Chapter 121: The Wasteland
Chen Youyi is not afraid of being gossiped behind her back, she can't figure out how to be intimate with her man, why someone is pointing fingers, and how unhappy these people have to be in their families to think about this.
She just felt shy, the two had just established a relationship, and they were not used to the sudden change of identity. But she won't refuse, and she really can't find a reason to refuse.
There is no news for the time being, and the sales contract cannot be signed in a day or two, Chen Youyi began to worry. However, it is useless to worry, even if she is in a hurry, she will not appear in front of her, and she can only keep persuading herself to calm down.
Thinking about it, I can only prepare with both hands. While looking for a suitable place to plant peppercorns, we are preparing to plant grain and peppers after the beginning of spring.
"The weather is starting to warm up, shouldn't we go plow and water our few pieces of land?" Chen Youyi passed by the field this day and saw some villagers plowing the land, counting the days, it was almost the time to cultivate.
Qin Huai went to a private school, he was also young, and he couldn't help much at home, Chen Youyi and Qin Ziheng originally planned to finish the things in the field by two people, but Mu Xiulian refused to sit back and enjoy the success, and also followed, and the little couple couldn't persuade them, so they could only try to do more so that Mu Xiulian could be more relaxed.
The Qin family didn't have much land, and it was almost done in two days, Chen Youyi was about to call it a day and go to rest, and was told that there was still a piece of land.
These plots are divided into villages, and often a good plot of land is built on a barren one, so that the total amount of land remains the same, but the location is not all in one place, and some are quite far away.
Like the Qin family, there is only a narrow slip, close to the mountain, and there are more stones than land at a glance.
Most of this kind of land is not wanted, and it is basically a waste of effort to give it to everyone as an add-on, and nothing can be planted.
"It turns out that there are still fields here, and this is the first time I have known about it in my long time in the village." It's normal for Chen Youyi not to know, although she has been here for more than a year, but in fact, the number of days she has stayed in the village has not been a few days, and she has not done much work in the field.
In previous years, Mu Xiulian was fiddling alone, and under the persuasion of her son and daughter-in-law, Mu Xiulian did not wear the stars and the moon like before, and planted less.
"You can't grow a good crop here, even if you grow cabbage and potatoes, it's smaller than other fields." Mu Xiulian's eyes were full of pity: "That is, our village is too poor, so we divided this place as a field and replaced it with a surplus village, which no one wants to plant." ”
Chen Youyi took a look, and sure enough, no one planted crops in the field here, they were all some vegetables and fruits, and they were all wilted, looking listless.
"I think there are also advantages here, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and they can be used as attractions." She is not casually comforted, this area is close to the mountain cliffs, almost carved out of the mountain layer by layer of land, the advantage is similar to terraces, but it is not so large-scale.
Happily, there was a small stream not far from the ground, no more than a foot and a half wide, and the water was only calf deep, but it was enough for irrigation. And it is close to the mountains and rivers, and the scenery is beautiful all of a sudden.
Mu Xiulian glanced at her and said helplessly: "You, if you look good or not, can you eat it as a meal?" Besides, I don't see anything to see here. ”
The harvest scene is the most beautiful, as for the mountains and rivers, only the rich old men in the city will come out to go out when they have nothing to do.
Chen Youyi smiled and followed Mu Xiulian's tone: "You are right, the fruitful scene is good-looking, these wild vine mountain grapes are the sesame seeds on the sesame cake, they are fragrant, but they are not full, and they are useless at all." ”
"You have said everything with this mouth." Mu Xiulian pointed at Chen Youyi and smiled, she was also very happy.
Qin Ziheng saw that his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law got along well, and his heart was warm, and he only felt that what the world wanted was nothing more than this. He didn't bother the two of them, and went to the stream to bring water to water the ground.
"I'm here to help, too." Chen Youyi saw Qin Ziheng go over, followed him, and got closer, but she found something strange: "Across the stream, is Tian?" ”
No wonder she didn't distinguish it for a while, but on the low hill opposite, there were sparsely grown weeds and shrubs all over the slope, and a few trees that were not too big or small, and at a glance, everyone would think that it was a deserted forest.
Waste is waste, but it is not a forest, but a field.
"You said over there." Mu Xiulian took a pity and said: "It was originally the fields that were also allocated to the village, and they were all reclaimed by the villagers because they were forced to have no choice. As a result, the crops planted did not yield any harvest, and sweat was in vain. ”
After a long time, no one has any expectations for this land, and everyone would rather spend money to rent the landlord's land than waste their minds here.
If you really keep this wasteland where peaches can't bear fruit, the whole family will starve to death.
"It seems that the soil in this area is really not suitable for growing crops." There is really a world of difference between the fertility and barrenness of the land, Chen Youyi sighed helplessly, no wonder the people here are quite diligent, but they are all too poor to eat.
This melancholy didn't last long, and a thought came to her mind, making her whole body flutter lightly.
"I'll take a look." Chen Youyi ran towards the opposite hill excitedly, and quickly turned around the wasteland under the puzzled sight of Qin Ziheng's mother and son.
When she returned, her eyes lit up, and she was obviously very happy.
"Great, don't we just have nowhere to grow peppercorns?" Chen Youyi pointed to the wasteland and said happily: "Isn't this the right place?" ”
Abandoned wasteland, full of weeds, no one wants, renting and buying it will not be too expensive.
"Will it work?" Qin Ziheng asked, "It's really abandoned." "Wherever there is land, people in the countryside are eager to plant enough to eat, and they will not waste land until they have to.
Mu Xiulian was even more kind to persuade her not to be stupid: "There is no free lunch in the world, the rent is cheap, and it is a waste of money if you can't grow anything." ”
In this regard, Chen Youyi has a different opinion.
"I understand what you say." She explains: "Growing peppercorns is not the same as growing crops. Frankly. In fact, how to grow pepper well, I also have to move forward in the exploration, but I have heard before that the pepper tree does not have high requirements for water and soil. ”
No matter how much she loves gardening, that is, to get a balcony garden orchard, plant some flowers and plants, small strawberries and tomatoes, etc., and the pepper tree has really never been planted.
That bit of knowledge about Sichuan peppercorns, that is, I like to eat spicy food, and I pay attention to it when I see it occasionally. At that time, she never imagined that one day she would plant a large number of pepper trees in the mountains.