Chapter 5: The Magical Fertile Soil ---5

Li Yuedi has been teaching at the Z Group School for a week, and some of the living facilities in the dormitory have not been completely cleaned up, and the eldest brother and the second brother are busy during this time, and they don't have much time to buy these things, so Yuedi still needs to stay at the eldest brother's house for a few more days. After being a Chinese teacher for a few days, Yue Di felt that the Chinese subject was also very interesting, she felt that the students here liked her classes very much, and how she lectured seemed to be liked by the students, especially in the second year of junior high school, some students did not like the study of music knowledge, and they hoped that the teacher would sing to them as soon as they started class, and they also liked to listen to Yue Di play the piano, but as soon as they came into contact with music theory knowledge, some students deserted and did not concentrate.

On Saturday, Yuedi returned to her eldest brother's house, and the eldest brother was going to water the apple orchard and grape field today, as soon as Yuedi arrived at the eldest brother's house, she ate the apples of her brother's house, and had not been to her brother's orchard, at her strong request, her brother and sister-in-law took her, and her brother's apple orchard was only about 20 acres of land, and the grape field was about 40 acres. The watering time was 9 a.m., and the entire water of the 120 kilowatt electric motor was poured into the vineyards and apple orchards of Yueshan, and the company had a water supply time of 6 hours. Ten acres of land need to be watered in one hour, and Yueshan found about 20 people to water it.

At half past five in the morning, my brother and sister-in-law got up, the sky was not too bright, the three of them rushed to the field, half past six, the peasants and workers who were invited to work were already waiting in the ground, Yueshan immediately assigned work, the first step was to clean up the main channel of one kilometer, the channel from last autumn to stop the water, to now it is full of hay, there are many places that need to be reinforced, and the dam can not collapse in the main channel, Yueshan took out 25 paper balls, everyone grabbed lots, determined their position, Zhao Xiaoli registered one by one, this matter must be responsible for people, once the dam collapses, whose wages should be deducted is a trivial matter, affecting everyone's work, the loss is great。 Because the main channel is relatively long, everyone is reluctant to go farther to work for fear of delaying time. When the time came, my own channel was not repaired, which was very troublesome. Yueshan said: " Everyone is a veteran, not much to say, every forty meters of the place there is a pile, according to the results of the lot, find yourself responsible for the lot, the main canal can not have a problem, there is a problem, sorry, you are working in vain today, but also to the other 24 people today to pay five yuan, this is the rule, let's not say much, the main canal is not a problem, today after work wages are paid, plus 5 kilograms of red Fuji apples, now apples are still very expensive, the first two days our wholesale price is a piece of three per kilogram, 9 o'clock began to go to the water, 8:40 my wife to check, unqualified on their own to ask others for a favor。 After the water, in order, every group of five people, each group of twelve acres of land, allocate a water gap, how much capacity to open how much water, the time is only six hours, after watering, my wife has passed the inspection, on the salary, apples, today there is definitely no time to eat lunch, really hungry, now you can go to the car to get a naan or two, get ready, let's start.

Yuedi looks at her brother like an old company commander in a movie, and her sister-in-law is like an instructor, serious, a bit like the posture of facing a great enemy, and she feels a little funny in her heart, isn't it just watering, a person is less than 3 acres of land, as for it?

Yueshan finished assigning the work and went to the front of the main canal to work, and the others also dispersed and did their own duties, Yuedi followed her sister-in-law and went around the orchard and vineyard, and the sister-in-law had to check some of the fruit trees germinating, and if there were any problems, they needed to be dealt with immediately.

They entered the apple orchard, the apple orchard in Yueshan has been seven or eight years old, and the fruit trees have reached the peak fruiting stage, and the trees are already as thick as small buckets. Although it is only 20 acres, there is no end in sight, and the ground is full of colorful striped cloth and wheat straw, cotton quilts, and large and small paper bags. Yue Di didn't understand, what is the use of asking for these things in the field, Zhao Xiaoli told her that this is a necessary winter coat for apples to survive the winter, it is cold in winter, and it is easy to frostbite apple trees, so it is necessary to use these things to cover it all in winter, and the paper bag on the ground is used for apples, and the apples covered with bags are pesticide-free, the fruit shape is good, the skin is thinner, and the color is better.

My God, how to build such a big fruit tree? Yue Di thought, Yue Di looked at those fruit trees, the height of the crown is at least the height of a general bungalow, and the covering diameter of the canopy is at least six or seven meters, it is really not easy to cover these trees, and it is too troublesome to put a bag on every apple, Yue Di suddenly saw a tree that seemed to be hanging needles, he was very strange, and asked his sister-in-law: "Sister-in-law, this tree also needs to be hung with needles?"

