Chapter 6 Into the Mountains
With a large number of young and middle-aged laborers going out to work, the phenomenon of "empty nesting" in rural areas is becoming more and more intense. This is a social issue, and it's not just Yujiaao Village.
If there are elderly people in the family, they will leave the children to the elderly people to pull, and if there are no elderly people in the family, they will foster the children in the homes of their brothers or seven aunts and eight aunts. Children are left behind in their hometowns, and their education and livelihood problems are not guaranteed at all. Even some families, even if the state implements compulsory education, can afford to go to school but cannot afford to live, which is also a big problem.
Walking through the village, when I met some aunts and aunts, I naturally greeted them again. The countrymen are simple and sincere, and they also carry out the Chinese etiquette that has been inherited for thousands of years. If you don't greet each other, that's rude, and it's the most correct way to communicate.
"Haiwa is back, the baby is so filial!"
"The baby came back this time, why don't you bring your little object back with you?"
"Yes, yes, now that free love is advocated, Haiwa, you have to hurry up. In addition, don't expect Su Fen's sister-in-law to give you a lot, your parents' arranged marriage was decades ago, and it's not popular now!"
"That's right!"
"Haiwa has been sensible since she was a child, and her grades are good, so I said that this baby will have a future in the future, no, she will stay in the bustling big city to work after graduating from college. ”
"That's right, it's still a key university, tsk, Haiwazi is the first college student in our village. ”
Yu Zehai listened to the gossip words of the neighbors on the left and right along the way, the corners of his mouth twitched fiercely, the middle-aged woman who had just praised him for being sensible since he was a child, when he was naughty and mischievous when he went down to the river to fish, she also played his little Ding Ding!
"Don't think that if I say a few good words now, I'll forget about it!" Yu Zehai gritted his teeth in his heart, but he had to put on a smiling face to meet them.
The people in the village were so enthusiastic that they grabbed him one by one and asked him to the bottom of it, as if everyone had a hundred thousand whys in their heads. asked Yu Zehai how his life was in the city, why he came back this time, what happened to his girlfriend, and when he got married and had children......
Moreover, as long as someone asks, you can't afford not to answer. But there are some questions that Yu Zehai doesn't want to answer in his heart, if you say that you broke up with your girlfriend, maybe a matchmaker will come to your door tonight to tell you about matchmaking. With such good intentions, you are still embarrassed to shirk it.
Walking through the rice field, Yu Zehai looked at the corn and potatoes in the field again, except for the homestead and the vegetable garden on the self-reserved land, all the responsible fields and responsible land, but where crops can be planted, have been planted by their parents.
The planting structure in rural areas is relatively simple, usually one season of wheat and one season of corn. Moreover, major food crops such as wheat and corn are not worth much, and people with a little more brains may grow some soybeans and other cash crops in the fields, and because of this, the average income of farmers is always at the end of the whole society.
Change is imperative!
Yu Zehai retracted his gaze, he sent the millet girl back to the village, and said, "Millet girl, you take Erpi to play by yourself, Uncle Mi still has something to do." Remember to pay attention to safety, and remember to come to your uncle's house for dinner at night!"
"Got it, goodbye uncle!" After the little girl finished speaking, she beckoned to the two skins beside her and ran towards the village together.
Seeing the back of the little girl in the distance, Yu Zehai's mood suddenly relaxed, and a faint smile appeared on his face again.
This is the baby in the country!
Take Mimi as an example, she is only more than three years old and less than four years old, and she dares to jump up and down in the village with a big yellow dog all day long...... By the time he was five years old, he could drive his cattle and sheep up the mountain, and by this time he had learned the simplest way to cook porridge.
Yu Zehai still clearly remembers the scene when he first learned to cook when he was a child. At that time, almost every stove used a wooden pot lid or an old earthen pot lid fired by the village kiln, which lasted for a long time, and Yu Zehai was troubled every day because he couldn't lift the lid. Every time the farming season is busy, his parents go to work in the fields, and Yu Zehai is responsible for logistics at home. But every time he boiled a pot of water, he had to run around the village to find someone to help lift the lid on the pot......
"Nowadays, most of the pots and stoves in every household have been replaced with glass or metal lids bought in the bazaar, which are light and fast, so the babies are now happy!" Yu Zehai pursed his lips and turned around and walked towards the back mountain.
Entering the mountain from the back of the village, there are no more people. Yu Zehai entered the mountain this time, firstly, to take the opportunity to enter the space in the tower to turn over the soil for experiments, and secondly, to see if he could earn the first pot of gold since he was reborn in another world!
The situation at home can be described by the words "poor", and he has worked in the company for two years, but the salary card is only 5,000 yuan, which is really far from the goal in his mind.
Wielding the firewood knife in his hand, Yu Zehai's figure quickly shuttled through the jungle. As a native of the countryside, when I was a child, I used to herd cattle in the mountains, chop firewood, and dig herbs. Although I haven't relived this kind of life for some years, fortunately, those experiences and skills have been deeply imprinted into my bones, so I am familiar with the road and there is no difficulty.
