Forest Kindergarten

When Daxin came back, he was carrying a basket of goose eggs and a bamboo basket half the height of his back. Inside was a newly weaned piglet and a bag of river prawns, a thank you gift from his family. .

Ye Kong helped him take off the back basket: "It's so heavy! Are you tired after climbing two mountains all the way? Go take a bath and eat some fruit."

Daxin: "I'm used to it. I used to go to the town to go to school, and I walked farther. By the way, teacher, the goose eggs are all laid by the white goose at home. They have been hatched for ten days. My mother said that there are no geese. Let the chickens or ducks hatch for another 21 days, and it's up to you to eat or hatch."

The last time Lianpei wanted to eat roast chicken, the village head had already eaten one chicken, and there was only one left, which could not hatch so many goose eggs: "I will take it to the village head, and let him help distribute it to the village. My folks help hatch it."

When the village chief received the goose eggs, he opened the barbed wire fence at home and picked up three baby geese and three ducklings: "You take them away and raise them, and I'll send them to you when they hatch later."

So there are more cute animals in the school. Since geese and ducks can eat vegetables, they can be weeded in the orchard, but they must not be free-range in the vegetable field. Ye Kong raised them in the warehouse first, using a big cardboard box Pretend.

The next day, the village chief took a few fellow villagers and cleared out another open space. In addition to the weeds, there were three almond trees.It is surrounded by iron nets, and a hut is nailed with wooden strips inside, and ducks and geese are kept in it.

Xiaohua hugged the little piglet and never let go. This litter of piglets is small, and the weaned piglet weighed more than a dozen catties in 20 days. Maybe it knew that it was the same kind, and it didn't run away. It whimpered and twisted its little butt against Xiaohua arms arch.

Now is the summer vacation, Ye Kong didn’t let the children be trapped in the wooden house to study, he ate every morning, took advantage of the lack of sunshine, packed lunch in a lunch box, and went to explore nearby mountains or streams, picnic.

In midsummer, the vegetation is lush and rich, and life sings and dances.The leaves are fluttering with the wind, the river is running warmly, and the sky is full of clouds and clouds. This is the excitement that is not there in autumn and winter. Everything is enjoying the sunshine, rain, dew, soil and wind.

Every child wears a straw hat with a big brim, and walks on the path in the forest accompanied by cicadas and birds.The road here is the animal path. Wild boars and sika deer have long followed this road to drink water by the stream, so there will be animal feces, hoof prints, and plants that the wild boars have crossed along the way.

People in nearby villages usually also take this road to fetch mountain spring water.

Xiaohua was accompanied by the little piggy, and she turned into a little wild boar after walking for a while. The big straw hat covered her whole pig, and it looked like a straw hat that could run from a distance.

Ye Kong smiled and picked up the straw hats, and the civet cats also changed back to their original shape. He picked up three straw hats, held them in his hand and followed behind.

Mountain spring water flows out from among the rocks, and for tens of thousands of years, the dripping water wears through the rocks, polishing the hard rocks passing by to make them smooth and round.Trees provide shade, moss and aquatic plants spread over the surrounding wet rocks and earth.

"...the moss slowly erodes the rock, turning the rock into soil. The soil covers the rock layer. They are a gift of nature because plants can take root in the soil. Herbivores depend on plants for survival, and carnivores are a source of food. They are mainly herbivores. And the atmosphere that shields us from the impact of meteorites and most of the ultraviolet rays is related to the emergence of the crust, animals and plants. Therefore, it is sunlight, air, water and soil that together give birth to life.”

Ye Kong taught while walking, and the children were willing to listen.He liked to observe and think since he was a child. Before going to school, he would consult the teachers in the orphanage when he encountered something he didn't understand. However, the teachers had limited knowledge and could answer simple questions, but knowledge was systematic. There was no subject or phenomenon. Existing alone, the teachers gradually couldn't keep up with his deeper and deeper explorations, so he went to read and read. After elementary school, he spent all his spare time learning various knowledge about life and nature.

"Miaozi and I were born to my parents! They didn't grow in the soil!" Fei Ya climbed up on his lap and sat, and Fei Miao wanted to come up too, so he hugged each other.

Daxin took out a few small cups, connected them with spring water, and handed them to his younger brothers and sisters: "The teacher means that the roots of all things grow are soil, sunlight, air and water. It doesn't mean that you grow in the ground!"

Ye Kong told them about the photosynthesis of plants, and all the animal cubs ran to play, and when it was almost noon, they heard two little pigs whimpering in the grass.

"Wow!" He took the children over. In the wild grass without shade, Xiaohua was pushing a round thing with her nose. "Xiaohua is so lucky! It's a wild watermelon!"

The green-skinned watermelon has bright and neat stripes, and the melon pedicle is twisted and twisted. It is very sweet at first glance.Ye Kong picked the melon, picked some green apricots from a nearby tree, washed them and soaked them in the spring water.

After lunch, the melon was cold, so he broke open the melon, broke it into several pieces and distributed it to the children. It really grew under the sun, absorbing the sunlight, and it was super sweet.

