In the twelfth lunar month of 1975, folklorist Tian Xiuyuan fell off a cliff while inspecting the ancient salt road in Enshi, and his soul passed through the body of a sixteen-year-old boy of the same name in Shilan Village.
When he woke up, he was lying in a Tujia stilted building with his father, mother, sister, and a spear passed down from his ancestors. There are five buckets of bees behind the house, which have been passed down from three generations of the Tian family. In front of the house there is a goat stream that flows back from east to west. The girl washing clothes by the stream is named Zhang Xiaoyue - she looked back at him.
In order to survive in this era, he chopped mulberry wood to make compound bows, followed the herb collectors into the mountains to collect medicines, and learned to fish with traps. The first time I sold medicine, I got 60 cents, so I bought a candy for my sister. The first time he shot a wild boar with his own bow, the whole village was impressed.
In order to marry Xiaoyue, he spent five years saving money to buy a shotgun and three years to build a stilted building. Xiaoyue waited for five years and finally married into the Tian family in the autumn of 1983. On the wedding night, he said: "Five years of waiting is a lifetime of staying together. It's worth it."
Beekeeping has gone from five barrels to fifty barrels, the bacon business has gone from selling at the market to supplying and marketing cooperatives, and tobacco leaves have gone from trial planting on half an acre to stable production on one acre. My sister was admitted to college and walked out of the mountains, with her sons and daughters surrounding her knees. Twenty years later, he became the first ten thousand-yuan household in the village, with two children and a prosperous family business.
But he would still take his son into the mountains in the spring to worship the Meishan God and teach him the rules of sealing his mouth with thatch; he would still not go to the ground on Wu Day to let the land breathe; he would still kill the New Year pig in the twelfth lunar month, smoke bacon, and wait for his daughter to come back from school and dip it in honey to eat.
Eight mountains, half water and one farmland, the mountain is still the same mountain and the river is still the same river. But life is no longer what it used to be.
Reader comments
Overall it's okay, the writing is "moist". The character + environment introduction of the protagonist's "adaptation period" is written very smoothly and naturally.
But missing the "reason", why did you suddenly give him an overall introduction? The original person has lived for more than ten years, where does it need to be introduced? So the only difference lies in the more reasonable logical excuse of "less, let's introduce it completely again".
Furthermore, after reading Chapter 14 "Plowing the Fields", I found that Chapter 13 "The Importance of Cows" and Chapter 14 are generally "repetitive", which constitutes a contradiction in context and requires the author to revise it as a whole. In Chapter 13, "3 days on the slopes + returning the cattle", and in Chapter 14, in "3 days on the riverbank + returning the cattle", the land changed midway. Repeat as a whole and see which parts you need to keep.
I have only read Chapter 14 so far, but I have not read the rest yet. I found that this book has so many words but there is no "book review". There are also very few "paragraph reviews" in the book. I wonder if the "article has been revised" [Thinking][Thinking]
I hope the author will work hard and will continue to add other "logical flaws" found here later. [Eat melon][eat melon]
Timeline is a big problem. I go back and forth, and the details of the article are not good. I often write it repeatedly. Sometimes I write it twice in one chapter but the details are different; sometimes it is used as the "first description" after several chapters.
Overall, I read Chapter 21 "Making a Bow". I haven't finished this chapter yet, and I can't watch it anymore.
Finally, the conclusion is that it is tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away.
I don't know what the author is thinking, so let's just go for it.
The rhythm of normal hunting is not like hunting in other novels, and the price of the gun is reasonable.
Overall it's okay, the writing is "moist". The character + environment introduction of the protagonist's "adaptation period" is written very smoothly and naturally. But missing the "reason", why did you suddenly give him an overall introduction? The original person has lived for more than ten years, where does it need to be introduced? So the only difference lies in the more reasonable logical excuse of "less, let's introduce it completely again". Furthermore, after reading Chapter 14 "Plowing the Fields", I found that Chapter 13 "The Importance of Cows" and Chapter 14 are generally "repetitive", which constitutes a contradiction in context and requires the author to revise it as a whole. In Chapter 13, "3 days on the slopes + returning the cattle", and in Chapter 14, in "3 days on the riverbank + returning the cattle", the land changed midway. Repeat as a whole and see which parts you need to keep. I have only read Chapter 14 so far, but I have not read the rest yet. I found that this book has so many words but there is no "book review". There are also very few "paragraph reviews" in the book. I wonder if the "article has been revised" [Thinking][Thinking] I hope the author will work hard and will continue to add other "logical flaws" found here later. [Eat melon][eat melon] Timeline is a big problem. I go back and forth, and the details of the article are not good. I often write it repeatedly. Sometimes I write it twice in one chapter but the details are different; sometimes it is used as the "first description" after several chapters. Overall, I read Chapter 21 "Making a Bow". I haven't finished this chapter yet, and I can't watch it anymore. Finally, the conclusion is that it is tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away. I don't know what the author is thinking, so let's just go for it.
The rhythm of normal hunting is not like hunting in other novels, and the price of the gun is reasonable.
The author is attentive and has a sense of age.