ALL NOVEL Chapter 17 Fruit Tree Seedlings
These days, everyone in the village is happy that the weather is going well this year and that Zhuang's parents are doing well.
Baskets and baskets of corn were brought out of the field, corn stalks were chopped and piled up into mountains, and there was food and firewood for the second half of the year. This can be described as a bumper harvest!
On Lan Dazhuang's side, he also found a way to buy fruit saplings.
Early this morning, a batch of high-quality fruit tree seedlings just came back from the neighboring 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 work of the mountain behind the village, and then it spread in the village and became known to the villagers.
Regarding the specific situation of the country's implementation of the land contract system, although there is no collective meeting in the village to discuss this matter, in this village of dozens of households, who does not have a relative on the village leadership team?
Everyone knows the matter, but no one is willing to lure the leader to contract the land.
These days, whenever a family has some money, the first reaction is to hide it well.
Let them spend a lot of money, that is simply to cut their flesh!
In the current situation, if the Lan family contracted the land normally, everyone might still think that this family is really rich~!
But now, what the Lan family contracted was not arable land, but a mountain, which made many villagers think it was a joke when they mentioned it!
Lan Shengli, the propagandist of the trade union in the village, had been laughed at countless times this morning.
But as long as he thinks that in a few years, there will be 100,000 chickens raised on the mountain contracted by their family, Lan Shengli will always laugh in his dreams~
If others laugh at him now, let them laugh~
In the future, the villagers will know how correct his sons and daughters are doing!
The villagers had originally laughed at the fact that the Lan family had contracted the back mountain, but now that they saw Lan Dazhuang taking over a large cart of saplings, they even secretly called him stupid.
There are trees everywhere on the mountain, isn't that enough?
Lan Dazhuang has nowhere to use his strength, and nowhere to spend his money!
It is really rare for a large truck to drive into the village. Many villagers even temporarily put down their work and came to watch the unloading.
Among the crowd, Yang Xian is thirty-two years old and lives at the south end of Tianshui Village.
Yang Xian is average-looking, and his family conditions are not very good. His wife ran away with someone two years ago, leaving behind an eight-year-old son.
Yang Xian liked to run up the mountains when he was a child. 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 40 to 50 minutes, so there are no large animals on the mountain, only pheasants, Small animals such as 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 to pick fruit every year, so he knew the leaves of fruit trees.
At this time, a large cart of saplings was pulled in, and when it was unloaded, Yang Xian recognized that there were apple trees in it!
So the Lan family plans to contract the back mountain to plant fruit trees?
But even if the fruit tree is planted, can the fruit be sold?
How can you make money if you can't sell it?
Although Yang Xian thinks that the Lan family's idea is good, the risk is too great!
If it were him, he would definitely not take such a risk!
Only when you have money can you let it go.
But now, let alone being rich, he lives alone with his son, and he is so poor that he is almost unable to get rid of it...
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On Lan Dazhuang's side, after a large cart of saplings was brought down, the delivery driver came along with two masters who planted fruit trees.
Although Lan Dazhuang can plant trees by himself, the younger sister said that the fruit saplings should be planted immediately after they are delivered, and the delay may affect the survival rate of the fruit saplings.
He alone can't finish the work in a short time, so he has to find someone to help.
And there is a trick to finding someone to help, that is, you must find a skilled person!
Lan Shu would rather spend more money to hire experienced master craftsmen to work, as long as the survival rate of fruit tree seedlings can be improved.
Every fruit tree sapling was bought with their money, and if they couldn't survive, it would be a waste of money, so Lan Dazhuang agreed with the younger sister.
This time, Lan Dazhuang didn't buy too many saplings, one hundred apple trees, one hundred pear trees, and one hundred kiwifruit trees specially requested by the younger sister.
If it weren't for the location of Tianshui Village, the oranges grown might not be too sweet, Lan Shu would still like to plant an orange orchard on the mountain~
But there are apple, pear and kiwi orchards, which are enough for now.
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Two days later, when the autumn harvest in the village was over, the planting of fruit tree seedlings on the back hill was also successfully completed.
This is because Lan Dazhuang had chosen a place in advance, cleared the weeds and nearby trees, and dug 300 holes, so that the saplings could be planted so quickly.
After seeing the soil on the mountain and the growth environment of the fruit saplings, the two masters who were invited to plant the fruit saplings explained to Lan Dazhuang the precautions for taking care of the fruit saplings in recent days.
And said that if they maintain these fruit saplings according to their method, the survival rate of the fruit saplings can reach at least 90%!
After listening to the teacher's words, Lan Dazhuang was still a little dissatisfied, only 90%?
Of the 300 saplings he bought, wouldn't 30 of them survive?
But there is no way, autumn is not the best time to plant trees, and the survival rate of 90% is already very high.
The two old masters said that if they plan to plant a few more orchards next spring, they promise to increase the survival rate of the fruit saplings!
For the subsequent cooperation in the purchase of fruit tree seedlings, Lan Dazhuang readily agreed.
He remembered that when he was selecting the types of fruit saplings, his younger sister said that a peach forest would be planted on the mountain in the future, and even apple and pear trees would add new varieties in the future.
Before the delivery car left the village, Lan Shu also rushed to the entrance of the village dragging her uncomfortable body.
In addition to paying the balance of 500 yuan for 300 fruit saplings, she also paid 20 yuan for hard work to each of the two old masters who helped plant the saplings.
Twenty yuan can cover half a month's salary of the current workers, but as long as the two of them can put their best efforts in planting their fruit tree seedlings, then the money will be worth it!
After all, their cooperation is not limited to this one time. In the future, they want to buy various high-quality and new varieties of fruit tree seedlings, and there are places that need two masters.
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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 seedlings one by one.
Lan Shu is in a special situation these days, unable to do heavy work, so she continues to stay at home.
But even if she is healthy and able to work, her elder brother will not let her have a little hard work.
Fortunately, Xiaobai's body is almost recuperating, and he also helped a lot in watering the fruit tree saplings.
Although Xiaobai is young, but he is not weak in strength, and he can endure hardships. The amount of labor in a day is almost equal to that of Lan Dazhuang.
Sometimes Lan Shengli would help carry a few barrels of water up the mountain when the trade union came back early.
Lan Shengli felt unbelievable when he saw three orchards of fruit trees as tall as half a person growing on the mountain in just a few days.
The mountain behind their village was really contracted by his family!
Moreover, my son planted fruit trees on the mountain. After a few years, there will be three orchards!