My village can't be like this

Chapter 159
After the salesman brother packed the seeds he had bought, Zhang An walked out of the door carrying them.

"Hey, Zhang An, long time no see."

"Yo Wang Hao, long time no see, I didn't expect to bump into you here."

He had just stepped down the steps when he heard someone calling him. When he looked up, he turned out to be an acquaintance.

This person is Zhang An's high school classmate, and he has not seen him for almost two years.

"It's been a long time, almost two years, how are you doing recently?"

Both Zhang An and Wang Hao were quite happy to see their former classmates.

"I, that's it. I'm farming at home. What are you going to do?"

Zhang An raised the seeds he had just bought, and showed Wang Hao.

"Buying so many seeds, I didn't realize that you are a landlord before. I'm going to the train station to buy a ticket. I plan to go back to school in a few days."

Wang Hao's family is from the county seat, and his grades have always been good. He always ranks at the top of the class every time. After the college entrance examination, he went to a good school.

This era was fine, and Wang Hao didn't think that farming was bad, but instead made a joke with Zhang An.

Unlike later generations, when classmates met each other, as soon as they heard that you were farming, the distance between their words immediately became farther away.

After chatting on the side of the road for a few minutes, the two separated.

Wang Hao has to go to the train station to buy a train ticket. Sometimes he arrives one minute late, and there will be more people in line.

So get to know each other's general situation, and see you next time.

Although I was at the same table for three years in high school, but I haven't seen each other for so long, Zhang An can feel an obvious sense of strangeness in the warm words.

This is a normal situation. After all, everyone's environment is different, and everyone will have some changes.

It's been a long time since we met, and if you meet someone who can still call out your name, it's considered a good relationship.

After the new year is over, hardworking people have already started working in the fields a few days earlier.

And some people who want to be lazy now have no excuse to celebrate the new year.

Everyone wakes up from the joy of the New Year, and they still do what they should do as before.

It's just that there have been many changes in Changqing this year. Most people no longer only care about the few acres of crops in the field as before.

"Mom, I'm back."

Zhang An entered the house and told his mother first.

This is a habit that Zhang An has developed in the past two years.

No matter you go home, you must first tell your parents.

In this way, the parents at home will know when you went out, what you did, when you came back, and whether you came back safely, so they won't be so worried.

"Where's my dad?"

Zhang An didn't see his old man at home.

"He's plowing in the den."

It was getting late at this point, and Wang Fang was about to start making lunch.

"You don't need to go, your father will come back for dinner in a while."

Seeing that her son had changed his clothes and wanted to go to the field for fresh air, Wang Fang told Zhang An not to go.

Zhang An thinks about it too, and he is not in such a hurry.

Soon after having dinner in the afternoon, Zhang An first drove the big black horse to the field and started plowing.

The labor force of the two big men in the family has only one horse and one plow.

If Zhang An went to work the plow, Zhang Jianguo would be free.

But Zhang Jianguo also knew that his family's big dark horse was in the hands of Zhang An, and the speed of plowing the land was much faster.

But he is a restless person, let him sit on the edge of the ground and watch, he feels very uncomfortable.

So after thinking about it, I went to Huang Erye's house and borrowed their old scalper to plow the land.

Although the old scalper is notoriously slow in plowing the land, he can still plow a lot of land in one day.

And because this nest is by the river, the ground is not very hard.

There is no hardening, which is much better than the mountain behind.

Whether it's Dahei or the old scalper of the second master's family, when pulling up the plow, it doesn't take too much effort, it's relatively easy.

Fight brothers, fight father and son soldiers.

The father and son drove the cows and horses back and forth in the nests. By four or five o'clock in the afternoon, many nests had been plowed.

There are not many left that have not been plowed. Zhang An didn't want to come back tomorrow morning, so he continued to run in the field with Dahei on his back.

By seven o'clock in the evening, all the land had been turned over.

After plowing, the big black horse barked at Zhang Jianguo twice.

It seems that this is arable land, and I dare not run away even if you pull the plow.

It was in the hands of Zhang Jianguo, and he could only slowly drag the plow away.

Dahei of Zhang An's family hasn't been released into the waves for a long time.

Staying in the circle all the time, this energy is a bit too much.

This afternoon, Zhang An let it run in the field, and it was fun to let it run.

