The fairy of space also farms

After dinner, Guo Shanshan and Huang Jie went to take a shower and did not sleep, so they ran to the back mountain to visit. They were shocked when they saw such a large area of ​​the back mountain. It turned out that it was really a farm.

When Guo Shanshan and Huang Jie came out, they smeared thick sunscreen on their faces, arms, and legs, and each wore a parasol, which was completely out of the way.For those students who are busy in the field with bamboo hats, it is simply to sow hatred.

Xu Ning quickly called Guo Shanshan to a halt: "Miss, can you not open an umbrella? Wearing a bamboo hat is also good, I know you are here for a holiday visit, but those children are more delicate than you , didn’t make a sound and worked there, so you want to get rid of my hard-earned labor, don’t you?” Guo Shanshan had to drag Huang Jie back to find two bamboo hats to put on, and went up the back mountain again.

Corn, peanuts, and potatoes are almost harvested, and now the sweet potatoes are the ones that need to be harvested. After harvesting these, the rest are vegetables, melons and fruits, and the busy farming can come to an end for now.As for planting in autumn, Xu Ning is not in a hurry now, let's plant in August and September.Now that the house has been repaired and the sheep pen has been built, all that is left is to buy a car, build roads and decorate the house. He still has a few hundred thousand yuan on hand. He will wait until the fish and shrimp are sold, and the sheep will be sold in winter. , don’t these all come out?

Xu Ning doesn't have particularly big ambitions either, he plans to hire some people to do work in the future, earn a living every year, and he will be very comfortable.At the beginning, when I wanted to contract the back mountain, I just wanted to plant some grass to raise sheep, but I didn't expect to build such a big farm. Of course, every man has ambitions. Seeing such a large wasteland turned into a vegetable garden, Xu Ning felt in his heart It is also a joy and a sense of accomplishment.

Xu Ning was sweating profusely digging sweet potatoes, while Guo Shanshan squatted to help pick up sweet potatoes, while pointing Jiang Shan: "Brother, there are so many things in your house, I think many of them can be sold online. These sweet potatoes can be made into Sweet potato chips, sun-dried sweet potato fries, sweet potato flour, and these potatoes made into potato vermicelli... We can help you promote it, post it on the forum, and build momentum for you. You can also go to Show your face, you are so handsome, if your photos are posted on the Internet, they will definitely become popular."

Xu Ning's eyebrows trembled: "Are you kidding me? You can sell sweet potatoes, but you don't want to show your face. The corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and peanuts I grow here are all feed for my sheep and rats. The quantity may be more. I didn't intend to make a fortune at first, so I just wanted to have a bite of delicious food. If I advertise online, forget it." Xu Ning couldn't help shivering when he thought of the only time he showed his face online.The online store was originally opened on a whim, and Shanshan helped to take orders. Most of the business was her classmate's business, and she didn't make a lot of money. Originally, she planned to promote the brand, but now the things are easy to sell. It doesn't matter if it's open or not, anyway, I don't have time to take care of it.

"Then let me help you enrich your products. Online stores are very profitable now. Your products are so good, so you must not worry about selling them." Guo Shanshan enthusiastically helped to take pictures.

"Whatever, if you can sell it, you can sell it. It doesn't matter if you can't sell it. I can store all these things." Corn, peanuts, potatoes and sweet potatoes can all be stored for a long time, and they are not afraid of spoiling for a while.

Xu Ning removed all the partitions in the old sheep pen, and asked someone to clean up and decorate the sheep pen, vacating one room for raising rats, and leaving three rooms for storage.He also knocked down the toilets and pigpens built by the old shepherd and filled them up, and rebuilt the pigpens and chicken coops. As for the toilets he built there, he kept them as public toilets.

Guo Shanshan helped pick sweet potatoes for a while, and couldn't stand it anymore, so she took Huang Jie to the orchard to look at the fruit trees, trying to find fruit to eat from the fruit trees, but it turned out that there was no fruit.Those peaches and plums that have bloomed are also blooming flowers. In the first year, this situation is too normal. As the saying goes, it takes five years to plant fruit trees with peaches, three apricots and four pears, and the return is relatively slow. The risk of poor harvests and price fluctuations is why people are less willing to invest in orchards.The fruit trees in Xu Ning's family are nourished by the space water. These saplings don't look like trees that have only been planted for a year, and they grow very strong.

