After the Qingming Festival, the temperature rises, and every household begins to prepare for spring plowing.
The fields are being plowed with corn stubble, planning what to plant this year, the fields are being planted, the ponds are being planted, and the sheds are very busy.
Xu Shiyan was transferred to work at No. 1 Shenzhen Field. He only had time off on Sundays and could not help much with family affairs.
Xu Chenghou had to take care of two families' seven-acre farmland, nearly one mu of private land, and sticks for logging into the land.
For an old man in his sixties, it is a bit difficult.
Xu Shiyan and his wife discussed that they might as well give their land to others to farm, and then just provide them with some food.
Xu Shiyan provides food at home, and the children are still young and can't eat much. Besides, it's not impossible to buy food now. There is really no need to burden Xu Chenghou.
It would be more reasonable to concentrate on running those sticks and breeding farms.
The couple agreed and went to Xu Chenghou to discuss it, but Xu Chenghou refused to give in.
He has been an old farmer all his life, how can he do anything if he doesn’t farm?
Now this land belongs to the family, no matter where it is, they have to plant it.
The two sides were in a stalemate, with no one willing to give in.
"Dad, if you don't agree, I have no choice but to wean the two little ones.
There is so much land that I cannot let you do it alone. I will grow our own land myself.
It’s okay, I used to grow the land at home when I didn’t have a house.”
When Su Anying saw that this was not going to work, she decided to use her trump card to wean her child.
"What? Wean the baby? How can that be done? These two are not even their first birthday yet. How can you wean them?"
Xu Chenghou and Zhou Guilan were shocked when they heard this.
"Yuanyuan, at that time, you were pregnant with Pingping, and weaned off because there was really no milk left, so it only lasted eleven months.
Pingping had been drinking breast milk for fifteen months at that time, and when it came to both of them, you had to wean her off after only ten months?
No, absolutely not, I tell you, it will take at least one birthday, and you don’t want to trick my grandchildren."
Zhou Guilan was very angry.
"Mom, what do you think we should do?
There are several acres of land here waiting to be planted, the Bangchui land on the mountain also needs work, and the breeding farm at the other end will soon build a flower shed.
Shi Yan can't take care of his work, so I have to take care of him?
If these two cubs don't get suckled, can I still go up to the mountain to plant half of the land and come back to feed them?"
With the support of her husband, Su Anying also has a tough attitude.
Otherwise, there is no way to deal with it, and there is no way to reason with the old man, so we can only do this.
Zhou Guilan choked for a moment, yes, so much work was left to her daughter-in-law, and there were two nursing children at home. It was really embarrassing.
"Father, Mom, where are you two now? With the food and money my eldest brother and the others give you every month, you actually don't have much to eat.
We can grow some of that private land and the good land allocated by the team ourselves, which will be enough for us to eat.
Whoever is willing to plant the rest of the land can plant it and just give us some food in the autumn.
In this way, my father took care of two or three acres of land and a stick on the mountain, and Yingzi helped.
In just one or two years, the child will get a little older and things will get better, right?"
Xu Shiyan is in the middle singing the red face and being sweet.
There is no need to wait for two or three years. At most, the clivias in the flower shed will be sold in the autumn and winter of next year, so there will be less effort there.
The brigade's ginseng field didn't take a few years to work on, and from now on it was all done individually.
When the time comes, Xu Shiyan will find a way to jointly approve land for ginseng with Huang Shengli and others, and hire blind laborers to work on it. He can just go up and take a look at it on Sunday.
As for the little land, I can just plant it if I like it. Planting less is just a sport.
Otherwise, this old man has been busy all his life, and it would be really uncomfortable to suddenly let him have some time off.
The couple sang and harmonized, and the old couple had to take care of their grandchildren. In the end, they had no choice but to surrender.
"Okay then, just do what the third child said, let's keep some good land at home and grow everything we like to eat.
I'll ask anyone else who wants to plant it." The old man finally stopped being stubborn and nodded in agreement.
Xu Shiyan and his wife looked at each other and couldn't help but chuckle, finally making sense.
So, Xu Chenghou said that if his own land could not be planted, whoever wanted to plant it could just provide some grain in the autumn.
Not to mention, several families came to ask, and finally I paid for it to a family with a good relationship with the Xu family.
The two parties agreed that there would be a total of five and a half acres of land, and the Xu family would be given 40 jins of soybeans and 200 jins of rice in autumn.
Grain production is not high these days. If there is too much, people will not plant it if they cannot afford it.
The remaining one and a half acres of good land, together with the two families' private land, were left to Xu Chenghou.
Xu Chenghou had long thought about planting some millet, millet, sorghum, adzuki beans, soybeans, and sticky rice.
Just like he said, grow some of everything and keep it for your own consumption.
He had livestock and a plow at home, so there was no need to ask for help. At four o'clock in the morning, Xu Shiyan and his father put on the plow and went to the ground together.
It took two mornings to complete the trek.
On Sunday, together with Su Anying, they planted the fields in one afternoon.
After planting the land, the family has nothing to think about. It is time to start construction on the flower shed at the other end of the farm.
The flower shed was built in the style of a vegetable greenhouse, with a single slope. However, there was no greenhouse film in these days, so we could only use glass windows.
Xu Shiyan asked someone from Lin Jian to come over and explain to them what kind of garden shed he wanted. He drew the design and prepared the materials.
The only thing left was that Xu Shian and Su Anying came over to watch. Xu Shiyan didn't have time.
If a ginseng farm wants to conduct experiments on growing Gastrodia elata in old ginseng fields, it must have Gastrodia elata seeds.
So starting from May, Yi Shen Farm has been advertising in villages and forest farms in the forest area to harvest fresh Gastrodia elata.
Experienced mountain runners don't have to wait for Gastrodia elata to emerge. They go into the mountains with a shovel. If they are lucky, they can dig ten or eight kilograms in a day.
In recent years, the price of dried Gastrodia elata has increased quite rapidly.
The key is that some beekeepers from the south come here. They love gastrodia elata and often buy it at high prices.
As a result, the price of gastrodia elata has risen, and now a pound of dry goods costs about seven or eight yuan.
Fresh Gastrodia elata is collected in the field for two yuan per catty, regardless of whether it has sprouted or not, and regardless of its size, even small rice and gastronomy are required.
At this price, many people think it is a good deal.
How great would it be to dig it out and dry it in the sun without having to wash it or cook it? It can be sent directly to the purchase point and you will be paid according to the weight.
Therefore, many people dug Gastrodia elata and sent it to the purchasing point. The site sent people to carry it back every two days.
All the Gastrodia elata transported back were arranged by Xu Shiyan and sent to Caozihe Ginseng Field, the old ginseng field where Bangchui was established last year.
Place the bacteria sticks that have been mixed with Armillaria bacteria and fermented in advance in the ginseng soil, place divided Gastrodia elata in the middle, and then cover it with soil and branches and leaves, especially oak leaves.
The old ginseng fields are all black soil rich in humus. The soil has good air permeability, and the ginseng soil planted with sticks is rich in bacterial flora, which is conducive to the growth of Armillaria bacteria.
Under natural conditions, old ginseng fields can easily grow Gastrodia elata after years of development.
Therefore, planting Gastrodia elata in old ginseng fields has its own advantages, but the initial investment is a bit higher.
Wait for the seeds to be saved next year, and then cultivate the germination bacteria of the small solitary fungus to cooperate with Armillaria fungi. Then you can realize the cycle and cultivate it in a large area.