Chapter 246: The Tangerine Saplings Arrive
That morning, Gao Mingcheng had just returned from the mountain carrying two large bags of tea seeds. Halfway up the mountain, he saw a familiar old pickup truck parked in front of his house.
There were some citrus saplings piled in the bed of the pickup truck.
As soon as he saw this, Gao Mingcheng knew that it must be Xiao Jinfeng who came to bring him the tangerine saplings!
So he sped up a bit, but when he arrived at the door of his house, he did not see Xiao Jinfeng, but Gao Mingwan.
Gao Mingwan was sitting on the bench, drinking water.
Xuanyuemei saw him coming back and immediately said with a smile: "Mingwan brought you the tangerine saplings! Do you want to plant them now? Do you want to call for help?"
Gao Mingwan also stood up and said, "I followed my boss to Guangdong this time. We were afraid that the oranges would go bad, so we drove all day and night. We just arrived in the county this morning. But after breakfast, my boss loaded a truck with goods and went to the provincial capital, and another truck was left in the county to sell. I will deliver these saplings to you, second brother. Oh, in addition to the saplings, my boss also gave you ten kilograms of oranges to eat."
Gao Mingwan has also been working in the transport company for a few months. He is diligent and hardworking, and the masters in the transport company are willing to teach him everything they know, so naturally he learned how to drive and repair cars very early.
Nowadays, the road conditions are bad and there are few roadside repair shops, so drivers generally have to learn how to repair cars. Before driving each time, they have to inspect the vehicle to make sure there are no problems before they can go on the road. If something happens on the road, they have to repair it themselves.
Gao Mingwan is not able to repair cars by himself yet, but he can still drive with others. For example, when traveling long distances, in order to save time, he has to drive both day and night. So Gao Mingwan drives during the day and his master drives at night. The two drivers take turns to rest, and they can transport the goods to the destination as quickly as possible.
There are two parts to a transportation company's business: one is to accept other people's commissions to transport goods, and the other is to find goods and sales channels to sell them. Some goods have to be kept fresh, so the transportation time is very important.
Gao Mingcheng looked at Gao Mingwan and felt that his third brother had gained more experience after working at the transportation company, and his overall temperament had changed a lot compared to before.
Of course, this is a good change.
He went to see the saplings piled on the pickup truck, and then said to Duomei, "Duomei, call your brother to help!"
These saplings have been on the road for a few days. Although the roots are covered with soil and wrapped with wet straw to keep them moist, they have to be planted as soon as possible.
Trees can be planted in autumn, but the survival rate in autumn is lower than in spring, and the trees must be planted before the temperature gets cold to allow them to take root.
Xuanyuemei responded and ran quickly towards her second sister's house.
Gao Mingcheng opened the bag that he had thrown on the ground, poured the tea seeds inside into the yard, and then prepared to plant trees.
Gao Mingwan looked at the yard full of tea seeds and felt a sense of envy.
How much tea oil can be squeezed from so many tea seeds? His second brother is so capable!
"Mingwan, do you want to sleep for a while?" Gao Mingcheng asked.
Gao Mingwan shook his head and said, "I wasn't driving at night, and I'm not sleepy yet. My boss told me to give me a day off and let me go to the company tomorrow morning."
"Let me help my second brother with the planting. I'll drive the car to the foot of Xiaofu Mountain first." Gao Mingwan said as he got on the pickup truck and drove to the foot of Xiaofu Mountain.
This road was specially repaired by Gao Mingcheng later to facilitate traffic.
There is a large flat open space on the roadside at the foot of the mountain, which is reserved for building a shed, storing tools for planting trees and for shade.
"Mingwan, how many saplings are there here? How much do they cost?" Gao Mingcheng asked as he took the saplings out of the truck bed.
After Gao Mingwan parked the car, he jumped out to help and said, "Not many, only about a hundred. Not many people are willing to sell saplings there, and at this time, there are even fewer saplings to be found. Sugar oranges are easy to sell, and you can't buy them in several production areas. Later, the boss drove to a distant village. The road there is not good, so there are fewer bosses going to pick up the goods. That's how we negotiated the saplings. As for how much it costs, I don't know."
Gao Mingwan told us that these saplings were hard-earned.
Gao Mingcheng felt more and more grateful to Xiao Jinfeng. If it weren't for him getting these saplings for himself, he wouldn't have taken such a long detour.
But what he was most concerned about was the quality of the sugar oranges, so he asked: "How are the sugar oranges from that village? Are they worse than those from other places of production?"
Gao Mingwan said: "It's not too bad. The varieties are the same. It's just that the village is in the mountains and there are no roads. It's hard for trucks to get in, so it's not very convenient to load the goods."
Gao Mingcheng felt relieved when he heard this. If the quality of the oranges was not good, then Xiao Jinfeng would not make much money from this trip. Besides, the saplings he got were not good either.
The two brothers worked while talking. Gao Mingcheng asked Gao Mingwan to put the saplings into the holes that had been dug earlier, one sapling in each hole.
He wielded a hoe and filled the ground with soil.
When the ground was almost filled, Gao Mingwan supported the sapling, and Gao Mingcheng used a hoe to compact the soil so that the sapling would be easier to take root.
Just when they had planted two trees, Xuanyuemei and Zhang Chengyuan also came over.
So they also joined the tree planting team. Their group consisted of Manyi who helped plant the trees, and Zhang Chengyuan who hoeed the soil.
With the cooperation of two people, the tree planting speed is very fast, mainly because the pit has been dug in advance and the fertilizer has been mixed in advance. Now the soil in the pit is loosened slightly and the saplings can be planted.
Gao Mingcheng counted the saplings as he planted, and there were a total of 108 saplings.
Well, this number is quite auspicious. I hope every sapling can survive.
After planting the trees, you can’t rest yet because you still have to water them.
The weather was dry this year, so the temperature was fine for planting trees at this time, but there was a lack of water! Therefore, after the trees were planted, Gao Mingcheng had to water them every day.
Fortunately, there is a pond at the foot of the mountain, so using water is relatively convenient.
Fetching water is a strenuous job, Gao Mingcheng did not let Xuanyuemei do it, and Xuanyuemei did not insist, but said: "I will go back to cook, Mingwan, brother, you all have lunch at my house today."
Gao Mingwan and Zhang Chengyuan both agreed.
It is common for relatives to help each other with things, and it is also normal to have a meal at the home of the person you work for.
It was already noon when the three men had watered all 108 saplings.
"Let's go home and have dinner." Gao Mingcheng called the two of them and went down the mountain together.
Gao Mingwan got on the pickup truck and drove over. Gao Mingcheng and Zhang Chengyuan simply sat in the truck bed to avoid walking.
It was Zhang Chengyuan’s first time riding in a pickup truck, and he felt nervous yet excited.
Well, there is no man who doesn't like cars.
When I got home, Xuanyue had already cooked. She was very efficient. There were four dishes on the table. There were not many dishes, but the portion of each dish was good. There was stir-fried rabbit meat, scrambled eggs with green peppers, stir-fried cabbage, and stir-fried pumpkin.
"There's nothing special today, so just make do with what you have." Gao Mingcheng smiled and invited everyone to start eating. There really wasn't anything special. The rabbit was one he had caught this morning, and the rest were all vegetarian dishes, all from his own home.
"Duomei, go get that ginseng wine and pour a glass for each of us." Gao Mingcheng said to Duomei. Duomei responded and went to get the wine and pour it.
The ginseng wine is made with ginseng that I bought myself, and it was made last year. It is already very flavorful.
So the food was average, but the wine was tasty.
(End of this chapter)
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