Chrysanthemum cuttings in the rainy season borrow the moisture and coolness of the rainy season, and chrysanthemums cannot be planted in the open air. Otherwise, in the continuous rain soaking, the young chrysanthemum tips that have just been cut off will inevitably rot in a few days.

In the garden of the Qin family, there was originally a large and bright nursery room with five open doors and open inside.

In the past, this was enough for the garden to grow new seedlings.

At the moment, Pei Yan plans to go out of the garden and serve the single chrysanthemum and cut chrysanthemum. The four or five acres of chrysanthemums, with their branches and forks oblique, are roughly estimated, and there are 30,000 or 40,000 tender ones that can be used for cuttings.

In this way, the nursery room will not be enough.

After Qin Lang left, Pei Yan and Zhang Dong calculated that they planned to vacate two rooms in the courtyard used as a warehouse in Zhuangzi and use them as temporary nursery rooms.

Zhang Dongying promised it very smoothly, but he said hesitantly, "What should I do if I get so many chrysanthemums and can't sell them then?" ”

It's her business to plant, but it's her own business to sell. In case you get too much and can't sell it, waste manpower and material resources in vain, don't settle accounts until the end of autumn, and you haven't invested much money to earn money, isn't it a waste of work?

Pei Yan also thought about this question. Although there are only a few gardens around Qingzhou Mansion, but the chrysanthemum flowering period is long, I have long heard Zhu Shopkeeper say, in previous years, there were many shops to go to the side to play some varieties on the boundary of Qingzhou Mansion to sell.

Moreover, in the Qinjiayuan Garden, due to neglect of care over the years, the precious varieties were either sold early or neglected, and the dead were killed and injured.

Therefore, at present, not only chrysanthemums, but even peonies and peonies are all ordinary varieties.

Such chrysanthemums are at most comparable to other gardens. There is no place where you can pass high pressure over others.

Yes, she has long been coiled in her heart, and Du Benju is a little waiter. It can't be without a little, if the chrysanthemums in this autumn don't see the Qin family again, the fame of decline and decline will spread faster.

There are too many servants, and she is afraid that she will not be able to sell them.

asked Zhang Dong how much he had served in previous years.

Zhang Dongdao. "About 10,000 pots."

Pei Yan nodded. "That is, let's plant it in 10,000 pots. As for the tender ones on the side, they are all planted into cut flowers. ”

Zhang Dong still has no bottom in his heart. After a pause, he said, "In the early years, 10,000 pots were the reputation of our family. Those flower and wood shops are also on the face of the early years, and it is difficult to say that they will not buy them. Nowadays......"

He sighed slightly, and said no more. After a pause, he then asked, "Miss Pei." Can the vase of flowers you are talking about be made? ”

Although she said that she wanted to plant. She's okay too. But he was still worried about the sale.

Pei Yan settled an account with him and said, "It sounds like 30,000 cut flower seedlings, which seems to be a lot." But when you buy a vase of flowers, you rarely buy a branch. Of course, one branch is also sold. One branch less. More than ten branches, but it is only three or four thousand transactions. Qingzhou Mansion of Nuoda. Can't even eat these three or four thousand small deals? ”

Pei Yan said that she didn't believe it!

After a pause, she added, "We'll have some ways then." Try to stagger the flowering period of chrysanthemums, and some of them will be listed around the Mid-Autumn Festival. ”

After all, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is only one big category of chrysanthemums to see. From the Mid-Autumn Festival to Chongyang, nearly 20 days, calculated, only a few hundred flowers are sold a day, if you meet a large family, it is only a matter of one transaction.

"Besides, don't just listen to the frightening number of seedlings. In fact, I have carefully calculated that at least 3,000 to 4,000 seedlings should be planted in that acre of field. In this way, in addition to the single chrysanthemum, it is enough to turn over seven or eight acres of chrysanthemum fields. ”

Compared with the Qin family's large garden of more than 200 acres, seven or eight acres of fields are limited, whether it is labor or fertilizer and water.

Zhang Dong, who was originally bottomless in his heart, listened to her words and breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that she can't help but wonder in her heart, she knows how to raise flowers and plants, and she just learned it from books.

But this field grows flowers, and you don't even know how to sell them? Where did you learn this?

What's even more surprising is that even a few acres of planting have been calculated......

As I was thinking about it, I heard her mention the river sand and pots used for cuttings, and even the antibacterial and pest control drugs, as well as the problems mentioned earlier in the recruitment of manpower.

Zhang Dong had to come back to his senses and listen carefully to her.

After the two of them discussed this, it was already dark.

Zhang Dong took the heavy harvest of talking in the middle of the afternoon, looking at the car that was gradually moving away in the summer afterglow, and only left his heart full of emotion.

It was only at this time that he was somewhat convinced that the Qin family's garden might really be changed because of this little girl.

I thought of a few years ago, when he was still a small steward, in the garden of the Qin family, there was a prosperous scene of flowers competing for flowers and guests coming and going.

Zhang Dong suddenly felt a little excitement in his heart, if it was in his own hands, he could also restore the garden as before......

The next day, after having dinner early, he gathered the little stewards and assigned the various tasks that he had talked with Pei Yan yesterday to everyone.

In the middle of the morning, I heard that the women who were recruiting short-term workers in the Qin Garden had come to the door one after another to apply. With the arrival of these women, and the small stewards in the Zhuangzi came in and out, either buying fertilizer or digging sand.

