Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 110 Play a show for them
Li Muyang's heart warmed when he saw Nuan Nuan's adorable look.

She even wants to marry Lin Xiuli as soon as possible and give birth to her first child.

His first child in his previous life was also a daughter, but not as cute as Nuan Nuan.

That kid has a stubborn personality.

He has been a little adult since he was a child. He arranges everything properly and is very independent.

The few people returned to their mother's room, and Li Muyang told the story of the blind date in "details". Both her mother and Li Xiangqin listened with interest and were very happy.

Especially my mother, she was happier than anyone else when she thought that Li Muyang's marriage might be coming to an end.

But while I was happy, I thought about the issue of the bride price again, and I suddenly felt a mixture of joy and sorrow.

After a moment of silence, he said to Li Muyang: "Wu, my mother feels much better recently, so she won't go to the hospital, right?"

Li Muyang was very familiar with his mother's thoughts. Almost instantly, he knew what his mother was thinking, so he smiled and said, "Mom, you don't know, we recently made a lot of money digging Cordyceps with the eldest brother and the second brother. There’s nothing wrong with treating you…”

"It's better not to waste this money. I'll keep it for you to find a wife. If a girl likes you, it doesn't mean that her parents will like you...

Besides, even if everyone likes it, the bride price is indispensable.You have already told me that the girl is from Xialin Village. Isn’t that Xialin Village famous for its high betrothal gifts? "

"It doesn't matter, mother, I have made arrangements. You don't have to worry about the bride price. I can handle it myself."

"What are you going to do? Digging for Cordyceps is not a long-term solution. Cordyceps won't always be there. If you dig it, it will be gone."

"That's true, but I have other options. In short, this kind of thing is not something you should worry about. You just need to rest peacefully. We will go to the hospital on the [-]th."

"Or don't..."

"Oh, mother, what's wrong with your mother-in-law? My brother told me not to worry about money, so don't keep dampening his enthusiasm."

"Oh."

Yuan Rufeng sighed and said with a wry smile: "Mom can't help you much, and she has to drag you down. Whose mother is as useless as me? She lies on the kang all day long, and she is very worried."

"It's okay, mother. How about other people's mothers? She's not my mother, and I'm not the child of other people's mothers, haha~"

Li Muyang comforted his mother, pulled some more, ate something, and went to Taoshan with a flashlight.

It has been more than a month since I was reborn, and the first batch of peach blossoms in Peach Mountain have also withered.

Only then did he have some time to study the peach tree's situation.

As my mother said just now, digging up Cordyceps is not a long-term solution. This year I took advantage of the loopholes and dug up the most. I don’t know if I can continue to get a share of the pie next year.

Don't say too much.

The most correct goal is to stabilize one's source of income, gradually expand the scale, and completely throw off the shackles of worrying about food and clothing.

Li Muyang stood at a fork in the road and hesitated for a moment.

From this location, you can get to Taoshan from three roads, going to the three hills of Taoshan respectively.

The top of the mountain on the far left, straight ahead, is across Taoshan to Xishan. This is the path Li Muyang walks every day to dig up Cordyceps.

As for the fork in the middle, if you keep walking, you will reach the top of the largest mountain on Taoshan.

The entire Taoshan is about three hundred acres, and Xifeng is about sixty or seventy acres.

The main peak in the middle is about two hundred acres.

On the right, there is a hilltop to the east, which is about thirty acres. The Li Muyang family contracted this hilltop in their previous life.

Even though this mountain is isolated, it seems to be better than other places.

actually not.

The sunshine on the East Mountain side is longer, which is a good thing, but because there is no cover and the slope is steeper than the other two peaks, it is difficult to retain water.

It's hard to get some rain here, it's all gone.

Where can there be any moisture left?

Therefore, the trees here wither very easily and grow very slowly, always looking half-dead.

Li Muyang didn't understand this before, but now that he understands, he realizes that their family was tricked by Li Jianshe at that time.

Other people's peach trees only bloom but do not bear fruit.

Their peach trees are very small. Not only do they not bear fruit, their flowers don't bloom well either.

The slope is steep, and another problem is that it is inconvenient to transport.

It is very difficult for things to go up from below or come down from above.

However, that was Li Muyang's understanding in his previous life. In this life, he understands much better.

Each has its own response to these two methods.

