Mountain Cang Shu, also known as litsea cubeba, also known as mountain chicken pepper, deciduous shrub, is about four or five meters high, with smooth stumps, yellow-green bark, umbrella-shaped branches, slender and delicate leaves and a natural fragrance. In the cold wind, if you overlook the vast Shan Ye, you can see the yellow flower shadow of a tree in the dark green forest, that is, Cang Shu Mountain is blooming. Their flowers are as light as the early spring wind.
Near Cang Shu, I saw clusters of small yellow flowers clustered on smooth bare branches, full of vitality, small and exquisite. Cang Shu has six petals of small flowers, which are complicated in structure and look like a full flower bud. Many bracteoles are clustered into a flower group; Many flowers reunite on a tree and become a flower tree; Many flower trees gather in Shan Ye, which is early spring in Shan Ye.
"The wind sends fragrance, and the birds see the plain face." A wisp of breeze is blowing, fragrant, kissing our cheeks, tasting the sweet soul, bathing in the sunshine of spring and the warmth from Shan Ye, and unconsciously filling our stomachs at this moment.
The villagers don't care about the frivolous flowers in Shan Ye in early spring. The villagers care about litsea cubeba. That is the fruit of Cang Shu after autumn. It is round, as big as a pea and has a spicy taste. In the process of its maturity, its color changes from green to red, from red to purple, from purple to black, and there are still strings attached to the branches. Litsea cubeba can extract essential oil, which is used as perfume and medicine. It is said that the export volume of litsea cubeba essential oil in China ranks first in the world. Litsea cubeba, with intact round core and lingering fragrance, is a good material for people to fill pillows-not only fragrant, but also can massage the head and play a health care role.
When I was a child, Xia Long Mining Trading Company bought Litsea cubeba to make oil. When litsea cubeba is mature, friends carry bamboo baskets and pick them in groups of three and five, which has become our greatest pleasure in childhood. I still remember to be very careful when picking litsea cubeba, and even to break Tudor. If you tear Tudor off, the juice will flow out and the olive will turn black immediately. Things like lobster sauce, such as litsea cubeba, are worthless and shops will not buy them. Therefore, we should pick it gently, and after picking it back, we must sell it to the purchasing station non-stop.
The money for selling litsea cubeba does not need to be given to parents, which belongs to the "private money" of labor income. Hide it in a self-made saving tube (thick bamboo, solid at both ends and narrow saw blade in the middle), unless the bamboo tube is broken, the money will not come out. On weekdays, I secretly picked up the cash box and shook it, listening to the voice inside. I don't know how beautiful it is. My childhood happiness and happiness are all contained in this small money box. As soon as the Spring Festival is over, take out your money and buy things you like. Such as firecrackers, comic books, pencils and candy, it was the happiest day of childhood. Now, I can't find that feeling in shops and supermarkets.
The wind and rain turned yellow, and in the blink of an eye, it was another spring after 60 years, or "Xing came and went, and the beauty belonged to me; I will walk until the river blocks my way, then sit down and look at the rising clouds. " Looking back at the lush flowers in the mountain stream, whether they are thick or light, deep or shallow, happy or sad, "don't boast of good colors, just leave the air full of dried Kun", life is a tree blooming!