Chapter 63: The Dangerous Twin Mountains

After the trip to the provincial capital, he returned to Wu Dao in Sandaogou Village, and returned to his previous leisurely life. After the beginning of spring, according to the arrangement before the festival, Wu Dao's second and third uncles exchanged their good land at the head of the village for terraces next to the sand and gravel beach with the villagers.

These terraced fields are usually only planted for one crop of rice in the village, and more often than not, they are in a state of abandonment. The Wu family exchanged good land for this waste land, and in the minds of the villagers, they undoubtedly did another stupid thing.

But when they learned that Wu Dao's second and third uncles had replaced these terraced fields, they were not used to grow rice, but to be the same as Wu Dao's family. When using these terraced fields, which have been in a state of water shortage for many years, to grow vegetables like Wu Daojia, some people with shrewd brains understand that the vegetables grown by Wu Daojia last year wanted to make a lot of money.

So much so that since the beginning of this year, the whole family has mobilized to grow only some food for their own food and concentrate on planting vegetables. But the villagers are a little puzzled, is growing vegetables really so profitable?

In recent years, with the popularity of greenhouse planting in various places, growing vegetables is no longer too profitable, even if only the Wu family said that they grow organic vegetables. But vegetables are vegetables, and vegetables for one dollar and one pound will not be sold for two yuan. What's more, the price of grain is now rising year after year, according to the thoughts of the villagers of Sandaogou. Growing grain is undoubtedly more profitable than growing vegetables!

Everyone seems to know this truth, but the Wu family doesn't look like fools, why would they exchange the good land at the head of the village for those almost deserted terraced fields? If they don't make money, how can they do such stupid things?

Some villagers who have a good relationship with Wu Daojia can't help but go to their homes to inquire whether the economic benefits of changing terraces to grow vegetables are really higher than farming. For these villagers to inquire, the three members of the Wu family all replied with a smile and a word, everything was done by Wu Dao. What's more, the money they earned from growing vegetables last year is indeed much more cost-effective than farming.

But when the villagers asked Wu Dao how much he earned last year, the three family members did not understand the answer, and only answered vaguely that it was more cost-effective than farming. And they also told these well-connected villagers that if they wanted to grow vegetables, they could also help sell them when the time came. As for the specific profit at that time, it also depends on the quality of the vegetables they grow.

Especially when I heard Wu Dao's father, Wu Dong, introduce that the vegetables grown by their family cannot add any chemical fertilizers, and no pesticides can be applied. These villagers, who have grown vegetables all their lives, are very skeptical that they can get the harvest season for such vegetables.

You know, in a village like theirs that is close to the mountains, it is very common for vegetables to grow worms. If you don't spray the medicine, won't all the greens be eaten by the insects? Is it still selling for a good price?

Wu Dong didn't say much about these questions from the villagers, he just explained what he had learned to the villagers. As for whether the villagers choose to change the rice fields into vegetable fields, it is up to the villagers to make their own decisions. As long as the villagers are willing to make up their minds to grow vegetables, for the sake of the villagers, Wu Dong will still give some guidance.

But if he is really called like a laborer, Wu Dong must not be happy in his heart. After all, now his family's vegetable patch, as far as his husband and wife are concerned, is a little too busy. What's more, this year he also changed a lot of land to grow vegetables, so the workload is greater.

When Wu Dao returned from the provincial capital and learned that the two uncles had exchanged fields with the villagers, Wu Dao came to this valley next to the sandy beach. Looking at these terraces of varying sizes, there are also barren grasses inside. Only a few acres of land below can be seen in the remnants of rice roots that have been cut off.

After a quick look, Wu Dao knew that the fields in this valley alone would be about hundreds of acres if they were sorted out. The only problem is that there is no water source in the valley other than some mountain springs. Especially the few acres of fields near the mountains are a paradise for wild beasts in the mountains. From the ridges that have been gnawed by wild boars, Wu Dao knows that the number of wild boars in this mountain is no longer a few.

Turning these into vegetable plots would mean that Wu Dao would need to make some improvements. When you see the fields at the foot of the mountain, you can hardly see the rice fields. It is also like a wetland, full of puddles of mud bathing of wild boars. It is undoubtedly unreliable to grow vegetables in such a field.

Standing on the edge of these acres of rotten land, Wu Dao glanced back at his farm again, and saw that the end of these terraced fields happened to pass by those few fish ponds. As for his own vegetable patch, it is blocked by the barren mountains next to the terraced fields. Look at the hillside next to this, it is also overgrown with bushes. Wu Dao imagined it in his mind, and finally decided to see if he could take on this mountain.

Although the fruit grove of the third uncle's family next to the bamboo forest has been contracted by him, and he also planted some fruit trees one after another last year, the overall area is still not ideal. If he can contract this mountain, he will be able to open up this mountain and transform it into a fruit forest.

