Yes, this question has puzzled Shu Guan for four years.
Because no matter from a biological or sociological point of view, such a village is impossible to exist.
Taoyuan Village is a small mountain village that looks very ordinary, and the villagers living here are also very ordinary.
They use their mouths to eat, their legs to walk, plows to cultivate the land, and nets to fish. They will get sick, and they will get hungry if they miss a meal.
Shu Guan has been silently observing and confirming this matter for a long time.
Especially for the old cripple who adopted him, at the beginning, Shu Guan really imagined that the old cripple would be a worldly master who lived in seclusion in the mountains.
The protagonist is adopted by an outsider, and then trained to become a peerless strongman, and then goes out to kill everyone.
This is the template for many online novels. Shu Guan feels that it would be good if he could spend his life as a time traveler like this.
Especially before Shuguan was three years old, he always had this fantasy.
For this reason, he used many methods to test the old cripple. The most cruel one was that he broke his leg.
What happened that day was like this. At that time, the old lame man was taking a nap in the yard. Shu Guan secretly climbed up the old osmanthus tree in the yard, and then pretended to accidentally slip and fell off the branch more than four meters above the ground. .
He wanted to test whether the old cripple was really just an ordinary old cripple.
When he did this, Shu Guan was two years and eight months old. He had lived in this isolated mountain village for nearly three years. He was really going crazy. In order to get out, he was not afraid of doing anything crazy. matter.
Shu Guan also predicted that there was relatively soft soil under the osmanthus tree, and he would definitely not be killed if he fell. He had to take risks again and again.
Unfortunately, the final result was not what Shu Guan expected. The old lame man, who was sleeping with his eyes closed, jumped up and caught him before he landed, revealing his true identity as a worldly expert.
But that's not how things develop.
The old cripple was awakened by his wails.
So Shuguan broke his leg that day.
Fortunately, the old cripple was able to reattach Shuguan's broken leg, and there were no sequelae.
In this matter, the only thing that made Shu Guan a little confused later was that since the old lame man could cure his leg, why couldn't he cure his own lameness.
In short, before he was three years old, Shu Guan made many such attempts to test whether there was a peerless master hiding in this village.
In the end all his attempts failed and there were some perfectly normal humans living here.
So the question becomes, where did the earliest villagers of Taoyuan Village come from?
Because there is absolutely no way for ordinary humans to cross those towering cliffs and reach this valley!
At the same time, the villagers of Taoyuan Village are not savages who eat and drink blood. Their food, clothing, and living habits all have the distinctive characteristics of a fairly developed agricultural civilization.
But in a small valley like Taoyuan Village, it is impossible for a mature civilization to be born, and there is no condition for the evolution of an intelligent group.
Therefore, the villagers of Taoyuan Village definitely did not live in this valley from the beginning.
In fact, what Yi Shuguan now knows is that the people of Taoyuan Village came to this Taoyuan Village more than two hundred years ago.
According to what the elders in the village said and some written records that were left behind in the past.
At that time, the world was in chaos. Their ancestors were refugees who had lost their homes in the war. They fled to the edge of the mountains in this area. They thought of escaping into the mountains and forests for refuge, but they still encountered the rebels and saw that everyone's lives were in danger. At that time, an immortal appeared and rescued them, and used immortal magic to transport them here.
From Shu Wang's point of view, this is naturally a very absurd legend.
As for the reason for disbelief, it comes from a conclusion that Shuguan has gradually derived through observation over the past four years.
Shuguan spent four years observing everyone in the village and everything in this mountain village, because he had not given up the hope of getting out of this valley.
To go out, the first thing you need to determine is where you have traveled through time.
But now, he basically has a clear judgment.
This should still be the earth, still in our own country of China.
One of the simplest and most powerful pieces of evidence is that the villagers in Peach Blossom Spring speak Chinese.
Of course, it can't be Mandarin, but a dialect with a heavy accent, a bit like the Cantonese spoken in Shuguan's previous life, and a bit like the dialect in western Hunan.