The two girls were surprised. Huang Jie said, "Your brother planted so many fruit trees, all in such a large area. Let me see, peaches, plums, pears, grapes, loquats, chestnuts, pomegranates, what are these?" "

Guo Shanshan said: "It should be cherries. My brother said he planted cherries." Both girls studied gardening, and they also dabbled in fruit tree planting.

"The cherries are growing so well here! Is this really a fruit tree that has only been planted for one year? It will definitely bear fruit next year. Your brother is really good at it. When these fruits come out in the future, we will be blessed. "Huang Jie smacked her lips and said.

Guo Shanshan said: "Huang Jie, I don't think I should go to graduate school. After graduation, I will come to work with my brother and eat fruit every day. I think I will die of happiness."

Huang Jie smiled and didn't answer. She wouldn't encourage her friends to do this kind of thing. It takes a lot of courage to go back to her hometown after college to farm the land. If she regrets it in the future, wouldn't she become an accomplice?

The two walked around the orchard, and only found one or two bunches of grapes in the grape field. The grapes were ripe and very sweet and delicious. Unfortunately, the quantity was too small for the two girls to eat.They walked all the way, looking at the alfalfa grass that was full of alfalfa, which was so beautiful. The wind blowing across the grass made waves of flowers, and the two girls screamed and rolled and took pictures in the alfalfa field half a person's height.

Alfalfa successfully took over the land that was originally thatch, and it grew very lushly.Xu Ning finally felt relieved. This kind of grass has a well-developed root system, and it is a perennial herb. It grows for ten years after planting, and it can be harvested several times a year.Xu Ning is planning to buy a few lawn mowers to mow these mature alfalfa and let them continue to grow another crop.The sheep pen with the size of a thousand sheep has been built on the other side of the sheep pen. So far, only one-fifth of it has been used, and there is a lot of space for storing fodder.

Guo Shanshan and Huang Jie wandered to the sheep pen again, and saw someone pulling a network cable into the sheep pen.Guo Shanshan asked curiously, "Does anyone live here?"

Zhou Shusen came out of the house and wiped the sweat from his brow: "Hello, I live here. My name is Zhou Shusen, and I am a shepherd and chef."

Guo Shanshan recognized the person who made the noodles in the morning: "Hi, I'm Guo Shanshan, and Xu Ning is my cousin. This is my classmate, Huang Jie, let's play here. Are you not local?"

Zhou Shusen said: "Yes, I am from Anhui."

"So far! How did you find this place?" Guo Shanshan was extremely curious.

Zhou Shusen smiled: "Fate, I was riding across the country and wanted to find a place to settle down and rest for a while. When I saw your brother recruiting people here, I came here. It's pretty good here."

"My brother also pulled the network cable for you?"

"Well, I pay for the Internet myself. I usually write something online."

"Really? What are you writing? I also read novels. Tell us, and we'll support you." Guo Shanshan suddenly became excited. There is actually an author here, so talented.

Zhou Shusen hesitated for a moment: "I'm not writing a novel, I'm writing a travelogue and posting it in a magazine." After riding for two years, he recorded his experience and posted a cycling post. The writing was good and the post was very popular. , I also met a lot of people, some editors of travel magazines asked him to write articles, write about the experiences of various places, and introduce travel strategies.

Guo Shanshan was a little disappointed: "I see. I thought you were writing novels."

Zhou Shusen shook his head: "No."

"I think you can try writing novels. Many people are writing novels on the Internet now. If you write well, you can make a lot of money. If you write it someday, tell me your pen name, and I will definitely read it." Guo Shanshan affirmed I don't know, it was this unintentional conversation that created a future internet god.

The meal at noon is really light, pickled fish, fried pork ribs with potatoes, tofu mixed with shallots, scrambled eggs with bitter gourd, fried watermelon rind, fried yuba with fungus, and the only spicy one is tiger skin pepper.

Since Zhou Shusen came, everyone's quality of life has obviously improved. Xu Ning can only cook some simple home-cooked dishes. Even if they are more complicated, he doesn't have much time to cook, and he cooks two or three dishes every time. , the portion is enough, that's it.Now that Zhou Shusen is here, he specializes in cooking for everyone. There are a lot of ingredients at home. Those dishes are all at his fingertips. He can make several dishes casually, and he can even turn decay into magic, such as this stir-fried watermelon rind Well, Xu Ning definitely can't do it. After eating the watermelon, he threw the skin to the wild boar to eat. How could he think of using it for cooking?

