Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 10 Everything can be grafted (please vote)

The reason why Malian Valley is called Malian Valley is because there is a river in the valley called Malian River.

The Malian River was not actually a river originally, but because it happened to be a ravine on the Loess Plateau, some water slowly accumulated and some stones and sand were gradually deposited at the bottom, forming a river.

The Loess Plateau is covered with ravines and ravines, and there is almost no flat land.

If you look down at the Loess Plateau from the air, you will seem to see the face of an old man, with deep wrinkles everywhere.

Li Muyang carefully slipped down the slope.

There used to be a way down here, but because the relationship between Chi County and Yong'an County gradually became rigid, people from both sides cut off communication, and the only trail was also cut off.

If people on both sides still want to communicate, they have to find another way.

Li Muyang also searched for the road he had walked in his previous life based on his memory, but after all, it was so long ago that he still remembered the exact location wrong. He only remembered that there was a mulberry forest where he went down, but after searching for a long time, he still couldn't find it.

Finally, I discovered that the so-called mulberry forest was just a few wild mulberry trees growing next to a bunch of acacia trees. They only grew leaves but no fruits.

There is half a cliff next to the mulberry tree. It is not very high, about five or six meters.

Mulberry trees grow from the bottom of the cliff and stretch to the top of the cliff.

When going down, just jump off the cliff. The ground below is soft anyway, so you won't get hurt. When you come up, just climb up along the mulberry tree.

Li Muyang inspected the terrain on the spot and confirmed that the mulberry trees were still there, and judging from the thickness of the mulberry trees, they could fully support his adult body.

He held the mulberry tree and carefully observed it for a while, then came to the edge of the cliff that was the lowest from the ground. He threw down the cloth bag he was carrying, closed his eyes, and jumped off the cliff with a bang.

A height of five to six meters will basically not have any impact on a body like Li Muyang. He has very good physical fitness and high flexibility.

When building a house at home, others used ladders to go up and down. Every time he finished working on the roof, he would jump directly from the roof and land on the solid ground without any problems.

Li Muyang landed firmly on the grass below the cliff, and took a few steps forward to get rid of the inertia.

He turned around and tied his backpack around his waist again, looked at where he jumped, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and ran towards the lower reaches of the river without looking back.

There is no specially built bridge in this section of the Malian River. It is only a wooden bridge built with three pieces of wood tied together with iron wire and hemp rope at the narrowest position.

Over time, the original elm wood has lost its original color, and a thick layer of green moss has grown on it, as if the wood is dressed in green clothes.

This kind of moss is very annoying. Because of their presence, the wood will corrode faster. If people step on the moss, their feet will slip and they may fall into the river if they are not careful.

Although the water of the Malian River is not very deep, and the deepest part is less than the height of an adult, the water is very dirty, filled with broken branches and leaves, sediment, garbage, and even the remains of various animals washed down from the upper reaches of the valley. corpse.

If you fall into this water, you will be sick for days.

Li Muyang was most afraid of walking on this kind of bridge.

He fell into this river when he was very young. He was so young at the time that he almost drowned. If his elder brother hadn't pulled him up, there would have been another kid in the Malian River.

From then on, Li Muyang was not only afraid of water, but also afraid of heights.

It's that very serious level.

In his previous life, his daughter was working in the south. When he went to visit her, they took him to the West Lake to see the scenery, but he didn't dare to get close at all.

As long as you are within one meter of the lake, you will immediately feel sick and vomit, just like a drunk person.

His fear of heights is also very severe.Even when changing a light bulb while standing on a bench less than one meter high, he would feel dizzy, as if he was going to faint the next moment.

So he doesn't like to climb steep mountains because it will make his legs weak.

There is no way to go to the construction site to work.

Whether it was working as a scaffolder or walking back and forth on the erected scaffolding, he didn't have the confidence.

Even when building a house for his own family or a relative's house, he had to overcome great discomfort. He often couldn't climb the ladder when he came down, and would jump down directly.

In his previous life, he wanted to make money, but could not overcome this fear, which made him very miserable for a long time.

He also tried to weaken these two fears through training, but to no avail.

He just couldn't figure it out. He was obviously not a timid person and was not afraid of death. Why would he be afraid of these things?

Just now, when he jumped down, he actually looked at the place in advance, then closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and jumped down without giving himself much chance to think about it.

Often the more he thinks about it and the more he observes it, the more fearful he becomes, which will probably make it even more difficult.

For him, the most difficult thing about going down the mountain to dig up Cordyceps was not other things, but the difficulty on the way to the West Mountain, which was no less difficult than Monk Tang's journey to the west.

Walking tremblingly on the bridge, Li Muyang tried not to look at the river at his feet.

He kept quiet in his heart and looked straight at an apricot tree on the opposite side of the cliff.

This season, the early apricots are also in bloom.

Apricot blossoms and peach blossoms are very similar. If put together, it would be difficult for ordinary people to tell the difference.

Both peaches and apricots belong to the Rosaceae family, and both belong to the subfamily Pleonaceae, one of the four major subfamilies of the Rosaceae family.The difference is that peaches belong to the genus Peach and apricots belong to the genus Apricot.

If you look carefully, there is actually a difference.

There are both flowers and leaves on the peach blossom branches, while there are only flowers on the apricot blossom branches.

This is because peach blossoms grow leaves first and then bloom, while apricot trees bloom first and then grow leaves.

That is to say, when the apricot flowers fade, they will produce small apricots, and then the leaves will slowly grow.

If there are no branches, you can tell by the shape of the petals. The petals of peach blossoms are pointed and round, while the petals of apricot blossoms are quite round.

People who grew up in mountain villages all understand this kind of basic rural knowledge and can tell it apart almost at a glance. However, many people in cities can hardly tell the difference between peach blossoms and apricot blossoms, and some even cannot tell the difference between peach trees and apricot trees.

Li Muyang thought to himself that mountain apricots generally bloom a little later, but the mountain apricots that bloom so early are a strange variety. If there is a chance, some branches of the apricot trees can be cut and grafted.

He was interested in grafting to create new flavors of fruit.

Among the various fruits in the rose family, there is no one that he has not grafted.

What about pear trees and apples, apples and plums, plums and apricots, apricots and peaches, peaches and crabapples...

As long as he can touch and come into contact with the fruit, he will try it.

The most exaggerated time was when he grafted six kinds of fruits including apples, pears, apricots and peaches on a plum tree at the same time.

When the fruits bear fruit one after another, it can be called a spectacle!
(End of this chapter)