There were very few large wild animals in the Jie Mountain. The largest one was the Blind Bear. There was no prey bigger than the Blind Bear. There were also not many ferocious animals. The only ones that posed a threat to hunters were the Blind Bear and the wolf pack. Other than these two, the rest of the wild animals were not worth mentioning. Poisonous snakes were also quite scary. However, poisonous snakes generally would not take the initiative to attack people. As long as they were discovered in advance, there would not be any problems. If one was accidentally bitten, then one could only blame it on his bad luck.
There were only two kinds of large predatory wild animals, and some were small and timid predators. The rest were herbivores. The largest herbivore was only as big as a goat. There were no bigger ones. Especially small prey such as hares and pheasants were more common. After all, this place was only a few dozen miles away from the inhabited area. It was not particularly remote. If there were large wild animals, they would be easily hunted down by humans. The pressure of survival would be too great. Small animals could better avoid being hunted down by hunters and survive more easily. This was why hares and pheasants could be found everywhere, while large animals such as deer and bison could only be found in very remote places.
The larger the prey, the easier it was to be exposed, and the easier it was to be hunted and killed. No matter how strong the prey was, it was still a very small existence in front of intelligent humans. Size and strength did not increase the chances of survival for these prey. On the contrary, these would make them die faster.
Due to the hunting of hunters, large wild animals could not survive at all in the areas where hunters were active. It was only a matter of time before they were hunted to extinction. With the continuation of human activities, medium-sized prey would become rarer and rarer. If human activities were particularly frequent and there were villages all around, then even small animals such as hares could not survive. Extinction was just a matter of time.
The forest in Jie Mountain was twenty to thirty miles away from the Zhan Clan and the Lang Clan. It was not particularly close to the human residential area, but it was not very far either. Therefore, in this area, it was very difficult for large wild animals to survive. Medium-sized prey would often be hunted down. Fortunately, the forest here was big enough, and the population of the Zhan Clan and the Lang Clan was not very large. Therefore, the threat to the wild animals was not very big. In order to avoid the hunting of hunters, the wild animals in Jie Mountain were mostly kept in the deeper mountains further away. There were very few wild animals within five miles of the road. Moreover, there were no wild animals that were slightly bigger. At most, there were birds and prey smaller than rabbits. These prey were too small and very difficult to catch. The hunters also did not care about them. Therefore, they were lucky enough to survive, especially the various birds the size of eggs. There were a lot of them in the mountains. Even the places where people lived were full of birds. The hunters had bows and arrows in their hands, but they would hardly attack these birds. After all, these guys had too little meat. It was not worth the effort to attack them. It was not even enough to fill the gaps between their teeth.
It was said that a tall tree would attract the wind, and a big prey would attract hunters. The bigger the prey, the more excited the hunters would be. Thus, they would be hunted down and lose their lives. Only the inconspicuous birds could escape the disaster.
The forest in Jie Mountain was relatively dense. In addition to the prey, there were all kinds of wild fruit trees and precious medicinal herbs. As long as there was a mountain, there would generally be wild herbs. Many seemingly inconspicuous grasses were medicinal herbs. However, medicinal herbs were also divided into ordinary and precious. Ordinary medicinal herbs were worthless, so no one was willing to pick them. Only valuable medicinal herbs would be collected and sold to earn some money for themselves.
Naturally, the people of the two nearby tribes would occasionally pick medicinal herbs and bring them back to dry them. After accumulating a lot, they would sell them in Central Sichuan to earn a small sum of money. Under the premise that there were only preserved fruits, the only way they could make money was to pick medicinal herbs and hunt for animal skins. Medicinal herbs and animal skins were the only things that these mountain people could take out. The money that they could exchange for was not much. Therefore, these mountain people would live a very poor life.
Dried fruits made from wild fruits could also be sold, but the price was also very low. It was much cheaper than animal skins and herbs, and it couldn't be exchanged for much money. The rest of the gadgets were even more worthless. Therefore, the money that could be exchanged for was very little, and they couldn't buy many things. Poverty was inevitable.
