Chapter Eighty-Eight: Planting Trees
Zhao Yunlan saw that her own mountains were almost reclaimed, so she took a time to go to the county, wanting to talk to the county magistrate about the requisitioned land in the county.
The county magistrate of Xihe County is called Chen Yuhong, who used to be a protΓ©gΓ© of Mrs. Liu, and when he entered the officialdom and received help from the Liu prefect, he had a close relationship with the Liu family.
Zhao Yunlan arrived at the county office, the official was the two who came to deliver the documents last time, Zhao Yunlan said what he meant, and the official took Zhao Yunlan in.
Chen Xianling was still dealing with official business at the moment, and when he saw Zhao Yunlan coming in, he put down his pen.
"Zhao Yunlan, a folk woman, has seen the county magistrate." Zhao Yunlan gave a blessing.
Chen County Order: "What is the matter with Mrs. Zhao coming to find this official?" β
Zhao Yunlan stood up straight and said, "The hill of Lijia Village requisitioned by the county, I want to ask how to plan. There weren't enough peppers to grow on a hill, so I wondered if I should plant some other crops. β
Chen Xianling thought for a while: "Last time Village Chief Li came to handle the land deed, if I remember correctly, there is a mountain next to it that belongs to your family, right?" β
Zhao Yunlan responded: "Yes." β
Chen County Order: "How to arrange the mountain of Zhao Niangzi's house?" β
Zhao Yunlan: "I have kept some stout trees in the high places, and I plan to plant some fruit trees and flower trees in the vacated places, and I will plant peppers in the low-lying mountains, and some sweet potatoes in other places." β
Chen Xianling nodded: "Zhao Niangzi, that piece of mountain also bothered you to plan together, and I will send some more people to assist you later, if you need anything, I will solve it." β
Zhao Yunlan took out a piece of paper from her sleeve pocket and said, "Chen County Order, this is a list I drew up in advance, please trouble Chen County Order." β
A crow floated over Chen County's head: "You have already prepared your feelings, and you are waiting for me?" β
Zhao Yunlan said: "Hehe, my mountain is almost rested, I'm not in a hurry!" I'm afraid that I will miss the prefectural order and the prefect's big event! β
Chen Xianling nodded, "You go back first, I'll send someone to transport these things to you when I buy them." β
Zhao Yunlan: "Thank you Chen County, then I'll go back." β
Zhao Yunlan's list of Chen County's orders is some trees and farm tools, the county government's land is in charge of Chen's county order, and her own land has to be taken care of by herself, Zhao Yunlan went to the flower and bird market after leaving the county office, thinking that she could see if she could buy flowers and trees.
When Zhao Yunlan returned to Lijia Village in the evening, Li Mingren could only see the trees on the carriage hired by Zhao Yunlan, and he couldn't see the heads clearly.
Li Mingren hurriedly stepped forward: "Lady, you bought so many plums again." β
Zhao Yunlan jumped out of the car: "Well, I happened to meet so many plums today, so I bought them all." β
Li Mingren helped move Lamei down and continued: "The house on the other side of the mountain is almost finished, are you going to pick up Brother Deng and his family?" β
Zhao Yunlan: "Well, then you can go with your third brother tomorrow, and then go to the village chief to borrow an ox cart to load things." β
Li Mingren responded.
Early the next morning, Li Mingren and Li Mingli drove an ox cart to Xiaoqingshan.
Zhao Yunlan took Li Mingmei to the mountain to clean up the hut, when Zhao Yunlan asked people to build this hut, thinking that it was cold, and there were patients in the Deng family, so she called the master to build the kang. Zhao Yunlan couldn't stand the smell of smoke from the brazier, so she thought about using a kang, and even changed her bed to a kang.
Zhao Yunlan and Li Mingmei worked all afternoon, and when they saw that everything was almost neat, they went home and planned to cook. Now that the whole road is out here, it's easier to walk.
Zhao Yunlan looked at the mountain next to her, thinking that she would recruit someone to reclaim it in the afternoon. After all, Zhao Yunlan is used to the work here, and Zhao Yunlan is not in arrears, and she will settle the money as soon as it is over. Everyone wants to earn more and have a prosperous year.
In the evening, Li Mingren and Li Mingli came back with Deng Yong's family.
Zhao Yunlan made a table of good dishes for Deng Yong's family, considering the physical condition of Deng Yong's mother, Zhao Yunlan cooked in the hut, Zhao Yunlan first asked Deng Yong to settle his mother, and the two families sat down together to eat happily.
Zhang Heru looked at the table full of dishes, the bowl of white rice in his hand, and sighed in his heart.
After everyone finished eating, Zhao Yunlan first let Deng Yong's family rest early, and the rest of the arrangements will be talked about tomorrow, Deng Yong thanked Zhao Yunlan gratefully.
Zhao Yunlan took the family back to Li's house.
Deng Yong sat on the burning warm kang, hugged Da Zhuang, held Zhang Heru's hand, and couldn't say a word.
The first night of the Deng family's move to a new house passed with such a warm sleep.
When I got up in the morning, Deng Yong was also woken up by the heat, touched Xiaobao, and was also sweating, Zhang Heru came in from outside the house and said: "I went to see my mother, my mother got up and sat for a while, and I also slept with sweat, I wiped my mother's body, and my mother said that I slept comfortably last night." β
Deng Yong smiled: "It's good to get used to it, it seems that we are here right, and this Zhao Niangzi is also too thoughtful." β
When Zhao Yunlan brought Li Mingli and Li Mingmei over after breakfast, Deng Yong was already inspecting the mountain.
"Owner, I've seen this mountainous area, and it's good to plant fruit trees."
Zhao Yunlan didn't react to the title of 'owner' for a while, and was stunned for a moment before saying: "Well, I plan to plant fruit trees in high places, and set aside other places in lower places." I will plant those flowers and trees this morning, the fruit trees have not yet arrived, and we will have to wait for some time. β
Deng Yong nodded, looked at the mountain land that was still being cultivated next to him, and asked, "The owner, is this land also the owner's?" β
Zhao Yunlan shook her head: "This is the county government, but I am also responsible for managing it, let's wait for the Chen County Order to deliver the things." β
Only then did Deng Yong know that Zhao Yunlan still had such a great ability, and he actually helped the county order to do things.
Zhao Yunlan followed Deng Yong, took Li Mingmei and Li Mingli to follow together, and planted all the flowers and trees before going back.
Now that the soap at home is in stock, Zhao Yunlan is not worried that the shopkeeper Wu will not be able to pick up the goods to sell. Zhao Yunlan concentrated on doing the work on the mountain.
A few days later, the shopkeeper Wu sent several truckloads of fruit trees. Zhao Yunlan asked people to pull the trees directly to the mountain, and now the road has been widened a little, and when the villagers are reclaiming another piece of mountain, they have cleared a lot of stones, so Zhao Yunlan asked them to continue to widen the road, and now it is not a problem for the ox cart to go up.
Deng Yong looked at the carloads of fruit trees pulled by carts and was excited.
Zhao Yunlan looked at the trees, there were peach trees, pear trees, cherry trees, and many osmanthus trees and plum trees. Zhao Yunlan imagined the flowers all over the mountains in spring and the delicious and juicy fruits in summer, and couldn't help but swallow her saliva.