Old Man Shi was silent, and it took a long time before he sighed.

"Alas, do you know why this place is poor? I have long taught you and Xiaoxiao that it is not terrible to be poor, but to be afraid of laziness. Sunjiagou is called lazy ditch by others. I was lazy to get used to it thirty or forty years ago, but now it seems that it hasn't changed at all. ”

Old Man Shi told Ma Tianyao.

Fifty or sixty years ago, the villagers here were hunters, surrounded by mountains, and usually lived by hunting and picking wild fruits and mushrooms. Occasionally, I will dig up some yams and sell them to make money.

At that time, life was quite passable.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, after the government closed the mountains and forests, and many animals were listed as protected animals, the hunters in Sunjiagou were all placed together for collective farming.

Each family was given enough land and people were sent from above to guide the cultivation of crops.

But the Orions, of course, didn't change so easily.

One is that their way of life has become a habit over the years, and the other is that the difference between farming and hunting is obviously too large. When you plant an acre of wheat, in addition to sowing, fertilizing, irrigating, sprinkling, and weeding, you also have to harvest, dry, and process it, and it takes half a year to eat it in your mouth.

Hunting is different, carrying a shotgun with a hunting dog, going in and putting a few shots, even if you can't hit the yellow sheep and fox, you can also hit rabbits and mountain rats and the like.

One is a small half-year effort, one is a bag of cigarettes, one is to eat noodles, and the other is to eat game, not only game, but also fur can be sold for money.

A good fox skin can top several acres of wheat. So......

Fools will choose to hunt instead of growing wheat and corn.

There is a third point, that is, the difference between the two methods is too great!

Who can stand it, if you let a hunter who runs around the mountains with a yellow dog every day, quietly carry a hoe and hoe to weed?

So within two years, the land was completely deserted, and there was no one to farm, and those who should hunt continued to hunt......

But the mountain is so big, there are so many animals, and they can't bear the fight of Sunjiagou from generation to generation. Especially three or four years later, a sudden fire burned the mountains and forests near Sunjiagou to ashes.

By then, Orion really had nothing to fight.

However, let them pick up hoes and farm the land, and few people are also willing.

Therefore, since about twenty or thirty years ago, many people in Sunjiagou began to run outside.

Some went out to work, some went to distant relatives, and some sold their family's finesse and went out to do business. It was at that time that Old Man Shi was taken to Sunjiagou by Sun Ergou.

These people wanted to leave, and a lot of things were not easy to bring, and they couldn't bear to waste them, so they all sold them to Old Man Shi, the tattered king, at a low price, in order to exchange for some money.

"At that time, I lived in Sun Ergou's house, and I collected the things in their village for more than three months, and people moved out every day at that time. ”

"Didn't Sun Ergou move?"

And at that time, he saw that I was greedy for tatters, so he also made some money, and he also married a daughter-in-law, so he didn't want to leave, and he occupied a dozen houses by himself, and completely became a rich man. ”

"So to put it that way...... There is no one in Sun Jiagou now?"

Ma Tianyao frowned, and secretly slandered herself, if there was really no one, her plan would not be easy to implement.

But then, Old Man Shi dispelled her concerns.

"No, not just people, but more people. ”

"Huh?"

"Hehe, aren't you surprised?"

"Yes, grandpa, why did they all move away, but there are more people?"

"Hehe, that's because, after these people moved out, the houses in the village were vacant, you know, many people couldn't even afford to eat at that time, let alone houses.

So after these people left, many nearby scavengers and refugees lived here. ”

"Huh?"

Ma Tianyao was surprised, and heard Old Man Shi continue with a smile.

"Hehe, it was really lively at that time, every day there were scavengers lining up outside the village to wait for these people to leave, some couldn't wait, and they would take some things to exchange with the master's house.

Later, because of the policy, these people all settled their hukou here and became the masters of Sunjiagou. ”

"But...... These outsiders are not hunters, they should all be farming, why are they still so poor?"

Ma Tianyao didn't understand a little, although the mountains are relatively closed and it is not easy to communicate with the outside world, but relying on farming, although poor is poor, it will not be miserable.

Old Man Shi smiled and sighed with emotion.

"Alas, these people are not as good as the original hunters. Many of them are fleeing and scavenging, and they are already lazy and used to it, but now that they have a shelter from the wind and rain, they don't want to move at all. Unless hungry, no one left the house.

The biggest headache for the government every year is Sunjiagou, which distributes relief food relief funds every year, but as a result, they live more justifiably, lying directly at home and waiting for subsidies.

At the most powerful time, Sunjiagou was all low-income households, and the scene was simply wonderful.

Later, the government also changed the way of poverty alleviation, sent them cattle, sheep, and pigs, and wanted them to rely on the mountains to breed, and guess what happened to this group of people?"

"What's wrong?"

"They sold everything they could sell, and they ate everything they couldn't. And then wait for the country to send ......"

"It's too ......"

"Yes, poverty alleviation is not lazy, so in the end, no one will take care of this place. ”

"And how do they usually live?"

"Hehe, you'll know this then. ”

Old Man Shi smiled, and did not directly tell Ma Tianyao the answer, the two chatted and chatted, and they had already entered Sunjiagou.

At this time, Wang Chen realized that fairy tales were all lies, and he pinched his nose and scolded.

"Damn, what smells so bad!"

Ma Tianyao also pinched his nose, and Old Man Shi kicked his feet.

"Hehe, what else can this kind of place smell like? Cow dung, sheep dung, eggs,...... Nothing. Let's go, this is where Sun Ergou lives, and it looks like someone is at home. ”

Sun Ergou really made a fortune with Mr. Shi back then, and by picking up the rags of the people in the village, he became the richest man in Sunjiagou, and his family was also the only brick and stone house in the village.

It was precisely because of this that he later tricked a daughter-in-law into entering the door.

As for the other houses, almost all of them are civil structures, and some of them are even dilapidated and have no doors, but they are not afraid, because thieves have to leave with tears in their eyes when they come here, and no one will be poorer than them.

There are barren grass on both sides of the village road, some of them are even taller than people, and no one comes out to clean up, and some of the houses are full of children playing barefoot, and the clothes they wear are covered with mud and black formed by sweat.