Chapter 244, Moon Cliff

After laughing, Li Yuanshan changed the topic: "Yo! I've been talking for a long time, but I haven't seen Peng Shiliang, why did he go?"

"The cattle have gone. The old man said, "Now there is no way to live (farm work) in the field, that is, dig some banana taro and come back to feed the pigs, I will dig a back basket by myself, and it will be enough to feed for two days, so I will let him go to herd the cattle." ”

"Okay, let's go and see. Old man, you're busy. Li Yuanshan got up and said, "Chang'an, goodbye to the old man." ”

The old man responded to Chang'an kindly, and said while sending him out of the door: "Then I'll cook now, and it'll be almost the same when you come back." ”

Li Yuanshan hurriedly said: "No need to cook, no need to cook! After seeing Peng Shiliang and them, they have to go to the next village, and the time is very tight." Next time, if we have time, we will eat. ”

Li Yuanshan walked out of the yard, saw that a few people had already come out first, took Chang'an over, and said, "Peng Shiliang has gone to herd the cattle, what about you here?"

"There's no one in the house. Yang Minghong said.

"Went to mow the hogweed. Zhai Fangping replied.

"Cutting pigweed, it shouldn't be far away. Li Yuanshan said, "In this way, let's go to the mountain to have a look first, and when we come back, the children who cut the pigweed should also come back." ”

Most of the hills are too steep for cattle to climb, so the cattle are basically in one place. A group of people followed the group leader for nearly two miles, turned the mountain road, and saw the cattle on the opposite hillside.

Before he got closer, he heard a "hungry" roar, and when he looked closely, the two cows were already very close to the field, and in the field at the bottom of the hillside, there was a child standing at intervals, and the roar came from the closest of these children.

Cows want to eat their crops, and it's normal. Some cattle will take advantage of the lack of attention to the cattle and run two or three miles just to eat the crops.

When I got closer, I found a few children herding cattle with a book in their hands.

"It's a good idea to herd cattle and read books!" Song Yu praised, and turned to his son and said, "Look at them, pay more attention! You kid only knows how to play when you come back, and you have scored eighty-seven points in the English test, if you haven't learned English since you were a child, I seriously doubt that you may not pass the test." You said that if you don't study hard and don't study well, I have nothing to say, if you don't work hard and don't do well, I'll be a little sorry for your living expenses. ”

"Xiaofu, you all come here, and the bosses of the Jiulong Mountain Medicine Factory who helped you come to see you. The team leader greeted.

Yang Mingyou said: "You don't have to come over, they still have to watch the cows, let's go over." ”

Although the children were very shy, they were smiling happily, and Li Yuanshan took the book from the hand of a child named Peng Shilin and looked at the cover, which was a mathematics book in the fifth grade. Looking at his height, he said with some surprise: "Is this your book?" Looking at his height, he doesn't look like a person in the fifth grade.

"Hmm. Peng Shilin replied, "I'm just short, and I'm not young." ”

Li Yuanshan nodded, the height problem is not only determined by genes, food is also an important factor.

Then I asked about the difficulties in studying and living, and the children in the village listened to their peers to know what kind of life they were living. Seeing that they are dressed in patched clothes and wearing straw sandals made of palm on their feet, it is not that they want to live such a life, but that they can only live such a life. If it weren't for the adults who helped them pay for their books, they wouldn't even be able to afford to read.

After communicating with them and encouraging them again, I went back. A few children in Chang'an shrank back, chattered and discussed, then ran back and stuffed something into the hands of several people, turned around and ran back.

When Chang'an ran back, Li Yuanshan smiled and said, "Chang'an, what are you little ones doing when you guys run back again, give them toys?"

Chang'an replied, "No. Dad, my brothers and sisters' clothes are so torn that we give them pocket money so they can buy new clothes. ”

"Hehe! It's good that you can have this mind, and it's worth it for us to take you here. Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "There are still a few stockades in the back, and how much pocket money you spent this time, we adults will supply you." ”

"Really?" the little children hurriedly asked.

Li Yuanshan smiled: "Of course it's true. Am I going to lie to you?"

The children cheered when they were confirmed. Although they paid voluntarily, they were still a little reluctant after all. Now that I can make it up, I am naturally overjoyed.

Then Xiaowan, Wangjia Pass, the more you go, the less flat land. Li Yuanshan found that the houses were getting smaller and smaller. Pengjia Village, there are still about half of the three tile houses, and when they arrived at the Wangjia Pass, the three tile houses are gone, and they are all two. Seventeen or eighteen houses, all tiled houses, five or six had no walls, and were made of grain stalks or wheat stalks. In addition, there are four or five houses with walls, which are built directly with stones, without mortar.

