Walking into the house, Qiu Hao met Azati's wife Rei Khan and seventeen or eighteen-year-old son Crimean Azati, and several of them put their backpacks on blankets, and then went to eat the lunch that Rei Khan left for Azati.

In the corner of the living room, four people are seated, and in the middle is the poplar dining table, and a lid covers several dishes.

Azati said enthusiastically: "Come, Qiu Hao, there are roast mutton and noodles on the table, and the taste is still good!"

"Pull... Cop? Luo Suwei snorted, and said with a strange face, he inexplicably thought of the police in the Hong Kong film.

Azati opened the hood, pushed out a plate of food similar to hot dry noodles, and said with a smile: "Heh, the noodles are our noodles here, it seems that you haven't eaten them yet!"

"It's mixed noodles, I'll try it!" Nan Chengxian said suddenly, and immediately put a noodle in his mouth, and then immediately showed a delicious look.

"I'll taste it too!" Luo Suwei also shouted, although he is thin, he likes to eat delicious food very much, but he can't get fat no matter how he eats.

"It's delicious, the flour is firm and chewy!"

Qiu Hao also tasted it and found that the taste was really good, the style was very different from the mainland, and it was also evocative.

Twenty minutes later, the four of them had simply eaten noodles and barbecue, sat in the room to digest it, Rei Khan began to clean up the tableware on the table, and the Kerim he had seen before went out to play.

Azati was still slowly drinking a little wine to himself, and two big black and white dogs with broad heads and long bodies crawled quietly at his feet, squinting and not angry.

Qiu Hao looked down at them, feeling faintly familiar, and only after a while did he think of the pair of black and white Central Asian sheepdogs that Zhou Jianjian built a few months ago, and praised: "Azati, your Central Asian sheepdogs are well raised!"

Azati put down his wine glass, shook his head and said: "It's not a Central Asian shepherd dog, it's our shepherd dog in the Tianshan Mountains!"

Qiu Hao was slightly stunned, he looked at the two dogs again, compared the size of the Central Asian Shepherd Dog in his mind, and found that they really looked alike, and wondered: "But it feels the same!"

"It's different, it's just that it's close by blood!" Azati wanted to distinguish between them, but he couldn't say why, but fortunately everyone didn't bother with the problem.

Nan Chengxian also looked at the two mighty dogs, and said enviously: "Mouse, when the sand of the farm is planted with pasture, I will also raise a few sheepdogs, and I will bring them when I go out, it is absolutely majestic!"

Luo Suwei also followed: "I also raise, Brother Zhou is the one who runs a kennel, I will ask him for a few when I go back, I want to raise them from a young age, and be obedient in the future!"

Qiu Hao thought of the group of spirit dogs at home, and also wanted to get them to the farm, but this matter has to wait, at least until the kennel is built, otherwise there will be no place to hide when the natural disaster comes.

After chatting for half an hour, they began to look at the pasture.

Azati's 2,000 acres of alfalfa grassland is in front of his house, the whole is rectangular, 1,000 meters long, more than 1,300 meters wide, the grassland is dotted with some poplars, sand dates, strange willows and other trees, but due to the serious lack of water, the grassland as a whole appears to be yellow.

The Bordeaux sheep I saw at noon had changed to another place to graze, and two big dogs ran in front, and they crossed the stone path and pounced directly into the alfalfa bushes more than half a meter high, and suddenly there was a feeling of being hidden by the alfalfa, and at the same time it also aroused a group of gray-brown flying grasshoppers!

Azati took Qiu Hao and a few people into the grassland, he looked around and sighed: "My family's grassland was contracted eight years ago, at that time the grassland was not like this, not only did not have much vegetation, but also everywhere uneven sandy mounds, and then I drove the bulldozer myself, day by day and slowly leveled the sandy land, and I also drove the agricultural machinery myself, sowing alfalfa seeds on the grassland, and now so many years have passed!"

Qiu Hao also had some feelings when he heard it, cultivating wasteland can always evoke people's memories, maybe it's beautiful, maybe it's sad!

"Are we going to bulldoze the sand of the farmstead too?" Luo Suwei said a little scared, Qinghuan Farm is 20,000 acres in size, the area is ten times the grassland in front of him, and the general shape is also rectangular, 4.5 kilometers long and 3 kilometers wide.

Nan Chengxian knew what he was thinking, and said disdainfully: "That must be bulldozed, otherwise the water level is inconsistent, how to install irrigation facilities uniformly." However, what are you afraid of, Lao Biao, when the time comes, it will naturally be your subordinates to do it, maybe you can also bid for the agricultural reclamation company to help do it, you can stand aside and be the supervisor! ”

"Ahem, that's it, that's good!" Luo Suwei said with a dry smile that during the time he came to New Province, he learned to drive agricultural machinery, so he was afraid of being sent to the field.

