My village can't be like this

Chapter 129 Planting Fruit Trees

As time goes by day by day, the golden autumn of October has also entered the second half of the month.

The autumn tiger was so hot some time ago, the weather has become a bit cooler these days, as if it was a holiday.

The following period of time may be like this.

Therefore, Zhang An's plan to plant trees must also be brought up on the agenda.

Some time ago, Zhang An had already sown a lot of grass seeds on the mountain while he was free.

Now all the grass seeds that Zhang An had sown down have grown, and they are all growing well.

Zhang An discovered this when he was wandering on the mountain when he was free.

He found that there were a lot of weeds growing on the loess slope.

Most of these grasses are clover or plantain, which are drought-tolerant and soil-improving plants.

After all, other grass picking places can't grow here
So Zhang An also used his tricks and directly cultivated a large number of clover and plantain in the space.

Finally, a lot of grass seeds were sprinkled on the loess slope, coupled with the magical effect of the space spring, they grew quickly.

Now the top of the loess slope is no longer a bare wasteland. When you get closer, you can find that the ground is full of grass.

Zhang An also took time to water them every day. After half a month, he could clearly feel the changes in this place.

During dinner at night, Zhang An talked about planting saplings in the past few days.

Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang also asked several times during this period to see when Zhang An planned to die.

Because if it drags on, it can't be planted anymore, and it can only be planted when spring comes.

Zhang An's plan was to pay some people to work, so that he would not have to be responsible for the food.

Wang Fang did some calculations. According to Zhang An's salary, it would cost several hundred yuan a day, which was too much.

She didn't think it was necessary to spend so much money, she just hired a few human workers and paid it off slowly.

But Zhang An didn't want to be troublesome, although it didn't cost money to hire a human worker.

However, it will take a long time for such a large piece of wasteland to hire human laborers in the future.

If you ask less, it will take many more days, and if you ask too much, you have to let someone cook at home.

It's better to pay some wages, hire a few more people, and forget it in a few days.

Zhang Jianguo felt that what Zhang An said was reasonable, but Wang Fang felt sorry for money.

But the important matters in the family are all decided by the man in the family after discussing with his son.

And Zhang An's idea of ​​spending money to hire someone is mainly because he doesn't want his mother to be too tired.

Paying wages means that there is no need to pay for meals, and everyone will go home and be responsible for their own food.

Wang Fang didn't have to work in the kitchen all the time, after all, it was not easy to prepare meals for so many people.

So Wang Fang didn't continue to say anything.

In the end, Zhang An didn't care about those people who should be invited, and let his father call.

About ten to fifteen or so, not too many.

Anyway, as long as you are diligent and not lazy, and you can plant trees.

Some people in the village, Zhang An is really hard to say, they have to be lazy and lazy when they go to help others in human affairs.

There are many people like this, and Zhang An has seen many of them, but he doesn't want to talk about them, after all, everyone wants face.

After the discussion, Zhang Jianguo went out to invite someone.

At around seven o'clock the next morning, the person who was found by Zhang Jianguo last night ate at home early.

Then he brought his own hoe and shovel to Zhang An's yard to gather.

When I go to help other people with work in the village, I always bring my own tools.

After all, no one has so many tools.

Zhang Jianguo invited twelve or thirteen people last night. These are people who often plant trees in the village.

Including Huang Ming, Zhou Yang, and Xiaotangyuan's father, there were fifteen or sixteen people in total.

Plus my family, nearly twenty people are enough.

Zhang An's family also ate breakfast early, and when everyone arrived, they began to take everyone to dig saplings.

When you dig, you should take care of the roots, branches and leaves of the saplings, so that they will survive more easily after being planted.

The wages of the helpers in the village are paid after the work is done at night.

There is no saying that if you come to report early in the morning, you will be paid.

Because some people may have worked for a long time, or after a short time, they went back when there was an urgent matter at home.

The work for several days in a row is all finished and given together at the end.

Zhang An's family still has this reputation, and no one is worried that they will not be paid after the work is done.

If you say this, unless you don't want to stay in the village.

So everyone came together and followed Zhang An to dig the saplings.

The people Zhang Jianguo invited were very experienced, so they didn't need to explain anything.

Sometimes they have to tell Zhang An what to pay attention to.

So Zhang An only needs to tell everyone that it is enough to plant a seedling at a distance.

