Like walnuts, before it is picked, it has a layer of cyan, or blue-yellow outer protective layer to protect the inner cinnamon, which resembles a green jujube and is as green as jade, but if you can't help but take a bite, your mouth will be numb and grinning, beating your chest.

Therefore, the peel of the citron fruit cannot be eaten, but it can be refined into high-grade aromatic oil. When I was a child, the peel of the fruit was useless, and it was just thrown into the ground to fertilize the ground, or we children used it to come to the stream and ditch to medicine the fish.

The peel of the citron is very numb, so even if the fish swallows the juice of the peel, it will be directly numb and faint, and many fish will float directly on the water with their white belly. When we were children, whenever we were picking, we would use the peel of the tree to remove the medicated fish, and we could always medicate a large number of fish.

Of course, these fish can definitely be safely practical, the juice of the peel is not poisonous, and as long as you remove the internal organs of the fish, you will not have the numb feeling of the peel of the nut.

Of course, these things will not happen anymore, and all the peels of the citrons have been taken away by some spice producers, although the price is not high, but it is good for the farmers to increase any bit of harvest.

When picking the citron, you need a little bit of skill, picking the citron is not like picking other fruits is very random picking, nor can it be like picking walnuts and chestnuts, directly with a bamboo pole to knock down, picking the citron, you have to use the 'twist', the citron one by one with the 'twist' to screw down, of course, this is even greater the difficulty of picking the citron. It is a kind of "hard work" for the farmers.

So why do you have to "twist" when picking the citron, because the citron itself is a special fruit tree, which belongs to the "three generations in the same house". When I climbed up the tree, I saw that there were small "children" following behind the huge fruit on the tree. If you look closely, you can see that the tiny buds (children and grandchildren) are also coming one after another, following closely behind.

If you break the branches when you are picking the citron, this year's citron fruit will be saved, but next year, the year after next, or even the next few years, there will be no zài. How could the farmers who planted the citron do such a stupid thing that was tantamount to killing the chicken and taking the eggs, so the picking of the citron can only be slowly "twisted", and the fruit in the next few years must not be damaged. It is precisely for this reason that the time and effort required to pick a citron tree is not ordinarily small.

Many of the ancient trees are twenty or thirty meters high, and the diameter of the crown is tens of meters, and those that are thousands of years old are even taller. Therefore, the farmers who picked the citron made a tool for picking the citron tree, which was called the quint.

It is made of bamboo. The mouth is small and the belly is big, and a circle of bamboo teeth is exposed on the mouth, and the handle is as long as 2-3 zhang, so that when the farmers climb up and down on the top of the tree to pick the tree, they will not let the trees that are already in the pocket fall out, so that the farmers do not have to go up and down the tree often. Put the picked citron on the ground.

When picking the fragrant trees, it is generally the old and young women and children who go into battle at the same time. Of course, the old people, children, and women all stood on the ground and grabbed the branches of the tree with their grappling hooks to pick the bottom of the tree, while the men went directly up to the tree and picked the trees on it.

Most of the trees are very tall, and don't look at the branches of the trees are very large, although the appearance is indeed good, but in fact, there are a lot of branches of the trees are brittle, and many farmers who pick the trees are like this.

As soon as you step on it, the branches of these citron trees will break, and you can imagine what will happen to the farmers who pick them.

These are to be seen only by experience, so when picking the citron, it is generally like to call some familiar hands who are familiar with the situation of the branches of the citron tree to help pick, and when going up the tree, it is necessary to help a very thick rope in the middle of the citron tree, as a safety rope, so as to avoid irreparable disasters.

Every year, when picking the citron, the price of those skilled people picking the citron tree in Xingshi Village is still very high, about 500 yuan a day, and it has to include three meals a day, tobacco and alcohol, because picking the citron is actually a very dangerous job.

In our town, there will always be more than a dozen or twenty accidents every year because of picking cinnamon, of course, the dozen or twenty accidents I am talking about are all disability accidents, or direct deaths, those accidents that will be fine if they are just injured and lie down for a month or two, are not counted in it.