Before going to bed at night, Zhang An planted the watermelon and strawberry seeds bought today in the space.

The black soil in the space already has the function of promoting birth, and after Zhang An planted it, he also watered it with spring water.

At this moment, strawberries and watermelons began to grow and germinate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Soon, Zhang An saw watermelon seedlings and strawberry seedlings emerging from the ground.

The tender seedlings grow green and strong, as long as they are farmers, they like it.

Although it hasn't produced fruit yet, just looking at the seedlings, Zhang An thinks it's not bad.

The next morning, Zhang An woke up at dawn.

I couldn't wait to enter the space and began to observe the watermelons and strawberries planted last night.

At this time, the melon and strawberry fields opened up last night were already full of fruits.

Watermelon is not a rare thing to see, so Zhang An saw the strawberries next to him first.

At this moment, there are red bumps hanging on the strong strawberry vines, just like red lanterns hanging in the New Year.

The bright red fruit makes people greedy just looking at it.

These strawberries are all grown in the space, so Zhang An is naturally not worried about any parasites.

So Zhang An squatted on the ground and picked some, impatiently putting them in his mouth.

In an instant, strawberry pulp and sweet juice filled his mouth, and Zhang An unconsciously ate a lot.

It seems that the big brother who sold the seeds did not make false claims, and the strawberry tastes good.

Moreover, the strawberry was quite big, Zhang An looked obviously bigger than the home-grown egg, and the size might be more than fifty or sixty grams.

Putting such strawberries in the current market, with their sweetness and taste, they are simply king fried.

In fact, this bag of strawberry seeds is not so exaggerated, and it can't grow so big in the outside world.

It was because Zhang An was planted in the space and nourished by the spring water of the space, allowing him to break through some of his own limits.

Zhang An picked and picked, and finally chose some of the largest strawberries for seedlings.

The seeds of strawberries are not the fruits of strawberries, Zhang An has a deep understanding of this.

In my previous life, I occasionally bought strawberries and went home to taste them. In the end, there were a few strawberries left, so Zhang An wanted to plant them in foam boxes.

But Zhang An didn't know that the strawberry seeds were the seeds in the small holes on the top of the strawberry fruit.

So I put the whole strawberry in the soil and planted it. This is actually okay, but the germination is very slow, and many seeds cannot germinate.

After waiting for a long time, Zhang An didn't see the sprouts of the planted strawberries. Zhang An was very surprised, so he searched online.

In the end, I realized that the strawberry seeds are those very small seeds.

Because in the space, Zhang An saved the effort of picking seeds.

With a thought, on the strawberries that had been selected for seeds earlier, those strawberry seeds floated out like threshing.

In the end, they were all collected in Zhang An's prepared bag. After a few efforts, Zhang An harvested a large bag of high-quality strawberries.

After watching the strawberries, Zhang An glanced at the watermelon next to him.

This watermelon is not like a strawberry, it has changed a lot.

Not all watermelons have grown in size, and most of them are still not too different from those grown outside.

But there are still some special ones, and you can feel that they have grown a lot.

Zhang An opened one. The skin of the watermelon was still so thin, but the flesh was much redder than the watermelons grown outside.

Although I ate a lot of strawberries just now, I am not very greedy now.

However, seeing such an attractive watermelon, Zhang An lowered his head and took a bite.

So sweet.

This is Zhang An's first reaction, this melon is too sweet.

Then Zhang An tapped a few more and tried in turn, and found that although these watermelons were not the same size, they were all the same sweet.

Zhang An couldn't finish eating such a big watermelon.

Just throw it into the fish pond for the fish to eat, and there is no waste.

The old rule is to save the seeds first.

This time, Zhang An didn't just pick the largest watermelon to keep as seeds, but picked the largest and the smallest two.

Watermelon is different from other fruits. Some people like big watermelons, while others like small watermelons.

Most people like to buy a large watermelon home and cut enough to feed the whole family.

And some people buy it to eat by themselves, so they choose this small one and eat it with a spoon.

Zhang An left the space, and Wang Fang was already up by this time.

After washing, Zhang An began to soak the watermelon seeds and strawberry seeds in spring water.

"What are you doing?"

"Didn't I come back yesterday with some watermelon seeds and strawberry seeds, soak them in water to germinate them first."

