Chapter 15: Cloud Shadow in November 1993
Cloud Shadow in November 1993
In the isolated village for too long, I was used to seeing the "clothes" of rags spliced at random. The rags on my body seemed to be very decent, but when I saw the guards wearing leather helmets, and the village in front of me The residents here who wore what could be called "fine" clothes, I realized that our group of people from small villages were shabby compared to each other.
The village in front of me is much bigger than the one I came from. It has solid stone walls and wooden fences. Although the guards are lazy, they wear sturdy iron swords, the best weapons I have seen so far.
In all fairness, if I were to judge, the village of "civilized people" in front of me would be no different from my village, their houses were just as shabby and low, and their paths were just as muddy and full of excrement stench. Messy hair is also greasy and tangled from not washing for a long time, and the relatively finely sewn, dull-colored cloth on them doesn't look good to me.
I thought they were talking at least the same as the village I was in, but I was wrong. The people who came from the village in front of me spoke in a language mixed with strange tones. There are many adults, and only the old man who is equivalent to the village chief and another middle-aged person can talk to them.
In previous years, it was the old man's son who traded ginseng and potatoes here. However, since Rahu attacked his son last winter, his son could no longer go out during the day, nor could he come back to preside over the trade.
The people in the village handed over a packet of ginseng potatoes to the people on the opposite side. After those people checked the ginseng potatoes, they gave the leader about twenty flat and yellow coins. The leader took it happily and distributed it to the villagers. villagers.
I didn’t have enough ginseng potatoes, and I couldn’t exchange a coin. Someone in the village lent me some ginseng potatoes to make up the amount of a coin. I thanked me a lot and said I would go back and give him the rest.
Why am I so grateful for a crooked, crooked coin?
Because its yellowish appearance is too charming, the heavy weight and the tooth marks left when I bite it in my mouth make me ecstatic!
Gold! This is gold!
I traded ginseng potatoes for gold! ! !
Everyone else is using coins to exchange for goods that are only available in the village. One yellow coin can be exchanged for a large bowl of salt, six or seven wooden utensils, ten coins can be exchanged for a small piece of iron... But I have completely lost my mind. Go pay attention to those things, I got gold! I can bring the gold back to the original world, and I'm going to be rich!
"Hey! Boy, are you going to exchange your coins for something?" Seeing me happily looking at the yellow coins, a familiar adult man next to me asked me. He was also the one who lent me the ginseng just now. If it weren't for him, I would have to exchange the ginseng for a wooden cup or a few wooden spoons before going home.
"I...I don't want to change it, I want to keep it." I carefully rubbed the slightly uneven surface of the coin. It seemed to have impurities in it, and the thickness was uneven, but the heavy touch was very charming.
The man shook his head: "You can't eat or drink this thing, it's too soft to make something, and it's useless after you get it back to the village, you still..."
"Thank you, but I still want to keep it," I said. Cut him off: "I can't change anything useful now, I want to exchange it with other ginseng potatoes next time."
Seeing that the man didn't listen to my advice, he smiled and ignored it. His children are my age. It's almost like, now I'm looking at the stalls set up by the people of Luhe Village with other children. The village is called "Luhe Village" because the terrain on the other side of the village is very flat, where the river flows into a lake, which is close to the village. Part of it is a reed field that cannot be seen at a glance, so the village is also called "Luhe".
In fact, I just translated the name according to the description of the villagers. I don’t know if the waterside plants that can grow taller than adults are reeds. In fact, I grew up in the arid northwest, the county where I live. There are no rivers or lakes, and I have never seen reeds.
Probably because of safety issues, we outsiders cannot enter Luhe Village in groups, but in twos and threes alone, it will not be blocked. Like a few children around me, I really want to go in and have a look and gain insight. , but the adults who brought us didn't let us in, they said it was not safe in Luhe Village.
