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How precious are the mountain goods from Qinling Mountains? Such aged wild honey and these wild fruits money can't buy them. During my self-driving trip in Shaanxi I came to the depths of Qinling Mountains, China's Dragon Vein. When I was flying my drone that day I discovered this small mountain village hidden deep in the mountains Surrounded by towering peaks And shaded by trees But reaching the village isn't easy It requires about 40 minutes of hiking To explore this small mountain village I decided to hike in Then I met this warm and kind family And something hilarious happened After watching this video You will definitely fall in love with The mysterious Qinling Mountains Rain or shine I'll wait for you at the village entrance Hello everyone This is Ponyo This is Annie I've now left Gansu And arrived in Shaanxi For our first stop in Shaanxi We've come to the Great Qinling Mountain range When I was flying my drone I discovered in these mountains behind me A very beautiful village There's a path But my car can't get through It's too big as you know Since I can't drive in I can only Walk in With Ergou Following this mountain path It will take Almost an hour to walk

Now follow my lens Let's enter the village together to find my destined people OK Let's start our journey into the village This river What river is it I don't know And the path Is a dirt road Going straight into the mountains Winding all the way in It's so cool walking in here Under the shade The deeper you go into such wilderness The stronger your body's energy becomes I don't know why No matter how unhappy I am Once I walk into such an environment I immediately feel refreshed Wow Are these wild chestnuts? Let me tell you Qinling chestnuts are delicious Look, chestnuts are everywhere It's now 4 o'clock The altitude here is around 1,500 meters And today's weather is perfect An hour's walk in Just in time for dinner This is What we just picked The opened chestnuts After stir-frying Very delicious Very fragrant Very crispy and sweet Some people ask Are you going to sell chestnuts? That girl we filmed before

People said I was selling apples But I wasn't Now they say we're selling chestnuts Impossible Even if you beg me to sell now I might not be able to Qinling, as China's Dragon Vein Has countless legends Always emanating a mysterious aura Entering the mountains My heart is inexplicably filled with awe Wild fruits scattered all over the mountains The fresh air Makes one feel incredibly excited The deeper I go The bigger the mountains Whenever I find a village that requires hiking to reach I become full of anticipation Because each time brings me many surprises Wow Everything planted here is this What is this? It looks very tasty Let's pick one to see Not juicy Both sides are planted with these This must be cultivated So many And there's cicada sounds Isn't it autumn already? It still feels like summer It's indeed beautiful walking in Inside here When I just filmed with the drone It was this area Very beautiful Let's ask at this house The door is open Let's see if anyone's home

Hello Is anyone home? There are two dogs here Hello uncle We're just passing by Came up to take a look To buy some local specialties Buy some local products Yes, yes, yes We're just tourists Want some walnuts? Are these freshly picked? Yes Wow, they look pretty good Where are you from? Guizhou How much are these walnuts per jin? This much Fifty No Five Yes Do you raise any chickens? No In this village now How many households are there? About 10 households Do they raise chickens? We came up here Hoping to buy a free-range chicken to eat Wow, in your yard You've grown so many vegetables Wow, these eggplants look delicious These eggplants Are especially fragrant when stir-fried During harvest season It's peak time for Qinling mountain products I can take this opportunity To buy some from the locals And build relationships Maybe today They'll be my destined hosts After chatting with the elderly couple I learned that They've moved to new houses down the mountain

But being elderly They don't want to leave their homeland Staying in the mountains Makes them feel more at ease I probably can't carry too much I'll use my hand to pick Choose the whiter ones Okay, that's enough If it's too full I can't carry it Weighing this should be about Seven or eight jin maybe No, no Four jin Four jin? Take some more Don't you measure by kilograms here? I'll pay you in cash Let me pick some more No need, no need I can't carry more It's okay if I can't carry it Can't carry more? Enough, enough, enough, enough Can't carry more, can't carry more Thank you, thanks We came up to buy some local products And wanted to buy a chicken to eat here Does anyone raise chickens? Nobody does Nobody over there either That's a shame Okay, carry on with your work Yes I'll look around other houses Okay Oh no I hope we won't end up with just This bag of walnuts today Let's look around this area This courtyard looks quite pretty Let's check this house Wow

