September, in the mountains
Because she often goes up the mountain in the spring and autumn period, she has long known everything in the mountain, and the places where Chinese medicinal materials appeared before have also been marked by her one by one, and she will go up the mountain from time to time to wander around, and see what good things appear. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Before the spring wolfberry in June has been picked, when the summer wolfberry in August is ripe, the family is busy with the matter of cool skin, naturally there is no free hand to pick, so the spring and autumn had to take advantage of the gap to go up the mountain to pick a little, but fortunately this spring wolfberry new branches are not much, the fruit is not as much as before, spring and autumn I picked it for two days, and it is over. It's September now, and the spring and autumn seasons are just right to take a look at the autumn wolfberries that ripen in October.
Yuan's main purpose of going up the mountain today is to pick tea, the ripening time of tea is long, there can be several months of maturity in a year, before Yuan's family went to the shop for half a month, the tea grew several rounds of new stubble, Yuan's naturally fell a lot, this is not just home has not rested enough, so he hurried out to continue picking.
The mother and daughter were fully equipped this time, and the Yuan family even prepared the lunch meal, carrying a basket behind them, and a basket of tea leaves was placed in the basket. Put the sickle that opened the road on the side into the back basket, and then pulled Chunqiu up the mountain together.
Yuan is afraid of going to the morning with a lot of dew, adults are fine, if a child like Spring and Autumn gets wet and cold, it is not good, so Yuan and the two of them are pinching the time to go out. By the time we entered the mountains, the morning dew in the mountains had been evaporated by the sun, the crisp birdsong came from the forest, and there were some unknown wild flowers or unknown wild fruits on both sides of the road, which hung red all over the branches. It's almost a bumper harvest!
Yuan was holding a sickle to open the way in front, and Chunqiu followed behind, chattering with Chunqiu along the way about the work to be done for a while." Niu Niu, our tea can not be picked for half a month, it is estimated that there are a lot of new sprouts and old buds, when the time comes, you will pick the fresh buds, those old buds will let the mother pick, and then they can not be put together to dry, I asked the shopkeeper of Pin Mingxuan before, the new and old degrees of tea are different, the price is naturally different, before we went to sell tea, the shopkeeper did not lie to us, and it is also considered a benefactor of our family, we can't pit people in this kind of thing......"
"Well, mother, I know, don't worry" Chunqiu responded, thinking in his heart, the shopkeeper is also a human spirit, that can let them deceive the past, but her mother is right, so she rushed to sell tea at the beginning, the other party did not lower the price, and the shopkeeper is also a good person.
The mountain road is rugged, there are many roads that turn left and right, and there are naturally many obstacles encountered on the road. Leave a gap between the two of them just enough for them to get through. Spring and Autumn can be regarded as experienced, and the mountain behind this is not high, there are no tigers, wild wolves and other medium and large beasts, so the Yuan family dares to rest assured that she will come out.
If this is the kind of deep mountains and old forests in Montenegro that Yang Weibai and the others went to, and the intertwined places, even if there are a lot of good things in it, the Yuan family will not come out.
The two of them went up the narrow mountain road, and then walked to the dense forest on the west side, and the two walked about half a pillar of incense, and the spring and autumn saw the dense wolfberry tree in front of them, which was full of dense wolfberries, but it was not yet ripe.
Chunqiu cheered in her heart, hurriedly walked two steps, pulled down the nearest branch, reached out and picked a small wolfberry that was not too red, and looked left and right, well! It seems that you are growing well, it is estimated that there will be twenty days to mature, and then you will be able to sell a lot of silver. Thinking that he could make money again, Chunqiu smiled again. The little eyes squinted and squinted, like a little money fan.
Yuan stood in place, looking at the girl in the distance who had no intention of coming back, and was worried about the tea leaves not far away, so he was so anxious that he shouted directly, "Qiu'er, if it's okay, let's go quickly, and come back after picking the tea."
"Eh, here" Chunqiu turned his head and replied, loosened the wolfberry branch in his hand, and then picked up the small basket that she put aside, and trotted all the way back.
"Hey, run slowly, there are stone seeds on the road, don't fall..."Yuan Shi looked at Chunqiu's movements, and his heart was stimulated up and down, for fear that his daughter would accidentally fall somewhere.
Chunqiu ran to Yuan's side, then took Yuan's hand, and said with a smile, "It's okay, mother, do you think I'm not good?"
Yuan's teeth itched with hatred, and he patted Chunqiu's little back vigorously, "See if you dare to scare your mother so much"
Chunqiu didn't dodge Yuan's movements, but just giggled and laughed in Yuan's arms.
