Chapter 243: Digging Trees
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Before going to mark the trees on the mountain, Li Zheng called the entire Zhoujia Village to gather at the bottom of the right mountain. Yang Yun and Li Zheng are going up the mountain to mark the trees, and the villagers also have work to do on the right mountain.
"Everyone should recognize this green fruit sapling, now there are many of these small saplings on the right mountain, when everyone is working for a while, don't trample on the green fruit sapling." Yang Yun held a small green plum sapling dug up from the mountain in her hand and taught everyone to identify the green plum sapling.
"Yun girl, this green fruit sapling, the green fruit that grows, is it the fruit that your family uses to make wine?" Uncle Zhou, who happened to have a green plum sapling in his hand, asked about Yang Yun. Yang Yun sent a jar of green plum wine to Zhou Wan before the New Year, and Uncle Zhou had already drunk green plum wine, so he asked like this.
"Yes, so this year, everyone went to the mountains to plant green fruit saplings, just to wait for the green fruits to mature, so that they can collect a large number of green fruits to make wine. Whether the green fruit wine is good or not, everyone has tasted it, whether it can be sold for money, Uncle Li Zheng knows very well, everyone must plant green fruit trees well, and these green fruit trees will be the cash cow of our village in the future. When the village was mobilizing people to plant green plum trees after the New Year, Yang Yun was also present. At that time, Yang Yun moved a few jars of wine from home, and in front of the villagers, let everyone in the village taste the taste of green plum wine, so whether the green plum wine is good or not, they know very well in their hearts.
"As long as the green fruits can be soaked in wine and sold for money, we will definitely grow them well." Of course, the villagers are willing to do things that can make money.
"Yes, when we plant a green fruit tree, we must treat it as a wedding and take care of it." The villagers now trust Li Zheng very much, and Li Zheng has already told the villagers that Qingguozi wine can indeed make money, and it is still what he can see with his eyes, so the villagers will agree to go to the right mountain to plant green plum trees.
"Everyone must recognize the green fruit tree clearly, and do not trample on it, or pull it out as a weed." Yang Yun repeatedly told the villagers to pay attention to their work. If you want to plant green plum trees in the whole right mountain, you rely on these wild saplings, and the number is not very large, so it is very expensive.
"Yun girl, don't worry, we will carefully identify and ensure that we will not damage any green fruit sapling." Seeing that Yang Yun valued these saplings very much, the villagers promised Yang Yun that they would carefully protect these small saplings.
"Okay, if you recognize the saplings clearly, let's quickly get tools and go to the right mountain to carry the leaves." Li Zheng saw that everyone had seen the green plum sapling, so he asked everyone to take tools and start working.
The villagers quickly brought tools and started from the bottom of the right hill to clean up the crushed leaves on the right hill. The villagers carry the leaves of the top layer to a clearing on the right hill and pile them up, and when the time comes, the leaves will be set on fire and the ashes will be used for manure.
At the bottom of the leaves, the layer of rotten leaves, that is the existing machine fertilizer, Yang Yun asked the villagers to carry the bottom layer of rotten leaves to them, and each family manure in the big pit, how much they carry is their own. These rotten leaves are fermented in large pits for a period of time, and then they can be sprinkled into the ground as fertilizer in the spring. The crushed leaves on the right hill have been cleared, and it will be easier to dig up the roots in the future.
Yang Yun and Li Zheng marked the trees all the way from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain, and a group of villagers at the bottom of the mountain were in full swing carrying the leaves back to make fertilizer. Since last year, the villagers of Zhoujia Village have told their relatives in other villages that they will only go to relatives on the seventh day of the first month, and they will not be free until the eighth day of the first month.
In the past, people in the village often had to stay for a few days when they went to other villages, but now if they can go back and forth on the same day, they will definitely not stay overnight, and if they are far away, they will try to go back and forth within two days. The difference between Zhoujia Village and the past may be seen from the visit to relatives. Many of the industries in the village are owned by the whole village, and if the people in the other villages are working, you will definitely be blamed if you don't come to work. Moreover, the villagers know that if they are diligent and dedicated to the land, the land will naturally give them rich rewards.
Yang Yun has been following Li Zheng for the past few days, busy with things on the mountain, and on the tenth day of the first month, Grandpa and Uncle Li went to drain the remaining water from the pond. The pond should start to raise fish fry in February, at this time, the water in the pond should be cleaned, and then sprinkled with lime powder for disinfection, and after a month, the pond should be filled with water again, and the fish fry can be raised. Ponds sprinkled with lime powder can reduce the infection of fish fry by bacteria and viruses, and the fish fed can grow healthily.
The trees that need to be cut down on the right mountain, Yang Yun is tied with red cloth strips. Those adult green plum trees, Yang Yun made another mark, and when the villagers started digging the trees, they would not dig the wrong ones. There were too many trees on the mountain, and it took Yang Yun and Li Zheng three days to mark the trees that needed to be cut down.
