The road downhill is always easy to walk, and we soon reached the water mill.

Mu Yi heard the sound of grinding things inside, and was very curious. Although he had seen large stone mills on the roadside on the north slope, which the old people called "mills," Mu Yi had never really seen the use of water flow to drive the mill.

What does it look like to grind flour with a mill? The flour grinders are all used in the village. Once the switch is closed, the motor drives the machine to work. Instead of using electricity, it only uses water. He has never seen it before. So he really wants to go and see it. That's right.

Ma Buqi said: "Brother Ma, let's go see how to grind noodles."

Ma Buqi: "Let's go and see it."

When Muyi came to the door of the water mill, he saw a Yi woman inside pouring buckwheat seeds into the stone mill. The upper and lower stone mills were connected by a huge wooden pillar, and they were slowly rotating under the influence of the water flow.

rub against each other.

The ground buckwheat noodles and buckwheat husks were mixed together and squeezed out from the cracks of the stone mill. The women swept the buckwheat noodles and buckwheat husks together with a small broom and put them in their pockets.

The woman saw the unfamiliar Mu Yi looking at her, looking very embarrassed, and shyly greeted Mu Yi in Yi. However, Mu Yi couldn't understand what she said, and he couldn't speak Yi, so he could only speak in Chinese.

: "Are you grinding buckwheat noodles?"

The woman may have heard the word "buckwheat noodles" and said "buckwheat noodle" in very awkward Chinese.

Mu Yi smiled, and the woman also smiled. Then he exited the water mill and went to the bottom of the mill. At first glance, it turned out that the bottom of the stone mill was connected by a wooden column wheel. The wooden boards above the wooden column wheel looked like a water turbine under the impact of the water flow.

The blades rotate as a whole, and then the power is transmitted to the stone mill through the tightly connected wooden pillars, driving the stone mill to rotate.

After reading it, Ma Buqi quickly urged Mu Yi to go on his way.

Mu Yi: "I saw that the noodles they ground were mixed with the shells."

Ma Buqi: "Yes, they took it back and used a bamboo sieve to sift it so that the noodles and shells could be separated."

Mu Yi: "Brother Ma, why is this place so desolate? There are so few trees!"

Ma Buqi: "Actually, Zhongguozhuang originally meant "dense forest", and it was indeed a virgin forest before liberation. Later, the People's Republic of China was founded and Jingshan was liberated. A major railway artery, the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, was built. So Zhongguozhuang

The high-quality tree resources in Guozhuang have become the sleepers on the Chengdu-Kunming Railway. That's why it has become what it is now. The loggers from the Beijing North Forestry Bureau specialize in cutting wood. These workers have too heavy a task of cutting wood.

Because it was too tiring to bend down to chop down trees, they stopped bending down to chop down trees. They stood and took turns with their axes and chopped directly. So what everyone saw was that the remaining tree stumps were almost half a person.

High."

Mu Yi: "Oh. That's it." This finally solved Mu Yi's doubts about seeing those strange tree stumps when he got in Fatty Jiang's car that day.

When we got to the bottom of the slope, we were about to climb up. As we climbed up the slope, Mu Yi's feet began to hurt. Before he had gone very far, Mu Yi couldn't walk anymore and he wanted to rest.

Ma Buqi: "It's normal for your feet to hurt today. But no matter how painful it is, you still have to insist on walking back. You can't just stay in this barren mountain, right? Besides, it's impossible for me to carry you back. No matter how difficult the road is,

, you still have to walk back step by step. As many slopes as you climb, you will go down as many slopes, and as many slopes as you go down, you will climb up more slopes. Slowly you will get used to it."

Mu Yi: "The buckwheat buns are delicious. Give me one to eat."

Ma Buqi took a buckwheat bun from his backpack and handed it to Mu Yi.

Mu Yi: “Do they eat buckwheat buns every day?”

Ma Buqi: "You are overthinking. They eat potatoes every day. Buckwheat buns, buns and tsampa noodles are only brought out to entertain guests when they come."

Mu Yi: "Why?"

Ma Buqi: "It's very simple. The yield is very low. This is an alpine mountainous area with an average altitude of more than 2,000 meters, almost 3,000 meters. Zhahuo Mountain has an altitude of more than 3,000 meters and an area of ​​about 210,000 acres. The mountain shape is steep and the ridges are large.

It is bare rock and the main peak is as high as 3,998 meters above sea level. Many things cannot grow here. The main crops here are potatoes and round roots. Sauerkraut is made from sun-dried round root seedlings."

When Mu heard what Ma Buqi said, he was amazed in his heart. He felt sorry for the natural environment here, but also admired Ma Buqi's knowledge.

