1983: From Land Sharing to Household Ownership

"Brother, our terraced fields are not difficult to reclaim, but if you follow your plan, the area is too large and it will take too much time."

Wan Jun looked at the newly cultivated several acres of terraced fields, frowned slightly, and said to Wang Qiang.

This afternoon, Wanjun took her sister and Chen Lin along with Wang Qiang up the mountain to reclaim the terraced fields at home.

After working hard for an hour, everyone sat under a big camphor tree and began to rest.

The four brothers and sisters had just drank a pot of Qingshen tea with a few drops of spiritual liquid added by the king, and they quickly eliminated all fatigue and returned to their peak state.

Wan Jun thought for a while, and then began to express her own opinion: "In my opinion, the reclamation of the terraced fields at home can't be rushed. Our brothers and sisters can take their time to reclaim the land in the future."

"My idea is that whenever the three-level terraces are reclaimed, I stop and buy some fruit trees or crops that my family needs, and plant them first."

"In this way, these planted fruit trees and crops will save a lot of time for growth and development this year, and some crops will have at least one harvest this year."

"Presumably with the passage of time, the development of our tea city will become faster and faster, and the agricultural products grown should be sold without worry."

"Brother, what do you say?"

After Wan Jun finished speaking, a pair of big watery eyes stared at Wang Qiang and asked.

"Wanjun, what you said is absolutely feasible!"

Wang Qiang originally had this plan, but now his sister said it just fine, "Since May Day, I have reclaimed two-story terraced fields, and the new three-story terraced field has been reclaimed since today. "

"After a few days, after this layer of terraced fields has been reclaimed by our brothers and sisters, I want to go to the persimmon town in our tea city to buy their most famous persimmon trees, the seedlings and seeds of Malinggua."

"I plan to plant a layer of persimmon trees and two layers of maling melon on these three-layered terraced fields."

He has already made some plans in the past few days, "Actually, I want to plant all the three-story terraces with Maling melon, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to buy so many seeds and melon seedlings."

"That Maling melon is really delicious. Compared with other watermelons, it tastes so much better. It's really crisp and sweet, and it melts in your mouth."

"My father bought one when I was five years old, and I only ate it once. Wanyu and Wanling were just born at the time, and you were only two years old, Wanjun, and you haven't come to my house yet, so you don't have much impression. "

"Because the yield of Malingua is too low, very few people are planting it now, and it is almost impossible to see it."

Wang Qiang paused and continued, "I asked about it at the farmers' market a few days ago, and someone told me that in Hongyan Village, Shi Town, there are more than a dozen villagers who are planning to plant horses this year after dividing their fields into households. Linggua."

"However, they also plan to plant other crops next year."

"It would be a pity if such delicious Malingua would disappear in our south."

Maling melon is an oblong flower-skinned watermelon with yellow-green rind and golden flesh.

A Malinggua, the largest will not exceed ten pounds, the smallest only one or two pounds.

One acre of melon field, the majority of Maling melons under five jins after maturity.

This kind of Maling melon is not the kind of Maling melon that produces melon seeds in the north. It has nothing to do with the place called Maling in the south of Zhili in the north.

Its origin, only about 100 miles away from the tea city, is a specialty of an ancient mountain village called Maling Village.

Hundreds of years ago, it was spread to several nearby counties because it was so delicious.

However, the output of this super delicious watermelon is too low, not even one-tenth of the average watermelon output.

Moreover, its rind is thin and crisp, and its thickness is about the same as a piece of white paper, making it difficult to transport.

When it is ripe, you just touch the skin of the melon gently with a sharp object, and it will split immediately.

This kind of Malingua, which is easier to shatter than eggs, is a huge problem to transport. During the transportation process, if the vibration force is stronger, it will explode immediately!

Therefore, when cutting Malingua, the knife must be sharp and the action must be fast, so that the Malinggua can be cut into pieces.

It is precisely because of various restrictions that Malingua is not grown in many places, and its reputation has not spread too far, only in a few counties nearby.

Rao is Wang Qiang's two generations, and the best watermelon he has ever eaten is this Maling melon.

The famous unicorn melon in later generations is more than eight streets worse than the Maling melon.

In the 21st century, unicorn melon can be regarded as a very delicious watermelon.

This shows how delicious this Malinggua is!

However, in the memory of later generations, before entering the 1990s, this incomparably delicious Maling melon has truly disappeared, and it can never be tasted again, dissipating in people's increasingly weak memory.

After obtaining the golden finger, Wang Qiang had an idea very early that he must preserve this unique and delicious original ecological watermelon variety.

Now, it is the time for this kind of late-ripening Maling melon seedlings to be raised. He plans to go to the countryside in the next few days to buy some melon seedlings and seeds.

The reason why he wanted to buy the seeds of this Malinggua was that he wanted to use the diluted spiritual liquid to soak the seeds fully, and then start raising seedlings to see if he could improve the quality of Malinggua.

If I succeed, I will have a super delicious melon and fruit in my house in the future.

In the past few years, with the great economic development, after the Malingua in several nearby counties was completely eliminated, the world only had it in its own family.

At that time, it could be called a peerless delicacy.

"Malinggua?"

"And this watermelon?"

"We really haven't heard the name."  …

Wang Qiang's voice fell, and the three younger sisters looked puzzled.

"Malinggua? I've eaten it twice!"

Chen Lin girl said on the side, "My mother sets up a stall selling herbal tea at the bridgehead of the Chajiang Bridge every summer, and every year she encounters melon farmers who come to the city to sell Malingua several times.

"Because the skin of Maling melon is too thin and too brittle, those melon farmers use trolleys to pad with thick straw and walk from Shizhen Town to Lalai County to sell them."

"My mother also likes to eat it, so even if it is a little more expensive, I have bought it a few times, but every time I choose one or two kilograms of small Maling melons."

"Maling melons are very expensive. The price per catty is about the same as pork, but they are very easy to sell. Those who sell melons usually just drag the melons to the end of the Yangtze River Bridge, and they will be surrounded by people, and they will not be able to reach the market at all."

She raised her face proudly, and after she finished her eloquent explanation, she immediately caused the twin girls to exclaim!

"Sister Lin'er, you really have eaten such a rare Maling melon!"

"Sister Lin'er, is Malingua delicious? Is it as delicious as my brother said?"...

These two gluttonous little girls were so envious that their saliva was drooling.

"That's needless to say!" Chen Lin became more and more triumphant, "It's even more delicious than what Brother A Qiang said!"

"Maling melons are so crisp and sweet, the flesh of the melon is golden and golden, and the seeds are few but very large. I was not in good health at that time, and I couldn't eat anything, but I still ate it by myself. got a..."

The more she talked, the brighter the twin girls' eyes became, and they kept swallowing saliva, which made people want to laugh out loud.

Indeed, even in the local tea city, if you want to eat Malingua once, it is not easy.

The main reason is that the number of plantings is too small, the yield is very low, and the transportation is too difficult. In addition, in the county seat, Malingua is very easy to sell.

Generally, the melon farmers have not yet entered the main street of the county town, and the Maling melons they have brought in have been looted.

This requires you to have money and luck. You happen to meet a melon farmer who sells Maling melons in the city to sell melons, and you have to buy it with numb hands and feet before you can eat it once.

Otherwise, even if you have money, it is difficult to buy this peerless delicacy on the street to eat.