Chapter 6 The Orchard
Pushing open the door, adjacent to the backyard was a small valley, in which two figures, one large and one small, were busy, and a yellow-gray earth dog was bouncing around beside them.
This small valley is his own, and there is also his own credit in it, Zhang Taiping thought of himself for a while.
The village committee distributed the slopes around the village and the low-lying hills to each household. These plots of land are less rocky or too steep to grow crops or cultivate normally, so they are divided among families to grow fruit trees.
When it was first divided, there were hundreds of households in the village, and a fart at the head of the village could be heard at the end of the village.
Take pity on her, and divide the valley behind the house directly to her. After planting fruit trees, it is easy to manage and easy to work. And others are drawing lots, and catching them is there.
Fruit tree saplings are distributed free of charge by the political axe, and after being planted in the ground, each tree can also receive a subsidy of two yuan per year from the state.
In fact, in the minds of most villagers, fruit trees do not make much money.
Not to mention the natural factors, the initial investment is high, the growth cycle is long, and people need to be busy for a long time. Besides, even if the wind and rain are smooth, there are no insect diseases, and good fruit is born, I don't know who to buy it for.
It's better to go out to work and be stable. If you don't gamble, don't mess around, in addition to food and housing, you can still leave more than 10,000 yuan a year.
Most people grow walnut or chestnut trees entirely. Planting on the slopes and on the top of the hill is just to respond to the call of the state and get a subsidy of one or two thousand yuan a year.
And his wife Yazhi listened to the advice of her sister who went to college, and she belonged to that minority. Counting on the fruit trees to make money, a lot of energy and expectations have been put into it.
Zhang Taiping followed the path into the small valley.
The bottom of the valley is a flat land, and the area is not small, with the appearance of five or six acres.
In the middle, about two or three acres of land with good soil are planted with dwarf vines. Looking at the growth of the tree, it is two years old. The branches of the tree were overgrown, and one by one they were carefully tied to the bamboo poles tied to them. However, it was also revealed that the management personnel lacked skills and did not prune the excess branches, so that the nutrients of the trees were too scattered and wasted.
Cherry trees are planted on each side near the slope, and the total is more than two acres.
On the low slopes on both sides, peach trees are planted in places where the soil is still abundant, and I vaguely remember that they are still peaches.
Above, the sandy soil, can only be planted with a few walnut trees.
The wife was digging sweet potatoes planted in Peach Tree Lane with her head, and Yaya was sitting next to her and brushing the mud from the sweet potatoes with her little hands.
When the earth dog Ah Huang saw Zhang Taiping coming, he immediately grabbed his tail, made a big circle, and ran back to the house from the path where Zhang Taiping came.
In the past, Zhang Taiping would wag his tail to welcome Ah Huang every time he went home, but Zhang Taiping, who lost the money, was full of anger and gave Ah Huang a kick directly. Over time, Ah Huang immediately ran away with his tail between his legs as soon as he saw him. It is quite a meaning that the enemy advances and I retreat.
Zhang Taiping stretched out his hand and wanted to touch the little girl's head, but saw the little girl shrinking her neck, and a dense layer of fine sweat appeared on her forehead.
Zhang Taiping's hand stopped in the air could not fall, as if he had committed a great crime. A pity, a pain in my heart.
The wife turned around and saw Zhang Taiping, and the surprise in her eyes couldn't be hidden.
According to Zhang Taiping in the past, he never went to the ground, but just pointed fingers at home like a master.
Today, when the sun comes out in the west, how can you not surprise your wife.
Zhang Taiping opened his mouth and wanted to shout Yazhi, but when he closed his mouth, he said: "Dumb, give me your head." ”
Because Zhang Taiping used to call his wife like this.
The wife was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly gestured with her hand.
This time, Zhang Taiping understood it, which meant that he had shed a lot of blood the night before, and his grandfather said that his body was very weak and he needed to rest.
This made Zhang Taiping, who was accustomed to seeing the warmth and coldness of people in his previous life, both warm and ashamed, such a big man still needs a woman's family to support.
Take the head and dig it up. Zhang Taiping, whether in the past or in this life, has never been in the ground, let alone digging sweet potatoes.
As soon as I went down, I dug into a large sweet potato with a click. With a hard planing, half of Chengren's fist-sized sweet potato was lifted, and half of it was embedded in the soil, secreting milky white juice.
After looking at the intact pieces of his wife's digging, Zhang Taiping was embarrassed for a while, and buried himself in digging again.
The wife had no choice but to cut off the vine with a sickle, revealing the rhizome. Then he sat with Yaya and brushed the mud.
The little girl was obviously absent-minded, and from time to time she glanced at Zhang Taiping, who was snoring and snoring.
Men always work harder than women, and in a short time they dig up a lot of them. After his wife pulled the corners of his clothes, he stopped unsatisfied.
His wife hurriedly sent her the handkerchief she was carrying.
He took a handkerchief embroidered with an unknown flower. In the sun at nine o'clock, looking at his wife who inadvertently brushed her sideburns with her hand, although she is not peerless, she also has a charm that others can't understand.
A little throbbing in his heart.
After filling the sweet potatoes, a snakeskin bag is full, enough to eat for a while.
And the wife took out a rope and tied up the vine that had been cut off. You can feed chickens and sheep when you take it back, and you can also dry it for firewood.
In Zhang Taiping's puzzled eyes, his wife climbed to the top of the slope neatly and led the sheep tied to the old locust tree on the top of the slope.
It's a ewe, and it's still pregnant.
Goat's milk is milked once a day, about three or four catties.
