Chapter 17 There are three treasures in the village of Niuquan, and the walnut tree is the most wonderful

The poem says: The sky rains the fruit of longevity, and the big tree covers the West River,

White dew beat walnuts and packed seventy packs.

This poem says that the West River in Niuquan Village is rich in walnuts, and the largest tree, the walnuts that are fell, can hold more than 70 donkeys and packs. Why do you have to load more than 70 donkeys and packs? Because transportation was very underdeveloped at that time, and transportation was very laborious. Especially in mountainous areas, it is most economical to transport it by donkey. Donkeys are most commonly used in mountainous areas, whether they are pushing mills and grinding them, or carrying things for transportation. Therefore, the donkey pack has naturally become the easiest unit of measurement for people. Today, a donkey is about 100 catties, and more than 70 catties are more than 7,000 catties. With a walnut tree that can produce more than 7,000 catties, you can imagine how incredible he is.

Niuquan Village is a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, with mountains and rivers, and beautiful scenery one after another. The products of Niuquan Village are also very rich, and the Li family of Niuquan Village has gradually made a fortune in recent years, relying on these rich products. Your family not only has hundreds of acres of land, but also a large area of mountains and forests. Each ravine has its own characteristic products, and we will now talk about a few special fruits in Niuquan Village.

The largest production in Niuquan Village is walnuts. Walnuts are known as "long live seeds" and "longevity fruits", and have the function of disease prevention and health care. Its temperament is warm, sweet in taste, and has the effects of strengthening the stomach, replenishing blood, warming the lungs and dissolving phlegm, relieving the lungs and asthma, nourishing the kidneys and moistening the intestines, nourishing the liver and black hair, and nourishing the spirits. Walnut kernels can be used to treat a variety of diseases. Let me tell you the story of a big walnut tree.

Speaking of Niuquan Village, north of Ma'anshan and west of Qingqing River, it is a treasure land rich in natural and spiritual products. Because there are many gougou forks, every ravine has a specialty. The most famous specialty in western Beijing is fruits and dried fruits. Among more than a dozen kinds of fruits and dried fruits, the ones with the largest yield and the best quality are walnut mill persimmon and Jingbai pear. Let's start with walnuts.

The water of the Qingqing River flows out of the Ma'anshan Pass and forms an alluvial fan in the west of Niuquan Village, with an area of four or five hundred acres. It is a typical basin with mountains on the north, west, and south sides, and hills on the east. Because in the west of Niuquan Village, it is customary to call it the West River Basin. The land of the West River is sandy and suitable for growing the main crops, because he runs water and leaks fertilizer. The most suitable ones for planting are sweet potatoes, potatoes, peanuts and the like. Due to the good permeability of the soil, the quality of sweet potatoes, potatoes and peanuts is better than that of other lands, and the yield is also high. There are more than two in the West River, one is more walnut trees, and the other is more than large wells. Because the Qingqing River passes through the west and basin, the water veins here are connected, and as long as you dig down a zhang, you will start to see water. So there are big wells everywhere.

In the West River Basin, walnut trees are the most. There are tens of thousands of walnut trees, large and small. There are thousands of centuries-old trees. The old walnut tree is about ten zhang high, and the gray-white bark is longitudinally shallow and shallow, and the branches are luxuriant. Walnut trees prefer fertile, moist, sandy loam soil. Walnuts have extremely high nutritional value, like fertilizer, water and sunshine. Impactful plains such as the West River are the most suitable for growth. The huge root system of walnut trees is hardy, drought-resistant, salinity-resistant, and resistant to diseases and insects. As long as the water and fertilizer are sufficient, other management is very extensive. It grows best in valleys, watersides, and places with deep soil.

Every year after the white dew, it is the harvest season of walnuts. Walnuts are harvested, and the walnuts are beaten down using large bamboo roots, and then collected in piles and dried for a period of time. The green skin falls off naturally and is shipped back one day. Walnuts should not be exposed to the sun. It should be dried in the shade in a cool shade to prevent oiliness, because walnuts are fatty and oily.

There is a large walnut tree in the West River, at the corner of the West Mountain and the North Mountain. It can really be said to be a towering tree, looking from afar, straight into the sky. It also covers a large area, with one tree occupying five acres of land, and it is a single forest. In the autumn, when walnuts were hit, twelve people beat walnuts, and no one could touch anyone. Because the tree is tall and large, eat at noon and knock on the bang. Hear the sound of bangs and go down to the tree to eat. There is morning and evening when you go down from the tree, so you don't gather at noon to eat, everyone eats their own food, and then they work after eating. Every three days in the evening, I finish work and knock on the bang. Hear the sound of bangzi go down the tree, gather together, and go home. After three days, the work was finished in the evening, and the foreman was a little numbered, and there was one less. After searching for three days and three nights, I finally found him on the top of the tree, and the man was already starving to death. It turned out that he was a little behind his ears and very sincere, and he was sure to hear the sound of bangzi and go down the tree to eat, but he never heard the sound of bangzi, and he didn't eat for three consecutive days, and he starved to death on the tree. From now on, those who beat walnuts must be deaf and clear-sighted, so as not to happen again.

This 500-year-old walnut tree produces walnuts every year and can hold 72 donkeys. After eating the walnuts produced by this large walnut tree, the elderly will live longer, and the children will be smart and smart. Every year, the Li family in Niuquan Village treats this part of the walnuts separately. Some of them were given to the elderly of the whole village, and the other part was given to the elderly of Lijiayu Village.

This is a beautiful legend, in ten miles and eight villages, this legend goes to different villages, different tree species, and the legend is similar. It is an ancient MLM method. This legend gives the fruit a magical color, which is conducive to sales. An ordinary fruit, through this legend, has a miraculous effect, not only easy to sell, but also can be sold at a good price. Full of wisdom.

Exactly: if you say magic, you will be magical, myths and legends will tell the mysteries,

The magic fruit comes to the magic tree, do you say it's strange?

Later, the folk prince Li Deren used the walnuts produced by the big walnut tree to cure the stubborn illness of the Empress Dowager Xiao, and was well-known inside and outside the capital. The legend of the big walnut tree is very mysterious, but are there any other bizarre legends of the grinding plate type and the Jingbai pear? Listen to me one by one, please listen to the next breakdown.