Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 420
It's been a long time.

Erhei Diandian ran home and whined at Li Hongbing.

Picking up a large piece of ribs and rewarding Erhei, Li Hongbing looked at the family at the dinner table and said with a smile.

"It's okay, Jiang Jing is back in the courtyard."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. After all, if you don't want to drive into the deep mountains and forests, it will take a lot of trouble.

"Auntie, I don't want to go abroad, I don't want to go outside." Anna held the bowl, looking worried.

Shan Xing held her in her arms distressedly.

"Nier, I don't agree. No one can take you away. Come, eat a piece of meat."

"Yeah! Thank you, Mom Xing." After hearing this, Anna immediately felt relieved, picked up the meat and stuffed it into her mouth.

Li Hongbing was not worried about the nonsense Jiang Jing said. She had been defrauded of all her money and left Mao's country.

Otherwise, she would not have succumbed to running to Caogou Village. She hated the countryside the most at the beginning.

This time I came to the village just to make up for myself.

It's a pity that she miscalculated and I won't give her a hair.

Seeing her daughter happily eating meat, her little cheeks bulging, she quickly changed the topic to draw the family's attention away from Jiang Jing.

"Anna, eat less meat. If you eat it, you will turn into a fat pig, and your arms will turn into swimming rings. How will you wear beautiful dresses and be a little princess in the future?"

Facts have proved that it is a woman’s nature to love beauty. Even the little girl has had a princess dream since she was a child.

I heard my father say that I am fat.

Anna blinked a few times, turned her head and stared at her fleshy arms, as if she saw her beloved princess dress flying away, she immediately dropped her chopsticks and burst into tears.

This instantly stirred up a hornet's nest.

"Why is your mouth so dry? You can't even eat to survive." After the mother scolded her son, she quickly picked up Anna from Shan Xing's arms and comforted her, "My dear granddaughter, if you don't cry, we will not be princesses, we will be heroes!"

It's okay if I don't comfort you, but it's more troublesome if you comfort me.

Grandma told her not to be a princess but to be a hero, and Anna cried so heartbreakingly.

"Would you please tell me, what a good man you are, you think Ni'er is Sun Erniang from Water Margin, get out of here!"

Dad couldn't sit still anymore. He stood up and muttered to his mother, then took Anna, "My dear granddaughter, we don't want to be a princess, nor a hero. Let's be Hua Mulan, okay?"

"Hua Mu Lan? What is it for?" Anna raised her head and asked while choking.

"Hua Mulan, she is a great general, and she is very good at fighting on horseback!" Dad introduced with excitement.

Fight on horseback! !
A picture came to Anna's mind,
The children in the village were holding bamboo poles under their arms and wooden sticks in their hands, running around and playing around in the village.

His mouth trembled a few times, his little hands grabbed his father's collar, and tears poured out like a flood.

"Wow wow wow, I want to be a little princess, bad grandpa, bad grandpa."

Anna is the heart and soul of the whole family. Seeing her crying so sadly, Shan Xing, mom, eldest sister, and second sister all came to the battle. You and I comforted each other with your words, and I wanted to feel my heart and lungs.

As for the culprit.

At this time, he had already run out of the old house in despair.

My ears instantly became quiet.

It's hard to take care of a baby, but she even boasted about having a basketball team with Shan Xing in Haikou.

Li Hongbing let out a heavy breath and walked to the fruit trees on the edge of the grassy slope. In the past few days, there had been an endless stream of relatives and friends, and the fruit trees were harmed by them, just like when the Japanese invaded the village.

The branches were originally densely packed with fruits, but now only a few are left.

He reached out and plucked a purple fruit that looked like a plum or an apricot from the tree. He chewed it on his clothes a few times and threw it into his mouth.

The aroma is sweet and the taste is rich. After one sip, it is tender, juicy, rich and sweet, just like drinking juice.

tasty!

Li Hongbing was planning to pick more to please the crybaby at home.

Sudden.

There was a rushing sound in the orchard.

"Who?" Li Hongbing shouted softly.

"Brother Li, it's me! I've been standing here the whole time, and you haven't seen it."

A pair of very shiny white teeth appeared out of thin air in the dark fruit forest, and then Malan walked out of the grass. She had a dark complexion and was wearing black clothes.

"You kid, you scared me." Li Hongbing muttered angrily and saw Malan carrying a basket, "What are you doing blindly at night? Come up quickly."

Malan smiled innocently and climbed up the grass slope, holding up the basket in his hand, "I'll come over and pick up some fruits."

Li Hongbing took a look and saw that the basket was filled with rotten fruits. "There are good fruits on the trees, why pick rotten fruits?"

"The fruits you grow are delicious. I want to pick up some seeds and take them home to plant." Malan scratched her head guiltily.

To put it nicely, it’s called picking, but to put it mildly, it’s called stealing.

In the flora, stealing seeds is a very bad behavior. In the small case, you have to pay money as a gift, but in the big case, it is illegal.

