At night, when I was tossing and turning on the kang and couldn't sleep, the torrential rain that had been silent for only a few hours hit again, and the raindrops crackled on the glass, the roof, and the branches, splashing loudly, and it really smelled of hail, and I felt that the crumbling glass could be torn apart at any time. I rolled over in frustration and put my fingers on my ears and eyes to try to calm myself down.

In the early morning, the rain stopped, and the mountains in the distance loomed in the mist, hazy.

Pushing the door and walking into the courtyard, the fresh air mixed with soil and grass seeds came to my face, I stretched my waist and took a deep breath at the clear sky, and my chest was slightly released by the feeling of suffocation that Yan Wanru had wronged me.

The door of the north room was open, and at this time, I caught a glimpse of Yan Wanru, who seemed to have just gotten up, and she was eating breakfast with Yang Yi's parents in the house, pasting cakes and porridge soup. Seeing that I was in the courtyard, Yang Yi at the dinner table hurriedly beckoned to me, "...... Up? Seeing that you slept late yesterday and didn't call you in the morning, well, the meal was just ready, let's eat it while it's hot. "Last night, Yang Yi asked me why I quarreled with Yan Wanru, and after I knew, he also comforted me twice, saying that I was not afraid of shadows, which made my heart warm.

However, as soon as I walked into the north house, Yang Yi's father snorted: "The meal is not his share!" ”

Yang Yi's face was not very good-looking: "Dad, what are you doing?" ”

Yang Yi's mother also said coldly: "I despise people who don't save them when they die!" Not to mention his friend's daughter! Ungrateful! Hum! Your dad is right! It would be nice to let him stay overnight! And food for him? "They must have heard the argument between me and Yan Wanru outside last night, and then chose to believe Yan Wanru. It's no wonder that to the people of Yang Village, I am just an ordinary outsider, but Yan Wanru is a big philanthropist who is well-known throughout the country, whose words have weight? Whose words are credible? Glance.

Yang Yi said angrily: "Dad! Mother! ”

Yang Yi's father waved his hand in disgust: "Want to eat? Let him go to the mountains to find it himself! He's not welcome here! ”

Yan Wanru lowered her head and ate the sticky cake without saying a word, and she didn't look at me.

I choked my chest, I didn't know what it was like, I didn't say more, turned around and went back to Yang Yi's room and picked up my backpack, and before I could go out, Yang Yi, who was holding a cake, greeted me, "...... Gu Jing, give, ignore them, I know you're not that kind of person. ”

"Thank you." I sighed, grabbed a pen and paper and left him a call: "I will go back to Yanjing before the evening, this is my mobile phone number, if you come to Yanjing, remember to find me." It can be seen that Yang Yi admires Yan Wanru very much, but at this time, he did not give her trust, but gave it to me, who had just known me for a few hours, this friend is worth making.

Yang Yi said: "The road is not easy to walk, I will send you back to the county seat in the afternoon." ”

"No, you're busy with yours, I'll go to the mountains to find something, I don't know when I'll leave."

After saying goodbye to Yang Yi, I tightened the schoolbag behind my back, did not go to the mountains, but turned a corner, ran to a relatively dilapidated yard not far away and knocked on the door, knock knock, it was a middle-aged woman who opened the door for me, she looked me up and down vigilantly, "What's the matter?" ”

I calmed down, and said in a pinched tone: "Sorry to disturb, I'm here to collect things, such as bottles and cans, books and books, well, can I go in and have a look?" "Glancing into the courtyard, I had already found a porcelain bowl on the windowsill of her house that could not be seen to be of age, it seemed to be very good, it should be an old thing.

The woman pouted impatiently: "Don't sell, don't sell!" ”

I said, "If it's good, I'll give you a good price." ”

The woman blasted me out: "I said I wouldn't sell it!" Again! No one will sell you! "Touch, and the door was slammed shut by her.

When I was still puzzled by her last words, I heard a few villagers gathered around me pointing at me.

"It's him, the greedy and afraid of death." A young man.

