Easy Farmer

Chapter 21 Old Peach Tree

After sitting on the train for more than ten hours, Lin Dong finally returned to the small county where he was born and raised.

He got off the bustling train, and when he heard his familiar dialect, he felt more cordial.

I made an agreement with my parents in advance, and Lin Dong's parents came half an hour earlier holding a sign outside the station.When they saw Lin Dong, they shouted in surprise: "Lin Dong! Lin Dong! Here! Here!"

Lin Dong looked at the crowd, and finally saw his mother who was waving his hands excitedly at him, with a smile on his face, dragging big and small bags and rushing over, hugging his mother Li Xiumei, and his father Lin Jianye Looking at the side with a smile on his face.

When the three of them returned home, they asked about their health again. The meal at night was very good, with a lot of fish and meat. Lin Dong felt that this was the best meal he had in a long time.

The family also found him a fairly good job in a small county town, working as a clerk in a law firm, but how could Lin Dong go, and told his parents how he would go about his future.

It took a lot of effort to make the second elder reluctantly agree to let him go out for two years by himself, and if he can't, he will come back to work.Now you can relax and rest at home for two months.

So after staying with his parents for a while, Lin Dong returned to his grandparents' home in the countryside.

Grandparents were overjoyed when they learned that he was going to live in the country for a while, and when Lin Dong arrived home, they prepared a hot bath and delicious meals for him who was busy in the world.

Lin Dong ate a good meal again, and lived comfortably.

Life in the countryside is very leisurely, and grandparents don’t make a living by farming. Parents will give them money every month, plus some occasional handicrafts to sell, and there will be a lot left in a month.

When I got up the next day, I found my grandparents and a group of villagers gathered around the peach tree in front of the yard, sighing, moaning and discussing.

Unkempt, Lin Dong, who was coming out with a towel and a toothbrush to wash up, was scooping water from a bucket when he suddenly saw his grandparents and a large group of people gathered around the peach tree. Towel walked over and asked curiously, "Grandma, what happened to the peach tree?"

Then he looked at this peach tree. He still had an impression of this peach tree. It had been planted for many years before he was born. Looking at its towering and tall appearance now, it may have a history of hundreds of years. up.

Grandma turned her head and saw Lin Dong got up, she lowered her head and sighed, the wrinkles on her face seemed to become denser and deeper because of this sigh:

"This peach tree has been a little bit wrong since the beginning of spring this year. It has lost a lot of leaves, and you can see that there are many swollen pustules on its branches. After we poke it with something, it oozes out like yellow pus. It’s the same viscous liquid, and it’s so heartbreaking to see the trees wither and turn yellow before it reaches autumn, the old woman!”

Grandma covered her heart and finished speaking, the sad look on her face was like a fog that couldn't be dispelled. After all, this tree had existed since her time, basically watching her grow up, and now it has accompanied her. With her for more than 60 years, she is like the best but silent friend.

Grandpa was also silent at the side, lighting a shiny black, old tobacco rod that had been used for many years, and kept smoking the dry tobacco next to him.The eyes looking at the peach tree are also full of sorrow.

The significance of this peach tree to the two elderly people is extraordinary. It is a testimony that they have accompanied them since they were young. Now that they are in such pain as if they were sick, they feel very uncomfortable.

They asked a group of experienced tree-planting elders or experts early in the morning to ask what to do, but none of them could do anything. Some people even said that the disease of this peach tree was already very serious, and there was basically no possibility of saving it. It may die completely in about a year and become a dead tree.

When Lin Dong saw the sad and mournful appearance of his grandparents, it seemed that something in his heart had been severely picked up.

The neighbors who came over to watch the fun also stabbed them in the heart one by one:
"Looking at the tree like this, it must not be able to live. It is very sick. If the Lin family and his wife went to call someone for treatment earlier, it would be a bit of a joke. How can they still have to live now? It is estimated that it will die soon. .”

The people next to him responded one after another, and they all nodded that he was right.

The man raised his head triumphantly and swept away the crowd. He is a well-known old man in the village with rich experience in trees, and his speech is very authoritative.Others call him the boss of the tree.The villagers couldn't help admiring him, and even some tree experts sometimes asked him for some relevant knowledge.That's why he slowly became a little arrogant.

Lin Dong leaned forward and carefully observed this towering but sickly peach tree. The vigorous brown bark was covered with yellow and black tumor-like protrusions as big as persimmons. At least it has even cracked, and translucent viscous colloid is overflowing from it.

Many branches are dead, even dark brown and necrotic.Even the fruits are infected, many of them are brown and rotten, with white glue overflowing from the cracks.

Lin Dong thought about the reason for this, because he has been reading books about plants recently, and there is a kind of peach tree gummosis mentioned in it, which is very similar to the symptoms of the peach tree in front of him.

