This mountain is the big mountain of the Qi family, and the people who go up to this mountain today are all Qi clansmen. Whether they have already moved out to work, or continue to live in the village, when everyone returns to the ancestral mountain to worship and encounter, it is natural to greet each other as a member of the clan.

Lao Qi's seniority in the clan is neither high nor low, and when he came to the cemetery, he met many grandfathers, grandfathers, and uncles who had arrived on the ancestral mountain. Of course, there are more brothers of the same generation and descendants who call him uncle and grandfather, and there are even small characters who call him Taigong who go up the mountain, and that is the son of the Qi family of the branch of the eldest grandson of the eldest house who came up to the mountain.

A large family with a history of several hundred years gathers together, and the generation of the eldest grandson is basically the smallest. The ancestors of their branch came from the mountain, and they casually met someone who accidentally belonged to the grandfather, grandfather, and grandfather. In terms of generational titles, the clansmen of the branch of the eldest and youngest of the eldest are advantageous. When he arrived at the ancestral graveyard realm, Lao Qi met a big doll, and he had to laugh and praise, "Grandpa Xiaodou also followed him up the mountain, is he in elementary school?"

Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Qi clan has developed into a big family since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty with the army stationed in Tunyun, and those children who go out to spread their branches and leaves cannot be counted, and there are more than 2,000 Qi clan people in the village of Qi Guanying where the ancestral hall is located, which can be described as deep-rooted and flourishing.

Qi's ancestral mountain in central Yunnan City is located in the third largest mountain in the west of Bazi in the fifth district, and basically maintains the form of mountain forest. There are also two mountains and one heavy mountains on the periphery, one is lower than the other, and surrounds the dam of the five districts. There are several mountain villages in the first and second mountains, and large areas of renovated mountain orchards are scattered in between. On the other side of Qijiazu Mountain, there is another dam after crossing a big mountain, and then it is the boundary of Exian County.

Lao Qi's father, grandmother, grandfather, grandfather, grandmother and other ancestors have been buried in the ancestral mountain. After his father passed away in 1997, Lao Qi took over his father's class, and he undertook the task of going up the mountain to worship his ancestors every year.

In this special festival, the liveliness of other clansmen brings out the loneliness in Lao Qi's heart. In the face of the deceased ancestors, Lao Qi must try his best to change the fate of his relatives in 1996 time and space, and no longer regret it for the rest of his life. If you have a successful career in this life, you will definitely reorganize your family business and benefit the township.

After the sacrifice, they gathered with other clansmen on the mountain, emptied all the food they brought up the mountain from the mountain bag, and ate some fruits and cakes brought up by each family to the mountain. Seeing that the time was still early, it was only 12 o'clock, and after Lao Qi said goodbye to the clansmen who were still on the mountain, he went down the mountain along another mountain road.

As in previous years, once a year in Zushan, he had to go to see an old friend who had been dating for more than 30 years, Fang Xueliang, the village chief of Miluo Village at the foot of Qijia Mountain.

Lao Fang runs a large orchard, and he will definitely not find anyone at home when he goes to Miluo Village this season. I called and contacted him, he was harvesting early-ripening cherries in his orchard, and asked Lao Qi to go directly to his orchard.

The road taken by Lao Qi is in the south of Qijia Mountain, and most of the roads along the way are the Taishan land to which the nearby mountain villages belong, and a large number of cherry trees and chestnut trees have been planted over the years.

In places where the economy has been better in recent years, many people have stopped planting flue-cured tobacco and have switched to other economic plants with higher economic value, easier management and less labor.

At the beginning of April, cherries in central Yunnan have gradually entered the ripening stage, and early-maturing varieties have already begun to be marketed. Lao Qi is in the cherry orchard, looking around, the trees are of different heights, different varieties, and the cherry trees with different planting years are hung in the red and green of the cherry forest, all over the hillside. The mountain breeze gently caresses the branches and leaves, the petite cherry fruit, the red enchanting, the yellow tender, the green tender. Looking at the joy, Lao Qi picked a bunch of crystal cherries, golden, shiny, watery, and tender flesh, and put them in his mouth, from sour to sweet, straight to the bottom of his heart.

Lao Qi walked freely through the orchards of different sizes and sizes of each owner, observing the fruit hanging and growth of cherries with great interest along the way, and sometimes stopping to pick a few cherries from fruit trees of different varieties and different growth positions to taste carefully. There is no consciousness of melon fields and plums at all, and his glasses-wearing, big-bellied and leisurely appearance, people who don't know still think that he is a rural cadre who came to inspect.

From time to time, there are people in the cherry blossom garden, mostly to help search for nearby villagers and garden owners who pick ripe cherries. Occasionally, I met a few orchard owners who saw Lao Qi picking cherries by himself slowly and methodically, not only did not stop him, but also warmly and kindly beckoned Lao Qi to pick more cherries and take them away, no need to be polite. The enthusiasm of the owner of the orchard, Lao Qi is not embarrassed, everyone is familiar, by the way, hand each other cigarettes, standing in the orchard to talk about cherry production, harvest and sales.

Cherries are delicious and difficult to plant? This is not true, it should be said that cherries are delicious and difficult to pick.

The cherry fruit is small, thin-skinned, and juicy. When picking, the fruit must be cut with scissors to keep the fruit intact, and it can only be naturally stored for about three to five days. It only takes about ten days to refrigerate, but it can only be done by buying it home and putting it in your own refrigerator.

If a large batch of refrigeration is preserved, let's take a look: there is only about ten days of freshness before and after, and it is transported to the frozen warehouse to toss back and forth and damage and cold storage fees. Cherries are seasonal fresh fruits, and they are taken out of the market after being sent to the cold storage for more than ten days, don't be funny.

The cherry fruit is delicate, and the shipment can only be placed in a small number of small baskets and small boxes, and it cannot be stacked in multiple layers under pressure, and the fruit will be damaged and corrupted if it is too large under pressure.

Lao Qi, who has plenty of time, walked all the way and looked all the way, and swayed to a large orchard located on the mountainside, wrapped in a small reservoir with dozens of acres of water surface, where hundreds of people shuttled through the orchard, holding various tools and were busy harvesting ripe cherries.

The picking of cherry fruit is not easy, the branch is low and easy to do, the harvester stands firmly on the ground and directly holds a small basket in one hand, and then cuts the fruit with scissors in the other hand to pick the tender cherry fruit. Seeing their cautious appearance, they try not to touch the cherry fruit directly with their hands to avoid accidentally hurting the fruit. The tall branches are either slowly pressed down with a hook attached to the rope, and one end of the rope is stepped on under the feet and then picked, and the branches that cannot be pressed down are climbed up to harvest by a ladder, and the movements are gentle to avoid too much shock causing the ripe cherry fruit to fall off and fall to the ground, so that the fruit will not be finished.

The yield of cherries is not high, and a cherry tree that has entered the peak production period does not look at the branches covered with cherry fruits, and it is only twenty or thirty kilograms when all of them are picked. The harvesters are not easy, climbing up and down in the orchard, and each person can harvest one or two hundred kilograms in a day.

This is a large orchard with a depression sandwiched between two slopes, and the orchard covers an area of more than 1,000 acres. Fang Xueliang, the owner of the orchard, was organizing workers to weigh and pack the collected cherries, and when he saw Lao Qi coming all the way, he quickly put down the record book in his hand and stepped forward to greet him.

"Lao Qi, have you been to the grave?