"Yes, if you are sick, you must be injected, there are three main ways to treat the tree, one is to fertilize and supplement trace elements, the other is to spray pesticides, through foliar absorption, and the third is to hang the bottle, directly inject into the bark, through the water circulation of the tree, to reach the lesion."

"Sister-in-law, you know all this knowledge, will you graft?"

"Whatever you do, you can shout whatever you want, your brother and I have participated in training, we have learned, not only have we taken classes, but after returning home, we are all studying agricultural knowledge for a winter, otherwise we can make money? Grafting is not a big deal for fruit tree cultivation, and many trees in this garden have been re-grafted, and your brother and I have done it."

"Sister-in-law is amazing!"

"These are very simple, at a glance, fruit tree grafting, there are twelve methods, I use the casing method, the survival rate is 100%, but this method is not used everywhere, this grafting method is very troublesome, the simplest, is dental grafting, but the survival rate is not 100%, growing apples to make money, the most important thing is to improve the yield and fruit quality, it is not easy, but your brother and I are still very high."

"Sister-in-law, how much do you have to produce in a year for these twenty acres of apples, and how much can you earn?"

"100 tons is not a problem, each ton of apples can make a net profit of 200 to 800, mainly depending on the market price, last year's output was 110 tons, and I earned more than 40,000 yuan."

"More than 100 tons, the yield per mu is more than 5,000 kilograms, the yield of each apple is more than 200 kilograms, the best should be three or four hundred kilograms, my God, take so many apples, how do you sell them, how do you collect them."

"You don't have to run to sell little by little, we only have a little bit to sell, about 10 tons, all of them are blown to the ground by the wind, and the trees are bought by the boss in the mainland at one time, when selling apples, we have to hire dozens of people, and the fruits will be finished in three or four days, the apples you have in my house and your second brother's house are all in our garden, which is a relatively small use of pesticides, no chemical fertilizer, and the fertilizer on it is sheep dung, your second brother picks two or three hundred kilograms by himself every year, takes it back and puts it in the vegetable cellar, and it is enough to eat it for a yearThe apples in our house, like those in your second sister-in-law's house, have absolutely no chemical fertilizers, and there are very few pesticides, and as for grapes, it is even more so, and we can't eat them all in the yard at home, so we can't taste the grapes in the field."

"Sister-in-law, you guys are so bad"!

"It's the people in the city who force us to be bad, eat an apple, pay too much attention to it, eat a large fruit with a diameter of more than 8 centimeters, the color should be pink, too red, too small, too sweet, the fruit is too small to sell, what to do, more fertilizer, should be ten kilograms, I will give you a 30 kilograms, pesticides, bulking agents, don't you want 8 centimeters, I can do 10 centimeters, don't you want so sweet, pesticides, don't you just play some crazy growth agents, don't you want to be so red, I put on a bag, don't let it accept so much sunlight, this is called technology”。

"Sister-in-law, it's too bad!

"It can never be, fruit is not steamed bread, the average person can't eat much, so a small amount of chemical fertilizer can not directly pose a hazard to the human body, but if you eat it for decades, it must be bad, in addition to our fruits are checked by national standards, all indicators are fully qualified, even if you eat five kilograms at a time, there will be no problem at all, my apples, in the eyes of the buyer are organic fruits, because our land is on the farm fertilizer, although not much, there are also, many people grow apples, all are fertilizers, no farm fertilizer at all, on the farm fertilizer, the cost is very high, few fruit farmers are willing to go onWe are both virtuous and virtuous, and we have put on some farm manure, so the fruit buyers praise us."

"Sister-in-law, how much fertilizer do you use?"

"That's not necessarily, watering once on the fertilizer, all kinds of types, the first base fertilizer, mainly diammonium, eighty or ninety kilograms per mu, others, the amount is less, there are many categories, it's not easy to say, you want to do it."

"This thing is all made of fertilizer, how can I eat it?"

"Originally, you consumers, ask for less, the price is higher, we can not use so much, as long as our yield per mu is controlled at 1500 kilograms, you can use a lot less fertilizers and pesticides, directly with farm fertilizer can be done, but no, the yield per mu is 1500, which means that the fruit is small, can not be sold, so the yield per mu must reach 5000 kilograms, the fruit can reach 8 centimeters, if our garden yield is only 1500, and it is the current price, then my family will lose about 100,000 yuan a year。 Last year's apples were 1.3 yuan per kilogram, 5,500 per mu, the total price of an acre of land was 7,150 yuan, and the net profit was only 2,000 yuan.

"Yes, my sister-in-law is right, there is no way, now people's consumption consciousness is like that, you have to go against the consumer's concept of consumption, you have to pay a painful price, this is a fool will not do something, the concept of consumption without conscience, resulting in a concept of production without conscience, this is not an individual can change, only by relying on the society to give correct guidance to consumers, in order to change this vicious circle."

