Mountain Miscellaneous

Chapter 14 There is no time in the mountains, and peaches are sold in the busy market

"The heaven and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is prehistoric. The sun and the moon are in full bloom, and the night and night are arranged. The cold comes and the summer goes, and autumn harvests and winter hides..."

At the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, Li Changqing worked at sunrise and rested at sunset, reading "Thousand Characters Essay" in the mountains and fields, his voice was not in a hurry.

"Thousand Characters" is the last book in the "Three Hundred Thousands" of enlightenment books. Although it is only used to teach children literacy, it contains knowledge of astronomy, geography, nature, society, history, etc.

There are some words in it, Li Changqing actually saw it for the first time.

There is no time in the mountains, and the year is not known at the end of the cold, and a week passes in a blink of an eye.

Li Changqing finished reading "Zeng Guang Xian Wen" and "Children Learning Qiong Lin", leaving only the last book "Proverbs Lian Bi".

As the saying goes, after studying Zengguang, you can speak the language, and after elementary school, you can go all over the world.

"Zeng Guang Xian Wen" looks chaotic on the surface, but actually has internal logic.

Most of the sentences come from the collection of classics and history, poems, songs, dramas and novels, and literati miscellaneous notes, and their ideas and concepts contain both Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.Mainly from the perspective of "human nature is evil", it expounds the views on interpersonal relationship, destiny, how to live in the world and reading.

"No one cares about living in poverty, but rich people have distant relatives in the mountains."

"With wine and meat, there are many brothers. In adversity, I have never seen one person."

"If you don't believe me, just look at the wine in the banquet, and respect the rich people first."

"The yamen is open, don't come in if you have a reason and no money"

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Insights into social life with a stern look, highly summarized the dark phenomena in many aspects, and displayed them coldly in front of readers.

It is better to have no books than to believe in books. After Li Changqing read "Zengguang" thousands of times, he removed the negative and extreme parts, extracted the essence, and formed the crystallization of his own wisdom with Confucianism as the core.

"Youth Learning" is relatively easier to understand than "Zengguang". The content of the book is extensive and all-inclusive, and it can be called an ancient Chinese encyclopedia.

Li Changqing abandoned some of the viewpoints that modern people can hardly agree with, and analyzed and thought about laws and regulations, customs and etiquette, weddings and funerals, food and drink utensils, palace treasures, civil affairs subjects, Buddhism, Taoism, ghosts and gods, etc., and analyzed ancient political economy. Culture has a very deep understanding.

Ten days had passed since Xu Xing issued the task of 'use a hoe to reclaim a hundred acres of vegetable land within fifteen days'.

Not only did Li Changqing study every day without delaying land reclamation, but on the contrary, he completed the progress of nine football field-sized progress in the buff bonus of the sound of books. He only needs to complete the area of ​​three football field-sized areas in the remaining five days to complete the task. .

After more than a week of watering by Li Changqing, the three peach trees have undergone qualitative changes. The peaches that were originally gray have turned green.

Li Changqing tasted one again, it was very crispy in the mouth, and the sweet juice burst into the mouth, exuding a unique fragrance.

"Sure enough, it was hard, refreshing and astringent a week ago, but now it's sweet and crisp and has a very strange fragrance!"

After Li Changqing ate his fill under the peach tree, he picked some and brought them home in a bag, intending to give his parents, second uncle, and red beans a taste.

"Hey, this peach doesn't look big, it's the same as the Maoditang peach in our house, but it tastes really delicious!", Liu Cuie ate with her mouth and grabbed several in her hand.

"Where did you pick it?" Li Dahai ate in silence, leaving peach pits all over the floor, and then asked in satisfaction.

"Haha, it's grown on our peach tree!" Li Changqing said with a smile.

"Impossible, the peaches on our peach tree have been grown for more than ten years, they are bitter and astringent, and no one has ever eaten them!" Liu Cuie said with an expression of disbelief on her face.

"How could our peach tree produce such fruit? You should be a grafted peach tree or plum tree, right?" Li Dahai guessed suspiciously.

"There are still a lot on the tree. You guys will go pick them with me later, give some to my second uncle's house, and I'll sell the more in the county town!"

The whole family's savings are used to contract the wasteland, and the economy is very tight. Li Changqing doesn't even have money to pay phone bills. It would be great if he could earn some money by selling peaches.

"It's really strange, these peaches were gray and gray a few days ago, but now they are greener than leaves!" Li Dahai said wonderingly wandering around under the peach tree.

"Old man, don't wander around! I just tasted one, and I brought it home with Qingwa, come and help pick it!", Liu Cuie said to Li Dahai after eating a peach.

Li Changqing soon found that the snakeskin bag he brought was not enough, and it was full before picking even one tree.

Liu Cuie hurried home and brought two more snakeskin bags before finishing picking peaches from a tree.

Li Changqing rode Li Dahai's motorcycle with two bags of peaches, and rode for nearly two hours to the fruit wholesale market in the county seat.

"Although your peach looks very green, it should be a hairy peach!"

The wholesaler in the market glanced at him and said, then put Li Changqing aside.

Li Changqing even asked several companies, but the results were similar, and no one was willing to accept it.

It was not easy to come to the county. Li Changqing didn't want to go back with two bags of peaches. He parked his motorcycle outside the fruit wholesale market and unfastened the two bags of peaches.

The fruit wholesale market not only wholesales fruits, but also retails fruits. The price is cheaper than that of ordinary fruit shops, so many people come to buy fruits.

Generally, no hawker would be so stupid as to sell fruit outside the fruit wholesale market. Li Changqing's broken motorcycle and snakeskin bags are extremely conspicuous.

But most of them just glanced at Li Changqing and went into the fruit wholesale market without saying anything.

"My fellow, what do you sell?" Occasionally, someone would come up to ask.

"peach!"

"Hey, your peaches are greener than leaves, are they ripe?"

"It's ripe!"

"What species?"

"It's the peaches growing on the tree at home!"

"How much is a catty, I haven't eaten peaches at home for a long time, bring me some, miss the lost childhood!"

"thirty!"

"What, thirty? Even a normal fruit shop sells it for ten yuan and three catties, and the fruit wholesale market is fine for two yuan and twenty cents. You sell it for thirty here?" The person who asked turned around and left immediately.

Li Changqing was not in a hurry or annoyed, he closed his eyes and read silently in his heart.

"Hey, fellow, are you still here? No one buys 30 yuan a catty of peaches anywhere, let alone this is a wholesale market?"

After the person who inquired just now came out, he saw that Li Changqing was still there, so he stepped forward and said kindly.

Li Changqing knew that the other party was also out of kindness, so he smiled at him.

"Hey, let's do it! I don't think it's easy for you. It costs three yuan a catty. How about giving me some?"

Seeing Li Changqing's appearance, the man sighed and said.

"No, 30 yuan is already very cheap, if it is lower, I will be sorry for my peach!" Li Changqing shook his head and said.

"Aren't you a Maotao? Why is it so expensive? Can you try one?"

"can!"

(End of this chapter)