Chapter 261: Wild Fruit Season
When they arrived at Fenghuanggou, they found a slightly flat, shady place near the edge of the water source, Canghai stopped the cart and motioned for everyone to get off.
"Set up the tent first, and then everyone will go to make up for sleep if they are sleepy, and what should they do if they are not sleepy" Canghai smiled and reached out to move the first tent off the cart.
Canghai took one, Ping'an and Lin Zhijing took the second together, and Cang Jing and Shi Wei were assistants to the tent-setting team.
Canghai was naturally in a group with Shi Wei, and it was not the first time for the two of them to set up a tent, so the tent was set up in about five minutes, and the fixed chisels at the four corners had been firmly inserted into the ground, revealing only the chisels with a uniform palm width that could be tied to the rope.
The progress of the Ping An team was not as good as it could have been. It's not that Ping An didn't set up, but because Lin Zhijing and Cang Jing came to make trouble for him, and they didn't know how to start after they opened the tent.
Canghai took out the tent from the space is not the kind of home, like an umbrella can be unfolded the tent, these two tents not only have to be put in four miles, but also have to tie the drill outside, windproof and rainproof There are more than four square sheds in front, and the shed also has shelves, and Cang Jing and Lin Lijing are a little at a loss in front of a large number of parts.
"Okay, you get out of the way, let's come" Shi Wei walked over, reached out and took a support rod from Cang Jing's hand and said with a smile.
Cang Jing's own skills are not up to par, and she actually complained about Cang Hai: "Second brother, what kind of tent are you taking, it's so complicated, I used to see other people's tents together, this thing has a lot of parts alone, and people who look at it are dazzled."
Canghai laughed twice: "It's a lazy tent, and I also have it at home, but do you think it will be comfortable for you to squeeze that little space at night?
"Second brother, when are we going back?" Ping'an kept working on his hands, and asked at Canghai.
Canghai replied: "You have to wait for the people in the village to leave a little, it's too troublesome to go back now, why is it like going back when you just came out?"
Cang Jing said: "Brother Ping'an, if you want to go back, you go back first, I want to play here for a while, I haven't lived in a tent since I was a child, and how good the second brother is here, you see that there is a fragrance of osmanthus in the air, and when I came just now, I saw a wild hawthorn tree, how beautiful the red fruit is, I'll pick some later."
Shi Wei listened to the strange question and asked, "There are hawthorns on the way here?"
Cang Jing asked strangely, "You didn't see it?"
Seeing that Shi Wei nodded, Cang Jing stretched out her hand, pointed to the red shadow of the tree over there and said, "Oh, it's over there, why don't we go over and pick it now?"
Canghai saw that his cousin's interest was very high, so he said to Shi Wei: "You go pick hawthorns, Zhijing, you go with you, and I will be safe when I set up a tent."
Cang Jing immediately said: "He is not allowed to go, he is here to honestly learn to set up a tent with you, in case it comes in handy in the future, we can just go to this kind of thing like picking hawthorns."
After speaking, Cang Jing took Shi Wei's hand, walked to the side of the cart, took a bamboo basket, and walked towards the hawthorn tree not far away.
Meng Meng, who was sitting on the board car to play, immediately slid off the board car, and ran towards the hawthorn tree with an iron head first, giggling and laughing while running, shouting loudly: "Pick hawthorn, pick hawthorn!"
"Slow down, Mengmeng, don't fall" Shi Wei said immediately when she saw Mengmeng running in a hurry.
Before the words were finished, I saw that Meng Meng was tripped by a dirt pull, but the little girl didn't cry, Meng Meng, who has not been a greenhouse flower since she was a child, got up directly, patted her clothes and pants twice and continued to run.
Canghai saw that the tiger's head was lying on the ground, the slippery head and the fat yellow of the Ping'an family were using the tiger's head tail as a toy, and the two half-sized little milk dogs were biting and playing with the tiger's tail.
Canghai then said to the tiger head: "Tiger head, you also follow!"
