That night, looking at the dirt piled up on a hill in his yard, Lu Zhe was a little silent.

It was already completely dark, and Lu Zhe stood alone by the window, staring out the window. The young Yun Niang also seemed to see that something was wrong with her brother, and she obediently went to bed, not arguing for her brother to tell the story as usual.

The cold moonlight, shining through the dilapidated windows, shone more and more chills on people's bodies. Looking up, the waning moon is like a hook, accompanied by a few stars, which seems more and more deserted and gloomy.

Today's people don't see the ancient times and the moon, but this month once looked like the ancients.

On a day with a moon, it can always arouse all kinds of thoughts in people, and Lu Zhe has thought a lot, including the birth of the previous life, study, work, love, and the joy of rebirth in this life, and the pain of struggling to survive.

He felt more and more guilty.

Since his rebirth, he is still a modern mindset, and he still has the mentality of sweeping the snow in front of his own house in his bones in later generations, and not caring about the frost on the tiles of others, and he is in contact with the people in the village with the mentality of a bystander.

In ancient times, the living environment was very harsh, and they had to unite with each other to survive, so the ancient neighbors had strong feelings for each other, especially in this small mountain village, which was almost like a family. When you go out to farm during the day, you don't close the door, because no one will steal, and the big prey that the hunters catch will be shared with the whole village, and whoever has difficulties at home, the people around will try their best to help, Lu Zhe remembers that when his parents were sick, the ghost elder also treated his parents for free (the crane was very feeling, he had seen it in the countryside after an hour before, and the life in the countryside after an hour was like this, but unfortunately he couldn't see it anymore).

As for himself, accustomed to the indifference of later generations, accustomed to closing the security door, and taking care of everyone's life, Lu Zhe took the pride of the traverser and faced the "natives" in his eyes with a lofty attitude, but he didn't know that without the help of these "natives", he might have returned to the underworld long ago.

When he was tired of picking mushrooms, Uncle Tie helped himself go home, and the grouse he gave himself helped him through the most dangerous moment. On the first day of the crossing, in order to worry about starving to death, the aunt of the Lin family brought a bowl full of boiled millet rice, the gruel that her family drank that day, after the death of her parents, she had to go up the mountain every day to pick mushrooms, catch fish, and run around for a living.

As for myself, although others remember their kindness, they treat it in a transactional way, whether it is telling the people in the village how to distinguish mushrooms, or telling Lin Haoshui the pattern, it may not be that after telling you, we are both clear minds.

But they really regard him as a nephew and a brother, and when they help themselves, they are simply instinctive and do not ask for anything in return, and they always look at them with the eyes of the exchange of interests in the future.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhe remembered the words of the ghost elder again, and his heart ached.

I and Yun Niang need a kang in winter, so those elderly people in the village, delicate and childish, don't need it? I don't eat coarse salt blocks, I know that it is not good for the human body, is it possible that the aunt of the Lin family, the talkative Lin Wujiao, the third uncle of the Tie family, and the little Lori of the Duan family who loves to pull the corners of her clothes the most, deserve to eat coarse salt blocks? Deserve heavy metal poisoning?

"If the firewood is not enough this winter, the eldest Elder Ming will have to go deep into the mountains by himself, just like his elder brother! And the one from Elder Deng and the Shadow Family! Elder Ghost's words appeared in Lu Zhe's ears again, as if a whip had been whipped on him, and Lu Zhe trembled.

The villagers regard me as a blood relative, and I regard the villagers as passers-by.

It's time to do something, not only for himself, but also for the old people in the village to stop going into the mountains to die, and for the star-eyed little Lori to grow up healthy and happy, Lu Zhe doesn't believe it, he has experienced the era of knowledge explosion, and he graduated with a master's degree in material physics, he will have no way to change the life of the mountain village.

With full of energy, Lu Zhe hugged his sister and fell asleep deeply.

Early the next morning, Lu Zhe went out early, and after routinely retrieving the fish basket from the river, he did not go home, but walked to Elder Ming's hut.

"What's the matter with you?" Elder Ming stood under the pine tree, still with a high crown and a broad belt, linen clothes and straw sandals, and as soon as he opened his mouth, it was a thick Luoyang Yayan, as if a hermit in ancient times had come out of a book.

