Nongmen sisters and brothers are not simple

Chapter 17 Seeking the Tea Tree
When Xie Fanxing came home, her aunt had already prepared her things and came to their house, waiting for her to go up the mountain together.

Xie Fanxing explained a few words to his siblings, took the things he had prepared yesterday, and followed Qian up the mountain.

The two of them went up the mountain today to find tea trees for no purpose, so they were afraid that it would take too long, so they brought some dry food with them, and they would eat it on the mountain.

"Auntie, let's go look for tea trees there." Xie Fanxing followed her aunt up the mountain, and when she saw that Mrs. Zhang seemed to be taking her to the original tea tree, Xie Fanxing asked.

"I was thinking, let's look around that tea tree first, to see if we can find other tea trees, if not, then expand the area to look for it." Qian said that she had already prepared.

"Auntie, when my sister and brother went to pick up tea seeds a few days ago, I checked around that piece of tea tree, but I didn't find any other tea trees.

There is no need to go there now. If we want to look for it, we must go to some roads and places that no one has been to. Otherwise, I am afraid that we will not find the tea tree. "

"Fan Xing, what do you mean, let us go deep into the mountains? This is not possible. There are wolves, tigers and leopards in the deep mountains. Even the strong men in our village dare not go deep into the deep mountains, let alone our two women's homes.

If we want to find a tea tree, we can only look for it halfway down the mountain. If we can’t find it, let’s forget it. We definitely can’t go deep into the mountain to look for it. Hearing Xie Fanxing's words, Qian thought she wanted to go into the deep mountains to find tea trees, she quickly shook her head and refused.

"Auntie, you think too much. My life alone is tied to a whole family. My brothers and sisters still need my care. How dare I go deep into the mountains. Auntie, is there a sunny slope in the mountains, or a place where water flows, because The tea tree likes to grow in such an environment, let's go to the place I mentioned and look for it, maybe we can find the tea tree." Xie Fanxing thought for a moment about the environment where the tea tree grows.

The climate, temperature, and environment of the mountain in Shangou Village are all very suitable for the growth of tea trees, and now there is a small piece of tea trees in the mountain. She believes that if there is the first piece, there will naturally be a second piece of tea. tree's.

It's just that they didn't find it.

"I remember Aunt Six told me about such a place before, where Aunt Six's sheep often graze. I have never been to that place, but I don't know if there are tea trees there." Qian thought about it carefully , she said.

"Whether there is or not, let's go and see first, at least there is a high chance of tea trees appearing there. Auntie, you lead the way."

"Okay, let's go this way." After identifying the direction and finding the route, Qian took Xie Fanxing forward.

In the mountains, the trees are tall and luxuriant. Even if the sun appears, only sporadic sunlight falls down, making the mountains very shady.

Coming to the mountains in summer is a good place to escape the heat.

Xie Fanxing followed Qian for nearly three quarters of an hour. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and the two of them came to the foot of a slope.

The slope is [-] degrees upward, and at the foot is a mountain spring stream with a meter width, and it does not know where it winds down.

On the left is a piece of green grass, with many colorful small flowers growing in the grass, and a few black goats are grazing, calling 'baa-baa' from time to time.

On the right are scattered thorny and messy plants.

"Well, all the tea trees grow on this hillside. There are quite a few of them. If the oil squeezed out of tea seeds can be sold for money, then, we will get rich." After seeing the tea trees on a hillside, Mrs. Qian , she said in surprise and joy.

The hillside is three or four miles horizontal and one mile long vertically. There are hundreds of branches and thousands of tea trees at least.

"Fanxing, let's go up and see if the tea seeds that fell off naturally before can be picked up to extract oil." Qian's reaction came, she beckoned Xie Fanxing to walk up the hillside.

"Why are these tea seeds all broken?" Qian walked a long distance to the hillside where the tea trees grew, and found a lot of tea seeds that fell last year. She saw that most of these tea seeds were not moldy. , It was moth-eaten, and some of them were soaked and swollen, so they couldn't be used at all.

"The tea trees in this place grow towards the sun. After the tea seeds are ripe, no one picks them. They are naturally exposed to the sun, so that the tea seeds fall off. In addition, we have abundant rain and weather here. After a long time, these tea seeds will soak up and swell. , Mildew.

The tea seeds I picked up in the forest before must have come off with their shells, and the tea seeds inside were protected by the shells, so they escaped a catastrophe.Auntie, since there are no tea seeds to pick up, let's go back first.

Anyway, we have also found the tea tree. When these tea trees bear tea seeds this year, we will pick them up and squeeze the oil. If we find them, we will not be able to escape. "Xie Fanxing and Qian Shi looked at each other, and both of them showed joy on their faces.

"Auntie, let's wait a minute." Xie Fanxing was going back home, but she suddenly stopped Qian.

"Fanxing, what's the matter?" Qian asked puzzled.

"There are flowers, grass, and spring water here. Do you think there is honey? It is very suitable for bees to build nests. Let's look around and see if we can find beehives." Xie Fanxing pointed to the bees not far away and said to Qian. .

"Fan Xing, this honey builds its nest secretly, either in the crevices of rocks or on the cliffs, we usually can't find it."

"Anyway, we have found the tea tree now. The biggest problem has been solved. It's still early. Let's take a look around. Will there be any harvest then?" Xie Fanxing insisted.

There are a lot of bees collecting honey here. There is still water here, and the humidity and environment are suitable for bees to build nests. There must be beehives within a radius of one mile.

"That's fine, Auntie will look for it with you." Qian felt that what Fanxing said made sense, and now that she had enough time, she was not in a hurry to go home. It would be a surprise if she really found the hive.

The two of them wandered around the grassland for a while, and after a while, Xie Fanxing found the trace.

"Auntie, I found it." Xie Fanxing saw a thick old tree growing alone at the foot of the hillside.

From time to time, honey flew from somewhere, and she quickly called for Mrs. Qian.

"Where is it?" Qian asked.

"It's inside that old tree."

"Inside the old tree? Aunt Six often herds sheep here, why didn't she find a beehive inside the old tree?" Qian asked in disbelief.

"Auntie, if I don't say that there is honey in this ancient tree that built a beehive, would you know?"

"That's true. Let's go and have a look first."

Xie Fanxing took Qian's family across the water and walked to the old tree. The old tree didn't know what kind it was, but it was verdant, tall and straight, full of vitality.

Here, it is obvious that there are more bees.

Xie Fanxing walked around the old tree. The roots of the old tree criss-crossed and deeply penetrated into the ground. In one place, a hole the size of an adult's palm was exposed.

In the hole, some bees flew in and out from time to time.

(End of this chapter)