Chapter 8: Memories (2)
''Twenty years ago, I was young and strong, but everything was different because of that incident......''
Since I was a child, I have been a person with strong self-esteem, although I live in such a remote village, but I have never given up on my dreams, my young brain is full of all kinds of creatures, people living in the village can always see me carrying a small bamboo basket, holding a small shovel, a small net pocket, bringing all kinds of animals and plants home to observe and raise. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Except for labor time, my pleasure is to run to the hills to find these such interesting things.
It was a very happy time.
When I was 18 years old, I found a moth on a hillside with crystal clear wings and an ice-blue color, but its breath was dying, as if it was dying. I carefully held it in my hand, and took it home to take care of it with the common sense I had found before, and it recovered and began to fly around the house, and one night, it began to bump in front of the window, and I came to the window, lifted the lamp, and was surprised to find that outside the window, including the courtyard, there were all these ice moths flying. I let the one I took in and they survived in our little village, and every day, the most common picture was of many children chasing these beautiful moths. I was amazed to find that since the moths had settled in the village, the old people in the village had become very healthy, and even the old men, who were about to come to an end, had become surprisingly healthy. It's also a lot less common for people in the village to get sick, which is weird.
However, the arrival of the moth has added a lot of joy and color to our lives. Villagers who had left the village brought the moth to the city, and many famous scientists gradually learned about this novel species.
But a few months later, a thunderbolt suddenly shattered my peaceful life, my father, who was working outside the home, blocked a rich man in an alley and killed him for greed for money, and his body was thrown in the moat. Soon after, he wore a black hood on his head and also collapsed under the gunfire of the police. This incident alarmed the whole village. Before he was shot, I went to see my dad with my mom, who had been nervous split a few days ago. Looking through the windowpane at the depressed father's numb face, my tears fell on the window, I was afraid, I hated, how could my mother and I live without him? Greed made me lose my father. Weigh all the burden on me.
Since then, I have learned what greed is, and I have made up my mind never to be a greedy person.
Not long after, the old village chief, who had lived for 98, passed away, and I became the new village chief, and during that time, I really grew up a lot. I was 20 years old.
Time flies very fast, and I have grown a lot, I often go out of the mountains to the outside city, go there to buy books on biology, use the words I used to read and learn, and the people in the city know that I am the head of the village where the ice moth was found, and they are all impressed with me.
I always thought that the ice moth would bring me infinite honor and pride, but that feeling changed when I was 30 years old.
At the age of 30, I was already a scholar of insect biology, and at this time several scientists came to our village. They brought with them a lot of professional research equipment, as well as compressed breeding bins, and a backpack full of seeds of unknown plants.
''What kind of plant is that?'" Xia Yutong asked as he listened, but the old village chief didn't answer her, and still told his story with his eyes closed.
They brought a delicate metal box, in which a dozen red bills were dizzying, and they said, "If I am willing to cooperate with them and let them establish a permanent breeding base here, they are willing to pay me very much." At first, I didn't expect that making better use of such an excellent breed would be the dream of every bio-loving person.
Besides, the color of money confuses me. How can people resist the temptation of so much money, so I hesitated for a moment and agreed.
Great, hope we have a good time working together. They shook my hand amicably.
After that, there was no longer a shadow of ice moths in the village, and they kept all the moths in the artificial breeding farm they had built in the village, and there was a large breeding field with that strange plant in it. There are no ice moths flying around in the village.
Later, I learned that it was a gray plant of the amaranth family, and after the ice moth eats it, it will secrete mucus like crazy, and there is an anti-aging hormone in this mucus, which is particularly effective, and every month, someone will come from the city and take away a lot of mucus. They took root here and began to raise ice moths in large numbers, but they were never released, only kept in experimental boxes.
As the scale of cultivation expanded, the plant called the gray fern also began to grow wildly, at first only in the breeding fields, and it was not long before the seeds floated outside, and the village also had this plant. Later, more and more, so much that it was uncontrollable. Every time I went down the hill to the city and looked at the small village, it was a gray abrupt patch. I was conflicted, I didn't know if I was doing the right thing, the money was pouring in me, the village was getting richer, but something seemed to have been siphoned off of me.
One day, they suddenly told me that they were going to clean up the plants and all kinds of crops in the village, all for the cultivation of gray ferns. Of course I don't agree, even if they give me more money, it's impossible, this thing is absolutely not okay, I also have principles, my villagers all rely on labor to eat, they are definitely not the kind of people who want to get money, they don't even plant land, what are you talking about?
But I didn't think that I had no control anymore, and they told me helplessly that there was no way out, that I had to say yes even if I didn't, that the breeding area was too large, the number was too large, the production of gray ferns could not keep up, and the ice moths did not have enough food to supply the production of mucus. I still have to dedicate myself to science. He patted me on the shoulder helplessly, and I reluctantly agreed with ten thousand worries. I was so sad in my heart. And so, those days began. I watched as the fields in the village were covered with protective covers, and they were all turned into gray fern fields. But I couldn't do anything, because I regretted that the creature should have been free. What have I done to them now?
Alas......
What's even more terrifying is that what I had been fearing happened anyway......