If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, Li Muye and the others would have never believed that such a place would exist in this era.

The whole village is located in a huge cave, and the whole village of more than 1,300 people live in the cave, although each family has a house, but it is also a very simple wooden structure. It can be said that it is a real day and night, and chickens and dogs smell each other.

When Li Muye and others followed Wu Runtu to come here, it was morning, and the people in the village went to dig the canal, out of curiosity, Lu Shaofen asked Wu Runtu to lead the way and wanted to go to the construction site to see. Everyone followed Wu Runtu from the cave, and trekked along the steep and rugged mountain road for several kilometers, and finally came to a mountain lake surrounded by mountains deep in the mountains. Sure enough, I saw many villagers digging along the steep cliffs.

Among these people are old people in their old age, and there are also little dolls who don't even have pants to wear. Everyone was toiling hard, sweat running down their faces, blood soaking their tattered gloves between their fingers. They walked on the narrow mountain cliff paths, risked their lives, endured unimaginable difficult conditions, and worked tirelessly, but on their faces, Li Muye and the others only saw hope, and did not complain.

The moment he saw this situation, Lu Shaofen completely forgave Wu Runtu at once.

"It's a place where the soul can be sublimated. Li Muye said with a sigh.

Ulanzhu took out a box of biscuits from her backpack, put it to her mouth and just ate a piece, when she suddenly noticed that a little boy with a bare ass in front of her was looking at her enviously. Stunned for a moment, he handed over the box. The little boy hesitated for a moment, then jumped over quickly, took the box, bowed respectfully to Ulanzhu, and then turned around and ran. He ran to an elderly couple and handed the biscuits to the two old men to eat.

Li Muye watched all this silently, and he was a little moved in his heart.

Poverty and misery did not make them destitute, at least in this village, they still inherited noble virtues.

Turning his head to look at Wu Runtu beside him, he whispered, "I don't think you want them to know what you're doing outside." ”

Wu Runtu frowned, and replied unexpectedly: "Of course I will let them know what they have done, in our village, there is nothing that cannot be said." ”

Li Muye found a flat stone and beckoned the others to sit down together, Wu Runtu came over, and said expressionlessly: "You have seen everything you want to see, has our deal been reached?"

"Don't worry, sit down and talk slowly. Li Muye patted the position beside him and said, "I want to see more than that, maybe more to do, now I can only assure you that I don't have any thoughts that are unfavorable to you." ”

Wu Runtu said: "You have also seen that we have nothing to lose." ”

Li Muye said: "What I see is that you need a lot of things. ”

Wu Runtu glanced at Li Muye deeply, his eyes rolled, and he said against his will: "Poverty is the only way to be happy, what we have is what you can't imagine." ”

If you were so high, your old boy wouldn't have gone out to do that shameful thing. Li Muye didn't poke at him, and said: "Obviously, the pain brought by barrenness beyond the bottom line is also unimaginable, so that you have to go out of the mountain to solve it by acting for the tiger." ”

"If there is a mistake, it must be investigated, the harmer will be punished, and the murderer will be killed. Wu Runtu said very stiffly: "I was ready to bear the price when I made a mistake. ”

"And then?" Li Muye stared at him: "You paid such a big price just to lead them to live such a life?"

Wu Runtu said: "To be honest, I don't think there is anything bad about such a day, in today's world, the strong and the weak, the widows, the rich insult the poor, the arrogant and the lowly, rather than the same stream, it is better to stay here and live in poverty and happiness, and maintain their own purity." ”

"But you didn't keep it after all. Li Muye said: "Do you know why this is happening?" Without waiting for him to answer, he continued: "Just because this world lacks a turbid and upright spirit, your escape is not only to be alone, but also a kind of connivance in this filthy world, sooner or later, you will be forced to join the same stream here, and at that time, it will be too late for you to stand up and stir up the turbidity and purity." ”

"The benefits of the world are eliminated. Wu Runtu said: "In the era of cold weapons, we have people here in all generations who have come out of the mountains to support justice, but now in this era of the legal system, guns and cannons are rampant, and our methods of killing enemies on the battlefield have long been incompatible with the entire era, and the fame created by our ancestors in the past has also become a thing of the past." ”

"What a good way to promote the good and eliminate the harm!" Li Muye praised: "As long as there is such an ambition, it will not be outdated in any era." ”

Wu Lanzhu and Lu Shaofen watched intently, listening intently, Lu Shaofen couldn't help but whisper to Wu Lanzhu: "Big brother said so good!" Wu Lanzhu pursed her lips and smiled, stuck to her ear and said, "Big brother is recruiting troops." ”

Wu Runtu was obviously not so easy to recruit, and after he pondered for a moment, he said: "Mr. Li will repay his eyes and act mercilessly, and he doesn't look like that old-fashioned and warm-hearted person. ”

Li Muye asked rhetorically: "In this world, how much can you do with this kind of person?" and said: "I have never claimed to be a good person, but at least I can abide by the moral spirit of not offending me and not offending people, of course, I am indeed not the kind of heroic and righteous man who has been committed to thousands of people, to be honest, I am at most a person who has private morality and does not act in an eclectic way, and I can't simply summarize it with good or bad, but there is one thing I am much better than you, that is, I can make money and do good things in this world." ”

