The man was stunned for a moment and asked, "What is the previous dynasty?" ”

Xiao Laodao didn't answer and asked: "This big brother, how many years have you families lived in this mountain?" ”

The man was stunned again when he heard this, and after a while, the man replied uncertainly: "I don't know how many years, I heard my grandfather say that when his grandfather was there, we moved in, there were many people in the village at that time, and then there were fewer and fewer, some died of old age, some moved away, and now ...... We're the only ones left. ”

Xiao Laodao nodded and said, "Judging from your hair accessories, eldest brother, you moved here at least in the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Ming Dynasty?" The man didn't seem to have any concept of dynasties, and asked suspiciously, "What is it now?" ”

Xiao Laodao replied: "It's the Manchu Qing Dynasty now, and the Ming Dynasty was more than 200 years ago. ”

When the man heard this, he looked dazed, as if he was listening to a book from heaven.

Xiao Laodao suddenly smiled, "Okay, let's not talk about it, it doesn't matter what dynasty it is, it's all the same, you live in this deep mountain and old forest, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, no one can care about it." ”

When the man heard this, he looked at Xiao Laodao and asked, "So, you are from outside the mountain?" ”

"Exactly."

The man hurriedly asked again: "Then you ...... What are you doing in my house? ”

Xiao Laodao said: "I have already said just now, we fled here and came here, and we want to live here when we see that this place is good." ”

When the man heard this, he glanced at the grandfather and the others, and a trace of excitement flashed in his eyes, "You, you really want to live with us?" ”

Xiao Laodao nodded, "It's true, we want to build a house on the mountain near here, and the places have been chosen, but there are not enough people to build a house, so Poor Dao wants to ask, do you have any manpower in your village, help us build a few big houses, rest assured, Poor Dao will never treat you badly." ”

The man's face suddenly showed a hint of joy, "That's good, we only have a few families here, and we are lonely all day, if you can stay, there will be more people." The man's face then darkened again, "However, now is not the time to build a house, it is too cold." ”

Xiao Laodao said: "I know this, the matter of building a house, I will talk about it in the spring next year, now it is the wood for building a house, and we have to find a place to live, is there an empty house in your village?" ”

The man thought for a while and said: "There are no empty houses in the village, there were a few in the past, but they have all been stripped and planted with crops, by the way, there is a cave in the northeast of our village, and the place in the cave is quite large, you can go there and live first, if you have nothing to eat, tell us, we have food at home." ”

When Xiao Laodao heard this, he hurriedly gave the man a mockery.

The man then asked very enthusiastically: "You haven't eaten yet, come to my house for dinner first, and after eating, I will find someone for you." ”

Although the man was very enthusiastic, in the eyes of the master, perhaps because of the villagers before, Xiao Laodao didn't want to appreciate it.

Xiao Laodao didn't let everyone enter the man's house, said a few polite words to the man, and left with everyone.

A few people walked around the village and found a cave on the mountainside northeast of their village.

The entrance of the cave is not big, more than one person is high, and one person is more wide, but after entering it, the space is not small, and there is an echo in the speech, which seems to be quite deep.

The people lit torches and walked not far into the cave, and found that there were stone tables, stone benches, and a stone bed.

Xiao Laodao immediately beckoned everyone to stop, "It seems that someone has lived here, so let's not go inside, let's go here." The group then put down their belongings and settled down in the cave.

After everyone settled down, lit a bonfire in the cave, and ate dry food, Xiao Laodao discussed with everyone about building a house, at present, they are mainly short of carpenters, general rough work, Tai Ye and Xiao Chujiu They can do it, and now we must start preparing the wood used to build the house, and wait for the spring of next year, you can directly build the beams on the adobe wall.

After discussing and discussing, Xiao Laodao planned to hire a few people to come over outside the mountain, give them a high price, and let them stay in the mountain until the house was built before leaving, but at this time, a voice came from outside the cave.

When everyone came to the entrance of the cave, they saw that there were twenty or thirty men and women, old and young standing outside the cave, and the leader was the middle-aged man just now.

When the middle-aged man saw the grandfather and a few people coming out, he hurriedly greeted him with a smile and said to Xiao Laodao: "Chief, look, I called all the people here here, if you have any problems, just tell us, our whole village will help you." ”

As soon as the middle-aged man said this, the grandfather and these villagers looked at each other.

The master saw these people, young and old, all looking at them with enthusiastic and strange eyes, and he didn't know how many years they hadn't seen people outside the mountain.

The grandfather and several people were also looking at these villagers, and they saw that these villagers were all dressed like savages, more than half of them were wearing animal fur, and the other half were wearing nets made of coarse linen, and thick cotton was stuffed in the pockets. Although the clothes are not very good, they are all neatly packed.

Xiao Laodao looked at it, and hurriedly approached those villagers and politely greeted them, among them was an old man, his beard and eyebrows were all white, and he was bent over, and everyone called him grandfather, saying that he was more than a hundred years old.

On behalf of the villagers, the old grandfather said a few words to Xiao Laodao, which means, you can live here, but you have to abide by the rules, you can't come nonsense, what's the matter, the big guy is discussing and doing, and it will be a family in the future, your business is our business, our business, and your business.

Xiao Laodao nodded again and again, and finally, Xiao Laodao said to the old grandfather, if you really want to help, go to the mountain to help us cut down the tree, wait for a few days, go to the outside of the mountain to find a few carpenters to come over, and make the tree into beams and rafters.