I must say It really looks beautiful from here Doesn't it? It's locked up After leaving the elderly couple's house I continued exploring the village But walking around The village is quite small Some houses are abandoned Some have locked gates Obviously uninhabited Just when I was feeling discouraged Thinking today's trip would be wasted I met this grandmother around the corner And then came the story's climax Hello grandpa and grandma Hello Your courtyard is beautiful Really beautiful Yes, it is We're from Guizhou Guizhou Yes Do you live here now? We live here You live here? Yes, we elderly people stay here The young people aren't home The young people went down the mountain. Mm-hmm. Do you raise chickens at your home? You want to buy one? Yes, I'd like to buy one. I do have a rooster. Are you willing to sell it? Depends on how much per pound you offer. Tell me your price.

I've never sold before. I don't know. How about 30 per pound? Is that too much or too little? That's too high. Too high? Then how much? 20 would be enough. 20? Okay. It's a big red rooster. How many pounds is it? Four or five pounds. Five or six pounds. Let me see. Look. It's kept over there. How many do you raise? Four.

These big red roosters are very good. Look. Very beautiful. I've been wanting to sell it. It's troublesome to feed even one, I've been wanting to sell it. Yes, look. This is what we feed it. Wow, it's so fat, eating corn. This is all it eats. Yes. I don't have a machine to grind it. It likes to eat flour. This is coarse.

It doesn't like it much. I want to sell it to avoid feeding it. Want to sell it. Yes. You offered 30, but 20 is enough for me. Can I cook it here? Is that okay? I'm afraid I can't cook it properly. Can you finish such a big one? Half of it. Leave the other half here with you. No, let's share the meal together. We don't have a refrigerator.

What should we do? We can't eat it all if we take it down. My daughter-in-law is inside, look. Ask her to cook for you. She can cook it at her house for you. Looking at grandma's free-range chicken, I'm really craving it. The two elderly people are very warm-hearted. Seems sharing a meal together won't be a problem.

But the elderly can't cook, We need to wait for their children to return to make a decision. However, grandma's next actions are really amusing. You also keep bees for honey? This honey belongs to this family. You also keep bees yourselves? We only have one bucket. Didn't harvest this year. How much per pound? Now they sell for 50-60.

Have you bought any? We didn't buy here. Bought elsewhere. How much? 50 to 100. Some even 200. Is that per kilogram? That's expensive. Yes. Please translate. Get some water to wash it. They say the heavier the honey, the better. Yes, yes, yes. I'll take 100 for this bottle. 100 for this? This is two pounds. Wow, it's like engine oil.

I said let's wash the lid. Yes. The quality is very good. It's already like engine oil. Engine oil. Like car engine oil. Try it and see. We're old now, can't earn much money. Living here is perfect for retirement. Yes. No one to bother you, right? That's right. If they ask you to live down there, you probably wouldn't want to go.

Won't go. Right. Don't tell my son and daughter-in-law it's ours. Why? They'll want to eat it all. Okay, okay. I won't say, I won't say. Don't say it's ours, say it's from somewhere else. From somewhere else, don't say it's mine. Okay, okay. This is good stuff! Really good stuff, yeah The heavier this is, the better Yes, these are wild bees Grandma, let me take a photo of you and grandpa I'll give it to you The photo I can take that photo for you Print it and give it to you Thank you for selling this to me at such a good price I'll give you those photos as a gift No need to tie it up Let me take a look Wow, look at this color Can we open it? Yes, sure Hmm Let me open and check Go ahead and look You're worried it's not genuine? No, no, not at all How could I think it's not genuine? After a long time Does it get moldy? No, it's not mold Let me stir it with chopsticks

