Early the next morning, Wang Li woke up with a burst of smoke from birds and the smell of rice.

He got up and washed up with Hotaru in his arms, and when he looked down the hillside, he saw that the village in the valley was actually surrounded by farmland and vegetable fields, and it seemed that they had transformed the land in the mountain to the limit.

Because of the bad experience of the previous time, this time he did a bit of psychological construction before entering the village.

It's just that when he walked down the hill and walked on the ridge, the first person he met was an old woman who was carrying a bamboo building on her back and preparing to go down to work.

The old woman looked at him in amazement, as if she did not expect to see a stranger here.

Wang Li was still hesitating whether to say hello and how to say hello.

The old woman was already surprised and enthusiastically greeted: "Where is the little brother from, how did he come to our Wujiagou?" ”

This time, Wang Li really felt the simplicity and enthusiasm of the mountain people, the kind of greeting that was not mixed with any negative emotions, and the clear and visible sincere joy made Wang Li let go of all the worries in his heart.

Although the local dialect sounded difficult to understand, Wang Li was surprisingly able to comprehend her meaning from the pure spectrum of emotions.

Wang Li replied: "Hello mother-in-law, I was on a hike, and I didn't expect to see a mountain village here, so I wanted to come and have a look." ”

The old woman said with a smile: "The little brother is a guest, go, go home with my mother-in-law, I just made some pancakes yesterday, and give you a taste of our Tujia pancakes in Wujiagou." ”

Wang Li did not refuse this kindness.

However, just as they were about to leave, the old woman said, 'Good fellow,' and found Qiuqiu.

She said, "Why do you still have a blind bear with you?!" ”

Wang Li said: "This is the little guy I met before, it should be lost with my mother, and it has followed me all the way." ”

"Don't worry, mother-in-law, it's very docile and doesn't hurt anyone."

Granny Wu said: "That's right, it's not scary for a little bear to be blind, I'm just worried that an old bear will come looking for me." ”

"But I should have no problem hearing you say that, I told me how you crossed the mountain to the west, where there is a big mountain king."

"It seems that Shanjun smelled the smell of the blind bear and didn't do anything to you."

Wang Li listened to it and looked at Qiuqiu, who was almost scared at the beginning, and did not argue, but just joked: "Yes, thanks to it." ”

The old woman was still very happy, so she walked back to the village with Wang Li.

The village was surrounded by a ring of wooden rafts, presumably to prevent the attack of the beasts.

After Wang Li entered the village, he was treated very warmly as a rare visitor to the village.

He tasted the Tujia pancakes that Granny Wu said...... Although some of the teeth knocked out of the taste, I still finished it politely.

Fortunately, when Granny Wu was about to slaughter the only laying hens left in the house to entertain him, he quickly stopped it, so that Granny Wu gave up this idea.

"Mother-in-law, I see that there are still many children in the village, don't they have to go to school?"

Qiuqiu nodded again and again with tears in his eyes, it was just a negligence to play with those little monsters for a while, and as a result, two large handfuls of hair were pulled off from his body.

It hurts the baby to death.

Wang Li rubbed the bear's head, and was cute by this guy.

Granny Wu sighed and said, "I can go up, but it's too far away, and the children can't afford such a toss!" ”

Wang Li asked strangely, "What's the matter?" ”

He's still curious, is there an elementary school around here?

Granny Wu said: "There is a primary school in Songjiagou, two hills north of here, and at first the children could go to school when the chain bridge on the mountain was still there, but since the chain bridge broke down three years ago and two children died in a row, no one wants to take any more risks." ”

"Oh, and the girl from the third family still insists on going."

But she had to leave at 3 a.m. every day to get to school, trekking over two hills to get to school. It's already dark when I come back, and I don't know how long this girl can last? ”

Wang Li listened silently.

He saw that there was no convenient water and electricity in the city in this mountain village, and the villagers could still live a natural and comfortable life.

But it was only when she mentioned the broken rope bridge that Granny Wu's face was full of worry.

The broken rope bridge is the hope of this mountain village!

Wang Li asked, "Then who built the rope bridge at that time?" Can't you find someone in charge and build another one? ”

Granny Wu shook her head silently and said: "The county government is too far away from here, and it took a lot of manpower and material resources to build that rope bridge at that time, when the general needed to pass through here to suppress bandits, who would want to get our side now." ”

Wang Li asked again which 'great general' it was.

As a result, I don't know what to ask and don't know.

It seems that the rope bridge must be some years old, and there is really no record of everything in this mountain village where everything is passed on by word of mouth.

Wang Li's heart couldn't help but feel a little heavy.

He sat for a while longer and then got up to say goodbye.

"Why is Little Brother Ye leaving? Don't sit a little longer? "Granny Wu is very reluctant.

Wang Li said, "It's time to go, I still have a lot of way to go." ”

With that, he left the mountain village with a bald ball of hair.

He felt the true simplicity in this mountain village, but he walked in a hurry.

Because he wanted to do something for the village.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, he came to the location of the original rope bridge on the northern peak.

He could see that there were originally two iron cables lying between the two peaks, and under the iron ropes, ropes and planks were hung to form a rope bridge.

But now, only one of the two iron cables remained, and some rotten straw ropes hung from the other iron rope sporadically.

If the people of Wujiagou want to go outside, they can either hang under this iron rope and climb all the way over, or they can only ......

Wang Li looked at the mountain road on the other side, and the iron nails were driven into the mountain wall and extended all the way down.

The only way to do this is to descend these simple ladders made of iron nails into the valley below, and then climb to the opposite peak!

This is the way to school that Granny Wu said.

"Ah Li, do you need me to do anything?"

Wang Li's ears suddenly heard Wenqin's voice, and she seemed to have understood what Wang Li meant.

Not to be outdone, Ye Xiaoyu said: "And me, what can I do!" ”

Wang Li pondered and said, "I'm going to build a bridge again." ”

Wenqin pondered for a moment and said, "Such a long iron cable needs to be specially ordered, I'm afraid it will take a little time." ”

Wang Li said, "I don't have that much time to wait here, and maybe I don't need a rope." ”

"Xiaoyu, Sister Qin, are you free now? Just come and help me. ”

How could Wen Qin and Ye Xiaoyu refuse?

They came out of the same portal, and it looked like they were all together.

"What are we supposed to do?"

The king stopped at the shining star in his eyes, and said, "Let us weave a bridge made of straw rope." ”

Wen Qin asked, "Straw rope bridge?" It's going to be corroded away very quickly, and it's going to be destroyed by animals. ”

Wang Li said, "Don't worry, the strength of the villagers will protect it." ”

He pointed to it, and the shining star in his eyes was getting brighter.