Let’s talk about the villager Geda first. The Huangwei Village where he was born has a great reputation.
At the end of the Zhu Dynasty, the world was in chaos.
The last emperor felt that his country and family had been destroyed, and the mountains and rivers were broken. In grief, he hanged himself from a crooked neck tree in Meishan.
After that, the Bei people entered the pass and took charge of China.
For the time being, let’s not talk about the aftermath here, but let’s focus on the affairs of the Banner Clan.
Most of the royal families in the previous dynasties were Banner clans, and their place of origin was the Changbai Sacred Mountain between the White Mountains and the Black Waters.
When the royal family was outside the Pass, they had already followed the example of the Central Plains Dynasty in establishing the post-Jin regime, making Shengjing their capital and governing according to the Pass.
Since ancient times, we have looked at mountains, rivers and hometown!
In the eyes of the royal family, Changbai Mountain is their sacred mountain. Facing Changbai Mountain, they have extremely rich and deep emotions!
This is different from the ancestral land of the witch coffin.
The ancestral land of Wu Coffin is the ancestral land of all the Northern Clan, and it only needs a little courtesy. Changbai Mountain is indeed the basis for them to conquer the world, and it is the only ancestral land of their royal family.
Regardless of the origin of the sacred mountain, Changbai Mountain is also very important in economic geography.
Changbai Mountain stretches nearly a thousand miles across, like a boundary monument in the Northeast, blocking the Goryeo Dynasty from the Yalu River and serving as the gateway to the Northeast.
At the same time, the Baishan Mountains are rich in natural products, with thousands of peaks and valleys, and wild ginseng and deer antlers spread all over the mountains and plains. These are rare and precious medicinal materials in the eyes of the ancients.
How can we allow others to profit on the side of the sacred mountain?
Whether it was to protect the ancestral sacred mountain or to monopolize the wild mountain treasures, the previous dynasty would not allow people to walk into Changbai Mountain at will.
Therefore, since the previous dynasty entered the customs, emperors of all dynasties have made strict rules - to seal off the Changbai Mountain area, close the mountains for forest cultivation, and maintain the custom of hunting.
At the same time, in order to prevent the surrounding people from going up to the mountains to hunt and pick, the previous rulers sent people to build a willow border around Changbai Mountain and set up Biankou Town around the Baishan Mountains to completely isolate the mountain.
Songjiang Town is one of the border towns guarding Changbai Mountain.
Changbai Mountain is closed for forestation, so it is not desolate in the absolute sense.
The previous dynasty established several villages deep in the Baishan Mountains. This was the Huangwei Village that was ordered by the emperor.
Everyone in this village is from the Bei tribe. After accepting the title of Huangwei Hunter, they will settle in Changbai Mountain for generations.
In addition to patrolling the mountains on behalf of the soldiers and closing the mountains for afforestation, they also bear another responsibility:
Hunting rare and exotic animals for the former emperor and collecting tributes from Changbai Mountain.
Every autumn, tributes are collected from the towns on each side of Changbai Mountain and submitted to the customs in the name of Changbai County.
After the demise of the previous dynasty, Huangwei Village no longer belonged to the royal family, and because it was very close to Songjiang Town, it relied on the fishing and hunting wild animals in the Baishan Mountains to do business with the help of Songjiang Town, and had a good relationship with the Chao family who owned the water transport terminal.
Geda, he comes from Huangwei Village deep in Changbai Mountain.
He has repeatedly won the first place in the village's autumn hunting martial arts performances. He has ridden his horse around Changbai Mountain several times. He is the undisputed jungle overlord and the best hunter.
As for Mao Ye Mao Chunyan, his birth name is much inferior. He is just a commoner in Changbai County.
As the saying goes, a hero doesn't care where he comes from. It doesn't matter where he comes from. It's his achievements that are worth talking about.
Mao Chunyan, the cat master, didn’t know who his parents were since he was a child. Rumor has it that he was illegitimately born to the daughter of a kiln girl from Chunhuayuan and a male guest. He was thrown into the antique street when he was just one month old and was left to fend for himself.
It was a midwinter day, and even if I stopped for a while on the road, my nose would turn to sticks with snot and my ears would hurt from the cold.
This baby boy should have froze to death, but God was so kind that he happened to land in front of the shop of Zhenbaozhai owner Mao Qingdong.
Boss Mao saw that the baby boy was pitiful, so he took him into the house and raised him until he grew up.
The Antique Shop has never been a Tzu Chi Hall. Boss Mao has no intention of doing anything good at all. He raised this boy just because he wanted to find a domestic servant.
Therefore, although Boss Mao adopted him and gave him the name Mao Chunyan, they did not treat him as father and son, so the child still called him master and worked diligently as a domestic servant.
Serving tea and water, cleaning the hall, cooking and washing, and waiting at night, Mao Chunyan did everything Boss Mao asked. If he made the slightest mistake, he would be whipped and served immediately.
Someone advised him that since you are not his son, you shouldn't do these things. He has to pay money according to the salary of hiring a man.
Mao Chunyan didn't care about this.
If it is born but not raised, a broken finger can be returned; if it is raised alive, it can be returned if its head is cut off; if it is raised before it is born, it will be difficult to return it in a hundred lifetimes!
He bluntly said that Boss Mao adopted him, gave him food and clothing, and did not let him freeze to death in the ice and snow. This was a debt of gratitude that could never be repaid in a lifetime.
Such sincerity finally moved Mao Qingdong.
Although he is still not like father and son, Boss Mao has taught Mao Chunyan all the skills of holding back treasures and looking at things to make a living.
Before his death, he also entrusted his treasure house to Mao Chunyan.
Only then did Mao Chunyan, on his adoptive father's bedside, understand why he didn't want father and son to be proportionate.
It turned out that Mao Chunyan had already adopted a baby boy before him.
He had racked his brains to make this baby boy successful. He had never suffered from hunger or cold since he was a child. He sent him to school and private school and taught him how to behave and run a business.
After eighteen years of this, he has become strong and handsome.
He originally thought there would be good news, but he didn't expect that the biological parents of the adopted son came to find him. After a few words, the adopted son followed his biological parents and flew away.
In the nearly ten years since then, I have never even seen him, not even a letter from home.
How could it not be so cold-hearted?
Mao Qingdong was afraid that his happiness would be empty when he drew water from a bamboo basket, so he gave up the idea of being a father and son.
The reason and past relationship are all clear. Mao Chunyan knelt down in front of his adoptive father's bed, bowed his head, and called "loving father" to complete the cause and effect.
So far, Mao Chunyan relied on the name of Zhenbaozhai and became the number one person in the antique street with an eye for treasures.
Over the past 20 years, he has passed through at least 8,000 antiques and treasures, and he has never lost sight of them.
It is precisely because of this that the Chao family is willing to cooperate with him and let him handle the antique jade.