Yuan Shi rolled his eyes helplessly, choked by this bad girl, stretched out his hand and poked the door of Chunqiu's head, and saw the girl's aggrieved expression, and couldn't give up, so he had to change the topic, "Let's go, let's go, let's finish quickly, and we can go home early..."
After Yuan finished speaking, he took Chunqiu's little hand and continued to walk...
The tea tree is not far from the wolfberry tree, and the two of them turned two small bends that are not too steep, and climbed a rockery before reaching the ground.
The few tea trees in front of me have not been picked for a long time, and the branches are densely packed with tea leaves, and most of the tea leaves are old.
Because he was stimulated enough, Yuan didn't care about resting when he got to the ground, he took out the basket directly from the back basket, walked to the tea tree, and began to pick the tea tree in front of him.
Chunqiu originally planned to take a break, after all, her face was already sweating, but seeing her mother's movements, she had no choice but to resign herself to her moves, picking up the small basket that Yang Weibai specially made for her in the small back basket.
At noon, one of them ate a dough cake and picked it up again until they had picked all the tea trees.
Yuan looked at the basket full of baskets of tea, nodded with satisfaction, reached out to wipe the sweat beads on his face, and said with a smile to Chunqiu who was sitting on the side resting, "Right now, I'm afraid these tea leaves can still be picked for a month, plus the dividends of our shop before, as well as the money you sell and the money for picking herbs, our family should be enough to buy a mountain next year" Thinking of being able to buy this piece of mountain, Yuan Shi can be regarded as putting down a stone in his heart, no way, there are so many good things in the mountain, she is really reluctant to cheap others.
"Does it cost so much money to buy a mountain? A good rice field is only 3 taels of silver per acre, mother, is this barren mountain so valuable?" After listening to Yuan's words, Chunqiu was a little shocked in his heart, according to Yuan's statement, how can those silver add up to a hundred taels less.
"That's wrong" Yuan looked at Chunqiu and explained seriously, "This is an official thing, don't look at these are barren mountains and no one wants them, but if you really sell them, the opposite and southern slopes will be painted, which can add up to hundreds of acres, of course it can't be cheap" Yuan finished speaking, and rubbed Chunqiu's hair.
It turned out to be calculated like this, Chunqiu sat on a high platform on the rockery, looked up and looked down, and could see the Yangjia Village not far away, and even the pedestrians coming and going in the village could see it.
"Mother, can't you just buy one side?" asked Chunqiu Qiu, the mountain forest opposite also seems to have a lot of trees, and it is not a loss to buy them together, but the south side is all hillsides, all low bushes, you can't do anything, what are you doing when you buy it?
Yuan shook his head amusedly, "No, are you a fool to be an official?" Before, it was not that no one in the village had the idea of fighting this back mountain, but the official family bit it to death, if you want to buy it, you must bring it to the south, just this one condition, the back mountain has not been sold so far" No one is a fool, he spent dozens of taels more to buy Nanshan that can't use anything, who can do it."
"That's it, then I know" Chunqiu nodded thoughtfully, no wonder there are so many good things in the back mountain, no one has bought them, it turns out to be the official family's business, and the people's money is not easy to earn, plus a useless south, of course I don't want to buy it, now it's so back and forth, but it's also cheap for the Yuan family.
You know, in addition to tea and Chinese herbal medicine, there are still fungus, mountain mushrooms, mushrooms and other good things, yesterday the aunt took Chunni Chunhua out of the house, don't you just want to take advantage of the rain, mushrooms, mountain mushrooms when there are many picks to sell in the market for money?
"Okay, these are all what you think of a little girl, with your father and them, in addition, our family's money is almost enough, and when the time comes, I will buy it and think about how to use it in the south" Yuan looked at Chunqiu's contemplative look, and knew that the girl was thinking about making money again, and stretched out her finger and poked Chunqiu's frowning little brow.
"Mother~" was interrupted by Yuan's thoughts, and Chunqiu had no choice but to reach out and pull Yuan's to be coquettish.
"Okay, my mother is afraid of you, yesterday my mother saw that you kept staring at the fungus that your eldest aunt picked back, what's wrong?
"Of course I want to eat" Chunqiu nodded, she wanted to eat it yesterday, the big and unpolluted fungus, it must taste good when stir-fried, but unfortunately her aunt returned to the previous appearance of the buckle and rope, and she couldn't see Chunqiu's expression at all, and Chunqiu was very depressed.
