"Anzi, you didn't get it too early. If you haven't eaten it, I asked your second grandma to make it for you."
When they arrived at Mr. Huang's house, Mr. Huang remembered to ask Zhang An if he had had breakfast.
"Second Master, don't bother, our family has already eaten in the morning."
When Mr. Huang found Huang Ming and his son, the group set out for their plum fields.
Zhang An thinks that fruit thinning is just that. If there are too many fruits on the tree, pick some to reduce the pressure on the branches.
Just like people, when carrying something, don't carry it too heavy, otherwise you won't be able to walk very far.
In later generations, planting suddenly emerged, and many people talked about fruit thinning very profoundly.
Sometimes it's a rule like this, sometimes it's a rule like that.
But no matter what is said or not, whether it is principled or not, as long as the fruit is thinned, the bad fruit must be removed first.
Then look at the density of the fruit and the location of the fruit, whether on the edge of the branch or below the branch.
In the end, these are all eliminated, and it all depends on the size of the fruit shape.
In short, in one sentence, admission is based on merit.
While Zhang An was explaining it to Mr. Huang, his father and his son, he pulled a tree and started thinning the fruit for them to see.
There were indeed too many green fruits this year. By the time Zhang An finished thinning the fruits, the tree would only have about half of the plums left.
After Zhang An explained all the things that needed attention, he left his grandfather, grandson, father and son to take matters into their own hands.
After all they keep talking about it, why not let them try it themselves.
This is just like reading, holding the book for a long time and listening to the teacher for a long time.
It is better to do a few exercises yourself after listening and reading to gain a deeper understanding.
This is the first time for Mr. Huang and his family of three to do such work.
Although Zhang An said so much just now, Huang Erye and Huang Dabiao didn't fully remember many things.
On the contrary, the young Huang Ming has a good memory and has memorized the most important points Zhang An said.
But that’s okay. You just learned it, so it doesn’t matter if you can’t remember it.
Anyway, Zhang An is still here, so if you don’t understand or remember, just ask directly.
After everyone grabbed two plum trees and thinned the fruits, Huang Erye and the other three had basically mastered the essentials.
Anyway, that's how fruit thinning happens, just watch it.
If it's serious, there are reference answers just like the exam.
It is impossible for everything Zhang An himself does to meet the standards.
By noon, Mrs. Huang had already prepared lunch.
Now the old lady ran to the field and called everyone back to have lunch.
From morning to now, each of them has only sorted out the progress of three or four fruit trees.
Because the fruit thinning had just started in the morning and they were not very familiar with it, the speed was relatively slow.
Moreover, the plum tree in Mr. Huang’s house is very big and has many branches.
Over the years, it has not produced any serious fruit.
The fertility has finally caught up this year, and each of these plum trees looks like it has been suppressed for many years.
The more fruit there is on the tree, the more fruit needs to be picked, which naturally takes more time.
Zhang An's hands were faster and he was able to thin out a few more trees than the rest of them.
According to their speed, there are about ten trees per day.
There are more than 100 plum trees in these two acres of land, so it will probably take several days.
Zhang An was here at noon, and Mrs. Huang cooked a lot of dishes, most of which were meat dishes.
There is also a lot of bacon and chicken stew, and we also took out the pork legs that were marinated last year.
"Secretary Huang, just make whatever you want. It's like hosting a banquet."
Zhang An looked at the table full of dishes and realized that Mrs. Huang was so polite.
"I just did it casually, Xiao An, don't be polite."
As Grandma Huang spoke, she placed a few hard dishes in front of Zhang An.
"Xiao An is here to eat. You don't often come to the second master's house for dinner. I want to entertain you today."
Huang Erye smiled and poured some wine for Zhang An. Although it was noon, it was still okay to have a sip.
Zhang An picked up a piece of bacon and put it in his mouth, and found that the meat was very delicious.
Although it is bacon that has been smoked, there is still a lot of oil in the meat.
It tastes not dry or dry at all, fat but not greasy, and it doesn't taste salty at all.
It's different from ordinary bacon, even the bacon smoked by Zhang An's family.
It still tastes a bit dry and dry.
Moreover, the bacon is marinated in salt water before being smoked, so even if the bacon is cooked and then fried, it will still have a salty taste.
