After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 18 The moon is bright and the stars are rare, three times around the tree

Following the direction of the village chief Huang's finger, Qin Yu saw a private house built on the mountain, with the gravel below and the wooden structure above.The low and outdated houses were built at the highest point in Lujia Village.

The houses of the rest of the villagers are far away from the village chief's house, scattered in the fields.A shriveled old man, about seventy years old, was smoking a dry cigarette in front of the house.

Not far away is an ancient building with a large area, brick and tile structure, with the four characters [Lu Family Ancestral Hall] written on the lintel.It's also quite old, but much better than where the villagers live.

Qin Yu knew in his heart that mountain villages in remote areas paid more attention to the construction of ancestral halls.

If there are dignitaries in the clan, they will build the ancestral hall as soon as possible.

"The Lu Family Ancestral Hall will be your teaching place in the future." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Let's go and see."

Qin Yu walked closer, and saw that the south of the ancestral hall was in the shape of a pin-shaped structure.In the middle is the lobby, which should enshrine the tablets of the elders of the Lu family.There are two rows of empty rooms on both sides, which are filled with various sacrificial supplies, incense, candles, fruits, etc. On big days, the patriarch will lead the tribe to worship their ancestors here.

"It was decided by the villagers collectively that the vacant room on the left can choose a place for accommodation, and the room at the bottom of the vacant room on the right is the school for the children." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

The conditions are a bit crude, the teachers' dormitory and the students' classrooms are a bit of a makeshift suspect, Qin Yu thought to himself while looking at the house in front of him.However, since he came to teach, he would not dislike the difficult conditions.

Walking over and opening the door, the 'classroom' is quite spacious, enough to accommodate twenty or so students.There are several tables, chairs and benches in the middle, and it seems that they were also temporarily moved from various households.

There is no blackboard or chalk on the podium. Although the teaching facilities are not complete, Qin Yu feels that he can completely change with his own hands.If you don't have a blackboard, just find a wooden board, and if you don't have chalk, just use a carbon rod.

"Mr. Qin, if you don't have anything special, it's best not to enter the main hall of the ancestral hall, after all, the ancestral tablet of the Lu family is enshrined in it." Zhu Yuanzhang reminded.

People with foreign surnames enter the ancestral halls of other villages without authorization, and the villagers can directly beat them to death, and the officials will say that the beatings are good when they know about it.

"Of course I understand this." Qin Yu said.

Even today in the 21st century, many rural areas still attach great importance to this matter, and even some impoverished mountain villages still have many extremely strange rules.It is both a rule and a taboo.

Although teachers are respected everywhere, the taboos of villagers are still untouchable.Once touched, even if you are a teacher, the villagers will not give face.

Qin Yu remembered that last year, a female teacher went to a remote mountain village to teach. She taught well at first, but she was chased and beaten by the villagers just because she violated the taboo in the village by touching the forehead of a male student.

Qin Yu, you know the importance.

"Okay, we still have something to do at home. Let's go around first." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "If you are completely healthy, you will move to the village to officially start teaching students."

"Okay." Qin Yu said, "Uncle Huang, where is your home?"

"Over the mountain ridge." Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the mountain ridge road ahead, "Both sides belong to Lujia Village."

Watching the village chief leave, Qin Yu decided to go down the mountain early tomorrow morning.Then move into the 'teacher's dormitory', spend the morning cleaning up the room, and start registering the student roster in the afternoon.

He had walked for such a long distance just now, and his body was not in any bad condition. He felt that he should be completely healed.

Living in a hunter's hut halfway up the mountain, I often heard wild beasts and pheasants screaming on the mountain in the middle of the night, affecting sleep.It is definitely not worth the nostalgia to be bitten by mosquitoes at night.

He is an atheist, and he is not worried that a beautiful vixen will suddenly appear in the mountains in the middle of the night or a lonely ghost who has turned into a beauty will harass him, but he is only afraid of a beast rushing in suddenly.

Of course, the most important reason why he wanted to move out as soon as possible was because he was bored. He couldn't play with his mobile phone without a signal. He couldn't even read a book when it was dark without lights, and he couldn't sleep in bed.

It's better to go down the mountain early and get into work.

Without staying much in the village, Qin Yu returned to the thatched hut halfway up the mountain.

Start packing.

With a creak, they were pushed away.Lu Qingqian walked in again with a bowl of wild vegetable porridge. This time, she lost the shyness she had when she first saw Qin Yu. As soon as she entered the door, she asked, "Mr. Qin, did you go to our village just now?"

"How did you know?" Qin Yu asked while eating wild vegetables.

"Brother Zhuzi in the village told me that he was catching crickets in the grass behind the patriarch's house." Lu Qing said lightly.

"Go, I'm going to see the school situation." Qin Yu said.

"Sir, my father said that your injury should be healed soon. Today is the last time to change your dressing. You can remove the white cloth in three days." Lu Qing said, "Come on, let me change your dressing first."

"Thank you." Qin Yu said.

"You really like being polite and keep saying thank you all day long. My dad said that when I saw your face, I knew you were a scholar." Lu Qing smiled lightly and asked Qin Yu to stretch his legs to the side of the bed , and then carefully helped him remove the white cloth. Qin Yu looked down. Although the wound was scary, it had basically healed, and he didn't know if he had ever broken a bone.

While Qin Yu was eating, Qing Qian called a can of water from the back of the house.

Carefully help him wash the dried herbs, and then take out a medicine jar, which is full of mashed herbs and green juice, and a strong medicinal smell blows.

Lu Qingqian helped him spread the herbs on it, and finally wrapped it up again with white cloth.

I don't know what to replace. In hospitals in big cities, gauze is changed every time, for fear of wound infection.Here, people seem to have no concept of infection at all.

Then there are the wounds on the body and on the arm.

The little girl handled it very carefully and gently, and her little hands were slender, which made Qin Yu wonder if he had such a sister.After handling everything, Qin Yu watched her go down the mountain.

……

At night, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse.

Lujia Village at the foot of the mountain.

There is a spacious earth dam in the village, and a straight locust tree grows on the earth ridge on the edge.The crow flew three times around the branch, and found that there was no branch to stay, so it croaked twice and flew south.

At this time, the Bazi was already full of villagers from Lujia Village. Some were sitting, some were squatting. There were about a hundred people, old and young.

The three old people in the middle of the dam were sitting on a small bench. The oldest one was over 80 years old with a dry pipe in his hand. He was really the patriarch Qin Yu saw during the day.The other two old people are also very famous in the village. They are the oldest elders with the second and third families surnamed Lu.

(End of this chapter)