Chapter 5: Asking us to plant trees, isn’t that putting things in a difficult position for us?
The people in the village were stunned when they saw the bowl of clear water.
“Is it really a miracle?”
A skinny old man trembled as he took the half bowl of water that was so clean that it seemed to contain no impurities at all.
The old man's eyes were red, and he looked at the half bowl of clear water as if he was looking at a priceless treasure.
There is a lot of wind and sand in the wasteland, and even if it is rain from God, it will become turbid when it is collected in a container.
Those old people couldn’t remember how many years it had been since they had seen such clean water!
The originally numb villagers suddenly became excited, called their families, and ran towards the mountain together.
Water, that is water! Clean water!
No matter whether they are mountain gods or not, as long as they have such clean water to drink, they will risk their lives for it!
When they arrived at the dilapidated mountain temple, Li Yuan was just coming out of the clay sculpture.
"Mountain God, the Mountain God appears!"
Someone saw a phantom white smoke coming out of the clay sculpture of the mountain god and was shocked and quickly knelt down.
The others didn't understand what was going on and knelt down too.
Then......
There's no after that.
A group of people were kneeling outside the dilapidated mountain temple.
The villagers knelt on the ground, fearful and terrified, waiting for the appearance of the mountain god.
And their mountain god is trying his best to show up.
"Cough cough..."
Li Yuan coughed awkwardly a few times, but no one could hear him.
He walked straight up to the villagers.
"Everyone, please get up first."
Li Yuan said loudly.
Villagers: Why hasn’t the mountain god shown up yet?
Are they not sincere enough?
No!
So they knelt even harder.
Some of the particularly honest villagers were already knocking their heads so hard that they made a loud thumping sound.
Li Yuan widened his eyes and strode directly among the villagers.
The villagers’ perspective:
A cloud of white smoke kept swirling around them, sometimes passing through them and then coming back.
"The mountain god is testing us, everyone kneel down tightly!"
"If you please the mountain god, you will have water to drink every day!"
I don't know which wicked person shouted that, but the villagers just endured the pain in their knees and knelt silently.
"My darn thing!"
"Understanding genius!"
Li Yuan was so angry that he cursed and turned away.
A moment later, he brought Sanhui from the Anshan Animal Planting Team.
Sanhui's eyes rolled around and he was very scared. No matter how Li Yuan tried to drive him away, he refused to get close to the crowd.
It curled up into a ball and hid behind a rock, fearing that it would be killed instantly if it showed its head.
After Li Yuan's threats, Sanhui ran to the villagers, trembling and with his legs flapping.
He directed Sanhui to dig left and scratch right on the ground, and wrote a large crooked word.
Up.
In fact, many villagers were excited when they saw a fat rat in front of them.
In this remote place, wild mice in the mountains are a rare delicacy!
It may take a year or two to catch one!
However, seeing the mouse's strange behavior, they were afraid that it was another test from the mountain god, so they dared not move.
It was not until they saw the words that Sanhui had dug out that were so unbearable to look at that they began to whisper to each other.
"What is that? What is this fat rat drawing?"
"I think it should be a talisman! I heard from my grandfather that gods and Taoist priests can draw talismans, so this must be a talisman!"
"No, no, this should be a word! I just can't recognize what word it is!"
The poor people in these remote areas were all unable to read, so they were immediately in trouble.
You look at me, I look at you, but I just can't figure out what's going on.
After a long time, the villagers kowtowed several times and shouted a few insults to the mountain god.
Then the most experienced old man in the village was carried out.
The old man was kneeling at the back, but was carried forward by the villagers.
This old man had walked out of this remote place before, but he suffered a setback outside and became mentally frustrated, so he had no choice but to come back.
The old man walked tremblingly, squatted on the ground carefully, looked around for a long time, and finally realized:
"Hey, the mountain god is calling us to get up!"
The villagers were startled and quickly stood up.
"Is there really a mountain god?" Someone was so slow in thinking that he just started to react.
A man laughed and scolded him: "Nonsense, isn't it the mountain god who can raise such fat rats...ah no, such obedient rats!"
Looking at the villagers who were somewhat at a loss, Li Yuan directed Sanhui to carve some words on the ground.
Sanhui hummed and moaned, very reluctant, but he really couldn't resist the pressure from Li Yuan.
This time, the villagers stared at it carefully, their eyes almost popping out.
They saw a flash of white smoke and the mice started moving again. What was the mountain god trying to say?
People, strength, planting, mountains, life.
It's crooked and looks like a ghost's drawing.
Sanhui was so exhausted that he felt his life as a rat had lost its meaning, so he lay on the ground motionless.
The old man with the most experience in the village took a while to identify it.
Then he thought for a long time, but still could not come to a conclusion.
Li Yuan sighed and turned into white smoke that floated in one direction.
Sanhui was forced to dig out another character "来".
After the old man recognized it, the villagers were shocked and hurriedly followed the white smoke.
Li Yuan floated to a newly planted sapling. Before the villagers could think about it, he floated to a thicker tree trunk.
Then the white smoke sank into the ground, and another storm broke out in the villagers' minds.
White smoke came out again, circling around the villagers.
The clever villagers thought hard.
Finally, the old man with the most experience had his eyes light up: "The mountain god means that we should work together to plant trees, so that Anshan will recover and we can live better!"
Li Yuan clapped his hands vigorously beside him!
Good! An old man in the village is like a treasure!
Affirmation from the mountain god!
"But we don't have enough water to feed the saplings. We don't even have enough to drink."
"Besides, good saplings are very expensive. Our whole village has dozens of copper coins, which is only enough for a dozen saplings!"
"It takes half a year to travel from other places! The inferior seedlings are cheap, but they can't survive without water!"
Suddenly, several sincere voices rang out.
The villagers were talking about it, with embarrassed expressions on their faces.
They also know that to improve their living environment, they need to plant more trees, but the biggest problem is that they don’t have enough water!
The kids can only take a bath with a bucket of water once a month, and the adults basically just roll in the sand to be considered clean!
In a village, every household is tightening their belts to be able to scrape together a truckload of water!
And this is a mountain range! Several hills!
Not to mention water, it's also difficult to get money for the saplings. They are all poor people, where would they get the extra money to buy saplings?
I go out of town once every six months and there isn't enough water, so the flowers I buy will die when I get back!
Seeing the complicated expressions on the villagers' faces, Li Yuan quickly scooped up some more ashes.
Waiting, praying, for rain.
Mountain, lane, money.
The old man studied the reasoning for a while.
Li Yuan was anxious. These three words form one, is it difficult to understand them together?
"The mountain god told us to wait while he went to the sky to pray for rain for us!"
"Not only did he pray for rain, the mountain god even went to ask for money on our behalf!"
The old man said excitedly.
Li Yuan looked at the old man with sidelong eyes. What does it mean that the mountain god is going to ask for money? Can't it be collecting money?
You said that it’s okay for the mountain god to rob money!
You don’t understand anything about the art of language!
The villagers were immediately shocked. Dozens of people danced and then knelt down and kowtowed.
"Master Mountain God, you must succeed!"
The villagers prayed loudly with rich expressions on their faces.