After spending a day playing with the children in the June Fourth town, Zhou Jimin returned to the capital with Ding Qiunan and Zhou Shuqing the next day.
Xu Ning and Xiao Pangzhu also went back together.
The two children are still too young, one is a little over one year old and the other is only seven or eight months old, and they are not suitable to stay in the small town.
On the contrary, the twin sisters Xiaojing and Xiaowan were crying and arguing that they did not want to go back and wanted to stay with their brothers and sisters.
Not to mention that they can take care of themselves.
The important task of taking care of them is mainly given to the three of them, Little Goldfish and Pandi Laidi.
Xiaoxian and Xiaoyi are still young, so they can take care of themselves just fine, but taking care of Xiaowan and Xiaojing is very difficult.
However, the third and fourth children are here, so it’s not a big problem.
Not long after arriving in Beijing, Zhou Shuqing received a call in the living room.
It was Xing Yicheng who called, saying that they found out that Xu Yiming was sent to the south, to a small mountainous area in the middle of the country.
The central provinces have a large population, and the small villages in the mountainous areas are very poor and backward.
When you go to a place like this, even if you don't starve to death, the poverty and backwardness are enough to drive you crazy.
Upon receiving this news, Zhou Shuqing was both excited and worried.
She told the news to Zhou Jimin who was busy in the study, and the latter smiled after hearing the news.
"Xiaoqing, don't worry, if the news is accurate, I will take Yiming home for dinner tonight."
He has this confidence, after all, the 65 supersonic aircraft is too fast.
That is, he is not sure whether the news is accurate.
And, most importantly, he was not very relieved that Ding Qiunan and Zhou Shuqing were staying at home.
After much thought, he felt that it would be safer to bring the two of them back to the June Fourth town.
Whether you send them to your father-in-law's house or to Nanluogu Lane, it's not safe.
However, it was still not a good idea to be sent back to the small town of June Fourth. After thinking about it, he drove directly, taking Zhou Shuqing, mother and daughter and the little fat pig, then went to Union Hospital, picked up Ding Qiunan and left the capital.
On the small island in the south, after he put Ding Qiunan and Zhou Shuqing in the Repulse Bay villa, he went to the central province to find Xu Yiming.
Compared with the capital, the number of young people going to the countryside in the south is very large.
It is undeniable that the appearance of Zhou Jimin has changed the world a lot from the original time and space.
At least there are not that many unemployed young people in Beijing.
If some factories had not suspended operations and reduced production, it can be said that there would be no unemployed people in Beijing.
But the mainland is too big, and Zhou Jimin is only one person, so he can't change everything.
Including the central provinces, not to mention the cities, even the counties are still very poor and backward.
Zhou Jimin followed the information given by Lao Xing and accurately arrived at a remote area of Xinsha Town.
There is an abandoned flat land nearby. It must have been uncultivated for a long time, causing the fields to become overgrown with weeds.
There are many hills and basins here, but the so-called basins are actually low-lying areas that have not been developed.
After the plane landed, the weeds were blown here and there.
Taking out a drone from the space, he sat in the plane, controlled the drone, and looked around to check the terrain.
"It's so deserted here."
The footage transmitted back from the drone showed that there was no human habitation within two kilometers nearby.
If he hadn't carried a signal transmitter, the drone wouldn't have been able to fly that far, let alone see the drone clearly.
If it is a satellite, the signal will be stronger.
After flying for about three or four kilometers, I finally saw someone.
Zhou Jimin did not waste any time and directly controlled the drone to return. Then he put away the drone and the supersonic aircraft and walked straight to the place where there were people.
However, after taking a few steps, he frowned.
There is no other way, so let’s summon the big cat in the space to hurry on.
The black tiger is very big. Sitting on its back, he can avoid the trouble of clearing the way.
A few kilometers away, Black Tiger quickly reached his destination.
When he was about to reach a place with people, he sent Black Tiger back to space, and then came to the path himself.