Li Muyang walked on the small mountain road, which became steeper and steeper. At the beginning, it was still a mountain road mixed with dirt and stones. Later, the mountain road was completely covered with weeds, combined with the weeds on the cliffs on both sides, and gradually the road was no longer visible. Where.

He slowed down, looked around, broke off a dead branch of wild hemp, held it in his hand, and waved it around, beating the weeds all the way to the mountainside.

Standing on the mountainside, looking back at the road we came from, we saw that it was once again covered with weeds.

It seems that in order to come up, we must first get rid of these weeds.

Li Muyang came here to see this peach grove. He planned to contract the thirty acres of peach grove as the first step.

Planting an orchard is no different than other things, you can spread your stall very big in one go.

In the final analysis, orchard management is still an individual job and requires people to do it bit by bit.

Li Muyang has just started planning and has no helpers yet. He can take care of thirty acres of orchards by himself, which is already good.

Maybe we need to find other helpers.

The peach trees on Dongfeng are all early-maturing varieties. At this time, most of the peach blossoms have fallen, leaving only the full leaves of the trees.

It was getting dark.

Li Muyang turned on the flashlight and carefully inspected the peach blossom receptacles. Sure enough, there were no surprises. Except for some small peaches on the tops of some peach trees, [-]% of the flowers had withered and nothing had fallen.

Li Muyang smiled.

Along the gaps between the peach trees, I looked at each peach tree carefully, looking at the leaves from time to time, sometimes nodding, sometimes thoughtfully.

In the blink of an eye, two or three hours passed.

"825 trees."

"Among them, there are 817 June Honey trees and 8 Pinellia pinellia trees. Sure enough, they are all early peaches."

"They are all varieties that are not cold-tolerant. Fortunately, they can still be grafted, but the cycle is a bit long."

"Three years? This is a long time. How do you spend the three-year window?"

Li Muyang was thinking while checking the soil on the ground.

The soil here is slightly sandy because it cannot accumulate water all year round. It is possible to plant peach trees, but it is not suitable for the current peach trees.

The earlier the ripening time of peaches, the higher the moisture they need, while some late peaches are much better.

Li Muyang knew about a variety called "October Yellow", which only blooms in July every year. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, other peaches are already on the table, so this peach barely bears fruit.

By October, the first snow of winter has fallen, and the peaches are finally ripe.

Only at this time can you pick it off and eat it.But even at this stage, if it is just picked from the tree, the peach is still hard and cannot be bitten. It has to be covered before eating.

As for the taste, it's definitely on point.

very sweet.

This variety gradually declined in the later period, not because the taste of peaches is not good, but because the natural temperature has increased over the years, and the peach tree variety cannot adapt. The flowering time is getting later and later, and the ripening cycle has become much shorter. The ripening cycle of peaches has become Short, the flesh tastes very hard and is gradually unsuitable for human consumption.

The solution is not that there is no solution, that is to graft this kind of peach tree with varieties that are in the middle of morning and evening, and continue to find more compromise varieties among them, and then gradually popularize them.

However, the cost-effectiveness of this kind of work is relatively low, and not many people are willing to study it.

Most of the early fruits were mainly based on taste, but after a series of cultivation, they gradually broke away from the essence of the fruit, and the cultivation direction changed from delicious to good-looking.

The quality of fruit is no longer measured by taste, but by size, color, and even shape.

Therefore, people generally lament that fruits are becoming less and less delicious, and this is the reason.

There are more than 800 trees in the [-] acres on the east peak of Peach Mountain. If they are all well taken care of, one tree can produce two to three hundred kilograms of peaches...

Considering the environmental impact here, let’s calculate it as the minimum weight of 200 kilograms.

Those 800 trees can produce 16 kilograms of peaches.

According to a 20% loss rate, there are still 13 kilograms.

If you wholesale peaches, the price is between 2 cents and [-] cents per pound. If you calculate it as [-] cents, you can still earn close to [-] yuan.

It seems that the benefits are still considerable.

But in order to achieve this goal, the biggest problem is not to raise the peach trees, but how to resolve the gaps in the growth cycle of the peach trees and how to find sales channels.

Peach trees cannot bear fruit in the first year.

In the second year, only a few dozen fruits can usually be hung, which is very difficult. In order to protect the peach trees, these dozens of fruits will not be saved, but will be removed directly.

In the third year, 100% of the fruits can be harvested, and the output will be more than [-] kilograms.

In the fourth year, the peach tree will reach its peak growth cycle, and its yield will reach its peak. This peak period can last for about seven or eight years, or up to ten years.

