"I heard from my father that the number of people in our village used to be more than 600 when it was the largest, but now it is less than ."

Said Gangzi sighed: "I'm afraid there will be less and less in the future."

Why are there fewer and fewer? Li Wei didn't ask, but it can be guessed that genetic mutations caused by inbreeding will lead to fewer and fewer healthy children, and the natural population will become smaller and smaller.

"Then how many years have people in your village lived here?"

"About 300 years"

"In the past 300 years, no one of you has gone out?" Li Wei was really curious.

Gangzi: "There is a formation at the entrance of our village. If you want to go out, you must get the consent of the village chief. Even if you go out, you will only go hunting in the surrounding mountains."

"You come in from the outside, you should know that there are continuous mountains outside, and it is difficult to get out."

"I heard that there were villagers who wanted to go out before, but they didn't go out of the mountain in the end."

After finishing speaking, Gang Zi suddenly said: "Perhaps this situation will change soon."

Li Wei: "Why?"

Gangzi: "When our ancestors migrated here, in order not to be discovered, they set up a complicated formation at the entrance of the village."

"And make an oath that unless the formation fails, the villagers of Taohua Village are not allowed to leave without authorization, otherwise they will be cursed, and it will be so bad that they will be severely retaliated."

"So a large part of the reason why everyone hasn't gone out these years is related to this oath."

Li Wei: "How can you be sure that this oath will come true?"

"Some people don't believe in evil, and the consequences after going out are very miserable, so everyone believes in this curse even more."

Li Wei is really curious, what kind of ancestors would trap their descendants in the mountains for what purpose, maybe they want their descendants to practice immortality here, but the villagers in Taohua Village don't feel that they have immortality, on the contrary, it is because they have not been with them all year round. When dealing with outsiders, they seem to be honest and honest.

Gangzi didn't know what was going on in Li Wei's mind, so he continued.

"Now, you came in and broke the formation at the entrance. After the formation is broken, it is impossible to repair it. The ancestor's precept that our village cannot contact the outside world will automatically become invalid. So, maybe we have to go out in the future .”

After Li Wei heard it, she sighed for a while, cooperating with them was not to destroy, but to lift the ban on the entire Peach Blossom Village. In this case, they should regard themselves as benefactors.

Li Wei asked: "Then shouldn't you be happy?"

Gangzi shook his head: "I don't know what kind of mood I am in, I always thought that no one could break that formation."

Li Wei thought, if it wasn't for the insanity, maybe it really wouldn't be able to break the formation, and then look at the environment of this Peach Blossom Village, just like the valley, full of mountain flowers.

There is also mountain spring water passing by next to it, and the flowing water is gurgling.The villagers use bamboo to lead the spring water to their homes, and the fenced courtyard is really idyllic.

As far as the landscape is concerned, it is really beautiful here.It's like a quiet pastoral painting.

As they said that, several people saw that many villagers in the center were slaughtering pigs in full swing.

It can be seen that the villagers of Taohua Village are very harmonious and content. At this moment, Akui walked over slowly, stroking his belly, and looked at Li Wei and Mo with hatred in his eyes.

"Ah Kui, don't be like this, Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu are our guests."

Seeing him like this, Gangzi persuaded him with some embarrassment.

"Bah!" A Kui spit on the ground, turned around and left without saying anything.

Mo Yu looked at Akui's back in despair, thoughtfully.

"Mr. Gu, don't be angry, Akui is my second uncle's child, and now he is the only one in their family, so he doesn't talk to big guys very much on weekdays."

"Speaking and doing things are also a bit extreme."

Mo Yujue smiled: "It doesn't matter, as long as he doesn't mess with me, I won't argue with him."

Soon, the village was finished. Taohua Village is not big, and there are still many empty houses in the village, as if no one has lived in it for a long time, which also reflects that the population of Taohua Village has been greatly reduced over the years.

Gang Zi took the two of them to the only ancestral hall in the village, and also the only green brick and tile house in the whole village. Li Wei originally thought that the village did not have the technology to master the green brick and tile houses, so they were all thatched houses, but now it seems Obviously not.

"Since you can make blue bricks and tiles, why are there all thatched houses in the village?"

Gangzi rubbed his head: "I don't know either. According to my father, this house is the oldest house in our village. It was built when our ancestors first came here."

Li Wei and Mo Yujue saw the three-story archway in front of the ancestral hall, with the two big characters of Zhou Temple written on it.

"Is your surname Zhou?"

Gangzi nodded: "The surname Zhou in our village is the common surname."

Li Wei really wanted to ask, since you all share the same surname, why are you intermarried?But immediately Gangzi added another sentence.

"There are also other surnames, Wu, Ji, and Gao."

Li Wei breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, she didn't get mad enough to solve the breeding problem within the family.

Since it was the family ancestral hall, it was impossible for Li Wei and Mo Yujue to go in and have a look, so they had to leave from the side.

But in this deep mountain and old forest, looking at such a mighty and majestic ancestral hall, Li Wei still felt very magical.

Behind this ancestral hall is a large round mound of earth. Li Wei had a flash of inspiration. After reading some introductions to the emperor's tombs, she felt that in this deep mountain and old forest, what appeared should be tombs instead of ancestral halls.

Then he felt amused at his own thoughts, if this is really an emperor's tomb, then the people in Taohua Village should not know about it.

After walking around the village, Gangzi brought the two of them to the center of the village. He couldn't help but want to watch the slaughter of pigs.

When Li Wei and Mo Yujue arrived, the tables and benches had already been set up. It looked like a square with a big banyan tree and a gong hanging on it.It can be seen that all the meetings in the village are held here.

At this time, the square had already been set up in the shape of dam mats, with a total of more than 30 tables, and it was true that the whole village came out with joy on their faces.

Li Wei was in a good mood to go to the slaughter of pigs, watching them kill the pigs and blow them, then scald and shave them with boiling water, and finally divide the pigs one by one.

On the other side, the person in charge of the cooking has already started cooking. The Maoxuewang, fresh pork legs, and even the pork offal have been cleaned up to make some stewed meat, and the stewed fragrance is far away.

Li Wei thinks that the wisdom of human beings is infinite, and people can still make delicious food in this deep mountain.At least the taste is much better than I imagined.

"The men here are really hardworking."

When Li Wei saw that men were basically all men from slaughtering pigs to cooking, she couldn't help but sigh. You must know that in this era where men are superior to women, the status of women is very low. At least Li Wei has been here for so long. This is the first time I see cooking All men.

The men were still busy with their own affairs, no one answered Li Wei's words, and Li Wei didn't care.

At this moment, Mo Yujue came up and whispered in Li Wei's ear.

"You didn't find that the peach blossoms are full of yang and yin, and there are obviously more men than women."

Li Wei was startled. In a village without women, men couldn't get a wife. What would they do when they saw many women in a group of people?Think of a way to snatch back all the women who pass by?
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