MTL - Shanwa Small Rich Farmers-Chapter 63 secret

  Early the next morning, when Wen Xu woke up and was still taking a shower, Shi Shangzhen arrived at the gate of the courtyard fully armed and knocked on the door.

Wen Xu opened the door and took a look, she was immediately happy, and saw that Shi Shangzhen was wearing a jacket, a canvas cap on his head, and high-top field boots on his feet. The feet were also waterproof, and the trousers were tight. Tightly tucked into the upper of the boots, it doesn't look like going to see the tea tree, but it's a bit like a donkey friend camping, just carrying a big bag and adding a tent bag on it.

   "Are you dressed like this?"

   "What's wrong? It's in the mountains over there. I heard that the road close to the old forest is not easy to walk, and there are snakes and so on," Shi Shangzhen said.

  Wen Xu looked at Shi Shangzhen and said: "You are lucky if you meet a snake, and you will have a good meal at noon today! It is not easy to see a snake that is worth wearing like this!"

Snakes also have to eat, mainly voles and some small things. Now in the gourd basin of Wenjia Village, there are only hogweeds and hogweeds. In addition, the crops are all barren, so there are no voles, even occasionally. A few house mice and so on are enough for the cats in the village to stuff their teeth, so they can't take the snake's turn.

  Wen Xu remembers that when he was a child, there were house snakes at home, but now the village doesn’t collect food anymore, and the house snakes have moved since there are fewer mice, let alone wild snakes.

"From a certain point of view, the ecology has not fully recovered. In the past, voles and snakes could be seen from time to time. Now I have to try my luck to see them. Seeing a pheasant and a rabbit can make me happy for a long time, which is the same as when I was a child. It's incomparable," Wen Xu said.

  Shi Shangzhen said: "Stop rambling, brush your teeth quickly, the old director will be here soon!"

  Wen Xu didn't close the door, turned around and walked into the pressurized well in the yard, and continued to brush her teeth.

After a while, Wen Shigui arrived at Wen Xu's small courtyard. Besides Wen Shigui, there were also Wen Shijie and Wen Shiqing. He's in his early sixties, let's put it this way, the entire Wenjia Village now counts, and almost all of them are in the warm courtyard.

   "Brothers, why is there such a big formation, isn't it just to see a tea tree? I don't know if it's true or not," Wen Xu said.

"What Uncle Nine said makes me wonder. Although I said that the old graves are rarely visited, it is impossible not to have no impression." Wen Shijie has always been the accountant of the village. It can be said that he knows all the valuable things in the village. Now I heard that there are too many of them. More than a dozen old tea trees are a must-see.

   "Where's Grandpa Ninth?" Wen Xu asked.

"The old man lost his temper at home today, saying that today is not the time for him to sweep the grave and refuse to go. Shiqing and I went to coax him for a long time, but we didn't get a good word. In front of the younger generation of the family, we scolded him like a grandson for almost a quarter of an hour. My second brother and I had no choice but to run away," Wen Shiqing said.

  Wen Shijie said with a smile: "Teaching you is not training your grandson, and training others must at least be a great-grandson! Why do you still want to be with the third master?"

   "Fuck you!" Wen Shiqing cursed with a smile. The third master is Wen Shiqing's father, Wen Shijie teased Wen Shiqing and his old man's generation, so Wen Shiqing smiled and cursed back.

  Wen Xu can imagine the scene of the two of them being tamed. The old man found that the "one tyrant" in Wenjia Village is only the grandson's generation. No one can retaliate when he swears.

   "Director Shi is dressed like he is about to enter the city." Wen Shiqing noticed that Shi Shang was really dressed up and said.

  Wen Xuxuan didn't laugh out loud!

   "Okay, everyone is here, let's go?" Wen Shigui looked at the people in the small courtyard.

As soon as Wen Shigui said this, the people in the small courtyard went out, Wen Xu called Dongliang out of the courtyard, and found that there was a yellow dog from Wen Shigui's family and a gray four-eyed dog from Wen Shiqing's family at the gate of the courtyard. The four-eyed dog is the kind of dog with brown spots between the eyebrows, which looks like a dog with four eyes.

  The three dogs got together, Dong Liang was the silent one, and the other two dogs followed suit. Apart from the voices of a few people, and one or two hares that were startled, and the three dogs chased them for a while, there were no other animals encountered.

Shi Shangzhen has seen a lot of things along the way, such as scattered fruit trees, peaches, plums and the like, anyway, they are all things made before, and the fruits cannot be sold, and the villagers are too lazy to chop them. cut.

   "I think this ditch is pretty good, why is it left so deserted without maintenance?" Shi Shangzhen looked at the irrigation ditch next to it and said with a little regret.

Wen Shigui pointed to a mountain not far away and said: "There used to be a small lake formed by a small spring on the mountain over there. According to the genealogy records, it was spraying. The small lake is not big. It was still spraying in the past eight years or so. Well, in 1990, the water gradually decreased, and in 1993 or 1994, it stopped spraying. When it was sprayed in the past, the mountains were all rice terraces, and here were all wheat and corn fields. Although the output was small, It’s okay for the whole village to fill their stomachs, but once the small lake has no water, all the fields will disappear with it!”

  Shi Shang really listened, and looked like a village cadre, frowning and asked: "Have you asked an expert to survey and map and study why the mountain spring doesn't spray anymore?"

