu Zehai couldn't help but feel a burst of comfort.

Due to the age, many stone slabs have been covered with traces of weathering, and even a layer of green moss grows on some stone slabs, which shows the breath of time.

Each slab is almost the same size, about one meter wide, two meters long, and about five inches thick, so the weight of each of them is not light. These rectangular stone slabs were mined by the ancestors of the village from the quarry in the mountains piece by piece, and then carried out piece by piece by manpower.

Imagine the main roads that run throughout the village, and the two stone bridges that cross the Qingshui River in the village, this is a very huge project. You know, in the era when there was no modern machinery mining, grinding and handling, you can imagine how difficult it was to complete such a huge project!

Therefore, not to mention anything else, just look at the stone roads under your feet, and these stone slabs full of the atmosphere of the years, which are the best testimony of the wisdom and diligence of the ancestors by future generations!

"Hey, Haiwazi is back...... Our village's Wenqu star is back!"

"It's Haiwa, why didn't you bring your little object with you when you came back?"

"Brother Haiwa, I'll play a few more days when I come back this time, and come to my house for a few drinks in the evening!"

"Hello uncle!"

......

Along the way, there were many grandfathers, uncles and aunts, peers, and those who were still wearing ragged crotch pants and bare toes, and they greeted each other happily after seeing Yu Zehai who came back from the west entrance of the village.

Haiwa is Yu Zehai's nickname. At home, parents usually only call him "Miwa", but outside, neighbors, or some close elders, relatives and friends, call him by his nickname, and as for the big name, it is called by outsiders.

As for the affectionate title of "young baby" in the mouths of parents, it is also a bit of a saying. This is because Yu Zehai is the last to be born in the entire Yujiaao Village, or the "Ze" character in the poems of the entire clan. Therefore, he ranks the youngest in the clan and is commonly known as "the elder".

"Grandpa Fu, Uncle Shi, Huzi, and the little ones...... I'm back!"

When he saw the familiar faces in his memory suddenly appear in front of him one by one, Yu Zehai's heart was ecstatic, this is his father and fellow villagers...... Yu Zehai still clearly remembers that when he went to a foreign place with a university notice to realize his life ideals, the thousands of yuan in tuition and miscellaneous fees in his pocket were made up by the neighbors in front of him......