Ye Ran smiled and sent a fifty yuan red envelope to his father with the note "Solid".
Lin Xiaomian thought it should be true, but did not place a bet...
"Hurry up, it's about to start." Dad laughed.
After counting, there were more than twenty people placing bets.
Fifty yuan at most, five yuan at least, just for fun.
Dad took the custom-made watermelon knife from Ye Mo's hand and cut it in the middle.
The extra-large watermelon weighs more than 200 kilograms, and its rind is as thick as two fingers.
There was a circle of people around the table, all staring at the watermelon.
"Hollow~!"
"Hollow." Someone shouted, and everyone started cheering.
After cutting the watermelon.
Dad laughed heartily: "Seriously."
This watermelon has been stored for a while, and the flesh is ripe but still solid.
"My bet is solid." The second uncle chuckled and said, "Hurry up and give me back one hundred yuan."
"My bet is solid, too."
More than twenty people placed bets, and only seven placed solid bets.
Dad gave the watermelon knife to Ye Mo. He took the red envelope with his mobile phone, then read the note on the red envelope, bet on the correct one, and returned the one hundred yuan.
"Let me go...Old Qing, you are so unreasonable. We came here to help you work, and you actually made money from us." Uncle Li said with an angry smile.
"I just asked you to bet your heart." Dad chuckled: "After eating watermelon, go back and take a shower, and then go to Furong Villa in town for dinner. Come over at twelve o'clock at noon. Don't be late. Latecomers don't wait for you.
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Ye Mo cut the watermelon.
This watermelon is very big...the watermelon seeds are arranged in rows. Just remove the watermelon seeds and leave only the watermelon meat for everyone.
One piece per person.
"Taste this watermelon to see if it's sweet."
"Sweet." Uncle Li San took a bite and said, "Ye Mo, do you want to keep these watermelon seeds for sowing?"
"Yeah." Ye Mo nodded.
Ye Ran and Lin Xiaomian also held watermelon knives to help divide the watermelon.
"Next year when the watermelon seedlings come out, can you give Uncle San a few seedlings? I have cleared a vegetable garden next to the house and planted some watermelons to eat." Uncle Li San said.
"When the watermelon seedlings are grafted next year, you can come and get them," Ye Mo said.
"Watermelon seedlings still need to be grafted?" Uncle Li San, who had never grown watermelons before, asked curiously.
"It must be grafted. Use pumpkins, gourds, etc. as rootstocks...and winter melons as rootstocks." Someone who knows how to grow watermelons said.
This oversized watermelon is extremely sweet.
The sweetness is higher than that of many small watermelons, but it has been stored for a long time and the water content is less than when it was just picked.
Usually, the larger the watermelon, the more obvious the fiber inside it. But the fiber in Ye Mo's watermelon is very fragile, and you can hardly taste the fiber.
Ye Mo had previously thought that these watermelons were rootstocks made from winter melon or pumpkin seedlings. After selling the watermelons... Ye Mo asked the boss who sold him watermelon seedlings at that time. All these melon seedlings were made from rootstocks made from gourd melons.
The reason why Miaozi can grow so big is definitely not because of Miaozi. It's because of Lingquan...
And set up sprinkler irrigation.
Only with sufficient water supply and irrigation from spiritual springs can these watermelons grow so big.
After eating the watermelon, everyone left one after another.
Parents, Ye Ran and the others went back to take a shower.
Ye Mo washed the watermelon seeds and placed them in a cool and ventilated place. Then he returned home and drove to Furong Villa in the town.
Dad has already ordered the meals and ordered 8 tables.
It would be great to relocate some people from Huangtupo Village to form a production team.
Like before, Ye Mo had to hire people to come and do the work.
Nowadays, everyone is not very busy. If you shout, many people will come over and only have two meals.
But so be it.
When others come over to help with work, if they have something to do in the future, you have to go there too. This is called reciprocity...
You can't just let others do the work for you. When they have something to do, you can't help them. This is unreasonable.
The total area of Gaoshanping is 2,600 acres, a little more.
Coconut forest, 1052 acres.
Jiabaoguo, 35 acres.
Miracle fruit, 10 acres.
Raspberry, 5 acres.
Goat milk fruit, 3 acres.
And some mangoes…
The two reservoirs cover an area of about 150 acres.
Roads etc...
The remaining land that has not been reclaimed is just over 1,100 acres.
Dozens of people from the production team came over to help cut down shrubs, miscellaneous trees, and clear away numerous weeds, and everything was cleared up in a few days.
Ye Mo and the others did the rest themselves, leveling the land and digging terraces.
Ye Dad, Ye Ran, Lin Xiaomian...
They drove an excavator to clear the site.
Ye Mo contacted Gao Jin and prepared to build the reservoir.
"Mr. Gao, please help me calculate how much it will cost to build a large reservoir on the mountain." Ye Mo took Gao Jin to Niubei Mountain.
Niubei Mountain looks like the back of an ox. It is the highest mountain in Gaoshanping. The top of the mountain is more than 300 meters long and the widest part is 77 meters.
You can make a long oval-shaped reservoir. Or make two...
The cost of building a large reservoir is too high.
We have bought all the water pipes, joints, etc. that will be used for drip irrigation in the future. On the land reclamation side, people from the production team came to help, and they didn’t spend much money.
Ye Mo still has 1.03 million on hand.
As long as the reservoir on the top of the mountain is built and the durians are planted, the construction of the entire Gaoshanping will be completed.
"What's the budget?" Gao Jin asked.
"Eight hundred thousand." Ye Mo had to keep some money on his hands.
Gao Jin and his company have construction experience in this area. Based on the budget and the actual situation of Niubei Mountain, and in order to make the construction cost cheaper, they built two oval-shaped reservoirs.
The total water storage capacity is 21,000 cubic meters, and the total construction cost is 930,000 yuan.
Although it is beyond the budget, it is acceptable.
Dad can still support Ye Mo with hundreds of thousands...
The reservoir was contracted to Gao Jin, and construction began within a few days.
Three large 35-ton excavators came over and started digging. The bottom was made of concrete with a thickness of 8 centimeters...
There are three steps on the wall, each step is 7 meters wide. The top step is only 1.2 meters from the ground.
The depth of the reservoir, the deepest... 4.5 meters. The walls are reinforced with steel frame concrete, with a thickness of 13 centimeters.
Everything is designed to facilitate construction and save costs.
Two excavators were responsible for digging the soil, and one excavator was responsible for transferring the soil. In more than ten days, the two ponds were completely dug...
The terraced fields in the orchard have not yet been cleared. Three more large excavators were hired to help clear the land. By the end of September... the entire Gaoshanping was cleared.
Ye Mo cultivated almost 100,000 durian seedlings, but only less than 10,000 survived.
The survival rate of seedlings raised by cuttings is very low.
After calculation, 8 trees were planted per mu of land, which is exactly 1,130 acres. There are still some leftovers planted on the mountainside and next to the reservoir. The total number of new seedlings is 9,857.
When the reservoir is delivered and all the durian seedlings are planted, the construction of the entire Gaoshanping will be completed.