After all, they were two girls. After climbing a difficult mountain road for two hours, it was normal for them to feel a little tired.
Farmers living in the countryside do have some strength, but not everyone is a special soldier and can fly over walls and do anything.
Han Qi read the words and looked at the slowly churning sea of clouds under the cliff. He thought about the two hours before that, since he climbed from the bottom of the cliff to the top of a thousand-meter cliff with bare hands... when did he have such courage?
Already?
But now is not the time to think about these things, they are already here anyway.
Under the clear sky, the wilderness in front of you is so clear and clean. It is no worse than the scenery on the plateau. In other words, this is already a plateau scenery, with an elevation of nearly a thousand elevations on the original basis.
Han Qi wiped the altitude barometer on his watch. It showed that Han Qi had risen by 948 altitudes in the past two hours and now reached 2743. This altitude is higher than many areas on the plateau and should be the highest mountain nearby.
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He looked around and could see higher peaks in the distance, but they were covered with white snow and were a snow-capped mountain.
Han Qi stared at the mountain and asked the girl: "Besides the way we came up, is there any other way to the village?"
"No more. The other two sides are cliffs with no roads. There were people who climbed over from the snow-capped mountains before, but it was a long time ago. My grandpa said they were foreigners."
There is a plain above. Han Qi's eyesight is enough to see most of the scenery on the top of the mountain. There is a village in the distance. Behind the village is a forest, which should be where they grow fruits, and where Han Qi is
The location is for growing food.
Nan Yanzi led the way, feeling very good.
A visitor has arrived in the village after a long time. This is a big event in the village. Maybe we can eat meat today.
Han Qi looked at this fairyland-like place above the clouds, thinking about the difficulties in his journey, and thought of a poem in his mind, and couldn't help but smile.
"The road is difficult, the road is difficult, and there are many divergent roads. How can we be safe now? There will be strong winds and waves, and there will be times when we can hang sails to help us sail across the sea."
The road is certainly difficult, no wonder no outsider has dared to climb it for decades.
But once he came from this road, his enthusiasm was spontaneous, and Han Qi felt that it was nothing more than that. Just like the mentality of a person who has passed the driver's license, looking back at the trembling and confused newcomers, he said casually:
"It's not difficult."
As we approached the village, we started to see people.
The swallow jumped up and down and shouted:
"Sixth Grandpa, I brought a guest up... Third Uncle, Third Uncle, look, he is Han Qi. A guest from the city can also take photos. Brother Cai, this is Han Qi who came from the city.
,Yes, he came up by himself."
Han Qi smiled and nodded.
"Are you really a guest in the city? Welcome, welcome!"
"The boys in the city are so handsome."
"You're so handsome, young man. Where did he come from? Did you encounter any danger when you came up? Don't be afraid, the old wooden vine is very strong."
Han Qi said hello, what did they say?
There were also children who came close to Han Qi and looked at them for a long time. The distance was so close that Han Qi was a little embarrassed. Just when he wanted to ask them what was wrong, the children dispersed in a hurry. Someone ran and shouted:
"The swallow has brought the man back! The swallow has brought the man back!"
Han Qi's smile froze.
He actually understood this sentence!
This statement... is correct, but it sounds so ambiguous.
Why do I look like the husband of the stronghold who was kidnapped by a female bandit and taken to the stronghold?
Nan Yanzi is a hero among women, how could she be teased like this for nothing? She quickly picked up the pole that a fellow villager put on the ground and ran after the little girl who was shouting, shouting angrily as she ran:
"Stand still! Li Wei, don't run!"
Han Qi looked at the strong figure and clicked his tongue twice.
It took nearly two hours to climb up from the bottom of the mountain, and then walked such a long way. Now I still have enough energy to play with children. If I have a physique like this and practices a few more martial arts, I won’t beat all the martial arts masters on Douyin.
Invincible?
Yujiao pulled the corner of Han Qi's clothes and motioned for Han Qi to follow her.
Han Qi smiled at the onlookers and walked towards the village.
The village is not big, with less than a hundred households. Living on the top of several thousand acres of land, there is no shortage of daily necessities. You only need to go down the mountain to exchange daily necessities with others, such as various seasonings.
materials, clothing, farm tools, etc.