"Actually, a lot of food needs to be consumed to update the concept, you say you eat meat, you want lean meat, but there is no fat, how can there be lean meat, don't you do it with a little clenbuterol, eat a vermicelli, you want to be white, okay, smoke it with sulfur, isn't it white, don't you want to eat strong, don't you want to hang some white pieces, milk powder should not have a high protein content, add a little melamine to do it soon? Who can blame this, except for black-hearted businessmen, is there no consumer responsibility? Isn't there such a saying? If there is no trade, there is no killing, don't you want to eat civets, then I will kill civets for you, if no one eats that thing, what do people kill it for, what do they do without making money, who does it, oops, little sister, patronize and talk to you, it's 8:45, go, hurry up and check how the canal is repaired, little sister, we almost missed a big thing, if it is a mistake, your brother will not kill me".

"That's it, let's go, sister-in-law, I think you seem to know everything, my brother still wants to fix you, how to fix you"?

"I know everything, watch TV, read books, I'm not a fool, how can your brother fix me, fight, scold people."

"My brother will beat people, and you still follow him."

"Mutually, he's wrong, it's the same, people, don't fight or make trouble, don't live to get old, the more you fight, the more you get closer, the beating is kissing and scolding is love, you know"?

"Isn't that flirting"?

"Nonsense, flirting and scolding is a fake fight, your brother and I are really fighting, pressed to the field, played hard, and it hurts, just remember, if you don't fight if you are wrong, then you can pay it back."

"You can't kill him, how strong he is, men, women are weak."

"Your brother is measured, he won't hurt me, that is, it hurts, he won't hurt, I'm not polite to him, I'm not a weakling, your brother is more or less letting me, this is love, little sister, don't you feel it, your brother is a little used to me."

"It seems to be a little".

Sister-in-law Zhao Xiaoli began to check, both like a judge, like a political commissar, like a barbaric female bandit, and like a deep girl, Yuedi admired her sister-in-law's changing face, and her heart was full of respect.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the company informed Li Yueshan to immediately receive water, and Yueshan himself looked at the main canal in general, and it had been cleaned out, and the main canal showed its original appearance, a trapezoidal canal, with a bottom width of about 1 meter, an upper mouth width of about 2 meters, and a depth of about 1 meter. Yueshan took the water, and a huge torrent was immediately poured into the main canal, and the main canal was immediately flooded to the upper edge of the channel, and the five branch canals were immediately filled with water, each of which became "non" The glyph spreads out, the water is injected into the plots, because the plots are uneven, many places need to raise the water level to a very high degree in order to open the gap, in order to irrigate to the higher places in the next plot, so the water drawn out from the main canal can not be too large, otherwise the water level has not risen, the ridges have been washed away, if you want to repair it again, it is too difficult, the sand content of the soil is too large, after blisters, there are basically no lumps of soil, there is no ridges, the higher places in the fields can no longer be watered, there is no water, how can there be cropsTherefore, the quality of the crops depends on whether the water is watered more evenly, the water in the branch canal is too small, and the water in the main trunk area cannot be released, it is possible to hide the embankment, and soon the main canal will collapse, if that is the case, do not water again on this day, because the main canal can not be repaired in a short period of time.

Zhao Xiaoli took a shovel and took Li Yuedi to inspect back and forth on the main canal, and found that any abnormality should be repaired, especially the pipe emerges, the main channel has gone through a winter, it is very likely that there are small and medium-sized animals in the embankment to make holes, find it in time, it is not difficult to repair, with a little branch, a few shovels of soil will be blocked, if not plugged in time, once the hole leaks, it will soon leak bigger and bigger, and eventually lead to the collapse of the dam. That would make it impossible to water, and as a result, you would have to wait another week or two for your rotation, which would seriously affect the harvest.

Zhao Xiaoli took Yue Di to inspect two or three back and forth, and found no abnormality, so she sat down and rested for a while, Zhao Xiaoli took out a basin-sized naan, pulled off half of it to Yue Di, half of herself, and ate it, Yue Di had never eaten naan before, he felt that this naan was a bit like the baba that her mother cooked in the stove for her when she was a child, when she was a child, she ate little at home, she was the oldest in the family, her parents were very loved, and there were no other snacks, so her mother teacher made a little baked baba for herself, and kept her hungry to eat, Yue Di broke off a piece of naan, put it in her mouth, it felt very hard, and she could hardly bite it, but a small piece of bitten off in the mouth exudes a strong wheat aroma, naan has a little sesame seeds and a little salt, Yue Di feels that this roasted naan really tastes more and more delicious, except for the harder, Yue Di can not find any shortcomings. Yue Di asked her sister-in-law

"Sister-in-law, why is this naan so hard"?

