Boss Liang's family did plant navel oranges, but not much, and their family did not contract the mountain, but transformed their own mountain woodland into a navel orange forest.

The price of navel oranges is high, and everyone wants to grow them, so it is difficult to find a mountain here, but Boss Liang is worthy of being a person who dares to open a restaurant in the town, and his brain is quite flexible.

Since there is no extra mountain land to grow navel oranges, he does navel orange seedling business!

Seedlings do not occupy a lot of land, one acre of land can be grafted a lot of fruit seedlings, and when a batch of fruit seedlings is sold, you can continue to plant a batch.

Grafting this technology, it is not difficult to be a master, but it is not difficult to be difficult, you are familiar with it, you know how to start, how to dock, how to tie up, and that's it, not only easy, but also high success rate.

Gao Mingcheng saw that in a mountain field at the foot of the mountain, dense fruit seedlings were planted everywhere.

These fruit seedlings are divided into two kinds, one is the rootstock that has not been grafted, and the rootstock used by Boss Liang's family is the wolfberry thorn, which has a good affinity and has a high success rate for grafting navel oranges.

When it comes to academic names, some people may not know what kind of plant the wolfberry thorn is, but if you describe its appearance, perhaps most of the people in the village will suddenly realize it, and then say that it is originally a stinky orange thorn.

The wolfberry thorn is a tree that is very similar to the orange tree, except that it is full of thorns, has fewer leaves, and produces small fruits, and there is no flesh in it, but a lot of seeds.

The seeds from the ripe fruit are removed and planted, and when the tree is almost tall, it can be grafted as a rootstock.

In addition to the wolfberry thorns in this field, there are also grafted navel orange seedlings, wolfberry thorns are used as rootstocks, and then navel orange branches are taken as scions, and after successful grafting, it is a new navel orange tree.

These seedlings are still very small, they were grafted at the spring equinox this year, and now it is mid-September, and the growth of the whole seedling looks okay.

Gao Mingcheng personally saw the growth of fruit seedlings in the field, and after inquiring about the price, he decided to buy a batch of fruit seedlings and go back.

These fruit seedlings are densely planted together, each fruit seedling is the size of a chopstick, and after Gao Mingcheng buys it back and plants it, the fruit tree will bear fruit in the third year.

However, in general, the taste of the fruit in the first year is very average, and it is not until the fourth year or above that it is an adult fruit tree, and the fruit that bears fruit at this time is more delicious. Next, in the absence of disease, the lifespan of the navel orange fruit tree can be as long as 40 to 50 years.

Ideally, it can be said that the grandfather planted the tree and the grandson enjoyed it.

Although he agreed with Boss Liang to buy 200 fruit seedlings, Gao Mingcheng was not in a hurry to let people dig up the fruit seedlings from the ground now.

He planned to come over tomorrow morning, and after buying the fruit seedlings, he would drive back to Gaojia Village directly.

When the business was done, Boss Liang was also very happy, and called Gao Mingcheng to go to his parents' house to sit, and led Gao Mingcheng to his navel orange grove for a walk.

Navel oranges are ripe from mid-September to early October, and now the navel oranges are ripe, but the skin is still green, and after continuing to hang on the fruit tree for a while, the skin will slowly turn orange, which will look better and the flesh will be more delicious.

Walking in the navel orange forest, Gao Mingcheng only felt fragrant, he saw that some of Boss Liang's trees were taller than him, and some were only his shoulder heights, and each tree was full of fruits, making the branches hang down overwhelmed.

Gao Mingcheng saw the dense fruit, and thought to himself that this Boss Liang was afraid that he was reluctant to thin the fruit, so although the fruit grew densely, each orange was small.

In his mind, the finest navel orange could be the size of his palm.

Only then did he slander Boss Liang for being stingy in his heart, but he saw Boss Liang reach out and pick two oranges and hand one to Gao Mingcheng.

Boss Liang said magnificently: "Brother Mingcheng, you bought my fruit seedlings, and the oranges you planted are exactly the same as mine!" Keep you delicious and sell! ”

Boss Liang peeled an orange by himself, the skin was a little thick, but his nails were also bad, and he peeled them off.

When the orange peel is peeled off, there is a fine mist of water on the orange peel, which is an essential oil, which smells exceptionally fragrant, and can also be extracted from the orange peel by scientific means.

In the fragrance, Gao Mingcheng tasted the first navel orange of the year, just picked from the tree, and the freshness was 100%!

The orange peel is still green, the color of the orange flesh is relatively light, and it tastes very moist, but the sourness is also obvious, and at the top of the navel orange, there is a protruding place like a navel eye, and after peeling it off, it looks like there is a small orange that is not ripe.

