The True Colors of Youth Chapter 161 The Trip to Misery
Long Xiaochuan immediately summoned the entire team to gather at Lei Village.
This move was so sudden that even Yu Yan was offended. Monk Zhang Er was confused: "The vacation will end in two days. What kind of stimulation have you received? Are you just cramming?"
Shi Lang also complained: "Even if you have to cram for a while, there is no need to go to Lei Village. The facilities in my arena are not better than your open-air environment?"
His father has been under scrutiny by his superiors in the past two days. He urgently needs to let Yu Yan go to the village to support the Shi family like last time, instead of running to Lei Village with his luggage.
Long Xiaochuan was deliberately mysterious: "There are some things that are inconvenient to say. Come on, you will know when you come!"
That afternoon, everyone arrived at Leizhai with resentment on their faces, hoping that Long Xiaochuan would give a reasonable explanation.
Long Xiaochuan was sorting out hemp ropes, backpacks, plastic buckets and other things, allowing everyone to rest and wander around in the village. He had to wait until everyone arrived before he could reveal the mystery.
"I want to take you to the mountains to harvest honey, real cliff soil honey."
"That's it?" Liu Dingding said with a gun and a stick: "You want me to come and play house with you?"
Long Xiaochuan glared at him: "Listen to what I have to say!"
He put forward the core points he learned from the conversation with his father: "The host country can directly enter the finals. I want to strive for Thunder Town to become the host of the next competition!"
The "Village Ba" is held every year, and it cannot always be held in a village. Just like the leaders of Mi County decided to let the champion host the next county competition, the home venue of the national competition will definitely be arranged in rotation.
Looking across the country, Thunder Mountain is unknown, and the Thunder Team is even more unheard of. This is a disadvantage, but it is also an advantage.
The original intention of the two national ministries and commissions to organize the National Hemei Rural Basketball Competition is to revitalize rural areas and help backward areas.
The unique scenery of Leiming Mountain and the backward and backward economy already have the inherent advantages of "crying the poor". What is missing is just for more people to see it.
For reference, after the college entrance examination every year, the media always hypes some inspirational news about rural college students moving bricks, farming, and receiving the notice with hands full of scars, calluses, and soil during the summer vacation.
Long Xiaochuan decided to lead everyone back to being real farmers, speaking out through the Internet and short videos, and playing hard to get the emotional card right first: "We just won the county basketball championship, and we will take advantage of the popularity to do more rural farming.
Isn’t it in line with the down-to-earth spirit promoted by ‘village ba’?”
This sounds quite mysterious. Shi Lang frowned and licked his back molars with his tongue, with a bit of disgust: "So you have to go to the cliff to cut honey?"
Pan Lei was of course on Long Xiaochuan's side: "Then tell me, is there anything more mysterious, shocking, and attractive than this?"
Shi Lang and Liu Dingding stopped talking.
Yang Yaye, Gao Fu and others were eager to give it a try. After all, there was a large mysterious virgin forest at the western foot of Thunder Mountain. In the past, the people of Lei Village had always regarded it as a private hunting ground, and people from outside the village were not allowed to get involved.
Being invited to the mountains today is a good eye-opening opportunity.
Long Xiaochuan repeatedly asked everyone for their opinions, adhering to the principle of voluntariness and never forcing everyone to enter the mountain: "It doesn't matter if you don't want to go into the mountain. You can stay in the village to rest, and there is also a newly renovated basketball court for training."
What a joke, this is a collective action. Even Yu Yan is willing to run into the mountains. Who among these men is willing to fall behind?
Early the next morning, 12 members of the Thunder Team, including Yu Yan, were ready to go, led by seniors such as Long Zaitian, Pan Qingguo, and Luo Xiangdong. Long Zaiyuan and Yu Zhongyi sent them outside the village. The two men were still injured and could not
follow.
Pan Lei and Luo Gaozhan held up their mobile phones, one was responsible for live broadcasting, and the other assisted in shooting the material and preparing for post-production editing, which was considered to be a great momentum.
Since hunting was banned in the 1990s, even the Leizhai people no longer like to run into the mountains. The mountain roads that the Leizhai people have traveled for generations have long been covered by dense vegetation and are completely impassable.
Long Zaitian led everyone along some animal trails that had been trampled by wild beasts all year round, and along the way he took a machete and worked hard to carve out a passage.
They found a lot of wild animal hair, excrement, etc. along the way, which made this mountain trip more mysterious and adventurous.
Everyone was looking forward to seeing some small animals, but they were also afraid of encountering predators, so they felt nervous and excited at the same time.
The movement of the twenty or so people walking through the jungle was not small, and the wild animals had long been kept away from them. Apart from seeing a small group of monkeys playing and playing away, they didn't make any major discoveries along the way.
The team set out in the morning, taking care of Yu Yan, Pan Lei and others and taking several more breaks. They walked for a full 6 hours before arriving at the cliff where the first honey source was.
Long Zaitian knew by visual inspection alone that this honey source was not good, and he had to continue walking deeper into the mountains.
When soil honey is harvested every spring and winter, the hives here were cut three months ago, and the bees still need to rest and recuperate.
He knew that there were several ancient honey sources ahead.
Yu Yan was almost collapsed by the mosquitoes and the rugged mountain road: "Still going? How much further?"
Long Zaitian looked calm, raised his knife and pointed ahead: "It's not far, just climb over the mountain in front and we'll be there."
Some netizens who have been following the basketball team joked in the comment area, saying that when they got up in the morning, they saw them going out, and when they got up from a nap, they found that they were still on the road. With such hard work, they must buy two kilograms of this local honey to support them.
Of course, some people questioned that they were just showing off and had won the county championship. They could make money just by soliciting some sponsorships and accepting a few advertisements. Why go to the deep mountains and old forests to earn this hard money?
Besides, the yield of local honey is not high. If more than 20 people go into the mountains, even if they remove all the queen bee nests in the mountains, how much kilograms of honey can each person share?
Along the way, Long Xiaochuan explained to netizens the traditional meaning of harvesting honey from the soil in Kerei Village. Young men in the village have to go into the mountains to harvest honey, which is equivalent to a coming-of-age ceremony. He, Pan Lei, Sun Changxing, Luo Gaozhan and Yu Zhengyi
Everyone has come to participate, but many members of the Thunder Team have not.
"This honey harvesting trip is a coming-of-age ceremony for our Thunder team. We just want to use the current popularity of traffic to promote our hometown and make some contribution within our ability."
His high-sounding explanation quickly became the highlight material of major media outlets.
Soon, keywords such as "village ba", championship team, cliff bee wild honey, rural revitalization, virgin forest, traces of wild animals, etc. attracted the attention of netizens. Some urban newspapers and radio and television accounts also forwarded the Thunder Team's articles.
This action sent a wave of traffic for free.
They didn't find the first ancient honey source until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. There were disc-shaped honeycombs hanging on the huge cliff. The shocking scene of the swarms of bees dancing was unforgettable.
Long Zaitian was overjoyed: "Okay, here it is. It's getting late. Let's set up camp and cook. We'll get up to work at 4 o'clock tomorrow morning!"