Chapter 160 Abandoned Ginseng
Zhou Anhe and others went up the mountain to work for a day, but they were tired and hungry. They didn't mean they were eating voraciously, but they were almost done. They finished their meal soon.
After dinner, Zhou Anhe was not idle either and had to prepare things for work in the fields. Han Caiying took out all the dirty clothes to wash.
Zhou Tiantian went home and was busy cooking, but she had not done her homework yet, so she went back to the house to do her homework.
As I was writing, I heard something outside, "Little sister, brother-in-law, are you back?" I knew as soon as I heard the voice, I knew that my aunt Liu was coming.
When Han Caiying heard the movement, she hurried out and saw that it was her mother, Mrs. Han, who was leading three wives to come over.
"Mom, sister-in-law, are you?" It was late at night, my mother and sister-in-law came over. Is there something wrong?
"When you enter the house, you go into the house and talk." No matter what you come, you can't stand in the yard and talk. Han Caiying quickly called everyone into the house.
Old Mrs. Han and Liu's sister-in-law followed into the house and sat down, then smiled and said, "It's nothing, I'm just here to discuss something with you.
That's right. Didn't our family book a ginseng site this year? Last year, more than 10,000 meter-long sticks were set up in the garden, and the empty space was idle.
I don’t care about those open spaces, your dad asked the second child to send a message back to ask if our family wants to go up and plant some land.”
"Our family has been working on the sticks over the years, and we have thrown away the same job of farming. What can we plant in the ginseng field? How to plant it, my family is a little confused.
I came here to ask you and Anhe, if you want to go up and farm together with us? There are a lot of land, and we can’t grow it ourselves.”
It takes three years to plant ginseng in the ginseng field. After three years, this land will no longer be used and can only be replanted.
In the past few years, the saplings were very small and did not affect the crops, so Mr. Han had the idea of planting something.
Ten thousand feet of ginseng soil is almost 150 acres. How could the Han family be able to grow so much? They just wanted to find Zhou Anhe and wait for some crops to harvest in autumn. Isn’t that good?
When Han Caiying and Zhou Anhe heard this, they were naturally very happy. They only had five acres of land in their family, of which only Liu Zonglin's two acres were considered first-class places. The old lady's gourd and the Xitou paddy fields were second-class places.
Especially paddy fields, they used to be covered with water, and the soil was cold, and they didn’t farm much, and the yield was low. The production of these acres of land was really not much.
The ginseng land is different, the soil is fertile and soft, so it is all good land.
Of course, it is not easy to grow crops in ginseng land. Generally speaking, growing soybeans, potatoes, and sweet potatoes are very good, with high yields.
Especially potatoes and sweet potatoes, which are big and sandy, are very delicious, but they are just as good as growing corn, sorghum, and they can also make money anyway.
No matter what you plant, what if you have done this hundred and fifty acres of land, you can harvest a lot of food by autumn. What a great thing?
"Okay, then what else can't be done? We want to have land planting.
Mom, this kind of soil with ginseng is the best planting soybeans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc. I think it is worse than us.
Potatoes and sweet potatoes are easy to play with. When autumn begins, we can’t eat them at home, so we can sell them on the market.
Needless to say, we can give some bean sprouts to the market in winter, and we can earn 1,800 yuan in winter. Last year, the Chinese New Year was only a few days, so we earned 1,500 yuan. How great is it?"
Han Caiying is quick-witted and even if the account is posted at once, it is best to plant soybeans, sweet potatoes, and potatoes for money.
Isn’t it good to buy rice and white flour when you have money? You still have to plant corn and sorghum?
"If you want to tell me, you should have more soybeans. One can sell raw bean sprouts, and the other can also be used for oil.
The remaining bean cakes left over from the oil were crushed, and the fertilizer was fermented in spring, whether it was base fertilizer or top dressing, it was very good to use in the ginseng field. The long slurry gas of the rods was enough to press the scale, and it was not even hooked when making the goods.
Needless to say, it is better than anything else to produce three or five kilograms of hammers on the other end, Zhou Anhe also said happily.
The Zhou family is a local household in Donggang. It has been a long time since the ginseng household and is very good at growing ginseng.
When there was no commune before, Mr. Zhou did this for growing ginseng, using bean cake top dressing to make a lot of money.
But later, the commune became publicly owned, so how to plant it depends on the arrangements of the leaders. Besides, the commune had to hand over soybeans to the export at that time, so where was the remaining one left for ginseng to be covered with top dressing?
So the Zhou family's method that has been passed down for several generations has no use. Now, when Zhou Anhe heard that there is a place to farm, he remembered this matter and felt that it was a good thing that could be killed in one fell swoop.
"Oh, listen quickly, how can we understand these? If I hadn't come over to tell your sister and husband, how could we know these things?" Old Mrs. Han smiled happily when she heard this.
The Han family used to run an escort agency, but later they arrived in Donggang. They mainly guarded the ginseng garden for the Dazan households. Naturally, they were not as experienced as the Zhou family in terms of ginseng cultivation.
Just like the tips of top dressing for bean cakes, the Han family really doesn’t know that Old Mrs. Han has never heard of it before.
"I didn't come tonight in vain, and I learned another trick. In this way, as you said, we have a variety of soybeans, potatoes and sweet potatoes.
These days, you have some effort to help you arrange the program and buy more potatoes, sweet potato seeds and soybean seeds.
We are ready, we will go up the mountain together during the May Day holiday. Everyone started farming and tried to finish it early.”
Old Mrs. Han made this arrangement mainly because the May Day students all had three days off, so they could just let these children go up the mountain to help.
In three days, you can always grab most of the remaining ones, just do it slowly.
Old Mrs. Han’s arrangement was quite reasonable, and no one had any other opinions, so the matter was settled.
"Anhe, I have some money, please take it and go and pick up some seeds. We have to plant so many lands. There are not enough seeds, and it would be a pity that those lands are wasted."
Since it was said that it was a partnership between the two, it was natural that Zhou Anhe would pay for the seeds.
Zhou Anhe is better to collect the money given by his mother-in-law? "Mom, no need. When I split the family, I divided a lot of beans. It would be great to pick one of them as bean seeds. If it is not enough, go to Taocheng.
Potatoes are not valuable, sweet potatoes are easier. Doesn’t my cousin’s house live in the big house? Sweet potatoes are planted on the other end, and I will just pick up some sweet potato seedlings in a few days.
Don’t give me money. Over the years, my family has taken care of me a lot and I think about taking care of me everywhere. I have to pay for this little thing. Where do you want me to put my face?" Zhou Anhe smiled and rejected Mrs. Han.
My son-in-law said this, and Old Mrs. Han is not easy to force herself. She will only make up for it in other places if she has the chance in the future.
"Okay, then if you say that, I'll keep it first. Oh, it's not too early, and you're tired enough for a busy day, so let's do it like this, hurry up and rest."
The matter was finished and it was getting late, so Mrs. Han led her daughter-in-law to leave quickly.
Chapter completed!