"Hello, two comrades, where is this place? I am a postman from the province, and I want to go to Fenghuang Village in Xinsha Town..."
Xu Yiming was sent to this place, and it must have been a while since he was sent here.
However, starting from the capital, we came to this small mountain village.
With today's means of transportation, you can't even think of coming here within a week.
Not to mention anything else, just taking the train will take two or three days on the road.
Then enter the county town and go from the county town to Xinsha Town. It is estimated that most of the journey is by horse-drawn carriage.
From Xinsha Town to Fenghuang Village, we probably have to walk.
After all, we are so poor here, how can we have horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts?
The two farmers standing not far from Zhou Jimin were skinny and their clothes were very shabby, but they were washed white, and there was some dust on the clothes. They were soaked with sweat, making them even more tattered.
Seeing that Zhou Jimin was well dressed, wearing a military green hat and carrying a crossbody bag, the two farmers were very reserved.
It's a pity that the two farmers couldn't understand him at all because they didn't understand Mandarin.
However, Zhou Jimin couldn't understand the dialect spoken by the other party, which made people anxious.
No matter how many times he calculated, he never considered that communication problems would be caused by language problems.
Seeing this, Zhou Jimin had no choice but to say goodbye and leave.
Walking forward along the path to stay away from the two farmers, he took out the drone again and began to inspect the terrain.
After flying for about three or four kilometers, I finally saw a slightly larger basin with rice fields and other crops, as well as corn, vegetable gardens, etc.
So, Zhou Jimin quickly put away the drone and headed straight for that place.
After arriving at the place, Zhou Jimin asked the farmer again. Unfortunately, he still didn't understand and couldn't communicate.
It wasn't until a teenage boy who had gone to school came out of the cornfield that he understood what Zhou Jimin said.
"To go to Fenghuang Village, just walk straight along the path, climb over two hills, and walk about seven or eight kilometers to get there."
Zhou Jimin was surprised when he heard the young man's answer.
The other party had a thick accent, but he still understood it.
It took him seven or eight kilometers to walk from here, which surprised him. He didn't expect that Fenghuang Village was not too far from the landing point of the plane.
After all, Xinsha Town is quite big, and he happens to be on the territory of Xinsha Town. Otherwise, if the farmers don’t know much about Xinsha Town, then his work will be in vain.
"Thank you. I'll give you these two packs of biscuits. Thank you."
He took out two packages of biscuits from his messenger bag. They were his own homemade biscuits, wrapped in oil paper.
"No, no need." The young man was quite polite, but he couldn't refuse Zhou Jimin, so he was forced to accept it.
"Thank you, thank you."
As soon as the young man's hand sank, he knew that the biscuits given by Zhou Jimin were not light, and he felt happy.
"You're welcome, bye."
Waving his hand, Zhou Jimin turned around and continued on his way along the path, and soon disappeared.
He left, but for the boy and other villagers, the matter was not over yet.
The villagers all wanted to know what the biscuits in the boy's hands tasted like, and asked him to open them and take a look.
But the boy shook his head and ran home quickly with the biscuits in his arms.
This made the villagers very unhappy, but there was nothing they could do.
Who told the boy to get those two packs of biscuits? The villagers didn’t even know what happened.
They don’t understand Mandarin and have never left the mountain village. How do they know what Mandarin is?
Even if their children have gone to a primary school campus more than ten kilometers away, the primary school teachers still teach in their local dialect, not Mandarin at all.
Only when I go to a small town to attend fifth or sixth grade, the school teachers teach in Mandarin.
When the boy returned home, his younger brothers and sisters gathered around him.
He has a large family, and even his seven or eight-year-old children wear crotchless pants and no clothes at all.
There is no way, just one word, poor.
Buying clothes requires money and cloth coupons. For children in mountainous areas, just being able to survive is already very good. Don’t think about having enough to eat or clothes to wear.
"Look what I brought you? These are biscuits, eat them quickly."
The five younger brothers and sisters swarmed around their brother, looking at the opened oil paper to reveal the sweet biscuits inside, and they all swallowed their saliva.
