Chapter 1009 (1/2)
”I don't think so. When you came in, you saw that there are two rivers on both sides of our village. Our village is actually wrapped up by the whole river.”
”At that time, when we moved here, we wanted to build a place isolated from the rest of the world, free from the harassment of outsiders, and make our village rich.” Zhang Yan's father drank a glass of wine and continued.
”So the water for our farming comes from the river in this circle, but there are no boats in this river. After all, we have a road to go out, so we can't use boats at all.”
”Wait a minute, uncle.” Chu Yun suddenly felt as if he had heard something, ”uncle, you just said that this village is wrapped by the whole river?”
”Yes, our village, including our fields, is built in the center of the river.” Zhang Yan's father put down his glass and said triumphantly, ”in those days, our ancestors found a lot of places before they finally found this place.”
”Where did the ancestors find it?” Chu Yun's several people are even more puzzled. According to this, Yanjia village should have existed here a long time ago. Why is the address of Yanjia village not here?
”Of course, my daughter-in-law knows best.” Zhang Yan's father patted the table happily, pointed to Zhang Yan's mother and said, ”it should be said that her ancestors came here a long time ago.”
Zhang Yan's mother laughed, swallowed the food in her mouth, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and said, ”I also heard my grandparents talk about this. The Yanjia village was dozens of miles away from where we live now.”
”About a hundred years ago, there was no mobile phone at all. It was only by roaring. Let alone cars, there were no bicycles. It took several days to walk dozens of miles.”
”Later, the geographical environment of our original place was very bad. It was either a big flood, a drought or an insect disaster. Anyway, it was worse every year.”
”I heard from my grandparents that a physiognomy came and told the patriarch that our village had to be moved. If we didn't move for a few years, the village would be gone.”
”To tell you the truth, people at that time were very feudal. It was not easy for them to get their ideas through. The most stubborn one was the patriarch. He said that he had lived in this place for generations. To give up here was to kill them.”
”However, later that Xiangshi stayed here for more than a year, and finally got through the patriarch's ideological work, so he took all the people to move south.”
”In the past, people could walk ten miles a day at most. They didn't have much money. They just came here with their bags and their children, and they followed the patriarch and the prime minister all the way.”
”It took the Xiangshi and the strong men in the village 30 years to build this dry river. Slowly, the place began to improve.”
”In order to let everyone have land and rice to eat, the prime minister and the patriarch called together the strong men in the village to build a circle of rivers and encircle our whole village.”
Zhang Yan's mother laughed. ”I heard that the old man said that after he helped us make the river, he also taught us to open a hole in the mountain. A reservoir has been built in the mountain stream. ”