The students ate very satisfactorily.Xu Ning quietly asked Xun Xu: "How is it? Asen's cooking is still good, there are more tricks than mine, and it suits your taste?"

Xun Xu hummed: "I still prefer to eat the dishes you cook, and I am used to the taste of your cooking."

Xu Ning narrowed his eyes with a smile: "When these students are gone, when there are fewer people, I will cook. I will do it differently with A Sen."

"It's better to move upstairs as soon as possible, and we'll start another small kitchen." Xun Xu was still thinking about their world of two.

"it is good."

Just after dinner, Xu Jingshan and the village cadres came over with a few people carrying briefcases. They were dressed like cadres.

Xu Jingshan quickly and quietly said to his nephew: "Ning baby, someone came from the town and said they have something to discuss with you."

Xu Ning was a little surprised, looked at the group of people, and asked the two students to bring chairs under the plane tree for the guests to sit on: "Shanshan, go cut the watermelon." This kind of rushing to his home at noon, can't let People sit dry.

"Have you just had dinner? Are there many people at home?" It was the village chief who spoke.

"Yes, a group of students are here to experience life and work as vacation workers." Xu Ning greeted everyone, "Please sit down, it's hard work to come to the countryside in such hot weather."

A middle-aged man with a briefcase said while sitting, "It's even more difficult for you, you are still working outside on this day."

The village chief said, "These are all town officials. This is Mayor Xu, this is Director Huang of the Agricultural Science Institute, and this is Director Li of the Agricultural Science Institute."

Xu Ning quickly reached out to shake hands: "Hello, welcome to guide the work, I am Xu Ning."

Mayor Xu said: "We will stop beating around the bush and talk straight. That's right. We received instructions from the superiors, saying that your agricultural and sideline industries in Qianlong Village are very distinctive. Based on this, the entire village or even the entire town will be industrialized, and a demonstration area for the entire county or even the entire city will be made, so we have come to investigate on the spot.”

"Welcome." Xu Ning thought, could it be Secretary Shi's opinion?

Guo Shanshan and Huang Jie brought up the cut watermelon, Xu Ning said: "The weather is too hot, eat a piece of watermelon to moisten your throat." He took the lead and took a piece of watermelon, and several leaders were also thirsty. You are welcome to eat them all. There is nothing to say about the melons from Xu Ning’s family. The iced watermelons are sandy, sweet and cold.

Xu Ning said: "Industrialization is of course a good thing. I don't know what instructions the leaders have. I grow a lot of things at home, and there are many types. But if it is to be industrialized, I think the variety should be single, so it doesn't matter. Whether it is for planting or for sales, it is relatively safe."

Director Huang said: "That's what we plan to do. It's not realistic to have a single industry in the whole town, so we plan to set up some experiments in your village first. Xu Ning, you are the leader of this industry. Let's see if you have any good suggestions No."

Xu Ning stretched out his hand and scratched his head: "I don't know much about the whole market. I don't think it's difficult to grow anything. The key is to find the right market. We must first find a buyer before we dare to plant. Otherwise, if something is planted, it will not be sold. The risk is too great for ordinary people."

Mayor Xu nodded: "It makes sense."

Xu Ning said: "I have limited connections in this regard. I don't know if there are any good investment projects in the town, or if there are any good partners. We can only do it after we find the next home."

Mayor Xu said: "This is exactly the purpose of our visit today. I must first understand what is suitable for us to grow here, so that we can go back to find the merchant, otherwise we will not be able to do our work. If the other party asks for jujubes, we will You can’t grow good dates here, so if you say it, it’s just a waste of time, right?”

Xu Ning nodded: "That's right." Xu Ning asked Guo Shanshan to take out the chilled strawberries in the refrigerator to entertain the guests, "This is the strawberry I grew myself, and it tastes good. There are many fruits suitable for growing here. For example, watermelon and strawberries are suitable, as well as peaches, pears, and plums. Watermelons are naturally the most effective and least risky, because most watermelons are ripe in batches and can be picked at one time. Finished, the cycle is short. Strawberries are relatively cyclical, and there are several months before and after the picking time. If the whole village grows strawberries, it is not difficult to grow them on a large scale, and it can also develop sideline businesses, such as attracting the surrounding towns. People come to us to pick strawberries, which can also drive the sales of other agricultural and sideline products. Peaches and plums will take a little longer to see the effect, and it will take several years to see the effect, but the cost will be lower.”

