Chapter Seventy-One: The Rose Garden
PS: When I wrote this chapter, I suddenly found out that the last time I wrote the chapters of Shache, Wan'er was wrong about his mother's family, and my mother's brother and brother should be the eldest uncle and younger brother, and now it has been corrected.
Cai Hongming and Shi Wan'er stayed in Gulang for two days to accompany their parents who came back from their hometown, and then returned to the Western Capital Shengjing.
There weren't a lot of things on the farm, most of them had already been arranged, and he was idle.
After resting for a few more days, after the people who raised soft-shelled turtles in the county sent the soft-shelled turtle fry over, and left his wife to take care of the house, he took thirty new people and Murong Hua and Li Chun, two old men, to Hotan in Western Xinjiang.
Last year, he asked Wan'er and her second uncle Archibiger to help buy land, but because the funds were too small, he only let him buy 100 acres. Now that he has money, he asked him for help and bought 2,000 acres of land at the foot of Kunlun Mountain. Here, he plans to grow half of the wild roses for wine, and half of the chickpeas, pistachios, and almonds.
Chickpeas taste similar to soybeans, but they have a different flavor and are larger than soybeans.
Nowadays, there is a flood of genetically modified beans imported from foreign countries on the market, and Cai Hongming is really afraid, so he plans to grow chickpeas to eat. Chickpeas taste good, especially when used in stews.
This chickpea can not only be eaten, but also used to feed livestock, which can be said to kill multiple birds with one stone.
With the help of Wan'er's second uncle Archibig, a local, Cai Hongming quickly bought the land he wanted. The land is at the foot of Kunlun Mountain, not far from the Yulong Kashgar River, and there are abundant underground water sources. However, because I bought cheap land that had not been cultivated, it was very thin and had little fertility.
After buying it, Cai Hongming first asked someone from the county to build a row of temporary prefabricated houses on the ground, then drilled wells, and then began to reclaim the wasteland.
Because all that was bought was wasteland. Fertilization must be applied deeply. Moreover, it is impossible to use only manpower for such a large land, so Cai Hongming bought several agricultural machinery to cultivate the land.
While plowing the land, he went to nearby farms and pastures to buy a pile of livestock manure and hay, watered them and piled them together, and covered them with plastic to make fertilizer.
Cai Hongming didn't want to use chemical fertilizer in what he planted.
Because the use of chemical fertilizer is too much, not only does it damage the soil fertility, but also the taste of the things grown is not as good as that of natural fertilizers. In addition to buying livestock manure to cook in Wo, he also asked Wan'er to have the sandworm manure shoveled out of the greenhouse dried and transported over.
It turns out. Sandworm manure is the best fertilizer.
The vegetable fields left in the Xidu Shengjing are now fertilized with sandworm manure, and the vegetables and fruits grown are all big and very sweet.
It took nearly a month to plant the land, fertilize and pre-plant the sprinkler irrigation equipment, and then start planting wild roses.
In order to maintain the natural and excellent wildness of the variety, Cai Hongming specially led people to go to the Kunlun Mountain, which is full of wild roses, to cut a batch of wild rose branches, and dug some tall rose trees back to plant. After the cut branches rested, Cai Hongming specially soaked them in jade toad liquid for a while. It is not planted until fibrous roots grow.
After several experiments, he found that the plants that had soaked or absorbed the jade toad liquid would mutate, whether it was the plant itself or the flowers and fruits that grew, they would be bigger and better.
Two thousand acres is said to be big and very small, and more than 30 people such as Cai Hongming are working hard with machinery in turn. After more than a month, they were all planted with wild roses, chickpeas, pistachios, and almonds. Among them, the most abundant are wild roses and chickpeas. Pistachios and almonds are planted around to protect them from the wind and sand. For shade.
Of course, it can't be said that these lands are just for them.
When digging pits to plant roses and almonds and other saplings, Cai Hongming also went to the county to invite a lot of Wei . The Uygur villagers came to help, otherwise they would not have been able to plant the land so quickly even if they were tired to death.
After planting roses, 2,000 acres of land should be fenced with steel mesh.
First, it is to prevent animals from running in and eating plant shoots; Secondly. After all, this is an ethnic minority area, and there are always some fierce and ruthless people. Besides, this is a suburb and there are no people around, so it's better to be careful.
In addition to these, Cai Hongming also asked the construction team to build three three-and-a-half-story buildings with the characteristics of the Western Xinjiang ethnic group poured with cement and steel bars on the ground of his house. It is often referred to as a villa. In fact, in the countryside, such a self-built building is not very expensive, as long as it is not too luxurious decoration, the total cost is generally not more than 500,000. And it may not be built without it, and the construction team with national qualifications is solid. If you don't cut corners, it will probably be even better.
At the very least, it won't be discarded or unusable in a few years or decades.
In the blink of an eye, it has been nearly two months since I came to Hotan, and everything is done, only the fence net, the building and the gate are left. There is a special engineering team doing this, as long as someone is watching.
During this time, he was busy cultivating the land, fertilizing, sowing and planting trees, and did not give Li Chun and Murong Hua a good holiday. Cai Hongming thought about it for a while, and finally had a good conscience, approved them to rest for a few days, and even kindly told them that they might as well go to the river for a walk, maybe they would be lucky enough to find a few pieces of good jade.
Actually, you don't need to say it, these people will do the same.
When he wanted to come here, the old man in the Western Capital Shengjing had already said through his mouth that there was a lot of jade in Hetian, and Chen Dashan found a piece of jade worth millions. Liu Chong of Sao Bao even took out a gold necklace inlaid with mutton fat jade from his neck for everyone to see. In fact, he didn't go that time, this was given to him by Cai Hongming when he came back.
When those people saw it, they were red-eyed on the spot. Who doesn't know the high price of mutton fat jade?
When they came here, they ran to find Jade when they would rest, but unfortunately they never had time to rest. At this time, when Cai Hongming said this, he suddenly screamed, and he was very excited. was stunned that no one went to the county to play, so they all jumped into a truck that Cai Hongming had just bought, and went to the Yulong Kashgar River with shovels and other things, which made Cai Hongming dumbfounded.
Wow, those who know understand that they are looking for jade, and those who don't know think that they are a group of bandits who want to rob it!
However, it turns out that not everyone is so lucky.
Li Chun and Murong Hua were old birds who knew the way, and especially took them to the place where they dug the jade last time. It's a pity that Cai Hongming has already told Argibiger that a bunch of excavators have dug up the river over there, how can they find anything. Until I came back in the evening, I just chatted about a few people finding jade, and I couldn't help but be depressed. It's just that after Cai Hongming saw the jade they found in the evening, he told them that one of them could be sold for about 40,000 yuan, and their depressed hearts were full of excitement again. Love, commotion.
The next day, as soon as they were done, they ran again screaming and running to find the jade. As a result, just like the first day, there were only two or three people who found jade. And the value is lower than on the first day.
For a few days, everyone was discouraged. Think about it, in fact, it's just a little higher than the probability of winning the lottery, so some people stop and go to the county to play, no longer looking for jade. And the people who were looking for jade didn't want to look for it anymore because they were tired of looking for it, so they stayed at home and slept.
The gate of 2,000 acres of land was quickly completed because it was poured with cement, and Cai Hongming asked someone to engrave a few words on it with marble.
As a result, these two thousand acres of land have a name, called "Rose Garden". (To be continued......)