Tech madman

Chapter 46 The Village in the Mountain
If you can find the medicinal plants you want to find near the village, then you can save a lot of effort.If research on pharmaceuticals and genetics is really carried out, there will be a lot of medicinal materials needed, not to mention that I have prepared and developed various plants adapted to survive in special environments.

If a plant cultivation base can be built in a mountainous area, a lot of money can be saved.Unexpectedly, the two sisters first proposed the invitation, and Wang Zhen immediately agreed.

Under the guidance of the two sisters, Wang Zhen quickly collected a large number of medicinal plant samples.There are also some inside, after all, special plants, for example, grass plants that like to grow on mountain walls and stones.

Soon, Wang Zhen had to stop. The medicinal materials and other plants collected in the past, Wang Zhen would count and record at night, and then put them in the ring.But now, walking with the two sisters, you can't reveal the secret of the ring, you can only carry the collected medicinal materials on your back.

The whole body was covered with medicinal plants. This is because Wang Zhen secretly put some plants in the ring while the sisters were not paying attention.

"Let's go, I won't collect anymore, there is no place to carry it, I need to send it outside, I have to run again, let's go to your village to have a look first!" Wang Zhen stopped the two of them and asked, "From here to your village?" , how far is it?"

"Well, it's not far away, and we'll be there after turning over the two mountains in front of us. If we leave now, we'll be there before dark." Hearing the answers of the two sisters, Wang Zhen raised his head and looked at The two peaks in front of me felt a little dizzy.

In this mountain area, Wang Zhen has been around for four days. If he doesn't meet the two sisters, Wang Zhen may be ready to go back.The three of them walked for a whole day, climbed several mountain peaks, and still had to continue.

Moreover, the two peaks in front seem to be higher than the two peaks that they turned over in the morning.Wang Zhen couldn't help asking strangely: "You guys can only climb over the mountain, can you get outside without a road?"

"There has never been a road. Otherwise, the village would not be so poor. There is a lot of food that cannot be eaten, so it can only be used as fertilizer, and there is no way to transport it. The medicinal materials can only be relied on manpower again and again. back out.

Originally, there was a small river that could lead to the outside, but the river diverged not far from the village, and there was no way to go by water.It would be nice if there was a road outside the passage. "The two sisters sighed together. At this time, the faces of the two were full of helplessness and sadness, and the naughty look was no longer there.

"Maybe, in a short while, the country will help build the road. Don't worry, let's go, the most important thing is to hurry." Wang Zhen didn't want the two of them to be sad, so he quickly changed the subject.When the sky darkened, a small village appeared in front of Wang Zhen.Looking at the small village in front of him, Wang Zhen was full of emotion.

In this uninhabited mountain, tens of kilometers away from the mountain, there will be such a small village.Hearing the barking of dogs in the distance, Wang Zhen felt kind.

The two sisters led Wang Zhen and strode towards the village. Before the three of them entered the village, someone had already come out to meet them when they heard the dog barking.The leader was an old man, two sisters, and greeted him happily, "Grandpa, we came back to see you, and brought you a guest." The old man nodded in satisfaction, and looked Wang Zhen up and down. After a while, he asked: "Young man, are you from a big city? Our small village has not welcomed guests for a long time, and you are welcome."

"Hello, old man, I never thought that there were still people living in this mountain. If someone hadn't led the way, I'm afraid I wouldn't have discovered it." After Wang Zhen finished speaking, he looked at the two sisters.

The old man smiled happily, "I'm not boasting. My two granddaughters are the most promising children in the nearby village. They are beautiful and smart, and they can even go to a university outside."

"Hehe, yes, your two granddaughters are indeed very beautiful and smart." Wang Zhen said with a smile, "This is the first time for me to be a guest in Dashan, it seems that tonight I will disturb your quietness. "Wang Zhen answered the old man's words while looking up and down at the old man in front of him.

An old man with silver hair, long white beard, and fluttering in the wind, he looks like he should be about seven or eighty years old, but he has a straight back and walks steadily. With his rosy face, he gives people a kind of The feeling of immortality.

While chatting with the old man, he followed the old man and his party into the small village.Along the way, the children I met from time to time all looked at Wang Zhen and the big backpack on Wang Zhen's back with curious eyes.

While chatting with the old man, Wang Zhen learned that there are more than [-] villages in the vicinity, and the old man in front of him is the village head of this small village.

These villages are surrounded by mountains, and few people from the outside will come in. There are only a few medicine farmers in the villages, and they will go outside regularly to sell some medicinal materials and bring back some news from outside. Therefore, these The small village has always lived in poverty.

"You all go away. At night, everyone come to my place for a drink. I haven't met a stranger for a long time. Let's have fun together today." The old man said to the other villagers with a smile.

