Chapter 29: The Bai Family Compound

From the Bai family compound and Daoke Village, Chen Guan thought of the difficult years when his grandfather Chen Deda insisted on the struggle of Wulong Mountain, remembered the heroic deeds of the Eighth Route Army in opening up the Wulong Mountain base area, and remembered the beautiful scenery of Wulong River. That's the resource, a valuable tourist and educational resource!

Chen Guan felt that if he submitted a proposal to the county party committee and the county government to develop the Wulongyu tourist attraction, it should be able to attract the attention of the county party committee and the county government. It is important to know that the economy of Mingshui is backward, and tourism development is a good economic growth point. Look at Shaolin Temple, last year's ticket was still 10 yuan, and this year it has risen to 40 yuan, and tourists are weaving. Maybe it will rise sharply in the future! There is no way, people are getting richer and richer, and the desire to travel will become stronger and stronger, this is the demand, that is, the market!

Thinking of this, Chen Guan suddenly became enlightened, got down the small mountain, and went straight to the Bai family compound.

The Baijia compound is located at the east end of Wulongyu Village, and there is an ancient acacia tree in front of the door, and the shade is thick.

Before going to university, Chen Guan was very familiar with the Bai family compound, but he was only familiar with it, and never thought that it was a valuable cultural tourism resource. This time I came to check on the Bai family's compound, and Chen Guan's mentality changed, and his thoughts were different. When he arrived at the gate, Chen Guan stopped to carefully look at the brick carvings on the upper floor of the gate of the Bai family's compound, and found that these brick carvings were originally engraved with patterns. After careful inspection, it turned out to be the traditional "Twenty-four Filial Piety Pictures". Chen Guan then understood that the reason why Bai Deli treated his nephew well was not because he was kind-hearted, but because he received a traditional education, and the ancestors of the Bai family paid attention to the poetry and rite heirloom, the cultivation and reading of the heirloom, and the first hundred virtues and filial piety.

Bai Deli is by no means a kind-hearted person, otherwise he would not have killed Guo Deqing, a little soldier of the Eighth Route Army, by mistake, killed his own pearl white edelweiss, and planted the bitter fruit of suppression for himself and his three sons!

Walking into the Bai family's compound, Chen Guan began to take a closer look.

The first courtyard is now occupied by the village committee, which was originally the place where the Bai family entertained guests, and was once the headquarters of Bai Deli's Mingshui County Anti-Japanese Communist Brigade. The brick carving beast on the ridge of the main house is lifelike, and the windows are still carved glass wooden windows in the Republic of China, and the window lattices are carved with landscape patterns. It's just that the paint color of the window lattices has faded and is mottled, and the glass is much broken, and it is pasted with newspaper.

The second courtyard was Bradley's dwelling, which was now empty. It is said that the main house in the courtyard of the second entrance was originally occupied by Bai Deli's two sons, and the wings on both sides lived Bai Deli's little wife and the maid. The brick carving on the ridge is Rui beast, there seems to be carving decoration on the eaves baffle, the window lattice is carved with the pattern of pine crane prolonging the year, there is a small bamboo garden in the middle of the yard, there are several old pomegranate trees and tang pear trees in the small bamboo garden, which means that there are many sons and many blessings.

When he saw this, Chen Guan couldn't help but sigh, no wonder Bai Derong was able to go from Wulongyu to the famous school in the world and to the world, just the small bamboo garden in this courtyard can see the cultural literacy of the Bai family! It's a pity that Bai Deli was greedy for profit, embarked on the road of a bully, and was suppressed by the people's government. If he hadn't made a mistake, it was likely that he would have become a famous squire in Mingshui County!

The third and fourth courtyards were the residences of Bradley's sons, and each courtyard was connected by a small garden and a corridor, but now that time has passed, the small garden has become empty, and only the remains of the flower beds can be seen that it was once a garden.

The fifth courtyard is the residence of the eldest lady of the Bai family, Bai Xueweiss, and the second lady Bai Xueying, probably because of Bai Xueweiss's heroic sacrifice and Bai Xueying's suicide after sacrificing herself for revenge, this courtyard seems to be an ominous place in the eyes of Wulongyu people, usually the courtyard door is closed, and adults and children do not come here.

Chen Guan pushed open the wooden door that had been eroded by the wind and rain and mottled with paint, only to see that the weeds in the yard were engaged in it, and the mugwort had not been cut for many years, and the roots were a little thick like small saplings. A few plum and peach trees are staggered with branches, and the trees are full of fruits, and the weeds under the trees are entangled.

The whole courtyard was as silent as death!

Chen Guan is so big, and it is the first time he has walked into this courtyard. He could imagine that when Bai Derong went home to sweep the tomb, he must not have entered this courtyard, otherwise the courtyard would not be barren to this extent!

There is too much grass, too much luxuriant, too many mosquitoes, and maybe snakes. Chen Guan didn't dare to walk on the grass-submerged blue brick path, so he could only walk along the brick paving at the base of the wall and look around the house.

