Chapter 5 Relying on the mountains and the sea
Seeing the familiar village, the hometown of dreams, and the boundless beauty, Yang Yi couldn't help but feel excited, which carried the best memories of his youth, and also conveyed all the feelings of the wanderer to his hometown.
The tires of the mountain bike bounce on the uneven ground, flexibly avoiding the crushed ravines and small potholes, and descending the mountain along the winding mountain road like the wind, and after a while, the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village has been clearly visible, and countless birds rise and fall in it on the huge canopy, which has a rural interest.
This big banyan tree is said to have at least seven or eight hundred years of history, the legends and stories about it can be traced back to the early Ming Dynasty, some people say that after the defeat of Emperor Jianwen, he fled here, and since then he went to sea and went to the South Seas, and once he was still stationed under this big banyan tree to trim.
The authenticity of the story can no longer be investigated, the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen have always been a historical unsolved case, and countless routes of Emperor Jianwen living in seclusion or escaping all over the country are just hype through his affairs, if tourism is developed here, this can be used as a gimmick.
When you arrive at the entrance of the village, you can feel how big the big banyan tree is, the main root is rooted in the edge of the rock of the remaining veins of Zhushan, there are no less than 10,000 aerial roots of different thicknesses, and the entire canopy covers an area of no less than five or six acres, covering the entire village entrance under its embrace.
When Yang Yi arrived at the entrance of the village, the two old men were sitting on the stone table under the tree and playing chess.
"Grandpa, village chief, grandpa, playing chess?"
The two old men were in their seventies, one of them was wearing a white shirt, black pants, black cloth shoes, gray hair shaking a fan, and the other was wearing a local undershirt with no buttons, so he was open to arms, stepping on cloth shoes with bare feet, smoking a cigarette bag pot, and pulling a small amount of hair, as if he was trying to crack the move.
"What is playing chess, Old Man Yang is waiting for you here, since he answered your father's call in the morning, he has pulled me to sit here, and said that he is in a good mood to accompany me to kill a few games, who doesn't know what he thinks, just this little half a day to keep looking at the road over there, and not afraid to twist his neck!"
The old man, who was called the village chief's grandfather by Yang Yi, took a puff of cigarette and then blew it out.
"You old Wu don't know what to do, you pester me to play chess every day, and I accompany you to play but arrange me!" Grandpa shot back, not to be outdone.
"You can pull it down, if you want to be a grandson, you will say that you miss your grandson, you cultural people will pretend, now Xiaohu is back, hurry up when you go back to the village, the wind here is too hard, and you can't stand it when you're old!"
After finishing speaking, he put on his shoes, knocked the cigarette pouch pot on the soles of his shoes, and walked towards the village with Ma Zha behind his back, Yang Yi smiled and followed his grandfather behind him, and walked towards the village.
Before coming to southern Xinjiang, grandpa also lived in the capital since childhood, so he knew the customs and customs of the capital and other places very well.
When I got home, my grandmother had already made lunch, and now it was only eleven o'clock, and I heard that he was going to come back to the two old people, but it took a lot of effort to hear that he was going to come back, in addition to seasonal vegetables and mountain goods, there were also his favorite blue crabs and sea bass, which were full, as well as their family's special wild vegetable pancakes.
Grandma is said to have been a girl from a large family, literate and hyphenation and a college student, and later became a relative to her grandfather, not long after giving birth to her father, because of her bad composition in her grandfather, so she was called an intellectual stinky old nine. traveled thousands of miles from the north to the southern frontier of Xinjiang, and stayed for decades.
However, some habits of northerners have not been lost, in this place where rice and noodles are eaten, their family will add some pasta from time to time, among which Yang Yi's favorite is wild vegetable batter paste, and later he also learned that this thing is called "salty food" in the north, which is a kind of folk traditional food.
accompanied the second elder Meimei to eat a hearty lunch, and then he and his grandfather picked up a pot of tea and sat under the osmanthus tree in the yard and chatted.
"I heard your father say that you want to start farming in the village, what are you going to do, tell your grandfather too!" the old man asked after taking a sip of tea.
