Chapter 97 What to Plant in the Back Hills
Chapter 97 97. What to plant in the back hill
Just like that, Qiao Qiao took all the fry back with a plastic bag in each hand.
Grandma Wang Lifen and Wu Lan were busy washing in the yard.
There was no other way. According to local rules, you have to pack lunch for the villagers when you ask them to work. Song Tan's family of four, grandpa and grandma, plus Zhang Yanping, the young man who lives at home and drives an excavator, and Song Sancheng's three old friends who help with the work in the back hill...
There were eleven people in total. But because the food at home tasted good, except for Song Tan, who had a normal appetite, the others could finish two or three bowls of rice in one meal.
Cooking is a big job.
Song Sancheng is so busy now, and so is Wu Lan. She has to go to the field with Song Tan and Qiao Qiao to pick astragalus early in the morning.
As the weather warms up, there are more and more astragalus with flower buds in the field. Such as this can no longer be picked. They are all old and cannot be eaten.
Therefore, in order to ensure the quality, the time for picking and sorting every day has increased.
Moreover, since knowing that the astragalus can not be eaten for a long time, more and more people come to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. They buy 10 kilograms and 8 kilograms, and then blanch and freeze them at home, so that they can eat them until the New Year.
Look, Song Tan added another order early this morning: "Mom, we have to ship another 2,000 kilograms to other places today."
For this, the whole family went out.
Wulan was still wondering: "He sold it wholesale?"
Song Tan shook his head: "No, he said that his family runs a farmhouse, and the astragalus will be blanched and frozen after it is sent over, and then each guest who comes to eat will be served a portion."
No matter whether it is stir-fried, made into soup or something else, it is just said that it is a wild vegetable grown in the field, and the quantity is not large, so it is not sold, only given as a gift.
Wow, during this period of time, there are so many customers!
Originally, spring is a good season for eating wild vegetables. After all this trouble, everyone knows that this farmhouse has a superb reputation and the income has increased greatly.
Of course, the young man who bought vegetables didn't tell them, but Song Tan guessed it.
In the past, Wulan was only happy about making money. But now she has to think about how to do it quickly and well without delaying lunch.
Too much work is also worrying.
But...
"Oh, this 40,000 yuan, plus the money from the miscellaneous vegetables sold in the past two days, can we pay the remaining contract fee?"
Otherwise, I will always owe it and feel bad.
Song Tan cruelly broke her fantasy: "Mom, since we plan to plant fruit trees in the back mountain with subsidies, we can't plant them in vain. We must see the results this year."
Three or five years of big seedlings, one acre of land is not much, and planting a hundred trees, this will cost nearly 20,000 yuan.
"After that, you still have to hire someone to plant and water the crops, right? This small hill depends entirely on the pond below. You need to buy an electric water pump with a long coil of pipes. It's not worth mentioning, but it will cost a lot of money."
"And in our fields..."
Before Song Tan finished explaining, Wu Lan closed her eyes in pain:
"Okay, okay, stop talking."
Then he asked, "Have you sold the honey? That's also money!"
How could it not be sold?
After shouting in the group, the out-of-town customer who wanted 2,000 kilograms of Astragalus membranaceus also asked for ten bottles at once.
There are only thirteen bottles in total, and now there is only one bottle left to drink, and the inventory is cleared.
The bees have to go back to brew the nectar for a few more days, so there is no stock for the time being.
When asked what they were going to do with the wholesale? They said they were going to mix honey water as a gift.
Song Tan thought, if the time was not too short and the profit point had not been calculated, this visionary young man would probably make tea their signature product!
Wulan packed up the dishes at hand and instructed Song Tan: "Take some time to go to the back mountain and feed the pigs, chickens and ducks."
Song Tan ran up the mountain, looked at a group of ducklings, and came back with another idea:
"Mom, I see the ducks are molting. Let's build a duck shed in the pond in the back mountain."
Originally, they planned to raise them in the pond on the side of the field, but the field is a neat square with round edges, while the pond in the back mountain is like a mirror with a handle. The handle of the mirror is just right for building a simple duck shed. When the time comes, the whole back mountain will be watched by the king, and it will be easy to manage from top to bottom.
Wulan thought for a while: "No hurry, wait until the mountain is cleaned up before doing it. Fruit trees are the most important now!"
April waits for no one!
Then he remembered: "What are you going to plant?"
Song Tan was still humming:
"After all, express delivery is still a little inconvenient here, and the mountain road is bumpy. I see that the town has not had much money to build roads for us in the past two years."
People in the suburbs can set up an orchard or something to pick and sell on the spot, but they can't do that here.
People who don't get carsick will get carsick on this trip, because the road is really hard to walk on.
"In this case, we have to plant the kind that can be stored and is hardy and not afraid of collision."
Wulan thought for a while: "Is it apples? Pears? Pomegranates, dates? Grapes?"
She couldn't think of anything else.
Anyway, it's definitely not possible to plant the local cherry tree at the door of the house. It's delicious, but you can't cover it after picking it, you can't squeeze it, and you're afraid of collision. It's not good if you don't eat it for a long time.
Song Tan also hesitated: "I haven't thought about it yet."
This wave is really relying on the spiritual energy and high skills to be bold. If it were any farmer, it would be strange if he didn't lose money if he was so reckless and had no plan.
Just as he was talking, Zhang Yanping came back with a straw hat and a rake, like an authentic old farmer, with his shoulders drooping.
He had a sad face:
"Sister, no matter what you plan to plant, I have someone, I will contact you! Take me with you, let's go to choose seedlings."
I really don't want to go up the mountain.
Wulan laughed: "Yanping, you should go home if you can't. If you keep working here every day, your mother will be really distressed."
Zhang Yanping wanted to cry but had no tears: Doesn't he want to go back? It's obviously his mother who calls him every day and orders him to stay here!
But the aunt finally said something fair: "Tan Tan, you really have to ask Yan Ping what to plant. Your aunt said that he is picky! He eats everything delicious. He has eaten all the imported fruits in the store."
"Our products are so expensive, you should plant expensive ones if you want to plant them."
Zhang Yanping was cheered up: "Yes! You have to listen to me on this matter! Let me think about it - apples and oranges don't grow well here. There is no other reason, it's just a climate problem, rule it out."
"Grapes are not good either. Zhengjiagou grapes are sold all over the city. Now that it is famous, it will be much harder for us to grab the market. "
"Now domestic cherries and blueberries are very popular, but the sunlight here is not as good as others, and these things are mostly grown in the suburbs, and they are all operated as plantations. We are new, and the risk is a bit high."
"By the way, the kiwis in Huacheng are very famous. The climates are similar in our two places. Have you considered kiwis and kiwifruit? Those are climbing vines, and they are quite durable before they are ripe."
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