Lingnan Province is experiencing a sultry summer at this time.
It's quiet at night.
In the urban area of Shanmei City, Lingnan, in a private house on the outskirts.
At this time, the air conditioner outside the house was whirring.
But the owner of the room was in his sleep at this time, sweating profusely and soaked in sweat.
Suddenly, the young man, who was frowning, suddenly jumped up in excitement.
"Huhu" Huang Haojie gasped with his face pale and his eyes bloodshot.
It seemed like a nightmare.
He pushed his exhausted body to the bathroom.
Hiss! He picked up some cool tap water and scrubbed his face vigorously.
Looking at himself in the mirror with a haggard expression and bloodshot eyes, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Exhaled! Turned off the faucet and prepared to go back to the room.
As soon as he turned around and walked out of the bathroom, he saw his mother Wang Fanghua at the door of his room. Before he could speak, his mother asked worriedly:
"Xiaojie! Are you having nightmares again? Why don't you go to a big hospital in the provincial capital tomorrow?"
"It's okay! It's the same when you go to the big hospital in the province. I've passed all the tests that should be done in the city. Maybe I've been too stressed recently! I'll be fine after taking a rest. Mom, you should rest first!" Huang Haojie said with a smile.
"Then Xiaojie, you should go to bed early!" The mother was still a little worried, but in order not to put pressure on Huang Junjie, she went back to the room to rest.
Huang Junjie supported his exhausted body and returned to the room.
He turned on the desk lamp and sat silently in front of the desk. He saw the design drawings of an airship spread on the desk. He flipped through it gently. There was also a large stack of design drawings below, all of which were details of various parts and components of the airship.
design diagram.
Huang Junjie looked at the design drawing in front of him. It was so real. It was as if the airship in the design drawing had really existed.
And the experiences in the dream were just like real life. Fighting on the battlefield, building an empire, developing technology and farming, it was like experiencing it personally.
This strange dream started to appear on his birthday on January 15th this year, and it occurred about two to three times to eighty-nine times a month.
Each time is a different scene, including battlefield fighting, scolding Fang Qiu, scientific research, and daily life, etc.
It was a world completely different from history, the world of steampunk and the world of the Chinese people.
The reason why it is said to be very real is because the first time Huang Junjie dreamed about this strange dream, he was on the battlefield. The scene of flesh and blood flying everywhere and corpses everywhere made him vomit violently and made him sick for several times afterwards.
sky.
But today, he finally got a useful piece of information in his dream. If this information was true, then he could be sure that this dream really existed and was actually experienced by himself in parallel time and space.
Huang Junjie lay down on the bed and fell asleep quietly, because it was very easy for him to fall asleep after the strange dream.
A night of silence.
Lingnan in July is sultry and full of vitality, with long days and short nights.
Early in the morning, the sound of cicada floated gently into the village.
Huang Junjie quickly got up and tidied up. After brushing his teeth and washing his face, he said to his parents: "Mom and Dad! There is no need to cook for me at noon. I will go for a walk in Lotus Mountain!"
After saying that, he went out with a backpack.
"This child! Why did you leave without eating breakfast?" the mother said, looking at the prepared breakfast.
"Forget it! Xiaojie may be too stressed these days, let him go for a walk in Lotus Mountain!" Huang Fuguo said while eating breakfast.
"Old man! Do you think it's because Xiaojie's work in the company is not going well that he has nightmares all day long? How about we let him find another job?" Mother thought for a while and said.
"Well! Let's find an opportunity to ask him in a few days!" Father hurriedly ate the salted duck eggs with the white porridge.
the other side.
Huang Haojie took advantage of his day off on Saturday and came to the bus station and took the bus to Haicheng County.
Lianhua Mountain is located in the northwest of Haicheng County, Shantou, and is one of the branches of the Lingnan Mountains. This Lianhua Mountain is not the same place as the Lianhua Mountain in Panyu, but they are both branches of the Lingnan Mountains.
Because the main peak resembles a lotus, it is named Lotus Mountain.
It is also one of the famous Buddhist and Taoist holy places in the Lingnan region, with many Buddhist temples and Taoist temples.
Wen Tianxiang also passed by here when he was fighting against the Yuan Dynasty.
However, Huang Haojie came here not to see any Buddhist temples or Taoist temples, nor to experience the footsteps of historical celebrities.
In his dream last night, he knew that in parallel time and space, he had visited the Shanmei area in Lingnan, seemingly to repay his hometown.
Ordered mineral exploration in the Lingnan area, so the mineral resources in Lingnan went through 'own' large-scale detailed exploration.
Three small gold mines have been explored in the Lianhua Mountain area of Shantou. Of course, the reason why Huang Haojie was so impressed was that one of them was found in a canyon cave, and a huge gold nugget was found in it.
The nugget gold weighed more than 30 kilograms, and this piece of nugget gold was finally given to Huang Haojie.