Wow, this honey This is really aged honey I had already decided to buy it But grandma said She absolutely couldn't let her children Know she sold it Just when she was packing it for me Her son and daughter-in-law came back with wild goods Grandma quickly put it away sheepishly I couldn't help it I burst out laughing We said we wanted to buy a chicken from grandma Buy a chicken But we have no way to take it with us We said let's just eat it here together Want you to cook it It won't cook through quickly She doesn't even have a pressure cooker here That's right That would be troublesome Did you drive here? We parked our car down below, didn't drive up Our car is too tall. Are you from Sichuan? We're from Guizhou Why does Guizhou sound like Sichuan Which place? The accent Yes, like Sichuan and Chongqing They're next to each other The accents are similar We wanted to take photos with them With the elderly couple We can print them out and give to them Just now When I was about to buy that honey Grandma took the honey back It was so funny

Yes Yes, hmm You have chickens? Do you sell them? I buy them myself Are you going down later? Can't handle that chicken Won't cook through That chicken is really good You should take it We can't take it We don't have a refrigerator Can't possibly take a live chicken Having it in the car would be funny It could work though Chickens keep pooping in the car all the time Who can stand that? Let me take a photo of you guys What's worth photographing in these clothes? Look at my expertise This is my profession I can print it out Sit here Sit closer together Closer Yes, yes, yes Look at my lens 3, 2, 1 So big This photo turned out great Not bad, right? Mm-hmm I'm not joking Mm-hmm The photo came out well And you're giving us two of these? Yes

One for each of you It's just a small gesture I appreciate your kindness, that's enough She won't accept money out of nowhere No, no, no Please take it I've troubled you already This isn't necessary It's fine, really, don't worry Take it, take it, take it Let me tell you I want that Just keep it, keep it I like eggplants Those chickens she raises herself During New Year Your family can cook and eat them all We have chickens downstairs Go down and cook It takes half a day to cook a whole chicken And we're already hungry Now I'll let you go Don't be afraid These are bell peppers Not spicy when cooked These are a bit spicy Then I won't take your money You keep it We're young people We can earn it Enough, enough, enough, enough Please translate You haven't taken anything from me You haven't gotten anything from me Keep it Then I'll just take 100 100 is enough In pairs is better

It's a nice gesture Take it, take it No, no If I come back next time You can cook me a meal then Is that okay? Yes, okay When you get home Just wash it with water I like this apron I think it's worth 200 yuan Just wash it with water and it'll be clean Okay, okay, okay Then let's go downstairs To uncle's house for a simple meal Your son still wants to cook for me Don't think Just taking 100 is enough Give it to them yourself You give it yourself They did the work, not me Next time 100 will be enough We have plenty of time ahead, right? It's not easy to come here once Next time, next time, next time Such a small amount And that apron is mine now too Plus I'm going down Uncle will cook for me too, right? Right? You give so much money But won't take the chicken Never mind Let's go, come on Are you all going down together? I'll walk with you

Since it was getting late And grandma's house didn't have a pressure cooker This old rooster needs slow cooking over firewood At least two hours For dinner It would be nine or ten o'clock Which would affect the elderly's rest However, uncle and auntie Asked me to go down the mountain with them To have a simple meal at their home And because of this meal I met such simple and honest people Is this your home? Yes Your house is right on the main road Nice What's so nice about it? Your place is so cool and on the main road How is that not nice? Put that here first There's more inside Hmm There's also a courtyard inside Yeah Wow Such a big house It's really huge Not bad What's not bad? This is another village We were in one village up there Two villages, huh Relocated years ago I'll cook rice for you Sure, sure Your children? Our daughters They're all settled down One in Baoji

One in Hanzhong Any grandchildren? Yes Yes Our younger daughter's child is over one year old The older daughter's child is 6 years old now That's nice Want to stir-fry some vegetables? Take these with you We have some here We brought some Hmm Alright then Is this Chinese chives? Yes, Chinese chives Wow And chive flowers too Yes The chives are flowering See that? In this small kitchen Auntie is cooking Uncle is helping on the side The couple in the kitchen preparing This warm dinner Watching them busy at work Reminds me of My parents thousands of miles away And relatives back home Their ordinary and simple figures The kitchen's warmth Has accompanied them throughout life I brought some small gifts for uncle and auntie Put them here Don't say anything about it later You all Don't mention it again Or I'll get upset It's ready Wow, it smells so good Should I serve the dishes?

