Chapter 12: Peach
The thorny vines seem to have undergone some changes, and at the same time, they do not cling to the surrounding trees, but seem to form a bunch of their own, like a dragon, and constantly rise upward.
Those branches that poke out are dragon claws that stretch out one by one, and the leaves on the branches are green clouds, and the golden dragon body is extraordinary at a glance.
However, the time of a month, almost a year of growth in the outside world, far from the growth limit of the vine, she is still climbing upward, and there seems to be no sign of flowering and fruiting.
Zhou Yi was a little worried, wondering if she had lost the ability to "give birth" because of some kind of mutation.
Outside the space, the peach trees, which trembled in the bleak autumn wind and bloomed with scattered pink flowers, unexpectedly produced peaches.
With the watering of Zhou Yiling's spring water, these peaches are full day by day, gradually revealing a rich and ripe style.
The faint peach fragrance slowly wandered in the air, and only a dog like Zhou Yi could smell such a light peach fragrance dozens of meters away.
If you go to the bottom of the peach tree, the fragrance is strong.
This time, even if the peaches were not insecticide, they were not harmed by insects, but the birds that spent the winter were not so easy to get along with.
Zhou Yi also left a rooster, seven hens, and three ducklings that were not sold, ready to let them accompany him, and relieve the loneliness in his heart.
That rooster was the one that ran away from someone's butcher's knife in the first place and ran all the way back. What Zhou Yi later returned to the other party was another chicken.
And this big rooster, called "Zhou Xiaobao" by Zhou Yi, began to live a life without shame and no with seven hens.
The three geese were not sold by Zhou Yi.
However, whether it was chickens, ducks or geese, they were all driven by Zhou Yi to live in the shed, and were taken care of by Zhou Xiaohua, Zhou Xiaohei and Zhou Xiaohuang.
The so-called care means that they are not allowed to enter the house.
A total of fourteen poultry, after being "driven out of the house" by Zhou Yi, took that fruit forest as their own territory.
After Zhou Yi's lesson, there are no chickens, ducks or geese who dare to peck at the fruits that grow on the trees, and they all honestly eat small insects and grass seeds under the trees.
But if any other bird dares to come in and peck at the peach, it will become the target of their attack.
Now, more than a dozen poultry are distributed in 20 acres of land, each taking care of a piece, seeing that a bird is about to fall, they flutter their wings and jump up, stretching their necks and pecking fiercely.
Many sparrows were murdered.
Zhou Yi once saw with his own eyes, as soon as a small bird fell on a branch, before he could stand firmly, the big rooster, which was already quite majestic, flew down from which branch, stretched out his long neck, pecked his golden beak, and a little blood splashed, and a bird fell from the branch with a scream, and for a while, the flock of birds hovering in the sky was shocked!
This group of chickens, ducks and geese, taken care of by Zhou Yi every day, the small stove is opened, the blue spring water and the grass earthworms in the space are fed by them, one by one is no longer "Wuxia Ameng", and the ability to fly has also increased greatly, although it can not fly as long as the geese at high altitude, but it can fly more than ten meters high, and the gliding speed is extremely fast.
In particular, the big rooster can stun the small bird near it and fall from the sky with a single fan of its big wings. The chicken claw skill is even better, the snakes and rats near Zhou Yi's old house have almost disappeared, leaving only some small things swimming in the water to avoid poisonous claws.
In the early morning, when the mist was faint, a hand poked out of the faint mist, gently picked the peaches with dew on the branches, and gently placed them at the bottom of the bamboo basket.
After the basket was full, Zhou Yi put the big red peaches in the basket into the bamboo steamer; Put one layer full, add another layer on top and continue to place; When you're done, go pick up the next basket.
Zhou Yi did this, not to put the peaches on the stove to steam, but these peaches are too soft to be transported at all, if they are put together, the following will rot into a puddle of water.
went back and forth like this dozens of times, and when the sun rose, Zhou Yi had nearly a hundred steamer shelves full.
There are very few peaches on each peach tree, only more than ten in total, but each peach is quite large, one or two circles larger than an adult's fist, each weight is almost more than a catty, the juice is extremely rich, peel and eat, sweet and refreshing. Among the peaches that Zhou Yi has eaten, they are a little worse than the peaches produced by the peach trees in the space, and he has never seen other peaches so good. Of course, this is not to say that his peaches are unique, but at least they are extremely rare on the market, especially at this time of year, and even peaches are almost impossible to see.
But even so, he picked thousands of peaches, and even thirty percent of the peach trees were not finished.
Today's "every eighth" (the day with the eighth day at the end of the lunar calendar), it is the market day, Zhou Yi drove a pickup truck, dragged a steamer full of peaches, and went to the town.
He stopped at the entrance of the market and lifted the lid of the steamer, revealing the plump and plump peaches in the steamer. The peach fragrance that has been cultivated for a long time, when he lifted the lid, immediately overflowed, and the nose was better, even if he stood more than ten meters away, he could smell the thick peach fragrance.
"Sell peaches, sell peaches! Ten dollars a peach! You can't buy at a loss, you can't be fooled, you don't pick or choose, ten dollars a piece! Zhou Yi puffed up his breath and roared, it was really loud! The ears of the people within ten meters of the surrounding area were ringing, and even he himself was shocked. He didn't expect his voice to be so loud.
