Chapter 104: Tree planting activities in different time and space

In the afternoon, Zheng Changhe really went to pick a lot of toon buds and came back, just in time for Liu Xiaomei to send dried chili peppers and chili powder, so he divided more than half of them and asked her to take them to the village and distribute them to the little girls today.

In the evening, Chrysanthemum scrambled two eggs with toon buds and scalded some cold salad with boiling water. This thing is really fragrant, and it is freshly picked back, with a fresh and fresh taste, and after eating, there is still a fragrance between the lips and teeth.

Aoki said, "This thing, grandma used to pickle it, it's also delicious." ”

Chrysanthemum hurriedly asked, "What's pickled?" ”

Aoki and Zheng Changhe looked at each other, why did they pickle? Put salt!

When Chrysanthemum saw their appearance, she knew that it was a vain question to ask, so she said, "It's better to eat this sprout fresh." It's not enough to eat, how can there be pickled. ”

Zheng Changhe said: "There is one in the backyard of Carpenter Li's house. When I went to the mountains to break bamboo shoots, I looked for them, dug up a small seedling, and came back and planted it at the door of my house. When you grow up, you will eat it, and you won't have to drill into the mountains. ”

Speaking of planting trees, Chrysanthemum remembered something again, and said to him, "Dad, you'd better find some little willow trees, dig them up and plant them by the river." It's a hot day to wash clothes and dry them.

How nice it is to have a tree blocking the sun. Why don't you remember planting trees by the river? ”

Zheng Changhe: "Originally, there was, but it was washed away by a big flood that year, and I didn't think about planting it." I'll go back and stick some wicker down, it's easy to feed. ”

Chrysanthemum said: "That's too slow." Dig up a few small trees that are half the size of the tree, and you will be able to shade them next year. ”

Aoki continued, "Bah! That's good. I found it first, and when I came back from vacation, I dug up and transplanted it with mud. Plant a few more trees, and it looks good to be lined up by the river. ”

Yang said: "You just have to pick up the big plants in the place where the chrysanthemums are washed first." Stick wicker in other places and let it grow on its own. Didn't his father, the village chief say that he wanted to plant acorn trees? When did you say that you will plant it? ”

Zheng Changhe: "Just these days." At this time, it is easy to plant trees. ”

In the evening of the next day, Aoki and Zheng Changhe found some half-sized willow trees near the village, dug them up with the soil below, and planted them near the stone slab where the chrysanthemums were washed, and planted a total of three trees. And planted a lot of willow branches along the river.

Chrysanthemum watched her father and brother busy digging pits and planting trees, and she pinched the cress on the side. When a few ducklings saw Chrysanthemum coming, not only did they not hide, but swam over and barked at her. Chrysanthemums feed them all day long, and they are also familiar.

The duckling, which has lost a layer of down, has several stiff hairs growing on the tips of its tail and wings. They floated leisurely on the water, and for a while they got into the water and grass by the river, and the flat beaks did not know whether they had caught shrimp or fish or insects, anyway, they looked very happy like that, and the cry of "quack" was still a little immature, and it was not so ugly when it had not grown into an old duck!

And when I pinched a lot of cress, I saw that the calamus also came out in abundance, and it was flattened and straight, like a green sword. During the Dragon Boat Festival, picking this thing and putting it at the door together with mugwort leaves is a custom used by the countryside to ward off evil spirits.

She washed the cress and put it on the bluestone slab, and stepped forward to help her father support the tree, and Aoki and Zheng Changhe filled the pit with soil.

Aoki saw that his sister picked cress again, and said to her with a smile: "This thing tastes good and has a fragrance." ”

Zheng Changhe waved his shovel vigorously and said, "These things are all edible." Some wild vegetables taste better than the ones you grow. It's just that when you have to eat, you don't pay attention to it. If you are very poor, you don't look for these things everywhere. In the mountains and in the water, what do you encounter? When I was a child, your grandmother would make these wild things for me to eat. At that time, the official in Qinghui County was a bad guy, and the things we planted were not enough to pay taxes when they were sold, so it would be difficult to stand these days, why don't you eat these? ”

Aoki said: "I have been able to have some peaceful birthdays in the past few years." ”

Chrysanthemum knew that he was saying that the current county magistrate was a good official. She sighed and thought, the villagers in this place are industrious and simple, they shouldn't be so poor, if they meet corrupt officials, it will be difficult to say. In front of the officials, these ordinary people have no ability to resist at all.

After planting the tree, Zheng Changhe straightened up and smiled: "Next year will be a shade." Your brother has buried a lot of manure under this pit. When the roots take root, the fertilizer will exert its strength, and it will grow very fast at that time. ”

When Chrysanthemum saw that Aoki treated the willow tree in the same way as a peach tree and an apricot tree and a plum tree, she smiled and asked, "Brother, who did you listen to, burying dung under the tree?" ”

Aoki said: "I went to Liu Xiaomei's house to dig saplings that day, Liu Xiaomei's second brother said." His family planted persimmon trees, and that's how they did. This dung should be buried a little deeper, otherwise it is easy to burn the small trees to death. When it grows up, this root takes root, this fertilizer works, and then it grows fast. His persimmon tree bears some fruit in the second year; And it came to pass in the third year that the tree was full of fruit. and the tree is stronger than the others. ”

Hearing this, Chrysanthemum's eyes lit up, thinking of the peach, plum and apricot trees that had just been planted at home, and the fruit was full of branches in the third year, and she couldn't help but laugh. She said to Aoki, "Then let's go to his house to get a persimmon tree to plant!" ”

Michichi Aoki: Didn't I want to get one to plant? There are just no saplings. Let's look again. ”

When twilight fell, a few people went home after their work.

