Chapter 25: The Orchard
In other villages, the land is flat, and ordinary people are not willing to rent good land to him to grow fruits.
Even if there was someone willing to rent it to him, he couldn't accept the price.
Looking at it, in the end, this person fell in love with the mountainous area on Changshui Village, which had not been cultivated for a long time, and it was far away from the village, so the price was naturally not high, which was just right for him.
It happened that the village chief also wanted to generate income for the village, but he was suffering from no good resources, so it happened that at this time, Zhou Xinjian came to the door and asked to contract the mountain.
The village chief thought about it, such a large area of mountainous land, with dense vegetation on the mountain, is not easy to develop.
There is no good way to use it in the village, only a lot of terraced fields have been opened on the hill near the village, and the other side of the mountain is still barren.
Everyone is reluctant to open the mountains and farm, so instead of staying in the village to get moldy, it is better to rent it out and get some money.
As a result, the two hit it off and successfully reached a cooperation intention.
Because Xinjian was only a small boss this week, and his net worth was not very rich, he couldn't come up with so much money for a while, so he only signed a five-year contract for a short time.
For 500 mu of mountainous land, the contract fee of 30 yuan per mu for one Chinese New Year's Eve is 15,000 yuan a year, and the contract fee is paid once a year.
After the filing of the town ZF, Zhou Xinjian successfully contracted the mountain land and was ready to start planting fruit seedlings.
They are in the subtropical region, the latitude is not too high, and the proximity to the sea, the summer is humid and hot, and the winter temperature is not too low, this week the boss plans to plant lychees.
Lychee is a squeamish fruit, and the taste is good, those white-collar workers and students in the city also love to eat it, but it is not easy to preserve, so the price of this lychee has been getting higher and higher in recent years.
It stands to reason that the boss's choice this week was quite correct, and because the climate here is suitable for the growth of lychee trees, they should have planted well.
At the beginning, it was indeed like this, and after the lychee seedlings were planted, the growth was quite gratifying.
At that time, it caused a sensation in the village, and many people in the village rushed to see the strange.
But it didn't take long for the orchard to wither, and the lychee saplings began to wither, one by one, and more than 10,000 saplings!
Within two months, there were only a few thousand left, but the boss was distressed that week.
Fortunately, in the end, these thousands of trees grew and gradually bore fruit.
I thought that things would develop smoothly after that, but I didn't know that the trees began to bear fruit in the second year, but the quality was not good, and the price could not be sold in the outside market, but the boss's hair was gray that week.
The boss stiffened up for another year, and in the third year, I wondered if the situation could be better, but I didn't expect the same situation this year.
This week, the boss couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly invited an agricultural technician from the county Academy of Agricultural Sciences to help take a look.
As a result, people said that the soil here is not suitable for the growth of lychees, and if the taste of lychees can be changed, it will cost a lot of money to transform the soil here, but that kind of cost is not something that a small boss can afford.
This can be regarded as a bucket of ice water, which was poured on the head of the boss that week.
It didn't take long for the boss to go to the village chief this week, vaguely revealing that he might not be able to contract the orchard anymore.
The boiled duck, before a few bites, is about to fly, which can make the village chief worried, no matter who he sees in the past few days, he has not had a good face, and the village is also talking.