"Second Master, what is your bacon smoked with? Why is it so delicious?"
"It's smoked from green-bar trees and oriental arborvitae. Last year I went up the mountain with you and chopped them down, you forgot."
Although Mr. Huang said so, Zhang An still felt something was wrong. He also smoked it in this way, so why was there such a big difference?
"That's not right. Ours is also smoked with cypress trees and oriental cypress trees, but it's different from the ones you smoke."
Hearing this, Mr. Huang smiled and said, "And did you know that when smoking meat, the fire cannot be very high all the time. You can burn it bigger in the first two days, and then you have to smoke it slowly on a low fire."
"How many days will it take for the fire to burn down?"
"Just smoke it for a few more days. Our bacon is smoked from the time it is cured and put on the shelf until the New Year."
Many people's bacon, including Zhang An's, usually smokes it for about ten days, and then it's almost ready.
No wonder this smoked meat is so delicious, because others do it more carefully and take more time.
"Then when the bacon comes this year, I will try the same thing. This is bacon, and what I usually eat is in vain."
After receiving the guidance, Zhang An will definitely try it this year.
"And your bacon doesn't taste salty. How did Master Er pick it?"
"This is the bacon recipe I came up with myself."
In the past, Mr. Huang often brought back some mountain goods from the mountains.
Game such as pheasants and rabbits are generally not available for sale now, and their family would definitely be reluctant to eat them all at once.
So most of them are marinated and made into wax chicken and rabbit for easy storage.
However, after eating too much of the normally pickled chicken and rabbit, Mr. Huang felt that it tasted bad.
So I just thought about it on my own, thinking about how to make it delicious.
A lot of pheasants and hares were wasted along the way, which Mistress Huang talked about every day.
It took me a long time to finally come up with a satisfactory marinated meat recipe.
When he heard that it was Mr. Huang's own recipe, Zhang An didn't open his mouth to ask any more questions.
However, Huang Erye took the initiative to tell Zhang An the recipe for bacon before he could speak.
"Anzi, please don't go there this afternoon. You still have work to do at home, and there isn't much left. We can finish it in a few days."
After dinner, Huang Erye said to Zhang An.
Zhang An's family also had something to do today, and they were spending money to find someone to make ends meet.
He found Zhang An so early in the morning and was already a little embarrassed.
But no one in my family knew how to do fruit thinning before, so no matter how embarrassed I was, I could only trouble Zhang An to come over.
I originally wanted to ask the old lady to help with the weeding at Zhang An's house, but then there would be no one at home to cook.
Now several people in the family are already good at thinning fruits, so there is no need to trouble Zhang An anymore.
Although I am not familiar with it now, I can do it slowly and I will be familiar with it next year if I do it more.
"Okay, second master, I will go back first. If you need anything, come to me."
Zhang An thought for a while and agreed without being polite to Mr. Huang.
There are more than 100 trees in their plum field, and they will probably be finished in just a few days.
The rest should be used as a training exercise for them.
After Zhang An returned, he didn't see his father and mother at home.
Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo had finished their lunch early and were now wearing bamboo hats and weeding in the melon patch with everyone else.
Before Zhang An reached the field, he found that all the weeds in the watermelon field had been hoeed.
Zhang An was originally quite curious as to why they were so fast.
Only when we got to the field did we realize that it was because someone was helping.
In addition to the people Wang Fang called to weed, there are many people in the field pulling weeds now.
These are the families who raise livestock in the village. Except in the cold winter months, everyone will go outside to cut grass.
So this morning, there were several people in the village who were going out to mow the grass.
When we walked to the river, the people who were weeding in the melon field started chatting.
I found that the grass in Zhang An's melon field grew more pleasantly than that in the rapeseed field.
So they simply stopped drilling the rapeseed fields and cut grass in Zhang An's melon fields.
They didn't even use sickles to cut the grass that grew so tall.
Instead, the grass is first uprooted, bundled into handfuls, and finally the roots are sawed off with a sickle.
Because everyone is a farmer, the upper part of this grass needs to be cut off, and the grass roots buried in the soil are difficult to shovel.
Usually when we hoe the corn fields at home, we first pull out the grass by hand.
Then use a hoe to weed, which will be much faster, and you don't have to worry about the hoe damaging the crop seedlings.