"The kid invented a thing, called the fire kang, so that the villagers will not suffer from the severe cold in winter, and I have come to inform the elders." Lu Zhe took it as a courtesy, performed a very ancient etiquette in his opinion, and said respectfully.

"Good, the ghost elder told me last night, I don't know if Lu Jun is here, what he can see and teach the old man." Elder Ming's face was expressionless, and as soon as he opened his mouth, an invisible aura diffused in the air.

An old man and a boy, Panasonic asked right, this scene is like a picture in an ancient painting.

"The boy is brave, and he is willing to help the whole village build a fire kang, and I implore the elders for permission."

"Very good, bright white horse, in the valley of the sky. Thou shalt look for the Iron Three and the Ghost Elder. ”

The white horse, in the valley of the sky, comes from the Book of Poetry, Xiaoya, and the white horse, which was originally used to describe someone parting, but some people often use it to interpret that the sage cannot be used by the king, and can only live in seclusion in the mountains, which is quite similar to the situation of the mountain gate.

Although Lu Zhe didn't understand the Book of Poetry very well, he could also hear that Elder Ming was praising him for being a horse hidden in the hollow valley. Hearing this, I don't know why, Lu Zhe was still faintly happy.

"No." Lu Zhe also replied as plainly as possible, and went to find Tie San and Elder Ghost excitedly.

Lu Zhe didn't know what it was, but after he left, looking at his disappearing back, Elder Ming recited the second half of this sentence.

"A bunch of raw swords, its people are like jade."

The meaning of this sentence is: Give this white horse a handful of grass, this person's character is like Qiongyu.

I don't know if the words of the ghost elder and the kindness of the people in the village to him can be regarded as a handful of grass for this thousand-mile horse. Looking at the unusually determined back of the one who walked, Elder Ming thought secretly in his heart.

Lu Zhe quickly found Tie San, and then went to find the ghost elder together, in the slightly surprised eyes of the two, Lu Zhe explained his intention to the two, and the two did not express any suspicion, and said that they would listen to his dispatch.

"Third Uncle Tie, please go and inform the people in the village to come to the open space in the center of the village for a while, except for those who go up the mountain to hunt, everyone must call over."

"Elder Ghost, I need to know who in the village knows the craft of stonemasons, as well as masons, and finally, can you accompany me up the mountain."

Lu Zhe, who has already entered the state, can't care about how much his current attitude and tone are different from the previous Lu Zhe, and he is now full of thoughts about how to burn enough red bricks before the winter, so that the whole village can sleep on the kang.

The two glanced at Lu Zhe deeply, and went separately, Lu Zhe asked the son of the second family of the shadow family to help him take the fish cage home and hand it to his sister, and turned his head into the mountains and forests.

The mountain forest behind the village was full of pine trees, and Lu Zhe turned around the pine forest, and after walking for almost 200 meters, he finally found what he wanted.

Red sandstone, is a kind of common rock in the mountains, quite brittle, lightly pinched to break into powder, many birds will eat some, used to grind the food in the body, this rock belongs to the argillaceous rock, looks very much like soil, the gelatinity is better, Lu Zhe is ready to crush it, as a binder to add to the soil by the river, so that the red bricks fired out are not easy to crack, and have a certain degree of air permeability, and the red bricks used to make the flue can have a better effect.

After finding what he wanted, Lu Zhe clapped his hands and returned to the village.

As soon as he returned to the village, Lu Zhe found that the people in the village were already in the open space in the center of the village, and they all looked at the ghost elder and Tie San in the center of the open space with a curious expression, and Lu Zhe hurriedly walked in.

"Uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters." Lu Zhe raised his voice, but he was not high, so he had to stand on a stone so that everyone could see him.

"In the past few days, Zhe has been digging mud, and you must have heard of it, this is because Zhe invented a thing, called the fire kang, which can make the room warm like spring in winter without much firewood, and Zhe, these days are preparing to make this thing."

As soon as Lu Zhe's words came out, the people below started to talk about it, although when Tie San called them before, he had already said that Lu Zhe had invented something called a fire kang that could keep the family warm in winter, but at this moment, when it came out of Lu Zhe's mouth, everyone was still a little skeptical.

"Is this kind of thing what you got in your dreams?" It was Lin Jiang who spoke, as the closest family to Lu Zhe, after seeing Lu Zhe's various miracles, she was the first to speak up and asked everyone's thoughts.