If they went to the mountains to hunt more prey, get more animal skins, and pick more precious medicinal herbs, wouldn't this solve the problem? However, the prey in the forest was limited. Hunting a large number of prey in a short period of time would only cause the complete extinction of the prey. When the prey was completely extinct, even the animal skins could not be sold in the future. As for the precious medicinal herbs, they were very rare. They could only be found by chance. It was not so easy to collect more. Similarly, after collecting a lot, it would be difficult to find more. They would need to go deeper into the mountains to find the precious medicinal herbs.
Generally, it was very difficult to find precious medicinal herbs near the sides of the road. Because if there were precious medicinal herbs, they would have been picked long ago. Only in the depths of the forest where no one set foot could there be some precious medicinal herbs that had not been discovered. Therefore, if one wanted to pick the more precious medicinal herbs, he had to take the risk to go deep into the mountains. There was a certain risk because the wild beasts also liked to hide in the mountains to avoid being hunted by humans.
In other words, good prey and precious medicinal herbs generally existed in the depths of the forest. The closer to the depths of the forest, the more these things there were.
Since Ang Lee went into the mountains, he naturally hoped to have a better harvest. If he went back empty-handed, it would be meaningless.
However, the Zhan Clan who led the way did not want Ang Lee to go deep into the mountains. First, it was because the deeper into the mountains, the greater the danger. Second, there were few people who went deep into the mountains. Therefore, there were no roads. If one was not careful, it was easy to get lost. If one got lost in the mountains, the consequences were quite serious.
However, since it was not easy for Ang Lee to come here, he naturally hoped to go deep into the mountains where the prey was the most abundant. Otherwise, it would be boring. Therefore, the Zhan Clan who led the way strongly requested that they go deep into the mountains without too much worry. The Zhan Clan naturally could not persuade Ang Lee. They had to go deep into the mountains. They took the most gentle road to reduce the consumption of physical strength.
When they first entered Jie Mountain, they did not find any prey. However, as they gradually got closer to the mountains, the prey began to appear gradually. There were more wild birds in the sky. From time to time, a hare would jump out of the grass. Pheasants would suddenly fly up, which sometimes startled people. As they continued to go deeper, they could see large goats. These goats were very agile. As soon as they saw someone appear, they would immediately run away without a trace.
These goats were also very capable. They had the ability to walk on the cliffs full of stones as if they were flat ground. Their posture on the cliffs was very graceful, as if they were dancing.
Although they ran when they saw people, as long as they maintained a distance of a few hundred meters, they would stop. This was the safe distance in their hearts. They felt that as long as there was this distance, they would be safe and their lives would not be threatened.
After walking for a while, Li An felt a little thirsty. Just as he was about to drink some water, he found something red in the distance. It looked like fruit. In the season between spring and summer, there were generally fewer fruits. Most fruits would only ripen in autumn, but there were also a few fruits that ripened in other seasons. For example, winter peaches ripened in winter, watermelons ripened in summer, and there were also many fruits that ripened in spring. In front of him should be a fruit that ripened in spring.
"What is that bright red thing in front of us? Is it a fruit? "
Ang Lee pointed to the red thing in front of them and asked.
A Zhan Clan member said, "It's a bayberry tree. We have a lot of this kind of tree here. The taste is sour, but it's also delicious."
"Bayberry? Not bad, it's a good thing! "
Ang Lee said very happily.
Ang Lee knew about bayberry very well. This fruit was a common fruit in the south. It was also a relatively delicious delicacy.
Bayberry grew on trees. Bayberry trees were arboreal trees. The highest height of a bayberry tree could grow up to 15 meters. It was already a very tall tree. The diameter of a bayberry tree's trunk could reach more than 60 centimeters. It was also very thick. The bark of a bayberry tree was gray and had some cracks. However, this was only found on old trees. The bark of a small tree was relatively smooth.
The crown of Myrica rubra is spherical, the tender branches and buds are hairless, the leaves are leathery, hairless, live up to two years and fall off, often densely on the upper part of the twigs, mostly on the budding spring, long elliptic or wedge-lanceolate, up to 16 cm long, tapered or sharp at the apex, sparse sharp serrations above the middle of the margin, often entire below the middle, wedge-shaped at the base, those on the reproductive branches are wedge-shaped obovate or long elliptic obovate, blunt at the apex or short to sharp at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, entire or occasionally with a few sharp serrations above the middle, dark green, glossy, light green below, hairless, only sparse golden yellow glands, after drying, the midrib and lateral veins are prominent on both sides of the upper and lower sides, more elevated below.