If you encounter someone with a bad temper, a beating is a minor punishment.

According to the Plant Variety Rights Act, whoever discovers or cultivates this species shall own the new variety personally.

If others want to use your new variety, they must obtain your consent. If they use this new variety to make seeds or package infringing seeds without consent, etc.

Then it is an infringement of this new variety right, and you will be held responsible.

Someone has finally cultivated a variety, but if you steal the seeds, it is equivalent to cutting off their financial path.

As a grower, Malan is well aware of the evil behavior of stealing seeds. His grandfather was a local plant teacher. When he was teaching him to identify plants since he was a child, Malan hated the behavior of stealing seeds.

He often told Ma Lan that there was once a group of extremely shameless people who went crazy in China and stole things in China.

One of them, a British man named George Forrest, had been illegally collecting plants in China for 28 years, and had collected 31000 plant species and shipped them to the Royal Botanic Gardens.

The most egregious thing was that George Forrest cut down the only large Rhododendron tree in the country that was 280 years old, 25 meters tall, and 87 centimeters in diameter at breast height. He even sawed off a section of the trunk as a specimen and named it after his own name. name.

There was also Robert Fortune, known as the "Tea Thief" who stole the best tea trees and tea tree seeds from domestic tea production areas, including transporting 2 tea trees and seedlings to Asan Country for trial planting.

It also introduced many wild species and cultivated varieties such as broad-leaf ten great achievements, elm-leaf plum, soushu, peony, forsythia, winter jasmine and so on.

Wilson, a plant hunter sought after abroad, traveled to southwestern China four times in 10 years and stole 65000 plant specimens and 1593 seeds.

For this reason, the British made a brooch shaped like a "yellow poppy" out of pure gold and 41 diamonds as his Medal of Merit.

At that time, Malan felt that since there were so many plants in the country, he could just take them and they would grow back after a while, so it was no big deal.

Of course, this answer earned me a beating from my grandfather.

It is sad to say that these hunted plants can change the species structure of a country.

The exotic rhododendrons have made the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh a world-famous garden.

And it has priority in the naming and academic achievements of cuckoo.

And tea.

Because Fortune smuggled tea trees and seedlings to Asan and took away tea-making experts, it directly led to the relocation of the world's black tea production center and the decline of trade in our largest tea country.

After the seeds of the kiwi fruit, which are often eaten, were brought back to New Zealand by Western hunters, they were cultivated by local gardeners and transformed into kiwi fruits.

The world-famous New Zealand kiwifruit industry was thus established.

Western roses, which express love, and Dutch perfume roses, which occupy 90% of the domestic market, are both wild rose species native to China.

Even after plant hunters stole wild soybean plants to the beautiful country, local people developed new varieties, establishing the beautiful country's soybean production as the number one in the world. …

Pfft!
Malan suddenly fell to his knees.

This time Li Hongbing was really shocked.

"Xiao Lanzi, what's your situation?"

Think of your grandfather’s teachings and then look at your own behavior.

Malan shed tears of shame and choked up and said, "Brother Li, I was wrong. I shouldn't have stolen the seeds."

Li Hongbing held Ma Lan's shoulders, gently lifted him, and pulled him up.

"No matter what you don't steal, if you stand up and speak, the big men will kneel down at every turn. There is gold on the ground!"

"I'm sorry!" Malan apologized again, put the basket in front of him, and began to explain the reason for stealing the seeds.

The fruit tree varieties in the family orchard are now degraded, and the taste and texture of the fruits produced are much worse. If new varieties are replaced, a large amount of variety patent fees will be required.

Therefore, orchards can only maintain fruit quality by constantly replacing fruit trees.

Even so, the quality of the fruit is still declining, leading to a decline in the quality of the originally low yield, and several buyers have terminated their contracts.

This time I ran away from home and came to Caogou Village to attend Li Hongbing's wedding. While wandering around, I came to the old house and found these fruit trees, which was astonishing.

Fruits of different varieties, different climates, and different growing areas are all grown together.

And it grew very well and even bore fruit.

Apples, pears, peaches, lychees, pomegranates, longans, cherries, walnuts, and grapes all bear fruit at the same time.

Simply unscientific.

Lychees and longans are tropical fruits, and Northern Province is a subtropical region, so they not only grow but also bear fruit.

Malan knew these fruit trees. They were old tree stumps that various exhibitors sold to Brother Li when he attended the last fruit and vegetable fair in Mingzhu City. Among them were many of his own apple trees, pear trees, and grapevines.

When he sold these old trees to Brother Li, the money from the sale helped his family solve an urgent need. Malan always felt guilty. A man in the Gobi Desert could not do such a heartless thing.

That's why Malan traveled thousands of miles and came to Caogou Village carrying several boxes of dried fruits. He said he was here to attend a wedding, but actually he wanted to apologize.

When he saw the apple tree was full of fruits, Malan was completely confused. If he hadn't seen the mark he made on the trunk, he would have thought that Brother Li had changed the tree.

