During this period, as long as Cao Shujie and his wife have time, they will go over to see the construction progress of the house, what they need to buy and how much it cost, and Cao Zhenggang will also explain it clearly to them.
In Cao Zhenggang's words, the construction of a simple two-story building can be completed in a month at most, but the subsequent decoration requires Cao Shujie to find other people to do it, and they cannot do it.
Cao Shujie is not worried about this at all, he already has a candidate in mind.
At this moment, Cao Shujie felt that he had taken a very important step after returning to his hometown.
On the other hand, the fruit trees in the orchards on the mountain also began to grow rapidly.
Cao Jianguo works as a supervisor at the foot of the mountain. When watching the progress of his son's house, he will go to the mountain when he is free.
But when he came back from work that afternoon, he couldn't wait to tell his son: "Shujie, the apple trees on the mountain are about to bloom. It's incredible."
"Is it going to bloom?" Cao Shujie also felt something was wrong.
"Dad, don't apple trees bloom from April to May? Are you mistaken?"
Cao Jianguo raised his hand and slapped his son on the back: "I said it was about to bloom, but I didn't say it was blooming. Shujie, you don't understand people anymore, do you?"
Cao Shujie was slapped by his father and didn't say anything back. He thought about taking some time early in the morning to go to the mountain to check out the situation.
It stands to reason that the flowering period of apples is affected by climate differences in various regions. It does have an impact on the early and late flowering period, but it is still impossible for apples to bloom so far in advance.
After thinking for a while, Cao Shujie muttered: "So it should be my nutrient solution that has the biggest impact?"
"Shujie, what did you just say?" Cao Jianguo didn't hear clearly and asked, but Cao Shujie didn't say anything and continued to indulge in his own research.
"Grandpa, look at little Huihui." When Mengmeng saw her grandpa coming back, she proudly held his hand and let him look at the little rabbit together.
"And Huahua, they are so stupid. Even if I call them, they won't answer. They are all deaf!"
Cao Jianguo was afraid of hurting his granddaughter, so he didn't dare to break away, so he followed her to see the little hare and the little wild cat.
Within a few days, these two little guys had changed a lot from how they looked when they first came to their home.
Whether it's a little hare or a little wild cat, they both seem to be a little fatter and have more flesh on their bodies.
Cao Jianguo looked at the gray rabbit and said, "It's really good. I'll kill it when it gets bigger and has more meat."
"Grandpa!" Mengmeng understood what grandpa said and she got angry: "I won't pay attention to you."
Cao Jianguo looked at his granddaughter who stamped on the ground and ran away again, and he felt a little want to laugh.
But when he returned to the house and was about to finish his meal, he stopped laughing.
His wife Wang Yuelan looked at him and asked him with a cold face: "Old Cao, I heard that you want to eat rabbit meat, and you won't even let the little rabbits go. You want to kill them all."
"Tell me if this is the case?"
Cao Jianguo looked at his granddaughter who was covering her mouth and snickering, and was speechless: "It's a bit. The meat of the two rabbits that Shujie brought back some time ago is really good, and they are quite chewy."
"Look at your cute face, you don't have any clues, and you still want to eat that little rabbit raised by Mengmeng? Tell me what do you think?" Wang Yuelan reprimanded him.
Mengmeng saw her grandma reprimanding her grandpa, and she was still covering her mouth with her little hand, smiling "haha", looking like she was gloating about the misfortune.
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The next morning, Cao Shujie waited for his wife and children to finish eating, then went out together, and the family of three went to the mountain.
Cao Shujie has been thinking about what his father said yesterday. The apple trees are about to bloom. This is more than half a month faster than the normal flowering period. Cao Shujie has many thoughts in his mind.
He still has a profound memory of the market in his head. He knows better than anyone else that some fruits can be on the market more than ten days in advance. What does this mean?
Just like the later strawberries, the first wave of strawberries that came on the market were sold at the most expensive for fifty or sixty yuan per catty, but after the harvest, they immediately became a few yuan per catty.
The price difference is at least seven to eight times.
Cao Shujie wondered if the fruit trees he planted bloomed so long in advance because of the 'nutrient solution', does that mean that the fruit trees could also bear fruit more than ten days in advance?
If this is the case, as long as the operation is done well, he will be able to gain weight!
But this will take time to verify!
"Daddy, daddy!" Mengmeng shouted several times, but Cao Shujie was thinking about the relationship between the early flowering of apple trees and the nutrient solution, so he didn't hear clearly at first.
When Mengmeng raised her hand and slapped him twice, Cao Shujie came to his senses this time. Looking at the snickering girl, he couldn't return it, so he angrily twisted her little butt twice.
Cheng Xiaolin is watching the show from behind!
In front of the fruit trees on the mountain, Cao Shujie held his daughter and brought his wife over.
Cao Shujie took a deep breath when he saw the kiwi fruit trees here growing vigorously and the apple trees really sprouting, looking like they were ready to bloom at any time.
He looked around at this mountain, and an idea was brewing in his mind, and then he said to his wife Cheng Xiaolin: "Honey, I want to cover this entire mountain and plant it with apples, kiwis, and strawberries."
"What do you think of the gimmick of the strawberry on the mountain? I named it raspberry, huge sweet. Isn't it full of gimmicks?" Cao Shujie looked at his wife expectantly.
But Cheng Xiaolin asked a very practical question: "Husband, if you want to take over this entire mountain, do you have enough money?"
"In the later stage, we will need to apply pesticides and spread chemical fertilizers. Can you handle it yourself?"
These are all issues that need to be resolved.
After Cao Shujie thought about it for a moment, he didn't think this was a problem.
After living a whole life and finally dying suddenly, how could he not understand the principle of letting others work for him?
In Cao Shujie's current view, problems that can be solved with money are not problems.
"Let's recruit people when the time comes. There are a lot of folks in Caojiazhuang who are looking for casual jobs. When we really need people, we can just pay forty or fifty yuan a day for each person," Cao Shujie said.
This price is not low, and Cheng Xiaolin didn't say anything else.
With the idea of taking the mountain in his mind, Cao Shujie was not in a hurry to leave. He hugged his daughter and continued walking up the mountain with his wife.
This area used to be terraced fields, but many people thought it was troublesome to plant them, so they stopped planting them here, and gradually they became deserted.
If Cao Shujie really wanted to contract, it would actually be quite easy.
"Pulling"
As soon as they came up, a bird flapped its wings and flew away from a tree on the mountain.
There are also eagles circling in the sky, and from time to time there is a burst of eagle chirping from the sky, and the cry is very harsh.
Cheng Xiaolin was still a little surprised: "Husband, there are actually eagles here?"
"What you are saying is so fresh. No one has come to the mountain. There is nothing." Cao Shujie turned on the mocking mode for his wife's ignorance: "Wife, if you look carefully, maybe you can find a treasure on the mountain?"
"Eh... do you think I believe it?" Cheng Xiaolin didn't believe it at all.
She thought that it was just like how it was acted in TV series and movies. If she really believed that there was a treasure in this mountain nook, she would be stupid as hell.
