Wu Xiaoyan, the contestant of "emissary of Yangmei in Jingzhou"

  Introduction: My name is Wu Xiaoyan, a college student, I have deep feelings for Jingzhou, where is my hometown, Jingzhou is also famous for its high-quality bayberry. With the rise of the Internet wave, Jingzhou bayberry will go out through the mode of "Internet +" and become a new form and way for Menong to sell bayberry. Internet marketing will fully transform Menong's existing resources into visual income. Agricultural e-commerce + bayberry, let the mountain Menon smile, let eat bayberry you sweet as plum.

Photo: Wu Xiaoyan

  Wu Xiaoyan's contribution to the [Sweet China] project team, as Jingzhou Meinong's daughter, she truly told the story of herself, her father and Yang Mei, the following is the full text:

Deep in the mountains plum fragrance

  My hometown is located in a remote mountain village in Jingzhou County, where is the hometown of Yangmei.

  Our village is called Mudong Village, which is located in the deep mountains and relatively remote. Remote means backward, although no one wants to, but there is nothing but agricultural products such as bayberry. The winding cement road is 20 kilometers away from the county seat. Walking into this remote village, you would be surprised at its remoteness if you didn't know it in advance.

  The village is not big, twenty or thirty families, people here have always taken bayberry as the source of family income, in the mountains planted with various varieties of bayberry. Myrica rubra is planted along the mountain, which changes with the change of mountain terrain. According to local conditions, the altitude of hillside, the gentle slope and the size of hillside determine the planting of myrica rubra. Local people cultivate bayberry diligently with both hands, not only as a source of family income, but also as a part of life, which has been integrated into the local Menon's life philosophy.

  Far away from the noise of modern civilization, scattered villages are like isolated islands, hidden deep in the mountains.

  The work in the mountains is also the whole life of Menon here. Several generations of parents have been diligent all their lives, seriously planting bayberry, all through their own manual cultivation planting, there is not much modern technology, do not know artificial coloring, do not know greenhouse planting, do not know artificial chemical fertilizer, just through grasping the season, climate to plant bayberry into a real green original ecological fruit.

Photo: Father at Work

  In my memory, in February and March of spring, my father began to go up the mountain busy, he said this is a good season for tree species cultivation, just after the beginning of spring began to loosen soil, weeding bayberry seedlings. The father will plant the high-quality seeds carefully selected in the next year, weed day and night, take care of them, and graft them in the next year. March and April are the pollination and pedunculation period of bayberry. My father will go up the mountain to cut weeds for plum trees. On the one hand, it will be used as nutrients for plum trees, on the other hand, it will be convenient for plum trees to get better light, and the fruit will taste sweeter. In May and June, wait for the arrival of the mature period of bayberry to pick. After the middle of July, the mature period of bayberry has passed, we can collect the high-quality plum seeds falling under the tree, rub them with hands to remove the plum flesh, and then cultivate them as bayberry seedlings. So repeated, home planting bayberry trees are also more and more. Years of planting, bayberry fruit quality gratifying!

  When bayberry ripens, I am always woken up by my father at 5 a.m., because only my father works at home, and there are not enough people to pick bayberry. After getting up early and simply washing up, I went up the mountain with my father on his back. My father carefully picked a good plum on the tree, and I helped my father under the tree to collect the good bayberry and hand it to the bamboo basket. After picking fresh bayberries, my father carried them down the rugged mountain road until 9 o 'clock down the mountain for breakfast.

  Because the village is located in the deep mountain, the transportation is inconvenient, and there is no help from outside resources, the bayberry here can only be transported to Lin County for sale. After breakfast in a hurry, my father carried the bayberry picked in the morning with a bamboo pole to Lin County dozens of kilometers to sell. In Lin County, not only fewer people sell bayberry, but also more people buy bayberry. Even though the black-colored, juicy bayberries were sold for five or six yuan a catty, my father would happily thank every customer who came to buy his bayberries. His father thought that it was better to sell these bayberries than not to sell them. If he stayed longer, he would encounter the risk of urban management chasing people to collect things. Moreover, the journey was long and he had to rush home before dark.

  My father is an out-and-out Menon, so I also think that in addition to the Spring Festival, the happiest time of the year is the ripe plum season, no matter where you go in the village, you can smell the sweet and sour bayberry fragrance. Not only can we eat sweet and sour delicious bayberry, but my father will also bring us a lot of surprises during the sale of bayberry. Every time my father sold bayberry home, we looked forward to it, because my father's bamboo basket occasionally contained a small bag of food to improve the food, or brought us some small fruit back. My father sometimes saved all the money for lunch in order to bring these things to us, and he could sell them for a hundred yuan a day, including the round-trip fare. Even though the income is small, the father will be happy to have such a harvest. I asked my father if the sale of five or six yuan a catty of high-quality bayberry was a bit "cheap", which would make people think that our bayberry was poor? Father said: "bayberry tree born in the old mountain, bayberry is also our own heart planted, natural bayberry fruit will not be bad, good or bad others will try to know." Plain words, I will understand, compared to care about gains and losses, father more concerned about the quality of bayberry, just like a person to be honest, sincere.

  When the plum trees ripen in one year, the plum trees on the slopes become forests, and the bayberries on the plum trees spit out new fruits. Every morning, layers of clouds surround the mountains. Looking from afar, the deep green hills are dotted with plum blossoms, which are very fresh and pleasant.

  The deep mountain is full of plum fragrance, and it is a good season of the year.

  Motto of the election campaign: Only when you go on in a world that knows nothing will there be surprises.

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