Chapter 219 Baby's Joy
The rain in early spring did not last long and stopped in the evening of that day.
The next day, Chen Ling took advantage of the fact that the soil was moist and took the ox to plow the fields early again.
After a busy morning like this, when I went home for dinner, I found that Wang Susu had added some fresh spring vegetables, scrambled eggs with Chinese toon.
The toona buds that emerged just after the rain were extremely fresh and tender. They were fried with local eggs at home. They tasted crispy and raw, leaving a fragrant fragrance on the lips and teeth. Chen Ling ate them all in one breath and did them for two more times. A big steamed bun and a big bowl of porridge.
After having breakfast in this way, Chen Ling looked at the toona trees outside the courtyard and felt that there were a few trees outside the walls of his courtyard.
This is mainly due to the fact that my yard is now larger, with two previous yards combined into one. The trees in the previous backyard were completely cut down when the house was built, so it looks a bit empty, with only There are two or three toon trees outside the courtyard.
"Plant a few more trees."
"We should also plant grapes in the courtyard and put up a grape trellis."
Chen Ling secretly planned , he got up and hitched the bullock cart, told Wang Susu that he was going to transplant some trees on the mountain, and went out.
In and outside the village, there are many kinds of miscellaneous trees on the ravine slopes. Chen Ling transplanted many of them into the cave last year. There are hawthorn trees, mulberry trees, wild apple trees and other wild fruit trees, as well as various large green trees and ginkgo trees. , camphor trees, and even locust trees and acacia trees.
However, there are few suitable for planting outside the yard.
He stopped the ox cart at the foot of the mountain and walked into the forest. After confirming that there was no one around, he entered the cave with a flash of thought.
In the cave, Chen Ling went back and forth to pick and choose. He did not want to plant fruit trees outside the courtyard. This thing was too attractive.
In the end, I chose three species, ginkgo tree, camphor tree, and locust tree.
There are two types of locust trees: locust trees and locust trees.
The so-called locust tree, also known as Sophora japonica, grows quickly, has beautiful flowers, and the fruits it bears can also provide food for birds.
The acacia tree is planted outside the courtyard because its flowers are very fragrant and sweet. When they bloom in spring, the trees are full of flowers. When the spring breeze blows, they are as beautiful as falling snow.
There is another interesting saying about the acacia tree.
It is said that this kind of tree was brought into the country by the little devils, because their war horses liked to eat the sweet locust flowers on the acacia trees, so as early as more than a hundred years before the war of aggression, they continued to It is grown domestically to prepare military rations for war horses.
He is really cunning and treacherous, full of bad intentions, and has very bad intentions.
I don’t know whether it is true or false.
......
Chen Ling entered the cave and moved his mind slightly. Several half-grown trees in the woods were uprooted and suspended in the air. The branches and leaves of the trees were very thick. It will soon become bare and can be taken out for planting.
This is what he can do in the Sun and Moon Cave, just like an immortal.
Then they picked up the trees one by one from the forest, piled them on the oxcart, and took them home.
Ginkgo trees and locust trees are planted outside the wall, while camphor trees are planted behind the house.
While digging a hole outside the courtyard, Second Aunt Wang came out, holding steamed buns with corn flour in one hand and pickle dumplings in the other. She walked to Chen Ling's side while eating.
"Fugui, what are you fussing about again?" Second Aunt Wang asked.
When Chen Ling saw the old lady, he smiled and said, "I want to plant a few trees outside the wall. They are all half-sized trees. When they grow fully, our neighbors can also enjoy the shade in the summer." Ah.”
"Oh, it's a shade tree." Second Aunt Wang nodded, but her face was hesitant to speak.
She came over deliberately to remind Chen Ling to be careful when planting trees and not to face her door, but she wanted to say it, and she felt that Chen Ling was quite capable now. On weekdays, Wang Susu I also respect her as an elder and gave her two bowls of dumplings during the Chinese New Year, so I was too embarrassed to open my mouth when I arrived.
