Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 325 Gao Zhuang's Choice
While Huang Dazhi was busy making various efforts for his marriage, Gao Mingcheng had already stood on Xiaofu Mountain and made a complete plan for the whole mountain.

The [-]-mu mountain land is not big, but it is definitely not small.

I have planted a batch of sugar oranges before, some died, but most are still alive, and as the weather gradually warms, they will be revived again.

As for the plan for Xiaofushan, the plan has already been roughly prepared before, and now that the tree is about to be planted, the plan must be made more carefully.

Then, he started looking for people to work.

He was looking for someone who had worked for him before. Before spring plowing, he cleaned up the whole mountain again, picking up some large stones and dead tree roots.

Then we have to dig out terraces on the steep slope, which is convenient for planting trees and picking fruits later.

Someone was invited to take charge of the land preparation, while Gao Mingcheng himself carried an ax and headed towards the remaining fir and pine trees.

These trees were originally grown here and belonged to good wood, so last year, because he was not in a hurry to plant fruit trees, Gao Mingcheng did not cut down these trees.

But now that a large number of fruit seedlings are about to arrive, these trees have to make room.

He keeps the fir wood for making furniture, and the pine wood can be cut into sections for planting Poria cocos.

After the tree is cut, it has to be barked and its branches removed, and then the trunk is moved to the shade to dry in the shade. The branches and so on are piled in the woodpile and slowly dried to be used as firewood.

After finishing all this work, Gao Mingcheng took a shovel and a sieve to the place where the sealwort seeds were stored in the sand before. He dug out the soil inside, and then sifted out the seeds with a sieve.

The cultivation of sealwort is troublesome. When the seeds mature in autumn, they should be stored in sand to keep them moist until late March of the next year, and then the seeds are screened out for sowing.

These sealworts are not planted in the mountains, but on the flat ground at the foot of the mountains.The furrows should be dug first, and then evenly spread in the shallow furrows with a row spacing of about 15 cm, covered with soil about 1.5 cm, watered after a little pressure, and finally covered with a layer of grass to keep moisture.

After doing this, you can leave it alone for the time being, just wait for it to emerge.If you notice that it is about to emerge, you have to quickly remove the covering grass to facilitate the growth of seedlings.

After that, it’s not much different from growing vegetables. If the seedlings are too dense, the seedlings should be thinned, and if the sun is afraid, they should be shaded. After one year, they can be transplanted.

Wild Polygonatum likes to grow in the shade of trees, and the Polygonatum planted in this way naturally also needs to meet the shade conditions. If it is a later generation, you can cover it with a black sunshade net.

But now, not to mention whether there is, even if there is, Gao Mingcheng will not need it for the time being, because he only got so many seeds, and the planting is not yet scaled, so there is no need to pull a sunshade net, and only need to plant some taller ones on the ridge. Any plant will do, and corn is a good choice. Not only can it shade Huang Jing, but it can also harvest a batch of corn, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

When Gao Mingcheng was busy with these things, Gao Zhuang also came to help from time to time.

Seeing him coming again, Gao Mingcheng put down his work and said, "Gao Zhuang, have you thought about what I told you last time?"

As soon as Gao Mingcheng came back, he told Gao Zhuang that he wanted to take him into the city to do business.

Because this decision has to be made early, before the spring plowing, the family's field is rented to others, otherwise after the spring plowing, it is not easy to rent, and I have no choice but to continue planting.

At that time, it will be another year.

When asked about this matter, Gao Zhuang's face was full of confusion. He sat down on a rock and said, "My grandma asked me to go to the county with you to do business and make money, but she still has to stay in the village to farm. As for Xiuman, my grandma means that Xiuman should also stay in the village to take care of the child, saying that the child is too young to run around."

Gao Zhuang's daughter had just reached the full moon, so she was indeed still young.If you follow to the county, you won't be able to help for the time being, but if you don't follow, the husband and wife will separate again.

"Brother Mingcheng, my grandma and Xiuman want to stay in the village. After thinking about it, I decided not to go to the county." Gao Zhuang stated his decision firmly.

Who doesn't want to make money?But Gao Zhuang can't make this money.

His family has a small population, so he is really worried about leaving his grandma and Xiuman at home to take care of the children in farming.

He is also reluctant to be separated from his precious daughter. Gao Zhuang, who has just been promoted to a baby daddy, likes to take care of children.

After Gao Mingcheng listened, he said, "Well, I'll go to your house for dinner tonight, and talk about it with Grandma Xi."

Gao Zhuang looked at him, and after thinking about it, he didn't refuse.

That night, after Gao Mingcheng finished his work in the field, he went to Grandma Xi's house with a small basket of eggs.

When he was in the county, Zhang Chengyuan took care of the chickens and sheep at home.

Zhang Chengyuan didn't lay any eggs laid by the chickens, but put them in the drawer of the cabinet. When Gao Mingcheng came back, he found that there were already many eggs.

When Gao Mingcheng went over with the eggs, the food was just out of the pan, and it was still steaming on the table.

Seeing him coming, Grandma Xi greeted with a smile: "Ming Cheng, hurry up and wash your hands to eat!"

