Coincidentally, I found the right person when I asked Uncle Zou for help.

After lunch, I finished selling stocks when I received a strange phone call.

When I heard that Uncle Zou called, someone wanted to sublease the banana plantation, and asked me if 300 acres was beyond my plan?

"300 acres is okay!"

It doesn't matter to me. The old man asked me to go over now and negotiate with the other party in person, and he was waiting for me at the old place.

When I met Uncle Zou, there was also a couple there, this couple was the real owner, and the banana orchard they contracted was the garden that Uncle Zou saw.

Yao Shixuan and his wife Zhang Qiaofeng have been working in this banana for 10 years, and they planned to work for another 10 years and return to their hometown to care for the elderly, but there was unfortunate news at home, the 70-year-old father was seriously ill, and he had to go home to serve the elderly. To add insult to injury, my mother also fell and also needed to be taken care of. Bananas can't be planted anymore.

He rented the banana plot from 72 peasant households and had just settled his rent for the year. I was going to go back to my hometown for the winter after harvesting the banana trees. There are unforeseen circumstances, and something happens at home.

My father couldn't get better for a while, and I heard my mother say that it wouldn't be long. They are away from home all the year round, and they have little filial piety to their parents, and if they don't honor their father at this time, I'm afraid they will never have the opportunity again, not to mention that their mother also needs to take care of them.

As for whether he can continue to grow bananas next year, Yao Shixuan didn't decide at first, but when he heard Uncle Zou say that someone wanted to rent land, he made up his mind to transfer it and go home with his wife to serve his parents.

In addition to expressing sympathy for the misfortune of the Yao couple's family, I can only comfort not to be too sad, and to actively treat my parents after I go back, maybe a miracle will happen.

I can't persuade people, and I can't share the suffering of other families, and it is useless.

The two of us did not have a monetary settlement on the sublease land, and wrote a sublease agreement to prove that the land here was rented and farmed. Uncle Zou became an intermediary witness. At this time, I learned that Uncle Zou was hired by him to guard this banana grove for him.

Yao Shixuan left me the contact information of 72 households and took his wife Zhang Qiaofeng back to his hometown thousands of miles away.

Since Uncle Zou is guarding the banana orchard for Yao Shixuan, and someone needs to be here to be there, I invite Uncle Zou to stay and continue to guard here. He was more than happy to do so.

It turned out that Uncle Zou was a lonely old man, his wife died early, he had no children and no daughters, he had some income from this errand, plus the subsidies given by the state, and his life was still passable.

In the northwest corner of the banana grove, there is a tin mobile house, which is his home. It is said that this house was still allotted to him by the state. His house in the village had collapsed and could no longer be inhabited. The village wanted to help him flip the cover, but Yao Shixuan and his wife hired him, and at his request, the village gave him a tin house, which was more convenient to guard the banana plantation.

Uncle Zou is a poor man, which aroused my sympathy.

I went to the iron house and looked, except for a single wooden bed, there were a few pots and pans, quite rudimentary, not even a single electrical appliance. It's no wonder that there is no electricity here, and there are electrical appliances that do not work.

Although his family is surrounded by walls, Uncle Zou is very satisfied with his current life, he has no desires, he can help others do something in this broken year, and he feels that his life is meaningful.

I deeply admired the old man's detached mentality, and took advantage of his inattention to me entering the space, took some vegetables, fresh fish, eggs, and brought a few large apples, and improved his food first.

Uncle Zou laughed and said:

"Young man, you won't be rewarded for nothing! You make so many things, I can't eat them alone, and if you spoil them, it's wasted. Actually, I don't lack anything here, I grow a lot of vegetables behind the small house, and I never lack fresh vegetables here. Those rice, noodles and oil, someone from the village will send them to me every month, and that's enough! Catching up with this good era, the people are happy, and I am already content. If it had been in the old society, maybe I would have died a long time ago! Hahaha! ”

Uncle Zou is very optimistic. I like this kind of attitude, no contention, no desire, no desire, selfless in the bottom of my heart, wide in the world, wide in the world, healthy and healthy, even if I am widowed and lonely, it is difficult to say that I will not be happy.

The banana grove was rented, and Yao Shixuan and his wife had to continue to do the unfinished work.

Uncle Zou told me that if the banana trees are not treated as soon as possible, they will rot in the ground and cause insect pests, which will affect the planting of the next year. This must not be delayed.

Yao Shixuan and his wife are very diligent, and the 300 acres of banana forest are basically managed by two people, and they only hire a group of temporary workers when harvesting bananas, and they can't see outsiders in the field at other times.

Uncle Zou showed them the land, mainly to prevent anyone from destroying it, and if someone came to do anything, he could temporarily receive and receive the Yao couple.

In fact, the 2,000 banana seedlings that Uncle Zou sold me were peeled from the ground by the Yao family and their own hands, and they worked early in the morning today. At that time, they had not yet received the news of their parents' accident, and they only heard about it at noon.

Now about 2/3 of the banana trees in the field have been cut down, and nearly 100 acres have not been cut down, so I need to arrange manpower.

In the south of Uncle Zou's small house, there were some tools piled up, in addition to the flatbed sprayer, I found two extremely sharp machetes, which are the main tools that Yao Shixuan and his wife usually use for labor. They used these two machetes to cut down the banana trees.

I asked Uncle Zou, "Why don't they hire a machine to cut it?" ”

Uncle Zou explained:

"There is also a fee for hiring machinery, and in order to save money, the two of them went to the field themselves. Fortunately, there is nothing to do in winter, and the two of them are quite capable, and they can be cut in half a month. After the cut, there will be a car to pull it and help them sell it. ”

"Sold? Where do these stalks go? ”

In fact, this is also a problem that I am very concerned about, if these things are not disposed of in a good way, they will become garbage.

"There are actually a lot of places where you want stalks, such as paper mills, feed mills, and scientific research institutes, and some of them are also used, but they are not used too much."

If someone wants it, I'll get familiar with it.

What I'm going to do now is to arrange for the wind to open the cutter from the space and finish the rest of the banana trees.

Rufeng found new sprouts growing from the roots of bananas in the process of work, and he knew that the banana seedlings I had just transported to the space were these buds, and asked if I needed to get more.

There is rain and frost in the space, and Zhao Mengfei is busy planting bananas, and they don't have time. Ruxue was also so busy that she couldn't get out.

Time is very tight for them, like the wind has to cut the banana tree again, and then let it get the banana seedlings.

I thought about it again and again, and decided to give up, and when I needed banana seedlings, I would buy them directly from the research institute.