Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 120 Taoyuan
Especially for Wei Fei.

The friends have already climbed the dangerous iron ladder with fear, and are enjoying the beautiful scenery on both sides of the Hongshui River on the oval platform at the top of the pier, and clearing up their nervous mood just now.

Jiang Shuyi, Zhang Xinyi and the other girls had already walked along the path and came to the bottom of the pier, and they were raising their heads and shouting to the boys on the platform.

Yan Xiao lay on the stone platform, crawled to the edge, exposed his head so that the people below could see him, and waved his hands, receiving a wave of praise.

Fang Wenyu and Mu Ruyun stood beside the iron ladder, ready to meet the last three.

Wei Fei's heart was about to jump out of his chest. He was already small, so the gap between the thin angle irons used as footholds seemed particularly wide.As soon as I put my feet on the first iron ladder, I felt that the abyss below was attractive, accompanied by the howling river wind, as if I wanted to pull myself down.

"Grandpa Gui'er is punishing me...Master Guier is punishing me..." Wei Fei complained tremblingly, while gripping the iron guardrails on both sides in fear, changing his left foot for the right foot, how does it feel? They can't even reach the next level of angle iron bars.

"You have to stand up on the plane, buttocks must leave the steel pipe first!" Liang Hong came up with an idea from behind, and even poked Wei Fei's buttocks with a wooden stick: "Come on!"

"Sister Hong, are you kidding me..." Wei Fei was about to cry, tears were obviously flashing in his little eyes: "Speak lightly! You think I don't want to?!"

"You switch hands and grab forward first! Try to reach forward!" Zhou Zhi also came up with an idea: "Also, two hands and two feet must be in a fixed state, so that there is no danger. , This is called three-point fixation!"

"Eh?!" Science Dog seemed to go through the algorithm in his mind, and then the powerful thinking of the laws of physics and mathematics seemed to finally overcome the physiological effects brought by adrenaline: "Elbow, that's the truth..."

Finally, Wei Fei achieved his first stride, and the advantage of his short stature was reflected again. Grasping the handrail seemed to be much more stretched than Yan Xiao.

When they came close to the pier, Fang Wenyu and Mu Ruyun reached out and grabbed Wei Fei's sleeves, and brought Wei Fei onto the pier.

Liang Hong is a good athlete, and he is the most dexterous among all of them. The movement down to the bridge pier is the easiest. Everyone gave Liang Hong a thumbs up, and Yan Xiao even gave a flattering compliment: "How about we I can call you Brother Hong, but why should I call you Sister Hong..."

Zhouzhi passed the bridge several times in his previous life, and now he still has some psychological pressure, but he is the least stressed among his friends, and finally got on the bridge pier safely.

The scenery from the pier is actually pretty good, Zhou Zhi looked around: "Actually, this is a good place to study."

Liang Hong directly denied: "If you are sick, come here to study."

"Sister Hong, you don't understand." Zhou Zhi was going to explain patiently: "In Shuchuan, we have Li Taibai's Reading Table in Jiangyou and Pengshan, Sima Guang's Reading Table in Guangyuan, and Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu Envoy in Chongzhou. Duan Wenchang's reading platforms are all steep and high places with a wide field of vision."

"The so-called reading platform is still in the mountains, and the wind sweeps away the Qinglan. The Huayue curling pot is still there, when will Layman Qinglian come..."

"If you don't listen, don't listen, the monk is not serious..." Sister Hong has already started to climb the iron ladder opposite: "This time I will take the lead, the plane is too boring..."

Yang Hegang was also intoxicated by the strange scenery here: "Sister Hong, I am not serious..."

Walking on the steel pipe bridge again, everyone's mentality relaxed a lot. Once the ground was changed to the river surface, although life and death were as unpredictable as falling, it was strange that the psychological pressure was much less.

Coupled with the test of the iron ladder just now, the psychological endurance itself has also become stronger.

Walking to the center of the river, the scenery is even more pleasant. It happened that a motor boat pulling coal, dragging a long team of tugboats, sailed down from the upper reaches.

Yan Xiao has already started to untie his trouser belt, calculating while undoing it: "If we sprinkle it from now on, it is estimated that we can spray it from the bow of the motor boat to the bottom of the last tugboat, or let's try together..."

Turning around and seeing the stick in Sister Hong's hand whimpering, she tightened her belt in fright: "Damn, I forgot there's a girl here!"

Liang Hong turned her head: "Scatter if you want, I'll go first!"

Seeing Liang Hong leaving, Yan Xiao asked his little friend, "Do you want to do it?"

Zhou Zhi thought for a while, "Can you guarantee that Sister Hong won't suddenly turn around and scare us?"

Yan Xiao also thought about it seriously: "Give up."

So the team continued to follow Liang Hong, not forgetting to say hello to Jiang Shuyi and the others on the shore.

Finally, everyone crossed over the second dangerous pier, and the further they walked the steel pipe, the closer they were to the ground. They slid along the steel pipe to the ground at the edge of the bamboo forest. Everyone jumped and jumped at the girl on the other side: "Hey—— We made it—”

The small figures of the girls on the opposite side were also waving to this side: "Bring us peaches——"

The peach orchard is just behind the bamboo forest. The tree is an old tree, and its branches have not been pruned or height controlled before. The crown of the tree can reach up to ten meters.

