Uncle Qi's family belongs to a production team in Nanjiang, Longjiang County. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers. It was a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters a few decades ago.
There is a small river in front of the door, which is one of the sources of Mi River. Han Xiaosheng grew up by this river when he was a child.
At that time, the river was crystal clear and there were beaches everywhere.
There are two flowing waterways on the beach. The water is not deep, and the deepest part only reaches the knees. The shallower parts only cover the feet. There are small fish swimming in them.
Because the river bed is flat and the water flows very slowly, people on the river bank cannot hear the sound of the river water. It has been passed down from generation to generation and is known as "the water makes no sound for twenty-five miles".
This small river is very clean. If you dig a hole on the beach, within a minute, the sand pit will be filled with spring water. After settling, you can drink it directly. According to legend, the water from the wells on both sides of the river also seeps from the river.
There are continuous rice fields on both sides of the river, and rice irrigation also relies on this quietly flowing river. It can be said that it is the mother river of the Nanjiang River, nurturing mountain people for generations.
Every year when the weather gets hot, Han Xiaosheng and the children in the village will go to the river to catch small fish. Catching small fish can improve their food.
Sometimes adults will also participate, blocking the upstream of the waterway with sand to redirect the water, and then blocking the outlet with sand downstream, leaving only a fishing tool made of bamboo, which can enter but not exit, and keep the fish from By driving upstream and downstream, you can harvest small fish that are jumping around.
Han Xiaosheng often catches fish with his younger brother. Even at noon and afternoon in the summer, they had to catch fish under the scorching sun. He was not paying attention for a long time and was stimulated by the reflection of the water surface, which eventually resulted in a pair of myopia.
Han Xiaosheng stood by the river, looking at the devastated Heishui River in front of him, full of regret.
After the economy developed, everything focused on money. The villagers' horizons broadened and they also learned some crooked tricks to make money, so Xiaohe suffered.
In the small river, people began to appear with electric fishing devices on their backs, moving from upstream to downstream, and then from downstream to upstream, desperately trying to catch small fish in the water.
Soon after, there were fewer and fewer fish in the water. Villagers and children on both sides of the strait discovered that there were no fish in the water. Because the electric fishing method used a desperate method, the small fry were gone, and there was no reproduction.
Soon after, the trend in society of focusing on money became more and more popular.
Some people began to wash out sand in the river in violation of regulations. At the beginning, it was a non-polluting method. When no one took care of it, some people started to use polluting methods to wash out sand. The income increased sharply, and then it got out of control.
After the construction industry develops, a large amount of sand will be needed.
Because river sand is free, some people excavate sand from the river on a large scale and transport it to construction sites by truck, making money and setting an example.
As a result, more people joined the ranks of sand mining.
As the sand decreased, pits began to appear on the river bed, becoming more and more numerous and deeper.
The villagers worked outside and after making money, they began to build houses on the river bank.
As farmyard manure is used less and less, many houses do not have septic tanks, and urine and feces are discharged directly into the river through pipes. As there are more and more houses, the river water becomes more and more smelly.
In less than ten years, the original mother river turned into a stinking ditch, and the originally pleasant river beach became full of pits, like black scars.
The people who discharged the smelly water also tasted the bitter consequences. Not only the river water smelled bad, but the well water in the villages on both sides of the river was no longer drinkable. Only by drilling a very deep well and using hand pressure can the groundwater deep underground be extracted. Come out and use it as domestic water.
Han Xiaosheng parked the car in front of Uncle Qi's house and looked at the turbid river water. He was filled with emotion and was speechless for a long time.
Uncle Qi was hoeing the ground by the river and saw him looking at the river with a bad look on his face. He said with emotion:
"It has gotten much better in the past few years. The government has made great efforts to control the river and manage it in sections. Each section of the river has a manager, and basically every production team has one."
"It's easy to destroy but difficult to build. It's been several years and there's still no improvement."
After chatting for a long time, the two of them talked about farming.
Farming is not popular with farmers now because the income is too low. It is okay to have enough to eat and drink, but there is not enough money to spend.
Han Xiaosheng thought of the water and soil he brought back, as well as unknown plants from other worlds, and wanted to try planting them in the real world to see the effect.
I walked in with Uncle Qi, but there was no one at home. Uncle Qi said:
"Your seventh aunt is feeding pigs in the backyard."
Arriving in the backyard, Han Xiaosheng saw Aunt Qi cutting pigweed.
Seeing him coming, Aunt Qi quickly went to make tea for him and let Han Xiaosheng wander around the backyard.
