Yun Shu had not slept a day since he was reborn in Qingxi Village, but this day he got up earlier than usual.
Because today is the day when the village organizes people to go to the mountains to pick mountain products.
Qingxi Village is surrounded by mountains, and the surrounding hills are naturally within the scope of Qingxi Village. Although it has been included in the Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve, except for the prohibition of deforestation, there are not many restrictions on the villagers, and many villagers even do not Understand the meaning of the protected area. After all, no one dares to enter the deep mountains and old forests.
What, protect rare vegetation and animals?
On the surface: protection, those who obey the leadership must protect.
Secretly, everyone couldn't help but privately underestimate, what are these rare plants and animals? It must be valuable if it's rare, right?
However, although everyone's legal awareness is weak these days, they are timid. Once they hear the words "struggle, police station, and jail", they become completely honest. In addition, they dare not enter the deep mountains and old forests, so they can be considered safe.
There is a saying that unruly people come out of poor mountains and harsh waters. That is when you encounter someone who really cannot survive. If there is a one in ten thousand possibility and hope of surviving, who would be willing to be that unruly person!
Of course, there are good things and bad things, and this is not absolute. For example, if a hunter encounters a poacher who specializes in selling furs, antlers, and tiger bones, he will beat him to death if he can. Different road non-phase plan.
It's a bit off topic, let's get back to the point, just say that Qingxi Village is surrounded by mountains, so it is natural to rely on the mountains to rely on them.
Mushrooms, wild vegetables, and game animals naturally belong to each other, but the elders who originally founded Qingxi Village had the brains to develop pecans, pine nuts, hazelnuts, and chestnuts into a large scale. Now they naturally belong to the collective. In the mature season, Villagers take turns patrolling and guarding, which is the most important source of income for the Qingxi Brigade.
Today, the whole village is mobilized to quickly pick these dried fruits while the weather is good, select them to dry, and then sell them to the purchasing station.
Naturally, everyone who works today will receive work points, ten points for men, eight points for women, four points for those under fifteen years old and over ten years old, and two points for the youngest.
Therefore, as long as the villagers were not old, weak, sick or disabled, even those aged five or six followed him up the mountain.
The main reason is that in the past, children were only allowed to play at the foot of the mountain and were not allowed to enter the mountain without permission.
However, the wild fruits at the foot of the mountain have long been destroyed by children. Now, if you go into the mountain, you can not only bring home a lot of wild fruits, but also eat them with all your heart. Therefore, these few days in the mountain are the happiest days for the children. , even happier than the Chinese New Year.
Children as old as Da Ya and Da Zhuang have already remembered the three-year famine from 1959 to 1962. Although no one was starving to death near the mountains and forests, there was not much to eat.
Grass roots, leaves, bugs...everything that can be eaten or not has been eaten by everyone in the village. Yun Shu saw those scenes in Daya himself, and was really glad that he came two years too late.
During the years of the Great Famine, let alone a good harvest in autumn, everyone picked all the unripe fruits as early as spring and summer.
In the past two years, the brigade cadres have tightened their control, and the mountains and forests around the village have been able to breathe a sigh of relief.
This year is the first time since the Great Famine that Qingxi Village has organized a large-scale picking activity. Thinking of the money they can get from selling mountain products, everyone is as happy as if they were celebrating the New Year.
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The three Yunshu siblings had breakfast, picked up tools and backpacks, and sent Xiao Zhuang to Wangye's house, and brought out Haichuan.
Haichuan also carried a small wicker basket and set off with Yun Shu and Da Zhuang. On the road were villagers walking towards the foot of the mountain. Everyone was carrying a wicker basket and carrying various things. .
In September in Changbai Mountain, the weather has turned cold. After a few autumn rains, it will snow. People are racing against time to get the mountain goods back when the weather is good these days.
Yun Shu's basket was not big. It contained a dagger, a woodcutter, matches, hemp rope, and an empty aluminum lunch box.
Da Zhuang carried the corn pancakes made by Yun Shu, a can of dried fish and stir-fried pickles, and a military kettle slung across his body.
Like the Yunshu siblings, Haichuan took a woodcutter, two dough cakes and soybean pickles. His family didn't have a military kettle, so he took an enamel jar to boil water for drinking.
The most indispensable thing in the mountains is mountain springs and clear streams. People in the village are used to drinking raw water. When they are thirsty, they just drink the water without getting sick.
After all, Wangye studied medicine, and Haichuan also knew that there are many bacteria in raw water. Children have low immunity, so it is better to boil the raw water before drinking it.
The three of them followed the villagers to the foot of the mountain. Two to three hundred people gathered at the foot of the mountain, but no one was heard at this moment. This was just because when the mountain people held large-scale activities, they held sacrifices, also called "mountain sacrifices."
The so-called "mountain sacrifice" means to prepare enough tributes and go to the mountain temple or the temporary master's house at the entrance to the mountain to worship. It should be led by a famous "gunner" or an experienced old man, and the melons and fruits are placed on the altar as tribute. , whole pigs, whole chickens, liquor and incense candles, etc.
There is no mountain temple in Qingxi Village, so three large stones were used to build a temporary mountain god Laobantou Temple at the entrance of the mountain. Now that the weather is bad, there is no need to think about whole pigs, but there are also whole chickens, whole geese, steamed buns, and rice. , wine, incense and candles.
These tributes cannot be taken back after the sacrifice, but must be eaten by birds and animals. This is considered a good thing.
No matter how poor the people in the mountains are, they will not cheat in this place, because compared to the mountain goods rewarded by the mountain god in the mountains, no one cares about this thing anymore.
For more than 40 years since the establishment of Qingxi Village, the "gunners" who hold sacrifices to the mountain are all hunters who are most familiar with the mountains and forests. And since 20 years ago, this profession has been led by the Sun family.
Mr. Sun is a single hunter. He is approaching his sixties, but his body is still as strong as a man. When he was young, Da Ya's father went to the mountains with the old man to learn for a period of time, which can be said to be used for life.
Yun Shu has never seen the scene of "mountain sacrifice", but Da Ya remembers it. In her opinion, there is really no mystery in it, and based on her fifty years of experience in the underworld, the surrounding mountains and forests are not mysterious at all. What mountain gods existed? Even if they existed before, they are definitely gone now.
But when the villagers, led by Mr. Sun Lie, lined up and knelt down according to seniority, and the voice of "asking the mountain god to show mercy" rang outside Maolin, Yun Shu really "feeled" the "vibration" of this mountain forest. "The will that seemed to come from heaven and earth made her unable to help but kneel to the ground.
Worshiping heaven and earth and respecting ghosts and gods is the respect given to the heaven and earth by these people who depend on heaven for food.
At this moment, no matter how naughty the children are, they follow their parents and relatives to sincerely pray to the mountain god to bless everyone's journey into the mountains smoothly and a bumper harvest.
In fact, people at this time are easily satisfied. Having enough food and clothing are their highest demands.
After the mountain sacrifice, people began to enter the mountain in groups, and Yun Shu couldn't help but pause when he passed the mountain temple made of three rocks.
Yun Shu, who has truly experienced ghosts and gods, sighed. In less than two years, the special period will begin. By then, he may not even be able to perform secret sacrifices.
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