Taoyuan is owned by an old couple who live in a mud-walled thatched house by the side of Taoyuan.

Most of the area under the peach trees is a lawn, there are also several vegetable gardens, and some chickens and ducks are raised.

It is conceivable how beautiful this place will be in March. If it can be maintained for 15 years and a ferry is added, it will definitely become a unique scene in Jiachuan. In spring, there are many tourists, and peaches are not as profitable as peach blossoms.

But looking at this posture, it is impossible to wait until then.

Seeing Zhou Zhi and his group of second-year-old children coming over, the old couple knew they were here to eat peaches.

The current folk customs are still quite mellow. The old couple told the friends not to come here to harm the peaches in June and July, but the ripe and rotten peaches in August will not charge everyone's money, and they can eat whatever they want.

I took the initiative to find ladders, bamboo poles, and tarpaulins for picking up peaches for everyone, and invited everyone to enter the house to drink water.

In fact, the peaches at the bottom have almost been harvested, and the rest are the ones with the best sunshine conditions at the top, but because they are too high, the old couple can’t reach them, so they can only let them overripe, or fall down to make chickens, ducks and pigs cheaper. Son.

Fang Wenyu and Mu Ruyun set up the ladder, Yan Xiao climbed up, and then put the bamboo pole up.

This was just the first wave, and then the ladder was placed on another tree with more fruit, and this time Zhou Zhi climbed up.

In this way, everyone divided into three or four places, and began to beat the branches of peach trees with poles.

The overripe peaches fell down one after another, and one of them just hit Zhang Lu's upturned head, and immediately exploded into a bag of jam.

"Hey! Header!" Zhang Lu didn't take it seriously, he reached out to wipe his forehead, and then stroked it into his mouth: "It's so sweet!"

Liang Hong didn't participate in the fruit picking operation, but grabbed a peach in one hand, gnawed it and directed the people on the tree: "A little bit to the left of Yan Xiao...under the pole, don't stretch it so long...there is a big bunch... Right there, right there, quick knock, quick knock..."

The peaches kept falling from the tree, and soon the friends holding the tarpaulin changed to one hand, and the other hand grabbed the peaches and looked up while gnawing.

After everyone had eaten enough and the remaining peaches were enough for the girls opposite, Zhou Zhi put the bamboo pole on the branch of the peach tree and slid down the bamboo pole.

It turned out that they didn't bring any containers, so Zhou Zhi simply asked the old couple to buy two baskets, and relied on the output of the bamboo forest to weave bamboo ware, which was originally one of the old couple's livelihoods.

The thin-eyed baskets are very cheap, only two yuan each, and the couple helped Zhou Zhi find straw, and put a layer of straw and a layer of peaches on it, trying their best to keep the peaches intact.

Knowing that the group of children might have to stand the test when they climbed the iron ladder with peaches on their backs, the old man also took two plastic sheets to cover the opening of the basket, and roughly woven them with bamboo strips to prevent the peaches from falling out.

This simple old couple moved Zhou Zhi very much. One can imagine that the mischievous children who get peaches stolen here every June and July will suffer a lot, but they still retain a sincere heart for the children, which is really true. It is so commendable.

There is a fence made of dwarf orange trees outside the couple's peach orchard, and now it is covered with tangerines, which can be eaten for free.

Red tangerines are not afraid of being damaged, but even in the city they only sell for five cents a catty, and even if you take a hundred catties to the city and sell them all, the income is only five yuan. It's all a waste of time.

Originally, it was not far from Jiachuan, but because it was cut off by the Hongshui River and Gaodong River, and there was no ferry, it became "dark under the lamp" and became the place where Jiachuan developed the latest.

You can simply taste the tangerine here, there is no need to take it across the river.

Before saying goodbye, Zhou Zhi secretly pressed 20 yuan under the big teapot on the old couple's bamboo table.

I asked the old couple for a hemp rope and a bamboo pole, and the friends set off on their way back.

The bamboo pole has become a tool for transporting peaches over the iron ladder. First, go to a few people on the bridge pier, then set up the bamboo pole, put the back basket on the bamboo pole, and slide down smoothly.

From the pier to the steel pipe is the same method, but hemp rope is needed to pull the basket up.

No one has the courage to climb that iron ladder with a backpack on their backs.

There are a few farmer aunts and uncles resting on the bridge pier, even if they are walking on the iron ladder with the dung bucket, they are going to come to help at the beginning, but when they see that these children can be so ghostly for food, they can't help but He laughed straight, and simply sat there and watched them toss.

The team finally came back here, and the girls followed along from the river, and the two teams finally met in the woods.

We sat together on the ridge by the woods, looked at the opposite bank, and looked at the steel pipe bridge above us, sharing the excitement and worry just now, and also the joy of success.

Zhou Zhi took out a ripe peach from the basket, wiped off the fine hairs on the surface with a straw, and handed it to Jiang Shuyi: "Shuyi, eat!"

Jiang Shuyi took the peach and held it in her small hands: "Don't you need to peel it?"

(End of this chapter)