Quincy's Quiet Contemplation Chapter 57

When going to Dongchuan, you must pass by Xiong Cliff. There is an elm tree on Xiong Cliff. Who knows how the elm tree grows on the cliff and is so big. The shade of the tree covers the entire top of the cliff. There is a crane living in the tree. Lao Pi and Tomb Sheng would get very tired every time they reached the river bend at the foot of the cliff. As long as Tomb Sheng sat down on a rock, the stone would suck his B*tt0cks, and he was too lazy to walk any further. Tomb Sheng said: Secretary, you can eat pot cigarettes. Lao Pi sat down to eat a cigarette, but the tomb man picked up a stone and threw it hard at the old elm tree. If he could throw it to the crown of the tree, the crane took off with a cry and circled in the air. Lao Pi said: You can't even walk, but you still have the energy to hit the crane? ! Tomb Sheng said: Shall I make it welcome you? In fact, Tomb Sheng wanted to call the police. In the village under Xiong Cliff, if people saw the crane on the cliff flying out of the tree, they would flee from the locust forest on the back slope.

This is the largest locust forest in Guofenglou Commune. When the locust trees bloom in spring, the entire slope is white. All the bees fly here to collect honey, and people from all villages come to stroke the locust catkins. If the village is loosely managed, people will come to guard it during the day. If the village is tightly managed, someone will come to guard it in the middle of the night. I went back and made a kind of stewed rice, which was palatable and made it easy to go to the toilet. However, the commune expressly prohibited the plucking of locust catkins, because every year the locust trees could no longer produce seeds and the area of     the forest was shrinking, so forest rangers were sent to guard the area. The forest ranger did his duty at first, but later he turned a blind eye. Whenever he saw cranes taking off from the trees on the cliff, he also shouted loudly, and the people who were stroking the locust catkins climbed over the slope to the green maple in the back ditch. I went to pick ferns in the forest. The ferns are old and no longer look like a child's fist. The leaves have become mat-like. But I can boil them and soak them in water for three days to remove the astringency and bitterness, and they can still be used in pots.

There are wisterias everywhere in the green maple forest in Hougou. It is easy to get lost if you get in. Moreover, this mountain forest belongs to the forest farm managed by the county. The administrator is a little crazy. Anyone who enters the forest thinks they are there to steal wood and will use all his strength. Push, push out, he will take whatever you hold. So you must find your way in. In order to prevent getting lost, many people wear jujube swords on their bodies. The jujube sword must be carved from jujube wood that has been struck by lightning. Ordinary jujube wood will not work.

Eating locust fluff and old fern leaves can help you stay hungry, but the bad thing is that it is easy to get worms. You can tell if you have worms in your stomach by looking at your complexion. If your eyelids are swollen and there are white spots on the bridge of your nose, then you need to find a kind of bud grass on the river bank, mash it with neem seeds, apply it on mint leaves, and stick it on your belly button, and the worms will come out. Children aged five or six have the most worms in their stomachs, and when they poop, a thick mass of worms will be exposed, so adults will step on it with their feet and say, "Stand up, stand up!" When the child stands up, the whole mass of worms will come out, and then they will hit him with stones. So when he passes by the village under the Bear Cliff, Mu Sheng always feels that the stones in front of and behind the houses of each household are not clean.

After passing Xiongya, the most difficult places to start work in Dongchuan were Liuliwa Village and Xieping Village. Tomb Sheng was unwilling to go to Xieping Village. On weekdays, Lao Pi asked him to deliver materials or notices to Xieping Village. When he arrived at the pass in front of the village, he would sit down and wait for someone. When someone from the village passed by, he would hand over the materials or notices to the village chief. Tombsheng's grandmother is in Xieping Village, and he is afraid to see her. Grandma's family was not well-established, but since the death of the tomb-born mother, grandma had been sitting on the millstone at the entrance of the village every evening waiting for her daughter. She was ninety-two years old and had a strong body but a confused mind. She said that her daughter was not dead and would come back to see her. her. Tombstone went to visit his grandmother before, and her grandmother hugged him and kept touching his face, saying: Where is your mother, where is your mother, why doesn't your mother come to see me? She would say the same thing high and low, and then she would mutter to herself again and again.