Speaking of which, in the past two years, they have also opened some of them, but there are not many, and these are all opened by Uncle Laifu himself.

There were some openings on both sides of the river, and if they didn't live on this side, they said on the other side of the river.

Uncle Laifu and the others opened two acres of land along the river, and a lot of trees were cut down by the river, and the good wood was still put aside for storage, just in case of emergency.

The bad ones were all taken back as firewood, and there was not much to grow in those fields, mainly sowing some vegetable seeds, and planting beans and corn.

She also cultivated the land, and there was not much to harvest, and she was going to transplant and plant some of the flowers and trees there when they were all grown.

Then she turned her small garden into a big garden, but at the same time she felt that it was a bit too wasteful.

To know how much she paid for that little bit of land and a little bit of food, it's sad to think about it.

But it was still early, and even if she wanted to expand the garden, it would be a year or two away, and she wouldn't be spending any more money on those flowers at the moment.

It's been February since I planted the flowers, and the peach and plum branches that Uncle Lai Fu had gone to look for before have also been found, but they haven't been retrieved yet.

On the second day of the second month of February, she asked Uncle Laifu to retrieve them all.

On the third day of the second month of February, she told Uncle Laifu about the general steps of grafting, and then the two began to be busy.

They were slow, really slow, and it took them all day just for those peach trees on the side of the road.

At the beginning, because she had seen her father in modern times, they used plastic film to fix them together, but there was no here, so she was stumped for a while.

Later, Uncle Laifu proposed a method, which was to tie it up with strips of cotton cloth.

Anyway, the principle is almost the same, they are mainly used for fixing, as well as heat preservation, and the cotton strip is the same.

So she went home and found cotton clothes that she didn't want to wear, and then cut them into strips of cloth half a meter wide.

Next, they began to carefully start grafting.

First of all, they used the saw at home to cut off the branches that they had selected for grafting peach trees.

Then, use a dagger knife to cut a notch that is neither deep nor shallow.

Next, the prepared peach and plum branches were cut into double-sided wedges 810 mm long on both sides of the lower sides with daggers.

Then, the scion double wedge is gently inserted into the previously cut incision interface on the peach tree to make the two incisions fit tightly.

The final step is to tie them neatly with the prepared strips of cotton cloth and fix them in place.

She hasn't done this before, and she doesn't know if she can succeed or survive.

They spent a whole day on the peach trees at the door.

They didn't graft all the branches of a tree, and they were afraid that if the grafting was unsuccessful, they would kill the peach tree.

After all this was done, she rested at home for two days, she hadn't done much of this work for a long time, and she was suddenly a little tired after a few days.

She rested, but Uncle Laifu didn't rest, and they began to grow vegetables for this year.

There is also the land by the river, which has been raised for two years, and the soil is not bad, this year I heard Uncle Fu say that they are still going to plant some corn, as well as sweet potatoes and the like.

As for the field on the slope in front of the door, sweet potatoes and potatoes have been grown.

However, because the wolfberry and jujube trees planted in the field have grown a lot in the past two years, the number of places they planted has decreased.

Actually, seriously speaking, it doesn't make any difference, and there are still so many plants that should be planted, and at most there are a few fewer trees.

There were four pigs in the family last year, but after killing one and selling three, there were no more.

However, after they sold the pigs, they went to buy four little piglets and came back, and now there are thirty or forty pounds each.

The family grows more than one acre of sweet potatoes every year, which is a lot, but the cattle and horses at home are fed sweet potato vines, so in fact, it is just enough.

This year, she plans to make some more vermicelli and does not plan to sell them and eat them at home.

Soon, spring has passed, a lot of things have been planted in the fields, and the eggs at home have been sold several times.

Now it's time to plant peanuts and sunflowers, and corn and so on.

After a few more busy days, I finally planted all the land at home.

Another thing to be happy about is that she received a letter from Li Bokang, saying that he had arrived in the capital.

Looking at the time on the letter, it was in early February, and it should have been written when they first arrived in the capital.

It's March and April, and their test results should have been issued by now.

Maybe the results of the palace exam are about to come out, although I don't know how he did in the exam, but she is already very satisfied with the letter that they arrived in Beijing safely.

This time it may have been that they were in a hurry along the way, so it had been almost three or four months since they set off until now, and she received her first letter from him.

Of course, there are also reasons for the long distance along the way, and it is understandable that the messenger delivered the letter late.

Another happy event is that the peach and plum trees they grafted before are alive, and the survival rate is not low, reaching more than sixty percent.

In addition, the flowers they planted before are basically all alive, and it may be partly due to the fertile land on which they planted them.

In short, no matter what, this is a three-happiness for her, although they are all small joys, but they are also joys.

Speaking of both sides, Li Bokang over there has been a haste along the way since they set off from home in the third year of junior high school.

It was the end of winter and the beginning of spring, and it was quite cold along the way, but fortunately they were well prepared when they set off from home, otherwise they might have gotten sick on the way.

It may have been after the last time they were in danger, and this time they brought more people to Beijing than they did before.

However, there was not much more, Chen Jun and Zhou Yi each brought two people, which was six, and he still only brought Shumo alone, adding up to eight, the same as before.

They can't bring too many people, not to say that there are more people, but it is eye-catching, and it is said that there are more people, and the speed on the road is much slower.

They hurried all the way for a month before they arrived in the capital.

When they arrived in the capital, they were tired, and because they arrived late, many inns were already full.

And those rented yards are almost rented, and even if there are still those that have not been rented out, the rent is still very expensive, and I heard that it has increased several times compared to the past.

In the end, there was no way, and the three of them still rented a yard at a high price.

The yard is not big, there are only four rooms, there is a small courtyard, it is really a small courtyard, and it is only five meters square.

There are a few osmanthus trees in the yard, and some ordinary flowers have been planted, but they have not yet bloomed and I don't know what kind of flowers they are.

In such a yard, they rented it for a month and spent five taels of silver, which is really expensive.

But fortunately, they are not too far from Gongyuan here.