Chen Ling didn't know this. He thought the old lady had nothing to do and came over to watch the fun, so he continued digging the hole. He didn't realize that the tree hole was actually a bit edged, and it was faintly facing the king. The second aunt's house is at the door.
He doesn’t know, but some people do.
What a coincidence. Chen Gannian, a confused old man, was passing by here driving sheep. When he saw it, he poked Chen Ling in the buttocks with a sheep whip and said, "Juncai, don't plant trees at others. At the door, be careful and someone will come to beat you.”
"Ah?"
Chen Ling came back to his senses immediately after hearing this, and felt a little enlightened in his heart, knowing why Mrs. Wang came over.
But seeing that Fourth Grandpa was confused and thought he was his father, Chen Ling was helpless, "It has just rained, and there is mud everywhere outside the village. Fourth Grandpa, if you want to herd sheep, you should wait for the ground." Let’s go after it’s a little dry.”
“It’s okay, I’m just going to walk around if it’s muddy.” Chen Gannian said nonchalantly, flicking his whip, “Don’t plant it at the door of the courtyard. Tree.”
Then he drove the sheep away.
Second Aunt Wang felt a little embarrassed that her thoughts had been revealed.
But Chen Gannian was a confused old man, so she couldn't say anything, so she smiled at Chen Ling and said, "You can grow wealth as you wish. It doesn't bother you. I just came over to see what you are doing."
Chen Ling already understood what was going on and quickly explained that it was not intentional.
Actually, he really didn't expect this.
However, country people are very particular about this. Trees cannot be planted randomly. There are rules for planting in various locations, so you really can’t plant them randomly.
For example, in various local villages, there are various trees growing in front of and behind every house, in the fields, and at the foot of rivers and valleys. Most of them are naturally occurring and no one deliberately planted them.
However, there are some trees that cannot be planted at home or in front of the house.
The old people in the village often say: peaches nourish people, apricots hurt people, and plum trees carry dead people, so apricot trees and plum trees are not allowed to be planted at home.
Of course, there is also a saying that if you don’t plant mulberries in the front, don’t plant willows in the back, and don’t plant ghost clapping hands in the yard, the ghost clapping hands are poplar trees. It is said that the leaves of the poplar trees are like the hands of ghosts, and when the wind blows There was a crackling sound, as if someone was clapping their hands. It was very unlucky to plant such a tree in the yard.
These two statements are quite recognized here.
In addition, no matter what kind of tree it is, it will not work if it is placed in front of someone else's house. It is said that the tree is an nuisance. Planting one's own tree in front of one's house is fine. But letting other people's trees be planted in front of one's house will suck away the wealth and blessings of one's own family. Walk.
It doesn’t matter whether this statement is superstitious or not. It cannot stop people from believing it.
So Chen Ling quickly filled in the tree hole that was facing the door of Aunt Wang’s house, moved it a little further, and then dug the hole again to plant trees.
After planting the trees outside the courtyard, he went out to find an opportunity to dig out two or three wild grapes from the cave. After half a year of cultivation and improvement in the cave, this kind of wild grape tastes great and the fruit is gratifying. .
But Chen Ling is still just a transplanted grapevine root.
Grape tree roots were planted on the west side of the yard, and a grape trellis was built against the wall.
It took me a whole day to finish it all. Plant them early, and by summer, when the trees are growing, the grape trellis will be ready.
Breaking in the shade under the grape trellis makes you feel happy just thinking about it.
But when he went to bed at night, Chen Ling found that the sun and moon cave sky was shaking slightly, and for the first time, he took the initiative to send a vague signal to him.
【Joy】
This emotion is very light, very childish, but very direct.
Like a very hungry baby, the pure joy after drinking the mother's milk.
I still want to drink after drinking.
"What is going on?"
Chen Ling was surprised. The last time the Sun and Moon Cave reacted, it expanded outwards and opened up a small area in the white mist to him, revealing a A magical tree planted in a pond.
