It’s actually very simple to grill skewers in Northeast China.

No charcoal or grill needed.

Just turn on the traditional iron stove.

Below is the burned pine charcoal.

Put the red willow lamb skewers soaked in water on top, and soon the fragrance with a milky flavor will waft out.

Everyone talked about the interesting stories on the grassland and how life in New China is getting better and better.

Finally, the drunken crowd sang the most popular songs.

China has come out...

enthusiasm!

joy!

And the most simple enthusiasm.

Wait until an eagle begins to spread its wings and fly.

Liu Xisheng, who was still thinking about enjoying the scenery in the evening, simply fell to the ground and lost consciousness.

I also want to drink with people who come back from exercising on the grassland.

Allowing him to eat lamb skewers was Lu Xinghe's last act of kindness.

The next day, early in the morning.

Lu Xinghe and Ye Bufan arrived at the gate of the brigade early, waiting for the researchers from the Academy of Forestry to arrive.

Liu Xisheng came late, covered his head and said, "I will never drink again. You two guys can really drink!"

"That's just the beginning. On the grassland, you need an eagle flying around to be considered a friend."

Lu Xinghe raised the corners of his mouth. He actually missed the days on the grassland.

"Come on, go and greet them. It's better to go early than late."

The three of them didn't walk far before they saw a row of bicycles riding towards them.

From a distance away, Lu Xinghe trotted over to greet him.

"Professor Zhao, you guys are here so early. This road is not easy to ride a bike on. Thank you for your hard work along the way."

Professor Zhao is about 15 years old, but because he has experienced a turbulent period, he looks very old.

With heavy eyes, he exudes the smell of knowledge.

The row of young men and women behind him were all his students. He had met them all when he went there yesterday.

All of them graduated from technical secondary schools and could find jobs right after graduation.

Because they had all eaten the cakes and pastries sent by Lu Xinghe, even though there was a lot of wind and snow on the road and they felt a little resentful, they still spoke in a relatively kind manner.

Lu Xinghe just repeated the details on the way.

Growing a fruit tree is a long-term task. It takes three years for a tree to mature and one year for it to bear fruit.

It is just like the three-year simulation and annual college entrance examination in later generations.

It requires the experience of wind and snow.

However, if there is grafting technology, it will be much faster. To put it simply, grafting is to insert the branches of normal fruit trees into wild fruit trees to absorb nutrients.

Although the taste of fruits grown in this way is different from those grown normally.

In later generations, fruits from the previous one or two years would be sent for canning.

The taste is astringent and the sweetness is not that strong.

But in this era, as long as the price is right, it is considered a rare and good fruit.

The quality is poor, so the price is low, which just meets the current material living standards of people.

Lu Xinghe and Liu Xisheng shook hands with everyone enthusiastically, "Professor Zhao, let's go back to the brigade and have some hot tea, and some salty milk tea that we brought back from the grassland.

The taste here is different from ours, so it’s a good opportunity to taste it together.”

Professor Zhao waved his hand and refused: "No, we are not here for tea. You are the first pilot of the reform, and this is also our first opportunity to practice.

We must seize the time to investigate, and every second must be used to study."

Of course, the last words were spoken to the students behind me.

This was probably a common problem among the old scholars who were sent down to the countryside in those years.

Cherish time very much.

"Well, the wild fruit trees and the location we chose are not far away. Here are the leggings. Everyone, take them with you. Let's go up the mountain now."

The wild fruit trees of Chaihe Brigade are located on the barren hills not far from the village entrance.

In fact, it was not a wasteland. It was the seeds brought by the first group of people who entered Guandong.

At that time, there was no land demarcation, so crops were just planted randomly on the mountain.

However, with the changes of the times and the movement of people, no one knows where the people who originally planted the fruit trees moved to.

There is no time to take care of the orchard, and the fruit trees gradually become wild.

When Lu Xinghe and his group were young, all their fruits came from the village.

However, the small apples, wild pears, hawthorn fruits, etc. grown here taste green and astringent.

You need to take them back home. They taste better if you add some sugar after steaming them.

However, the wild sea buckthorn fruits here taste pretty good. If you take them home and squeeze them into juice, it tastes even better than orange soda.

This is the thing that snatches food from the mouths of small birds and pheasants.

Generally, no one would do such a thing unless they are a child.

After climbing halfway up the hill, we arrived at where most of the wild fruit trees gathered.

Liu Xisheng was transferred here later, so Lu Xinghe had to stand in front to introduce him.

"Professor Zhao, this is it. Half of this hillside is covered with fruit trees. There is another large area over the hillside, but the fruit trees there are sparsely populated.

It must have grown from seeds excreted by birds after eating the fruit."

Professor Zhao listened to the introduction and led the students to check around. They used a knife to cut the tree trunk when it was appropriate and put the white part inside into their mouths to taste it.

The students behind him also studied with Professor Zhou.

However, everyone looked embarrassed when they tasted the bitter taste.

There is a saying that each generation is worse than the previous one.

People of that generation definitely suffered more than the next generation.

"It's a wild fruit tree, and it has adapted to the temperature here. There's water inside the trunk at this time. It seems that the growing conditions here are good."

"Yes, there is a tributary of Mudanjiang River at the foot of the mountain. We have no shortage of water except for other things."

Lu Xinghe pointed to the other side of the mountain.

"Very good! Better than I thought!"

Professor Zhao became obviously more excited when he said this, and then he started digging in the snow under the tree.

At the bottom of the snow, I started looking for various fruit cores.

Then he started to explain to the students behind him.

Lu Xinghe and the other two were not in a hurry either. After all, they were not professionals and would not understand anything.

It's also difficult to fit in.

He simply used the slingshot he carried with him and started looking for the gray dogs, or rats, on the mountain.

Lu Xinghe’s shooting skills are not good, but he is much better at using a slingshot than Ye Bufan.

In just half an hour's work, the two of them caught seven or eight greyhounds.

By the way, I took out a lot of dried wild fruits from the squirrel's home!

This made Professor Zhao very excited!

Teaching with fruit cores and teaching with fruit are obviously two different concepts.

It was because of these dried fruits that Professor Zhao's attitude towards Lu Xinghe changed drastically.

"This wild peach has little flesh and a big pit, so it's not tasty. The small sand apples will rot if they are not fully ripe. This shows that the land is fertile and the water is abundant.

It has strong growth potential, and all nutrients are used to support its own growth.

More suitable for grafting than the fruit trees we grow ourselves!"

Professor Zhao became more and more excited as he spoke, and he wished he could move his research institute to this mountainous area.

You know, grafting technology was a technology he had been researching before he was arrested.

It is because of this technology that it has been decentralized for so many years.

My obsession with technology has surpassed my passion for technology.

Now that he sees such a precious piece of land, how can he not be excited!