Chapter 68 Li People
The first time I entered the mountain, I encountered a heavy rainy day. Ge Zhuang and I were so depressed. Fortunately, the cave was big enough that so many people were crowded inside. I picked up some firewood next to the cave that had not been soaked in the rain, poured some diesel, and ignited it with a lighter. A bunch of people came over to roast the fire.
Chen Yun is a lady, and there is a woman in the team who coaxes the child to sleep. Both of them are soaked in the rain and have to change their clothes. There are so many men who are walking with her, so Chen Yun proposed to go deep into the cave and find a place to change her clothes from the light.
I handed the flashlight to Chen Yun and said, be careful when you go in and change clothes. Those tea sellers in the same industry don’t look like good people and always be lustful to you. Why don’t I go in with you and be responsible for helping you with wardrobes? Don’t worry, I definitely can’t peek.
Chen Yun said goodbye, fire prevention and theft prevention, you are the one I am most aware of. You slander others to peek. I think you want to peek the most, right?
I gave her a little red, and she corrected her tone, "How do you lesbian speak? Based on the five basic principles of peaceful coexistence of reform and comrades, I made this suggestion for your safety. How could I peek? After seeing the head of the president, don't compare me with the fat man."
Ge Zhuang was lying down and was short-sucking, and he was immediately dissatisfied. He said with a face that little pumpkin, you have finished it. Can you take me with me when talking about embarrassing things? Fatty, I am open and honest. If you want to see it, you will look at it openly. How come you are sneaky? Get up in the middle of the night and pick up the needle hole?
Chen Yun snatched the flashlight from my hand, glared at me viciously, and said, "Come on, turn your head quickly, and if you dare to look at me, I will dig your eyes."
Seeing her fire, Ge Zhuang and I were both silent. It was not until the two lesbians hid in the light-shielding corner in the cave that Ge Zhuang secretly touched my arm and said silly, "Little Pumpkin, do you really want to see it? Just wait for a while and rush over directly."
I said why do you have to wait for a while? Ge Zhuang was anxious and said you are such a donkey. You have to take time for a girl to take off her clothes. Give her two minutes first, and you can go in after the girl is about to take off her clothes. It will be too early and I won't show it to you...
I said, what are you thinking all day long? Is it embarrassing to throw it away? Lao Zhong has already set up the bonfire, picked up the wet pieces and put them to the fire to dry it, took out two cans of canned beef, pried it open with a dagger, and threw it to me and Ge Zhuang, saying, don't mess around, hurry up and have a meal when you are hungry.
This trip made us very tired. We finally found a place to shelter from the rain, so we sat down around the fire. The farmers who sell tea and tobacco were also there. I asked Ge Zhuang to see people and eat together. Several farmers from the farmhouse expressed their gratitude to us very simply.
Ge Zhuang broke a wooden stick and made a simple chopstick, and handed me a pair. I was eating canned beef. Looking back at the fellow villager standing at the entrance of the cave with a sad face, looking at the water curtains all over the sky, then went forward and asked, "Brother, what are you looking at?"
My fellow villager said, we rarely encounter such heavy rainstorms here. When the heavy rain comes, I am afraid that there will be another mountain torrent in the village. My little girl is alone at home. I am really worried about something wrong.
I handed him the beef and said, "Brother, you have a daughter, how old are you?" He smiled shyly and said that he was nine years old and that the educational resources here are relatively scarce. She had never studied, so she was drying the tobacco for me at home.
Ge Zhuang said, "Brother, don't blame me for being too talkative. This knowledge is the primary productive force. No matter how hard or difficult it is, at least you have to let the baby finish nine years of compulsory education. If you don't have knowledge, you will suffer a loss in the future."
The hometown was frowning and his face was frowned. He said that the child's mother had gone early and that the family really didn't have any conditions...
The motherland's economy has been greatly improved over the years, but there are still many villages in the Yunnan border that are struggling on the edge of the extremely poor food and clothing line. If you talk too much, it will not work. Ge Zhuang and I had to shut up and stop talking.
Lao Zhong said stop talking, so he came over and dried his clothes. After being wet for a long time, he was wet all over. Be careful not to catch a cold.
When the fellow villager heard this, he lifted his backpack and found a bag of herbs from the underground layer of oil cloth. He began to recommend the herbs he had sung, saying, "Don't look at the lumps of our poor mountain, everything is behind, but there is no shortage of medicinal materials. Everyone helped me to put up the iron pot. I will make a pot of soup and medicine first. I will take a sip of it later, and I will naturally not get sick...
This fellow villager has a low level of education and is a mandarin. I listened for a long time before I could hear the intention in his words. This is recommending the herbs she posted from our home.
I fooled him like this before, and tricked him into taking us into the mountain under the name of herbs, so naturally I couldn't reveal the stuff. I pretended to take the root of the herbs and put it in my mouth and sniffed it. Not to mention, the herbs had a clear fragrance and smelled quite good. I asked Ge Zhuang to take out the stove and go outside to pick up the rainwater and cook the medicine.
Ge Zhuang was beaten outside by me, and I continued to sit down and chat with my fellow villagers, asking him why he found a cave here? He said that this cave is quite common in many years, and it has appeared since his grandfather's generation. People living in the mountains are relatively poor. In addition to digging food in the fields, they occasionally go to the mountains to hunt. This cave was the one that my grandfather met when he was hunting. At that time, it was a wild wolf den, and his grandfather took it with a hunting rifle. When he was hunting, he would come here to stay for a night.
I said that this cave does not look like it was formed naturally, and there are traces of artificial excavation. Could it be the stronghold of any ethnic minority?
My fellow villagers said that this is possible. I watched TV shows on the county town and said that our country has 56 ethnic groups, and the facts are far more than that. Take Yunnan as an example. There are 26 ethnic minorities counted. This is not the case with the isolated Lizhai in the mountains. However, these ethnic groups are not large in size, so one day they will be eliminated by the harsh natural environment.
When I heard him talk about this topic, I was attracted by a lot of interest and continued to inquire, "Brother, do you think there are other seedlings on Wansheling. Do those seedlings also belong to this kind of Miao village that lives in seclusion?"
My fellow villager said yes, Wanshe Ridge is deserted and it was originally a good place to collect herbs, but in recent years, it has changed. I don’t know when a Li village moved to the top. From then on, foreigners are not allowed to go to the mountains to collect herbs again. Don’t you know how fierce these people are. Last year, my second aunt suffered from a rare strange disease. She had to pick snake grass from the back mountain to cure it. My second uncle led a few wild dogs and took courage into the mountain.
His second uncle also knew that the group of people in Li Village was not easy to mess with, so he went up the mountain to pick remote places to dig medicinal herbs. But he caught them halfway and tied them into the village by a group of Li people. That night he cursed a guy with oil paint on his face, saying that it was the punishment given by the gods to him.
After a night of hard work, the next day, the group of Li people released his second uncle. His second uncle saved his life and went down the mountain alone in a mess. He thought it would be fine, but he didn't know that it was rashes all over his body, and he had a high fever and was unconscious.
Chapter completed!