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  Chapter 293 The most critical link

  After the National Day, the villagers in Jiapigou started to work hard to clean up the autumn. Together with the National Day, they took a seven-day farming holiday.

  This year's autumn harvest is much faster than previous years. It is mainly silage corn, which occupies hundreds of acres, and the replanted carrots will take more than half a month to harvest.

  There are still hundreds of acres of rice, which will not be harvested until mid-October.

  The rest are mainly potatoes, corn, and soybeans, all of which are planted in sheets and are easy to store.

   There are even two labor groups specializing in mountain mining, and they continue to go into the mountain to collect every day.

   At this time, the weather is already cold, and other types of mushrooms have long been extinct, and the main ones left are small yellow mushrooms and jelly mushrooms.

  The children who were on vacation, under the leadership of the new teacher, resumed their old business and started the great cause of afforestation.

  Planting trees when you are free has become a daily routine in Jiapigou.

  Liu Qingshan also planted trees with the children every day. In addition to small saplings, there were also various berries, which were also transplanted on a large scale.

  Gao Gao followed the dumb grandfather, carrying a medicine basket on his back, and holding a small **** in his hand, wandering around the forest every day to collect medicinal materials.

  The dumb grandfather is quite satisfied with him. He is a young man who is calm and not impatient.

  For the matter of planting trees, the children are still very interested, because at this time the forest is full of ripe wild fruits.

  What kind of mountain nails, Shanlihong, etc., can eat enough every day.

  Following Liu Qingshan up the mountain, there is also Master Guo who brews fruit wine. After he went up the mountain, the old man walked around the fairy cave every day.

  Observe the group of monkeys, and pick some wild fruit every day to enrich the monkey wine that I imitate.

  He also carefully recorded those jars of monkey wine, adding authentic monkey wine brought from the cave to them at different times.

  Lao Guo pondered: When I came last time, this group of monkeys seemed to like to drink. The big monkeys are big drinkers, and the little monkeys are little drinkers. So if they like them, they will definitely be able to get in touch.

  So he asked Liu Qingshan for two bottles of clear water Daqu and poured them into a bowl, trying to seduce the monkey.

  The result was good, the monkeys chased him and beat him all the way to Mukeleng, which made Lao Guo very embarrassed.

   "What's the situation, Master Guo, are you going to poke the monkey's nest?"

   Liu Qingshan also looked a little puzzled.

   "Don't mention it, I kindly invite the monkeys to drink, who knows that they don't appreciate it."

  Old Guo is also full of grievances.

  The villagers in Caishan are having lunch here at noon, and Zhang Dashuai was very happy when he heard it: "Unexpectedly, the monkeys will go crazy when they drink too much."

   "He chased me and beat me before he drank."

  Old Guo rubbed a big bump on his head, feeling even more aggrieved.

   "Master Guo, the monkey holds a grudge. Last time it was poured too much, and we almost ransacked the house. If you still use this trick, it's no wonder the monkey doesn't get mad."

  Liu Qingshan helped him analyze the reason, and Master Guo suddenly realized: "The monkeys have become enemies with me, so what should we do?"

   "I can't help it either."

  Liu Qingshan spread out his hands, expressing that there was nothing he could do to help, unless he took strong measures, but in this way, the monkey group might move away from the fairy cave and run to a farther mountain.

  At that time, they don't know what wild fruits are needed for monkey wine. If they add them indiscriminately, if the natural wine pool is destroyed, it will be completely destroyed.

  When planting trees in the afternoon, Liu Qingshan carried a large bundle of newly dug young saplings, found the children who were planting trees on the hillside, and took a look, the fourth and fifth were not here.

   After asking, I found out that it was taken away by Master Guo.

   Liu Qingshan was startled: it must be Lao Guo who dared not stand out and asked two little girls to seduce the monkey group.

  Those monkeys are very wild. If the fourth and fifth children are scratched, it will be bad.

   You must know that although these macaques are not as tall as orangutans, they are agile and have sharp teeth and claws. They are difficult for adults to deal with, let alone children.

  The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. He dropped the sapling and ran towards the fairy cave.

  When he reached the foot of the mountain, he saw Lao Guo standing by the edge of the forest, looking over there, Liu Qingshan asked impatiently, "Where are Caifeng and Shanxing?"

   "It seems to follow the monkey into the cave." Lao Guo's side is far away from the entrance of the cave, so he can't see clearly.

   "Is there any danger? Was it caught by monkeys, or did they go in by themselves?"

  Liu Qingshan felt that Lao Guo was so old, and he was a little unreliable in his work. How could he ask two little girls to take risks?

When Lao Guo heard his question, he immediately smiled: "Qingshan, your fourth and fifth are the most powerful. When the monkeys saw us, they beat and scolded us as if they were enemies, but when they saw them, guess what? ?”

  Liu Qingshan would not be in the mood to argue with him: "Tell me quickly, don't be a fool!"

  Old Guo also saw that he was anxious, so he hehe twice: "Qingshan, you are strange, the monkeys saw the fourth and fifth, and tickled them both!"

   "Are you sure it's tickling, not really scratching?" Liu Qingshan asked again.

   "I'm not so old and dizzy." Old Guo rolled his eyes at him.

  Liu Qingshan felt a little relieved now, the monkeys scratched each other to find lice, which was a sign of closeness.

