The old Chinese doctor in the courtyard

Chapter 204

As the name suggests, a mountain village is a gently sloping land surrounded by mountains, ravines and ridges, with a three-meter-long path stretching upward.

Although there are occasional detours, when standing at the entrance of the village and looking back, more than half of the path is in sight.

The ravines and mountains around the path are not so easy to climb, they are all overgrown with thorns.

This small mountain village was chosen as a summer resort. In addition to being shaded by the mountains, it was probably easy to defend. It was also one of the reasons why the wealthy landowners and literati chose to build their villas here.

The gently sloping land turns a corner in the middle of the village on the mountain. Standing at the entrance of the village, you can only see a corner of the courtyard with blue bricks and blue tiles.

The houses that the villagers live in the mountains are almost all made of small pieces of rocks. They are in good condition, with green tiles on the roofs, and the better tiles are covered with mountain grass.

There are also tiles made of slate, with a layer of mountain grass underneath to prevent moisture.

As Yang Wenshan said, the main road in the mountain village is paved with slates and stones. The slates are made from local materials. After years of washing and polishing, the ruts on them are clearly visible.

If there is a light rain, the mountain village will feel a bit like a mountain village in the south of the Yangtze River. Perhaps this is one of the reasons for building a separate courtyard.

In the early years, people from the south worked as officials in the north. When they passed away and felt homesick, coming to the mountains in the north and experiencing the taste of the mountain villages in the south should be able to soothe their homesickness.

"Shengli, it's almost lunch. Why don't you come to my house for a drink of hot water first?"

Unlike Wali, there are only two people in the village headquarters of Shanshan Village. Yang Wenshan is the party secretary who also serves as the militia company commander and production team leader, and the other is the women's director Yang Yulian.

Yang Yulian, a young widow, in addition to being the women's director, also serves as the village's accountant and cashier.

"Don't worry, it's only around nine or ten o'clock. Lao Yang, please put me down and I'll go check out the house above.

If you have the method, go up first. "

After brushing off Yang Wenshan's kindness, Li Shengli scanned the village on the mountain. This village was said to be good.

There are nearly 800 miles of mountains and ravines along the way. After summer and autumn, if we scan around the village, we can get medicinal materials worth [-] or [-] yuan.

According to the price Zhao Mankui paid for horses, he could buy two or three large animals.

Collecting medicine is not about searching the mountains to collect ginseng. Dandelions, plantains, cockleburs, rehmannia glutinosa, etc. are almost everywhere in the mountains and plains. Collecting these medicines is not much more difficult than collecting hogweed.

To put it bluntly, most of the pigweed used is Chinese herbal medicine. After a little screening and drying, selling it for eight cents a cent is not better than being poor, right?
In addition to farm work, if you put in some time in the morning, afternoon and evening, you can still weigh less than [-] pounds, but [-] to [-] pounds.

Not to mention anything else, pumpkins grown in mountain villages have three medicinal materials: pumpkin stems, pumpkin vines, and pumpkin seeds.

Looking at Yang Wenshan driving the old donkey into the village in front of him, Li Shengli shook his head. He is still not poor...

The mountain villages under the slopes were also designed simply back then, and were not as messy and cramped as ordinary mountain villages.

Even in winter, the mountain village looks very comfortable. There is also a small water channel leading down from the mountain in the village. Even in winter, there is the sound of gurgling water.

This should be the birthplace of the mountain village. The water channel is made of stones and looks neat. It must have been invested and built by the residents who summered here in the past. It also looks like a Jiangnan water town.

Sitting on the carriage, scanning the landscape of the mountain village, Li Shengli secretly praised the leisure of the ancients, and jointly built a small village to escape the summer heat. It could not only escape the summer heat, but also comfort the nostalgia, and it had lasted for hundreds of years.

This powerful character was much better than that of some tycoons in later generations. After leaving the mountain village, the carriage turned a corner on the stone road, and Li Shengli felt amazing.

There is a small sun drying area paved with stone slabs in front of you. A stone road five to six meters wide continues behind the drying area, and then there are the well-proportioned terraced courtyards.

