slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 259 Wild Fruit Season

When we arrived at Fenghuanggou, we found a slightly flat, shady place close to the water source. Cang Hai stopped the cart and signaled everyone to get off.

"Put up the tent first, and then everyone who is sleepy will go to catch up on sleep, and those who are not sleepy should do whatever they want." Cang Hai smiled and stretched out his hand to move the first tent off the cart.

Cang Hai took one, Ping An and Lin Zhijing jointly took the second one, and Cang Jing and Shi Wei each served as assistants to a tent-building team.

Cang Hai is naturally in a group with Shi Wei, and it is not the first time for the two of them to set up a tent, so they set up the tent in about 5 minutes. Uniform palm-width bit that can be tethered.

The progress of Ping An's team was not so satisfactory.It's not that Ping An didn't set up the tent before, but because Lin Zhijing and Cang Jing came here purely to cause trouble for him, and they didn't know what to do after they opened the tent.

The tents that Cang Hai took out from the space are not the ones for home use. They can be unfolded like umbrellas. These two tents not only need to place brackets around, but also need to be pierced outside to prevent wind and rain. There are four more square sheds in front, and the sheds also have shelves. In front of a lot of parts, both Cang Jing and Lin Lijing feel a little at a loss.

"Okay, you guys move aside, let's do it" Shi Wei walked over, reached out to take a support pole from Cang Jing's hand and said with a smile.

Cang Jing's skills are not good enough, so she complained to Cang Hai: "Second brother, what kind of tent did you use? It's so complicated. I've seen other people's tents before. There are a lot of them, and people's eyes are dazzled."

Cang Hai laughed twice: "That's a tent for lazy people, I also have it at home, but do you think it will be comfortable for the three of you to squeeze into the small space at night? This big tent is better, the space is big enough for the three of you to be together You can roll around in it!"

"Second brother, when are we going back?" Ping An asked Cang Hai, keeping busy with work.

Cang Hai replied: "I have to wait for the people in the village to leave, it's so annoying to go back now, why did it feel like I went back when I first came out?"

Cang Jing said: "Brother Ping An, if you want to go back, go back first, I want to play here for a while, I have never lived in a tent since I was a child, besides, how nice is Second Brother's place, look at the air There is a scent of sweet-scented osmanthus in it, and when I came here just now, I saw a wild hawthorn tree, the small red fruits are so beautiful, I will pick some later."

After hearing this, Shi Wei asked strangely: "Is there a hawthorn on the way here?"

Cang Jing asked strangely: "Didn't you see it?"

Seeing that Shi Wei nodded, Cang Jing stretched out her hand, pointed to the glowing red tree shadow over there and said, "Here, it's over there, why don't we go pick it now?"

Seeing his cousin's high spirits, Cang Hai said to Shi Wei, "You guys go pick the hawthorns, Zhijing and you go too, and it would be nice to have me and Ping An to set up a tent."

Cang Jing immediately said: "Don't let him go, he is here to learn how to set up a tent with you honestly, in case it will come in handy in the future, we can go to pick hawthorns and other things."

After speaking, Cang Jing took Shi Wei's hand, walked to the side of the cart, took a bamboo basket, and walked towards the hawthorn tree not far away.

Mengmeng, who was playing on the cart, saw it, and immediately slid off the cart, and ran towards the hawthorn tree with his iron head, giggling happily while running, and shouted: "Pick the hawthorn!" , pick the hawthorn!"

"Slow down, Mengmeng, don't fall" Shi Wei said immediately seeing Mengmeng running away.

Before the words were finished, I saw Mengmeng tripped by a tukela, but the little girl didn't cry, Mengmeng, who was not a greenhouse flower since she was a child, got up directly, patted her clothes and pants twice and continued run.

Canghai saw Hutou lying on the ground, Huatou and Ping'an's Fat Huang were using Hutou's tail as a toy, and two half-sized puppies were biting and playing with Hutou's tail.