This can also be eaten, but the taste is very average.

Boss Liang also seemed to be sour, his eyes and eyebrows were a little squeezed together, and he hurriedly said: "This is just ripe, and in another ten days and half a month, it won't be so sour!" At the end of the month, there will be a big boss who will drive over to receive the goods, and they are so good that they want to pull these oranges to Xiangjiang to sell, saying that they want to earn foreign exchange! ”

Gao Mingcheng asked, "What is the price you sell to them?" ”

Boss Liang didn't hide it from him, after all, this is not a secret, and said generously: "It depends on the quality of the oranges, the quality is good, and the price of the land is two yuan a catty!" In average condition, it can be sold for between one and five pieces. As for the worse, those big bosses won't want it, so we can only keep it for ourselves to eat, or ship it to nearby counties and cities to sell. ”

"My family has little mountainous land, and I don't make much money by selling oranges, and the village party secretary of our village, he has contracted a mountain, and he can earn this amount a year!"

Boss Liang excitedly stretched out three fingers, his eyes full of envy.

"Brother Mingcheng, guess how much this is?"

When Gao Mingcheng heard this, he couldn't help laughing, and thought, you have stretched out three fingers, can I still guess?

He said directly: "Three hundred thousand! earned 300,000 yuan a year, then your village party secretary is very powerful! ”

Boss Liang looked at Gao Mingcheng, and after a while, he also smiled, and he said: "Brother Mingcheng is really a well-informed person, where do some people dare to guess 300,000, guess 30,000 as if it is impossible!" One person was so funny, he guessed three thousand dollars! Hahaha! ”

Boss Liang smiled unceremoniously, as if he was still mocking the man's low vision.

But in an era when 10,000 households are extremely rare, and in an era when most people's incomes are very low, then for some people, it is already very good to earn 3,000 yuan a year by selling fruits.

But the benefits of navel oranges are much more than that!

Many people see the benefits of navel oranges, so they buy fruit seedlings and start planting navel oranges, hoping that they can also make a lot of money.

But planting and breeding are risky!

Sometimes a high investment does not lead to a high return!

Before leaving, Gao Mingcheng originally only planned to buy 100 fruit seedlings, but when he arrived at the ground, he found that each fruit seedling was very small, and 100 fruit seedlings were only such a big bundle.

Gao Mingcheng considered that after this batch of fruit seedlings was planted, not all of them could survive, and there must be a certain amount of loss, so he bought 200 seedlings.

It's not that he is reluctant to buy more, but if he wants to plant navel oranges well, the spacing should be wide, after all, under ideal circumstances, the life span of navel oranges is as high as forty or fifty years, and after more than ten years, it is still the peak production period, and a tree can bear fruit from hundreds of catties to a thousand catties a year!

If it is planted densely now, it will affect future growth.

Gao Mingcheng walked around Boss Liang's village, and asked Boss Liang about the tricks of planting navel oranges, how to prune branches, how to fertilize and so on.

Since the two are far apart, there is no direct competition, and Gao Mingcheng is very good at talking, so Boss Liang also said it generously.

Gao Mingcheng kept it in his heart, but he didn't believe it all, such as Shuguo, he would definitely be more ruthless than Boss Liang.

Boss Liang only saw the immediate benefits, and only thought about bearing more fruits and selling more money, but he didn't expect that only good fruits were valuable, and secondary fruits were worthless, and he also squeezed the nutrition of fruit trees.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the two returned to the town, Gao Mingcheng had dinner at Boss Liang's place, and stayed for one night, the next morning, Gao Mingcheng ate a bowl of rice noodles, and went to the village with Boss Liang, when they passed, it was only half past six in the morning, but Boss Liang's parents had already dug up the seedlings in the ground at half past five and tied them with straw.

Boss Liang pointed to the fruit seedlings on the ground and said, "These fruit seedlings are twenty in a bundle, Brother Mingcheng can count them, and there will definitely be no one less for you!" ”

Gao Mingcheng didn't have to worry about face and didn't count it, he directly picked up a bundle, took a quick look, and knew that there were indeed twenty in this bundle, and then compared its size with others, he knew that the number should be right.

Because of the long distance, Gao Mingcheng deliberately asked them to leave some more soil at the roots of the fruit seedlings.

Gao Mingcheng was quite satisfied with the state of these fruit seedlings, and said with a smile: "Boss Liang is really doing business, I naturally believe in you." It's rare for me to come to Gannan once, and these fruit seedlings I bought will be able to hang fruit after at least three years, and it is not easy to eat navel oranges! ”

"Boss Liang, I plan to buy some navel oranges from you and bring them back to my family."

