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Torreya is the same as walnut. Before picking, Torreya has a layer of green or blue-yellow outer protective layer to protect the Torreya inside. Take a bite, and your mouth will be so numb that you grin your teeth, beat your chest and stamp your feet. .
Therefore, the peel of Chinese torreya is inedible, but it can extract high-grade aromatic oil.When I was a child, the peel of the torreya fruit was useless, and it was thrown directly into the fertile land, or we children used it to medicine fish in the ditches.

Torreya rind is extremely numbing and astringent, so even if fish swallow the juice of Torreya rind, they will be stunned directly, and many fish just turn their white bellies and float on the water.When we were young, when we picked Torreya torreya, we would use the peel of Torreya to cure fish, and we could always get a lot of fish.

Of course, these fish are definitely safe and practical. The juice of the torreya peel is not poisonous, and as long as you remove the internal organs of the fish, it will not have the numb feeling of the torreya peel.

Of course, these things will not happen again now, and the torreya peels have all been taken away by some spice producers. Although the price is not high, it is good for farmers to increase their harvest by any amount.

When picking torreya, you need a little skill. Picking torreya can’t be picked casually like picking other fruits, and you can’t directly use bamboo poles like picking walnuts and chestnuts. To pick torreya, you have to use’ "Twist" to unscrew the torreya one by one. Of course, this makes it more difficult to pick the torreya, which is a kind of "hard work" for the torreya farmers.

So why do you have to "twist" torreya plucking?Because torreya itself is a special fruit tree, which belongs to the "three generations living under one roof".Climb to the tree, and see that there are small "children" following behind the huge fruit on the tree, and if you look carefully, you can see that the small flower buds (children and grandchildren) are also coming one after another, followed closely behind. .

If you cut off the torreya branches when you are picking torreya, the torreya fruit will be preserved this year, but the torreya fruit will not exist next year, the next year, or even in the next few years. Doing this is tantamount to killing a chicken and taking eggs, so picking Torreya torreya can only be "twisted" slowly, so as not to damage the fruit in the next few years. It is precisely because of this that the time and energy required to pick a Torreya torreya tree is not ordinary Small.

Many ancient torreya trees are 30 to [-] meters high, with a crown diameter of tens of meters, and those that are thousands of years old are even taller, so the farmers who picked torreya made a tool for picking torreya called torreya.

The 篼 is made of bamboo, with a small mouth and a big belly, with a circle of bamboo teeth protruding from the mouth. The 篼 length is 2-3 Zhang. The torreya that has been in the pocket falls out, so that the farmers can put the picked torreya on the ground without having to go up and down the tree frequently.

When picking torreya, usually old and young women and children go into battle at the same time. Of course, those old people, children and women all stand on the ground and grab the branches of torreya with grapples to pick the torreya at the bottom of the tree, while the men go directly to the tree. , Pick the torreya on the tree.

Most of the torreya trees are very tall, and don’t look at the large branches of the torreya trees. Although they look good on the outside, in fact, many of the torreya tree branches are brittle, and many farmers who pick torreya trees are like this something happened.

Stepping on it, the branches of these torreya trees will be broken. It is conceivable what happens to the farmers who pick the torreya.

These can only be seen with experience, so when picking Chinese torreya, it is generally like to ask some skilled hands who are familiar with the branches of Chinese torreya to help with picking, and when climbing the tree, they also need to help with a tree in the middle of the torreya tree. A very thick rope is used as a safety rope to avoid irreversible disasters.

When the torreya is picked every year, the daily price of those skilled torreya pickers in Xingzhe Village is still very high, about 500 yuan a day, and three meals a day, tobacco and alcohol are also included, because picking torreya is actually a piece of work. Very dangerous job.

In our town, there are always a dozen or twenty accidents caused by picking torreya every year. Of course, the dozen or twenty accidents I mentioned are all accidents of disability or direct death. Those accidents that would have been fine in the last one or two months are not included.

These things are true. In Xingzhe’s hometown town, every year when the torreya is picked, more than a dozen people are injured, and a few die are very common, all because of accidentally stepping on the brittle torreya. The branches, which have no defense measures themselves, were caused by falling from the torreya tree.

When picking torreya, you can only use "twist", so it takes a long time to pick torreya, and because torreya is green or blue-yellow, it is sometimes not obvious in the green or blue-yellow leaves of torreya. This increases the energy spent by the farmers picking torreya. Due to the long time of doing the same action, coupled with physical exertion, those farmers who pick torreya accidentally fall from the tree.

There are many places that value Torreya torreya for huge profits. There were no places where Torreya torreya is planted. Now the villages that start planting Torreya torreya just don’t know the name of Torreya torreya. As a result, there will be many accidents, especially in rainy days.

On rainy days, people who have planted torreya for decades will never pick torreya, because the torreya tree is covered with moss after it rains, and the torreya tree will become very slippery when it encounters rain. Veteran, there will definitely be three or four slippery feet in the ten feet, and when it rains, the appearance of the torreya tree branches will be covered by the rain. At this time, even the experienced farmers who pick the torreya tree will not know the torreya tree branch It has become brittle, so picking torreya on a rainy day will 100% cause problems.

It's a pity that those places that have just started planting torreya don't understand this matter, or this taboo, and many people lost their lives because of it.This happened in Xingzhe's hometown, not only once or twice, but many times.

Of course, some people will say that all fools know that climbing trees to pick things in rainy days is absolutely dangerous. How can someone be so stupid to pick things from trees in rainy days? This is all a rumor, or a lie.

In fact, this is because the person who said this sentence did not grow up in the countryside.

