This village doesn't even have a name. Regardless of their age, the villagers inside are all dressed as mountain people. Based on Liu Qingshan's knowledge, the clothes are more like the style of the Ming Dynasty in China, with short tops and long bottoms. Among them, Xia Pei, The back and bijia are double-breasted, with slits on the left and right sides.
The only difference between men and women is the skirt. What they have in common is that the skirt is decorated with lace and the collar extends to the hem.
They may seem very delicate, but they are actually made of coarse cloth, and each one has obvious creases on them, which are obviously traces left by wandering around in the mountains and forests.
Li Chengxi introduced in a low voice, "The language they use is different from most Hanyu. With Mr. Liu's Hanyu level, he can understand one sentence in ten sentences. Fortunately, there are people who can speak pure Hanyu! It's not that the government doesn't want to change them." It’s because they don’t want to change their living conditions! Even the people here don’t accept the name given by the government to the village, saying that having a name means that the status has been improved, and it cannot deter the beasts in the forest!”
Seeing the confusion on Liu Qingshan's face, he smiled bitterly, "You don't understand, do you? I'm so confused myself that I can't figure out the way inside, even though I've been on this island for more than ten years! People in the village never explain, they just stick to their own principles, and as far as I know, except for the occasional young people who leave to go to school on land, no one will stay outside after completing their studies, and they will all choose to return to their hometown. So the people here seem to never leave their land!”
"My own land? Wasn't this place bought by the Li family?"
"What the Li family bought was only Saint Peak and the virgin forest. The place where the village is located still belongs to them. The contract signed by the Li family with the government included the right to allow the indigenous people here to enter. Later, after some compensation from the Li family, , they will no longer go up the mountain without permission. Only on the Beginning of Autumn every year, they will collectively go to the temple halfway up the mountain to burn a stick of incense."
"Why doesn't the government develop this place? Even if it only builds a small store, it can meet the daily needs of the island."
"Of course they refused. In fact, the people here are very tough. When the military base started to be built, many indigenous people died in disputes with the soldiers! So up to now, they have always hated the local soldiers, but They also know how terrifying modern weapons are, so they allow the Li family to settle in so that there can be a buffer between the village and the soldiers, and the Li family is therefore regarded as the middleman, responsible for mediating."
"Mediating for what?"
"Exchanging daily necessities, such as salt, cloth, lighters, milk powder, pastries, etc. People here don't eat kimchi, and they don't have the ability to exchange for higher value things!"
"The local government can help them, but the people here refuse?"
"Yes, they have been insisting on self-reliance for many years, or they are afraid that outside culture will intrude on their original stable life!"
"We ask his people to be our tour guides. What compensation do we need to pay?"
"Money is useless here. They will accept some tools, such as flashlights, shovels, lunch boxes, etc., but these things are only enough for them to lead people into the deep edges of the forest, some of the deepest parts covered by swamps. You need to pay with prey, but the animals in that location are terrifyingly big, and people who have been there have said that they have only seen wild boars there, each weighing more than 500 kilograms, and standing up to two people. Mi! Guns are prohibited here. Just imagine that no matter how sharp the knife in your hand is, it can't kill such a huge wild boar!"
"Are there any other beasts besides wild boars?"
"Yes, but only people have seen some footprints, five-finger marks the size of a washbasin, some like bear tracks; others are the marks left by wolves, but the local indigenous people will not tell you the answer to these, but I I saw a wolf skin in a villager’s house!”
The two people walked and talked like this and arrived at the village chief's home. In fact, the so-called home was just a thatched house, suspended half a meter above the ground by bamboo. There were more than a dozen people outside. A small yard of 1 square meter, with a simple fence as the wall.
The village chief is an old man whose actual age cannot be discerned. His face is covered with ravines and obvious traces of time.
Moreover, what he spoke was indeed a dialect that Liu Qingshan could not understand, but there was a girl in her twenties next to him, who also had white indigenous paint on her face. It could be vaguely seen that besides being dark, she had It's actually a little bit pretty.
The girl can speak fluent cold language. According to Li Chengxi's introduction, this girl is the granddaughter of the village chief and one of the young people who has studied in a city on land for several years.
It is obvious that such a primitive and backward village sends people out to study just to facilitate communication with people from the outside world.
However, this girl is either indifferent by nature or strictly abides by tribal rules. She only selectively asks questions and answers. Once she exceeds a certain bottom line of the villagers, she will not answer even one more word.
Li Chengxi is obviously an acquaintance here, which is why the village chief takes the initiative to come forward. Maybe if it were any other person, he might not even be able to find out where the village chief's home is.
