"What time do you switch with the next shift?"
"Ten o'clock, Ah Chen, we'll come find you after we switch shifts. Wait for us, save your drinks for us."
"Yeah, Ah Chen, don't let those brats on the mountaintop get you drunk beforehand."
"Ah Chen, save some room for later—"
"Okay! I'll go up first then."
After the roadblocks were removed, Ah Chen drove up the mountain.
Meanwhile, Tang Ayi, a member of the Hongmiao tribe, said to the Miao man beside him:
"Hurry up, go to my house and bring over the pheasants and rabbits we caught in the mountains yesterday."
"Now? Then who's going to cover my shift?"
“You go, we’ll hold them off for now! Bring it over, we’ll slaughter it, clean it, and then tell the wives in each household to take it to Ah Chen’s house to be chopped up and prepared.”
"OK!"
"Oh right, send a signal to summon Mu Azhuang and the others! He's been nagging me about it for ages."
then--
Yi Miaolang took out a signal tube from his body and pulled it into the air.
whoosh--
In an instant, a bright red flame shot into the sky from the foot of the mountain.
The flames shot continuously across the night sky.
The dazzling light lingered for a long time.
And as this light rose into the sky—
Near the fruit stand, around several bonfires --
Nearly a thousand non-Miao people looked up at the starlight in the night sky, all asking what had happened.
Across the river, in that cluster of stilted houses,
Zhao Akang, who was standing here at that moment, ran out when he saw the fireworks.
"Zhao Akang, what happened?"
"I don't know, I just saw it too."
"This is a signal from the Red Miao people. Who's at the crossroads leading up the mountain?"
"Let's go, let's go ask them!"
"I'd like to see who's here, that they've even come up with our newly invented signal flares."
——
At the same time.
Mu Azhuang and his group, who had come from the direction of Black Wind Village to play at the Lusheng Field,
When you see the color of the signal flares in the night sky, --
"Ah Zhuang, this is a signal from the Red Miao people—"
"Walk--"
So, Mu Azhuang and several core Miao men from Black Wind Village rode away.
——
In the darkness -
Tang Abao was about to lead his men to the Starry Sky Fruit Forest when he suddenly saw a signal at the intersection.
"What is Tang Ayi up to? Why is he firing a signal flare?"
"Never mind that for now, let's go back and ask."
——
Mountain top.
The Miao people here could see the rainbow light that lingered in the night sky even more clearly.
Hundreds of people--
Just then, they saw cars coming up from the foot of the mountain, and they were all thinking:
Even if a big shot comes, is it necessary to fire a signal flare?
That's right, Starry Fruit Forest isn't unfamiliar with important figures.
…
“Two chieftains, a signal has been sent down the mountain; someone important has arrived.”
The two chieftains of the Red Miao and Black Miao tribes --
That is, Grandpa Tang and Grandpa Mu.
Right now, he's in the building diagonally opposite Mu Achen, warming himself by a fire while talking to the Miao people in the core of the orchard about the sacred fruit of the orchard.
When the Miao people reported that an important person had come down from the mountain—
Chief Mu drank a bowl of rice wine, then, while fiddling with his pipe by the fire, said:
"It's most likely Tan County and his gang again. I've told them several times, but I'm still not at ease."
Chief Tang immediately started cursing: "Don't these Miao bastards down the mountain know that signal flares can't be fired randomly?"
"Tang Arong, you'd better give Hongmiao a good talking to later."
Inside the room, there were more than twenty people sitting, but not one of them went out to look.
Even the hundreds of Miao people resting at the entrance only glanced at it and obviously didn't take it to heart.
Even if you see a car coming up--
He glanced at it and then sat down to rest.
Because I'm so tired!
They rest until 10 o'clock, then they have to go to the orchard to change shifts.
Since Ah Chen left the Miao village --
Let alone their Starry Fruit Forest--
Even at Xingkong Fruit Forest, Miao people are there almost every day to keep an eye on the fruit forest's condition.
Because they're afraid.
If something goes wrong and the best time is missed, leading to unpredictable consequences, they'll regret it terribly.
Therefore, someone needs to keep an eye on things all the time.
If anything seems amiss, no matter the time -
Even in the dead of night -
Even in the face of cold winds and torrential rain, reports must be submitted immediately so that they can contact Ah Chen.
The most serious incident was two months ago, which almost resulted in the complete annihilation of the seven-colored sacred fruits in the Star Fruit Forest.
Keep in mind that by then, the results had already begun.
The sacred fruit kept dying every few days.
In just one week, more than 100,000 were lost, which made the two chief leaders extremely anxious.
She fainted several times.
Even the elders of the clan rushed over.
Fortunately, they were able to contact Ah Chen, who was far away in the port city, and explain the situation clearly.
Because Ah Chen wasn't on-site, he relied solely on the Miao people's accounts and it took him four or five days to find the cause.
turn out to be--
The culprit turned out to be a large number of tiny insects that had appeared at the roots of the fruit tree.
These insects are not the kind that grass spirits raise, but rather insects that live in the soil.
This insect is known locally as the "ground rice worm".
People have almost all seen the ground weevil, but it is called by different names in different places.
It's only three to five millimeters big and brown.
I love the nutrition of the crops grown by farmers.
Therefore, after Ah Chen found the cause, how to solve it became a problem.
Because there are countless ground beetles, and they are the same color as the soil.
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