Listening to Canghai's order, the tiger head immediately stood up and quickly followed behind Shi Wei and Cang Jing. The two little milk dogs who originally bit their tails were directly brought a somersault by the tiger's head, and the two little things rolled up from the ground and quickly followed.
The moving tail seemed to make the two little guys more excited, and after catching up, they bit the tail and did not let go, but the two little guys did not have the big steps of the tiger's head, and soon became the tiger's head dragging the two small meat balls on the ground.
With Canghai and Ping'an, another tent was quickly erected again, waiting for the four chisels to be inserted into the soil, the ropes on the four sides were straightened, and several telescopic irons in the tent were erected, and the tent was firmly tied, not to mention that the wind was weak in the ravine, even if it was a wind tent of five or six levels, it was safe and sound.
A little snake powder was sprinkled next to the two tents to prevent insects, snakes, or anything from leaning into or burrowing into the tent, and the whole tent setting up was successfully completed.
Lin Zhijing, who stayed to learn to set up a tent, didn't know how much he had learned, and when this kid saw that the tent was set up, he said to Canghai: "Second Brother Cang, I'll go over there and have a look."
Seeing Canghai nodding, Lin Zhijing ran over with a trot to the hawthorn-picking team.
Canghai and Ping'an put the stove and other things they brought, and began to go down all the miles to find dead branches and fallen leaves or something to use as fuel.
Fenghuanggou has long been desolate again, here is full of thick trees with bowl mouths, although the age of the trees is not big, but so many trees grow together, and there is already a bit of the momentum of the old forest, as soon as you enter the forest, the human body immediately feels that the temperature is a few degrees lower than outside. In the same way, because no one hit the fallen leaves, a thick layer was also spread on the ground, and the feet stepped on it as if they were stepping on a soft carpet.
Dead branches can be picked up directly from the ground, but the leaves used for ignition will not be, because no one knows what is under the leaves, not to mention scorpions and poisonous insects or something, even if there is a small snake hidden, it is enough for a person to drink a pot, although Canghai is not afraid, but he doesn't want to reach out and grab a poison out, so he has to rely on a rake to hold the leaves.
After hugging a bunch of leaves and picking up a handful of firewood, Canghai and Ping'an returned to the camp, threw the things on the edge of the stove, and saw that a few of the hawthorn pickers had not returned, so they went to see it with Ping'an.
There are still ten meters away from the wild hawthorn tree, Canghai will see a lively next to the hawthorn tree, Meng Meng is shouting under the tree, the iron head on the tree is shaking the branches according to the command of Meng, and the ripe hawthorn fruit falls to the ground like a light rain. Cang Jing people have already stood on the first big branch on the tree, is reaching out to the hawthorn that he can reach, pick one and put it on his clothes, I don't know when Cang Jing this girl took off her coat, two sleeves tied around the waist, made a temporary cloth pocket.
As for Shi Wei and Lin Zhijing's current tasks, they are naturally the same as Mengmeng. Pick up the hawthorns that fall from the ground.
Canghai and Ping'an came to the tree, Ping'an immediately joined the team of picking up hawthorns, Canghai looked at the basket full of bright red hawthorn fruits, so he reached out and pinched one, rubbed his fingers on the hawthorn twice and put it in his mouth.
As soon as he bit down, Canghai immediately shivered, because the wild hawthorn was very sour, and after a shiver, his mouth immediately swelled with a mouthful of water.
"I'll go, why is it so sour!" Canghai spit out the hawthorn fruit in his mouth.
Shi Wei smiled and said: "The first one is very sour, but if you eat a few more, you will find that this fruit is really good, but it is smaller, not as big as the hawthorn fruit sold on the market."
"You still pick the size of the wild fruit, and it is not cultivated," Canghai said with a smile.
Although Shi Wei said that it would be good to taste a few more flavors, Canghai still didn't want to taste it, and he felt that one fruit was about to lose his teeth, so where would Canghai eat the second one.
