Chapter 634 The Silly Chen Ze
After Zhang An and the others arrived at Zizhu Forest, they found that there were quite a few people here.
In addition to the villagers and tenants who came to dig bamboo shoots, there were also many construction workers brought from the town.
“It seems like things are going very fast here. In just a few days, such a large open space has been opened up in the bamboo forest.”
Looking at the bamboo forest under the Sanqing Temple A lot of open space has been opened up, Chen Ze couldn't help but sigh.
You must know that in the former Purple Bamboo Forest, except for the path to Sanqing Temple, the other places were covered with tall and straight bamboos.
Not only did the small road turn into a big road, but a new road was also created leading to the purple bamboo forest.
"That's for sure. You don't have to look at how many people are working, and this is bamboo, which is much easier to cut down than trees."
Ding Yi was not surprised, pointing out He said to the workers who were working in front.
It is true that bamboo is much easier to cut down. No matter where it is, the problem is transportation.
Some of them are in bamboo forests in deep mountains. It takes a lot of effort to get the cut bamboo out.
But here in Zizhulin, this problem does not exist.
Because the chopped bamboo only needs to be transported a short distance, then thrown into the river, and transported to the bridge at the entrance of the village using the flow of the river water.
"Brother, what are you going to do with such a large open space here?"
Zhang An looked around, then walked forward and talked to the man who was resting in front of him. several workers asked.
“We are going to build a pavilion here. There are several places like this inside. When the time comes, a special road will be paved from the entrance of your village, and this side will be paved to connect to the top. The Taoist temple will be paved all the way to the depths of the bamboo forest."
A few workers were also very talkative and pointed to the cut place to explain to Zhang An.
“This is a big project, are you doing it too?”
Zhang An smiled again and said, the road from the village entrance is not far or close. It's close, it takes more than thirty minutes to walk.
In the past, it was just a mountain road that was only for people to pass through. Now, if it is widened and re-paved, the amount of work will be really big.
However, the advantage is that the terrain is flat, which saves a lot of trouble in construction.
“We must be the ones doing it, because this is a job our boss took over from the town.”
Speaking of this, they were very happy, after all, the New Year was just celebrated. It's a good thing for them to have work to do.
"Then when this side is repaired, you can walk here and take a stroll if you have nothing to do. I just don't know how long it will take to complete it."
I heard several workers say this, Zhang An and the others can already imagine what this place will look like after it is completed.
"This is very fast. Our boss said that the construction period for paving the road is only one month, and including the pavilion, it will be a total of one and a half months."
Hearing Chen Ze talk about the construction period, Several workers also told what they knew.
"A month? Why does it take so long?"
Hearing that it takes so long, Zhang An asked with some confusion.
Although this road is indeed not close, it would not take such a long time to build it.
Last year, a lot of mountain roads were built in Changqing Village, which were many times farther than here, but it only took a little over a month in total.
“Actually, one month is not long. If the road is paved with cement, it will be completed in a few weeks at most, but because the road will be paved with bricks, it will be slower.”< br>
Seeing that Zhang An was puzzled, the workers explained again.
“So that’s it, no wonder it took so long.”
After hearing this, Zhang An couldn’t help but nodded.
"Then you are busy, let's go inside and see if we can dig some bamboo shoots."
Seeing a few of them standing up, I guess they have rested and need to prepare. Got to work.
Zhang An and the others were not prepared to stay here and wanted to go directly in.
"If you want to dig bamboo shoots, you have to go back to the old village. Although the bamboo shoots are starting to appear these days, there are still too few. In addition, there are too many people from your village coming to dig bamboo shoots in the past two days. There are so many, they have dug all the places nearby.”
Hearing that Zhang An and the others were here to dig bamboo shoots, these old workers gave me a suggestion.
"Okay, let's walk inside."
Hearing this, Zhang An also felt that it made sense, so he took Chen Ze and Ding Yi and walked deep into the bamboo forest along the newly opened rough road.
After half a meal, I really didn’t see a single bamboo shoot, but there were many places that had been dug up. It was estimated that the top bamboo shoots had been dug up by the people who came before.
“It’s exactly what they said, all the bamboo shoots that grew have been dug up.”
Looking at the messy bamboo forest everywhere, Chen Ze couldn’t help but sigh.
"Why are you so anxious? This is outside the bamboo forest. Everyone has to pass by it. No matter how long it is, there won't be enough people to dig it. Let's just walk further in."