There are small courtyards made of rocks, with three or five rooms, and the most are no more than seven or eight rooms. They are still built according to the trend of the hillside.

The building in the small stone-walled courtyard is the same as the main house in the courtyard, except that the wooden pillars and wooden frames on the windows are thicker than those in the courtyard, and the wooden window lattice is also thicker than usual.

This should be based on local conditions. In winter, the mountain wind is strong, and doors and windows that are too delicate are easily damaged.

The other courtyard, which has not been lived in for at least ten or twenty years, does not look dilapidated. It looks similar to the houses in Sijiu City, full of the smell of time.

After getting off the carriage, I looked at the yard around me. The half-man-high courtyard wall was full of fallen leaves. No one had lived in it for ten or twenty years. The thickness of the fallen leaves was at least ten centimeters.
The yard is nice, and the doors and windows are lined with glass.

Like Yang Wenshan, the villagers in the mountain village are also very simple. Even in the deserted yard, the doors and windows are not damaged at all.

If there was such an abandoned house in Forty-Nine City with no one to manage it, I'm afraid it would have been demolished long ago.

Tightening his purple lambskin jacket, Li Shengli led his sister and Xiao Feng up the five- to six-meter-wide stone road.

I roughly counted the courtyards on both sides of the road, and it was similar to what Yang Wenshan said. There are more than 100 small courtyards with stone walls, and there are more than a dozen courtyards that are very dilapidated. I didn't find them down there just now.

In a small half of the yard, the doors and windows are made of paper. They have been uninhabited for many years. The remaining white paper on the doors and windows is almost the same color as the wood.

"Good place!"

At the end of the small street, there is a platform with a stage built with a strip of stone in the middle and white marble sculptures on the edge.

The terraced courtyard at the foot is completely a deserted village next to the village on the mountain, with not a single villager living above.

The reason Yang Wenshan also said is that there is no water source up there. It still takes one or two kilometers to get from the topmost courtyard to the water source. Carrying water every day is also a heavy job.

The idea of ​​buying this place just flashed through Li Shengli's mind for a moment. Even if the commune gave the house deeds and more than 100 small courtyards, Li Shengli would not dare to buy it.

Before the storm, turning yourself into a small landlord is because you think your life is not happy enough.

"Uncle, it's so cold here!"

Xiao Feng didn't like the base in the mountains that Li Shengli liked very much. The mountains were a summer resort, and the mountain winds were biting in winter. Not long after she got off the carriage, her nose turned red from the cold.

He stretched out his hand to test the mountain breeze on the street. It was different from the mountain breeze below. The mountain breeze here was much stronger. This may be why no one lived in the good house.

The doors and windows in the other courtyard are much larger than those in the village below. There are no charcoal pots or stoves. Living on the mountain against the mountain wind, you have to eat more to keep warm.

Not long after Li Shengli stood on the stone street, Yang Wenshan walked up to him with a woman wearing a men's double-breasted black cotton-padded jacket.

Glancing at the woman whose top button of the cotton-padded jacket was unfastened, Li Shengli frowned as he looked at the wrinkles on the cotton-padded jacket.The old saying that handsome birds emerge from the mountains is true. The shrewd little widow with a hemp flower on her shoulder is fairer than Xiao Feng.

The red rope exposed at the collar of the double-breasted cotton-padded jacket can also make the gentlemen think about it. This little widow really understands men.

Almond eyes and melon-seed faces can also be popular for decades, and people are still dazzlingly white. A little widow in the mountains can support the family alone and can't save fat. She is much better than the widow in the courtyard.

But there was fire in the little widow's eyes, a fire of unwillingness.

"Lao Yang, if I rent all the yards on the mountain, how much will it cost?

This land is nice, I've taken a fancy to it, and our business can be negotiated. "

Yang Wenshan was honest and clumsy, but the little widow's eyes were full of inquiry. Being frozen was not the solution, so Li Shengli spoke first.

"This……"

Lao Yang didn't have the courage after all. Li Shengli's question directly stunned him on the spot.

"for free!

As long as you come to our village often, these yards are all yours.

