The next few days will basically be a morning's work.
After finishing my work in the morning, I started playing Landlords and Mahjong in the afternoon.
Ye Ran, Lin Xiaomian, Zhang Xia, Wang Yue... four women sharing a mahjong table.
Ye Ma, second aunt, third aunt, Wang Ma (sometimes Tang Ma), a table of mahjong.
Dad and uncle, the seven of them, play Landlords every afternoon.
Ye Zhi had to take care of the baby, and sometimes Tang Xun also had to take care of the baby. In the afternoon, Ye Mo pulled Chen Chen to help him with work...
My brother-in-law, there is no shame in calling him.
At the earliest, the grafted seedlings need to be moved into the shed to begin the seedling hardening process, and then they can be transplanted.
"Brother Ye Mo." Chen Chen took the grafting seedling clip and shouted.
"What are you doing?"
"When you're done, can you teach me how to drive an excavator?" Chen Chen said.
Ye Mo nodded and looked at him strangely.
Chen Chen said a little embarrassedly: "When the production team needs an excavator later, if I can drive an excavator, I can help Ye Ran do it."
"Well, okay... I'll teach you how to drive it when I have time." Ye Mo said with a smile, "It just so happens that Niubei Mountain needs to be leveled."
Niubei Mountain, where the reservoir is located.
When the reservoir was dug before, there were still many mounds of soil on the mountain. Ye Mo had long wanted to clean up those mounds.
Ye Mo and the others quickly moved the seedling trays out, placed them in the shed, and ventilated both sides of the shed. This was how to refine the seedlings...
All the melon seedlings have been grafted. Watching the time, the grafted melon seedlings are sent to the shed for hardening.
In a blink of an eye.
The first batch of melon seedlings are ready for planting.
But the temperature is still very low, but the melon seedlings wait for no one.
Ye Mo pushed back the planting time as much as possible. He would check the weather forecast and start planting when the temperature would be suitable in the next few days.
The melon seedlings have grown very big now. If they are not planted regularly, these melon seedlings will be useless.
There have been many cloudy days this month, and there have been several light rains. There is enough moisture in the soil...
Spread a layer of mulch and plant the melon seedlings.
Give some cake fertilizer next to the melon seedlings...
The roots of newly planted watermelon seedlings are often damaged. They cannot be watered immediately after planting. They need to be allowed to wait for a few days before watering.
The soil moisture is sufficient now, so there is no need to water immediately.
But melons need some water after planting, even if there is moisture in the soil.
Melon, also known as cantaloupe, is grown differently from watermelon.
Tang Xun looked at Ye Mo and said, "After today's work, our family won't have time until the third day of the Lunar New Year?"
Ye Mo said: "Plant the slightly larger melon seedlings, and we can follow the others ourselves."
Everyone has been here to help for a long time. To be honest, Ye Mo couldn't help it.
For example, Tang Xun's family has five people coming here every day. According to the local wages for raising seedlings, each person would cost at least more than 200 yuan per day...for five people, that would cost more than 1,000 yuan per day.
Second uncle, third uncle’s house...
There is also Xiaomian’s aunt’s family. At least one of them comes here every day. If we count the working days, there are 32 working days.
"Tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and our family has to visit relatives." Tang Xun said.
"There is no joy in working while visiting relatives. Don't visit relatives. I have a lot of things to do here." Ye Mo joked: "If I make money from this batch of watermelons, I will calculate the working days for you.
A working day costs 300 yuan. Don’t you want to buy a Wuling Mini? When you finish the work, isn’t it equivalent to picking up a Wuling Mini for nothing?”
"Three hundred per construction day, that's fine." Tang Xun smiled and said, "What if we don't make any money?"
"I haven't made any money, so your work must have been in vain." Ye Mo said.
Ye Mo talked to Tang Xun about this matter last night and asked him to help cooperate.
Tang Xun was not willing at first. They came here to help with the work not to make money. But there were some things that Ye Mo had to mention even if others didn't say them...
It has been 25 days since the seedlings were raised.
If it's just to help, then you have to be careful. Ye Mo's job is not small. Looking at the current progress... it is estimated that it will take three or four days to complete the planting.