"Hey, good." Gao Mingcheng responded and went to wash his hands.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, there was a period of ice particles, and then there was a light rain. Although there was not much rain, it moistened the dry land to some extent.

Some old wells in the village also gushed out more water.

At the dinner table, Gao Mingcheng praised Grandma Xi's craftsmanship again and again. Among them was a dish of bitter mango tofu, fried with garlic leaves, which tasted very good.

There is a custom in their village to pick mangosteen seeds and make mangosteen tofu. This mango tofu is often eaten as a dish in winter when there are few vegetables.

After dinner, Gao Mingcheng and Grandma Xi analyzed how much money they could make a year farming in the countryside, and how much money they could make a year doing business in the county.

Just tell the amount of money directly, and the comparison of these two phases makes people's heart beat.

Gao Mingcheng said: "Grandma, you are getting old, there is really no need to stay in the village to farm, otherwise Gao Zhuang will not worry about you even if he goes to the county."

"Besides, if Gao Zhuang goes to the county to do business, if he's the only one, he'll be busy and exhausted!"

"I was doing business in the county. Not only did I bring Duomei and Shufang, but I also recruited a girl, so that the business could be done. You asked Gao Zhuang to do business by himself, what would he do? You can't do it in the village. Farming, let Gao Zhuang spend money to find someone to help?"

"Listen to me, if you really want to go to the county to do business and make money, then the whole family will go! Rent a bigger house to live in, and when the business makes money, buy a house in the county to live in!"

"These lands in the village are rented out to acquaintances, and let him be responsible for paying the public grain."

What Gao Mingcheng said was reasonable, Grandma Xi and the others were both a little moved and hesitant.

For some people, he can't see the current situation clearly and can't seize the opportunity.Maybe many years later, I will feel a lot of emotion, for example, if I had started business earlier; if I had bought a house earlier; if I had traded in stocks earlier.

Only when they completely miss a good opportunity, will they wake up and regret it.

In his previous life, Gao Zhuang followed him all over the world, but in fact, Gao Zhuang didn't want to do this thing himself, but just followed him instinctively. When he did it, Gao Zhuang followed him.

But the situation is different now, both he and Gao Zhuang have married wives and have their own small families, Gao Zhuang can no longer unconditionally follow behind him and obey his orders like before.

Even if what he asked Gao Zhuang to do was for his own good, Gao Zhuang still needed to take care of Grandma Xiao and He Xiuman's emotions.

At this time, Grandma Xi said with a troubled face: "The land is the root of farmers. I have planted the land all my life. If I don't cultivate the land, I will feel sad. Besides, the people in the village are very smart. If you rent the land to them, they will I don’t know if it will be well planted, but once it is rented for a long time, the land will definitely become his family’s! Even if not all of it is occupied, it will be taken up a little bit.”

Grandma Xi stayed in the village all her life, experienced the era of domestic turmoil, and also experienced the era of a thousand wastes. She was poor and hungry, and her feelings for the land were beyond ordinary people's comprehension.

Another one, deep down in her heart, she was afraid of going to a strange county.

She didn't express this clearly, but Gao Mingcheng could see it from her eyes.

So he didn't persuade anymore.

There are plenty of opportunities to make money. If you can't do it now, you can go there in the future. As long as you have his help, it's never too late to go to the county to make money!

He looked at the baby He Xiuman was holding again, and said with a smile: "That's fine, the child is still young, so it's better to focus on raising the child now. After a few years, when the child grows up, I will go to the county to do business." Not too late."

When he said that, Gao Zhuang breathed a sigh of relief.

A trace of regret quickly flashed across He Xiuman's face, but he didn't say anything.

She looked down at the child, her eyes were full of the cute appearance of the child, besides raising this child, He Xiuman was actually planning to give Gao Zhuang another son when her body recovered!
Yes, although neither Gao Zhuang nor Grandma Xiao expressed patriarchal thoughts, He Xiuman herself came from a patriarchal family, which made her more eager to have a son than Gao Zhuang.

Only by giving birth to a son can she be able to give her enough sense of security, and be able to live with her back straight, without fear of the villagers' pointing fingers.

Of course, because the child is still young, she has always kept this idea deep in her heart, and has never told Gao Zhuang about it.

Gao Mingcheng failed to persuade Gao Zhuang and the others to go to the city to do business, and he was somewhat regretful in his heart. He always felt guilty that he had made a fortune, but he didn't help his brothers.

Soon he adjusted his mood, stopped mentioning this matter, but talked about spring plowing.

"Grandma, this year's seedlings and potato vines, you should help me grow seedlings! I will just come back and plant them! By the way, you don't need to find someone to borrow cattle to plow your fields. I will plow them with a tractor!" Gao Ming Cheng said that he had already bought the machinery for plowing the fields, and when the time came, he would just remove the tractor body and install the plowing tools.

Although Gaojia Village is a small mountain village, it is home to a famous family of squires. At the foot of the mountain, there are seven or eight hundred acres of fertile land connected together.

In ancient times, all fertile land belonged to the landlords.

(End of this chapter)