Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 102 Raising Hope
Such a beautiful drum certainly cannot be placed on the ground, so Li Xiang made two special stands for it. This time he did not use the precious red elm wood, but chose ordinary birch. There was some suitable wood in the woodshed.

One is shorter, so the drum can be placed horizontally, and the other is taller, so the drum can be stood up. Both ways allow the drum to be beaten. In order to prevent rain, a pavilion was specially built with a simple plaque called the "War Drum Pavilion."

The plaque was a flat piece of polished wood. He bought a large brush and wrote three large, flamboyant Chinese characters on it. After thinking for a while, he carved a small radish seal and stamped it with a red seal.

They are all practice works. Except for the cowhide drum and the elegant brush calligraphy, other things like the drum stand, pavilion, plaque and radish seal all look rather rough. Even the upper and lower edges of some pillars and plaques still have bark that has not been scraped clean, giving a feeling of a primitive tribe.

But this is the style I want.

The chapter was used once and then thrown away.

Li Xiang took out a small piece of red elm wood, which was relatively hard, and then he carved a red elm wood seal. Although it was hard, it was still wood, so it would not be used many times.

He was thinking about when he could find a piece of good jade to carve a proper seal. Actually, you can buy it customized online, but it is not so interesting.

Seeing how simple it was, Li Xiang decided to renovate the "War Drum Pavilion" appropriately, such as hardening the ground, making steps, and adding a few hooks on the drum stand, and tying the drumsticks of different sizes in pairs with ropes and hanging them on the stand. This way, when others want to beat the drums, they can choose the drumsticks they like.

He has high expectations for this backyard. When spring comes, he will plant some flowers and plants and set up a coffee shop and a milk tea shop. He wants to make it a popular tourist attraction. The only problem is that the place is too remote and he doesn't know if anyone will come to visit.

But there are also many rich people in Sichuan Province. The county towns and provincial capitals, even the provincial capital, are actually not far from here, only about 200 kilometers and only two or three hours' drive.

The area near Lijia Village is beautiful and has the potential to be filmed everywhere, providing potential natural tourism resources.

In some rural areas in the south, there are many such Internet-famous coffee shops located in the countryside. It is said that they are operating very well and earn several million a year.

For example, there was a store in a rural area of Zhejiang Province, where the daily output of cups reached 8818 cups. The price of a cup of coffee is usually around 30 yuan, which means that the daily sales volume was as high as about 26 yuan.

As for the cost of coffee, haha, it is naturally not worth mentioning. At that time, Li Xiang can cooperate with He Zhixiang, a coffee merchant in Yunnan Province, and get first-hand coffee beans from the manor, directly from the place of origin, with good quality and low price.

The quality of domestic coffee beans from Yunnan Province is not inferior to those from imported production areas. Many well-known brands such as Nestle, Starbucks, and Luckin Coffee use beans from Yunnan Province.

If the diversion is successful and there are many tourists, it can also bring some traffic to the village and increase the income of the villagers.

In addition to coffee and milk tea, there are also other snacks prepared by villagers, local specialties, authentic farm dishes and so on.

Although the villagers' election meeting will not be held until the Chinese New Year, Li Xiang still has some confidence that he can win the position of village chief.

Even if he is not the village chief, as an internet celebrity, a "big shot" with more than 200 million fans, and a pastoral blogger, it is unacceptable that the backyard of his residence is too low-class.

In modern society, if you want to quickly “build up popularity”, you can only become an Internet celebrity. Anything else is too slow.

In ancient times, if people wanted to start an army, or do other major things, such as reforming the political system or entering the imperial court, they had to "cultivate their reputation". Only when they had a reputation could they raise their arms and call for followers to gather.

No one knows you. When you encounter big problems, who will come to you and support you?

So what he did was never aimless. He was born in poverty and had no foundation. Even if he took the civil service exam and entered the system, he would not be able to fly. Many people are just clerks all their lives. He can only imitate the ancients and find another way.

As for the underground shelter, he didn't plan to build it so quickly because there would be a super flood in a few years. The end of the world was approaching, and the fate of the next year would be more unfortunate than the previous one. This year's heavy snow was just an appetizer.

If we build an underground base now, aren't we just waiting to be flooded?
But after that great flood, there have been basically no super floods, especially near the end of the world and after the end of the world, it is dark, cold, most places are frozen, even the sea is covered with a thick layer of ice, so there is no possibility of floods.

"To deal with floods, it's best to hide in the mountains. When you have time, go to the mountains and see if there are any existing caves that can be expanded and renovated."

Although Sichuan Province is a basin, the lowest "basin bottom" is 200-750 meters above sea level, which is much higher than some provinces in the east or south. For example, in Yangcheng, if measured from the "Yue No. 6.6" marker, the average altitude is only meters.

Sichuan Province is mountainous with a high average altitude. There is also Kuimen, a "thousand-foot-high cliff that looks like it was cut by an axe or a knife" as the "sea outlet" (legend has it that Dayu dug Kuimen to drain the sea of Bashu when he was controlling floods). In fact, there is no need to worry too much about floods and waterlogging disasters. However, the super flood a few years later was very rare. Even in Sichuan Province, many places were flooded. Dujiangyan could not stop it.

The situation was dire for the plains, especially the north, which had historically had little rainfall and had almost no experience in dealing with major floods.

"Well, let's just take it one step at a time." In fact, as a reborn person, Li Xiang really has no good way to deal with the power of nature.

Li Xiang calmed himself down and pulled himself together again. He moved out the big red cowhide war drum, two drum stands and drumsticks, temporarily placed them in a corner of the corridor, and began the renovation project of the "War Drum Pavilion".

These projects were not large in scale, so he did them all himself. There was still some red bricks, cement, yellow sand, etc. left over from building the wall, so Li Xiang took some out and started mixing the cement himself to harden the ground.

The War Drum Pavilion was only eight or nine square meters, and at his speed, it was completed in half a day.

He also used a high-precision knife to cut a smooth section of the two fir wood pillars in front of the War Drum Pavilion and wrote a couplet: "Ten thousand valleys of pine waves beat the war drums, a peak of majestic mountains holds a flag."

The handwriting is elegant and profound.

In fact, Li Xiang's handwriting was just average before, but after becoming a transcendent, his fingers became more flexible, his mind became clearer, and many of his abilities, such as calligraphy and dancing, were greatly improved.

Calligraphy is nothing more than the control of the pen and the understanding of the structure of the characters.

Li Xiang holds the soft brush in his hand. He can lift it, pause it, stop it, retract it, blunt it, and grab it... The brush can be turned as he wishes. It is more flexible than the human tongue, and it is difficult to write ugly characters.

Of course, his calligraphy is only good-looking. In terms of calligraphy attainments, he lacks his own style and cannot form his own school. To be more precise, it is a "jianghu style" and the rules are not strict enough.

Li Xiang originally wanted to use cinnabar red ink, because cinnabar calligraphy represents killing, which is very suitable for the "war" in the war drum. How can there be no death in war? Only murderous aura is worthy of this pavilion, but grandma said that using red ink is unlucky. Red ink was only used when beheading in ancient times, so Li Xiang changed to black ink.

In fact, red ink is really only used on special occasions, such as beheading criminals and inserting a sign, using cinnabar to draw talismans to exorcise evil spirits, biting one’s finger to write blood letters out of extreme injustice and anger, the emperor’s imperial comments, important notices and red-headed documents, and teachers correcting homework...

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