Portable space

After wiping her head, Cai Yazhi pointed in the direction of the backyard and asked: How to deal with the backyard?

The backyard has been greatly changed by Zhang Taiping from last year to that day. Several fruit trees were planted, and a deep ditch was dug in the center of the yard. Now it is connected to the pool outside, and the water flows into the yard from the ditch. It circles inside and flows into the pond outside.Originally, Cai Yazhi in the backyard was used to grow vegetables that are often eaten at home, but now Zhang Taiping can't grow them after such a toss, but there is still a large piece of land vacant, which is a bit messy.

Zhang Taiping took off his rain-soaked shirt and replied: "I have my own ideas in the yard, you don't need to worry about it. I have left a piece at the intersection of the westernmost part of the wasteland and the back valley. You can plant some vegetables on it." .”

According to his own vision, the backyard is to be turned into a private space, where various fruit trees and flowers are planted, and some melons, watermelons and other fruits are planted inside.When the time comes, the backyard will be lush and green. In summer, people will sit under the vines built of green leaves, drinking iced wine and tasting melons and fruits. What a joy it will be.

Now that she knew Zhang Taiping's plan, Cai Yazhi knew what to do.

After the rain, it cleared up and the sky became brighter. Zhang Taiping's house is located on a slightly higher terrain, and he can see the whole village from here.People are holding?Agricultural implements such as rakes walked in all directions on the slopes surrounding the village.

Planting melons and beans before and after Grain Rain, it is now the middle of February in the lunar calendar, and March in the Gregorian calendar. There is still almost a month before the solar terms, but now the global climate is warming, spring temperature changes and solar terms have already There is a big deviation, especially in cities like Xi'an, where spring is fleeting and winter often follows summer, spring is exceptionally warm.

Just after the new rain is a good time to grow vegetables and melons.Because the ground is soaked by rain at this time, there is "injury", which is a specific term used by people in the countryside to say that there is moisture in the ground.There are "wounds" in the ground. Vegetables and fruits can only germinate and grow quickly after being planted, and the fertilizer is not used because the newly emerged seedlings will be burned to death due to excess fat.

Zhang Taiping's family was no exception, regardless of their size, the whole family headed towards the piece of land designated by Zhang Taiping under the leadership of Cai Yazhi.The old man and Yaya also went together.

Fortunately, the seed Cai Yazhi had been prepared, otherwise such an early spring rain would have been missed, and the vegetables would have been planted late, and correspondingly, the ripening would have been delayed.

Cai Yazhi prepared the seeds of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, cowpeas and all the vegetables that are often eaten at home.In fact, the survival rate of vegetable seeds such as tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants and Erpao peppers is not high, and they are all purchased from others to grow to a bunch of long seedlings.However, the warm weather this year is really too early, and most of the seedlings have not been cultivated. I didn't see them when I went to the town last time, so Cai Yazhi had to buy seeds and come back.

In the past, she just planted a small piece in the backyard of her home, which is enough for her family to eat. This year, it is estimated that there will be more varieties and more seeds prepared, but it is still underestimated.Generally, a family will have a piece of land two or three points close to the water source, called "private plot", which is specially used to grow vegetables for their own consumption.It is rare for Zhang Taiping to reserve two acres of land at one time.

Zhang Taiping was in charge of digging the pit. After digging, the three women, an old man and a young man slipped the seeds into the soil. After Zhang Taiping covered it, he went to the edge of the pool to carry water and watered it a little, and finally leveled it with a rake.In this way, enough water is given, and the soil layer above is loose, which is very conducive to the emergence of seeds.

Fan Ming and Xing Rushui may both be doing this kind of farm work for the first time, it is very novel and they work very hard, both of them were sweating profusely when it was over, but Cai Yazhi did not feel any discomfort at all.

Six people, big and small, went to battle together, and all the seeds that Cai Yazhi bought were planted in the ground. It didn't take much time, and the land only used half an acre of land.

Cai Yazhi asked: What will the rest of the land be planted with?

Zhang Taiping looked at the remaining one and a half acres of land and said: "I heard that the village chief's house has a very spicy pepper, and I will go get some seeds later."

After planting vegetables, we will also plant yams.This year's yams are planted on the slope where sweet potatoes were planted last year, that is, under the peach trees in the orchard.

The peach and cherry trees in the orchard have already opened their green leaves, and it seems that they will bloom soon.But the vines remained motionless, and there was nothing above them.Cherries can be ripe in May in the Gregorian calendar, peaches can be in the market in June, and grapes can only be available in August, so the first two kinds germinate and bloom relatively earlier.

Planting artichokes is different from the previous vegetables. It uses neither seeds nor seedlings, but fruits.