"That's okay, it's still early, let's go shopping on the other side, there are a lot of mountain mushrooms, mushrooms, and fungus, you can pick some and go back to eat" Yuan finished speaking, pulled up the spring and autumn on the side, and the two of them put the basket on their backs and went down the mountain.
When the two of them went down the mountain, there was a little accident, that is, the sharp eyes of the spring and autumn period found the trap set by Yang Weibai to catch the hare before, but the uncle has not run much to the back mountain recently, and the people in the village also like the opposite side, no one here comes, and the set has not been taken care of for a long time, so naturally there is nothing.
The sets set by Yang Weisong are very simple, they are all made of some ubiquitous straw ropes and wooden sticks, hold two small sets with straw ropes, and then fix them with wooden sticks, and then wait for the hares and pheasants to drill, but the sleeves in front of them are broken.
Chunqiu had a strong curiosity when he saw it, and at first he wanted to repair it, so that the next time Yuan came over, he might be able to catch some pheasants and hares and other wild things, but unfortunately Chunqiu thought beautifully, but he didn't have such a talent, and Chunqiu tried several times in Yuan's laughter, either tied the straw rope into a dead knot, or threw the wooden stick aside and didn't use it, and finally calmly skimmed out the sleeve under Yuan's playful gaze, and she decided to destroy the corpse.
Yuan covered the corners of his mouth, rubbed Chunqiu's drooping little head, and comforted softly, "Okay, this kind of thing is something that you can do as a child, it just so happens that your father went to Montenegro today, and brought back the game Niang left the fungus for you to stew, what do you think?"
"..."Chunqiu: Mother, it would be more convincing if you didn't laugh out loud when comforting her!"
Chunqiu didn't speak, but buried her head lower, hmph, she didn't want to talk to the mother who laughed at her.
"Okay, okay, let's go, it's going to be dark in a while, if you don't pick the fungus by then, don't blame my mother for not reminding you?" Yuan decided to scare and scare his daughter, otherwise when would he be able to go down the mountain in a while.
Chunqiu raised his head directly and widened his eyes, which was frightened by the Yuan family. Obviously, the threat of not having fungus is much more important than the previous humiliation, Chunqiu pulled Yuan and walked out, oh my God, she still has to eat fungus.
Yuan covered his mouth and smiled, and did not pierce the careful thoughts of Spring and Autumn, the mother and daughter thought differently, but the purpose was the same, and the speed of going down the mountain was much faster than before, Yuan reminded Spring and Autumn from time to time to be careful of the stones in front of them, and the two of them went down the mountain without danger.
Standing at the foot of the mountain in the spring and autumn, he raised his eyes and looked at the east, which was more lush than the west, and the dense trees really felt like an old forest in the forest.
"Mother, the mushrooms and fungus that the aunts and aunts brought back yesterday went to pick them from here?" Chunqiu raised his head and looked at the Yuan family on the side.
Yuan nodded and smiled, "That's not it, the people in the village like the east, there are a lot of wild things here, and they are all easy to pick."
"Oh, is there anything else here?" Chunqiu hurriedly asked, noticing that there were a lot of wild things in the Yuan family.
"Of course, there are wild grapes, wild mountain dregs, wild persimmons and so on, but the persimmons are not ripe now, and they taste astringent, if you want to eat them, come back in October," Yuan explained.
"Persimmon?" said in Chunqiu's heart, wouldn't it be the same as he thought, that kind of persimmon cake?
Yuan smiled and said, "That's right, I'll take you to take a look in a while, it's not far away, it's already fruitful."
"Okay, okay," Chunqiu nodded.
"Okay, okay, aren't you tired? After saying so much, are you thirsty?" Yuan looked at Chunqiu's excited little appearance, took out a handkerchief and wiped Chunqiu's face, this sweat-soaked appearance, not too tired.
Hearing Yuan say this, Chunqiu was really a little thirsty, swallowed his saliva, and Chunqiu asked, "Mother, is there a stream here?"
Yuan shook his head, "There is no stream, but the spring water in the east is a mountain spring?
"Where, where?" "Chunqiu looked left and right curiously.
"It's right ahead, let's go over here, and then we can rest" Yuan Shi stretched out his finger and pointed.
"Then let's go, mother, I'm thirsty" Chunqiu was anxious to get the spring water again and again, pulling Yuan's cuffs and sprinkling it again.
"Alright... Let's go... Quickly loosen my mother's cuffs, otherwise what will I do if I fall in a while..."
"Hehe, isn't it another mother..."
"You ghostly little girl..."
"Giggle..."
The footsteps grew smaller and quieter, until they were gone, and the girl's crisp laughter could be heard in the mountains in the distance, drifting away in the wind......