Chapter Ninety-Four: A Foreign Village
In Kabuyi Village, more than 50 large and small bamboo buildings stand on the gentle hillside, surrounded by jungle.
The bamboo building is divided into two floors, two or three meters high from the ground, the lower floor houses livestock, and the upper floor houses people. Between the houses, small roads have been opened up to and fro. In the middle of the village is a gravel road for cars to get out of the town.
At the top edge of the village, there is a wooden house that is different from the other houses, and there is only one room, which is about 20 meters long and wide. The walls are dark yellow, and the roof is dark green, which is simple and rugged compared to the delicate bamboo buildings.
At the door stood a man with a sword, guarding the door of the wooden house with a nervous expression, and did not allow the children and women of the village to approach at will.
An old man in his sixties, carrying a heavy bamboo basket, came to the wooden house.
After a few words with the doorman, the old man was allowed to let go, and with a handful of sweat in his heart, he gently pushed open the door of the wooden house.
"Hariburu offered a basket of eggs and bacon for the oracle to enjoy." The old man bowed nervously after entering the door.
"Alright, put it down. I'm here, you get out. A middle-aged man with a big belly and fat intestines took the bamboo basket and said impatiently to the old man.
Walking away the old man, the middle-aged man carried the bamboo basket and turned to the young man who was only eating while sitting in the room, and said in broken Chinese: "Divine envoy, these are eggs and bacon contributed by the villagers, please enjoy them slowly." ”
Untie the bamboo basket cover, and it is full of baskets of boiled red-skinned eggs and a large bowl of bacon, which is fragrant.
"Hmm. Put it down. The young man munched on the food in front of him and said indistinctly.
Under the awe-inspiring gaze of the obese middle-aged man, the man swept away a roast suckling pig, chicken, duck, fish and other foods in front of him, and ate the food for thirty people in one go.
Patting his stomach with satisfaction, the young man said to the obese man: "Wu Jingshu, you come to teach me Burmese." ”
"Yes." The fat man is respectful and authentic, and his posture is extremely humble.
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It has been two days since Ye Feng came to Kabui Village.
On the first day, he made a wooden house in front of the villagers, which was close to immortal law, which immediately made the villagers feel awe and regarded him as a god.
The next day, Ye Feng learned the local language from the merchant Grim and was able to communicate with the locals proficiently. The villagers' reverence for him was once again raised to a new level.
Faced with the pious attitude of the villagers towards their own deification, Ye Feng simply followed the villagers' thoughts, claiming to be a divine envoy, saving them from making trouble for themselves.
Before, Ye Feng was wondering if these mountain people who spoke his unfamiliar language were ethnic minorities living in seclusion on the border. After inquiring about the situation, I found out that I had unknowingly left the country and came to Myanmar.
The reason why Ye Feng followed the villagers to the village was for many reasons.
First, I have been in the jungle for more than a month, mentally depressed, and my clothes are in tatters, so it's time to return to human society and get a few new clothes to breathe by the way. Secondly, after learning that his behavior of blocking the villagers' hunting would cause huge trouble to the locals, Ye Feng came to the village to take a look at the problem with the idea of finding a compromise to solve this problem.
Ye Feng's behavior may seem nosy to many people, but he really doesn't want to see the villagers capture and kill those rare animals for a little money. But it is also inhumane to blindly stop and ignore the lives of the villagers. Therefore, Ye Feng wanted to find a solution that could not only protect the animals, but also allow the villagers to solve the problem of difficult life.
More than a month of life in the jungle has already quietly changed Ye Feng's mentality, perhaps he has been suppressed in the big city for too long, and he has been under pressure from various forces, and when he entered the life of a lonely escape, his unruly instinct finally broke out.
"Made, Lao Tzu is like this, are you still afraid of offending you foreign tyrants? Lao Tzu can do whatever he wants, and he is too lazy to think about it so much. This is Ye Feng's current state of mind.
A small country in Southeast Asia, it is still tied up, afraid of this and that, it is annoying to think about it.
After a person has superhuman strength, the psychology of disgust and bondage will become stronger and stronger. Ye Feng didn't think about it that much at all, as long as his intuition felt good.
"Cut, Lao Tzu just wants to be nosy and maintain world peace. What's up? What do you like to do, can you control it? Ye Feng said to those rules and regulations that constrained him to do things.
Ye Feng just couldn't look at the living conditions of these villagers and wanted to change their situation.
Nothing else, at least don't engage in hunting and selling wild animals, and don't grow poppies, both of which Ye Feng doesn't like.
Forcing the villagers to abandon evil and follow good, Ye Feng felt the need to ensure their quality of life after changing careers. It's like you close the sea and ban fishing, and don't arrange other work for the fishermen, isn't this Chi Guoguo's murder? Ye Feng couldn't do such an inhumane thing.
After living in Kabui Village for a few days and understanding the local people's conditions, Ye Feng found that there are three main reasons for the current living conditions of the local villagers.
First, the local agricultural production is backward, so that the villagers have to engage in opium poppy cultivation or poaching to support their families.
Second, the local people's awareness of environmental protection and the legal system is backward, and they cannot clearly understand the harm of drug production and poaching. And because it is far easier for these two to make money than farming, many people make money without conscience.
Third, the control and oppression of the local drug lords and crocodile gangs have made it impossible for the villagers to leave these two illegal industries and are forced to continue to engage in these two jobs.
In fact, as the times progressed, many young people in the village realized that poppy cultivation and poaching were harmful, and that they had no choice but to continue to do the work that their ancestors had passed down from their ancestors.
For example, after Ye Feng stopped the villagers from hunting, these villages all faced a common dilemma, that is, they could not cope with the rent collection of the crocodile gang at the end of the season. Then he will be punished by the Crocodiles.
As he deepened his understanding of the local situation, Ye Feng realized that in order to break the deadlock, he must start by solving the agricultural plight of the villagers.
A few days later, Ye Feng handed over several buckets of super crop seeds cultivated for the local climate to the village chief of Kabuyi, so that he could promote the cultivation in nearby villages.
The local villagers regarded Ye Feng as the messenger of the forest god, and although they didn't understand it very well, they carried out his words meticulously with awe.
In order to increase convincing, on the second day of giving the seeds, Ye Feng once again exerted his "divine power" in Kabuyi Village.
In one day, the farmland around Kabuyi village turned golden and the rice produced heavy ears that ripened months earlier. The vegetables, melons and fruits in the farmland are also at hand in the blink of an eye, and the branches are fruitful.
The villagers once again worshiped Ye Feng, who had exerted his "divine power", almost from the bottom of their hearts in awe and worship.
Subsequently, the villagers held a grand celebration ceremony in the village that night. Huge bonfires were built, singing and dancing, and wooden drums were beaten. The men of the village took out their treasured rice wine and took turns to toast in front of the oracle. The young ladies were dressed up in fancy clothes, and kept sending autumn waves to the oracle, hoping to be pampered for the night—but unfortunately, our priest was unmoved by the girls' enthusiasm.
After the celebration, late at night, we, the god worshipped by the villagers, left the village quietly. With his two pets, a white python and a baby elephant, he disappeared into the jungle.