In Mobei City, the countryside is very sparsely populated, and most of the young people have gone to the city or south to work, while those old people still stick to the land of their ancestors.

Beidian Village, Yunlin Town, Maerwan District, is one such village, where the villagers settle along the river and cultivate a small amount of farmland, and the rest of the place is almost all wasteland, and some can still grow some weeds, but most of them have been desertified for a long time, and they cannot be planted or grazing.

However, it is also in this place that in the past few decades, there have been some new changes in the landform because of the support of policies.

If you look at the sky, you will see that there is a little area of the wasteland outside the village that has turned green, and it is a tree farm that has been planted.

For others, Arbor Day is once a year, but for 79-year-old Wang Fuhou, there are two tree-planting seasons a year, and the trees have to be taken care of every day.

Early in the morning, before dawn, Wang Fuhou woke up to the chirping of birds, and the couple lived in a small brick house in the forest farm. From the first contract of 50 acres of wasteland more than 30 years ago, to the current total of more than 200 acres of land that has been planted with trees, he and his wife have long been accustomed to such days.

"Wife, wife." Wang Fuhou woke up his 77-year-old wife, Zhang Maidong, "Wake up, we still have to be busy today." ”

"Look at you stubborn old man, this old man is not too tired," Zhang Mai......dong said as if he was complaining, "I can't be idle......"

"Huh." Wang Fu was happy, and he got up first, "We haven't read a book, but we also know the story of Yugong moving mountains." Someone has to plant this tree, otherwise the land will be desertified, and what will happen to future generations? Let's just hope to live a few more years and grow more trees. ”

"You have to be grinning, the country praises you, you know." Zhang Maidong said with fun.

Wang Fuhou's thick black face suddenly smiled, and the couple was commended by the city on Arbor Day just past this year, and they also accepted news interviews. It is said that planting trees is now a hot topic in the country, one is the Tianji Bureau, and the other is planting trees to afforestation and greening the environment.

Planting trees does not make much money, and a large number of people are required to prepare the land, and sometimes large machinery is used; The tree planting period is too short to do it yourself, so you have to hire people; There are also watering, repair, etc., all have to invest in costs, just rely on seedlings, dead branches and leaves, 30 acres of fast-growing poplars to make some money, tens of thousands of yuan a year, and the state subsidizes the point, which can maintain life. All three of their children have families, and their children and grandchildren sometimes come to help, come and go, after all, young people don't want to be in front of a wasteland all day.

It is impossible to say that he didn't think about his livelihood at all, and Wang Fuhou was thinking about making some money when he started this contract.

But one has been planted for so many years, and it really grows feelings.

Wang Fuhou knew that his wife was just a knife, wasteland turned into woodland, and he didn't just eat the hardships of planting trees for so many years.

More than 30 years ago, there was no electricity, no water, no roads, nothing, just a wasteland. It was they who personally prepared the land little by little, and then planted saplings, pines, acacia trees, weeping willow trees, and fast-growing poplars...... Watching the trees grow little by little, watching the barren mountains and abandoned mountains green and lush.

"Let's contract dozens of acres to plant trees? Next year, the state will have to praise me. ”

"Gotcha! Then you are living a few more years, I am living a few years less. ”

After a few more jokes with his old wife, Wang Fuhou put on his coat and old man's hat and walked out of the small brick house.

The sky was bright, and the birds in the forest were calling louder, and Wang Fuhou stepped on the land with a little fallen leaves, and walked slowly through the woods he had planted. In this Spring Festival, the trees are growing new branches and leaves, and those green colors make him really happy to see.

"Relaxed." Wang Fuhou has never gone to school or read a book, so it can be said that he can't read a few big characters, but the reporters who came to interview him that day kept telling him this word, which is really a good word. When I think of my age, I can be on the news after working all my life, and I can be praised by the state, and the smile of the old man is even greater.

In my life, I didn't pass in a daze.

"No, I really have to contract dozens of acres." Wang Fuhou pondered, but as soon as this idea came up, he stepped on a withered branch under his feet and almost staggered, and his hips felt a pain, "These legs and feet are not angry." The old man sighed bitterly, this leg and foot are not a disease, or old.

"Alas!" He remembered that in the past, he could do many jobs by himself, and there was no problem in climbing trees to prune, but now he was becoming more and more unable to walk.

Man is getting older, but the tree is getting taller and taller.

As Wang Fuhou walked, he almost arrived at the "Fuhou Tree", which was the first tree they planted, the locust tree, and the tall and thick trunk made them unable to hold their hands together. Every time Wang Fuhou walked in the morning, he would go there to take a look and hug the tree, which was like a child of theirs.

“…… What about trees? ”

However, now, Wang Fuhou's old face was stunned, looking at the slightly sparse woods around him, this place that he had already walked thousands of times was a little unfamiliar.

This road is too familiar to him, this is the road he has opened, and he can go wherever he wants to go with his eyes closed. But now he should have walked to the Fuhou tree, but he seemed to be lost, and he didn't see the towering pine tree, and some other trees were gone.

"W-Where is this?" Wang Fuhou couldn't understand for a while that there was no place like here in his more than 200 acres of woodland.

The tree spacing is wrong, this tree spacing is wrong! Why are there so many trees missing?

Stolen? Wang Fuhou flashed this thought, and suddenly felt flustered and angry, but then he felt that it was impossible, it was impossible to cut down trees without movement, and it was impossible to steal so many trees overnight and not to disturb them, and there were no traces on the ground, and there were no stumps......

Strange things, strange things.

Wang Fuhou was puzzled and walked forward for a while, but the strange thing was that the woods in front of him had not changed, and he walked back a little further, and he was sure that the range of more than 30 meters of his Fuhou tree had changed. When he went back to the area, he found that not only were the trees scarce, but the trees that were still there had no young leaves.

All of these trees were lifeless, and some even cracked their bark, as if they were about to collapse at any moment.

And the ground beneath his feet seems to be becoming charred and blackened, even more barren than it was a few decades ago.

"What's going on...... Wang Fuhou muttered as he walked over to another locust tree, stretched out his calloused right hand and pressed the trunk of the tree with cracked bark.

The old man's eyes widened suddenly, and the wrinkled old face swelled with horror, only to see his hand poking directly into the trunk of the tree, as if he had probed into the water, twisting the water, but the old man immediately felt a huge pain, as if his whole body was burning, and he was about to burst, "Wife, wife......!" ”

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