Reborn Farmhouse: Planting Fields, Flirting with People

Chapter 363 Planning the Barren Mountain
The barren mountain is located on the bank of the big river to the south of Lijia Village. It is called Xiaobarren Mountain, and its location is not too remote.

However, rather than saying that it is a barren mountain, it is better to say that it is a small bag of earth, and the height of the mountain cannot exceed 100 meters. It is precisely because of this that Li Mingyue bought it.

There are many natural vegetation on the barren hills, weeds are overgrown, and gravel is everywhere. It will take a lot of effort to transform this mountain into a forest.

In this regard, Li Mingyue is full of enthusiasm, transforming a barren hill into a colorful orchard with her own hands, what a sense of accomplishment that is.

In the next few days, Li Mingyue got up early every day, carried a small homemade drawing board on her back, and planned to draw a floor plan of the small barren mountain first, so that it would be more convenient for planning in the future.

Of course, these days, when Li Mingyue went into the mountain, Li Shou also went into the mountain. One was to protect his daughter, and the other was to observe the soil and geology of the barren mountain, choose a suitable location, and plant fruit trees.

In terms of farming, Li Mingyue is completely a noob, and Li Shou is the authority. The planning of the orchard still depends on him.

The father and daughter were walking around the mountain while talking.

"Yue'er, no one in our village has ever planted fruit trees, can it succeed?"

"Father, there are a lot of fruit trees ready-made on this mountain. It must be no problem. This is similar to growing crops."

Li Shou still has no idea: "Our kind of land is a few hundred acres. If it turns yellow later, you will die. Your father is a good hand at planting crops, and your father knows nothing about planting fruit forests."

This is a problem, Li Mingyue thought for a while and said: "Aren't you going to Yuzhou Mansion to buy saplings in a few days? There is a lot of land and resources, and there are no capable people. You can take a walk to Yazhou at that time and buy some for a while. It will be more convenient for the long-term worker who planted fruit trees to come back."

"Ah? Buying someone?! This...isn't very good. We have hands and feet, and it's not impossible to do it. Besides, it's immoral and will be punished."

The Li family has been poor peasants for generations, and Li Shou's own three daughters were almost sold. It is normal for him to have such a reaction.

Li Mingyue calmly copied what Fangyuan persuaded her back then, and told him.

Thinking about it carefully, Fang Yuan’s words are actually very reasonable. These days, people can’t get enough to eat, and it’s a problem to survive. How can you talk about human rights... You buy people back, give them food, clothes, and other From a perspective, you are actually saving him.

Li Shou was originally an honest person, but after being fooled by Li Mingyue, he also felt that what the girl said seemed to make sense, so he was not so repulsive about buying someone.

The father and daughter spent seven or eight days walking all over the hill.

In the end, Li Shou chose a hillside land of more than 500 mu on the east side of the barren mountain. It is near the river, with humid air and sufficient sunlight, which is most suitable for planting fruit trees.

The location of the orchard has been planned, and the next step is to clear the large pieces of gravel, cut down the redundant trees, reclaim the mountainous land, and try to plant the fruit seedlings before the end of March.

In this way, the time is a little too late.

The family division of labor and cooperation, Li Shou and Li Mingzhi went to the grass market in Yuzhou Prefecture to buy fruit saplings, and Li Mingyue was in charge of reclaiming wasteland.

It is completely unrealistic to reclaim more than 500 mu of wasteland by one's own family.Fortunately, farming is not considered busy now, as long as you are willing to pay, you can also hire workers to work.

In order to prevent people from stealing, raping and playing tricks, and only taking money and not working, Li Mingyue implemented a contract responsibility system for hiring labor this time. Three hundred renminbi will be used to reclaim one mu of land. Those who are poor will not get a penny.

(End of this chapter)