Why are there still emotional exchanges this time? It's like a little doll living in the cave.
Begging for milk from him.
Looking at Wang Susu beside him, who was already asleep, Chen Ling used his consciousness to enter the cave.
In an instant, the sky brightened before my eyes, and the world changed. I could only feel the fragrance of flowers, the chirping of birds, and the gurgling water. What I saw was a field of flowers and fruits. In front of the thatched house, bunches of purple-red grapes were already hanging down. There were also beautiful birds pecking at the sky, and they flew away as soon as they saw him coming in.
This is a wild bird that was introduced before. Like the golden pheasant, it breeds in flocks in half a year and its number increases sharply.
Chen Ling didn't care about them and allowed them to multiply and grow.
When there are enough, they will be released.
Especially rare species like Golden Pheasant, which are raised in large numbers just to be released outside.
But these are secondary. It has nothing to do with the changes in Sun Moon Cave Sky.
The blooming flowers and fragrant fruits in front of him were also grown from what he planted last year.
It has nothing to do with change either.
So he walked around the huts, canals, and lotus ponds, and walked back and forth along the creek. After observing carefully, he finally found that the Sun and Moon Cave had not expanded again, and it was still the same range as the last time it was opened.
But when he turned to the strange jasper-colored tree, he stopped.
This small jasper tree was like a cheerful and lively little girl. Its branches and leaves swayed gently, as if waving to him, and the dewdrops formed by the white mist gathered on the leaves of the tree were also absorbed by it. Swingers are everywhere.
This is a very mysterious scene.
But soon, something more mysterious happened.
As the small jasper tree swayed gently, a leaf of the same jasper color slowly fell from the tree and landed in the palm of his hand.
"This is..."
"Give me something to eat?"
When Chen Ling walked to the tree, he naturally understood the little tree's behavior.
So I put the leaf to my mouth and tasted it.
This was too much to taste. Unexpectedly, the leaves that looked like jade melted in his mouth and turned into a cool liquid in his mouth. In an instant, his whole body was light and comfortable.
Chen Ling quickly went out from the cave to feel it.
I feel a hundred times more energetic, as if every cell in my body is jumping for joy, and I feel like I am several years younger.
After the spiritual water failed to work on him, it was the first time in half a year that he experienced the ecstatic feeling after being baptized by the clear spring all over his body.
But, return to Dongtianhou.
Chen Ling stood in front of the little tree again, but the little jade tree didn't respond anymore.
The [joy] emotion conveyed before was as if it had never happened before.
Chen Ling was puzzled, so he tried to reach out to pick leaves from the tree, but he couldn't pick them off, as if the tree was an iron tree.
Using conscious control to make the leaves fall, there was no response.
"Huh? What is going on?"
"I planted a tree at home today, and this reaction occurred."
"Huh? No, it seems that there were changes in the cave when I was planting flowers in the yard last time."
"Is there some connection between them?"
This sudden discovery made Chen Ling excited and felt that he had grasped something crucial.
But it’s not possible to try it immediately now. Seeing that the night is getting darker and my wife and sister-in-law are sleeping, I still don’t tinker with it.
Forcibly suppress the mood that is about to move.
The next day he got up early and played with flower pots in the yard.
He decided that since Dongtian responded to the first two plantings of flowers and trees, he would try bonsai this time.
There are so many ancient tree species in the Riyue Cave that are not visible to the outside world. He has long wanted to transplant them to the outside world, but taking out a random tree would be too conspicuous, so Chen Ling decided to plant it into a bonsai first, so that it would be less conspicuous. Trim it and put it in a shape that looks good.
Not to mention, after he finished one tree, although there were no changes inside the Sun Moon Cave Sky, he was keenly aware that on the small jasper tree, small tender leaves had grown again where the leaves had fallen off last night. bud.
This discovery made him extremely happy, thinking that he had discovered a great secret.
I excitedly went to tinker with the second bonsai.
But what he didn't expect was that after the second bonsai was finished, the buds showed no signs of growing up and were still just spores.
