Li Mo took a small sip of the longevity spring water, and was slapped by the green bamboo, pointed to the sheep lining up to drink, and said, "People and animals can't drink cleanly, and you're not afraid of getting sick?" ”

"Don't worry, it'll be fine. If you look at the fish in the water, you can prove that the water quality here is very good. ”

Li Mo said and asked the shepherd, "How deep is this spring pit?" ”

"The bottom is not deep, the mouth is small and the belly is big, and the further down the water, the better!"

The old shepherd sat on a rock, smoking a dry tobacco pouch, and from time to time he took out one or two self-fried peanuts from his trouser pocket, stuffed them into his mouth and chewed them.

As soon as he spoke, the dregs of peanuts squirted out, and then he pulled out the gourd painted with red paint and drank a sip of wine.

said to Li Mo casually, "This spring pit is said to be miraculous in ancient times, and it is said that it is a mountain from Jinjiling. No, it should be said that on the vulture ridge, the predecessor of Jinji Ridge, a bird with a golden light flew in to guide the villagers to find this spring pit. People who drank the water from this pit lived to be 100 years old. However, this is an ancient legend, because it is so far away from the village, and now every household has installed running water, so no one comes here to fetch water. ”

"Uncle, since the ancient people called this pit spring water a longevity spring, is it true that after drinking this pit spring water, you can really live a long life to be a hundred years old?"

Luzhu, a woman from the Tang Dynasty, also honored the shepherd, "Old man!" ”

That is because I feel that I have traveled to this era, and it has only been six days before and after, so I should use an honorific to call "Uncle, how many old people are over seventy years old in Taohuawu now?" ”

"Listening to the older generation, for more than 200 years after Tang Bohu established Taohuawu, people have been drinking the water of this longevity spring. Therefore, judging from the family map left by the ancestors, the average elderly person can live for a long time, completely breaking the saying that people live for 70 years. ”

"Old lady, listening to your old speaker's level, you must have a high level of education, right?"

Li Mo was so well-behaved that in order to get some truth out of the shepherd's mouth, he gave away the first high hat.

He smiled, sat down beside the shepherd, and asked, "The junior has two questions to ask the uncle, and I hope the seniors can give one or two advice!" ”

"For the sake of being able to call a senior, just ask any questions!"

The shepherd was also refreshed, "As long as the old man knows, I will be like a bean tube pouring beans, and I will tell you unreservedly!" ”

"We came from the village, why don't we see any young people doing farm work in the village? Li Mo watched the old man smoke the dry tobacco pouch, and with the old man's smoke every time he sprayed out, a strong and pungent smell of old smoke rushed to his face, choking Li Mo for a long cough. The green bamboo was originally on the slope of the mountain stream, watching the sheep gnaw on the grass. A little snow-white lamb is very happy with the individual, the green bamboo holds it in his arms, caresses the long curly hair on the lamb's body, and listens to its "moo" sound. Suddenly hearing Li Mo's cough, he hurriedly put down the lamb and walked over and patted Li Mo on the back a few times. As soon as the shepherd saw that Li Mo couldn't smell the old smoke, he asked Li Mo to change his position and sit in the limelight. Then he said, "Now the young people in the village basically don't farm anymore, and they all go to the city to work as migrant workers." Most of the crops in the fields are tended by elderly men and women who have stayed in the village. "No wonder we can't see young people when we go to the village, they all go to the city to work!" Li Mo looked at the sheep and the rolling mountains, and Nan Nan said, "Along the way, a lot of land is overgrown with wild grass, and it seems that no one has cultivated it for a long time." That's right, old man, the people in the village are not good at farming, so how to solve the rations of the people in the village? "Boy, now the policy is good, do you think, in China's five thousand years, which dynasty can exempt agricultural taxes like now?" Farmers don't have to pay grain and taxes, and their lives are like sesame seeds blooming. In addition, there is a need for migrant workers in the cities, and the peasants have the opportunity to go out from the mountains to make money. What kind of young man is willing to stay in the mountains and live this kind of hard life facing the loess with his back to the sky? Go to the city to work, one can see the world, and the other can earn a yarn ticket, why not do it! With money and no food, the peasants have really changed a lot, and they are like you people in the city who buy and eat. Ha ha! Li Mo listened to what the old shepherd said, and couldn't help but shudder in his heart. He clearly remembers returning to his ancestral hometown with his father in 1987 and seeing that the life of his relatives was still very hard, and his three meals a day were not only corn flour cakes on the wall of the pot, but also some radish strips and salt porridge boiled at the bottom of the pot. In that year, the rural areas were the same as they are today, and in the cities, every adult had 27 catties of grain a month, and he could buy them at the grain stores designated by the city with his grain certificate. Everything else has to be voted for, and those who are old should remember it vividly. To buy meat, you need a meat ticket, to sell steamed buns, to buy cloth, to sell a line, and to sell a light bulb, you also need a line ticket and a light bulb ticket. It was only in 2000 that the city abolished the city's grain purchasing station, and the residents' lives took a leap forward, and white flour rice became the staple food on the people's table. By the end of 2016, this life of abundance had been less than 30 years. It can be seen that in the past 30 years, China's urban and rural areas have undergone earth-shaking changes. Li Mo and Luzhu didn't dare to chat with the shepherd old man for too long by the longevity spring pit because they still had Liu Zigang in their hearts, so they said goodbye to the old shepherd and walked down the mountain. Just as he was fast entering the village, there was a burst of happy music, and Li Mo could hear that it was a song called "I Only Love You One in This Life". The main theme of this piece is very suitable for square dancing. "Don't freeze when it's cold, I'm worried about it from afar. Do you miss me, spring flowers bloom back and forth. I only recognize you in this life, and the more I love, the deeper I am and not lonely. Every day is for you, and I only love you in this life! "Good lyrics with good tunes give people a relaxed, comfortable, and relaxed feeling. Walking down the hillside, as Li Mo expected, in the square where Li Mo parked, there were fifteen or six middle-aged women, dancing to a cheerful tune. Looking closer, these rural women, in terms of clothing and rhythm of movements, are not inferior to the square dances in the city. Li Mo and Luzhu watched for ten minutes, thinking that there were still very important things to do, so they got into the open-top BMW and drove out of Taohuawu Village.