When the peach trees are 15 years old, the yield will gradually decrease and the income will weaken. Although they can still bear fruit, they are no longer cost-effective. You can consider replacing new plants or fruit tree varieties.

So, in the first two or even three years, for fruit farmers, they basically had no results but invested a lot of manpower and material resources, pinning their hopes on the future.

Once the peach trees officially bear fruit, everything will be fine.

Basically, as long as you raise it step by step every year, you can continue to receive income. If you raise it well, a peach tree can produce a lot of peaches in one cycle.

After peach production is met, the most difficult thing is how to sell the peaches.

At present, Li Muyang mainly has two ideas: basic wholesale and providing fruit sources for municipal canning companies.

There is no rush for this at the moment. It won’t be too late to wait until it officially bears fruit, that is, two years later.

The moon gradually rose, and Li Muyang's flashlight became weaker and weaker. He took one last look at the dark peach trees, thinking that it was time to go find the village chief.
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The next morning, before dawn, the eldest brother and the second brother's family all came.

Li Xiangqin boiled bean and rice soup and scooped it into bowls in advance. By the time everyone came over, it had already cooled down and was ready to drink directly.

Bean and rice soup is also a porridge that people here often drink.

Yellow rice and various beans are boiled, and it tastes very fragrant. However, the beans need to be soaked in advance. If the beans are not like cowpeas, the soup may not be able to soften the beans.

Experienced cooks will put a little alkaline noodles in when soaking the beans, which can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

After the five people finished eating, they arrived at Xishan without any further delay.

On the way, Li Muyang basically listened to Li Mu's explanation of Li Chengfa's thoughts yesterday, which were no different from what Li Muyang originally thought.

I just want everyone to serve as a labor force for digging Cordyceps.

After digging, they were handed over to Li Tuanjie, the second brother of Li Fafa and the second brother of Li Jianshe.

The purchase price is not based on a pound, but 2 cents per stick.

Now that Cordyceps is in peak season, one kilogram is about 1800 cords, or roughly 2000 cords. If placed in a supply and marketing cooperative, the price is close to 5 cents.

They give 2 cents, which is only 400 yuan per pound, which is more than half the 950 yuan offered by the supply and marketing cooperative.

It's quite dark.

Li Muyang asked everyone to act according to the opinions discussed yesterday.

In addition, he has new ideas.

After the other villagers arrive, prepare to experiment.

Li Jianshe wants to make money from this place, so he can do it himself. If he uses his brain a little bit, he should be able to make a small profit.

After arriving at Xishan, the five people did not delay and quickly started digging grass.

Now they are all skilled veterans, and when they encounter the peak season of cordyceps, they will naturally gain a lot.

It was about ten o'clock, and everyone was almost filling a can. Only then did the sharp-eyed Li Muyang realize that Li Tuanjie was coming down the mountain with a large group of people.

"They're here. We'll rest here later. If you ask, pretend like we just arrived."

Li Muyang smiled and gave instructions to everyone.

Everyone nodded in understanding.

"Also, they will definitely teach us how to dig later. We also need to pretend to be a little bit more like them. It's better to be clumsy and don't let them see that we are actually good at digging."

"It's… okay."

Li Mutian is a loyal and honest man, so it's a bit embarrassing to ask him to pretend to do anything.

"Oh, don't say anything later, just follow me and I will deal with them."

Milan Lan muttered angrily.

"it is good."

Li Mutian honestly followed his wife.

Zhao Yali and Li Mudi were more lively and understood what Li Muyang meant.

"I have a question, Lao Wu..." Li Mudi said suddenly.

"What?"

"Didn't you let us keep pretending that we dug up very few cordyceps? What if they are unhappy and say that we dug up too little?"

"Haha, isn't that good?" Li Muyang laughed, "They won't say that even if we give them a small amount, we still get a part of it. If they don't like it, then we just don't give it to them, and their losses won't be greater. "

"Then what if they simply don't let us come?"

"How is that possible? This Xishan doesn't belong to them, and it doesn't even belong to our Qingcheng County, Qingquan Town."

Li Muyang smiled lightly and said: "This is someone else's territory. If he can come, of course we can come. We used to pretend we didn't know, but now it's the location they told us. We can't tie our feet."

He turned around and looked at the crowd getting closer, and said with a smile: "So no matter what we do, they won't say anything..."

"At least, not on the surface."

(End of this chapter)