When Huang Dazhi was busy making various efforts to get married, Gao Mingcheng was already standing on Xiaofu Mountain and making a complete plan for the entire mountain.

Three hundred acres of mountainous land is not big, but it is small, and it is definitely not small.

A batch of sugar oranges has been planted before, and some have died, but most of them are still alive and will come back to life as the weather warms up.

As for the plan for Xiaofushan, I already had a rough plan before, and now that I am about to plant trees, I have to make the plan more carefully.

Then, he started looking for someone to work.

He was looking for someone who had worked for him before, and before the spring ploughing, he cleaned up the whole mountain again, and some large stones and dead tree roots had to be picked up.

Terraces are then dug up on the steep slopes to facilitate tree planting and subsequent fruit picking.

The matter of land preparation was taken care of by the people who were invited, and Gao Mingcheng himself carried an axe and headed towards the remaining cedar and pine trees.

These trees originally grew here and belonged to good wood, so last year, because he was not in a hurry to plant fruit trees, Gao Mingcheng did not cut down these trees.

But now that a large number of seedlings are about to arrive, the trees will have to make room.

He kept the fir wood for his own furniture, and the pine wood could be cut into sections and used to plant Poria cocos.

After the tree is cut, it has to be peeled, the branches are removed, and then the trunk is moved to a shaded place to dry, and the branches are piled up in the pyre and slowly dried and burned as firewood.

After finishing these, Gao Mingcheng took a shovel and a sieve to the place where the seeds of yellow essence were stored in the sand, he dug out the soil inside, and then used the sieve to sift out the seeds.

The cultivation of Polygonatum polygonatum is more troublesome, and when the seeds are mature in autumn, they should be stored in the sand and moisturized until the end of March of the following year, and then the seeds are sieved out and sown.

These yellow essences are not planted in the mountains, but on the flat land at the foot of the mountains. It is necessary to dig out the furrow first, and then evenly spread it into the shallow ditch of the furrow surface according to the row spacing of about 15 cm, cover the soil about 1.5 cm, water after a little pressure, and finally cover a layer of grass to moisturize.

After doing this, you can leave it alone for the time being, just wait for it to emerge. If you notice that it is about to emerge, you must quickly remove the grass covering it so that the seedlings can grow.

After that, it is not much different from planting vegetables, that is, if it is too dense, the seedlings will be interspersed, and if you are afraid of the sun, you will be shaded, and you can transplant it after a year.

Wild Polygonatum prefers to grow in the shade of trees, and the planted Polygonatum naturally has to meet the shady conditions, if it is a later generation, you can cover it with a black shade net.

But now, don't say whether there is or not, even if there is, Gao Mingcheng doesn't need it for the time being, because he only got so many seeds, and the planting is not yet on a large scale, so he can't pull a shade net, just need to plant some relatively tall plants on the ridge, corn is a good choice, not only can give yellow essence shade, but also harvest a batch of corn, which is a double win.

When Gao Mingcheng was busy with these things, Gao Zhuang also came over to help from time to time.

Seeing him coming over again, Gao Mingcheng put down the work in his hand and said, "Gao Zhuang, have you thought about what I told you last time?" ”

As soon as Gao Mingcheng came back, he told Gao Zhuang that he wanted to take him into the city to do business.

Because of this, you have to make a decision early, and before the spring ploughing, you will rent the family's field to others, otherwise after the spring ploughing, it will be difficult to rent, and you will have to continue planting.

When the time comes, it will be another year.

When asked about this, Gao Zhuang's face was full of confusion, he sat on a stone and said, "My grandmother told me to go with you to do business in the county to make money, but she still has to stay in the village to farm." As for Xiuman, my grandmother meant to let Xiuman also stay in the village to take care of the children, saying that the children were still young and it was not good to run around. ”

The tall daughter has just been full moon, and she is indeed still young. If you go to the county with you, you can't help for the time being, but if you don't go with you, the husband and wife are separated again.

"Brother Mingcheng, my grandmother and Xiuman want to stay in the village, I thought about it and decided not to go to the county." Gao Zhuang said his decision in a firm tone.

Who doesn't want to make money? But Gao Zhuang can't make this money.

His family has a small population, and he is really not at ease when he leaves his grandmother and Xiuman at home to take care of the children and farm.

Another one he is reluctant to part with his baby daughter, Gao Zhuang, who has just been promoted to a father, still likes to take care of children, and if he doesn't hold a child for a day, he will feel uncomfortable.

Gao Mingcheng listened, and then said: "In this way, I will go to your house for dinner in the evening and talk about this matter with Grandma Xi." ”

Gao Zhuang looked at him, and after thinking about it, he didn't refuse.

That night, after Gao Mingcheng finished his work in the field, he went to Grandma's house with a small half basket of eggs.

When others were in the county, Zhang Chengyuan helped take care of the chickens and sheep at home.

The eggs laid by the chicken, Zhang Chengyuan did not ignore them, but put them in the drawer of the cupboard, and when Gao Mingcheng came back, he found that there were already a lot of eggs.

When Gao Mingcheng carried the eggs over, the food was just out of the pot, and it was still steaming on the table.

