Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1973, People from Daliang Mountain
Sichuan Daliangshan area.

From the Dadu River, Ya'an, and Ganzi in the north, to the Jinsha River and Yunnan in the south, the violent undulations of the Hengduan Mountains, coupled with the stretch of the river and the sea, have created this ancient land.

Every place here is beautiful feudalism, as beautiful as poetry and painting.

However, the people living here are the poorest in Ming Dynasty.

Yangjiaba is the most typical poor mountain village here. There are thousands of households living on a big mountain in the whole village. The houses built on the mountain are still very primitive thatched huts. The cattle, sheep and pigs are mixed with people. Together.

Empty houses with earthen walls and grass roofs, mixed with pigs and sheep!
The traffic here is extremely blocked, and there are cliffs everywhere, almost isolated from the world.

The waves of capitalism and colonialism in the Ming Dynasty were never able to reach here. People here still live a very primitive life. They burned down the forests, planted rice directly on the burned forests, or built terraced fields, forming extremely spectacular terraced fields. scene.

Dawa Yang woke up from the dark, dirty straw bed, pushed away the pigs that had come into the room to look for food, and looked at the brothers at home, each sleeping heavier than the other.

It seems that only when falling asleep, the whole person will not be hungry, and there is everything in the dream.

With a silently hungry stomach, Yang Dawa went to look at her rice tank. There was only the last bit of rice left in the house, but it would take several months to usher in the new year's harvest of rice.

Get some rice out, don't wash it, put it directly into the pot, and then put it on the fire in the house to start cooking.

For this kind of life, Yang Dawa feels that she has lived enough. The eighteen-year-old Yang Dawa often thinks about what kind of life the Han people outside the mountains live.

What kind of house do they live in, what kind of food do they eat, and do they sleep in the same bed as themselves?
At the age of eighteen, he has not even gone out to this mountain until now. It is because even to the nearest small town, he needs to walk for a day. The mountain road is rugged and steep.

In addition, everyone has always been content with the status quo, and has not thought about changing or doing something, just thinking about living like this day by day.

Look at my own home, the walls are bare, there is no furniture or belongings, the covered life has long been dark and shiny, and there is no bed at all, it is just a simple wooden plank on the ground, covered with straw, which is the bed for the family to sleep on.

Perhaps the only valuable thing in the house is the iron pot that is cooking porridge. This was bought with a few sheep and a Han Chinese traveling footman, and it was passed down from the ancestors, and it has been used for decades.

It is said that Yang Dawa's grandfather put a knife on the other party's neck, and the other party reluctantly agreed to change it. The traffic here is really bad, and it is difficult to take out even if there are sheep.

When I came outside, I looked up at the high mountains in the distance, surrounded by clouds and mist, with heavy water vapor and humidity. Nearby were the same houses, thatched grass, earthen walls, and a large number of hungry people looking for food everywhere. sheep and pigs.

Those who got up early were not busy doing things, but lay leisurely by the door, as if they hadn't woken up yet, and all kinds of pungent smells blew over with the morning breeze.

Dawa Yang has long been used to all this, and she is used to it, everyone is like this, everyone is dressed in shabby clothes, dirty to death.

Dawa Yang couldn't even remember when she took a bath last time, so she picked up a sickle and cut off a section of her long hair, and then scratched it desperately, it was too itchy, and she immediately made a fuss. Several lice were strangled to death one by one with nails.

When the porridge was ready, Yang Dawa drank a bowl and didn't drink any more.

In the family, including parents and seven brothers and sisters, there are a total of 9 people, and the eldest sister is married to a Han Chinese in a small town.

The reason why I married a Han Chinese was mainly because the family was really difficult at the time. The whole family was starving to death. The brother-in-law’s family had no choice but to marry a non-Han woman because they couldn’t marry a daughter-in-law. Married Yang Dawa's sister away.

My sister is living a very good life now. My brother-in-law treats my sister very well. Although the house is not very good, it is many times better than my own home. At least the food, housing and housing are much better. .

"Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year for the Han people. I don't know if my brother-in-law and sister will come over."

Thinking of her sister and brother-in-law, Yang Dawa is full of expectations. Every time they come here, they will bring a lot of food and bacon to the house.

And in the past few years, they have brought more and more things, and sometimes they will bring some cloth, new clothes, etc., which also makes Yang Dawa's younger siblings the envy of everyone, because only their children have new clothes Put on.

It seems that my sister and brother-in-law are getting better and better.