In the end, they all took the saplings in twos and threes, and went to take charge of a place by themselves.

This piece of wasteland is a little over 110 mu in total, but the size of the mountain is at most seventy or eighty mu.

There are more than 30 mu left on the bank of the river at the foot of the mountain, which is a nest.

Zhang An doesn't plan to use it for planting trees for the time being, and save it for other uses in the future.

So everyone just needs to fill up the land on the slope.

Not to mention, since the grass seeds that Zhang An sowed here have grown.

The land here seems to be better than before.

At this rate, the land will no longer be so barren by next year.

Zhang An did not expect that the grass seeds cultivated from the space could have such a strong effect.

The grass seeds cultivated in the space are indeed better than the native grass outside.

But the strength is limited, not that exaggerated.

In fact, it's not just the grass that has played a role, but most of the reason is that he comes to water every day.

In the past, the loess slope was mainly caused by the problem that the land could not retain water, and the loess was barren, so everything planted turned into seedlings.

But after Zhang An planted so much grass, he still came to sprinkle water every day.

Spatial spring water also has the effect of improving soil quality, which Zhang An already knew in his own forest.

After the grass rose, it not only retained the moisture in the ground, but also slowly improved the soil quality.

If grass seeds are really so powerful, then there is no need to do anything in the future, just sit at home and sell grass seeds every day.

There are so many barren lands in the country, with such grass seeds, you can just sit at home and count the money.

Seeing that everyone was moving, Zhang An was not idle.

He also followed suit with a hoe and started digging holes and planting trees.

Zhang An was much faster than the others, and it didn't take long to plant a tree.

Everyone's speed was faster than expected. The saplings that Zhang An dug out in the morning were almost planted.

At this moment, Zhang Jianguo took a few people back to the yard to dig saplings.

Originally, Zhang An thought that the hundreds of trees he had made in the morning would take a whole morning to finish.

I didn't expect it to be done before ten o'clock.

In this way, it will be over in two or three days.

At noon, Zhang An called everyone to eat first, rest, and continue working in the afternoon.

Because it is close to home, everyone didn't bring food up the mountain to eat. After all, it is not far away, so we have to heat it up if we bring it.

Moreover, the wages paid by Zhang An's family are relatively high, 25 yuan a day.

Although they are not responsible for food, there are a lot of them. Many people would rather ask for more money and eat at home by themselves.

So everyone was embarrassed to rest more, and at noon they asked their families to deliver meals when it was time.

After finding a shady place on the mountain and finishing eating, I rested for a while before continuing to work.

Even if Zhang An asked everyone to rest for a while, everyone said that life is not tiring, and now that the weather is not hot, there is no need to rest.

It doesn't mean to grind foreign labor at all, it's all about doing as much as you can.

The main reason is that in this era, when you go to work for others, you steal and play tricks on foreign workers.

If everyone knows about it, your reputation will be bad in the future, and no one will invite you for business in the future.

So when most people work, they are very careful.

Especially the job of getting money, he is more attentive than doing his own work.

In this way, the next time someone else's house has work, they will call you.

Seeing this, Zhang An didn't say anything. Everyone was quite simple at this time.

So after lunch at noon, Zhang An went home and got two big buckets of space water, mixed it with honey and carried it up the mountain to rehydrate everyone.

As a result, everyone worked harder after drinking the honey water.

After such a day, each person can plant an average of fifty or sixty saplings.

Not counting Zhang An, this person has planted at least 100 people today, so he can't be treated as a human being.

After four full days of planting, the mountain was finally fully planted.

Zhang An planted [-] mu of cherries and [-] mu of peach trees on [-] mu of land.

After finishing the work on the last day, I paid everyone 100 yuan as wages.

Everyone was very happy when they got a whole big banknote.

Usually, when they go to help people outside, the maximum is 15 yuan a day, and they don't necessarily ask for money.

Only Wang Fang felt very distressed when she watched Zhang An count the money out.

In the future, the only thing left to do is to water these trees, and Zhang An's family can do it slowly by themselves.

You said that the reason for planting trees is to hurry up, so it is reasonable to spend some money to hire someone.

Wang Fang does not agree with this kind of watering thing and spending money to hire people.

So Zhang An went to water the trees by himself every day.

Originally, Wang Fang would also go, but the family has guests coming almost every day in the past two days.

Wang Fang wanted to entertain guests at home, so she couldn't leave when she was cooking and entertaining.

