Golden Fishing Village

After eating, it's time to work.

Ao Muyang looked up at the big tree in front of him. The pine tree was 20 meters high and one person could hug it wide. It must be hundreds of years old.

He was not an ignorant person. After all, he often went up the mountain all year round and had seen many big trees, but it was rare to see such a thick pine tree. No wonder the old man said that collecting pine oil here would not harm the tree. It would not be a big problem if such a thick pine tree lost some pine oil.

Ao Zhiman came over and handed him a knife, saying: "Village chief, I'll give you an oil cutter. I'll teach you how to collect pine oil later. The two of us can work faster."

Ao Muyang said: "The two of us? What about Fuwa?"

The old man smiled slyly and said: "Aren't you here? Let Fuwa rest, and the two of us can do it."

Ao Muyang smiled bitterly. It was all a routine. He was just saying that children should be spoiled, but they immediately became spoiled.

He was quite familiar with the oil cutter. When he was a child, he watched a martial arts drama and saw a famous weapon called the Deer Cutting Knife. Then, a friend took out the oil cutter at home and said that this was the ancestral Deer Cutting Knife.

Then, when the friend was practicing martial arts with the Deer Cutting Knife, he was seen by his parents and suffered a beating!

The shape of the oil cutter is very interesting, similar to the S shape, with a semicircular blade at the upper and lower ends. By analogy, this blade is very similar to the round chisel used by carpenters, with sharp ends.

This thing is a murder weapon. It is used to cut the bark. The pine bark is very hard. To cut it, the blade must be extremely sharp. There was a tragedy in Qiantan Town. A gangster forced an honest man. The honest man had no choice but to stab him with the oil cutter at home.

The reason why it is called a tragedy is that the gangster struggled, and the honest man scratched subconsciously, and the sharp oil cutter cut through the gangster's body, cutting open his belly...

Ao Zhiman also held an oil cutter in his hand, and he taught: "Look, you have to cut a hole in the bark to cut pine oil, it's like this, a Y-shaped hole."

Ao Jinfu added: "Grandpa, this is called a Y-shaped, an English letter, it's fashionable."

Ao Zhiman said impatiently: "We are doing traditional work passed down by our ancestors, what's the point of being fashionable? If you want to be fashionable, go on the stage and show your buttocks, that's fashionable, shameless!"

Ao Muyang wondered, what is the old man talking about? There is such a program? Why hasn't he seen it? This is missed!

As a result, Ao Jinfu revealed the answer to him: "Grandpa, they are models walking on the catwalk..."

Ao Zhiman ignored him and continued to teach Ao Muyang: "You make a hole like this. The two sides on the top are where the pine oil is cut, and the hole below is where the pine oil flows. It is a channel. You hang a small bucket or plastic bag under the hole, and the pine oil will flow in."

"Also, remember to push the oil cutter forward instead of pulling it back. The cut made by pushing it forward is smooth and neat, and the pine oil flows smoothly. If you pull it back, the cut made by pulling it out is rough and uneven, which is not good."

He demonstrated to Ao Muyang, using a piece of wood instead of cutting directly on the pine tree.

When cutting, he continued to explain: "You have no experience, anyway, you can find a place that has not been cut before to cut. The thinner the bark is, the better. As long as the pine oil flows out, it's fine. Don't have to cut a big hole."

Ao Muyang practiced with a wooden block several times, and then the cut he made looked like a real one.

The main thing is that he can reverse the golden elixir, and his explosive power is extremely strong. The sharp blade plus the powerful explosive power, although the bark of the old pine tree is rough and tough, it can still be cut with a knife.

The lower half of the tree is already full of Y-shaped scars. The old man said that such places cannot be used. You have to find bark with no wounds within the upper and lower half meters to cut. Only in such places can there be pine oil.

Ao Muyang looked up and estimated that he had to climb up ten meters.

Climbing so high can be considered as high-altitude work. He remembered that he didn't buy personal accident insurance, so he felt that such work was a bit dangerous.

He didn't climb up, the head of state climbed up, four little claws grabbed the bark, and climbed up the tree with rubbing, very skillful.

Ao Muyang was very surprised. This kid is really sensible. Is he going to help him collect pine oil?

As a result, he soon found that he thought too much. The head of state found a squirrel on the branch and wanted to catch the squirrel.

The squirrel got scared and went into the tree hole. The leader also went in, but it had gained weight during the Chinese New Year. The upper half of its body went in, and the lower half was stuck outside. Its tail swung back and forth, as if the tree had become a spirit.

There was no particular danger in working on the tree, but it was more risky when climbing the tree, because you need to make a ladder to cut pine oil high up in the tree. This "ladder" is not a real ladder, but a safety rope.

Although old man Ao Zhiman is old, he is very skilled. His thin body is like a monkey. He successfully climbed up the tree, and then he found a branch to test its load-bearing capacity. When he felt that there was no problem, he put the rope wrapped around his waist on the branch.

In this way, he hung his body on the branch and moved up and down along the trunk. In addition, his legs should be tightly wrapped around the tree. The safety rope provides protection. It is best to stay on the tree with the strength of his legs.

Ao Muyang had no choice but to climb up the tree. The pine trees here were all tall and lush. After he climbed up, he followed suit and tied himself up with a safety rope.

The next step was to cut a Y-shaped incision. Pine oil immediately flowed out after he cut it.

The pine oil that flows out is a drop of it, very sticky, and white in color, but it will appear yellow after being concentrated in a bag or a small bucket.

Ao Muyang tied the bag, then loosened the rope and slid down, changed to a new position so that he could continue to tie it and repeat the previous work.

Three beds require at least 50 liters of pine oil, mainly because the big bed requires more pine oil.

These trees are relatively sturdy, and one tree can produce more than one liter of pine oil, but so much pine oil cannot flow out in a short time, and it will take at least a week.

In other words, they have to come again after a week.

But then the work will be simple, just concentrate the pine oil in the plastic bag in a small bucket, Ao Muyang doesn't need to come, the old man can do it himself.

After finding more than 50 trees, an afternoon is over.

Ao Zhiman wiped the sawdust off his face and said, "Sleep here for a night, and climb up the trees one by one tomorrow. Some of the holes don't produce pine oil, so we have to repair a few of them."

Ao Muyang said helplessly, "Grandpa Man, do we have to climb trees tomorrow? One by one?"

The old man nodded, "Yes, do you think this job is easy? I told you that it was a job for poor people before. If you can just cut a hole and wait to collect pine oil, wouldn't that be easy?"

He continued, "I tell you, it's not so bad now. There is a weather forecast that can warn you of the weather in the next few days. In the past, there was no weather forecast, and you never knew if there would be a storm one day and your work would be in vain. Oil barrels were blown up and rainwater flowed into them. This kind of thing often happens!"