Of course, the young Xu Feihang didn't know what kind of trees this kind of trees belonged to, but in his eyes, he couldn't see the top of each tree, and the thick trunks often required two adults to hug them.

Logging is a dangerous task that requires the skill of the lumberjack and the improvised nature of the wind to get the tree to fall to the pre-specified side. Although Xu Feihang's father thinks that he has not made a mistake for so many years, it is still difficult to ensure that nothing goes wrong, so he does not want to take his son up the mountain.

But in that mountainous area, Xu Feihang basically had no playmates, and there were no children's facilities for him to play, so Xu Feihang often begged his father to take him up the mountain. For Xu Feihang, the depths of the mountains and forests are a mysterious place, and every time he goes up the mountain, he seems to follow his father on an interesting adventure.

Xu Feihang's father couldn't withstand Xu Feihang's soft grinding and hard bubbles, so he would occasionally take him into the mountains and forests, Xu Feihang's father felt that as long as he was careful, nothing should happen.

As a lumberjack, Xu's father had to go to the mountains to cut down the trees that had grown into them, and then plant saplings in the vacated space, so that the trees on the mountain would continue to multiply endlessly.

Xu Feihang once asked his father why he had to plant the saplings so quickly. In simple words, his father told him that every tree he cut down now had been planted by a previous generation, and that it had taken decades to grow before they became timber that could be exchanged for money. And the saplings are planted at this time for future generations, and when the saplings are grown, they will have new wood to cut.

At that time, Xu Feihang didn't seem to understand, but he felt that those saplings should have been planted for himself, and when he grew up to be as tall as his father, he could also go to this mountain forest to cut down trees.

Xu Feihang found that his father's main tool for cutting trees was the chainsaw, which looked powerful, but occasionally he also used something as simple as an axe. Xu Feihang watched his father's tree cutting process carefully, and he would first use a chainsaw to cut an inclined opening on one side of the trunk, which looked like an open mouth. Then on the other side of the trunk, a slit is sawn along the bottom of the mouth, and the two sides of the break do not need to fit perfectly, and usually stop only near the middle.

At this time, the uncle had actually been cut almost completely, only a small part of the middle was still connected, but looking up at the top of the tree, it was still standing there safely, as if nothing had changed on it.

Next, the most critical step of cutting down the tree, Xu Feihang found that his father would pay special attention to the direction of the wind at this time, if the treetops were blown by the wind and there was a swing, he would be very cautious to stop, and wait until the tree was still again before proceeding to the next step.

Cutting trees is usually chosen in a sunny weather, so there is basically no strong wind, Xu Feihang only remembers that once his father was not ready, the tree was directly blown down by the wind. That time the big tree fell in the opposite direction, and Xu Feihang's father, relying on his own experience, immediately picked up his son and hid in another direction, and finally avoided it without danger.

When the tree is at rest, Xu Feihang's father will insert a cone-shaped wooden block into the gap on the side of the trunk, and then gently tap the wooden block with a tiger head a few times, as the wooden block deepens, the base of the tree will begin to be unbalanced, and the tree will fall to the pre-set place.

Every time he saw a behemoth dozens of meters fall down, Xu Feihang felt that it was the most exciting moment, he hid behind his father while covering his ears, and felt that the ground under his feet trembled slightly because of the falling trees.

Going out to cut trees usually involves spending a day in the mountains and forests, so the father and son's lunch is also settled in the mountains. Every noon, Xu Feihang's father would find a shady place to sit down and eat, and there was often a mountain spring water flowing out of nowhere in front of them.

The food at noon was a boxed lunch prepared by his mother, and his father's lunch box was more than twice the size of Xu Feihang, and Xu Feihang often wondered at that time how his father could eat so many things.

Both of them were eating quietly in the mountains and forests with their lunch boxes, and they could hear the sound of birds chirping in the distance and the tinkling of mountain spring water nearby.

In Xu Feihang's impression, the place where they eat is always quiet and beautiful, the grass under their buttocks is softer than a blanket, the stone walls of the mountain stream with spring water in front of them are covered with moss, and occasionally a few unknown wildflowers grow obliquely from both sides. When you are thirsty, go to the front to drink a few sips of mountain spring water, where the water quality always has a faint sweet taste, at that time there was no cola, mountain spring water is the most natural drink given to them by the mountain.

The boxed lunches prepared by his mother are usually very simple, but Xu Feihang's lunch box often has an extra egg, while his father does not have it. Although he eats not so sumptuous meals, and the lunch box often has only a little warmth left, Xu Feihang can have a great appetite every time he eats in the mountains and forests.

A fallen tree, a gurgling mountain spring, and the backs of two fathers and sons sitting on the grass eating with lunch boxes, I am afraid that Xu Feihang will never forget this picture for the rest of his life...

After Xu Feihang's father died, he quickly left the mountain forest and has not returned until now. As a result, his childhood experience has become Xu Feihang's best memory, and he often takes out this memory and plays it repeatedly in his mind like a movie.

Xu Feihang gradually discovered that there was actually a father in these beautiful memories, and he realized that the good things in his childhood were all brought to him by his father, and he had no reason to resent his father anymore.

Originally, Xu Feihang wanted to inherit his father's profession and become an ordinary lumberjack in the mountains, because he still remembered the saplings that his father had planted for himself in the mountains and forests.

However, when he filled in the college entrance examination, Xu Feihang's desire was strongly opposed by his mother and stepfather, who did not think that he could have any future as a lumberjack, not to mention that his college entrance examination results could apply for a very good college and major. In the end, Xu Feihang became a freshman in the computer science department of Yangcheng University, and this volunteer was actually filled in by his mother for him.

Recalling the past, Xu Feihang could only sigh slightly, he unfolded the letter his father wrote to him, and read it seriously.