Chapter 489: Melon Seed Harvest
The Zhuang family will always have endless work, not to mention that the Lin family now has one more mountain than others, and they have not invited anyone to work, all relying on a few men in their own family, of course, they have to go up the mountain all the time.
In the days that should be free, I went to the mountains a few more times, and the time passed, and I was about to start working again.
In September, this year's harvest of longevity fruit was good, and every household harvested a lot, and after drying it at home, they all took it to the Lin family to sell.
The Lin family vacated a warehouse, which was specially used to store the longevity fruit, and had already planned before, after the longevity fruit was harvested this year, they would take out a part of it, and then find the people in charge of the next few villages, and tell them to see if they were willing to plant longevity fruits.
The seeds are still produced by the Lin family, but because more seeds are needed to plant longevity fruits, unlike corn, five catties of seeds can be planted on one acre of land, and if you want to plant one acre of longevity fruits, you have to use twenty or thirty catties of seeds, which has to be a good time for seedlings to emerge.
If these are all taken out by the Lin family for nothing, the Lin family will have to spend a lot of things, so what I discussed with the people in charge of those villages is that they will exchange the grain for what they want, and they will not be counted too much, two catties of rice for one catty of long-lasting fruit seeds.
How good the longevity fruit of Tongxin Village is, several villages around it know, and many people have even gone to ask for seeds in private, but because everyone has just started planting now, except for the Lin family, there are not many seeds left in other people's families, and not many people have them.
Now that the Lin family is willing to change, many people are nodding their heads and willing to exchange with the Lin family, and this matter is going quite smoothly.
As soon as it was October, the Lin family agreed with the surrounding four or five villages, and took out about 1,000 catties of long-lived fruits as seeds, and also exchanged them for a few bags of rice.
Of course, the premise of getting the seeds is that the longevity fruit they grow must be sold to the Lin family, and they can't sell it themselves.
Of course everyone is willing, I heard the people of Tongxin Village say that the price given by the Lin family is very high, and it does not reduce the price at all, since it is sold wherever it goes, why not sell it to them directly? It's even more reassuring.
Everyone in Tongxin Village knows about this matter, so there are some people who are secretly thinking about it, and one of them is Gu Pingyong.
Because he loves face, he has always been reluctant to take the initiative to go to the Lin family to ask for seeds, nor is he willing to sell the longevity fruit he grew to the Lin family, so he has not planted it yet.
There are only three or five families in this village who have not planted yet, this time he knows that the Lin family has given the seeds to the people in the next few villages, and he is thinking in his heart, since the seeds found from his village must be sold to the Lin family, then the seeds he got back outside don't need to be like this, right? He didn't take it directly from the Lin family, so what does it have to do with the Lin family?
In the past two years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and the Yun family's maiden brother came to help collect the grain, so Gu Pingyong's family has saved a lot of grain, and if he sells it, it will be money, and he now has some silver on hand.
As long as you have money, are you afraid that you won't be able to ask for something? It didn't take much effort to get back a dozen catties of seeds.
"Let's plant these in the spring, if you don't understand how to plant, you can go to other people's fields and understand, I don't believe it, I can't plant it without the help of the Lin family? Look at it, there are only so many seeds right now, and there will be more varieties in the last two years, and when the time comes, I will sell them directly outside, and it will not be in the hands of his Lin family. ”
Yun Shi was very happy, and said with a smile, "Yes, we don't have to be angry with this, whoever likes to sell their house will sell it, we can only do this hand, and the price will be higher when we go outside." ”
They didn't make a noise about it, even if they planted it in the ground next year, they would be discovered, but that would be for the future, and if they poked it out and were known now, wouldn't it make people gossip?
Although he said that this matter has nothing to do with the Lin family, in fact, he is like a mirror in his heart, all the seeds came out of the Lin family, even if they take it back from the outside, it is also the Lin family's thing, if it is really as they say, it has nothing to do with the Lin family, then why are they embarrassed to say it outside?
The Lin family was busy chattering, and they were only a little free until mid-October, and the things that should be harvested this year have also been harvested, and the important things are longevity fruits, cotton, and melon seeds.
This year, all Siqi's thoughts have been on that piece of sunflower, and he has been thinking about it since he planted it, but fortunately, he has not suffered any insect infestation.
Later, when it was time to pollinate, she was also busy, and if it was pollinated manually, it would be too troublesome, and there were so many things at home that it was too late.
So she asked Lin Changyuan to go out, spent money to consult the beekeepers who raised bees, and then got a beehive at home, raised two boxes of bees in the sunflower field, and relied on these bees to pollinate, the effect is not bad, this year's melon seeds are very good, and the harvest is very good.
One acre of land has almost collected about 500 catties, and two and a half catties can produce one catty of dried melon seeds, so their family can harvest five or six hundred catties of dried melon seeds on three acres of land.
These are already very good, as the first batch of goods, Siqi has already figured out how to sell, a large area can be opened on the hill to plant sunflowers, leave more seeds this year, and plant them together next year, and there will be more by then.
It has been proven that her method of using Chinese medicinal materials to prevent insects is effective, and this method can also be used on other crops, so that the yield of these crops at home will be higher.
The melon seeds were dried and taken back home, moisture-proof is a key matter, this must not be back-damp, otherwise the taste will change.
At this time, there was no plastic film, so it could only be stored in clay pots, and there were several large clay pots at home, and melon seeds were placed in them.
Siqi took out some small dustpans and put them on the table for the family to taste, and everyone sat around eating melon seeds, this scene was really the first time I saw it.
At first, everyone was a little afraid to eat, after all, the shape is a little strange, and I haven't seen it before, so can I eat it?
Siqi grabbed a small handful of it first and ate it, the fresh melon seeds have a fragrant taste, they haven't been fried yet, and the taste is different from the taste bought in the store in the previous life.
She started eating it, and the others followed suit, and after eating it, they all said it was delicious.
Wu said with a smile, "What is in this little head, how can she understand so many things, and no one has taught her." ”
Lin Changyuan chuckled in his heart, he had a bad premonition, but Siqi was very calm, and smiled, "When the fifth uncle came back before, I asked a lot, and then I thought about it again, so I thought about giving it a try, but I didn't expect such good luck, it was really delicious." ”
Wu smiled, "His son is blessed, God favors him." ”