Chapter 10: Stealing Saplings
Ren Feng's money is still too small, even with the financial subsidies and bank loans that Wang Ying helped him procure, he can barely afford to rent machinery to level the land, buy fertilizer, the first batch of tree species and a small number of saplings. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info please manual is currently unable to do, only do it yourself. Moreover, the growth of seedlings is too slow, and if you start growing from seeds, you may not have income for three years. I had to buy some larger saplings, but the income from these saplings was too small in a short period of time, and even if they were sold, they would not be much higher than the purchase price. Ren Feng has no other source of income, and he can't wait for money in life and production at any time.
In fact, he has long been aiming at the wild saplings in the mountains, but this matter cannot be discussed with others, after all, this is a public property, it belongs to the village collective, and no one may take it seriously, but if someone can sell it for money, it is a treasure, and everyone wants to share it. Once everyone knows, Ren Feng will not only not get any help from it, but may pay for kung fu and travel expenses. Therefore, he decided to go into the mountains at night to steal saplings.
After leveling the land and planting a batch of small saplings, he bought some fir trees from the village to build a fence under the pretext of preventing wild boars, anyway, this kind of tree is only sold as firewood, which is not valuable, and Ren Feng does not need others to cut down and transport, so the price is lower. In this way, Ren Feng can enter the mountain at any time and cut down the encircled trees for the protection of the periphery of the nursery, and others will not pay attention.
At one or two o'clock in the evening, Ren Feng went out alone with tools and went into the mountains to dig saplings. This kind of sapling can not be too big, first, it may not be dug up by oneself at night, and it cannot be carried, and secondly, it is too conspicuous to be planted in the nursery and the source is unknown; It can't be too small, too small and worthless, and it may cut off the seeds of such wild saplings in the future. So can only dig with the seedling field about the same size, this point he also kept an eye, when the seedlings were set a part of the diameter of more than 10 centimeters at breast height, more than 4 meters high seedlings, such seedlings plus the root clods, just enough to carry. In this way, two or three trees are basically dug in one night, which is still close to the seedling farm, and it is difficult to say far away, but it is not taken care of for the time being.
Ren Feng went up the mountain to cut trees and build fences during the day, and went up the mountain to steal saplings at night, and basically slept until eight or nine o'clock before getting up. In the eyes of others, just the way he looks is not the material for doing big things at all. Naturally, there was more gossip, and the parents were even more disappointed in it, especially the father, who saw him almost as if he were an enemy. The mother was angry and angry, but she still felt sorry for her son, so she deliberately left breakfast for him every day.
One day, when he saw his mother leaving for dinner, his father finally lost his temper: "If you want to eat, ask him to make it himself!" Such a big person, and he doesn't know shame! If you raise a pig, you can also draw a few catties of pork, and if you raise a dog, you can also draw it to see a yard. Such an indisputable thing, do you still want us to raise? ”
"Dad, don't say a word!" After all, my mother is still soft-hearted.
Ren Feng could only smile helplessly when he heard this. There is no way, I built a wooden shed in the nursery, so as not to make my parents too angry, second, to take care of the nursery to prevent wild boars from destroying, and third, it is more convenient to steal seedlings.
A lonely wooden shed in the mountains is very lonely, especially for a young man of Ren Feng's age, and he has suffered so many white eyes and rumors, and even misunderstandings from his own relatives. Ren Feng can only devote himself more wholeheartedly to his work, and a little free time is spent practicing boxing to calm his complex heart.
Whenever it was quiet in the dead of night, Ren Feng shuttled through the deep forest at night, hearing the whistling of the mountain wind and the sudden chirping of the night owl, and the hazy shadows of the trees dancing with the mountain wind, like a ghost, which made people feel frightened. Ren Feng can only suppress the distractions in his heart with firm beliefs and let himself move forward in loneliness.
After only three days, his mother finally couldn't rest assured, put aside her face, and came to help in the Naeba during the day.
"Don't take your father's words lightly, he is also hard-mouthed and soft-hearted. Or go home and live, and none of these trees will steal them. Mother advised Ren Feng. …,
"Mom, I know what you think, but I'm really not messing around this time, you'll understand when I make money. I also know what the people in the village say, which makes you feel uncomfortable, and I am very upset! ”
"Mom is not afraid of what others say, but she is afraid of suffering you, child! Let's go back and live, ah! Her mother's eyes were filled with tears.
"Mom, I'm not angry with you, I'm still living here during this time, the fence outside the nursery hasn't been set up yet, I'm afraid that the wild boar will come and arch the sapling. I'll go back when the fence is ready. ”
"Then don't cook for yourself, I'll send it to you every day, and you bring me the clothes you want to wash back to wash."
