don't go near that tree

Chapter 35

After bidding farewell to Xu Shiyao, Wu Chun walked down the mountain slowly, leaning on a wooden stick.

When he was still some distance away from the foot of the mountain, Wu Chun saw his grandfather.With his hands behind his back, the other party kept circling back and forth at the foot of the mountain, and looked in the direction of the tree from time to time, looking very anxious.

Wu Chun's eyes became hot.

"Grandpa." He called softly.

Hearing the voice, the old man at the bottom of the mountain hurriedly turned around, saw Wu Chun, and quickly climbed up. When he stood in front of Wu Chun, he didn't ask any other words, but just said three short words.

"Finished talking?"

Wu Chun nodded, "It's over." After speaking, Wu Chun took his grandfather's arm with a smile on his face, "Let's go, grandpa, let's go home."

But Wu Chun and the others still didn't go home immediately, but came to the village chief's house.

Wu Chun looked at his grandfather with some doubts, wondering why he came here at this point.

When Wu Chun and his grandfather opened the door and went in, they found that there were many people in the village head's house, arguing about something.

"Grandpa, what is this for?" Wu Chun asked puzzledly, and the several people who were arguing at the scene were very excited after hearing their tone.

"The village is going to cut down trees."

"Cut down trees?"

Perhaps it was because he was too sensitive to the word "cutting down trees", when Wu Chun heard it, he almost yelled out.

Although his voice was not that loud, it was enough to make those who were still arguing stop and all looked this way.

Wu Chun pursed his lips.

"Wu Chun is here?"

The village head squeezed out from the crowd, walked up to Wu Chun, and asked with concern, "Are your feet hurt?"

"It's okay." Wu Chun responded with a smile, "It's just the village chief, why do you want to cut down trees again?"

The village chief didn't answer Wu Chun's question immediately, but turned around and went into the house to get two benches, and handed them to Wu Chun and Grandpa.

Just like that, Wu Chun, who came down from Shili Mountain, turned around and joined a group of old people arguing.

Through their words, Wu Chun got a rough idea.

The village has to decide to cut down trees again, but the trees that occupy the farmland are cut down. With the development of society, more and more young people in the village have begun to leave the mountainous area and choose to work in the city. Those who stay in the village, the elderly and There are more and more women, and some farmlands that were originally planted with crops began to be planted with poplars.

"After the old Zhang's tree grew up in front of the village, my land was next to him, three or four meters away from the tree, and the crops didn't grow at all. What do you think we should do, we can only plant trees."

As this slightly older uncle said, if a family plants trees, the fields adjacent to him will also choose to give up planting crops and plant trees because of the impact of trees on crops. If this cycle continues, it is estimated that it will not pass. How long will it take, most of the fields in the village will turn into forests one day in the future.

It's just that the fields are all planted with trees, and those who still stay in the village to make a living by farming, what do they do for a living.

From this point of view, the village's order to cut down trees was a last resort.

Nothing will be perfect. After the tree is cut down, it can solve some of the troubles in the village. It's just that those who go out to work cannot come back to plant the land, and now they are not allowed to plant trees, which will only make the land deserted and grow grass.

Those people probably don't want to either.

"Can those people's land be reclaimed?" Wu Chun asked.

"That...Chun Chun." The grandfather who had been silent all this time finally opened his mouth, "The land in the village is divided into population land and contracted land. It is rented at an additional cost, generally speaking, for ten years."

After Grandpa mentioned this point, Wu Chun somewhat understood.

Reclaiming land is not an easy task.

Wu Chun frowned. He grew up in the city, and he read some policies and measures about rural areas in books.

Now it seems that what I have learned is only theory. If you really want to practice, you need to have a very comprehensive understanding of this place.

"Trees have to be cut down, so those who are still in the village can have enough to eat." The village chief got up and said something like this, "Let's go back today, it's late."

"Grandpa, do you still have land?" Wu Chun asked in a low voice, sticking close to Grandpa's ear.

Grandpa shook his head.

"Then what are we here for?" Wu Chun asked again.

"The village chief came to our house today and said he wanted to find you. Grandpa is going out to wait for you."

Find me?

Wu Chun looked towards the village head in puzzlement, and the older people around the village head began to disperse. It didn't take long, and only the village head and Wu Chun were left in the yard.

"Village Chief, what do you need from me?" Wu Chun got up and asked.

"Sit." The village chief said, bought Wu Chun a glass of water, then sat opposite Wu Chun, hesitated for a while, and then slowly said, "Wu Chun, listen to your grandfather? Do you want to be a teacher in the future? "

Wu Chun was taken aback for a moment, shaking his hand holding the cup, he put the water back on the table.

"I don't know." Wu Chun said truthfully.

"do not know?"

"My mother is a teacher." Wu Chun explained, "So she wanted me to be a teacher, and I didn't have a clear definition of my future, so I followed her advice and decided to go to a normal school .”

