Chapter 272 Life in the Mountain Village 1
The mountains in the distance reach straight into the sky, and white clouds float on the tops of the mountains. Because it is in the subtropical zone and moistened by abundant rain, the mountains and forests here are extremely lush.
Looking at the rugged and winding mountain road like a dragon and snake, sweat dripped down the faces of Xiao Yun, Qin Qingwu and Xuehu. The three of them had gotten out of the car and walked for more than three hours. Apart from the winding mountain road and
There is nothing beyond the boundless green ocean.
At the beginning, the three of them still had the mentality of looking at the scenery, walking all the way, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding peaks and the vastness of the sea of trees. However, after a long time, everyone will get tired of aesthetics. Especially Qin Qingwu, she is not
Like Xiao Yun and Xue Hu.
Both of them are quite strong. Walking on the mountain road for several hours in a row will only make them sweat a little more. But Qin Qingwu's walking for three hours in a row is a bit too much.
"Thud, tug, tug, tug, tug, tug..."
Just when Xiao Yun was thinking about finding a place to rest on the side of the road, the sound of a three-wheeled motorcycle came from behind them. Soon Xiao Yun and the others saw an approaching vehicle on the mountain road behind them.
A dilapidated three-wheeled motorcycle. The driver of the motorcycle was a young man wearing brown sunglasses. The young man drove the car over. Without waiting for Xiao Yun and others to wave, he stepped on the brakes with a "cluck" and the three-wheeled motorcycle
The motorcycle stopped beside Xiao Yun and the others.
"Are the three of you here for tourism? Do you want to go into the mountains? Do you need a motorcycle ride?"
Qin Qingwu's feet had long been weak. Now that she saw that she could ride a motorcycle tricycle into the mountains, she couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, with a faint smile on her face. She didn't want to slow down Xiao Yun's progress because of herself.
"Come on, come on, the price of my motorcycle is the most reasonable, and everyone in this mountain knows it. Moreover, although it is winter now, the weather here is like spring all year round, so the sun is still hot. If you
If you keep walking like this, you will easily suffer from heatstroke. I am not trying to scare you."
Xiao Yun glanced at the driver of Namo indifferently, and then deliberately said in a very tongue-in-cheek Chinese language: "Luo Shao Xian?"
The driver of Namo was startled when he heard what Xiao Yun said, and a strange expression flashed across his face. The driver of Namo often drove foreign tourists into the mountains, and he knew some English, but the Chinese language had a weird pronunciation.
, but he couldn't understand it at all.
However, the motorcycle driver was a businessman after all. Although he couldn't understand Xiao Yun's deliberately tongue-in-cheek Chinese, he could still guess what Xiao Yun wanted to express. Therefore, the motorcycle driver asked tentatively
: "Sir, you want to ask how much it will cost to drive you into the mountains, right?"
Xiao Yun nodded quickly, but the motorcycle driver was a little hesitant. Xiao Yun and the others looked like foreigners, especially Xuehu, who had obvious foreign ancestry, so the motorcycle driver wanted to kill Xiao Yun severely.
Three fat sheep, so he stretched out five fingers, gestured in front of Xiao Yun, and then said: "Five hundred yuan, no more, look at the three of you, the mountain road is so difficult...
"
Xiao Yun knew as soon as he heard that this guy was going to kill his own fat sheep, so Xiao Yun shook his head with a stern face, saying that he could not accept such a high price. And the driver of Namo also felt that this business was a bit of a rip off.
Cruel. To be honest, he was just returning the car, so if he could get gas money, he would have made a lot of money. If he really didn't, he would have missed this business.
So the motorcycle driver quickly sighed and said: "Forget it, I think it's difficult for you to walk, the sun is so hot today! I won't make any money from you, just count the gas money, two hundred yuan.
How about it? If you are willing, just come up. If not, I will leave. You must also know that the current oil price has risen sharply..."
Although Xiao Yun knew that two hundred yuan was quite a lot, and it was only a hundred yuan at most, but at this time, he didn't care about these things anymore, so he nodded, put the salute in the car body, and held it
Qin Qingwu got into the car. Xuehu did not need his help and climbed onto the bed of the car neatly. After sitting down, Xiao Yun said to the driver of the motorcycle in a deep voice: "The road here is very difficult, and there is a cliff next to it.
You'd better drive slower..."
Of course, Xiao Yun said these words deliberately in a roundabout way. It took the motorcycle driver a while to figure out what Xiao Yun wanted to say, and he nodded quickly and said, "Don't worry, sir."
, I am also a person with children and a wife, and I know that safety comes first..."
The motorcycle driver said this and pedaled the motorcycle. Amidst the roar of the motorcycle motor, Xiao Yun and the others rode towards the mountains while blowing the warm wind.
I have to say that the motorcycle driver drove very steadily, and nothing heart-stopping happened along the way. More than half an hour later, Xiao Yun and the others arrived at a small village surrounded by mountains and rivers.
The village is located in the mountains. A clear river bypasses the village, and one extends to an invisible distance. The motorcycle driver took Xiao Yun and the others to the small stone bridge at the entrance of the village, and happily took Xiao Yun's
The two hundred yuan given to him drove away in a motorcycle.
Xiao Yun, Qin Qingwu and Xue Hu gathered up their salutes and walked towards the village. Just after crossing the stone bridge, they met a girl doing laundry holding a plastic basin.
Xiao Yun communicated with the girl in convoluted language for a long time, and then the girl put down the plastic basin and ran to the village chief's home.
About five or six minutes later, an old man with a goatee on his chin and his son walked out of the village. Both of them were carrying farm tools on their shoulders. It was obvious that they were not here specifically for Xiao Yun and the three of them.
