Chapter 141: The Big Tree
Three thousand years ago, Chu Mingxu, the 76th emperor of the Moon Dynasty Empire, paid a private visit to the major regions, and on the way back, he inadvertently looked by the boundary here, and accidentally saw a peasant bending over to farm.
After the work was over, Chu Mingxu was curious and lowered with the two ministers.
At this time, the natural orchard was only a wetland of less than two square meters, with only a small tree half a meter high and arm thick.
Wen Yubo, the ancestor of Wen Yuan, saw that Chu Mingxu and the three of them were dressed plainly, but there was a sense of nobility on their bodies, and they immediately panicked: "Is there anything wrong with the three adults?"
Chu Mingxu looked at him, pointed to the small tree and smiled gently, "Did you plant this tree?"
Wen Yubo shook his head again and again: "No, I don't know who planted it, I took care of it when it was a small sprout." ”
"Really?" Chu Mingxu looked at the little tree with interest, he didn't see what kind of tree it was, and asked the two ministers, "Do you know what kind of tree this is?"
Ling Jianhua shook his head and said, "I don't know, wait for the old minister to go back and check." ”
Chu Mingxu looked at the other minister.
Guo Shao also shook his head: "The minister doesn't know." ”
Chu Mingxu asked Wen Boyu, "What about you?"
Wen Boyu is just an ordinary farmer, and of course he doesn't know.
He shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I call it a tree." ”
"Why is it called a big tree?" asked Chu Mingxu.
Wen Boyu scratched his head and said with a smile: "I hope it can grow into a big tree, it is something I grew up with, haha." ”
"Well, very simple wishes. Chu Mingxu looked around, and the surroundings could even be said to be a little desolate.
He muttered, "It's strange that there's a tree like this. ”
Wen Boyu said: "It's quite strange, when I found the [big tree], there was only one bud of it, there was nothing next to it, I remember very clearly that day, there was a heavy rain, the ground was wet, at that time I just came back from the wasteland, suddenly there was a touch of tender green on the muddy ground in my eyes. ”
"I walked over and looked, only to find that it was a small shoot, I looked at it, just looked at it quietly, and thought to myself, even a little shoot can survive the storm and wind, and I can't be defeated by life. ”
"Isn't it just that the harvest is not good? grit your teeth and persevere, and continue next year. ”
"I thought like this, and sat on the mud floor for a few hours with [the tree], and then came home in the evening. ”
As he spoke, he was caught up in his memories.
Chu Mingxu asked, "Do you live nearby?"
Wen Boyu nodded, pointed to the direction of three o'clock, and said, "Yes! It's not far ahead." ”
Ling Jianhua said: "I don't see a town or village here!"
Wen Boyu smiled bitterly and sighed: "They all moved away two years ago, God didn't give face in the past two years, there have been droughts and floods, so how can we live as ordinary people who depend on farming, so everyone moved to the east, where the environment is much better than here." ”
"Why don't you move out?" Chu Mingxu asked thoughtfully.
Wen Boyu rubbed the [big tree] and said, "Because of it, I don't want to leave it here alone." ”
Guo Shao asked, "Why don't you dig it up and take it away?"
Wen Boyu shook his head: "I'm afraid that I won't be able to feed it, it will take at least two weeks to get to the east, and it will grow well here, and it can't be uprooted because of my will." ”
Chu Mingxu squatted down and grabbed a handful of soil, frowned, and sighed: "The soil here is not suitable for planting, and it is not easy for [big trees] to grow like this. ”
He asked Wen Boyu tightly: "By the way, if you can't grow things, how can you live?"
Wen Boyu said with a smile: "I can plant it, as long as I plant some plants with strong vitality, I can grow them alive, and I am alone, so I don't pay attention to it." ”
Chu Mingxu was speechless, this kind of soil problem can't be changed in a day or two, even if he is strong, he can't do it.
"Do you want to taste the [Mian Bean] I grow, of course, it can't compare to those delicacies from the mountains and seas, but it's still good to taste it. Wen Boyu said loudly.
Chu Mingxu glanced at each other with the two ministers and said with a smile: "Then we are welcome." ”
Wen Boyu was very happy, and immediately took a handful of cooked [cotton beans] from the package and distributed them to Chu Mingxu.
