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Now that he had decided to plant loquats, Luo Meng didn't wait for news from Ma Congrong. He returned from Luo Xingyou's house and took people up the mountain to weed and dig pits that afternoon.

The loquat planting site is chosen outside the valley where bayberry is planted, which is equivalent to the mountainous area at the mouth of the valley. The terrain of this mountainous area is gentle, the soil is relatively fertile, the soil layer is thick, and the drainage is good. Although the temperature in winter may be higher than that in the valley. It is lower, but relatively, the sunshine conditions are better than those in the valley.

With a group of strong laborers, Luo Meng first weeded and then dug a hole, and then filled the hole with base fertilizer.Without herbicides, it would be a huge project to weed this large mountainous area.

Each person in this group carried a hoe, and Romon brought up a cart of empty baskets and poles from the bottom of the mountain, and used the hoe to weed the grass. When encountering stones, he picked them out and threw them into the empty baskets. Transport it to the open space by the creek. Where will Niuwangzhuang use gravel in the future, and then move there.

"I'm talking about Lao Zhou, when the grass is dried out, will it be used to feed the cows or make a fire?" The men talked to Luo Meng while weeding. The work on the Niuwangzhuang has never been light, and the wages are not very high. But the working atmosphere has always been quite good, which is naturally inseparable from the food and accommodation conditions.

"When the time comes, let it dry in the sun, add some cow dung, and burn a few piles of fire dung to save it for future use." Romon bent down and cut a palm-sized stone from the ground, and threw it into the basket with a bang. Answer them with your mouth.

"Burning fire dung?" Some city people don't understand what this means.

"Hey, I can't tell you that. You will understand when it burns in two days." Generally, there are two ways to deal with fertilizers in rural areas. One is to decompose the manure, and the other is to burn dung and start a fire. The dung pile has grass and soil in it, and sometimes some human and animal excrement and urine are piled up. Light a small fire and burn it slowly, simmering for three to five days, and a fire dung pile is considered cooked.

"The burning of fire dung is a technical job. Are we the only ones who can do it?" Bian Dajun on the side spoke up. He didn't mean that he couldn't do it, but that these urban people couldn't do it, and ordinary people in rural areas couldn't do it. As for the dung, isn't it nonsense to ask these city people to do this?

"At the beginning, you should take them with you, and then you will be able to do it later." There are only two and a half people in Niuwangzhuang who can burn fire dung. Needless to say, one is Luo Quangui, and the other is Bian Dajun. The first one is Romon. He is not experienced enough, so he can only be regarded as half.

"Brother Dajun, we will all be taught by you in two days." The city people working in Niuwangzhuang still respect Luo Quangui's army, and they are not good at farming. It was the two of them who taught.

"What's the matter?" Bian Dajun waved his hand, indicating that these are trivial matters, not worth mentioning.

"Then tell us about it first, what's going on with this fire dung?"

"Here's to burning fire dung. The main thing is to see if the fire dung was piled up in front. If it's piled up well..." Bian Dajun was weeding, and the conversation started.

Preparations are being made here, and Ma Congrong over there soon found a batch of good loquat seedlings. It is said that a mountain person in the west of Tongcheng planted them with the seeds of an old loquat tree in his yard, which was also in the mountainous area. After planting for several years, the cold resistance is very good. There are five-year seedlings, six-year seedlings, seven-year seedlings, eight-year, nine-year or even ten-year seedlings, but the quantity is not too much, and the price is higher than the market. .

Luo Meng summed it up, and he wanted more than 600 seven-year-old and eight-year-old seedlings from the other party. If the loquat tree is propagated by seeds, it will grow very slowly. Generally, it will take at least seven or eight years to start to bloom and bear fruit. Batches of seedlings are bought, and if they are well cared for, they will bloom this winter.

The other party is not willing to sell loquat seedlings that are a little older, and the asking price is also high. Luo Meng only needs more than 100 plants, and there are more than 1000 seedlings under seven years old. A total of more than 800 loquat seedlings were needed.

The number of loquat seedlings with less than two thousand plants is far from the tens of thousands of walnuts and chestnuts.However, the suitable mountain lands for growing loquats on this mountain in Luomeng are limited after all, and it is now summer for transplanting, so it takes a lot of work to shade and water them. All my own fruit seedlings are sold.

Within two days, the car delivering the fruit seedlings drove to Niuwangzhuang. The driver was a young man in his twenties, not tall but rather strong.Sitting in the passenger seat was a middle-aged man in his 50s or [-]s. He was not tall and his hair was a little gray, but he looked smarter than ordinary mountain people.

