Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 374
With Gao Mingcheng's physical fitness, it was easy to harvest an acre of rice in the drizzle. He borrowed someone else's threshing machine, threshed the rice in the field, and then packed it in snakeskin bags. .

His yard is very spacious, so he doesn’t have to compete with others for the drying field and can just go home with the rice.

The cement floor in the yard is clean. Many Americans have cleaned it in advance. They even keep the chickens outside to prevent them from running around, otherwise they will pull chicken manure into the rice.

The golden rice was poured on the cement floor, and then spread out with special farm tools to dry in the sun. When the sunlight hit the rice, it glowed with golden light, making it especially beautiful.

The rice seed grown in Xinainai's family is the hybrid rice currently promoted by the government, and its yield is much higher than that of the old rice seed.

In the 70s, the yield of rice per mu was only about 800 jins. Now with the use of hybrid rice, the yield per mu has increased to more than [-] jins. Some carefully tended fields can produce nearly [-] jins per mu.

The fact that people can gradually live a good life without lack of food and clothing is related to the improvement of the country's overall economy, and it is even more related to Yuan Longping.

Because Gao Mingcheng had been in the county for a long time, the rice in the fields was somewhat neglected. When he was carrying the load, he estimated the weight and felt that it was only about [-] kilograms.

Even so, he was quite satisfied.

After spreading the rice to dry in the sun, he went to the corner to dig up compost. These decomposed farmyard manures were sprinkled into the rice fields to fertilize the fields during plowing.

When it came time to use fertilizer, Gao Mingcheng felt that he was short of money. Because his family did not raise pigs or cows, and few people lived in the village, the amount of fertilizer from the farm was too small, but there were many places where he needed fertilizer.

In addition to the crops in the fields, the orchards on Xiaofu Mountain also need regular fertilization so that the fruit trees can thrive.

Gotta buy fertilizer!
And it has to be farmyard manure.

Chemical fertilizers can be used appropriately with farmyard manure, but chemical fertilizers cannot be used all the time. Not to mention the problem of soil hardening, just speaking of taste, the taste of vegetables and fruits grown with farmyard manure is much better than that of chemical fertilizers.

Where to buy farmyard manure?There are no large-scale breeding farms in the village. Under normal circumstances, the fertilizer piled by one's own family is only enough for one's own use, and there is no excess to sell to others.

Gao Mingcheng frowned and thought about asking the people in the village who raised a lot of pigs.

Just as he was about to walk out, he heard Duomei shouting: "Where are you going? A watermelon just opened. It's sweet. Come and eat it."

As soon as he heard that the watermelon was about to bloom, Gao Mingcheng didn't care about going out and hurriedly walked to the kitchen.

There were indeed cut watermelons on the table, and Duomei was sitting on a stool, about to dig out half of the watermelon with a porcelain spoon.As for the other half of the watermelon, it was cut into five pieces.

This is what happens when the family is small, eating watermelon can be very heroic.

Gao Mingcheng picked up a piece of watermelon and started to nibble it. He nibbled it very quickly, and even the juice didn't flow down.

"Sweet! Refreshing! I even forgot to go to the watermelon patch."

"Hey, I went to see it. The watermelons are okay, but some of the pears and melons are too old. I told my brother last time that if we are not at home and some vegetables in the fields are getting old, let them pick them back and eat them. But he refused." Duo Mei said with a smile, and pointed to a few pears and melons in the basin. They were indeed ripe and their skins were turning white.

"How many watermelons are ripe in the field?" Gao Mingcheng asked.

"There must be five or six, and the rest are coming soon. This year you pinched some small watermelons, and the remaining melons all grew very big, but some of them were eaten by something. Looking at it from above Okay, turn it over and see that everything down there is empty!" Many beautiful voices sounded a little angry, but there was nothing they could do about it.

There are quite a few animals that eat watermelons, including dogs, badgers, pigs, badgers, and so on. But here, if the melons and fruits are stolen, it is most likely done by rats.

Well, it’s just so ordinary!
After eating the watermelon, Gao Mingcheng finally went out. He was going to pick up the straw left in the field. After that, it was time to load the tractor with plowing tools and start plowing the field.

After a busy few days, under the scorching sun, all the villagers in Gaojia Village were sweating profusely, busy with the most important farm work of the year.After doing double grabbing every year, people can lose a few pounds.

This year, the weather was good, and it was sunny all the time before and after the rice matured. Therefore, the rice was not damaged. It didn’t rain until the end of transplanting.

The rain came so coincidentally that the villagers praised them one after another. They were particularly satisfied with the smooth weather this year.

They look forward to a bumper harvest of late rice and a year of plenty, but at the same time they are also afraid of drought.

In previous years, some drought conditions will occur in the second half of each year. Last year's drought was the most severe, which also made everyone secretly worried.

But Gao Mingcheng doesn't have to worry about this, because he knows that the weather this year will be very good, and there won't be such a severe drought in recent years.

As for a slight drought, that's normal, because they are surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is no big river in the county, so when there is less rainfall in the second half of the year, drought will naturally occur.

The water in the reservoir will decrease rapidly, leaving only a shallow bottom to be refilled after the next year's rainfall.

Taking advantage of the rain while everyone was idle, Gao Mingcheng went to the old village.

First, he went to the person who asked him for the queen bee last time.

The man's name is Gao Zhijun. His house has two bedrooms, so it is located in a remote location. It is not crowded with other houses, but is backed by a mountain.

Therefore, they raise more pigs and make a lot of money from selling pigs every year.

"Zhijun, you asked me for the queen bee last time. I have divided it into boxes and I will deliver it to you in two days." Gao Ming and Cheng Shu walked into their yard and found Gao Zhijun.

Gao Zhijun was chopping pig grass, and there was a large iron pot on the stove next to him, with pig food being cooked in it.

Pigs eat a lot, so if you raise a lot of pigs, you will have to regularly pull out, chop, and boil pigweed.This work is also quite tiring, and if you don’t feed the pigs, the pigs will grow slowly.

"Oh, thank you." Gao Zhijun immediately beamed when he heard that there was a queen bee.But the next second, I was a little embarrassed and asked how much it would cost.

Gao Mingcheng said cheerfully: "Without mentioning money, I will give you these bees to raise first to see if you can raise them well. If you can raise them, you can just give me two kilograms of honey afterwards."

"Hey, that's okay! I will definitely give you two pounds of honey when the time comes." Gao Zhijun nodded happily and agreed.

After talking about the bees, Gao Mingcheng asked again: "Your family raises so many pigs every year, do you use up all the pig manure?"

Gao Zhijun said: "My parents have reclaimed a lot of wasteland, so they can be used up."

When Gao Mingcheng heard this, he felt a little hopeless, but he still said: "In the fall, I will need a batch of fertilizer for my orchard. Do you think you have enough at home to sell it to me?"

Upon hearing the word "sell", Gao Zhijun hesitated for a few seconds and then said, "Okay, if I have more, I'll sell them to you."

Gao Mingcheng told this not only to Gao Zhijun, but also to other people in the village who raised a lot of pigs. These people were all willing to do business with Gao Mingcheng, and they all said that they would sell them to him if they had any.

Fertilizing in autumn is very important for orchards. It is related to the budding of fruit trees next spring, the timing and quantity of flowering, the expansion of fruits, and a series of matters related to the vital interests of fruit farmers.

Therefore, fertilizing in autumn is more important than fertilizing in spring. It is the largest amount of fertilizer and the most comprehensive nutrition in the whole year.

(End of this chapter)