Wang Fang walked to Zhang An and looked at the different seeds in the two pots.

"This is the seed of Hongpidao. I thought it was planted directly from Hongpidao."

Everyone has eaten watermelon at home, so Wang Fang can spot the watermelon seeds at a glance.

Strawberry Wang Fang has only seen it before, but is not familiar with it.

"Haha, when I first went to buy it, I thought it was the one I ate. Later, someone told me that it was the tiny seeds on the strawberry that were the seeds."

After finishing the work at hand, Zhang An was free to look at the kiwi fruit saplings in the backyard.

These are the original seedlings produced by Zhang An using kiwi seeds, which are different from the grafted seedlings sold by merchants in later generations.

If Zhang An didn't have the space to grow kiwis so recklessly, he would definitely suffer a lot.

Because of normal circumstances, the fruit produced by the native seedlings of kiwifruit is not so delicious.

However, Zhang An's saplings were all grown through the creation of space and the optimization of spring water.

So such seedlings are definitely no worse than those grafted seedlings of later generations.

Kiwifruit plants are divided into male and female plants, which are basically dioecious.

Unless there is artificial grafting, there will be no monoeciousness.

Therefore, most of the places where kiwifruit is planted in later generations require manual pollination. With the development of science and technology, machine pollination has appeared.

Many people in later generations said that the native seedlings of kiwifruit will not bear fruit.

In fact, I only knew half of it, so I started posting videos on the Internet.

Otherwise, how could there be so many kiwis in the wild?

It's just that when the female plant is in the wild, it needs to be pollinated by external factors such as bees and birds before it will bear fruit.

If it is said that there is no fruit without pollination, then no matter what kind of seedling it is, it cannot bear fruit.

Seeing that these saplings have grown very well, they should be transplanted quickly during this period.

The most suitable time for transplanting kiwifruit is winter, and now it is early spring, so we must seize this time to solve this matter quickly.

"Mom, I'll go to the house of the second and third uncles."

Zhang An felt that it was time to go and see how the mountainous land that the second and third uncles made before was prepared.

"Aunt, where is my uncle?"

When Zhang An arrived at the second uncle's house, no one was at home. When he came to the third uncle's house, only the third aunt and the little swallow were at home.

"He and your second uncle went to Qingjiao to build a ridge."

"Okay, then I'll go and have a look at the ground. The saplings at home are ready to be transplanted in the past two days."

Coming out of the third uncle's house, Zhang An walked all the way to the back of the village.

Qingjiao is the name of the foot of the hill behind Changqing Village.

When I came to the field, the second uncle, the second aunt, and the third uncle were raising ridges in the field.

Zhang An looked at this mountain very well, because it was a sloping land under a small hill.

Because it is halfway up the hillside, there is a layer of dark and soft humus in the ground.

No matter in terms of light, terrain or land fertility.

This is undoubtedly the most suitable place for growing kiwifruit.

There is a saying that there are only drowned kiwis, not drought-dead kiwis.

This sentence shows that kiwifruit plants are particularly afraid of waterlogging.

So planted on this slope, there is no need to worry about flooding their roots when the water comes out.

What's more, the second and third uncles are still digging ditches here.

"Second Uncle, Third Uncle, how are your preparations going? The saplings in my yard can be transplanted. If you don't do it, it will be too late."

"It's done, it's just a matter of digging the ditch, and it can be transplanted now."

After plowing the land some time ago, Uncle Zhang and Uncle Zhang’s family have been carrying manure into the field.

Then it was plowed again, and now some wooden stakes have been planted in the field, and the wires have been pulled.

"That's fine, it's still early anyway, why don't we start planting seedlings today."

Zhang An also felt unprepared, so he simply started transplanting.

It just so happened that after transplanting the seedlings in the past two days, Zhang Anhao made room for breeding.

Hearing Zhang An's arrangement, Uncle Zhang and Uncle Zhang naturally have no problem.

The drainage ditches in this field have been almost opened. After Zhang An came, he also helped with the work, and it didn't take long to finish it.

After lunch at noon, several families started to plant seedlings in Zhang An's yard.

Because this is the first time planting and there is no experience, so this time Zhang An's two uncles together only planted a total of more than four acres of land.

There are hundreds of seedlings before and after, so there is no need to ask someone to help.

(End of this chapter)