Chapter 22: Paradise (Part II)
After eating, Mo Beitian felt in a good mood, so he followed Xiao Xiao, Xiaoyu and Xiaolu out of the bamboo house.
A few people walked down the mountain road, and along the way, they met a few people dressed plainly and carrying bamboo baskets. Xiao Xiao told him that these people were all villagers from the original village. They all followed his father to Lonely Soul Mountain back then. There are about tens of thousands of villagers in the entire Yuanren village. They spend most of their time in villages at the foot of the mountains. Due to the large number of people, these tens of thousands of people were divided into twenty-four different villages in order to facilitate the management of these tens of thousands of people. These villages are named after the 24 solar terms of ancient China, and each village is managed by a village chief. These village chiefs have also seen them, the same people who sat in the hall of the stone castle that day. This group of them is Xiao Xiao's father's most haode brother, and they have been following him for more than ten years. Don't look at them, they look fierce and vicious, like bandits, but they are all very good-hearted people.
As they spoke, a few people came to the foot of the mountain. Xiao Xiao pointed not far in front and said, "Brother Mo, look, that side is Guyu Village, which is the largest village here. There's a bazaar today, let's go check it out. ”
Mo Beitian was not disgusted by Xiao Xiao calling herself "Brother Mo", but when did she suddenly become so close to her? I've seen her twice in total, and if you count the time when she's unconscious, it's only three times that a conversation with nothing substance can make her so close to her? Mo Zhitian thinks that his current self is an unlucky person possessed by a god, and whoever gets close to him will bring bad luck. His beloved wife is crazy for no apparent reason, and his father-in-law is nowhere to be found, and he has so many things to do, I really don't know what will happen next. Mo Beitian shook his head helplessly, and quickly nodded again. Now he can only think that Xiao Xiao treats himself like this because she is naturally hospitable, and he is a stranger, and he should be content to have such courtesy, and stop delving into other things.
Xiao Xiao looked at Mo Beitian and shook her head and nodded hard, and couldn't help but pout: "I said whether you want to go or not!" Nodding his head and shaking his head for a while. I'm still calling you how to twist like a woman. ”
Mo Bantian could only smile awkwardly when he heard this: "I was just thinking about something else just now, since you said that there is a market over there, I think it should be very interesting, we might as well go and have a look." ”
"Well, my favorite place to visit the market! There are a lot of fun things in it, Brother Mo, let's go quickly! Xiao Xiao immediately changed her smile when she heard that Mo Beitian agreed to go to the market, and as soon as she grabbed Mo Beitian's hand, she took him and ran to the village.
Walking into the village, I couldn't take a look at it, and it was a lively scene. Crowds of people at the market are crowded, and vendors and customers crowd the widest roads in the village. There is not a single idler on the whole street: some people carry large bags on their shoulders to go home, some people carry backpacks to sell goods to pedestrians, and some people drive cattle to pull carts to transport goods to the entrance of the village, and all kinds of busy people form a prosperous and peaceful picture.
Xiao Xiao said that Guyu Village is the commodity distribution center and trade center of the entire original village. Every month in the middle of the month, there is a market here, and at this time, villagers from other villages come here with their goods to exchange ideas.
Mo Yitian was a little puzzled when he heard this, and asked: "Since the villagers of the original village are all exiles, they must not have any contact with the outside world, and I think the transportation of this lonely soul mountain should not be convenient, so where do some goods come from?" "It's all our own, huh? We produce food, clothing, weapons and other daily necessities ourselves, and my father said that we can be self-sufficient here. This was the case here more than ten years ago, everyone worked together to share the harvest, and there was never any outsider, you were the first foreigner to come to us in these years. Xiao Xiao replied while fiddling with the fishbone bracelet she had just bought from a roadside stall.
"Haven't been to anyone? But the only legitimate government in the history of the Republic now, it is impossible for them not to know about your existence? Besides, the lonely soul mountain is so big, isn't there never a person who broke in by mistake? ”
"No! You don't know, but this is a plain at the foot of the mountain, about seventy or eighty miles in size, where we have established villages and cultivated farmland around them. However, apart from this plain, the Lonely Soul Mountain was shrouded in a thick fog within a radius of a hundred miles, and the fog never dissipated. Deep in the fog there was a dense forest full of mud pools that could not be escaped if they were trapped, and there were always wild beasts in the forest, so no one had ever managed to break in. I don't know how you managed to pass through the Misty River and trees alone and pass out halfway up the mountain. Xiao Xiao said with big eyes.
Mo Yitian habitually nodded and did not continue the topic. A few people looked around and walked around, and before they knew it, it was nearly evening. Xiao Xiao proposed to go to the small river outside the village to watch the sunset, Xiaoyu and Xiaolu clapped their hands, but Mo Zhitian didn't know so they had to agree.
A few people walked to the river, and it was indeed a peaceful place. The breeze is blowing on this unknown river, and a few weeping willows are planted on the bank, and the catkins are fluttering in the wind. On the other side of the river is a green farmland, and a few villagers are hard at work. The farmland looks particularly green against the backdrop of green mountains, showing the liliang of life. Mo Yitian forgot himself, forgot his troubles and sorrows in this picturesque landscape, and suddenly he wanted to stay here forever, to enjoy this peace and peace forever.
Mo Yitian quietly looked at the farmland, and found that one of the people who worked was he knew, that is, the Laksin who took him to the stone castle. Xiao Xiao told Mo that Lakshen's father and her father were brothers in life and death. On their way to escape, their men and horses were attacked several times by the Republic. Lakshin's father was killed in an attack on Zuihou, and before he died, he handed over the five-year-old Lakshin to Xiao Xiao's father in the hope that he would be able to raise Lakshin to adulthood. Xiao Xiao's father agreed to his brother's dying request, he treated Lakshen like his own son, and even Xiao Xiao grew up with him since he was a child, calling him the second brother. Rakshen's father was of old-time Mongolian descent, and he named his son Rakshen, which means "burly" in Mongolian, and he hoped that his son would be born tall and tall! As his father expected, Rakshen was born very strong and taller than ordinary people, which should be what he is most proud of, but he himself is relatively taciturn and likes to do things silently, perhaps this is also one of his strengths.
However, Xiao Xiao doesn't like stuffy people, she told Mo that she longs for freedom, loves adventure, loves fantasy, and hopes to live a different life. As he spoke, the fiery red sun had sunk westward into the mountains, and in a short time only a patch of crimson remained, gilding the mountains with a brilliant color. Xiao Xiao looked at the setting sun and sighed, "I really want to go to the shijie where the sun sinks." It must be different over there than here! ”
She suddenly became a little sad, and asked coldly, "Brother Mo, can you leave here with Xiao Xiao one day?" ”
Mo Beitian looked at the afterglow of the setting sun and replied: "Shijie over there is different from here, I prefer here, it is a paradise." If you yearn for shijie outside, all I can tell you is that it's not beautiful there. Don't try something you don't know, sometimes it will make you regret it. ”
Xiao Xiao looked at the stranger and lowered her head silently. At this time, her heart felt like she had fallen into a five-flavor bottle.