Sixty years with spring

Chapter 335

Night Talk in the Mountains (3)

The next morning, Che Hongxuan went into the mountain. At this time, Lao Shi had already driven on the road and was ready to come over to stay with Che Hongxuan for two days.

Lao Shi was worried that because the highway was free, the second day of junior high school was the day when the young couple returned to their parents' home, and there must be more cars, so he got up early in the morning, and when the sun came out, it had already passed Benxi County.

Out of the county road narrow car less, ice and snow covered the road surface, some of the morning sun will expose the road surface, melted ice water on the rut frozen, frozen flow, forming a ditch-like rut, do not pay attention to the chassis will be scraped, or the wheel runs empty and can not go, natural old history has to be particularly careful.

At the beginning of the day after the snow, the mountain dances and the silver snake is a wax statue, which is a good northern scenery. But Lao Shi didn't dare to take a few more looks, because he needed to follow the new ruts after the snow and ride the old ruts, so he had to drive carefully. Especially when you know how to drive, it's a lot of effort!

Near noon, Lao Shi finally drove the car down the mountain, opened the trunk, and walked up the mountain tiredly with New Year's goods.

Che Hongxuan had already set off, and Lao Zhou's wife said whimsily: "The elder has already taken Lao Wang and Lao Zhou out and gone to the mountains to find someone to understand." ”

Old Shi frowned and asked, "Where did you go?" ”

Lao Zhou's wife clapped her hands and said, "Oh, the chickens and dogs have been restless in the past two days!" If you want to open a winery, you have to go to the mountains far away to find someone who understands. ”

didn't laugh at Lao Shi to death, he thought that Che Hongxuan had another whim, he was really in bad spirits, when is it now, it is difficult to survive, where is the money for what winery? Besides, in this barren mountains and mountains, it is difficult to eat, where is there still the conditions for running a business?

Old Shi was tired, so he simply lay down and went to sleep.

Che Hongxuan took Brother Wang and Lao Zhou to finish dinner in the morning and began to hurry, going to visit the old man Dionysian in the deep mountains and old forests dozens of miles away. They drove their tricycles along the ruts that were already on the ice of the reservoir. Brother Wang is a master at playing tricycles and can repair them.

The tricycle pressed the snow on the ice and drove upstream to the reservoir, followed by two large dogs. After more than an hour of driving, I turned around the mountains and mountains and came to a large isolated ravine.

According to Lao Zhou, this big ditch has more than 20,000 acres, the depth of the ditch is more than 30 miles (Huali), the mountains on both sides of the ditch are next to the mountains, and the ditch is unfathomable. The vegetation is very good, although the locals say that the mountain forest here is lush from afar, and the fine is stunned from close, in fact, it is not, because it is far away from the village, it has not been cut down indiscriminately, and the forest is very good, all of which are primeval forests. There is a small river in the ravine, which flows all year round, even in the dry rainy season, the general ditch can only have a small stream or no water at all, but this small river still flows more than once, and the water flow is turbulent, through the hole in the ice, you can see that the water is more than a foot deep, very clear, and the river is more than two meters wide.

Lao Zhou told Che Hongxuan: "Don't look at this small river as inconspicuous, when the flash flood breaks out, it is terrible, the big stones rolling in the flood, the roar of the mountain, all mud." If a person is washed away, his clothes will be stripped of as if he were grinding rice. ”

"Have you seen it?" Brother Wang asked him with wide-eyed eyes.

Lao Zhou said unconvinced: "Lao Wang, you are a pig, don't remember to eat!" If you don't believe in anything, there will be a day when you will suffer! ”

Che Hongxuan waved his hand and persuaded: "Don't talk to each other with thorns!" Seeing this Yangbing, it is not difficult to guess that this ditch is indeed very large. ”

When the river water flows to the ditch gate, when it cannot be completely passed under the ice surface, a part of it flows to the ice surface, and there is no shelter on the ice surface, and it will soon be frozen, and the water behind it is still flowing out continuously, forming a terraced ice. The ice is crystal clear, like a pile of white jade piled on the river, and the ice is clear and jade under the sun, like a fairyland of Yaochi, which makes people think about it.

