I tell you from personal experience that most people can’t accept Li Ziqi’s pastoral life for a long time.

Li Ziqi has been popular for several years and has a large number of fans both at home and abroad.

And her videos also made many people lament the beauty of the countryside.

Quiet country road with lush trees. There are flowers everywhere in summer, and warm sunshine and first snow in winter. Dressed in Hanfu, walking through the fields and forests, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, it's like a new scene in a paradise.

However, this is only what is shown to us in front of the camera.

Behind the camera, there is often unimaginable sweat and hard work.

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During the summer vacation after I graduated from elementary school, I returned to my hometown in the mountains and lived with my grandparents for two months.

That big mountain, if you just go for tourism, the scenery is really beautiful and makes people forget to leave.

But if you live in it, it won’t be the same.

You just want to escape, just want to move out.

It was already noon when I took the bus to the entrance of the village where my grandma’s house is located. After getting off the bus, I still had to walk for at least half an hour, all on mountain roads, which were steep and difficult to walk. If it is snowy, it is even more dangerous. If you are not careful, you will fall from a height.

The village is built against the mountains, and there are very few flat concrete roads. Even the bus passing through the village entrance only runs twice a day.

My grandma had been waiting for me at the entrance of the village early. She was very happy to see me. After taking me home, she told me that she had stewed chicken for me. It was a chicken raised at home. She almost didn’t feed it and cooked it all by herself. In the morning I went out into the mountains to look for bugs to eat.

Rural earth stoves are used for cooking, with a large thin iron pot on top. The rich aroma of stewed chicken emanates from under the bamboo grate. The dog next door has been shaking at the door of grandma's house. Tails, hesitating whether he could come in and pick up a piece of meat to eat.

Under the earthen stove is firewood, which is branches picked from the mountains. It needs to be picked up almost every day, because the amount of firewood used to boil water for cooking is extremely large, and firewood is not as durable as coal.

The chicken is particularly firm, perhaps because of eating bugs, or perhaps because of the heavy exercise required to find food by myself every day.

Anyway, at 5 o'clock in the morning, grandma got up to kill chickens and stew meat.

After stewing for a full 8 hours, the chicken was not ready until 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

It was a delicious taste that I had never tasted before, let alone something that can be compared to chicken that can be stewed in an hour.

After lunch, grandma was going to the mountain vegetable garden to pick some vegetables, and I went with her.

The afternoon sun was a bit fierce. Wearing a sun hat, sweat continued to flow from the top of my head.

The biggest inconvenience of mountainous areas is that there is very little land and it is very far away. It is not like the plain areas with large and uniform arable land.

I followed my grandma for a long time, and I was soaked all over before I arrived at the small vegetable garden.

From visual inspection, there are at most three-thirds of the land, and there are a lot of tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers planted in it.

I wanted to sit on the edge of the field and rest, but I found that the mosquitoes in the mountains were as if they had become sperm. They attacked me desperately and could even bite through my jeans.

In 10 minutes, I bitten more than a dozen bags.

It is still noon, and many mosquitoes are afraid of coming out because of the fierce sun. If the sun goes down, the mosquitoes in the mountains will almost eat people.

I had to walk around while waving at mosquitoes.

On the way back, my grandma picked a handful of wild cocoons for me. They taste sweet. This seems to be the only benefit of the mountains.

During the short one-hour mountain road trip, I encountered several snakes. Some were wilted in the sun while some were lying in grass nests, and some were hanging on trees to hide in the shade.

Grandma picked up an extremely small snake and threw it back to the chickens. Several chickens quickly grabbed it in the yard. Two of the chickens each held one end of the small snake in their mouths and refused to give up. This is delicious to the mouth.

Another major inconvenience in the mountains is that it is difficult to drink water.

The year I went there was probably just after the second millennium. At that time, there was no running water in the village. All the water for the family had to be fetched from the well at the head of the village.

A scene of a rugged mountain road, a pole, two shaking buckets, and a panting figure trying to maintain balance can often be seen on mountain trails.

Every household has a large water tank that stores water. If it is full, it can be used for half a month.

I stayed here for a week and my hands grew calluses, but I never worked in the fields.

Just after gathering some firewood, splitting some thick branches with an ax, and picking some vegetables from the vegetable garden, my hands started to feel rough.

The mosquito bites I received on the first day have not gone away until a week later, and new ones have appeared again.

Rural houses are dark and damp, and many small bugs are often seen in the house. Although there are no flying cockroaches like those in the south, unknown insects with more than a dozen legs like those in the north are often seen in the house. crawling around the corners.

I often go to the house with the chickens to chase these insects that have so many legs and can crawl so fast.

I even learned to pick up a small snake and bring it back to the chickens to eat. Although when I caught the snake, the sticky and slippery feel scared me.

Twenty years have passed, and almost no one lives in the original village.

Life is really inconvenient. Just collecting firewood and carrying water every day takes up a lot of people's energy, not to mention having to travel a long way to buy some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

Electricity only came about in the past 20 years. In the last century, kerosene lamps were all used.

There was only a flame as big as a pea, but the smoke was very choking.

It is really unacceptable for people living in today's society to live like this for a day.

Not to mention hard work, many people are scared to death just because of the snake.

Li Ziqi’s paradise life does indeed look very beautiful, but that’s just the few dozen minutes in front of the camera. The rest is all about the difficulties of living in remote rural areas and the team’s *** Work hard.

If you are alone, you really can’t live this kind of life!