Yan Siqin had already put the porridge away, and now it was just right to drink it that was neither cold nor hot, Zhao Liangsheng first drank half a bowl of porridge in one go, and then took a bite of the steamed bun.

"Just eat a bite to eat." Yan Siqin sandwiched a piece of meat and put it in Zhao Liangsheng's bowl.

"Hmm." Zhao Liangsheng put the meat in his mouth and chewed it a few times, "Morning damn, it will be a big gathering in a few days, we have to buy saplings, planting saplings in spring will return to seedlings quickly, and the survival rate is high." ”

Yan Siqin took a sip of porridge, "Okay, you can buy whatever you say." ”

"Dad, buy apples." Zhao Chen stuffed his mouth full of vegetables, lest his father forget his big apple.

"Dad, I still buy pears." Zhao Yu also suggested on the side.

"You have to buy peaches and apricots, too." Yan Siqin said: "I still want to plant cherries." ”

"Buy, buy both." Zhao Liangsheng smiled good-naturedly, and his wife and children said that whatever it was, "There is such a big place on the mountain, we can plant whatever we want." ”

Lying in the quilt at night, Zhao Liangsheng and Yan Siqin made a plan for what to plant on the mountain.

"Morning damn, that's what I think." Zhao Liangsheng tightened Yan Siqin into his arms, put his chin on the top of his wife's head, and put his rough big hand on her shoulder, "There is a sour jujube tree under the mountain, so let's plant a circle of walnuts and chestnuts, the fruit of this tree is not ripe and no one moves, it can be used as a fence maker, peaches, pears, apricots, and the cherries you said, let's plant them, oh, I also want to plant a few more big red dates, one fruit is planted on one slope, so easy to manage, and it is easy to put away." ”

Yan Siqin meekly lay in Zhao Liangsheng's arms, "Well, listen to you, you can plant whatever you say." ”

The daughter-in-law is good, Zhao Liangsheng's heart is soft, he lowered his head and kissed Yan Siqin's head, "I don't plan to plant anything on the top of the mountain, there are big stones on it, it's not easy to find a tree pit, so let's just don't look for it, just put a chicken nest on what, let's just raise chickens." ”

"Okay." Yan Siqin nodded, suddenly remembered something, she sat up and asked Zhao Liangsheng, "Dad, have you forgotten, how many saplings do we have to buy." "I need to see how much money we have, but I don't even have enough money to buy saplings." ”

To say how many seedlings need to be bought, Zhao Liangsheng really didn't calculate carefully, after Yan Siqin's reminder, he immediately recalled in his mind: the circle at the foot of the mountain is not small, fortunately, the fruit trees can not be densely planted, the plant spacing needs to be controlled at more than three meters, close to the home to plant walnuts, and chestnuts are planted in the distance, and it also needs a lot of trees.

"Dad." Yan Siqin handed the deposit to Zhao Liangsheng to see, "You see we still have more than 500 yuan, I don't know if it's enough." ”

"That's enough." Zhao Liangsheng pinched his chin and said: "The little sapling is not expensive, I calculated it, except for the piece on the top of the mountain, there must be more than ten acres of land left, and the sapling has to buy more than a thousand, a sapling is only a few cents, and the thickest one is no more than a dollar, I think it's about the same." ”

Yan Siqin thought for a while, "You can't buy all the small trees, so how young can you hang fruits?" ”

"Then with 10 percent large saplings, it is best to be able to bear fruit in the same year."

"Okay." Yan Siqin agreed, "Tomorrow, let's go to the mountains to check and see how many seedlings are suitable to buy." ”

"Yes, check it out." Zhao Liangsheng nodded, "You put away the passbook first, let's go to bed quickly, and get up early tomorrow to check the tree pit." ”

The next day, Zhao Liangsheng and Yan Siqin walked up the mountain with pen and paper, and the two of them recorded the types and quantities of saplings they needed according to their own ideas, and waited until the market day to catch the market.

Not far from Xinzhuang Village, every Saturday is the market day, and there are two ancient meetings in the spring and the year before the year, the spring ancient meeting is the sixth day of the third month of the lunar calendar, and the solar calendar is about April, the things at the meeting are relatively complete, especially the season suitable for planting trees, there are many farmers who come to sell seedlings in ten miles and eight townships.

Zhao Liangsheng went to the city a day in advance and took out all the money in the passbook, and he didn't know if it was enough, so he bought it with tight money, and how much he could buy.

At today's meeting, because he needed to buy a large number of saplings, Zhao Liangsheng pulled out the family's land row car, and the husband and wife went straight to the sapling market.

Rushing to the meeting is a big thing in ten miles and eight villages, the people who buy and sell are gathered here, from a distance, you can see a piece of black pressure here, Zhao Liangxuan came over the first day to occupy a place, and pulled the basket early in the morning today, and put a large piece of large and small, when Zhao Liangsheng came to the meeting, Zhao Liangxuan's business was opened.

"Second brother, is business good?" Passing by Zhao Liangxuan's booth, Zhao Liangsheng took the lead in greeting.

"Okay." Zhao Liangxuan was introducing his basket to the customer, and asked in a hurry, "What are you two doing here?" ”

Zhao Liangsheng: "Go buy saplings, second brother, you are busy." ”

Zhao Liangxuan waved his hand at his brother, "Then you go quickly, and my brother will help you plant." ”

At the end of the fair, there were many people selling saplings, and the saplings were bundled up, or placed vertically or lying on the side of the road, and there was an endless stream of people buying saplings, but they were all bought with eight out of ten.

