At four o'clock in the afternoon, after finishing his work, Liu Rui saw that the sun in the sky had gradually been blocked by the mountains, and the air was not so hot, so he began to put the trolley on the yard dam, and Liu Jiahong was ready to set off to cut bamboo.

Seeing that Liu Rui was about to go out, the yellow-throated marten and Xiaohua climbed into the trolley, looking like they were traveling. Xiao Hei saw that the two partners were in the car, and he was so anxious that he wanted to climb up with his little short legs. Unfortunately, dogs are not born to climb trees, and even if Xiao Hei is so anxious that he whines, he still slides off the side of the wheel again and again.

After trying a few times, the little guy seemed to know that this was an impossible task, so he quickly changed his target and ran to Liu Rui to be coquettish. Gently patting Xiao Hei, who was biting his anxious trouser leg, Liu Rui picked it up in the car and put it with Xiaohua.

The little guy is quite good at coming to things, and he shouted 'Wangwang' twice at Liu Rui to show his gratitude.

Liu Jiahong stood aside, looking at several animals that were unusually intimate with his son, and suddenly found that his son had been very animalistic recently, as if any animal was willing to come to him. According to the habits of rural people, they don't care much about these cats and dogs, and let them fend for themselves. Where would it be like sons and daughters, bathing them at every turn, and hugging them around.

Shaking his head, Liu Jiahong followed behind his son who pulled the cart and walked in the direction of Zhulin Pass.

Bamboo Col is located between two large mountains, and there are a large number of moso bamboo and hemp bamboo, hence the name. For thousands of years, Zhulinao has been an inexhaustible natural treasure house for the villagers of Liang Village and surrounding villages, from which the villagers harvest bamboo shoots, mushrooms, bamboo sunflower and other mountain treasures, and use these bamboos to weave a large number of living and production tools.

Walking into the homes of nearby farmers, you can see utensils woven from bamboo everywhere, and it can be said that the bamboo of Zhulin Pass has been integrated into every corner of life.

After walking along the machine plowing road for half an hour, Liu Rui saw a bamboo forest appear in front of him, swaying under the evening breeze. Different from the vast bamboo forest in Xiaoqingshan, the bamboo forest in the bamboo forest is more delicate, not so much ethereal, and more approachable.

Pulling the car into the bamboo forest, Liu Rui looked at it for a while, found a suitable place and stopped the car.

There are some unwritten rules for cutting bamboo in the bamboo forest, and every villager keeps it in mind and will not make mistakes. Don't cut the bamboo that hasn't grown, don't cut the bamboo bushes that someone has cut, don't cut the bamboo bushes that are producing bamboo shoots, ,......,don't cut the bamboo bushes that are producing bamboo shoots, and there are all kinds of rules, but fortunately, Liu Rui has been familiar with it since he was a child, and he is familiar with it, if he changes to a city person, he may not be able to remember.

Maybe the villagers don't know what sustainable development is, and they don't know what protection and development is, but they always have a very simple view and way to treat everything in the mountains and achieve orderly development.

As soon as it enters the bamboo forest, the yellow-throated marten is like returning home, and it swoops down from the car and is about to drill deep into the bamboo forest. Xiaohua saw that the other party was moving so quickly, and she was not to be outdone, so she jumped out of the car and ran behind the yellow-throated marten. Xiao Hei was a little frightened and looked at the height of dozens of centimeters, squatting on the edge of the car and not daring to act, seeing that the figures of the two partners were about to disappear, it still didn't dare to jump.

The little guy's eyes for help turned to Liu Rui, but Liu Rui, who was taking tools, deliberately turned a blind eye, he carried an axe, a scythe and other tools, and walked into the bamboo forest side by side with Liu Jiahong.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Xiao Hei whined twice with some dissatisfaction.

After a long time, after Liu Rui and their figures disappeared into the bamboo forest, Xiao Hei finally mustered up the courage, closed his eyes, and fell to the ground. It was like a kite with a broken string, and it landed on the ground full of fallen leaves, and rolled several times.

Because of the buffer of the thick layer of fallen leaves, Xiao Hei unexpectedly found that he was not in pain at all, and screamed twice proudly, shook the bamboo leaves on his body, and followed Liu Rui's direction.

Liu Rui, who walked into the bamboo forest, after selecting the bamboo to be cut, began to carry the axe and compare, thinking about how to make the axe. After slashing the axe blade twice on the torso of the bamboo, and after finding the rhythm, Liu Rui suddenly exerted his strength, and the snow-white axe blade suddenly sank into the bamboo.

When Liu Rui pulled out the axe, the unevenly stressed bamboo had already made a 'click' sound, swaying and falling in one direction. Liu Rui naturally struck while the iron was hot, and slashed a few more times at the fracture, and the entire bamboo was completely cut off and fell down.

As concocted, after cutting another bamboo in this bush of bamboo, Liu Rui carried an axe to replace it with a clump of bamboo. According to the unwritten rules of Liang Village, the bamboo should be cut evenly, and it should not be cut in a clump of bamboo, which will make the growth of the bamboo bush uneven and unable to be used sustainably.