When they returned home with the grass on their backs, they met many people who were out mowing grass on the road.
When everyone sees such luxuriant young grass, they will definitely ask where it was cut.
After all, livestock like to eat the green and tender hogweed.
Many people heard that the grass was cut in Zhang An's home field.
Moreover, Zhang An's family has already found many people who are weeding, and if they don't go there, they may be finished.
So those who were going to mow the grass rushed to Zhang An's melon field with baskets on their backs.
In this way, there were more and more people in Zhang An's melon field.
Wang Fang originally invited seven or eight people, but in the end the number of people doubled.
They pulled it out first, and then everyone hoeed it very quickly.
There are also many people who have already carried a basket home and come back to continue cutting.
What's more, they pulled a pile of grass from the field and sawed it, and then brought the family's horse over to carry it.
Anyone who has cut grass in the countryside knows that often you have to walk a long way to cut grass.
No one wants to walk that far carrying such a heavy load of pigweed.
And Zhang An's home is right at the entrance of the village, so there is no need to walk far.
They all knew that Zhang An's family was in a hurry to hoe the grass.
So after each one finished cutting a basket and carried it home, he came back and started cutting again.
Because maybe by tomorrow, the grass in this field will be hoeed.
Just doing this for a whole morning, at least enough to feed the family's livestock for a few days, why not do such a thing.
Zhang An saw that their speed was quite fast, so he did not go to the fields to help.
Since Mr. Huang's family is all thinning their fruits, it's time to thin out the plum trees in his own house.
Perhaps because there is too much spring water, there are many more fruits hanging on this plum tree than in Mr. Huang's house.
There are many branches on the plum tree that are bent due to too many plums.
When Zhang An was thinning the plum trees, many people were watching.
They all didn't understand why Zhang An had to pick off so many unripe plums when the plum tree was bearing well.
Because in their cognition, it’s just crops or whatever, the more they produce, the better.
Zhang An smiled and slowly explained to them the benefits of doing so.
Only then did everyone realize that there were so many things inside the fruit they planted.
This is like the principle that 33 to 9 is not as good as 2510.
The next day, Zhang An found the home of his second uncle and third uncle.
"Second uncle, third uncle, the peaches planted at home need to be pollinated."
Yesterday, he ran to the foot of Qing and took a look. The kiwi fruits he had planted were now in bloom.
This kiwi fruit is different from other fruit trees in that it requires manual pollination.
Even though there are various bees, butterflies and other insects during this period, the pollination rate is still not high.
In the end, the result rate was less than ideal and the output was not high.
Therefore, in order to increase the pollination rate, artificial pollination is still necessary.
Zhang An told them this when they first planted the sheep peaches.
"Then don't do anything else first, just do the pollination work Xiao An said."
Although there is work at home during this period, it is not something that you need to do in a hurry. You can put it aside first.
Moreover, the flowering period of kiwi fruit is short, so you have to hurry up.
Then Zhang An asked Zhang Tie to call Zhang Laosan over, and their family also planted several acres of land.
So in order to save trouble, Zhang An planned to call him over together and teach them all together.
Ordinary kiwi fruit will not bear fruit in the first year because it grows too slowly.
But the kiwi saplings selected through spatial selection grew much faster.
But it's not that exaggerated. Only a few flowers bloomed in the first year.
However, this is already a very good speed, otherwise we would have to wait a few years.
"Anzi, second uncle, third uncle, Zhang Tie said you were looking for me."
"Third brother, the sheep peaches have bloomed in the past two days. I plan to tell my second uncle and third uncle about pollination. I just called you over. You should not be busy this year."
We are all from the village, so if you can help, please drop by.
Moreover, Zhang Laosan’s seedlings were bought from Zhang An.
By then, at the house of Zhang An's two uncles, the vines were covered with fruits.
Due to pollination problems, their family did not produce many fruits by then.
Maybe then he will feel that Zhang An lied to him by giving him crooked information.
"It turns out that this is the thing. Even if you have something to do, you have to put it down first. Apart from harvesting the grains, there is nothing more important than this."
As soon as Zhang Laosan heard that Zhang An wanted to teach them to pollinate, even if there was something going on today, he would push it.
Otherwise, if you go find someone alone another day, they may not be available yet.