Cang Hai then said to Hutou: "Hutou, you follow!"

Hutou listened to Cang Hai's order, immediately stood up and quickly followed behind Shi Wei and Cang Jing.The two little milk dogs who were biting their tails were directly turned into a somersault by the tiger head, and the two little things rolled up from the ground and followed quickly.

The moving tail seemed to excite the two little guys even more. After catching up, they bit their tails and did not let go, but the two little guys couldn't walk as fast as the tiger's head, and soon became a tiger's head dragging two little meat The ball goes on the ground.

With Cang Hai and Ping An working together, another tent was erected quickly. Waiting for the four drills to be inserted into the soil, the ropes on the four sides were straightened, and several telescopic irons inside the tent were erected. It was tied up securely, not to mention the weak wind in the valley, even a wind tent of level five or six would be safe and sound.

Sprinkle some anti-snake powder or something next to the two tents to prevent bugs and snakes from leaning into or getting into the tents, and the whole work of setting up the tents is successfully completed.

Lin Zhijing, who stayed behind to learn how to set up the tent, didn't know how much he had learned. Seeing that the tent was set up, the kid said to Cang Hai, "Second Brother Cang, I'll go over there and have a look."

Seeing Cang Hai nodded, Lin Zhijing trotted towards the hawthorn picking team.

Cang Hai and Ping An put the stove and other things they brought back, and then started to look around for litter and leaves as fuel.

Fenghuanggou is no longer as desolate as it used to be. It is full of trees as thick as a bowl. Although the trees are not very old, so many trees grow together, and they already have the momentum of an old forest. Once you enter the forest Immediately inside, the human body feels that the temperature is a few degrees lower than outside.Similarly, because no one hit the fallen leaves, they also spread a thick layer on the ground, and the feet felt like they were stepping on a soft carpet.

Dead branches can be picked up directly from the ground, but the leaves used to light the fire cannot be used, because no one knows what is under the leaves, not to mention scorpions and poisonous insects, even if there is a small snake hidden, it is enough for people to drink A pot, although Cang Hai is not afraid, but he doesn't want to reach out and catch a poison, so he has to rely on a rake to hug the leaves.

After hugging a pile of leaves and picking up a handful of firewood, Cang Hai and Ping An returned to the camp and threw the things by the stove. Seeing that the hawthorn pickers hadn't come back, they went to have a look with Ping An.

There is still about ten meters away from the wild hawthorn tree, Cang Hai sees a bustle beside the hawthorn tree, Mengmeng is yelling under the tree, the iron head on the tree is shaking the branches according to Mengmeng's command, mature The hawthorn berries fell to the ground like light rain.Cang Jing was already standing on the first big branch of the tree, reaching for the hawthorns he could reach, picking one and putting it on his clothes. It was taken off, and the two sleeves were tied around the waist, making a temporary cloth pocket.

As for Shi Wei and Lin Zhijing's current tasks, they are naturally the same as Mengmeng.Pick up the hawthorn that fell from the ground.

Cang Hai and Ping An came to the tree, and Ping An immediately joined the hawthorn picking team. Cang Hai saw that the basket was full of bright red hawthorn berries, so he stretched out his hand and squeezed one, and put his finger on the hawthorn. Rub it twice and put it in your mouth.

After biting it down, Cang Hai immediately shivered, because the wild hawthorn was so sour, after the shiver, his mouth was full of water.

"I'm going, why is it so sour!" Cang Hai spat out the hawthorn fruit in his mouth.

Shi Wei smiled and said: "The first one is very sour, but if you eat a few more, you will find that this fruit is really good, but it is a little smaller, not as big as the hawthorn fruit sold in the market."

"You still choose the size of the wild fruit, and it's not cultivated," Cang Hai said with a smile.

Although Shi Wei said that it would be nice to taste a few more flavors, Cang Hai still didn't want to taste it, because one fruit felt like he was about to lose his teeth, how could Cang Hai eat the second one.

