Chapter 2: The Strange Patio
After being paralyzed for more than two years, his grandfather's spirit became more and more weak, and after talking to Zhou Yu for a while, he became drowsy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info served his grandfather to sleep, Zhou Yu walked out of the door, wiped his face and lifted his spirits.
He decided a long time ago that he wanted to give up the college entrance examination, and made some rough plans for the future, and laid the foundation for this plan early.
In his opinion, staying in the countryside is not without a future, nor is it a lifetime of facing the loess with his back to the sky. Farmers can make a fortune too! You don't have to go to college!
Staying in the countryside to do business, there is not much choice. It's all about agriculture.
Because of the topography, Rongshupo and even Qingshan Town and Qinglin County are unable to develop planting on a large scale. The terrain here is mainly hilly, and it is already close to the mountains, unlike the plains, which cannot be used as a large farm.
Therefore, Zhou Yu decided to do aquaculture early.
Aquaculture is much less demanding on the terrain than on large farms.
And there are not a few who have made a fortune in the aquaculture industry.
However, no matter what you want to do, it is not an easy task. The first thing in front of Zhou Yu is the capital. He has been working part-time in the fishing park for more than two years, and when he has free time, he also does some other things, such as collecting scrap, and in the past two years, in addition to tuition fees and expenses on his grandfather, he doesn't even have 10,000 yuan in his hand now, only more than 8,000.
This has to count the three thousand yuan that has just arrived.
What kind of business can you make with 8,000 yuan?!
For this reason, Zhou Yu had a headache.
However, he is not ready to find someone to borrow money, because of the situation at home, I am afraid that few people will lend him money. I am not ready to take out a loan, and now I have nothing, and once the loan fails to do farming, I will have to carry another big mountain on my back.
He started with small-scale farming, tested the water first, and then made adjustments later depending on the situation.
As for the breeding project, he has long been in mind, that is, the cultivation of yellow eel.
The price of yellow eel on the market varies greatly, like the kind of artificially raised with poor quality, you can buy a pound for a dozen yuan. But the higher the quality, or the wild, the price is much higher. The highest is even close to a hundred.
As long as it is raised well, the profit is still quite large. It is bigger than raising fish, chickens, and pigs.
Moreover, the requirements for breeding of yellow eel are slightly lower, and it is easier to get started.
Zhou Yu will not start out with cage farming like those places where yellow eels are farmed on a large scale. On the right side of his yard, on two or three acres of land near the stream, several canals had already been opened.
It took him half a year!
As early as half a year ago, Zhou Yu was preparing for the breeding of yellow eel.
These two or three acres of land belong to Zhou Yu's family. Earlier, when my grandfather didn't have an accident, more than these two acres of land have been used to grow rice. Since my grandfather's accident, the land has been deserted.
Today, this wasteland is crisscrossed with canals, like a long and horizontal landscape.
The canal is about one meter wide and only about one meter deep, and it is very simple because it is not cemented and stone. Only at the inlet and outlet of the stream are built with masonry and cement, and the inlet and outlet are blocked with a basket, so as not to hinder the flow of living water, but also to prevent the eel from escaping from here.
Recently, every time Zhou Yu goes home on the weekend, he will go around to the fields and ponds to catch wild yellow eels and put them in the canals.
The wasteland is divided into small independent squares by interlaced canals, on which are planted saplings, all of which are home-made fruit trees, such as peach, pear and citrus trees, more than a hundred, all of which have been planted recently.
It can be said that Zhou Yu has laid a fairly complete foundation for his plan to do breeding after giving up the college entrance examination.
Coming out of the yard, Zhou Yu went straight to the pigsty behind the house.
In the past, when my grandfather was in good health, he would feed four or five pigs every year. During the Chinese New Year, he killed one of his own family, and sold the rest as the usual expenses of the family.
Therefore, the area of Zhou Yu's pigsty is still very large.
Today, in this pigsty, there are piles of large and small 'small mountain bags'.
This is also one of Zhou Yu's achievements in the previous six months - this is a compost pile for breeding earthworms!
Since Zhou Yu decided to breed yellow eels, he has spent a lot of time on the Internet to inquire about relevant information. I even bought a lot of related farming books from the bookstore to read.
However, the knowledge gained from the Internet and books is always not accurate.
He only has a general framework for how to better breed yellow eels. Just make sure that it should be good to raise yellow eels with earthworms.
So, right in the pigsty, these compost piles were made.
The composition of the compost pile is mainly human and animal manure mixed with grass and soil, and earthworms are put in to quickly reproduce. The first two times he went home, Zhou Yu had already begun to let the yellow eels in the canal open meat.
Speaking of which, those yellow eels are really pitiful, and almost all of them are hungry before the earthworms are raised. Fortunately, those who did not starve to death can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.
Picking up the tools, Zhou Yu skillfully pulled out the fat earthworms from the compost pile, the pungent smell, the disgusting manure pile, and the slippery earthworms could not make Zhou Yu change color.
As a native and precocious rural person, Zhou Yu has become accustomed to these.
The earthworms taken out of the compost pile are very fat, and some of them are even strange, and the skin is milky white, which is slightly different from ordinary earthworms.
Soon, Zhou Yu pulled out a dustpan, about seven or eight catties of earthworms.
So he took the dustpan and came to the ditch on the wasteland, squatted down to look at the clear and flowing living water in the canal, grabbed a handful of earthworms and threw them in, and soon saw some holes in the mud on the left and right sides of the canal, and yellow eels came out.