Brother Wang parked the tricycle in front of Yang Bing and said, "You can't drive in anymore, it's dangerous." ”

Lao Zhou said sarcastically: "What is this little slope? Aren't you quite capable? ”

Brother Wang said: "Don't talk nonsense, heroes don't suffer immediate losses!" The sun is so good, the snow will soften after a while, and if you can't get up or down here, you'll be tired! Besides, there will be ice inside, and the ice will melt when the sun shines, which is more slippery than pouring oil. I can't listen to your sneer, let's go up! ”

Lao Zhou sneered and said: "It takes at least ten miles to walk into the ditch, what are you afraid of?" It seems that you still can't, and you're not familiar with things in the mountains. ”

Che Hongxuan said: "Carry the gift, we have the right to watch the mountain and see the scenery." Look at the two dogs, they're steaming hot, so let them get in the car when you go back! ”

"What are you doing with them? Beasts are born to be that thing, and they can't die of exhaustion! Brother Wang felt that Che Hongxuan's words were ridiculous, so he said without thinking.

Lao Zhou couldn't listen to it anymore, and said angrily: "You are a person who specializes in straight pots and pounds!" It's also innate, full of brains! ”

"I'll kick you to death if you talk nonsense!" Brother Wang scolded Lao Zhou unrelentingly.

Che Hongxuan hurriedly waved his hand to the two and said, "We have lived together, I hope you will respect each other in the future, so that it will be good for everyone, and it will not make people laugh." ”

Brother Wang has to say: "It's really energetic to talk, and it's not on the dung!" ”

Che Hongxuan was unhappy and accused: "Okay, you're not done yet?" ”

And they were silent.

Stretching the winding path, stepping on the spotless white snow, and wearing the bright sun, the three of them rushed up the mountain in high spirits, and it didn't take long for them to sweat.

The path follows the river to the distant mountains, and the river flows happily under the ice, making a "gurgling" sound from time to time. Too much peach blossom water formed a pile of rippling ice. Seeing so much flowing water, people in the mountains know that the mountain area here is very large, and the ditch is very deep. The mountains overhead, the sunny slopes, where the snow melts quietly throughout the winter, occasionally exposing the ground. There was no reaction on the back slope, the severe cold was vivid, and the branches were covered with silver and wax. Because it is far away from villages and towns, it has not been cut down and illegally logged, and the forest is very good. The nearby open field was planted with corn last year, the stubble is exposed to the snow, and the path is covered with waist-high artemisia grass, which seems to be very fertile.

Brother Wang saw that Yang Bing had covered the path, and said to Lao Zhou: "Fortunately, I didn't listen to you, otherwise it would be over today, and the tricycle would have to be thrown here!" ”

Lao Zhou looked at the situation in front of him and said convincingly: "It seems that it is still snowing this year." ”

In the distance, the barking of dogs was heard, and there were several sheepfolds in the open morning in the ravine, and there were dozens of sheep in them.

After walking a little further, there was someone in front of him, who was older than Lao Zhou. Lao Zhou knew that man, called him Big Brother Gao, and stepped forward to greet him.

Lao Zhou introduced Che Hongxuan, and then introduced Brother Wang, and then handed over a gift to explain his intention.

Brother Gao smiled honestly and said, "My father is almost ninety, he is in good health, he is not deaf and blind, and he has to come two taels every night." He used to work as a guy in a winery, when he was a teenager. Let's go, you go into the house and warm up, and I'll call him." ”

A few people followed the elder brother into the house and handed the things to a middle-aged woman.

Brother Gao introduced that it was his daughter-in-law.

The room was very clean and installed with the appliances that a normal person should have.

Che Hongxuan knew that it must have been his own electricity.

Brother Gao happily introduced the situation of the family, it seems that he is very satisfied with his life, and specially told Che Hongxuan that his grandson has gone to college, and there is a granddaughter who is studying in the county high school, and the family has an income of more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan a year, and it costs 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a year, which is not a problem.

Putting down the things, Che Hongxuan felt that the mountains were very beautiful, and followed the man towards the mountains curiously. There are several sheep pens in front of me, and it seems that there are a lot of sheep raised in the mountains, and the scale is very large, and it is estimated that these sheep will be worth hundreds of thousands.

