portable space

During lunch, Old Man Qian said: "I heard that you went to find Loess. How is the situation?"

Zhang Taiping replied: "I pulled him back, and now he falls on the field."

"Where did you find it? It took you so long?"

Zhang Taiping smiled and said, "It took me hundreds of miles to finally get it back."

After dinner, Zhang Taiping and Old Man Qian went over to take a look at the venue. Old Man Qian grabbed a piece of loess, crushed it into powder and said, "This loess is of good quality. It will definitely be strong when applied on the roof."

Then he pointed to the thick laurel tree next to the mound and asked, "What kind of wood is this? Why are the roots still on it?"

"This is a big osmanthus tree, several hundred years old."

"Cinnamon wood is not suitable for building houses, but it is very suitable for making coffee tables." Old man Qian shook his head and nodded.

Zhang Taiping smiled and shook his head: "This is not to be used as lumber. It is still alive and ready to be planted near the pond."

"Can such a thick tree survive?" Old Man Qian asked with some surprise. In mountain villages and even entire rural areas, trees are usually planted from seeds or saplings that have just grown up. Even though they are like this, some of them often fail to survive.

But I have never seen trees that are hundreds of years old planted. This kind of situation is mostly green trees on both sides of new roads in cities. Of course, there is no need for greening in mountain villages, so naturally this kind of situation does not happen.

"Of course it can survive." Zhang Taiping said with certainty. "Now the big trees on both sides of the roads in the city are planted like this. If the trees get sick, they will hang hanging bottles for infusion."

Old Man Qian stopped moving the dry tobacco pole to the innermost part and asked in surprise: "Injecting needles into a big tree? Isn't this playing the piano randomly?"

Zhang Taiping denied: "This is not playing the piano randomly. From a scientific point of view, there are pipes in the big tree that transport water and nutrients, just like the blood vessels in the human body. It can give people the same effect as hanging needles."

Inject hanging needles on big trees. People's experiments have shown that this is very effective and has saved many big trees that were about to die."

"Tsk, tsk." Old Man Qian sighed twice and stopped talking.

Zhang Taiping asked: "Is this soil enough? If not, I will contact you as soon as possible and bring a car back." There is still half of the space, and it has not been poured out completely. It has only poured out almost enough for the car.

"It's enough, there will definitely be some extra." Old Man Qian knocked on the dry pot and said, "In the past two days, the structure of the wooden house has been completed. Since the loess has not come back, I and others have not been idle, and put some

The floor of the house is paved with blue bricks, and now that the loess is back, we can start laying tiles tomorrow."

Zhang Taiping nodded. It had already been discussed that the floor of the house should be paved with blue bricks. His original plan was to have the floor of the wooden house also be paved with whole wooden boards. In the end, he felt that it was too luxurious, so he thought about it and let it go.

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After dinner and other people came, Zhang Taiping said: "In the afternoon, just transport the loess to the foot of the mountain, and then help me plant the big tree. After that, everyone can have a rest, and we will put up the tiles tomorrow morning."

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Zhang Taiping went to the village chief's house and Wang Peng's house to borrow a few more trucks, and paired them up in pairs. Zhang Taiping himself worked in a group, and it didn't take long for the group to move all the loess piles to the foot of the mountain.

When it came time to move the big tree, it was a little troublesome. It couldn't fit in the frame truck, so it had to be lifted by people. A big rope was tied to the head and tail, and three big ropes were tied to the middle. I also called a few young laborers from the village.

To help, they used wooden poles to hang on the loops of big ropes. Ten people worked together to lift the tree weighing several kilograms.

The average weight per person is only more than 200 kilograms. For Zhang Taiping, this weight is as light as nothing, but for others, it is not so easy. This is a rural man who is strong enough to lift two hundred kilograms.

If the city people were to carry such a heavy object, it would take twenty people to lift such a piece of wood. I don’t know if it can be lifted. Everyone shouted the slogan and moved forward together with all their strength, so that their strength could be used to reach a

It plays a bonus role in rhythm.

After three stops, I carried the big tree back to the garden and placed it in the middle of the lavender field at Zhang Taiping's request. This lavender field covers an area of ​​nearly 20 acres, which is not small at all. The entire lavender field is

It does look beautiful, but a little empty. If you transplant this big osmanthus tree and wait until its branches and leaves grow again, it will be a good scenery.

After doing this, Zhang Taiping gave the people who came to help and the original people a box of cigarettes worth ten yuan each. He was never stingy about this kind of thing. Everyone knew his temper and did not refuse. He happily

Put cigarettes in your pocket. You should know that it is very good to give a pack of cigarettes worth ten yuan for a small favor like this.

