Zhang An first took them to transplant watermelon seedlings, and they were able to plant one plant quite far away.
So everyone subconsciously feels that their transplant speed is so fast.
So when I transplanted the strawberries now, I spent a long time planting myself and found that there was not much land behind me.
Looking back, I realized that although I was not standing still, it was much slower than planting melon seedlings.
They thought that because they were busy chatting about household chores, the work at hand had slowed down, and the land could not be cultivated.
So I didn’t say much after that and just worked on what I was doing seriously.
After all, the wages paid by Zhang An's family are relatively high, almost the same as those working outside.
This is no better than working outside. You don’t have to spend money on food, drink, and housing. You get everything you earn, and you can still take care of your family.
With such good job remuneration, they are quite proud to tell others about it.
If it were really because I kept chatting and chatting about home matters, I couldn't get through this work and wasted time.
They were all worried that when Zhang An's family looked for someone in the future, they wouldn't be able to find them.
Seeing them like this, Zhang An smiled and reminded them.
Let them not only focus on speed, but also pay attention to the quality of the seedlings.
If the quality is not up to standard, it will be exhausting to replenish the seedlings later.
Spring fights for the day, summer fights for the time, everything should be done sooner rather than later.
Not long ago, I was busy for several days to plant the watermelons and strawberries in the nest.
Zhang An kept watering it for several days, and the seedlings he planted had begun to take root and grow.
In the past two days, new buds have basically grown.
As soon as she had some free time, Wang Fang rushed to plant vegetables in her two vegetable plots.
I'm afraid that if I plant too late, my own vegetables will still be seedlings when all the vegetables in other people's fields are ready for cooking.
And after a while, the weather got better and people started coming from the village.
There will be a greater demand for vegetables by then. If we don’t plant them now, we won’t have enough vegetables to cook.
Last year, Wang Fang planted two acres of peppers at home, and last year's peppers produced many and large peppers.
Last year's pepper production was really high. Wang Fang originally thought that there was no end to the peppers.
After making chopped peppers at home, there were still a lot of dried peppers left, and I might have to sell some on the street.
But Wang Fang didn't expect that the chili noodles and oil chili made at home last year would be liked by everyone.
The chili noodles made by Wang Fang are different. There are paste chili noodles and five-spice chili noodles that are pounded with five spices.
Anyway, there are four or five different kinds, with different spices added and different tastes.
Almost everyone who came to the door bought some to take home when they went back.
Most of them are locals from Guizhou Province and have grown up eating chili peppers.
Whether the chili is good or not, they will know as soon as they eat it.
So last year, Zhang An’s chili was only reserved for his own family.
Others didn't make it to the end of the year and were already sold out. In the end, they had to buy chili peppers for the villagers to cook.
Wang Fang did not expect that her family was originally a farmhouse, no matter how bad it was, it was still a small restaurant.
But in the end, I actually made a lot of money from chili peppers.
So when Wang Fang ordered chili this year, she ordered twice as much.
This year I plan to plant peppers in the vegetable patch behind the old house.
I don’t know if people from outside like it, but there are also many people in the village who like Zhang An’s spicy food.
At the beginning of this year, when ordering spicy seeds, many people from the village came to ask for spicy seeds.
Fortunately, when I cut the chili peppers and pounded them into chili noodles last year, all the chili seeds were left behind.
Otherwise, with so many people asking for it, there really wouldn’t be much to give.
At this rate, Zhang An feels that the chili peppers grown in the village in the future will basically be his own chili peppers.
After finishing his work in the fields, Zhang Jianguo returned to his old profession.
After breakfast every day, I would drive the family's sheep and Dahei to the mountains to graze.
And he wasn't the only one, Huang Erye also drove the family's cattle with him.
These two people drove their animals up the mountain every day when they had nothing to do, which was very cool.
The old scalper of Mr. Huang's family gave birth to another calf this year. Now they have three cows, which means they are already wealthy.
Many people in the village laughed and said that Zhang Jianguo had lived the life of Mr. Huang ahead of schedule.
This is not a joke, but real envy.
Mr. Huang's family has always lived better than most other families in the village, relying on the old man's skills that he knows well in the mountains.
There is no pressure in life, so you can go to the mountains to herd cattle without any worries.
Who among the people in the village who are as old as him would not want to be so leisurely.
Herding cattle is easy and hassle-free, but the crops in the fields still have to be worked on.
