kingnovel Chapter 862: The little kid can’t eat the first fruit
Chapter 862: The little kid can’t eat the first fruit
Zhou Guo said with a smile: "Zhuangtou, if you want to eat some, go to the mountain and pick some. But don't pick them all, I have to save some to give away."
The village head hesitated and said, "Master, you unmarried children cannot eat this first crop of fruit."
"Why?" Zhou Guo's eyes widened, full of curiosity.
Hu Zi and the others also looked at him, trying to understand why they couldn't eat the first crop of fruit.
The village head said, "The older generation said that if a boy eats the fruit in the first year, there won't be much fruit in the second year. And if a girl eats it, she won't be able to have children in the future."
Zhou Guo: “…”
The apple in his mouth instantly lost its fragrance. "What the hell is this, Zhuangtou? Let's not believe these nonsense. How can it be possible?"
Erpang and the others were about to spit out the fruit in their mouths, but after hearing what Zhuangtou said, they started chewing again, not worried at all.
Hu Zi said, "Master, don't worry. We have done this before. I remember there was a family in our village who lived a good life. One year, they got a few peach saplings from somewhere. The next year, they started to bear fruit, but there were only a few. We stole and ate the fruits before they were ripe. Then in the third year, the trees were so full of fruits that the branches were bent. It was obvious that this story was not credible."
After hearing this, Erpang and the others felt more reassured and ate the food mouthful after mouthful, enjoying it very much.
Zhou Guo swallowed the fruit flesh in his mouth and said, "You're right. How can a mountain of fruit trees stop bearing fruit the second year just because someone ate the fruit they produced the first year? The tree doesn't know who ate it, and it's not a spirit. How can it bear more fruit just because it likes adults and not bear fruit because it doesn't like children?"
This is even less believable than the existence of ghosts.
After eating the fruit, Zhou Guo took a few people away.
First I went to the provincial capital to check the accounts of the grain store and the mountain product store, and then went to Yunzhou, and as usual, I stayed in the provincial capital for a day.
To this day, there is still only one mountain product store in the city.
She looked at the mountain product shop and still felt it was a little small. Unfortunately, there were two shops selling nuts and candies on the left and right, and both were doing good business, so it was impossible for them to give up their space.
The shopkeeper saw her walking in and out, looking at the furnishings in the shop, and couldn't help asking, "Master, do you think there is something wrong and want to change it?"
Zhou Guo said: "No, I want to see if this shop can make some more room."
"Make some more space?" The shopkeeper was stunned.
This shop is not big to begin with, and the mountain products shop business is good. Many customers complain that the place is too small. When there are too many people, there is not even room to turn around. Where can we make room?
"Master, what are you going to do with the space? What are you going to start selling again?"
Zhou Guo shook his head and didn't say anything. He said that the fruits in the mountains would have to wait until next year before they could be sold, and he didn't know what the yield would be like next year.
If there weren't many, there wouldn't be enough to sell in Chengding alone, let alone Yunzhou, which is much richer than Chengding.
Hu Zi and the others knew what she wanted to do. Er Pang also looked at the shop and said, "It's not big enough. It can't accommodate everything."
Hu Zi said, "We have no choice but to put them at the door since there is no room for them. This place is ours too. The fruits won't last long anyway. They will be sold out in a month or two. Putting them at the door is like setting up a stall. It's the best. We don't have to find a store specifically for that."
Zhou Guo nodded, "Maybe this is the only way."
In recent years, the only fruits on the mountain are apples, pomegranates, dates, grapes, oranges and the like. The first batch of fruits will not be produced until at least the year after next. The cherry seedlings are only as tall as her thighs. It is unknown how many years it will take for them to bear fruit.
You can just put it at the door for now.
Several people rode their horses to Song County.
Before I even got there, I was shocked by the scene before me!
I saw that the land in Song County had turned into pieces of red carpet, bright red and dazzling, so brilliant!
Zhou Guo looked at the red fields and was speechless for a long time. They were so beautiful!
Dashu and Xiaoshu said from behind: "It's really beautiful!"
Er Pang said, "Why do these grasses turn red when they get old? Won't they turn yellow? They look really nice, just like leaves dyed red. If they grew on trees, they would definitely look even better."
Hu Zi didn't say anything.
Zhou Guo thought that if this grass was planted on this saline-alkali land, it would attract countless people to visit at this time every year, which would be a scenic spot.
She knew the grass would turn red, but she didn't expect it to look so beautiful when it turned red!
It adds so much color to these few plots of land!
Several people stood on their horses and watched for a long time before entering the village.
The village head was very happy to see Zhou Guo coming. He said, "Boss, you are here. The wormwood has started to change color. According to your instructions, we have cut some every month in the past few months. The livestock on the farm like to eat them. After cutting some, they will grow up one after another. The more we cut, the faster they grow. After autumn, the grass grows slowly, and now it is not growing at all. When do you think we should start turning the soil?"
If the soil is turned over, these alkali plants will have to be pulled out one by one, and this beautiful scene will be gone.
The village head didn't care at all. In his eyes, these things looked nice, but they couldn't fill his stomach and were useless.
Zhou Guo said: "No hurry, we need to dig deep before it freezes."
She took a hoe and dug a handful of soil herself and took a look. She was surprised to find that the salt content in the soil had decreased a lot.
I remember when I first discovered this land, the surface of the land was all white, let alone the inner layer.
She carried a hoe and dug on the land for a whole morning and found that the salinity of the soil was high and low. The lower the soil was, the lower it was than she expected. The only difference from other places was that the grass seeds sown on it were alkali wormwood.
At first I thought it was a coincidence, but after digging in dozens of locations, I found the same thing was true in all of them.
She looked at the alkali plants in silence.
Originally, she only thought that this grass could tolerate salt and alkali, but she didn't expect that it could directly absorb salt. Why didn't she discover it before?
She called the village head over and pointed at the alkali wormwood and asked, "Do livestock like to eat this?"
Zhuangtou said, "I like it very much. What's wrong?"
She said, "Store more of these seeds, and plant the entire field with Artemisia selengensis after the harvest next year."
The village head was shocked. "The whole field is planted with this?"
Zhou Guo didn't explain, he just nodded, "Plant the whole piece of land. If you can get more seeds, get more. I'll take as many as you can."
She has a lot of saline-alkali land, so the amount to be used is not small.
Although Zhuangtou didn't know why, since Zhou Guo said so, he did it.
After lunch, she went to several counties below.
Several plots of land were planted with two crops of grass. She turned over the soil and took a look in the same way. She found that the salt content in the soil of Artemisia selengensis was less without exception, and it was visible to the naked eye.