"There are many types of naan, there are also relatively soft ones, this kind of naan should be eaten by drinking milk tea, break him into small pieces, put it in the milk tea to brew, it will be soft immediately, it is so hard mainly for a long shelf life, in the past, some Uyghur villagers in the naan will not deteriorate if they can be put for a month or two, and the relatively soft naan is easy to break when brought to the ground, so we buy this kind of naan, ouch, it's broken, call your brother, look, there seems to be a leak. Hurry, hurry, hurry, call your brother, Yueshan, come on"

Not far from where Yue Di was sitting, there was a whirlpool the size of a bowl on the water, Zhao Xiaoli rushed over, looked at it, and jumped into the cold and biting waist-deep water without hesitation. found the leaking place, sat down, plugged the hole with his body, and then shouted Yuedi, "Sister, hurry up and skim some branches, hurry, hurry" Yuedi was a little frightened by her sister-in-law's behavior, he listened to his sister-in-law's order, skimming the branches on the edge of the channel, but because his strength was too small, the broken branches were entangled in the bark, but he couldn't take them down, and the sister-in-law was anxious and shouted: "Use a shovel to shovel, stupid, hurry up." Yueshan rushed to the top, ripped off the branches and handed them to Zhao Xiaoli, Yueshan threw the straw bag prepared in advance to Zhao Xiaoli, Zhao Xiaoli took the branch and moved her body away from the loophole, the hole expanded instantly, Zhao Xiaoli hurriedly put the branch at the mouth of the hole, and the branch was sucked into the water at once, she grabbed the straw bag and pressed it into the loophole, the water sucked the straw bag tightly, Yueshan also jumped into the water and carried Zhao Xiaoli to the edge of the canal, Zhao Xiaoli was shivering from the cold, Yueshan said, quickly load a few bags of soil, Yuedi quickly helped, at this time, several nearby agricultural workers also rushed over, packed the soil bags together, and then handed them to Yueshan, Yueshan plugged the soil bags until the loopholes came outThe water finally stopped, and everyone worked together to throw dirt into the leaking place, and the problem was solved.

A fellow shouted: "Yueshan, your daughter-in-law is in good shape, I usually can't see it, this body is wet with water, and her clothes are tightly wrapped, showing her figure, you see how big her ass is, and the hole is blocked with a buttocks."

"Yueshan, your daughter-in-law's ass is good, this ass has made a great contribution today, Yueshan will reward your daughter-in-law's ass when she goes home."

Yueshan: "It's your business to be rewarded or not, go to work, you see, you ran out of water there, and if you can't finish the water today, your daughter-in-law will reward your ass well."

A few guys joked, Zhao Xiaoli was so frozen that her lips were already purple, she hurried back to her farm car and changed into dry clothes, Yue Di thought about her sister-in-law's previous bravery, admiration arose, her heart was very moved, but looking at the men and women around her, it seemed that there was no such thing, expressionless, Yue Shan got up from the water, his clothes were already soaked, and he also went to the car to change his clothes.

Zhao Xiaoli walked over from the car, as if nothing had happened just now, and took Yuedi to continue to inspect the main canal.

Yue Di said: "Sister-in-law, you are so brave, no one praises you a word"

Zhao Xiaoli said: "It's all like this, everyone is not surprised, what is there to praise, if not, your brother can spare me, I don't want to stop the water, jumping into the water to block the water with my body, it's all helpless, no one wants to do that, but the consequence of not doing so much is that the embankment collapses, the water stops, and there is a chance to give water after half a month, and there is still this phenomenon after half a month, if you don't block it, will it be dragged back, so no matter how uncomfortable it is, no matter who it is, you must jump down and take decisive measures."

"It's cold in the water, isn't it?"

"Of course, it's as uncomfortable as cutting with a knife, it can't be helped, this is flooding, if it were sprinkler, there wouldn't be such a thing."

"Then why not switch to sprinkler irrigation?"

"It's being tested, the experiment is successful, you can change it, the cost of sprinkler irrigation is also very high, relatively speaking, to save some trouble, sister, pay attention to the water surface, find that the whirlpool is dealt with in time, when the loophole is very small, maybe a spade soil will solve the problem, and it will be troublesome if it is big. ”

"There's an idiom called 'a thousand miles long to collapse in an anthill', which means just that. ”

"Yes, has Sun Ce written recently?"

"No" at the mention of Sun Ce, Yue Di's heart suddenly cooled, it's been a few months, except for the last time I saw the letter when I was at home, it's been so long, there is really no news at all, what is that dead man doing, is it really dead? Yue Di was a little sad.