forest developer

Chapter 5 Yunhai Forest Farm
Du Juan took out the small pendant from his bosom.The small pendant was made of bone, three centimeters wide and five centimeters long, and was brown in color. The face of an old man with a long beard was engraved on the front, with elegant lines and quite vivid.

I don't know how many years the pendant has existed, and it exudes an ancient and mysterious atmosphere.

Walking to the kang, Du Juan saw that Ling Zikai hadn't woken up, so he boldly put the pendant on his chest, and muttered silently:

"The ancestor god of the mountain, please bestow your great and noble 'Kut' on this kind-hearted boy, let him become a brave 'shaman', and protect all living beings in the [-] mountains!"

Immediately, while Du Juan kept chanting some incomprehensible words, he fixed his eyes on the small pendant on Ling Zikai's chest.

Time is passing slowly.

The pendant on Ling Zikai's chest remained unchanged.

Dujuan was a little disappointed.

Is it just a legend left by the ancestors?

In a trance, Du Juan seemed to see a ray of white light emanating from the pendant, which suddenly entered Ling Zikai's chest.

Du Juan thought he was delusional, but when he looked again, he found that the pendant had disappeared.

Looking at Ling Zikai's empty chest, Du Juan was so excited that his whole body trembled, and he kept saying, "The ancestor god has appeared! The ancestor god has really appeared!"

Immediately afterwards, she knelt down and bowed respectfully to Ling Zikai three times.

That night, Ling Zikai had a strange dream.

He found himself in a dense forest: where the trees are shady, wild flowers are everywhere, sika deer are walking gracefully by the stream, monkeys are swinging among the trees... There are vibrant scenes everywhere!It's like entering a fairyland.

Suddenly, an old man with white hair and white beard appeared in front of him, asking himself kindly:

Kid, would you like to be a shaman?

What is a shaman?

The shaman is the guardian of this forest, and his duty is to protect all creatures in the forest from harm!
Would you like to be the guardian?

Are there any ferocious beasts in this mountain?

Of course there is!There are tigers, black bears, wild wolves, poisonous snakes, etc. Are you afraid?

Of course I'm afraid, how can I destroy them with my strength? .

Hahaha!What an honest boy!

Don't worry, as long as you become a guardian, I will bestow wisdom and strength on you!

Then I am willing to be a guardian!Be a shaman!
After becoming a shaman, your life, your soul, will be integrated with this mountain and this forest, and will never be separated!Do you remember?

Remember it?

And mountains, forests, never parted!
When Ling Zikai woke up, it was already the next morning.

The dream I just had is still in my mind, not only the scene is clear, but even the voice of the old man with the white beard is still in my ears.Ling Zikai felt a little strange, it was clearly a dream, how could it feel real!

I remember when I was in college, I once listened to a class given by an old professor about religious belief.

It mentioned that there is a religious belief in the northern minority areas called Shamanism.

The wizards in the religion seem to be called shamans.

It is said that day and night have dreams, but I have never been in contact with shamanism before, so why did I suddenly have such a strange dream!

Just when Ling Zikai was thinking wildly, the door of the wing room opened gently, revealing a delicate face, without any decoration, plain and fresh.After seeing Ling Zikai sitting on the kang with crystal clear eyes, he opened the door and walked in: "Are you awake? There are many people from the town, all of whom want to send Dad up the mountain!"

Ling Zikai also heard the voices of many people coming from outside the wing room, and immediately got off the kang.

After walking out of the room, after brushing his teeth and washing his face, Du Juan brought him a breakfast and said, "Hurry up and eat, we will go to the funeral later!"

The tone was still calm, but it was less polite and more casual than yesterday, and there was a faint feeling of treating Ling Zikai as his own family.

The place of burial was chosen in the Yunhai forest farm contracted by Ling Zikai's father before his death.It is seven or eight miles away from Yunhai Town.

More than 50 people followed the funeral, and Wu Dashan presided over the funeral.

Ling Zikai and Du Juan walked in front of the team with white cloths on their heads and soul banners in their hands.The urn was carried on the back of a horse.The rest of the mourners followed.

After walking for nearly an hour, I arrived at the forest farm and chose a birch forest as the grave site.With the help of everyone, it didn't take much time to dig a hole, bury it, and fill it with soil.

There is a newly built tomb in the quiet birch forest.The spirit banner on the grave made a rattling sound in the mountain wind.Du Juan and Ling Zikai were the only ones left in front of the tomb.

"Zikai, since you're here, let's go and see the forest farm your father left behind!" Du Juan didn't allow Ling Zikai to refuse, and walked to the wooden houses outside the birch forest first.

Ling Zikai hesitated for a moment, then followed.