"It's a little cold, but it doesn't affect the taste. ”
Chu Mingxu stuffed [Miandou] into his mouth, and Wen Boyu hurriedly stopped: "My lord, this one has to be peeled." ”
Chu Mingxu was slightly stunned, smiled awkwardly, and immediately peeled the skin into his mouth and savored it.
"Well, yes, it's creamy, it's a little milky. ”
He did think it was very good, probably the first time he ate it, the feeling caused by the freshness, but it was certainly not unpleasant.
Wen Boyu smiled shyly: "[Miandou] is more delicious when fried, but unfortunately I didn't make it, I'll give you some another day." ”
"Okay, fry it for us another day. Chu Mingxu said heartily.
Subsequently, the four of them didn't say a word, and the identity gap did not affect the relationship between them, but this was mainly because Wen Boyu didn't know Chu Mingxu's identity, and if he knew, he might kneel.
After that, Chu Mingxu returned to the imperial city.
Before going back, he left a small space ring for Wen Boyu and told him not to expose it to others.
This private visit to Weifu allowed him to see many problems in this country, such as the living gap between urban and rural areas, the environmental gap and the cultural difference, etc., which need to be solved.
But it's not so easy to solve, it's not something that can be solved in a day or two, and it may take hundreds, two hundred years, or even a thousand years to completely solve it.
But Chu hopes to solve these problems as much as possible for the country before he takes office, so that the country can become more prosperous.
The strength of a country is not only to say that the country has a lot of strong people, strong troops, and how many holy weapons it has, but also to make the people of the country live well and happily, so that the people regard the country as home, and make them feel that this is where they belong.
This is a strong country made up of people, but ideals are ideals after all, and it doesn't take a long time to get to that level.
Chu Mingxu has a long way to go.
These are all off-topic.
A hundred years later, Chu Mingxu went out and returned again, and happened to pass by there again, suddenly thought of the scene a hundred years ago, took a look, turned and flew down.
He flew closer and was amazed, for it was green and green, and there were all kinds of fruit trees growing in a radius of ten miles.
It made him wonder if he had made a mistake.
He landed in the [Natural Orchard], where many small demonic beasts inhabited.
He flew to the middle of the orchard and saw a tree more than a meter tall and two arm's width wide, and looked at the shape of the leaf.
He muttered, "[Big Tree]?"
"Where's Wen Boyu?" he muttered, touching the tree.
Suddenly, there was a shout from behind: "Who are you?"
Chu Mingxu turned his head and found that it was a young man in rough clothes.
He asked, "Where is Wen Boyu, who lives around here?"
Wen Shihu looked at him suspiciously: "What are you looking for my grandfather for?"
"Grandpa? Wen Boyu is a grandfather. Chu Mingxu said in surprise.
He didn't even have a child.
He laughed and said, "My name is Chu Mingxu, I don't know if he told you." ”
Chu Mingxu didn't think that Wen Boyu would mention a person who only had one side to a child.
But unexpectedly, Wen Shi immediately exclaimed when he heard the name Chu Mingxu and asked, "Are you the Chu Mingxu who gave my grandfather the space ring?"
Chu Mingxu was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "It should be." ”
"You wait. Wen Shi suddenly ran away.
Chu Mingxu followed, and soon he followed Wen Shi to a small cabin.
He walked over and found Wenshi busily fiddling in the vat.
"[Miandou]. "Chu Mingxu has a deep memory of [Miandou], and he can see at a glance that Wen Shisheng is [Miandou].
Immediately, he saw Wen Shi pour the washed cotton beans into the iron pot and start stir-frying.
Chu Mingxu waited quietly, and after a while, Wen Shi came out with a basin, which was full of cotton beans.
Wen Shi put the basin on the low table outside the house: "This is what my grandfather told me to make for you." ”
Chu Mingxu looked at the fried cotton beans, and memories suddenly emerged, as if he heard Wen Boyu laughing and saying that he would try fried cotton beans for them another day.
Chu Mingxu couldn't help but smile, shook his head and said, "I almost forgot, I didn't expect him to remember it so clearly." ”
He looked at Wen Shi and asked, "By the way, where is Wen Boyu? Where have you gone? It's rare to come here, and you have to meet each other." ”
Wen Shi lowered his head and said in a choked voice, "Grandpa has passed away." ”