Chapter 17: Fruit Saplings
These days, everyone in the village is happy that this year has been smooth and the family is doing well.
Baskets of corn were moved out of the field, corn stalks were cut and piled into mountains, and grain and firewood were available in the second half of the year, which was a bumper harvest!
And Lan Dazhuang, on his side, also found a purchase channel for fruit tree seedlings.
Early this morning, a batch of high-quality fruit tree seedlings has just been pulled back from the next province——
A large cart full of saplings entered the village, which immediately attracted the attention of many villagers.
At this time, the Lan family contracted the matter of the mountain behind the village, and it spread in the village and was known by the villagers.
Although there is no collective meeting in the village to talk about the specific situation of the state's implementation of the land contract system, who does not have a relative from the village leadership group in the village of dozens of households?
Everyone knew about it, but no one wanted to lead the leader to contract the land.
In these years, if anyone has a lot of money, their first reaction is to hide it.
Let them spend a lot of money, that is to cut their flesh!
In today's situation, if the Lan family contracts land normally, then everyone may still think that this family is really rich~!
But now, the Lan family is not contracting farmland, but contracting a mountain, which makes many villagers think it's a joke!
Lan Shengli, the propagandist of the village trade union, doesn't know how many times he has been laughed at in the morning.
But as long as he thought that in a few years, there would be 100,000 chickens on the mountain contracted by their family, Lan Shengli dreamed of laughing~
Others are laughing at him now, so let them laugh~
Later, the people of the village will know how right his children are doing!
The people in the village originally laughed at the Lan family's contracting of the back mountain, but now when they saw that Lan Dazhuang had received a large cart of saplings, they even called him stupid behind his back.
Isn't it enough that the mountains are full of trees?
Lan Dazhuang has nowhere to use his strength, and there is nowhere to spend his money!
It is really rare for a large truck to drive into the village, and many villagers even put down their work for a while and come to watch the unloading.
Among the crowd, Yang Xianjin is Chinese New Year's Eve two years old and lives in the south of Tianshui Village.
Yang Xian looks average, and the family conditions are not very good, and his daughter-in-law ran away with someone two years ago, leaving a son who is eight years old this year.
When Yang Xian was a child, he liked to run up the mountain, their side belongs to the plain area, there are not many mountains, and the mountain behind the village is not very high, you can climb to the top of the mountain in forty or fifty minutes, so there are no large beasts on the mountain, some are just small animals such as pheasants and hares.
Because there are many mountains, he knows where there are wild jujube trees, wild apple trees, and wild chestnut trees on the mountain.
When he was a child, he would go to the mountains every year to pick fruit, so he recognized the leaves of fruit trees.
At this time, a large cart of saplings was pulled, and when they were unloaded, Yang Xian recognized that there were apple trees among them!
So the Lan family plans to contract the back mountain to plant fruit trees?
But even if the fruit trees are planted, will the fruit be sold?
If you can't sell it, how can you make money?
Although Yang Xian felt that the Lan family's idea was good, it was too risky!
If it were him, he would definitely not have taken such a risk!
If you have money, you can only feel at ease if you have it.
And now he doesn't have to say that he is rich, he lives alone with his son, and he is so poor that he can't open the pot......
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On Lan Dazhuang's side, after a large cart of saplings was transported, he came with the delivery driver, as well as two masters who planted fruit trees.
Although Lan Dazhuang can plant trees by himself, Xiaomei said that fruit saplings should be planted immediately when they are transported, and delays may affect the survival rate of fruit tree saplings.
He alone couldn't get the job done in a short period of time, so he had to find someone to help.
And there is a trick to finding someone to help, that is, you have to find a skilled person!
Lan Shu would rather spend more money to hire an experienced master to do the work, as long as the survival rate of fruit tree seedlings can be improved.
Every fruit tree sapling was bought by them with money, and if they couldn't live, it would be a waste of money, so Lan Dazhuang agreed with Xiaomei's statement.
This time, Lan Dazhuang didn't buy too many saplings, a hundred apple trees, a hundred pear trees, and a hundred kiwi trees specially requested by Xiaomei.
If it weren't for the geographical location of Tianshui Village, the oranges grown might not be too sweet, and Lan Shu would still want to plant an orange orchard on the mountain~
But there are orchards of apples, pears and kiwis, which are enough for the time being.
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Two days later, at the end of the autumn harvest in the village, the planting of fruit tree seedlings on the back hill was also successfully completed.
This is still Lan Dazhuang who chose a good place in advance, cleared weeds and nearby trees, and dug three hundred pits to allow the saplings to be planted so quickly.
After looking at the soil on the mountain and the growth environment of the fruit saplings, the two masters who were invited to plant the fruit seedlings explained to Lan Dazhuang the precautions for taking care of the fruit seedlings in the past few days.
And said that if these fruit tree seedlings are maintained according to their methods, the survival rate of fruit tree seedlings can reach at least 90%!
Listening to the master's words, Lan Dazhuang was still a little dissatisfied, only ninety percent?
Wouldn't thirty of the three hundred saplings he bought not survive?
But this can't be helped, now autumn is not the best time to plant trees, and the survival rate of 90% is already very high.
The two masters said that if they plan to plant a few more orchards next spring, they promise to improve the survival rate of fruit tree seedlings!
For the later cooperation in the purchase of fruit tree seedlings, Lan Dazhuang responded in one bite.
He remembered that when he first chose the type of fruit tree sapling, his sister said that a peach forest would be planted on the mountain in the future, and even apple trees and pear trees would add new varieties in the future.
Before the delivery car left the village, Lan Shu also dragged her not very cool body to the entrance of the village.
In addition to settling the balance of 500 yuan for 300 fruit tree seedlings, she also paid 20 yuan for each of the two masters who helped to plant the seedlings.
Twenty yuan is worth half a month's salary for the current workers, but as long as the two of them can do their best in planting fruit tree seedlings, then the money will be well spent!
After all, their cooperation is not only this time, and in the future, if they want to buy a variety of high-quality new varieties of fruit tree seedlings, there are also places where two masters are needed.
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In the next few days, Lan Dazhuang was busy from morning to night every day, carrying water up the mountain to water the fruit tree saplings one by one.
Lan Shu has been in a special situation these days, and she can't do heavy work, so she continues to stay at home.
But even if she is physically fine and can work, her eldest brother will not let her have any hard work.
Fortunately, Xiaobai's body is almost recuperating, and he has also helped a lot with watering fruit tree seedlings.
Although Xiaobai is not very old, his strength is not small, and he can endure hardships, and the amount of labor in a day is almost the same as that of Lan Dazhuang.
Sometimes Lan Shengli came back early after the union was busy, and he would also help pick up a few buckets of water to go uphill.
Looking at the addition of three and a half fruit tree sapling orchards on the mountain in just a few days, Lan Shengli felt an unbelievable feeling.
The mountain behind their village was really contracted by his family!
And the son also planted fruit trees on the mountain, and in a few years it will be three orchards!