Looking at the jagged stones that stretched out from the bottom of the mountains on both sides, these places full of stones, which were not covered by shrubs and weeds, were actually fields for growing crops. Li Yuanshan sighed, "This place is too bad! The ancients said that 'the land is barren and the pines and cypresses are planted, and the poor children of the families study'; to put it more seriously, where can pine and cypress trees be planted, no matter how barren the land is, where can it go, and such a place is really barren and makes people despair." ”

"It's all stones, it's all mountains. Yang Mingyi said, "If I were born in this kind of place, I really wouldn't be able to live." ”

"Reading is also a problem. Yang Mingyou said, "Even if you have the money to pay for school tuition, you can walk seven or eight miles and ten miles to go to school every day. ”

"If Pengjia Village is suitable for pension and development, then it is neither suitable for pension nor development. Song Jin also said.

Yang Mingjin nodded and said, "If you can't study hard and get out, then you can only go out to work, and it's best to find a way to stay in the city." If the husband and wife go to the coast to work, they can save money for four or five years, and they can almost buy a smaller house in Xingyi. Now the expansion of Xingyi City is attracting people to settle down, which is a good opportunity. ”

"Forget it, let's not talk about that. Li Yuanshan shook his head and said, "It's a little late now, go back to the fork in the road, rest there tonight, and go to Yanziyan tomorrow morning." ”

"I have to go again tomorrow, the road is too dangerous!" said Luo Yi, a clerk from the township.

Back at the fork in the road, the adults were divided into two parts, one to collect firewood and the other to set up tents.

Before the sun had completely set, two fires were raised, and the coolness that had just risen was dispelled, and the large and small began to eat around the fire.

"With such a big fire, it would be nice to have artichoke yams (potatoes and sweet potatoes). Yang Mingyi said, "When I came, I brought all the tents, why didn't I think about it?"

Li Yuanshan said with a smile: "You don't know what this mountain road is like, and it is not open to traffic, bring artichoke yams, you carry it?"

"One back point, isn't it enough to eat?" Yang Mingyi smiled, "Think about taking out a few black bumps from the coals, picking one up and breaking it gently, a sweet smell rises with the heat, that's wonderful......! It's just not a show!"

"Ho! I have eaten too much of the meal, and I miss the whole grain. Yang Mingdong said with a smile.

Yang Mingcai said with a smile: "If you want to eat back, you can do it yourself, you can eat every day during this time at home, and we can still support if it is not enough." ”

"We don't need our support. Eat for two days in a row to see if he can stand it. Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "It feels good to come once in a while, eating it every day can make people vomit." Moreover, these two things really have no nutrition except for swelling the stomach, and they are almost dead. ”

"It's good to be able to hang your life. Song Jin said, "It is said that these artichoke and yam baogu appeared at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, but the yield was not high, and it was not popularized until the Qing Dynasty, and the output was high, making the population reach more than 400 million." ”

"I think that the output will increase at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Yang Mingjin said, "It's just that natural disasters were too frequent at that time, and the squire landlords who had a lot of land in their hands were not willing to grow such cheap things, so it was not popularized." ”

"The greedy landlords and squires, including officials, dared to act against the emperor. Li Yuanshan said, "In order to pay less taxes, they hid their fields and recruited a large number of hidden households to farm for them." No one knows how many artichokes are planted, but at most, it is only to ensure that the hermits in their hands do not starve to death, after all, these things do not make money. ”

The next day, the group went to Yanziyan along the winding path, walked for two or three miles, and saw a family at the foot of the mountain about one mile next to it.

"This is only one family in a few mountains and miles!" Yang Mingyou sighed.

"There are quite a few such people in their hometowns. The township staff said, "There are too many people, and that little land can't support so many people." ”

After walking for more than two miles, turning a corner, the path continued to the bottom of the cliff on the opposite side. Xiao Luo said: "Go up this Moon Cliff, and walk for two minutes to Swallow Rock." ”

"We've heard of this place. Yang Mingcai said, "When others say it, it doesn't feel very dangerous, but this look is really scary!"

Moon Cliff gets its name from the fact that it has the same shape as a crescent moon, with a recess in the middle.

"You say dangerous, look there. Li Yuanshan pointed to the place where the upper part of the Moon Cliff began to come out diagonally and said, "Then there are still people carrying the water cliff!"

"Having been walking since childhood, they have become accustomed to it. Xiao Luo said, "There is no water in Yanziyan, and you have to pick up the water from below to drink water." ”

A group of people looked at the figure on the cliff with one hand grasping the hook of the bucket hanging from the front end of the flat pole, and the other hand stretched out and grabbed it up, grabbed the previous step and grabbed the previous step, slowly went up the cliff, and disappeared on the top of the cliff.

Yang Mingren sighed: "Alas! Fortunately, I brought a rope, otherwise how to go up!"

"It's soft to look at!" Zhai Fangping said.

"That's what makes the name nice when I said it yesterday. Li Yuanshan said to the children, "How is it, do you dare to go up?"

"Dare!" the children shouted in unison.

Children are not afraid at all, but adults are not like them. Song Yu said: "It's really just a nice name!"