After the enthusiastic Yaozhai heard the village chief tell them about the thunderstorm and their intentions, it was not yet dark, so they lit a bonfire in the spacious courtyard of the village committee in the village. A large table was placed in front of the bonfire, and the Zhuangzhai people spent most of the day preparing a large table of ethnic Yao dishes, and they were arranged on the table as VIPs during the thunderstorm, and they drank their homemade rice wine while watching them dance on the bonfire, and they also participated in the bonfire dance when they drank it on the head of Xing.

The enthusiasm of Yaozhai moved Lei Zhenyu and them, and from their expectant eyes, Lei Zhenyu and they felt that their responsibility and mission were so sacred and great.

The bonfires in Yaozhai lasted until the early hours of the next morning, when the people dispersed.

"It's been a long time since the old intellectuals came, and it's been a long time since this place was so lively."

The old village chief said in the office of the village committee.

Several rooms in the office had been cleaned up during the day, all of which were arranged under the guidance of Han Yuling, and Lei Zhenyu's luggage was also bought in Kunming, as well as a few boxes of instant noodles, which were also brought back by the people in the village through the ropeway in the afternoon under the arrangement of the village elder Uncle Han. The off-road vehicle is still parked at the pass of the ropeway, in the words of the old village chief, no one will touch it for a year, and it is still the folk customs of the sixties and seventies when the house is not closed at night and the road is not forgotten.

When I listened to the introduction of the old village chief in the afternoon, I learned that this village committee office was built with donations from the old intellectuals who went out from here a few years ago when they came back to "visit relatives", and there was also a hope primary school in the west of the village, which cost nearly 150,000 yuan in total. Unfortunately, due to the poverty of the village, the house could not be repaired and protected, and it was dilapidated and undignified in a few years. Needless to say, there are not a few children who go to school, less than ten students in six classes, and gradually they are all lost, and a 100-square-meter Hope Primary School at the good end has also become a dilapidated house in the village because of disrepair, and even the livestock dare not go inside.

"Uncle Han"

Uncle Han's surname is Yue, his big name is Yue Heping, and he was born in 1948 during the peaceful liberation of Beijing, so his parents named him Heping.

At the end of 1968, he came to this Yao village from the countryside in Beijing, young and full of revolutionary romantic ideas, he took changing the poor and backward appearance of Yao Village as his lifelong goal, and in the wave of a large number of intellectual young people who went to the mountains and went to the countryside to return to the city, he never had the slightest waver and hesitation, and resolutely married a local Yao village girl here to marry and have children. His name has been completely forgotten by almost everyone in the village, and Brother Han in his twenties has been called Uncle Han today.

His career as captain began in his third year in the stockade, and he continues to this day.

Due to the traffic blockage, the cultivated land is scarce, the things in the mountains cannot go out, the agricultural materials and advanced experience outside the mountains cannot enter, and the farming methods in the fields are still the practice in the early days of liberation. Don't say that getting rich is to eat enough food is still a problem here, "Why should the village be built in such a closed place?"

Back in the office where Lei Zhenyu lived, Lei Zhenyu asked puzzled.

"This is before the liberation, it is said that in order to avoid bandits, some Yao people came here, you don't see that here is surrounded by mountains and cliffs, there is no serious exit, as long as it is simply fortified, outsiders can't enter."

"What time is it now, why didn't you think about moving out?"

"I've thought about it, isn't it difficult, it's so simple and easy to settle down, you see that these stilt houses here are made of wood, it looks simple and it's not so easy to do, just say move things out, this is a big problem, you can't do it without a thousand dollars" Uncle Han said here After a pause, he continued: "The road you took when you came was built a few years ago when you were preparing to move collectively, but when it was mobilized to each family, the villagers did not agree, there was no money, and there were people in the county. I've been there many times, but this money problem can't be solved."

"Uncle Han..."When Lei Zhenyu was about to say something, he was blocked by Uncle Han.

"It's about to dawn while talking, have a good night's rest, and we'll talk about it tomorrow, okay"

Hearing him say this, Lei Zhenyu didn't say anything anymore, it was indeed too late.

Although it is known as the south with all four seasons like spring, this drizzly morning still made the thunderstorm feel the chill of the late autumn season from the north.

Because they couldn't suppress the excitement and excitement in their hearts, they didn't sleep much this night, from the psychological feeling of the body to the south, where should their glorious career start tomorrow, everyone discussed for several hours, until they felt sleepy when they found a place to lean on, closed their eyes and squinted for a while before getting up again, at this time the various bird calls in the woods have been noisy in their ears one after another, and there will be a strange and long roar from time to time in the distance, They don't have to go out and ask the locals, they can guess that it is the chirping of a monkey that lives in the subtropical rainforest and has seen it on TV in Animal World.