The old man sat next to him with a stool, and took a blade to divide the yams specially prepared last winter into several small pieces. This was knowledgeable, instead of picking up a knife and chopping them randomly.Each piece of yam that is divided has a bud eye on it, which ensures that new seedlings can germinate and grow after being planted in the soil.

It was Cai Yazhi who dug the hole, the three women and the little girl pressed the old man's sliced ​​potatoes into the soil with the buds facing up, and Zhang Taiping was responsible for covering it with the soil.Potatoes have a long growth cycle, not just a few days, so watering is omitted.

After ordering the yams, Zhang Taiping went to the village chief's house to beg for the mutated chili seeds.

"Auntie, where's the old uncle?" Zhang Taiping happened to meet the old aunt holding it in front of the old village head's house.The head came back from outside with an aluminum basin in one hand.

"Marshal, your uncle just went to Wang Laoqiang's place. I heard that Wang Laoqiang's house is going to grow watermelons, so I went over to have a look."

Zhang Taiping's heart moved, it seemed that Wang Laoqiang was deeply influenced by him, although he didn't follow him to grow fruit trees, but he found another way to grow watermelons.

"Where is the land where Wang Laoqiang grows watermelons?" Zhang Taiping was curious and wanted to go and have a look.

The old aunt pointed to the east and said, "It's on a relatively flat piece of land under the mountain on the other side of his family." Putting down her arms, she came to her senses and asked, "What can you do with your uncle? "

"It's nothing serious, I just want some of your very spicy chili seeds."

"Small things, you don't need to tell him, I'll just give it to you." He opened the door and entered the house, and took out a cardboard box in a while, which was filled with a box of pepper seeds.

Zhang Taiping accepted the cardboard box, thanked him, and went towards the direction the old aunt pointed.

Apart from Zhang Taiping, Wang Laoqiang is the first person in the village who dares to eat crabs in such a big way. It will be a great encouragement to the follow-up development of the village if it succeeds. If it fails, it is estimated that Zhang Taiping will spend this time The morale that was built up by kung fu turned into flowing water.So he also went to see if there was anything he could do to help.

Someone planted watermelons instead of crops. This is a big event in the village, and many people came to watch.

Zhang Taiping came to the village chief and said, "I just asked my old aunt for some chili seeds."

The village chief nodded and said, "Do you also think this chili has a seed head?"

Zhang Taiping nodded and said: "Well, if all the peppers you grow are as spicy as the ones you ate at your home last year, it will be a big business opportunity. Many spicy peppers outside are not very good now, either the taste is not spicy enough or There are counterfeit products. Some big restaurants buy high-quality peppers from outside. If we can grow this kind of peppers and sell them to restaurants, we will make money.”

After hearing this, the village chief assured him happily: "All the seeds you grow are definitely the one you ate last year. I have been experimenting for several years, and the seeds I collected are all the seeds of this pepper."

"It's not very popular, so we can just talk about it in private at that time, and see if anyone is willing to plant it."

The village chief nodded.After a while, he asked again: "What do you think of Wang Lao's gun growing watermelons?"

Zhang Taiping said, "Has he ever had experience growing watermelons before?"

"Yes, and they were successful both times. It's just that the melons are good, but the price is so cheap that they couldn't be sold and ended up rotten at home. I didn't even get back the capital and wasted more than half a year. During that period There is no peace in his home all the time."

"When did it happen?" Zhang Taiping frowned and asked.

"For two consecutive years in [-] and [-]."

Only then did Zhang Taiping feel relieved. For two years, like [-] and [-], there was a flood of watermelons, and they were all cheap to less than ten cents, but they still couldn't be sold because the market was too saturated.

He also drove past Chang'an at that time, and the roadsides were full of green melon fields.At that time, I heard that a family of melon farmers planted nearly [-] mu of watermelons, but in the end they couldn't be sold and rotted in the field. The couple drank pesticides in a fit of anger.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable for farmers to shrink back sometimes, they are all scared.

Zhang Taiping said: "As long as he has experience and can grow good melons, the current market will not sell them. And he can only succeed and not fail, otherwise it will be a great blow to the enthusiasm of the people in the village. So we not only have to Let Wang Laoqiang succeed in growing watermelons this time, and let him make a lot of money, so that the enthusiasm of the villagers can be stimulated, and the village can develop."

The old village chief nodded in agreement and said, "You think the same as I do."

Here Zhang Taiping and the old village head are discussing, and there are many villagers discussing beside them, but most of them are not optimistic about Wang Laoqiang's actions this time, because the previous two times are already lessons learned, and they lost a lot of money. It is not enough to grow fruit trees, but it is too much to grow crops. This is the thinking of the most conservative people.