origin: JINGWAH times Author: Sun Xuemei
now the elderly can no longer grow trees in the mountains, but they still insist on repairing the firewall that they built up.
the old man sells homemade persimmons, hawthorn and so on on the road.
20, which had been planted by hand many years ago, has now become useful.
look at the mountain when the old man works in the orchard at the foot of the mountain.
Photo reporter Fan Jiwen
Fangshan District Han village town lower courtyard village, under the quiet mountain foot, a mountain road surround and pass.
on both sides of the road, hawthorn trees and persimmon trees, lined with rows of trees, full of trees, full of branches, robbing the mountains of Platycladus orientalis.
at noon the day before yesterday, two cars came from the mountain road. The people in the car opened the windows and looked at the golden persimmon and the red hawthorn fruit on both sides.
beside a low haw tree, an old man wears a little hat, his back is slightly bent, and his head is picking up the red fruits on the branches.
"is this fruit tree you plant? Can you pick it up? " Two young car owners get off and ask.
"the tree was planted by me. I began to plant trees here in 1984. You see all cypress trees on the mountain are planted by me." The old man stopped and raised his head, pointing to the green Platycladus orientalis on the mountain, with pride on his face.
the inconvenient old friend, sitting in the wheelchair at home, giggled. "Ridicule" the old man can show off too much.
the old man gestured two young people picking and hawthorn fruit two yuan a Jin. This year, for the first time since the old people planted fruit trees, "tasting" has been rewarded.
28 years ago, the old people responded to the national greening call, contracted 600 acres of barren hills, took their old friends and children to take root in the mountains and planted trees. At that time, the mountain was bare and almost green. Due to the lack of vegetation coverage, the rainy season often caused flash floods. In order to grow trees, the old man was frugal and used to shovel a 600 yuan of barren hills into a green forest with his family.
now, this mountain forest has long been closed, but the old man does not want to leave. Some people asked him why he was so stupid and willing to stay in the valley for his life. The old man said, "when people leave the grass to leave the roots, I will make a reputation for the sake of developing the offspring." This is not mine. This is the state. I am determined to keep this mountain forest, even if I stand at the foot of the mountain, I will keep it. " Staying at the foot of the mountain, he was not idle, and planted thousands of fruit trees.
the old man had gone through three fires in the process of planting trees on the mountain. After each fire, the losses were heavy, and the old people dried their tears and insisted on planting them again.
to fire, he cut the grass around the forest out of more than one meter wide, and built a stone wall beside the forest, "big stone piled up, small stone slit."
a piece of stone goes up to the ground, and the old man's firewall is over 2000 meters long.
1987 years later, under the protection of the firewall, the mountain forest has not gone too far. The seedlings on the shoulders and shoulders carrying up the mountain have grown more and more densely.
planting trees and guarding mountains has become a lifelong aspiration of the elderly. No matter how disturbed the outside world was, he stayed at the foot of the mountain and remained unmoved.
looking at the heavy fruits of trees and fruit trees in the mountains, the old man smiles as if he saw his own grandchildren.
he is called Qing Qing. He is 86 years old and an ordinary villager in the village of lower middle court.