   "I looked for it, and the city's water conservancy experts said that the surrounding groundwater level has dropped, and the water can't come up," Wen Shijie said.

   Shi Shangzhen who said this can only sigh.

The closer we get to the old grave, the denser the weeds and the more bushes, mainly cocklebur. When I was young, a child like Wen Xu would often throw it into girls' hair. It was easy to throw it. , but it would be very troublesome to take it out. Seeing these things, Wen Xu's childlike innocence was aroused, and she wanted to grab one of them and get it into Shi Shangzhen's hair, but seeing her short hair, her interest suddenly dropped by more than half.

When we arrived at the old tomb, there was no need to look for it. At first sight, we saw a group of tea trees standing in the southeast corner of the old tomb. Although the tree was quite tall, Wen Shigui knew it was a real tea tree at a glance. The appearance of being connected together, as well as the bony trunks with a sense of age, all indicate that these teas are old things, and looking at the villages left by the obvious cut tree poles on the roots to urge new branches. Scars, by visual estimation, it would take two to three hundred years to grow such a thick trunk.

  The four old men looked completely dumbfounded at each other, each with a strange expression on their faces, thinking that they had lost their memory, and they didn’t remember these tea trees near the old grave at all.

The conflict between himself and reality is too obvious. These tea trees are definitely not imagined by everyone. Whether he touches them or smells them, Wen Shigui can be sure that the tea trees he sees now are genuine tea trees, and they are not the kind of tree-shaped wild tea trees. , This kind of cutting dry and prompting new branches shows that this is completely a tea tree in the tea garden, and now what I see is an abandoned antique tea garden!

   "It seems that I am getting old, and my memory has problems!" The old men thought in their hearts.

The facts are in front of them, and everyone now thinks that there must be a deviation in their own memory. No one thought that someone would plant tea trees for themselves. Who would have thought that such a good thing would happen? The memories in their minds, everyone agreed that their memories were wrong. These tea trees existed in the first place, but I came to the old grave too rarely, so I didn't remember them. Otherwise, how could Grandpa Ninth remember?

   "Indeed, there are these tea trees here in the old grave, but I never knew they were tea trees." Wen Shiqing opened his mouth and patted the trunk of the tea tree and said.

Hearing Wen Shiqing's confident expression, the rest can't say that the tree was transformed, even if it was transformed, it must be said that it was left by the ancestors. The ones in Wenjia Village, if you don’t know, the ones belong to the public.

  Wen Shijie also nodded and said: "I have a memory, so this is a tea tree!"

Hearing what Wen Shijie said, Shi Shangzhen turned his gaze to Wen Shigui again, and said in his heart: As an old village head, you also know tea. If you can’t recognize one or two plants, that’s all. Eighteen tea trees from the old garden that are more than a hundred years old, and they are obviously artificially planted into a font shape. Do you think you can recognize the tea trees? What can almost blind people see that you can't see?

  Seeing Shi Shangzhen looking at him, what else can Wen Shigui say? !

   "I really don't come to the old grave!" Wen Shigui felt a little 'ashamed' on his face.

  This is the ancestral tomb, so it’s an honor to say that it’s rare to come here? You seldom come to the ancestral graves. In ancient times, the officials might not let you do it!

   "Are you sure it's a tea tree?" Shi Shangzhen asked again.

  Wen Shigui nodded affirmatively and said: "Tea trees, and these should be small tea gardens. Grandpa Jiu said that the ancestors planted them. We descendants are ashamed!"

Shi Shangzhen heard that it was an old tea tree, so he took out his mobile phone and carefully began to take pictures of the old tea tree. Shi Shangzhen started, and Wen Shigui and others joined in, each of them They took photos together beside the three clusters of old tea trees, and even picked some young leaves to take back.

  Wen Xu pretended to be ignorant and went to the side of everyone and reached out to pick the leaves: "I'll pick some and go back to soak in water to drink!"

   "This tea can only be brewed after it's fried, so don't move around, boy! We are going to show it to experts, how is the quality of this tea?" Wen Shigui immediately pushed Wen Xu away.

"Don't talk about you, no one can move these tea trees until they bear fruit!" Wen Shijie even stretched out his hand to stop Wen Xu and the tea trees. He has dealt with money all his life. If the quality of the tea tree is acceptable, it is the eighteen cash cow trees in the village.

  Even if the quality is mediocre, the price of the tea is not comparable to that of ordinary crude tea that is tens of yuan a catty.

  Shi Shangzhen said: "It's fine if you don't know about these tea trees. If you know, you have to find someone to watch!"

   "That's not necessary, people in our village can just tell us. For the time being, people from other villages can't come in. We have to keep the news ourselves," Wen Shigui said.

  Wen Xu is not really attractive, so she stepped aside after putting on a show. But when he heard what Wen Shigui said about keeping a secret, he couldn't help laughing.

   "Second brother, is there anyone in the village who doesn't know about this?"

  As soon as Wen Xu said this, the old faces blushed immediately! Near the old tomb, there is a tea tree planted by the ancestors. Now almost even the nursing dolls in the village know about it. The instigator at first was Wen Shigui in front of me. .

   "Then go back and repeat it again, don't tell outsiders" Wen Shigui repeated with a red face.