Another nearby Bai village is called Yunjia Village. The situation is roughly the same as Baijia Village, and may even be worse than Baijia Village.
Baijia Village lives in the plains high in the mountains, but Yunjia Village lives in the middle of the mountain. It is even poorer and does not even have land for farming. It relies more on the output of the mountains and forests and hunting.
Baijiacun is going into decline step by step. Girls are unwilling to marry even if they have better conditions than others.
Is it because Baijiacun is poor? The girls are not stupid, but they are the smartest people in the world.
When women go on a blind date, they only plan for themselves. They understand the hardships of life better than anyone else. Love is not food but just a condiment. This is a truth that every mature and sensible woman understands.
This will be their destination for the rest of their lives for decades to come, so they will choose from thousands of choices. They will hand themselves over only when they have no choice. Otherwise, they will choose a place that is most beneficial to them and reproduce until Get older.
China is a magical place. Where there is a place, people like to get close to each other. They pay attention to keeping the wealth from outsiders' fields and specialize in intermarriage within the clan. As a result, the people behind are scattered and there are no successors. Many wealthy clans in history have learned painful lessons.
These ethnic minorities in the southwest understand this truth even more.
Perhaps no one has taught them this knowledge from textbooks, but as they slowly observe, they will eventually discover that families with immigrants often give birth to children who are stronger than those in their own family, and rarely get sick as they grow. , the difference is very obvious.
Such a phenomenon is based on the knowledge of genetics. They will attribute it to destiny, witchcraft, curses, etc., but in the end, it is one thing. They try to avoid same-race marriage as much as possible.
Unless it’s a feud!
In Guangnan, some tribes can kill each other because of land or other disputes. The death of one often leads to deeper hatred, and then triggers endless counter-retaliation. Over time, the hatred between the two tribes is as deep as the sea, and there is no possibility of contact between them. , some will wait until a long time of a hundred years, and after everyone's memory of hatred has disappeared, they will slowly have contact with each other, but many of them have the form of ancestral precepts, so intermarriage is still a taboo.
Dali has been at peace for more than a hundred years, and there has been a rare period of peace since the end of the Tang Dynasty. There is only one land reason that troubles this place. There are too many mountains and little land, and there is not much food harvest, so it cannot support too many people. Okay The land is concentrated in several large prefectures, and the conditions in the surrounding mountainous prefectures and counties are very cruel.
Therefore, in the country of Dali, there are thirty-six barbarians and countless ethnic groups. In addition to not liking to marry Han people, other ethnic groups will generally accept each other unless there is a blood feud between the two ethnic groups.
Men want to marry, women want to marry.
Only when fresh blood blends with each other will healthier offspring be born!
If you marry a Han, you all become Han, and the nation needs to be passed on. Even if you become another nation, there will still be a trace of the past, but if you marry into a Han family, there will really be no trace of it.
But when it comes to survival, people often have no choice.
Before the mid-Tang Dynasty, most of the barbarians in Nanzhao fought against each other. The Tang Dynasty spent so much effort on this place that it would lead to the country's downfall, but in the end it was not able to completely suppress the rebellion here. The army of the Tang Dynasty was so powerful that the Nanzhao tribes almost exhausted all their vitality in order to confront the Tang Dynasty.
The final outcome is that both sides suffer losses.
When the Duan family of the Bai ethnic group came to dominate Dali, the number of Han people in Dali was not dominant. The barbarians did not intermarry with the Han people. For a long time, Dali's population has been very small. In ancient times, national strength actually depended on population. With more people, there would be more people farming, more food could be produced, and the national treasury would be fuller.
However, fortunately, the Duan family has no ambitions for hegemony. The world is already peaceful enough, and the Duan family will never impose their own wishes on the people and force them to reproduce in order to increase the country's income!
When Liang Chuan learned about Malipo, he was very surprised.
The ethnic relations here are really harmonious.
At least compared to the tense situation in Guangnan, this place is already a model!
Why is Guangnan, only separated by a mountain, so nervous?
However, he wanted to help this old man, but the problem was that Liang Chuan didn't know how to sing!
Liang Chuan asked Ah Yue in a low voice: "Do you know how to sing folk songs? Has Anon taught you?"
Ah Yue narrowed her crescent-shaped smile and said, "I'm still young. How could Anon teach me to sing folk songs? I'm not old enough yet!"
"Have you ever heard anyone singing folk songs in the cave?"
"As you can see, my father in Guangyuan Prefecture, there are still many young people everywhere. The young people have all followed the chieftain to go out and make a living. I remember Anon said that the March Festival used to be very lively every year. Let me remember it. I haven’t had a proper March Festival since then! Everyone is homeless, so no one participates in the March Festival!”
Baiyunshan heard Ah Yue's words. Although he had not experienced it, he could hear the misery.
In troubled times, people are worse than dogs, how can they expect to get a wife and have children?
