Chapter 36: The Squirrel and the Wild Fruit

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Crossing the hill behind the first bamboo building, Yun Yi took Wang Lao's family to a garden built entirely of stone and stone, and there were a few villas built of stone, located under the hill, and the stone statues carved from stone were vivid or sitting, or lying, or standing, or two to one, or two to drink, or two to cook wine and discuss.

Between the stone forests, there are patches of orchard gardens, and occasionally you can see wine jars, wine bottles, and wine vats carved out of stone.

Tall banyan trees and yellow horn trees hide these buildings in between, and when viewed from the air, the antique buildings dotted around look like a beautiful ink manor.

The group stopped and stopped, and even Jiajia, a little girl, followed with high interest, jumping and jumping on the road from time to time, running around Akemi's side.

Before coming to the "Pine Valley", I saw more than a dozen beautiful little squirrels happily chasing in a small hazelnut forest, they were jumping forward, agile, flexible and brisk, and from time to time they made loud calls.

There were also several squirrels that appeared at the crowd passing under the tree, cocking their tails, bowing their heads, and looking at them curiously with shining eyes.

When the two women in the team saw it, they immediately cried out in surprise.

"Wow...! Mom... It's a squirrel...! It's a squirrel! It's so cute! Xiao Jiajia shouted.

"yes, I really want to have one of my own." Akemi said excitedly.

"Mom... Look! They still have patterns on them! Little Jiajia danced and pointed to the squirrel in the tree.

These elves, who like to live in tall trees, known locally as "jumping squirrels", are certainly not the kind of little mice that live in burrows, have big ears, have long hind legs, and jump forward like kangaroos.

According to Yunyi's speculation, this squirrel living in Pine Valley is supposed to be a subspecies of the striped squirrel, which is smaller than the average squirrel, with a beautiful and clear number of stripes on the back and sides, a shorter and smaller tail, and more agile movements.

Common squirrels mostly live in the north, and Yunyi saw in some materials that striped squirrels are only distributed in Myanmar and other Southeast Asian regions and the southern part of Yunxi Province in China, and often move on the ground.

But there are many of these squirrels living in Pine Valley, and Yunyi has never seen them on the ground.

These squirrels were very curious, and when they saw everyone, they all stopped, looked at them, and behaved cutely, and one of the squirrels was magical, and took out a hazelnut out of nowhere, held it with its forelegs, put it in its mouth and gnawed it, and looked at everyone every two bites, as if they wanted to gluttony everyone.

Jiajia was touched by the "cute" state of this squirrel, and hurriedly shook her father Wang Yunfei's hand, and said, "Dad, can you help me catch one and raise it, I like this thing so much!" ”

Wang Yunfei looked at the hazelnut tree in front of him that was more than 20 meters tall and leafy, and shook his head with a wry smile, the height of the tree is still second, the problem is that this kind of squirrel has passed all the rats, when they are jumping fast, it is difficult for human eyes to catch their figures, basically, the striped squirrel ten days after birth, with a sand gun such as a bird gun may be able to kill and injure a few, but it is impossible to capture them alive.

Seeing that everyone was a little moved, Yun Yi couldn't help but laugh, he had starlings, pigeons, earth dogs, silkworms and rabbits when he was a child, but he had never raised squirrels.

However, Yunyi learned that after the little squirrel that just left the nest and left with his parents, it was easy to raise, and he could tease in the palm of his hand after he was raised, and he also liked to be close to people.

After lingering for a while in the hazelnut grove near the edge of the pine valley, a few people were urged by the elder Wang to hurry again.

On the side of the road is the mountainous land that Yunyi let the villagers open up during this time, and occasionally saw wild pears, wild peaches and wild mandarins and other fruits ripening in October, so Yunyi stepped forward to pick some and distributed them to everyone to quench their thirst.

