Manor Romance

Chapter 6 Chopping Bamboo in the Mountains
Due to the summer vacation, the students in the village are all at home. Unlike the city, there are not many places for them to have fun and play. Besides, they also need to help the family share the farm work, which can be regarded as half of the labor force.

Some of the team that went into the mountain this time were these students. The youngest were less than ten years old and followed their parents, while the older ones were about fourteen or fifteen years old. Some of them were students from Luzhen Middle School.

Yunli came from a big city and is a student of a famous university. He is humorous in class and often tells them some interesting things about the outside world. He is not as serious as other teachers. He is very popular among students in school.

It didn't take long before he was surrounded by several students, asking for anecdotes, and fell behind in the line.

"Mr. Yun, I heard that you won't be teaching in middle school next semester. Is it true?" A delicate and tall girl next to her asked with concern.

This girl's name is Huang Yanli. She is a student in Luzhen Middle School. She has attended Yunli's class and is also a study representative. Her grades are very good. After the summer vacation, she will go to a high school in the county to continue her studies. Also in the team this time.

"Is this still fake? Now the whole Xiaolu Mountain has been contracted by the teacher. Being your own boss is better than being a teacher."

Before Yunli could answer, a male student wearing a peaked cap beside him expressed his opinion.Maybe it was because he realized that there was another teacher in the field. After saying this, he looked around guiltily to make sure that the other teacher hadn't heard him, so he let out a long breath. It looked very funny.

"What's wrong with being a teacher? If I can get into university in the future, I'll go to major in teacher training." Huang Yanli disagreed with the male student's point of view, and murmured to herself.

Yunli listened to the students' chats, but didn't make much conversation. In his opinion, it doesn't matter what you pretend to be. The important thing is that what you work hard for is exactly the direction you want in your heart, and that's worth it.

It's just that when they were talking about university, Yun Li looked back at Lu Ci who was at the back of the line, not knowing which school she studied in before she dropped out, and what major she studied.

He didn't follow the advice of Xu Ping and Brother Chen, but decided to help Lu Ci. The blue cloth strip fluttering on the roof of the small building was exactly what he hung up yesterday. It was a kind of agreement between the two of them.

No one wants to get into trouble, even if it is potential, but sometimes, in order to avoid trouble, they take a path against their will, which is unacceptable to Yunli.

Looking back on my past, it is only with the help of many people that I can achieve what I am today.Yunli wanted to become a teacher at the beginning because of his original intention to give back to the society. Although the method has changed now, his original intention has not changed at all.Not to mention how much I can help Lu Ci, but at least I can't kill those opportunities that can make her change.

The west side of Xiaolu Mountain is still desolate, occasionally you can see some bushes or scattered fruit trees, and this area is very short of water, and there is no water source around.Drilling wells doesn't work either, so how to transform them is a difficult problem. Although Yunli has magical electromagnetic force, plants cannot grow without water no matter what.

Moreover, this area is mostly hilly and gentle slopes, coupled with the lack of water, it is really a headache for Yunli, but now that funds are limited, it is better to concentrate resources to make good use of the land in the south and lay a solid foundation before making plans.

The distance was not far, but since everyone was carrying tools and some were pulling carts, it took a while to reach the area where the bamboo forest was located, the junction of Xiaolu Mountain and Spotted Deer Mountain.

Different from the desolation of Xiaolu Mountain, the area from here to the west is full of dense jungles. There are several bamboo forests alone. Under the leadership of Xu Ping, everyone began to choose their own locations and cut suitable bamboos.

As far as building a bamboo house is concerned, it is generally better to choose bamboos that have grown for a long time, are uniform in size, have a straight trunk and are not damaged. This point needs to be reminded by Brother Chen, and the farmers are also very clear about the essentials.

Brother Chen is here to help Yunli find bamboo that is suitable for making doors and windows. There are no special requirements for this kind of bamboo. The most important thing is to cater to the craftsmanship of the craftsman. The finished product comes.

Back then when he agreed to help Yunli design the blueprints of the bamboo building, Brother Chen knew that it was not as simple as just drawing a picture, but for every craftsman, it was quite a pleasure to be able to personally participate in the construction of his own design , not to mention the owner of the bamboo building, he gets along very well with him.

Bamboo is very tough, and it is difficult to break it by brute force alone, so farmers use saws to deal with it.Two people each hold one edge of the saw, and then stick the sharp edge to the bottom of the root, and then work together to saw back and forth, and soon a wrist-thick bamboo can be brought down.

Bamboo likes to grow together in clumps, which is good for them to grasp the roots and stabilize the soil, and resist the strong wind. Bamboo needed to ensure the sustainability of the entire ecology.

