Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 137: Useless, but very happy

Li Muyang had plans for Thirty Acres of Taoshan.

If he has no financial pressure and is just playing for fun, he can slow down the pace, adjust the peach tree varieties step by step, and finally cultivate the most delicious peaches with good quality.

But reality does not allow him to do that.

The growth cycle of trees is too long.

It takes almost three years to cultivate each generation of peaches before you can see any trace of the peaches.

To determine the harvest, fruit-bearing rate, and fruit-bearing rate the following year, it will take longer.

Three tossing and two tossing, I am afraid that within three to five years, there will be no benefit, and it can only be consumed unilaterally.

Li Muyang planned to move half and leave half.

Nowadays, the peach trees in Taoshan are all early peach trees. They bloom in about April and can sell their fruits in June.

This kind of peach mainly eats a green peach, which is very crisp and does not need to wait until it is completely ripe.

Peaches are also relatively small.

If it is completely ripe, the peach will fall on its own, and the taste will not be as good as when it is tender.

Speaking of which, people eat fresh food.

In early June, most peaches have just begun to bear fruit, or they are still small green peaches.

The peaches sold in the market are naturally rare.

Li Muyang feels that this early peach is also a good profitable variety and is worth keeping.

And this kind of peach is a variety that can see benefits immediately.

Make good adjustments in the second half of today, and the tree will be ready. It will bloom next spring and bear fruit in early summer.

Regardless of the amount of production in the first year, at least he can get some income to fill some gaps in his previous lack of income.

For this early peach, he planned to save half of the land, about fifteen acres, with three to four hundred peach trees.

He will divide the remaining fifteen acres into several different areas and try to graft different peach tree varieties.

In his previous life, he did not personally participate in the improvement of peach tree varieties in Momoyama. In the later period, peach tree species were planted in a mess, one after another, and with the addition of big and small years, it was difficult to distinguish which peach tree varieties were more suitable for planting here.

We can only roughly guess.

Then try them separately.

Currently, in the first wave, three different peach trees are grafted to see the survival rate and growth trend next year.

If it's good, keep cultivating it, if it's not good, change the variety.

The so-called ten-year tree.

It is particularly appropriate to place it on the peach tree.

A peach tree sprouts in one year, produces leaves in two years, flowers and bears small fruits in three years, and [-]% of the fruits can be harvested in the fourth year.

It takes three years to observe the varieties of peach trees in one generation.

Momoyama at night is actually a little scary.

That is to say, Li Muyang is an expert in art and has the courage to work here because he has Xiao Xingfu's warning.

Most people don’t really dare to come.

Li Muyang heard that there were wild animals in Yangzi Mountain near Ziwu Ridge, that is, in the mountains near Wang Tianxiao's village.

If they are not skilled hunters, most people would not dare to enter the mountains during the day, let alone at night.

It is said that during the season when food is scarce, jackals will venture from Mengbaling further west, and there are also legends such as wild boars and leopards.

Li Muyang didn't know whether it was true or not.

This is how people in the countryside talk. They often like to magnify their speech. A small ant can be said to be an elephant.

Relatively speaking, Taoshan is much safer here.

The mountain peaks are low-lying and surrounded by people, so wild animals generally do not approach.

The only things that can be encountered in the mountains are some ferrets such as weasels, and at most a few small foxes and squirrels are occasionally seen.

The most common ones are pheasants and hares, as well as their natural enemies, snakes.

It's just that most of the snakes here are vegetable snakes, which are basically not poisonous. Even if they get wrapped around a person's ankle, just grab them within seven inches and throw them out.

Li Muyang also heard that people in other places eat snakes, but people here don't eat them.

They believe that snakes are wild spirits in the mountains. If you eat them, you will have a headache and your family will suffer.

Therefore, if you go walking in the mountains during the summer and autumn seasons when vegetation is flourishing, you will basically bring a stick with you to drive away snakes while walking.

Sometimes snakes will come into people's yards. Instead of beating the snakes to death, they take the snakes outside with a shovel and release them.

"click~"

"click~"

On the night of the 23rd of the lunar calendar, there was basically no shadow of the moon, and it was actually quite dark in the mountains.

Fortunately, Li Muyang's eyesight was slightly better than that of ordinary people. Although he couldn't see anything clearly, he still had no problem distinguishing the top and side branches of the tree.

He held tree shears in one hand and a handsaw in the other.

Generally, the branches around the main pole will be repaired first, and then the top will be cut off with a hand saw.

If the branches are not pruned, sometimes it is difficult to tell which end to cut.

Many trees have grown out of trees because they have not been repaired.