In the past, Zhang Taiping did not drink goat's milk. One is that there is a faint smell, and the other is that he has a nosebleed after drinking too much anger.
Goat's milk is different from cow's milk. Milk is a cool surname, the surname is mild, and the reaction to the body after drinking it is not very obvious, so it is suitable for long-term drinking. And goat's milk is surnamed Yang, which is too hot and has the effect of aphrodisiac, and ordinary people really can't stand it. Not suitable for young and strong men.
But goat's milk is far more nutritious than cow's milk. Cows are picky about grass and prefer to eat one type of grass, especially cows that are now fed exclusively for feed, and produce worse milk quality. Sheep are not picky about grass, eat grass, and the milk nutrition is relatively complete and balanced.
Three or four catties of milk are all ordered out except for half a catty for Yaya to drink. Two yuan per catty, and you can earn seven or eight yuan a day.
After the sheep went downhill, he automatically walked back along the path, his wife followed behind with a sweet potato vine on her head, and Zhang Taiping picked up a snakeskin bag of sixty or seventy catties with one hand and carried it on her shoulder and walked at the end.
Passing by the vines, Zhang Taiping asked, "Why don't you prune?" ”
In his wife's surprised and confused expression, Zhang Taiping patted his forehead and explained, "Fruit trees have to be pruned regularly, and if the branches are too numerous, they will disperse nutrients. And many of them are branches, which do not bear fruit. These need to be cut off to make the main branches grow thicker. Especially for this dwarf vine, it is enough to leave two on the main trunk, and then divide it into two branches on each trunk, and divide it into three times. ”
"Understood?"
The wife shook her head embarrassedly.
Playing the piano to the cow, Zhang Taiping thought in his heart, he is really bold enough, he doesn't know anything and dares to expect these to make money, and it would be good to be able to bear fruit.
"Okay, it's fine. I'll trim it when the time comes. And those cherry and peach trees also need to be pruned. ”
Nothing to say all the way.
When they got home, the wife tied up the sheep and the family went to the front room.
Zhang Taiping, who had already eaten breakfast, felt that he had nothing to do, and walked around the house, not knowing where Yaya was hiding, only his wife was busy back and forth.
Zhang Taiping, who was looking for something to do, suddenly thought of something, unloaded the clock hanging on the bedroom wall and ran to the backyard.
He wanted to experiment with whether the mysterious space was as magical as the novel.
From the backyard, I dug up a few newly grown radish and cabbage seedlings, burrowed into the north room of the back house, and closed the door.
As soon as his mind moved, the jade pendant came out of the center of his eyebrows and floated in front of him.
Zhang Taiping put the clock on the table, waited for the time to reach 9:35, held the vegetable seedlings in his left hand, grabbed the jade pendant with his right hand, and disappeared into the room with a swish.
When I entered the space, I was still shocked.
I dug a hole in the red-black slightly moist ground by hand, put the vegetable seedlings in it, and covered the soil again.
Standing next to him, his eyes blinking at the seedlings. Ten minutes have passed, and my eyes are about to burst into tears, but the vegetable seedlings have not changed. Well, some, they're more energetic than when they first came in.
I can't see why.
Zhang Taiping went to the pool and scooped a pinch of spring water with both hands, quickly held it up to the vegetable seedlings, and carefully poured it on the roots.
A miracle happened.
The vegetable seedlings are stretched high at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if they have been injected with hormones. It grew until it was twenty centimeters tall and the momentum slowed down.
But Zhang Taiping ran to the spring water as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, picked it up again, ran back like the wind, poured it on the roots, and squatted next to him looking expectantly.
The little cabbage and radish that had just slowed down began to grow wildly again, and you could hear the snorting sound of the cabbage rubbing against the leaves when the cabbage hugged the round.
After this stop growing, the cabbage pimple was the size of a basketball, verdant and green, like a jade carving.
Zhang Taiping directly plucked a radish, which was more than a foot long, with thick calves and white and green skin.
Peel off the skin and take a bite, it is crisp and refreshing, without a little bit of the original spiciness.
While enjoying the appetizing radish, I scooped some spring water with the radish skin and poured it on the ripe cabbage roots. The green cabbage is aging and withering at a faster rate than it grows.
The withered leaves fell to the ground, and a flash of blue light flashed on the ground, and the yellow leaves were broken down into gray soil.
Zhang Taiping stopped and thought for a while, and then summed up some basic functions of the space.
First of all, the space can put yourself and the vegetable seedlings into it, which means that the space can be loaded with both plants and animals, and it is a powerful storage space.
Secondly, the space spring water has a role in promoting and optimizing the growth of plants. Judging from the last time I drank water, it has no catalytic effect on animals, but it can improve animal physique, which can be regarded as optimization.
Thirdly, the space land has the function of automatically differentiating the stumps and leaves.
As for whether there is an explanation of the advantages in time, you have to look at it to know.
Thinking of this, my heart moved, and I appeared in the house.
I looked at the "brand" watch on my wrist, and the hour hand had just turned one notch. I looked at the clock on the table again, and it was nine thirty-seven.
Zhang Taiping's eyebrows jumped, two minutes. In other words, one hour has passed inside, and only two minutes have passed outside. Time passes thirty times faster inside than the outside world.
Thirty times the difference, Zhang Taiping wanted to be calm, but his mouth cracked uncontrollably.
The surname Suo let go of the surname, and laughed "hahahahaha"
I couldn't help but think of "the countryside, what happened to the countryside?" It is also possible to make a fortune in the countryside, and it is okay to drive the whole village to become rich. ”