The various experiences of her grandmother's family did not dissuade Bai Haitang from searching for rosella. She had already reached the foot of the mountain. If she went back like this, her trip would really be in vain.
How could Bai Haitang be so content?
The next morning, Bai Haitang got up early. She wanted to observe the mountain to see which way would be safer to enter the mountain.
"Miss Haitang, do you still want to go?" Grandma took a broom to clean the fallen leaves in the yard.
"Grandma, I don't know what to say. The Roselle flower I'm looking for is very important and must be found." Grandma said with certainty.
"I don't know where the Roselle is. You really can't shed tears without seeing the coffin. I'm afraid that once you go, you will be like the child and his father will never come back!" Grandma said excitedly.
She hated herself for not being able to prevent this girl from dying in vain.
There is only one path going up the mountain here, with low shrubs on both sides. As you look up the mountain at any time, the path becomes more and more winding, and the surrounding trees gradually become taller and thicker, with lush branches and even a little bit blocking the sky.
, so high that it reaches its peak.
Grandma's son is only around now cutting firewood.
When Bai Haitang looked back, a plant caught her eye.
The purple path is section by section, more than two meters high, with a tassel on it.
Sugar cane! Isn’t this just sugar cane?
It was not mentioned in the county annals.
Borrowing a clay knife from her grandmother's house, Bai Haitang chopped down the purple sugar cane she saw. The sparse ones around it were actually longer.
Drag him back to grandma's house.
"Grandma, do you know what this is?" Bai Haitang asked.
"Girl, this water is too high to make firewood or light." Grandma knew it very clearly.
"Grandma, this is not for making firewood, but for eating." Bai Haitang removed the sugarcane ears and leaves, and rolled a sugarcane into several 30 centimeter lengths.
Then pick up one of them, tear off the sugarcane skin with your teeth, bite the juicy sugarcane meat inside, suck up the water, spit out the bagasse, and continue eating.
"Is this edible? Isn't it poisonous?" Grandma thought this girl was so brave. She would be dead if she was poisoned. They wanted to only eat wild vegetables they knew.
"Grandma, try it. It's sweet and delicious. Just don't eat too much at one time, otherwise your tongue will hurt." Bai Haitang handed Grandma a piece of peeled one with a clay knife. Grandma was old and her teeth were sore.
It's probably not good. It's a bit difficult for her to bite the sugar cane skin.
Grandma hesitated for a long time. After seeing that Bai Haitang was okay, she put it in her mouth and chewed it. It was sweet.
"It's so sweet." Grandma said this like an innocent child, with her eyes forming a thin line as she smiled.
Bai Haitang prefers to see people happy.
"Grandma, you can ask your son to cut down the sugar cane and sell it at the nearby market, and give it to people passing by to try it for free. Those who buy it will have it," Bai Haitang suggested.
Seeing that my grandmother's family is kind-hearted and her son is hardworking and willing to work, I really want to help them. If this kind of help is to teach a person to fish, it will be used up sooner or later. It is better to teach a person to fish.
"But sooner or later it will be over." Grandma looked at the mountain worriedly. Neither she nor her son had the courage to go up the mountain anymore.
"Don't worry about it. This sugar cane is very easy to grow. You just need to stick one in the soil in a slightly shady place, water it, and wait for it to slowly sprout and take root. It will grow in a few months." Bai Haitang said.
I picked up a stick to demonstrate and stuck it next to my grandma’s cornfield.