Chapter 43: Wa Village
Gray eaves corners, old brick walls.
Go out for three catties and go to the moon.
This is Wacun, a backward mountain village that retains its ancient architectural style.
At the entrance of the village, there are several rows of two-storey apartment-type buildings built in the early years and quite characteristic of the times, which are already the rows of the village, and are the places for the village cadres to work and children to study.
Along the way, the sides of the body, which were originally wiped clean, were covered with a thick layer of mud and sand.
Wacun is a village in the deepest part of Python Mountain, and from the town to here, I passed through an unknown number of mountains along the way.
Terraced rice fields that are about to be harvested, villages that look like handicrafts at the bottom of the hillside, and huge wind turbines on the top of the mountain.
In the beginning, the 'novelties' that could not be seen in these cities made the students marvel and exclaim that the trip was worthwhile.
Unfortunately, aesthetics can be fatigued.
Although the mountain scenery is wonderful, but when you find that you can't finish it, after this mountain and that mountain, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it will be as light as white water, and the food will be tasteless.
"Help, I'm exhausted......"
"This place looks so dilapidated and old, does anyone live there?"
"You'll be glad you can at least see the poles here!"
The freshmen complained bitterly and got out of the car one by one, their faces sallow and bitter gourd-like.
Zhang Shusheng went to pay for the car and made an appointment with several drivers to come and pick him up at noon tomorrow.
Just as he was sending a few drivers away, he saw Cheng An coming over, and couldn't help but smile: "How was it, did you have a good chat with them along the way?" ”
"Okay, I talked to them about some history." Cheng An replied casually.
Zhang Shusheng took out a glass of water and took a sip, and said with a smile: "Is there a girl you like?" Judy, forget it, ordinary people can't afford to climb high, that girl named Yan Xiaoxi, you can work hard, she doesn't have a boyfriend yet. ”
"Forehead ......"
Cheng An has a strange expression and likes to introduce objects to single young people, is this a common problem of the elderly?
"Professor, we're here for archaeology, not for a blind date, right?" Cheng An said helplessly.
Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but laugh and said: "Haha, of course not, it's just a matter of asking, by the way." But you can't look at any of them? ”
"How can that? I have all taken a fancy to it, but I can't climb it. ”
Cheng An snorted perfunctorily, looked through the crowd, and stopped next to the Humvee parked over there.
Yan Xiaoxi and Judy were opening the trunk there, choosing the right outfit.
Two security guards stood by and were meticulous.
On the way here just now, Judy wanted to make trouble with Cheng An, and tried to provoke several times, but Cheng An prevaricated, and his anger disappeared a lot.
Coupled with Cheng An's introductions along the way, most of them were told to her, which made Judy have a great change in her opinion.
Knowledge may not be power, but it can earn respect.
Those two tall bodyguards, Cheng An didn't pay much attention to them, the test had been completed on the road, and they were two ordinary people.
On the contrary, it was Yan Xiaoxi, he couldn't see her depth.
She didn't show any anomalies along the way, she was like a normal tourist, silently sightseeing along the way.
Therefore, Cheng An is not sure if she is also an extraordinary person for a while.
But even if it is not now, Cheng An believes that with this woman's heart and connections, as long as she does not die, her future achievements will not be simple.
"Ahh
Suddenly, a girl screamed from the freshman group.
Cheng An and Zhang Shusheng hurriedly went over to see what was going on, but the girl pointed to a large blood stain on her leg and a large black patch on her palm, and broke down and cried: "Teacher, there are so big mosquitoes!" ”
Zhang Shusheng was not surprised, and comforted: "It's okay, it doesn't matter if the mosquitoes bite people here, wipe some wind and oil essence, let's tidy up a little, we will go to the top of the mountain in the afternoon, first go to see the local Shangong Temple, and after we come back, we will go to the kiln to visit their pottery art." ”
"Good teacher."
One thing good about the students is that they are very obedient and let them do whatever they want.
Cheng An secretly rolled his eyes, walked over, and handed the group of freshmen two iron mosquito coil boxes that were easy to carry around: "You can light this on the road to repel insects." ”
"Huh? Thank you, senior. The girl blushed and thanked the others.
"You're welcome, it's just a trifle."
Cheng An nodded.
The mosquitoes in the mountains are not poisonous? You can cheat it.
He watched the freshmen scramble and organize their bags, and when he swept his eyes, he found that their packages were basically hats, umbrellas, and at most a multi-functional walking stick.
"Teacher, why don't you bring a few sophomores and juniors with you? It's all inexperienced in the group. Cheng An said with some reluctance.
Zhang Shusheng smiled: "You were fooled in your freshman year, are you still fooled later?" ”
"Then why don't you remind them."
As far as the equipment of this group of children is concerned, I am afraid that they will go up the mountain with a smile and come down crying.
Zhang Shusheng disagreed: "It's all like this, if you don't suffer a little, how can you have the accumulation of experience?" Besides, surveying, drawing, these are all compulsory courses for them. ”
"But you're teaching religious archaeology...... Field mapping is the content of field archaeology, and it has nothing to do with your religious archaeology. Cheng An said a word.
