Chapter 43: July and a Half
This morning, Feng Tiance carried a bag of medicinal seeds and was about to go up the mountain, but was blocked by Jingjing's mother Wang Chunlan at the gate of the courtyard.
"Heavenly policy, vegetable seeds are not enough......"
Wang Chunlan is both happy and worried these days, it can be said that she is in pain and happy. The vegetable seeds that Feng Tiance handed over to her became more and more sought-after, and people in the village had to queue up to buy seeds from her.
Some of the vegetables grown in Xiegu Village were ordered by Taohuaju, and the rest were picked by the villagers to be sold in the town and county.
But slowly, the green organic vegetables in Xiegu Village are famous, and the vegetables we grow are in short supply. Now, someone has approached the village to buy it.
"Auntie, it's not easy to deal with this. Even if the seeds can be supplied, but the land in our village is only that, and the yield still can't go up. ”
Feng Tiance didn't have a good way, he just wanted to do something good for the villagers and let them earn some money to subsidize the family.
"However, you can raise the price......"
"What's the price, it's more than twice the price of other people's dishes now, and we can't say anything about raising the price again. ”
Wang Chunlan's idea is still relatively simple, you said that if you go to the sky, we still sell vegetables, aren't they?
"Then let them raise some more chickens in their own forests, the vegetables will sell well, and the sales of free-range chickens will not be bad in the future." ”
asked for a solution from Feng Tiance, and Wang Chunlan left unsatisfied.
Feng Tiance also carried the seeds on his back and began to go up the mountain, he was quite happy in his heart, he didn't have time to grow or sell vegetables, but the villagers made the same money.
Jingjing's mother regularly settles the money for the seeds, and he can't do it if he doesn't want to! He also gave Jingjing's mother 30%, saying that it was the promotion fee given by the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Looking at her appearance, she was skeptical, but she still took it.
"Alas, we don't have three heads and six arms, let's do our own thing first. ”
Feng Tiance has recently started growing medicinal herbs in the woodland, but his methods are different. People plant medicinal herbs in neat fields under the forest, and interplant with trees. However, according to the habits of medicinal herbs, he sprinkled a little seed in the east and a little seed in the west in the forest, which can basically be regarded as a template for wild medicinal materials.
Liu Yuzhu said to him, you grow medicinal materials like this, the yield is low, it takes a long time, and it is not necessarily cost-effective.
"What's not cost-effective? In the past, the old Taoist grandfather could pick good herbs in the mountains casually, but now? Why? It's all light......"
Feng Tiance's idea is very simple, it is impossible to open up a large number of medicinal fields without affecting the ecology of the forest, and the herbs grown are low in active ingredients. He still plans to take the high-quality route and cultivate high-quality medicinal materials!
Besides, what are you afraid of for a long time? It's all in your own forest farm, and sooner or later it's your own wealth.
When he came to the mountain forest cabin, Liu Yuzhu and a few people were waiting for him there.
"Brother Zhuzi, if you distribute these seeds, you will plant them according to what I told you. ”
Feng Tiance couldn't be busy at all, so he still invited Zhu Zi and a few villagers to help at a salary of one hundred and five a day.
"Don't worry, leave it all to me, you just don't go, rest for a day. ”
Liu Yuzhu felt that Feng Tiance didn't need to follow anymore, and everyone knew the precautions that should be explained, such a large forest, you can go and do something else.
"It's okay, then I won't come up today, you guys should finish work early, don't forget, it's the ...... of July and the middle of July."
Feng Tiance nodded, he originally planned to leave until noon, he was going to buy some things, the seventh half is the Midyear Festival, commonly known as the "Ghost Festival", he has to prepare paper money, paper boats and paper lanterns.
The custom of Xiegu Village is not to sweep the tomb on the day of Qingming and death, and to put the river lantern in July by burning half of the paper......
Since the afternoon, Feng Tiance has been folding paper money at home, he first folded some paper ingots, and then divided the other paper money into stacks and sealed them separately. The paper boat was bought ready-made, and he installed the paper lamp and it was fine.
At night, he took all the things he had prepared and went out, burning some paper ingots at intervals along the way. When he reached the riverbank, he lit all the envelopes together and burned them into a small fire.
"Old Grandpa, I'll send you money, you spend hard, don't save as much as before, you know no?...... Our family is not short of money now, and the village is gradually getting better, and life is better......"
He babbled his words, and many villagers gathered in groups by the river, and no one greeted them, and each family was busy with their own family.
Seeing all the paper money burned to ashes, Feng Tiance lit the paper lamp and carefully sent the paper boat to the river. The paper lights on the boat flickered on and off, faded away, and disappeared when they reached the center of the river.
Feng Tiance stood there in a daze for a while, then turned around and went home. According to the old generation, you can't go out again after putting the river lantern, today is the day when the ghost door is wide open, and you are afraid of encountering unclean things when you walk at night.
Entering the yard, Wolf Thirteen greeted him, this guy has often gone up the mountain to play with Wolf Jiu recently, and he is not in a mood anymore, and he also knows to please Feng Tiance from time to time.
"Thirteen, let's not go out today, let's go see Wolf Nine tomorrow. ”
When the hound heard him say this, he was also well-behaved, and after a few circles at his feet, he went away.
Feng Tiance just wanted to enter the house, but suddenly panicked for no reason, and when he turned his head to look, Thirteen was also like him, inexplicably yelling at the mountain.
"Is there something going on over there in the chicken coop? Let's go, Thirteen, go up the hill and see. ”
At this time, Feng Tiance didn't care about any taboos, so he ran to the mountain with Thirteen.
Tonight, the moon is bright and the stars are thin, and the branches of the countless shadows on the mountain are swaying in the wind, as if there is something in the darkness...... Thinking of the countless legends he heard since he was a child, even he who has always been bold has a chill in his back.
"Thirteen, slow down...... Wait for me. ”
The sight at night was not too good, and with Feng Tiance's sharp eyes, he didn't dare to run too fast. When the hound heard the shouting, he ran back again, but he seemed very irritable, and his expression seemed to urge him to hurry.
"Thirteen, do you feel that Wolf Nine is in danger? Then you go first, and I'll arrive later. ”
The reason why Feng Tiance came to the mountain with Wolf Thirteen at night was because he didn't worry about Wolf Nine. Those free-range free-range chickens didn't make him so interested.
The hound got the instruction, turned around and ran towards the chicken coop quickly, Feng Tiance did not dare to slack off, and tried his best to keep up as fast as he could.
But before he could run to the chicken coop, he heard Thirteen's angry roar and Wolf Nine's painful "whining".
The wooden house and chicken coop are relatively flat and half-sloped. Feng Tiance planted a circle of thorny thorns and shrubs around it, leaving only a small entrance, and a simple fence gate was tied with wooden strips, mainly to prevent wild beasts or chickens from escaping from the mountains.
At this time, the fence door was ajar, and Wolf Nine was lying on the ground outside the chicken coop, struggling to get up, and Thirteen was circling around it.