Chapter 120 Taoyuan
Especially for Wei Fei.
The friends have all fearfully climbed over the dangerous iron ladder and are admiring the beautiful scenery on both sides of the Hongshui River on the oval platform at the top of the bridge pier to calm down their nervous mood.
Jiang Shuyi, Zhang Xinyi and the other girls had already followed the path and arrived under the bridge pier. They were raising their heads and shouting to the boys on the platform.
Yan Xiao lay down on the stone platform, crawled to the edge, exposed his head so that the people below could see him, and waved his hands, receiving a wave of praise.
Fang Wenyu and Mu Ruyun stood at the edge of the iron ladder, preparing to meet the last three people.
Wei Fei's heart was about to beat out of his chest. He was already small, so the gap between the thin angle irons that served as a foothold seemed particularly wide. As soon as I put my feet on the first step of the iron ladder, I felt an attraction to the abyss below, as if the howling river wind wanted to pull me down.
“Young Master Guierji is teasing me... Mr. Guierji is teasing me...” Wei Fei complained tremblingly, while fearfully grabbing the iron guardrails on both sides, and changed his left foot. Switching to my right foot, I feel like I can't reach the angle iron bar at the next level.
"You have to stand up on the plane, and your butt must leave the steel pipe first!" Liang Hong came up with ideas from behind and poked Wei Fei's butt with a wooden stick: "Come on!"
"Red Sister, you're kidding..." Wei Fei was about to cry, tears clearly flashing in his eyes: "That's so easy! You think I don't want to?"
"First switch your hands and grab it forward! Try to reach as far forward as possible!" Zhou Zhi was also giving ideas: "Also, with two hands and two feet, you must ensure that two hands and one foot or one hand and two feet are in a fixed state, so that there is no danger. , This is called three-point fixation!”
“Eh?” Li Kegou seemed to be thinking about it in his mind. Algorithms, and then the powerful thinking of the laws of physics and mathematics, seemed to finally defeat the physiological effects of adrenaline: "Elbow, that's the truth..."
Finally, Wei Fei achieved his first step forward , the advantage of short stature is now reflected again, grabbing the armrest seems to stretch much more than Yan Xiao.
Arrived close to the bridge pier, Fang Wenyu and Mu Ruyun reached out and grabbed Wei Fei's sleeves and helped Wei Fei to the bridge pier.
Liang Hong is a good athlete and the most dexterous among them all. He can move down to the bridge pier with the easiest movement. Everyone gave Liang Hong a thumbs up, and Yan Xiao even gave him a freeze-frame. Praising: "How about we call you Brother Hong, why don't we call you Sister Hong..."
I had crossed this bridge several times in my previous life, and I was still a little stressed now, but it was the least stressful among my friends, and I finally climbed onto the bridge pier safely.
The scenery from the bridge pier is actually quite good. Zhou Zhi looked around and said: "Actually, this is a good place to study."
Liang Hong directly denied it: "If you are sick, come here to study. "
"Sister Hong, you don't understand." Zhou Zhi also planned to explain patiently: "We have a river in Sichuan. Li Taibai's reading desk in You and Pengshan, Sima Guang's reading desk in Guangyuan, and Duan Wenchang's reading desk in Jiannan and Xichuan Jiedushi in Chongzhou are all such steep and high places with wide views."
"It is said that there is still a reading desk in the mountains, and the wind sweeps Qinglan's painting barrier open. The Huayue Curling Kettle is still there, when will the Qinglian layman come..."
"The monk who doesn't listen is not serious..." Sister Hong has already started to climb the iron ladder on the opposite side: "I'll take the lead this time. The plane is really annoying..."
Yang Hegang also Intoxicated by the strange scenery here: "Sister Hong, how can I not be serious..."
After walking on the steel tube bridge again, everyone relaxed a lot. Once the bottom was replaced by the river, although they fell Life and death are still uncertain if we go down, but strangely, the psychological pressure is much less.
In addition, after passing the test of the iron ladder just now, my mental endurance has become stronger.
The scenery is even more pleasant when we reach the middle of the river. It happens that a motor boat pulling coal, dragging a long team of tugboats, sails down from the upstream.
Yan Xiao had already started to untie his belt, and he was doing calculations as he unbuttoned it: "If we start spreading it from now on, we will probably be able to get wet from the bow of the motorized boat to the butt of the last tugboat. How about we try it together..."
When I turned around and saw the stick in Sister Hong’s hand being whipped, I was so frightened that I tightened my belt: “Damn it, I forgot there was anything here. A girl!"
Liang Hong turned around and said, "If you want to, just let it go. I'll leave first!"
When Yan Xiao saw Liang Hong leaving, she asked her friend: "What the hell? "Don't do it?"
Zhou Zhi thought for a moment: "Can you guarantee that Sister Hong won't suddenly turn around and scare us?"
Yan Xiao also thought about it seriously: "Give up."
So the team continued to move forward with Liang Hong, not forgetting to say hello to Jiang Shuyi and the others on the shore.
Finally, everyone crossed the second dangerous bridge pier. The further they walked, the closer the steel pipe got to the ground. They slid along the steel pipe to the ground at the edge of the bamboo forest. Everyone jumped and jumped in front of the girls on the other side. Jump: "Hey - we succeeded -"
The little figures of the girls opposite are also waving here: "Bring us peaches——"
The peach garden is behind the bamboo forest. The tree is an old tree, and there were no trees before. With pruning and height control, the crown can reach a maximum of ten meters.