At the same time, a large cistern was built on the mountain, so that the vegetable fields next to the valley would need water in the future, so that there would be no such trouble. More importantly, Wu Dao knew very well that there was a very flat open wetland in the mountain after turning over this mountain. The quicksand river that flows through his family's vegetable field flows next to this mountain wetland.

The wetland was impassable, and there were countless swamps that seemed to be in danger and would be swallowed up if one actually stepped on it. And these swamps, which could swallow people's lives at any time, are not the only danger in this warm land.

According to what Wu Dao learned from the old people in the village, the area of this wetland was very wide, and no one dared to enter Sandaogou for generations. Even the wild boars that live near this wetland are rarely bold enough to bathe in the swamps inside. Because these wild beasts in the mountains also know that this wetland can be regarded as a step-by-step killing machine.

If the swamp traps in this wetland are intimidating except for the swamp traps that are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, then the swarm of poisonous snakes that rule this wetland is even more prohibitive. Many poisonous snakes with the surname of water and land seem to know that this wetland is their blessed land, so that the number of poisonous snakes in this wetland is so large that people dare not approach the vicinity of the wetland.

Even the people of Sandaogou Village, when they usually need to chop some firewood at home, they choose to be on this side of the mountain. As for the other area near the wetland, no one dared to set foot in it lightly for fear of being bitten by the poisonous snakes that had installed their nests in the mountains.

That formidable wetland also has a name that Sandaogou people are reluctant to mention, 'Poison Dragon Pond', and as for this mountain range next to the terraced fields, it is also known as Shuangsheng Ridge. Roughly speaking, there is no great danger in separating life and death from the passage at the top of the mountain, and moving close to the village.

But stepping over the dividing line at the top of the mountain and into the jungle near the wetlands is almost a life-and-death gamble. So much so that on the side of the twin ridges, most of the small shrubs grow on the side near the village, while the side near the wetland is as intimidating as a primeval forest.

One end of the Shuangsheng Ridge is connected to the three ridges that enter the village, and the other end is cut off by the quicksand river, and the mountain road leading to the three mountains was still walked by villagers in the early years. The purpose is to walk to the neighboring villages, and the distance is closer than to the entrance of the village.

As for the end of the quicksand river, it is now completely blocked. In addition, everyone knows what the situation is on the other side of the Twin Mountains, unless they don't want to die, no one will easily go down the mountain and set foot in that wetland.

Although Wu Dao is now a cultivator, as long as he is more careful, he is not afraid of the attack of the poisonous snake. But when Wu Dao was a child, when he was chopping firewood in Shangshuangshengling, he was fortunate to witness the gathering of migratory birds in the wetland. The scene of ten thousand birds leaping has never been forgotten by Wu Dao to this day.

According to the older generation, in his early years, he was also an expert in the province, and entered the wetland through the nearby mountains to investigate. But after paying six or seven people to either die or be injured, the plan to use this wetland as a migratory bird sanctuary was finally canceled. Because these experts know very well that there is such a dangerous wetland, and those who want to fight the idea of these migratory birds dare not set foot here. Those swamps and poisonous snakes are the natural barriers of these migratory birds.

Although Wu Dao didn't think of the idea of fighting that piece of Wendi, he really wanted to relive the shocking scene when thousands of birds flew together. If he could contract Twin Ridges, he would have a way to make this place a viewing area where there would be no danger. This is also another activity for the future farm.

And Wu Dao also has an idea, that is, he wants to explore how wide this wetland is, and where is the end point of the quicksand river that flows next to it. I used to hear that at the end of this wetland was a vast lake. That's where the migratory birds really live, but the lake is deep in the Yunling Mountains.

If you don't follow the quicksand river from this wetland, you can only climb over the equally dangerous primeval jungle. These two paths have been tried by predecessors without success. Even when a helicopter was later brought in to conduct an aerial inspection, all that could be seen was this wide and curved wetland.

As for the end of the wetland, it is shrouded in a mist all year round, and once the helicopter lowers its altitude, the equipment will fail. This means that this virgin underground, which is still completely ignorant to outsiders, has a super-large magnetic field. So much so that after repeated and four times, there was no way to figure out what the center of the Yunling Mountain Range would look like, and it was also called a no-man's land.

It is the various miracles of the Yunling Mountains that make the outside world full of expectations for his true appearance, even the expedition team sent by the imp during the Anti-Japanese War. After stepping into the Yunling Mountain Range, he lost news from the outside, and never saw a person come out again.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, most of the several inspections organized arrived at about 100 miles and lost news. In addition, the depths of the mountain range are either densely forested or have a strong magnetic field. So much so that if you want to experiment with airborne examination, it is unlikely.

It is this kind of unknown mystery that makes the Yunling Mountains the most famous primeval forest in China. Even if the tourist attractions that are opened now are mostly on the periphery of the Yunling Mountains, and the mystery of the real Yunling Mountains has not yet been broken!

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