The old village chief looked like he was in his fifties or sixties, and his face was full of wrinkles. He came to the stone bridge and looked at Xiao Yun and the three of them up and down, and then said cautiously: "Well...these two women
The baby is very handsome, but our village has never bought a female baby to become a daughter-in-law. Moreover, the government is very strict about this matter. Someone in Taojiazhai was sentenced to prison for buying a daughter-in-law. This is unacceptable.
Yes, wherever you come from, you should go..."
Hearing what the old village chief said, Xiao Yun knew that the old man thought he was a human trafficker and came here to sell the two girls, Xuehu and Qin Qingwu. But after all, he was so old and had gone through many storms.
, but they also know that human traffickers first make contact with local gangsters.
They have quite a lot of contacts, otherwise it would be easy for something to happen. Obviously, the old village chief had no intention of offending the local gangsters, so he asked Xiao Yun and the others to go back to where they came from. That is to say, he had no intention of calling the police.
, but they don’t intend to let Xiao Yun and others enter the village.
"Uh...Old sir, you misunderstood, I am not a human trafficker." After saying that, Xiao Yun took out a wad of banknotes from his pocket, waved it in front of the old man and his son, and continued: "Old sir,
We are businessmen from Australia. Due to some business failures, we owe a lot of money. We come here just to avoid the limelight temporarily and have no other intention."
It took a lot of effort for the old village chief to understand Xiao Yun's deliberately convoluted words. He looked at the stack of banknotes in Xiao Yun's hand, and then looked at the excited light radiating from his son's eyes. Finally, the old village chief
The chief nodded, indicating that he would provide some help to Xiao Yun and the others.
The old village chief not only found a secluded place for Xiao Yun and the others to stay, but also said that he would tell the people in the village about their arrival and not let them talk nonsense. In this way, Xiao Yun and the others would have a
Better cover.
The residence provided by the old village chief to Xiao Yun and the others is located halfway up a mountain behind the village. It is a place where hunters go hunting and forest rangers live. Although it has been unoccupied for a long time, it can still be tidied up.
live.
As for cleaning up this kind of work, Xiao Yun and the others naturally wouldn't do it. The two sons of the old village chief did it. They cleaned up the surrounding weeds and then replaced the broken bamboo strips with new ones.
, a new rainproof mat was put on it, and after two days of ventilation and baking by fire, all the moisture inside was gone, and the whole bamboo building exuded a fresh fragrance of bamboo.
Xiao Yun, Qin Qingwu and Xuehu purchased some quilts and other daily necessities from the old village chief's house, and then moved into the bamboo house in the back mountain.
While waiting for the meeting time to arrive, Xiao Yun acted as an ordinary hunter. In addition to scouting trading points, he also hunted every day. Then he cleared the open space in front of the bamboo house and dug some wild flowers.
Leave everything to Qin Qingwu and Xuehu,
Qin Qingwu and Xuehu planted various unknown wild flowers in the open space in front of the bamboo building. The mountain wind blew the bamboo building full of light fragrance. At the same time, Xiao Yun chopped some more with a machete.
Using bamboo, we made a simple fence wall in the open space in front of the bamboo building and made a small door, making the entire bamboo building look full of life.
The old village chief took great care of Xiao Yun and the others. He would come over to see them every three days, and from time to time he would ask someone to bring some delicious food to Xiao Yun and the others. Obviously, the simplicity of the mountain people made them feel uncomfortable.
He gave Xiao Yun nearly 10,000 yuan and needed to compensate Xiao Yun and the others.
Today the old village chief came again, bringing a pot of old duck soup stewed by his wife. Xiao Yun had just returned from scouting the trading point and met the old village chief. The old village chief said to Xiao Yun very familiarly: "
Your fence is very good, but just raising some flowers and plants here also wastes some money. Why not raise some chickens, ducks, geese and the like, and then use the fence to tie a small circle for them, so that it will be more like a
What does home look like..."
Xiao Yun felt a little troublesome after hearing this, but Xuehu and Qin Qingwu found it very interesting, so they quickly asked where they could buy poultry and the like. They were going to buy some big white geese, first to keep them for fun, and secondly, to see the big white geese.
Geese can also look after homes.
The old village chief was also unambiguous, saying that he had some at home, and Xiao Yun and the others wanted to raise them. When he came home, he asked his son to send a few to Xiao Yun and the others. Xiao Yun saw that Qin Qingwu and Xue Hu were very interested.
So high, he asked the old village chief how much it would cost. But the old village chief waved his hand and said, you gave me so much money, but I didn't even do anything for you, it was just a few geese, it was free of charge.
Xiao Yun insisted on giving it, but the old village chief insisted not to take it. Later, Xiao Yun couldn't resist him, so he gave the old village chief the furs of more than a dozen mountain rabbits he had hunted. Although the furs of mountain rabbits were not worth much, but how much
It also means the same thing.
The old village chief accepted Xiao Yun's gift in return without hesitation. The next day, the old village chief's son sent six ducks and six geese to Xiao Yun and the others. Xiao Yun put them in the bag beforehand.
Inside the finished fence.
With these six ducks and six geese, Qin Qingwu and Xue Hu were even more excited. They watered the flowers every day, and then cut the grass to feed the ducks and geese.
Since the six ducks and six geese moved in, the whole yard has become much more lively. Half a month of living in the mountain village has made Xuehu and Xiao Yun forget about the bloodshed and intrigues in Africa.
Xiao Yun, in addition to regularly scouting trading points every day, also goes hunting in the mountains. For a person of Xiao Yun's strength, hunting is naturally easy.
Chapter completed!