The backyard is very lively. There are many chickens and ducks, including some newly born chicks and ducklings. There are two pig pens in the corner. One of them has a big white pig with a fat head and big ears, and the other one has a big white pig with a fat head and big ears. There is a white sow in the pen, and there are a group of piglets around the sow, which look like they have just been born.
Aunt Seven handed him a cup of tea, pointed at the pig and said:
"These piglets are less than a month old. Look, there are also colorful ones."
Han Xiaosheng took a look and saw that there were a few piglets with patches of black in their white hair. They seemed to be mutated, which was rare.
Knowing that Han Xiaosheng was having dinner at home, Aunt Qi and Uncle Qi went to the fields to dig sweet potatoes, preparing for him to take him back to the county town.
Seeing that Aunt Qi was busy, Han Xiaosheng went to the car to get his backpack and took it to the backyard.
I took half the bowl of tap water in a large bowl, took out the thermos cup containing the white juice, poured one-fifth of it into a plastic cup, stirred it, waited for 5 minutes, smelled it, and there was a fragrance. I caught a chick. , put it next to the bowl and watched the chicken's movements.
At first the chicken shivered, seemingly frightened.
The little chicken observed for a while and seemed to smell the fragrance. He put his mouth into the bowl and drank some water. He raised his head and looked at Han Xiaosheng and found that he had not moved. He continued to drink water, one after another. He didn’t leave even after finishing the water.
After a few minutes, the chicken suddenly stood up and started running, running around in the yard, naturally causing chaos to other chickens.
After running for a few minutes, the chicken came over to drink water again. It seemed that he was a little addicted.
Han Xiaosheng looked at it for a while and found nothing unusual.
Then, he took out the thermos cup filled with black juice, took a small bowl, prepared a small bowl of water, and caught another chick for experiment.
This time the results came out quickly. The chick attacked other chicks crazily and did not stop until it was held down by a hen.
Seeing that neither chick was in danger, Han Xiaosheng stopped the experiment.
Looking at the vegetable patch outside the backyard fence, he poured the remaining black water into the leek patch and the white water into the cabbage patch. Then he washed the bowls and put them back in the cupboard.
Han Xiaosheng returned to the main room and found that Uncle Qi and Aunt Qi had returned.
At noon, Aunt Qi cooked the meal, Uncle Qi lit the fire, and Han Xiaosheng chatted with her.
"Uncle Qi, whose family owns the fields and ponds behind this house?"
"One piece of the field belongs to us, the pond belongs to us, and the other fields belong to other people in the team."
"How was the harvest?"
“It’s only 1,000 yuan a year, and fertilizers and seeds are not cheap, and there are other costs.
No one is willing to plant the fields in the countryside anymore, and they are basically farmed out to others. In the past, when farming made money, everyone planted two crops of rice. Later, the cost increased and there was no profit, so the villagers were too lazy to work on farming. Now it is the same. Only planted for one season. "
"I have an idea. You contract all the surrounding ponds and fields. I will pay for it and you will run it. The profits will be divided 50-50."
"Where did you get so much money?"
"I have my own way of getting the money, and it's legal anyway."
"Then let's get a feel for the situation first, lest some greedy people raise the price."
Han Xiaosheng took out 3 bottles of health puree from his bag, put them on the stove, and said:
"These are 3 bottles of health-preserving puree. They are used to make soup in the health-preserving food therapy center I opened. The concentration is relatively high. You are doing farm work which consumes more physical energy. This thing will help you recuperate your body.
There is a scale on it, and each bottle is 100 ml. When stewing soup, just put 10 ml at a time, don't put too much. "
He took out the spring water bottle and soil bag and said:
"This is the culture water and soil I prepared for breeding. Bury the fruit core in this soil and irrigate it with spring water. What may grow is a high-quality peach tree."
Uncle Qi collected the spring water and soil.
In the afternoon, Han Xiaosheng followed Uncle Qi around and was very satisfied with the surrounding environment. He looked at the hill not far away and asked Uncle Qi
"Are there any fruit trees on the nearby mountains?"
Uncle Qi pointed to the nearest forest and said:
"There is a fruit forest there. People from the village used to contract it for a few years, but then the price of the fruit was not good, so they stopped contracting it. It has been abandoned for several years now."
"Then you can contract that place, and I'll pay for it, also 50-50."
“Do you want to plant those fruit trees on a large scale?”
