The big man glanced at Zhou Huaian, gritted his teeth, and said, "Fifty per person, no more." If there are more, our work will be in vain.
"No need!" Zhou Yiding looked at him, "Not to mention fifty dollars, even a hundred dollars won't do."
"Brother, I think you should ask your brother for advice!"
Zhou Huaian looked at him with a smile, "No need to ask, we brothers don't make money that we shouldn't make."
"Good, good!" The big man sneered at the two men, "Today is my bad luck. You better keep an eye on these agarwood trees on the mountain, or they will grow legs and run away one day!"
"Haha!" Zhou Yiding smiled faintly, "If you can escape, that's your ability. Once you are caught, the work of digging the river and building the dam will not be easy!"
"Let's go!" The big man waved to the four men who were holding crowbars and looking at Zhou Huaian and the other man with gloomy faces, and then walked down the mountain.
The man who had just shouted angrily pointed a crowbar at Zhou Yiding and said, "Good boy, keep a close eye on those trees. I'll be back sooner or later!"
"Don't be afraid of getting shot, just come on!" Before Zhou Yiding finished his words, he pulled the trigger and the gun hit his toe with a "bang".
A dent was made on the man's toes, and the debris that flew up hit his face, causing him great pain. His legs went limp and he fell to the ground.
The big man holding the shotgun heard the gunshot and turned around to look at Zhou Yiding and the others nervously, "What's wrong? You can't leave?"
Zhou Huaian looked at him calmly, "Tell your brother to keep his mouth shut!"
The other three looked at the shell on the ground, their arrogance gone, and they grabbed the man and left.
Yang Chunyan and Wan Xuejiao heard the gunshots and ran halfway up the mountain. They breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the two men standing there. "Huai'an, why did someone shoot?"
Zhou Huaian turned around and smiled to comfort her, "Someone has a dirty mouth, Ding Ding Cat, just scare him!"
Zhou Yiding also smiled and said to Wan Xuejiao: "Yes, some people's mouths are like cesspools. They won't be clean unless they are cleaned up!"
Wan Xuejiao nodded and said, "The backpack is still at the bottom of the mountain. I'll go get it."
"Let's go together."
The four of them went back and came up with their backpacks. Yang Chunyan looked at the valley and vaguely remembered that the forests here were almost completely cut down in a few years. Those agarwood trees were probably cut down at that time!
She looked at the agarwood that stretched between several trees and could smell the fresh scent it exuded, which was similar to the orange peel.
The trunk was sawed into four parts. The tree trunk is straight and thick, and the bark is grayish white and smooth. It is perfect for making furniture!
In another thirty or forty years, a piece of agarwood this big without any agarwood will probably cost twenty or thirty yuan per pound when sold to medicinal herb dealers!
"What a pity. Such a thick piece of agarwood must have been there for many years."
Zhou Huaian and the other two didn't think it was a pity, "Yan'er, see if there's any agarwood?"
Yang Chunyan thought about it and said, "I heard that agarwood trees with dense branches and leaves, straight trunks, and smooth bark will not produce agarwood."
"Oh! I remember, you said last time that only injured agarwood trees can produce agarwood!" Zhou Yiding said as he walked into the valley, "The agarwood tree is over there, let's go look for it."
The three followed him down through the woods and saw many large tree stumps left after being cut down. There were also small agarwood trees with white spots in the woods.
When you walk to the valley, the scattered agarwood branches and leaves emit a refreshing fragrance. Pick up a few leaves, rub them, and put them on the tip of your nose, which gives you a cool feeling.
The fallen branches on the ground were as thick as an adult's arm. Yang Chunyan felt that people these days were simply wasting nature's gifts.
"Yiding, take all these branches back later. Agarwood is also a medicinal material. Old wood like this can be sold for one or two dimes per pound after being dried."
"There are plenty of them on the mountain. If you want, just get them down the mountain later." Zhou Yiding kicked the branches that were left on the ground. "There are a total of 17 big trees here. The two largest ones were chopped down by those bastards."
Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "Yiding, do you want to sell the two agarwood trees that were stolen and cut down?"
"If there is no quota from above, we should sell it." Zhou Yiding reacted, "Sister-in-law, do you want to buy it?"
"Well! Look at how many big trees on the mountain have been cut down in the past two years." Yang Chunyan patted a nearby agarwood tree, "In the future, trees this big may also be cut down and sold by the forest farm."
"If we can buy them, we will buy these two agarwood trees and store them. After all the agarwood trees on the mountain are cut down, even these worthless branches can be sold for money in the future."
"I understand. I'll ask my old man to find a way to buy it for you."
"Yiding, believe me, you can also get one and keep it. You won't suffer any loss."
"I believe it!" Zhou Yiding said with a smile, "It's not difficult for my family to buy some! There are many forest farms in Hengshan, and some are bigger than this one. I'll ask my old man to get a few more and store them."
"Then remember to tell Uncle Daqing to collect all the cut branches and put them away."
"Hmm!" Zhou Yiding pointed at the agarwood trees, "Let's look for agarwood first?"
The four of them searched around, and Yang Chunyan found that the agarwood trees here were all growing well. They found two agarwood trees with tree tumors, "but didn't see any agarwood trees that were producing agarwood."
"Alas!" Zhou Yiding spread his hands, "It seems my luck is not good enough!"
Zhou Huaian smiled and kicked the basket on his back. "Brother, having two nests of old honey is a good harvest. We should be content!"
Zhou Yiding scratched his head and said, "That's right! Don't be too greedy when you go up the mountain to look for mountain products. If you are too greedy, you won't find anything!"
Yang Chunyan looked at the two agarwood trees with knotty trees, recalled the method of cutting agarwood with a knife in the video, and cut them with a machete.
The hosts of the short videos said that to artificially produce agarwood, one must select agarwood trees that have reached a certain age, and artificially injure the tree trunks by methods such as cutting with knives, insect bites, and fungal infections, in order to stimulate the agarwood trees to secrete resin to produce agarwood.
When the leaves of a tree do not grow lushly, turn yellow, or partially necrotize, it is possible that the agarwood will form. The longer the agarwood formation period lasts, the more agarwood will be produced and the better the quality. It will take at least 5 years. I don't know if I can wait until the day when the agarwood will form?
Zhou Huaian looked at the two stumps that had just been cut down and had an idea, "Ding Ding Cat, how about calling my brother next time and we get those two stumps back?"
"Okay! There are a few trees on top that were cut down last year. They are thicker than this one. Let's go with those."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian dragged up a branch and suddenly thought of something, "What should we do with those pieces of wood on top? The four of us can't get it down, and those bastards will probably come back to get it while we're gone."
"There's a log track over there for the forest farm to store wood. We'll go over there and put the wood there, and the wood will slide down the mountain along the log track. There's an old man guarding it down there."
"Hurry up, it's already three o'clock, let's get down the mountain as soon as we're done."
Led by Zhou Yiding, the four men dragged the four pieces of agarwood to the southeast of the valley and saw a log track made of rolling logs. (End of this chapter)
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