So delicious!
For them, these biscuits are the ultimate delicacy. They have never eaten this kind of food.
Just when the younger ones reached out to grab the biscuits and put them into their mouths, the older sister suddenly spoke:
"Leave some for mom and dad, don't finish it all."
The young man said, "Don't be afraid, I have another pack here. When my parents come back, we will eat this pack again."
Upon hearing this, the room suddenly fell into a sea of joy.
It’s just a pack of biscuits. For a starving child, it’s enough to swallow it.
Although it is sweet and delicious, they are hungrier and eat faster.
The youngest sister almost choked.
She didn't recover until her brother gave her a drink of water.
After their children finished eating, the neighbor's children also came.
These neighbors were all villagers who had met Zhou Jimin before. They came to the boy's house just to see if they could get a piece of the pie.
As a result, they only saw the greased paper that had been licked clean by the teenagers.
"Huwazi, you're going too far. Why did you finish all the biscuits in our house?"
"Fart, these are all my biscuits. When did they become yours?"
"That's it, Erdan, please don't mess around. These are the biscuits my elder brother brought back..."
However, Erdan would not listen to these words. He only knew that his biscuits were gone.
So, without saying a word, he rushed forward and struggled with the young boy Huwazi.
In rural areas, fights are too common.
But in mountainous areas, everyone is a neighbor, and fights are not very common.
Huwazi's sisters all started crying, and the younger brothers stepped forward to help their elder brother.
For a moment, the scene was a bit chaotic, but there was no accident. Erdan would definitely suffer.
Zhou Jimin had just climbed a mountain, but he didn't know that a fight had started over just two packs of biscuits.
Going from the mountain village where the boy is to Fenghuang Village, the path is very narrow and overgrown.
Zhou Jimin guessed that people in Fenghuang Village rarely go out, and it is summer, so weeds grow very quickly.
Otherwise, there are other paths leading to the outside world in Fenghuang Village, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many weeds.
"Damn it, isn't it Xu Yiming who hasn't been sent to Phoenix Village yet?"
Suddenly, an idea popped into Zhou Jimin's head.
The more I thought about it, the more likely it was that I felt it was possible.
"Damn, if Xu Yiming hasn't been sent to Fenghuang Village, wouldn't my trip be in vain?"
There were so many weeds on this path. If it weren't for the fact that it was still vaguely visible on the ground, he would have thought there was no road here.
But no matter what, he still had to go to Fenghuang Village to take a look in person.
It took more than an hour to climb the second mountain.
Looking at Fenghuang Village below, he suddenly had the urge to settle here.
At the foot of the mountain are rows of terraced fields, green rice fields, and old farmers walking in the fields holding old cows. It's nothing more than poetic and picturesque.
The rice harvest season has not yet arrived, but the harmonious picture in front of us is particularly attractive.
This should be the legendary paradise.
Of course, it refers to the natural environment.
As for the villagers of Fenghuang Village, Zhou Jimin has not yet come into contact with them, so he doesn’t know much about them.
Walking along the path down the mountain, the rugged and steep road is really daunting.
However, once you reach the terraced area, the path becomes much wider.
But the problem also arises, that is, there is still a lot of livestock manure.
This is very strange.
Cow dung is okay, after all, buffalo and cattle are definitely needed for farming, but what about sheep dung?
Could it be that their small mountain village still has a lot of livestock?
If not, there is no explanation for the sheep dung on the mountain road.
Of course Zhou Jimin is very familiar with the feces of poultry and livestock.
Not to mention that he raised a lot of poultry in space. In his previous life, he was also a farmer, and almost everyone in the village raised cattle and sheep.
However, later on, the economic crop of bamboo became very popular, and almost all the wasteland was reclaimed and planted with bamboo.
Because food like bamboo shoots is very common in many places, such as snail noodles and snack shops.
In addition, the bamboo itself can be sold to make paper, and the bamboo leaves can be picked and dried to make rice dumplings.