Because of this, his memory in the dream is so profound.
And he knew that there had been no news of a gold mine in Lianhua Mountain so far, so presumably this gold mine had not been discovered yet.
So he decided to check his luck. If there was a gold mine, he could get a windfall and confirm the real existence of parallel time and space.
If there is no gold mine, just go out and relax.
He purchased a detailed map of Lianhua Mountain from a large bookstore in Haicheng County.
I also bought a flashlight, rope, shovel, a hatchet, dry food, mineral water, etc. that I carried in my backpack.
So we took a tricycle and headed towards Lotus Mountain.
"This little brother is the donkey friend who went to Lianhua Mountain to explore, right?" the uncle driving the tricycle asked in Chaoshan dialect.
"Yes! I heard that when Mr. Peng was engaged in revolution, he once hid a batch of treasures in Lianhua Mountain. Don't you want to try your luck?" Huang Junjie borrowed the donkey down the slope and said with a smile.
"Haha! Little brother! This is someone from the tourism bureau bragging. Don't be fooled. Your accent is from the city!" the tricycle uncle said talkatively.
"Uncle has a good ear. He lives in the city. I know about the treasure. I'm not specifically looking for the treasure today. This is just an entertainment activity to try your luck! Treat it as a sport." Huang Haojie continued to say with a smile.
"That's right! It's good to exercise more! Just like that boy in my family, his eyesight is damaged by looking at the computer all day long!" The tricycle uncle drove steadily while talking to Huang Haojie.
Apparently the tricycle man drives this road often and seems to be very familiar with it. Even though it is a rural road, he still drives smoothly.
The place Huang Junjie wants to go is on the edge of Lianhua Mountain, about fifteen kilometers away from Haicheng County. It is not the Lianhua Mountain Scenic Area, but a real wilderness.
He and the tricycle uncle were chatting along the way. Before he knew it, more than half an hour had passed, and the destination was in sight.
"Here we are! Brother Huang!" The tricycle uncle slowly parked the car at the entrance of a small village.
"Come on!" Huang Junjie quickly took out his wallet and paid.
"Brother Huang, you can call me on my mobile phone when you go back. If I'm nearby, I can pick you up!" The tricycle uncle smiled and waved to him.
"Okay!" Huang Junjie said as he walked towards the small village.
Looking at the archway of the small village, the three characters of Hailian Township are carved on it.
But walking in, Huang Junjie only saw some old people moving around, and very few young people.
As we go deeper, the village becomes more and more desolate, with only crumbling stone houses with walls covered with moss and morning glory.
From time to time, you can see banyan trees and plum blossoms entrenched in dilapidated houses.
Another left-behind village that has lost its young people.
This is also the reality in Shantou and Mei areas. Most young people go to work in the Xiangjiang area of Pengcheng, Yangcheng, and only come back to their hometowns during holidays.
Leaving the small village and heading west, not far away is the foothills of Lianhua Mountain.
Along the way, Huang Junjie saw many lychee trees that were full of fruits. The branches were covered with red lychees, and the longan trees were also bearing green fruits.
But looking at the large swath of lychees falling on the ground, he was quite helpless.
He grows lychees and longans at home, but in recent years he has not been able to make much money from growing lychees and longans, and has even lost money.
The labor cost is nearly 200 yuan a day, plus pesticides and fertilizers. If there is a bumper harvest, it will be even more thankless. The purchasers will keep the price very low.
Even good varieties of lychee, Feizixiaogui flavored glutinous rice, etc., are purchased for less than two yuan per catty, not to mention ordinary varieties such as black leaf, white wax, and Fenghua, which are purchased for less than one yuan per catty.
Imagine asking a person to pick lychees for a day, and they will pick more than 1,000 kilograms of lychees. The labor cost is 200 yuan, plus pesticides, fertilizers and previous labor costs, there is not much money to make.
Therefore, the abandonment of fruit farmers in the Shantou-Mei area has become more and more obvious.
What he saw today was just a microcosm of it.
After walking through the semi-deserted fruit forest, we began to enter the Lotus Mountain.
This is Lianhua Mountain in the edge area, and there are no signs of artificial development.
Some are just mountain roads made by one or two people. These roads were made by travel friends or people who picked green herbs.
Huang Junjie looked at the map and the surrounding terrain, and from time to time he took out the satellite positioning map on his mobile phone to compare his position.
As we went deeper, the scorching July sun had already reached noon. He was sweating profusely, and from time to time he took out glucose and light salt water to replenish electrolytes.
After entering the mountainous area, he had to be careful. After all, there were venomous snakes such as cobras in Lotus Mountain, and the surrounding areas were overgrown with weeds and dense trees. From time to time, he swung his hatchet to clear away some obstructing branches and vines.
Perhaps this is because there is no road in the world, only when people overcome obstacles can they find a way.
He thought happily while overcoming thorns and thorns.