I farmed in ancient times

After arriving home, it was already afternoon, and Jueming took out the key to open the courtyard door. Before he had time to drink tea, he walked directly through the small gate in the courtyard with a basket on his back, and went to the vegetable garden behind.

Half of the land in the vegetable garden was purposely set aside for planting fruit trees. At present, Jueming has not found anyone to sell the saplings, so he can only leave it empty.

After carefully transplanting the wild grape seedlings in the back basket to the corner, and planting the hawthorn seedlings aside, and pouring some water, Cassia hurried to the kitchen to prepare some hot meals.

Seeing that there was still some time, Jueming concealed the gate of the courtyard and went down the mountain to look for Wang Wenqi.

In the village, as long as there is open space in the house, hard-working people will always try to plant one or two trees, including many fruit trees, which can provide shade in summer and taste fruit in autumn.

Among them, the land of Lizheng's family has the largest number of fruit trees, many of which were bought from outside. I went to Wang Wenqi to ask where he bought his fruit trees, so that I could buy some and plant them at home.

Wang Wenqi and Father Wang were watching the land with someone at home, the courtyard door was wide open, and a person could be seen walking on the road from a distance.

"Cassia." Wang Wenqi beckoned, "Have you eaten yet?"

"It's still early." Jue Ming trotted over and saw five or six guests coming to their small courtyard, poking around with a strange stick, so he didn't go in, but stood at the door, "I'll come Xiang asked where the fruit trees in your backyard came from? I want to get a few too."

"You mean the fruit tree?" Wang Wenqi took Cassia Ming to the backyard, "Come on, you are just in time. After this year's spring rain, a few apricot trees in my backyard have sprouted new seedlings. I just give you some , but these apricots are sour, and only ripe ones can barely be eaten."

Wang Wenqi pointed to the one-foot-high seedlings that had just grown on the ground, "Wait a minute, I'll shovel a few for you."

Before Cassia Ming could stop it, Wang Wenqi had already gone to the back of the chicken coop to get a shovel, and directly shoveled two trees of Cassia Ming.

Cassia: "..."

"By the way, there is also this peach tree." Wang Wenqi held the shovel and looked at the two peach trees behind the house. "It's delicious, but there are no new shoots."

"We have eaten peaches every year and planted the peach pits in the soil, but they have never survived." Wang Wenqi slid the shovel around the fruit tree twice, "There are no new seedlings for the pomegranate tree and the plum tree. Bought from Zhangtou’s family, they specialize in fruit trees.”

Hearing Wang Wenqi tell the origins of the saplings one by one, Jue Ming remembered it in his heart, and planned to go to the ferry to buy saplings when he was free.

"Hey? Isn't this little brother Cen?" Wang Wenqi's father came from the front yard, still carrying various small baskets in his hand, Wang Wenqi hurriedly leaned the shovel against the wall to get the basket in his father's hand.

Father Wang pushed his son away, and while he was washing the eggs in the basket, he asked Caesar to stay and have dinner with him. In the yard was someone invited by the Wang family to dig a well, so he happened to join a table and have a good talk.

There was still something to be done for Jueming to decline, thanked Father Wang for his kindness, and took the apricot sapling home.

Hongxia draped over the top of the hill, blue and white smoke rose from every house, and Cen Chaoan ran home along the path with his book in his arms.

"elder brother!"

Before the people arrived, the sound came first. Cen Chaoan threw the book on the desk in the main room, scooped up water to wash his hands, and went to the kitchen while wiping his hands.

Jueming stretched out his hand to hold his head, "Go for a walk, the kitchen is full of oily smoke, wait a little longer, you can eat right away."

Cen Chaoan was kicked out, and he went to the house to move a small chair spontaneously. Seeing a plate of apricots on the small wooden table in the yard, Cen Chaoan reached out and took one without thinking, and put it in his mouth.

"Bah!" Why is this apricot so unpalatable!With a bitter face, Cen Chaoan rinsed his mouth with water, and turned his mouth to look for his brother, "Brother! Why are the apricots so sour!"

Caesar wiped his hands, quickly took the apricots back, and said nonsense in a serious manner, saying that the apricots were not in season yet, so of course they were not tasty.

The key is that Chaoan really believed it, anyway, he didn't know when the apricots would be ripe.

There were two bowls of noodles in the room, with sauced beef on them. Cen Chaoan stood in the kitchen, leaning half his body in. He saw his brother scoop out a spoonful of oil from the pot with a frying spoon, poured it on the noodles, and the oil touched the noodles. , immediately made a buzzing sound.

"Dinner—" Jueming held the bowl, "I'll eat fried noodles tonight."

Oily noodles?Cen Chaoan took the chopsticks, sat next to his brother at the small table, picked up the noodles and blew them, the gluten texture was smooth, salty and sweet, even though it was oily noodles, it didn't taste greasy at all.

When picking up the noodles again, Cen Chaoan said: "It's delicious!" Why didn't I see my brother make it before?

After dinner, Caesar washed the dishes and boiled water for Cen Chaoan to take a bath.

Cen Chaoan took a bath by himself, went back to the house by himself, blew out the oil lamp and went to bed obediently.

——Where can I find such a worry-free child!

Jueming also took a bath, held up the oil lamp to see if the courtyard gate was fastened, and then went back to sleep.

When Cen's father had just left, Jue Ming asked Cen Chaoan if he wanted to sleep with him, but Cen Chaoan vetoed it, saying that he was also an indomitable man and sleeping alone was fine.

Jueming was not at ease, and secretly listened to the corners several times, checked the room several times, and made sure that Chaoan would not be afraid to sleep by himself, so he was relieved to let him sleep alone.

The next day, after seeing off Chaoan to go to school, Jueming immediately walked to the town.

