Hello, 1983

After the National Day, the villagers in Jiapigou began to work hard to clean up the autumn, and together with the National Day, they took a seven-day busy agricultural holiday.

This year's autumn harvest is much faster than in previous years. The main crops are green corn, occupying hundreds of acres, and the replanted carrots will take more than half a month to be harvested.

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

The rest are mainly potatoes, corn and soybeans, all of which are grown in pieces and are easy to put away.

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

At this time, the weather is already cold, and other kinds of mushrooms have long disappeared, mainly the small yellow mushrooms and frozen mushrooms.

Under the leadership of the new teacher, the children who were on vacation resumed their old business and began to plant trees and afforestation.

Planting trees in your spare time 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, and also carried out large-scale transplanting.

Gao Feng also followed the dumb grandfather, carrying a medicine basket on his back and a small hoe in his hand, wandering around in the woods every day, collecting medicinal materials.

The dumb grandfather is quite satisfied with him. He is a young man who is not in a hurry and is not impatient. His temperament is quite suitable for learning Chinese medicine, but his character still needs to be further investigated.

The little kids were still very interested in planting trees, because at this time the forest was full of ripe wild fruits.

What mountain nails, mountain red and the like, can eat enough every day.

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

Observing the monkeys and picking wild fruits every day to enrich their imitation monkey wine.

He also carefully recorded the few jars of monkey wine. At different times, he added authentic monkey wine brought from the cave to it.

Lao Guo pondered: The last time I came here, this group of monkeys seemed to like drinking. The big monkey is a big alcoholic, and the little monkey is a little alcoholic. Then you can do whatever you want, and you will definitely be able to get into the relationship.

So he asked Liu Qingshan for two bottles of clear water Daqu and poured them into the bowl in an attempt to seduce the monkey.

The result was good. The monkeys chased and beat him, all the way to the woodcut, making Lao Guo really embarrassed.

"What's the matter,

Master Guo, are you going to poke the monkey nest? "

Liu Qingshan also looked a little puzzled.

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

Lao Guo is also full of grievances.

The villagers in Caishan were eating lunch here at noon, and Zhang Dashuai was delighted when he heard it: "I can't believe that the monkeys drink too much and go crazy."

"You haven't had a drink yet, so chase after me."

Lao Guo rubbed the big bag on his head, feeling even more aggrieved.

"Master Guo, the monkey holds revenge. Last time, he was overcharged, and we almost ransacked the house. You still use this trick.

Liu Qingshan helped him analyze the reason, and then Master Guo suddenly realized: "The monkeys are all enmity with me, so what should I do?"

"I can't do it either."

Liu Qingshan spread his hands, expressing that he could not help, unless he took tough measures, but in this way, the monkey group might move away from the fairy cave and run to the farther mountains.

At that time, they don't know what wild fruits are needed for monkey wine. If they add it 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 saplings, found the children planting trees on the hillside, and glanced at them, the fourth and fifth were not here.

When I asked, I found out that it was taken away by Master Guo.

Liu Qingshan was startled: it must be Lao Guo who did not dare to stand out and asked the two little girls to seduce the monkeys.

Those monkeys are very wild, if they scratch the fourth and fifth, 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. Adults are not easy to deal with, let alone small children.

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

When he reached the foot of the mountain, he saw Lao Guo at the edge of the woods, looking over there, Liu Qingshan hurriedly asked, "Where are Caifeng and Shanxing?"

"It seems that you followed the monkey into the cave." Lao Guo was far away from the entrance of the cave, so he couldn't see clearly.

"Will it be dangerous, was it caught by the monkeys, or did they go in by themselves?"

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

When Lao Guo heard his question, he immediately smiled wide-eyed: "Qingshan, it's still your family's fourth and fifth elders who are very powerful. When the monkey group sees us, it's like seeing enemies, and they beat and scold them, but when they see them, guess what? ?"

Liu Qingshan couldn't be in the mood to grumble with him: "Just tell me, don't give a shit!"

