Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1656 Fine Arts and Ugliness

Chapter 1656 Fine Arts and Ugliness

"Black Dragon, follow me!" Zhou Zhi slung a large basket in one hand and waved his other hand, calling on Black Dragon to follow him.

"You are really smart." Chi Ri couldn't help but laugh. This kid is much smarter than Wu Wazi.

In fact, Zhou Zhi had suffered a loss in his previous life because he did not bring the black dragon. Of course, he had experience in this life and would not miss it.

The two men and the dog came out of the grain station and started wandering along the country roads.

Lianhe Township is not big. It is divided into several villages scattered in the surrounding valleys. This is just the largest one, with about a hundred households.

However, almost every household has one thing in common - they are poor.

There is not a single brick house in the entire village. The walls are made of mud bricks, rammed earth, bamboo strips and mud, and wooden boards.

Except for the blue-tiled roofs of the grain station and Ziqi Aguo's house, the rest are mostly made of oil felt. The more exquisite ones just have a layer of tree bark covered on the oil felt.

Oil felt, also known as petroleum asphalt waterproof felt, is the cheapest waterproof material, but it has two huge disadvantages. One is that it will volatilize toxic gases, and the other is that it is very flammable. In a few years, its production and use will be explicitly banned throughout the world.

But now it is the best solution for the poor Yi people to solve the problem of leaking roofs.

The whole family basically lives in one room, with the living area surrounding the fire pit. Apart from a few clothes and cooking utensils, there is nothing else in the house.

There was not enough food for people to eat. Apart from goats that could be released into the wild to find grass for themselves, it was impossible to raise poultry and livestock. As for toilets, they did not exist. People could wait until the hottest weather to take a bath in the ditch below. They could do it in the wild whenever it was convenient.

Many Yi people were squatting under the eaves. Some of them were holding two potatoes in their hands, eating them while watching Chi Ri and Zhou Zhi coming over, and then they greeted them enthusiastically in Yi language.

Chi Ri stood with his hands behind his back and chatted casually with the Yi people. Almost all the squatting Yi people would stand up halfway when they saw him, and then nod their heads a few times, with expressions of extraordinary respect.

Zhou Zhi came here by car yesterday. The news had spread all over the village. Zhou Zhi smiled and nodded to the Yi people. If there were children who received Zhou Zhi's candies yesterday, he would smile and wave to them. The children would shout, "Ata! Amo! This is the big brother who gave me candies yesterday!"

The child's parents spoke to Zhou Zhi incomprehensible words and smiled at him even more warmly.

After a tour, Zhou Zhi found that this village was not much different from when he came here in his previous life. Except that the people were younger and there was one less rural primary school, it was estimated that this village had been like this for a long, long time.

The only difference is that the chieftain is gone, the chieftain's compound has become a government grain station, and everyone's roofs have tarpaulin, that's all.

"I heard that life out there is pretty good?" After taking Zhou Zhi for a tour, Old Chi Ri muttered something vaguely when they were returning to the grain station.

"It became possible after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee." Zhou Zhi heard this and replied, "In the first year of the household contract responsibility system, everyone's crops yielded 800 to 900 kilograms per mu, and every family had more than 1,000 kilograms of stock, raising chickens, ducks, and geese. Our county was a well-known pig-producing county in the country at the time. By the second year, almost every family had raised big fat pigs. When the pigs were slaughtered during the Spring Festival of the second year, the village saw a lot of money. In those years, even the county envied the countryside."

"Then designate the boundaries of your county." Lao Chiri said, "Unlike here, the soil is thin and the climate is not good. There are only three crops, buckwheat, potatoes and corn. People can't even eat, and can only raise a few sheep."

"The first step is to have electricity, and the second step is to have roads." Zhou Zhi said: "I came here yesterday and saw that growing grain in Lianhe Township is indeed a bit annoying, but Chinese medicinal herbs and fruits are naturally abundant."

"But if you grow these two things, you have to go through a process of exchanging products for food. To ensure the yield, you have to ensure watering. Without electricity to pump water, you will have to rely on the weather for food. Without road transportation, you can't transport your products."

"So they are still poor." Lao Chiri said, "The richest family in the village is Ziqi Aguo's. He is good at Atahan. He went to Yazhou to work. I heard that he is now a contractor."

"Ziqi Aguo invited me to stay at her house yesterday. She's a good girl." "There are so many things in the village now, and we still rely on her." Chi Ri said: "But she can only help us in emergencies occasionally, but she can't help us out of poverty..."

"Well, let's take it step by step. Today, we should be able to solve some of the electricity problems."

"Oh? How?"

"The most directly usable energy here is solar energy and wind energy." Zhou Zhi said: "I ordered a solar power generation device, which was shipped a few days ago and should arrive today."

Chi Ri couldn't help but quicken his pace: "Abi should have prepared breakfast, let's go back and have breakfast."

Breakfast was yesterday's leftovers, and Gillette also prepared a bowl of corn porridge. Halfway through the meal, the kids came over and started running and playing in the playground.

"How many classes are there in the school?" Zhou Zhi asked Tu Liangzhi.

"How many classes can we have? We are not regular teachers, so Renzhong and I will teach whoever is free." Tuliangzhi said, "One class for all."

"What about the course?"

"The courses are Chinese and mathematics. Abi teaches them music and Yi language. The Yi language textbook is written by Ata. It is all about Erbilgi and legends."

Wu Renzhong drank the corn porridge while laughing: "Actually there is another one. Uncle Tu said it is art, but Grandpa Chi Ri said it is ugly art."

"Pfft..." Zhou Zhi couldn't help but spit out a slurred mouth, "I know Bimo's painting is also first-rate. Grandpa Chi Ri doesn't plan to teach it himself?"

"It was Uncle Tu who didn't allow us to do that. He said the things Grandpa drew were a little scary. The kids weren't afraid, but the adults in their family were a little scared."

Zhou Zhi understood that what Jikechiri painted might indeed be beautiful, and might be similar to the Mawangdui silk paintings, but the Mawangdui silk paintings were guidance pictures for the dead souls to ascend to heaven, equivalent to a "guide to ascension". In the eyes of the Yi people, the paintings of the great bimos might also have the same magical power.

There is no room for reasoning here.

"If you're not busy today...would you come?" Tu Liangzhi said, "Buckwheat and potatoes are about to be planted. I'm going to go and tell everyone how to use fertilizers."

"Why? No one wants to use fertilizers?"

"The main reason is that I have never used it before, and I feel guilty." Tu Liangzhi said: "By the way, can you use it?"

"I know how to use it, but I don't know how to use it on potatoes and buckwheat." Zhou Zhi said, "I only know how to use it on rice, sweet potatoes, rapeseed, and wheat."

I learned all these from Yang He when he was having fun in the countryside.

"The county did distribute two books, but some of them are difficult to understand." Tu Liangzhi was a little distressed.

"Why don't you show it to me?" Zhou Zhi said, "Or maybe I can understand it?"

"Hey! That's right, isn't there a college student in front of me?" Tu Liangzhi slapped his thigh and said, "Today is Renzhong's class. Elbow and I are going to study agricultural books!"


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