The snow came late this winter, and at the end of 2023, the first snow of winter will be ushered in on Mt. Qiyao.
I went to Qiyao Mountain to see the snow because I was concerned about my friend Zhu Tingsheng on the mountain, his Li Zipo, his farmhouse, and his Chinese medicinal materials. Snow falls on Qiyao Mountain, Ruixue Mega Year, 2023, do Zhu Tingsheng and his fellow villagers have an expected harvest?
One. The world is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are in full bloom. ”
I didn't go for the peach blossoms, the last time I went to Qiyao Mountain was in early September this year, I went to the late-ripening plums on the mountain, the late-ripening plums at the bottom of the mountain have withdrawn, and there are almost no plums in the market. I heard that there are plums in Qiyao Mountain, and I heard that the plum growers are a farmer who has returned to his hometown.
In Tumiao Village, Puzi Township, Wanzhou District, Chongqing, on Qiyao Mountain, we really saw a slope plum forest, the plum trees were full of crisp red plums, hanging on the branches like strings of emerald red agate, and the plum slope became an agate slope.
This is the surprise of Mt. Nanayao to us, this is the last plum of the year given to people by the earth!
The owner of this slope plum tree is called Zhu Tingsheng, and the old family is still Xi to call him "Shengwa". Although Zhu Tingsheng is fifty-three years old this year, in the hearts of the villagers, "Shengwa" will always be young.
Zhu Tingsheng's plum tree should have borne fruit the year before last, because there was a problem with fertilization, and it missed a year, and it began to bear fruit this year, so that the plum fragrance of the Three Gorges lasted for a month or two, giving the Three Gorges people unexpected surprises and waiting. Everyone was waiting for the high mountain plum on Qiyao Mountain.
When we met Zhu Tingsheng, Zhu Tingsheng was directing the villagers to pack boxes and scale the car in the "plum house", we all felt cold when we put on our coats, and Zhu Tingsheng was sweating in short sleeves.
I opened the interview book and was about to interview Zhu Tingsheng, when his wife suddenly called**, saying that a wild bee on the plum tree had stung her hand and it hurt badly. He immediately told his wife to go back to the "plum house" to apply medicine, put on a veil himself, took a sickle, and ran to Li Zipo. There are dozens of people in Lizipo who help pick plums, as well as those tourists, and the wild bees in Qiyao Mountain are very poisonous.
Zhu Tingsheng pointed to one slope after another of plum trees, his family has a total of more than 700 acres of plum trees, growing on the slopes on both sides of the Wachao River, one slope of green, one slope of red, one slope of incense. Ditch.
Every house in the valley is hung with golden corn cobs on stilts, golden corn is drying on the yard dam, there are hundreds of tall windmills on the top of the mountain, and the hillside is crisp red plum and green crispy plum, this is the fullest season of Qiyao Mountain, which is also the dream that Zhu Tingsheng has been looking forward to for many years come true!
Two. Zhu Tingsheng is a native of Qiyao Mountain, Qiyao Mountain grows seven tall peaks, beautiful scenery, is the sacred mountain in the hearts of the people of the Three Gorges.
The bud chaff that sleeps, the thatched nest where you live, the mud road you walk, and the three big lumps you eat (red lotus, artichoke, bud grain). This is the most poignant slip of the Qiyao Mountain, shouting out the sourness of the mountain and the helplessness of the mountain.
Zhu Tingsheng is one of the three groups of people in Tumiao Village at the foot of Qiyao Mountain, one of the highest villages in the Three Gorges, and the vast mountain forests that cannot be seen from the top can be seen upwards, leaving less than one mu of land for everyone in the village, and most of them are palm land and chicken feet land in the chaotic stone forest on the hillside, and there are only a few fields in the village. Everyone also shouted a slip to the earth temple: "Qiyao Mountain, the fog is heavy, the Canggu noodles are choked to death, and the guests run to the foot of the mountain, and they have to drink a few pots of rice soup." ”
Eating a bowl of white rice is the highest ideal of the Tumiao people.
When one side of the water and soil cannot support the other side, leaving home is the best way out that everyone can think of. Zhu Tingsheng left Tumiao at the age of 19 to work in Shanghai, at the beginning of the help of people to collect broken copper and iron, his sincerity, hard work impressed the boss, the boss was relieved to buy broken copper and iron in several areas of Shanghai to him to operate alone, he did a good job.
In the winter of 1995, Zhu Tingsheng's father had stomach cancer, and he saw many doctors who did not get better.
My father left, and his hand kept pointing to the Wachao Creek outside the wooden window, and the snowflakes were flying, and the Wachao Creek was full of thick snow.
His father was 58 years old.
Zhu Tingsheng remembered his father's words, and took a few young people from the village, and the business became bigger and bigger. Relatives persuaded Zhu Tingsheng to go to Jiangsu to invest and start a company, but he didn't expect Zhu Tingsheng to make a decision that no one expected.
Three. In the winter of 2007, Zhu Tingsheng transferred all the projects in Shanghai and returned to the snowy Qiyao Mountain, becoming the first farmer in the village to return to his hometown to start a business.
I asked him how much money he had at the timeZhu Tingsheng said that the money was enough to buy more than a dozen houses in Shanghai anyway. Money and people have returned to their hometown, the village 700 acres of barren mountains to turn over, originally according to the regulations, the land transfer fee can be paid in installments, the old people in the village are worried that they will not wait for that day, he will pay a one-time transfer fee of 1 million, so that the old people can feel at ease.
