Man encounters a century-old boxwood stump in the mountains, cannot dig it out bare-handed, and guards it while sleeping for 6 hours

Man encounters a century-old boxwood stump in the mountains, cannot dig it out bare-handed, and guards the stump while sleeping for 6 hours.

In such a season, it is a great time to go into the mountains to look for wild mountain goods. Not only can you find wild Chinese medicinal herbs, you can also look for some delicious treats, such as mushrooms and the like. Of course, for friends who like flowers, plants and tree stumps, it is even more irresistible to take a few extra looks, hoping to find good material such as orchids and boxwood.

Old Huang is a person in our village who especially loves growing tree stumps, flowers and plants. Already in his 50s this year, he is still robust, and when he has nothing to do he likes to go into the mountains with neighbors to look for mountain goods. Walking 20 li of mountain road every day is not a difficult thing for him. So every time he comes out of the mountains and goes home, he always digs up a tree stump and brings it home to plant. In his small courtyard, all kinds of tree stumps, flowers and plants fill the small yard.

Sure enough, yesterday he set out again with a few people from our group. As it turned out, by 6:00 in the afternoon he still had not come home. I had something to discuss with him. So I waited until 7:10 before he finally returned. What made me curious was that today he really did not bring anything back, which was a bit unusual! So I curiously asked him about it.

He said that today's harvest was not small: by the side of a mountain gully he had found a century-old boxwood stump with an especially good shape. Unfortunately, today he had not brought good tools for digging up stumps, and he did not have his phone with him either. So he could not contact the people at home. Of course, finding such a stump is already very difficult now. Because the weather had been good these past few days, there were quite a lot of people going into the mountains looking for goods, and he was afraid that if he left, someone else would dig up such a good stump.

So, with no other choice, he thought of a rather dumb method, which was to sit beside the stump and guard it. He thought he would wait until people came out of the mountains in the afternoon and then go home, and tomorrow he could bring tools and come earlier to dig it up. Who would have thought that as the weather got hot, he fell asleep beside the stump before long, and when he woke up and looked at the sky it was already five or six in the afternoon, so he hurried home.

How could such a good thing be missing someone like me who loves tree stumps? So I planned to go into the mountains with him tomorrow to see the real appearance of the century-old boxwood stump. So after finishing my business at his home, I went back. For people like Old Huang who are so devoted to tree stumps, there are not too many! If you encountered such a thing in the mountains, how would you handle it?