The village at the edge of the line of sight was in the westernmost direction, and Xu Bo'an just couldn't see the whole picture.
Only a few rows of stone houses can be seen, which are quite neatly planned.
One of the wide roads seems to be the main road in the village, but Xu Boan can only see half of the road because of the boundaries.
The carriage convoy came from the other end of the main road from west to east.
After a while, the last carriage finished. Xu Boan counted more than ten fully loaded carriages.
Then he stopped in front of a row of houses and seemed to have set up camp.
Xu Boan focused his eyes, and the tiny scene suddenly became extremely clear.
The chatter of the little people driving the carriages was also clearly heard by Xu Boan.
A lean man quickly passed the row of houses on the side and returned to the men on horseback at the front of the motorcade.
"Shopkeeper, brothers have checked all the houses here. There are no people in this village. Let's rest here."
A man wearing a hat like a bamboo hat nodded and said: "Okay, let everyone sleep softly, arrange for the brothers to take turns to take care of them, have a good rest for a day, and hurry up in the evening to rush out, and try to go out of Shanyang City tomorrow. "
"I understand, shopkeeper, I'll go greet you right away."
Soon, the man who spoke hurriedly greeted his companions.
"Everyone, gather the carriages and rush them to the courtyard here to stop. Everyone will take turns patrolling in the order of the carriages, and the rest will settle in the house here."
Accompanying Following the man's shouting, the people in the convoy acted in tacit agreement.
The two people riding tall horses at the front turned over in unison, and a slightly younger man beside him took his knife off the saddle and grabbed it in his hand. He said with some confusion: "The shopkeeper Yes, we are not far from the county seat, and there should be no problem with public security. Are we being too careful to sleep in this wilderness? "
The man in the hat shook his head and said: "You don't know something, Zhuangshi Lu. Most of the places in Qingmu Mansion have not been peaceful in the past few days. Shanyang County here has been harmed twice by the rebels of the White Cotton Sect and the rebels of Qianliang. The people are in dire straits and order is in chaos. Although it is gradually recovering, it is inevitable that there will be some young people hiding in the dark. If not, it is better for us to be careful. If one or two of these things are missing, it will not be enough for brothers like you and me to lose our heads. "
The man known as Lu Zhuangshi smiled bitterly and said: "Shopkeeper, don't be polite to me anymore, just call me Changshan. I still think we are too careful, just a small kid. Even if there are a few little thieves in the county, how capable they are? If they dare to steal our things, I will stop them and walk around."
As he spoke, the man shook his hands. Although the sword was in its scabbard, a cold air could still be felt faintly emerging from it.
The hat shopkeeper shook his head again and said: "After all, we are in the morning and the night is in the dark. These birthdays are all orphans. It is better to do less than to do more. I have to bear the grievance. That’s all. I’ll invite you to Juxiangfang to eat, drink and have fun for three days.”
Lu Changshan frowned and said a little unnaturally: "We'll talk about the rest later. Shopkeeper, you have a rest first. I'll check if our cars are loose. In case we don't know if something is missing."
< br>Xu Bo'an looked at the actions of these little people curiously. When he heard the words "Birthday Plan" from their mouths, Xu Bo'an was a little stunned.
Birthday gifts are birthday gifts, and they are high-end ones.
Xu Bo'an remembers that in the famous novel "Water Margin", a certain official prepared priceless gold and silver jewelry for his father-in-law, who was a high official in Beijing, as a birthday card and gave it to the famous Yang family general who was highly skilled in martial arts. Faced beast Yang Zhi came to escort him, but was later kidnapped by Zhiduo Xing Wu Yong and others in Huangnigang. This led to the change of Yang Zhi's fate after he was unable to communicate, which became an important part of the novel.
Even so, Xu Boan remembered that when the book described the escort, there were only ten people.
In the current convoy, there are more than ten people driving the car alone, and there are twenty or thirty people accompanying them. Compared with the birth dates in Water Margin, they are obviously better.
