Song Tan raised her eyebrows and looked over with clear eyes. Zhang Yanping felt that the familiar good-tempered cousin in front of her had not only changed her personality, but her eyes seemed to have insight.
But soon, a very tolerant smile appeared on Song Tan's face:
"Brother Yanping, do you have any recommendations?"
Zhang Yanping was a little unnatural.
When it comes to plants with thorns that can be used as protective walls, there are actually many choices. However, Zhang Yanping’s comprehensive ranking first excluded a series of plants that can be found in most nurseries, such as wolfberry and sea buckthorn.
Of course, purely in terms of protective power, these plants are indeed not as good as golden cherry.
This thing looks completely unreasonable, with large and small thorns growing all over its body, and furry thorns all over its body.
From leaves to fruits, nothing is innocent.
The most important thing is that its branches are flexible and long, the vines are entangled together, and the old branches are still very hard. It is actually not short!
If it grows into a protective layer, it will be called a high and thick one. It can't be torn open even by using big scissors for a long time.
If someone could dig into this, he would truly be called a warrior, and he wouldn’t recommend it randomly.
It's just that now his little cousin seems to understand in her heart, which makes his shamelessness a little embarrassing.
However, this did not affect his continued thoughts:
"You see, it's hard to find a golden cherry tree nursery, right? But your cousin and I happen to know such a nursery."
As he got closer, Zhang Yanping's white and round face looked particularly sincere.
"But, Tantan, look, cousin, this is also a skill for me, right? Don't be like my mother and think I'm just playing around."
"My relative, I don't want your agency fee. Just ask me to stay and eat well in my hometown during this period - except for working in the fields."
Song Tan also smiled: "Brother Yanping, under normal circumstances, I would definitely agree to your promise. But don't forget that when you came back to the village, you were assigned to undergo labor reform."
"If you don't work, you won't be able to stay here for a few days, because my aunt will definitely think that you are delaying our work."
Look at Brother Yanping, how strong he is! Not wielding a hoe is simply a huge waste.
Song Tan is also good at tempting:
"Cousin, our family doesn't have any heavy physical work now, it's all trivial work."
This is true, and the next step is to breed tea, pick vegetables, and dig trenches to pick tea.
Oh, I need to dig another hole to plant cherry blossoms, feed pigs, chickens, ducks, and educate puppies.
Generally speaking, these tasks are much easier than digging mountains.
Song Tan mainly wanted to take things step by step.
Dig ditches today, plant golden cherry blossoms in the mountains tomorrow, and then plant rice seedlings in the fields... That's not too much, right?
Therefore her voice is even more seductive:
"When you go home, your aunt will dislike you every day. You are the one who found the channel to import fruits at home, but she still thinks you are just eating for nothing. Are you feeling aggrieved?"
This is not because the aunt and uncle are harsh to their son. The main reason is that people of their generation feel that as long as they don't work hard, the path is not serious.
As for finding a channel to import fruits...what channel? The purchase price is so expensive! If the market hadn't been so hot, the overly honest couple wouldn't have dared to try it.
"But it's different here. My mother likes you, and you only need a little help. Your treatment at home will definitely be first-class!"
"Besides, you know the taste of the food in my field. Isn't it worth just changing it a little and getting three big bowls of such good food?"
Zhang Yanping opened his mouth, but in the end he was speechless.
He also knew in his heart that if he didn't work every day at his aunt's house, let alone his own mother, his aunt's family would be overwhelmed. After all, they were really busy.
After thinking for a long time, he said: "Qiao Qiao said that there are still purslane buns at home. You can heat up two more for me. If they taste good, I will contact the nursery for you later."
After thinking for a while, he said: "Tan Tan, in fact, this thing can be cut, and you can also sow it. It is very simple to grow. If you are not in a hurry to protect the forest, go find a tree in the wild during this weather, cut it in sections, and wait for two days.
Three years is almost enough.”
Song Tan was helpless - cuttings could work, but she couldn't grow them all at once if she used spiritual energy to induce them, right?
"It's quite urgent. The chestnut forest is far away and the area there is huge. It's almost four acres of land and there are more than 500 chestnut trees."
This one is not that big in the local area, because as far as the eye can see, there are many larger chestnut forests on the rolling hills.
It's just that as time goes by, many farmers no longer rely on this to make a living, and everyone's attitude towards chestnuts has become more perfunctory.
Some were cut down, and some were still left, but they were not taken care of much.
In Song Tan's memory, when she was a child, whenever the chestnuts were about to mature, she would often go up the mountain to keep an eye on them to prevent anyone from stealing them.
But now, when you are mature, you are mature, and no one will look twice.
If someone comes to town to buy some chestnuts, just buy some chestnuts to sell. If you don't have any, forget about it.
After all, every household really doesn’t have much strong labor left.
For those who are able to work, during the season when chestnuts are ripe, many people have already paid their dues to go work.
There is not even fertilizer in the forest. It is really difficult for farmers to make money and they are helpless.
"Now our family has no manpower to take care of it day and night. Black fungus and white fungus only occupy part of the forest. We will need to plant other species in the future - how can we have time to wait for the golden cherry blossoms to grow up? Buy the mature ones first.
Plant it."
Zhang Yanping frowned: "If it can grow in one year, then it will probably take three to five years to grow a large seedling - the price is not low."
"Especially you need the original species with thorns. Nowadays, in large-scale cultivation, most of the species are cultivated without thorns."
"Calculating, one tree costs about fifteen yuan. How many trees do you want?"
Song Tan thought about the border area of the chestnut forest. If there was spiritual energy to stimulate the growth, the adult plants could be planted sparsely. There would be two layers inside and outside the fence, with one plant staggered every two meters on each layer -
"A total of two hundred trees is enough."
Zhang Yanping thought for a while and then hesitated: "Tan Tan, your investment in farming is not small. Do you plan to keep doing it?"
He didn't believe that Song Tan was lying to his mother, saying that he would rest at home for a while and plant some land...
Song Tan nodded:
"Brother Yanping, don't worry about money. I've been selling vegetables every day during this period. The milkvetch you ate today costs twenty yuan a pound."
All the money from selling wild vegetables was spent on this pickup truck. The milk vetch has been sold for several days, and another ten or twenty thousand has been recorded.
With the addition of overseas and large-scale transactions, it will not be a problem to continue to earn another 30,000 yuan.
Although Song Tan has a lot to arrange, the overall investment has actually been paid back one after another.
Not to mention there is tea! This season’s spring tea is enough for their family to make money.
Zhang Yanping did not express surprise at the 20 yuan dish, nor did he think Song Tan should come back to farm. Instead, he nodded:
"It's worth the price. Just have a plan in mind."
Then he picked up the phone without hesitation: "I will help you contact the nursery now."
"By the way, hurry up and heat up two of those purslane buns for me."
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