The little old lady next to her nodded: "Yes, I heard that his friend's daughter was kidnapped, so he watched from the side, and he didn't even dare to report it to the police, he was stupid." ”

"This kind of person should be pulled out and shot!"

The news should have been spread by Yang Yi's relatives, and now, it is estimated that the whole village knows about it.

I immediately understood why the women were so cold to me, and I was afraid that there was no point in going to other homes, and with a clenched fist, I suppressed the anger in my heart, and against the disdainful gaze of the villagers, I went all the way out of the village and towards the oblique side of the mountain. Most of the roads in the mountains are grass and soil, there are not many trees, the road is muddy, and if you are not careful, you may fall into puddles and dirt pits, and your feet will be full of mud.

The fact that there are walnut trees in Yang Village is the news that I accidentally found with the school's Internet café, but because Sun Xiaolei was anxiously pulling me to play CS at that time, I couldn't read the report carefully at all, and my memory was a little vague. All I remember was that a knowledgeable man outside the village found a green bark, as the saying goes, a walnut fruit at the foot of the mountain, and he deduced that there must have been a walnut tree in the mountain, but when he went up to look for it, the walnut tree had been destroyed. As for how many trees there were, where they were, and why they were destroyed, I certainly can't tell the reason until I have read the whole news.

Alas, I hope the walnut tree has not been destroyed, otherwise it will be a wasted trip.

Walking through the woods, I carried a cane made of tree branches and searched around for its traces.

In today's cultural walnut market, there are three main types of walnuts, sorted from high to low according to their value, one is the old walnut that has been played with for many years, the other is the wild walnut, and the other is the artificially planted walnut. Wild walnuts and old walnuts are extremely scarce in the world, and there is great room for appreciation, while the yield of artificially planted walnuts is larger, the quality is slightly poor, and there is almost no room for appreciation. Therefore, the value of a wild walnut tree is difficult to estimate with money, for example, every year with a walnut merchant in the suburbs of Yanjing who bets on the green skin, if he wants to wrap a slightly better walnut tree, all the green bark will cost hundreds of thousands of yuan, hundreds of thousands a year, ten years? What about twenty years?

Half-hour...... One hour ...... Two-hour ...... I couldn't even walk, shaking the mud on my feet, wiping the sweat: "Damn, every time I pick up a leak, there are twists and turns, and I have never had a smooth once, it seems that today is no exception, alas, let me search the whole mountain?" One day? Two days? Well, what if it's not this mountain, but the one a little further from the village? How can I have that time? ”

Actually, it's not that I really don't have time, if I know that walnuts are indeed in this mountain forest, if the relationship between me and the villagers has not deteriorated to the point where it is now, I am willing to spend a week, but the problem is that there is no hotel in Yang Village, with the attitude of the villagers towards me, it is obviously impossible for me to live here, and I don't know that the walnut tree was not destroyed at this time, weighing the pros and cons, I finally decided to find three o'clock in the afternoon, if there is no trace of the walnut tree at that time, I will go directly to the county seat, and then take the car home, Get out of this place that bothers me.

Suddenly, in the sparse forest, a green and faint fruit jumped into my eyeballs, I was already tired and half dead, and I was shocked, covered my eyebrows with my hands to block the direct sunlight, and raised my eyes to look in the direction of the fruit, it was a big tree that could not be seen any difference from ordinary trees, the body of the tree was thick, and the branches were luxuriant, but the green skin fruits hanging on the branches surprised me - it was it!

It's not easy, after two months of stumbling and picking up leaks, it finally went smoothly!

I threw down the branch in my hand and paced, standing under the tree and looking up at the green skin above.

Most of the walnuts of Tiger Head and some of the less graded varieties are ripe and ready for picking around September 1, but the rarest varieties such as Lion's Head are not ripe until now. At first glance, I am almost certain that this wild old walnut tree is probably the most important species located at the top of the pyramid of the Wenwan walnut market - lion's head!