Han Qi followed Yujiao towards her home.
On this short road of a few dozen meters, the entire Gaolu Village was like a disturbed hornet's nest. People wearing various ethnic minority clothes kept running over to see Han Qi, a face from outside that he had not seen for many years.
For them, as soon as they leave the mountains, they are in another place.
He saw Yujiao walking straight towards a wooden building, reaching out and pushing open the door. A feeling called relief emerged in Han Qi's heart.
It was like being surrounded by people in a crowded street when going shopping, and after being trapped for a few hours, Wang Zheng came to rescue him with several security guards.
"Yujiao, you're back. Where's your sister? What's the noise going on outside."
a woman's voice asked.
By the way, the accent of the people in this village is different from that in the city below, and even more different from that of Huili. I can barely hear that their language also belongs to Southwest Mandarin, which allows Han Qi to understand a little bit.
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Among the Mandarin dialects in southwest China, Chengcheng dialect is the easiest to understand. Even people from other provinces can understand many Chengdu dialects.
And people who fully understand Chengcheng dialect can understand some Guizhou dialects, southern Yunnan dialects, and some dialects in Hunan and Hubei.
This is the inclusiveness of Southwest Mandarin.
Han Qi could understand part of what was said here, but only part of it.
Nan Yanzi may often run down the mountain, so his words are relatively clear, and there is no obstacle to communicating with Han Qi. But at this moment, Han Qi did not understand what the woman in front of him said, and could only look at her with big eyes and small eyes.
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The woman was about forty years old, but her hair was completely gray, and her face was somewhat similar to Nan Yanzi.
They couldn't be sisters, so they should be mother and daughter.
Nan Yanzi's mother was completely stunned when she saw Han Qi. She didn't say anything for a minute or two. Of course Yujiao couldn't speak either. She looked at Han Qi with curious big eyes and then at her mother.
He gently tugged at the corner of his mother's clothes.
Han Qi cleared his throat awkwardly.
"Hello, aunt."
Han Qi didn't know if she understood, but this woke her up.
Without having time to pay attention to Han Qi, she quickly pulled Xiao Yujiao aside, gesticulating and asking: "Who is this?"
"guest."
The gesture communication between the two is not external sign language, but a tacit understanding developed over many years of family life. Sometimes, even if she gestures casually, her mother can guess what Yujiao wants to say.
At this time, the voice of Nan Yanzi came from outside the door.
"Mom, I'm back."
She rushed into the room, but Han Qi was at the door at this time. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and gave way, otherwise Nan Yanzi, who had just entered the room, would have had no choice but to bump into Han Qi's back.
Her mother breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Nan Yanzi. She had only seen Yujiao but not Yanzi, and another outsider appeared next to Yujiao. She was really afraid that something might happen to Nan Yanzi. After all, this mountain is steep.
It is not convenient to climb up or down, and many people have fallen off the cliff over the years.
"You are back, who is this person?"
"He is a guest. He came to our place from the city to play. I thought it was difficult for him to climb the mountain alone, so I brought him back."
I can’t understand it, and I can’t understand it anymore.
Han Qi scratched his hair and smiled at his aunt.
Smile is the most beautiful language in the world. Han Qi doesn't need to understand the dialect here to convey his goodwill. When the aunt saw Han Qi's smile, she became less vigilant. She also smiled at Han Qi and said:
"In that case, let's have dinner in our house today."
Han Qi didn't understand and could only look at Nan Yanzi.
"My mother asked you to have dinner at our house."
"Thank you." Han Qi said.
Hearing this aunt's invitation to him, Han Qi felt relieved and looked around.
This sight made Han Qi's heart shake violently.
He had never known poverty before. He lived in a wealthy town. Although it was small and remote, there was no gap in daily life. He had enough to eat when he opened his mouth and clothes to wear as long as he stretched out his hand.
In the past two years when I left home, the places I visited were all very wealthy.
There is not a single poor person in Northern Europe. Many people cannot believe this and think it is just a lie spread by the media.
But Han Qi has traveled to many towns in northern Norway, and he really can't see poor people. No matter how poor they are, all the living facilities in their homes are complete, including heating, Internet, hot water, and electricity.
