Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

The fruits are starting to ripen! There are not too many fruits, but they are already covered with branches, and the fruit branches are bent down one by one.

In the orchard of every household in Shimo Sixth Team, tall or short fruit trees are covered with dark purple fruits.

Gu Siwei walked in the orchard of Sun Laibao's house, reached out and picked one from the tree, rubbed it with his palms, removed the light layer of fruit wax on it, and threw it into his mouth.

The teeth met the pulp, and with just a slight pressure, the sweet juice bloomed in Gu Siwei's mouth.

Um!

Sweet and fragrant!

Gu Siwei nodded his head.

"Siwei, how are the fruits this year?"

Ma Chunya looked at Gu Siwei nervously.

Seeing that the fruit harvest was about to begin, Ma Chunya specially called Gu Siwei to take a look at her orchard.

In fact, there is no need to look. It’s now, and there is nothing I can’t think of. The reason why Gu Siwei came over was just that Ma Chunya wanted to put a scale in her heart to prevent herself from having trouble sleeping in the past two days.

"It's very good, and the fruit is big enough. To be honest, sister-in-law of the Ma family, the fruits in this orchard are really outstanding."

Gu Siwei picked another fruit, but this one was smaller, almost half the size of the previous one, and the color was slightly lighter. It was not dark purple, but red with a slight yellow.

This is a sign that the fruit is not fully ripe. Although it is not fully ripe, it does not mean that it cannot be eaten. In fact, the fruit at this time is already edible, but after it reaches the mouth, it will be slightly sour and a little bit... Slightly bitter.

Not everyone doesn't like this taste. Hu Yanqiu, for example, prefers fruits of this color. Of course, it's because she is twins now.

In addition to Hu Yanqiu, there were several people in Zhuangzi who liked the fruits at this time, but Gu Siwei usually didn't eat them. He wanted to try them today, so he picked one casually.

Putting it in his mouth, Gu Siwei frowned slightly.

"It's not ripe yet, what are you doing eating it?" Ma Chunya said with a smile.

"I'll try it, it's still the same as before." Gu Siwei spit out the remaining half of the fruit in his mouth, directly onto the ground under the fruit tree.

As soon as his feet touched the ground, Gu Siwei was attracted by the ground he saw. He raised his feet and rubbed the ground with his toes.

Ma Chunya saw Gu Siwei's movements and asked curiously: "Is there any problem?"

Gu Siwei said: "Sister-in-law, have you noticed that there is mud starting to accumulate in the ground?"

Ma Chunya said: "Do you have any in your land?"

Ma Chunya had discovered this a long time ago. Originally, the ground was bare, with rocks exposed in most places. However, after planting cherries in the past few years, she found that the ground under the cherry trees began to gradually become greener. With a little bit of soil and a little bit of stickiness, as the tree grew bigger and bigger, after experiencing several cold and heat, some grass slowly began to sprout on the ground.

Gu Siwei said: "I have one at home too."

Gu Siwei originally thought that only his own land was like this, but he didn't expect that Ma Chunya's land was also like this.

So he asked again: "Who else's land is like this? All the land?"

Ma Chunya thought for a while and shook her head: "It seems that two or three of our families are like this. It seems that the ones that were planted later were originally bare, and they are still bare now."

After saying that, Ma Chunya thought for a moment and said: "Brother Wu's garden is not like this. I think it may have something to do with the fruit falling to the ground. Both our family and yours pick the big fruits, and the small ones stay in the garden." The trees are waiting to fall naturally. When the time comes, birds come to eat the fruits. When the birds come, they also poop and so on. Over time, a layer of bird poop mixed with rotten fruits and rotten leaves accumulates on the ground of the fruit trees. Maybe that’s how it came about.”

After hearing this, Gu Siwei learned what Ma Chunya said made sense, so he smiled and said, "I didn't expect that Sister-in-law Ma's sister-in-law, you have such good observation skills."

"You are all people who do big things. I'm just messing around. I usually have nothing to do, just random thoughts," Ma Chunya said politely.

"Sister-in-law Ma, when are you going to pick your fruits?" Gu Siwei asked.

Ma Chunya said: "I listen to you, we will pick it when you say."

Gu Siwei thought for a while and said: "How about picking it the day after tomorrow? It will be more than half mature by then."

Ma Chunya said: "Well, then we'll pick it up the day after tomorrow. Siwei, how do they pick it up at your door?"

Gu Siwei said: "They don't want to come this way. They want us to take us to the ferry over there. They have special refrigerated trucks there. If we pick the stuff now, we have to transport it now. If we drag it for a day, it will be a day's trouble."

Ma Chunya nodded and said, "Yeah, I know, this thing can't be done easily!"

After saying that, Ma Chunya asked again: "Is it just this manpower?"

Gu Siwei said: "The manpower problem is easy to solve. I told the radar station here that they will organize some soldiers to come over and help.

But we can’t let others work in vain, this is not our principle.”

When Ma Chunya heard that the little soldiers came to help, she immediately smiled and said: "I know, I know! I will have to thank them properly then."

