"Okay then, thank you, Brother Ahua! Come and drink tea when you have time!" A-Ying replied as she walked quickly into the room with the child in her arms.

Ah Hua took Lu Yao out of the iron door, Lu Yao immediately turned around and pulled the iron door shut, and reached through the crack in the door to insert the latch in his right hand. Ah Hua, who was standing next to him, looked at Lu Yao with approving eyes and nodded.

They walked through a low lychee forest and saw that the weeds inside and outside each ditch and under the lychee trees were hoeed clean.

"Lu Yao, you don't see it, this half of the mountain is planted with lychee trees, a total of more than 300 acres, all of which are taken care of by Ah Ying, isn't she very powerful?" Ah Hua asked with a smile.

"It's amazing! She still has so many children, how can she be busy?" Lu Yao exclaimed.

"Two months ago, there were three or four workers working in the orchard, two of whom were relatives of Ah Ying. In the last two months, I don't know what happened to the two relatives' families, so they went back together. The other two workers like to be lazy at work, have a big addiction to smoking, and are not very hygienic. You say that Ah Ying has so many children, how can she stand them? The day after her two relatives left the orchard, Ah Ying fired the two workers. In the past two months, A-Ying has been taking care of the orchard alone. Ah Hua said.

"We walked all the way and saw the hoeed grass, all of which were made by A-Ying?" Lu Yao asked.

"Yes, she did all this work! I didn't expect it? A soft-looking woman with a pregnancy in her belly and four children is so capable, right?" Ah Hua asked with a smile.

"Oh my God! This large orchard with grass is at least more than 100 acres, right? She has four children and has to hoe two to three acres of grass every day, how did she do it?" Lu Yao asked incredulously.

"This is what A-Ying is capable of. Do you still have the confidence to work here? If you don't have the confidence, go back to my construction site right away. Ah Hua said with a smile.

"There is still confidence, but I am worried that the efficiency of working without Ah Ying will disappoint you. Besides, I've already met Chen Gong, and if you quit before you started working, you will look down on me. Lu Yao said.

"I am very happy that you can think like this, which means that Chen Gong and I are not wrong about you. Since you have decided to stay, you don't have any mental baggage, just let go and work hard. In fact, there are still certain skills in working in the orchard, for example, the soil quality here and what kind of fruit trees are planted, as well as the topography and orientation of the orchard, you have to do an in-depth understanding, and you will be able to know what to do when you are working, develop your strengths and avoid weaknesses, and get twice the result with half the effort.

Just like where we are now, southwest of the orchard, there is basically no sun until ten o'clock in the morning. If you come to work in this orchard at six o'clock in the morning and work until ten o'clock in the morning, you will work for four hours, which is basically the completion of the morning's work. After 3 p.m., there are large areas to the northeast and southwest of the orchard that are not exposed to the sun. If you come out at three o'clock in the afternoon and work until seven o'clock in the evening, which is also four o'clock, your day's work is done. As for whether the workload is completed or not, it is up to you to grasp it. Ah Hua said with a smile.

"Thank you boss for the advice, I remember everything, I will do things seriously and not let you down. Lu Yao said.

"Okay, the place where you work has arrived, I should go back to the construction site, I'll come to see you again when I have time! Young man, do a good job!" After Ah Hua finished speaking, he stretched out his big palm and patted Lu Yao on the shoulder, turned around and walked briskly outside the orchard.

Lu Yao watched Ah Hua's back disappear into the lychee forest, he walked to a lychee tree without a hoe, stood up, rolled up his sleeves, raised the hoe with both hands, and dug hard at the roots of a handful of grass.

With a muffled sound, the hoe was bounced up more than two feet high, and the hoe shook the tiger's mouth of his two hands, and he almost got out of his hands. Especially in the left hand that raised the hoe in front, all five fingers were shaken open.

He put the hoe on his waist and shook his hands a few times to relieve the pain. He looked down and saw that the hoe was digging into a pebble. He squatted down, picked up the pebble and threw it aside, and then remembered that A-Ying had introduced the soil quality here just now, which belonged to sandy loam soil, and it was normal to have sand and gravel in it.

After his two hands recovered, he lifted the hoe and looked at the opening, and the middle position was slightly rolled, which did not affect the continued use.

He immediately realized that hoeing in the orchard could not dig hard. But how do you hoe the weeds out of them quickly?

Isn't there an orchard next to it where Ah Ying hoeed the grass? That's a ready-made model. So Lu Yao walked to the orchard where the grass was hoeed, squatted down and studied it carefully.

He used his hands to pick up a piece of excavated soil, and saw that the depth of the soil was basically between three and five centimeters, that is, a quarter of the depth of the hoe, just enough to turn out the grass roots.

After Lu Yao understood, he immediately walked back to the place where there was no hoeing, and raised the hoe with both hands to dig it gently. This time the hoe was not bounced off, but the depth was not enough, and it only cut the weeds and could not be dug out with the roots.

He tried several more times before he was able to dig to a depth of three to five centimeters with relative ease. He digs and turns over with a hoe, and then uses a hoe to break up the dirt, leaving the roots of the grass exposed to the sun, but slowly. Not to mention hoeing two to three acres a day like A-Ying, it is difficult to hoe one acre a day at such a speed.

Now he has no better way to increase the speed of hoeing, but to speed up the frequency of hoeing. What he thinks is that if he does more and works for a long time, he will naturally become proficient.

Lu Yao didn't have a watch, so he couldn't grasp the exact time. He could only make a rough judgment from the scorching sun above his head and the short shadows underground, it should be noon.

He looked back at the land he had hoeed, and saw that it was less than half an acre. If you continue to work at this rate, even if you don't eat lunch and work until dark, it will be difficult to hoe two acres of land. The work efficiency is more than half that of a pregnant woman who seems to be a little weak and has four children, which is really faceless.

Just when Lu Yao was dancing the hoe frequently, while meditating on how to increase the hoeing speed, a crisp voice suddenly sounded behind him: "Lu Yao, it's time for lunch, it's time to get off work." Don't you have a watch with you?"

"Oh, hostess, yes, I don't have a watch. Lu Yao hurriedly stood up straight, turned his head and replied with a red face.