At the beginning, Shu Guan could only understand a general outline, but soon he could understand everything.
After confirming that he had not left the earth, Shu Guan then had to determine what era he had traveled to.
When he was carried into Taoyuan Village by the old lame man for the first time and saw the clothes worn by the villagers, Shu Guan judged that he must have traveled to ancient times.
It is difficult to determine a more specific age based on the style of clothing alone.
Unless they are worn by dignitaries with various etiquette and rules, or they are common people in big cities, their clothes will have some details that reflect the clothing characteristics of an era.
As for the rural mountain people, in order to facilitate their work, the style of clothing has always been simple, and it will not change much for hundreds of years. For example, the clothes worn by the Han farmers and hunters in the Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty will not be much different. .
Of course, there may still be differences, but Shu Guan is not a history expert and cannot see those minor differences.
However, he roughly determined the era he traveled to through some other things.
That is the chili pepper and tobacco that are common in this village.
Tobacco was introduced to China in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, while pepper was introduced later, at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
These are not popular knowledge, but not many people pay attention to them. However, Shu Guan, who loved reading some books on humanities and history when he was in college, happened to know it, and he knew it in more detail.
He remembered an article he had read before that said that although peppers were introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty, they were initially appreciated by the Chinese as a rare plant. It's a matter of the next year.
It was first popular in Yunnan and Guizhou, and then spread to the two lakes, Sichuan and Sichuan. The person who played a major role in this was the rebel army of Pingxi King Wu Sangui.
The old man in the village also said that they came to this remote valley to avoid the war.
Based on the two relative evidences, Shu Guan believes that the war that occurred more than 200 years ago was probably the San Francisco Rebellion in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
If this is the case, more than two hundred years have passed, and the outside world now should be around the end of the Qing Dynasty. I just don’t know if the Manchu Qing Dynasty has died.
The above is Shu Guan’s judgment of the time and place he has traveled to so far.
Although he has been living in this valley for four years and has never seen the world outside the mountains, Shu Guan is more than 90% sure of his inference.
Since he was still on Earth, but he had just traveled a few centuries ago, Shu Guan naturally didn't believe what the old man in the village said about immortals.
But if we abandon those superstitious legends, how did the earliest Peach Blossom Spring villagers come to this valley?
This is the question that has puzzled Shu Guan over the past few years.
He felt that if he could understand this problem, he might have a chance to get out of this valley surrounded by cliffs.
I heard that the ancestors of the earliest villagers in Taoyuan Village left some written records, and some clearer clues may be found in them.
It's a pity that those books are placed in the ancestral temple of Taoyuan Village. Shuguan is not really from Taoyuan Village, and he is only four years old now, so he naturally has no chance to read those written records.
I can only wait until I grow up to find a chance to see it.
In addition, in this Taoyuan Village, apart from the fact that the earliest villagers came to this valley somehow, there is another rather strange thing.
Those were the first three hundred or so refugees who came to this Taoyuan Village. Although not all of them were from the same hometown and had the same surname, over the past two hundred years, in such a closed environment, it was difficult for people with the same surname to be different. Intermarriage.
What Yi Shuguan now knows is that it is very common for cousins to get married in Taoyuan Village, and there are even many intermarriages between cousins.
However, there are almost no people in the entire village who are mentally ill or born with defects.
This is a very incredible thing in biology, genetics and probability.
So this seemingly ordinary small mountain village may actually have some secrets!
Shu Guan swayed his calves and smoked a dry cigarette. Unconsciously, he finished the whole pot of cigarettes.
Shu Guan naturally opened the cigarette bag hanging on the cigarette rod and prepared to fill another pot.
He used to be very addicted to cigarettes, two packs a day.
At this moment, a wrinkled hand reached over and took the cigarette rod from Shu Guan's hand.
But Shu Guan was thinking too seriously just now and didn't notice that the old lame man had returned to his side.
The snow-white pupil of the old cripple had a strange light, but the other eye was full of tolerance and gentleness.
