Chapter 11 Replicating the Village of Little River
Zhong Huan didn't expect that with a casual match, the two of them would really become, and this efficiency really made him envious. Peng Lei was even more happy, snatched Jia Jia's backpack and carried it on his back, and kept telling interesting things about the village along the way, making Jia Jia giggle.
The mountains to the west of Xiaohe Village are neither strange nor dangerous, but that doesn't mean there aren't fun places on the hills. Patches of fruit trees are planted on the mountain, including green apples, yellow pears, pink peaches, and crimson plums.
"Lei Lei, go up the mountain?"
As soon as the three of them arrived at the bottom of the mountain, an old man in his fifties greeted them.
"Uncle Ren, these two are my classmates, and I want to go to the mountains to play for a while." Peng Lei knew that this mountainous land was contracted by several families in the village. The Uncle Ren in front of him is one of them, and usually several families take turns to take care of the orchard, and whoever has the fruit is ripe, they all help pick it together.
"Done! The fruit is as you like, but it's a little ......."
"Don't get in trouble, I know." Peng Lei answered.
"Hehe~ Let's play. My peaches are ripe, and Liu Sen's plums are also good. The apples and pears are not yet hot. Uncle Ren gave some pointers and let the three of them go up the mountain.
"Peng Lei, you have enough face. If you didn't know someone, we wouldn't be able to get up, would we? Zhong Huan naturally wanted to be a brother in front of Jia Jia.
"That's, and don't look at who I am. There is no one in Xiaohe Village that I don't know. If you come by yourself, you'll have to pay the picking fee. Peng Lei said proudly.
"Plop ~ Peng Lei, don't blow it, I also know Uncle Ren." Jia Jia was amused by Peng Lei.
"You know Uncle Ren, he didn't recognize you just now. In the past few years, you have come back less, and you have changed a lot, and you are really not as familiar as me. ”
"I'm not as familiar as you, but you're not as good as me in terms of relationship, Uncle Ren and my dad are still partners. As soon as I mentioned my dad, he would let him go. Jia Jia was unconvinced.
"Hehe~ That's it, who in the village doesn't give Uncle Jia face."
Although Peng Lei did not refute it, he didn't think so in his heart. At the beginning, Jia Jia and her father Jia Dafu had too little capital when they started their business, so they first sold the fruits in the village to the city on credit, and then repaid the money after earning the money. At that time, the villagers supported him and gave him a lot of help, and the price was cheap. Later, Jia Dafu's business became bigger, but he didn't give the villagers any benefits, and he still lowered the price on credit, but it was not as high as the price given by other fruit merchants. This made the people in the village very dissatisfied, and they no longer sold the fruit to Jia Dafu, it can be said that Jia Dafu's popularity in the village is not very good.
Jia Jia didn't know these situations, she heard a different version. Jia Dafu always said that there was no market or channel for the fruits in the village, and he sold the fruits that were about to rot in the ground, and he made money because of this. The people in the village were angry and wanted to raise the price, which forced him to change the purchase channel.
Zhong Huan didn't know about these old things in Xiaohe Village at all. He saw that Peng Lei and Jia Jia were chatting lively, and he didn't want to be a light bulb, so he said to Peng Lei: "You guys talk first, I'll go over there to pick." After speaking, he jumped into the fruit grove, leaving space for Peng Lei and Jia Jia to be alone.
When Peng Lei saw Zhong Huan leaving, he couldn't help blushing a little. He understood that Zhong Huan was creating opportunities for himself, but he always felt that he was a little forgetful of his friends. Originally, he was supposed to entertain Zhong Huan, a guest, but now he has put all his thoughts on Jia Jia, and he seems to be a little unfriendly.
Zhong Huan didn't complain about Peng Lei in his heart, he still wished he was alone. Picking a big peach from the tree and wiping off the peach hair with a paper towel, Zhong Huan took a bite of it, but he didn't see the peach pit, and his mouth was full of sweet taste.
This peach is good, big and sweet. As soon as he turned his hand, the peach pit entered the storage hall. Zhong Huan wasn't sure if this peach pit could grow a peach tree, but it was too conspicuous to send a peach tree into the storage hall, and Zhong Huan wasn't so bold. In order to ensure the success of planting, he broke another peach branch and put it in the storage hall together, so that he could experiment with cuttings and seedlings at the same time.
After picking peaches, Zhong Huan picked plums and apples again. Just as he was about to walk into the pear grove, a "buzz~" sound came from his ears, and the frightened Zhong Huan looked down and saw a bee flying in front of him, landing on a wildflower in front of him and starting to collect honey.
Seeing this scene, Zhong Huan slapped his head. How did I forget such an important thing? To carry out greening in the Ten Thousand Beasts Gu, it is not enough to plant alone, and some plants must be pollinated by insects to thrive.
Thinking of this, Zhong Huan's heart moved, and the person had already entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Gu. Sure enough, some of the vegetables planted last night have grown a lot of vegetables, and some of them have not increased in number, although the plants have grown a lot. Obviously, it is the crops that can be grown in patches that are pollinated by wind pollinators, and vice versa that are crops that need to be pollinated by insect vectors.
Bees are said to be the best pollinators, and they can also make honey, which can kill two birds with one stone. However, Zhong Huan didn't want to keep bees in the Ten Thousand Beasts Gu. One is because only the queen bee can breed offspring among the bees, and it is easy to catch bees, but it is difficult to poke the honeycomb to catch the queen bee. The second reason was that Zhong Huan was not sure if the bees raised in the Ten Thousand Beast Gu would mutate, and if he raised a killer bee with a big fist, it would be troublesome.