In the mountains and forests in summer, in addition to dealing with the bites of various mosquitoes and snakes, it is also necessary to prevent the attacks of the ubiquitous and most elusive slender-waisted bees.
Yu Zehai can be described as a wild boy who is not afraid of the sky and the earth, what goes up to the tree to dig birds' eggs, goes down to the river to catch loaches and the like, there is nothing he has not done. However, the only thing that made him frightened was the slender waist bee, and he hated this kind of unguardable ghost, because he had suffered from it.
An hour later, Yu Zehai stopped to rest under a big tree.
The boundary mountain stretches from east to west, dividing the entire Chinese land into two parts, north and south, which shows how vast and boundless it is? And the current Daqing Mountain is only an insignificant branch of the Jieshan Mountain, so Yu Zehai's long-distance journey of one hour, not to mention the Jieshan, is not worth mentioning for the entire Daqing Mountain.
After pouring a bottle of spiritual spring water in the space inside the tower, Yu Zehai was resurrected with full blood again, brandishing a firewood knife and continuing to move forward!
Now his position is only a small foot of the Daqing Mountain Range at best, this is still the sphere of influence of Yujiaao Village, and if he wants to find something, he must continue to advance into the depths of the mountain.
"This hell weather, it's really hot enough!"
Just when Yu Zehai took out the water bottle for the fifth time and was about to take a sip, his eyes were instantly stopped by a touch of green under the shade of the tree!
"I've got a piece of grass! This is bluegrass?"
Orchid grass is a plant that grows in a half-shade and half-yang environment, and has a strong dependence on forests and vegetation. If wild orchids grow in a certain place, then it means that the vegetation in the area is well preserved and the forest covers a large area. Wild orchids usually survive in the mountains at an altitude of 300-1200 meters, and at present, Yu Zehai's location is far away from the village.
The forest cover area of the Jieshan Mountain Range is large, and the mountain vegetation is good, so there are wild Qilan growing in the mountain. These are all information that Yu Zehai learned in his previous life. It's just that what he didn't expect was that he could encounter the blue grass just by wandering around in the Daqing Mountains!
However, this also gave Yu Zehai a wake-up call.
Due to the congestion of information in rural areas, and the general level of knowledge is not high, there is often a phenomenon of "you know me, but I don't know you" in many cases. For example, the orchid in front of me, the people in the village are busy farming all day long to support their families, and they go out to work to make money when they are not working, but they are dark for this valuable thing that grows at the door of their homes.
Even, Yu Zehai had seen a news in his previous life, saying that a big boss from the south of the country came to the Jieshan Mountain Range and recruited a large number of farmers to go up the mountain to search for Qilan. Many farmers dug up a large amount of bluegrass, only to get a few bags of "apples" and "pots" from the boss, which is really sad!
Being able to find orchids was an unexpected gain for Yu Zehai. After drinking the last sip of spiritual spring water in the bottle, Yu Zehai swung his hoe, dug out the entire orchid grass with soil, and turned around and entered the space inside the tower.
In the space inside the tower, Yu Zehai resisted the hoe, and the rising butt began a vigorous movement to turn over the ground.
However, ten acres of land is not a small amount, especially for someone like Yu Zehai who has not done manual work for many years. That is, there is a cheating artifact like Lingquan, but after an hour, Yu Zehai only turned over a tenth of the ten acres of land.
"That's not going to work!"
Yu Zehai wiped a handful of sweat, looked back at the ground behind him, and then looked at the black soil in front of him that had not yet started, and muttered to himself: "If you continue like this, Lao Tzu will really die." Damn! If Lao Tzu could control it with his consciousness, it would be great! No matter how bad it is, I can also get a cultivator in, which is more efficient than I would have been able to dig manually with my head pouted and my ass. ”
At this moment, a scene that shocked Yu Zehai appeared!
As his words fell, I saw that the black land in front of him, which had never been built, shook in unison, and then quickly flipped over......
"I bought a watch last year, what the hell is this?"
Looking at the incredible scene in front of him, Yu Zehai couldn't help but rub his eyes, and pinched his thighs fiercely, the pain in his muscles made him realize that the bizarre scene in front of him was true!
"Could it be that everything in this space can be controlled by my consciousness?" Yu Zehai's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, and then he shouted excitedly: "Crush those big lumps for Lao Tzu!"
As expected!
As Yu Zehai's thoughts came out, countless pickaxes seemed to appear out of thin air on the black soil that had just been turned over in the space inside the tower, quickly smashing all the large lumps of soil that could be seen, and then turning into fine pieces of soil.
"Pour a bottle of water for Lao Tzu!"
As soon as the words fell, I saw a freshly drunk mineral water bottle by the pond fly up in the air and plunged into the pond, and soon a whole bottle of spring water appeared in front of Yu Zehai again.
"Wow Ka ......"
Seeing this, Yu Zehai crossed his hands on his hips and looked up to the sky and laughed wildly. That look of spirit is simply a copy of the red-haired basketball kid in a cartoon in an island country.
"What a baby!"
Yu Zehai's mouth was about to twitch when he smiled.