As time passes day by day, the golden autumn of October has also entered the second half of the month.
It was a hot autumn season some time ago. It’s like a holiday these days, the weather has become a little cooler.
The weather may be like this during the next period of time.
Therefore, Zhang An’s plan to plant trees must also start to be put on schedule.
Some time ago, Zhang An, when he had nothing to do, scattered a large amount of grass seeds on the mountain.
Now all the grass seeds sown by Zhang An have grown out, and they are all growing very well.
This was all discovered by Zhang An before when he was wandering in the mountains when he had nothing to do.
He found that there were a lot of weeds growing in some places on the loess slope.
Most of these grasses are clovers or plantains, plants that are drought tolerant and can improve the soil.
After all, other grass picks cannot grow here.
So Zhang An also took advantage of his plan and directly cultivated a large number of clovers and plantains in the space.
Finally, a lot of grass seeds were scattered on the loess slope, and with the magical effect of the space spring water, they grew quickly.
Now the loess slope is no longer a bare wasteland. If you get closer, you can see that there is grass everywhere on the ground.
Zhang An also took time to sprinkle them with water every day. After half a month, he could clearly feel the changes in this place.
During dinner in the evening, Zhang An talked about planting saplings in the next few days.
Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang also asked several times during this period to see when Zhang An planned to commit suicide.
Because if you delay it any longer, you won't be able to plant it, and you have to wait until spring comes.
Zhang An's plan was to pay some wages and hire people to do the work, so that he wouldn't have to be responsible for the food.
Wang Fang did some calculations and found out that based on the salary Zhang An paid, it would cost several hundred yuan a day, which was too much.
She felt that there was no need to spend so much money, and she could just hire a few people to help her pay it back slowly.
But Zhang An didn't want to go to trouble, so even though it cost nothing to hire a favor.
However, if such a large piece of wasteland needs help, it will probably take a long time to pay it off.
If you ask for less, you will have to work for many more days; if you ask for more, you will have to have someone at home to cook.
It's better to pay some wages, hire a few more people, and be done with it in a few days.
Zhang Jianguo felt that what Zhang An said was reasonable, but Wang Fang was a little worried about money.
But all major family matters are decided by the man through discussion with his son.
Moreover, Zhang An's idea of spending money to hire people was mainly because he didn't want his mother to be too tired.
Being paid means that there is no need to pay for meals. When the time comes, everyone will go home and be responsible for their own food.
Wang Fang doesn't have to be busy in the kitchen all the time. After all, it's not easy to cook meals for so many people.
So Wang Fang didn't continue to say anything.
In the end, it was time to invite those people, so Zhang An ignored them and let his father do the calling.
Probably about ten to fifteen, not too many.
Anyway, as long as you are diligent and not lazy, and you can plant trees, it will be fine.
There are some people in the village, Zhang An is really hard to say, they all have to be lazy or lazy when they go to help people or do favors.
There are a lot of people like this, and Zhang An has seen a lot of them, but he just doesn't want to talk about them, after all, everyone wants to save face.
After the discussion, Zhang Jianguo went out to invite people.
At about seven o'clock the next morning, the person who was found by Zhang Jianguo last night had eaten early at home.
Then they brought their own hoes and shovels to Zhang An’s yard to gather.
When I go to help others with work in the village, I always bring my own tools.
After all, no one has so many tools.
Zhang Jianguo invited twelve or thirteen people last night. These are people who often plant trees in the village.
Including Huang Ming, Zhou Yang and Xiao Tangyuan's father, there are a total of fifteen or sixteen people.
Including my family, nearly twenty people are enough.
Zhang An's family also had breakfast early, and after everyone arrived, they started digging saplings with them.
When you dig, you should also take care of the roots, branches and leaves of the saplings, so that they can survive more easily after planting.
The wages of the village helpers are paid after the work is completed at night.
There is no saying that you will be paid if you report early in the morning.
Because some people may have worked for a long time or not long before going home due to family emergencies.
The work that lasted for several days was completed and given together at the end.
The Zhang An family still has this reputation, and no one is worried about not paying after the work is completed.
If this is said out loud, it will only be because he no longer wants to stay in the village.
So everyone gathered and followed Zhang An to dig saplings.
The people Zhang Jianguo hired were very experienced and they didn't have to explain anything.
Sometimes they have to tell Zhang An what he needs to pay attention to.