Several people ate strawberries, and nodded one after another: "This strawberry is not bad, and it should not worry about selling it after planting it."

A few people were full, and Xu Ning accompanied them up the back mountain for a tour and a field trip.Several town cadres were still surprised by Xu Ning's generosity. They didn't expect that there was such a talent in their town.

Mayor Xu turned his head to look at Xu Ning: "If you grow strawberries, can you provide technical guidance?"

"You said that our whole village grows?" Xu Ning said.

Mayor Xu nodded.

Xu Ning said with a smile: "It's not technical guidance, I'm just groping around, and I've only planted it for a year, but I'll do my best to help everyone." In fact, he doesn't have much technology, mainly relying on space water to cheat , While groping to do it by myself, if you don’t understand, go online to check the information.

Mayor Xu said: "At that time, the Institute of Agricultural Sciences will send technical instructors from time to time to give advice. We have this preliminary plan. How to implement it. We will discuss and study it when we go back, and the news will be passed on."

Xu Ning thought for a while and added: "If you start planting strawberries this winter, you will have to build a greenhouse. This initial investment will be relatively large."

"If the pilot project is really going to be done, the government will provide some subsidies, and of course the villagers themselves will also have to pay some. This is similar to doing business. In any business, you always need to invest some capital at the beginning." Mayor Xu said.

Xu Ning nodded: "That's the truth."

After seeing off a few town officials, Xu Ning returned to the yard, stretched his waist and yawned. Seeing that Xun Xu had fallen asleep in the recliner, he went to another recliner and sat down.When Xun Xu heard him coming, he turned to look at him: "What's the matter?" He didn't like dealing with strangers when those people came over just now, so he went back to the house and went online, and didn't come out until these people had left.

Xu Ning said: "It seems to be a pilot project here, so that everyone in the village can grow strawberries."

"Sell it to whom?" Xun Xu was very sharp, hitting the nail on the head.

"I don't know. The cadres in the town are responsible for finding sales. I'm not in charge. I'm only responsible for providing opinions and technical references." Xu Ning yawned. What a thrill.

"Will we be affected?" Xun Xu asked.

Xu Ning closed his eyes and said, "It shouldn't be too big. In the future, we will grow less strawberries and sell them to Chen Fu. If they grow them, they will definitely not be pollution-free. They will spray pesticides and fertilizers."

"Oh."

Xu Ning yawned: "Take a nap."

Sleeping soundly, Xu Ning suddenly heard buzzing in his ears, Xu Ning and Xun Xu opened their eyes at the same time, a hornet suddenly appeared in front of them, Xu Ning was so frightened that he dodged back suddenly, and hit his head on the back of the recliner, life pain.Xun Xu frowned, waved his hand, and the wasp fell to the ground.Xu Ning rubbed his head and looked at Xun Xu: "You are really good."

"Didn't you hit it?" Xun Xu asked, at this time another wasp came, and Xun Xu did the same, and slapped the wasp to the ground.

Xu Ning frowned: "Where did the wasps come from? No, our bees won't be affected." Wasps are the natural enemies of bees. Once the beehive is targeted by the wasps, it will basically suffer, because the wasps will kill them bees, and drink the nectar from the bee sacs.Thinking of this, Xu Ning hurriedly got up to look at the bees. He had been raising the bees for two or three months, and he hadn't cut the honey yet, so he couldn't afford these hornet bees.

The sun at noon is scorching, and after a while, the sun burns people's scalps.Xu Ning ran to the beehive on the back mountain in two or three steps, and saw more than a dozen corpses of bees lying on the ground in front of the hive, the bee sacs were deflated, and he couldn't help but feel a sinking heart, as expected, the hornets were thinking about it.A few very conspicuous bumblebees are circling around the hive, trying to attack the lone bees.

Xun Xu also followed, frowning: "Why are so many bees dead?"

"It's all because of the wasps." Xu Ning opened the beehive to check while talking, the honeycomb was covered with dense bees, and generally looked normal, "To find the wasp's nest, poke it. Otherwise, the bees will be at a disadvantage. Our honey should also be taken, there are already a lot of small honeycombs."