, even if the whole family doesn’t go to work, they can treat Han Qi to drink the best freshly ground coffee.
But here, Han Qi took a look around.
Saw nothing.
There are only two words.
poverty.
There are no lights on the ceiling, and there are no sockets on the walls, let alone televisions, refrigerators and the like. There is some kind of artwork made of red thread hanging on the wall, but it is very rough and has a strong national color style.
When you came in, you should have seen the living room first, but there were no sofas or chairs, only a few stones. There were beds in the corner. The room where Han Qi came in had two beds and a rough wooden table.
There is a cooking stove with several black pottery bowls and chopsticks on it, and some dry firewood piled next to it.
Then.
Gone.
Han Qi could never find anything more in this room.
The larger bed should belong to the two sisters. If the clothes on it are all the clothes of the two girls, they are probably not as many as the clothes in the travel bag that Han Qi left at the foot of the mountain. He has no other hobbies during his travels.
I just like to buy some local clothes.
Han Qi really can’t imagine that there will be such a scene in someone’s home in 2022.
He was dumbfounded and was pulled by Yujiao to sit on a stone. Not far in front was the very rough wooden table that was definitely made by himself.
Auntie came out of a room with some citrus in her hand.
She gave the orange to Nan Yanzi, smiled at Han Qi, and walked into the room again, not knowing what to do, while Nan Yanzi knelt down in front of the table and started peeling the oranges.
Han Qi stood up immediately.
He was so frightened that someone knelt down in front of him for the first time in more than 20 years.
"What are you doing?"
"What's wrong?"
Han Qi pointed to the stone bench next to her and said, "Sit down too, why are you kneeling?"
"The rules in our village are that women cannot sit down in front of men."
"In what era did we still have such rules?"
Nan Yanzi lowered her head and stopped talking. She was one of the few people in the village who liked to run down the mountain. She also knew that the outside world was very open, but what could she do? As a member of Gaolu Village, she could only accept the mountain.
of rules.
Han Qi looked at her for a long time, then stood up, feeling very uncomfortable.
Yujiao came up and took his hand and shook it.
Han Qi shook his head to express that he was fine, took Xiao Yujiao and pushed open the wooden door that did not require a lock again, looking at the village outside and the fertile fields in the distance.
He thought this was paradise.
But maybe he's wrong.
The scenery here can be called paradise, but the humanities...
It can only be said to be a primitive society.
He didn't want to eat here. He remembered that he had some compressed food, candies, chocolates, etc. in his travel bag. At this time, he regretted that he had not brought these things with him so that he could give the candies to the children in the village.
How could he have the nerve to stay at someone else's house to eat when his family was so poor?
But Nan Yanzi came over, handed the cleanly peeled orange to Han Qi, and said:
"It's strange, isn't it? The old people in the village haven't been down the mountain for many years. I don't know what has changed below the mountain. The unfair treatment of us by the people in the city has also made many elders become more and more closed-minded, and they don't even want us to go down the mountain.
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The poorer you are, the less willing you are to change, right?
Han Qi took the orange and said, "If you can study, I think you can get into a prestigious school. You are very smart and very logical."
Nan Yanzi tilted his head, thinking about what logic meant.
Han Qi smiled.
Nan Yanzi also smiled and didn't think about it, and said: "Don't think so much, I will cook tonight. Thank you for coming to our village as a guest. But you have to tell me the story outside. The one next door
I'll help you clean up the room later."
Han Qi nodded and said, "I will pay."
"In our Gaolu Village, food is the least valuable thing. You can only eat it yourself, so you don't have to pay."
They live in this mountain. Although they have their own ID cards, their annual income is so small that they do not have to pay taxes. All the money they received from subsistence allowances went down the mountain to buy candles, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and necessary daily necessities.
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Therefore, although it looks very poor, the poverty in Gaoluzhai is different from the poverty in many other remote areas.
At least they can still afford to eat.
After Han Qi learned this, he put down his psychological burden, but still decided to pay a sum of money when he left.
However, Han Qi soon felt the inconvenience of Gaolu Village.
The signal here is very low, phone calls cannot be made, and there is no network at all. I can only receive one or two text messages occasionally.
