Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1734, Loess Plateau

Shaanxi Luyan.

Qiu Kaiwen came here with an oil drilling team. The drilling team was very large, with more than 200 people. It was divided into several drilling teams. There were hundreds of carriages responsible for pulling equipment and supplies.

"Finally arrived in the Luyan area!"

Qiu Kaiwen couldn't help but heave a long sigh of relief when he looked at the high loess slope in front of him.

As a native of the Loess Plateau, he never imagined that one day he would return to his hometown in this way.

Qiu Kaiwen himself is from Luyan. When he was a teenager, he moved to Liaodong with his parents. After that, he went to a new school and was admitted to Imperial College of Technology with excellent grades to study geography.

After graduating, he also worked in the Four Seas Commercial Company, responsible for helping the Four Seas Commercial Company to explore for gold, silver, copper ore and other mineral resources in the offshore. Not long ago, he was transferred back to the mainland of Daming to lead the drilling team to the Luyan area to search for oil.

"The changes in my hometown are really big. There are many, many fewer people. There is no one to cultivate a lot of yellow land, and it is full of vegetation. It is extremely bleak!"

Qiu Kaiwen is not very big, only in his early 20s, but he is still amazed when he returns to his hometown and sees the yellow land that once raised him.

Time flies so fast, and I have only been away for about ten years. Huge changes have taken place on the Loess Plateau.

In the past, the Loess Plateau was very lively, with many people and villages everywhere, but now, along the way, a large number of villages are deserted and dilapidated, and there is no longer any smoke from cooking. The yellow land that people are scrambling to cultivate is also barren and full of vegetation.

Flying birds and beasts, which were rarely seen before, can be seen everywhere now. Looking around with a telescope, you can even see groups of gazelle.

The changes are simply too great.

Almost all the people here have migrated cleanly.

Liaodong, Xiyu, Hezhong, Northwest, and Nanyun are the main migration areas. A large number of people from Luyan and Yulin migrated out, saying goodbye to the poor yellow land and embracing their new, more affluent homeland.

"There are too few people here. We couldn't find a place to rest or drink tea."

Beside Qiu Kaiwen, the deputy teammate Fang Ming said helplessly.

After getting off the train from Xi'an, Shaanxi, the convoy has been heading north. The more people go, the less people there are, and the more desolate they go. Now, they can't even find a place to rest or drink water.

It feels like walking into a deserted area all of a sudden, almost no one can be seen within ten miles.

"They all moved out."

"My hometown is here. There were hundreds of households in our village, but now they have all moved out."

Qiu Kaiwen said with a smile.

"They all moved out?"

"It's hard to leave this homeland, what do you want to do if you move out?"

When Fang Ming heard it, he couldn't figure it out. He is from Tianjin, so of course he doesn't understand the poverty of the Loess Plateau.

"Because it's poor here, it's hard to even drink water."

Qiu Kaiwen smiled and said: "Going 10 miles further, you will reach a small town. I guess there should be a place where you can rest and eat."

"Beautiful Dragon Town, I know!"

"This place doesn't look bad, it's lush, and there are a lot of wild sheep, pheasants, etc. Will it be poor here?"

Fang Ming opened the map, and quickly found the location of Panlong Town on the map. Looking at everything in front of him, it seems that this place is still very good.

"When you arrive in Panlong Town, you will know that you will be poor."

Qiu Kaiwen shook his head slightly.

People who have never been on the Loess Plateau cannot appreciate the poverty here.

The poverty on the Loess Plateau is far from being comparable to the poverty in other places.

Perhaps for a load of drinkable water, you have to walk for half an hour to go diving. In the Loess Plateau with thousands of ravines, soil erosion is very serious and there is a great shortage of water.

Other places may just be poor, but at least there is still drinking water, but the poverty here is so poor that you have to go a long way to find even drinking water.

In Qiu Kaiwen's childhood memory, his mother went to fetch water every morning, and walked a long way to fetch a load of water back. When he was ten years old, he went to fetch water once, and his whole body collapsed.

Fortunately, with the immigration, the whole family immigrated to Liaodong. There is no need to worry about water in Liaodong. Moreover, the land in Liaodong is very fertile, and every household has a lot of land, so Qiu Kaiwen's family also became rich quickly.

Precisely because he grew up on the Loess Plateau when he was a child, his memory of this place is still very deep, and the bitterness in his memory makes people feel terrible even thinking about it now.

The convoy continued to move forward, and the road here was still the original yellow mud road. Fortunately, it didn't rain, so the road was easy to walk.

After walking for half an hour, they finally arrived at Panlong Town.

Qiu Kaiwen carefully looked at the Panlong Town in front of him. In his memory, he followed his father to Panlong Town several times when he was a child. Every time he came to Panlong Town, Panlong Town was very lively and full of people.

