Chapter 131 Milestone

The next morning.

The orchards reclaimed by Deng Shirong and Deng Yunqiang's families began to plant lychee trees. This was a milestone planting event for Naye Village, so everyone in the village who was free, regardless of gender or age, came to watch.

In particular, the families who decided to follow the team leader to open up orchards and plant fruit trees were extremely concerned about this planting.

The people who came to help Deng Shirong with the planting were all experienced old farmers in the village. Although they had never planted such lychee seedlings, the planting methods of fruit trees were similar. Basically, as long as Deng Shirong explained, they understood what to do.

They were all farmers who were used to doing the work, and after watching it once, the others basically understood how to operate it.

So everyone volunteered to help with planting, and some people who didn't have any farm tools even went back home to bring them over.

The original plan was to complete the planting in one day, but because there were so many people who volunteered to help, it only took more than three hours to plant all the 1,000 lychee seedlings. They also watered the plants and applied organic fertilizers in strict accordance with regulations. The efficiency was amazing.

After helping Deng Shirong's family with planting, many people took the initiative to help Deng Yunqiang's family in order to accumulate experience for themselves.

In just half a day, all the lychee saplings in Deng Yunqiang's family were planted.

In the next few days, about one-third of the households in Naye Village began to cut trees and cut grass in preparation for the upcoming orchard reclamation.

Of course, there are also about two-thirds of the families who have not made any move. The main reason is that after discussing with their families, these people feel that the cost of investing in the orchard is too high, and whether they can make money is still unknown. Those who seek stability are naturally unwilling to get out so early. They first observe the planting situation of other people in the village and confirm that there will be a harvest before they follow suit.

In later generations, except for those who worked outside, people in rural areas would relax and celebrate the New Year before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In the words of the Hakka people, it is the New Year.

However, in this era, people usually start to work after the fifth day of the first lunar month, such as planting sugarcane, peanuts, cassava, taro, and transplanting seedlings, etc.

As long as you are willing to do it, there is always work to be done.

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In the kitchen, Bu Dashi was learning how to cook from his cousin Deng Yunzhen, while Zhang Xiuping was helping to light the fire.

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Deng Shirong asked his nephew Bu Dashi to come and learn how to cook from him. However, Bu Dashi had no basic knowledge in cooking and his cousin Deng Yunzhen was more than capable of teaching him. Naturally, there was no need for Deng Shirong, the husband of a rich man, to do it himself.

"Cousin, when making yellow fried pork, you must put the whole piece of pork in to cook. Don't cut it into pieces and put it in to cook. You can't just fry it without boiling it. That way it won't be fragrant."

Deng Yunzhen explained the key points of yellow fried pork to her cousin one by one: "When cooking, you need to cook it a little longer, so that the yellow fried pork will not be hard and taste better."

Bu Dashi asked, "Cousin, how long should this be cooked for?"

"That depends on the size of the pork. For example, this piece of meat we are cooking now will only take about half an hour to cook. It should be about the right time now."

Deng Yunzhen poked the meat with chopsticks, then lifted it up and placed it on the chopping board next to her. She continued to explain, "This fried yellow pork cannot be cut into too small pieces. It needs to be cut into slightly larger pieces so that it will be more fragrant when fried."

After her sister-in-law scooped up the meat, Zhang Xiuping scooped up the broth in the pot and then cleaned the pot.

She did not continue to listen to her sister-in-law's explanation of the method of making yellow fried pork. She had been married to the Deng family for almost two months. She had already learned how to make this kind of yellow fried pork that was often eaten at home. She didn't dare say that the yellow fried pork she made now was better than that made by her father-in-law, but it was not inferior to that made by her sister-in-law.

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In the living room, Bu Dafang and Jiang Dehu were asking Deng Shirong about the litchi management techniques.

After returning from Mr. Q's house on the second day of the Chinese New Year, I asked my sister-in-law to help take care of the children. Then I rented the land to others for farming. Then Bu Dafang and Jiang Dehu came early to help with the work.

Deng Shirong had managed a lychee mountain in his previous life. Although the lychee varieties he planted were not good, he did have experience in planting and management. It was natural that he had no pressure in teaching Bu Dafang and Jiang Dehu, two newbies. He explained his experience of managing the lychee mountain in his previous life one by one.

After the two of them digested what he explained, it was time for dinner.

Today's meal is relatively simple, with only two meat dishes, one is stir-fried pork, the other is braised fish, and a few plates of vegetables and pickles.

However, for Jiang Dehu, Bu Dafang and Bu Dashi, this was already a very sumptuous meal.

Moreover, after being taught by her father, Deng Yunzhen’s cooking skills have not only improved significantly, but she is also no longer as reluctant to use oil when cooking. Even if it is the same dish, it tastes more than ten times better than Jiang Dehu’s family.

Jiang Dehu sighed in his heart while eating, not to mention that Mr. Q paid them such a high salary, even if he only paid them half of the salary, plus the food, it was still a good job that many people would not be able to get.

After dinner, Deng Shirong asked, "Ah Hu, who in your village has a puppy?"

Jiang Dehu said, "My cousin's family has one. His dog gave birth to five puppies a year ago. Mr. Q, do you want to raise a dog?"

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Deng Shirong said: "I plan to raise a few dogs, one at home to guard the house, and two or three at Lizhi Mountain, so that we can prevent some bad things from happening."

Jiang Dehu said quickly, "That's easy. I'll take some time to go home tomorrow and tell my cousin to keep the puppy with you. When the puppy is two months old, you can bring it back to raise."

Deng Shirong hummed and said, "Okay, then go back and tell your uncle tomorrow."

It is very useful to keep a dog to guard Litchi Mountain.

Although Deng Shirong had people plant thorny plants around Litchi Mountain a long time ago, after these plants grew up, it was basically impossible for people and slightly larger animals to enter Litchi Mountain from the surrounding areas.

But there must be an entrance to Litchi Mountain. Even if Deng Shirong built a door at the entrance and locked it, it could only prevent ordinary people from getting in, but not those with evil intentions.

But if you keep two or three dogs on Litchi Mountain, combined with the original protection of Litchi Mountain, it would be much safer.

Deng Shirong was not just worrying about nothing. Even in later generations, almost every household would plant lychee trees and build one or two houses on the lychee mountain. When the lychees were ripe, they would live on the mountain to look after the orchard, so as to avoid being unaware that all the lychees were picked.

No matter what era it is, there is always a shortage of petty thieves.

Although Deng Shirong did not make his fortune from Litchi Mountain, he did not want to give those thieves an advantage.

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