  After thinking about it, he understood a little bit. It is estimated that the fourth and fifth children play with the little white apes at home every day, and they are full of monkey spirit, so the monkey group will not reject them.

  And animals are very smart, and they are friendly to their cubs.

  Like cats and dogs at home, they have a great tolerance for the bears and children of their owners.

   "They're coming out, they're coming out." Old Guo called out.

  Liu Qingshan quickly looked over, and sure enough, the fourth and fifth children came out of the cave holding hands, and they seemed to turn around and waved. Could it be that they were waving goodbye to the group of monkeys?

  When they came back bouncing around, Liu Qingshan hurried up to check. Fortunately, there were no scratch marks on the face, but the clothes on his body were torn out a few times, but the skin was not injured.

  The two little guys seemed very excited, talking non-stop.

   "Brother, monkeys are fun. They are looking for lice in the hair of Shanxing and I, but we are all hygienic and there are no lice."

  Xiao Laosi spoke vividly, and Liu Qingshan had no choice but to follow suit: "In addition to looking for lice, they mainly look for the salt crystals in the hair to eat."

  Shan Xing nodded her head to show that she understood: "Then bring them some grains of salt next time, hee hee, the little monkeys are so cute eating biscuits, and almost fought for the biscuits!"

  When going up the mountain, Liu Jinfeng worried that the two sisters were hungry, so she put two packs of biscuits in their pockets, and it seemed that they were all used to feed the monkeys.

   After talking for a long time, the fourth child saw Master Guo who was looking at them eagerly, and then remembered the business:

   "Grandpa Guo, we saw that the monkeys threw a lot of mountain nails into the wine pool."

  Mountain nail is a kind of wild fruit in the mountains. It matures in late autumn. The fruit is the size of a fingernail, and behind it is a thin handle more than an inch long. The shape is a bit like a tack, so it got its name.

  After the frost, the mountain nail tastes the best.

  Master Guo nodded happily when he heard it: "Okay, this is very important. Let's add the mountain nails later."

   After thinking about it, he said, "When I go back, grandpa will buy you more biscuits and feed the monkeys every day. If you find anything new, please report to me at any time."

   "Yes, guaranteed to complete the task!"

  The two little spies who broke into the monkey group saluted together.

  Looking at it, Liu Qingshan felt very happy: I don’t know if the 50 yuan subsidy given to Master Guo every month is enough to buy snacks for the monkeys?

  The group of monkeys, old and young, forty or fifty, asked a first-grade arithmetic problem:

  Each monkey spends one yuan per month, how much does it cost for fifty monkeys a month?

   In the next few days, the fourth and fifth children really went to the fairy cave every day, and brought some biscuits and candies every time.

  Look at that posture, the monkeys probably want to support them as Monkey King.

   And good news kept coming from their little mouths: "The monkey is adding hawthorn to the wine pool again."

   "Today I also saw a little monkey peeing in it!"

   Uh, now Lao Guo is also in a dilemma: Should I add this condiment?

Needless to say, he really thought about it, Liu Qingshan saw Lao Guo holding a small bottle, following behind the little white ape, waiting to catch his urine, Liu Qingshan was so scared that he quickly grabbed the bottle and threw it away .

  Little monkey is not sensible, you are so old, are you not sensible?

  In short, the wine jars at home are basically useless under Lao Guo's tossing, either sour or hairy.

   After the busy farming holiday, there are only three good altars left. Liu Qingshan estimated that these three altars might not be able to be kept.

  On the last day of the holiday, the fifth child brought back another message: "Grandpa Guo, the monkey threw something into it again today!"

   "What kind of fruit did you throw?" Old Guo asked bluntly.

  Shan Xing shook his head: "It's not fruit, it's grass, or the yogurt we often chew."

  Sour pulp is a general term for children. It refers to those plants whose leaves or stems are edible and taste sour when chewed. There are several kinds that are common in the mountains.

  When I was thirsty when I entered the mountain, I chewed some sour pulp, and the sour water immediately gushed out of my mouth, so I didn't feel so thirsty.

  In ancient times, expecting plums to quench thirst, and children chewing physalis to quench thirst, the reason is similar.

  Old Guo pondered for a while, and then slapped his thigh fiercely: "This sour pulp may be the most critical part of monkey wine, just like the reason why beer needs to be added with hops!"

  Looking at Lao Guo's current appearance, excited like a child, Liu Qingshan couldn't help nodding secretly: If you are crazy, you will be successful, maybe you can really make him tinker with the imitation monkey wine.

  Speaking of it, monkeys are actually omnivores, and the shoots and grasses of plants are also their main food.

   Throughout the year, how can there be so many wild fruits for you to eat?

   This physalis should also be a plant that monkeys like to eat.

   "Fourth and fifth, take me to find out, what kind of Physalis is it?" Lao Guo took the two little girls and left.

"Grandpa Guo, it's this kind of grass. It's found everywhere." Shanxing bent down and picked up a grass stalk from the grass. It has three small leaves in an inverted heart shape, which is the most common trifoliate chrysanthemum. sorrel.

  Old Guo laughed twice, slapped his forehead, and squatted there to pick Physalis.

  He had a feeling in his heart that this discovery must be something extraordinary, and it might be a key to making monkey wine.

  (end of this chapter)