After picking an apple and eating it, Ma Lan was even more confused. His mother opened the door for him, and he came home.

The taste is very crisp and refreshing, just like eating ice cubes from Tianshan Mountain. When your teeth pass by, apple juice flows across the entire mouth, like clear and sweet snow water flowing through it.

The rich fruity aroma and the crispy-sweet fruit pulp are intertwined. It is refreshing along the tip of the tongue and reaches the stomach. It is refreshing and juicy, making you unable to resist drinking ice cream.

The sugar content must be at least 30%. You must know that the sugar content of apples is generally around 15%. What does 30% mean? It is basically a cup sweeter than any other apple on the market.

This texture, this flavor, this sweetness.

Having grown up eating his own apples, Ma Lan knew very well that this was definitely not his own variety, but it grew from his own trees.

If you get the seeds, take them home, plant them, and improve the apple trees at home, even if they are not exactly the same, even if they are only half, you can bring the orchard back to life.

Under the spell of the ghost, he sneaked into the orchard while it was dark and picked up the fruits that had fallen on the ground.

After listening to Ma Lan's words, Li Hongbing sighed silently.

He is an honest child and cannot bear to blame.

"What's the name of your village?"

"Hongbaozi Village." Malan blinked. The mention of his hometown made the Gobi man particularly excited. He gestured with his hands, "Brother Li, our village is very beautiful. There are many red mountains, just like castles."

Li Hongbing patted Malan on the shoulder.

"Don't pick up rotten fruit. Tomorrow I'll find someone to dig up a few of your old fruit trees and send them back. There shouldn't be any problem in grafting the branches."

"Really?" Malan's eyes widened in excitement.

"It's more real than gold. If you haven't eaten yet, go to my house to deal with the two of you." Li Hongbing smiled.

"Brother Li, you are so kind. I wish you could be the head of our village. Then everyone in the village can live a good life."

Ever since I came to this small mountain village, everything has been so good, especially under the persimmon tree at the entrance of the village, listening to the old people talking about the changes that Brother Li has brought to the village, I feel so envious.

Li Hongbing only thought Ma Lan was joking and said it jokingly.

"Okay, go back and tell your village that we will form a brother village with Caogou Village, and I will go over and be the village chief."

"Really?"

"More real than gold! Haha, it's dark and the roads are hard to walk on. Go back to the village and remember to look at your big white teeth under the street lights."

Li Hongbing waved his hand with a smile and walked toward the meadow alone.

Looking at Brother Li's back, Malan clenched his fists.

At night, the stars shine brightly, and the bright moonlight shines on the meadow. There is silence between heaven and earth. The mountain breeze blows gently, and the grass waves rise and fall with the wind, making it extremely pleasant.

Li Hongbing came to the barn.

Black Wind and the horses grazed around a pile of haystacks.

As the old saying goes, cows need to be fed and horses need night grass. When Li Hongbing was cleaning up the site in Daniu Bay, he dug out stacks of hay and sent a few stacks to the livestock shed.

It has just entered October, and the meadow weeds have not yet entered the yellowing and drying period. The horses do not like to eat forage very much, so they are too lazy to go out to the stalls to look for grass at night. This haystack can cope with two people.

Boom!

Seeing Li Hongbing appear, Hei Feng ran out of the horse group and approached him to act coquettishly.

"Let's go for a walk!" Li Hongbing asked, stroking his horse's head.

Black Wind shook his big head, and his horse's hooves quickly stepped on the ground.

Li Hongbing grabbed his mane, easily turned over and got on the horse, "Let's go, let's run!"

Boom!

Heifeng raised his head and hissed, exerted force with his four hooves, supported Li Hongbing, and ejected with a swish, turning into a black tornado, leaving a trace of cyan gauze skirt flying in the night wind amidst the flying dust and grass.

Da da da!
The sound of horse hooves echoed in the silent night sky.

The black wind ran aimlessly and wildly, and the sharp mountain wind blew across Li Hongbing's face. He felt super happy, and the irritability accumulated in the past few days was left behind him with the speed.

After relaxing, return to the old house.

The crybaby has stopped and huddled in his father's arms. When he saw his father, he snorted proudly and turned his head.

Under the old oak tree.

The two brothers-in-law were squatting on the ground, holding large bowls and eating sauerkraut noodles sparsely.

"Hey, you two are awake."

Li Hongbing deliberately asked which pot he didn't want to open and pick up.

The two brothers-in-law's eyes were red, and they glared at their brother-in-law. They lowered their heads and continued to pull the noodles quickly. They didn't put down the bowl with satisfaction until they drank the last mouthful of noodle soup in the bowl.

"San'er, if I drink with you again from now on, I'll be like a dog."

"You are really not a human being. You drink whoever you catch. I almost drank myself to death."

Li Hongbing raised his head proudly.

"Have you eaten enough? Let's talk about business after eating!"

(End of this chapter)