But now, looking at the Panlong Town in front of me, it is very bleak, and there are not many people to see, only some old people are sitting together, chatting with each other, seeing Qiu Kaiwen and his huge convoy arriving here, I am also curious to see come over.

"Young man, what are you doing here?"

The old man Zhang looked at Qiu Kaiwen, Fang Ming and others in front of him. They were basically young people, and they were all well-dressed. Then he looked at the huge convoy, which brought a lot of things, and everyone was riding a horse. I know that I am not a native of Luyan.

"Old man, we are the oil exploration team of the Four Seas Commercial Company, and we are here to explore oil in Luyan."

"My hometown is also in Panlong Town, and later immigrated to Liaodong."

Qiu Kaiwen quickly replied with the emphasis of the Shaanxi Loess Plateau.

"Oh, it turns out to be a doll from our Loess Plateau."

When old man Zhang heard this, he immediately laughed happily, and quickly said to the many old people beside him.

"Young man, where are you from our Panlong Town?"

"How was your life after you immigrated to Liaodong?"

"Did you bring us a letter this time?"

Hearing that the native dolls who had immigrated out came back, the old people next to them were very happy immediately. Some people rushed to tell each other, and there were also old people who hurriedly gathered around to ask questions.

"My name is Qiu Kaiwen, and I'm from Qiujiagou."

Qiu Kaiwen could feel the joy of these old people from the heart, and asked with a smile.

"Qiujiagou, I know, I know, my home is next to Wangjiazhuang."

An old man on the side heard it and said quickly.

"Wangjiazhuang is very close to our Qiujiagou. I used to go to Wangjiazhuang to steal dates when I was young."

When Qiu Kaiwen heard it, he also said with a smile.

"Yeah, yeah~"

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back~"

When the old man Wang heard it, he immediately laughed.

In the past, the child who stole the jujube was naturally angry to death, but now everyone has moved out, and the jujube trees in the house are fruitful every year, but no one comes to pick them anymore, so we can only let them fall to the ground.

"People from our Wangjia Village and your people from Qiujiagou heard that they are quite close to immigrating to Liaodong. Do you know Wang Dachui from our Wangjia Village?"

Old man Wang thought about it and asked again.

"I know, I know, it's Uncle Wang Dahammer, the blacksmith. My house is not far from his house, which is about a dozen miles away. My father's name is Qiu Laosan. You should know, old man, that our family often goes to see Wang. Uncle is packing something for us."

"So you are Qiu Laosan's child, isn't your nickname called Shui Wa?"

"Yes, yes, her nickname is Shuiwa."

"Oh, I think about it, I think about it, I can't even recognize how big I have grown all of a sudden."

When old man Wang heard this, he immediately looked at Qiu Kaiwen carefully again.

"Come, come, drink some water and eat some dates. These dates are better than the dates on our loess land."

Here, some elderly people also enthusiastically entertained Qiu Kaiwen. There was water, dates, and pastries. After receiving the news, more and more elderly people gathered here. Everyone was very curious.

Normally, there were not many outsiders to be seen at all, but how many people came here all of a sudden, and they were all young people, which made the old people in the town very happy.

"Hmm~"

Qiu Kaiwen nodded, entertaining guests on the Loess Plateau, this glass of water is absolutely indispensable, there is no way, drinking water was a persistent problem in the past.

"Wang Dachui is my son, how is their family doing now?"

Old man Wang waited for Qiu Kaiwen to finish drinking the water, and asked quickly.

"I'm having a great time~"

"The people we immigrated out of, all have a very good life."

"Uncle Wang is a blacksmith, so he knows something about machinery. He was the first to buy a harvester and a cultivator. There are thousands of acres of land in the house, and the grain harvested a year is sold for hundreds of taels of silver. , and set up a pig farm by myself, raising dozens of pigs every year."

"And Uncle Wang also took concubines. He took a concubine from North Korea and bought two female slaves from Europe as concubines. Now there are more than a dozen children."

When Qiu Kaiwen heard it, he also said hastily.

"Hey, with thousands of acres of land, you can sell grain for hundreds of taels of silver, and raise dozens of pigs."

"I'll be good, this is amazing."

"You still take a concubine, isn't this a landlord's old fortune, old man Wang, your ancestral grave is smoking."

"Isn't it? We have been peasants for generations, and when we come to Wang Dachui, we are already rich landlords."

When the old people next to him heard this, they couldn't help but said.

"This kid, when I wrote to me, I told him not to take concubines, but to be worthy of his wife, but he still didn't listen. It's really maddening."

After listening to the old man Wang, he was similar to the letter he received, and immediately said cursing, but everyone could see that he was happy.

(End of this chapter)