kingnovel Chapter 794 Various Fruits
Chapter 794 Various Fruits
It's inevitable to feel lonely. Now that Zhou Guo has come back and is chattering non-stop, I feel that sometimes talking a lot is good. The room becomes so lively!
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Master, you should come with me next time I go out. The farms outside are getting better and better. I have people digging ponds and raising crabs next year. Fruit trees have been planted on the hills. The cherry seedlings that were transported here have been planted. I also spent a lot of money to buy apple trees that will bear fruit in two years.
In a few years, the hills above the village will be different. In spring, the hills will be covered with flowers, and in autumn, the hills will be filled with fruits! You can go there for a few days, I guarantee you will have fun.”
After hearing this, not only the old man was looking forward to it, but the whole family was looking forward to it.
They all said, "I want to go too. I want to take a look too."
Zhou Guo waved his hand, "Not yet. The manor is not built yet. There are only mud and thatched houses, and there are not many of them. You can't live there when you go there. Wait until I spend some money to build a good manor. When you have a place to live, and the fruit trees can bear fruit, our family can go there every year to live."
There are four prefectures and villages everywhere, and you can stay there for some time.
The old man readily agreed.
Li said, "We are not pampered people. A few years ago, we were just like everyone else, fleeing with no money. There is no reason for us to be so particular now that we have money. What's wrong with a mud and thatched house? It's not like we haven't lived there before. When we were fleeing, let alone a house, a cave to shelter from the wind was good enough."
Zhou Mai said: "I don't care about these things, as long as I have a place to live and enough food to eat, I have never seen what the fruits on the mountain look like, I want to go and see."
Who else in the family has seen it except the old man?
There are cherries all over the mountain. They all laugh out loud just thinking about the scene. They can reach them just by standing on the ground and stretching out their hands. They are so tempting in red!
Zhou Guo pondered and said, "Let's wait a little longer. The village is in a mess right now. Let's wait until next year. Next year, the whole family can go there to play for a few days."
The farm has not been completed yet and is in a mess. She is busy digging ponds, opening mountains, planting fruit trees, and managing rice fields all day long. She has not even had time to repair the house.
After all, the family is different now, and it would be bad if someone with ulterior motives disturbed it.
Li said, "It doesn't matter. We can wait. We will go when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom on the hills."
Zhou Mai smiled and said, "Mom, those cherry seedlings are so small. It will take many years for them to bloom all over the hill."
Li said, "Then I can wait."
Zhou Mi said: "Actually, they are not small. These cherry seedlings grew from a pit to this size. It's very fast. The pits we buried when we were young either didn't grow or didn't grow big."
Zhou Gu nodded, "Yes, how many cores did we bury when we were in the village?"
When Zhou Guo thought of cherry seedlings, she couldn't help but think of Baoyue Tower. She had asked Manager Yang to find some cherry seedlings for her, but several years had passed and there was still no news.
Even a wealthy shopkeeper like Baoyue Tower can't find the seedlings. It seems that these seedlings are really hard to buy.
I asked everyone, "What other fruits do you want to eat? Anyway, the hills are big enough, I'll have people plant more varieties."
Zhou Su's eyes lit up, "I want to eat pears."
The Zhao family sent pears to Zhou Su’s home every year. Their pears were big, sweet and juicy, and Zhou Su loved them the most.
Zhou Guo nodded, "That's easy. I'll go to his house and buy a few trees. I'll plant some in front of and behind the house, and also on the hilltops."
Li Lai said, "I want to eat dates."
This is easier.
Zhou Guo said, "There are many dates in the north."
Zhou Mai thought for a moment and said, "I would like to grow grapes."
"Grapes?" The family exclaimed in surprise. This thing is almost as precious as cherries.
Zhou Guo nodded hesitantly, "I'll go find it."
Whether you can find it or not is another matter.
Zhou Mi wants to eat peaches.
The old man missed the big pomegranates. "When they are ripe, they are big and red. When you break open the peel, there are full of red fruit seeds inside. Each one is very sweet. You can hold one and eat it for half a day."
No one in the family had eaten it except Zhou Guo.
Li said, "Is there such a fruit in the world? I have never seen it before."
Zhou Mai said: "I have only read in books that pomegranates represent fertility and good fortune. I guess the pomegranates filled with fruit also represent fertility and good fortune."
Zhou Guo waved his hand and said, "I'll send someone to look for it. It can be grown in the east and west, north and south, so it must be easy to find."
Wu Ya didn't know what she wanted to eat, so she smiled and said, "There are so many. I like them all."
The main reason is that she couldn't explain it even if she was asked. She had only eaten wild fruits and walnuts and chestnuts from the mountains since she was a child. She only ate the others after she came to the Zhou family.
Zhou Gu nodded, "I don't know what to eat either."
Zhou Guo finally looked at Li, "Mom, what do you want to eat?"
Li recalled: "When I was a child, I occasionally ate a kind of fruit. The fruit was yellow and round. When you peeled off the outer skin, the inside was like...like...like garlic cloves, one clove after another, very sweet and delicious!"
"Huh?" The family looked at each other, "What kind of fruit is this?"
Zhou Guo said, "Mother, you must be talking about oranges. Oranges are like garlic, right, Master?"
The old man nodded, "But I've only seen this thing in the south, and I don't know if it grows well in the north."
Zhou Guo said: "It doesn't matter, I will move to Huaiyang. The climate in Huaiyang is very different from Yunzhou, but it is somewhat similar to the south. I think it should grow well."
He said to Li: "But mother, this thing may not be available in the north. It will probably take several years to find it."
Li smiled and said, "I just said that. You can take your time to figure it out."
That was the best thing she had ever eaten as a child. Over the years, she has never forgotten it and it has become a memory.
Zhou Guo wrote down these things one by one. The hills of several farms were big, but even if they were not big, it didn't matter. At most he could just buy another hill nearby.
If there is no land, is there any way there will be no mountains?
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The rice in the field has turned golden yellow. All the rice from other families in the village has been harvested, leaving only our own.
Since Zhou Guo didn't come back, Li didn't dare to take charge of the collection, for fear that something bad would happen.
After dinner, she went to the fields. The crabs in the fields had been moved and the water had been drained.
The next day, she went for a walk around the farm.
Now, there are no more people left on the farm except some women and children. After the autumn harvest, they were all transferred out.
Song County needs to dig ditches and build water conservancy projects, while several other places need to dig ponds and open up mountains. There is a lot to do.
They will be brought back only when the strain is planted.
There are not many people on the farm now, but there are still people harvesting rice.
The half-grown children also went to the fields. Dozens of people stood in a row on the twenty-mu field. Zhou Guo instructed, "It's a little late to harvest now. Be careful when harvesting to avoid the grains falling."