Moreover, in this era, there are some so-called 'experiences that can only be gained by enduring hardships', but in fact, they can be directly recorded in a summary form and taught to them, which is just as useful.
Although Professor Zhang is very knowledgeable, he is quite old-fashioned in some aspects.
In the end, Cheng An saw that this group of ducklings who had not experienced wind and rain were really pitiful, so he kindly walked to the crowd and shared two portable mosquito coil plates.
"Wait until you go up the mountain, hang it on your bag, you can repel mosquitoes." Cheng An explained.
"Ah, thank you, senior!"
"The senior is so nice, handsome and considerate, can you just have a V."
"Does the senior have a girlfriend?"
The younger students were very grateful, and some girls boldly showed their goodwill.
"Haha, then don't need it, I want to leave you to the junior, the senior is single, and there is a chance to introduce a single senior sister to the senior." Cheng An smiled and shirked.
He was friendly and generous, and soon gained the friendship of all of them.
During the conversation, Cheng An wrote down the names of the more prominent freshmen.
For example, the beautiful girl is called Fang Yingying, who is the flower of their class; The boy with a more leadership temperament is called Wu Junqi, and he is the president of their class. And so on and so forth.
Not far away, a certain beautiful woman rolled her eyes, probably because Cheng An didn't flatter her, but teased the elementary school girl here, mingling with others, which was a little unhappy.
Not long after, two middle-aged men walked out of the row of buildings that had "a school, a village committee, and an auditorium" and walked quickly to meet them.
"Teacher Zhang! Oops, I just had a meeting, I'm sorry to be slack! ”
The middle-aged man, who was less than fifty years old but had already lost most of his head, said, "I'll be Dong tonight, and I'll invite everyone to dinner." ”
Zhang Shusheng greeted with a smile: "Director Xu, you don't have to be too polite, you really don't have to worry about eating, I also have a task to bring students here, to understand and study the local traditional culture, traditional customs, it still bothers you." ”
Director Xu's face suddenly bloomed: "What are you talking about, I have to thank you and the students for giving our village free publicity." ”
This person is the village director of Wa Village, and he is accompanied by Yu Tong, the accountant of their village, who is also the principal of this mountain village primary school.
The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and agreed to be led by Yu Tong to visit the kiln factory.
As for visiting the Shangong Temple on the mountain, according to local customs, locals are not allowed to go unless they do white things at home, and outsiders do not have this constraint.
Fortunately, most of the mountains in the south are not high, and the road to Shangong Temple here can be seen thoroughly at a glance, and there is no big problem.
In the middle of the greetings, the school bell rang for the end of class.
Suddenly, many children poured out of the school, about twenty or so, of various ages, and ran back to their homes for lunch while looking at their brothers and sisters in the square with curious eyes.
Most of the young people in the village are working outside the village, and those who are left behind are old people and children.
Among them, there is a teenage girl, carrying a black cloth bag, wearing a dirty, ill-fitting fashionable dress donated by a caring person in the society, walking in the back alone.
Suddenly, as she walked past the front of the crowd, she stopped and counted the number of college students one by one with her fingers.
Then the dirty little girl tilted her head, laughed, and pointed at them and shouted:
"One dead man, two dead man...... Hee-hee......"
"Five dead men, six dead men...... Hey hey ......"
"It's all dead! It's all dead! Hahaha! Hahaha! ”
Her eyes widened, her teeth bared, and her face was full of exaggerated, terrifying expressions that looked extra intimidating on this cloudy day.
Where have the freshmen of Haicheng University seen such a scene since they were young?
Several of the girls were so scared that they were about to cry.
Director Xu and the accountant were also taken aback, and Yu Tong shouted and scolded: "Sun Baohui! How mad are you? Go away and go home! Otherwise, your family's subsidy for next month will not be paid to you! ”
"Oh."
As soon as she heard this, the little girl really didn't go crazy, and while eating and laughing, she glanced at everyone here out of the corner of her eye, and walked towards the village.
Yu Tong explained: "I'm sorry, this girl's parents died working outside a few years ago, and her brain is not very normal, she depends on her blind grandmother to feed, don't go to your heart." ”
"Oh, understood, understood."
Saying this, Zhang Shusheng, Cheng An and others expressed deep sympathy.
A girl named Cao Shan almost burst into tears when she heard this.
She took out two pieces of cake, walked up to the little girl, and rubbed her dirty hair: "Little sister, sister invites you to eat cake, wait a minute, take sister to your house and visit your grandmother, okay?" ”
The little girl looked at her stunned, and then at the cake.
"Hey, hey, thank you, sister."
The little girl laughed so hard that she couldn't even laugh.
Cao Shan's face was embarrassed and felt a little disgusting, but for the sake of face, she was embarrassed to withdraw her hand immediately.
Just wash it up later. Cao Shan just thought so.
The next moment, the little girl cracked her mouth and bit her wrist with a sharp bite.