Yes. Zhang An was not surprised at all. After all, only those who came first could dig these nearby places.
Forget about those coming from behind, just go straight in.
After walking for another half a mile, the three of them had reached the depths of the bamboo forest, and also deviated from the newly dug rough road.
“Okay, no one has dug here yet, let’s look here.”
Seeing that there were no traces of digging nearby, Zhang An decided not to leave, but to search here.
Then, the three soldiers divided into three groups, each found a direction and started looking for bamboo shoots.
Zhang An chose a slope, but after searching for a long time, he didn’t see any bamboo shoots popping up.
So far, there are only three small bamboo shoots in his basket.
So Zhang An doesn’t plan to look anymore. It’s really too early, and most of the new bamboo shoots are still buried in the soil.
I estimate that in a month or two, when it rains around the Qingming Festival, it will be easier to find these bamboo shoots.
But since everyone is here, I must get a basket of bamboo shoots back. Mom is still waiting at home.
So Zhang An looked around and saw no one, so he took out fresh bamboo shoots one by one from the space.
In order not to arouse suspicion, after taking out the bamboo shoots, he dug some traces on the ground.
“Damn, I couldn’t find it when I specifically looked for it, but I just dug around and found it.”
But sometimes things just happen by coincidence. Zhang An didn't find bamboo shoots when he came specifically to look for them. Now he didn't want to look for them anymore. He just dug a hoe and found some young bamboo shoots that hadn't popped up in the soil yet, and there were more than one. God is really messing with people.
However, these shoots that have not yet emerged are too small, and the basket is already full, so Zhang An does not count them as poaching.
After the production scene, Zhang An was not in a hurry to find Chen Ze and Ding Yi.
Not long has passed, just enough time for the two of them to have some fun.
So Zhang An sat on the ground leaning on his backpack, sinking into the mental observation space, looking for nothing, and ran straight towards the big centipede.
Soon, Zhang An found it in the bamboo forest. This guy was squatting in the bamboo forest.
Looking at its motionless appearance at first, Zhang An thought it was dead of old age. Just when he was about to enter the space to take a look, the guy moved the two long tentacles on its head.
Although a lot of time has passed from one year ago to now, this guy still hasn't found a new foot, which is exactly the same as before.
Zhang An has long known that it is impossible for this guy to grow and shed his skin and grow new feet in a short period of time.
But now several months have passed, and it is still the same. It seems that the waiting time will not be too short.
But the good news is that it has grown a little bigger, and the most important thing is that it is still alive and has not died of old age. That is enough. Then Zhang An's attention moved to the spring, and he found that in the bowl-like stone pit on the bluestone, there was a lot of spiritual spring crystal dew, more than half a bowl.
This made Zhang An smile knowingly. After all, the wait was not in vain.
When the spiritual spring crystal dew this time is collected, the big thing should be able to grow a lot, at least it will have to be shed once.
However, Zhang An was not in a hurry to enter the space to collect the Spirit Spring Crystal Dew, because he was outside and it was not convenient to enter and exit the space.
So he planned to go in at night. At that time, he would collect the spiritual spring crystal dew and feed it directly to the largest centipede. Then he would have time to observe its changes.
When the time was almost over, Zhang An picked up a basket full of bamboo shoots and prepared to go find the two of them.
Returning to the place where the three of them separated just now, seeing that the two of them had not returned, Zhang An followed the place where they had gone to look for them.
Not long after, I saw Chen Ze who was digging hard.
“Hey, what are you digging? You dug such a big hole.”
Zhang An walked forward and suddenly said something.
“Damn, why did you come over so quietly and scare me?”
In this quiet bamboo forest, someone like Zhang An coming out suddenly can really scare people. Yes, especially Chen Ze, who is concentrating on digging into the ground.
"Okay, I should have yelled at you earlier. What did you dig? You dug so deep."
Zhang An spread his hands and said, looking at the big piece of soil on the ground. Damn it, he was a little confused as to what this guy Chen Ze was going to do.
“I’m digging for bamboo shoots. When I found them just now, I found that the soil here was broken. There should be bamboo shoots in it, but after digging for a long time, Mao didn’t see it.”
Chen Ze stopped digging, held the hoe handle with both hands, and said breathlessly.
“Is that so?”
After hearing this, Zhang An raised his hoe, dug it up on the ground, and then asked.
