After Brother Yang went with Xiao Chen once, he really didn't dare to go again.
When Xiao Chen was about to go up the mountainside with Tang Bing to see the old lady, Xiao Chen suddenly remembered about Yang Laowu and the others, saying that they went up the mountain to cut down trees and each of them only earned ten or twenty thousand.
Xiao Chen initially believed it, but after going up the mountain, Xiao Chen discovered that it was simply impossible.
"Brother Yang, do Yang Laowu and the other tree fellers still have families?"
"They should all be gone. Some of them are very distant relatives." Especially Yang Laowu, who is a bachelor himself, and his relationship with his uncles and cousins is not very good.
This time not only did he die, but also those uncles and brothers with whom he was not on good terms died.
"Is there a school or anything like that in the village?"
"There is a primary school in Yangjiacun, and teachers from big cities used to come to teach there," Brother Yang said.
"I see."
Neither Brother Yang nor Tang Bing knew what Xiao Chen was thinking.
And Tang Bing thought Xiao Chen wanted to do some good things again, but now that the plague has not eased, what did Xiao Chen want to do?
When Xiao Chen and Tang Bing went to see the old lady, Brother Yang did not follow them.
When Xiao Chen reached the mountainside, he found the young Miao girl cooking.
Most villagers do not eat breakfast because they do not have this habit. Moreover, they will have breakfast at 1:00 in the morning, and then when they come back from work at noon, they must be tired and hungry and have another meal, but it is not considered a dinner.
Have dinner at five or six in the evening.
In this regard, there is still a big difference from those who commute to get off work in the city.
The Miao girl should be cooking breakfast now.
"Doctor Xiao, Doctor Tang, have you had breakfast?" the young Miao girl asked.
"We had breakfast in the canteen." Xiao Chen went to the yard and looked at the old lady.
Now the old lady is sitting on the Taishi chair basking in the sun. These days, she still takes Qinghao decoction and even takes a bath with Qinghao decoction.
Although the old lady may not know any medical skills, she must have memorized the folk remedy of Artemisia annua to treat the plague.
In fact, if the villagers in Yangjiazhai had believed what the old woman said, maybe so many innocent villagers would not have died.
The old woman was sitting on the Taishi chair and saw the two young men coming over. It turned out that the old woman had neither had contact with the Miao people opposite, nor had she lived with the scattered Han people in Yangjiazhai.
However, the old lady didn't have much impression of the Han people. After all, she had very few contacts with them.
In ancient times, Miao and Han people probably rarely intermarry, and it is basically the same now.
However, in the past few days, Xiao Chen and Tang Bing came here every day, which made the old lady have a very good impression of Xiao Chen and the two. She learned that this young man was actually the biggest person in charge of the quarantine area, and he also cured the diseases of those patients.
The old lady looked at Xiao Chen with admiration.
"Young man, little girl, are you here again?" The old woman spoke in the local dialect, and Xiao Chen certainly couldn't understand it. However, after the young Miao girl who was making breakfast came over to translate for Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen understood it.
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While the young Miao girl and the old woman were having breakfast, Xiao Chen and Tang Bing were sitting in the courtyard halfway up the mountain.
From a Feng Shui perspective, the Feng Shui in this village is not very good. If it were really that good, such plagues would not appear one after another.
As for the old lady, her feng shui is also very bad, but at her age, it may be difficult to change.
Xiao Chen wanted the old lady to at least go to Miao Village, or live in a place where five-guarantee households live. Otherwise, she would be here alone. Even if village officials occasionally came to see her, like that day, if she was delayed by another day and a half, she might
Even if he died here, no one would know.
Therefore, Xiao Chen knew that this required ideological work, and it was best to let this young Miao girl do more ideological work for the other party.
Xiao Chen and Tang Bing were sitting there, and the old lady and the young Miao girl were eating breakfast there. The food was also sent by the village cadres below. It was also very ordinary meat and vegetables, at least it didn't have anything at all yet.
However, when this plague ends, I'm afraid the young lady's family won't let her come over.
After the two of them finished eating, the old lady went back to sit down on the grand master's chair. Xiao Chen saw the other party suddenly sitting up and pointing around, saying what Xiao Chen couldn't understand at all.
After the young lady explained, Xiao Chen learned that what the old lady was talking about was that Yangjiazhai, the "concave"-shaped village chief, turned out to be all those houses inside and outside, including stone houses and stilted buildings, all of which were Miao villages.
It is a unique house. I heard that at its peak, four to five thousand people lived here.
A village of four to five thousand people is actually quite a lot of people. Now there are only four to five hundred people in the whole village. If it weren't for the quarantine area that infected the villagers from outside and the medical staff who came here, this village would look the same.
It would be very deserted.
"The old lady said that when her mother was a child, this village had the largest population. Later, bandits entered the village and many people died due to the plague, so there were not many people here. Later, some Han people came because of the war outside.
After living here, they never left. Later, those Han people went out to develop, and when their families were better off, they moved to small towns, even county towns and big cities." explained the young Miao girl.
At first, Xiao Chen was surprised. However, after seeing the coffins in the cave in the back mountain, Xiao Chen felt that it was really normal for so many people to live here.
Looking at the past now, it was almost all woods. Xiao Chen understood what the changing world meant. In just one hundred years, this place had changed so much.
"Believe me, after this time, there will definitely be no more hundred-year curse." Xiao Chen said.
"Doctor Xiao, you, are you really a witch doctor?" When the young Miao girl went down the mountain to get something, she heard other villagers talking about Xiao Chen's condition. She felt that the news was getting more and more magical. However, now she saw Xiao Chen sitting
Chatting with her here seems very ordinary, no different from ordinary people!
She felt like she was the younger brother next door. It was just the thought that Xiao Chen might be the son of a high-ranking official from outside that made her feel that Xiao Chen was a little far away from her.
"Little sister, what kind of witch doctor? I study traditional Chinese medicine, which is similar to the traditional Chinese medicine outside, but it's a little different."
In fact, Xiao Chen knew why those villagers thought that way. If they really wanted to say that he was a witch doctor, it would make sense.
It's just that many powerful traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have disappeared. It is these mysterious traditional Chinese medicine techniques that are closely related to the so-called witch doctors. (To be continued)