However, the fruit that is very sour for Canghai is obviously very full of flavor for Mengmeng, I saw that the little girl picked a big fruit and stuffed it into her mouth, and continued to pick up the fruit that fell on the ground while exhaling, and the two cheeks were bulging, like a little squirrel carrying food.
Just as he wanted to say that Meng Meng was like a little squirrel, Canghai saw a black squirrel jumping over from the ground and joining the army of picking up hawthorns, and I don't know how such a small squirrel's mouth can be stuffed with six or seven hawthorn fruits, and the full mouth is almost closed, it seems that it can't be stopped, and the black squirrel that picked up the leak ran away with a smoke, and soon jumped up to a big tree not far away.
As soon as the first little squirrel left, another squirrel of a slightly lighter color arrived, and when he saw the hawthorn on the ground, he immediately picked it up.
"And the two who took advantage of the fire to rob!" Canghai said with a smile.
Seeing these two squirrels, Canghai knew that this was a family, and the two of them were busy storing food for the winter.
Shi Wei straightened up at this time and smiled at Canghai: "Two clever ghosts, they have been here since we laid the first batch of fruits."
"Sister Shiwei, let's not pick hawthorns, there is a plum tree over there, the purple and purple must be delicious, it's on the other side of the river!"
Cang Jing, who was standing on the tree, had sharp eyes, and found the plum tree opposite the pond, so he shouted on the branch.
As soon as Meng Meng heard about the plum tree, he immediately stood on tiptoe and stretched out his little head and asked, "Where, where?"
"You can't see it over there, I can only see it here, that is, a corner, if you don't pay attention, you can't find it, fortunately my eyes are good!" Cang Jing said loudly to Meng Meng under the tree.
When the little girl heard this, she immediately came to her senses, threw down the hawthorn on the ground and didn't pick it up, but ran directly to the bottom of the tree and hugged the trunk to climb the tree.
It's a pity that the little girl has little strength and can't climb the tree at all, so she shouts under the tree in a hurry.
Canghai was about to help, but unfortunately the iron head was one step faster than Canghai, and when he heard the sound of Mengmeng, he immediately jumped down from the treetops, hung upside down on the trunk and dragged Mengmeng to the tree.
With the help of the iron head, Meng Meng finally got on the branch and stood next to Cang Jing: "Where, where?"
"Did you see that?" Cang Jing stretched out her finger.
Sticking out his little head and looking at it for a while, Meng Meng found the plum tree.
Seeing the plum tree, Meng Meng immediately pouted and wanted to get down the tree, and said while sliding down the tree: "Go over there, go over there!"
At this moment, the team had to bypass the pond again, go to the opposite side to pick plums, who knows that they have not yet walked to the plum tree, and found a ripe wild apple tree, but unfortunately most of the fruits were pecked by birds, and they did not find a good one after looking for a few, and the taste of wild apples was not as delicious as the apples produced in the village, so they were naturally abandoned.
After walking for a while, I saw a wild pear tree, which was not the common yellow-skinned pear on the market, but a brown thick-skinned pear, which tasted tasteless, neither sweet nor sour, and was also abandoned by the team.
Came to the plum tree, everyone tasted it first, the plum on the tree is really not small, one by one is always purple red and purple-red, there is still white fruit cream hanging on the peel, the taste is okay, but it is slightly worse than the artificial planting, the acid is definitely sour, but Meng Meng and Cang Jing are not too concerned about this sourness, so a basket full of plums has become the second batch of wild fruits harvested by everyone today.
For wild fruits, Canghai didn't have much interest, but soon Canghai found something that interested him, a few wolfberries that he had paid attention to before were ripe, the purple-black fruits were almost all over the branches, and the leaves on the waist-high shrubs had almost fallen, and all that was left was the thorns and dark purple fully ripe wild wolfberries.
Canghai began to put away the wolfberries with peace, and prepared to dry them to make tea. The wolfberry is not easy to collect, because the small shrubs and the branches are covered with thorns, and Canghai is not ready to take it out and sell it, so he collected about four or five catties and put it away.