Boss Liang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "But I haven't been too familiar with ......."

Gao Mingcheng waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I'll pick some and taste it, you can count the price of my land." ”

He was not polite, and after getting the consent of Boss Liang, he directly took a snakeskin bag and went to the navel orange forest to pick it.

Although the time was early, the sky was already bright, Gao Mingcheng's eyesight was good, and he specially picked the big and ripe ones, and he didn't pick them more, and after the snakeskin bag was full, he stopped.

After Gao Mingcheng said that he wanted to buy fruits, Boss Liang's father went to the house to get the scales.

On the scale, there are more than fifty-two pounds.

Boss Liang said: "Brother Mingcheng, I'll wipe you more than two catties, just count you a hundred yuan." ”

"Good!" Gao Mingcheng took out his wallet and paid for the fruit and seedlings.

If it weren't for the fact that the navel orange was not fully ripe and the taste was a little sour, he would have planned to buy more, uh, at least a few hundred catties from him!

It's a pity that the season is not exactly right.

He loaded the navel oranges and seedlings into the car, covered the seedlings with straw, and then prepared to leave.

"Boss Liang, goodbye!" Gao Mingcheng waved goodbye to Boss Liang's family.

"Hey, Brother Mingcheng go slowly!" Boss Liang also greeted happily, everyone is happy to be able to make a business.

After Gao Mingcheng successfully bought the fruit seedlings, he didn't stop on the road, and drove all the way to Gaojia Village.

When he came, he had to ask for directions, delayed a lot of time, and it was more convenient to go back, the two places were nearly 300 kilometers apart, if it was a high-speed in the future, it would naturally be faster, but now there is no high-speed for you to go, and the speed of the car is relatively slow, so even if Gao Mingcheng hurried to catch up, when he arrived in Gaojia Village, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon.

In order to get back early, he only stopped for one meal along the way, and he was a little hungry and thirsty at this time. So after stopping the car at the door of his house, Gao Mingcheng ran into the yard, directly fetched a bucket of well water, and then scooped it up and drank it.

You can't drink the raw water in the mountains, but the well water is not so particular, and in the summer, many people drink the well water directly in order to save firewood.

The well water is cool and thirst-quenching, with a hint of sweetness.

Gao Mingcheng had just rested for a while, and Chen Dasong walked towards this side.

Chen Dasong had already received Gao Mingcheng's instructions and was ready at home in advance.

After seeing Gao Mingcheng, Chen Dasong said: "Mingcheng, I have already asked Duoxi to go to the village to call people, you said that you want to plant the fruit seedlings as soon as possible, so I called three people, plus a few of us, it should be about the same." ”

Gao Mingcheng nodded and said, "Okay, wait a minute, you guys take hoes and buckets, take my car, from this side to that side of the mountain, you can still drive for a while, and when you can't drive, get out of the car and walk over." ”

"Okay." Chen Dasong nodded, and saw that Gao Mingcheng seemed to be a little tired, so he asked Gao Mingcheng if he wanted to rest.

Gao Mingcheng said: "Don't stop, plant as soon as possible, after planting, I will have dinner at your house and then go back to the county, wait for my aunt to cook more meals, cook early!" ”

Chen Dasong understood, and while the others had not yet come, he went back to his house first and asked Aunt Liu to cook more meals in the evening.

When Chen Dasong came back, he came with several other people, all of whom were acquaintances in the village, Gao Mingcheng saw it, nodded and said hello, and one of them gave a pack of cigarettes.

"Mingcheng, I just have some French cakes at home, you eat them first to pad your stomach." Chen Dasong handed Gao Mingcheng two pieces of French cakes.

The French cake is also a specialty here, the taste is fluffy, the taste is not bad, the current French cake is not very sweet, unlike the French cake of later generations, the white sugar is put as if it does not need money.

Gao Mingcheng nibbled on the French cake and beckoned everyone to get on the car with tools, and those who couldn't sit in the carriage sat in the car bucket.

Gao Mingcheng drove to Xiaofushan, he drove along the road at the foot of the mountain, but he only drove for seven or eight minutes, and the road in front of him was too narrow to continue.

Gao Mingcheng stared at the front twice, and then said: "Uncle Chen, when the late rice is harvested, you call a few people to clear this road, and in the future, you will go into the mountains to take care of the orange trees, and you will also go into the mountains to pick oranges, there is no road." ”

Building roads is a big project, but the people who come to help with the work are very happy, because if there is work to do, it means that there is money to be made. (End of chapter)

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