It’s just that Xu Bo’an couldn’t figure out the birthday plan of more than ten carts of gifts. What a heaven-defying gift it was, and what a big figure the other party was. How could he afford such a huge and expensive gift.
Xu Boan asked himself that he had appeared in front of others several times and had already established himself as a god, but he had never received so many gifts.
These birth dates in front of me immediately aroused Xu Boan's curiosity.
Immediately, Xu Boan used his magical power of perspective and looked at the tightly packed carts of goods behind the carriage.
In just a moment, Xu Boan opened his eyes.
The first fully loaded carriage was actually a cart full of stones!
This thing, birthday guide? Just kidding!
Xu Boan hurriedly looked at the second and third cars.
Then, I completely believed it.
The things tightly wrapped on these carriages are actually pure stones!
It is definitely not the high-value stones that people think of as collectible stones.
Xu Boan could clearly see that the stones wrapped inside were clearly ordinary stones that could no longer be ordinary.
There are all kinds of large pebbles, stones of various sizes that are common in various mountains, granite, shale, sandstone, etc., everything is available, focusing on casualness.
Xu Bo'an observed it for a long time, but really didn't see anything special, so he felt that he shouldn't miss any treasure.
These stones can be seen everywhere, not to mention other places, but Xu Bo'an can see countless such stones in this bonsai area, which really doesn't arouse the slightest interest.
Seeing such a result, Xu Bo'an felt a little uninterested. What's so interesting about these carts of stones.
I didn’t expect that there is still such a custom in the bonsai world. It is really puzzling to give stones on birthdays, but there are still so many stones.
Is it some kind of custom that I don’t understand?
I thought this was some kind of rare treasure.
Xu Bo'an shook his head, no longer caring about these stones, and then moved his gaze to the earth building in the mountain village.
Soon, I found Li Kanshan who was cleaning up the house.
Li Kanshan seemed to be spreading the quilt, obviously getting ready to rest.
Xu Boan asked hurriedly: "Li Kanshan, I have a question to ask you." Li Kanshan hurriedly stopped what he was doing, knelt down piously and said: "Grandpa Mountain God, please clarify , the little old man must tell everything he knows.”
Xu Bo'an roughly estimated the distance before asking: "If you go westward from the house you live in now, there will be a village about four or five miles away, with houses built of stone. What kind of village is that? "
Li Kanshan frowned and thought for a moment, thought for a while and then said: "Going back to Grandpa Mountain God, if you go west from now on, the nearest village is called Wangjiagou, but there were no people in this village last year. Yes, you are talking about this place, right?"
Xu Bo'an nodded slightly and said, "That should be the case. Where have all the people there gone?"
Li Kanshan said with a bitter smile. This is not all caused by disasters. In recent years, there have been severe droughts and no crops have been harvested, because there are no better fields for planting in that place. After the disaster, the harvest has dropped sharply. As a result, almost all the people in that place have suffered. They all ran out to survive, except for the one or two who were close to the county town. Because the village was deserted, they couldn’t go back even once a year.”
“That’s it. , that place has long been an empty village?" Xu Bo'an asked again.
Li Kanshan nodded and said: "Not only Wangjiagou Village, I don't know about other places. Just the local people I know, including the original site of our backing village, almost all the people are gone. , the village will inevitably become an empty village. "
Empty village is good, since it is an empty village, can it be regarded as an ownerless land.
Some people who cannot live in the earth buildings in Kaoshan Village can be diverted to other places to live?
Anyway, the range of bonsai controlled by Xu Boan has long been expanded. It is the same to Xu Boan no matter where he lives.
Xu Boyan calmed down and stopped the topic, then asked: "There is another question. When people here celebrate their birthdays, what do they need to give as gifts? Can stones be used?"
Li Kanshan was a little dazed, as if he didn't hear Xu Bo'an's question clearly, so he had no choice but to say: "I hope Grandpa Mountain God will make it clear what birthday is, and what time it is to give gifts and stones."
Xu Bo'an explained: "Birthday is the day of birth. At this time, as a subordinate, if you want to celebrate the birthday of your superior, what would be better to give? In the traditional customs, is there such a thing as giving stones!"