In short, everything is a treasure.
As a result, livestock such as cattle and sheep have completely disappeared, because the wasteland has been planted with bamboo, and there is no grass for the cattle and sheep to eat.
Soon, Zhou Jimin caught up with an old farmer and asked him about Xu Yiming's movements.
As expected, the old farmer couldn't understand it at all.
He had no choice but to follow the old farmer into the village.
There should be someone in the village who can speak Mandarin.
Even if those young people don't understand much, there should be old people who understand Mandarin.
However, it is still difficult to walk along the terraced fields.
While other old farmers are walking on flat ground, he is somewhat hesitant about looking forward and backward.
After finally arriving in the village, the wooden houses they built against the mountains reveal their original flavor.
Interestingly, he passed by several farmers' houses and saw a lot of bacon hanging on their kitchens.
Fenghuang Village is not simple, every household has bacon.
It seems like this is an Orion village.
After walking for a while, I finally found an old man in his 60s or 70s who could understand Mandarin and communicate.
"Hunter, where are you from? What business do you have in our village?"
This old man's Mandarin is surprisingly standard, but you can still tell that it's a southern accent.
"I am a postman from the province. I have a very urgent and important confidential document here. I need to deliver it in person to a young man named Xu Yiming who has gone to the countryside. I would like to ask you, do you have any young people who have gone to the countryside recently?" The old man shook his head and said that no outsiders had come to their village in recent years, and today was the first time that outsiders came here.
After hearing what the old man said, Zhou Jimin felt that he was right.
Otherwise, the information given by Lao Xing is wrong, and it is not Fenghuang Village at all.
He asked the elderly about many recent policies, and it turned out that they actually heard about the policy of young people going to the countryside.
Several nearby villages have young people going to the countryside, but their village has not yet.
After knowing these things, Zhou Jimin felt that Xu Yiming was still on the road and had not arrived at Fenghuang Village yet.
Otherwise, something happened on the road.
"Then I'm sorry to bother you. I'll leave first and come back to your village in a few days."
The old people were not surprised by this.
Today's communication methods are very backward, especially when people are already on the road, it is very normal to be unable to contact them.
"Comrade, if you don't dislike our village, you can stay and wait."
The mountain road is rugged, and the old man also kindly reminded me.
An ordinary person would naturally be in a hurry to respond, but Zhou Jimin shook his head and refused.
After leaving Fenghuang Village, he walked towards the terraces and then went straight to the mountain.
But as soon as he came to the mountain and was about to find a piece of flat land and leave, he was stopped by the shouts of several villagers.
"Comrade postman, comrade postman, great, we finally found you."
The three villagers looked very happy, but Zhou Jimin was very strange.
"I've seen you. Your name is Huwazi, right? I'm not very good at your dialect. Do you have any business with me?"
The boy in front of me has a bruised nose and a swollen face, but it can be seen that he is in good spirits.
"That's it..."
Huwazi felt a little aggrieved and briefly described the matter.
It turned out that the two packs of biscuits were the cause of the trouble. Erdan was beaten wildly by him and his two younger brothers, leaving a lot of blood.
The villagers were shocked and invited the village chief to seek justice.
But Erdan’s mother slapped her down, saying that the two packs of biscuits given by Zhou Jimin were her family’s share, because she was the first person Zhou Jimin met.
This made Huwazi so angry that he cried. He tried his best to defend himself, but it was useless to yell.
The father said that the public was right and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was right. Suddenly, even the village chief didn’t know what the situation was and how to deal with it.
Finally, someone suggested that they go to Zhou Jimin and ask him to help.
Anyway, Fenghuang Village is surrounded by high mountains. If you want to leave Fenghuang Village, you can only pass through their village.
So, the two villagers and Huwa rushed to Fenghuang Village non-stop.
After Zhou Jimin heard this, he thought in his heart: Damn it, is there any need to fight for it like this?
However, this is the case in this era. When faced with interests, which villager would not fight for every cent?