Say hello to your cousin and chat a few words about homely things, which is nothing more than studying hard and playing less games, those words that are not nutritious. At noon, my uncle and aunt started chattering mode, perhaps because there will be few such opportunities in the future, I waited quietly for them to finish chatting this time, and the two goods of my brother and cousin had already fled in the desert. After eating, packing up my things, and rushing home non-stop.

Our village is built by the mountains and rivers, at the foot of a small hill, facing the east, and my house is just located in the middle of the mountainside, the highest place of the village, many villages on our side are called villages, just like Miao Village, that is, the local local flavor is not so strong, just ordinary villages.

The residents of the entire village are of the Buyi ethnic group, and the situation is similar in several nearby villages, after all, we are here in the Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. Although we say that it is an ethnic minority, it is actually similar to the Han nationality, and it has been very sinicized, after all, a few decades ago, ethnic minorities were not so popular, and everyone hoped that they were Han at that time, but then as soon as the preferential policies for ethnic minorities came out, there were more and more ethnic minorities. For example, my great-great-grandfather was a Buyi, but my great-grandfather, my grandfather was Han, and I am now a Buyi, who can say clearly?

In the last ten years, there are fewer and fewer people in the village, all of them are some old people and children, once Titi stepped on the stone road that kept ringing, now it is quiet, young people have gone out to work, older children are going to school, because the traffic in the mountainous area is not developed, it is a little far away from the town, and the students of junior high school and high school are living in the school, so there is no one.

A nearby village was abandoned, and the residents moved to the side of the road and built new bungalows. The once large village of nearly 100 households has declined in less than 10 years. Dilapidated stilted buildings and shingle houses are everywhere, and the once smooth and shiny stone pavement is now overgrown with weeds.

Only the earth dogs that wander from time to time are patronized, like a ghost. Nothing can resist the erosion of time, even the sacred tree next to the village, which is said to be almost 500 years old, has withered, and it seems that decay has become inevitable. I still remember when I was a child, in the summer, we used to play around this big tree that only four or five people can hug together, picking up soap horns that fell from the tree and washing our hair.

But everything is developing, we are growing up, and there is no going back.

The reason why our village does not have such a fate is because the village is next to the highway, and many people have knocked down or abandoned the stilted buildings and tiled houses that have been handed down by their ancestors for some or even hundreds of years, and built bungalows directly on the roadside or on the original foundation, and the original polished stone road has become a smoother and more convenient cement road.

It's not that people don't miss the old, but when faced with a better life, it is obvious that everyone chooses the latter, and I have seen many old people secretly wipe their tears when they watch their old houses that they have lived in for decades from birth to the present being demolished by their children.

The local countryside is in the process of changing from a life of sunrise and sunset every day for hundreds of years to a modern way of life, and great changes have taken place in food, clothing, housing and transportation, and if you don't adapt to it, you may be eliminated by this era. Just like those old people who didn't even know words before, they have begun to learn to use mobile phones, after all, it is a tool to keep in touch with their children and grandchildren thousands of miles away.

Beneath the stockade is a basin with a small river meandering through it, and on both sides of it are turquoise terraces, where the rice has just been tasseled and will be golden in two months. If you look closely, you can see that the river is not as clear as it once was, and when it passes through the town, it has changed, and it has become so terrible, so disgusting that it can no longer give birth to a trace of intimacy. In the past, the whole village lived on this small river, and the other villages downstream were also like this. But now the water is so dirty that when it is so polluted, livestock don't bother to drink from the river. Perhaps this is the price of development.

Fortunately, a tributary that meets it at the back of the mountain is not polluted because it does not pass through human settlements, so a few years ago, the government built a waterworks there to solve the drinking water problem in nearby villages within a few dozen miles. It has made it a lot easier for everyone, but also lost a lot.

It is said that the government has begun to pay attention to environmental issues. Although the phenomenon of people discharging sewage into the river and throwing garbage is not less, the illegal small coal kilns, illegal quarries and brick factories on both sides of the highway are becoming fewer and fewer, and it has improved a little, isn't it?

I have always known that Guizhou is one of the most economically backward places in the country, and everyone says that Guizhou has a good environment, after all, the economy is so backward, and the environment is basically not destroyed, but in my opinion, the pollution is already very serious, and I really dare not imagine what those places that are really seriously polluted will be like. At the same time, it also makes me look forward to the unknown, and I am always so curious about the unknown. When I walked out of Guizhou and went all the way north, I had a deep understanding. Only then did I realize that my hometown was so beautiful.