Mountain driving career since 1982

I thought I would sleep peacefully, but who knew that in the middle of the night, a shrill cat meow suddenly came from behind the house, causing Yuanbao and the others to meow too.

This is cat hair spring!

The sound of this thing is really annoying, like a baby crying, endless, and it is particularly scary when it comes in the middle of the night.

Several dogs stayed in the yard, surrounded by fences and couldn't get out. They barked for a long time, but it had no effect on the cat.

Lu Lu, who was suddenly awakened, raised his hand semi-automatically, came out with a flashlight, and followed the sound towards the ginseng garden behind the house.

There was a lot of movement on the roof of the ginseng garden, and Lu Lu could easily see that the ones making strange noises on the roof of the ginseng garden were a raccoon cat and a black cat.

Lu Lu has seen these two cats. The civet cat is from Xiushan Tun, and the black cat is from Huilong Tun. He has seen it before when passing through Huilong Tun. The most obvious feature is that this black cat is incomplete. It is black and has a tuft of white hair on one ear, which is very distinctive.

"Okay, you two villagers, you came to my meadow to hook up and made me miserable... Don't blame me for spoiling your good deeds!"

If it was a leopard cat or something like that, Lu Lu would definitely have beaten it directly and picked up the fur for nothing, but this was a domestic cat, so it couldn't mess around. These days, they are good at clawing at mice.

He picked up a small wooden stick from the ground and swung it towards the two cats who were struck by the flashlight and jumped to the top of the lime tree branch.

The two cats hid in a hurry, jumped up and down on the branches, ran to the fence behind and squatted down, still howling strangely at the bottom.

Seeing this, Lu Lu gave an order to Yuan Bao and the others who were following them: "吜吜..."

Several dogs immediately chased up the mountain waves, and the two domestic cats were frightened again and jumped over the fence and ran deeper into the forest.

It's finally quiet!
Lu Lu called Yuan Bao back and took a look around the ginseng garden with a flashlight.

The heavy snow in winter covers the sticks that have been dormant all winter like a quilt. They have already sprouted, making the garden full of green.

He carefully got in with a flashlight and took a look inside. He found that the six-grade leaf sticks he brought back from various Laozhao last year were indeed transplanted with the original soil. The leaves are growing well.

Dry Rice Bowl Snake Mountain brought back the big stick tree that grew seven-grade leaves one year ago and six-grade leaves last year. It also has seven-grade leaves this year.

The ginseng tree finally brought back from Erjiagou, Huazi Mountain, Tonghe County, there is no doubt that it is also a seventh-grade leaf.

What surprised Lu Lu the most was that the "Skeleton Ginseng" with sixth-grade leaves actually grew seventh-grade leaves this year.

In the ginseng garden, there are three large trees with seven-grade leaves!

Let me ask, such a scene is probably unique in the wilderness.

Lu Lu felt inexplicably excited. He squatted in the yard and watched for more than half an hour.

After being woken up, even Chen Xiuyu, who had not seen Lu Lu for a long time, followed him out of the yard with a flashlight to see: "Brother Lu... what's wrong with you?"

When Lu Lu heard the sound, he quickly suppressed his excitement, left the garden, closed the door, and led the dog back to the yard.

Seeing how happy Lu Lu was, Chen Xiuyu asked, "What's going on? You're so happy?"

Lu Lu laughed and said, "I won't tell you tonight, just wait until tomorrow!"

"Why?" After hearing what he said, Chen Xiuyu was intrigued and asked.

"I'm telling you now. I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep. Let's talk about it tomorrow!"

Lu Lu was really afraid that she would be too excited to sleep after hearing the news, so he chose not to say it.

Chen Xiuyu rolled her eyes at him: "You're so nagging...I heard the old man say that it's best not to chase the cat when it meows..."

"Uh... I'm so tired now... Besides, they're barking like this. It's really hard to sleep. It's noisy and scary. I was just worried that they would scare you and the child. They should be fine!"

