kingnovel Chapter 1099 Grafting
Chapter 1099 Grafting
Most of the people in the village went to collect grain, while some were in the mountains, digging wild cherry trees.
In the past few days, we have dug up hundreds of roots, neither big nor small, and all of them have borne fruit.
Zhou Guo didn't have time to look at it carefully, so he said to the village head: "Call all the people in the village who are good at taking care of fruit trees. I want to teach them something."
Soon, three people came. They were all farmhands on the farm.
Zhou Guo didn't waste any words and said, "I called everyone here today to teach you how to graft. As you know, the cherry seedlings on our farm are still small. It will take many years for them to grow big enough to bear many fruits!
In order to make these fruits bear fruit in large quantities next year or the year after, we are grafting them today. We are using wild cherry seedlings dug up from the mountains. They are already big, and the small ones are as thick as a wrist. If some of the big ones can survive, they will bear fruit next year without any accidents. "
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. It was the first time they had heard of grafting and they didn't understand it at all. It seemed like a fairy tale.
Zhou Guo asked, "Has any of you done this before?"
Several people were silent and did not dare to speak.
No one.
Zhou Guo rolled up his sleeves and said, "Okay, since you don't know how to do it, I'll teach you. Watch carefully. If you learn this well, you can be considered to have learned a skill."
Everyone gathered around and cheered. They must learn such an amazing thing.
If you can learn this, won't it be more useful in the future?
Zhou Guo got up his patience and started to operate.
Everyone watched intently until they saw her stick a branch cut from the orchard onto the peeled wild cherry tree trunk. Their eyes widened in surprise. What was this function? They had never seen it before.
I didn't dare to ask, I just watched in silence.
Even the village head was fascinated by it.
After Zhou Guo received one, he asked several people, "Did you see it clearly?"
Several people remained silent.
Zhou Guo was helpless, "Did you see it clearly? If not, I will teach you again. If you understand it, I won't teach you anymore."
As a result, two people said no and one said yes.
Zhou Guo taught it again, explaining as he taught, and finally asked a few people to find a tree trunk and try it directly.
Anyway, it's wild and there's plenty of it.
The three people began to try with trepidation.
After this attempt, she found that the person who said he could do it at the beginning was not bragging, but really could do it. Although he was not very skilled, at least he did not make any mistakes. She couldn't help but feel relieved. Even if she was not there, there would be no problem in grafting the cherry seedlings this year.
The other two were hesitant to do it, so Zhou Guo had to remind them. Fortunately, it was completed without any danger in the end. Although they didn't know whether it could survive, at least it was connected.
She breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the man and said, "I'll leave this to you. The people digging wild cherry seedlings in the mountains can't dig anymore after the winter freezes. We should be able to dig quite a lot these days. You have to lead them to graft all these wild seedlings onto the branches on our farm. Don't leave any of them behind."
"Yes." The man hesitated and asked again: "But what if I can't survive?"
If they are all dead, not a single one alive, won't the blame be put on him, right?
Yes, the other two also looked at her. What if she couldn't survive?
Zhou Guo frowned, "Now is not the time to say that you can't live. You're going to mess things up before you even start. What do I need you for? Since it can't be done anyway, I might as well just change people, right?"
What she hates most is people saying things can’t be done before they even start. What’s wrong with that?
It's not a big deal.
The three of them didn't dare to say that it couldn't be done, and just said, "Yes, we will do it well."
She said, "Whether you do it or not, you have to do it first. You three are the best at growing fruit trees on this farm. If you can't do it, I believe no one else on this farm can do it."
After looking at the faces of the three people, he finally said, "Let's take a step back. Even if you try your best and many people die, there is nothing we can do about it. We can just come back next year. There is no need to be discouraged."
If it doesn't work once, then try it twice. If it doesn't work twice, then try it three times. She keeps trying different methods. She doesn't believe that it is impossible to graft the fruit.
After hearing her words, the three people went to work happily.
With an employer to back them up, what are they afraid of?
Just do it boldly!
The village head was also an expert in growing fruits. He asked Zhou Guo, "Boss, can this fruit really be grown this way? In previous years, I only knew that I had to prune the branches. Can I graft from one variety to another?"
Zhou Guo said: "Of course, I also read it from a book. I don't know if it will work yet. You have to take good care of them in winter. Remember to keep these fruit trees warm. If they really freeze to death, it will be quite troublesome."
Next year I will have to spend a lot of effort to search the mountains for wild cherries.
The village head nodded repeatedly and said admiringly: "I didn't expect this book to talk about these things. It turns out that knowing how to read is good. You can learn everything."
Zhou Guo stayed in Chengding for two days and then rushed back to Yunzhou.
All the stewards, big and small, have arrived.
Except for Lai Zi Tou and others who went south, as well as Quan Zi and others who could not return, all those who were in the north have arrived.
No one knew what happened yet.
Zhou Guo looked at the people in the room. There was not one old person. They were all young, vigorous and energetic, and they could still work for many, many more years.
She seemed to be able to imagine that many, many years later, when everyone was old and had gray hair, they would still sit in the house like this, talking about the past year and looking forward to the new year...
Erpang reminded everyone, and everyone in the room turned around at the same time.
When they saw Zhou Guo, they all stood up with smiles on their faces.
"master!"
"master!"
……
Zhou Guo walked in with a smile, "Everyone take a seat."
She walked to the head and sat down, saying, "The reason why I called you all here so urgently is because of something special. Do you remember that a few years ago, the front line asked for a million shi of grain from our family?"
Everyone remembers it.
Zhou Guo said: "It's the same this time. The government wants to dispatch 1.5 million dan of grain from us to the south and transport it to the front line."
As soon as these words were spoken, there was an uproar.
"What, why do you want our food again?"
"One million and a half shi is not a small amount!"
"How much food do we have left? If we give this away, will the remaining food be enough to last until next autumn? Now we not only have the north, but also the South River and the south."
This food has to feed many, many people.
Hu Zi said, "Okay, stop talking and listen to what the master says."
The crowd fell silent.
Zhou Guo said: "I have already agreed to go out. After all, we are one with the Xu family army. If it weren't for the Xu family army, we probably wouldn't have left so quickly. If the Xu family army is doing well, we will be better too."