Reborn 1980, Mountains Have Spirits, I Have Fields

Chapter 43 Planting Rice
Yue Shan was quite surprised.Hearing this tone, the two want to go together?It suddenly occurred to me that Luoxia Village, where Li Qingjiang lived, was once famous for its mulberry fishponds.Mulberry trees are planted by the fish pond, silkworms are raised with mulberry leaves, and silkworm excrement is fed to fish, a virtuous circle.I heard that even Shunde bought the yarn weaved by their village.It's just that the efficiency seems to have declined in recent years.

After Li Qingjiang was shocked, he couldn't hide the disdain on his face: "The backward production method of rice flower fish can't bring much profit to the farmers. Comrade Xiao, you should take it easy."

Yue Shan felt displeased, and replied: "Isn't it? We pay attention to scientific breeding now, and we need to learn more and ask for advice. By the way, Comrade Li, the pillar industry of your village, is the mulberry fishpond doing well this year?"

Li Qingjiang twitched his lips: "The mulberry fishpond, like the rice flower fish, is a thing of the past. We need reform."

Yue Shan couldn't help asking curiously: "How to reform?"

Li Qingjiang smiled: "Our village is going to vigorously develop the planting industry."

Yueshan nodded and said with a smile: "The planting industry is good. I heard that agricultural experts will come to our city to guide the direction. You can ask the experts to decide on the varieties to plant."

Li Qingjiang twitched the corner of his mouth and hummed disapprovingly.

"Since your fish fry are gone, I'll go first."

Li Qingjiang turned and left with a bit of complacency.

Since the reform and opening up, more and more yarns have been imported, and they are of high quality and low price.As a result, there are fewer and fewer local silkworm farmers, and the once famous Guangsha has a tendency to decline.

As the youngest cadre of the brigade, he is full of confidence to lead the whole village to carry out a major agricultural reform.

Sericulture with mulberry trees is no longer possible, so he decided to change his mind and turn the mulberry-based fish pond into a fruit-based fish pond.

But cutting down mulberry trees that have been planted for decades or even hundreds of years and replacing them with fruit trees is by no means an easy task.So, like Xiao Yueshan, he started to try it out at his own home.As for the fruit tree, he has already chosen it - kiwi.

The wild kiwi fruit in Shouning, Fujian is quite famous.Small in stature, thin in skin and sweet in meat.

Ma Youde told him that the foreign guests who were looking for the yew tree had tasted the Shouning kiwi fruit and highly appreciated it.It is said to be more delicious than foreign kiwis.This happened to touch Li Qingjiang's mind.

He was worrying about not knowing which fruit to grow.Since foreign guests like to eat kiwi, let's grow kiwi!Recently, he has been looking for kiwi fruit planting information.Thinking that even if I didn't get into university, I was still a pure gold high school student.Could it be that he can't compare to a middle-aged uncle with clay legs who grows vegetables?
He wants to see if his fruit-based fish pond is better, or the rice flower fish in Xiaoyue Mountain is better!

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At the end of April, everyone in the Sixth Village of Xianyun, regardless of age, was mobilized.Started the hardest work since the beginning of spring: transplanting rice seedlings.

Most of the rice fields in Liucun are terraced.There is a low peak in Xianyun Mountain, and the entire south-facing half of the mountain is filled with paddy fields developed by six villagers.

Looking around, the paddy fields are sparkling and colorful, and the paddy fields are full of people bending over to work.

Yueshan is the leader of farm work.The inserted seedlings do not need to be specially aligned, and are automatically arranged neatly.I don't know if it's an illusion, but the seedlings cultivated this year are particularly strong, and it is reassuring to look at.Even his father praised: The seedlings of Yueshan's family are growing so well!Seeing that the eldest son's whole family is full of energy, even Ling Yun, a baby, is working hard without being lazy, and can't help sighing to his wife: "Look, the Yueshan family is underdeveloped, and whose family is prosperous?"

Lan Fang laughed and said, "No matter how developed he is, he is still our son."

Xiao Yuanliang was proud: "Of course."

"But it's strange," Lan Fang rubbed her waist, "This year my old waist doesn't hurt as much as last year."