As soon as the old grandfather heard it, he said that there was no need to go outside the mountain to find a carpenter, there was a father and son in the village, and the carpenter skills passed down from the ancestors, and these houses in the village were built by their ancestors.

Xiao Laodao was very happy when he heard this, so there was no need to hire a carpenter outside.

Then all the people in the village left, and all of them were enthusiastic, and went home to get their stuff and go into the mountains to cut down trees.

At this time, Xiao Laodao looked at these villagers, and they all felt a little incredible, the people in the village before, compared with the people in this village, it was a world of difference.

Later, after they got acquainted with these villagers, the old grandfather said to the grandfather that their ancestors fled into the mountains to avoid the war, and there were hundreds of people at that time, and later, there were fewer and fewer people, and many people gave birth to children who were not normal, either stupid or blind, or born with disabilities, some people felt that this place was not peaceful, and moved away some of them, and the people who stayed behind have only left so many households.

At that time, the grandfather and they were very puzzled when they heard it, because their village has good feng shui, and it stands to reason that there should not be so many children born with disabilities, and they have never understood why.

Why is that? This is not a problem of ghosts and gods, nor is it a problem of feng shui, this is a genetic problem, just imagine, just a few hundred people, and do not have contact with people outside, in the end they all become close relatives and get married, and it is strange that the children do not have problems.

In fact, there is a very obscure reason why they want the grandfather to stay so enthusiastically, that is, they have taken a fancy to the age of the grandfather, except for Xiao Laodao, everyone else is still very young, especially with five children, Xiao Shiyi and the ghost monkey were also treated as children by them at that time. At this time, these families are all relatives, and there are no people with foreign surnames, so they want the children of the next generation to find people with foreign surnames to marry, but this is a secret that they cannot say, until one day, a family came to Xiao Laodao and wanted to propose marriage to the grandfather, and the grandfather understood the truth.

To get back to the point, the villagers enthusiastically went into the mountains to cut down trees, and of course it was impossible for the grandfather and a few of them to be idle.

Xiao Laodao asked the lame Taoist and the wife and children of the three dogs to stay in the cave, and he left with the grandfather.

After a few days of driving the mountain road, I finally returned to the outside of the mountain, and bought a lot of daily necessities, especially clothes and cloths, in a small town outside the mountain. Xiao Laodao said that silver is not easy to use in the mountains, but we can't let those villagers work for us for nothing, and it is better to bring these things back to them than anything else.

When a few people returned to the mountains with supplies and distributed them to the villagers, the villagers were overjoyed, and all of them smiled as if they were celebrating the New Year.

Someone said to Xiao Laodao that in the past, there were a few people in their village, who often went outside to bring some things back, but later, I don't know why, they didn't come back after they went out, some people said that they were killed by people outside, and since then, no one dares to go out.

After hearing this, Xiao Laodao said to the villagers, if you need anything in the future, just ask, as long as you can bring it into the mountains, you will definitely bring it in.

A few days later, Xiao Laodao took the grandfather and they went out of the mountain again, this time, brought back a lot of tools and farm tools, sickles, hoes, shovels, axes, etc., the villagers were happy again, these are all things they urgently need, it is indeed much stronger than giving them silver.

After a few days, Xiao Laodao took a few people out of the mountain again, and when they arrived outside the mountain, Xiao Laodao said to a few people, this time, let's take a few ploughing cattle into the mountain.

When the grandfather heard this, they all frowned, and said to Xiao Laodao that the mountain road is difficult to walk, and the ploughing cattle can't lead it. Xiao Laodao said, if you can't get in, you can carry it in.

When the master heard this, his brows furrowed even tighter, the mountain road was not easy to walk, and then he raised his head and went into the mountain, who has such great ability.

Xiao Laodao sighed, why are you so elm brainless, we have to buy that kind of big cow, buy those calves that have just been born for a long time, and get them to the mountains to raise them and then use them.

So, Xiao Laodao took a few people from the mountain, in and out of the mountains, in and out of the mountains, this winter, all of them were buying things outside the mountains and transporting them to the mountains, those villagers could not only cut down trees to make rafters, but also burn clay tiles, that is, the kind of tiles built on the roof, how did those tiles come out in the past, they were all shot out on the thighs with good mud, but at this time it was winter, they were all shot out on wooden rafters, and then put them into a place similar to a cave, and smoked with fire.

In the blink of an eye, spring has come, and everything has recovered. In addition to the grandfather and a few of them, the men and women of the village, old and young, went into battle together, and the scene was harmonious and lively.

At this time, these people in the village are wearing all the clothes, pants or fabrics that the master bought from outside the mountain, and the hands are all brand-new tools, and there is a big cowshed in the village, which raises several half-sized calves, not only cats, but also cats, dogs, pigs, chickens, ducks and geese, the whole village has been injected with new blood, a new look, although there are few people, but full of vitality.

In a blink of an eye, in the late spring and early summer, the house was built, and the grandfather and his people happily moved from the cave into the new house, and the carpenter father and son in the village also used the remaining wood to create some necessary furniture, such as cabinets, tables, stools, beds, etc., and the grandfather also learned from the people in the village, in the mountains next to the river, reclaimed a few acres of land, the mountains here are not pure stones, the soil and stones are mixed, as long as the stones inside are removed, they can still grow crops.

That's it, everyone settled down, but Xiao Laodao and my grandfather are not people who keep to themselves, and they can't stay at home, so Xiao Laodao took my grandfather and discussed leaving with a lame Taoist......