Chapter 7 Entering the Sands to Hit Walnuts
The next day, the weather was sunny.
After breakfast, I took a bamboo pole, tied it with a sickle, and led Ah Huang into Liaoshan to make walnuts.
Bai Lu has just passed, and it is a good time to make walnuts. At this time, the villagers will come into the mountains in groups. If you are lucky, you can get dozens of dollars in half a day.
It was too late for me to go up the mountain this year, and all the walnuts on the outside of the mountain had been beaten. If you want to make walnuts, you must enter the depths of Liao Mountain.
I usually go to the mountains to make walnuts, and I always go with my parents. This year my parents go to work in the south, so I can only lead Ah Huang into the mountains.
In the autumn harvest season, Balipo is located at the foot of Liao Mountain. The autumn scene is naturally different from the plains. On the hillside, there are large areas of golden yellow, which is the smell of ripe corn. You can also see the feces left by hares in the soybean field not far away. Obviously, hares are hiding in this plot.
From the farther away, the cries of pheasants came from time to time. I bent down and picked up a stone and threw it over. Suddenly, a group of fat pheasants flew up and disappeared from sight again in the blink of an eye.
Ah Huang was about to chase after him, but I stopped him. Today's main task is to make walnuts and temporarily put these pheasants on a road of life.
After walking for more than ten minutes, I entered the mountains. I could not see any crops here. At first glance, the golden yellow of the temperate broad-leaved forest and the verdant pine and cypresses complement each other.
I knew that the walnuts on the outside had been wiped out, so I didn't waste my time and took Ah Huang directly to the depths of the mountains.
Since practicing "Daozang", I have obviously felt that my body has changed a lot, my size has grown a lot, and my strength has become much greater than before.
As for the magical magic tricks I long for flying clouds, flying eaves and walls, there is no such thing. This makes me a little depressed, and for a teenager, these are more attractive.
What’s even more depressing is the magic weapon of scissors in my head. I have tried it many times during this period. Except for the fact that I can sense its existence when I absorb the vital energy of heaven and earth, there is no change at all at all and I can’t summon it.
But now I feel the benefits of physical changes. After walking for more than ten miles of mountain road, I was only a little breathless, which was unimaginable before.
After resting for twenty minutes, I looked at the electronic watch on my hand and it was almost ten o'clock.
So far, I haven't found a pecan tree. I must hurry up, otherwise I will return empty-handed today.
I shouted that I was catching grasshoppers in the grass to eat. I got up and prepared to continue walking, but I stopped just two steps.
I found myself lost... I was afraid that the walnuts along the way would be wiped out, so I specially picked some mountain paths that no one had walked through when I was walking. I twisted and turned around, and now I don’t know where I am.
When I looked up, I could only see the white mist floating among the mountains in the distance, giving people a feeling of floating and ecstasy. I could barely tell the direction, but I couldn't determine which mountain I was in.
I have learned all the primary school texts, "If you get lost in the wild, don't panic. Nature has many natural compass... The sun is a faithful guide, and it gives you directions in the sky."
I memorized this text very well and didn't know my specific location. So I didn't think about it. Just carry the sun when I came out of the mountain.
I was lucky. I led Ah Huang to walk forward for half an hour and found a tall hickory tree in front of me. There were many walnut seedlings one person tall growing around it. Looking at the green walnuts as big as eggs on the branches, I immediately cheered. No one has ever been here before, so I must have enough to cook today.
Children living in the countryside have natural skills in climbing trees. I took off my shoes, hugged the walnut tree with both hands, and jumped upwards, climbing up the big tree with a slight slight swaying. After standing on a branch, I pulled and pulled down all the walnuts nearby. If I could not reach the distance, I had to use a bamboo pole. When I was climbing the tree just now, I had already leaned the bamboo pole against the branch, but now I don’t have to go down the tree to get it.
Seeing me busy on the tree, Ah Huang also squeaked and rushed to the branches.
This guy's teeth were sharp and he lies on the branch. The green walnut immediately fell to the ground, and his speed was no slower than me.
In half an hour, a large area fell on the ground. I guessed that walnuts could almost be filled with a snakeskin bag, so I immediately called Ah Huang to stop. No matter how many there were, I couldn't get it. It would be better to stay on the tree for the time being. When I have time, I will come and fight again. Anyway, no one knows about this place.
Climbing down the tree, I put my gloves on the walnuts scattered around me into a snakeskin bag.
If you want to eat the newly picked walnuts, you must first remove the layer of green skin covered on it.
