“If you eat three hundred lychees a day, you will live a long life as a Lingnan native”… Every popular poem about lychees has been passed down through the ages, expressing people’s praise and love for lychees. The 2020 season is another year of ripe lychees and another bumper harvest! There are lychees hanging everywhere in the lychee garden. You won’t want to leave until you step in!
In the original thinking and imagination: picking lychees is to stand on the ground, use stairs or climb branches to pick, and eat while picking, which is fresh, interesting and fun. However, those who have actually gone to the lychee garden to pick lychees know that this is not the case, and it is far from what they imagined. In the thinking of inherent habits: Some lychees are on the top of very high trees. If it is inconvenient to install stairs there, the only way to pick them is to use a hook or break the branches. In short, it is very inconvenient to pick.
Sister Hong said at noon: Let’s go to the villa to pick lychees in the afternoon. Let’s prepare the tools first. It seems that there are special tools for picking lychees. Therefore, I reflexively found and prepared a long iron hook, and then went out to find tools specifically for picking lychees. At that time, I was also thinking: What does the tool specifically for picking lychees look like? Electric or manual? Because it is also said in "The Way of Sweeping": Before doing anything, tools are also very important; and according to the reality of life, tools suitable for "invention and creation" are more important! Humanity will keep moving forward... I never thought before that there is a tool specially designed for picking lychees, and this tool has been on the market for at least three or four years. I bought a 4-meter-long lychee picking "artifact" for only 138 yuan. It can be seen how "terrible" the previous fixed thinking was and how many things were delayed.
When I went to the hardware store to find the second one, it actually had one, but I didn’t know how to use it? I asked the shop owner to pick the branches above my head on the roadside to demonstrate, and it met our needs for picking lychees, and I was also "chuckling". At the same time, I was talking to myself: There is a solution to everything, but I have not found the "key" to solve the problem better. If there is really no "key", I can use my brain and hands to "create" one. Maybe there are many people with the same needs. , and can also be launched into the market as a business opportunity for new products... It can be seen that I have been lacking this kind of thinking for a long time. I should use this as a lesson in the future and use my brain more. This is also one of the meanings of "Sweeping the Way".
I went to the villa and climbed halfway up the hillside. The casual leather shoes I was wearing at the time were really inconvenient for climbing and picking. Later, I went down the mountain again and found a pair of water shoes at the villa. I kept trying and went to the mountain to pick again. . It can be seen that not being fully prepared before doing something is also within the scope of "Sweeping Way".
As I stepped on the hillside, some lychee trees slid down and became unstable; there were so many mosquitoes in the lychee garden, and soon my hands were full of mosquitoes and itchy; after raising my head to pick for a long time, my neck began to hurt; When picking, the dust or small broken leaves on the trees can easily fall into the eyes; and the sun is strong, and sweat also flows into the eyes; what is more unexpected is that small insects occasionally fall into the trees, At that time, I only thought that I was bitten by mosquitoes around my neck, and it was itchy on the front and back of my shoulders. When I went home to take a shower at night, I discovered that I had been scratched in many places around my neck, shoulders, and front. At that time, I only felt ants crawling under the tree, so I scratched them with my hands... Moreover, some lychees were on the top of the very high tree. Sometimes when the wind blows, the lychee branches will sway. I use the "artifact" for picking lychees, but I can't cut them exactly where the lychees grow. Sometimes I cut them correctly, but I don't know the length of the pruning branches with the "artifact". , the "artifact" cannot hold the lychees, and the lychees will fall from the tall trees to the hillside and be broken immediately. Some of them will "run" along the hillside again. I feel that it would be a waste not to pick them back up. It takes years for the fruit to grow to such a large size, so I usually have to climb up and down the hillside to pick it up...
After a few hours, I realized that it is really not easy! Very hard work! On the other hand, we pick lychees just as a fun experience, but professional lychee farmers and professional lychee pickers work hard! How difficult it is! Moreover, the maturation period of lychees on the tree is very short, and the shelf life is also short. In order to sell them in time on the same day, they usually start picking at dawn. Moreover, the ripening season of lychees every year is around the Dragon Boat Festival. The "dragon boat water" rains are very frequent in this season every year. Sometimes there are typhoons and violent storms, sometimes the sun shines brightly in the morning, and it rains heavily in the afternoon... And the ripe lychees on the trees, Suppose the sun sometimes shines and sometimes rains that day, the lychees will immediately open their mouths, and no one will want the opened lychees. Moreover, if the wind gets stronger when it rains, the ripe lychees on the trees will fall to the ground, and no one will want them...
And these are just what I saw and experienced when I picked lychees. A small number of cases. There are many things that cannot be seen during the growth of lychees. For example, it is estimated that lychee farmers will climb up the tree to pick lychees or prune them, and accidentally fall from the tree. Another example: the long waiting period for pruning, fertilizing, spraying pesticides, etc., is completely dependent on the weather.
Lychees are delicious, but lychee farmers don’t know how much hard work they put in! Therefore, when I taste the delicious lychee, I usually feel grateful; I also often feel the respect of "compassion for farmers"!
I often meet people who go to the lychee garden to buy lychees, and they all say it is more expensive than supermarkets or wet markets. I guess they have not "discovered" the reasons for the price: the size and taste of lychees, and the freshness of lychees. , try and consume while buying... I believe that people who have truly experienced picking will not think so, and will be willing to pay a little more for the so-called "expensive" price to support and help the hard-working lychee people!
"When a concubine rides on the earth and smiles, no one knows it is a lychee"; "But I love the beauty of the sea bass... fishing alone in the snow in the cold river" and other famous sentences through the ages... they tell so many different aspects of life and express their feelings. How many social phenomena have been affected? Although these do not seem to be related to "Sweeping Way", they seem to have a deep relationship. Only by studying "Sweeping Way" in depth can you understand the truth!
"Sweeping Road" is very good! Thus, discover the beauty of life...