Xun Xu looked up and looked around for a while, and saw a hornet's nest on a locust tree next to him: "Is that it?"

Xu Ning looked up, and there was indeed a hornet's nest that was bigger than a fist hanging among the branches. It was not too big, and it should have been built recently: "Yes. First poke the hornet's nest, and then shake the honey." .”

Xun Xu said, "How?"

"Have you ever poked a hornet's nest?" This kind of experience is quite normal for boys, but Xun Xu never poked a hornet's nest.

"No." How could he do such a thing.

Xu Ning said, "Move the beehive away first, and I'll find some grass."

Not long after, Xu Ning came over with a handful of grass and a bamboo pole, and tied the straw to the bamboo pole: "Xunxu, I want to use smoke to smoke wasps, if any wasps come, you have to kill them for me, don't Let it sting me." As he spoke, he lit the straw with a lighter and stretched it under the hornet's hive.The grass handles are tied up, so you can’t burn an open flame. All that comes out is smoke. After using fireworks to smoke under the hive for a while, some wasps will fall from the hive to the ground, and some of them will escape from the hive without being smothered for a while. He came out and buzzed towards Xu Ning to take revenge.Xun Xu's eyes were quick, and he slapped those bumblebees to the ground with one palm.

This is because the hornet's hive is not big enough, so Xu Ning dared to do this.Otherwise, there would be too many wasps, how could they be able to withstand dozens or even hundreds of wasps just by searching for order.After several minutes, there were no more wasps flying out. Xu Ning guessed that all the wasps had been smoked to death, so he put away the straw and poked down the hornet's nest with a bamboo pole.Xun Xu raised his leg and stepped on it, deflated.Xu Ning said, "Why did you step on it? Check to see if there are bee pupae. Bee pupae are good things and delicious."

Xun Xu: "..." He lowered his head, "Can I still eat it?" He was only concerned about preventing wasps from coming out of it, but he didn't expect to trample all the food in his mouth.

Xu Ning laughed: "You've crushed everything, how can you eat it? Forget it, let's shake honey and eat it. That honey shaker has never been used."

Xun Xu came out of the depression of losing the delicious food, and happily went to fetch honey.Xu Ning took out all the tools for shaking honey, the honey shaker, the gauze hat, and the sleeves, and changed into a pair of trousers, fully armed, ready to make honey.When he went to buy bees last time, he saw the operation process at the beekeeper, but he hadn't tried the specific operation, so he was a little eager to try this time.

Open the beehive first, remove the gauze covering it, and take out a honeycomb, which is densely covered with bees, which makes people's scalp numb, because the honey has not been shaken for a long time, and the honeycomb is full of honey , There are a lot of small spleens built by the bees on the gauze cover. These are the original honeycombs that can't hold them. The new houses built by the bees to hold honey, it seems that they need to collect honey more diligently in the future.Xu Ning carefully swept the bees into the beehive with a brush, then put the honeycomb into the honey shaker, and said to Xun Xu, "You shake it."

Xun Xu shook the handle, and the honey was slowly thrown out of the honeycomb and fell into the bucket. Xun Xu dipped a little bit of honey on the edge of the bucket, put it in his mouth, and grinned: "It's so sweet." To Xu Ning's mouth.

Xu Ning hesitated for a moment, then looked around quietly, no one was there, quickly licked Xun Xu's finger, blushed and said: "It's really good. Let's drink some every day from now on, this is a good thing, give some to me." Uncle and Xiaolu try it, Xiaolu has been thinking about our honey for a long time." Liu Xiaochuan and Wang Qing also wanted to give some, which helped him a lot.

Xun Xu put his finger back into his mouth and licked off the honey on it.There is no objection to Xu Ning's proposal. When it comes to food, Xu Ning always sticks to his share first, and only gives it to others if he has extra, so he doesn't worry that if he gives it away, he will have nothing.

A piece of honeycomb can shake five or six catties of honey, and a better one can weigh seven or eight catties. There are twelve pieces of honeycomb in two layers in a beehive.When the shaking was over, two boxes of honey actually came out with two buckets of honey shaken.Xu Ning couldn't keep his mouth shut. In this way, not only is there enough to eat, but there should be something to sell.The bees seem to be developing very well. I have to go online to find out how to divide them into boxes and keep more.