There are six wooden houses in total, and the distance between each wooden house is about two meters.It is made of wooden reeds with a diameter of more than 20 centimeters, and there are doors and windows on the side of the house.Judging from the color of the wooden reeds, the wooden house has existed for many years.

Du Juan pushed open one of the pointed wooden houses, and after entering the door, he turned to look at Ling Zikai, motioning for him to come in.

There is a space of more than 20 square meters in the wooden house, because the windows are relatively small, so the light is a little dark.In addition to an earthen kang, there are several wooden boxes.There are some cups, clothes and other daily necessities scattered on the box.

A yellowish map hangs on the wall facing the door.There are a few words written on the top of the map: "Regional Map of Yunhai Forest Farm".

A large area in the shape of a lotus leaf is drawn with a thick red circle on the map, which must be under the jurisdiction of the forest farm.In the area, partitions of different sizes are drawn with thinner lines, and some numbers are marked beside them.

"This wooden house is where the godfather lives!"

Seeing that Ling Zikai was paying attention to the map, Du Juan walked to Ling Zikai's side and introduced: "This is the map of Yunhai Forest Farm. The forest farm is located in the north of Xing'an Mountains, on the left side of the upper reaches of Yunhai River. The whole field has an area of ​​more than [-] mu. There are There are five canyons, seven rivers, one lake, and one meadow. Except for a virgin sub-forest in the north, there is an agricultural reclamation area in the west. The rest are new artificial forest areas."

Du Juan spoke in one breath, obviously knowing the entire forest area like the back of his hand.

"What do these marked numbers mean?" Ling Zikai asked.

"Those numbers indicate the number of trees planted in the area, and in which year they were planted, what species are there and so on"

"Yunhai Forest Farm was originally a state-owned forest farm in Yunhai County. Due to excessive harvesting of forest resources, the original dense forest turned into a barren barren hill. Ten years ago, your father contracted the entire forest farm. The contract period is 70 years. According to the forestry policy at that time, the first five years of the contract period were exempt from contracting fees, and half of the fees were paid in the second five years. 500."

"So, the current forestry farm is facing nearly 700 million debts." Ling Zikai asked in disbelief: "Then how much is the annual income of the forestry farm?
"The current forest farm has not produced any economic benefits." Du Juan said bitterly: "And, in the next five years, the forest farm will not have much profit!"

Ling Zikai calculated silently, and said in a deep voice, "After five years, the debt of the forestry farm will reach 6000 million."

Du Juan shook his head and said, "Every year, the forest farm needs to invest 200 million yuan in seedlings, fertilizers, and manual management. Five years is 1000 million yuan."

In Ling Zikai's heart, he couldn't help but want to scold his mother.No wonder at that time, Wu Dashan said that these debts were a bottomless pit.

"Why didn't you plant fast-growing forests at the beginning? Some fast-growing forests can grow to maturity in just seven or eight years, or even four or five years."

"When I contracted the forest farm, my godfather planned to plant a fast-growing forest, but I stopped him."

"Why?" Ling Zikai asked puzzled.

"Because the fast-growing forest has a single tree species, resulting in a simple plant community, it will seriously damage the ecological environment and cause soil erosion. Moreover, the growth cycle of the fast-growing forest is very short, requiring the use of a large amount of chemical fertilizers, which will poison the soil after a long time."

Du Juan felt that he was not satisfied, and continued: "In addition, most of the introduced fast-growing forest species are exotic species, which have strong vitality and are difficult to root out. They pose a threat to local species and will change the entire natural ecological balance. The native forests planted with fast-growing forests are very It is difficult to survive, and it will be difficult to grow other crops in the future."

"Fast-growing forests usually have an overbearing ability to absorb water and fertilizer, which often makes the plants around the fast-growing forest unable to survive and destroys the diversity of vegetation."

"He also has a nickname called water pump! After the fast-growing forest is planted, the soil will become loose and desertified in the future. Usually, we can find springs and streams in the densely forested mountain depressions. But the fast-growing forest grows Due to frequent logging, it is difficult to find springs and streams even in the densest places. Therefore."

Ling Zikai listened quietly to Du Juan's eloquent talk: "Do you think that the purpose of our contracting the forest farm is to make money, soil erosion, and the ecological environment are things that the state should manage."

"Back then, my godfather also thought I was stupid. He said that other people's homes were planting fast-growing forests, and the country didn't object. How come we can't do it!"

Ling Zikai nodded in sympathy.

"There are several forest farms around Yunhai Forest Farm, which were contracted in the same year as us. They planted fast-growing forests. Now they have started to harvest a lot of wood, and they have tens of millions of income every year. If it wasn't for me If there is no opposition, perhaps, the current predicament will not appear, and my father will not encounter such unexpected disasters and leave this world."

(End of this chapter)