Chapter 68: Building a Bamboo Hut

  After sending Song Wen back home, Huang Xiaojun drove away.

  Song Wen hugged the old potted plum blossom back to the yard, put it under the eaves of the house, and looked at it carefully.

  After taking a look, I found that there doesn't seem to be any good treatment methods, it seems like I can only use the old routine.

  He thought about it and grabbed the old plum branch, forcefully pulling it out of the pot. The action was very rough, not gentle at all.

  The old plum tree had already rotted at the bottom of its roots, and when it was pulled out, there was still a large pile of mud left on top. Song Wen didn't want to dirty the water tank at home, so he took the old plum tree outside to the creek to wash it off.

  He held the old stump of plum blossom in the stream and shook it vigorously, also holding a brush to scrub the tree stump vigorously. I don't know if Chi Qiao would vomit blood three feet high if he saw his beloved bonsai being treated so roughly by him.

  Wash the wax plum and return home.

  Song Wen took out a sharp small knife from inside, and dug up the hole corroded at the root of the old tree, after digging away the rotten flesh around the tree hole, he cut off the decayed roots below, leaving those roots that still had a thread of life, then threw the old tree into the water pool in the Ruyi fan to let it naturally recover its vitality. As for the effect, only heaven knows.

  Anyway, Song Wen himself felt that he had already done his best for this old Lao Gan's plum blossom, whether it could survive or not depended on the effect of the plum blossom itself and the spring water.

  If all the doctors in the world were like him, it would be a good thing. At least China's population wouldn't be growing so rapidly, and there would be no need for family planning; on the contrary, people should be encouraged to have children to keep up with the losses.

  Went to someone's home, didn't get any benefits, didn't even drink a cup of tea, and instead got ridiculed, saying that my hair wasn't fully grown. What a waste of time, thinking about it, Song Wen felt that it wasn't worth it, if not for Huang Xiaojun's face, he would have wanted to kick that little brat hard. You banana pineapple, Grandpa's hair isn't fully grown, won't you call your sister over to take a look? Your mom's.

  After finishing the old frame of pickled plum, Song Wen felt uncomfortable in his heart and saw that it was already past noon, so he hurried to cook.

  After finishing dinner, take a rest.

  He took the axe and rope to the bamboo forest, planning to cut some thick bamboo to build a bamboo house in the space of the Ruyi fan, and also set up an insulation shed in the yard.

  The weather was getting colder, and the bamboo forest was filled with an eerie atmosphere. Fortunately, Song Wen's body was strong, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to withstand the cold and gloomy air in the forest.

  Since he came back from the mountain, he hasn't come to inspect the mouse trap placed in the bamboo forest, and doesn't know if any unlucky guy has fallen into the trap.

  So, he came to the bamboo forest and didn't rush to cut down the bamboos. He first patrolled around the forest and finally only saw a mouse cage with a bamboo mouse inside. It seems that this bamboo mouse hid in its nest due to the cold weather, or it was caught by him almost to extinction. Since he couldn't catch any more bamboo mice, he simply took away the mouse cage.

  Those traps for catching wild boars were the same, with no wild boar falling in. He thought about whether he should come back tomorrow to fill up the traps, so that one day someone wouldn't accidentally fall in without noticing.

  After receiving the mouse cage, taking advantage of no one's attention, Song Wen hurriedly chopped down the bamboo, and after chopping it well, he directly stored it in his fan.

  After cutting down the bamboo, he returned to the yard and took out the bamboo for building a greenhouse, preparing to set up the greenhouse.

  Building a greenhouse is very simple, just split the bamboo open and bend it, then insert both ends into the soil, and tie up the whole piece of bamboo on both sides to fix it. After that, cover the bamboo with plastic film bought from the market, and the greenhouse is done.

  Bamboo sheds are simple, but most can only be used for about one or two years, as bamboo is easily damaged by insects and rainwater and sunlight.

  He set up a greenhouse, tidied up the vegetable beds inside, and then sowed seeds of Qingming vegetables, coriander, and napa cabbage. Coriander and napa cabbage are not afraid of cold, but if it's as cold as today and there's frost, their tender shoots would be damaged by the frost, so it's safer to plant them in a greenhouse.

  Planting good vegetables, Song Wen went to the foot of the mountain to buy some iron wire and nails, then returned home to lock up the yard, entered the Ruyi fan, and set up a bamboo house.

  Actually, he didn't know how to build a bamboo house either, but it seemed easy when he watched others building bamboo scaffolding, so he wanted to give it a try. But after trying, he found that building a square bamboo house was not as easy as he thought.

  So he simply built the bamboo house into a round shape. He first used a meter ruler to measure out the range of the house on the ground, then drew a large circle, and dug several deep pits on the edge of the big circle, inserted bamboo sticks of equal length, bent them into a " character shape and tied them together with rice. First, build a prototype, and then slowly add more bamboo on top. It was also his cleverness that came up with this trick.

  Under his hard work day and night, the bamboo house was finally built. Only he didn't expect that the built bamboo house was as big as a palace, more than three meters high and nine meters wide.

  But overall, Song Wen was still very satisfied. He tried to shake it hard, but couldn't shake it at all. No wonder, he used thirty or forty bamboo sticks just for the frame, similar to a bird cage, not to mention shaking, I estimate that even if a typhoon came, it wouldn't be blown away.

  After he had finished building it, he suddenly realized that there was no skylight and no window left, the whole room inside was pitch black, and he was momentarily stunned.

  No choice, had to go down the mountain to borrow an electric saw from a family, cut open a window on both sides of the bamboo house, and then made a window with bamboo and installed it. Then, another skylight was cut open above, went to buy a piece of glass and put it up, only then did the inside have a bit of brightness.

  He built a good house, and Song Wen went to buy some red bricks to pave the ground. After finishing, he looked at it himself and felt that it was not bad, somewhat like a Mongolian yurt, but also with its own characteristics.

  The bamboo hut was built three days later.

  For three days, that old plum blossom had been soaking in the spring water, and Song Wen didn't even give it a glance.

  Until the bamboo house was built, he suddenly remembered the old plum blossoms soaking in the spring water and hurried to the pool to take a look.

  The old plum blossom looks the same, but the dry tree trunk outside has gained a bit of moisture and has a slightly damp breath. Unlike when I saw it in the villa, its shape was withered and its skin was cracked like it was about to die. But now it seems to have come back to life. The roots below, which were almost dead, also seem to have some vitality. It looks like this old plum blossom has survived. However, just surviving is not enough, and it will probably take some time to recover.

  Song Wen took a look and then put the old osmanthus into the water pool, this kind of soaking is better than hanging bottles. The trunk of the old osmanthus can fully absorb the nutrients in the spring water, every part of its body can be nourished by the spring water, and there will be no dead branches, otherwise, such a beautiful old osmanthus, if it lacks branches, it's a bit regrettable.

  After putting the dried plum into the water pool, he was still a bit worried and took out an infusion bottle to hang it on the old dried plum, which is considered double insurance.

  After tidying up, he gathered the remaining items from the bamboo shed and took out a fan.