The two of them spent the whole morning weeding out most of the large weeds in the seven or eight acres of land.
As long as herbicides are not used, the weeds in the field cannot be eradicated. You just need to come and weed them whenever you have time, so that they don't have a chance to grow and mature.
If we don't use weed seeds, the crops won't be eaten by weeds next year. To eat green and healthy agricultural products, we can only remove them by hand; we must never use herbicides.
Chen Hong's family only has these ten mu of land. Apart from the area occupied by the pear trees, there are at most seven or eight mu left to grow crops.
Even though it's a bit tiring, Chen Hong doesn't want to use pesticides to kill weeds and pests. She doesn't lack money now, so she doesn't need to pursue high grain yields.
We need to consume some of the produce from these fields ourselves, so we must prioritize ensuring that it is green and healthy.
Aside from the essential rice and flour, all the food Chen Hong's family eats now comes from the local produce. They can't have a space of their own and still have to eat food contaminated with pesticides.
Chen Hong and Zhou Yi carefully peeled back the layers of pear saplings that had been layered last year, and she was pleasantly surprised to find that these saplings had already grown many roots on their own.
The longer main roots are 20 to 30 centimeters long, and the shorter fibrous roots are about 2 to 3 centimeters long.
It seems that there will be no problem with transplanting this fall. With the water from the space, the survival rate after transplanting next year should be particularly high.
This was fantastic news for the village chief and his family. After the autumn harvest, they could start digging pits and planting pear saplings.
The seedlings propagated by layering can bear fruit in two or three years at most, and reach their peak fruiting period in four or five years.
With the help of the small hotel, the families sold a lot of vegetables, chickens, ducks, and eggs, and their lives will only get better and better.
If everyone becomes wealthy, they can also help the rest of the village to get rich together, and then Yujia Village will be among the first to join the ranks of wealthy villages.
I heard that the village chief and his team have been researching ways to integrate all the vacant rooms in the village and establish a fishery, agriculture, and tourism cooperative.
If this project succeeds, the entire village will unite as one and work together to improve sanitation, food, and accommodation. Their village's tourism industry will then quickly enter a period of rapid development.
Who knows, Yujia Village might become a famous tourist attraction in the future?
Chen Hong couldn't help but admire the village chief and the other elderly people who had worked diligently in the village their whole lives, trying every means to lead the villagers to prosperity. They were the true Communist Party members.
If tourism in the village develops well, more tourists will come, which will also boost the development of the fishing industry.
The villagers can also take advantage of the fishing village to dry fish, shrimp, and seaweed.
These fishery by-products, which are easy to store and transport, can be sold to tourists, thus increasing the income of the villagers.
Perhaps in a few years, no one in Yujia Village will have to go out to work anymore. The entire village, young and old, men and women, can earn money without leaving their homes.
There will no longer be many left-behind children and elderly people in the village.
At noon, Chen Hong made dumplings with shepherd's purse and pork filling, stir-fried sweet potato leaves with garlic, jellyfish salad with cucumber, braised beef, and boiled fish.
The village chief went to a meeting in the county at noon today, and Uncle Erhu was alone, so he felt embarrassed to come to Zhou Yi's house for lunch.
Chen Hong knew that Uncle Erhu was too honest and didn't like to drink with strangers.
Since he was unwilling to come, Chen Hong did not force him, and had lunch with Zhou Yi.
Zhou Yi's appetite was truly impressive. Chen Hong only ate some sweet potato leaves and cucumber salad, and a dozen or so dumplings. Zhou Yi finished all the other dishes.
After finishing their meal, Zhou Yi helped Chen Hong clear the dishes, feeling a little embarrassed. "Did I scare you with my big appetite?"
Chen Hong shook her head, "Your appetite is nothing! Don't tell me that soldiers naturally have a lot of physical activity, so they naturally eat a lot because they burn a lot of calories! It's perfectly normal!"
When I was a child, my maternal grandfather told me that when he was young, he worked as a switchman on the railway.
When he was in his twenties, he ate Zhuang food for a period of time, and could eat more than twenty large steamed buns and a bucket of cabbage stewed with tofu in one meal.
Back then, people didn't have much oil in their stomachs, so everyone could eat a lot. When I was in middle school, I could eat two pancakes and drink a bowl of porridge in one meal, and I was only twelve or thirteen years old then.
The average person nowadays eats less because they don't get much exercise. They sit all day, so their meals aren't properly digested, which naturally leads to lower food intake. Plus, they often have snacks and fruits as extra meals!
After finishing their meal, the two were at a loss, and Zhou Yi was getting restless when Chen Hong received a call from the village chief, asking her to go to the dock to contact the fishing company about sending a boat to deliver fish fry.
The fish fry for this month have arrived, and someone needs to check the accounts and go out to sea with the boat to release them.
The village chief said he was in a meeting and couldn't make it back, so Chen Hong had to go to the dock in his place to count and reconcile accounts with the fishing company.
After hanging up the phone, Chen Hong quickly changed her clothes and went out. Zhou Yi had no choice but to follow in Chen Hong's footsteps.
Just when the two of them were finally able to be alone together, a phone call from the village chief shattered Zhou Yi's beautiful dream.
Chen Hong looked at Zhou Yi, who was standing silently behind her, and couldn't help but chuckle to herself. It really is true that good things often come with difficulties!
Originally, I didn't want to keep going and wanted to go along with his wishes, but I didn't expect that God, my own father, wouldn't allow it and set up obstacles for Zhou Yi again.
Zhou Yi looked at Chen Hong in the passenger seat, laughing so hard she was clutching her stomach and her shoulders were shaking, and felt a mix of embarrassment and anger.
"Is it funny? Do you think you've dodged another bullet? Just you wait, I'll deal with you when I get back tonight and make you laugh at me!"
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