These things are true, in the town of the walker's hometown, every year when the citron is picked, more than a dozen people are injured, and it is very common for a few to die, all because they accidentally stepped on the branches of the citron tree that had become brittle, and they had no defenses and fell from the citron tree.

Because when picking the citron, you can only use 'twisting', so the time to pick the citron takes a long time, and because the citron is green, or greenish-yellow, in the green, or blue-yellow leaves, sometimes it is not obvious, which increases the energy spent by the farmers who pick the citron, because of the long-term doing the same action, plus the consumption of the body, therefore, the farmers who pick the citron will accidentally fall from the tree.

Many people who value the profiteering of the citron, where there was no citron before, and now the villages that have begun to plant the citron tree do not know the habit of the citron tree, so there will be a lot of accidents, especially when it rains, it is easy to have accidents.

On rainy days, people who have planted the citron for decades will never pick the citron, because the trees are covered with moss when it rains, and the citron trees will become very slippery when they encounter rain, and if they go up to the tree, even if they are veterans of picking the citron, there will definitely be three or four slippery feet in the ten feet, plus a rain, the appearance of the branches of the citron tree is covered by the rain, at this time, even the farmers who are veteran pickers do not know that the branches of the citron tree have become brittle, so it is 100% possible to pick the citron tree on a rainy day。

It's a pity that those places that have just started to grow citron don't understand this thing, or this taboo, and many people give up their lives because of it. This is a real thing that happened in the traveler's hometown. More than once or twice, many times.

Of course, some people will say that fools know that they go to trees to pick things on rainy days. Absolute danger, where would anyone be so stupid to go to the tree to pick something on a rainy day, this is all a rumor, or a deception.

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

In order to be able to keep their own output, farmers do not go out on rainy days to pick fruits from trees or go to the fields to plow. Even if he is seriously ill, when it is time to go out to work, he will still go out to work. Because their family's livelihood is in this land, and without the grain produced in the land, they will have to drink the northwest wind this year.

When it rains, it will be knocked to the ground by the rain. And it is well known. Something like nuts will sprout as soon as they are soaked in rain for a few days, and all of them will become garbage.

When the citron buyer buys the citron, as long as the whole champ is like a cracked champ, it doesn't want all of it. This is because. When the cracked cinnamon is stir-fried, it is very difficult to grasp the heat.

Often, those that are intact have not yet been cooked. But those cracked Champs have been fried, so whenever they come out of the pot, those cracked Champs have been scorched, which is definitely a big loss for the Champ buyers, so those opened Champ Trees can only be kept for themselves to eat, and the Champ Trees buyers will not accept them.

Whoever sees their own family of fragrant trees is knocked down by a large amount of rain, so that those fragrant trees sprout because of the rain, become garbage, which family will not be heartbroken, therefore, it is inevitable to pick fragrant trees on rainy days, because if the rain is allowed to go down like this, their family's annual income will be gone, and there will be problems with the livelihood of the family, which is something that farmers can never accept.

Therefore, don't look at the price of two or three hundred yuan a catty, think that the price of the tree is very expensive, and the farmers are bidding or something, but in fact, the farmers are taking great risks to pick it, and it is worth the price!

At seven o'clock in the morning on October 7th, Zhao Chaogang's family went out, today is the big sun, so it is the best time to pick the citron (the walker adjusted the season of the fragrant tree to maturity for half a month, the citron is generally ripe in mid-September, but the picking of the citron generally lasts about 20 days), Li Bin and his wife, as well as Liu Mingxin and his wife yesterday morning, have taken a plane back to Anxi City, and their work is inseparable from them.

Li Bin is the vice president of Anxi University, and will soon be promoted to the president of Anxi University (stained with Zhao Chaogang's light), at such a time, Li Bin certainly cannot leave the school for too long.