“Yes, yes, that’s it.”
Chen Ze looked at it and nodded.
"Hahaha, then you must have been deceived. Someone else must have dug this place deliberately. There are no bamboo shoots at all."
Zhang An shook his head. He was convinced that Chen Ze was deceived. Lied.
"It's impossible. The place where I dug the bamboo shoots just now is exactly the same as here. If someone dug it, you should be able to see the mark under the hoe, but I didn't find it. "
Chen Ze was a little stunned, and then shook his head. He didn't quite believe that he had been cheated.
He felt that if someone dug it out, it would be very obvious, and there was no way he wouldn't be able to find it.
“Why is it impossible? Look.”
Zhang An sighed, then withdrew the hoe, stretched out his foot and stepped on the cut made by the hoe, and then sprinkled some old Soil and dead leaves.
"Here, let's see if you can find it now."
"Why...how can it still be like this? Isn't this a lie?"
Chen Ze was stunned again when he saw it, because he really couldn't find that the hole dug by Zhang An was man-made.
"It's normal. There are so many people digging bamboo shoots in the village, and some people like to play tricks on others."
Not to mention others, even Zhang An has done this before.
"It's too much. I wasted so much time and emotion in vain."
After hearing this, Chen Ze was very angry.
"You are too stupid. In fact, you will know if it is man-made or not. You will know if you dig a few times with a hoe. If there is something, there will be nothing. No matter how deep you have not dug, there will be nothing. Who would be like you, always staring at one place to dig? . ”
If you are from the village, you may be deceived, but it will only take a few hoes at most.
But who would have thought that this guy Chen Ze would keep digging here, digging out all the pits.
The same goes for this unlucky kid. He dug for a long time without seeing any bamboo shoots and didn’t find anything wrong.
“Hey, you are very lucky, you have dug a lot.”
Zhang An stretched his head and looked at Chen Ze's basket. There were five or six bamboo shoots in it.
Because the backpack was too small, the bamboo shoots were half filled.
"It's okay, that's all... Damn, you're here to wholesale, how could you dig so many."
Chen Ze originally planned to be modest, But before he finished speaking, he saw Zhang An's baskets of bamboo shoots.
"Hey, good luck, good luck." Zhang An just smiled.
“No, where did you dig it? Take me there?”
In the same time, he only dug so many roots, but Zhang An had already dug a full one. Basket, it would be a lie to say that I am not moved.
"I've already dug them out. Why else would I come here to find you? It's getting late. If you want it, I can move a few for you."
said Then Zhang An picked up the bamboo shoots in his own basket and threw them into Chen Ze's basket.
But his backpack was too small, and it was full after just a few bags.
"Okay, okay, that's enough. I'm sure I'll be wilted if I don't finish eating."
Chen Ze didn't refuse, he didn't care if he dug it himself, because he just wanted to eat it.
“If you can’t finish it, you can ask Aunt Li to slice it and dry it into dried bamboo shoots. You can then soak them, stir-fry them, or cook them. They don’t have the same texture as tender bamboo shoots.”
Zhang An originally wanted to get him more, but he really couldn't hold it anymore.
"Let's go, it's getting late. Let's go find Lao Ding, and then it's time to go back."
The two of them returned the same way. They planned to go back to find Ding Yi, but ended up going back. When they arrived, they found that Ding Yi had returned to the place where they had just separated and was waiting for the two of them.
"Hey, you came back so early, how much did you dig?"
Seeing Ding Yi come back first, Chen Ze thought he had dug a lot, so he immediately went up to take a look.
"Hey, I'm lucky. I met a lot of them. I'll come back after filling the basket."
Ding turned around one by one, and the basket full of bamboo shoots appeared behind him. In front of the two of them.
"Damn, you two are such beasts, you both dug so much."
Chen Ze originally thought that Ding Yi was about the same as him, but he didn't expect that this man also dug a full basket, and he suddenly became a little confused. be discouraged.
“Didn’t you dig a lot too?”
Ding Yi pointed at the backpack on Chen Ze’s back and said.
"It was all dug by Zhang An. I only dug half of it myself. If I had known I would have left with you."
At this time, Chen Ze complained even more about the man who dug the hole for him. He wasted a lot of time.
"Okay, okay, it's not a big problem, we should go back."
Seeing the guy talking casually, Zhang An immediately interrupted.
(End of this chapter)