Almost half of the people in the market were attracted by this loud sound, and when they saw the peaches in the steamer and steamer, they were even more curious: at this time, how could there be peaches? How do you put peaches in a steamer? What a novelty!
It's not surprising that there are peaches for sale at this time. It's strange that many people around him know Zhou Yi and know that his peaches are grown by himself, which is why they feel strange. Because of the local peaches or other crops, there are almost no out-of-season.
"Zhou Yi, is this the peach you planted? I didn't take any medicine! How can there be peaches now? A woman in her forties who is very well maintained said. Zhou Yi knows each other, he is Zhou's mother's colleague, and the people in the rivers and lakes call him "Sixth Aunt".
"Aunt Six, are you out to buy vegetables? You taste one, absolutely no medicine! Zhou Yi took a cloth, gently wiped the peach hair, and said.
"Tear the skin and eat it." He added.
As soon as the sixth aunt took the peach in her hand, she felt a sinking in her hand, and said, "This is not more than a catty!" ”
She felt the fragrance of peaches, looked at Zhou Yi, and felt that the other party would not lie to her, so she gently pinched the ruddy peach skin with her hand, and the peach skin suddenly wrinkled; As soon as she tore it, a whole piece of peach skin was torn off, revealing the bright yellow golden peach flesh inside, and a strange fragrance exclusive to peaches emanated more intensely, teasing her nostrils, heart and lungs.
The red lips took a sip on the peach flesh.
"Hiss~" This is the sound of peach flesh, which is more delicate than jelly, being sucked into the mouth.
The people around smelled the aroma, and then looked at the sound of red lips sucking peach meat, and they all secretly swallowed their saliva.
The sixth aunt took a bite of the peach flesh, only to feel that the moist peach flesh quickly melted in her mouth, turning into a mouthful of refreshing peach juice and peach fragrance pouring into her stomach together, only to feel that the whole person was lighter.
The peach juice had overflowed, and it was all over her hands, but she didn't care.
She looked at the people around her who were staring at her, as if waiting for her opinions to have formed a big circle, and hurriedly said to Zhou Yi: "Get twenty for my aunt!" As the sixth aunt spoke, holding the juicy peach in one hand, and taking out two red tickets from her wallet with the other hand and stuffing them into Zhou Yi's hand.
"Okay!" Zhou Yi took out two cardboard boxes that had already been prepared, filled them with twenty-two peaches, and handed them over, "Auntie is doing my first business, let's give you two." ”
The sixth aunt's voice ready to say "thank you" quickly disappeared into the surging crowd.
"Twenty, get me twenty too." A middle-aged man waited for the sixth aunt to finish buying, and immediately said loudly, and also took out two red banknotes in his hand.
"I want ten."
"Give me two to try."
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People are blindly obedient, and when people in the market see the excitement in a circle here, they don't dare to sell anything inside, whether they need it or not, whether they like it or not, they all regard it as a good thing, and buy it.
After all, people nowadays are not bad for money! What can you do for a hundred dollars?
Those who bought two to try it out soon rushed in with the whole family, and went shopping again.
Soon, Zhou Yi sold thousands of peaches.
After hearing the news, the "audience" who came late walked away with a regretful face.
Some of them didn't even know what Zhou Yi was selling, and they only came up to inquire about it.
The second aunt of the Zhou family is also a person who likes to watch the excitement.
The market was quite close to Zhou's house, and she ran over to see the excitement here - she didn't know what was going on.
"Yi Yanzi, why are you here?" She looked at Zhou Yi driving a pickup truck, and the surroundings were in a mess, and said, "What are you here to buy?" ”
"Did you see so many people just now? What's going on? ”
Zhou Yi looked at the second aunt with a "curious baby" look and felt funny. As the main owner of the "excitement", he didn't seem to be able to answer well, so he only took out dozens of peaches prepared in advance from the co-pilot's seat and said, "Second aunt, take these peaches back." I planted it. ”
"The top box is yours, and the other box is for my parents."
"You're still growing peaches? Why are there still peaches now? The latter sentence naturally says, how could the peach tree planted by Zhou Yi only grow peaches now.
Without waiting for Zhou Yi to answer, the second aunt of the Zhou family said again: "The peaches planted by our family Yi'er, then I want to taste ......"
She'd forgotten what she had been doing in the first place. Perhaps, it's just a lively scene, and it doesn't matter in the first place.
The second aunt opened a box, and a peach fragrance came to her nose first, and twenty or thirty large and moist peaches were neatly placed in the carton, which made people hungry.
"Oh, you really planted such a big peach? It couldn't be more fragrant! Didn't take any medicine, did you? It looks good. After saying so many words, she was not prepared to let Zhou Yi answer. The original interrogative sentence is another level of praise.
She took a peach for herself, wiped it with her hand, tore the skin open, and took a bite.
"Hmm~~" A satisfied moan snorted from her nose, and a satisfied smile appeared on her face.
"It's really delicious! How much do you plant? I sold it for a lot of money. ”
"I planted more than a dozen acres of land, and I didn't bear much." In the market, it is difficult to say that such a place where people come and go.
In fact, Zhou Yi secretly estimated that there are seven or eight hundred peach trees that survive and produce fruit after being pested, and each peach tree bears more than ten fruits, and there are nearly tens of thousands or tens of thousands of catties!
That's pretty scary.
With Zhou Yi like this, ten yuan and a peach are counted, so isn't there nearly 100,000 yuan in the account?