Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 22 Growing Vegetables
After breakfast.

Li Hongbing lay in a rocking chair enjoying the warm spring sunshine and breathing the fresh air of nature. Compared with the fast-paced and depressing life in the city, the countryside is so relaxed.

The four little wolf dogs didn't know where to go.

After washing the dishes, the silly boy took the bag made of rainproof cloth and walked to the rocking chair to open it.

"Master, the vegetable seedlings are burnt yellow."

Ah!
Li Hongbing glanced sideways, and remembered that these were vegetable seedlings that he bought at random when he was buying orchids. They were covered with waterproof cloth overnight, and now they have changed color.

"Silly boy, can you grow vegetables?"

"meeting."

Li Hongbing got up from the rocking chair. Anyway, he had nothing to do, and the idiot had turned over the vegetable garden again. If he didn't plant it, it would be full of weeds. Eating meat every day was not a problem.

"Go, plant all the vegetable seedlings today."

Although he came from the countryside, Li Hongbing has never farmed land. Now that he has returned to live in the countryside, he will not be laughed at if he knows how to farm.

The vegetable field in the front yard has an acre of land, whether it is big or small, it is equivalent to one and a half basketball courts.

The idiot who grows vegetables is the main force, responsible for sorting and picking out the vegetable seedlings. Li Hongbing works as a handyman, collecting the soil, crushing large pieces of soil with a hoe, and picking out stones.

"Grandfather, Cai Long must be straight."

"Master, it's crooked."

"Grandpa, it's been plowed over there."

"Master,..."

……

Great grandfather, great grandfather, great grandfather, can you stop planting?

After being reminded repeatedly, Li Hongbing got angry and threw the hoe directly on the ground.

The silly boy was so frightened that he was at a loss, and looked at Li Hongbing with fear in his eyes, not knowing why the grandfather was angry.

see this scene.

Li Hongbing blamed himself secretly, he lost his temper for nothing, he didn't do well in the first place, and he couldn't let others say that it would scare the idiot.

"Silly boy, I'm sorry, Grandpa shouldn't lose his temper at you, you come and teach Grandpa how to grow vegetables."

Oh!
The silly boy timidly walked to Cailong, raised the hoe and flew up and down, digging out a straight vegetable field in a short while.

Pretty!

Cailong is neat and tidy, with a straight line, as if measured with a ruler.

And he dug crookedly, just like a pig.

Li Hongbing picked up the hoe in shame, and repaired his vegetable field.

Ask while digging.

Finally, a fairly decent vegetable land took shape.

The silly boy raised his thumb up honestly, praising his digging skills.

To be praised by a fool, Li Hongbing felt a sense of pride when he looked at the vegetable field dug out by himself.

soon.

The two dug out strips of vegetable garden.

Just wait until the vegetable seedlings are planted.

The silly boy held the vegetable seedlings, frowning into Sichuan characters. In his opinion, these vegetable seedlings were all wilted and yellow, and they would not survive in the sun after planting them.

"What's wrong?" Li Hongbing asked with great interest.

"If the seeds don't survive, if you cover them overnight, they will all burn to death."

"How can it be impossible to grow it?" Li Hongbing, who did not believe in evil, took a vegetable seedling, and before it could be planted, the vegetable seedling broke in two in his hand, and yellow water rotted from the fracture.

This!
Li Hongbing was dumbfounded.

So many vegetable seedlings are all wasted, why not go to the town to buy a batch.

at this time.

Outside the gate of the courtyard came the howling of the wolfhounds, and then the little ones ran in the door covered in grass clippings, and saw Li Hongbing running to his feet, whining and acting like a baby.

correct!

We have a heart of nature, since it works for animals, plants can't run away either.

With the mentality of giving it a try, Li Hongbing put his original strength into those wilted vegetable seedlings, and each vegetable seedling was not divided much, only a little bit like a hair.

soon.

Li Hongbing could feel the joyful emotions emanating from the originally wilting vegetable seedlings after gaining their original power.

That is the joy of life.

……

Vegetables are reborn.

Li Hongbing dug a small hole in the vegetable field, buried a vegetable seedling, and waved at the silly boy who kept shaking his head.

"It can be planted, and it can be lived. Grandfather does not lie."

After finishing talking, I buried myself in digging holes to grow vegetables.

The four little wolfhounds tilted their heads, watched Li Hongbing's digging for a while, then ran into the vegetable field, digging with their front legs, and a standard pit appeared.

Ow!Ow!
The little wolf dogs whined. Li Hongbing glanced at them and gave them a thumbs up.

"Good job, add meat at noon."

Woohoo!

Hearing the addition of meat, the pups dig more happily, and the silly boy also has the motivation to sort the vegetable seedlings into the pits.

time lapse.

The entire vegetable field was full of vegetable seedlings, Li Hongbing opened his perception, and the joy of life emanating from the vegetable seedlings gave him an inexplicable joy, and every pore was relaxed for it.

This is the druid with the heart of nature.

Whoa!

A sound of water woke him up.

Turning his head to look, Shawa was holding a bucket and watering the vegetable seedlings.

Li Hongbing joined the watering team, planted the clump of grass orchids by the side of the vegetable garden, and sent out some original power.

As for the little wolf dogs, after turning around, they didn't know where to go.

……

After lunch.

After finishing the vegetable garden, Li Hongbing started to work on the pond.

Anyway, we have to clean up, so it's better to take advantage of the time now and do it all at once.

Clearing the pond is a big project.

The first step is to fish out the rotten leaves in the pond, then release the water to clean up the silt, repair the pond, and finally refill the water.

It seems like a few steps.

In fact, it is really difficult for the two of them to do it.

The pond in the old house is made of stone strips, and it has not been cleaned for more than 20 years. It has accumulated thick silt and rotting leaves. If you dig it with a shovel, countless rancid bubbles will appear immediately, and your eyes will become sour from the smoke.

You can only drain the water first, let the water dry, and then use the sun to dry the pond. After the silt and rotting leaves are dried, it is easy to clean.

However, releasing water is also troublesome. The canal in front of the old house has long been blocked by silt and weeds, and it has become flat. If it is not dredged, the vegetables grown in the front yard will suffer in the rainy season.

Here comes the problem. This canal extends all the way to the backyard mountain depression. If it is to be dredged, the entire canal must be cleaned.

To clear the drains, you have to clean the backyard drains.

Let the silly boy do it alone, and he can't finish it in a week.

I can only find help.

Li Hongbing walked into the main room, put a red plum cigarette on his body, and whistled.

The four little wolf dogs ran to the side happily.

"Come on, let's go to the village to invite people."

……

The forest area has experienced three population migrations.

For the first time, the forest area was designated as a plant protection area and the state-run forest farm was abolished. As a result, a large number of villagers who depended on the forest farm lost their jobs.

For the second conversion of farmland to forest, villages and towns will return the reclaimed land to the forest area.

Fortunately, some villages have their own plots of land and are barely self-sufficient. Some villages are in protected areas, and village-level administration has been canceled directly, and the whole village has been relocated out of the forest area.

Caogou Village is located on the edge of the forest area. It is a high-altitude village. After the reclaimed land was handed over, the only arable land left is the hillside. The soil is thin and weak, and it can barely grow some coarse grains such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.

For the third time, the mountain was closed for afforestation, and the villages and towns in the forest area were relocated in a planned way. Villagers who were willing to relocate would resettle their houses and land, and give relocation subsidies according to the number of families.

The three migrations have made the forest area with a small population even more desolate, but there are still some villagers who would rather endure poverty than leave their fertile land until they are buried in this soil.

(End of this chapter)