Chapter 10: Ancient Tales

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Professor Guo pointed to a ravine that stretched to the east and said: "There is an ancient story in this east ditch, according to legend, once upon a time there was a big toad spirit in this ditch, and here it "croaked" and screamed, its breath with a whirring sound, making a slip of wild grass tremble...... There is also a legend that there is also a scorpion spirit ...... in this ravine"

I saw this village, with a two-story bluestone wall with a special ancient charm and a stone building with gray and black tiles. The high and low buildings built according to the topography are scattered in a quaint architectural style, the flowers planted in front of the house and the flowers on the fruit trees are in full bloom, the green leaves are swaying, and the birds are standing on the branches chirping. Wild flowers grow in the cracks in the rocks along the roadside, and they bloom as well. The four of them felt that the fragrance was pleasant everywhere, and the air here was very fresh. In some people's homes, the puppy in the yard was lying at the door and barking at the arrival of four strangers. Sometimes there are a few cats meowing, sometimes the sheep bleating, sometimes the hens clucking. From afar, the people in the village saw their esteemed Professor Guo coming to the village. Everyone walked over briskly one by one, with an extremely excited look on their faces. Professor Guo smiled and said to the apprentices: "Hehe, the more I don't know how to move, the more I read countless people, the people in this mountain village are the same as the people in our village, they have the same kindness, enthusiasm and simplicity, and they also have the noble quality of helping others!"

【2】

At this time, a group of mountain people laughed and rushed towards this direction, ignoring the large and small stones under their feet. Zhang Guangming immediately stepped on the brakes as soon as he saw it, and as soon as the car stopped, Professor Guo was afraid to get out of the car in a hurry. With a happy expression on his face, he got out of the car first, and hurried up to greet the enthusiastic mountain people with a smile on his face.

There were seventy or eighty-year-old mountain dwellers sitting at the door of several houses, and they all stood up and waved their hands with a smile to greet Professor Guo. The mountain people rushed to tell each other, "Professor Guo is here!" A group of people almost trotted down the high steps and rushed to meet Professor Guo with joy. Several gray-haired old men rushed to Professor Guo in high spirits, and suddenly hugged Professor Guo and said affectionately:

"Eh, Brother Guo, I'm looking forward to you!"

"We miss you so much!" they said affectionately, with honorific titles.

An old lady on crutches came with a limp. She smiled and said, "Professor Guo, have you come here this time to think of a machine suitable for mountain farming?" She reminded Professor Guo of this question, and he thought: Why don't we take this opportunity to take advantage of this opportunity to conduct a field trip and develop an automatic cultivation machine suitable for mountain soil?

Guo Aimin was ashamed to hear this and said, "I'm sorry, no, we're here today......?" However, the four of us will seriously consider your old suggestion. ”

At this time, a group of simple and kind old people came over, and they said enthusiastically:

"Eh, I'm looking forward to you! I'll make you a bowl of rice soup!"

"I'll give you a meal of pork, radish and millet thick rice for you today!"

Professor Guo politely declined. He also said kindly: "Uncle, aunt, are you in good health?" He and the mountain people cared for each other for a while. The professor pointed to the northwest and said, "Let's go to the mountains first and collect some Chinese medicinal herbs." By the way, I'll give you some wild radish cherries, wild leeks, wild grapes, and wild strawberries, and send them to you. ”

Everyone said, no, we eat those things every day.

The mountain people greeted Zhang Guangming and Qingchun and his wife one after another.

【3】

The four of them said goodbye to the mountain people, and Zhang Guangming drove the car and turned north. He pointed to the path and said, "Go north, reach the junction in front, turn west and continue driving, and we will go there to collect medicine." You see, what about the road to the northeast? There is a long-standing story in this village that it is said that the king of the Emperor was defeated in the Battle of Makino, and he fled from this road in a hurry to the court. Passing through here, another of the king's daughters, who parted ways with her mediocre father and Daji, who was a scourge to the gods and loyal ministers, fled westward. And when the king and Daji fled here, the king lost a shoe, so the hillside was named the Shoe Slope. Qin Chun and his wife looked at the beautiful scenery with rare eyes, and listened to the sound of green bamboo,, larks, and pheasants in the bamboo forest...... The birds sang happily on the branches of the high fruit trees, the frogs of all sizes in the cracks of the stones below the bamboo forest sang one after another, and the crickets and worms sang in the stream next to the bamboo forest. Zhang Guangming drove the electric car all the way uphill, turning around the mountain circuit, until there was no feasible road for cars in front of him, Zhang Guangming stopped, and the four masters and apprentices got out of the car. The four of them walked about thirty or forty meters, came to an ancient monument, Zhang Guangming introduced, "This place is called the Huanggu Nunnery, there is this inscription as evidence, indicating that the legend is a true story, the daughter of the king at that time, the imperial aunt in order to hide people's eyes, she built a temple in front of her, disguised as a nun, here to eat fasting and chant Buddha, give alms to the people until the end of their lives." After her death, she was buried here. He led the three of them to a ruined wall, pointed to the stone tablet in front of him, and said, "The Huanggu Nunnery is by no means groundless, you see this stone tablet as proof." Several people squatted down to carefully look at the words on the stone tablet...... Then he nodded in agreement with what Zhang Guangming said.

Professor Guo led the apprentices to carefully inspect the gravel in the soil here, and he said worriedly, what about designing an intelligent farming machine suitable for mountainous areas? All four of them said, "Let's go back today, we have to think about it, and then study it." Then the four masters and apprentices began to pick wild vegetables, strawberries, wild grapes, sour dates, wild mulberries and other wild fruits, preparing to keep some of them for their families to taste the nutritious wild food in the mountains, and the other part to give to their colleagues in the unit to taste the rarity. The four of them also collected more than a dozen kinds of Chinese herbs such as wild mulberry leaves, He Shou Wu, Bupleurum chinensis, Panax notoginseng, and wolfberry, and prepared to send them to Zhang Wenjun's large-scale farm.

Zhang Guangming asked the keeper of the third daughter to add these Chinese herbs to the grain bran to feed the livestock, and after feeding for a while, Zhang Wenjun found that the livestock were strong and lovely.