The old man has also been getting acquainted with this ticket recently. When he opened his mouth, he came: "This adult looks familiar, I was here last time, I remember it was a big person." ”

Zhang Quandan arched his hand and said: "Where am I a big man, I came with my master today." This is Her Royal Highness Princess Wuling of the Great Han Dynasty. As he spoke, he arched his hand towards Xue Qing.

The old man hurriedly bowed his hand and said, "The old man has seen His Highness." "And don't kneel. Just kidding, starting from the Zhou Dynasty, the old people in their sixties don't have to kneel down to worship the emperor, and they can even walk on the emperor's special royal road. Of course, Qin Shi Huang's imperial road is estimated that no one dares to walk.

Xue Qingying smiled: "The old man is polite, we are here to disturb your life, I hope you will forgive me......"

The old man looked at the row of houses built in the distance, shook his head and said: "It's okay, when your family first came, it did cause a lot of panic in the local area, Your Highness, forgive me, I and other small people have lived in seclusion here for hundreds of years, and the old man is now the oldest in this valley, more than eighty years old, and has not seen the outside world yet." Not to mention these juniors, but after all, they are safe and sound, and they don't disturb each other, so it's no big deal, and when there is often thunder on the ground, and occasionally the fish in the stream and the beasts in the forest are harmless. ”

Xue Qing took a closer look, there were only a few dozen residents in this valley, and the children running in the yard obviously showed that their mental development was somewhat delayed. One or two even have physical disabilities.

Xue Qing didn't care about the old man's words and the problem that you would affect our grain production. Instead, she talked to him, and after chatting for a while, Xue Qing saw the root of the problem that the old man was confused about, but she couldn't explain it to him.

The old man said that there were more than 1,000 people who migrated in that year, and when they first came in, they were full of energy, cultivating land, hunting and fishing, and constantly giving birth to children, and the ethnic group once expanded to more than 2,000 people.

But then I found that there was not enough food, it turned out that this valley seemed to be beautiful, but after all, there was only such a large enclosed space, and feeding more than a thousand people was the limit, and there were not so many wild fruits and fish, even if there were, their productivity and tools were not enough to catch.

After starving to death, he was honest and lived carefully, slowly discovering the delicate relationship between population and natural capacity. But gradually found that the fertility rate is not as good as the generation, and the children born still have all kinds of problems, and the life expectancy is getting shorter and shorter, and in the end, there are only more than 50 people left who are crooked melons and cracked dates.

In an instant, Xue Qing's cold sweat flowed from the back of her head to her tail vertebrae. It turns out that the so-called paradise is so cruel. Far away from society, away from nature, there is no complete ecological environment and social environment. It's all utopia.

The 20-year-old generation of New China, that's because when you grow up to the age of 20, you should get married and have children, this year is a matter of more than ten years, and here you are even earlier, at the age of twelve or thirteen, you will begin to reproduce the next generation, there is no way, there are fewer and fewer people, and everyone is worried. It's a bit of a rush (which is also quite awkward).

It has been more than 100 years, and there are almost 10 generations. After close relatives, genetic defects are highly frequent. It is conceivable that in less than 50 years, this group will all have to die.

It turns out that the Peach Blossom Land is like this. Xue Qing felt very uncomfortable. I can't listen to the old man's chatter.

Zhang Quandan said: "Fang Shi is here. ”

Xue Qing looked up and saw that it was the same monk she had seen in Chang'an last time. It seems to be called Yuan Zhouzi or something. was rushing over, and saw Xue Qing's eyes shining: "Your Highness...... The elixir has been refined......" rushed to the front of him, still with an excited look. Zhang Quandan grabbed his neck and collar, and waved his big sleeves like a bird with broken wings fluttering in the wind and said, "Your Highness, take a look." ”

Xue Qing nodded: "Lead the way." ”

A few people walked to a row of newly built houses, and Xue Qing asked as she walked, "What about Master Hou, where is Xiaoguang?" Ruhua pointed over there and said, "Catch fish by the stream." "Damn, this is heartless.

Xue Qing explained to Zhang Quandan as she walked: "Usually, you can give these aborigines some food. Also, you take some time to talk to the old man, ask them if they want to go out, and tell them that there is no war outside now, and that it is safe. ”

Zhang Quandan groaned: "Let it go? Isn't our hiding to be exposed, it's not easy to find such a secret place, is Your Highness going to test their restlessness? ”

Look at what you said, if you are restless, you can still kill them all, figure it out, the old lady wants to be good or not, it is really troublesome, let it out, any one of them said that it leaked his mouth, if this peach blossom source is exposed, can it still be called the peach blossom source, every year when the flowers bloom, a group of people from Wuyang and Wuyang come to trample on you. Xue Qing automatically thought of the dense crowd of people in Badaling, the Great Wall, and couldn't help but shiver.

Besides, if you let it out, it's already crooked melons and cracked dates, and there is no place to live together, and this color is obviously not necessarily easy to find a marriage match outside. What's the point of relying on diluting genes to perpetuate their population?

If they don't let them out, these dozens of people will slowly become more and more deformed, and they will slowly die. It's a contradiction. It's so tangled. frowned and said to Zhang Quandan: "You go to find out the wind first, and then talk about it." Hongu doesn't want to talk about it now. Walk ......"

This is where the Fang Shi sent by Xue Qing and the guards live, and there are dozens of simple houses. I can vaguely see some traces of the bombing of several houses, and occasionally some places that have been smoked black

Walk through these houses to the brook. It's far away from the crowd here, and the water source is close, so even if there is a situation, you can put out the fire in time. It is estimated that it was after these alchemists suffered some losses that they changed the research site here.

Seven or eight platforms were built out of wood by the river, and sheds were erected on them, and on each platform there were one or two alchemists experimenting. Yuan Zhouzi asked everyone to stop and stand aside. The four guards immediately stepped forward and used a huge shield to block Xue Qing's front and left and right sides.

Xue Qing was stunned, what kind of trouble is this. Yuan Zhouzi said with a smile: "Your Highness, is safety paramount, you see that the old man's hand has been bitten by the elixir." As he spoke, he lifted the hole that had been burned by the burning of gunpowder and showed it to Xue Qing.

Forget it, it's a scientific experiment, you still have to respect and respect, the shield is the shield, can you squat low, the old lady can't see it.

Yuan Zhouzi led Xue Qing to see the finished products currently made in various proportions. Regarding the method of making the granules, the warlock set off on the front foot, and Xue Qing sorted out the back foot and sent it over. It is that almost all of these finished gunpowders are in the form of granules. (To be continued.) )