These words came from the bottom of his heart and reasoned from the heart, Wu Runtu listened carefully, sometimes confused, sometimes suddenly. Hearing this, he interjected: "Of course you can do bad things." ”

Li Muye smiled and continued: "Water can carry a boat and overturn a boat, it is a good ploy to use it properly, if the world's martial arts are not used properly, it is just a means to kill people, and I don't know when, when my conscience is lost in the trapped place, I will help to abuse it." ”

Wu Runtu's face turned red and said, "I will definitely give you an explanation for that matter." ”

Li Muye nodded and said: "I believe you will, but I don't approve of you doing this, it is enough to know that mistakes can be corrected, this is the fundamental purpose of punishment, if the person who made the mistake can recognize the mistake and make up his mind to correct it, I think there is no need to accept the punishment." ”

Wu Runtu said: "Rules are rules, and like the laws outside, since they are formulated, they must be implemented to the end." ”

"Whatever. Li Muye said: "Back to the previous topic, do you think it's good for you to stay here and live a good life with the old rules, but the real society is becoming more and more intolerant of your continued days, this time it is to build a reservoir and build a power plant, and the next time you can't keep it, you will develop tourist attractions and let you move out of here, what should you do at that time?"

This sentence spoke to his heart. Wu Runtu silently bowed his head and pondered silently.

Li Muye continued: "Don't think about it, there is no pure land in the true sense of the word in this world, if there is such a place, it is also in response to the words of Buddhism, the spiritual mountain is only in your heart, and there is no mirror platform in your heart, where is it not dirty?"

The words are thought-provoking and chewy.

"Yes. Wu Runtu suddenly raised his head and said: "What you said is very reasonable, our place cannot be undisturbed forever, the times are developing rapidly, the changes in the outside world are too fast, in the past, we were isolated from the world, and we were not allowed to open a husband, but now, those engineering equipment can easily break through the moat." ”

"At the beginning, our ancestors came here to live in seclusion because they refused to submit to the Yuan Tartars, but they never asked future generations to stay here forever. Wu Runtu said: "The reason why I have stayed here for many years is that it has been passed down from generation to generation. ”

Li Muye heard the meaning of loosening from his words, and asked with interest, "Why do you say that?"

"We have three main surnames in this village, namely Wu, Yang and Zhang, originally only Wu and Yang, the ancestors were the generals under the account of General Yue, to avoid the war to settle down here, since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, is planning to go out of the mountain to serve, there is a family surnamed Zhang to avoid disaster to come here, but it was the descendants of Zhang Shicheng who was strictly taken by the imperial court at that time, and the ancestors learned about this when they had intermarried with this family, blood was thicker than water, so the road out of the mountain was cut off, and then the Manchu Qing Dynasty for three hundred years, everyone respected the ancestors to stay in the mountains to practice martial arts and study, and then it was the Republic of China, the warlords were divided into troubled times and the days were not as good as the mountains……”

Li Muye suddenly interrupted him and said in a deep voice: "The village can stay in the mountains, but life must not go on like this!"

Wu Runtu sighed, looked at Li Muye in a daze, and said, "What do you mean?"

Li Muye said: "I said that you can't continue to live this kind of life, the spirit can be noble, but it should not become an obstacle to the pursuit of better material conditions." ”

At this point, it is very clear and thorough.

"It's easier said than done. Wu Runtu no longer pretended to be a high Taoist scholar, and said realistically: "We are too out of touch with the outside world, there is only one private school in the village, and all the knowledge taught is completely unused at present, and the land that can be cultivated and used within a radius of more than ten kilometers in the entire area is used, at best, it can be self-sufficient, how can there be conditions to develop the economy and improve living conditions?"

"Yes. Li Muye said in a deep voice: "People are resources!"

"People?" Wu Runtu smiled bitterly: "You may not know the specific situation of our here, but I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, no outsiders have joined us in this place for almost twenty years." ”

He continued: "Before the liberation, the population increased by the people who fled here, and then caught up with the movement outside, and many people who could not eat, finally ensured the reproduction of the population, but in the last two decades, we have become the poorest village in the region, and the surrounding villages and towns know our place, no one refuses to marry their daughters, but the girls in the village have married a lot. ”

Wu Lanzhu couldn't help but laugh when she heard this.

Wu Runtu glanced at her and said, "Don't laugh, I didn't tell you a joke." ”

Ulanzhu stuck out her tongue and waved to say sorry.

Wu Runtu said: "For you, such a day may be a little incredible, but this is our current situation here, young people can't get too many wives, don't tell you, my wife is twelve years older than me, she was originally my sister-in-law, married to our family at the age of eighteen, almost watched me grow up, and then my brother was bitten to death by a poisonous snake while sleeping in the field, and my sister-in-law became my wife, I am lucky, at least I have an aunt to sleep with, give birth to a baby and cook to live." ”

Lu Shaofen said: "Then what did you say before, don't you think there is anything bad about such a day?"

Wu Runtu scratched his head and said, "I can see that Mr. Li has our intentions, but because of the ancestral training, we need to make some tests about Mr. Li's personality and purpose first." ”

Li Muye said: "Hardship is not banditry, disaster is not evil, what I want is such a good man." ”

Wu Runtu's eyes lit up, looked at Li Muye, and asked, "What is Mr. Li's plan?"