Taoyuan is owned by an old couple who live in a mud-walled thatched house next to Taoyuan.
Most of the area under the peach trees is lawn, there are also a few vegetable gardens, and some chickens and ducks are raised. You can imagine how beautiful this place will be in March. If this can be maintained for fifteen years and a ferry is added, it will definitely become a unique scene in Jiachuan. In the spring, there are so many tourists, and peaches are not as profitable as peach blossoms.
But looking at this posture, I can’t wait until that time.
Seeing Zhou Zhi and his gang of two big boys coming over, the old couple knew they were here to eat peaches.
Nowadays, the folk customs are quite mellow. The old couple tells their friends not to come here in June and July to harm the peaches, but they don’t charge anyone for the ripe and rotten peaches in August, so you can eat them as you like.
He took the initiative to find ladders, bamboo poles, and tarpaulins for picking up peaches, and also invited everyone into the house to drink water.
In fact, almost all the peaches at the bottom have been harvested. The remaining peaches at the top are those with the best sunlight. However, because they are too high, the old couple cannot reach them, so they can only let them overripe there or fall down. Chickens, ducks and pigs are cheaper.
Fang Wenyu and Mu Ruyun set up the ladder, Yan Xiao climbed up, and then moved the bamboo pole up.
This was just the first wave, and then the ladder was set up on another tree with more fruits, and this time Zhou Zhi climbed up.
In this way, everyone divided into three or four places and began to knock the peach branches with poles.
Those ripe peaches fell down one after another, and one of them hit Zhang Lu, who was looking up, and immediately exploded into a bag of jam.
"Hey! Header!" Zhang Lu didn't take it seriously. He stretched out his hand and wiped his forehead, then put it in his mouth: "It's so sweet!"
Liang Hong did not participate in picking the fruit. During the operation, he was holding a peach in one hand and chewing it while directing the people on the tree: "Yan A little to the left of the sky...under the pole, don't stretch it so long...there are big strings underneath...just there, knock quickly..."
Peaches kept falling from the tree, and soon they The friends holding the tarp changed their hands to one hand, and they grabbed the peach with the other hand and looked up while gnawing.
When everyone had almost eaten, and there were enough peaches left for the girls opposite, Zhou Zhi placed the bamboo pole on the branches of the peach tree and slid down the bamboo pole.
As a result, everyone realized that they didn’t bring any containers. Zhou Zhi simply bought two backpacks from an old couple and relied on the output of the bamboo forest to weave bamboo utensils, which was originally one of the old couple’s livelihoods.
The thin-eye baskets are very cheap, only two yuan each. The couple helped Zhou Zhi find straw, and put a layer of straw on top of the peaches, trying their best to keep the peaches as intact as possible.
Knowing that the group of children might have to endure a test while carrying peaches on their backs while climbing up the iron ladder, the old man also took two pieces of plastic sheeting to cover the openings of the baskets, and roughly woven them with bamboo strips to prevent the peaches from falling out. .
This simple old couple moved Zhou Zhi very much. It can be imagined that every June and July, the naughty children who steal peaches here will be in trouble, but they still retain their sincerity towards the children. Heart, this is really too valuable.
There is a fence made of dwarf orange trees outside the couple's peach orchard, and now it is covered with red oranges, which can be eaten for free.
The red tangerines are not afraid of being damaged, but even in the city they only sell for 5 cents a catty. If you bring a 100 catties into the city, even if you sell them all, the income will only be 5 yuan. After excluding a meal of bean curd rice, there is still something left. Four pieces, even picking them seems like a waste of time.
Originally, this place is not far from Jiachuan, but because it is cut by the Hongshui River and Gaodong River, there is no ferry yet, so it became "dark under the light" and became the development of Jiachuan The latest place.
You can simply try the red tangerines here, there is no need to take them across the river.
On the occasion of saying goodbye, Zhou Zhi secretly pressed twenty yuan under the big teapot on the bamboo table of the old couple.
After asking the old couple for a hemp rope and a bamboo pole, the friends set out on their way back.
The bamboo pole became a tool for transporting peaches over the iron ladder. First, a few people got on the bridge pier, then set up the bamboo pole, put the basket on the bamboo pole, and then they could slide down smoothly.
The same method is used from the pier to the steel pipe, but you have to use hemp rope to pull the basket up.
No one has the courage to climb that iron ladder with a backpack on his back.
There were several farmers and uncles taking a break on the bridge pier. Even if they were carrying dung buckets and walking up the iron ladder, they could walk on flat ground. At first, they were ready to come over to help, but they saw that these kids actually came to help them for food. He couldn't help but laugh at being so naughty, and just sat there and watched them tossing around.
The team finally returned here, and the girls followed them all the way up from the river. The two teams finally met in the woods.
We all sat together on the ridge beside the woods, looking at the other side and the steel pipe bridge above our heads, sharing the excitement and worry just now, as well as the joy of success.
Zhou Zhi took out a ripe peach from the basket on his back, wiped off the fine hair on the surface with a straw and handed it to Jiang Shuyi: "Shuyi, eat!"
Jiang Shuyi took the peach with her little hand. Holding it in both hands: "Don't you need to peel it?"
(End of this chapter)