He raised his hand and touched Shu Guan's little head, grinning. Every wrinkle on his face showed his love for the ugly little pockmark on the bench.
"Don't smoke like this, little baby. If you smoke too much, it won't grow up."
"When you get older, grandpa will make one for you too."
The old lame man put the cigarette rod he took from Shu Guan into his belt.
"Okay, grandpa, I won't smoke anymore."
Shu Guan nodded obediently.
He would never make the old cripple unhappy.
"Xiao Mazi, let's go home."
Shu Guan's current name is Xiao Mazi, just like the old cripple is called Lao Laizi.
The people in Taoyuan Village all have such simple names.
Because there are more than 700 people in the village, and everyone is in the same valley and cannot get out, there is really no need to give them any real names. A simple title can be used to distinguish each other.
For example, the big boy who was the leader of the group of children just now was named Wang Dahu. He also had three younger brothers, named Erhu, Sanhu, and Sihu. As for the one who was frightened to tears by Shu Guan's appearance, he was pink and juicy. The little girl’s name is Zhang Yadan.
As for Shu Guan, he is called Little Mazi now. When he grows up, he should be called Mazi. When he gets older, he will be called Old Mazi.
Shu Guan, who would probably be called "Pocky" all his life, raised his face and showed a bright smile to the old cripple.
Of course, brilliance is what he thinks.
In fact, when Shu Guan smiled, all the black pockmarks on his face were crowded together, making him look hideous.
"Okay, Grandpa."
He stretched out his chubby little arms towards the old cripple.
There was no look of disdain on the old lame man's old face, he was still smiling, and he reached out to pick up Shu Guan and put him in the bamboo basket behind him.
Although the old cripple gave him a name that might make him laugh at him for the rest of his life, Shu Guan had never been angry with the old cripple.
How could Shu Guan be angry with the old lame man!
Four years ago, when he was just picked up from the creek by the old cripple, his whole body was covered with pustules and he cried in pain every day.
It was this old lame man who used concoction to wipe his body day and night. For three months, he held him every night until dawn.
It was also this old lame man. In order to get him a drink, every woman in the village who had just given birth to a baby went to beg him. Sometimes he would see the young lady feeding him, and she would approach him with her shy face behind her back. In the past, it was good to let Xiao Mazi have a few mouthfuls.
The same old lame man has never left Shu Guan alone in the past four years. Whether he is farming in the fields, collecting herbs in the mountains, fishing in the water, or helping others repair their belongings in the village, the old lame man has always left Shu Guan alone. Keep watch with you.
Because even now, many people in the village still don't like Shuguan, thinking that the child who floated from the mountain stream with pus all over his body was the reincarnation of some monster in the mountain, and he was an ominous person.
Many people in the village were opposed to adopting the child in the village.
So the old cripple never let Shu Guan leave his sight.
Raising a child is not easy.
In particular, it is even more difficult for a lonely old man who is lame in one leg and has cataracts in one eye to raise a child.
If he were just an ordinary four-year-old child, he might not fully understand the sacrifice of the old lame man.
But Shu Guan was not a real child. He saw the old lame man's four years of nurturing and four years of hard work in protecting her.
Without the old cripple, he would not be alive now.
The old lame man was carrying a bamboo basket, and in the bamboo basket stood a little pockmarked man. The little pockmarked man put his little hands on the old lame man's shoulders and used all his strength to support his body.
This will make the old cripple feel more relaxed.
An old lame man without children, a little pockmarked child without a father or mother.
A pair of unrelated grandparents walked toward their home in the sunset that gradually disappeared behind the cliff.
At a certain moment, Shu Guan gently leaned his forehead on the old lame man's thin shoulder, with a peaceful expression on his face.
Because of this old cripple, he survived.
And because of this old cripple, he didn't go crazy in this mountain village that made him despair.
In his last life, he had no relatives.
In this life, he has it.
If this is the meaning of his time traveling here, then Shu Guan no longer regrets it so much.
