Chapter 114 Conquering the insurmountable mountains with feet, never stopping for five thousand years!
Zhuangmiao Village, Poshan County, is located east of Wushan in Caiyun Province and south of Qianse in Guixi Province. It is said to be the junction of Caiyun Province and Guixi Province, but in fact it is also the border junction of China and Nanyue, only a few dozen miles away from the border marker.

As soon as Martha arrived at this deep mountain forest where three places meet, she regretted her decision almost immediately.

"Oh my god! Why are there so many mountains? The road here is so difficult to walk on! Yan!"

Martha was sweating profusely by now.

China's high-speed rail is invincible. It only takes less than one day to travel from Jinghai to Chang'an City and from Chang'an City to Xijiang. You know, Chang'an City to Xijiang is a full 1 kilometers away on the map, but it can be reached in one day, which shows how developed the high-speed rail network is.

But what’s going on in this place?

The map clearly shows that this place is only 300 kilometers away from Chuncheng, which is almost one-tenth of the distance from Chang'an City to Western Xinjiang. But I have been running for two days and two nights and still haven't arrived?

This is one of the areas with the most mountains in China, with mountains winding around and waters entangled. Even China, which has the most advanced high-speed rail technology on the planet, is very secretive about this ghost place and cannot build any high-speed rail.

To put it more extremely, it is a miracle that there is a road in this place.

Martha felt like she was almost falling apart after running on the mountain road for two days.

The mountain roads in Yunnan and Guizhou are praised by everyone who has ridden them. They spiral straight up the mountain, descend steeply, turn left and right, and climb up and down.

"Stop, stop for a moment, I'm... vomiting again..."

Princess Shama, who was always weak and frail, had never suffered such a punishment before? After walking a few sections of the mountain road, she was forced to stop the car and vomit. Not to mention her, Lin Yan herself was numb.

Everyone in the live broadcast room felt heartbroken. Since last night, they have been pulling out "Always Smiling" and torturing him almost non-stop.

"@笑口常开, don't you have any idea about the road conditions in your home? How dare you let Martha run on such a winding mountain road? If something happens to her, can you bear the responsibility? Huh?"

“@笑口常开, I suggest you to immediately commit suicide in the live broadcast room, so as to avoid angry netizens immediately looking for you offline to PK.”

"@笑口常开, why don't you just have a banquet and celebrate on your own in the village? I think Martha really can't stand this. Brother Yan, you should take Martha back."

"Laughing all the time: It's unfair! We usually run on this road without feeling anything, how could I know that Martha couldn't stand it? Besides, we are very close now, we can really get there today, and our village is just over the mountain over there! I promise! Just bear with it for a while!"

"I'll try... ugh..."

Martha was exhausted.

Along the mountain road, she once again felt the vastness of China. She had been to places with harsh natural conditions, such as Xinjiang, but the harshness of Xinjiang was completely different from that of this mountainous area.

If the desert is harsh, at least humans can fight it by planting trees. However, this kind of mountains clustered together, shaped like a cage, will really trap everyone to death in these mountains.

"This is the most difficult place in all of China, Yan..."

Martha looked at the seemingly endless mountain road with an extremely solemn expression: "Do the people here have to suffer like this when they go out to the city? They say they are used to it? That's really... a sad story... Ugh..." Just by running such a section of mountain road, she felt dizzy and wanted to vomit all over.

And they deal with these mountains every day. It takes dozens of hours to drive to a city, which is simply...unimaginable.

This is the case even after the mountain roads have been built!
If it were in the past, when there was no road here, how did they get out?
“That’s really a story that no one wants to tell.”

Lin Yan was also filled with emotion about the winding mountain road in front of him: "Before, when there were no such roads, every time, it was the people in these mountain villages who carried all the harvests of the entire village for several months and a year into several backpacks that were much larger than themselves. They relied on their feet to grope their way out of these mountains step by step, and walked step by step to the county town that seemed to be only a few dozen miles away, to sell the harvests of the entire village for money, and then buy the daily necessities needed by the entire village, and then climb the mountain back to the village with the same backpack on their backs."

A backpack taller than a person...?
Looking at the news pictures that Lin Yan showed her, and seeing adult men who were only about 1 or 6 meters tall carrying the so-called "backpacks" that were two meters wide and three meters high, Martha felt a pang of pain in her heart.

"How heavy are these baskets when they are full? They carry such heavy baskets and walk over so many mountains to sell the harvest grown by the whole village? How much money can they get from selling the harvest from such a basket?"

"The prices back then are obviously not comparable to today's. If we do a quick calculation, one person could probably earn about 100 yuan in today's money for such a trip."

100...

As soon as this number came out, all the audience in the live broadcast room fell silent.

After filling it up, the backpack weighs nearly hundreds of pounds. After climbing over so many mountains, you go to the county town to sell it with such hard work, and all you get is a mere 100 yuan?

You know, not long ago, Martha spent nearly 2000 Chinese yuan on a night at the Huacheng Hotel!

I just stayed there for one night. Is it enough for them to go back and forth 20 times?
Martha couldn't help but cover her face.

How many people are struggling to make a living in places that we can’t see?
Lin Yan sighed, "So this is the reason why we need to build roads and high-speed railways. Don't think that these are just some simple roads. In fact, the cost of building these roads is no less than that of building high-speed railways of the same distance. From an economic perspective, this is definitely a loss-making business. But if Huaxia didn't build this road, then until today, they would still have to carry those backpacks and crawl step by step to the county town to make a living. Who would have the heart to watch such a scene?"

The winding mountain road that Martha found unbearable was a miracle from God to the residents living in the mountains.

Even if there was some vomiting and discomfort at the beginning, it was still much easier and more enjoyable than climbing the mountain manually with a backpack on your back!

After feeling distressed for a long time, Martha couldn't help but become more worried about the destination she was about to go to.

With such harsh natural conditions, anyone can imagine that Zhuangmiao Village hidden deep in the mountains is definitely not a wealthy and developed place.

What kind of life do they live? Do they live in poor houses? Those sayings that China is very backward that I have already forgotten - could they actually be referring to mountain villages like Zhuangmiao Village?
Although she was worried like this, Martha quickly shook her head.

No matter what it looks like, for me, it is the best five-star hotel!
Moreover, for no reason, she had developed a blind confidence in China.

Even though China is not rich in objective material terms, they possess the most abundant spiritual wealth in the entire blue planet!

She believes that the villagers who are trapped in the mountains but can conquer the mountains by carrying heavy baskets weighing hundreds of kilograms on their feet will definitely bring her unprecedented surprises!
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(End of this chapter)