Yes, go ahead This is exactly What we people from Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan Want to eat This eggplant Yes This looks delicious too I love these home-style stir-fries Let me help Wow Have some rice The rice in Hanzhong is quite good This area belongs to Hanzhong Let's skip the alcohol Let's have soft drinks instead Sure, sure, sure This has alcohol content too This has no alcohol It's fruit beer, yes We drink this in summer It has no alcohol Auntie, please eat You eat first Come on, let's eat Time for food tasting Try some dishes Yes, good I especially love eggplant This eggplant smells so good It's delicious

Country food is just simple like this But it has such great flavor These cucumbers I just picked from the garden These peppers are grown in our backyard This cured meat is fragrant too Everything we eat here Has no pesticides Right, yes You can't get this flavor in the city Wow, this cured meat is so good Please, don't be polite This is really really good Thank you, uncle Wow, this is really fragrant You've been traveling for many days Several months Yes, several months That must be tough It tastes just like our local cured meat So fragrant Auntie Your stir-fried eggplant is so delicious Really It's so flavorful Thank you for the compliment I'm already wearing thermal underwear Your eating habits are similar to Our Guizhou style This is how we usually eat

Guizhou, Chongqing, and Sichuan are all similar Auntie, sorry we don't have many dishes, just make do with these Take more meat Sure, sure, sure Have some meat, it's good Alright Can you handle this drink? Yeah, it's just soda, right? Soda We call it fruit beer Fruit beer? Yeah, it's just soda Come on, drink up Drink it all? Drink up It's good for thirst I haven't even poured water for you The rice in the pot You two share it You must be tired from working Eat more We're full I'm almost done too I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep if I eat too much Have some more Really I'll just have some vegetables This eggplant is really fragrant Here's a spoonful for you This bowl is small Yes, our bowls are small Okay, that's enough That's enough Go ahead and eat I don't want anymore Didn't you just say "give"? Your accent is just like ours During the meal Uncle and auntie said many

heartwarming words Like this satisfying meal filled this traveler's stomach The honest and simple uncle and the virtuous auntie look so well-matched together Thinking of the hundred thousand miles I've traveled those ordinary and simple figures with their warmth remain in my memory Can grandpa still climb stairs? At 85 he's still quite strong He's healthy Yes You understand when I say "strong"? Yes, I know "strong" We call it "hard" in our dialect Your dialect is quite similar to ours Right Very similar, yes The dishes you cooked we've basically finished them all, look That's good Though there weren't many dishes, we're happy you finished them We're done We were worried you wouldn't like it Not much to offer you Just cooked a couple dishes This is the most comfortable home-cooked meal I've had in a long time Earlier when we were in Gansu... No, no, let me help Don't worry about it, we'll do it ourselves What are you doing with that? Just a small gesture You shouldn't do this Just a small token

That's really not necessary I've already bought it Take it with you later You take it and eat it You spent so much money on my parents Take all of this No, no, take all of it Just have it with tea As long as you don't mind Next time I come I'll visit again That would be great We're full We've eaten well and should go Rest a while, rest a while We need to get going Going up or down? We're going up Going up? Yes Okay Thank you for your hard work Get some rest tonight Aren't you going to sleep tonight? Yes, we'll drive up ahead Going up that way Going up, right Thank you for your hard work Take this for the road It's just a courtesy, take it It's just a gesture No, no, really No, no, no, no, no It's just a gesture, you spent so much money Goodbye, auntie Okay Take care now Okay, okay Next time you pass by you know where to find us, come again Sure, sure, sure Good Goodbye, uncle and auntie Take care Alright Though the journey is long and hard Despite its challenges

Whenever I meet people like them They fill me with passion and strength Tirelessly traveling from one destination to another It's their genuine smiles And warm words that encourage me No matter how high the mountain I can overcome my inner demons And climb over it I am Sai Xiaobai With a passionate heart Racing towards the stars and sea in the distance Beautiful stories always await in the next countryside