Zhao Liangsheng and his family first walked around, to understand the market, although there are a lot of trees sold, but they are not large-scale, this one sells one hundred and eighty trees, that one sells one hundred and eighty trees, and the varieties are not the same, this is an early-maturing variety, that may be a late-maturing variety, there are several varieties of peach trees alone, there are May fresh, rhubarb peaches, plate peaches, and late-maturing winter peaches and so on.

I didn't think that there were so many ways to buy fruit trees, which was different from what I originally envisioned, the peach tree planted a slope, and the pear tree planted on a slope.

It is said that you get what you pay for, this is not false at all, small saplings are cheap, big saplings are expensive, Yan Siqin squatted in front of a big brother stall, pinching the thickness of his fingers and frowning the long saplings, how young can this sapling be planted before it can bear fruit?

"Sister, buy saplings."

Yan Siqin glanced up at Big Brother, and it was obvious that this person was not young, and the folds on his face could kill flies, and he had to be more than fifty if he was not sixty.

Yan Siqin slandered in his heart, "This person is really, he still calls me sister at this age." Thinking of this, I still touched my face confidently: Am I so old?

The eldest brother seemed to see Yan Siqin's thoughts, and was busy explaining, "Our eldest sister is an official title, and everyone who goes out to meet a woman is called eldest sister regardless of age. ”

"Oh." Yan Siqin was relieved, she thought that she was old by opening mountains and planting trees, "Big brother, what kind of sapling is this in your house, and how much does it cost?" ”

"This is a peach tree of mine, the variety is good, it is called a peach, the peach is big and sweet, and it only sells for five cents a piece."

"What!" Yan Siqin's eyes widened in disbelief, "You sell this little seedling for five cents?" How many years will I have to wait to buy it home and make it turn out? ”

"Ouch, eldest sister, you don't know how to do it at first glance, this peach has been grafted, and other peaches will bear fruit in three years." The big brother patted the roots of the tree and showed off: "I can bear this fruit when I plant it that year." ”

"Really?" Yan Siqin was suspicious, and asked Zhao Liangsheng, who was watching the sapling, "Dad, come and see this sapling." ”

"What's wrong?" Zhao Liangsheng squatted over, picked up a bundle of saplings and looked through it, "This big brother, you are a peach sapling." ”

"Or this comrade is amazing, he recognized me at a glance This is a peach sapling, yes, I am a peach tree, but it is not an ordinary peach tree, I am a peach, and now this variety is planted here There are still few, I am specially sent to me by relatives in my hometown."

Peaches, Zhao Liangsheng has heard of it, this is exactly the variety he wants, the peaches of this variety are densely fleshed, less fiber, more juice, the freshly ripe peaches are hard and crisp and sweet, and the ripe peaches are soft and juicy, which is a popular variety in the past two years, "How much is one?" ”

Before the stall could answer, Yan Siqin said directly, "It's too expensive to ask for five cents." ”

"It's not cheap." Zhao Liangsheng put down the sapling in his hand, patted the soil on his hand and stood up, "Big brother, what you want is too expensive, can it be cheaper?" ”

"You're still too expensive?" The eldest brother took out a sapling and pointed to a nodule to show Zhao Liangsheng, "Comrade, take a look, this is what I have already grafted, go home and plant it, I will guarantee your fruit that year." ”

"I'll see." Zhao Liangsheng took the small tree, carefully observed at the nodule for a moment, not to mention, it is really a trace of grafting, such a fruit tree can be planted much easier, if the native seedlings are used, it is still early to bear fruit in three years, and the fruit produced by the native seedlings is not good in appearance and taste, and it must wait for grafting.

Zhao Liang was heartbroken, he looked at the bundles of saplings beside Big Brother and asked, "How many trees do you have here, are they all of this one variety?" ”

Big Brother: "I brought 200 trees, all of them of the same variety. ”

"Big brother, if I want all of your 200 trees, how much will you give me?"

"Got it?" Big Brother thought that his pile of saplings would be sold out until the next episode, but he didn't expect someone to come up and ask for a round, and he was pleasantly surprised, and generously took the initiative to let five cents, "If you want it, I'll give you four cents and five." ”

Yan Siqin calculated an account in her heart, two hundred saplings cost four cents and five cents each, that is, ninety yuan, they brought more than five hundred yuan, and the other saplings had already gone for nearly a hundred before they were bought, and it was still expensive, so she wanted to negotiate the price with the stall owner again, "Big brother, let's be cheaper." ”

"Not really." Big Brother shook his head, "You don't know how hard I work to graft them, I just make a hard-earned money, and I can't do less." ”

Grafting fruit trees is a technical job, not everyone can do it, Zhao Liangsheng saw that it was not easy for the big brother, so he did not bargain again, and took all the 200 peach saplings at a price of four cents and five.

Looking at the little sapling that couldn't tell the male and female, Yan Siqin was still not at ease, and chased after the big brother vigorously and asked, "It's really a grafted peach, it's not a lie, right?" ”

"Look at what you said, eldest sister, my home is in Wangjiazhuang, my surname is Wang, you go to the village to inquire about Wang De, who planted saplings, there is no one who doesn't know me, let's change it if it's wrong."

"The king has to be." Wang Ying really took out a small notebook and wrote down the name and address of the big brother in the notebook.

The wrinkles on the big brother's happy face were all piled up, and he didn't forget to explain to Zhao Liangsheng before leaving, "Comrade, let me tell you, although this peach tree can bear fruit this year, my suggestion is to let them be raised for a year first, after all, the fruit seedlings are still young, which is the same as people, and they are still in childhood, and the fruit is not good if it is too early." ”

Zhao Liangsheng: "I remember, thank you, big brother." ”

Big brother: "Then I'll go, if you don't understand anything, just come to Wangjiazhuang to find me." ”