At this time, Azati squatted down and grabbed an 80-centimeter-tall erect alfalfa grass with both hands, and then with a "bang", the old alfalfa grass was pulled out. He stretched out his hand and shook the plant a few times, shaking off a large amount of sand, revealing a huge root system with leguminous nodules a foot long, and finally handed it to Qiu Hao and said: "Qiu Hao, look at my alfalfa, it does not meet your transplanting requirements!"

Qiu Hao took the alfalfa old grass, and felt a little weight with his hand, he looked at the leaves, and found that it was a bit like a grass rhinoceros, but the leaves tended to be long and oval, and then looked at the root system, and found that the taproot was very thick, but it had been broken, and the plant white pulp was being exposed, guessing that if the taproot was not broken, it should be far more than a foot long, and as for the root nodules, it was the size of soybeans and peanuts, mainly distributed on the taproot, and only a little on the side roots.

"Azati, do the roots of alfalfa grow long?"

Azati nodded and said: "Well, it is generally a few meters deep underground, and I have even heard that the roots of some wild alfalfa old grasses can grow dozens or hundreds of meters deep!"

"Can you really grow that deep?" Qiu Hao's eyes widened, he didn't expect that the highest alfalfa was only one meter, and the length of the underground part was hundreds of times that of the aboveground part, so a cow fork!

Nan Chengxian explained: "It's true, plants in arid areas generally have developed root systems under water stress, not only alfalfa, but also the roots of plants such as poplar, sand dates, and camel thorns, which can penetrate tens of hundreds of meters deep into the sand layer."

"Oh?" Qiu Hao's heart moved when he heard this, and he began to think of the mobile sand dunes near the sand of the farm, those sand dunes are dozens of meters high, if you cultivate super plants with roots hundreds of meters deep, and then plant them on the sand dunes, can you fix the quicksand?

However, he quickly rejected his previous suspicions, because the plants planted on the dunes need to be watered, and watering will cause the plants to develop shallow roots, and without water stress, the plants will not be able to grow such deep roots.

"Alas!" Qiu Hao sighed heavily.

"What's wrong?" Nan Chengxian asked curiously.

"Nothing."

Qiu Hao shook his head, threw away the alfalfa plant in his hand, and said, "Azati, when you turn the soil with agricultural machinery, can you retain the root system of the alfalfa, which is half a meter long?"

Azati frowned and said: "I haven't tried it, but it is estimated that it will not be kept for that long, and the land will be turned deep with high-horsepower agricultural machinery, and one foot is considered very deep!"

Qiu Hao also knew that he couldn't force it, and sighed: "One foot is one foot!"

After a while, Nan Chengxian said worriedly: "Mouse, the root system of alfalfa and satawang is different, the taproot is obvious, if it is broken, can it still be transplanted?"

"Yes, trust the technology of our farm!" Qiu Hao affirmed that the taproot of the Qiu family's North American redwood and wild cherry trees was also cut off, and later after system optimization, they are not alive and well.

Nan Chengxian breathed a sigh of relief, Qiu Hao said yes, then it was definitely okay, but he still frowned and said: "But these alfalfa grow very messy, I'm afraid that when the time comes, I will plow the ground and hurt too many alfalfa roots!"

"No, it won't!" "In the past, when I planted alfalfa, I used to sow along the wind direction, with a row spacing of one foot, and when I ploughed the ground in a few days, I would let the agricultural machinery bypass the root system a little!"

Nan Chengxian lowered his head when he heard this, and took a closer look, only to find that on the arid surface, between the scattered large and small alfalfa bushes, there were still some "rules", and said dumbly: "It's actually sown, I can't see it, it's too dense!"

Azati's old face turned red and said, "A few years ago, I didn't tidy up the pasture!"

Qiu Hao smiled and asked, "When are you going to turn the ground?"

"I'll have to wait four or five days, because I still have to pull a cart of fertilizer, and I have to buy red bean grass seeds!"

Luo Suwei was puzzled: "Isn't alfalfa the king of forage, why do you want to plant red bean grass instead?"

Azati shook his head: "Planting alfalfa, red bean grass and the like cannot be planted continuously, because if it is planted continuously, it will make the land nutrient depleted, and the second season will not only grow poorly, but also be susceptible to pests and diseases, so you have to plant other pastures, and you can only replant alfalfa after several years!"

"It turns out that there are these ways to grow pasture, I thought that pasture grass is cheap, and I can always plant only one kind!" Luo Suwei smiled bitterly.

Then, the four of them continued to discuss the matter, Qiu Hao and the others had to contact a few trucks loaded with alfalfa pasture by themselves, while Azati promised to help find some people, that was to help pick up two thousand acres of alfalfa grass onto the truck, otherwise it would only depend on a few people from the Qiu family, and the workload would exhaust them to death.