Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

Although autumn rain does not affect crops in greenhouses, rainy days are still not conducive to the growth of crops, which are prone to disease and insects.

Grandma Sun looked at the time and became a little anxious. She wished she could go to the fields and help with the work.

The two men calmly got a walk-behind tractor out of the planting basement, installed a suitable front-mounted plow, and plowed the land in one afternoon.

Grandma Sun was stunned. She pointed at the rumbling tractor outside and asked her elder sister, "Are these the two poor little guys you mentioned who have no one to help them in the mountains?"

Old Mrs. Feng was also dumbfounded. She didn't know that her little niece had such a machine. She only knew that there was a handheld harvester. Later, she didn't say much about going to the village to move things. She only said that she found silkworm seeds and mulberry trees.

Even the dragon fruit was something I didn’t know about until later.

Old Mrs. Feng used a skewer to pick up a large piece of dragon fruit and handed it to her younger sister: "We really don't have to worry about it now. Come and eat the fruit."

As for food, during this period, the two old ladies really enjoyed eating dragon fruit.

The several dragon fruit trees planted by Zhao Yeqing in the backyard have now begun to bear fruit.

The earliest batch has been harvested. The flesh is sweet and delicate and is kept in the refrigerator. When you feel craving for it, take one out, peel it and eat it. It can relieve heat, satisfy your cravings and fill your stomach. During the transition from hot summer to autumn, this fruit can also act as an appetite whet when you can't eat.

Dragon fruit is relatively durable in storage, so Zhao Yeqing put a large bag of it in the refrigerator and planned to take it to the city to give as gifts when he sent the old ladies back home after a while.

Now in mid-September, the dragon fruit is still growing and bearing fruit.

The two men had never grown this kind of fruit before, and neither had the two old ladies. Seeing that a batch was eaten and another batch was produced, Zhao Yeqing quickly went to check agricultural books. Could it be that their variety was mutated, or was it some special variety, for it to be so high in yield?

After reading the introduction in the information, everyone realized that this is what dragon fruit is like. It can bloom more than ten times a year and bear fruit more than ten times.

The stems and leaves of pitaya are like those of a cactus, with wavy stripes on the edges. Flowers and fruits will bloom between each undulating 'wave'. You can imagine how many fruits there are. The yield is too scary.

(Pictures here) No wonder a few years ago, before the ground cracked, I saw dragon fruit from Guangxi Province was as cheap as 50 cents or one dollar per pound on the Internet.

Zhao Yeqing also asked the two old ladies whether they should bring some dragon fruit seeds to the city, mainly because he didn't know whether they were already being grown in the city.

Grandma Sun knew the most clearly, and nodded immediately: "It's not that we can't get it in the city. The seeds are easy to get. We can definitely exchange them in the city where they are produced. But no one can imagine that the upper level is still mainly for food. But if you give it to us, the planting department will definitely plant it."

Just like what Zhao Yeqing did on the meadow before, after meeting the initial basic survival needs, people will begin to pursue spiritual and physical enjoyment.

Judging from the thousands of years of civilization of the people of their country, eating delicious food is a double enjoyment for them both spiritually and physically.

No other country loves to eat more and knows how to eat better than them.

"But I probably won't be able to grow many." Grandma Sun wore reading glasses and held the book far away, studying the information about dragon fruit. "It says that as long as there is enough light, this thing will continue to bloom and bear fruit. Light is the key to high yield... But the environment in the city may not be that suitable."

Mu Xi connected his mobile phone to the computer and uploaded the three-dimensional map on the phone. He dragged the interface with the mouse and the enlarged picture was clearly visible. There were several towering mountains surrounding the city.

"That's the reason." Mrs. Feng pointed at the map and said, "Our city is somewhat similar to Chengshi in Sichuan Province. Although it is not as sunken as the basin over there, the surrounding mountains block the sunlight, and the daily sunshine is not very suitable for the growth of dragon fruit."

sunshine?

Zhao Yeqing turned his head slightly to look out the window. The 360-degree scorching sun in the yard made people feel dizzy.

No wonder their dragon fruit grows so well.

Mu Xi, who had been silent, suddenly turned to look at the two old ladies and said, "If we grow dragon fruit on a large scale here, do you think it is feasible?"

"It's feasible in terms of lighting." Old Mrs. Feng and Grandma Sun looked at each other and agreed with each other. Grandma Sun continued, "But it's not feasible in terms of altitude."

The best temperature for growing pitaya is when the average temperature throughout the year is above 18 degrees and the altitude is below 800 meters.

Farming requires not only technical skills, but also the right time, place and people. None of them can be missing.

Zhao Yeqing knew that Mu Xi asked this question because he had suddenly thought of it some time ago and wanted to do something to make a living that would allow them to earn money in the mountains.

She thought about it and asked, "What do you think would be the best thing to plant on this meadow?"

Zhao Yeqing did not hide his secrets and said directly that he wanted to grow something so that he could make some money when the city developed well. When Mrs. Feng lowered her head to think, Grandma Sun next to her said directly: "Why hesitate? Grow cotton."

Mu Xi told Grandma Sun about the situation on the meadow: "We have quite a few rainy seasons here, and the climate and soil conditions are not like those in Xinjiang Province. Can we grow crops well?"

Grandma Sun asked about the rainy season in spring and summer and the situation in autumn. Zhao Yeqing has been taking notes in recent years. In addition to the crop planting situation, weather changes, and how many days the rainy season lasts, he would carefully record them. This way he could let them know whether they need to plant or harvest early next year to avoid the rainy season.

After reading the notebook carefully, Grandma Sun made the decision: "No problem! Let's plant cotton!"

She raised her hand to adjust her reading glasses, pointed to the record of the rainy season and said, "Look, except for the past two years when the climate just started to return to normal, the plum rain season in spring and summer was more frequent. This year, it has actually decreased significantly."

Zhao Yeqing pointed down and said, "What about the autumn rain? There are several of them every year."

"Don't be afraid!" Grandma Sun said, "Xiao Mu just said that your climate and soil here don't look like Xinjiang Province, right? Everyone thinks so. Xinjiang Province's cotton is indeed very good, but not all cotton is grown there. You should know that our country's cotton industry has never been out of the top three in the world."

Being able to rank among the top three in the world, it is conceivable that it cannot rely on the efforts of people in one place alone. The efforts here have nothing to do with the planting area, but are the result of the hard work of agronomists in every place in their research on cotton.

Grandma Sun turned to a blank page in her notebook and drew a long line on it with a pen. “This is the Yangtze River. Cities upstream and downstream are all growing cotton.” She then drew two circles in the upper left and middle. “This is the Nanxiang Basin and Southeast Xinjiang.”

The silver pen tip made a black ink dot on the paper. Grandma Sun's tone was full of nostalgia. "Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, these places have reclaimed large tracts of cotton fields under the leadership. The old leaders also came to inspect and said that we must ensure that more than one billion people in the country can wear warm clothes."