Moreover, each tree head is about the same thickness and size. At this time, you need to make a judgment and saw off the most prosperous one to ensure that the remaining one can hang down.

This is also a little trick for tree pruning.

Tree shears are a type of scissors specially used to cut trees. They are larger and much thicker than ordinary scissors.

The scissor blades are about as thick as a dagger and very sharp.

Branches with a diameter of one centimeter can be easily cut.

Therefore, it is also a very dangerous tool and is usually locked up to prevent children from playing with it.

It's easy to accidentally cut off your fingers.

The night was getting deeper and deeper.

There were more and more branches on the ground. Li Muyang finished pruning another tree and stood on the branch. A gust of wind happened to blow over, making it cool. He simply stood on the branch with his hands spread out and fully embraced the night breeze. .

The next moment, his fear of heights taught him.

I felt dizzy and my legs felt a little weak, so I quickly got down from the tree.

When he got home, he counted fifteen trees in three hours.

This speed is a bit slow.

He had to cut off at least about 300 trees, 15 trees a night. Just cutting off the tree heads would take him more than 20 days.

In 20 days, it will be June on the lunar calendar. The weather is too hot and it is no longer suitable for grafting. The next wave will have to wait until the end of July on the lunar calendar.

A good time has been missed.

It seems that we need to speed up. After the Cordyceps is over, we can quickly get into full-day work.

If it doesn't work, ask your brothers for help.

It's important to be in a hurry.

"go home!"

He waved and shouted, and Little Happiness sprang out from the depths of the woods and braked suddenly beside Li Muyang, kicking up countless dust.

Not knowing what they were playing, they excitedly circled Li Muyang.

Li Muyang saw its excited look and remembered that people in Yangziling raised dogs, and many of them could eventually be used as hunting dogs.

But looking at my dog, its legs and feet are inconvenient. It runs like a broken car that has not been calibrated. It is bumpy and bumpy. It still likes to run around. If it really goes to that kind of mountain, it will probably be picked up by a wild beast at any time. Walk.

"Haha~, little happiness, what do you think I will do by raising you?"

The dog's eyes were bright under the illumination of the flashlight. It couldn't understand Li Muyang's words and kept wagging its tail at him, looking very excited.

Li Muyang bent down and patted its head.

"It's useless, it's useless, but...it's quite happy. You are our little happiness."

"Wang!"

Little Happiness still understands its name and becomes happier. "Lead the way!"

Li Muyang gave an order, and the dog let loose and ran forward.

The limping look is both funny and hilarious.

Li Muyang couldn't help but grin.
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"Qinqin, are you guys going to the market?"

Early in the morning, after Li Muyang finished washing, he pushed out his bicycle with several snakeskin bags tied behind it.

His task today is difficult.

Li Xiangqin was teasing Nuan Nuan and shook her head, "I'm not going, brother, I don't have anything to buy. I just went there last episode and I bought everything I needed to buy."

"Okay, then I'm leaving."

"Go ahead and prepare well. Don't be stingy. Buy some more things for others."

"You don't have to tell me, I definitely know."

Li Muyang smiled.

"Fifth uncle, I also want a lot of things."

It was early in the morning and she was wearing shorts. Li Muyang quickly asked Li Xiangqin to dress her child.

She is a little girl after all, so be careful.

"What do you want Nuannuan?"

Nuan Nuan put on her shorts and ran out. Little Happiness, who was taking a nap in the doghouse, also followed her and circled around Nuan Nuan.

"Candied haws."

"You should eat less candied haws. Look at your teeth. If you eat it again, how can you eat after pouring it?"

"What did uncle say I wanted?"

"I do not know."

"I want a small kite, I want to fly a kite."

Li Muyang smiled and said, "Okay, then listen to your mother today and your uncle will bring you a kite when he comes back."

"Okay, okay, kite, I want a kite."

Nuannuan pulled her little bamboo horse from under the eaves and started riding it around in circles.

Li Muyang got into the car and headed towards Qingquan Town.

I won’t sell Cordyceps to Jiji today, mainly to prepare for tomorrow’s blind date.

Not to mention anything else, the three of them, the father-in-law, mother-in-law and the wife must take care of it.

Fortunately he knew them all well.

Basically, do what you like.

Li Muyang first went to the place where cigarettes were sold and helped his father-in-law buy a large bundle of cigarettes.

Small cigarettes are similar to mohe cigarettes. The smoke smell is very strong, which is difficult for young people to adapt to.

Too much oil content.

Most of these cigarettes are made from old smokers and dried in the back pot, then crushed and added to the pot for smoking.

