Chapter Twenty-Nine: Picking the Mountain Twist
After returning home, Gao Mingcheng entered the room where he slept, and his eyes fell on the mat, but in the end he did not lift the mat.
Suddenly, he wanted to enter into meditation on his own.
The first two times I meditated, I looked at the meditation diagram on the gold leaf, and then I instantly fell into it as if I was being guided.
So he wondered if he could meditate on his own.
So he sat cross-legged on the bed, his mind turned to the sky, and his mind began to recall the contents of the gold leaf.
However, no matter how much he tried to remember, he could not remember what the words on the gold leaf paper were, and tried for a long time, but still found nothing.
"I seem to recognize all those words, but I can't remember the contents?" Gao Mingcheng frowned and pondered, but he couldn't get an answer.
Eventually, he could only lift the mat and take the gold leaf from underneath the mat.
He pointed the gold foil paper at the kerosene lamp, and the moment the light passed through the gold foil paper, a piece of gold was dazzling, almost instantly, Gao Mingcheng felt something, and the whole person entered the meditation.
With the arrival of the early morning, August has passed, ushering in a new September.
It's early autumn in September, but it's still hot and cool. Only in the morning and evening, there is a cool mountain breeze blowing from the deep mountains.
Gao Mingcheng's entry this time was shorter than last night's concentration, and at about five o'clock in the morning, when it was dark, he had already woken up.
Feeling the refreshment of the body, Gao Mingcheng was extremely satisfied.
He quietly went out, ran towards a flat hillside, found a suitable place, and began to practice.
The sky is getting brighter and brighter, a round of red sun is rising, and the glow is reflected on the young man who practices boxing, his every move is full of strength, and the muscles of his body become stronger little by little.
A set of four martial arts was practiced ten times, until his body felt slightly tired and his body was covered with sweat, and Gao Mingcheng stopped.
At this time, the sky was already bright, and in the village at the foot of the mountain, there was already smoke rising from the cooking.
Gao Mingcheng did not return to the village, but continued to run into the mountains, in the grass, a little dew, wet his trouser legs, he ran wildly in the mountains, venting his abundant energy, and at the same time looked around, listened to all directions, and found traces of prey.
In the early morning, when pheasants and hares begin to be active, the animals that have slept all night begin to come out in search of food.
Gao Mingcheng didn't have a shotgun, a bow or arrows, or even a knife, so he picked up some hard stones on the ground and used them as weapons to fight his prey.
He was running in the mountains, frightened birds and beasts, and everywhere there was the sound of rustling, and he paid no attention to the birds flying on the branches, and focused his attention on the pheasants and hares.
The stone in his hand shot out in one direction, and there was a short sound of breaking through the air, followed by a dull sound of the stone hitting the target.
The stone struck the hare on the head with pinpoint precision, and the hare tilted and fell to the ground.
After this hare was killed, the other hares fled faster, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye, some of the hares hid in the burrows, and some of the hares hid directly in the dense bushes, which were covered by shrubs, and it was difficult for a clever hunter to hurt it.
Gao Mingcheng was not greedy, he walked towards the hare that was knocked to the ground in a happy mood, bent down to pick it up, but as soon as he got up, his eyes just happened to see the twist on the hillside next to him.
September is the ripening season of the mountain twist, but it is only the beginning of September, and most of the mountain twists are red, and a few are blue, and only a few are fully ripe and turn into a deep purple.
Mountain twist is the most common wild fruit eaten by children in the village, Gao Mingcheng did not eat less when he was a child, even adults, they will go into the mountain to pick after the mountain twist is ripe.
Ripe mountain twist taste very good, can be taken to the market to sell for money, even if it can't be sold, can also be used to make wine, twisted wine is a very good kind of fruit wine, in the folk known as the "top ten tonic wine", is also a kind of fruit wine often drunk in their village.
Gao Mingcheng's father will steam wine, and there is no shortage of wine at home, so every September, his mother will take his sister into the mountains to pick mountain twists, which are ripe for eating.
When Gao Mingcheng saw the mountain twists, his hands were already faster than his brain's thoughts, and he stretched out towards the ripe mountain twists, and picked the fruit lightly.
Minoru Yamaga resembles a miniature version of a wine glass, with a core in the middle, much like a worm, and a lot of seeds on the outside of the core, but the taste is really sweet.
Gao Mingcheng ate several mountain twists in a row, and the sweetness spread on the tip of his tongue, bringing him a sweet taste and many memories.
In the mountains in the 80s, there were mountain twists everywhere, in addition to mountain twists, there were many other wild fruits, but with the flood of pesticides and climate changes, by 2023, there will be a lot less wild fruits and wild vegetables in the mountains.
Gao Mingcheng in his previous life hadn't eaten mountain twists for a long time, and even if he bought them, the fruits that were worthless now would have been able to sell for thirty yuan a pound in the later life, and the taste was not as good as now.
When Gao Mingcheng went down the mountain, he was carrying a hare with a twisted neck in one hand and a pocket of mountain twists in the other.
It turned out that he took off his shirt and used it to hold the mountain twist.
When she returned home, she had finished her porridge and was putting her dirty clothes in the bucket to be taken to the pond to wash her clothes.
He washed his clothes indiscriminately last time, but the next day he was disgusted by Grandma Xiao, so he took it and washed it again, and then simply asked him not to wash it himself, and after changing the dirty clothes, he threw it aside and waited for her to wash it the next day.
Gao Mingcheng was a little embarrassed, but Grandma Xi was very insistent, so he agreed.
Mainly when he was at his house, he didn't wash much clothes, and his mother and his sister washed the whole family's clothes.
After accepting this love, Gao Mingcheng secretly decided to be better to Grandma Xi.
"Granny fine, eat mountain twists." Gao Mingcheng saw that Grandma Xi was about to go out, so he hurriedly greeted him.
"Yo, the mountain twist is ripe?" Grandma looked into Gao Mingcheng's pocket, and when she saw that he had brought back another hare, she couldn't help but smile.
"Well, it's a little cooked, but it's not much, Grandma Xi, is your family soaking mountain twist wine this year? In a few days, I will go to the mountains with Gao Zhuang to pick some more. Gao Mingcheng asked.
Grandma Xi said: "The people in our village, every household will soak mountain twisted wine, I will definitely soak it too, I plan to make five catties of wine." Mingcheng, I heard people say that he is very tired of working on the railway, you can go home to see your father if you are fine, he is not young, but don't be tired, besides, he can still make money by steaming wine. ”
After all, Grandma Xi is an elder, and I hope that everyone will have a harmonious family.