The flowers were dioecious, with male inflorescences growing singly or in clumps in the axils of the leaves. They were cylindrical, about two centimeters long, and usually unbranched in a single spike. The bracts at the base were sterile, and the fertile bracts were nearly round, entire, without hair on the underside, and only had glands. They were about one millimeter long, and each bract produced a male flower in the axils. The anthers were oval, dark red, hairless. The female inflorescence was often solitary in the axils of the leaves. It was shorter and thinner than the male inflorescence. The bracts were similar to the bracts of the male flowers. They were arranged in a tile-like manner. There was a female flower in the axils of each bract.
Bayberries must like to grow in warmer places. Generally, the southern area of the Tang dynasty was more suitable for the growth of bayberries. For example, there were wild bayberries in the Jie Mountain in front of them.
For human beings, bayberries were a fruit with high nutritional value. It was also a fruit that people liked to eat very much. This kind of fruit had a high sugar content and was sweet in the mouth. At the same time, because it was not low in sugar, it would also taste sour. This kind of sour and sweet feeling was the favorite of many people. This kind of taste was very similar to life. For human life, wasn't it sour and sweet?
Although bayberries were delicious, this kind of fruit tree was easy to get sick. Once a bayberry tree got sick, it would cause a large reduction in the fruit tree's yield and even affect the quality of the fruit. In serious cases, it would even cause the bayberry tree to wither directly.
For example, bayberry sores were very common. This was an important disease of the bayberry tree. In orchards with serious diseases, the disease rate was as high as 90%. It mainly affected the branches, leading to premature aging of the trunk. After the branches were damaged, it often caused the parts above the tumor to wither. This disease had a great impact on the yield of bayberries.
This disease mainly affected the branches of fruit-bearing trees, but it rarely affected young trees and seedlings. The bacteria mainly affected two- or three-year-old branches. Sometimes, it also occurred on the perennial trunk and tender shoots. At the beginning of the disease, there were small milky white protrusions with a smooth surface. Later, it gradually increased to form tumors, which made the surface rough or bumpy. It was corky, very hard, brown or dark brown. The tumors were spherical and varied in size. They were as small as cherries and as large as walnuts. The largest diameter could reach more than ten centimeters. On a branch, there were at least one or two tumors, and at most, there were four or five tumors or more.
In order to prevent and control this disease, generally, when picking fruits, one should wear soft-soled shoes to pick the tree, avoid wearing hard-soled shoes as much as possible, so as not to damage the bark, increase the wound, and cause bacterial infection. Before the typhoon, prevention work must be carried out. After the typhoon, medicine must be sprayed in time to protect the tree. The broken branches caused by the typhoon must be dealt with in time. In the place of the wind, shelter forest should be planted for protection. Winter cleaning work should be done. Because the bacteria mainly overwintered in the tumors of the branches, before the spring germination, the infected branches should be cut off as much as possible.
There was also the bayberry dry disease that was relatively common. In the early stage of this disease, there would be irregular dark brown spots. As the disease progressed, the spots would continue to expand and develop along the trunk. The infected part would lose water and become a slightly sunken band-like spot. The difference between the infected part and the healthy part was obvious. When the disease was serious, the infected part would reach deep into the xylem. When the infected part surrounded the trunk, the trunk would wither and die. In the later stage, there would be many small black particles on the surface of the spots, which were conidium discs. They began to be buried under the epidermis. When they matured, they would break through the epidermis, causing the epidermis to have vertical or horizontal cracks.
Although bayberry trees would often have diseases, as long as scientific management, the loss of disease could be minimized or even completely avoided.
In addition, these diseases generally occurred in large orchards. For wild bayberry trees, it was not easy to have diseases under normal circumstances. After all, the living environment of wild bayberry trees was more difficult, and the resistance of the tree body was stronger. For example, these bayberry trees in front of them did not have the slightest disease.
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