The vegetable field had just been planted, and Wang Fang hadn't had much rest when someone called her to go up the mountain to pick young ferns.
At this time, Zhang An remembered that it was now the season for eating bracken.
Every year in March, everyone takes advantage of the busy time of spring before it arrives.
Busy going up the mountain to dig more spring bamboo shoots and pick some bracken.
Zhang An originally wanted to go, but Wang Fang asked him to watch at home, so that no one would come to the house and there would be no one at home.
Wang Fang has not been out since she harvested her crops last year and has been staying at home.
The villagers jokingly called her boss's wife at first, but they didn't expect everyone to call her the same in the end.
I finally got an acquaintance calling me today, so I naturally wanted to go up the mountain to get some fresh air.
So after Wang Fang followed the maids up the mountain, Zhang An became the shopkeeper at home.
Only then did I realize that it was not easy to stay at home. From time to time, people came over to buy some things.
Some people come here to buy eggs, which is easier. Just give them the number according to the price.
But some people want chickens and geese, and they have to weigh them to calculate the price.
Zhang An didn't spend much time anyway, and someone came as soon as he sat down.
Wang Fang usually does these things, and Zhang An doesn't pay much attention to them.
When I started doing this today, I found that I was quite busy at home as well.
When it was almost lunch time, no one came to the door.
Zhang An only had time to prepare lunch. His old mother was not at home today.
Therefore, Zhang An has to complete such a big task as cooking.
"Zhang An, Zhang An, is anyone home?"
While cooking in the kitchen, Zhang An heard someone calling him outside.
"Hey, why are you here?"
The person calling Zhang An outside was none other than Ding Yi, and there was actually a woman who came with him.
"Why, don't you introduce me?"
Zhang An looked at the people next to him who came with Ding Yi and said with a smile.
"Hey, my wife Li Li came with me this time."
Zhang An knew that Ding Yi was married and was among the group of people who came to Zhang An's house at that time.
Only Chen Ze is single and not married yet.
"Hello, sister-in-law, I finally met you today."
Zhang An greeted Li Li warmly.
"I said, Lao Ding, you are the same person. You come here often by yourself and don't bring your sister-in-law with you."
"It's not his fault. I've been staying in the provincial capital and wanted to come with him for a long time, but I never had the chance."
Li Li doesn't look particularly stunning, but she gives people a virtuous look.
Zhang An felt more comfortable while talking to her.
"Aren't uncle and aunt at home?"
When he entered the house, he didn't find Zhang An's parents, so Ding Yi asked curiously.
"They went up the mountain and may be back soon."
Zhang An took the two of them to the backyard to sit and talk together.
"By the way, if you want to eat today, feel free to say so, but my mother is not here today and I am the one cooking, so don't dislike it."
"You can cook whatever you want. Anyway, everything you cook is delicious. Although your cooking skills are not as good as those of my aunt, your cooking is still tastier than the average person's."
Ding Yi is not polite to Zhang An, he now regards this place as his second home.
But for saying that, Li Li slapped her a few times.
"You are really a person who doesn't know how a guest follows his host. How can you talk so much when you are a guest at someone else's house?"
Ding Yi smiled and said something like this after his wife said something to him.
"It's okay, sister-in-law. We are all familiar with each other. We are not outsiders. Please don't be polite when you come here."
Zhang An usually couldn't tell when he looked at Ding Yi, but today he looked like he was tied up at home, and he couldn't help but want to laugh.
"By the way, Zhang An, when you cook later, put less chili pepper. Your sister-in-law is not from our area, she can't eat spicy food very well."
"Okay, I won't let it go. Let's make a dipping sauce. If you want something spicy, just dip it yourself."
When Zhang An was about to finish cooking, Zhang Jianguo drove his sheep home first, and Wang Fang came back later carrying a basket of young ferns.
When they saw the car in the yard, they knew there was a visitor at home.
When Ding saw this, he got up to say hello to the two of them and introduce his wife.
After lunch, Wang Fang didn't let Zhang An clean up and asked him to go talk to Ding Yi.
"Why do you have time to come here today?"
This man seems to be quite busy since the supermarket opened, and he actually has time to go to the countryside today.
"Last time I heard that you didn't get a fish tank for the big red carp. I happened to bring a few of them when I was in the supermarket. I'll send one to you."
Ding Yi opened the trunk and found a large glass fish tank inside.