"Second uncle, third uncle, you should also support your nephew. When these watermelons are sold, you will make money, 350 yuan per day." Ye Mo said with a smile.
"Whatever." The second uncle smiled and shook his head.
"You give me 300 yuan, and you give 350 yuan to my second uncle and the others. That's a bit too much." Tang Xun said with a smile.
"Can you work as fast as your uncle and the others? You play hard every day..." Ye Mo said: "There will be a lot of work in this melon field in the future. We need to pinch buds, pollinate, and comb the fruits. I think so.
I have made money, and I will calculate the working days for everyone. If I have not made any money, I will not give it to you. They are all my elders. If I lose money, even if I take out the money, you will definitely be embarrassed to ask for it.
Right? Hahaha..."
"Then I wish the boss a lot of money in advance." Wang Yue said with a smile. When Ye Mo and Tang Xun talked about this yesterday, Wang Yue also heard it: "When you make a lot of money, buy a Wuling Mini for our family. Later,
All your work will be done by our whole family."
"It's easy to talk about..." Ye Mo said with a smile.
Father Ye looked on and nodded. If Ye Mo didn't bring this up, he would still want to say something about Ye Mo.
He has so much work here, and it has been almost a month since he started raising seedlings, and he has not finished yet. There is still a lot of work ahead, and no matter how good the relationship is, he cannot keep asking for more.
"Forget it on our end. When our orchard over there needs fertilizing, you can go over and help." The third uncle said: "We are idle at this time anyway."
"That's right, talking about money is very hurtful." Tang Ming said.
"I really can't calculate it that way. I still have a lot of things to do here, pollination, budding...all require labor. Growing watermelons is also quite hard..." Ye Mo said: "Anyway, I have to make money before I open it for everyone.
Wage, if I don’t make any money, forget it. Besides, if I make money with my watermelons and cantaloupes, I will still plant them in the summer, and then... I will inevitably trouble everyone again."
Ye Mo has written down everyone's work days. After all, this is not a short job...
Today is New Year's Eve.
There was no rest in the afternoon, and I was rushing to customize all the melon seedlings that were urgently planted.
The temperature in the back is good, and after the New Year, the temperature will start to warm up, which is just the right climate for the growth of melon seedlings.
Customize your order now, and it will bloom and set fruit by the end of the month. The first batch of watermelons will mature by the end of March at the earliest...
Ye Mo is tight on time. The watermelons in late March and early April can be sold at a good price.
Moreover, the local temperature is very high in March, with temperatures reaching over 30 degrees during the day. The lowest temperature at night is also above 10 degrees...
Without a greenhouse, there is a large temperature difference between day and night during the fruit setting period, and watermelons are prone to hollowing out. But for small watermelons, these problems are not serious.
After four o'clock in the afternoon, Ye Mo's mother and several aunts went home to prepare for the family reunion dinner.
Ye Mo and the others speeded up and worked until dark.
Call it a day.
Ye Mo went to the greenhouse and found that the big watermelons and melon vines in the greenhouse had stopped growing.
There was one main vine and two auxiliary vines. The main vine had grown to more than eight meters long before Ye Mo pinched off the top of the vine. Now, there are many flowers growing on the nodes of the melon vine. These flowers are still small buds and will take a few days to bloom.
Ye Mo went in to take a look and returned home.
Ye Ran and the others finished work early and went to town, bought a lot of firecrackers, and came back with fireworks.
When I went back, I saw Lin Xiaomian and the others setting off fireworks outside, and there were three little guys outside. It was really lively.
Ye Mo took a firecracker, lit it, and the beautiful fireworks rushed out and exploded in the night sky.
Tang Xun and Chen Chen went over to look at the fireworks, found one, and lit it.
"Are there any big firecrackers?" Tang Ming went over and asked.
"No." Wang Yue said: "When we went there, there were only firecrackers, fireworks and small crackers in the town."
Tang Ming found a few small fireworks and lit them... a kind of firework called "Little Bee" that could spin on the ground. With a "woo~" sound, it flew into the sky with brilliant fireworks.