slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 49

In the vegetable field of Second Grandma Li's house, he got two green vegetables and cooked a bowl of egg noodles with two eggs. After sucking them up, Cang Hai began to plant trees.

First, he planted a few fruit trees in front of his own house, and then started planting trees near the entrance of the village.

Just as Heping was digging into the pit, Third Li's grandmother, Qian Ximei, came over, and saw her holding a bowl in one hand, eating cornmeal porridge and holding a steamed bun in the other, walking towards Cang Hai while eating.

"Haiwazi, what are you doing?" Qian Ximei asked.

Cang Hai did not answer, and Ping An explained: "We are planting trees. The second brother said that when these trees grow, the village will have a place to enjoy the coolness in summer."

"So that's what it means," Qian Ximei said after hearing this.

Originally, Qian Ximei came here to remind Cang Hai that the land here is her family's house, but she was a little embarrassed to open her mouth when she heard Ping An say that.

It has been ten years since Cang Hai left his hometown, and he doesn't know much about it. Originally, he thought of planting two trees at the entrance of the village, but who knew that this kind of tree had landed on the homestead of San Li's grandma.

Cang Hai didn't know, but he was safe enough to know, but he didn't think to tell Cang Hai, but said to Third Grandma Li: "Third Grandma, this tree is planted on your land, so the shade of the tree belongs to your family. ".

Grandma Li San was a little embarrassed when she heard it, but it was hard for her to say that Ping An was a fool.

It was only then that Cang Hai realized that he planted these two trees on the land of Grandma Li's house. Although there are a lot of land here, the country people pay more attention to this, and the house is very particular.

So Cang Hai said: "Grandma Li San, I really didn't know that this is your homestead. Do you want me to move these two trees? It's okay if you don't move it. Even if this tree belongs to your family, do you think it's worth it?" ?”

When Cang Hai said this, Grandma Li San was really embarrassed and said: "It's okay, you plant it, this tree is still yours."

After speaking, Shi Shiran left with a bowl in hand.

Cang Hai looked at Li San's back and didn't know what to say for a while. He thought for a while and said to Ping An: "Forget it, let's move these two trees."

Ping An didn't have any objections, so he helped Canghai move the tree out without saying a word, and moved it to the roadside at the entrance of the village. Now it is no longer on anyone's homestead, but now the two trees have reached the top of the village slope.

After replanting the horses and watering them, Cang Hai had to reconsider his approach, thinking that it would be better to plant the remaining saplings in his own old kiln and new kiln.Although Cang Hai doesn't mind giving the tree to the villagers, he also knows that the villagers are also shameless. If he plants the tree on other people's land indiscriminately, then everyone has to send the money to him if he is not sure. It would be better not to do this trouble.

An elm tree was planted at the entrance of the old kiln, an osmanthus tree and another elm tree were planted at the entrance of the new kiln.The remaining willows and poplars were all planted down the slope of the vegetable garden, almost at the bottom of the ditch.

It took a day to plant the tree together with Ping An, and Cang Hai invited Ping An to dinner at night. The two of them sat down with a bowl and just started eating when Hu Shijie arrived.

Cang Hai quickly stood up and signaled Hu Shijie to come and eat. Hu Shijie took a look and was not polite. He took a bowl, filled a bowl of rice from the pot, and squatted on the edge of the table to eat.

"Haiwazi, how much is this tree for you?" Hu Shijie asked.

Cang Hai didn't know why Hu Shijie asked such a question, but he still replied with a smile: "I don't know if my price is too expensive or too cheap."

After speaking, I reported the few trees I planted. The prices of different tree species are different, and the prices of the same species are different according to the size. Generally speaking, the price of Canghai is quite affordable.

Hu Shijie nodded secretly when he heard this: "Is there any more? If so, I want to buy some elm trees and jujube trees."

When Cang Hai heard this, he said, "If you want it, I can buy it again, but I don't have it here, and I planted it in the field today."

Hu Shijie listened and nodded his head: "I know, you know a little bit about planting trees. I heard that you planted trees in the front and back of your house. I came here to have a look. I'm afraid you planted the wrong tree. ".

"I know a little bit," Cang Hai said with a smile,
The taboos of planting trees are mainly folklore, such as not planting mulberries in the front, not planting willows in the back, not planting ghosts and clapping hands in front of the door (referring to poplars), and pomegranates and peppers are buried casually, ginkgos are filled with wealth and so on.

"Well, in short, you are right." Hu Shijie said: "You young people may not believe these things, but there are always some truths passed down by the older generations. Even if you don't believe it, you can't go against it. By the way, if you go to town again Buy these saplings for me, it would be even better if they can grow bigger.”

"I see." Cang Hai nodded.

After talking about this, everyone continued to eat, and not long after, Wei Wenkui came over again, and when he saw the three eating, he replied that he had finished eating, and squatted next to the table to smoke.

While smoking a cigarette, he talked about things, and he was still talking about planting trees.

"Don't ask, I just asked the price, it's not too expensive, if you want to buy some saplings, just tell Hai Wazi," Hu Shijie suggested.

After hearing this, Wei Wenkui directly reported several trees, which were almost elm, jujube, osmanthus, apricot and the like.

"The elm and osmanthus trees are not a big problem. I'll go and have a look in a few days, but this apricot tree is a bit difficult, and it may not be there." Cang Hai didn't even plant a ginkgo tree himself, let alone find it for Wei Wenkui.

"Nothing else will do."

Before Wei Wenkui finished speaking, Li Liren appeared at the door.

"Second Grandpa Li, you didn't come here to inquire about the tree, did you?" Cang Hai asked with a smile.

