A Tale of Two Villages: the Village on the Mountain and the Village Below the Mountain

Introduction to "A Tale of Two Villages: The Village on the Mountain and the Village at the Bottom of the Mountain" The mountain is divided into two foothills, and the village is separated by a beam - the people in the mountain village carry hoes all over the mountain in search of water every year. If they dig ten wells, they may not find a drop of spring. During the spring drought, even the mud under the eaves will be cracked by the sun. The people in the mountain village only need to dig five or six meters in the corner of the yard, and the clear well water will keep flowing, and they can guard the ridges of the fields to harvest crops in drought years. No one can explain why the water veins of this mountain favor the foot of the mountain. They only know that Li Laoshuan from the mountain village spent half his life in the crevices of the rocks for a mouthful of life-saving water; Grandma Wang from the village at the foot of the mountain relied on the well in the courtyard to raise three sons who were cadres outside. Until one year, a mountain flood flooded the ditch. People on the mountain were running to higher places with their bedding, but they saw people on the mountain carrying water pumps heading up the mountain. It turned out that there were many wells at the bottom of the mountain, and they wanted to divert water to the top of the mountain. A well, the people of two villages, hides the pain of the people on the mountain who "cannot get water", and also contains the warmth of the people down the mountain who "drink water and think about the source"; there is the anger of blushing in the fight for water, and there is also the warmth of handing over bowls to fight against natural disasters. This is not a story of winners and losers in any village, but a story of two groups of people at the foot of the mountain, relying on a pool of water and a lot of energy, to turn their lives into a legend - just like the spring on the mountain will eventually find its way, and the warmth of people's hearts will eventually overflow.