Yellow seedlings deep in the Loess Plateau
Deep in the mountains of the Loess Plateau, lived for a while. During that period, I experienced a situation that I could no longer imagine in life, the harsh environment, the inconvenience of transportation, eating and drinking Lasa, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, all became the most luxurious things in that period.
In the depths of the mountains that stretch and layer by layer, I lived for almost half a year, and every day I saw endless mountains in front of me, one next to the other, facing the slopes of the ditches and ditches every day, one after another, countless bare mountains, one after another, and in the low ditches and ditches in the depths of the mountains, I could see those lush little trees or bushes, which was also the result of people's transformation in recent years. The government has a slogan, green mountains and green waters are golden mountains and silver mountains. This sentence is exactly the portrayal of the times and the epitome of society.
Because of our work, we can only carry out operations in those deep mountains and old forests and in very sparsely populated places, and that the environment can only be said to be inaccessible, impassable, uninhabited, and deserted. After all, it is drilling in the mountains, going to a place, opening up a road for mechanical and human entry. Someone in the book said that there is no road in the world, and the more people who walk, the more they become the road.
Just come here, very unaccustomed, after all, convenience here, can only be regarded as the slogan of yearning and the most luxurious thing. Draught to go to dozens of miles away from the mountain to pull up the mountain, if there is nothing to do, never go down the mountain, after going down it is not good to come back, even turn around, can not find the way back to the mountain, under normal circumstances, never go out, only stay in the mountains, live that kind of ascetic life, one heart to the Buddha, here is to do things with one heart, two hearts also have nothing to do, not to mention what entertainment activities. In addition to working, eating, sleeping, or sleeping, eating, working, the same state of life, people are a bit stupid feeling. Being able to sit on the only duty bus in the team once, I always feel that the outside world is so wonderful and beautiful.
Staying in a place for a long time, not getting used to it has become a habit, which is an indisputable fact and an indisputable fact. Self-admonishment in one's heart is also self-consolation, and if it comes, it will be at peace.
The harshness of the environment, the difficulty of the situation, the change of water and soil, unexpectedly, there will be water and soil dissatisfaction, excessive heart fire, headache and brain fever, cold and cough, fatigue and other small diseases, after all, going out three miles away from the villagers, changing the environment, there will be different troubles in the diet, coupled with the sudden cold and hot of the climate, warm and cold, from the south for two thousand miles, arriving here, there will be too much adaptation, but also the common feelings of people.
In my own case, I have personally experienced everything that can verify things that are not satisfied. I haven't been here for a long time, and I always feel that this pain and itch on my body is not comfortable, maybe it is a psychological problem, and the rejection of the harsh environment here is caused. Maybe the real self should be sick, anyway, it is uncomfortable. That time the internal fire attacked the heart, the mouth blistered, the tongue ulcerated, the mouth sores, for a time there was a bit of a feeling of not being able to stay any longer, determined to give up halfway, hit the road back to the home of the psychology has, really want to go away, here is too uncomfortable, the feeling of anxiety, hurt the whole body and mind.
In the past, when I was in my hometown in the countryside, in those years when the medical conditions were poor, there was a headache and brain fever, adults would go to the field to find some plants like grasses, come back to treat them unilaterally, and only after a few years did they know that those were the Chinese herbs mentioned in Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", which could be used to treat diseases, and the little grade also wrote down some drug names, what yellow and yellow seedlings treated fire, what thorny mustard teeth could stop bleeding, what half-zhilian cleared heat and detoxification...
Recently, my mouth and tongue have sores, and I still need to adjust it. I thought of using the soil methods of my hometown to adjust and adjust it. Then I thought of the yellow yellow seedlings that adults said when they were young, they can clear heat and detoxify, clear fire and dispel fire, and also want to try it to solve their worries. After all, in the depths of this mountain, many parties are inconvenient, lack of medical treatment, and no one is inhabited, where can we find a good remedy?
The local dialect of the townspeople is called Huang Huangmiao, but in fact, the scientific name in the medical books is dandelion. When it comes to dandelions, people are not too unfamiliar, and it is recorded in books. In our place, the people in the countryside only know to call huang huang miao, make tea in the summer to drink, septic, defeat fire, dispel poison, dispel fire, etc., the internal fire is too strong, the external fire is toxic, there is a curative effect, the effect is still obvious, perhaps it is a good medicine for the main attack, Chinese medicine is the root cause, can be completely eliminated.
With this idea, I found a shovel, climbed over several hillsides, crossed several ravines, and looked for this herb. After a hard day of hard work, a large basin of sweat flowed, and the throat eyes were raised to the top of the head, or did not find where there was a tree? Could it be that the april weather on the Loess Plateau is still cold? The fantasy was hit by reality and bloodied, knocking down his original thoughts and cognitions, and wondering in his heart, is it not that this creature grows on the Loess Plateau?
The extreme discomfort of the body quite affected the mood of going to work, and after a few days, in the gap between shifts and shifts, I put on my equipment, set off again, and went up the mountain again to find that dream, the dream that I wanted to realize.
Another departure, with the idea of not giving up on the goal, listen to colleagues, can only go down to the ditch low, those places with water or the bottom of the ditch slope, there may be shade, water, grass will grow, that dry and rainless dry loess slope, it is difficult for organisms to survive. Listening to these experiences, but always another day of blind busyness, did not encounter anything, the inner thoughts, almost nothing, no longer to look for this plant mood, the heart of the retreat.
One day, about four or five colleagues went out to climb the mountain, although they lived on the top of the mountain every day, but the heart of climbing never stopped, as long as there was a higher mountain in the square, we wanted to climb it. Perhaps it is the poet Wang Guozhen who said that there is no mountain higher than a man, and there is no road longer than a foot. Man will triumph over heaven, and the spirit of foolishness moving mountains is deeply rooted!
Kung Fu pays off. There is no place to step on the iron shoes, and it takes no effort at all. On the way up the mountain, I found a plant with several small yellow flowers, took a closer look, yellow and yellow seedlings, jumped up happily for a while, this is the dream I have been looking for! Successively along this road, I found a few small trees, but because I did not bring tools, I could only use my hands to pick them up, I could only use my hands to pick them, I still couldn't get out of them with long roots, I could only pick a handful of leaves and flowers, listening to the old people, the roots are the treasure of yellow and yellow seedlings, and the effect and value are the greatest.
Took a large handful, came back to boil water to drink, the effect is good, a few days passed, the symptoms slowly disappeared. At this time, sighing from the heart, nature is really curious, natural, ecological, native things, the original body is still a baby!
In the fields of my hometown, in the spring, plants like this can be said to be everywhere, so many people don't care about it at all, nor do they value it. As everyone knows, in the depths of this mountain, it is as difficult to pick up and meet like a holy medicine, and it has become a good story.
In this extremely simple place, it is rare to meet this Huang Huangmiao who solves a big problem, and the heart is grateful, and it is grateful, maybe this is another encounter in life!
(About the author: Liu Kai, pen name Wenqing, member of The Writers Association of Dengzhou City, Henan Province, young scholar, writer and media book reviewer)