If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, it would be hard for Li Muye and others to believe that such a place would exist in this era.
The whole village is located in a huge cave. More than 1,300 people in the village live in the cave. Although each family has a house, they are all very simple wooden structure houses. It can be said that the real day and night are facing each other.
It was the morning when Li Muye and others came here with Wu Runtu. Everyone in the village went to dig a canal. Out of curiosity, Lu Shaofen asked Wu Runtu to take the road to the construction site. Everyone followed Wu Runtu from the cave, trekking along the steep and rugged mountain road for several kilometers, and finally arrived in front of a mountain lake surrounded by mountains in the depths of a big mountain. Sure enough, I saw many villagers digging along the steep cliffs.
Among these people are elders who are elders, and there are also little dolls who don't even have to wear pants. Everyone is working hard, sweat is flowing on his face, blood is soaking the torn gloves between his fingers. They walked on narrow cliff paths, risking their lives, enduring hard conditions that ordinary people could not imagine, and working tirelessly, but in their faces, Li Muye and others saw only hope, no complaints.
At the moment when he saw this situation, Lu Shaofen forgave Wu Runtu completely.
"This is a place where the soul can be sublimated." Li Muye sighed.
Wu Lanzhu took out a box of biscuits from his backpack, put it to his mouth and just ate a piece, and suddenly noticed that a little boy with a bare butt in front was looking at her enviously. After a moment of stunned, he handed the box over. The little boy hesitated first, then jumped quickly, took the box, bowed respectfully to Ulanzhu, and then turned around and ran. Seeing him run up to an elderly couple and pass the biscuits to the two elderly people to eat.
Li Muye watched all this silently, feeling a little moved in his heart.
Poverty and misery did not make them poor, at least in this village, they still inherit the noble virtue.
Turning his head and glanced at Wu Runtu beside him, he whispered quietly: "I think you definitely don't want them to know what you are doing outside."
Wu Runtu frowned and replied unexpectedly: "Of course I will let them know what they have done. In our village, there is nothing that cannot be said."
Li Muye found a flat stone to greet the others to sit down together. Wu Runtu came over and said blankly: "You have seen everything you want to see. Has our deal been concluded?"
"Don't worry, sit down and speak slowly." Li Muye patted the position next to him, and said: "I want to see more than this, and maybe more to do. Now I can only assure you that I have nothing right. Your unfavorable thoughts."
Wu Runtu said: "You have seen it too, we have nothing to lose."
Li Muye said: "What I see is that you need a lot of things."
Wu Runtu took a deep look at Li Muye, his eyes rolled, and said against his will: "To be happy in peace and poverty, what we have is beyond your imagination."
If you really are so noble, your old boy won't go out and do that embarrassing thing. Li Muye didn't pierce him, and said: "Obviously, the pain caused by barrenness beyond the bottom line is beyond your imagination, so that you have to go out and solve it by being a tiger."
"If you have passed it, you will be punished, and the murderer will kill it. It is fair and honest." Wu Runtu said very stiffly: "I was ready to bear the price when I made a mistake."
"What then?" Li Muye stared at him: "You paid such a high price to lead them through such a life?"
Wu Runtu said: "To be honest, I don't think there is anything wrong with such a day. In today's world, strong and weak, many robbery, rich and insulting, noble and arrogant, instead of collaborating with each other, it is better to stay here in peace and happiness, and maintain One's own nobility."
"But you couldn't keep this nobleness after all." Li Muye said: "Do you know why this is happening?" Without waiting for him to answer, he continued: "It's because this world lacks a sense of uprightness that is turbid and clear. , Your escape is not only to be good at yourselves, but also to indulge in this filthy world. Sooner or later, you will be forced to join in the same defilement here, and by then, it will be too late for you to stand up and clear up the turbidity. ."
"To benefit the world, to eliminate the harm of the world." Wu Runtu said: "In the era of cold weapons, there have been people here from generations to generations who have come out to support justice, but in this age of the legal system, guns are rampant, and our battlefields have long been used to kill the enemy. It doesn't fit in with the entire era, and the fame created by the ancestors in the past has become a passing fame."
"It's a good one!" Li Muye praised: "As long as there is such aspiration, it will not be out of date in any era."
Ulanzhu and Lu Shaofen watched intently and listened attentively. Lu Shaofen couldn't help but whispered to Ulanzhu: "Big Brother said so good!" Ulanzhu pursed his lips and pressed her ears. Said: "Big Brother, this is to recruit troops to buy horses."
Wu Runtu is obviously not so easy to solicit, he pondered for a moment and then said: "Mr. Li will report to you, he will be merciless, and he doesn't look like the enthusiastic old man."
Li Muye asked in turn: "In this world, how much can you do with this kind of person?" Then he said: "I never boast of being a good person, but at least I can abide by the moral spirit of not violating me, of course. , I am indeed not the kind of heroic chivalrous man who has tens of thousands of people. To be honest, I am at best an eclectic person with bad personal morality. I cannot simply sum it up with good or bad, but there is one thing. I am much better than a good person like you, because I can make money and do good things in this world."