However, the sour fruit to Cang Hai is obviously full of flavor to Meng Meng. The little girl picked a big fruit and stuffed it into her mouth. Both cheeks were puffed up, just like a little squirrel carrying food.

Just as he was about to say that Mengmeng was like a little squirrel, Cang Hai saw a black squirrel jumping over from the ground and joined the army picking hawthorns. He didn’t know how such a small squirrel could hold six or seven hawthorns in its mouth. The mouth full of hawthorn berries could hardly be closed, and it seemed that there was no room for it. The black squirrel who picked up the leak ran away quickly, and quickly jumped up to a big tree not far away.

As soon as the first little squirrel left, another squirrel with a lighter color arrived and picked up the hawthorn immediately when it saw it on the ground.

"There are also couples who take advantage of the fire!" Cang Hai said with a smile.

Seeing these two squirrels, Cang Hai knew they were a family, and the couple were busy storing food for the winter.

Shi Wei straightened up at this moment, smiled at Cang Hai, "Two clever ghosts, they have been here since we laid the first batch of fruits."

"Sister Wei, let's stop picking hawthorns. There is a plum tree over there. The purple ones must be delicious. It's on the other side of the river!"

Standing on the tree, Cang Jing had sharp eyes, and found the plum tree opposite the pond, so she yelled on the branch.

As soon as Mengmeng heard about the plum tree, she immediately stood on tiptoe and stretched out her small head and asked, "Where is it, where is it?"

"You can't see it over there, but I can see it here. It's just a corner. If you don't pay attention, you can't find it. Fortunately, my eyes are good!" Cang Jing said loudly to Mengmeng under the tree.

The little girl immediately regained her spirits when she heard this, she dropped the hawthorn on the ground and didn't pick it up, and ran directly under the tree, hugging the trunk and trying to climb up the tree.

It's a pity that the little girl has little strength and can't climb the tree at all, so she shouted anxiously under the tree.

Cang Hai was going to help, but the iron head was one step faster than Cang Hai. Hearing Mengmeng's voice, he immediately jumped down from the treetops, hung upside down on the trunk and dragged Mengmeng up the tree.

With the help of Tietou, Mengmeng finally climbed to the branch and stood beside Cang Jing: "Where is it, where is it?"

"Did you see it?" Cang Jing stretched out her finger.

Stretching his head to look for a while, Mengmeng found the plum tree.

Seeing the plum tree, Mengmeng pouted immediately and wanted to get off the tree. While sliding down the tree, he said, "Go there, go there!"

Now, the team had to go around the pond again to pick plums on the opposite side. Who knew that before reaching the plum tree, they found another ripe wild apple tree. Unfortunately, most of the fruits were given by the birds. After pecking, I searched for a few but couldn't find any good ones, and the taste of the wild apples was not as good as the apples from the village, so they were naturally abandoned.

After walking for a while, I saw a wild pear tree. It was not the yellow-skinned pear that is commonly seen in the market, but a brown thick-skinned pear. It tasted tasteless, neither sweet nor sour, and was abandoned by the team.

When we came to the plum tree, everyone tasted it first. The plums on the tree were really big, and they were always purple and red, with white fruit frost hanging on the peel. The taste was not bad, but compared to artificial cultivation Sour is definitely sour, but Mengmeng and Cangjing don't care too much about the sourness, so the full basket of plums became the second batch of wild fruits that everyone harvested today.

Cang Hai didn't have much interest in wild fruits, but soon Cang Hai found something that interested him. A few wolfberry plants that he had paid attention to before had matured, and the purple-black fruit almost covered the branches. The leaves on the waist-high shrubs have almost fallen, and only the thorns and dark purple fully mature wild wolfberries are left.

With Ping An, Cang Hai began to put away the goji berries, ready to dry them and make tea.Goji berry is not easy to harvest, because it is a small shrub and its branches are covered with thorns, and Cang Hai didn't plan to sell it, so he collected about four or five catties and put it away.

(End of this chapter)