The green apricots are just when they are delicious, they are crunchy, sour and sweet. Daxin puts the unfinished green apricots in his pocket, and puts two or three for each of his brothers and sisters.

Being in the forest, I couldn't perceive the vastness of the mountain forest. A group of people climbed to the top of the mountain. The wind was very strong on the top of the mountain. The three raccoons were the first to rush out, but they were blinded by the wind, and the fur on their faces and round ears were blown away. Blowing to the back, he opened his mouth to bite the wind, lost his footing and rolled down from the rock, Ye Kong caught him.

The little cloud was pushed away by the wind, and soon gathered on the top of the mountains in the southwest to form a large cloud that covered the sun all day long. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sky quickly darkened.

This mountain is the closest mountain to Zongshan Village. From the top of the mountain, you can even see the farmhouses and the green rice fields in the village.

"Let's go back?" Ye Kong carried the sleepy Fei Miao on his back, "I'm afraid it will rain, shall we cover the canopy after we get home?"

"Okay~~" The three civet cats ran down the mountain first, Xiaohua and her little piglets ran behind, Dahsin became more and more like a big brother, pulling Fei Ya, and shouted at them, "Everyone Slower!"

Ye Kong turned his head and saw that Zongshan Mountain, Wanling, forest and sea were so vast that he couldn't see the end at a glance, and the clouds from the sky descended, covering the distant mountains, flowing slowly.

His eyesight was excellent, and where the sun was blocked by clouds, the forest also darkened, but it was not the normal dark green, but grayish green.

That kind of lifeless gray-green, like the green covered by ashes after being burned...

In the clouds and mist, flocks of birds flew up in fright and flew to other places.

Ye Kong became worried and took the children down the mountain quickly.

"Teacher Xiao Kong!" They had just returned, and the village chief and Lao Hu greeted them, "You are back!"

"What's wrong, village chief, Uncle Hu?" Ye Kong became nervous.

It was nearly four o'clock, and the sky was almost completely dark, and the big raindrops fell, hitting the canopy that the village head helped to cover.

"Hey, there's a fire in the mountains!" The village head said anxiously, "But it's far away from us, deep in the mountains, hey, luckily it's raining, so it shouldn't be a problem."

The children were sitting on the porch worriedly, the civet cat cuddled up to each other, and Xiao Hua said with tears in her eyes, "Dad..."

Village head: "Maybe a tree was struck by lightning in the mountains..."

Old Hu remained silent for a while, and suddenly said: "It must not have been struck by lightning... I went to the mountain to cut firewood just now, and I could see it clearly. How could a mountain fire look like that... What about fire? Without fire, the tree would die?"

Ye Kong sank, what he saw on the top of the mountain was the same, he read it right: "Uncle Hu, what do you think is going on?"

The village chief sighed and got up and called the children to wash their hands and eat biscuits.

Lao Hu lowered his voice and said: "The mountain god is angry." He said with certainty, for fear that the college students and teachers from the city would not believe these ghosts, "Don't believe it, all things have spirits, there are so many creatures in Zongshan, rule them It is the mountain god."

Ye Kong: "What is the mountain god? A monster?"

Old Hu lit his pipe: "My grandma said it was a tiger, and my grandfather said it was a fox. It doesn't matter what the mountain god is. Once he gets angry, our villages that rely on the mountain will be in trouble. I don't know where he got offended... "

He exhaled smoke: "The last time the mountain god was angry, the crops were all dead... I was only ten years old at the time, but I remember it clearly. From the top of the mountain, half of the forest was withered, and the crops were all dead that night, but the first Two days later, the forest returned to normal, but the dead crops could not be saved. Afterwards, several stubbles were replanted, but they all germinated and then died. The old man in the village said that the mountain god was angry, and asked to send tribute to the mountain god and the bride. People in the town said it was a superstitious activity. Finally, the people in the town compromised and sent two cows and ten pigs to the mountain. But it is definitely not possible to send a living person into the mountain as a tribute, so they tied a paper man and sent it together. Go in. Strange to say, after the tribute is paid, the crops planted again will live."

It was probably the time when Lian Pei and Li Ye broke up decades ago... Ye Kong thought, from this point of view, the two are now fighting.He became worried and wanted to go into the mountain to have a look.

"Village head! It's not good!!" Old Zhang from the village ran over, "Come and take a look!"

Ye Kong asked Daxin to take care of the children and followed him.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the sky was completely dark. The men in the village all went up the mountain with flashlights. The light from the flashlights could not be so far away, but when the lightning burst in the black billowing clouds, almost all the green in the distance turned into The ground is gray, and the red land can be seen vaguely, only a few nearby mountains are still green.

There was a dead silence, except for the sound of rainwater, no one made a sound.

"This...this fucking..." The village chief's voice changed. He was also a person who experienced the anger of the mountain god decades ago, and his legs were a little weak.

Old Hu tremblingly said: "The mountain god is angry! Hurry back and prepare, hurry back and prepare the tribute!"