Seeing him coming, Grandma Xi greeted with a smile: "Mingcheng, wash your hands and eat!" ”

"Hey, okay." Gao Mingcheng responded and went to wash his hands.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, it rained ice particles for a while, and then a light rain, although it did not rain much, but it also moistened the dry earth to some extent.

The old well in the village also has more water gushing out.

At the dinner table, Gao Mingcheng praised and praised Grandma Xi's craftsmanship, including a dish of bitter tofu, fried with garlic leaves, which tasted very good.

In their village, there is a custom of picking bitter oak seeds and making bitter oak tofu, which is often eaten as a vegetable in winter when there are few vegetables.

After eating, Gao Mingcheng and Grandma Xi analyzed how much money he could make a year from farming in the countryside, and how much money he could earn from doing business in the county for a year.

Directly say the amount of money, the comparison between the two is exciting.

Gao Mingcheng said: "Grandma Xi, you are old, there is really no need to continue to stay in the village to farm, otherwise even if Gao Zhuang goes to the county, he will not worry about you." ”

"Besides, if Gao Zhuang goes to the county to do business, if he is alone, then he will be busy and tired!"

"I was doing business in the county, and not only did I bring Tomei and Shufang there, but I also recruited another girl, so that I could do the business. You let Gao Zhuang do business alone, how did he do it? You can't farm in the village and let Gao Zhuang spend money to find someone to help, right? ”

"Listen to me, if you really want to go to the county to do business and make money, then the whole family will go! Rent a bigger house to live in, and when the business makes money, buy a house in the county to live in! ”

"These lands in the village are rented to people who are familiar with each other, and let him be responsible for paying the public grain."

Gao Mingcheng's words were reasonable, and the little grandmothers were a little moved, but they were all a little hesitant.

Some people, he can't see the current situation clearly, and he can't seize the opportunity. Maybe years later, I will sigh, for example, if only I had gone into business earlier; If only I had bought a house earlier; It would have been nice if I had traded stocks early.

Only when they completely miss a good opportunity will they wake up and regret it.

In his previous life, Gao Zhuang followed him to the north and south, but in fact, it was not Gao Zhuang himself who wanted to do this, but instinctively followed him, and if he did it, Gao Zhuang followed him.

But now the situation is different, he and Gao Zhuang have married wives separately and have their own small families, and Gao Zhuang can no longer follow him unconditionally and obey his orders as before.

Even if what he asked Gao Zhuang to do was to be good to him, Gao Zhuang also needed to take care of Grandma Xi and He Xiuman's emotions.

At this time, Grandma Xi said with a face full of embarrassment: "The land is the root of the farmer, I have planted the land all my life, if I don't farm, I feel sad." Besides, the people in the village are very good, if you rent the land to them, they don't know if they will plant it well, but once it is rented for a long time, the land will definitely become his family! Even if it doesn't occupy it all, it will be taken up little by little. ”

Grandma Xi has been in the village all her life, has experienced the era of domestic turmoil, and has experienced the era of all kinds of waste, she has been poor, hungry, and her feelings for the land are not understandable to ordinary people.

Again, deep down in her heart, she was afraid of going to an unfamiliar county.

She didn't express this clearly, but Gao Mingcheng saw it from the bottom of her eyes.

So he stopped persuading.

There are opportunities to make money, not now, and you can go in the future, as long as you have his help, when to go to the county to make money, it's not too late!

He looked at the baby He Xiuman was holding again, and said with a smile: "That's okay, the child is still young, now it's okay to focus on raising children, wait for a few years, when the child is older, it's not too late to go to the county to do business." ”

As soon as he said this, Gao Zhuang breathed a sigh of relief.

A trace of regret quickly flashed on He Xiuman's face, but he didn't say anything.

She looked down at the child, her eyes were full of the child's cute appearance, in addition to raising this child, He Xiuman was actually still planning to give Gao Zhuang another son when his body recovered!

Yes, although Gao Zhuang and Grandma Xi did not express patriarchal thoughts, He Xiuman herself came from a patriarchal family, which caused her to be more eager to have a son than Gao Zhuang.

Only by giving birth to a son can she be given enough security, and she can live with her back straight, without fear of the fingers of the villagers.

Of course, because the child is still young, this idea has always been hidden in her heart and has never been told to Gao Zhuang.

Gao Mingcheng failed to persuade Gao Zhuang and them to go to the city to do business, and he felt a little regretful in his heart, there was always a kind of guilt that he was developed, but he didn't pull his brother well.

Soon he adjusted his mood and no longer mentioned this matter, but talked about spring ploughing.

"Grandma Xi, this year's seedlings and potato vines, you still help me raise seedlings! I'll just come back and plant when the time comes! By the way, you don't need to borrow oxen to plow your fields, I'll use a tractor to plow them together! Gao Mingcheng said that he had already bought the machinery for plowing the field, and when the time came, he just removed the tractor's body and installed the tools for plowing the field.

Although Gaojia Village is a small mountain village, it has been a famous family of squires, and at the foot of the mountain, there are seven or eight hundred acres of fertile land connected together.

In ancient times, all the fertile land belonged to the landlord's family.

(End of chapter)