Zheng Changhe walked in front with a shovel and a basket; Aoki and Chrysanthemum drove a few ducklings behind, gossiping. The ducklings quacked and ran straight down their familiar path to the courtyard – they knew they were going home when it got dark!

The next day, Li Gengtian summoned the villagers to go to the mountains to transplant acorn trees. Dig up the small saplings from the hill behind the chrysanthemum's house and plant them on the top of the hill, where there are fewer acorn trees.

Those crop men carrying hoes and shovels, buckets and bamboo baskets, rushed up the mountain lively, and even the little baby followed a lot - today is the day of the school vacation, and even Master Zhou swayed his hands behind his back and swayed with Li Gengtian to the mountain, while pointing at the mountain and commenting on something.

Chrysanthemum couldn't stand it anymore. These people are also bolder, what else can they do with Aoki? If you don't take this opportunity to go around the mountain again, it will be hot in the future, and she won't be too lazy to go to the mountain.

She was thinking about calling Liu Xiaomei, but Aoki smiled and said to her, "Change your clothes and shoes—my mother promised to let you go with me." ”

Chrysanthemum couldn't help but laugh and hurriedly ran to prepare.

Who knows, when she came out with Aoki, she saw a lot of people coming in front of the courtyard, and Meizi and them came as well. Also, with so many adults here, wouldn't it be more reassuring to go up the mountain? Presumably, the taste of the wild bamboo shoots also made the family accept, and the activity of breaking bamboo shoots became a serious matter.

Then there was another burst of laughter, and a large group of men and women, old and young, went up the mountain. The half-grown boys are happy - so many girls have come out, and this event is much more interesting today.

Aoki's sack of chrysanthemums let Aoki hold it, she followed with her bare hands, seeing these boys who were also springing in the spring, she couldn't help but smile and thought, it seems that "men and women match, work is not tired" This is never wrong.

When they arrived at the mountain, they dug trees, planted trees, planted trees, and chrysanthemums and they broke bamboo shoots nearby. From time to time, a tree planter would exclaim, "Bah! There's bamboo shoots here. "Then a little girl went over to grab it

They first dug up a number of saplings in the back hill, picked them to the top of the mountain, and then scattered them in the open field. Later, there was a division of labor, some people dug saplings, some people planted trees on this side of the mountain, and some people went to the col to fetch water to water the newly planted saplings.

Over the top of the mountain, the mountains are one after another, and after being so busy for a long time, it is just a hillside.

Li Gengtian said that he would come to plant some every year, and it would not be possible to plant them for a year.

In the warm spring light, the mountains are full of people, laughing endlessly, startling birds to fly one after another, breaking the silence of the mountains and forests.

Placing the sack near Aoki, Chrysanthemum looks for bamboo shoots empty-handed, and does not have to drag the stupid bag around, this activity is much easier. Aoki partnered with Zhang Huai as always, and Liu Xiaomei's brothers were nearby, so Chrysanthemum drilled around with Liu Xiaomei.

Every time Aoki moved a place, he also moved the bag of bamboo shoots from the chrysanthemums.

The acorn trees had to be planted on the slopes of the hills, so they moved slowly down the summits, avoiding the densely populated areas and digging pits in sparsely wooded clearings.

Aoki and Zhang Huai planted one tree, one carrying a sack of chrysanthemums, and the other carrying the remaining saplings, and moved to another place. Zhang Huai caught a glimpse of color in the corner of his eye, and before he could move, he had already startled a golden pheasant, sprang out of the bushes, and ran away quickly.

He hurriedly shouted with Aoki, "Pheasant! Catch it. "If you want to catch up, where can you catch up.

Over there, Liu Ershun and others also shouted and coaxed together, and the chicken flew everywhere!

Zhang Huai and Aoki glanced at each other, he excitedly ran to the bushes, picked up the branches and thatched trees, and sure enough, there was a nest of wild eggs - five in all!

He happily took out the egg and held it in the palm of his hand; Chrysanthemum hugged a small bundle of bamboo shoots to her chest, hurried back, and asked repeatedly, "Pheasant?" Caught a pheasant? ”

Aoki smiled, "I didn't catch it!" Picked up a nest of wild eggs. It's luck. He opened the sack and asked Chrysanthemum to put the bamboo shoots in.

Zhang Huai smiled and sent the wild egg to Chrysanthemum, and said to her, "Here you go." You can also fry a bowl of leek eggs. ”

Chrysanthemum happily took it, the egg was much smaller than the egg, and it was still a little warm in her hand. She hurriedly picked one up and shone it into the sun, but she couldn't see anything. So he asked the two, "It can't be that this chicken is hatching chicks, right?" If this egg has been hatched, I am afraid it will not taste good. ”

Zhang Huai said: "I don't know. Maybe it's really hatching chicks, isn't it just from here? The eggs are still hot. ”

Aoki smiled, "Whatever, take it home first." Aren't our chickens also hatching chicks, just hatching together. "Min