Since he was reborn in Qingxi Village, Yun Shu hadn't slept for a day, and this day he got up a little earlier than usual.

Because today is the day when the village organizes to go into the mountains to pick mountain goods.

Qingxi Village is surrounded by mountains, and the surrounding hills are within the scope of Qingxi Village, although it has been included in the Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve, but in addition to not cutting down indiscriminately, there is not much restriction on the villagers, and even many villagers do not understand the meaning of the reserve at all, after all, no one dares to enter the deep mountains and old forests.

What, to protect rare vegetation and animals?

On the bright side: protect, listen to the leader, must protect.

Secretly, everyone can't help but underestimate in private, what are these rare vegetation and animals? Rare must be valuable, right?

However, in recent years, although everyone's legal awareness is weak, they are timid, and they are properly honest when they hear the words criticism, police station, and imprisonment, and they don't dare to enter the deep mountains and old forests, so they can be regarded as peaceful.

There is a saying that the poor mountains and bad waters come out of the Diao people, that is to meet the real can't live, if there is a 1 in 10,000 possibility and hope to live, who is willing to do the Diao people!

Of course, there are good and bad, this thing is not absolute, for example, those poachers who specialize in selling fur, deer antlers, and tiger bones are the hunters who hunt, and they can also be beaten to death.

It's a bit off-topic, let's get back to business, just say that Qingxi Village is surrounded by mountains, and it is naturally a mountain to eat the mountain.

Mushrooms, wild vegetables, and prey are naturally owned by whom, but the elders who established Qingxi Village had the brains to develop hickory, pine nuts, hazelnuts, and chestnuts into a scale, and now they naturally belong to the collective, and when it comes to the ripening season, there are villagers who patrol and guard alternately, which is the most important source of income for the Qingxi Brigade.

Today, the whole village is going out to quickly take advantage of the good weather to pick these dried fruits, select them to dry, and then sell them to the purchasing station.

Ten points for men, eight points for women, four points for those under the age of fifteen and over ten years old, and two points for the smallest one.

Therefore, as long as the village is not old, weak, sick and disabled, even five or six years old have followed up the mountain.

The main reason is that in the past, the family only allowed children to play at the foot of the mountain, and they were not allowed to enter the mountain without permission.

But the wild fruits at the foot of the mountain have long been scourged by the children, and now with the mountain, not only can you bring home a lot of wild fruits, but also open your belly to eat, so these days into the mountain, it is the happiest day for the children, and they are happier than the New Year.

Children as big as Da Ya and Da Zhuang, during the three-year famine from 59 to 62, they already remembered, and although they were close to the mountains and forests, they did not starve to death, but they could not eat much.

Grass roots, leaves, bugs...... What can be eaten or not, everyone in the village has eaten it, Yun Shu saw those scenes from the eldest girl herself, and she was really glad that she came two years late.

In the years of the Great Famine, not to mention the harvest in autumn, as early as spring and summer, everyone picked the unripe fruit.

In the past two years, the cadres of the brigade have been strictly managed, and the mountains and forests around the village have breathed a sigh of relief.

This year is the first time since the great famine that Qingxi Village has organized a large-scale picking activity, and everyone is happy to think that the money they can get from selling the mountain goods is like a New Year.

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The three Yun Shu sisters and brothers ate breakfast, took the tools and backpacks, sent Xiao Zhuang to Wang Ye's house, and brought out a Haichuan.

Haichuan also carried a small wicker basket on his back, and set off with Yun Shu and Da Zhuang, and the villagers on the way were all walking towards the foot of the mountain, each carrying a wicker basket and holding all kinds of things.

In September in Changbai Mountain, the weather has turned cooler, after a few autumn rains, followed by snow, people are racing against time to hope that when the weather is good in these days, the mountain goods will be back.

Yun Shu's basket was not large, and it contained a dagger, a woodcutter, matches, hemp rope, and an empty aluminum lunch box.

Da Zhuang carried a corn tortilla made by Yun Shu, a jar of dried fish and fried pickles, and a military kettle.

Haichuan was also the same as Yun Shu's sister and brother, he took a woodcutter and two flour cakes and pickles, and his family did not have a military kettle, so he took an enamel jar to boil water and drink.

The most indispensable thing in the mountains is the mountain spring and clear stream, and the people in the village are used to drinking raw water, and they are not sick when they are thirsty and drink the water.

Only Wang Ye studied medicine in the end, and Haichuan also knew a little, there are many bacteria in raw water, and children's immunity is low, so it is better to boil raw water and drink it.

The three followed the villagers to the foot of the mountain, and the two or three hundred people gathered at the foot of the mountain, but they did not hear a word at the moment, just because when the mountain people carried out large-scale activities, they had to hold sacrifices, also known as "sacrificial mountains".

The so-called "sacrificial mountain" is to prepare enough tribute, to the mountain temple or the temporary old man's house at the entrance to the mountain to worship, to be led by the famous "gunner" or experienced old man, on the altar to place melon and fruit tribute, whole pig, whole chicken, white wine incense candles, etc.

There is no mountain temple in Qingxi Village, so at the entrance to the mountain pass, three big stones are used to build a temporary mountain god old head temple, now the year is not good, the whole pig is not to think about it, but there are also whole chickens, whole geese, steamed buns, rice, wine, incense candles.

These tributes cannot be taken back after the sacrifice, but must be eaten by birds and beasts to be considered a good thing.

No matter how poor the people in the mountains are, they will not cheat and play tricks in this place, because compared with the mountain goods rewarded by the mountain gods in the mountains and forests, no one feels sorry for this thing.

Since the establishment of Qingxi Village for more than 40 years, the "gunners" of the mountain festival are the most familiar and experienced hunters in the mountains and forests, and since 20 years ago, this profession has been led by the old man of the Sun family.

Old man Sun has a single name and a hunter, close to the sixtieth birthday, but the body bones are still tough comparable to the prime of life, the eldest girl father also followed the old man into the mountains to study for a period of time when he was young, which can be said to be used for life.

Yun Shu has never seen the scene of "sacrificing to the mountain", but the eldest girl remembers it, in her opinion, there is really no mystery, and with her experience in the underworld for fifty years, there is no mountain god in the surrounding mountains and forests at all, even if there was before, it is definitely gone now.

But when the people in the village knelt down according to their seniority under the leadership of the old man Sun Hunt, and the voice of "please ask the mountain god to open his head" sounded outside the dense forest, Yun Shu really "felt" the "vibration" of this mountain forest, which seemed to come from the will of heaven and earth, so that she couldn't help but kneel to the ground.

Worshipping heaven and earth and worshiping ghosts and gods is the meaning of the respect that these people who rely on the sky for food give to this piece of heaven and earth.

At this moment, no matter how naughty the child is, he also follows his parents and relatives to sincerely pray to the mountain god to bless everyone with a smooth and bumper harvest in the mountain.

In fact, people at this time are easy to be satisfied, and eating and dressing warmly are the highest requirements in their hearts.

After the mountain festival was over, people began to enter the mountain in groups, and Yun Shu couldn't help but pause when he passed by the mountain temple made of three mountain stones.

Yun Shu, who had really experienced the things of ghosts and gods, sighed, in less than two years, the special period will begin, and when the time comes, I am afraid that I will not even be able to make a secret sacrifice.

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