Qi Jingtao went downstairs to the courtyard and saw his father sitting in the shadow of the eaves as always, smoking a hookah leisurely. I came to my father and sat down, lit a cigarette by myself, took a few puffs, looked at my father and said, "Dad, when I went up the mountain in the morning, I met Uncle Zhenglin and his brothers who went to water the cigarettes, and their flue-cured tobacco had been transplanted. I told them to come over in the afternoon to help, and try to finish transplanting them all today, and water them once tomorrow morning and evening. ”

Qi Zhengming was silent for a while, "Well, their family has a lot of hands, and the work in the field is done quickly, and the transplanting was completed the day before yesterday." It's okay to ask them to come over and help, and your grandmother and Linlin won't go up the mountain. By the way, later, you go to the street to buy some food and come back, and invite a few of them to come over for lunch. ”

"Okay, let's go after smoking this cigarette. There are many procedures for transplanting flue-cured tobacco, and there are many people who are easy to work. Qi Jingtao couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that his father agreed to ask someone for help.

Qi Jingtao seemed to think of something, and asked casually: "Dad, is the depression of the Liangcang River in Houshan now under the management of the team or the village committee?"

"How do you think of that thatched valley? When we started the agricultural village, the brigade organized 11 production teams to open up a famine. The rest of the place was finished, and finally I wanted to dig out the thatched valley as well. After two slack seasons, a total of more than 100 acres of Taishan land worth cultivating have been opened. Later, a production team was divided.

The temperature in that valley is high, except for a small amount of water in the mountain valley, there is no water on the mountain at all, and the rice and wheat are planted by the sky, and finally some peach and pear fruit trees are carried casually. After the package was delivered, the family only got less than a cent of land, the land was too little, and the road was too far for anyone to take care of. In recent years, there have been many people who have gone out to find work, and no one wants to take care of it. The peach and pear fruit trees planted back then were basically abandoned after aging, and they were all called back to the old name of the thatched river. Hehe, why are you asking this?"

Qi Zhengming was familiar with the things on the village team, and he felt strange when he talked about it. How many years has Qi Jingtao not been to the thatched river, which was named the granary river by the production brigade with good wishes? When he was a child, he would go to pick fruits to eat. It seems that he has not been to the Thatched River since he entered high school, why is he suddenly interested in that place? Qi Zhengming looked at his son with a questioning expression.

Qi Jingtao took a puff of cigarette, thought for a while, looked at his father with a smile and asked, "Dad, if the entire mountain valley is contracted over, will the village agree?"

"The whole mountain valley, except for those mountains that are distributed to each family, the rest are barren hillside land, and the property rights are still in the village committee. That valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the wind is easy to enter and difficult to get out, so the climate there is hotter than the outside, and there is no water inside. Qi Zhengming looked at his son puzzled.

Qi Jingtao thought that Lao Qi had specially said a few days ago that the cherries and cherries grown in the valley of Liangcang River later tasted very good, which may be the reason why the special geographical environment of that valley is suitable for the growth of cherry trees. Well, find a time to go to that depression and take some soil samples and send them for analysis and testing, to see what the soil is doing. If contracted for a long time. As a large orchard management, as long as the early stage is willing to invest funds, the water flow at the bottom of the ditch will be intercepted to form a small reservoir to improve the climate and environment of the small area. Further investment in the construction of a road, the introduction of electrical equipment, the construction of some irrigation facilities and reservoirs, that mountain valley will have a lot to offer.

Of course, it is impossible for such a large orchard to be contracted and the family will work in person, but to manage it. It will not engage in extensive management like those who contract the orchards in the village, but will make large investments and build large-scale plantations.

There are many older villagers in the village like my father, and there are not many ways to go out to work and make money on weekdays. If you can help in the orchard near your home, you can work part-time and take care of the family's farm work. Thinking of this, Qi Jingtao smiled knowingly: "Dad, how do those cherries I got taste back?"

"It's delicious, much better than what is grown locally. What, do you want to grow cherries?" Qi Zhengming was relieved, there were some cherry trees planted in that valley, and the fruit quality was good. It's just that there are too few mountains and too far away from the village, and after they are scattered to each household, there is no one to manage them at all, and gradually it becomes barren. Whoever wants to eat it and pick it by themselves, no one cares at all. Those fruit trees have also become innate, and they have gradually aged and deteriorated.

"Well, Dad, you take the time to go to the village committee and ask, if you can do it, our family will contract all the valleys. ”

"It should be possible for the village committee to come forward, according to the situation in the past few years, it will not cost much to contract that mountain valley, except for the more than 100 acres of land in Taishan that will be distributed to each household will ask for rent, and the rest of the land will be assessed at a reasonable price. ”

Qi Zhengming is a veteran party member, used to be the captain of the production team, and has a place in the village committee, and he is very clear about the mountain and forest land contracting fees contracted by the village committee over the years, and he is not unfamiliar with the geographical environment of the big mountain depression of the Liangcang River.

"Dad, I'm just a preliminary idea, and now the state is also advocating returning farmland to forests. Rather than being barren, the valley should be turned into an orchard. The village committee came forward to convert the scattered mountain land of each household into rent according to the area, which was paid every year, and everyone could have some regular income.

You see, there are many people in the village like Uncle Zhenglin's family, and it is easy for young people to go out to build infrastructure or work, and it is inconvenient for older people to go out. If our family is all contracted and built into a large orchard, there will be no shortage of manpower in planting management. ”

"Of course, that kind of business is good, and it will definitely revitalize that big mountain valley. The problem is that there is too much money that needs to be invested in the early stage, and the big collective just didn't have the money to invest it at that time to make that big mountain like that. Later, the production was contracted to the households, and the mountainous land developed in the thatched river was dispersed to various production teams, and after it was distributed to each household, it was even more difficult for each family, who would invest money in it for that little bit of land? ”

Qi Zhengming understood that the thatched river did not become the problem of the granary river. There is no water source in that mountain valley, and it is completely dependent on the weather for food, and it is definitely impossible to grow food, but it is no problem to build a fruit orchard. As for whether it is done well or not, and how big the harvest can be, it depends on the cost of input and the ability to operate and manage.

In the end, it was deserted, because before the results were tossed, the management rights were scattered, and the collective and individual lands were intertwined. The village committee has no money in its hands, and it is too lazy to engage in development and utilization, and its personal land is scarce, so it is not worth investing. Now, if someone is willing to come out and contract the operation as a whole, the hillside land whose ownership is owned by the village committee can be turned into money, and the mountain land managed by the village committee still accounts for the absolute majority, and the village committee will of course support it.

Qi Jingtao, who had a golden finger in his hand, was full of confidence in contracting the orchard in the mountain valley, he thought for a while, looked at his father and said: "Dad, infrastructure construction is nothing more than repairing the original wool road, which can be opened to traffic, and it doesn't cost much." Electrification, damming and storing water, repairing canals, and digging reservoirs can be done slowly, and investment can be made in batches and one by one. Now the project uses construction machinery, as long as the funds are in place, the speed is very fast, unlike those years when the development of the thatched river relied on the use of manpower to fight. money, I'll figure it out. However, this matter is not busy, and it is also a matter after the autumn harvest to contract. After you have been busy for a while, take the time to go to the village committee and ask again, if you can contract, the longer the better, not less than 30 years, otherwise the investment will be too much of a loss. ”