Lei Zhenyu looked at his watch, it was less than six o'clock in the morning Beijing time, in the northeast, this time was already full of sunshine, but here because of the time difference, the sun is still below the horizon, in the place where people's eyes can't see, is slowly climbing to the top of the surface little by little.

When they walked out of the house, they noticed that the village in front of them was in the middle of a mountainside, surrounded by high mountains and mountains with typical karst landform characteristics, and as far as the eye could see, there were mountains and ravines, and there was hardly any arable land or crops in sight.

The village in front of them is a house with the characteristics of ethnic minorities that can only be seen on TV in the past, only the Hope Primary School is about to collapse, and the village committee office where they live now, the rest are tall and low wooden stilt houses, and some of them are crooked and about to collapse.

The people in the stockade walked in front of them in twos and threes, all full of kind smiles. Most of them also wore Hanfu, including women, and each of them had a yellow military hat from the 70s on their heads, but the old captain of the real Han people had a cyan wrap wrapped around his head, and later learned that he had a headache and was afraid of the wind.

At this time, Lei Zhenyu and they saw Uncle Han and his wife, both of whom walked towards them with a wooden basin in each hand, and they didn't need to ask if they were delivering breakfast.

"Uncle Han, don't send it for the next meal, let's build a fire by ourselves, we have everything"

After receiving the meal sent by Uncle Han, Yao Yuling said to Uncle Han gratefully.

"You can't eat a meal or two," Uncle Han also responded with a smile.

"The girl is so beautiful, Uncle Han didn't guess that your lover brother is here, haha, otherwise you wouldn't have come here."

"Uncle Han, you really know how to guess, it's not a love brother, it's a love brother," Lao Wei said, pointing to the flute with his hand.

"It's really a good match, have you ever entered the cave room?"

"What are you talking about, Uncle Han," Han Yuling's embarrassed face turned red, and she brought out her verbal words of "what to say, that".

"There's nothing to be shy about a man getting married and a woman getting married, and I don't know how long you can stay here, if you bring an old Han uncle who has been a year and a half to hold a Yao family's wedding for you."

Uncle Han seems to be joking like this, in fact, he is deliberately trying to listen to their real thoughts and intentions here, although Lei Zhenyu told him yesterday that he is here to help them, but he did not say the specific way to help, after going back last night, he also didn't sleep all night, always feel unreliable, after all, these young people are still too young, and they are not government officials, what do they use to help the village, just with enthusiasm? Just like when I came here with a passion for the revolution, decades have passed, and this fiery heart is about to lose its temperature completely, and this village is still continuing the poverty of the past. He felt that he had to figure things out today, his own experience told him that it was not enough to rely on his enthusiasm, what he needed now was money, if it was still the kind of help that the old intellectuals and young people had come back to visit relatives a few years ago to build a hope primary school in the village, he wanted to say to these young people: no, it may be more meaningful to leave this money at the disposal of the village, if he can't even do such a thing, he also thinks about it, let them leave food and goods, Leave any money they have on them, and persuade them to go back.

"Uncle Han, you are going to hold this wedding, not only theirs, but also ours," Lei Zhenyu said with a smile, and the rest of the people were also laughing together. Obviously, they didn't hear the real meaning of Uncle Han's words.

Looking at the smiling faces of several young people, it was so innocent, even so simple that it gave Uncle Han a childish feeling, and Uncle Han's hope for them became weaker and weaker.

"Hey, if you can do that, it's a blessing in the village, I'll go to the town to see if this electricity can be connected, it's not that you came, I went yesterday, after I left, you can take a walk around the village casually, see what you can do, and when I come back in two days, we'll study it, okay, you can stay here, no, Uncle Han won't force you to stay" When the old man said this, it was time for the wrinkles of his face to accumulate together, just like the folds of old bark, full of vicissitudes.

It turned out that when Lei Zhenyu met him from the ropeway yesterday, he came to the town to ask for a call from the village.

"Uncle Han, we have all seen it, and we have all plans, do you think this will work, don't you go today, we have a car now, and after discussing things, we will send you to the township by car"

Uncle Han thought for a while and said, "It's okay, then tell me what kind of plan you have" Uncle Han's words made Lei Zhenyu and them sound like they felt some distrustful elements in it, and their faces were less enthusiastic than the ones they showed last night.