After saying that, he asked again: "Still according to last year?"

"Let's mention it. We have made money here after all. It's a bit unreasonable to just provide a few meals to others. We still have to provide meals, but... forget it, I'll discuss this matter with the big guys. Let's see. Let’s see if the village can be unified and wait until the work is over to send some supplies to the army,” Gu Siwei said.

Life at the radar station is very hard now, and there is not much money in the week. Although the radar station also raises pigs and feeds sheep, they are not specialized in this, and it is impossible to raise dozens of them. , then everyone should stop doing radar and just start raising pigs.

In short, the life of the army is not much better than the life of ordinary people. It is all miserable.

"Okay, we all listen to you!" Ma Chunya said with a smile.

Gu Siwei smiled and joked: "Aren't you afraid that I will lie to you?"

"Our whole family is happy to be deceived by you!" Ma Chunya laughed after hearing this.

Now Ma Chunya's status in the family is not low. Let's put it this way, even her parents-in-law sometimes want to listen to her opinions. It's nothing, it's just that Ma Chunya decided to follow Gu Siwei's path.

Now Ma Chunya's decision has brought huge returns to the family, not to mention the money earned from selling the fruits to the factory two or three years in advance. Just this time, it can be said that the fruits of Ma Chunya's family are worth the money. Besides Siwei's orchard, it has the best fruit.

One thing about her orchard exceeds that of Gu Siwei's is the area. Gu Siwei's orchard is not as big as Ma Chunya's.

Let's put it this way, if anyone in Zhuangzi sells the most fruit this year, she, Ma Chunya, will probably be the first.

Gu Siwei smiled after hearing this, but still praised: "Sister-in-law Chunya, you really take good care of this orchard."

"I don't know anything else, I can only do this," Ma Chunya said with a smile.

At this moment, Guo Shengshui's voice suddenly came from outside.

"Is the fourth dimension here? Is the fourth dimension here?"

"Here you are, come inside!"

Gu Siwei responded.

As soon as the voice fell, Guo Shengshui came over and opened the cherry branches in front of him. When he saw Gu Siwei and Ma Chunya standing next to the fruit tree, he said, "Ms. Ma Chunya is here too."

"Why, I can't come to my orchard yet?" Ma Chunya said with a smile.

Guo Shengshui said: "Nothing."

"Do you have a problem with me?" Gu Siwei asked Guo Shengshui.

Guo Shengshui said: "Go to my house and take a look. There seems to be something wrong with some of the fruit trees."

Gu Siwei was a little surprised and thought to himself: What could happen to the fruit tree?

Seeing the anxious look on his face, Gu Siwei raised his hand to signal him to lead the way.

Ma Chunya was also curious, and besides, Guo Shengshui's orchard was not far away, so she followed him there.

When they got to the fruit tree, before Gu Siwei could open his mouth, Ma Chunya said, "No wonder."

"What's wrong?" Guo Shengshui asked a little confused.

Ma Chunya said: "With your approach, it's only strange that there are no problems with the fruit trees. After all, you are not a person who handles crops. You don't know this common sense at all."

Seeing Guo Shengshui's confused face, Ma Chunya said: "You piled too much fertilizer on the roots of the fruit trees, and what kind of fertilizer is this? It hasn't even been soaked. Just pile it on the roots of the tree. That's not true." Did he burn to death?”

Gu Siwei also saw the problem. There was a pile of farmyard manure at the base of Guo Shengshui's fruit trees. It was not toilet excrement, but poultry manure, such as chicken droppings, duck droppings and the like. .

These things are indeed fertilizer, but they have to be fermented. When placed in rural areas, they are retting. This means piling up these things and leaving them for a period of time, waiting for microbial transformation.

If it were piled directly at the roots of the tree, that would be what Gu Siwei saw now. The roots of the fruit tree would be burned directly by the fertilizer.

Guo Shengshui said: "I think everyone piles them up like this."

"Do you think who piles up the fertilizer like this? Which one piles up fertilizer that has not been soaked? You don't ask anyone to ask, just cover the roots directly," Ma Chunya said.

At this time, someone was passing by outside and came over after hearing the noise here.

He came in and stood here to take a look, and immediately said to Guo Shengshui: "Why, the tree is gone, how can we compost under the fruit tree?"

"Didn't I learn it from your family?" Guo Shengshui asked.

The visitor replied: "Follow me. My family is not as awesome as you. We compost directly under the roots of fruit trees. We only use composted compost. You don't know how to...".

Guo Shengshui's face suddenly stretched.

"Why are you still standing there? Quickly peel off the fat."

Only then did everyone react, so they immediately took the things and began to shovel aside the piled fertilizer in the orchard.

"No more, right?"

The nearby villagers came over to help. Some of them used hoes to dig out the tree, while others carried water and poured it on the roots. In short, after a lot of fuss, the bottom of the manure-filled fruit tree was finally cleaned up.

"This is just superfluous. The fruit is obviously about to ripen, but you do this..."

Someone said to Guo Shengshui.