At the foot of a sunny hillside, a forest of green red pines stretched out on a wide flat field with corn stalks for feeding sheep, and a small river stretched out at the feet. An old man who was not tall, in good spirits, and had a childish face was working, and saw someone who came to put down the work in his hand and greet him.

Che Hongxuan thought: "It's like a fairyland here, and the old man is like a living immortal." ”

Several people saluted the old man according to the custom of the township.

The old man happily let the men sit down under a pine tree, where there were a few neatly cleaned pine trees.

Hearing the meaning, the old man smiled and told them a story that he had personally experienced. Hearing the old man's loud voice, and seeing the mountains white, the green pines covered with sunshine, a few magpies flying up and down the mountainside in the distance, and a group of jackdaws flying happily in the nearby valley, "Ahhhh

"It's a long story," the old man took out a dry tobacco pouch, picked up a copper tobacco pot with a jade mouth bamboo pole, and smoked sweetly while talking about the winery, "The winery was built in the former Qing Dynasty of Buddhism, and at that time, the night was not closed, and the road was not left behind. When Nurha Chixi went out of Qingshan City, he heard about this mountain spring, and came to taste it, and inadvertently said that this water is rare, and it will definitely taste good if it is burned into wine. Later, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was in power, and soju began here during the Kangxi period, which was exclusively for the royal drink, called Manxiangchun. The scale is not large, the production is not high, but the wine is very tasty. Generally, rice husks are used to ferment wine, and this distillery uses oak leaves and elm leaves, and the wine comes out green and green, hanging in a bowl, and has a faint bitter taste when drinking. During the Japanese pseudo-period, the Japanese came to ask for wine every day, did not give money, and also did something to the boss's daughter, and the boss really couldn't do it anymore. One day the Japanese came, and the boss prepared a few dishes, put sweat medicine in the wine, killed all three Japanese, and set fire to the distillery. The boss ran to Huairen, and I ran here. You say there are cellars, the original winery, and there are 120 cellars buried in the earth, and vats and mills and so on, and nothing else. In five or eight years, most of the wine tanks were dug up, and the place was planted with buds, and that's it. ”

Everyone listened attentively, and the old man was still immersed in the story after speaking.

Che Hongxuan thought for a while and asked, "Do you remember the recipe for making wine?" ”

The old man nodded and said: "This is a mountainous area, mainly producing bud rice, so the main material of the distillery is corn, plus local millet, as well as mung beans and peas, which are fermented according to a certain recipe." ”

Che Hongxuan asked again: "What do you say about the leaves of the oak tree and the leaves of the elm tree?" ”

The old man smiled, saw that Che Hongxuan asked so confidently, looked at him and said: "I have heard of you, and they all said that we have a big boss here, and he has done a lot of good things for the people, and everyone will have a hope in the future." Young man, the ancients said well, the army is impermanent, the water is impermanent, how can there be few hurdles in life? As long as you don't get discouraged, there's nothing you can't do in the world. ”

Hearing the old man call him a young man, Che Hongxuan seemed to feel very comfortable in his heart, and nodded gratefully.

The old man continued: "It is not difficult to make oak leaves and elm leaves, go around Quanshan and go east, the first ditch is called elm tree ditch, and the second ditch is called quercus tree ditch. The first ditch is mostly elm trees on the mountain, the second ditch is mostly oak trees on the mountain, the two ditches are now state-owned forest farms, after the spring every year, the leaves are inexhaustible, pick back and wash them and put them in the tank for later use. There is also a kind of herb in the local area, called Artemisia, and now people in the mountains still use it to pickle pickles every year, and there are barren mountains and mountains everywhere, but there are not many of them. This grass is added to the mixed grain, and the leaves are fermented in the cellar, and the wine can be produced after ten days. Put the wine in the cellar of the tiger cave for a year, open the bottle cap and fill the house with fragrance, and when you enter the mouth, it is like melting, and after three cups and five glasses, people will be fluttering like a dream. No matter how much you drink, it won't hurt your body, and to a certain extent, you won't be able to drink it, that's the best in the world. But now it seems that it is not possible, it is time-consuming and laborious, and the output is not high. Now the blended wine is two dollars a bag, who still burns that? That is, in the past, the royal family could afford to burn. ”

A few people listened fascinated.