Xiao Yuanliang also felt that his body seemed to be stronger this year.His eyebrows furrowed suddenly, and he yelled at his youngest son: "Yuefeng, look at your seedlings. They're all crooked. Do it all over again!"

Xiao Yuefeng almost collapsed on the ground from exhaustion.

Do you want to be so tired!
Recently, the vegetables grown by his family have tasted the sweetness for the first time, and Yuntao Restaurant bought them.The whole family was pleasantly surprised when they worked hard for a month and earned around [-] yuan.When Xiao Yuefeng had money in his hand, he wanted to avoid the busy farming and go out to fool around.In the end, he was discovered by his father, and he was forced to lock him up at home.

Xiao Yuanliang was so angry that he knocked on the hookah: "If you dare to go out at this time, you will never come back in this life!"

What a crime, he and his wife and grandson and daughter-in-law are doing all the work in the field. Fortunately, he wants to prodigal when he has money.If it hadn't been against the law to beat someone to death, he really wanted to beat this prodigal son to death with a stick.

Lingju is also annoyed that her father is not up to date.

"They are all grandpa and grandma's sons. Look at Uncle Ren, and then at my father." Ling Ju gritted his teeth, "Why is he so unprogressive?"

From top to bottom, from the inside to the outside, she is nothing compared to Lingmei!

Xiulian patted the back of her hand: "Are you crazy? Did you say that about your own father?"

"Am I wrong?" Ling Ju's chest was bulging with anger, "Mother, you have to take care of Dad. Even if I can't get into college, I must go to high school. Nowadays, high school students are very expensive. Don't let My father lost all my tuition fees. It's too late to cry."

If Xiulian's hands weren't covered in mud, she would have pinched her daughter's mouth: "What are you talking about? Are you so stupid? Your brother has saved all the money in the family. Your father can only get a small change."

Ling Ju hesitated to speak.It's all given to her brother, how much of the money will she get then?

She shook off her braid in annoyance, and inserted the seedlings heavily into the ground as if venting hatred.

It took about five or six days for the paddy fields in the village to move the seedlings one after another.But everyone gathered in front of Yueshan's paddy field with great interest, talking endlessly.

"Here we come." Aunt Liu called out excitedly. "Yue Shan brought her daughter here. Yo, Yue Feng and Ling Hai are also here!"

The Yueshan brothers each carried two buckets and walked to the ridge of their own fields.

Aunt Liu asked with concern: "Yueshan, do you really want to raise rice flower fish?"

Yue Shan smiled and said, "The fish fry are all brought, so is it fake?"

He and Lingmei are in charge of one mu of land.The one-acre paddy field on the left raises ordinary fry hatched by Yueshan.On the right is the fish fry that Lingmei bred in the space.Naturally, she claims to Yueshan that she selects the fry, selects the best from the best, and raises them separately.When selling in the future, we will divide them into high and low categories to make more money.

Yue Shan had no doubts.

As for the extra fry, Lingmei released some of them in the river ponds on the mountain, and some of them were raised in the space.

Paddy fields were transformed earlier.Half a month ago, Yueshan used lime to sterilize the paddy fields, and after disinfection, fertilized to facilitate the growth of microorganisms in the paddy fields, and prepared sufficient rations for the fry in advance.

The field ridges are widened and heightened to more than half a meter to prevent water leakage and fish.The paddy field is dug into a cross shape, and the deep trenches are dug at the cross part to reserve the growth space for fry.Yueshan works authentically, and specially piles cement bricks on both sides of the fish ditch to prevent the soil from subsiding and affecting the growth of fish fry.

Outsiders looked at the Yueshan brothers' work like this, and they were curious and disdainful: this is much more refined than the rice flower fish farming in the village before.But it's useless.There is a heavy rain in summer, and this fish slip can't be found anywhere!

Father and daughter, and father and son work together in a division of labor, and it didn't take long for the fry of the two families to be released.

Ling Mei took a ruler to measure the depth of the water in the two paddy fields, and under the diorama-like eyes of everyone, she finished her work and went home.

"Is this the end? Can it be done?" Lan Fang was full of worry.

"It doesn't cost much if it doesn't work." Xiao Yuanliang turned around, "Let's go back. There is no rush to raise fish."

(End of this chapter)