……
Half a month has passed since such days, and Ren Feng is already familiar with going to the mountains and forests late at night to cut trees, but there are only two or three trees that can be recovered in one night. After all, the wild ones are not as good as their own planting, they are sparsely mixed with other bushes, and the size and specifications are also very different, and there are still not many that meet Ren Feng's requirements, and the nearby ones have been planed almost completely. It takes a lot of time and effort to go to a distant place, and the shrubs and thorns in the depths of the mountain forest are more lush, and it is very troublesome to enter and exit, but there are fewer people in the deep mountains, and they are not afraid of being discovered. If it goes on like this, Ren Feng will be able to dig up more than 100 saplings, and no matter how far he goes, he won't be able to go back and forth overnight, so he may have to give up. Except for the rain and snow, it is almost after the Spring Festival, so there is no way or no need to steal saplings. March and April are the best time to transplant seedlings, just in time to sell them.
On this day, Ren Feng got up at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night as usual, practiced boxing in the dark for about an hour, and then carried a hoe, firewood, knife and straw rope into the black mountains and forests. It doesn't feel right today, it seems like someone is following behind. Ren Feng's heart froze, could it be that there are really ghosts in this world? He didn't dare to look back, because country legend has it that ghosts like to launch surprise attacks when the living suddenly turn around. He walked a few quick steps, and felt that the ones following him were getting faster. As I walked, I was thinking about how to get rid of it, and my pace was getting faster and faster. Further ahead is a dense bush, Ren Feng deviated from the path and quickly bypassed a big tree to look at the way he came, and sure enough, he saw a figure in the distance walking towards this side, and it looked a little hazy in the faint light of the waning moon. Ren Feng was very nervous, and hid behind a tree and held the firewood knife tightly.
The figure was getting closer and closer, looking around in a bit of a panic, and a voice of self-muttering came from the voice: "What about people? Why is it gone in a blink of an eye? ”
Ren Feng's heart relaxed, because the voice was too familiar. He stepped out of the shadow of the tree and whispered, "Dad! What are you doing here? ”
Ren Feng's father stood up suddenly: "Stinky boy, scare Lao Tzu!" He also doesn't want to think about who scares who first.
"Dad, why are you following me?"
"It's not that I'm worried about you, I don't believe my son is a lazy person. I've seen your nursery, but I haven't seen you buy saplings, but the saplings have increased, so I guess you must have hit the public's idea! Let's see if that's the case. Sure enough, it was Zhizi Mo Ruo's father, and his father's words made Ren Feng feel shocked.
"Can you see that? Didn't others know about it? ”
"Not really, no one else will eat too much to count your tree! But you're going the wrong way! The father criticized.
"I know. I don't want to ...... yet," Ren Feng wanted to defend.
"I've figured out what you're thinking. The foundation of the house is done, don't build it first, and the family can still make up tens of thousands of yuan, except for Wenwen to read, you can take the rest first. Your mother and I are still running, and I have no problem supporting myself. Father rushed to say.
……
"Don't do too much to steal the saplings of the public house, I know you have suffered a lot these days, but you have to be upright, and you have to leave a piece of land for future generations!"
"I didn't dig up big trees and small saplings." Ren Feng explained in a low voice. …,
"I already knew, otherwise I wouldn't have picked your skin!" Although the father's words were heavy, he was obviously angry and half of his anger had disappeared: "I will help you dig together before the New Year, and you are not allowed to do this thing again after the New Year!" ”
"I see!" Ren Feng's heart was hot, and he wanted to climb up the pole: "Dad, you don't want to be angry with me anymore, right?"
"Humph!" The father did not give face at all: "Don't think that's all it takes. What can a poor mountain ravine do? We've been digging in the soil all our lives, and we're counting on you to fight for it, if it weren't for Wenwen, I would love to kick you out! You have to know for yourself! ”
Although he still did not support Ren Feng's approach, he no longer resolutely opposed it, and the father also knew that his son was older, and many things could not be screwed up, so he had to let it go, and hoped that he would repent after he suffered hardship. And Ren Feng is already very content with this.
Ren Feng's father has been doing crops all his life, and work such as digging soil and digging pits is still much better than Ren Feng. With his help, the efficiency of one night has increased by nearly 2 times compared to before. By the time of the Chinese New Year, Ren Feng had transplanted a total of 118 camphor trees from the mountains.
Ren Wenwen went home during the winter vacation and became the first person in the family to support Ren Feng, under her persuasion, her parents' attitude was further relaxed, and they felt that this matter was not impossible, but they felt that Ren Feng was the first to do this, and still felt that there was no future in the village.
When Ren Wenwen was at home, Wang Ying often came over, and the girls seemed to be easier to get along with, and they often saw them muttering and discussing something together. When Ren Feng's mother saw this, she couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart, how good it would be if the brothers and sisters were replaced.