In late June, I answered the appointment of my comrades, to his hometown "Zengcheng" to pick lychee.
Zengcheng, is located in the eastern suburbs of Guangzhou City, a county-level city. Along the "Guanghui" highway to go, is extremely fast. However, driving to the Luofeng Tunnel area, it has opened the eyes, before passing by this place, see its high above the green exception, always thought it was some natural forest. And now a closer look to know, it is all lychee trees, in this harvest season, each tree in the dark green branches and leaves, all densely packed with red fruit. And on both sides of the winding road, whether it is in front of the house or the hillside depression, the scenery is all the same.
When we arrived at Li-Cheng Square, we met our comrade, Planting, who took me straight to the Lychee Garden in the south direction of the city. In the terrain slightly higher Jinfeng Lychee Park, the bottom of the eye, all full of lychee of the rolling hills, it is really the best place to see, green in red, not spectacular.
The owner of the Jinfeng orchard, in fact, is the younger brother of the plantation, but the harvest season is very busy, so it is still led by the plantation from the arrival of many comrades and guests to visit and pick fruit. It can be said that this year's lychee is a bumper harvest, wherever you go, in addition to near the field around the slopes of the fruit has been plucked outside, elsewhere on the trees are like set with millions of rubies. And short of the top of the tree is also ripe fruit fall dragged on the ground, not cumbersome. I asked the plantation, how big is this orchard? He said there are more than 500 acres. I said such a large orchard, ripe when its sales difficult? He told me that in recent years, e-commerce has been busy with them. Jinfeng lychee, in the online news release, there are a lot of people come. The price here is real, the freight cost 5 yuan a catty, the shipment can be reached on the same day to airports across the country. It is now very convenient for people far away from Lingnan to eat fresh lychee which is extremely difficult to keep fresh. Due to the increasing number of air cargo, but also pulled the express delivery industry business is booming. In terms of this year, the best seller is not 10 yuan a catty of toffee and sticky rice cake. Rather, 30 yuan a catty of "sweet rock", because this new variety of sugar content is higher, better taste, basically is in short supply.
If you open the books of history to see, in the 1990s, Zengcheng is still the poor county of Guangzhou, when the county's annual revenue is only 300 million yuan. But Zengcheng people are not willing to be left behind, after missing the first economic layout of reform and opening up, they are from a practical point of view, to take advantage of the land, the development of the lychee-based fruit production base, which to a certain extent to improve the income of farmers, but also improve the natural environment of the whole region. They have attracted large-scale enterprises through preferential policies, so that Zengcheng's . The economic structure has undergone fundamental changes. In particular, the completion of the "Guangzhou Eastern Zengcheng Automobile Industry Base" and the arrival and settlement of "Guangzhou Automobile" and "Beijing Automobile" have made its economy more energetic. Zengcheng, the past flat county, a magnificent turnaround, and now the annual financial revenue has jumped from the past a few hundred million to more than 20 billion. This is really a sea change ah! After the generalization, we only feel comfortable and happy, the crystal smooth lychee, how much to eat, the heart has not counted.
Guangdong is rich in lychee in many places, in recent years, people go to the orchard to pick lychee, taste the good fruit, the situation is very enthusiastic. So every year in June and July, when the lychee is ripe, the appointment is natural. And my first choice to go to the place is Zengcheng. Because Zengcheng is the only one to "Lycheng" named city. And the city also treasures a rare "hanging green" tree. The city also has a rare "hanging green" tree, which attracts people to have a glimpse of it.
This tree hanging green lychee's world famous, all because of its fruit quality is very good. It is a small nucleus, thick meat, sweet and moist texture crisp, peeling the skin does not drip, even if wrapped in paper towels for three days will not be wet. Because when ripe, its red skin shell, always retain a green line, so it is called "hanging green". Because Zengcheng Hanging Green is not only sweet and refreshing, but also leaves a slight fragrance on the teeth after eating, it became a tribute to the court in the Qing Dynasty, and became famous in South Guangdong. The tree grows near the Xiyuan Temple in the county, so people also call it "Xiyuan Hanging Green". However, this more than 400 years of lychee tree but the ground waves, in 1979 its trunk died. However, with the efforts of a famous botanist, a new branch was spawned from the epidermis of its roots, and this "West Park Hanging Green" was given a new lease of life, and a small amount of fruit was subsequently produced.
By 2001, in order to promote the lychee brand, and and promote the development of public welfare in urban areas, led by the government, in the Hanging Green Plaza on the "West Park Hanging Green" for the first public auction. A lychee king was auctioned for 55,000 yuan. Became the world's most expensive fruit. This is really "South State lychee is not everywhere, Zengcheng hanging green expensive as pearl". And in later days, "West Park hanging green" auction repeatedly hit new highs. And this year's "West Park hanging green" following the same as the previous year, one is 550,000 yuan of the sky, it is to be higher than the market price of gold a few hundred times. This can be considered a miracle on the miracle.
Early that morning, in order to see this unusual lychee tree, I deliberately took my wife to run to hang green square. Only to see the southern end of the square surrounded by the island, there are several branches and leaves of the Lychee tree, there are security guards guarding the outside. I went up to ask about hanging green tree, the security brother is enthusiastic to help me identify the location of the mother tree, and told me that this year the mother tree **** results of 20, now someone has come to pick away 5. I couldn't help but raise my finger and praised "Zengcheng people are really good". An old lady present also praised, said these good long Renweng is a sincere love of public welfare, their acts of charity, there is no media to go through the advertising rendering. Yes, these real Zengcheng people, they are rich not forget the public welfare, they make this action into a normalized, is worth a praise.
We circled around the island, looking at this hanging green mother tree, Mrs. said: "This lychee is too expensive. But suddenly heard someone talk to say: "beautiful aunt, not expensive ah, you know, this tree hanging green tree, is the year when the Hexian Nun under the tree embroidered shoes, inadvertently left a section of the color line, only to grow this tree gathered full of immortal gas of the world's best fruits, precious it"! I turned my head to look, it turned out to be an old man dressed in morning attire, he had a smile on his face and was in great spirits. I hurriedly saluted him and thanked him for his guidance. He also knew that I was skeptical of the legend, and then added: you know, this hanging green was different, it died but then sprouted new branches, the world is hard to find ah. Call it a rare treasure is not too much. Because of the topic of the coincidence, the chance encounter is like old acquaintance, the old man told me: after people's efforts, the rebirth of the mother tree has cultivated more than thirty sub-trees, and is now being optimized varieties, if the future can be planted in the area is the world's blessing. In the middle of the conversation, the old man asked me: Sir, do you think it's right? I said, "Yes. This may also be the expectations and dreams of the people who planted the Lychee.
Hanging green square with the rising sun, the square dance crowd will gradually leave. I also forward and the old man shook goodbye, and high-five mutual encouragement, waiting for the day of Zengcheng hanging green into the ordinary people's homes.