Finally, they came to the "Signal Tree" again. This time they didn't stop and hurried past.

Because although the road back to the township government has some ups and downs, it is generally more downhill than uphill. The altitude gradually decreases as we walk toward the township government, because Mu Yi gradually feels the heat.

As soon as I got hot, my body started to itch and hurt again. I couldn't help but scratch and scratch while walking.

Ma Buqi: "Are there fleas on your body?"

Mu Yi: "It should be."

Ma Buqi: "While there is no one around now, take off your clothes and pants and shake them out."

Mu Yi: “Do you shake off the fleas in this way?”

Ma Buqi: "Most of it should be shaken off."

Mu Yi: "Let's forget it. It won't be good if someone sees it."

Ma Buqi: "It's up to you, it's not my fault anyway."

Mu Yi felt strange, wouldn't fleas bite horses instead of playing games?

After walking for a while, Ma Buqi couldn't help but said to Mu Yi: "I was still bitten. But what can I do? I can only try not to think about it. When I got to the countryside, I quickly picked up a change of clothes.

Go to the river, take off your dirty clothes and trousers, as well as the fire pants, sprinkle with washing powder and soak them up. Take a bath naked in the river, wash your body clean, wash off the lice and fleas, and put on clean clothes. Wash them.

Only put dirty clothes back. This is a compulsory course."

Mu Yi: "Oh. What about lesbians?"

Ma Buqi: "How can a lesbian stay at a fellow villager's house? Even if they had two hundred courages, they wouldn't dare to stay."

Muyi: "Oh."

Ma Buqi: "Oh shit. If Secretary Lamu hadn't called me to bring you here, I wouldn't have wanted to come up. Uncle Ghost is willing to suffer this. After eating, he's hungry again. Do you think that's the case?"

After saying that, I took out a buckwheat bun and ate it.

The two of them ate, walked, and drank like this. Fortunately, when it was getting dark, the two of them rushed back to the township government. Muyi couldn't wait to run back to the house and put a change of clothes in a plastic bag, along with soap.

, washing powder and put it into the bucket together, and when you pick it up, call Ma Buqi.

Ma Buqi said: "You go and wash first, I will come later."

Mu Yi: “Where do you wash it?”

Ma Buqi: "You leave the township government, walk down the road, cross the bridge, and the water from the ravine behind you meets the Zhahuo River a few meters down. The water there is gentle and the stones are smooth. The key is

The water is only waist deep, so you can wash yourself there."

Mu Yi walked along the road and found the place Ma Buqi mentioned. Seeing that there was no one around, this place happened to be on a high hill, which was considered a blind spot. He quickly took off his clothes and packed the bucket.

He put the dirty clothes and pants he had changed into the bucket and sprinkled them with washing powder. He also picked up two rocks to hold them down to prevent the clothes from floating out of the water, hoping to drown the lice and fleas.

After doing all this, Mu Yi touched the rocks on the shore and slowly poured some water on his body. It was very cold, so he just plunged into the water. When he reached waist deep, Mu Yi did not dare to walk.

He was afraid that he would not be able to see the situation clearly in the dark. If there was any danger, he would not be able to handle it alone. So he stayed here and buried his head and body in the water. He had been holding his breath for a long time and felt really uncomfortable.

After that, I came out of the water to take a breath. After taking a breath, I hurriedly buried it again. After doing this for a long time, I couldn't stand the cold anymore, so I returned to the shore, picked up the soap and quickly applied it on my hair, body and body.

, while rubbing, he went into the water again.

It felt like my skin was about to be scratched. It should have been washed. I shivered and returned to the shore to put on clean clothes and pants. I immediately felt much warmer. I rolled up my sleeves and trouser legs and lifted the bucket to a piece of shore.

On the big stone, I groped around and finally washed it clean. I wrung out the water, picked up the bucket, and returned feeling refreshed, shaking and shivering.

The strange thing is, why didn't Ma Buqi come to the river to take a bath? When Mu Yi returned to the township government, he discovered that this idiot, who didn't ride a horse, actually boiled hot water to take a bath in the food group.

This made Mu Yi very angry. But he had nothing to do. He hung the clothes to dry. Seeing that the lights were still on in Chu Yanhong's room, he hurriedly knocked on the door.

Chu Yanhong: "Who is it?"

Mu Yi: "Fifth sister, it's me, Mu Yi. Are you asleep?"

Chu Yanhong: "Oh, it's Mu Yiha. I haven't slept yet. You're back from Erha. Have you eaten?"

Mu Yi: “I haven’t eaten yet.”

Chu Yanhong: "Come in quickly and I'll cook some noodles for you." Then she opened the door and let Mu Yi in.
Chapter completed!