In order to keep the output of their own family, the farmers don’t say that they go out to pick fruits from the trees or go to the fields in rainy days. Even if they are seriously ill, they will still go out to work when it’s time to go out to work, because their family Their livelihood is in this land, and without the grain output in the land, they have to drink the northwest wind this year.

When it rains, the torreya will be knocked down to the ground by the rain. As we all know, if things like nuts are soaked in rain for a few days, the nuts will sprout immediately. At that time, all the torreya will become garbage.

When buying torreya, the buyers only want the whole torreya, like the cracked torreya, not all of them.This is because it is very difficult to control the heat when the split torreya is fried.

Often the undamaged torreya has not been fried, but the cracked torreya has been fried, so whenever it comes out of the pan, the cracked torreya has been fried, which is very important for the torreya buyers. , That is definitely a big loss, so those torreyas that have been opened can only be kept by themselves, and the torreya buyers will not accept them.

Anyone who sees the torreya in their home being knocked down by a large amount of rain, and let those torreya germinate because of the rain and become garbage, who will not be heartbroken. Therefore, it is inevitable to pick torreya in rainy days, because if the rain is allowed to If things go on like this, their family's income for a year will be lost, and there will be problems in the family's livelihood. This is absolutely unacceptable to farmers.

Therefore, please don’t look at the price of torreya at two or three hundred yuan per catty, thinking that torreya is very expensive and farmers are bidding randomly or something, but in fact it is picked by farmers at great risk, and it is worth the price!

At 10 o'clock in the morning on October 7th, Zhao Chaogang's family went out. Today is the sun, so it is the best time to pick torreya. It usually matures in mid-September, but picking torreya usually lasts about 20 days), Li Bin and his wife, and Liu Mingxin and his wife had returned to Anxi City by plane yesterday morning, and their work is inseparable open them.

Li Bin is the vice-principal of Anxi University, and will soon be promoted to the principal of Anxi University (under Zhao Chaogang's favor). At such a time, of course, Li Bin cannot leave the school for too long.

Liu Mingxin is even busier than Li Bin. Not only is Liu Mingxin inseparable from the cultivation of the future backbone of the Liu family, but the 'Liu's Bank' has just opened for a short time. If there is no one to manage it for a long time, there will definitely be problems. He is not going to manage the 'Liu's Bank' anymore, so Liu Mingxin can only manage the 'Liu's Bank', this is the guarantee for the future prosperity of their Liu family.

This year, the torreya trees in Zhao Chaogang's house can be said to have a bumper harvest, and due to the existence of the spirit gathering array in Xiaoshigu, the branches of those torreya trees in Zhao Chaogang's house will not appear brittle. You can step on it with confidence.

Not only the torreya trees in Zhao Chaogang’s house have no brittle branches, but also the torreya trees in the entire Zhaojia Village have no brittle branches. Even the torreya trees that used to have brittle branches now have no brittle branches. Condition.

The sufficient aura emanating from Xiaoshigu transformed the torreya tree in Zhaojia Village.From now on, picking Torreya torreya in Zhaojia Village will no longer have to worry about brittle branches. This is definitely great news for Zhaojia Village.

Although Zhaojia Village has been planting torreya for hundreds of years, it is definitely considered to be full of experience in picking torreya, but there will always be accidents, like those children. If they go to climb the torreya tree, they may step on The brittle branches fell down, causing tragedy (such things have happened several times in Xingzhe's house), so Zhao Chaogang can be said to have made another contribution to Zhaojia Village.

"Dad, the torreya is so beautiful, Dad, pick some for my daughter, she likes it so much!"

As soon as I came to Xiaoshigu, the shinning emerald green torreya attracted my daughter's eyes under the early morning sun, especially these torreya were hanging on the branches like green grapes, which made me feel even more attractive. Attracting her attention, saliva unconsciously appeared in her mouth.

Seeing the saliva appearing at the corner of her mouth, Zhao Chaogang knew that the beautiful appearance of the torreya had confused her. You must know that when I saw the torreya for the first time when I was a child, I just threw it into my mouth without thinking, and the result was terrible. As you can imagine, I burst into tears directly. For two days, my mouth was numb and I couldn't taste the taste at all. Therefore, Zhao Chaogang, who knows the overbearing taste of raw torreya, would not let his daughter go Try raw torreya.

"My daughter, I can't eat these torreya. These torreya are not ripe yet. If my daughter wants to eat torreya, my father will fry it and then give it to my daughter. It's like rice at home. Before it's cooked, my daughter can't eat it at all, and , these torreyas are just good-looking, but they don’t smell good when you ask them, girl, you should smell it.”

Speaking of this, Zhao Chaogang unscrewed a few emerald green torreya trees directly from the torreya tree, and handed them under her nose, letting her smell the torreya.

"Hmm..." My daughter immediately wrinkled her nose when she smelled the skin of the torreya, "Dad, it stinks, my daughter doesn't like it, stinky stuff, it smells so bad."

Although the skin of the torreya can extract the essence, the skin of the torreya actually does not smell good. It has a turpentine smell, which is not very strong, of course. Adults say so, but children are definitely not used to the smell.

When a child like her is most curious, if Zhao Chaogang refuses to touch the torreya without explaining directly, she will readily agree on the surface, but she will definitely taste the torreya secretly the taste of.

Therefore, Zhao Chaogang first used the different tastes of the rice before and after ripening to explain to her daughter that she could not eat raw torreya, and just to be on the safe side, Zhao Chaogang directly picked a few raw torreya for her to smell.

Zhao Chaogang believed that after smelling the smell of torreya, she would never have the idea of ​​tasting torreya. Judging from the disgusted expression on her face just now, Zhao Chaogang's strategy was very correct. (To be continued.)