"I provide peach cores and plant new varieties of peach trees. I also have many other types of fruits. I will give you seeds or fruit trees in the future."
Back home, Uncle Qi and Aunt Qi began to discuss implementation plans for orchards, farming, and fish farming, and the atmosphere was very lively.
After lunch, Han Xiaosheng transferred 500,000 to Uncle Qi as starting capital, and then returned to Longjiang County.
Four days later in the morning, Han Xiaosheng was exercising in the living room when he received a call from Uncle Qi.
"Xiaosheng, there is something wrong with my two chicks here. Is it because you did something?"
"What chick?"
Han Xiaosheng was a little confused. He had been busy exercising these past few days and was a little unresponsive.
"After you left last time, there were two chicks that were different from the other chicks. They grew very fast. In just a few days, they were bigger than the biggest rooster and hen in the house. It was very strange."
"Oh, I remembered. I fed him something that day and wanted to see the reaction. I didn't see any movement that day. I thought it had no effect."
"Only you know about this, right?"
"Because we knew you had a secret, we didn't tell anyone else."
"Okay, then I'll come over in the morning."
After Han Xiaosheng arrived at Uncle Qi's house, he saw those two special chicks.
After seeing the two chicks, he was a little shocked.
Just two newly born chicks, which only ate a small part of the fruit pulp, are now half a head taller than the largest rooster in the family. Standing out from the crowd is the best way to describe them.
Not only that, one chicken's feathers turned white, and the other's feathers turned black, and its wings became larger. It was better to say they were two birds than two chickens.
The surrounding chickens and ducks have all hid in corners, and there are still some chicken and duck feathers on the ground. It seems that they have been bullied a lot in the past few days while fighting for food.
Seeing Han Xiaosheng's arrival, the black chickens and white chickens flew over and shouted excitedly around Han Xiaosheng, with particularly vivid eyes.
Uncle Qi said from the side:
"These two guys are big eaters and have eaten a lot of food in the past two days."
Han Xiaosheng stretched out his hand, and the black chicken and the white chicken spread their wings, reached out to his hand, and let him stroke them, which seemed quite humane.
Han Xiaosheng took out the thermos cup containing white juice and the thermos cup containing black juice, and found two rice bowls.
After filling half a bowl of water, I poured a few drops of juice into each bowl. When I saw that the water in the bowl changed color, I covered the thermos cup and handed it to Uncle Qi.
The black chicken and the white chicken saw the black water bowl and the white water bowl, and impatiently stepped forward to drink.
Han Xiaosheng told Uncle Qi:
"From now on, make a bowl of this for them to drink every day, no more, this stuff is very rare.
However, don’t miss out on their food every day. If you don’t have enough money, call me. "
"These two chickens are as human as dogs, and they should be returning to their ancestors. Their ancestors were birds, and they can fly freely after reaching a certain level."
"They may be useful for your breeding in the future. You can treat them like guard dogs."
"However, they can easily be regarded as rare birds by others, so you need to build two nests for them. It is best to prevent others from stealing them."
"I see one is black and the other is white, so I can call them little black and little white."
"If anyone asks, just say that they fell from the sky one night and stopped in the yard to grab food. You found them injured, healed them, and then they stayed."
Han Xiaosheng finished the explanation and told Uncle Qi to call him if he ran out of juice and wanted to return to Longjiang County.
Suddenly, he remembered something and walked to the backyard. Uncle Qi followed him, thinking that he had something to say in the backyard.
There is a vegetable patch outside the fence in the backyard. Last time, Han Xiaosheng poured the remaining black water into the leek patch and the white water into the cabbage patch. Han Xiaosheng estimated that the two vegetables would mutate.
When he arrived in front of the vegetable field, Uncle Qi knew what he was going to see. He pointed at the vegetables and said:
"In the past few days, the leeks and cabbages in the fields have grown like crazy, and they taste so good. We thought we had found a treasure. Seeing you come here, I guess it has something to do with you."
Han Xiaosheng smiled slightly, nodded and said:
"That day I poured the remaining water in the bowl into the vegetable patch, the remaining black water into the leek patch, and the white water into the cabbage patch. That's why the vegetables grew so well. We don’t know how long it will last, and we don’t know if their seeds will inherit this trait in the future.
You eat these dishes by yourself and don't let others know about it. It's best to isolate them with fences. "
"Xiaosheng, I will continue to observe and tell you if I find any changes."
"Okay, then I'm going back to the county seat!"
Saying goodbye to his seventh uncle, Han Xiaosheng returned directly to the county seat.