Li Liren said: "Yes, let me come and ask. I want to plant a few trees in front of my house. Anyway, now that there is water in the village, I pour a ladle and a half pot from time to time. After a year of hard work, the tree will grow. Stop it, why do you mean the same thing?"

Hu Shijie Xiu said: "We all mean this."

Cang Hai smiled and said: "Then everyone, count the tree species you need, and I will go to the town when I am done, and even if there are none, I will ask them to help buy some."

Planting trees is a good thing, Cang Hai doesn't want to see the village being bare and out of shape anymore. With trees, in summer, the trees will be full of shade, and the village looks like a kind of enjoyment, doesn't it?
Hearing what Cang Hai said, several people around nodded one after another, and Li Liren started counting. After the two people here finished counting, Li Liren went to count all the other trees to be planted, and there were more than a hundred saplings.

Now that there is water, everyone naturally thinks about planting trees. For the villagers, planting trees is not only to enjoy the shade, but when the tree grows to a certain point, the tree is equal to money. It is also a good investment to cut it down and sell it for emergency.

Seeing Cang Hai pick up the note, everyone dispersed, cleaned up Cang Hai and went back to the house to sleep, and went to the town early the next morning, handed over the needed tree to Wen Yiyi, and then made an appointment to pick it up, Then he returned to the village and started planting his own trees.

A week later, Cang Hai and Hu Shijie pulled a cart to pick up seedlings. After dragging them back to the village, everyone started to get busy. Two or three days later, small saplings as tall as a person were planted in many open spaces in the tree.In order to ensure the survival rate of these saplings, Cang Hai secretly got up in the middle of the night to water these saplings.

Busy and busy, the rainy season of the new year is coming as promised.

Cang Hai stood in his kitchen and looked at the sudden gathering rain outside. Huge raindrops hit the glass ceiling of the kitchen and made a crackling sound.

Standing at the foot of Canghai is Hutou. At this time, Hutou's dog's face is full of depression. It has been raining for two or three days in a row, and since it was young, it has limited its space to go out and play. Let the tiger head is also very dissatisfied.

"I really don't know how long the rain will last." Cang Hai sighed while looking at the rain curtain outside.

When there is no rain, I think about rain, but when there is rain, I hate that it is too heavy.

"Haiwazi".

At this time, a voice suddenly came down from the slope, and Cang Hai turned his head to find a man standing down the slope, a young man in his forties, wearing a green raincoat, waving at him.

Cang Hai checked carefully, and then realized that this person was none other than Hu Shijie's eldest son, that is, Hu Mingshan, Ping An's father.

"Uncle Ming Shan, when did you come back?" Cang Hai asked while raising his hand and waving twice.

Hu Mingshan said: "When I came back in the morning, you boy stood in the house, just stood there, and didn't go to the field to release water? If the water in the field is allowed to accumulate like this, the seedlings will be soaked to death in a few days." up".

Hearing what Hu Mingshan said, Cang Hai remembered that his family had still planted a few acres of land, so he opened his mouth and said, "I'll go right away."

Hearing Cang Hai's words, Hu Mingshan smiled and picked up the shovel leaning on the ground, turned around and walked towards his father's land.

The water in the field must be drained, so Cang Hai put on rain boots, put on a raincoat, took a shovel and carried it on his shoulders and walked into the rain.

Hutou stood under the eaves, barking at Canghai twice, seeing that the master didn't look back, so he hesitated for a while and walked into the rain, and quickly ran to the side of Canghai, shrunk his head and followed his family. Owner.

Cang Hai saw the tiger's head at his feet, stretched out his hand and rubbed its head, turned around and went back to the house to find a small piece of plastic skin to put on its body, and then walked into the rain again, one person and one dog.

When he came to his field and took a look, Cang Hai realized that his peanuts and rapeseed were all soaked in water, almost covering his feet.Swinging the shovel in his hand, Cang Hai began to shovel mud to dredge the drainage ditch.There is a lot of water in the ground, and when the ditch on the side of the ridge is gently pushed aside, the rainwater will flow down the ditch.

After the ditch was dredged, Cang Hai walked into the field with a shovel on his shoulders. When he saw the puddle, he dug a small ditch to draw the water out. After working for more than an hour, the water in the peanut field was dredged. There is no problem with the raw land, and the next is the rapeseed field. After digging all the land, it is already three o'clock in the afternoon, and Cang Hai's body and raincoat are already covered with mud spots.

Carrying the shovel and preparing to go home, Cang Hai walked halfway and found Hu Shijie and the others standing on the slope, chatting in the rain without doing any work.

Cang Hai walked over curiously, and asked everyone, "What is this for?"

When Li Licheng saw Cang Hai approaching, he extended his hand to say hello: "Are we looking at the water?"

After hearing this, Cang Hai looked curiously at a puddle not far from the people's feet. There is now a lot of rainwater in the puddle. According to Cang Hai's judgment, the deepest part is almost as deep as a person's thigh. .

"What's so interesting about this?" Cang Hai took a few glances, but he didn't find anything particularly worthy of these people standing here.

Hu Shijie said: "In the past, the rainwater would flow along the slope over there, but today it is really strange. The rainwater has accumulated here and has no intention of flowing out at all."

After hearing this, Cang Hai glanced at Shui Pozi again, and then at the direction of the slope that Hu Shijie said: "Is the terrain low over there?"

"It used to be low, but it's strange this year. It seems that the soil over there has risen again, gathering water," Li Lida said.

"Is that a good thing?"

Does Cang Hai think it’s bad if there’s rainwater gathering here?After the rainy season, if the puddle is still there, it can provide water for the nearby grass, small shrubs and so on in one day, and promote their growth. This is not a good thing, so what is a good thing?
"A good thing is a good thing, but it's strange inside and out," Hu Shijie said casually.

(End of this chapter)