What made Chen Guan happy was that this courtyard turned out to be the best-preserved courtyard in the Bai family's compound, with the upper room, the wing room, the front room, and the furniture of the year all displayed in the house. The carved wooden bed, old-fashioned dresser, old-fashioned cabinets, tables and chairs in the upper room are all placed as they are, and it seems that there are guqins and guzheng in the middle of the three living rooms, and even the furniture in the front room where the maid lives is placed as it is, but the dust is too thick to see the color of the furniture.

Chen Guan suddenly remembered that the reason why the furniture in this courtyard was not divided and moved away during the land reform was because the owner of the yard, Edelweiss, was a martyr and his grandfather's lover. Back then, it must have been the grandfather who missed Grandma Bai and ordered that the things in this yard should not be touched. When Grandpa was alive, every time he came home, he would come here to take a sneak peek. Because of the grandfather's prestige in Wulong Mountain, and because of the tragic fate of the two daughters of the Bai family living in the courtyard, the people in the village dared to secretly dismantle the bricks and trees of the village, but they did not dare to touch a single grass and tree here.

If you get rid of the weeds in the yard and clean up the dust in the house, here is the intact boudoir of the Bai family's daughter, which can be opened for visitors to visit immediately.

Wait, just opening as the Bai family's daughter boudoir, is it sorry for the heroic white Edelweiss white grandmother who sacrificed under the enemy's gun? If this place is made into an exhibition of the deeds of the Edelweiss martyrs and the martyrs of Wulong Mountain, wouldn't it be an educational base?

Chen Guan's mind is spinning rapidly, and he is now immersed in economic development and opening up to the outside world, and if he wants the county to take money to develop the Wulongyu tourist attraction, it is likely to be shelved, because the Mingshui economy is backward, and the county finance may not come up with this money. However, if you are not greedy and chew too much, based on the 30,000 yuan, mobilize the villagers to volunteer, donate bricks and tiles to each household, first restore the Bai family compound and Daoke Village, and turn the Bai family compound into a cadre education and training base, so that all units can organize cadres to come here to study, train and vacation, which not only saves the cost of each unit, but also completes the staff training task of each unit, which should be more feasible!

If the Wulongyu cadre education and training base is really built, you can rely on it to do work in Shuiquan City, and let all departments of Shuiquan City come here to run classes and conduct training, then you will be famous!

This matter has to be carefully pondered, and it is best to have a strong operability after the plan is come out, and it can be implemented immediately. Otherwise, not only will it be difficult to convince the leaders of the county, but even the villagers in the village will be difficult to convince!

Chen Guan thought while watching, and after reading the entire Bai family compound, he was relieved, and then went to the knife village in the west of the village.

Chen Guan didn't dare to perform the light body technique, it was not dark yet, it would scare the villagers. That's it, Chen Guan, who has just achieved internal strength, takes a breath when he walks, his whole body is light and fluttering, and lifting his legs is a big step. To outsiders, it seems that Chen Guan is moving at a very fast pace, rather than walking or running.

The knife village is located on the commanding heights of the first two miles of the village.

Chen Guan didn't take the main road, and climbed up the sheep intestine path on the hillside. No, it should be said that he floated up, because he climbed the hill effortlessly, and he didn't have to lean forward like the average person needs to climb the hill, but he ran up all the way without stopping.

It had just rained, and there was mud everywhere, Chen Guan walked all the way, and the soles of his shoes were not stained with mud, which was just like the legendary on the drift.

From the door hole of the knife village to the knife village, Chen Guan looked around, this is different from the Bai family compound, a dilapidated scene, except for a few houses with slogans painted on the walls, locked doors, locks have been rusted, most of the houses have been demolished by the villagers into broken walls.

Chen Guan walked around the knife village and found that the Guangong Temple, which was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution, had set up an incense case again, and the incense burner was full of incense ashes. Chen Guan sighed in his heart, when has this been, the people in the mountains are still so superstitious! But after thinking about it, the reason why the common people are superstitious is that fundamentally speaking, they are not rich in the economy, and when they are sick or sick, they can only ask the gods for their blessing. It's a pity that when this Guan master was alive, he relied on force to be stubborn and self-serving, defeated Maicheng, and couldn't even protect his own subordinates, where can he protect the people of Wulongyu in this remote and deep mountainous area!

When Chen Guan laughed dumbly, another thought suddenly popped up in his heart, the ancient temples in Wulongshan District were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution, and it is likely that the Guan Gong Temple on the Daoke Village is also one of the few existing temples. If someone says that Master Guan of Daoke Village is particularly spiritual, and he spreads ten or ten hundreds, it is likely that this is a large piece of tourist resources.

When he thought of this, Chen Guan suddenly realized that everything had to be empathized, and from another point of view, burning incense and worshiping God, which was originally a feudal superstition, also had value, in addition to bringing economic benefits, it could also give the people a channel to vent their emotions and a spiritual sustenance.

After reading the Daoke Village, Chen Guan had a bottom in his heart, and felt that it was not too difficult to restore the original appearance of the Daoke Village, as long as there were funds, it could be done!