The Era of Hard Work

In summer, the weather in the plains is hot, but it will be much cooler in the mountains. Song Na wants to go back to her hometown to collect materials. Song's father, Song and mother simply follow and go back to their hometown for a few days.

Lu Dong had promised Song Na a long time ago, and planned to live in Shitou Village for a few days.

The two even got their marriage certificates, so they are not afraid of the people in Shitou Village gossiping.

Early in the morning, Lu Dong drove a newly bought Mercedes-Benz G to pick up Song Na's family in Wenyuan Community of Xuefu. After filling the trunk with various daily necessities and gifts, he rushed to the mountainous area in the south.

The car was ordered in May, and Mu Kun tossed it for more than a month, and the goods finally arrived last week.

I came here together with a Land Rover Defender, which Uncle Qi bought in full, which is considered a replacement for a shotgun.

Get in the car, come out of the community, the white Mercedes-Benz G, attracts many people's attention along the way.

This car is Song Na's dowry, and it was also picked by Song Na herself. It is different from ordinary girls. It may have something to do with practicing sports all the year round. At that time, she took a fancy to this hard-lined car.

Mama Song sat in the back seat and muttered, No car is comfortable to sit in.

Song Na said, Mom, this is a buggy.

Father Song grabbed the car door handle: If you spend so much money on a car, you should buy a black one. It looks grand. Why buy a white one?

Lu Dong agreed: I also think black looks good.

Song Na glanced at Lu Dong: This is my dowry, and I usually open it. I like white.

Lu Dong quickly changed the phrase: Money can't buy a good heart.

Seeing Lu Dong's attitude change so quickly, Lao Song smiled happily.

Qingzhao is not too big. The so-called southern mountainous area is actually much closer to the county seat than the towns in front of the Yellow River in the north. However, in about 20 minutes, you can enter the mountainous area along the county road, and the car will arrive at Shitou Village.

Song Na's house is at the head of Shitou Village, and there is a newly built asphalt road in front of the door. Lu Dong has been here many times before, and he can find the place without Song Na's guidance, so he parks the car directly at the door.

In the countryside, there is no shortage of idlers who chatter all day long.

As soon as the car stopped, many people came over.

Lao Song and his wife got out of the car first, and greeted the people in the village with smoke.

Lu Dong called the trunk, and when Song Na unlocked the door, the two of them carried things home together.

Song Na's family seldom come back to live, and the old house lacks everything.

The things were temporarily placed under the shade of the tree at the entrance of the main room. Song Na found the bag, changed into old clothes, and asked Lu Dong to clean up.

This kind of stone house made of local materials is solid and solid, but if it is not inhabited for a long time, it will soon be covered with a thick layer of dust, and all the quilts and mattresses packed in the box must be taken out and placed in the Bathe in the sun.

When Lao Song and his wife came back, they also cleaned up.

It has been unoccupied for a long time, and it was cleaned up near noon. Song Na and Song Ma went to prepare lunch again.

There is no shortage of vegetables. The yard of Song Na's house is very large. Although Song's father and Song's mother don't live anymore, they will come back from time to time to have a look. The vegetable field in the yard is not abandoned, and they are planted with peppers, bean pods and eggplants. Wait for seasonal vegetables.

There is no relationship between spraying and management, so the insect bites are a bit horrible, but picking it up is enough to eat a lot of meals.

After lunch, Song's father and Song's mother went to take a nap. Lu Dong and Song Na didn't have the habit of taking a nap, so they sat in the yard by the well and talked under the shade of a tree.

From time to time, there is a cool breeze blowing over, but it is not hot.

Song Na came back after picking two cucumbers, washed them with fresh cold water from the well, gave one to Lu Dong, sat on the bamboo recliner with Bai Shengsheng's feet up, took a bite of the crisp cucumbers, and said, Come back and stay here once in a while. Stay, it's good.

Lu Dong was half lying on another bamboo recliner, chewing cucumbers: When you come to this kind of place, the rhythm of life will slow down unconsciously, and you can relax.

Song Na shook her foot and deliberately poked Lu Dong's leg: Is there a difference in mentality? Sometimes when I think back, I think it's good to be a villager.

Lu Dong stretched out his hand to grab her foot, and scratched the sole of the foot, Song Na giggled and quickly retracted it.

Go and ask the people outside. Lu Dong pointed the cucumber outside: How many people are willing to really be mountain villagers.

In general, mountains are directly associated with poverty.

Song Na said: That's why I said that the mentality is different.

Lu Dong didn't want to discuss this kind of topic, so he asked instead, How did you arrange this afternoon?

Song Na thought for a while and said: When it's two o'clock, let's go to the village branch first. I remember that there is a very old village chronicle in the village. It's been a few years. Let's take a picture of it, and then take some pictures of the village when the sun goes down. Some, I’ll take you to the mountains, where there are streams and mountain crabs, catch them and fry them in oil, it’s delicious.”

Lu Dong came here to accompany Song Na, and said, Okay, I'll follow your arrangement.

When I came to Shitou Village, I basically came and went in a hurry. I didn't go up the mountain to see it. Song Na, who is wild in the mountains, took me with me.

The two of them were sitting in front of the well, blowing the cool mountain breeze, and talking non-stop.