Liu Rui was looking for suitable bamboo to cut in the forest, and Liu Jiahong followed behind with a big sickle, trimming off the branches of the bamboo, leaving only the main trunk. Because I want to take it back to build a shelf for tomato seedlings, I chose a relatively thick hemp bamboo today, rather than the kind of bamboo with thin skin and empty stomach. There are a lot of branches of hemp bamboo, which is more troublesome to deal with, but fortunately, Liu Jiahong is a skilled bamboo craftsman, and he is naturally easy to move.

For a while, the sound of 'click' echoed in the silent bamboo forest, especially the moment when the bamboo fell to the ground, and it made some sounds. Some of the birds perched in the bamboo forest were alarmed, and they circled and flew over the forest in a chaotic manner, and their mouths were also barking.

After calculating the shelf materials needed for two acres of land, Liu Rui stopped after cutting down ten bamboos, he pinned the axe to his waist, and replaced it with a sickle to act. With the concerted efforts of father and son, in less than an hour, the ten bamboos had been trimmed and smoothed, cut into two sections of about five meters, and moved to the trolley.

"Those little ones haven't come out yet." After loading the car and fixing the bamboo with rubber ropes, Liu Jiahong found that several pets had not returned.

Although he is not used to the appearance of his sons and daughters spoiling those pets, Liu Jiahong also feels that it is quite fun to have a few cute little guys in the family, and gradually accepts their existence.

"It's okay, it's coming out all at once." Liu Rui leaned on the car gang and reached out to whistle.

The sharp whistle instantly pierced the space of the bamboo forest, spread far away, and alarmed the birds that had gradually stabilized. Less than a minute after the whistle sounded, the figure of the yellow-throated marten appeared in Liu Jiahong's sight, and there were two small followers behind it.

"It's only been a few days, and you've been training?" Liu Jiahong really didn't expect that his son would have such a hand!

In the countryside, if someone can train an obedient dog, it is already good, I didn't expect my son to pick up a yellow-throated marten on the road, and it can be trained like this in less than ten days, which really makes Liu Jiahong feel surprised.

"Xiao Huang is very smart, I haven't even trained like this, and it remembers my voice." Actually, Liu Rui himself is still a little puzzled, is it because he teaches well or is the yellow-throated marten smart?

When he was in the mountains, he was idle and bored every day, so Liu Rui tried to give some simple instructions to the yellow-throated marten to see if it could understand and execute it. Unexpectedly, the yellow-throated marten was very adaptable to Liu Rui's whistling, gestures and other commands, and soon made Liu Rui feel like a wishful spirit.

Now hearing Liu Rui's whistle, the yellow-throated marten, which was still playing happily in the bamboo forest, naturally didn't dare to slack off, and ran out with his toys.

"Hey, I also caught a bamboo rat!" After the figure of the yellow-throated marten settled on the car, Liu Jiahong found that it was still holding a bamboo rat in its paws, which had been small, and it was squeaking.

"This guy is very good at catching bamboo rats, in the bamboo forest in the mountains, he caught a lot of them for us to eat one night." Seeing this, Liu Rui felt a little proud.

Liu Jiahong didn't know what to say, he could only be amazed, his son has become more and more magical during this time, and he is about to be unrecognizable as a father.

Put Xiao Hei, who was late at the end, into the car, Liu Rui pulled the cart in front, Liu Jiahong pushed the cart in the back, and the father and son transferred this afternoon's harvest to their homes.

On a cart full of bamboo, three pets of different colors squatting, and a gray bamboo rat that is constantly being ravaged, this combination will attract people's attention wherever they go. After each villager met, they had to say a few words of greeting, marveling at the Liu family's pets being well-behaved and obedient.

However, after hearing that the Liu family was cutting down bamboo and preparing to go back to build a shelf for tomato seedlings, the villagers' expressions of envy and expectation were beyond words. When Liu Rui wanted to plant tomatoes, the villagers were unanimously unanimous about it, but as time went by, some villagers' views gradually changed.

In particular, the tomato field is lush and green, and the tens of thousands of tomato seedlings that grow well are simply a model demonstration field, and many villagers will visit there almost every day. The better the tomatoes grow in the tomato field, the more they will be touched by the other villagers. In particular, many villagers became more and more envious after learning about the large production and high price of small tomatoes, and the market was in short supply.

After seeing the Liu family's father and son push the cart away, those villagers also began to make up their minds that when they turned back to spring, they would also plant some small tomatoes or other high-value cash crops, and they could no longer live in such a dazed state.

What Liu Rui didn't know was that his successful actions during this period of time had gradually established his own image in the hearts of the villagers. In the past, he appeared in the words of the villagers as the eldest son of the Liu family, but now the name of Liu Rui has a certain weight.

For Liu Rui, this is one of the signs of growth.

The remnant sun in the sky is like blood, the smoke curls in the village, the mooing of the old cow is endless, and in the rice field next to the road, the tasseled rice exudes bursts of rice fragrance, which makes Liu Rui involuntarily immersed in it. Feeling the weight on his shoulders and stepping on the solid earth, Liu Rui feels that life is to enjoy the beauty in the ordinary.

(To be continued)