Chapter 24 Cleaning up the mountain field
Li Chen has been very busy lately.
Every day, I get up before dawn and go to the mountains, and I come back very late.
This surprised the neighbor Aunt Hao.
Aunt Hao is over 70 years old this year, and she lives next to Li Chen's house, in an alley with Li Chen's house at the door. Her wife has been dead for many years, and she has a son who works in other places and will only come back for the Chinese New Year.
Aunt Hao's body is quite tough, but her ears and eyes are not very good. There is also some sluggishness in movement, typical of geriatric diseases.
However, it is not a problem for her to take care of her diet and daily life alone, and in order to take care of her, Secretary Li also arranged for several women to come to her house every now and then to buy her some daily necessities.
In fact, her son wanted to come back a long time ago, but due to the problem of earning money and the child's education, he couldn't be a daughter-in-law, so he didn't come back.
But my mother is old, and he has already decided that he will not leave when he comes back for the Spring Festival.
But after coming back, how to earn money to support the family is a big problem, after all, the son goes to school, and the family's living expenses are not small, who wants to live a hard life? For this, the son quarreled with his daughter-in-law a lot.
The old lady knows very well that she actually wants her son and grandson to come back, but the reality is cruel, and she also feels very depressed about being a drag on her son.
On weekdays, she has few laugh lines.
But every time she faced Li Chen, a sunny boy, and saw this child passing by and greeting her warmly, she couldn't help but smile.
She knew Li Chen's child, but it was limited to Li Chen's childhood memories.
Since Li Chen went out to study, she has seen him very rarely, only that he is very competitive, and he was admitted to a prestigious university in Beijing, and his job is also very good. In addition, this kid is also sensible, this has never seen who he has fought with, he has been naughty, he is very polite to everyone, and he knows things to make people. No, he brought himself a big pear, and told himself to taste it, saying that it was from his tree. This kid has a good heart, but he doesn't want to think about it, I'm so old, I don't have a few teeth, how can I chew it!
But I'm content if he can have this heart, you see the other half of the children in the village, they don't bother to pay attention to you.
But with such good conditions, why did this kid come back so willfully?
Who wants to stay in this poor ravine?
Especially in the last few days, I heard from the women in the same village who came to see her that this child also contracted back the mountain farm that his father sold, and I heard that he really wanted to take root at this time, and the old lady really couldn't understand it!
His son didn't want to come back, and this child wanted to stay for a long time. What's going on?
He doesn't want a future?
Or is it a bad head to read? But doesn't he look like it?
The old lady wanted to ask Li Chen, but found that Li Chen seemed to be very busy on weekdays, either the cat didn't come out for a few days at home, or like now, he got up early and didn't go home late.
And how old she is, her memory is not good, she can't remember it every time she leaves her eyes, she only remembers it when she sees Li Chen, but when she wants to ask, this kid runs away and disappears.
Alas!
Thinking of Li Chen, the old lady thought of her son again.
If only he could be by his side!
Li Chen naturally didn't know Aunt Hao's thoughts, he had been busy with the affairs of the mountain field recently.
This mountain field doesn't seem to be big, but because it hasn't been hit for more than a year, don't look at the few fruits, there are a lot of weeds and gravel, and the branches have grown everywhere, and it really takes some effort to restore the original appearance.
Originally, when I heard that Li Chen was going to start cleaning up the mountain farm, my mother wanted to come back to help.
But Li Chen was worried that his mother was running too hard at both ends, so he didn't agree.
Suggestions for hiring people are also not adopted.
There is no other reason, first of all, I have limited funds, I just bought back the contracting rights of the mountain farm, and the money has been spent! You can't ask your mother for money, right?
Moreover, at present, the mountain farm has just begun to be sorted out, and it is impossible to have benefits in the short term, so Li Chen is ready to do it himself, and by the way, he will understand every inch of the mountain farm to prepare for the next step.
With such a big mountain field to make it himself, Li Chen is definitely not reckless, it is really because the current Li Chen is no longer the Li Chen of the past.
Now he is an immortal cultivator, although his cultivation is a low garbage among immortal cultivators, it can even be ignored. But compared with ordinary people, both physical fitness and reflexes are still much higher.
It can be said that now he feels that he has inexhaustible energy.
It can be used for mountain care.
As for those fruits at home, Li Chen was no longer ready to continue to nourish them, because he found that no matter how nourishing they were, the spirit fruit would be a spirit fruit after all, and ordinary fruits would still be ordinary fruits.
He plans to use all these fruits as seeds, and the planting site is naturally a mountain farm.
He wants to plant fruit trees as soon as possible through the nourishment of "Book from the Ground". Then strive to get the first economic benefit next year.
That's the most fundamental reason why he's so urgent!
The mountain farm seems to be small, a little more than fourteen acres.
But if you really get it, what seems like a small job is enough for you to work for half a day.
The fruit trees planted in the mountain farm, such as chestnuts and walnuts, have died due to poor soil quality, serious water shortage, and lack of management. Even if you don't die, your ability to hang fruit is very weak.
Li Chen thought about it for a while, and decided to save these for the second step of combing, and then according to his own trial planting, he would replace them all in batches and blocks.
And now let's clean up all these weeds, gravel, dead branches and debris.
This work has been done for six or seven days in a row, even if Li Chen is full of physical strength now, and he can use it for four or five people by himself, he is really tired.
Some of those withered vines and branches are very tough, and some are covered with thorns, which is difficult to start, and it is extremely troublesome to get rid of.
However, it has finally been preliminarily cleaned up, and now there is only a piece of land about 100 square meters left in the northeast of the mountain farm.
Li Chen looked at the place, almost all of them were strong mountain jujube trees, the mountain jujube on it was really not old or young, he picked a few and tasted it, although the taste was not as good as his one, but it was also very good.
Li Chen also praised it, and said in his heart why he hadn't discovered this place before!
In fact, if he didn't think that the area was too large, he really wanted to leave this jujube tree behind.
And judging from Li Chen's progress, one day at most, it will definitely be done.
But just as he was about to make a move that morning, the little beast suddenly stood in front of him.
"Huh? How did you get here? ”
Li Chen was very strange.
Because since this little beast exchanged the magic stone for a few dates for itself, it came a few times, probably because the puddle was given to Li Chen by itself, and it openly asked Li Chen for the dates to eat.
Li Chen didn't want to give it to him, but after thinking about it, instead of letting this little beast steal, it was better to take this opportunity to negotiate some conditions with it. With the spirituality of this little beast, it could understand what Li Chen said, and Li Chen was already convinced of this.
So, he made an agreement with the little beast that he could only give it one a day in the future, and if he took more and ate more, Li Chen would hide all the dates and not let it see one more.
This hand is really useful, in the days to come, this little beast will come on time and on time every day, and then leave after Li Chen gives him a date.
Even if Li Chen is not at home, it only takes one by itself, which seems to be quite trustworthy, of course, Li Chen can also see that it does like to eat dates.
But a week ago, this little beast suddenly didn't come, and he didn't know where he went, and although Li Chen was strange, because he was very busy recently, he didn't care too much, and he didn't expect to see this little guy here now.