I exhaled, and secretly said that I was lucky, and moved my shoulders, so I jumped up the trunk of the tree, reached out and hooked the two walnuts closest to me, pulled them off, and then, slowly climbed down the tree, and took out the knives and brushes that I had prepared in my bag.

These two green walnuts are about a little smaller than the baby's fist, and they are relatively large in the walnuts, unless some professionals can see the clues from the epidermis, like the jade gambling stone, no instrument can see what the walnuts in the green skin are, so because of its gambling surname and freshness, this year, gambling green skin is very popular in the Yanjing Panjiayuan market.

In order to save manpower, nuclear farmers often bury the picked fruits in the soil and wait for them to rot naturally, and then take out the walnuts to remove the rotten skin on the surface, and then dry them to sell.

But the treatment method of walnuts obviously can't be like this, firstly, no one has the time to wait, and secondly, every walnut is very precious, God knows if it will be destroyed if it is put into the soil? So, holding the green skin in one hand and dragging the knife in the other, I carefully peeled the outer skin of the fruit, and when the skin was almost gone, I threw the two green skins with the faint walnut lines into the rain water in the tree pit and soaked them, and then used the brush I brought to repeatedly clean the remaining flesh in the lines.

A few minutes later, two yellow walnuts were revealed.

It's a lion's head! And the variety is a dwarf pile dragon pattern lion head!

I don't have calipers with me, so I can't measure them accurately, but by visual inspection, the two walnuts are at least 44 millimeters wide and the other is 42 millimeters. But excited for a while, I suffered again, as we all know, the dragon lion head is difficult to match, even if it is the fruit of a tree, it is very difficult to match a pair of similar size of the pattern, if the single lion head can not be paired, even if it is a dragon lion head with a low pile, it can only be sold for a "cabbage price".

After praying secretly for a moment, I no longer hesitated, rolled up my sleeves and climbed the tree, pulled off the green skins one by one, and threw them to the ground.

After getting off the tree and looking at the pile of green skins in front of me, I swallowed and began to peel the skin.

One ...... Two ...... Three ...... It was a very physical and endurance job, so I peeled off one fruit after another hungry, and matched the walnuts in the process of opening them, and when the eighth fruit came out, there was finally a 43-millimeter lion head matched with it, and it performed very well in all aspects.

I nodded in satisfaction, motivated, and looked up at the increasingly cloudy sky, picking up some speed.

For several hours, I took the trouble to do the same boring action, when the last fruit was brushed off the flesh, looking at the pile of green crumbs all over the ground, I sat in the forest and exhaled heavily, my hands were almost sore, I let go of the knife to see, and trembled slightly.

It's finally done, whew, pair up!

I forgot about my tiredness for a while, and picked and chose among the scattered dragon lion heads, which was a huge amount of work due to the lack of calipers and visual inspection. In the end, with the walnuts I had picked out before, a total of thirteen pairs were matched, which is already a very valuable number.

I took out the small plastic packaging that I bought with Yanjing, I wrapped the twenty-six walnuts one by one and sealed them, and then put them into a package two by two, and at the end, look at the remaining pile of dragon lion heads that were not matched with pairs, I was reluctant to throw them away, the size was also money, so I also put them in a small bag, put them in the schoolbag, and waited for Yanjing to sell them.

After looking around the woods, and seeing that there was no second walnut tree, I carried my heavy bag down the mountain. It's going to rain again, in this case, I don't dare to take the mountain road back to the county, or temporarily take shelter from the rain with Yang Village, however, I am really embarrassed to disturb Yang Yi, and I don't want to see the faces of Yang Yi's parents and Yan Wanru.

Cold, hungry and tired, alas, I didn't expect myself to have such an embarrassing day.

With nowhere to go, I felt out two flawed dragon lion heads, crunched around my hand and played, originally, the real good walnut can not be played with the method of martial arts, but these two have natural defects, it is really worthless, it doesn't matter how to play.

Squeak.

