(Continued from the previous part, Shiwenyu Village)
While playing in Shiwenyu Village, I met a couple who were a few years older than us, and they also came out to visit the village.
We came around the mountain from the north, and the two of them drove over the mountain from the south of the mountain, gathered under the thousand-year-old locust tree in Shiwenyu Village, and came to have a chance encounter, haha.
Don also nagged that the car they drove was a miniature Toyota off-road, which was cool and handsome.
After resting and eating under the Guanyin Pavilion in front of the small temple in Shiwenyu Village, we got up and continued walking.
Good fellow, there was still a very regular asphalt mountain road with guardrails ahead, and the painting style suddenly changed, becoming this kind of tall bushes on both sides and narrow cement paths in the middle? ----To be honest, I didn't drive the navigation at the moment, thinking that their Toyota small off-road could drive over, and our little red car would definitely be able to drive over. Besides, I don't know where to go next, as long as there is a road, then it is good to go all the way.
But this road condition is a little strange, like there will be a broken road at any time ahead, or directly into the forest---- we have also done this, last time we went back to Eighteen Pan Village, the road conditions were worse than this, but at least we finally drove into the village...
There were no people, no cars, no neat crop fields, no orchards, only weeds, and occasionally a few graves, and several dilapidated courtyards ahead, seemingly uninhabited. Sure enough, when the car passed by the gate, there were big golden locks holding the courtyard gate.
These winding mountain roads used to be walked by wooden unicycles, or are they modern motorized tricycles?
With such a narrow path, there is no land for reversing, so I can only bite the bullet and continue to drive forward. When I got to this position, I felt like I had reached the end, and I was about to crash into the wall of someone's yard.
Hey? A right-angle bend here? Good guy, the big car really can't get in.
(The three photos above are a semi-I-shaped path in the village)
Finally, we saw a white car parked in front of us, and we parked next to it. The cab window of the white car was open, and inside sat a young man, who was swiping his mobile phone with a devoted expression.
"Hello... Are you here to play? Or from the village? "The lad noticed us too.
"I'm from this village." The young man replied with a smile.
"We came from Shiwenyu Village on the other side of the mountain, and we didn't see many people along the way, and the mountain road was very narrow, so these houses in our village looked like no one lived in." I murmured.
"They have all moved to the new village below, and now there are only a few families in the old village." The lad was welcoming.
----Oh, so it is, I said.
"What's the name of our village?" I asked.
"Lao Yu!" The lad said.
-----Oh oh! Haha, it really didn't take any effort to come, and I had planned to go to Laoyu Village after swimming in Shiwenyu Village, but I was in Laoyu Village~~
Go, get off and go around the village!
Our car was parked under a large tree, and the little shade barely shaded the scorching sun.
Under the tree is a seventies and eighties style house, peek through the broken doorway, this used to be a commissary!! Look at the characteristic cement-pasted counter, and the two rows of wooden shelves behind them, on which there are various leftover goods. To the left of the counter is a dusty Haier freezer. To the left of the gate, there is a large wardrobe. The ceiling fan overhead is glued with black ash----- which should be a "commercial and residential integration" commissary.
The roof of the commissary was covered with layers of green vines, and on the left wall of the house there was a crooked neck tree that had dried up for most of the time, with a few leaves growing on it, looking at the thick trunk, it must have been dense and prosperous before, but with the relocation of the village, it lost its popularity, and the big tree slowly lost its vitality.
The houses in Laoyu Old Village, old houses and new houses are mixed together, stone walls, loess walls, red brick walls, cement sand and gray walls, there are all ages. Due to the relocation of the village, the new house can still retain its original appearance, and the old house is basically facing the hole, or even the wall collapsed.
This family should have been a rich and noble family, and the gate was so well repaired.
This is a refurbished old house, right? Simplicity with a touch of modern architecture.
When I saw these big words, I was suddenly a little frightened, will there be scorpions in the rubble under my feet? Although this thing is delicious and tonic, it can't hold a bite to play with it...
Picked up a broken magnet base in the aisle, plate? Or a bowl? Look at the side seam is an old object, at least it has to be from the Republican period? Stuffed into the cracks of the bricks----- these things we can't pick up at will and go home, maybe with A Piao, my house is not big, there is no extra room for A Piao as a dormitory.
Another collapsed courtyard, doors and windows are still there, back walls and roofs are all gone.
There are still a few families left behind in the old village, presumably all of them are elderly. Older people are always not very comfortable with the new world outside, and they are used to living in their own houses, because the home is there, the roots are there.
A small machine well, I didn't pull the cement lid on it
Bid farewell to the young man in the white car, not far after leaving Laoyu Village, neat and modern houses appeared in front of him, the front is a row or a row of single-story or two-story small villas, and the back is backed by several modern multi-storey ----- this house, this environment, no less than what Thousand Buddha Mountain, or the rich area of the tourist road, hungry for death.
This is Laoyu New Village, looking at the overall area is not very large, compared with the living volume of Changqingma Mountain and Ganggou Lunan Village, it is far behind. The various service facilities of the new village are also tall, and this environment is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the south direction is a valley-like basin, I don't know if there is a river or reservoir in the basin, if there is, this site is simply too perfect, sitting on the mountain and watching the water, feng shui is prosperous, it's really good---- I don't know if the new village lets us these foreigners live? Hungry for death...
The weather is hot, not suitable for climbing, although the higher the mountain, the lower the temperature, but that is Mount Tai and Mount Everest, not our five or six hundred meters above sea level, and standing on the top of five or six hundred meters, closer to the sun, it is hotter.
Therefore, if the weather is hot, visit the ancient village ~~~
Navigation: Colored Stone · Shiwenyu Village ---- Laoyu Village (the navigation may not show this route over the mountain, but it is directly accessible along the winding mountain road, at most six or seven minutes), not bad ~~
Remember that poor driving skills and trainee drivers are not recommended to visit these narrow mountain villages, because safety comes first and life comes first.