Lu Lu took a deep breath: "It doesn't matter so much!"

do it all...

He put his arms around Chen Xiuyu and walked into the house.

The two cats were driven away, the whole world finally became quiet, and the couple slept peacefully.

The next morning, Lu Lu got up early. He didn't want to disturb Chen Xiuyu. Who knew, but just as he was getting dressed, he saw Chen Xiuyu turning over and sitting up too: "What on earth made you so happy last night?"

Seeing her like this, I'm afraid she was thinking a lot about last night.

Lu Lu thought for a while: "I want to know. Anyway, you are awake. I will take you to have a look!"

The couple quickly got dressed, led by Lu Lu and entered the ginseng garden again, pointing out three seven-grade leaf sticks to her: "Take out each of these three seven-grade leaf trees. , they are all rare and large items, and their value is extraordinary... This news must be kept well kept, and cannot be told outside!"

Chen Xiuyu, who had been in a daze for a long time, nodded blankly.

Not to mention anything else, when Wei Chunan and the others came here years ago, she already knew from the conversation that even the sixth-grade leaf stick was very impressive, let alone the seventh-grade leaf stick, which could easily cost 20 yuan. The existence of the above run.

"Look at these six-grade leaf sticks. There are more than 20 of them in our garden. There are also those third-grade leaves and two-grade leaves planted in the past few years. Many of them are already fourth-grade leaves, and some are fifth-grade leaves. Pinye, just the stick of this garden, will be a lot of money in the future."

"Then you have to take good care of it from now on!"

"Don't be too deliberate. Being too deliberate will easily attract others' attention. But in the future, you have to leave the dog behind when no one is around. Okay, go back quickly. You didn't sleep well last night. Go back and take the child. Go back to sleep, I’m going to wash my face, I’m going to find Father Zhao!”

After Lu Lu finished speaking, he carefully greeted Chen Xiuyu to avoid the traps set in the garden, carefully walked out of the garden, and closed the door.

After Chen Xiuyu lay down on the kang, he scooped water from the water tank. After a brief wash, he left the Yuan Bao and the others without Zhui Feng and drove directly to the horse pasture.When they got there, Zhang Shaofeng and others had already arrived, and Raymond was cooking dumplings in Zhao's house.

After saying hello, Lu Lu took the time to take back several bowls of pine oil.

After a day and a night, several small bowls were filled with a shallow bowl of pine oil. After filling it with two cans and bottles, he re-cut several V-shaped oil leaking gaps that had been sealed on the trunk, and continued Receive oil.

When he came back, Raymond had already cooked the dumplings, and each filled a large bowl with them and handed them to several people.

Lu Lu was not polite, took it, squatted at the door and started showing off.

A big dumpling can be picked up with chopsticks, and you can eat more than half of it in one bite.

Good guy, the stuffing inside is stir-fried with a mixture of cucumber and pork. Not only is it fragrant, but it’s also quite oily and smooth. It’s so refreshing!

The brothers ate with admiration. After one bowl, they were still thinking about another bowl. Fortunately, Raymond had already considered this and brought a lot, which was enough to keep the elders full.

For a breakfast, it was just a casual meal, but as a result, everyone's stomach was full of fat, even Zhao Tuanqing was no exception. After the meal, he had to take a good rest to get over the heavy energy.

"Now that you've almost rested, let's start building the ship!"

Zhao Tuanqing smiled cheerfully and urged several people to take action quickly.

After the heavy pressure of yesterday's day and night, those birch barks have become very smooth.

Melt the collected pine oil in an iron pot, add charcoal, and glue the joints of each piece of birch bark together with this mixture. Then use the shaved inner and outer hulls to clamp the birch bark, and drill holes. , use wooden nails cut from Scotch pine to fix the inner and outer hulls.

Several people cooperated with each other and hurriedly used repaired birch bark to repair the small holes where branches had grown. They also used a mixture of pine oil and charcoal powder to repair the holes.