After picking them a few times, Akemi asked, "You've planted so many fruit trees?" ”

Yun Yi said: "We didn't plant it. ”

Akemi smiled: "Then why did you pick it when you came across it, it looks like you grew it yourself." ”

Yun Yi smiled, understood what she meant, and said: "These are wild fruit trees, I deliberately left them uncut down, although the fruit is not big, and the appearance is not good-looking, but the ripe wild fruit is very delicious, and the fruit is even more delicious than the fruit tree I got back from Brother Wang, but the yield is not so much." ”

After listening to Yunyi's statement, Wang Lao, who was walking behind, also said with emotion: "Xiaoyi is right, I am engaged in this research, and there is no way to ensure the yield of fruit trees and the original taste of fruits!" Now many fruit trees have a large yield, but the fruit tastes like wax, and I don't know how to break this technical barrier! ”

There are not only wild pears, wild peaches and wild mandarins and other fruits on the roadside, but also many other wild fruits, the most is a kind of wild fruit called "prickly bubble" by the locals, that is, a kind of thorn berry, small thorns on the rattan and petioles, the fruit is spherical or ovate, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, bright red after ripening, until purple, the taste is sweet and sour, Yunyi liked to pick it home when he was a child, wash it with water, and then soak it in sugar water, so that the taste is better.

However, when they were away, the rest of the people felt the novelty, they all washed in the river water and threw them into their mouths, and the fully ripe thornberries were actually very sweet, without much sourness, and a few people ate them refreshingly, picking them in the bushes by the roadside as they walked.

Akemi walked a little behind, and after eating a few, she also had the experience of eating, knowing that the redder and softer the sweeter, if there is a bottom and a turquoise, it is not fully ripe, a little sour, and it is easy to lose teeth after eating.

Seeing a few red and large wild fruits behind a bush, Akemi was a little glad that the people in front of her had missed them, so she hurriedly reached out to pick them.

Wang Yunfei was right behind her, and when he saw it, he hurriedly stopped his wife and said, "Don't pick it wrong, it's a snakeberry, it's poisonous." ”

"Poisonous?" Akemi asked, confused.

"Hmm"

Akemi couldn't help but be stupid when she heard this, she compared the difference between the thornberry in her hand and the snakeberry in front of her, and now the appearance is almost the same, if you don't know, you will eat it wrong!

Mingmei hurriedly stopped Jiajia in front of her, and as soon as she said this, Yun Yi and Wang Lao also stopped, and saw two kinds of wild fruits, Yun Yi pointed to the red fruits on the ground, and said: "This is indeed a snakeberry, we also call it 'snake bubble fruit' here, and the thornberry is actually very different, the thornberry is one by one, its vine has thorns, and the whole plant is much larger, snakeberry is just a small cluster, there are not many fruits, and snakeberry is not divided into grains, it is redder, rounder, and more beautiful, the taste is also very light, not much sweet." ”

As soon as Akemi heard Yunyi talk about the taste of snakeberries, she said, "Have you eaten it?" So it's not poisonous? ”

Yun Yi laughed and said, "We locals also say that it is poisonous, and children know that it is not edible." ”

Akemi was confused and said, "Is it poisonous or not?" ”

Yun Yi said: "You see, after the thornberry is ripe, many of them are pecked by small animals or birds, and this snakeberry is always intact, and no animal eats it, which is also a way to distinguish it." When I was a child, I heard that snakeberries were poisonous, and I refused to believe it, so I ate one and it turned out to be nothing.

Later, I also asked my grandfather, snakeberry is actually a medicine, can treat all kinds of swelling and scalds, in the wild was bitten by poisonous insects, pick snakeberry grass on the spot and mash the affected area, the effect is also very good, just a little poisonous, eat three or five fine, eat too much is easy to vomit and diarrhea. ”

Everyone couldn't help but nod their heads when they heard this, and felt that they had gained a lot of knowledge.

Yun Yi saw that Akemi and Jiajia both held a handful of thornberries in their hands, and even some green ones were not spared, and he couldn't help but be a little funny, he also knew that these wild fruits may not be more delicious than other fruits, and everyone enjoyed more of a wild fun and the joy of picking them by hand.

There are not only thornberries and snakeberries in this mountain, but also raspberries, which taste much better than thornberries, but unfortunately raspberries usually ripen in May to June, unlike thornberries, which can be seen in the mountains from April to November.