It took five days for the villagers to sweep away the leaves on the right hill. On the right hill there are now except for the tall trees, and the leaves under the trees have been cleaned up. Those useless leaves were moved by the villagers to the bottom of the right mountain, and they were stacked in an open place, Yang Yun looked at the mountains of leaves, and had to sigh at the endless greatness of nature.
Soon the pile of leaves, which was as high as a hill, was burned to ashes by the villagers, who built a fire ditch around the pile of leaves before setting the fire to prevent the fire from spreading. After the leaves are burned to ashes and cooled, the villagers carry the ashes into a large pit where they make manure. Several large pits of manure in the Yang family were also filled with the dust of these leaf trees.
After the leaves were cleared, Li Zheng led the villagers to start cutting down the trees. These felled trees are good timber for building houses. At the foot of the right hill, he found an open space and asked the villagers to pile up the trees cut down from the mountain, and when they were dry, they could be used to build houses. After the tree is cut down, the roots of the tree must also be uprooted, and digging up the roots is a chore, which is time-consuming, laborious, laborious and labor-intensive.
The villagers were digging the roots of trees in the mountains, and the workshop was also started. The workshop began to work on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, and Yang Yun originally planned to ask the villagers to help build the house after the workshop started, but Yang Yun underestimated the work of digging trees, those trees on the mountain have deep roots and leafy leaves, and the roots extend deep into the ground, which is too difficult to dig, and it is good to dig more than a dozen trees a day.
Yang Yun budgeted the time for digging trees on the mountain, and finally decided to postpone the construction of the house until after the spring ploughing. But because the business of the workshop is very good, it must be recruited first. Yang Yun asked Master Zhou to build two more long tables, these two long tables were placed in the No. 1 and No. 2 production workshops, although it will make the production workshop a little crowded, but this is only a temporary arrangement, and after the villagers help build the house, the hole shopkeeper and the silver are moved, the No. 3 production workshop can be vacated for use.
After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the workshop recruited twenty new girls from nearby villages to work. The workshop produces headgear much faster than before. Everything is going on in an orderly manner, whether it's digging trees or the production of the workshop.
It took more than a month for the villagers to dig up 50 percent of the trees on the mountain, and it was already mid-February. The mustard greens planted in autumn can be harvested at this time, and when the villagers come back from digging trees in the mountains, they will harvest the mustard greens in their fields non-stop, and after the mustard greens are harvested, they will spend some time pickling and putting them in the jar.
After harvesting mustard greens, spring plowing in Zhoujia Village began. From the eighth day of the first lunar month to the present, no one in the entire Zhoujia Village has time to stop and rest. Now the villagers don't greet each other by asking, "Are you eating?" Instead, he asked, "Is the work in the field done?" ”。
As early as the 10th day of the second lunar month, Grandpa and Uncle Li went to the pond to dig a channel to open the water, divert the river water from the outside to the inside of the pond, and fill the entire pond with water. The pond has been disinfected with lime powder for the last time, just one month ago. After the pond was filled with water, Grandpa and Uncle Li went to the town to find an intermediary to buy fish fry.
In mid-February, the town's intermediary helped the Yang family purchase 2,500 fish fry, which were transported to Zhoujia Village and fed directly in the pond. 2,500 fish fry, spent almost 15 taels of silver, of course, the pond not only feeds so many fish, and when spring comes, Yang Yong and they will go to the river to net fish and throw them into the pond to feed, which can help the Yang family save some costs.
On February 20, Yang Yun asked Yingzi's parents to start artificially incubating eggs. At this time, the eggs begin to hatch, and when the chicks and ducklings break out of the shell, it is exactly the middle of March. When the weather is warm, the survival rate of hatched poultry is naturally high. Yingzi's parents helped hatch eggs in the pond a few times last year, so they took over the work of hatching eggs without Yang Yun having to explain anything.
Yang Yun has been coming and going to the town quite frequently these days, because the villagers are busy with their work in the fields, and Yang Yun wants to help them contact merchants to purchase these pickled mustard greens. In the past, only the Yang family sold pickled vegetables, and they could be sold casually, but now the entire Zhoujia Village pickles this kind of small dish, and the amount is too large, and there is no way to sell them out for a while.
Of course, Yang Yun also found the Zhu family and the Li family to buy these pickles. But because it is a small dish, it cannot be eaten as a main dish, and hundreds of acres of mustard greens are planted in Zhoujia Village, and the Zhu family and the Li family can't buy so many pickles for a while. Yang Yun ran through the small shop selling pickles in Tongzi Town all day long, and even then he couldn't buy all the pickles in Zhoujia Village. So Yang Yun has been helping villagers find sales outlets recently.
This day happened to be the end of the month, and Yang Yun and Sister Li had to check the accounts at the end of each month, so Sister Li would definitely come back to Tongzi Town at the end of each month. After Yang Yun and Sister Li finished checking the accounts, they sighed on the side, the pickles in Zhoujia Village could not be sold, and Yang Yun was very troubled. (To be continued.) )