The wooden door of the small courtyard opposite me was separated, and Yan Wanru walked out of the yard first, holding this thing wrapped in cloth in her hand, and she couldn't see anything, it might have been received from this family. She was followed by two middle-aged couples with umbrellas, pinching Yan Wanru out of the house with a soft smile.

"Teacher Yan, that's all there is to my family, I'll take you to other blind dates tomorrow." The tall and thin middle-aged man said.

Yan Wanru smiled bitterly: "I went there in the morning, but some families don't seem to want to deal with me." ”

The tall and thin man patted his chest: "I'll introduce you to you, I promise it's no problem." ”

"Thank you then."

"You're welcome." The tall and thin man glanced at his wife and hesitated: "Teacher Yan, I don't want to hide it, I want to send my son to Yanjing to work in a few months, but I heard that there is no shortage of people at the Yanjing construction site, and he has no ability except to grow crops, you see, can you help him find a suitable job." ”

"Oh, that's fine." Yan Wanru took out her mobile phone, "I'll leave you a phone number of my friend, and when your son arrives, I'll call him, just say that I introduced him, and I'll say hello to him in advance another day." ”

The tall and thin man and his lover hurriedly thanked him.

Suddenly, Yan Wanru saw me under the eaves, stunned for a moment, and then, her eyes moved to the walnut in my hand, a trace of surprise flashed in her pupils, and she paused, she ignored me, but looked at the two behind her: "There is still a walnut tree in our village?" "I haven't shaved these two defective walnuts, and they still have a little green flesh on them, others may not be able to see them, but connoisseurs like Yan Wanru must know that they are newly picked.

"I don't know what a game is." The tall and thin man said strangely, "But we don't grow walnut trees in our village." ”

Yan Wanru looked at the opposite mountain with her eyes and looked at it for a while, "...... Go back, and I'll go to the mountains. ”

"Yo, it's raining, so it's best not to go into the mountains."

Yu Guang looked at my walnuts, Yan Wanru said excitedly: "It's okay, the rain is not heavy, and there is no thunder, I don't go far, just walk outside the mountain." ”

The tall and thin man thought, "Then I'll change into a raincoat and go with you, it's not safe for you to be alone." ”

Hearing this, I couldn't help but say, "Don't go, the walnuts are gone." "I'm angry, but deep down, I still don't want Yan Wan to be like anything, the ground is so slippery, maybe it's dangerous.

Yan Wanru was just about to speak, and the tall thin man in the raincoat frowned and said, "Teacher Yan, what are you doing with this kind of person, let's go." ”

She looked at me calmly, and then turned around with the tall and thin man, not saying a word.

I didn't get angry, gritted my teeth at her back and said, "You don't believe anything I say, do you?" Yes! Yes! I know where I stand in your heart! "Because of Yan Wanru's distrust, I don't have to eat, I don't have to go into the house, if this rain really falls, I don't know where to spend the night at night, thinking of this, the grievances in my heart, don't mention it.

An hour after Yan Wanru left, boom, thunder, and pouring rain fell down!

The rain just now turned into a heavy rainstorm in an instant! It's like going into the water!

I secretly complained bitterly, shook my head, and forced myself to think about good things.

This batch of walnuts should make a lot of money, and if that walnut tree hadn't been discovered by others, I would have come here every year to pick green skins, uh, no, I forgot, calculate the time, this tree should have been destroyed immediately, alas, who is so lacking in virtue? Ignore so many trees, but you want to cut down the old walnut tree?

Suddenly, I was stunned.

Yes, why are good trees destroyed?

Why was the green skin, which was obviously halfway up the mountain, able to roll to the foot of the mountain and be discovered by that person? You know, from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain, it is not all slopes, there are flat land, dirt pits, and rocks in the middle, how can you go down the mountain smoothly?

Looking at the strange weather overhead, thinking about the events that happened in Gansu Province a while ago, and then linking to the reports I read before I was reborn, I understood it all at once!

Walnut trees are not man-made!

It's a mudslide!!

Mudslides are coming!!

(To be continued)