"Brother, it's so happy!" The little girl pulled Wu Shixiang excitedly, she had been holding her breath for a long time, and this person came to take advantage of her every year. bullied them for being old and weak, and this time someone finally stood up for her, and she was very excited.

Wu Shixiang patted her head with a smile and promised: "Don't worry, girl, I will protect you in the future." ”

"Hey, I finally have a thing on my mind, even if I'm gone, I can rest assured." Lao Zheng was on the side and nodded with satisfaction.

"By the way, aren't you coming to see the old tree? I'll take you there. The girl suddenly remembered the purpose of the group, and happily pulled the white frost to shoot the old tree.

"Go ahead, in addition to the old trees, there are more than a dozen walnut trees in the back, all of which are more than thirty years old, and they can also lay seven or eight hundred green skins."

Lao Zheng nodded, and asked the girl to take Wu Shixiang and them to the back mountain to see the old tree, and Bai Shuang asked Xiao Zhang to record while walking, in fact, it was not far away, and it was a five-minute walk.

"What's your name, girl?" Wu Shixiang only had a chance to ask the girl's full name now.

"My name is Zheng Xiaoru, nineteen years old, graduated from high school, and my grandfather has always called me a girl." Xiao Ru grinned.

"What about your parents?" White Frost asked curiously.

The girl's expression darkened, "My mother died of illness when I was a teenager, I don't have a father, and I have never heard them mention it." ”

Bai Shuang nodded, comforting Xiao Ru, I like this little sister who has just met but is very sensible.

"This is the old tree I planted, you see, how thick! I can't hold it alone. ”

Pushing through the barbed wire fence, a clearing was planted with a dozen walnut trees, each at least thigh-thick. One of them is the thickest, and it should be the old tree.

"Everyone has dogs, and they use their cameras to look at the fruit to prevent it from being stolen by others, but don't you use it?" White Frost wondered.

"It's okay, there are few trees at home, and we are at the top, very few people come up." The girl explained reassuringly.

Wu Shixiang walked to the old tree and looked around, it was actually a walnut tree, and laymen couldn't see any doorway. This is not the original bloodline of the legendary Southern Xinjiang Stone, it should be the second batch, or the third batch of descendants.

Walnuts can be grafted, and they can be grafted to other trees with branches with good bloodlines, and every branch and leaf can grow good walnuts after they survive. However, after grafting again, the effect is less and less obvious, and after the gene is diluted, one generation is not as good as the next.

The most obvious example is the four buildings in Pinggu, which used to be the favorite of Qianlong Ye, with square piles, pimple patterns, and chrysanthemum bottoms. The leather is hard, and the disc is extremely beautiful. However, after more than ten years of continuous grafting, the so-called four buildings on the market do not know how many generations? Both the texture and the leather are far behind, which is why the old tree is now sought after by players.

"Most of this year's fruit is down the trees and left to dry in the yard, but there are a few trees that still have a little bit of fruit on them, you see."

The girl didn't know what she wanted to shoot in photography, so she could only point out a few trees with green bark, and the white frost asked Xiao Zhang to shoot them all so that she could go back and cut them.

"How many are the biggest this year?"

"Well, there are not many big ones, generally 40, up to 39 after shrinkage, the old bark is hard, and it is at most a meter smaller." The girl thought for a while and replied to Wu Shixiang: "But there is a good pair, a little more than 43, the texture and pile type are good, but the pair is general." ”

Wu Shixiang nodded: "It's good that the Southern Xinjiang Stone can be matched, I haven't seen a few pairs of good matches until now, take me to see it later." I want all these fruits, 30,000 is no problem, right? ”

When the girl heard this, she quickly shook her head and said, "It's too much, we sell at most seven or eight thousand a year, and this year's one is not as much as last year." ”

"Just 30,000 yuan, the rest is reserved for Zheng Lao's medical treatment and body replenishment, your brother and I have some money in our hands, so I don't need to save it."

Wu Shixiang said in a big way, walnuts are definitely not worth the price, but leave more money to take care of them, and let the girl buy some supplements for grandpa.

"Girl, you take it, your brother doesn't lack this money. When the time comes, I will promote your home on TV, and the walnuts will definitely sell at a high price in the future. White Frost laughed.

Xiao Ru secretly looked at this man who had just met but felt very kind, and was very grateful. I and my grandfather depend on each other for their lives and have suffered a lot, and now there are people who can take the initiative to help, which is really a good person.

Seeing that Xiao Zhang was almost photographed, several people returned to Lao Zheng's house together and began to open green skins and choose walnuts. This is the main event, the audience wants to see it, and the walnut tree can't be seen by the layman, but the green skin is the most exciting.

"Girl, you don't wear gloves? Hands will be black! Wu Shixiang saw that the girl directly began to open the green skin with a knife, and hurriedly stopped it.