Because the architectural style here is the same, and even the size of the courtyard is almost the same, the people who were watching before were all children or elderly women, and they obviously couldn't understand any of the questions.
Li Chengxi's question was also straightforward. The theme was to ask a guide to explore the way into the mountains. In fact, with Liu Qingshan's exploration ability, he already had an exploration range of thousands of meters, and no guide was needed.
But this is the private land of the Li family, and all rules must be followed. You can only make your own decisions after entering the deep mountains and forests.
The village chief burst into laughter, and the girl immediately translated: "My grandpa said, I want to see your remuneration, but forget about flashlights and the like. If there are enough knives, that's fine!"
Liu Qingshan and his party were all dressed in outdoor attire, and the natives here were not fools. It could be seen that they would carry some advanced tools suitable for survival in the mountains and forests.
But they all have skills in their bodies. There are machetes and other things among the things they bring, but at most they have one hand, and they can only take out a few or two, and they have to keep the rest for themselves.
However, Liu Qingshan rolled his eyes and took out a battery lamp from the backpack on his back. It was a single-link battery lamp used in TV studios for interior photography.
This is what he asked for at MCC TV station. There are two of them, so there is no problem in leaving one here.
"It's called a battery lamp. It can be used for lighting at night. In order to save electricity, you can remove the extra lamp tubes inside and keep only one that can be used for a long time! When the battery runs out of power, you can find this Mr. Li Find a place to fully charge it and continue using it, it’s much better than those flashlights, right?”
Today's flashlights are not rechargeable, they all use batteries of varying sizes, and only dozens of these battery lamps retain one lamp, which is equivalent to the brightness of a dozen flashlights.
He then tried it on the spot, and the village chief's face changed a little, and he murmured to his granddaughter for a long time.
The girl then said: "This thing is okay, but it is not enough to pay for the guide. If you can get more than 100 kilograms of prey, our village can help you send a young and strong guide!"
Li Chengxi looked embarrassed. He was about to say something, but Liu Qingshan preempted him: "That's it, but you need to tell me whether you need wild boars or other wild beasts!"
The girl was about to answer, but was interrupted by the old village chief coughing, and then the two had another exchange.
The girl then glared at Liu Qingshan fiercely. It was obvious that she had just reacted and she had almost been tricked into talking.
Then she said: "In order to punish you for being so cunning, Grandpa the guide sent me this time. The conditions of the transaction remain unchanged, and the depth of the depth will be determined based on my physical strength. You can refuse to agree and take the boat back immediately. !”
Liu Qingshan laughed twice: "Then you will lead the way. We are just here to find some herbs. Maybe we can find them when we go into the mountains!"
He didn't mind if he had a guide or not. He was willing to go through all the trouble to come here, just to take care of the face of the Li family.
The Li family may not want someone to monitor them. After all, there is some secret military base not far away. It is very likely that someone will watch over the group. It is the decision of the military.
And it is very likely that the military knows the character of the local indigenous people very well. Since they have agreed, they will never give up halfway. In this way, with a guide by their side, they will try their best to prevent the guests from deviating from the way into the mountains and looking for opportunities to run to the military. Carry out some small actions in the area under your jurisdiction.
Before entering the mountain, Li Chengxi actually explained it to Liu Qingshan. It probably meant that he might encounter military patrols in the forest. If there was a guide, it could prove that the Li family brought them to the island.
Liu Qingshan would naturally only be full of words of thanks, but after he officially separated from this person, he said to the girl: "We are all strictly trained people, and we don't actually need a guide, but since we agreed The Li family will not do anything that violates the rules, and you can get most of the prey, but you need to tell me what kind of beasts are here!"
The girl was obviously not a simple mountain person, and she thought of Liu Qingshan's similar remarks in advance.
So she sneered with a straight face: "We locals have always followed the rules. We will not ask for more after the agreed reward. But it is impossible for you to trick me in this way. We mountain people also have our own Style of doing things!"
Liu Qingshan laughed twice and stopped paying attention to her, but Pajay, who was lively and lively, was full of curiosity and always followed the girl asking questions.
It's a pity that the girl can't understand English, and even the Chinese driver on the other side has a confused look on his face, which makes the two children feel helpless.
More than an hour later, the group crossed the edge and began to truly enter the virgin forest. It was only after arriving here that Liu Qingshan discovered that this mountainous area is actually rich in juniper, birch and paulownia. These woods are high-quality furniture. The value of wood itself cannot be said to be expensive, but it is worth a few dollars.
However, looking at the traces, it is obvious that there has never been large-scale logging before, and the occasional sporadic man-made logging does not look like a large-scale development behavior.