The whole wasteland is more than two acres, and the total length of the canal is four or five hundred meters. More than a dozen catties of yellow eels are inside, which is actually very spacious. Zhou Yu walked for a while, grabbed a handful of earthworms and put them in, walked for a while, and put in a handful of earthworms, and it took half an hour to finish this.
Watching the sparse yellow eels of all sizes come out of the mud and feed in the canal with vitality, Zhou Yu was very happy.
Not only happy with their own results, but also because of those filament-like little yellow eels! Those big yellow eels have clearly laid eggs and hatched the next generation!
It's all money!
A sense of accomplishment rises from my heart.
He is still only an eighteen-year-old teenager, at his age, most people are still carefree, and he has already made certain achievements for his future.
Although these achievements have not yet been translated into tangible benefits, what you do by yourself can always make you happy.
After feeding the yellow eel, Chang Yi washed his hands and walked slowly to the back mountain.
The back mountain has his own secrets, and he likes to wander quietly in the back mountain when he has nothing to do. Before grandpa had an accident, it was pure play. After Grandpa's accident, Houshan seems to have become another place of spiritual sustenance.
Alone, quietly, without interruption. Breathe in the fresh air in your mouth, listen to the chirping of birds in your ears, and nature soothes and calms the mind.
The mountain behind Zhou Yu's house is not short.
This mountain can already be regarded as a branch of the mountain in the distance. It is the highest peak of this mountain that surrounds the village of Banyan Shupo.
The upper and lower halves of the mountain are distinct, with bare rocks on top and pine forests below.
It's like a bald head.
The upper part of the mountain is rocky and steep, especially at the very peak, which is completely steep on all sides, and no one can climb it. It seems that Zhou Yu has never heard of anyone who has eaten enough and has nothing to do, and has climbed to the top of that mountain.
The pine forest in the lower part is the greatest wealth of Banyan Slope.
In the early years, many people made a lot of money by cutting down pine trees. But then it didn't work, and it was not allowed to be cut down casually, even if it was cut, it had to be planted, and there could be no less tree, so that the villagers were depressed and had to give up this financial resource.
Walking into the pine forest, stepping on the thick pine needles, the feet are soft. Pine trees, large and small, grew one after another, their mottled bark cracked, and some of the pine oil leached out and condensed into brownish-yellow lumps hanging on them.
A few squirrels flickered away in the woods, and birds, chirping, flew by.
Zhou Yu walked and stopped, and he was halfway up the mountain.
This is the junction of the bald people. Above are barren rocks, and below are pine forests.
Stopping in front of a huge stone wall, Zhou Yu turned his steps, bypassed a big pine tree, lifted a clump of vines on the side, and next to the stone wall, a crack was revealed that could be used by one person!
This is Zhou Yu's secret.
This crack is not even known to Zhou Yu's grandfather, only Zhou Yu knows.
It was discovered by Zhou Yu a few years ago.
At that time, he only regarded this place as his own little secret and didn't want people to know, but later, Zhou Yu explored this crack and found that there was something else in it!
Reaching out and groping around the crack for a moment, Zhou Yu took out a flashlight. It's something he keeps here for standby.
I changed a pair of batteries, turned on the flashlight, and went sideways into the crack, a little squeezed, and a lot of moss rubbed out of my clothes. After walking less than ten steps, the crack suddenly became wider.
Only then did I get up, and the light of the flashlight shone ahead, and I saw that the road was getting wider and wider.
Even the spring water leaching out of the stone wall formed a small ditch on one side, which was cold and cold.
After about two minutes of walking along this dark passage, a faint light suddenly appeared in front of me!
When I got closer, I suddenly saw a big picture in front of me!
What appeared in front of me was a huge enclosed circular space!
Looking down, the area at the bottom of it is not fifteen or sixteen meters, and a beam of light just falls from above, looking up, but isn't it the sky?!
It's a patio. Patio in the mountains!
The patio is small and large, like a cone with its sharpened tip. And this crack under Zhou Yu's feet is below the middle of this patio near the bottom!
There was only one beam of light shining down from the patio, which fell at the bottom of the patio, forming a disc with a radius of five or six meters, setting off this dark patio at dusk.
A thick hemp rope fell from the crack where Zhou Yu was to the bottom of the well, Zhou Yu bit the flashlight in his mouth, kicked the hemp rope, kicked the rock wall, and slowly slid to the bottom of the well.
The soil at the bottom of the well is so soft that stepping on it is like stepping on pine needles. But there is no disgusting smell caused by plant decay, and there is a faint fragrance!
It's very bizarre!
It stands to reason that at the bottom of such a patio, some plants and animals that have been old for a long time will rot, and some unpleasant smells will naturally occur. But where does fragrance begin?
When Zhou Yu discovered this place, he was also surprised by such a fragrance.
That's why he took the hemp rope and hung it down to the bottom of the well, wanting to see what was going on.
But to this day, the answer is still not found.
At the bottom of this well, however, some other gains were made - especially earthworms. The earthworms here are completely different from the ones outside, they are milky white, not only dense in number, but also fat.
The earthworms in the compost heap in Zhou Yu's pigsty come from here.
But what is even more surprising is that after the earthworms here are taken out, they will gradually change their color and become the appearance of ordinary earthworms soon after they are raised.
But even so, as long as it is an earthworm here, it is loved by the eels. Especially the white earthworms that have just been dug up, Zhou Yu has also tried them, and it makes the yellow eels crazy!
Although Zhou Yu does not know what kind of changes will occur when raising yellow eels with this earthworm, so far, at least not a single yellow eel has died from eating earthworms.