A few years ago, there was a case of children in the village sneaking in and going missing. At that time, the adults wanted to go to Luhe Village to look for it, but the people of Luhe Village disagreed. The two sides almost fought. God, only the body of the child was found. As for how the person disappeared, the people in Luhe Village said they didn't know and refused to take responsibility.
For several years after that, my village and Luhe Village were at a standstill. If Luhe Village had not needed to store food for the winter, my village also needed iron tools and salt, and the two villages would probably no longer communicate with each other.
I was really pleasantly surprised by this trip. The little things suspected of gold coins were enough to make me so happy that I couldn't sleep, and seeing the "words" of Luhe Village also opened my eyes.
It was weird writing written on a thick piece of paper with a charcoal stick. In my eyes, it was a bit similar to Arabic or English, but the way it was written and the shape of the text was completely different.
I only felt its ancient and simple, because I didn't read too much and noticed that the text in front of me didn't even have a mature digital recording method, and many times I still used charcoal pen to draw circles to represent the number of ginseng potatoes.
The young man holding a charcoal pen has newer clothes than other villagers in Luhe Village, and his skin is rare and delicate, which is in sharp contrast with the villagers who are shaving food in other fields. It was written and painted, and the adults and children in my village looked at him reverently, with envy and awe in their eyes.
I have asked, even in Luhe Town, there are very few people who know how to write, and the people in front of them are undoubtedly the descendants of the most powerful family in the village.
Seeing his dignified dress and his high-spirited appearance made me envious and sour. If it weren't for the purpose of making myself disgraced with carbon black and soil all day long to prevent trouble, I would be more young than him when I was white, but what if I washed my face? My hands are covered with calluses and rough, even if I wash them, they can't be cleaned, and I can't compare with a good person like him.
I feel sad again, why am I not growing taller? In the past, although I grew slowly, there will always be a little improvement in a few months, but from last year to this year, I have not grown any taller. Even one centimeter, the people in my class who were originally as short as me have now surpassed me.
I'm thirteen years old, but I'm still skinny and small, which makes me feel like a little dwarf, a dwarf.
The villagers spent a lot of time trying to change things. When night fell, everyone was eating and chatting by the bonfire. In fact, the adults in my village also know that the ginseng potatoes they bring can only be exchanged for very few things, but at least the people in Luhe Village have not done things too exaggeratedly. After all, they really need food, and I offended the village where I live and asked the village not to bring ginseng potatoes in the rest of this year. Some of them may be hungry in winter, or even not survive the winter.
After the transaction is completed, it is impossible for us to rush back to the village overnight, so it is our plan to rest overnight and leave early tomorrow.
It's been a long time since I slept in the open air. The cold autumn wind blows my forehead.
I couldn't sleep, but considering that I had to travel early tomorrow morning, I forcibly endured the discomfort and ate a roasted ginseng potato, then closed my eyes and smelled the earthy smell, and finally kept the basic state when I left in the morning.
The little savages in the village were much better than me. They were so excited that they barely slept last night, and they were running around on the road now, and they were not tired at all.
The genius is bright, the adults have packed their bags, the people in front are holding torches to lead the way, and we are closely behind.
This journey was much faster than when we came, because when we came, we all brought something more or less, and when we went back, we were almost empty-handed.
The men in the village are very excited. The biggest deal with Luhe Village has been negotiated this year. In the next two times, they will bring more ginseng potatoes. Luhe Village will prepare two top-quality iron swords and a handle for them. Iron picks, these three things are treasures that the village has not yet owned.
The adults were very excited, so they stopped talking about it. They said that the life of Luhe Village was not easy this year, and several other surrounding villages that originally provided them with food had failed to harvest this year, and the food was really not enough. I can put my hope in the village where I am, so this time I paid the blood, and even the iron sword and iron pick that were never supplied before were added to the exchange conditions this time.
They chatted, and I listened with great interest. If it weren't for the language barrier with the people in Luhe Town, I would really like to chat with those people myself and learn more about it.