In addition to food, every time my brother-in-law comes here, he will also tell Yang Dawa about the outside world and the daily life of the Han people.

The houses that the Han people live in are all made of wood and tiles. The Han people cook with stoves, and they eat with chopsticks and eat on the table, etc.

Yang Dawa is full of curiosity about all this.

Moreover, all these Han people are dressed very well, and they look much fairer and cleaner, and they seem to be different from the people in Yangjiaba.

"It should come this year, it will come every year."

With such expectations, Yang Dawa has been waiting quietly on the cliff at the entrance of the village, and this wait is almost a day.

It wasn't until the sun was about to set that two figures appeared in the field of vision, which were obviously his sister and brother-in-law.

"Sister~"

Seeing her sister, Yang Dawa shouted excitedly, and then rushed over like flying.

My elder sister is wearing a floral dress, which looks very decent, and she is also dressed like a Han girl. Her body is clean and there is no trace of dirt.

There is a burden on the shoulder, which contains all kinds of delicious food, as well as cloth and clothes. The sister and wife behind her are tall and burly, carrying a heavy burden, which is heavy, it must be food.

"Big baby~"

Sister Yang Shanhua shouted happily when she saw Yang Dawa.

"Sister, I'll come, I'll pick~"

Yang Dawa took over the burden on her sister's shoulders, and she was extremely excited.

"Brother-in-law~"

Then he also politely shouted to his brother-in-law Xiong Yazi behind him.

Originally, Dawa Yang was similar to other Yi people, and she didn’t like Han people very much, but her brother-in-law was very kind to her, and would bring her delicious food every time she came. not bad.

"Hmm~"

Xiong Yazi smiled and nodded, but in fact he was already very tired.

Carrying more than 100 catties of food on the mountain road for a day, this person is exhausted, but fortunately, Xiong Yazi is tall, strong, and will be there soon.

With the arrival of Xiong Yazi and Yang Shanhua, the originally peaceful Yangjiaba became a little lively, and many neighbors looked over enviously.

"Yang Dawa, your family is better now, and you have food and clothing again."

"That's right, it's not bad to marry a Han Chinese."

"What's so good about the Han people is that there are many rules, and they are not comfortable at all."

Neighbors talked a lot. In Dawa Yang's house, her parents were already preparing to kill the pig. The pig was actually not big, not even 100 catties.

But it's time to kill the pigs. Basically, the pigs here can't grow big, because everyone doesn't have any extra food to feed the pigs.

It is good enough to be able to grow up to tens of catties, and some pigs are often roasted when they are still piglets.

As for Yang Dawa's younger siblings, they were already very excited, pestering Yang Shanhua for candy or something, each of them held the snacks they just brought in their hands, eating them extremely happily, and then looked at Yang Shanhua and Yang Shanhua with curious eyes. Xiong Yazi.

In the evening, the family gathered around the fire, eating pork, and chatting happily.

However, my sister and brother-in-law didn't seem to have much appetite. They just ate a few mouthfuls and then stopped eating. On the contrary, Yang Dawa's family ate with gusto. .

"We will go to Chengdu to work in a few days."

"When the Chinese New Year is at the end of the year, I'll bring you some delicious food from big cities."

Xiong Yazi smiled and chatted with Yang Dawa about their plans for the new year.

"You work in Chengdu?"

"Why go to Chengdu to work properly?"

When Father Yang heard this, he also asked curiously.

"I have a relative who went to Chengdu last year to work on a construction site and earned tens of taels of silver in less than half a year. He not only built a new house at home, but also married a wife."

"My parents felt that staying in the mountains was useless, so they asked us young people to go out together, and when we earned money, we could build a new house at home."

Xiong Yazi said with a smile, he went to his cousin's house before the Chinese New Year, and he hadn't seen each other for many years. The four brothers of his cousin have undergone earth-shaking changes. The new house they built was made of reinforced concrete, and each of them looked like a dog in their clothes. Yes, it is different from the mountain people.

Wei Tie also said that he bought a house in the city and spent 300 taels of silver.

This made countless people envious. After the new year, many people said that they would go out with their four brothers and go to Chengdu to work.

Xiong Yazi has also agreed that after the new year, he will take Yang Shanhua to Chengdu and follow the construction site.

"Brother-in-law, sister!"

"I'm going too, and I'll go with you too, how about you take me?"

After hearing this, Dawa Yang excitedly took her brother-in-law's hand and said that he was tired of life in the mountains and wanted to see the world outside the mountains.

(End of this chapter)