After locking the door of the fresh food shop, Bai Dashan rode a tricycle and drove Li Chengcheng and his two children home. It was a bit funny to think about it. He didn't have any children yet, so he raised other people's children first.
When the villagers in Anju Village saw Mr. Bai coming back on a tricycle, they all knew that they had finished delivering food to the restaurant, so they hurried home to pack their things and planned to deliver them to them later.
Anju Village is only so big, and there are only so many mountains. People in the whole village are digging wild vegetables. How many wild vegetables can be dug? They have already finished digging, and they can’t think about what to do. People who go to other villages to collect them are outside.
Look everywhere on the ground, hillsides, hills, wastelands...
Wherever they go, like locusts passing through, not a single big wild vegetable is left.
But they are not stupid. They know how to save the wild vegetables. If they don’t save any wild vegetables, will they still have wild vegetables to eat next year?
Not long after the Lantern Festival is the Arbor Day. The survival rate of planting trees at this time is very high. Bai Dashan and Li Chengcheng went up the mountain to dig wild fruit seedlings, wild blueberries, bayberry, plums, peaches, cherries, wild kiwis, jelly fruits, mountain grapes...
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The two of them dug a lot of every kind of wild fruit sapling on the mountain. Now that the mountain is still owned by a collective, it is still okay to dig some saplings. But when the mountain becomes private, you can dig saplings on other people's mountains. Do you think they agree or not?
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Li Xiaotong had two yards. Li Chengcheng gave Li Xiaotong four kinds of fruit saplings of each kind, and asked He Jianye's subordinates who stayed here to plant them in Li Xiaotong's yard, so that Li Xiaotong would not be short of fruits in a few years.
Fruit saplings were also planted in the yard of the house opposite the train station.
Then, in the large yard of Anju Village, five wild fruit seedlings of each kind were planted. Li Chengcheng had planned to plant ten of each kind before, but the planting was too dense. Not only would they not grow well, but they would also affect the vegetables under the trees.
of growing.
When it comes to planting fruit trees, their family cannot be special, otherwise some of the best in the village will definitely cause trouble, so Li Chengcheng gave some to Bai Shuli and Bai Shuyan, some to Ling Ruoxue's mother, and some to Sun Sumei and Bai Laoer.
The good people have given it to everyone, and everyone has it, so how can the best ones cause trouble?
If they really want to, they can go up to the mountains to dig up wild fruit seedlings and plant them. Every spring, there is no telling how many wild fruit seedlings will appear on the mountain.
Li Chengcheng also left a lot of wild fruit seedlings in the cave for storage. He planned to buy a new yard and plant them in the new yard in the future. After all, there would be fewer and fewer wild fruits of this kind in the future, and she was worried.
Keep the varieties and don’t let these things become extinct!
In March, wild fruits were ripe and there were more types of wild vegetables. Li Chengcheng handed over the picking of wild fruits to his four children, Bai Shuli, Bai Shuyan, Li Hongmei and Zhao Juanjuan, so that the adults in the village would not snatch them.
The child's business is gone.
The fields were divided at the end of the year, and now that spring has begun, all the male laborers have begun to farm, and the work of digging wild vegetables to earn money is left to the women and children at home.
"Daughter-in-law, what do you think is good for our land?" Bai Dashan asked when the family was sitting together for dinner in the evening.
In fact, he doesn't really want to grow rice, because the two plots of land at his home are too high and prone to water shortages. When there is a water shortage, the rice yield will be low. Instead of working so hard to grow rice, it is better to grow something else.
Li Chengcheng thought for a while and said, "Grow sweet potatoes and pumpkins. As long as you grow them, I can think of a good way to make money. As for paying the public grain, we can buy rice to pay the public grain. If we can directly use the money to pay the public grain,
If so, we can just pay you directly when the time comes."
Because sweet potatoes and pumpkins do not require much water. If they are growing rice, they will have to carry water when there is no water. But how can they carry water from two acres of land? There is no water pump at this time.
Even if there is a water pump, it is far away from the water source, which is not practical at all.
Bai Dashan nodded. Now they are not short of money. If they don't have anything to pay for the public grain, they can find others to buy rice, or they can pay directly. Growing sweet potatoes and pumpkins is not so tiring, and they don't have to stay in the fields every day.
In addition, every household grows sweet potatoes and pumpkins on their private plots, so naturally no one comes to steal these most common things.
Bai Lao Er, Bai Lao San and Bai Shanshan have three acres of land combined. Bai Lao San is in the army and Bai Shanshan is studying. Bai Lao Er is alone and cannot be busy at all. Bai Lao San is busy.
I have severed ties with Bai Shanshan, but not with Bai Laoer.
So when Bai Laoer was plowing the fields with oxen, Bai Laozi went to help him.
Because it hasn't rained yet, the mud in the field has no water but is not dry either. It is very silky. Once the soil is turned over, you can see the loaches and eels inside. Bai Laoer directly takes the loaches and eels.
Catch it and put it in a backpack, and then sell it to Li Chengcheng.
Li Chengcheng's place was full of eels and eels, because every household had to plow the fields, and they could pick up these things by plowing the fields. Li Chengcheng also reminded them not to kill them all, lest there would be no more eels and eels in the future.
We are not fools. After her reminder, we understood that if we can keep the green hills without worrying about firewood, we will have a steady stream of income in the future!
When growing rice, we need to raise seedlings and transplant rice seedlings. It would be much easier for Li Chengcheng and Bai Dashan to directly plant sweet potatoes and pumpkins. However, sweet potatoes also need to raise seedlings. Bai Dashan first caged a piece of high ground on the side, and then buried the whole sweet potato in it.
Cover it with straw, and when the sweet potatoes sprout and grow vines, you can cut them short.
When planting pumpkins, Li Xiaojun and Li Xiaotong came over to help. The two younger ones were responsible for putting seeds into the pits, three in each pit.
Because he still didn't know the little boy's name, and there was no information about his parents from the Public Security Bureau, Li Chengcheng gave him a verbal name - Li Xiaojun.
Without any news about his parents, Li Chengcheng couldn't change his name, let alone register him in his household registration, so he gave him a random name and used to call him every day.
Li Chengcheng was in charge of digging the hole in the front, and poked a big hole in the ground with a wine bottle. The two children were in charge of planting seeds, and Bai Dashan was in charge of filling in the soil and applying plant ash fertilizer in the back.
Although there is a fertilizer factory and the fertilizer factory also has an output, fertilizers have quotas and not everyone can get them. Besides, their family grows coarse grains. It is too luxurious to use chemical fertilizers, so they use some plant ash and organic fertilizers.
That’s it.
Sweet potatoes and pumpkins can be produced as much as they want, and they don't force them.
Li Xiaojun and Li Xiaotong were responsible for planting the seeds, but they started fighting. Of course, it was Li Xiaotong, who was his younger sister, who unilaterally KO Li Xiaojun.
She grabbed the mud on the ground with her hands and threw it at Li Xiaojun.
