My mother really did it. She stared at Ye Mo and asked him to call...
Ye Mo held the phone and hesitantly made the call.
Ye Mo originally thought he wouldn't be nervous, but when he held the phone, he felt uneasy. The call was answered: "Hello?"
"ah?"
"Have you eaten yet?" Ye Mo said.
Lin Xiaomian's sweet voice said: "I just had dinner, how about you."
"Me too."
"oh."
Ye Mo didn't know what to say, and his mind suddenly went blank: "That, that...what are you doing."
"Feed the crayfish."
"crayfish?"
"Well, feed the crayfish." Lin Xiaomian said, "What about you?"
"Walking outside." Ye Mo said, "I just had dinner and was walking outside to digest. Do you raise crayfish at home?"
"Um."
"How many crayfish are raised?"
"More than four acres, rice fields with crayfish."
“What do lobsters eat?”
"feed."
"How much can be produced per acre of lobster farming in rice fields?"
"I don't know. In the first year, we raised lobsters in the rice fields. It used to be a dedicated shrimp pond, but this year we will plant rice and just raise rice and shrimp in a mixed culture." Lin Xiaomian's voice today was particularly soft.
"Can we eat the crayfish now?" Ye Mo said. He couldn't find any other topic, so he could only chat awkwardly.
"It's edible. But the crayfish now are small and don't have much meat. The crayfish won't be fatter until August..."
"Your feet don't hurt anymore, right?"
"The swelling has subsided and the pain is gone," Lin Xiaomian said. It still hurts a little when walking, but it won't heal so quickly.
We chatted about various topics for half an hour, then came home, took a shower... and went to sleep.
The next day, we had breakfast.
"Uncle, second uncle...Uncle Liu, Uncle Qian..." There are 11 people who came to help today. 7 men and 4 women...
There were also villagers who came to collect firewood.
Previously, we talked about Changzhu Village’s water, electricity and three links.
There is a running water pipe, but it is only for irrigation and cannot be consumed directly.
Most of the households in Changzhu Village have wells. Most of them have one well for two or three households. If they live in a more remote area, there is one well for each household.
Electricity is available in every household.
As for gas, there are natural gas pipes in the village, but not every household has natural gas installed.
Many local families do not use natural gas and use wood stoves and mobile stoves at home.
In Changzhu Village, there are many people working at home. Everyone moves around a lot...
Every household has a portable stove with a pot on it. It can be said that every household here has a portable stove...
Neighbors move around frequently, and you can often see many people gathering together and eating around the mobile stove.
Ye Mo cut down the shrubs and hundreds of acres of mango trees here, and the firewood was cut back by the villagers to make firewood.
Ye Mo's parents also collected some firewood for the house.
Using wood-fired pots to cook chicken, stew meat, or even stir-fry vegetables is more delicious than cooking with natural gas.
In one morning, dozens of acres of land were cleared.
Ye Ran went out to buy groceries after ten o'clock, and then went home to cook.
At noon, everyone sits together and eats.
"Ye Mo, how much does the sprinkler irrigation system cost per acre?" Yun Xiuzhi asked.
"It costs more than a thousand yuan per acre," Ye Mo said.
"Did you buy the water pipes and sprinklers online?" Niu Yougui asked.
"Hmm. You can buy water pipes and sprinklers online, and then install them yourself. Not counting labor...for one acre, it costs about 1,200 yuan."
"My family has a 9-acre pomegranate orchard on a large hillside. I don't know if we can get this irrigation system," Niu Yougui said.
"sure."
Dad Ye poured beer for them and said: "It is best to use drip irrigation for irrigation of large fruit trees. Drip irrigation saves water and is more effective than sprinkler irrigation. If you want to irrigate orchards, it is best to use drip irrigation."
The biggest benefit of using drip irrigation is water conservation.
Although the water for orchard irrigation here is cheap, 1 ton of water is only 70 cents. But if every household uses sprinkler irrigation, the water from Niujiangling Reservoir will definitely not be enough.
The water from Niujiangling Reservoir irrigates an area of about 30,000 acres.
From an irrigation perspective, drip irrigation is more effective and can also manage water and fertilizer.
Dad Ye talked about the advantages and disadvantages of drip irrigation and sprinkler irrigation: "The sprinkler irrigation area here in Ye Mo is only five to six hundred acres. The sprinkler irrigation area here is mainly used to raise grass. After that, the more than one thousand acres are all
Use drip irrigation..."
"We heard before that it's not good to plant grass in orchards, but you are still raising grass here?" Qian Peng asked, confused.
"There are advantages and disadvantages to planting grass in orchards. The advantages outweigh the disadvantages, or the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Let's take Yumin Orchard. The land there is relatively flat, there are no steep slopes, irrigation is convenient, and they are all small fruit trees. There is no need to plant grass specially. Instead, you need to provide
Weed the orchard. If you plant grass, the grass will rob the fruit trees of nutrients... But when the fruit trees grow up and the diameter of the fruit trees is about 10 centimeters, grass can also be planted." Ye Mo's father continued: "But the orchards on the hillside are the best.
It’s better to plant grass. For example, the orchards on the back slopes over there have to be planted with grass. Planting grass protects the slope and prevents soil erosion. It can also lock in soil moisture and reduce the number of irrigations. The grass planted in the hillside orchards is mainly white clover and alfalfa, which not only can
It locks in water, prevents soil erosion, and can also increase soil fertility to a certain extent.”
Qian Peng said with a smile: "We have planted grass on the hillside over there before, but the grass grew so well that it felt like it was eating up a lot of our fertilizer... Then we saw that other orchards were weeding, so we just planted those grasses.
The grass is beaten to death."
"Over there in Dongmen Town, the relatively flat orchards usually don't need to be planted with grass. But in the orchards on the hillside, the technicians ask us to plant grass in the orchards... What I just said was also told to us by the previous technicians." Ye
Dad said: "Isn't there a local technical station?"
"There is a technical station in the town that has trained us before. But we only learned a little bit and did not go to the countryside to guide technicians."
"Whether a fruit tree can be high-yield depends on management for most of the factors. How to fertilize, how to prune... pruning the branches of fruit trees is really a technical job. For a mango tree, if the tree shape is good, the yield will be much higher.
." Dad Ye visited their mango orchard before and found many problems.
There is a reason why local mango production is low.
After dinner, everyone continued to chat about the drip irrigation system for a while, and then prepared to go back to rest.
Aunt Yun pulled Ye Mo aside and whispered, "Have you called Xiaomian?"
"Been beaten."
"How do you feel about Xiaomian?" Aunt Yun'er, as someone who has experienced this, spoke very directly.
"It's pretty good. It's just..."
Aunt Yun smiled and said: "Little girls, sometimes they say what they mean. Keep in touch and make appointments to hang out when you have time, and you will gradually get to know each other."
"Hey, okay." Ye Mo smiled and nodded.
"You're a grown man, take the initiative." Aunt Yun pursed her lips and said with a smile.