"It doesn't work again?"
Chen Ling was stunned and wanted to try again. Wang Susu called him to eat, so he had to suppress the doubts in his heart again.
After dinner, I sent Wang Zhenzhen to school in the county town.
After I came back, I wanted to continue tinkering, but suddenly I found someone coming to the house. It was Xiuying’s sister-in-law and several other women who came to ask Wang Susu to borrow vegetable seeds.
Spring is here, and everyone likes to plant some commonly eaten vegetables in the vegetable garden. After summer, there is no shortage of vegetables at home.
In the countryside, it is normal to borrow vegetable seeds and grain seeds, and exchanging vegetable seeds is also common.
Some people came to borrow them, so Wang Susu wrapped a few vegetable seeds saved last year in newspapers and gave them some of each.
Originally, this is a trivial matter.
But Chen Ling once again noticed the [joy] emotion coming from the little tree. This time it was weaker, more blurry, and intermittent than last night's emotion. If Chen Ling hadn't taken down its leaves, , the perception is improved to a higher level, I’m afraid I won’t be able to detect it.
So he walked into the room and entered the cave, and he found that the buds on the small tree sprouted from the buds, revealing small, green and tender buds.
"What do you mean?"
"The vegetable seeds Susu lent are not the seeds in the cave, but the seeds of the vegetables that I watered with the spiritual water. As long as I scatter the seeds cultivated in the cave, , will the sun and moon cave be beneficial? The small tree will also be beneficial?”
With speculation, Chen Ling went to a few acquaintances’ homes and said that he was going to plant vegetables at home and did he have any seeds left? Master, come and give them some vegetable seeds.
After sending out vegetable seeds, some sweet corn seeds and sorghum seeds were also sent out. They are all seeds grown after being planted in Dongtian.
These people were very happy, and Chen Ling was also very happy, because he found that the buds on the small tree had changed again and had grown slightly.
"It seems like the seeds bred by Dongtian will have unknown benefits to Dongtian if they are spread out. Then when I have nothing to do in the future, I can cultivate some high-quality seeds and sell them at the market. When the baby gets bigger, I can also Let’s set up a seed station in the small courtyard of the county town..."
"As long as I keep a low profile and the seeds I cultivate are not exaggerated, this will not only benefit the country and the people, but also be good for our own family."< br>
"Hmm..."
"According to the responses given by Dongtian twice before, flower and tree species should also be suitable."
Chen Ling pondered in his heart, thinking Keep spreading.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was another way to make money while lying down. Originally, he was a little eager to find out the situation in Dongtian, but now he suddenly relaxed and was no longer in a hurry.
Of course.
It’s no use being anxious.
After the cultivated seeds are sown, no matter the quality of the seeds is good or bad, there will be a propagation process. One human race is naturally different from 10,000 human races. This will take time to ferment. In this process of spreading and fermenting, Dongtian can continue to benefit.
No, after the initial stage, now the buds on the magical little tree inside the Sun Moon Cave have stopped growing.
Obviously, its growth will also take time.
"No wonder I was only allowed to pick a leaf after working for most of last year..."
Chen Ling smacked his lips. The peanuts, soybeans and the like he sold were naturally sold. Some people also use it to make seeds, but unfortunately there are still too few.
“Don’t be hasty, take your time. The more people plant my seeds, the greater the benefits will be.”
“Grain seeds, vegetable seeds, flower seeds, and tree seeds must be planted slowly. Come on, if you take too big a step, you’ll easily pull off the egg.”
Chen Ling warned himself in his heart.
After two or three days of exploring the usage of Sun Moon Cave Sky, I continued to plow the fields every day and stay in front of the farm to supervise the construction work.
Every day is busy and free, and the life is very fulfilling.
But what he didn't expect was that as his wife's belly grew bigger day by day, the father-in-law and mother-in-law came over in person because they were afraid that he would be too busy and that there would be no one to take care of their daughter.
The house is very lively now.
(End of this chapter)