Lu Lu followed Zhao Tuanqing's request and went to the river next to the pasture to find some extremely flexible thin willow sticks. He broke them in half, rolled them into a circle and placed them in the sun to dry in the sun. They would then be tied up. It comes in handy when the time comes.

After the birch bark is repaired and the hull sandwiched between the birch bark is fixed with wooden nails, we begin to place straight strips longitudinally and ribs transversely on the hull, placing them evenly to ensure the balance of the hull, leaving space between them. Leave a certain gap.

According to Zhao Tuanqing, it was to make it easier to dry the water on the bottom of the boat, because water often splashed into the cabin.

The ribs are on top of the straight ribs, and both ends are inserted under the inner hull wood, and then the ribs are pressed into the bottom of the boat to fix it.

Cut off the excess part of the wooden nails on the inner hull. Next, use ropes to tie the hull into a U shape to initially form a boat shape. Check whether the hull is straight.

If it is not straight or balanced enough, use a torch to bake it on the bottom of the boat to correct it.

It sounds simple, but it is also a complicated process.

Fortunately, I was well prepared when preparing the materials yesterday, so today I just need to pick them up and assemble them.

But even so, together with Zhao Tuanqing, the six people worked hard all morning and managed to get the five birch bark boats out of shape.

Seeing that time passed very quickly, the few people who were eager to finish the work did not want to delay too much. After eating, they began to prepare for the second process: raising the bow of the boat.

Under the guidance of Zhao Tuanqing, he used two two-meter-long sylvestris pine boards cut out, leaving about half a meter at the top, and carefully split the lower part into a herringbone shape, and then fixed the split parts with ropes.

Bring the two ends of the inner hull together into a bracket shape, tie the joints with ropes, and use the inner hull and herringbone pine boards to clamp the birch bark at the bow. After adjustment, trim off the excess birch bark.

After the birch barks on the bow and stern were fixed and adjusted to the center line, the actual lifting of the bow began.

While several people were working on the bow and stern of the ship, Zhao Tuanqing found some firewood and built a small fire.

After a few people have taken care of it, use the fire to smoke the birch bark at the bow and stern. When the birch bark becomes soft, use an ax and hammer to slowly lift the bow, and then use clamps to tighten the sides of the bow. Clamp it tightly, nail it with wooden nails, and then lay the strips for the bow.

The short bow strip is pressed against the bottom of the middle strip, and the stern strip is pressed on top of the middle strip to compact the joints. By this time, the hull has formed a streamlined structure, which can effectively reduce the stress of the birch bark boat in the water. resistance.

The next step is to fix the hull.

Drill holes symmetrically on both sides of the inner hull at certain intervals, then insert four transverse trusses into the mortises on both sides for fixation, and then use the prepared wicker sticks to flex on the fire, and then further tie the hull, bow and stern together. Fixed, the hull of the birch bark boat is now complete.

The next thing to do is to put water into the cabin and mark where the water is leaking.Then apply a mixture of pine oil and charcoal powder to these leaking areas to seal them.

Once you make one successfully, the rest will be smooth.

Towards evening, five birch bark boats were made quickly and slowly.

A boat without an oar is not enough, but this thing is not complicated. Just use pine boards to make the oar blade and oar handle, which are about 1.8 meters. One side of the oar blade is flat, and there is a backbone in the middle on the other side, which acts as a solid , at both ends of the blade near the handle, can also prevent water from flowing into the cabin.

You also need to prepare two pedal poles, about one meter in length, for use in shallow water or when rowing against the current.

You can just cut these two things yourself when you go back.

The next step is to take the boat back to dry.

Drying the moisture of birch bark and sylvestris pine itself can make the hull lighter and have a shaping effect.

The dried birch bark boat weighs fifty or sixty pounds and can be easily moved by one person.

Putting the birch bark boat on the car, Lu Lu took it back to the meadow and put it on the grass to bask in the sun.

After working hard for two days, he also planned to take a good rest and take care of the matters at the purchasing station and farm before going to find agate! (End of chapter)