Zhu Tingsheng felt sorry for the vast barren mountains of the earth temple, and the thatch and thorn bushes on the barren mountains deeply pierced his heart. Zhu Tingsheng said that as a descendant of a farmer, although there are many opportunities to make money in big cities, the land under his feet is the most down-to-earth, and he believes in every piece of land under his feet.
Zhu Tingsheng circulated the barren mountains in the village, although he had his father's entrustment, as a successful businessman, in fact, he had already seen the value of those barren mountains in his heart, and made every effort to develop Qiyao Mountain, and hundreds of windmills were built on the mountain, next to the famous Longgang Scenic Area and Qishan Grassland. After people's food and clothing are solved, summer vacation has become a new pursuit. The high Qiyao Mountain is a summer resort.
Zhu Tingsheng came back to circulate 700 acres of barren mountains, igniting everyone's hope. They know that the "Shengwa" in their hearts is going to do great things, and they want to follow the "Shengwa" to do great things together.
If you want to get rich, build roads first. Zhu Tingsheng took out 600,000 yuan to repair the Tumiao to the outside road, connecting from Baijialiang to Hubei Yantangping, and connecting from Tumiao Village to Shangqiyao Mountain Scenic Area.
A road that activates the arteries of the earth. As soon as the road is passed, the heart is opened, and the "three big lumps" in the village, the wild Chinese medicine on Qiyao Mountain, and the soil honey are selling well at once. Later, he invested in oiling all the dirt roads he built, and the villagers' hearts brightened.
Zhu Tingsheng said that he was concerned about those barren mountains, but he really didn't think about how to make the barren mountains not barren, he tried to grow vegetables and medicinal herbs on these hillsides, although he got back some investment, it was so meager, and he always felt that it was not the ideal he expected.
In 2019, Zhu Tingsheng left some land to continue planting Chinese medicinal materials such as gastrodia, rhubarb, and honeysuckle, and more land began to plant alpine crisp red plums, so that plum trees could take root on Qiyao Mountain. Taking advantage of the east wind of the development of Qiyao Mountain, this year he rebuilt a homestay on his old house, and after several years of continuous investment, the original savings have long been gone, this time he used the bank's money, and he firmly believes in his vision.
People go to Qiqi Mountain to see the windmill, see the snow scene, escape the heat, see the plum blossoms like the snow all over the mountain in spring, pick plums on the plum tree in autumn, graze the goats on the plum slope, watch the smile of the goats, listen to the rotation of the windmill, and listen to the sound of the breeze.
He named his homestay "Lingshang Style".
Four. Follow Zhu Tingsheng to his plum slope, and on each side of the hill are tourists and villagers who come to pick plums from near and far. Zhu Tingsheng's plums are not worried about sales, the bosses in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are eager to eat the plums of the Three Gorges in the golden autumn, and the people who have not seen the plums for two or three months are waiting for the high mountain plums on Qiyao Mountain.
Even happier are the villagers who watched him grow up, they stayed in their ancestral homeland, and these uncles and aunts can work here every day to earn money from what they call "Shengwa". People in the city go to work every day, they go uphill every day, their ancestors face the loess with their backs to the sky, when they went uphill they had to look at the face of God, although they were very bitter and did not expect a harvest, but now they have earned wages uphill and ushered in a happier harvest than the crops.
Looking at the villagers counting their salaries from the financial hands every month, and looking at the plums in the mountains, Zhu Tingsheng has never been so down-to-earth.
He said that this was a "return for the favor" to his hometown.
The clusters of purple-red and shiny crisp red plums on the plum tree are particularly eye-catching, and they hang heavily from the branches. Picking one, the flesh is juicy, crisp, sweet and fragrant, which is the natural fruity fragrance in the sky and rain of Qiyao Mountain. Zhu Tingsheng pointed to the ground and said that this year there was a lot of rain and strong winds, and many plums fell to the ground, and the original planned output of 600,000 catties was estimated to be unrealized.
Zhu Tingsheng put on a veil to cut off the wild honeycomb and put it in a plastic bag, and he wanted to make medicinal wine for the old people in the village. He stroked the lush plum trees and told me very firmly that he was convinced of the harvest that would follow.
Daddy!Hurry up and arrange for some people to pick plums uphill, and more than a dozen cars of people from the B&B are going to take the plums!This is Zhu Tingsheng's son ** Hong, he was originally working in other places after returning from the army, seeing his father's agricultural company getting bigger and bigger, seeing that the villagers were counting on their "Shengwa" to break the root of poverty, he resolutely quit his job and came back to help his father, although he was born in Shanghai, but his blood is blowing the wind and ...... of Qiyao Mountain
Zhu Tingsheng said that this year is already a very good start, and next year and the year after next will definitely be a bumper harvest year. The "Lingshang Family" has already begun to receive guests. Rhubarb, a Chinese medicinal herb in the field, grows very well. Next year, he will lead the villagers to raise 100 cattle in the mountains.
Five. Ruixue is a mega year, and next year must be a bumper harvest year.
Zhu Tingsheng said that the people who went out to work in the village began to return home one after another, and many of them had already signed up with him to stay in Qiyao Mountain to plant the land under his feet, and they saw the future of the village from his plum orchard.
With the plum slope in the snowflakes as the background, I took a photo of Zhu Tingsheng and his son**, behind them is Li Zipo, behind Li Zipo are seven tall peaks, on the peaks are hundreds of big windmills, above the big windmills is the blue sky ......