It would be much more convenient for Zhang An to go up the mountain alone.

There is no need to hide anything at all, just use the space spring water to water the trees.

This time, the amount of water Zhang An irrigated was slightly larger, and the soil around the roots of the tree was completely wet.

Although the trees that are planted in autumn do not start to grow until spring.

But after more than ten days of planting Zhang An's batch of seedlings, some buds still emerged.

It feels a little reverse growth, maybe it's because of the spring water.

At the same time, Zhang An can also use this to determine which seedlings are bad, and hurry up to replenish them.

At this speed, when winter comes, there is no need to worry that they will not be able to survive the winter.

Now Zhang An looks at this mountainous area, and all he thinks in his heart are:

In the spring of next year, the originally barren hillside behind my home will definitely be a land of colorful peach blossoms.

"Zhang An, we're here to catch the pigs."

Tomorrow is the time for Li Hongbin's family to move, and he has long planned to treat everyone to a big banquet at the drying ground.

So I made an agreement with Zhang An's family early on that I would buy a pig for Zhang An's family and go back to slaughter the meat.

Because it is not a good thing to move the house and kill pigs tomorrow, so the pigs have to be killed in advance today.

The three black soil pigs bought by Zhang An's family at the beginning of the year have been bred for seven or eight months, and it is time to sell them.

Some butchers came to buy it before, probably because the price of meat was relatively low this year. The price was not high, and Wang Fang was unwilling to sell it.

So it has been raised until now, and now each head is about [-] catties.

And the other eight little wild boars brought back by Zhang An have grown a lot now.

In the past, the reason why this group of guys didn't bring long men was because they hadn't been handed over to them, and they were full of food all day long and made trouble in the circle.

Later, Zhang An got annoyed, and found an old well for pigs, and came back, and cut them cleanly.

Since then, the pigsty at home has become much quieter, and they don't make any noise. They eat and sleep after eating.

A pig with six clean roots is a good pig. After you have no worldly desires, you can grow meat only after eating.

Now each head has grown to the size of more than 100 catties.

When the Chinese New Year comes, Zhang An will slaughter one to try, to see what the wild boar meat he raises tastes like.

Hearing Li Hongbin's shout, Zhang An led them to the old courtyard.

The pigs raised by Zhang An’s family are still kept in the pigsty in the old yard.

"Look, which one do you want?"

Zhang An opened the pigsty and let Li Hongbin choose by himself.

Li Hongbin didn't hesitate, and after looking around, he settled on the biggest one among the three pigs.

"Well, this is the big guy."

Seeing that Li Hongbin had chosen, Zhang An kicked that end out.

The local second senior brother still doesn't know what is waiting for him, so he came out after being chased away.

There is now a special place for slaughtering pigs in the drying yard, with a stove for burning fire and a stone table for shaving.

When the water in the big iron pot boils, it's time to kill the pig.

The pig butcher in the village waited on the drying ground early in the morning with the guys he was eating.

It was only when everyone mentioned it to the chopping board that the second senior brother knew that his life was not long.

He was howling loudly and struggling desperately, and the scene was quite tragic.

It is estimated that many people came to press this pig today, because this pig is similar to the two killed by Zhang An's family.

This pig is so strong that it can't hold it down if there are fewer people.

Many people in the village have seen the Nian pig killed by Zhang An's family last year, and the head was so big.

But in fact, everyone is not convinced. Everyone raises pigs. Why can you raise such a big pig.

This year everyone thinks that other places can't compare, at least this year the pigs are bigger than the ones fed by Zhang An's family.

And last year and this year everyone had a good harvest, so they are willing to feed the pigs.

If you are willing to invest, you will reap the rewards. This year, the pigs that everyone feeds are growing well, and they are all fat and strong.

When it is raised until the Chinese New Year, no matter what, it can be two hundred and eighty-nine, three hundred catties in size.

But today, when I saw the pig that Li Hongbin bought for Zhang An's family, it was incomparable.

My family still wants to feed more corn, and raise the pigs to [-] catties before the new year.

As a result, the pigs in the pen now weigh more than 300 catties.

People are more mad than people.

It doesn't matter if you can't make money but not others, after all, people have different brains.

But the harvest of this crop is not as good as that of others, and the feeding of pigs is not as good as that of others.

Now everyone is convinced, and they don't even want to compare, there is simply no way to compare.

(End of this chapter)