Yunwu Mountain is named for its majestic mountains, shrouded in clouds and mist, and lush forest vegetation. The mountain is also higher than the surrounding mountains. Those who have been lucky enough to climb the main peak can see countless mountains covered by mountains in the distance when they climb high in the morning.

Shrouded in a sea of ​​fog.

Because of its high mountains and deep valleys, even hunters and herb gatherers in the surrounding mountains rarely set foot on Yunwu Mountain. However, it is such a rugged and rarely visited place, but from time to time, you can see the alluring aroma of smoke rising from the mountains.

As usual, not long after night fell over the mountains, there was another stream of cooking smoke with a meaty aroma floating in a valley under Yunwu Mountain. Searching for the location where the aroma of cooking smoke came from, you can find that the cooking smoke actually comes from a place

Floating out of the rock wall.

On the smooth and hard Danxia rock wall, it is difficult for even birds to stop. Where does this smoke come from?

Only when you get close to the red sandstone rock wall can you see a few buildings high on the rock wall. There is a wooden door and two wooden windows on the originally unified red rock wall, and the smoke from the kitchen is coming from it.

It floated out of a hole next to the wooden window.

In such a steep valley, is it possible that there are still people living in seclusion here?

When the wooden door opened, a delicate and young face appeared. At this time, he was holding a large bowl in his hand, covered with meaty bacon slices, and underneath was a full bowl of rice.

"Green pepper and bacon rice bowl, it tastes delicious. If the children in the village outside the mountain see this standard of food, they will be greedy and cry! Although their lives are better now, they can barely make ends meet.

ah!"

Not long after his face showed sympathy for the hard life of the people outside the mountains, as he took a bite of rice, his expression instantly changed to a look of satisfaction and said: "Life with meat is particularly delicious!"

The boy who entered the rice-cooking mode sat on the doorstep with a wooden board, and in a short while he completely destroyed a large bowl of rice bowl. After swallowing the last mouthful of rice, he let out a small burp, which made him look like he was eating.

Extremely satisfied.

Looking at the jungle showing the late autumn scenery in front of him, the young man suddenly said to himself: "Autumn has passed and winter has come. After this winter, I have been alone in the mountains for almost three years. Before it snows, I think it is necessary to go in again."

Heading to the city."

It is not difficult to tell from the young man's words that he has lived in the mountains for a long time. The rock house he lives in may not look big from the outside, but it is unique inside. In the young man's words, he enjoys the treatment of three bedrooms and one living room.

!

Then who is this young man?

Xu Zhengdao, sixteen years old, was born in Kyoto. As for why he lived in seclusion in the mountains, in his own words, those were past events that he could not bear to look back on. Even though he remembered these past events clearly, he often did not want to recall them.

Xu Zhengdao returned to the house and looked at the rock house where he had lived for several years. He didn't feel anything bad about his current life. In the eyes of others, his life might be empty, lonely and cold, but he felt that he was happy with it.

As the saying goes, ‘sit and watch the wind and clouds rise, and wait quietly for the clouds to roll and relax’. Isn’t this kind of life what he dreamed of in his previous life?

That’s right!

The young man in front of him, who had lived alone in the mountains for several years, seemed to others to be a miserable man who shunned the world. But only Xu Zhengdao knew clearly that the real 'him' had quietly passed away on that cold windy winter night three years ago.

Instead, there is a visitor from a foreign land from a parallel time and space who is living alone in the mountains at this moment. The difference is that before, he was withdrawn and had low self-esteem. Looking back at Xu Zhengdao now, he is still optimistic and cheerful even though everything has not changed.

The reason may be related to the fact that in his previous life, Xu Zhengdao himself was a homebody who liked to live alone. If I were to say there was something dissatisfying about living in the mountains, maybe it was that there was no Internet and no entertainment for recreation!

In fact, although Xu Zhengdao was born in the 1980s in his previous life, he was born in the late 1980s. Looking back at the time and space he lives in now, it is the early 1980s. To be precise, he will not truly enter his 80s until this winter passes.

Era.

Thinking of what he learned about the current situation of the times when he occasionally went down the mountain to purchase daily necessities, Xu Zhengdao felt more and more that staying in the mountains at this time was actually more free and comfortable than staying in the city. If he really wanted to go to the city, he wouldn't even be able to find a place to stay.

Lighting the kerosene lamp, the originally dark rock house instantly became brighter. This lighting tool, which was considered an antique to Xu Zhengdao in his previous life, now accompanies him through every dark night.

"If only there was a generator, maybe it wouldn't be so boring at night!"

Although he misses the electric lamps he used in his previous life, Xu Zhengdao knows that it is not easy to use electricity in the mountains. After all, in the village closest to him at the foot of the mountain, every household still relies on oil lamps for lighting.

Only in those villages that are closer to the city and have finally received electricity, there are still villagers who are reluctant to use electricity at night. In the eyes of these villagers, although electric lights are good, they are also expensive. They work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and it is their responsibility to be careful and budget wise.

Life!

Sitting in front of the window, feeling the cool breeze blowing into the house from time to time, Xu Zhengdao also thought about the daily necessities that he would prepare next. If he did not prepare in advance, after the heavy snow closed the mountains, and he wanted to survive the long and cold winter, the result would be disastrous.

Just imagine.

"There are sufficient dry firewood reserves. I think it will be enough to last until spring. But the food prepared at home also includes oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar. I am afraid that I will have to go to the city to replenish it. In the next two days, I will go hunting and catch some prey.

Exchange money for shopping!”

In the past few years of living alone in the mountains, Xu Zhengdao has honed his hunting skills very well. If you want to live alone in the mountains, survival skills are essential. And hunting is only one of the survival skills that Xu Zhengdao has learned in the past few years.

Hunting, gathering medicine, planting, cooking, calligraphy, painting and other skills. It is with these life skills that Xu Zhengdao has something to do every day. Otherwise, if he stays in the house all day long, even if he is hungry, he will be nothing.

Both.

He found a notepad and wrote down the supplies he needed to buy when he entered the city in the next two days, as well as the approximate money needed to purchase these supplies. After he stopped writing, Xu Zhengdao couldn't help but sigh: "No matter when and where, money is important to anyone.

It’s really indispensable!”

Even if Xu Zhengdao says that if one person is full, the whole family will not be hungry, life in the mountains is still inseparable from money. Every time before entering the city, he will bring a lot of things he got from the mountains, and then sell them in the city.

Convert into money.

He then used the money earned from selling things to buy the supplies he needed to live in the mountains. He had no shortage of meat to eat in the mountains, and even cultivated a few vegetable plots on the valley flats outside his house, but the staple food still needed to be purchased from outside the mountains.

Except for daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, clothes, and shoes, he needs to buy everything from the city. Because of this, Xu Zhengdao, who doesn't like going to the city, will buy at least half a year's worth of supplies every time.

In that case, he would only need to go to the city twice a year to basically have everything he needs to live in the mountains!

At midnight, Xu Zhengdao, who was sitting cross-legged on the futon in the hall of the Rock House, began his three-year practice of meditation, rain or shine. Before closing his eyes and concentrating, Xu Zhengdao habitually said silently in his heart: "Sign in today!"

'Signed in for the 991st day, there is no shortcut to practice, only perseverance! God's blessings will help you practice. I will give you eight rays of spiritual energy, three calming charms, and three taels of broken silver!'

Listening to the voice in his head, Xu Zhengdao has become accustomed to it. Being able to live in seclusion in the mountains for so long without feeling that life is boring at all naturally has a lot to do with the sign-in system that he has obtained after traveling through time and space.
Chapter completed!