"You guys have done a good job on this mountain." After getting off the car, the middle-aged man said, Luo Meng had heard from Ma Congrong before that this person selling fruit seedlings was named Lu. Lu Laolu, but no matter how Luo Meng sees this person, he doesn't look like a gentle and deceitful herbivore.

"It's okay. It's hot. You've worked hard all the way here. Let's go to the courtyard to cool off first?" Luo Meng had just received their call in advance, and was already waiting at the cowshed.

"No hurry, let's light the fruit seedlings first." Lao Lu said.

"Okay, then let's count the number first." It's understandable for foreigners to come here to sell fruit seedlings, a little wary. These loquat seedlings have been planted for more than ten years, and their family is not very rich. If he was cheated this time, there would be nowhere to cry.

A group of people unloaded the fruit seedlings on the car, opened them separately according to size and age, and then counted the number, which happened to be as many as Romon wanted, not one more or one less.

"Then I'll give you the money now?" This batch of loquat seedlings ranged from dozens of yuan to nearly two hundred. Although the quantity was small, it was not worth the high unit price. The total cost was more than [-]. I knew they would ship it today. Miao came over, and Luo Meng had prepared the money in advance.

"Success." Lao Lu nodded, if he didn't get the money, he couldn't let it go.

After ordering the seedlings and paying the money, it was almost time for lunch. Luo Meng asked them to have lunch before leaving. At first, Lao Lu refused to say no, but was persuaded by everyone later, After hesitating for a moment, he agreed.

At noon this day, Niuwangzhuang ate cold dried cucumber, a small fried pork, a pumpkin porridge, and another person had a slice of watermelon.

The dried cucumber was given by Wu Dongmei last time. I have eaten it twice. This time, it will be gone after eating it. The sun-dried cucumber strips are soaked in water and chopped, mixed with fat chef Hou Jun’s homemade sauce, eaten It does not have a flavor.The meat was brought back with Luo Hongfeng's help, and now she has to buy meat every day, and by the way, she also bought the Wagyu Wangzhuang at home.

Except for Jiweilou, Niuwangzhuang no longer sells watermelons, but the watermelons that are picked every day will be sorted and then put into the refrigerator. Those that are overripe or scratched are not suitable for further processing. It has been refrigerated for a long time, and it is generally consumed at Niuwangzhuang.

"You're welcome, there's not enough rice to make your own, and there's pumpkin porridge over there." Romon greeted them.There are at least dozens of people eating at Niuwang Village every day, and it is easy to even out two extra portions.

"Yeah." Lao Lu took a bite of the rice and nodded, then he asked Luo Meng, "The food here is really good, and your mountain top is also well organized. You contracted this place, right?"

"That's right." Luo Meng picked up a chopstick of dried cucumbers, saying that this food tastes really good, and it's just that the weather is cold and other things are not easy to grow, so it's good to build a few greenhouses to grow cucumbers, and they can't be sold out All of them are sun-dried into cucumbers, which can increase their income.

"How much is your mountain bag?" Although he knew it was a bit abrupt to ask, Lao Lu still couldn't help asking.

"It's about 4 yuan a year." Luo Meng didn't hide it. The other party saw that he was interested in Baoshan. It's good to tell him as a reference. After all, ordinary rural people want to pay for a piece of mountain land by themselves. , is not easy.

"so much?"

"My place is huge. Apart from the nearby slopes, even the deep mountains and old forests above are covered together."

"Oh, that's no wonder."

"Why, you also want buns?"

"If I didn't want to Baoshan, I wouldn't be able to sell these loquat seedlings." Lao Lu didn't hide it this time, and he talked about his own affairs.

Lao Lu's father is a rice noodle maker. He has decades of experience in making rice noodles. Their rice noodles are sold well in villages and towns. There are two brothers in Lao Lu's family. His younger brother moved out more than 20 years ago. He went to work in the city and lived a good life, so he inherited his father's craftsmanship and made rice noodles in the village.

It is reasonable to say that their family has a little savings now, so it is not difficult to move to the town, but they make rice noodles, and they need a large open space every day just to dry the rice noodles. Big, simply lived in the village all the time.

Lao Lu has two children. The eldest son is driving today. His grades have been poor since he was a child. He stopped studying after graduating from junior high school. He helped the family make rice noodles. Two years ago, he was sent to learn how to drive and get a driver's license. He also bought a truck. , I usually help the people in the town to transport things, and when I have nothing to do, I still help the family.