Lao Guo also saw that he was in a hurry, and he said twice: "Qingshan, it's strange for you to say that, when the monkeys saw the fourth and the fifth, they tickled them both!"

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

"I'm not old enough to be so dim." Lao Guo gave him a blank look.

Liu Qingshan was a little relieved. The monkeys tickled each other for lice, which was a sign of closeness.

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

And the animals are very intelligent and are friendly towards their young.

Just like cats and dogs raised at home, they have great tolerance for the bears and children of their owners.

"Come out, they came out." Lao Guo called out.

Liu Qingshan hurriedly looked over, and sure enough, the fourth and fifth came out of the cave, holding hands, as if they were turning around and beckoning, wouldn't they be waving goodbye to the monkey group?

When they came back, Liu Qingshan hurriedly went up to check it. Fortunately, there were no scratches on his face. Even the clothes on his body were torn out a few times, but the skin was not hurt.

The two little guys seemed very excited, and the little babble kept talking.

"Brother, the monkeys are so fun. I'm looking for lice in Shan Xing and I's hair, but we all pay attention to hygiene and there are no lice."

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

Shan Xing nodded his head and said he understood: "Then bring them some salt next time, hee hee, the little monkey is cute and eats biscuits, and almost fought for the biscuits!"

When going up the mountain, Liu Jinfeng was worried that the two sisters were hungry, so he put two packets of biscuits in their pockets, which seemed to be fed to the monkeys.

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

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

Mountain nails are a kind of wild fruit in the mountains. They ripen in late autumn. The fruit is the size of a fingernail, with a thin handle more than an inch long at the back. The shape is a bit like a big nail, so it got this name.

Mountain Nails taste the best after being frosted.

When Master Guo heard this, he nodded his head happily: "Okay, this is very important, and we will add the mountain nails later."

After thinking about it, he said again: "When you go back, Grandpa will buy you more biscuits and feed the monkeys every day. If you have any new discoveries, please report to me at any time."

"Yes, the task is guaranteed to be completed!"

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

Seeing that, Liu Qingshan was delighted: I wonder 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 small, forty or fifty, gave a first-grade arithmetic problem:

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

In the next few days, the fourth and fifth children really went to Xianrendong every day, some biscuits and candy bars, and they brought some with them every time.

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

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

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

Uh, now Lao Guo is also in a dilemma: should we add this condiment?

Don't tell me, he really had this idea. Liu Qingshan saw Lao Guo holding a small bottle and following behind the little white ape, waiting for the urine, so scared Liu Qingshan quickly grabbed the bottle and threw it away .

The little monkey is ignorant. You are so old, you are not sensible?

In short, the wine jars at home were basically useless under the tossing of Lao Guo, either sour or hairy.

After the busy agricultural holiday, there are only three good altars left. Liu Qingshan estimates that these three altars may not be able to be kept.

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

"What fruit did you throw?" Lao Guo Baba asked.

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

Suanba is a general term for children. It refers to those plants whose leaves or stems can be eaten and taste sour when chewed. There are several common ones in the mountains.

When I was thirsty when I went into the mountains, I chewed some sour pulp, and immediately sour water came out of my mouth, so I was not so thirsty.

The ancient hope plum quenches thirst, and the children chew physalis to quench their thirst. The reason is the same.

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

Looking at Lao Guo's current appearance, excited like a child, Liu Qingshan couldn't help but nod secretly: If something is foolish, something can be achieved, maybe he can really ask him to tinker with the imitation monkey wine.

Speaking of which, 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.

"The fourth and the fifth, take me to find it, what is the physalis like?" Lao Guo took the two little girls and left.

"Grandpa Guo, it's this kind of grass, it's everywhere." Shan Xing bent over and picked up a grass stalk in the grass, with three small leaves in the shape of an inverted heart, which is the most common clover japonica Sorrel.

Lao Guo laughed twice, slapped his forehead, and squatted there to start picking physalis.

He had a feeling in his heart that this discovery must be something remarkable, perhaps a key to making monkey wine.