After knowing the number in his heart, Lin Dong gained some confidence in his heart. With a smile on his face, he said confidently to his grandparents:
"Grandpa and grandma, I can save it, look at me!"

After finishing speaking, he winked at his grandparents as if he was a little proud of asking for credit.

But grandpa and grandma didn't seem to hear it, and the grief on their faces didn't decrease at all. Just when Lin Dong thought they didn't hear, and wanted to say it again, grandma turned her head and sighed:

"Dongdong, I know you want to comfort us two old guys, there's no need, we'll try our best to help this peach tree sit on something for peace of mind, we'll be fine."

After speaking, they shook their heads, and wanted to go to the room to get insecticide to kill insects or something for this sick peach tree, although they also knew that it would be futile and not very effective.But I still do this every day, for peace of mind, at least I didn't let it sit here to die.

Grandpa also finished smoking a dry cigarette, and said to Lin Dong in an old voice with a vicissitudes of life:

"Dongdong, we are all so old, and we can take it easy. After all, birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature, and trees are of course no exception. The decline and prosperity are a matter of reincarnation. It is doomed by God that it cannot live, so naturally it cannot escape this. God's will. Just look at it."

Although Grandpa said this, he was still a little unwilling and regretful, and his expression was very depressed.

He didn't take Lin Dong's words to heart either. A child knows the basics of life, old age, sickness and death. Peach trees are going to die naturally when they have reached the end of their lives.Although very sad, but also know that this cannot be changed.And even those botanical experts and old people said it was hard to save him. What does Dongdong, a child who has just graduated, know?

Lin Dong was a little dumbfounded. Grandpa liked to instill some great principles in him since he was a child. Now that it has been so many years, it has not changed.

A peach tree is sick, and the disease is quite serious. The main reason is that it has not received the correct treatment for a long time to reach such a serious point.Grandpa actually touched on such a grand topic of reincarnation of life and death.
The tree boss who was surrounded by people like stars and moons was unhappy when he heard Lin Dong's words. He turned around and glared at Lin Dong, then snorted coldly:
"What do little hairy children know, I have traveled more roads than you have eaten salt, and I said that it is hopeless, can you still revive it?

Everyone around laughed loudly:
"The kid from Lao Lin's family is a college student who just graduated. He studies in the house every day. How can he know as much about crops and plants as our farmers in the fields, and it's even more impossible to compare with the tree boss."

"Boss Tree is still unusual after all. If he said he couldn't be saved, he definitely couldn't be saved. Last time he asserted that a sycamore tree would bloom white cotton on the trunk tomorrow, and it actually bloomed! It's amazing! "

"That's right, Boss Tree's knowledge of trees is indeed the most remarkable within a radius of tens of miles, and the nearby villages even send people to learn from him!"

Hearing everyone's compliments on him, the tree boss folded his hands behind his back and glanced at Lin Dong triumphantly. In the village, he was a "big man!" The problem is not to find yourself?So everyone respects him very much.

Now you little boy still question my thesis?Isn't this slapping me in the face?

Moreover, he has not read many books, and he has always felt inferior to those intellectuals who are full of poems and books, but the only thing that allows him to stand upright in front of intellectuals is his knowledge of plants.

But now a college student who just graduated has challenged his authority over the plants in the village, how can he not make him a little angry?
Lin Dong rolled his eyes a little speechlessly, and didn't bother to continue talking in front of them what they thought were arrogant words. Tree species usually don't have any major problems.It's a bit ridiculous that this tree boss is praised by the villagers for not only knowing a little way to save trees.

Before grandma went in, he trotted into the house, took out a bottle of water from the source, his eyes shone brightly, you must cure the disease of this old peach tree, and make my grandparents happy!
Then he trotted out, went to the side of the old peach tree, circled around its roots, and evenly sprinkled the water from the courtyard on it.

At this time, I saw that the villagers who had no excitement to watch were surrounded by the tall tree boss who was about to leave, and I saw Lin Dong who had just "spoken wild words" holding a small bottle filled with water. He ran out and sprinkled it on the roots of the old peach tree. I don't know what he was going to do. Could this be the way to cure the old peach tree?

Everyone in the village couldn't help laughing, pointing at Lin Dong and shouting mockingly: "Son of the Lin family, just sprinkle some water on the old peach tree? He thinks his water can cure all diseases! Haha Haha I laughed so hard!"

Grandpa and grandma also looked a bit ugly. Dongdong said in front of so many people in the village that he wanted to save the old peach tree. It was fine to be regarded as a child who was ignorant and nonsense, but now he actually held a water bottle. It's too ridiculous to see that the small bottle can be saved by pouring it on the root of the tree.If it gets out, I think my grandson is stupid in reading.

So they hurriedly waved to the villagers and said with a smile: "Children are ignorant, so don't be as knowledgeable as him! It's children's temper, just playing around!"

(End of this chapter)