There are also long-term workers, either cleaning and tidying up the nursery, or ploughing the fields where flowers will be planted in the future. The Qinjiayuan, which has been silent and barren for more than a few years, has shown an unprecedentedly busy scene.

The busyness at this time means that there may be a heavy harvest after the autumn.

Most of the long-term workers and small stewards who stayed in Zhuangzi earlier have worked in the Qin family for many years, and they also have some feelings for the garden. Now that I see that the owner's family is attentive to the garden, the new little girl from the garden, although she looks young, knows everything.

Everyone's motivation is also unprecedentedly high.

This made Master Pei, who went to the garden to check in person two days later, a little trance-like for a while. -- It seems that this kind of scene of busy figures and laughter is full of laughter, and it seems that I have not seen it for a long time.

In recent years, there have been accidents in the garden one after another, which has made his original heart for the garden even weaker.

It's like the gate garden in March that took a lot of effort to hire. After revealing the filling. He regarded the garden as a trouble, a great problem that could only be solved by selling it out of his hands.

Now, seeing this scene, he felt a little ashamed. This was what he should have done, but he didn't expect his son to do it crookedly.

Thinking of the words that I had promised the little girl of the Pei family to work until the early winter, I had some regrets.

When I got home, I told Mrs. Qin about the matter in detail. There was a pause. He said, "Why don't my son send someone to Jiangdu and other places to visit carefully, and look for it earlier." Suitable replacements. ”

The old lady knows Jiangdu. In fact, Qingzhou Mansion does this business, and no one knows Jiangdu. Jiangdu is rich in peony flowers, and I heard that the people over there all grow peonies in the fields like vegetables. A lot of peony flowers in Qingzhou Mansion were transported from there.

But the old lady sighed slightly. "There are those who know how to come out and work. I only know the same thing when I think about it, and I don't understand it very well. ”

If not. It's not just that.

Old Man Qin sighed and nodded, this is true.

But where to find this suitable gate garden? If it's easy to find. I won't be deceived by a straw bag. In fact, in this slightly out-of-the-way business, it is very rare to see someone as versatile as the Pei family girl.

The thought flashed through me. Master Qin himself was slightly stunned.

It's only been a few days, and this little girl of the Pei family has gone from being a liar in his heart. Became a rare all-rounder!

Even, this kind of change is so natural that even he is not aware of it.

While thinking about it, I heard Mrs. Qin say, "What's more, I think that this craft is better understood by my own family, so that this garden can last longer." ”

Old Master Qin's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "Then what do you mean?" "Isn't it as my wife guessed, my mother really intends to let Brother Lang inherit the ancestral business and learn this craft?

It's one thing for him to not want to give up his ancestral business, but it's another thing to let his son do the same.

Master Qin, who has been studying since he was a child, also thinks that this garden is one of the many ways to earn money and make a living. Just like your own land, even if you have a field, you don't have to pick a son to really farm.

Old Madam Qin's calculations were not what Old Man Qin thought in his heart. It's just that seeing that he was also defensive, lest he really ask Brother Lang to dip this skill, he still felt slightly astringent in his heart, and said for a while, "Let's not talk about this for now." There is still some time before she quits, so think about it carefully, but there is no other way. ”

Old Master Qin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The conversation between the two masters of the Qin family, Pei Yan still doesn't know. After boiling the stone sulfur mixture by hand, he asked the long-term workers to sprinkle the turned fields and even the houses used for seedlings, and the sky became gloomy.

In the whirring wind, there is a faint smell of damp water. Hunting and brushing the corners of her clothes, Pei Yan stood on the field that had just been turned, and suddenly felt full of pride, and couldn't help but spread her arms, looking up at the sky and smiling, the rainy season is finally coming!

With the first rain falling, a new round of busyness began in the Qin family's garden.

This time, it was the newly recruited women who were busy.

As early as the day they started working, Pei Yan had already divided the manpower into two groups. A group of chrysanthemum tips used for cuttings are picked in the field and treated slightly. The other group taught them simple cuttings skills.

In fact, the success of cuttings is more about the timing of the season, potting soil sterilization and other preparatory work before cuttings. and take care of the cuttings. As far as the word cutting itself is concerned, it is very simple.

It's just that the treated seedlings are inserted in the river sand basin that has been sterilized.

After three days of busy work, the chrysanthemum seedlings have been properly planted. The seedlings that were cut on the first day have already survived, and the fresh growth of the young shoots is generally the same as when they are grown on the mother plant.

Zhang Dong breathed a sigh of relief and asked her with a smile, "Miss Pei, is this considered a success?" ”

Pei Yan shook her head, "No." It takes about seven days to take root, and after rooting, it grows for a few more days before it can be transplanted into the field. ”

Transplanting is the last and most important pass for cuttings.

Because the microclimate of the seedling shed is different from the general environment climate of the field. In addition to the root injury during transplanting, there is also a sudden change in the microclimate, which may cause these young seedlings that have just taken root to die.

However, there is still a lot of time before transplanting.

She also happened to take advantage of this opportunity to go home and make her chrysanthemums well. explained some precautions to Zhang Dong, and asked Xiao Jiu, who was sent by the Qin family to give her a car, to drive to Bei'an Town.

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(To be continued.) )