In the afternoon of that day, Yu Zehai took a train directly to his hometown Shenshui City.

Speaking of the city where Yu Zehai is located, Shenshui City, it is a typical small mountain city in the hinterland of western China. There are many mountains, which naturally leads to inconvenience of transportation and difficulty in access; therefore, its economy is more difficult to develop compared to those developed cities in the southeast coast.

Due to inconvenient transportation, the impact and radiation of modern technology on some places is minimal, and Yujiaao Village, the mountain village where Yuze Haijia is located, is one of the typical examples!

The village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, leaving only a gap in the west of the village. If you look down from a high altitude, the entire Yujiaao Village is located in a small canyon basin among the mountains. The fields in the village are mostly flat, which is also a rare piece of fertile land among the villages under Panlong Town. Qingshui River, which originates from the deep Qingshan Mountains, walks around the village, so the water resources in the village are extremely rich.

Over the years, many people in the village who are very smart have made their fortunes and went to the city. Nowadays, except for some orphans, widows, elderly, weak, sick and disabled, there are only those honest and honest people left. They don’t know what to do in business and have not developed. Over time, as houses collapse idle and more fertile fields grow grass and birds fly, the once lively Yujiaao Village has slowly calmed down...

There is no one in normal times, and there is no New Year atmosphere during the New Year!

This is the most common saying that most people say nowadays. In fact, this sentence is the most suitable to describe Yujiaao Village today.

Get off the bus from Shenshui City and took a bumpy urban-rural bus for more than an hour. Finally, at noon the next day, Yu Zehai successfully arrived at Panlong Town, where his hometown was. He breathed in the extremely familiar and rich rural atmosphere in his memory, looked at the old streets, the surrounding houses, and everything was not much different from what he looked like in his memory.

While feeling relieved, Yu Zehai also felt a deep sorrow in his heart. What was happy was that nothing had changed much, and he still looked familiar in his memory; however, what was sad was that compared with the ever-changing developments and changes outside, Panlong Town in front of him had almost not made much progress.

only.

Yu Zehai just sighed a little and didn't take it seriously. After all, this kind of thing has nothing to do with him, a commoner, and he will not be too energetic to fuck that family's leisure.

In Yu Zehai's heart, in the entire Shuiyun Star, there is only that small mountain village, only the elders and fellow villagers there, as well as the mountains, rivers, flowers and trees there, which are the only place worthy of his nostalgia and protection.

There is still more than 30 kilometers from Panlong Town to Yujiaao Village. This distance can be precisely divided into two sections: one is a dirt road that can barely be opened to traffic; the other is a rugged mountain road that can only be climbed by walking.

Obviously, compared with the general environment in which Yu Zehai lived in his previous life, the development speed of China on Shuiyunxing is far from enough. For the vast rural areas, the "Rural Access Project" policy has not been fully implemented. Therefore, there is no such thing as "village access project" and "village access project".

Yu Zehai called a motorcycle and set out towards the destination.

When traveling between villages, only two-wheeled things like this are the most affordable, convenient, and the most important means of transportation. The masters of these motorcycles are mostly farmers in nearby villages and towns. They work at home when they are busy farming; when they are slack, they come out to pick up and drop off passers-by. If they are lucky, they can earn money for their families in the whole day.

After getting off the motorcycle, Yu Zehai's people had already appeared at a mountain pass. Looking around, except for the gurgling stream slowly flowing out of the two valleys in the shape of a "man", there were endless vast mountains everywhere.

Looking at the mountains in front of him that were so familiar to me, Yu Zehai couldn't help but take a long breath. He forced himself to suppress his excitement and turned around and walked towards one of the valleys.

One hour later.

Yu Zehai had already appeared at the west entrance of the village. Looking at the familiar scene in front of him, a trace of confusion flashed through Yu Zehai's eyes. Although he tried his best to find and compare it in his memory on the way back, but now it suddenly seemed that the scene in front of him still had a sense of strangeness.

"Hey...no matter what, this will be my hometown in the future!"

Yu Zehai sighed in his heart, his eyes became firm again, and then he took a heavy step and then walked towards the village.

Yujiaao Village is located on the edge of the basin, and the entire canyon small basin belongs to the village, so the area is very wide. As for how big this small basin surrounded by mountains on three sides is, no one knows, only knows it is very big and large. But what Yu Zehai knows is that the edge of the basin in which Yujiaao Village is located is hundreds of square kilometers.

