Tanzi said: "Actually, Chifeng dialect is very similar to Northeast dialect, but the accent is heavier. Oh, by the way, the next time you come to Chifeng to take a taxi, you must say that you are from Chifeng (chi three sounds), so that the driver will know that you are a local and will not take you around in circles. ”

After learning a few words of Chifeng dialect, he suddenly stopped: "This dialect is really earthy, as long as you say a few more accents, you won't be able to come back for a while, if I continue to speak, the first-class Mandarin I just took will degenerate into the local dialect of Chifeng." ”

Tanzi laughed: "That's true, I heard that there are many people who speak standard Mandarin who have come to live in Chifeng for a year and a half, and they speak a pure Chifeng sound." ”

Zhou Linan suddenly said in a loud voice in front: "In the future, our family will not get together with the people who commit the tide." ”

I looked at the jar again, and the jar said helplessly: "This word 'tide' is placed on our side or elsewhere, it may be very fashionable and avant-garde, but here it is a dialect, so you must not say the word 'tide' to others at will, it is a curse, more powerful than stupid." We like to use the word 'tide seed' when we scold people here, which means two tigers, stupid and stunned, and stupid. ”

I nodded with my glasses, and repeated the word "tide seed" in my mouth, and tried my best to imitate the tone of the jar, because he said that with such a tone, it was the Chifeng people's scolding.

The glasses sold his knowledge on the side: "The word 'tide' as a dialect does have the meaning of insufficient color and poor quality, not only in Chifeng, but also in some places in Gansu and Shandong, the word 'tide' is regarded as a derogatory term...... "He talked to himself next to him, but I and Tanzi have talked about other aspects."

Xiongshou Village is named because there is a Xiongshou Mountain nearby, and there is a Xiongshou Peak on the mountain that resembles a bear's head. When we came to the village, the villagers were very enthusiastic, especially the relatives of the altar, the seven aunts, the eight aunts, the three uncles and the four uncles, who were dizzy. Since it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived in the village, we did not immediately enter the mountain, but planned to stay in the village for one night.

That night, the three of us stayed at the house of his eldest brother in Tanzi, that is, Zhou Linan's father's house. Because this village is far away from the county seat and the geography is remote, it is not very wealthy, and the living standards of the villagers are very average. I made several dishes for dinner, most of which were stir-fried meat with green vegetables, but there were not a few pieces of meat in it. In addition, there is chicken stewed mushrooms, and the scrambled eggs are very delicious, a plate of yellow and clear, very gluttonous, and it is tender and delicious in the mouth. The jar said that this is a veritable free-range chicken, and the eggs are also native eggs, so they must taste different.

After eating, the Zhou family came to the big willow tree in the courtyard to cool off, and the three of us followed. I chatted with Zhou Linan's father, Zhou Yiqun, while I was idle.

"Big brother!" I called him big brother along the altar, "Now that the policy is good, the state is taking more and more care of the farmers, but why do I think our village is not as good as the previous villages?" ”

Zhou Yiqun smoked a dry cigarette and said in Mandarin that I could understand as much as possible: "The fields in our village are all hillside land, and we can't go to the water, so we can only rely on the sky for food, and there has been nine droughts in ten years." Only a few grains a year can be frequented, so it's no wonder that they can get rich. ”

"Then don't you want to think about other tricks, such as going out to work, doing business or something?"

"Part-time job? Business? Zhou Yiqun glared and said, "They all go out to work, who will plant this field in the village?" However, in recent years, there are indeed many young people in the village who are unwilling to stay at home and become farmers, and have gone out to work to earn money. Tell me, if everyone goes to work in the future, and no one farms, what will the people eat? Brother, let me coax you to say, no one in this world can do without us peasants. ”

"Yes, yes!" I chimed in a few times, and then pretended to be casual and got to the point: "Big brother, I heard that we are also one of the production areas of bloodstone here?" ”

Zhou Yiqun took a heavy puff of dry tobacco, squinted at me and asked, "You are also here to find bloodstone?" ”

I didn't expect him to get to the point in one sentence, so I had to admit it head-on: "Uh...... Yes, I want to check it out...... How do you know? ”

Zhou Yiqun said: "In recent years, many people have come here one after another to look for bloodstone mines, but the bloodstone mines in the mountains have been mined cleanly several years ago, and most of the bloodstones from where they come back empty-handed." ”

I was shocked when I heard this, there are already many people who have been here, and there is nothing to gain, is it that we are also here for nothing this time? I didn't give up, and then asked: "Big brother, I heard that this bloodstone is everywhere in our place, and many people still use stones to build walls, right?" ”

Zhou Yiqun nodded and said: "There is indeed such a thing, but it is also a matter of Chen Sesame and rotten grain, how can it be twenty or thirty years." At that time, you could see a few pieces of bloodstone on the wall of any house, but later, after the people outside knew the value of the bloodstone, they came to the village to buy it for more than ten yuan a piece. At that time, a dozen yuan was also a good money, so everyone looked for bloodstone everywhere, and even pushed it to the courtyard wall to pick up the stone and sell it. Later, someone chartered the mountain for large-scale mining, which made a lot of money. Although it is in the mountains behind us, no one in the village earns anything, and they only work for people in the mine and sell their strength. ”

Zhou Yiqun knocked on the cigarette pouch pot, pointed to the barren mountain behind him and said: "Now that the mountain has been hollowed out, the trees have been uprooted, and the bloodstone has been mined, all that is left for us is this bare remnant mountain...... Fortunately, the bloodstone mine was not in Xiongshoufeng, otherwise the feng shui of the village would have been damaged. ”

"Feng Shui for the village?" I'm a little curious, how to say that my grandfather was also a feng shui physiognologist, and from the "Qingyi Miscellaneous Records" he left behind, I still have some understanding. The "Qingyi Miscellaneous Records" was the only book left by my grandfather, but when the house was on fire, the book was being taken to the school by my father in his school bag, so it was preserved.

When Zhou Yiqun heard my question, he was immediately interested: "Let me tell you, our village is called Xiongshou Village, and the highest mountain behind it is called Xiongshou Peak, which is the guardian of our village." I heard the old man say that according to legend, there is a bear spirit on this mountain peak, and he was attracted by the beautiful mountains and rivers around it, so he turned into a bear head, cultivated here, and absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon. Later, the ancestors of our Xiongshou Village passed by this place, and they took a fancy to the feng shui of this place at a glance, so they lived here. There has always been such a saying in our village, called 'the bear head does not fall, the bear village does not grow old', which means that as long as the bear head does not fall, our village will always be safe and sound. ”