Most of the time, they are talking about future life. For example, Song Na said that she will renovate her hometown. If she is tired outside in the summer, she can go to the mountains to hide and relax.

When it was almost two o'clock, Song Na went to the house to get the digital camera, and asked Lu Dong to go to the Shitou village branch together.

Song Na's home is at the entrance of the village, and the village branch is on the inside. Unlike the villages in the plain area, if you go inside, you go up the mountain. The village is built on a hillside, and the terrain gets higher as you go in.

The houses in the village are all built of stones, and even the roads are paved with various stone leftovers.

While walking, Song Na told Lu Dong the history of each house, and what she did here when she was a child.

When I came to the village branch, there were fewer people in the team here than in Lujia Village before. When Lujia Village didn't make a fortune, there were at least two people in charge of the work of the village branch, Lu Zhenlin and Accountant Li.

There is simply only one old branch secretary here.

Song Na explained why she came here. The old branch secretary was not stupid, and knew that this was a good opportunity for the development of the village. She immediately found the village chronicle of Shitou Village from an old bookcase and asked the two of them to read it.

The village chronicles are very old, the paper is yellow, and some books are torn at the corners. If they are not kept properly, they may disintegrate in a short time.

Song Na had read it before, and there was no need to read it again at this time, so she asked Lu Dong to take it to the table in front of the window, and he was responsible for flipping through the book, and then picked up the camera to take pictures.

This village chronicle is not too thick, only dozens of pages, some pages are missing and damaged, and some pages were obviously torn off.

The old party secretary explained embarrassingly: In the early years, the conditions in the village were poor and there was no paper. Some people came here to play around, so they tore a few pages and used them as toilet paper.

This is not a rare thing, it is normal in rural areas.

In the past, sandalwood chairs were split and used as firewood.

It took half an hour to finish the filming, Song Na returned the village chronicle, opened the chair and talked to the old party secretary, mainly talking about the district's preparations for the development of the southern mountainous area, and trying to let Shitou Village fight for it.

The large-scale development of the southern mountainous area in the district is actually tourism and sustainable development, and has nothing to do with industry.

The stone mines, coal mines, and lime mines in the southern mountainous area have all been shut down. A few years ago, Qingzhao County enacted a law to strictly prohibit mining and sand digging within the Qingzhao area.

It's not card approval, but there is no channel for approval.

Qingzhao is originally a place with poor mineral resources, and it is impossible to go this way. It is better to make good use of the existing resources than to exploit the ore underground.

The southern mountainous area is the most important geological supply belt for Qingzhao Spring, and the only way to develop is green water and green mountains.

The person who opened the mine in the southern mountainous area was killed by the current leader of the Qingzhao District!

After three o'clock, coming out of the Shitou Village Committee, Lu Dong and Song Naman went around the village, taking pictures of the stone houses in the village, the quiet lanes, the clear stream in front of the village, the green forest behind the village, etc.

The place that was destroyed by mining at the beginning has to go south, and the vegetation on the Stone Village side is better preserved.

Busy until four o'clock, the sun hid behind the mountain in the west, Song Na went back and put down the camera, carried a plastic bucket with Lu Dong, walked along the stream all the way into the mountain, ready to catch mountain crabs.

Qingzhao is a special geological zone from the southern mountainous area to the north of the county. There are many springs in the county, and there are actually many mountain springs in the mountains. The stream in front of the stone village is formed by the convergence of many springs in the mountains. It flows continuously all year round.

The two of them were walking on the mountain path, and they were in a very good mood, talking and laughing, and soon they could not see Stone Village.

Although Lu Dong is not as wild as Song Na in the mountains, but he has been tossing around in the countryside since he was a child, and the mound-like girl has climbed mountains, and he is not uncomfortable in the mountains.

Besides, with Song Na, who has lived here since she was a child, she doesn't have to worry about getting lost in the mountains.

The further you go, the denser the vegetation. The hills are not too high, but they are connected one by one, and there is no end in sight. After the sun goes down, people who are not familiar with the terrain and have a poor sense of direction can easily get lost.

The creek gradually widened and came to a rocky shoal. Song Na stopped: Under the rocks here, you can often find small crabs. Let's look for them here. Don't go in, so as not to lose you. .”

Lu Dong laughed: I don't get lost that easily.

Song Na said, Don't underestimate this. There are no high mountains or ferocious animals in this mountain area, but the vegetation is dense in summer, and the small hills are connected to each other. The ravines are crooked, and it is easy to fall when entering.

Don't worry. Lu Dong rolled up his trouser legs and put on slippers: There are no leeches here, right?

Song Na said, No, I haven't seen it since I was a child.

The two changed their shoes, carried plastic buckets to look for crabs over rocks, and occasionally went down into the water.

The water here is shallow, knee deep.

There are not too many small crabs, so you have to look for them carefully. This kind of mountain crab does not grow very big, usually only half the size of your thumb, and is most suitable for frying.

After two times of oiling, even the shell is fried crispy.

The two of them were overturning stones, and the sound of footsteps and voices came from the same road. Lu Dong grabbed a crab and threw it into a plastic bucket. He straightened up to look, and saw six or seven people walking towards this side.