It's been a year since his youngest daughter graduated from high school. That girl didn't know what to think. Her grades were pretty good, but she insisted on refusing to take the college entrance examination, saying that it was useless to go to college and it was just a waste of money.There were quarrels and quarrels at home, and if she didn't go, she just wouldn't go, there was no other way, and in the end I had to let her go.

Just last summer, his daughter set up an online store at home. At the beginning, their family members didn’t support her, saying she was messing around, but later they managed to do well. , it costs more than one yuan per catty, and people are still willing to buy it, saying that it is much more delicious than the ones in the supermarket.

There are also their loquats. Before, Lao Lu took this as a sideline business, and didn't think about how much money he would make. When the loquats in their town were produced, they only cost three to five yuan a catty. Their old loquat trees The raw fruit is good, and if it can be sold for seven or eight yuan, it is considered as high as the sky, but his daughter dragged it to the Internet and sold it for 15 yuan a catty, which is still in short supply.

Once the online shop opened, their family has made a lot more money this year than in previous years, and Lao Lu is also moved. A catty of loquats can sell for more than ten and 20 yuan, so he has a lot of varieties, but their yard is so big , there is not much land, except for growing rice and a little home-grown vegetables, everything else has already been planted with loquat seedlings.

There is a reservoir next to their village, and a large piece of sloping land near the reservoir is deserted. Lao Lu wants to lease this land, then plant some loquat seedlings, and raise a group of ducks by the reservoir. Their online store There are so many things.

Anyway, their family has enough hands, their parents are still alive, the husband and wife are in good health, their children have grown up, and they can all work. This matter, how does Lao Lu think it is appropriate? Much worse.

So this time, when Lao Lu's nephew, who was helping in the kitchen of Tongcheng Jiwei Building, called him and said that someone wanted to buy loquat seedlings, he agreed without much hesitation.

Even if the loquat seedlings in [-] are already able to bloom and bear fruit, there are still very few fruits that can be produced every year, and there are not many at all, and a sapling can be sold for a hundred dollars or tens of dollars. As for the money, why not just sell some saplings first, collect all the saplings, and cover the mountains first.

"These I sold to you are all real seedlings, which are different from the grafted seedlings outside." Lao Lu said to Luo Meng: "In our county, there are people who bought loquat seedlings from me for grafting. He If you buy one seedling from me, you can graft dozens of them. If you think there are too few, follow his example, use the loquat trees that have already produced fruit, and then make another batch of heather saplings, graft them, and soon It can bear fruit, and when I have landed over there, I will prepare a whole batch like this."

"Success, I'll try it when the time comes." More than 1000 plants are indeed a little less.

"However, grafting belongs to grafting. At that time, you have to save a few plants for seeding. Those grafted ones must not be pure seedlings. Isn't it that many people say that seedlings are unstable and prone to mutation? Why, no Is it because the genes are not pure, like the old tree in our yard, I have used its seeds to plant loquat seedlings for decades, but I have never seen what the mutation is like." Lao Lu, who lives in the mountains, is very fond of fruit trees. Planting also has his own set of understandings.

"That's true." Romon smiled. He personally doesn't like the new varieties produced in the laboratory, but considering the market factors, the new varieties naturally have their own advantages.

"Our family's loquat tree is good. You spent 10,000+ flowers well. It's very sunny these days, so you need to pay attention to shade. You can see it when it blooms at the end of October." Lao Lu is obviously interested in his family. The loquat tree is very confident.

"You have experience in planting loquat trees. If you encounter any problems, I will call you."

"Okay, I didn't say anything." Old Lu agreed with a full mouth.

After eating, Lao Lu asked Luo Meng again: "I just saw near your cowshed, that kind of seedlings seem to be hickory seedlings, right?" There are several varieties of fruit seedlings in that piece, and other Lao Lu couldn't tell. Only the hickory seedling was recognized by him, because it looked quite similar to the walnut seedling.

"Ah, there are hickory seedlings." Luo Meng finally understood, this person obviously wanted to go home immediately after pocketing the money, why did he stay for a meal and told himself so much, The co-author came for that seedling field.

"I think those seedlings are growing well. What are the other seedlings?" Lao Lu asked again.

"Miscellaneous, blind planting, I don't know if I can survive." Anyway, hickory nuts and American long hickory nuts are basically fine. The biggest problem is pistachios. This thing is really difficult to grow. From germination to Now, half of them are already dead one after another, so I don't know what will happen in the future?