After resting for a while, everyone began to dig a big hole for planting trees. The large piece of soil with the tree roots was two meters in diameter. If they were to dig a hole, they would have to dig a large hole with a diameter of at least three meters and a certain depth.

Two meters. It would take some time for one person to dig such a big hole, but it would be much easier if several people wield shovels together.

After the hole was dug, when the big tree was put into the hole, most people couldn't put in the effort because it had to stand upright, so only five or six people worked together to lift the big tree up.

Old Man Qian shouted from the side: "I'll call the number, let's work hard together."

"One, two, three, get up!"

Six people used poles to lift the big tree and gently put it into the pit. It was more difficult to move it gently than to use force. This was the result of Zhang Taiping's great effort. After putting it in, the people who tried hard were relieved.

While continuing to support it with their hands, other people immediately filled it with soil and patted it firmly.

"This big guy is quite heavy." A man said as he wiped the sweat from his head.

Zhang Taiping smiled. If something weighing more than 2,000 kilograms was moved in such a small area, one person would be completely capable of doing it if he exploded. However, doing it like that would be a bit too shocking.

After planting the trees, Zhang Taiping asked everyone to go back to rest and come back to work tomorrow. As for watering the trees, he left it to himself.

When he watered it again, he added some spatial spring water, but the amount was very small. It only allowed the roots of the tree below to grow hairy roots to ensure their survival. Otherwise, if he watered too much, the trunk of the newly planted tree would be like this.

After a while, I found the young leaves, which were so outrageous that it was hard to explain.

In the afternoon and even in the evening, Zhang Taiping sat in the shade under the tree and relaxed. The old man had already started treating the legs of the red fish, and the others and Cai Yazhi went to the orchard to work, picking pumpkins, winter melons, honey, etc.

In total, there are quite a lot of trivial things to do at home.

The two little girls moved a small table and bench and lay beside Zhang Taiping writing pinyin letters and simple Chinese characters. Wukong watched for a while and felt bored, so he gently scratched Zhang Taiping who closed his eyes to rest.

Seeing that he didn't respond, he ran into the orchard.

During dinner, the old man came out of the back room. When he saw Zhang Taiping, he was slightly stunned, and then said, "I'm back."

Zhang Taiping replied: "I came back around noon and was in a tree in the afternoon."

The old man nodded and said, "Come to the back room after dinner."

After dinner, Zhang Taiping took out Polygonum multiflorum, Polygonatum sibiricum and the fiery red snake from the space, and came to the room where the old man practiced medicine and lived.

After sitting down, the old man Zhang Taiping carefully observed his face for a while and then took his pulse and said, "I see you don't look very good. What happened when you went out this time?"

Except for the existence of space, Zhang Taiping generally did not hide other things from the old man. When the old man asked, he recounted his experience in the mountain in detail: "Actually, the main purpose of going out this time was not to search for loess, but to search for loess."

I entered the mountains and accidentally walked into a mountain stream..."

After the old man listened patiently to Zhang Taiping, he stroked his beard and asked, "Is that snake really as thick as a bucket?"

An old man from Zhang Taiping didn't believe it, so he nodded and said, "I saw this with my own eyes. It's absolutely true!"

Unexpectedly, the old man said: "I also saw such a big snake when I went into the mountains in my early years, but it was a bit different than what you said. It was not that thick and not that long, but judging from the appearance you described, it was

There is a 70% chance that they are the same."

This time it was Zhang Taiping's turn to be surprised: "Grandpa has seen it too? So how did grandpa escape in the end?"

You must know that even when the old man was at his peak, he was definitely incomparable to his current self in terms of physical strength and skills, and there was no unexplainable and unexplainable thing like space. So Zhang Taiping was really curious about what the old man relied on.

What did he run out of?

The old man shook his head: "The snake has grown to such an extent that it is simply beyond the power of human beings to contend with. I myself thought that I had explained it there that time. Unexpectedly, the big snake did not show any hostility, so I just kept calm.

He stood quietly and did not do anything that might cause misunderstanding. He just looked at me for a while and then left on his own."

Zhang Taiping recalled the situation that he and Ghost Face encountered at that time. At first, the big snake did not show any hostility. It was not until Ghost Face was whipped away that he slashed its body and clearly showed hostility. The cause of all this

It was all caused by Grimace's impatience at the time, but there is no use thinking about it now.

"So grandpa has also entered that mountain stream?"

"Mountain stream?" The old man thought for a while and said, "The place is filled with miasma. I can't see the situation below at all, and I don't know if it is a mountain stream."

"That's it." Zhang Taiping said with certainty, "The place I entered was filled with miasma and I couldn't see what was happening five meters away."