"The teacher is very good, a stable job, but Wu Chun, you really haven't thought about it, what do you want?"

"I don't know." Wu Chun looked at the village chief, "Village chief, just say whatever you want."

"That's fine, let me just say it straight, have you ever thought about joining the grassroots and returning to this place?"

return?

Wu Chun was startled.

This is something he has never thought about. Wu Chun did not lie. He has not yet had a completely clear position on his life. As a famous teacher, Wu Chun still has a lot of uncertainty.

Wu Chun couldn't figure it out, so he decided not to think about it for the time being. He wanted to take a step at a time. Maybe the road ahead would become clear at a certain moment on a certain day.

What the village chief said just now shocked Wu Chun a lot.

"Wu Chun, I've met quite a few people, but I only saw what I wanted to see in two people. Do you know what it is?"

Wu Chun shook his head.

The village chief looked at Wu Chun and said seriously, "Heart of a child, if this village wants to get rid of the status quo, it needs a person with a heart of a child to take the lead."

"What about you, village chief?" Wu Chun asked immediately.

Unexpectedly, after the village chief heard the words, he was silent for a while, and then sighed slowly.

"I am determined but not strong enough now, so I can only place my hope on the people who come after me. With your pure heart, there is only that child besides you. It's a pity..." The village chief said, and sighed slowly. With a sigh of relief, he got up and walked to Wu Chun, and patted Wu Chun on the shoulder lightly, "Wu Chun, I just want to mention that it depends on your choice, but I really hope that there will be more people like you." People like this are dedicated to grassroots causes.”

……

That night was another sleepless night for Wu Chun.

The words of the village chief seem to have opened up Wu Chun's two bloodlines of Ren and Du. A force in Wuchun's bloodline is waking up, even though it is a road that has never been imagined, even a road full of thorns and hardships. .

But it is such a road that can resonate strongly in Wu Chun's heart. There is no shortage of dedicated people in this world, and not only some people can achieve the word dedication.

Wu Chun knew many heroic deeds when he was young, but those were too far away for Wu Chun.

Until Wu Chun met Xu Shiyao.

Wu Chun was lying on the bed, staring at the beams in the house without blinking, thinking of the acquaintance with Xu Shiyao, it seemed that when the other party really started to attract him, it was Wu Chun who knew what Xu Shiyao was sticking to in the past and now.

From then on, Wu Chun couldn't control himself and wanted to get close to the other party. Perhaps the process of getting close was also to hope that he could become the other party.

The experience of coming to Wuchun during this period is also a bit unbelievable. When I was young, I often heard my mother say that it was the dream of all children in the mountains to go out of the mountains. It’s just that Wuchun came here for a period of time and found that life here is a bit harder than at home in the city. But there are also scenes that cannot be seen in the city.

Wu Chun also began to like this place gradually.

And when they come back here, they will be able to accompany Xu Shiyao. Even if they are not in the same world, they can still fight for the same thing.

If one day the people here are no longer in poverty, and the trees on the mountain are no longer in danger, then Wu Chun may have the opportunity to see the thousands of worlds together with Xu Shiyao.

What's more, Wu Chun's heart is Xu Shiyao.

Wu Chun put his hands on the pine cone pendant on his chest, and murmured in a low voice, "Xu Shiyao, do you want me to come back?"

……

Wu Chun got up very early the next day and left home before dawn.

Wu Chun went to Shili Mountain. At this time, Xu Shiyao had already returned to the pine tree. Time passed like flowing water. There were more and more red strings on the tree, and there were fresh fruits on the altar next to it.

Wu Chun stood quietly in front of the pine tree with his hands behind his back. After a while, he said slowly, "The village chief came to me yesterday and talked to me. It was very useful to me. He asked me, Do you want to come back to this place?"

The pine tree shook its branches violently twice, as if to respond to him again.

"To be honest, I haven't thought about it before. I don't even have a clear idea of ​​what my future will be like, but after thinking about it last night, I may have some clues." After Wu Chun finished speaking, he lowered his head, staring at the ground, I pondered for a long time.

Time passed by, and after an unknown amount of time, someone patted Wu Chun on the shoulder lightly.

Wu Chun raised his head, only to see the village chief looking at him with a smile on his face.

"Why are you so dazed here in the morning? You won't even agree."

As usual, when Wu Chun met the village head, he would be polite, but today Wu Chun was very abnormal.

From the moment he raised his head to look at the village chief, Wu Chun's expression was extremely serious.

"What's wrong? Wu Chun?"

As soon as the village chief finished speaking, the quiet atmosphere around was suddenly broken by shaking pine branches.

Wu Chun glanced sideways at the pine tree beside him, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

In the next second, Wu Chun said, "I'll be back."

It's not "want" or possibility, but an extremely affirmative answer - I'll be back.

It seems to be answering the village chief's question, and it seems to be deliberately telling Xu Shiyao...