The ferry that Wang Wenqi mentioned was a place in front of Shantang Town, which was originally a village, but because of its ingenious location, after the flood, the county magistrate ordered people to build a pier there so that small cargo ships could pass through it.

Because the river was widened by the flood, the original stone bridge was washed away, and a new profession emerged in that village, which specialized in several boats going to and from the river to carry people across the river.

This is Zhangjiadu, and old Zhangtou lives not far from the ferry.

Jueming inquired while walking, and soon found Lao Zhangtou's house, which was a place with a wide and high courtyard wall. At this time, the courtyard gate was open, and there were many people coming and going.

Cassia followed the people who entered the door and walked into the courtyard.

The entire yard was not paved with bricks, and bundles of thin saplings were placed in the shade against the wall. The saplings were placed vertically with soil on their roots.

Jue Ming took a closer look, and at a certain distance, the color of the cloth strips binding the saplings was changed, presumably to distinguish the saplings.

In addition, there are some small and low seedlings in the yard, and Jueming vaguely heard someone say "peony" and "hibiscus", which presumably are flower seedlings.

Just looking at the appearance of the saplings, Jue Ming couldn't tell what kind of fruit tree it was, so he found the sweaty old Zhang Tou who was busy in the yard, and asked him what kind of fruit trees there were in the yard.

Lao Zhangtou touched his forehead with a sweat towel, and said: "As long as there is something in the Song Dynasty, I have it here. Yesterday, a batch of saplings that are only found in the south were planted at the ferry. You can buy them and try them, but if they don't bear fruit, you will lose them." I can't guarantee it."

Old Zhangtou also heard that the papayas in the city were about to sell for sky-high prices. He heard that there were seedlings, and bought a few with the attitude of trying. Because no one had planted them before, they could not be sold.

In addition, Lao Zhangtou still has two lychee seedlings, which cannot be sold. Seeing that the saplings are wilting, Lao Zhangtou has moved his mind to build a greenhouse for the tree.

I had to admire this old gentleman for his courage, and Jue Ming silently gave him a thumbs up in his heart.

Judging from the complete map of China, Bizhou is in the central region. It’s hard to say about papaya, but lychees can’t be grown. Caesar simply decided to buy them all. Anyway, he can give birth to plants. Before the papaya reacts, say no. Will it be able to directly urge the fruit?

Seeing someone buying papaya seedlings, Lao Zhangtou cheerfully introduced seedlings of other fruit trees.

In the end, Cassia bought three pear trees, three plums, three apricot trees, three jujube trees, three persimmon trees, and three pomegranate seedlings, together with papaya and litchi saplings. The old man calculated the money and asked his eldest son to come and tie it up for Cassia. Shipped out the door.

Caesar hired an uncovered car to take the saplings home, and asked old Zhangtou to buy grape saplings and pomelo saplings.

After arriving home, the coachman took the initiative to help Jueming carry the saplings to the door of the house. Jueming invited the coachman into the house for a sip of tea.

Jueming disassembled the saplings, moved them to the back of the house bit by bit, closed the courtyard door, and took a shovel to dig a hole in the small vegetable garden.

There are more than 20 saplings, and more than 20 tree pits need to be dug. In one morning, Caesar only dug six or seven holes. After lunch, Cassia continued to dig. In the evening, he hadn't dug well yet.

Seeing that it was getting late, Caesar put down the shovel and went back to the front yard to cook.

After dinner, Jueming held the oil lamp and took out a blue bead to drip a few drops of water on the roots of the saplings placed in the yard.

The branches and leaves of the saplings that had been wilting slowly stretched out, regaining some vitality.

Although it was already spring, he was afraid that the temperature difference between morning and evening would freeze the saplings, so Caesar covered the saplings with a layer of straw, and then went back to sleep.

On the second day, Jueming got up early in the morning and continued to dig a hole. After digging for a full day, he finally dug enough. After another day, when the morning fog cleared and the dew was almost gone, he could finally plant trees.

There was only one person in Caesar, and he was afraid of planting the tree crookedly, and he was also afraid that others would see the abnormal growth of the saplings behind the yard, so he could only support the tree carefully, push the soil into the pit with his feet, and step on it firmly. Finally, a little well water was poured.

To be cautious, Caesar chose to harm the apricot saplings first.

There is already an apricot tree taller than an adult in the courtyard. This is an apricot sapling given by Wang Wenqi. Cassia couldn't wait to grow it as soon as he got home. As Wang Wenqi said, the apricots produced were sour and unpalatable.

Reluctantly, when Jueming was buying fruit seedlings, he saw old Zhangtou's apricot tree seedlings, so he bought some.

Lao Zhangtou pays attention to integrity in business. He said that apricots are delicious, but they have few fruits and large cores.

When most people hear this, they will think about it before buying, so the sales of apricot tree seedlings have not been large.

Jueming looked at the apricots he bought from Lao Zhangtou, and took out the blue beads.

I meditated in my heart to water the apricot tree, and the blue bead slowly gave off a bone-piercing coolness, and a gust of water gushed out from inside the bead, falling straight to the roots of the tree.

The water entered the ground and was immediately absorbed by the saplings. The apricot tree, which was only one person tall, quickly sprouted and branched. Two moments later, the apricot tree bloomed, and Cassia stopped watering. After confirming that it pollinated itself, it continued to water.

After the flowers withered, the branches and leaves of the apricot tree gradually became luxuriant, and it took half an hour for watering before the fruit hung on the apricot tree.

Cassia tiptoed enough, and picked the lowest apricot, which was still hard, but tasted much better than the apricot tree in Wang Wenqi's family.

The apricot tree of Wang Wenqi's family was disgusted.