Not to mention how it feels in the lungs, just the smell of smoke is unbearable.

Li Muyang tried to smoke his eldest brother's pot once before, and almost took the other person away on the spot.

It's really not something ordinary people can endure.

If you look closely at those old cigarette pots, you will see a thick layer of smoke oil deposited inside. Every time you light a cigarette, it is not so much smoking as it is repeatedly lighting the smoke oil and absorbing the burning smell.

My father-in-law doesn't drink or play cards, so he just smokes this small cigarette.

As long as the cigarette contributes to him, everything is easy to say. He may be immersed in the longing to try new cigarettes throughout the blind date.

Just like if you are worried about a child talking nonsense, give him a candy to stuff his mouth.

After putting the cigarette in the snakeskin bag and tying it up, Li Muyang came to the tea shop.

If smoking is the daily life of the father-in-law, then drinking tea is the life of the mother-in-law.

My mother-in-law is a special "fairy".

It doesn't mean that she is cunning and cunning and likes to act like a monster.

The dialect of goblin in Qingcheng means "exaggeration".

No matter what she does, she is very exaggerated. She can always use some special angles to make you feel that if you don't do this thing, the sky will fall.

Take drinking tea for example.

My mother-in-law always feels that tea is her life.

It doesn't matter if she has one or two meals, or even if she doesn't eat for a day or two, she can tolerate it.

Having experienced the old times and the difficult times of eating for several years, she is really tolerant of eating.

But I absolutely cannot do it without drinking tea.

He wakes up every morning and does nothing but drink a cup of strong tea first.

The tea leaves had to be filled two-thirds of the cup, so that she could almost only see the tea leaves and not the tea water, so that she could drink it happily.

She has the habit of going to bed at noon, and she also drinks a cup of strong tea before going to bed.

It is said that tea can relieve fatigue, but in her case, it has no effect at all. On the contrary, it makes her feel uncomfortable if she doesn't drink it.

The same goes for before going to bed at night.

These three cups of tea were like a scale, measuring her hard-working day.

Another characteristic of my mother-in-law’s tea drinking is that she doesn’t choose tea leaves.

No matter how expensive the tea is, she doesn't think it's too expensive, and no matter how cheap the tea is, she doesn't think it's cheap, as long as it's tea.

Over the years, what she drank most was loose tea sold in the market. Now it only costs 90 cents per catty. By the late [-]s, it had risen to two yuan per catty.

She didn’t have much money anyway, her children had no future, and there was no rich person to help her buy something better.

When her grandchildren were old enough to make money, she died again.

Li Muyang didn't choose a good one, so he bought ten kilograms of tea that his mother-in-law especially liked to drink, which was a big bag.

Let my mother-in-law drink tea completely freely.

After buying tea, I stopped by the supply and marketing cooperative nearby and bought two packs of soy milk powder, which my mother-in-law also likes to drink.

She mainly likes the sweet taste of soy milk powder.

Later, the juniors gave her milk, but she couldn't drink it.

Now that he has arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, after Li Muyang bought the milk powder, he also bought some candies for the children there. Distributing candies to the children is a good way to get closer to adults and has been tried and true.

After leaving the supply and marketing cooperative, we went straight to Xinhua Bookstore on North Street.

I bought my wife a hardcover set of four major classics, as well as a bound volume of readers’ books from last year.

I wanted to buy Legends of Modern and Ancient Times, but the bookstore was temporarily out of stock, so I had no choice but to give up.

When my wife was young, she was considered a semi-artistic young man, and she loved reading. Unlike Li Muyang, who couldn't read a few words.

There is nothing wrong with buying books for your wife.

She will be very happy.

After putting everything in bags, Li Muyang returned to Nanjiekou and prepared to buy some gift boxes. However, there were no decent gift boxes in this era. In the end, he bought a box of cans, a box of soft cakes and some Seasonal fruits.

He bought something based on his experience of visiting elders in later generations. In fact, in this era, many people came to propose marriage, and they just bought a pack of biscuits and a can of cans to bring with them as a token.

If you spot the right person, there will naturally be betrothal gifts and so on.

If he doesn't like it, the man won't lose.

Otherwise, if you date a few girls, just giving them things will make them poor.

There is a small alley near the intersection of South Street and the west. If you keep walking in it, you will walk out of the street and onto the main road.

Go west for another seven or eight miles and you will come to Qingquan Nursery.

This nursery belongs to Ziwuling and is one of the nurseries affiliated with the forest farm. The tree species cultivated in it are basically all kinds of fruit trees.

(End of this chapter)