After returning to the village, I went to check my property. I had taken care of the Luge family and the big dog. My property was very safe. The villagers went to the small valley to dig ginseng for the second time in many years. Groups of young and old sent out ginseng potatoes in groups, and the quantity collected in a week was more than double that of the previous one.
The weather is colder and the river water is clearer and shallower than a few days ago. I can easily cross the river by stepping on the stones exposed on the surface of the river. Even I have bravely crossed the river three times when the villagers were digging ginseng potatoes. Not only did I collect a lot of Seeds of wild vegetables and wild flowers and weeds were also dug up the seedlings of "red lilac".
Just by looking at the branches and leaves, you can hardly tell the difference between "huang liuzi" and "red liuzi". If the people who crossed the river together in the village plucked the shriveled red fruit from the dense branches and leaves and told me that this is the red liuzi, I would have I don't even believe that the plants in front of me are any different from those lilac bushes in the village.
Judging from the red and shriveled dried fruit, it was indeed much larger than the yellow lilac fruit. At this time, it still maintained a small amount of sweetness, but it was completely incomparable with the fresh fruit.
I found that across the river, the soil here is far more barren than the other side of the village. There is a kind of gray-green rock here. This rock does not seem to be tough. The red lilac bushes grow just below the ginseng trees.
I really don't understand, if it is true as the villagers say, the shrubs here are "red lilac", and the almost identical looking plants across a river are "yellow lilac", then why? Why don't we transplant these "red decadent seeds" back to the village?
Is it possible that the "red lilac" in front of me is actually no different from "yellow liuzi", but only because the place where it grows has this gray-green rock, so the bright red fruit grows?
I haven't even seen the "red lilac" with my own eyes, I am thinking about these annoying problems with only a few dry fruits.
I repeatedly compared the growth conditions of the "red lilac" on the other side of the river and the "yellow lilac" in the village. Almost all the "red lilac" on the other side of the river grow under the ginseng trees, and the soil is also gray-green, while the village's Some of them grow under the ginseng and potato trees, and some grow under other trees. Some of them are in the gaps between the barren stones, and some are in the relatively fertile soil, but without exception, they bear fruit. The familiar yellow fruit.
After my preliminary inspection, the simple ginseng and potato tree is not the problem that causes the red saffron to turn red. If the saffron plant and the saffron are indeed the same shrub, then I speculate that the biggest factor causing them to change is probably the one on the other side of the river. A grey-green rock.
Next to the ginseng field, I used a cloth bag to carry a lot of green rock fragments, powder and soil from the other side of the river back, and made a special "test field".
I sprinkled half of the experimental field with yellow-green stones, and cut ten branches of "red lilac" that were folded back from the other side of the river, and also cut ten branches of "huang liuzi" from the village. In the test field of half a piece of ordinary soil, some "red lilac" branches were cut, watered to take care of them, and they were expected to take root and sprout.
Considering that it is also possible that the combination of the ginseng tree and the gray-green stones led to the birth of "red lilac", I also buried some gray-green stones at the roots of the yellow lilac bushes under a few ginseng trees near the village, waiting for them to come next year. Performance.
I did not participate in the second and third time the villagers went out to deliver the ginseng potato. After returning the ginseng potato I owed to others, my own ginseng potato was not enough, and it was not enough to exchange another coin.
In my earlier idea I was to get as many coins as possible, take them to a gold shop in another world at the end of the month to find out if it was gold or not, and make a fortune.
But that's unrealistic, not to mention that all my ginseng potatoes can be exchanged for at most two coins. Just how to bring so many ginseng potatoes to Luhe Village is a big problem. I can't bring it myself, at least I have to An adult helps me.
I spent all my time repairing the hut and preparing for the winter. Preparing in advance allows me to have more energy than last year to improve the structure of my small roof canopy. It also gives me more time to collect firewood and live a warmer comfortable winter.
As for what if the coins are really gold... The big deal is to change a little more when I can cross the river next fall, other than that I really don't have much idea.
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