So Zhang An only needs to tell everyone how far apart they are to plant a seedling.
In the end, they all took the saplings with them in twos and threes and took charge of a separate area by themselves.
This wasteland totals a little more than 110 acres, but the mountain is only 70 to 80 acres at most.
There are still more than thirty acres left on the river bank at the foot of the mountain, which is a nest land.
Zhang An doesn't plan to use it to plant trees for the time being, but will save it for other uses in the future.
So all we need to do is plant the land on the slope.
Not to mention, since the grass seeds sown by Zhang An here have grown.
The land here seems to be better than before.
If we continue at this rate, this land will no longer be so barren by next year.
Zhang An didn't expect that the grass seeds cultivated from space could have such a powerful effect.
Grass seeds cultivated in space are indeed better at surviving than native grasses outside.
But the strength is limited and not that exaggerated.
In fact, it is not just the grass that plays a role, but the main reason is that he comes to sprinkle water every day.
In the past, the main problem of loess slopes was that the land could not retain water, and the loess was barren, so whatever was planted would turn into seedlings.
But after Zhang An planted so much grass, he also came to sprinkle water every day.
Space spring water also has the effect of improving soil quality, which Zhang An already knew in his own forest.
After these grasses rose, they not only retained moisture in the ground, but also slowly improved the soil quality.
If grass seeds are really that powerful, then you don’t have to do anything anymore, just sit at home and sell grass seeds every day.
There is so much barren land in China, but with grass seeds like this, you can just sit at home and count the money.
Seeing that everyone was moving, Zhang An was not idle either.
He also picked up a hoe and started digging holes to plant trees.
Zhang An was much faster than the others, and it didn't take long to plant a tree.
Everyone's speed was faster than expected, and the saplings Zhang An dug out in the morning were almost planted.
At this time, Zhang Jianguo took several people back to the yard to dig saplings.
Originally, Zhang An thought that the hundreds of trees he had taken out in the morning would take him a whole morning to finish.
Unexpectedly, it was already done before ten o'clock.
If you calculate it this way, it will be over in two or three days.
At noon, Zhang An asked everyone to eat and rest first, and then continue working in the afternoon.
Because it was close to home, everyone did not bring food to the mountain to eat. After all, it was not far away, and they had to make a fire to heat it up.
Moreover, the wages paid by Zhang An's family are relatively high, twenty-five yuan a day.
Although we are not responsible for the food, there are plenty of them. Many people would rather pay more and eat at home.
So everyone was too embarrassed to take a rest, so they always asked their families to bring food when it was time at noon.
After eating and finding a shady place on the mountain, we rested for a while and then continued working.
Even though Zhang An asked everyone to rest more, everyone said that the work was not tiring, and the weather was not hot now, so there was no need to rest.
It doesn't mean to be a sluggish worker at all, just do as much as you can.
The main reason is that in this era, when you go to help others work, you are cheating and cheating.
If everyone knows about it, your reputation will be ruined in the future, and no one will ask you to do anything in the future.
So most people are very careful when working.
Especially the work for which I am paid is more careful than doing my own work.
This way, the next time someone else has work, they will call you.
Seeing this, Zhang An didn't say anything. Everyone at this time was quite simple.
So after lunch, Zhang An went home and got two large buckets of space water, mixed it with honey and carried it up the mountain to rehydrate everyone.
As a result, after drinking honey water, everyone worked harder.
In this way, each person can plant an average of fifty or sixty saplings in a day.
Forget about Zhang An, this man suffered at least a hundred losses today and cannot be treated as a human being.
After four days of planting, the mountain was finally covered with plants.
Zhang An planted 50 acres of cherries and about 30 acres of peach trees on 80 acres of land.
After finishing the work on the last day, I paid everyone a hundred yuan as wages.
Everyone was very happy when they got a whole big banknote.
Usually, when they go to help people outside, the most they can pay is fifteen yuan a day, and they don't necessarily need to pay.
Only Wang Fang felt very distressed when she saw Zhang An counting the money outside.
From now on, the only thing left is to water these trees, which Zhang An can do slowly by himself.
You said that planting trees is to meet the deadline, so it is okay to spend some money to hire someone.
Wang Fang doesn't agree at all with paying someone to do this kind of watering thing.
So Zhang An went to water these trees by himself every day.
Wang Fang originally wanted to go, but in the past two days, guests came to the house basically every day.