"It's okay, these have been left to dry for more than a week, and the inside has long been dry, you see." The girl smiled sweetly, skillfully opened a fruit, and sure enough, there was no juice flowing, and her hands did not turn black.

Anyone who has ever opened a walnut knows that there is juice in the green skin, which turns black immediately when it is touched, and it is a little poisonous. Basically, it can't be washed off, so you can only wait for the skin to molt slowly, which is very troublesome.

"I'm here to help, too." Wu Shixiang sat down and helped open the green skins together, there were less than two hundred in total, and all of them would be opened in a short time. The girl washed it with warm water in a large basin, and all the walnuts were basically clean.

"Well, the wild old trees are really not big, almost 39-40 or so, but the natural pile, the grain is deep, the bottom is concave, the cross point, the appearance is very typical, you can."

Wu Shixiang was holding the freshly opened walnuts while explaining to the camera, from the moment he opened the walnuts, Xiao Zhang has been taking pictures, and Bai Shuang is also asking questions from time to time, so that the audience can understand the real process.

"It is said that the new walnuts are blooming, and the size is large, and they will lock the water for a few meters after a while?" White frost asked.

"Yes, the main new walnut has a lot of moisture, no matter the size and weight are empty, and the general leather hard lock is less, such as the southern Xinjiang stone and the four buildings, which are generally locked for 1 meter, at most 1.5 meters."

Wu Shixiang said while gesturing: "But if it is a white lion or Wang Yong's official hat, it is generally locked 2 meters faster, and the grafted variety is more powerful than the original pile old tree lock." However, the grafting is generally large in size, 45 under the tree, even if the lock is 2 meters, the size of 43 is just right, and the walnut fit is the most important. ”

"Brother, this is the best pair of the year." The girl took out the pair of 43-year-old tree Nanjiang stones from the house, flew to Wu Shixiang, and then ran away, very shy for the first time on camera.

Wu Shixiang carefully looked at the pair of southern Xinjiang stones in his hand, and explained to the camera: "Look, this pair is a rare boutique, and all the typical qualities of southern Xinjiang stones are available, especially this pattern, the jargon is called dragon pattern!" There is a main rib on the front, the shape is a bit like a flying dragon, this is the head of the dragon, these are the dragon's claws, isn't it? ”

Xiao Zhang hurriedly gave a close-up, after Wu Shixiang said, it is really a little similar, walnuts are born and raised, and no pair is exactly the same. Therefore, the texture is aesthetically pleasing, giving people endless imagination space.

"Really! This kind of post-play will be more beautiful after a long time of discoloration, right? White Frost answered.

"Of course, Walnut's previous year is the most critical and the most testing time for players' patience. The beginning of discoloration is the epidermis, and the color is not good in the texture. This requires frequent brushing, as the old saying goes, seven-point boards, three-point brushes. Use a brush to evenly brush the grease and sweat on your hands into the lines, so that you can look better and better in the long run. ”

"There is also a saying in the industry, sweaty hands are colored, dry hands hang porcelain, and oil hands are the god hands of walnuts!"

Wu Shixiang talked eloquently to the camera, without stage fright at all, and constantly shared his experience with the audience.

"And this statement? What do you mean? ”

"People have different physiques, and the oil and sweat secreted on their hands are also different, some are acidic, and some are alkaline. People who sweat a lot of walnuts are easy to color, and the effect is most obvious in the first year, and the color changes quickly. But after that, it may be black, and if you want to soak the walnut in sweat all the time, it will naturally not shine. ”

"Hand dry people dish walnuts pay the most attention to patience, walnuts change color slowly, but slow work out of fine work, once the effort is enough, the walnuts out of the plate are bright and clean, absolutely the top grade. Of course, the best is the oil hand, the color is fast, the pulp is enough, and the plate is three years a year! A rare divine hand. ”

Everyone was attracted by Wu Shixiang's magical theory, and listened attentively, and Bai Shuang asked several questions, and he answered them one by one, looking like a senior player, Bai Shuang was very satisfied.

In a blink of an eye, it was time to eat, the girl went to the village to buy some vegetables and fish, and cooked four dishes and one soup.

"You're going to go into the mountains to find wild old trees?" When Lao Zheng heard this, he was a little worried.

"Yes, it's not easy to come once, and the purpose of this time is to find wild old trees, even if you can't find it, you have to go into the mountains to go around." White Frost insisted.

"Although people in the village often go into the mountains to find wild yards, the mountains are still unsafe, there are many snakes and insects, and it is easy to get lost. Why don't you let the girl take you around in the afternoon, don't go too deep, just take a picture. ”

"No need for Zheng Lao, let the girl take care of you at home, the three of us will come back when we go around, and we will definitely not go deep. How many shots of material, just go out and cut it, rest assured. ”

Bai Shuang agreed, she didn't want to find any old trees, the villagers often went into the mountains and couldn't find them, and they were not familiar with the terrain. Take a few steps into the mountain, just climb the mountain, shoot some materials and come back.