"It's actually not that busy now. The supermarket staff has been recruited, and this time Li Li came here to help look after the supermarket."
Zhang An was not polite to him and lifted the large fish tank out of the car with one hand.
"Wow, Zhang An, are you so strong?"
Zhang An's move of carrying the fish tank with one hand shocked Li Li.
You must know that this fish tank is very large and not light at all.
When he came just now, Ding Yi asked two people to carry it together before putting it in the car.
"This man is a freak. He stabbed a wild boar to death by himself before. How heavy is this fish tank?"
Ding Yi and the others had long been accustomed to Zhang An's strange power, but after listening to what Ding Yi said, Li Li's eyes changed when she looked at Zhang An.
Zhang An has long been used to such strange looks.
Now that he had a fish tank, Zhang An filled it with water, washed it, disinfected it, and gave the red carp a new home.
"Hasn't your fish produced seeds yet?"
The belly of this fish was already quite big when I caught it last time.
It's been almost half a month now, and it's still so big.
"I guess the time is almost up, within the next two days."
When Zhang An just changed the water, he looked carefully at the water in the sand tank.
There are no roe inside, which means that the red carp has not started to produce roe yet.
Although the red carp was pregnant, Zhang An put a male fish inside to help hatch the roe.
However, Zhang An didn't know whether any of the fish roes produced could hatch into red fish roes.
But it doesn't matter, Zhang An is just waiting to see if there are any more red fish.
If there are, fish out the red fish and raise them. If they are all common carp, then release them into the river.
"What dish did Auntie choose?"
As soon as Ding saw Wang Fang picking bracken in the yard, he walked to the edge to take a look.
"This is called bracken. It's a wild vegetable that grows on the mountains in spring. It's the one you just picked up."
When Wang Fang came back, Zhang An brought out a handful of bracken and made fried bracken with bacon.
Ding Yi has been socializing with suppliers during this period, and usually eats a lot of big fish and meat.
When I encounter this fresh and tender wild bracken, I can’t stop eating it.
"So that vegetable looks like this. Are there many brackens on this mountain?"
"It's everywhere, but you can only eat it during this period, and there will be less after Qingming Festival."
These two days are the time when wild ferns are sprouting new moss. If you want to pick them, you can pick them anywhere on the mountain.
"Zhang An, go and ask people in your village to pick more, and I'll take them to the supermarket to sell."
Zhang An originally thought that Ding Yi was going to take some home to eat, but he didn't expect that he was going to put it in the supermarket to sell.
"No one wants to buy this stuff. It's everywhere. Who wants to spend money?"
Ding Yi smiled and said, "Don't you understand? Although there are many in your mountains, there are none in the city."
"And I don't want to make money with it. The mountain products I collected in your village last time were sold out within a few days of being placed in the store. I just thought that there was nothing to sell in the store, so I planned to use this bracken to continue the flow of people.
, otherwise the store will be out of stock and the flow of customers will be cut off.”
It turned out that this was what Ding Yi had in mind, "No need to shout, many of them just picked them in the morning. They are quite fresh now, so you can take them back."
Wang Fang then went to the village to inform several times that the people who had gone to pick bracken with her in the morning were now gathering in the yard of Zhang An's house, carrying bracken on their backs.
These bracken are picked for home use, so everyone picks the young ones.
After discussing with Zhang An, Ding Yi decided to buy it from the villagers at the price of 30 cents per catty.
The price is not low, even Chinese cabbage can't be sold for so much money.
And this thing is zero cost. If you go out with a basket in the morning, when you come back at noon, there will be at least sixty or seventy kilograms in the basket.
Originally, they were collected and used to make dried bracken at home. Unexpectedly, Zhang An's friend also spent money to buy it.
When they heard this, they didn't even think about making dried bracken. They all planned to sell them all to Ding Yi. There were so many on the mountain, and they could still pick them after selling them.
After collecting all these items, it already weighs almost three hundred kilograms.
Ding Yi didn't plan to make any big publicity, so he took it back to test the water first.
Because this is a wild vegetable with moisture, it is easy to lose water and wilt, so it cannot be stored for too long.
If everyone goes to pick it, they can get several thousand kilograms a day.
With such a large amount, even the vegetable market may not be sold out.
After each person received more than ten or twenty yuan, these maids were extremely happy.
I went there all morning and got so much money.
If you pick for a whole day, you can make more money than if you work for a whole day.