"You don't want to go back recently. Although our Dali country is not as rich as your Song Dynasty, we will not lose much compared to your Guangnan country. Our place is definitely peaceful now. Once our hometown is settled, it will not be too late to leave!"
"Why are you two talking here? Aren't you talking about singing?"
Of course Liang Chuan didn't want to go back. He came north specifically to run away. Who would be stupid enough to go back and throw himself into a trap at this time?
Bai Baozheng picked a slender Cordyceps sinensis from Liang Chuan's bowl. After confirming that he was not suffering from vertigo, he said to Liang Chuan, "Can this thing make soup?"
Liang Chuan laughed and said, "When Princess Wencheng came to Tibet, she brought two medical books to Tibet. One of them is Tibetan Materia Medica, and it contains demerits. What, you don't know?"
If you don’t know a single big character in Baiyun Mountain, it’s naturally impossible for you to know!
However, the real popularity of Cordyceps was in the late Qing Dynasty, so it is normal for ordinary people not to know the goods now.
"This stuff is for cows and horses to eat. We call it strong cow grass. The cows will become stronger after eating it!"
You know, in the era when Liang Chuan lived, cordyceps enjoyed the same treatment as gold, and were weighed in grams, but these people actually gave them to cattle. .
Baiyunshan seemed to understand something when he saw Liang Chuan's distressed and annoyed look. The old man who had lived a long time realized something immediately, and some people said: "How about this, you teach these fools in our village a few songs, How about I ask them to dig up this strong cow grass for you in the mountains?"
Liang Chuan said with some surprise: "Are there many Cordyceps on the mountain?"
"Do you family call this grass Cordyceps?"
Baiyunshan didn’t know that half of Cordyceps’ life is in the form of insects!
"This is good stuff. Eating more of it is good for your health!"
In fact, the taste of Cordyceps is not good. The Bai people are not as proficient in cooking as the Han people, and they cannot fully understand the essence of Cordyceps. .
Cordyceps stew is good, but the best thing is soaking it in wine.
Baiyunshan was dubious about Liang Chuan's words, but for the sake of these unsatisfactory young people in the village, he still put forward this condition and asked Liang Chuan to accept it reluctantly!
Liang Chuan has received too many favors from others. Although he does not know the folk songs of the Nong family, he has three authentic Nong family members at his disposal. Maybe they can also!
I ate cordyceps so much that my nose bleeded. It was so nourishing that I almost ate it as a snack every day, but it wasn’t enough! Baijiacun doesn’t pay much attention to Cordyceps, so it’s not surprising to see it, which means there should be a lot of Cordyceps here!
Liang Chuan even remembered that when he ate Cordyceps in the past, he would always have a chicken or duck as a companion at home. One chicken and duck could only handle two or three Cordyceps, which was already quite luxurious. Now that people can eat Cordyceps as cabbage, this condition is still the same. Quite tempting!
I have already eaten more than half of the cordyceps I bought in Zuining Town. I don’t want to eat them, and there is also Ah Yue who doesn’t!
It was the time for this little girl to replenish her body. She was born with insufficient replenishment, and her body kept getting sick as she grew up! Just by coming to Dali to climb this high mountain without any high-intensity exertion, Ah Yue's weak constitution became apparent. Liang Chuan saw this and always wanted her to make up for it!
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For this girl, Liang Chuan can only try his best to give her the best life.
"But I have to say something first. We haven't sung folk songs there for several years, and I don't know many of the songs very well. I have to wait for my younger brothers to come back. Maybe they can help me!"
Seeing that Liang Chuan was willing to nod, Baiyunshan was still very happy even though he did not succeed immediately.
"I asked them to go up the mountain right away today. The weather is not too hot now, so they may be able to find some beef grass, but in a few days when the weather gets warmer, there won't be any grass left!"
Bai Baozheng was afraid that Liang Chuan might misunderstand that he was trying to deceive him, so he immediately said: "There are so many grasses on this mountain. Who would want to eat it except cows? Don't worry, if you can't dig it out these days, the weather will get warmer in a few days." We will go up the mountain again when the time comes, and keep everything we pick for you, and give it to you the next time you come to our village!"
Cordyceps sinensis from different origins is quite different. Generally speaking, in terms of time, the quality of cordyceps collected in May and June is the best. The higher the altitude, the warmer the weather, and the later the harvesting period of cordyceps. And the higher the altitude, the better the quality of Cordyceps. In terms of topography, cordyceps grown on sunny slopes is better than on shady slopes.
This is the time when Cordyceps harvest begins!
Having this heart is enough!
"My brothers may not be back so soon, so let's go with a few people in the village to take a look at Malipo, which is your favorite place. Since you want to defeat the enemy, you must know the enemy in advance!"
"That's great, but it's too troublesome for you, old man, I'm so sorry!"
"You're welcome. Call me this afternoon and I'll leave right away!"
Zi Xinxing immediately shouted: "Dad, listen quickly, someone is singing!"