"Brother, if you get these seedlings ready in the future, can you sell me some of them? The soil and climate conditions in our two places are similar. If you can grow them here, you can live there, and my side is similar." If you really want to buy these fruit seedlings, it will cost a lot of money, and the most fearful thing is that they will not grow well after you buy them back.

"Okay, when it's time to plant it, if there are more, I'll give you some." If these fruit seedlings can be cultivated and popularized by then, it will be a matter of time, but if they can earn some seedling money back, that's the same. not bad.

With Luo Meng's promise, the old Lu father and son went down to Niuwangzhuang with satisfaction.Here, Luo Meng took a kettle and pretended to sprinkle some spiritual spring water on the loquat seedlings placed in the shade. After a while, the sun would be lower, and these loquat seedlings could be moved to the mountains for planting.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Luo Xingyou rode a tricycle to Niuwangzhuang to transport melon seeds and dried pumpkins again, sweating profusely.The tricycle is still the same tricycle as before, but an electric motor is added to it, and it burns diesel, which saves a lot of labor than before.

I don’t know why these two days, the things here in Niuwangzhuang suddenly sell very hot, which makes Luo Xingyou and his wife feel sore every day just writing express orders. The printer I bought before is not a dot matrix printer. , I can’t print the express order, there is really no way, I have to buy another one in a few days.

"Isn't it enough to transport those things this morning?" Luo Meng watched with a smile on his face as Luo Xingyou moved bags of things to the car. These things were sold for money.If the price of honey is reduced, the price will be reduced. The whole Niuwangzhuang is so big, it is definitely not a long-term solution to rely on honey alone. It is a scientific and reasonable way of development to go hand in hand in all aspects.

"Not enough, I just asked a customer..." Luo Xingyou lifted a large basket of dried pumpkins to the back of the tricycle, and snorted, probably because he was very tired.

Romon hurried over to help him move the rest of the things to the car: "What are you asking?"

"Ask her how she knew about our online store." Luo Xingyou stopped to wipe the sweat from his brow.

"Then what did she say?" Luo Meng didn't know Lin Chunyu either, and of course he didn't know that his stuff had been tested several times. He really didn't know why these things suddenly became so popular recently. Know.

"It is said to be a recommendation from a parent-child forum." Luo Xingyou had never been in a forum, so he couldn't figure it out: "You said you just recommended it in the forum, why is it so easy to use?"

"That depends on how big the forum is, and who recommends it. Some people can mix well in the forum, and their influence will be great." When Luo Meng first partnered with someone to set up a factory, They sharpened their heads to pull out the list, and the forum was naturally not ignored by them.

"By the way, the proprietress of the courier company, how has it been these two days?" After the incident last time, Luo Meng called Wei Zhuoyang, and the guy said that he had indeed called their courier service point. , and deeply disliked the courier in their town.

"That's it." Anyway, it's not that good. The proprietress was originally a fiery temper, and she was so angry at the time, but she was forced to suppress her by Romon. How could she feel at ease?

"Aren't you happy?" Romon guessed.

"En." Luo Xingyou nodded.

"Is it for you?" If she is really so arrogant, Romon will set up a service point for another express company in Buffalo Town, and he will still make money by recruiting a few more people, but it will be a little troublesome .

"That's not true." The fat proprietress is actually not a bad person, but she has a hot temper.

"That's fine, you listen to me." Luo Meng said, using a steelyard in the yard, weighed a catty of dried pumpkin and half a catty of black melon seeds, packed them in sealed bags, and handed them to Luo Xingyou, saying: "When you go to deliver the goods later, remember to give her these two things, and say that we have already called and communicated with the customer, and the customer also admitted that he was really serious at the time. Now that I think about it, I feel that I am really wrong. It should be, and then I bought two packs of snacks from our online store and gave them to her to express my apologies."

"...Oh." Luo Xingyou froze for a moment, then nodded immediately, and grinned. You can say that some people have so many twists and turns in their stomachs.

"Remember what to say?" Romon was still a little worried.

"I've written it all down." Luo Xingyou has been communicating with clients a lot recently, and once he understands the twists and turns, it's easy to learn these few words.

"It must be said that the customer gave it to her." Romon explained again.

"Okay, got it." At this moment, Luo Xingyou had to rush home to pack and pack. After answering, he rode a tricycle out of the courtyard.

A few days later, Wei Zhuoyang called again, and Luo Meng told him: "A while ago, you sent a catty of dried pumpkin and half a catty of black melon seeds to the proprietress of the courier company in our town."

"I didn't send it." Wei Zhuoyang said.

"I'll deliver it for you." Romon grinned, who told them that they are still partners now.