Liu Mingxin is even busier than Li Bin, not only the cultivation of the backbone of the Liu family in the future is inseparable from Liu Mingxin, but also the 'Liu's Bank' has just opened for a long time, if no one manages it for a long time, there will definitely be problems, and Jingjing is not ready to manage the 'Liu's Bank' in a short time, so Liu Mingxin can only manage the 'Liu's Bank', which is the guarantee of their Liu's family's long-term prosperity in the future.

This year, it can be said that the fragrant trees in Zhao Chaogang's house are another bumper harvest, and because of the storage of the spirit gathering array in the small stone valley, the branches of those fragrant trees in Zhao Chaogang's house will not have any brittle branches, and Zhao Chaogang and they can step on it boldly with confidence.

Not only does the fragrant tree in Zhao Chaogang's house have no brittle branches, but also the fragrant tree in the entire Zhaojia Village will not have brittle branches, even if it was a fragrant tree with brittle branches before, there are no brittle branches now.

The abundant aura emanating from the small stone valley has reborn the fragrant trees in Zhaojia Village. From now on, picking fragrant trees in Zhaojia Village, there is no need to worry about brittle branches, which is definitely good news for Zhaojia Village.

Although Zhaojia Village has been planting fragrant trees for hundreds of years, it is definitely full of experience in picking fragrant trees, but there will always be accidents, such as those children, if they go to climb the fragrant trees, they may fall down because of stepping on brittle branches, which will cause tragedy (such a thing has appeared several times in the traveler's house), so Zhao Chaogang can be said to have made a contribution to Zhaojia Village.

"Dad, the fragrant tree is so beautiful, Dad, you pick a few for Nannan, Nannan likes it so much!"

As soon as you come to the small stone valley, those in the early morning sun, shining emerald green champ trees attract the eyes of the women, especially these trees like a scurrying green grapes, hanging on the branches, which attracts the attention of the girls, and the mouth of the seduced women unconsciously appears saliva.

Seeing that the corners of Nannan's mouth were saliva, Zhao Chaogang knew that the beautiful appearance of Xiangnu confused Nannan, and he had to know that when he saw Xianghua for the first time when he was a child, he didn't even think about it and threw it directly into his mouth, the result is conceivable, he cried directly, and in two days, his mouth was numb, and he couldn't taste it at all, so Zhao Chaogang, who knew that the taste of raw Xianghua was domineering, would let Nannan taste raw Xianghua.

"Nannan, these fragrant trees can't be eaten, these fragrant trees are not ripe, if you want to eat fragrant trees, Dad fried them and then give them to Nannan, just like the rice in the house, before they are cooked, Nannan can't eat them at all, and these fragrant trees are just good-looking, in fact, they don't smell good, Nannan, you smell them. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Chaogang directly unscrewed off a few emerald green citron trees on the top of the citron tree, and handed them to the bottom of Nannan's nose, so that Nannan could smell the smell of the citron.

"Uh-huh....... As soon as she smelled the smell of the skin of the fragrant tree, Nan Nan directly wrinkled her nose: "Dad, it stinks, I don't like it, it smells so bad." ”

Although the skin of the citron can extract the essence, but in fact, the epidermis of the citron tree does not smell good, there is a smell of pine resin, of course, it is not very strong, adults are so-called, but children are absolutely not used to smelling.

When a child like Nan Nan is the most curious, if Zhao Chaogang directly explains and does not explain the curbing order that Nan Nan is not allowed to touch the fragrant tree, Nan Nan will be very happy on the surface, but secretly he will definitely secretly taste the taste of the fragrant tree.

Therefore, Zhao Chaogang first used the different tastes of rice before and after ripening to explain that he could not eat raw fragrant trees, and for the sake of insurance, Zhao Chaogang also directly picked a few raw fragrant trees to let Nannan smell them.

Zhao Chaogang believed that after smelling the smell of the fragrant tree, he would never have the idea of tasting the fragrant tree, judging from the disgusted expression on the face of the girl just now, Zhao Chaogang's strategy was very correct. (To be continued......)

PS: Note: The first update, the weather is getting hotter and hotter in summer, everyone, pay attention to the heat!