In addition to bees, the insects that can pollinate and are safe are butterflies and ants. It is not easy for Zhong Huan to catch these two insects, butterflies need to use nets, and ants are the same as bees, it is useless to catch worker ants, and the queen must be caught in order to let the whole nest of ants settle in the Ten Thousand Beasts Gu. Compared with the two, Zhong Huan still tends to catch butterflies, which can not only pollinate, but also be very beautiful.
At the moment, Zhong Huan has no tools, and he still mainly collects fruit trees, and it will be tomorrow to catch butterflies. After walking around the mountain, Zhong Huan collected the branches of several fruit trees, and then went to meet Peng Lei and Jia Jia.
The three of them spread out picnic mats in the orchard, put the snacks prepared in advance and the fresh fruits picked together, and chatted while eating.
In the orchard of this mountain village with birds and flowers, the three of them talked about what else was delicious and fun in Xiaohe Village. Zhong Huan did not have the right to speak on this topic, but Peng Lei, who usually doesn't talk much, was full of energy, and the head of the talk was the Tao, and Zhong Huan and Jia Jia, who listened to it, were leisurely fascinated. Compared with the life of two points and one line in the city, the pastoral life of Xiaohe Village with flowers in spring, fruits in summer, harvest in autumn and snow in winter is more colorful.
In the next few days, Peng Lei took Zhong Huan and Jia Jia to experience a variety of interesting rural games. Digging birds' nests in the trees, fishing and shrimp in the river, roasting corn in the field, catching grasshoppers in the grass, the three of them had a lot of fun.
Every time Zhong Huan travels, he acts alone for a period of time, on the one hand, to create a chance for Peng Lei and Jia Jia to be alone, and on the other hand, to improve the greening project in the Ten Thousand Beasts Gu.
Zhong Huan lived in Peng Lei's house for a week, but seven years had passed in the Ten Thousand Beasts Gu. At this time, the Ten Thousand Beast Gu was very different from before, and the flat land on the top of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain had become Zhong Huan's vegetable garden, growing all kinds of vegetables.
All kinds of fruit trees were planted by Zhong Huan on the hillside, although the entire mountain had not been planted, it was enough to make the previously bare Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain glow with vitality.
A small part of the Ten Thousand Beasts under the mountain was also reclaimed by Zhong Huan and planted corn, rice, wheat and other food crops.
Trees are planted on the hills, fields are planted on flat land, and vegetable gardens are in front of the house and behind the house. Zhong Huan felt as if he had moved Xiaohe Village into the Ten Thousand Beasts Gu, and even the aquatic plants in the Ten Thousand Beasts Pond were fished from the small river in Xiaohe Village. The only difference is that the plants in the Ten Thousand Beasts Gu are much larger than those grown in Xiaohe Village, and the peaches and apples all grow like small watermelons. Ordinary butterflies have grown to the size of a pair of palms after the Ten Thousand Beast Gu has multiplied for several generations, and it feels like it is about to become a sperm.
Zhong Huan had the courage to pick a big peach produced by Ten Thousand Beast Gu and tasted it, but he was immediately fascinated by the peach fragrance. He swore he had never eaten such a delicious peach in his life. The fragrant and sweet peach juice fills the mouth, as if you are eating a fairy peach. This peach is not only delicious, but also enjoyable to eat, and you can't see the peach pit when you bite three times in the same position. When Zhong Huan finished eating a peach, the whole person hummed.
Of course, the best in the Ten Thousand Beast Gu is not only peaches, but each fruit tastes exceptionally sweet. Those vegetables and grains looked just as attractive, but there were no cooking utensils in the Gu King's Palace, so they couldn't cook food. Otherwise, Zhong Huan must taste every kind of vegetable well.
What made Zhong Huan feel pity was that he didn't have much time to pick the fruits of the harvest. At first, when there were few fruits and vegetables, he could still pick some of them and put them in the storage hall, but when the yield was large, he couldn't pick them anymore, and he could only watch the good fruits fall to the ground and turn into fertilizer.
At first, Zhong Huan was distressed about this, but after seeing more, he had a trace of enlightenment in his heart, realizing that the cycle is the natural law between heaven and earth, and he was not so congested. At this time, Huanhuan's mind was full of thoughts on how to exchange all kinds of large fruits and vegetables in the storage hall for money. It is definitely not possible to sell fruits in Xiaohe Village, and you still have to go back to the city to sell them at a high price.
"Uncle, aunt, I'm going back. Thank you for your hospitality. ”
Zhong Huan thought of his plan to make a fortune, so he naturally couldn't stay any longer, so he said goodbye to Peng Lei's family.
"Xiao Huan, don't be so polite, I will often come to play in the future." Peng Dong felt that Zhong Huan was a good child, not as squeamish as other city children, and he never complained bitterly when he arrived in Xiaohe Village.
"Lei Lei, you go and send off Xiao Huan. Take all the fruits and vegetables you picked, and let Xiao Huan's parents often grow our own vegetables. Xue Huile said to Peng Lei.
"Auntie, you don't need to send it, I can take it." Zhong Huan can be regarded as returning with a full load this time, not only is the Ten Thousand Beast Gu full of plants, but he also took a lot of fruits and vegetables when he left, after all, the things in the Ten Thousand Beasts Gu are not visible.
"What are you being polite to me? Let's go together. Peng Lei said and took the two bags of fruit in Zhong Huan's hand and went out with him.