The green skin of walnuts is also called "Qinglongyi". The juice contains toxins. Therefore, you must be careful when removing the green skin. It is dangerous if it splashes into the eyes. Although it is not dangerous to touch it with your hands, it is difficult to wash it off. You can only wait for it to disappear slowly.
Because of this, the villagers rarely remove the green skin by hand. After picking it, they are placed in a ventilated place to dry naturally. In just a few days, the skin of the walnut will be wrinkled and shriveled, and the green skin and walnuts will naturally separate.
But I still have to go to school and can't wait for so long. I plan to get it back and sell it on the street. Some people in the town also collect the newly picked walnuts, and the price is very cheap, 50 cents per pound.
This bag costs more than a hundred kilograms, which is counted as fifty or sixty yuan.
I guess I was good. The bag was full, and there were still more than a dozen walnuts left. There was no waste of these. I found a stone nearby and walnuts worn with gloves. Then, when I smashed it, the white and tender walnut flesh was revealed inside, and there was a layer of clothes as thin as cicada wings. I peeled off the cicada clothes with my hands and put the walnut flesh in my mouth to eat. The crispy perfume feeling immediately filled the tip of my tongue.
With my current strength, I can barely bear a bag of 100 pounds, but it is impossible to get close to twenty miles.
So I cut a few green bamboos with a sickle and made a simple slippery bamboo pole. I put the bag on the bamboo pole, distinguished the direction, and dragged it out the mountain.
Just less than two miles away, I stopped again.
Not far away in front of me, there was a large piece of wild gourd vine growing.
I originally thought that several gourd vines grew together, but when I got closer, I found that there was only one.
The rhizomes near the ground are a few thicker than eggs, and the green leaves are as big as palm-leaf fans, which are very dense. The climbing area is as big as two houses, and the growth is quite gratifying. There are only a few white flowers hanging in the middle.
Generally, the gourds turn yellow and old in July and August, so it is really a strange thing to see a gourd vine here. It is probably because of the climate. The climate in the mountains is warm and the plants grow later than outside. When I was in school, I learned that "the fragrance of the world is gone in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are blooming."
Standing in front of the gourd vine, I suddenly felt the scissor magic weapon in my mind tremble, driving me to cover my hands on the gourd vine.
The moment I first came into contact, I felt a very delicate aura being sucked into my body, constantly. This aura should be the same as the heaven and earth vital energy I absorbed.
I took a deep breath, closed my eyes and sensed quietly. The scissor magic weapon's reaction was much stronger than I thought, just like after being thirsty for a long time, the dragon sucked the whale and swallowed it, and took off the breath from the gourd vine with a big mouthful. At the same time, the rust on the scissor magic weapon continued to disappear, revealing a golden surface.
As the breath in the gourd vine disappeared, the scissor magic weapon gradually stopped. When I opened my eyes, the scene in front of me surprised me: the originally green and green gourd vine became dry and yellow, and the few white flowers on it also withered and fell off, and a green gourd hung among the withered leaves.
Thinking of what happened just now, I gradually understood. It should be that the aura contained in the gourd vine was absorbed by the scissors magic weapon, so it turned into this.
There is only one gourd on such a large piece of gourd seedlings. There is nothing at home, so it’s good to make a gourd and stir-fry it.
I walked more than ten steps and reached out to pick the green-skinned gourd under the leaves. At this moment, on the earth-brown ground not far from my feet, a dead branch suddenly stood up and bit towards my calves.
Everything happened too quickly, and I didn't have time to react. Ah Huang, who was following behind, had already rushed out and blocked the other party's way.
"Such a big local cloth bag!" I was shocked to see the gray-brown snake with a thick wrist. The local cloth bag is a common venomous snake in Liaoshan, usually thirty or forty centimeters long. This snake is very venomous. If an adult is bitten, he will die in a few hours. I grew up in the mountains and am very familiar with this thing.
Tububa seldom attacks humans actively. If there is a lot of movement around them, they will instead retreat. This is also the origin of what people in the mountains often say about "shocking the snake".
However, the one in front of him is obviously an exception, and he will take the initiative to attack. Moreover, his size is beyond imagination. He is as thick as a child and his body is more than one meter long. I don’t know how many years he has lived. If he bites it, he will probably even be poisoned to death even if he is poisoned.
From the time I approached the earthen cloth bag and it flew over, it actually happened in an instant. Fortunately, Ah Huang reacted quickly, otherwise I would have to be reimbursed in this wilderness.
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