Allure of a Country Maiden

Cooking also takes time, so take this time to go for a walk in the orchard.

Huzi's father confessed to Huzi's mother, and then took a few people to watch the orchard.

The orchard is not far from their home, and there is a path running through it behind their house.

Xiaoer saw that in addition to growing vegetables and raising chickens in the backyard, there was also a yellow bark tree, a carambola tree, and a cypress tree planted at the corner of the fence.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, you can see a hilltop with many lychee trees planted on it, and you can vaguely see some red fruits on the trees.

Now that the fruiting period of lychees is almost over, there are only a few scattered lychees left on the lychee trees.

As soon as they approached the orchard, many dogs barked and rushed toward them.

Tiger's father yelled a few words, and the dogs stopped moving forward. They turned around and went back to their posts.

"I raised those dogs to guard the orchard. Before I had dogs, people would always come to steal the fruits at night and throw the unripe fruits all over the ground. I thought about this. Way to prevent someone from stealing the fruit."

Since raising a few dogs, no one dared to steal the fruit.

A few people were walking on the path. This path should have been taken by Hu Zi's father when he was tending the orchard.

Xiaoer also saw a small pineapple sapling on the edge of the path.

"Uncle also planted aloe vera on the mountain? But why are the aloe vera leaves so thin?" Zhao Yong bent down and took a look at the aloe vera on the roadside, and found a green fruit growing on it: "Huh? Will the aloe vera still bear fruit?"

Xiaoer laughed after hearing Zhao Yong's words: "That's not aloe, it's pineapple, or pineapple."

"Pineapple! I thought it was aloe vera." Zhao Yong said embarrassedly.

His children were at the flower farm, so he went to the flower farm when he had time. He saw aloe vera there and thought that these pineapples were also aloe vera.

"Yes, this is a pineapple. The children at home are small and there is nothing for them to eat, so I planted some fruits nearby for the children to eat. I didn't expect that the young lady also recognized it as a pineapple."

This orchard mainly grows lychees, but for the sake of his two children, Hu Zi’s father also planted some other types of fruits in some corners, including watermelon, cantaloupe, loquat, yellow peel, plum, guava, There are not many star fruits, mangoes, etc., only one or two trees (plants) are planted, but this is enough for the children to satisfy their cravings and to communicate with each other. Moreover, the year is good and the harvest is good. When you can't finish all the food, you can sell it for a little more money.

"I am also from a farming family, and I have an orchard at home, but the climate there cannot grow pineapples. But I have read about it in books. Uncle has taken good care of the orchard. What are your plans for the future?"

"Studying is really good, you can know everything. I plan to slowly open up that mountain, plant more longan trees, earn more money, and send Huzi to school." Huzi's father led a few people around Walk, pointing to the mountain road in the distance.

Xiaoer looked over and saw that on the top of the mountain, the trees at the foot of the mountain had been cut down, and two terraces were created. A bit of yellow soil was faintly visible. Every fifty meters or so, a one-meter-high tree was planted. The longan tree, the longan tree is already growing very vigorously, it is obviously alive.

The open space under the longan tree was also organized into a border, and some vegetables, sweet potatoes and other things were planted on it.

It was too far away and Xiaoer couldn't see clearly what it was, but these alone were enough to shock Xiaoer.

"Did you develop this orchard yourself?" Jing Rui was also shocked.

Their hometown in Shengping County also has two barren mountains, so he knows how difficult it is to carve out the barren mountains!

And Hu Zi’s father’s legs are obviously inconvenient.

"Yes, this hilltop used to be a barren hill. My mother-in-law and I planted it with plums. It took a total of three years to complete the cultivation, and it took five years to become what it is now." Hu Zi's father looked at the present. orchard, and my heart is full of pride.

In another three years, when another mountain is opened, their family will really live a good life.

In three years, Meizi will be able to get a dowry when she gets married, and in ten years, Huzi will be able to get a new house when he gets married!

"Why do you want to grow longan?" Shangguan Xuanyi looked at the orchard. He decided to help such a diligent person.

“If the longan is not sold out, it can be dried and made into longan meat, which is sold to medicinal shops.

Of course, lychees can also be dried in the sun. Some time ago, Hu Zi Niang and I got up at 1:00 every morning, picked three to four hundred kilograms of fruits and sent them to the county for sale. Sometimes they were sold leftover, and the leftover lychees were put on the kang when we got home in the evening. Dry them to make dried lychees and leave them for children to make snacks. "

"It's great to be your child!" Zhao Yong suddenly felt that he was derelict in his duty.

"What's better if my child doesn't have enough to eat and doesn't have warm clothes?" Hu Zi's father smiled bitterly after hearing this.

"If you are so diligent, you will definitely live a good life in the future. It is true that God rewards hard work! My family used to be very poor, but now we can live a better life. As long as the family works together, we will definitely be able to live a better life." Jingrui comforted him sincerely.

"Yes, as long as we are diligent, everyone can live a good life. Our court and emperor are good. They have announced all the ways to plant fruit trees. Otherwise, I would not have planted so many fruit trees. So as long as we are diligent, we will definitely not starve to death!" "

"The imperial court is good, but the methods announced by the imperial court require you to work hard to study and adapt to local conditions." Xiaoer said.

She knows best the methods announced by the imperial court, from seedling selection to grafting methods, fertilization, and pruning. Although the imperial court has posted many methods for cultivating fruit trees and methods for increasing production, there are not many truly successful fruit farmers in various states and counties.

Many people give up halfway, but success often belongs to those who are more persistent than others and are not discouraged even if they fail several times.

It can be said that most successes in the world are based on the accumulation of countless failures, but there are not many people who can step on those failures and use them as stepping stones to pave the way to the building of success.

However, the policies of the imperial court have made many people rich. In recent years, the number of fruits has really become more and more abundant and better every year.

"I have no choice. I have nothing, so I can only open up wasteland and plant fruit trees." If he had paddy fields, he would also want to plant rice! Two seasons a year, one acre can yield nearly a thousand kilograms of grain. Even if there is only one mu of paddy field, he can harvest two thousand kilograms of grain in a year. After paying the tax of one hundred kilograms, he still has nearly one thousand nine hundred kilograms, which can feed the whole family. It’s time to eat!

Fortunately, his father-in-law lent him two taels of silver, otherwise he wouldn't have the money to buy the fruit seedlings, and he wouldn't even be able to eat the fruit.

"You also planted peanuts among the fruit trees!" Jingrui said, pointing to the peanut seedlings with small yellow flowers.

"Yes, plant some peanuts to squeeze oil. The children also like to eat them. We also planted some sweet potatoes, soybeans, and vegetables. The vegetables grown in the mountains are so sweet. You will all pay for them in a while."

"Okay." Jingrui agreed with a smile.

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