Wu Runtu listened carefully to these words from the bottom of his heart and from the bottom of his heart, sometimes confused and sometimes stunned. Hearing this interjected: "Of course we can do bad things."
Li Muye smiled and continued: "Water can carry a boat and it can overturn it. If it is used properly, it is a good strategy. If the martial arts are used improperly, it is just a means of murder. At that time, when the conscience is distressed, I will help the abuser."
Wu Runtu's skin turned red and said, "I will definitely give you an explanation about that."
Li Muye nodded and said: "I believe you will, but I do not agree with you doing this. It is enough to know the mistake and correct it. This is the fundamental purpose of punishment. If the person who made the mistake can recognize the mistake and make up his mind to correct it. , I think there is no need to accept punishment."
Wu Runtu said: "Rules are rules, and they are the same as outside laws. Since they are enacted, they must be implemented to the end."
"Whatever you do." Li Muye said: "Going back to the previous topic, you think it's good for you to stay here and live by the old rules, but the real world is becoming more and more unacceptable for you to continue. On days like this, this time it’s to build a reservoir and build a power plant, and the next time it’s not complete, we will develop tourist attractions and let you move out of here. What will you do then?"
This sentence reached his heart. Wu Runtu silently lowered his head in thought.
Li Muye continued: "Don't think about it. There is no real pure land in this world. If there is such a place, it is also in response to the Buddhist saying. Is it dirty?"
These words are thought-provoking and chewy.
"Yes." Wu Runtu suddenly raised his head and said: "What you said makes sense. Our place cannot be undisturbed forever. The times are developing rapidly and the outside world is changing too fast. In the past, we were isolated from the world. Fumokai, now, those engineering equipment can easily break through the sky."
"At the beginning, our ancestors came here to escape from the world because they refused to submit to Yuan Danzi. They never asked future generations to stay here forever." Wu Runtu said: "The reason for staying here for so many years has been passed down from generation to generation, but It’s luck."
Li Muye heard the meaning of looseness from his words, and asked interestedly: "Why do you say that?"
"Our village has three main surnames, namely Wu, Yang and Zhang. Originally, there were only Wu and Yang. The ancestors were generals under the account of General Yue. They have settled down here since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. Zhang’s family came here to avoid disaster, but it was the descendants of Zhang Shicheng, who was taken seriously by the court at the time. When the ancestors learned of this incident, they had been married to this family and their blood was thicker than water, so they broke their way out of the mountain. Later, in the 300th year of the Qing Dynasty, everyone respected their ancestors and stayed in the mountains to practice martial arts, and then it was the Republic of China. The warlord’s separatist regime and the turbulent times are not as good as the mountains..."
Li Muye interrupted him suddenly, and said solemnly: "The village can stay in the mountains, but life must never go on like this again!"
Wu Runtu let out a cry, looked at Li Muye blankly, and said, "What do you mean?"
Li Muye said, "I said you can't continue to live this kind of life. You can be noble in spirit, but it shouldn't become an obstacle to the pursuit of better material conditions."
Speaking of this, it is very clear and thorough.
"It's not easy." Wu Runtu no longer pretends to be high-level Taoism, and said in a realistic manner: "We are too disconnected from the outside world. There is only one private school in the village. The teachings are all knowledge that is not available nowadays. Within a radius of more than ten kilometers, you can The land used for farming is all used, and at best it is self-sufficient. How can we develop the economy and improve living conditions?"
"Yes." Li Muye said solemnly: "People are resources!"
"People?" Wu Runtu said with a wry smile: "You may not know the specific situation of our place. Don't be afraid to tell you the truth. Our place has not been joined by outsiders for almost 20 years."
He went on to say: "Before liberation, the population increased by the people who fled here. After that, they caught up with the movement outside and fled for many people who could not eat. Finally, the population was guaranteed to multiply. But in the past two decades, our place has become The poorest village in the area, the surrounding villages and towns know our place, no one is willing to marry a girl. There are a lot of girls in the village. Until now, the village is full of unskilled bachelors who look straight at the sows. For those who are hooked, they all rely on the practice style to vent their excess energy."
Ulanzhu couldn't help but smile when he heard this.
Wu Runtu glanced at her and said seriously: "Don't laugh, I didn't tell you a joke."
Ulanzhu stuck out his tongue and beckoned to say sorry.
Wu Runtu said: "For you, such a day may be a little weird, but this is the current situation here. Young people can't find a wife too much. To tell you, my wife is twelve years older than me. Originally my sister-in-law, married to our house at the age of 18, almost watching me grow up, and then my brother was bitten to death by a poisonous snake while sleeping in the field, and my sister-in-law became my wife. I was lucky. At least there is a mother-in-law who accompanies you to sleep and has a baby to cook and live."
Lu Shaofen said, "Then what did you say before, don't you think there is anything wrong with such a day?"
Wu Runtu scratched his head and said, "I see that Mr. Li has what we mean. Because of the ancestral training, I still need to make some tests on Mr. Li's personality and purpose."
Li Muye said: "There are no bandits in distress, and no evil in disasters. What I want is such a hero."
Wu Runtu's eyes lit up, looking at Li Muye, and asked: "What is Mr. Li's plan?" (End of this chapter)