People's living standards are high, the price of apples is also rising year by year, even if it is three cents per catty, the yield per mu at the early fruit stage is 2,000 catties, and the income per mu is 600 yuan, which is higher than the income from growing crops. The orchard in the peak fruit period yields more than 5,000 catties per mu, and the benefits are greater.

What's more, in the 80s, the price of apples rose to five cents a catty. The huge benefits of growing apples have made people tempted.

The conventional apple varieties in the whole northern region are mainly red bananas and golden handsome, red bananas and apples are big and good, the big ones are close to one catty, and the small ones are at least three taels or more. The color is red and yellow, the taste is sweet, and it is loved by people. The maturity period coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the first choice for people to visit relatives and friends, and sales have been very good.

However, the disadvantage of red banana apples is also obvious, that is, the storage period is particularly short, and the storage period of eight medium-ripe is not more than a month. Really ripe red bananas and apples are only half a month old.

And red bananas and apples rot very quickly, as long as there is a rotten point, the whole apple will rot in a few hours, and it is difficult to pick it up.

The golden handsome apple is ripe and the color is golden, sweet and sour, the storage period wants to be longer, but at most two months, and the water loss is faster, after a month of storage, the skin begins to wrinkle, and the taste is much worse.

The golden handsome apple also has a fatal shortcoming, that is, it is susceptible to rust disease, the diseased golden handsome apple, the skin is covered with a layer of rust-like spots, less spots, more rust reaches more than 90%, especially ugly.

The golden handsome apple that has suffered from rust has become smaller, and the taste has not changed, but the appearance is particularly ugly, you can eat it yourself, but you can't go to relatives.

The key is that the golden handsome apple is infected with rust disease in particular, and some are infected from the seedling stage, and they can't be seen at first, and they can only know when they are hanging fruit.

The price of the diseased golden handsome apple must be low, the one with few spots can be sold for two cents, and the one with more spots is a dime, and people want to buy it cheaply and buy it home for the elderly and children to satisfy their hunger.

Therefore, people grow apples, mostly red bananas.

Red bananas and golden apples are both large fruit trees, planted with 30 trees per acre. Before the peak fruiting period, crops can be planted between the rows of apple trees.

Red bananas and golden handsome apples, four years to begin to bear fruit, the fifth year to start each plant yield can exceed 100 catties, ten years later into the full fruit, each plant yield of more than 200 catties, more can reach 300 catties. The highest yield of these two kinds of apples can be tens of thousands of catties.

After the price of apples rose to five cents, people began to plant apple trees on their farmland, and most of them were red banana varieties.

At present, most of the cultivated land per capita is more than two acres, and the population of each family is also large, and if two acres of fruit trees are planted, the grain harvested will not be eaten.

Even if an acre of fruit trees can earn 1,000 yuan, an annual income of 2,000 yuan is considered a high income. The annual salary of a state worker is less than 1,000 yuan, and the fruit trees of one acre of land can catch up with the annual income of a worker.

Besides, planting fruit trees is much easier than planting crops, and ten acres of fruit trees can't catch up with one acre of cotton.

Even farmers near the water also grow red bananas and golden handsome, after all, the price of these two apple seedlings is low, and a two-year-old seedling is only two yuan.

Moreover, these two kinds of fruit trees are large fruit trees, and only 30 trees need to be planted per mu, and the cost of one acre of land is only 60 yuan, and the cost of 2 acres of land is 100 yuan, which all farmers can afford.

The Hongfushan apple, is a dwarf compact quality, each mu needs 80 plants, the price of each plant is 15 yuan, and each mu of seedlings alone needs 1,200 yuan, the average farmer really can't afford to invest.

All the horticultural farms in the waterfront area have made a fortune from red toyama apples, not only selling apples, but also red Fuji seedlings. Their seedling raising technology has improved year by year, and the survival rate has now reached 70 percent.

You think of the record on the brain, in the late eighties, the apples in Lu Province entered the full fruit period, red banana and golden handsome two kinds of apples, due to the short storage period, it is not convenient for long-distance transportation, the price is so cheap that it can't be sold for a dime, and I can't eat it, even to the point of feeding pigs with apples. Many fruit farmers had no choice but to cut down the trees and plant their crops again.

It's a pity that I know this evil consequence, but there is nothing I can do about it. This kind of great development trend cannot be stopped by individual forces, and the wheel of history is really irreversible.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Han Aijun, Han Aimin and Youyou's father all returned, and Gui Jin and her partner also came back with their children.

At Uncle Yoyo's grandfather's house, Han Yuanchao was left alone. He had just arrived in Fucheng to take up his post, and he was the main leader of the "number one", and he could only come back on the afternoon of the thirtieth day of the lunar month.

The families who came back were stunned when they entered the village, and they were led into their homes all the time, but they didn't reflect it.

Adults and children go upstairs and downstairs when they enter the house. Knowing that they were back, Aunt Hongying led the people and had already arranged their house, and even the beds were neatly tidied up.

Liu Ran ran up and down to look at it, and said excitedly: "The buildings in our village are the best even in Kyoto, and they are better than Sister Wanying's villas." ”

She was right, Yoyo's mother's villa at Kyoto University is really not as good as Hantun Village. The setting of the room and the heating system are not as good as those of Hantun Village.

The three Zhigang brothers each picked a room, and Zhiping ran to her grandmother's house and squeezed into a room with Zhiru.

The things prepared for the New Year at home are particularly rich, but the canteen in the village is still open, and there is no club at home, and I still go to the canteen to eat.

During the meal, Han Aijun and the others sat with the men in the village. The aunt and uncle led the women and children, put together four dining tables, and sat together.

In the cafeteria, there is still the old standard, one meat, one vegetarian soup: braised pork stewed vermicelli, celery bean sprouts, tomatoes, spinach and egg soup.

Zhigang and his four brothers and sisters, when they saw celery sprouts, they didn't even eat braised pork, and they all went to celery.

Zhiping said to her grandmother while eating: "Grandma, it's better to be in our family, I've been growing up for a long time, and I haven't eaten vegetables." ”

Zhiru said to her: "I said I won't let you go back, you won't listen, our village has vegetables to eat every day, celery is nothing, and cucumbers and beans." You drink tomato and egg soup, and it tastes even more beautiful. ”

As he spoke, he pushed the soup bowl down in front of Zhiping, who stood up and took a look, and shouted happily, "It's really tomatoes!" ”

My aunt gave her a small bowl and said distressedly, "Drink it slowly, this soup is too hot, don't burn it." After eating, grandma will buy vegetables for you, and we will cook at home in the future, so that you can eat enough. ”