"Hello uncle, we are from Chang'an, and we are here to travel, and we want to learn about the history here." Li Ke greeted the other party with a smile.

"Haha, Housheng, then you have come to the right place, our Zhangjia Village, that is a place that has been inherited for more than a thousand years." The old man said with a smile.

Li Ke simply sat down beside them and asked with a smile: "Uncle, you have a high birthday this year." ”

"I'm not big, I'm eighty-nine this year. Our Zhangjia Village is all Gaoshou Village, and the youngest of us is eighty-seven. The oldest is one hundred and seven years old this year! Uncle said with a smug smile.

Li Ke looked at the more than twenty old people sitting here, they all looked at Li Ke with smiles, to be honest, many of the old people here really didn't look like they were in their eighties.

"Then uncle and aunt, you are really long-lived, to be honest, I have to call you grandpa." Li Ke said with a smile.

"Haha, just call it Uncle and Aunt, listen young." The uncle who started talking said with a smile.

"Uncle, I think our village seems to be quite small, but how do you feel that there are not many people." Li Ke asked curiously.

"You don't know this, our village has a lot of people, and our village now has a permanent population of about 1,500 people, but at this time, now the little ones are going to school, and the older people are working, and our entire village is a ranger under the Ministry of Forestry." Uncle said with a smile.

"The whole village?" Li Ke was a little surprised.

"Yes, the whole village is, not only the whole village is, our village has been inherited for more than 1,400 years, our village has a village history, and the records of more than 1,400 years have never been interrupted."

"In the earliest days, we also planted food, but at that time, the Holy Sect had not yet succeeded to the throne, and it was still the Taizong period. When the Holy Father first proposed to reform the entire Loess Plateau and maintain the ecology of the Loess Plateau, according to the news recorded by the ancestors, the Holy Father gave us a choice at that time. ”

"Either you migrate out or you become a professional ranger."

"Then the ancestors did not choose to leave this land, but chose to take care of this forest for generations for the sake of the Holy Sect who was still His Highness at that time, and in the next 1,400 years, the youngest of our Zhangjia Village so far is already the sixty-fourth generation."

"For generations, we have guarded the agreement with the Holy Father, guarding this forest."

"Some of the dolls have gone out, but when they are in their thirties and forties, many of them choose to return to their hometowns, return to the village, and become forest rangers, and some of them are also engaged in work related to ecological conservation. We also have several university scholars in Zhangjia Village, all of whom are geographers and biologists. ”

"In the past 1,400 years, there have been more and more people in the village, and many children have married and come back with their families."

"It's thriving here, and it's going to continue to thrive." The uncle was very excited to tell Li Ke about them.

Li Ke listened silently, he had never been here, although the policy was issued by him at the beginning, and at that time, according to the news from the report, there were indeed many people who chose to stay in the local area and choose to become forest rangers.

At that time, Li Ke also gave them enough treatment, but he didn't expect that these people are still guarding here now.

Sixty-four generations, 1,400 years, this number seems small, but it is incomparably long, for Li Ke himself, he didn't know that he would have such a big impact.

But it's a good thing to see them live here, no matter how long they live, and they live well.

"Uncle, is it convenient for you to live here?" Li Ke asked with a smile.

"Convenient, what's inconvenient, it's not like it used to be. In the earliest days, according to the ancestral records, at that time, the Datang field was 100 acres per family, but because a protected area was to be established here, it was a special way to deal with it. ”

"It is to allow every family to keep the food ration field, and all the rest must be planted into forests, Your Highness said, so that they can leave a better life for future generations."

"After planting grain fields for decades, Datang has become stronger, roads and the outside world have been built better, and when the grain from outside can be transported in, each household has reduced the planting area, and each family is allowed to reserve one acre of land to grow vegetables for daily consumption. Grain is all outsourced. ”

"Because our government has always given a lot of wages, more than a thousand years ago, and it is the same now."

"So we can afford to buy food, so by now, vegetables and the like can also go to the town to buy."

"However, each of our families was allowed to reserve one acre of land for growing vegetables and fruits."

"So, this day is good, don't look at the future life, you are from Chang'an, but the life in Chang'an may not be comparable to us, at least, the average life expectancy of our village is leading in Datang." The uncle was very talkative and said with a smile.

"Then uncle, you have stayed here all your life, and you have never lived in a big city, don't you regret it?" The assistant asked curiously.

"Hahaha, little girl, what do you regret about this, you don't feel anything when you grew up in the city, but after living in this place for a long time, I tell you, you don't want to go back to the city. Don't they all say that we Datang people have farming genes in their bones? When I'm forty-five years old, I want to plant something. ”

"As for the city, we also have holidays every year, and we can also go out to travel or something, and it's okay to live in the city for ten days or eight days, it's okay to stay for a long time, and we can't stay here."

"The air is good, there are all kinds of mountain goods in the mountains, I see all kinds of animals, and if I want to live in the city, I don't think I will live to be more than 80 years old." The uncle smiled very happily.

Li Ke nodded silently, and then spoke: "Uncle, are there any older buildings in our village?" Can I take a shot? ”

"Shoot, even if you shoot, you have to publicize us here, so that more offspring and girls will move over and marry! If it is an ancient building, it is the ancestral hall of our village, it is almost a thousand years, and the statue of the Holy Sect in it is more than 1,400 years old, and the whole Tang Dynasty may not have the older ones here. The uncle stood up directly, "Let's go, I'll take you to have a look." ”

"There are statues of the Holy Father everywhere here." Li Ke was a little helpless.

"Hey, you don't know, according to the ancestral records of our village, there are many fewer now. You know? At that time, every household had a tablet of immortality of the Holy Sect and a portrait of the Holy Sect. ”

"Now many of them are just one in a village, or even one in a township, it's not bad, not much." The uncle shook his head and said, and then took the lead towards the village very quickly.