Grandpa Shan Shen's words directly burned Li Kanshan's CPU.
What do Grandpa Mountain God mean by these words? Do you want me to celebrate his birthday?
Do you think our gifts and tributes are too small?
It seems to be a little short, but this is my own negligence.
As for sending stones, what the hell is this?
Who would give a stone, absolutely impossible.
Grandpa Mountain God’s words are praising me!
Thinking of this, Li Kanshan trembled all over, hurriedly knelt down on the ground, and piously blamed himself: "Forgive me, Grandpa Mountain God. We, the common people, did not know that Grandpa Mountain God's birthday was coming, and we ignored him. Grandpa’s birthday gift is indeed a sin. I hope Grandpa Mountain God will give me a chance to make amends.”
Xu Boan looked at Li Kanshan with a wry smile, and immediately knew that he had misunderstood.
These people are really capable of random thoughts. Even in a small village, there can be such suspected sycophants. It really makes people laugh and cry.
"That's not necessary. There is no need to remember my birthday. I just want to ask if you people will give you stones or something when you celebrate your birthday."
Li Kanshan He muttered inexplicably: "What is this?"
Thinking that Grandpa Mountain God was still waiting for his answer, Li Kanshan hurriedly explained: "Grandpa Mountain God, if the stone you are talking about is a strange stone with exquisite shapes, . There are also many people who choose to give away strange stones. It is said that a few years ago, someone got a strange stone that looked like a map of the Dajing Dynasty and was bought for one hundred thousand taels of silver. "
Xu Bo'an denied: " You misunderstood. I am talking about ordinary stones. If these stones are used as gifts, what are the rules and explanations?"
Li Kanshan suddenly felt a little confused. This question was too mentally retarded. Bar.
Giving ordinary stones as gifts, maybe there is something wrong with your head!
Li Kanshan said with a low eyebrow: "If it is an ordinary stone... it should be something some of us like to keep as a thought. No one will give these things away. Of course, maybe that I can’t say what commemorative significance the stone has.”
Hearing Li Kanshan’s very implicit explanation, Xu Bo’an still didn’t understand the meaning behind it.
Obviously, no one would give an ordinary stone as a gift.
I'm afraid there's something fishy about this.
The stones on the carriages of the people who temporarily settled in Wangjiagou Village were disguised by them to hide the real birth dates; or they had been stolen long ago and these people have not discovered it yet. !
If it’s the former, it’s not interesting. I’m afraid these people are just running around helplessly.
But if it is the latter, this matter will be chilling. After all, in such careful work, if an accident occurs, there will most likely be someone who can do it by cooperating inside and outside.
This also shows that some of the teams selected by the shopkeeper have different opinions!
However, all of this is just speculation, and Xu Boan has not been able to make a decision.
Xu Boan thought for a moment, but still couldn't figure it out.
No matter what the situation was, it was not within the scope of Xu Bo'an's concern. Therefore, with an attitude of not caring about other people's business, Xu Bo'an did not observe these birthday senders anymore.
But his eyes turned and turned to Jin Dajian again.
Xu Bo'an said: "If Jin Dajian, Niu Twelve and others are willing, you can make arrangements for them. They will be brought to the mountain temple to stay. Next, I will provide them with accommodation. I will work hard for you in the past few days." "
Jin Dajian was immediately overjoyed and responded: "I understand, this is what I should do."
My fellow workers are all very capable workers. With their participation and help, the project of rebuilding the mountain temple will be much easier.
Although those trains given by the mountain gods are powerful in carrying capacity, loading and unloading have become a burden over time. With the help of these workers, many problems in the past can be solved!
Xu Boan observed the bonsai for a while and saw that nothing happened, so he put away the bonsai and got up.
Because it was the weekend, Xu Boan was too lazy to go to the company again.
Just when I was thinking about going to the hospital to visit Tang Xiaorou and Tang Xiaotong today, I heard my cell phone ringing.
Seeing that it was Liu Quan's call, Xu Bo'an answered it without saying a word.
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