Yujiaao Village is surrounded by Daqing Mountain. There are many poisonous insects and beasts in the deep mountains. In view of this, the villagers of Yujiaao Village usually chop firewood, pick wild vegetables, dig herbs, or catch wild game, and usually do not go too far.

It is heard that a mountain runner once went deep into the deep mountains, but eventually fled back in a panic. If the mountain runner had not had extraordinary experience in the wild survival, he would have almost lost his life in the mountains. After that, the villagers were very taboo about the deep mountains, and no one would have entered it later.

The village is in the center of a large area of ​​cultivated land. There are more than 300 families in the village. Except for three or five families with surnames, all the families with surnames Yu. According to the old people in the village, in fact, at a very early age, the families who had just moved in the village did not have surnames Yu. Over time, perhaps to enhance the friendly neighborhood and friendly relations between each other, or to the great integration of the nation, those families with surnames changed their surnames one after another, and in this case, it is called "Suixian".

In ancient times, people did not treat surnames as rigorously as they are today. For example, some powerful people gave surnames, those who were taboos to change surnames, those who had committed troubles and changed surnames to bury their names, and those who were displaced by famine, who could relate to some wealthy families again, their surnames would usually change, which is the following surname.

To this day, the vast natural villages still maintain a management model dominated by clans or clans. Take Yu Zehai know that in addition to their Yujiaao Village, there are more villages named after surnames in the nearby townships, such as Zhaojiashan Village, Lijiagou Village, Shenjiazhuang Village, Sunjiahe Village, etc.

If it were in ancient times, a village like this was actually a small clan, a small tribal group, and an independent small group!

It is precisely because of this that Yujiaao Village has been in a semi-closed state almost always. Therefore, if the village needs to build houses, roads, water conservancy, etc., it can only be solved by yourself and you will be completely self-reliant!

So.

In order to make the home better, all the villagers can be said to be the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, showing their abilities, and all the special skills of the housekeepers appear on the stage. It is precisely because of this that today, the village's various traditional craftsmanship skills, such as bamboo work, carpentry, stone carvings, tattoos, mud and tiles, etc., have not only been perfectly preserved and inherited, but also have been fully developed.

It can be said that in the hands of most villagers in Yujiaao Village, everyone is more or less good at it. However, there are exceptions, such as Yu Zehai.

Yu Zehai's home is at the easternmost end of the village and is a bit isolated from the surrounding residents. In the words of the country people, this is the "single village" household, which means a single family. But Yu Zehai will never forget it, because on the way back, he had already clearly understood every grass, every tree, every brick and tile in his hometown in his memory.

Stepping on the flat and clean stone road, Yu Zehai couldn't help feeling a sense of comfort.

Due to the age of time, many stone slabs are covered with traces of weathering, and even a layer of green moss grows on some stone slabs, which highlights the atmosphere of time.

Each stone slab is almost the same size, about one meter wide, two meters long, and about five inches thick. Therefore, each of them is not light. These rectangular stone slabs were mined by the ancestors of the village from the mountain quarries one by one, and then transported them out one by one by one through manpower.

You can imagine that the main roads throughout the village, plus the two stone bridges spanning the Qingshui River in the village, were a very large project. You should know that in the era when there was no modern machinery mining, polishing and handling at that time, it was conceivable how difficult it would be to complete such a huge project!

So, let’s not talk about anything else, just look at the stone slabs under your feet, these stone slabs full of the breath of time, are the best testimony of descendants to the wisdom and hard work of our ancestors!

"Oh, Haiwazi is back... Wenquxing from our village is back!"

"It's Haiwa, why didn't you bring your little partner with me when you come back?"

"Brother Haiwa, I'll have a few more days to come back this time. Come to my house to have a few drinks in the evening!"

"Hello Uncle Yao!"

...

Along the way, there were many young people with the names of the master, uncles and aunts, peers, and those young people with barefoots wearing torn pants greeted happily after seeing Yu Zehai who had returned from the west entrance of the village.

Haiwa is Yu Zehai's nickname. At home, parents usually only call him "Yiaowa"; outside, neighbors, or some close elders or relatives and friends, they call him their nicknames; as for daimyo, it is called for outsiders.

As for the love name "Yao Wa" mentioned by his parents, there is some explanation. This is because Yu Zehai is the last one born in the entire Yujiaao Village, or among the "Ze" generation in the entire clan generation. Therefore, he ranks among the clans as the youngest, commonly known as "Yao Wai".

"Grandpa Fu, Uncle Shi Tou, Hu Zi, and the little guys... I'm back!"
Chapter completed!