Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

In order to avoid trouble in the future, Huang repeatedly warned everyone not to tell this matter in front of outsiders. If others asked, they could say that the child knew how to read from books.

Everyone agreed readily. After all, they were the ones who benefited. What if others found out and came over to get involved?

Zhou Guo recalled that in his previous life, fruits usually matured in August or September. Now it is July, so it is too early to say that they are ripe.

But looking at the fruits picked up from the ground, the kernels are large, plump and hard, and they are definitely ripe.

She couldn't figure out whether it was because the climate of this mountain was different or if she had remembered it wrong before.

Shaking her head, she gave up trying to figure it out, and said to her family eagerly, "Grandma, Mom, let me climb up and pick two to see."

Li hurriedly stopped him and said, "Forget it, let your brother do the tree climbing. Besides, do you know how to climb a tree? They are all better at climbing trees than you."

Huang said, "That's right. You've never climbed up before, so you can't climb up. We should be obedient and let your brother come, or your uncle can come."

Several people tried to stop him.

Zhou Dacang quickly raised his hand and said, "I'll do it, I'm the best at climbing trees, I'll climb this one."

The other guys were not willing to lag behind, "I'll climb this one; then I'll climb this one, it looks easy to climb..."

The boys had a good idea, but the tree was too big for one person to hug, and there was no place to put their strength. They failed to climb up after several attempts and could only stare at the tree.

Zhou Guo tried several times but failed to climb up. He looked at the fruits on the tree and said greedily, "I can't climb up. It seems that I can only use a ladder."

This reminded everyone, "Right, right, ladder, build a ladder..."

But without any tools, how can I make a ladder?

At the critical moment, it was Old Man Zhao who stood up. Without saying a word, he leaped onto the tree trunk and stood on it, looking at the people under the tree.

Everyone looked up at him, not blinking or speaking, petrified!

Zhou Guo's mouth grew into an O shape, he was stunned!

Looking at the person in the tree in disbelief!

Look what she saw??

This is, this is, this is the legendary Qinggong? !

Oh my god.

Is she dreaming?!

Want to learn!!

She wants to learn too!!

The woods were so silent that you could even hear the sound of leaves falling to the ground.

Not to mention Zhou Guo and the others, even the people from the neighboring county who had followed the old man for a long way were dumbfounded when they saw what he did.

Old man Zhao stood on the tree, confused and terrified. Had he gone too far?

"Ahhhh, he can fly, he can fly, grandpa can fly, I want to learn too, I want to learn too, sister, I also want to learn to fly from Grandpa Zhao!" Zhou Su danced with excitement and kept pulling Zhou Guo's sleeves.

Zhou Guo nodded with his eyes wide open, muttering, "I want to learn too!"

"I want to learn, too. I want to learn, too, Mom. I want to learn, too."

"And I……"

……

The children were the first to react, looking at the old man in the tree making a loud noise that seemed to be about to break the sky.

The adults also came back to their senses at this time, and exclaimed sincerely: "Flying so high, this old man must be a god, why didn't he show such a great ability before?"

Everyone had this doubt in their mind. Yes, this old man had never shown any of his skills before.

Old Master Zhao looked at the surprised and envious expressions of the crowd. He did not show it on his face, but he was extremely proud in his heart. He wanted to show off his skills again and flipped between the tree trunks.

Zhou Guo looked at him enviously as he moved around on it. His usually wretched appearance now seemed to have an air of a sage. Haha, she wanted to become his disciple and learn kung fu!

Mr. Zhao picked two cracked fruits from the tree and threw them towards her.

She took great effort to suppress the excitement in her chest, picked up two fruits, broke open the yellow green skin to reveal the brown-red, pointed and round nuts inside, pinched open the outer shell to see a layer of black film, scraped off the film to see the light yellow kernel inside.

You can pick it now!

She looked up at Mr. Zhao in surprise.

Mr. Zhao nodded and said to the crowd, "Hand me a hemp rope and I'll pull you up."

The young men excitedly rushed forward, wanting to be pulled up by the old man.

The Torreya grandis tree blooms once, bears fruit once, and matures once, so there are three generations of fruit on one tree. The ones they want to pick are the first generation of ripe fruit.

But in order to save effort, everyone raised long poles and beat them with a crackling sound, and all the cooked and uncooked ones fell off.

The fruits fell down with a rustling sound, like hail.

There were so many of them, like a bumper harvest. The children screamed with joy, and the adults also had smiles on their faces. They would occasionally be hit on the head by fruits, but they would still laugh happily.

Zhou Guo looked at the ripe fruits, small fruits, and rice-sized fruits that had fallen to the ground, and thought that if he wanted to eat the fruit from this tree again, he would have to wait three years. The fruit was like the peach tree of the Queen Mother of the West.

Li smiled and said, "There are so many fruits here. After we clean them, we can sell them in front. We can get a lot of money at one penny per pound."

Xu said happily, "Yes, I saw that each fruit is not light. They are all over the ground. How much do they sell for?"

Huang also had a rare smile on her face.

Zhou Guo did not have the heart to interrupt them. In her previous time and space, this kind of fruit had been a tribute since the Tang and Song dynasties. Here... she didn't know. However, looking at the old man busy and cheerfully working on the tree, she felt that it probably wasn't that cheap. This was the first time she saw him so happy since they met. He was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling.

The tree was too big and tall, and people kept climbing up the tree, taking turns one after another.

If his family hadn't stopped him, Zhou Guo would have climbed the tree.

It took one and a half hours to cut down all eighteen trees.

Everyone started picking up fruits with bags.

Zhou Guo said hurriedly, "Don't worry, uncles, aunts, grandpas, and grandmas, this is not how you pack the fruit. Our bags won't be big enough. We need to remove the green skin on the outside of the fruit. We don't want the green skin. We want the dried fruit inside. The green skin is useless."

It is actually still useful, but they are fleeing now.

Upon seeing this, the village head divided the crowd into two groups, one to pick the fruits and the other to peel them.

In this way, the efficiency is much higher, and when people are tired of picking and peeling, the two groups can take turns.

Zhou Guo also picked up the fruits with a bag, and while picking they explained to everyone which fruits were ripe, which were unripe and could not be eaten, and which could still be saved. As a result, she found that her worries were in vain, as these people only needed to put the fallen leaves on the ground into baskets.

I don't want to leave anything behind.

She turned her head and looked at Old Man Zhao who was peeling fruits. The old man was holding a fruit and talking to the people around him. She felt relieved.