The two children you rescued have a father. As long as you live here, it's their family's responsibility to carry water and chop wood. "

Yang Yulian said this through gritted teeth. In addition to being called Two Donkey Village, the mountain village was also called Living Widow Village.

Of the 62 remaining households in the village, 37 have no men. Counting her, there are only three households with real men. The remaining 34 households have no men to lead the family.

Most of these people went to the Northeast, a small half went to Kouwai, and a few scattered went out to serve as soldiers or work.

Most of those who should have run away ran away, and the rest were either young children or, like Yang Wenshan, too honest to dare to run out.

Relocating two strong laborers is a huge investment for the mountain village.

"My name is Li Shengli, the resident doctor in Wali.

Do you have the final say?
I heard Zhao Mankui talk about you in Wali. "

Seeing the fierce little widow who was completely different from Yang Wenshan, Li Shengli announced his name.

He really didn't dare to ask for a house that was free of charge. In a mountain village like this, the poor people had holes inside and out, and it was hard to repay the favors they owed.

Their village owes the commune [-] kilograms of grain, and including next year, that's [-] kilograms. This is not an amount that can be joked about or used to improve one's ambition.

"My name is Yang Yulian, the women's director of Shanshan Village.

The people in the commune, and Zhao Mankui in your mouth, all call me little widow, and you can call me that too.

Yang Wenshan doesn’t have the final say on matters concerning the mountain village, I have the final say.

I heard Yang Wenshan say, can you lead the people in our village to grow herbal medicine?

To be honest, there are only 22 strong laborers in our village, 54 women who can work, the rest are old people and children, and there are a dozen injured people who cannot work.

There are a total of 76 people. Of course, the elderly and children can also help with some work. "

After listening to Yang Yulian's introduction to the actual situation in the mountain village, Li Shengli was also scratching his head. It took 76 to complete nearly [-] kilograms of public grain a year.

One person has more than 400 kilograms of grain combined. In addition to the 1000 kilograms owed, one person has more than [-] kilograms of grain. How can he live like this?
"All the men ran away?

Can I get it back? "

Li Shengli's question made Yang Yulian nodded, then shook her head. Who would return to this miserable kiln if they had a job?

I heard a letter from the Northeast Post saying that some men in the village got married there and it is impossible for them to come back again. Bigamy is a serious crime and they have already broken the law.

After calculating the labor force composition of the mountain village, Li Shengli temporarily gave up the idea of ​​letting them grow herbal medicine.

What kind of herbs did these few people grow?If you can't even take care of the land in your own village, what kind of fun are you doing?
Staring at Yang Yulian's open collar, Li Shengli fell into deep thought. It wasn't that he was lustful, it was just that this place was really eye-catching.

At this time, Brother Tong popped up in his mind again.

'A good day starts with being a good person.

Help mountain villages get rid of poverty. This reward: Tuyuan breeding method, paid in advance.

You will be rewarded later, a mountain village treasure map. '

Li Shengli gritted his teeth and accepted the task after looking at the local turtle breeding method that was stolen by Brother Tong.

I don’t know if the treasure map in this mountain village is reliable, especially if it’s a fifty-pound gold brick.

Seeing Li Shengli looking at her collar in a daze, Yang Yulian didn't hide it or feel shy. She puffed up her chest and planned to let him see enough.

Men, as long as women who are not from their own family are rare, it doesn't matter. If Li Shengli thought, isn't the village on the mountain also known as the Living Widow Village?

There isn't much else in the village, except that there aren't as many women as there are men. What kind of things do you want?
After looking at Li Shengli fiercely for a while, Yang Yulian also realized something was wrong.

The man didn't look at her collar, but his eyes were in a daze. Yang Yulian moved her steps slightly to try. The resident doctor in Wali really didn't look at her, he was just lost in thought.

She quietly glanced at the two girls behind Li Shengli. Li Yinghong was scanning the surroundings, while Xiao Feng looked at her with some hostility.

It seems that Dr. Li has no shortage of women. The fair-skinned little girl's eyes are just as vicious as when she looked at the women flirting with her own men.

(End of this chapter)