Cao Liqing, an orchard farmer in Linbian, takes us to see her father's half-hectare wax apple orchard, but all we can see is that about 120 centimeters of pasty black mud has covered everything. "There is no way to clean up most of the orchards around here, because the mud is too deep even to walk into them."
林邊的果農曹麗卿帶領記者前往她爸爸 5 分地的蓮霧園，只見高約 120 公分高的黑土嚴嚴實實地覆蓋住整片果園，「這裡大部分的蓮霧園都沒辦法清，因為爛泥太深了，根本走不進去。」