Wang Fang had to entertain guests at home, so she couldn't leave to cook and entertain them.
It would be much more convenient for Zhang An to go up the mountain alone.
There is no need to hide anything at all, just water the tree with space spring water.
This time, Zhang An poured a slightly larger amount of water, which wetted the soil around the tree roots.
Although trees are planted in the fall, the trees begin to grow in the spring.
But more than ten days after Zhang An's batch of seedlings were planted, some buds still appeared.
It feels like it's growing in reverse, maybe because of the spring water.
At the same time, Zhang An can also use this to determine which seedlings are bad and seize the time to replenish them.
At this rate, when winter comes, there is no need to worry that they will not survive the winter.
Now Zhang An is looking at this mountainous area and all he is thinking is:
By the time next spring comes, the originally barren hillside behind my house will surely be a paradise of fallen flowers.
"Zhang An, we are here to drive the pigs."
Tomorrow is the time for Li Hongbin's family to move. He has already planned to treat everyone to a big banquet at the drying yard.
So I made an agreement with Zhang An's family early on to buy a pig for Zhang An's family to kill for meat.
Because it is not a good idea to kill pigs when moving to another house tomorrow, I have to kill the pigs in advance today.
The three black native pigs that Zhang An's family bought at the beginning of the year have been raised for seven or eight months, and it is already time for them to be slaughtered.
A butcher came to my door before and planned to buy it. It may be because the price of meat is relatively low this year. The price offered by others was not high, so Wang Fang was unwilling to sell it.
So I have been raising them until now, and each one now weighs about three hundred pounds.
The other eight little wild boars brought back by Zhang An have also grown a lot now.
In the past, the reason why these guys didn't grow taller was because they had not been groomed, so they had to eat and make trouble in the circle all day long.
Later, Zhang An got fed up and went back to an old well that groomed pigs, and neatly cut off all the things they needed to do.
Since then, the pig pen at home has been much quieter. They don't make any noise anymore, and they eat and sleep.
Pigs with six pure roots are good pigs. Only when they have no worldly desires can they grow meat by eating.
Each head now weighs more than 100 kilograms.
During the Chinese New Year, Zhang An decided to kill one and try it out to see what the wild boar meat he had raised tasted like.
Hearing Li Hongbin shout, Zhang An led them towards the old courtyard.
The pigs raised by Zhang An's family are still kept in the pig pen in the old yard.
"Look, which end do you want?"
Zhang An opened the pigsty and asked Li Hongbin to choose.
Li Hongbin didn't hesitate. After looking around, he settled on the biggest of the three native pigs.
"Well, this is the big guy."
Seeing that Li Hongbin had made his choice, Zhang An drove that end out.
The local second senior brother still didn't know what was waiting for him, so he was driven out.
There is now a special place for killing pigs in the drying area, with a stove for burning fire and a stone table for shaving.
When the water in the big iron pot boils, it's time to kill the pig.
The pig butcher in the village was waiting on the drying ground early in the morning with his food.
When everyone put him on the chopping board, the second senior brother realized that he was not going to die soon.
He was howling loudly and struggling for his life, and the scene was quite tragic.
It is estimated that many people came to press this pig today, because this pig is similar to the two pigs that were killed at Nian Zhang An's house.
This pig is so strong that it can't hold it down without a few people.
Many people in the village had seen the New Year pig killed by Zhang An's family last year. The head was really big.
But in fact, everyone is not convinced. Everyone raises pigs. How can you raise such a big pig?
This year everyone thinks that other places can’t compare, at least this year the pigs must be bigger than those fed by Zhang An’s family.
Moreover, everyone had good harvests last year and this year, so they were willing to feed the pigs.
If you are willing to invest, you will reap the rewards. The pigs we fed this year are all growing very well, and all of them are fat and strong.
By the time it's raised during the Chinese New Year, it will be as big as two hundred and eighty-nine or three hundred kilograms.
But today, when I saw the pig that Li Hongbin bought for Zhang An's family, it was incomparable.
I also want to feed more corn, and raise the pigs to 300 jin before the Chinese New Year.
As a result, the pigs in the pen now weigh more than 300 kilograms.
Comparing people with each other makes people angry.
It doesn't matter if you can't make as much money as others, after all, people's brains are different.
But no one has a good harvest of crops, and no one has a good way of feeding pigs.
Now everyone was convinced and no longer wanted to compare. There was no comparison at all.