Chapter 194 Cuscuta
“Yes.” Jiang Shuyi nodded: “And if you want to read it, you can come back anytime.”
Zhou Zhi didn’t think of this at all. The thoughts are still in the past. After graduating from college in my previous life, I stayed at home every time I returned to my hometown and did not go out. When I left, I was in a hurry. What I was most afraid of was meeting acquaintances.
Yeah, I want to see it, why can’t I come back and have a look?
After a delicious meal, the friends went down to the rocky beach. There are also many good places for photography, with jianjia backgrounds, or reflections on the water, and those washed away by the raging river in summer. Strange shaped stones.
Even the ferry to Zhongba is a nice background.
The ferry is made of steel with a roof on top. Each boat can only carry fifteen people at a time.
Nowadays, the folk customs are very simple. I heard that the children came here from Jiachuan to play, so I took the initiative to give up my seat and let Zhou Zhi and others go to the island first, and they sat down.
The ferry drew a small arc and slowly went upstream. In fact, it only took a few minutes to cross the river on this side where the current was relatively quiet and the water could not be driven by large boats. We stopped at a rocky beach at the end of Zhongba.
After jumping off the boat, Zhou Zhi discovered something by the water.
There are some perforated bricks thrown into the gaps between the rocks by the water. Thin hemp ropes are tied to the perforated bricks. The hemp ropes go around the gaps in the stones and stretch straight into the water.
"What is this?" Yan Xiao was also a curious baby and came over to ask.
"Strung hooks." Yang He is very familiar with this thing: "The riverside in Baimi Township is also a good place to get this thing. Sometimes you can even get soft-shelled turtles."
" Let’s settle down the place to live first, and then worry about this.” Zhou Zhi was already yearning for the food on the island: “Forgot about this branching river. It’s definitely a good place to get fresh food from the river. The specialties of Zhongba may not only be sugar cane and longan.”
Only when we got to the island did we realize how big the island is and the shape of the whole island is also very strange, like a squid. A giant fish swimming upstream with its head and tail swaying, covering an area of about three square kilometers, and the circumference of the entire island is about fifteen miles.
Starting from where the boat was parked, there was a road that had been trampled by people. After passing through several reed packs, it gradually turned from gravel beach to pebble beach to land.
Bamboo forests began to grow as soon as land was created, all of which were thin bamboos and medium bamboos, such as Qingzhu, Xifengzhu, Hard-headed Yellow Bamboo, and Purple Bamboo.
The path begins to be paved with stone slabs here, which seems to be based on the stone beach at the end of Jiangzhou.
The land here has a relatively high sand content, which is particularly suitable for the growth of sugar cane. Now that the sugar cane has been harvested, there are many sugar cane leaves on the ground.
On other sandy soil, there are huge spherical white radishes growing, the largest one is as big as a volleyball.
Yang He grabbed a handful of soil and rubbed it in his hands, with an envious look on his face: "Yechao soil."
"What is Yechao soil?" Lao Mu, a rural person, was completely confused. .
“You don’t have it there.” Zhou Zhi said: “It has to be a kind of soil that is only found near the river, which is especially suitable for growing vegetables. For example, Yang and his family near Baitaba in Baimi Township, and The vegetable dam outside Zaoling Bridge in Jiachuan County has this kind of soil."
"What are the benefits of this kind of soil?" Ye Xin was also curious about this.
"It is more fertile than other soils and is looser and more breathable." Yang He couldn't explain why: "It's elbow, right?"
"Well, probably the other thing is keeping warm and moisturizing." Zhou Zhi said.
"How could you even know this?" Yan Xiao felt really incredible.
“The County Chronicle, especially the old County Chronicle, is absolutely a good thing.” Zhou Zhi took out a small Swiss pink straight knife and began to destroy the environment. He cut a bamboo stick for everyone using old hard-headed yellow bamboo. He smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't know. Just know that the radishes here are the most delicious radishes."
Everyone continued to move forward and soon came to the agricultural area.
In the ebbing tide zone, various beans - broad beans and peas - are now grown on the fresh fertile soil brought by the river every year.
There are also some soybean stakes, which are used for sowing seeds. The beans have been harvested, leaving only some dead branches.
Some beans were covered with cages of thin vines. Zhou Zhi pointed at them and said, "Do you know them?" Everyone shook their heads. Only Zhang Xinyi smiled and said, "Customs."
“Yes, Xin Yi knows Chinese medicine.” Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "There is an interesting story about dodder."
"During the Song Dynasty, dodder had to be collected as tribute from Goryeo, which is now the Korean Peninsula. Because there was no way to grow it, it was all picked. Wild, so the price is high.”
"It wasn't until later that people accidentally discovered that this plant is actually a parasitic plant. It is not good to plant it alone. It must be planted together with beans. Then don't think about beans. Cuscuta can be harvested slowly, which is the most suitable The area is the Bashu area, and then Bashu became the home of dodder."
"In the eyes of farmers, this thing is a scourge, so it got a nickname, called 'The King of Beans. ’. ”
“But in the writings of literati, dodder has been given the idea of women relying on men because of its clinging to shrubs, and many sentimental poems have been created. ”
< br>After speaking, he walked, tapping the bamboo stick to beat the rhythm, and recited: "
You are the female dill grass, and I am the dodder flower. The light strips do not lead to themselves, but are tilted to chase the spring breeze.
A hundred feet of distant pine trees form a family. Who said there would be a trade meeting, everyone would be at Qingshan Cliff.
Female radish hair is fragrant, but the dodder breaks people's intestines. The branches are tangled and the leaves are flying.
Children are born without knowing their roots, because who shares the fragrance. There are two emeralds in the middle nest, and purple mandarin ducks stay on top.
If you know the heart of two grasses, you can also measure the tide of the ocean. "
Feng Xueshan and Jiang Shuyi were walking together behind Zhou Zhi. Feng Xueshan pulled Jiang Shuyi's arm: "Look, this is what I said. ”
Zhou Zhi could only sigh: "This is Li Qinglian's "Ancient Meaning". Didn't you just happen to see it? He just read it according to the situation."
"Look, he just came out to suit the situation, so others shouldn't think too much about it." .”
"..."
Fortunately, Yan Xiao interrupted in time: "Elbow, why did you give each of us a stick?"
"Beware of dogs, you wouldn't think so. There are no dogs in the village?”
"..."
Zhou Zhi's concerns are very reasonable. Even the paradise described by Tao Yuanming is "traffic on the road, chickens and dogs hear each other".
The friends now line up in a long line and walk on the traffic road.
Most of the land has been harvested, but the ground is covered with sugarcane leaves. I don’t know if it is for the purpose of conserving water and soil.
Zhou Zhi estimates that these are also the ingredients for smoking bacon.
After walking through a bush, huge trees began to appear on the road ahead. They were a sign that they were about to enter a residential area. They were also an important economic crop on the island - the longan tree.
Longan is also called longan, and Manzhou is basically the northernmost region where longan is produced.
Same as the lychee tree, the older the tree, the smaller the core of the fruit will be, and the more meat will be more fragrant. Therefore, to determine whether the longan produced by a tree is good or not, you can first look at the age of the tree. Have a rough idea.
(End of this chapter)