"Of course, it's easy to make, but it's very effective." Lu Zhe glanced at Lin Jiang gratefully and continued. "It's nothing more than building a couch with bricks and stones, covering it with a stone slab, and burning a fire under the collapse, if this couch is connected to the stove, cooking in winter on weekdays, it can ensure that the room is as warm as spring."

"Ahh "It's so simple, why can't I think of it before, pity my child.......

As soon as Lu Zhe's words came out, the people below seemed to explode, most of the men went up to the mountains to hunt, and most of the people present were women and children, which seemed to be very lively.

These women have extremely rich life experience, and after thinking about Lu Zhe's words carefully, coupled with the various miracles that Lu Zhe showed a few days ago, they all felt that it made sense, and many women who died of their children in winter because of the cold actually shed tears in their eyes.

"Zhewa - Lang Jun" is talking to a middle-aged man named Liu Chang. He was a mason in the village, and he was obviously not used to the title of Tetsuro-kun, and after a pause, he stammered, "How long will it take to build the ondol?" ”

As a professional mason, Liu Chang is extremely interested in this ondol, his mother is old, the child is still young, if he can survive the winter safely, for him, it is a big problem.

"It takes about a month to burn bricks and pan kang."

"Huh?" Many women looked sad, there are more than 20 days to go into winter, when the snow covers the mountain, their own men are still hunting in the mountains at this time, and they can only come back before winter, this fire kang is made by the disciples of the fairy family, and the ghost elder is still with him, as a guarantee, he must not be wrong, his own man is not there, and the things of this fire kang are naturally not able to do.

It's a pity that my family will have to suffer the same as in previous years this winter. Many men in the family went up to the mountains to hunt women, and their faces were disappointed.

"Uncles and aunts don't have to worry, Zhe called everyone here today, just to help all the families in the village install a kang before winter, so as to ensure that no one in the village is frozen in winter!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned and looked at him in a daze.

"Boy, don't talk nonsense." The ghost elders on the side were a little anxious, "The village is full of young people who go up the mountain, and there are only old and weak women and children left in the village. ”

"Since the kid dares to say it, he can naturally complete it, but your uncles and aunts may have to work harder these days, but don't worry, they are all within their ability."

"Really?" Elder Ghost originally thought that Lu Zhe called everyone to come just to teach everyone the method of making kang, but he didn't expect Lu Zhe to want to mobilize the women and children of the whole village to make kang together.

"Tetsu will never lie in vain. The uncles and aunts treat Zheru as sons and nephews on weekdays, and An You's nephews deceive the elders? Lu Zhe shouted with all his strength, his face flushed.

"Zhewazi, you have grown up, the last thing people in the mountains are afraid of is hardship, auntie, I believe you." It was Duan's who spoke, and he was also a member of the group who listened to him talk about Journey to the West that day.

"Yes, yes, since Zhewazi met the immortals, he has always been extremely stable in his work, and he shouldn't lie to everyone." It was another woman who spoke, "This Zhewazi, since I met the immortals, the fish cage and the mushroom have been successful, and my aunt is willing to believe you." ”

"That's right, if it weren't for Zhewazi and you teaching us to identify mushrooms, I'm afraid we won't be able to eat enough this winter, my aunt is willing to listen to you, and call my family to take a look, and I can do great things for women and children." It was another woman who spoke, Lu Zhe didn't know him, and she was also helping him speak at the moment.

"What's the point of enduring a little hardship, for the sake of our children, my aunt listens to you." Liu Duan, who was still wiping away tears just now, thought of the young daughter at home, and showed a more determined look on his face.

Looking at the pair of eyes below, there was expectation, support, and pain in them, but there was no doubt, Lu Zhe's eyes were a little moist.

"That being the case, Zhe will thank you all of you, Zhe promises, I will do my best to let the family make a good kang before winter, so that we will no longer be troubled by the cold, a plate of fire kang, drive away the cold!" Lu Zhe raised his arms and made a final speech.

Hoohoo – the crowd began to cheer. In the open space in the middle of the village, there is something called hope. Many children thought his last slogan was extremely funny, and they shouted it along.

A plate of fire kang drives away the cold.

"It seems that it is time for you to know the power of the People's Commune." Looking at the ghost elder and Liu Chang, a few old and serious people, there was still a worried look, but Lu Zhe's eyes showed strong confidence.