"Come on, tonight, you can stay at my house. Let's have a drink together and celebrate. It's been many years, and you are the first foreigner to come here. If you have nothing to do, you can stay for a few more days. We here Nothing else, the scenery is definitely much better than those tourist areas outside."

The courtyard where the old man lives is on a small hillside, much higher than the houses of other residents. The gate of the courtyard is a very empty space. Standing here, you can clearly see what happened in the village.Not far from the door, there is a large stone floor, which has been polished as smooth as a mirror after years of polishing.

"That stone slab is used for threshing millet and raising fields during the autumn harvest in the village. It has been polished and shiny after a long time. Hehe, the houses in front are the schools of the nearby villages. Come here sooner. You can hear the sound of reading aloud, ha ha." Seeing Wang Zhen looking around, the old man introduced to Wang Zhen.

Just after entering the yard, a few big yellow dogs came out wagging their tails, and ran around the two girls, as if they were acting like a baby to them.Inside the courtyard, there are three rows of buildings made of stone and wood. It looks old and old, and it is much larger than the houses of other villagers. It is a relatively large building in the village.

"There are only a few houses in this row of houses in the village. There are educated people. The lounge is used for teaching during the day. Tonight, you can just make do with it here!" The old man said as he brought Wang Zhen into one of the houses.Wang Zhen put the backpack in the residence arranged by the old man for himself, and followed the old man into the back courtyard.

The old man's house is in the innermost part of the double-storey courtyard. The house is close to the foot of the mountain. Wang Zhen followed the old man into the house, only to find that there is actually a door in the hall, but behind it, there is already a mountain. What about a door?
As if he had discovered Wang Zhen, with suspicious eyes, the old man said: "In our village, martial arts have been practiced for generations. Behind this, I don't know which generation of ancestors left behind the secret room. Later, it was transformed into a warehouse by my father and stored in the village. food."

The decoration in the hall is very simple, except for a big table, there are only a few stools. After the two of them were seated, they began to chat. to chat with.

It turns out that the nearby villages basically maintain the habit of practicing martial arts. Every morning, when the sky is getting bright, everyone will automatically gather in the square in front of them to practice martial arts together. After dawn, everyone will farm and hunt. Every night, everyone would go back to the square in front of them to share the food brought back by the hunters.

Because of the inconvenient transportation, the grain cannot be transported out. Everyone will store the surplus grain every year in the cave behind the old village chief’s house, brew it into wine and drink it, only some light medicinal materials, after simple processing, are carried outside by the farmer Go to sell and exchange some items back.

As a drug farmer in the village, he brought back news from the outside world to let the old village head understand that in the outside world, if you don't read good books, you can't find a good job.As the most educated person in the village, he was far-sighted and resolutely decided to gather all the dolls in the village into his own courtyard, and read and read since childhood. Bringing outside knowledge back to our hometown can also improve everyone's life.

At first, everyone opposed this suggestion, thinking that the children in their family should learn to farm early so that they could live a better life. Later, as an old man, as the head of the village, he forced his children to study, so that he could start a village. a school.

Later, the old man walked out of the mountainous area and looked outside. He found that the school in the village could not teach everyone more knowledge except books on literacy, martial arts and medical treatment.

The old man resolutely went outside, hired teachers, and came to the village to teach, but at that time, everyone was going to do business, and no one was willing to go to the poor and clanging mountains to teach children to read.

After returning to the village, the old man invited all the village chiefs from the nearby villages, introduced the situation outside, and persuaded everyone to organize the medicinal farmers to go to the mountains to collect medicinal materials and prepare them when they came back.

He also asked his son to set up a traditional Chinese medicine shop outside, and then gathered the manpower of each village to help the medicine farmers in each village to transport the medicinal materials out during the slack time, and sent the medicinal materials collected by each village to the outside of Dashan for sale. .

Under the persuasion of the old man, the village chiefs sent the children in the village to the old man to study and learn to read, and sold medicinal materials and other items in the village, and used part of the money they earned to hire teachers.

After more than ten years of hard work, the school in the village has taken shape. Although only eight teachers were hired from the outside, many students who graduated from the village in the past voluntarily stayed and continued to teach younger brothers, sisters know.Those who did not agree with the old village chief's opinion changed their minds when they saw the improvement of living standards and offered to send their dolls to study.

The villages have also improved their lives by relying on the knowledge they learned from outside.But because these villages are surrounded by deep mountains, there are many things, even if they are bought, there is no way to get them back.These villages have not been connected to electricity until now. Although the old man has long wanted to let the children in the villages learn to use computers, but there is no electricity, and the computers cannot be used even if they get back.

(End of this chapter)