After the bamboo fell down, the women and children were responsible for breaking off the branches on the bamboo, and then moved the bamboo to the cart.

Yun Li followed behind Old Brother Chen, shuttled around in the bamboo forest, looking for suitable bamboo materials.

"That's it, the arch in the hall depends on it." Brother Chen pointed to a bamboo covered with wild vines in front of him, and said happily.

If you look in the direction that old brother Chen is pointing at, you will see a patch of intertwined wild vines, which look like a blanket from a distance. If you look closely, you can find a few bent bamboos under the emerald green vines. Tenaciously support this green "blanket".

Under the instructions of Brother Chen, the two of them pushed aside the vines wrapped around the bamboo. Brother Chen chose one of the bamboos that had the largest bend but was not damaged at all. With the joint efforts of the two, the bamboo quickly It was sawn down and placed on the cart specially reserved by Brother Chen.

"This kind of bamboo is called fake moso bamboo in our place. Compared with normal moso bamboo, the bamboo joints are much shorter, and the length is not as high as ordinary moso bamboo, but it is very tough. Like this one, when the bamboo shoots are converted into new bamboos, It started to be entangled by these old vines, and it has been bent and grown until now, and when I go back and bake it, I can make a beautiful round arched bamboo frame."

In his field of expertise, Old Brother Chen talked eloquently and taught Yunli a lot of relevant knowledge.

Then, Old Brother Chen found a few more suitable bamboos in various shapes and varieties. Yunli didn't know where they would be used. Gained.

There is a lot of bamboo needed to build the bamboo building, and this time, we have to prepare enough bamboo for the storage warehouse, but with the efforts of everyone, we quickly collected enough bamboo.The rest of the work is to transport them all back to the small building, and those selected by Brother Chen are also bundled together and transported back together.

After cutting the bamboo, everyone was still looking around in the bamboo forest in order to collect more bamboo shoots.

Bamboo shoots are very important economic crops in Southwest China. Although it is not the best season for producing bamboo shoots, you can still find many bamboo shoots that have just emerged from the ground in the bamboo forest.

The bamboo shoots of many types of bamboo can be eaten. In Luzhen, everyone collectively calls them small wild bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots grow very fast. Under the right conditions, they can grow to the size of a child in less than a day after being unearthed. high.

Only the tender stems at the top of bamboo shoots are suitable for eating, so they should be picked when they are just unearthed. Bamboo shoots are also a popular delicacy here. It is a very common practice to cook them with meat while they are fresh.

After the bamboo shoots are dehydrated and dried, cut into shreds, boiled, and then squeezed and dried, the dried bamboo shoots can be made into long-lasting dried bamboo shoots, which are an excellent match for soup and tea.

Pickled bamboo shoots can be made in a variety of ways, each family has different tastes, and the pickled bamboo shoots made are also different. The tastes of sour, spicy, salty, and fresh can all be incorporated into bamboo shoots according to preferences to make a pleasant appetizer.

Yunli also likes bamboo shoots, which can be eaten everywhere in Lu Town, but he has never cooked it himself, and he can't even cook a decent meal, which really makes him very ashamed.

Next, some of the farmers wanted to continue to search for wild treasures in the mountains, so they dispersed on the spot.

Xu Ping didn't join the ranks of going into the mountains. His family still had to do farm work, so he returned with the last batch of bamboo.

Yunli had given him the wages of the farmers in advance, and asked him to distribute them on his behalf. If there were carts to help, some additional wages would be added, so he had to make a good statistics of this, so as not to make any omissions.

Of course Yunli wanted to continue to enter the mountain, and he had been looking forward to this for the past few days. Brother Chen knew his temper, so he had no choice but to accompany him.

Traveling in the mountains and forests is not an easy task. The terrain is intricate and there are no fixed roads. If you don't have enough experience, you will often suffer a big loss. Therefore, at the suggestion of Brother Chen, the two of them joined Huang Yanli's family. in the ranks.

Huang Yanli's parents are both peasants in the village, an authentic and simple peasant family, and her father is a straight-faced thick-browed man named Huang Damin.The mother was also quite tall, with long braids, and her name was Xu Yin. It seemed that Huang Yanli's tall figure was inherited from her parents.

For the joining of Yunli and Old Brother Chen, they are naturally very welcome. In Yunli's recruitment before, both their husband and wife participated, they are acquaintances, and anyone can see that there will be more people in Yunli's farm in the future. A lot of odd jobs need to be recruited, and it is of great benefit to get close to him.

In the process of chatting, Yunli also discovered that Huang Yanli's family actually had a little relationship with Brother Chen, although it was quite distant, which really surprised him.

(End of this chapter)