"Come on, try it." Miao Xihe took a small wooden tripod and placed it in front of him. He opened the lid and found some very scary poisonous insects inside. They were rolling and biting, making shuddering noises. sound.
"do not be afraid."
"I'm not afraid." The young man put his hand into the wooden tripod without hesitation.
A magical thing happened. The bugs in the wooden tripod seemed to be very afraid of the breath on his hand. They did not dare to get close and avoided in all directions. A vacuum area was formed where his finger fell.
"Sure enough." Miao Xihe was very pleased to see this.
"Knife." After hearing this, a person immediately handed him a sharp knife, which he wiped repeatedly.
"Xiaohe, I want to take some blood from you. It won't hurt very much."
"Okay, patriarch." The young man was not afraid at all.
Miao Xihe gently cut his wrist and drained half a bowl of blood.
"Okay." He quickly applied ointment on the wound, and soon, the wound stopped bleeding and healed.
"Xiaohe, tell me the truth, do you feel uncomfortable anywhere in your body?"
"No, very good." The young man said.
"Are you not willing to stay here?"
"Well, I'm used to it," the young man said.
"If you bear with me as long as I can, I'll be able to leave soon." Miao Xihe held him in his arms and comforted him softly.
"It's okay, patriarch." This young man is very sensible.
"Okay, okay," Miao Xihe nodded vigorously, looking very pleased.
He chatted with the young man for a long time.
"Xiaohe, let's go out for a walk."
He took the young man out the other way. This was an extremely dangerous road. Deep in the cave, it was almost a hole in the cliff, leading straight to a cave entrance halfway up the mountain. If it were an ordinary person, even with the help of a rope, It is very difficult to get in and out, because this is not only a problem of cliffs, there are also a large number of strange insects such as centipedes on the cliffs. They are vicious in appearance, but they are highly poisonous.
"Come, I'll carry you."
"I can do it myself."
"bring it on."
Miao Xihe carried the young man on his back and climbed up the steep cliff like a nimble ape. In an instant, we reached the entrance of the cave halfway up the mountain, and then came outside.
The sun is shining brightly, even a little bit blinding.
Under the sunlight, the young man looked no more than twenty years old. His face was rosy and his eyes were bright. He looked up at the blue sky and was lost in thought for a long time.
"Xiaohe, I'm going to read a passage from a medical book. Remember it carefully." Miao Xihe said.
"Okay, patriarch."
Miao Xihe immediately began to recite. His voice was not loud, his speed was very slow, and his words were very clear. He repeated it three times in succession.
"How is it? How much do you remember?"
"I remember everything." The young man said.
"Really, recite it again and let me listen." Miao Xihe said.
Xiaohe immediately recited it again, very fluently, and every word was correct.
"Okay, very good. It will be good for you to think about this when you have nothing to do."
"Yes, patriarch." the young man said.
The old man and the young man were sitting on the mountainside, looking quietly into the distance. After a long time, the young man stood up.
"Let's go down, Patriarch, it's been too long, they should be worried."
"Well, okay." Miao Xihe looked at the young child with very complicated feelings.
He is so well-behaved and cooperative. How great it would be if he were his own son!
The two people came down from the cliff and entered the cave again.
"Xiaohe, I'll come again tomorrow."
"Clan leader, go slowly." The young man watched Miao Xihe leave the cave.
After diving out and making sure there was no one around, the two of them came out of the water and entered the forest.
"Xiaohe is a good boy." Miao Xihe said.
"Well, he was very obedient and cooperative, which surprised us all and made us very happy. The patriarch has not loved him in vain all these years." said the middle-aged man accompanying him next to him.
"Feng Xing, if something happens to me this time, the village will have to rely on you from now on." Miao Xihe stopped and said to the man beside him.
"Chief, why do you suddenly say such things? The village cannot live without you!" The middle-aged man said hurriedly after hearing this.
"Fengxing, I have never regarded you as an outsider, or even as half of my son. This time, the turmoil outside has been too great. Some people are very dissatisfied. I am afraid that the peaceful life of our village is coming to an end." Miao Xihe said.
In recent times, more and more people have come to the stockade. People from outside have brought things from outside. People in the stockade are rejecting them, but this is only temporary. It is the inherent tradition in the stockade that binds them. Sooner or later, someone will accept it, because the things out there are so exciting and corrosive. If one person accepts it, there will be a second and a third one. It’s like a dam breaking, opening a gap little by little, and then trying to block it. It would be too difficult to live there. Sooner or later the embankment will burst, and then there will be earth-shaking changes. At that time, people's hearts also changed, and the village was no longer so easy to control.
"I never imagined that the old patriarch's words would come true in my hands." Miao Xihe stretched out his right hand.
He tried hard to stop it, to keep it, but when the situation came, he would fall into the surging river. He couldn't stop it. He couldn't stop it. Sooner or later, what he protected would change.
When the two of them walked to the village, they saw a wave of outsiders, four men and two women, carrying backpacks, looking at this paradise with joy and curiosity.
"Look, it's here again." Miao Xihe pointed at them.
"Bring them to me." Miao Xihe said.
"Yes." The middle-aged man beside him said.
In the wooden house at Miao Xihe's house, six young outsiders looked around curiously. This ancient wooden building, as well as the middle-aged man sitting at the top, was also staring at them. There are many rumors about the patriarch of this paradise on the Internet. It is said that he is a staunch guardian of the isolation strategy in this village and has done a lot of bad things in this village. He is the local overlord of one side and is not a good person.
"Hello, welcome to our village." Miao Xihe said with a smile.
"Hey, the situation seems different from the rumors!" A few people looked at me and I looked at you. To be honest, they were still worried when they came in.
"Thank you, hello, Miao chief."
"You know me?"
"There are a lot of rumors about you on the Internet."
"Oh, how did you say that?" Miao Xihe said with a smile after hearing this.
"Well, that's not a nice thing to say." The man who was the leader of the six people said with a smile.
"To be honest, I really don't welcome outsiders like you."
"Can you tell me why? If more people come to such a good place, it will definitely bring you a lot of income. Moreover, the road in is so bad, it will be inconvenient for you to travel, right?"
"We are not that eager for money. We can live here and be self-sufficient. It doesn't matter if the road is poor, because we basically don't go out much. Maybe you think our life is very closed-minded and backward, but we feel that we are like this Life is very comfortable and very happy. If you don’t believe it, you can ask. I can’t guarantee that everyone will say so, but more than 95% of people will think so. "Miaoxi River Road.
"But are you willing to continue like this?"
"Then why do you come here? Why do you think it's a good place? Because of those four words, paradise, right?"
"Yes, there are no factories, no cars, no smoke, no noise. All we have is nature, the most primitive nature, which is intoxicating."
"You are used to life in big cities. You will be surprised, like and yearn for a place like our village. But think about it, if we let go and built roads, our place would still be like this. I guess In less than ten years, this place will be completely different. There will be factories, cars, bars, and restaurants. It will no longer be so quiet and natural, just like the ancient city of Lijiang.
"Have you been out?"
"I've been out, and I've been to more than one place." Miao Xihe said with a smile. (To be continued)