"Specifically, we have to look at the situation on our side, when I was in the capital, I found that the two most popular things now, one is rural tourism, the other is green food, we have mountains and rivers in the mountain village, the water quality of Pearl Lake is very good, suitable for freshwater fish farming; although Pearl Bay is long and narrow, both sides are cliffs, but the scenery is unique, we have a sandy beach in the mountain village, you can engage in characteristic tourism and marine aquaculture; there are treasures everywhere in Zhushan, and many original ecological beauty and products can also be developed to do characteristic landscape tours. It's just that when I came back, I found that our road is too difficult to walk, and if we can't solve the traffic problem, no matter how good the planning is, it may not be realized!"
Yang Yi briefly said his thoughts, mainly in the direction of the mountain village, and his grandfather didn't speak, so he took a sip of water and continued.
"What I want to do is to contract down to Laolongkeng, which is very close to Pearl Lake, where to do freshwater fish farming, and there are artificial breeding methods for saury and anchovy, which are of very high value, and one can be sold for more than 1,000, and I plan to supply it mainly to Southeast Province." The second step is to contract Pearl Lake for an integrated project of breeding, planting and tourism, and then contract a piece of pearl farming in Pearl Bay to do seawater pearl farming, and finally develop Pearl Mountain, this is my initial idea!" Yang Yi added some specific ideas.
"Well, I thought you were just a hot brain, it seems that you have done some thinking, whether it is feasible or not Grandpa will not express his opinion, and I don't want to restrict your young people's thinking, you just do it boldly, what do you need Grandpa's help to talk about it when the time comes, Zhushan is full of treasures, but it also blocks the land route for the outward development of the mountain village; Pearl Bay is beautiful, but the reefs are dense, and the boats have a water surface of less than a mile in the middle, blocking the waterway of the mountain village. Over the years, countless people have taken a fancy to the paradise of the mountain village, but because of this mountain and sea, in the end there is no chance of development, since you want to do it, then do it boldly, if you want to do it when you are young, you dare to do it, I will definitely support it!"
Grandpa took a sip of tea and didn't say anything about his plan, with his decades of experience in politics, he must have known that Yang Yi's ideas had many loopholes, but he didn't say it, but supported him to explore it himself, I have to say that although he has been retired for many years, this old man's pattern and mind are still the same as back then.
"If you need to contract land or something, just find your village chief and grandfather, I'll go to the rest meeting, you can take a look yourself!"
Grandpa went back to the house with his hands behind his back, this house was still rebuilt after he retired, did not choose the brick wall but expanded on the basis of the original old stone house, the top is made of bamboo, it is a feeling of ancient buildings in the fishing village.
The whole mountain village is basically similar to this kind of house, the local soil layer is thin, it is basically impossible to burn bricks to build a house, and the cost of transporting it from the outside is too high, so it is quarrying and building a house in Zhushan, some of them will polish the stone into stones to build a house, and more are directly built with stones of the original shape, and then use shell fragments, shell powder with sand and gravel cement grouting, the house made by this soil process is very solid, no less than the house built by using reinforced cement, and it is warm in winter and cool in summer. Comfortable and livable, with bamboo roofs or seaweed roofs on tops, it looks like a primitive tribe from a distance, and it is also a major feature of the mountain village.
There are more than 100 households and six or seven hundred people in the mountain village, and the surname Wu is the big surname in the village, and it is said that the guards of Emperor Jianwen stayed at that time to spread the branches and leaves, forming this village, as well as the surname Zhang and the surname Li, and the surname Yang is their family.
The village is not big, but the living is relatively scattered, from the hillside to the seaside are inhabited, Yang Yi came all the way, and met the people in the village to greet him warmly, but most of them are older, and he has not met anyone who is about the same age.
When he arrived at the edge of Pearl Bay, the sun was scorching the earth at this time, and even the air and sea breeze were hot, he looked around and saw that there was no one around, and a fierce man plunged into the bay, and as soon as he entered the water, he turned into a fish dragon and went to the depths of the bay!