Chapter 280： farming

Chapter 280 Farming

After the Qingming Festival, the temperature rises, and every household starts to prepare for spring plowing.

Creating corn stubble in the field, arranging what to plant this year, ginseng ponds, and thatch sheds are all very busy.

Xu Shiyan was transferred to work in the first field, and he only had time off on Sundays, so he couldn't help much with family matters.

Xu Chenghou alone has to clean up two families with a large field of seven acres, nearly one acre of private land, and a stick for ginseng.

It is also a bit difficult for the old man in his sixties.

Xu Shiyan and his wife discussed that it is better to let others plant their own land, and just give some food when the time comes.

Xu Shiyan at home eats the food supply, and the children are still young and can't eat much. Besides, it is not impossible to buy food now, so there is really no need to make Xu Chenghou suffer.

It would be more reasonable to concentrate on managing the sticks and the farm.

The couple agreed and went to discuss with Xu Chenghou, but Xu Chenghou refused to let him go.

He has been an old farmer all his life, so what can he do without farming?

Now this land is my own, no matter how it is, I have to plant it.

The two sides are deadlocked, and neither is willing to make concessions.

"Father, if you disagree, I have no choice but to wean the two little ones.

There are so many lands, I can’t let you do it alone, I plant our own land.

It’s okay, when I didn’t go out, I planted the land at home. "

Su Anying saw that this was not going to work, so she resorted to her trump card, and she wanted to wean the child.

"What? Wean the child? How can that be done? These two are less than one birthday old, how can you wean them?"

Xu Chenghou and Zhou Guilan were blown away when they heard it.

"At that time, Yuanyuan was pregnant with Pingping, and she was weaned when she ran out of milk. It took eleven months anyway.

Pingping drank breast milk for fifteen months at that time, and co-authored it on these two heads. You will be weaned after only ten months?

No way, absolutely not, let me tell you, at least one birthday, don’t try to trick my grandchildren. "

Zhou Guilan was very angry.

"Mom, what do you say?

There are several acres of land waiting to be planted, and the sticky field on the mountain must be worked, and the farm on the other side is about to build a flower shed.

Shiyan can't take care of work, don't I have to ask for it?

These two cubs are not going to be breastfed, so I can go up the mountain to plant half of the land and come back to feed them? "

With the support of her husband, Su Anying also has a tough attitude.

Otherwise, there is nothing to do. There is no reason to talk to the old man, so this is the only way to do it.

Zhou Guilan choked for a moment, yes, so much work, all of which was thrown to the daughter-in-law, and there are two nursing children at home, it is really embarrassing.

"Father, Mom, what about the two of you now, with the food and money given by my elder brother and the others every month, in fact, you can't lack too much food.

The private plot, and the well-divided land in the team, we can grow some by ourselves, that’s enough.

For the rest of the land, whoever wants to plant it can plant it, and just give us some food in autumn.

In this way, my father tends to two or three acres of land, and there are sticks on the mountain, and Yingzi helps.

It’s only been a couple of years, and the child got a little older, so he got over it, right? "

Xu Shiyan sang "Red Face" and "Slime Mud" in the middle.

There is no need to wait for two or three years, at most until next autumn and winter, when the Clivia in the flower shed is sold, there will be less thought there.

The participation of the brigade has not been tossing for a few years, and it will be done by individuals in the future.

At that time, Xu Shiyan will find a way to join forces with Huang Shengli and the others to approve the land together, and all hire blind people to work. He can just go up and take a look on Sunday.

As for the little land, the old man can plant it if he likes to plant it. Planting less is considered a sport.

Otherwise, this old man has been busy all his life, and it is really uncomfortable for him to be idle suddenly.

The couple sang together, and the old couple had to take care of their grandchildren. In the end, they had no choice but to surrender.

"That's fine, just follow what the third child said, let's keep some good land for ourselves, and grow some of our favorite food.

I'll ask about the others, and anyone who wants to plant them can plant them. "The stubborn old man finally stopped being stubborn and nodded in agreement.

Xu Shiyan and his daughter-in-law looked at each other, couldn't help but chuckled, and it finally made sense.

Therefore, Xu Chenghou said that his own land could not be grown, and whoever was willing to grow it, just provided some food in autumn.

Not to mention, several families came to ask, and finally gave a family with a good relationship with the Xu family surnamed Fu.

The two parties agreed that a total of five and a half acres of land would be given to the Xu family forty catties of soybeans and two hundred catties of corn in autumn.

The monthly grain output is not high this year, if there is too much, people will not grow it if they cannot afford it.

The remaining one and a half acres of good land, together with the private plots of the two families, were reserved for Xu Chenghou to plant.

Xu Chenghou had long thought about planting broomcorns, millet, sorghum for brooms, adzuki beans, soybeans, and sticky corn.

As he said, grow a little of everything and keep it for the family to eat.

I have livestock and a plow stick at home, so I don’t need to ask for help. At four o’clock in the morning, Xu Shiyan and his father put on the plow stick and went to the ground together.

After two mornings, I finished the trip.

Catch up with Sunday, together with Su Anying, a few of them planted the land in one afternoon.

After planting the land, the family has no more thoughts, and the flower shed at the other end of the farm should also start construction.

The flower shed is built in the style of a vegetable greenhouse, with a single slope, but there is no greenhouse film in this year, so glass windows can only be used.

Xu Shiyan asked Lin Jian's people to come over and explain to them what kind of flower shed he wanted, draw out the design and prepare the materials.

The rest is Xu Shian and Su Anying coming to watch, Xu Shiyan has no time.

In order to carry out the experiment of growing Gastrodia elata with old ginseng in the field, Gastrodia elata seeds must be available.

So from May onwards, as soon as I joined the field, I advertised in various villages and forest farms in the forest area to collect fresh Gastrodia elata.

Experienced mountain runners don’t have to wait for Gastrodia elata to emerge, and take a shovel into the mountain. If they are lucky, they can dig ten catties a day.

In recent years, the price of dried Gastrodia elata has grown quite rapidly.

The key is that some beekeepers from the south come here. They love Gastrodia elata, and they often buy it at a high price.

As a result, the price of Gastrodia elata has risen, and now a catty of dry goods costs about seven or eight yuan.

The market collects fresh Gastrodia elata, two yuan per catty, no matter whether the seedlings emerge or not, regardless of the size, even small rice hemp.

At this price, many people think it is a good deal.

Dig it out, don’t wash it, don’t boil it, and dry it in the sun, just send it to a place where you can buy it, and you’ll get paid for it by weighing the catty. How good is that?

So many people dug Gastrodia elata and sent it to the purchase point, and sent people to the venue to walk around every two days to transport it back.

All the Gastrodia elata transported back will be arranged by Xu Shiyan, and sent to the old ginseng field in Caozihe, where the club was played last year.

Put the fermented fungus sticks mixed with Armillaria mellea in advance in the ginseng soil, put grading Gastrodia elata in the middle, then cover the top with soil, and cover the branches and leaves, especially the leaves of oak trees.

Old ginseng soil is rich in humus, black soil with good air permeability, and the ginseng soil planted with mallets is rich in flora, which is conducive to the growth of armillaria.

Under the natural environment, after years of development, the old ginseng can easily grow Gastrodia elata.

So planting Gastrodia elata in the old ginseng has its own advantages, but the initial investment is a bit larger.

Wait for the seeds to be saved next year, and then cultivate the small mushroom germination bacteria and Armillaria armillaria, and then the cycle can be realized and large-scale cultivation can be achieved.

(end of this chapter)