Chapter 245 The whole family plants fruit trees together
"Sure, I never thought of asking you to pay back the money anyway."
Lin Heng smiled and said that it would be no problem for the two elders to live with him in his old age, and if they wanted to follow his brother, that was also up to them.
If you take on the responsibility of caring for the elderly, you will naturally get more land. This is how family division is done in rural areas. It's very simple.
"Then I'd rather follow you. Obviously life will be more comfortable there." Mother Lin said with a smile.
"That's no problem. I'll build you a small Western-style house to live in later." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"But there's no need for that now, let's talk about it later. Although dad can't give you money for the saplings, I will give you 370 percent of the money from selling the fruit in the future." Father Lin waved his hand and turned to walk out.
He and his wife discussed who to follow in the future, and they both leaned towards Lin Heng. After all, Lin Heng was rich and it was easy for him to support them, while Lin Yue had three sons. If they added the two old ones, life would probably be difficult in the future.
Also, the eldest daughter-in-law doesn't like to be with them.
"We'll talk about it when the time comes." Lin Heng waved his hand. He planted fruit trees to relieve his parents' pressure on farming and make life easier. He didn't care about money.
"Let's go back." Lin's mother waved her hand, stood up and walked out.
"Then let's go too." Lin Yue also walked out with his wife.
"Remember to ask Lin Wei and the others to come over and drink milk." Lin Heng said again.
After everyone left, Xiulan said, "Tell Xiaoxia to get up and drink some milk. I'm going to cook."
"Wait a minute, let's plant the strawberries first." Lin Heng pointed at the strawberries next to him and said that these seedlings had to be placed outside in the sun.
"Are we going to plant it in the yard?" Xiulan asked with her head tilted.
"Yes, let's plant forty trees and leave ten for Big Brother and his family. I'll go get the hoe, and you take out the strawberry seedlings first."
After Lin Heng finished speaking, he went to get a hoe. There were four vegetable plots in the yard, totaling 80 square meters, where he planted some common vegetables. The one on the left near the house was previously planted with radishes and spinach, but there were not many left, so Lin Heng pulled out all the remaining ones.
The black humus soil that was specially dug from the forest was very soft and easy to dig.
"Just remove the bag and plant the plants in the soil, right?" Xiulan asked after moving the plants.
"Yes, just place one every 20 centimeters." Lin Heng nodded.
Xiulan took a small shovel and started planting in the land that Lin Heng had dug.
While digging the ground, Lin Heng said, "Wife, you won't blame me for only thinking about getting saplings for my parents and brother, and not caring about my own family, right?"
"Yes, yes, I am that kind of woman." Xiulan gave him a sarcastic look and agreed, obviously blaming Lin Heng for his wild imagination.
Lin Heng laughed: "We grow Chinese herbal medicines, including ginseng, astragalus, turmeric and forsythia. The harvest from these will be no worse than that from fruit trees."
After that, he added in a low voice: "I know you are not the kind of person who cares about every little thing like my sister-in-law."
"Don't talk nonsense, I get it." Xiulan said quickly. This guy really doesn't avoid suspicion at all.
Then she quickly changed the subject: "How many fruits can these forty strawberry trees produce?"
"This thing has runner stems and can produce a large area. One seedling can produce four or five fruits, so I only bought a small amount," Lin Heng explained.
He came to help plant the crops when the field was half-dug, and even if the crops were sparse, half the field was enough. After planting, he brought bamboo sticks and plastic film, and covered the fields after watering.
"If we do this, we'll be able to eat strawberries in May or June," Lin Heng said with a smile.
Xiulan nodded, feeling a little excited.
"Do you think we should remove some of the tiles in the front yard and plant some fruit trees?" Lin Heng asked again.
Xiulan thought about it and shook her head, "That's not necessary. Just plant them in the backyard and the back hill. The front yard is open and bright."
"Okay, then you go and cook. I'll wake up Xiaoxia and ask her to help plant with us." Lin Heng said as he took a hoe and walked into the house.
Xiulan nodded and went to get a basket to pack up the vegetables and radishes.
Lin Heng went into the room and woke Xiaoxia up. The little girl woke up sleepily and asked while rubbing her eyes: "Dad, is my little frog awake yet?"
"Wake up, I'm waiting for you to play." Lin Heng said as he dressed her.
As soon as she was dressed, Xiaoxia picked up the little frog and played with it.
After getting up, Lin Heng took her to the toilet first. When they passed by the backyard puppy that was barking, she ignored it. She had a new love, Little Frog, and no longer loved the little blue wolf dog Lai Fu.
After washing up, Lin Heng untied the dog leash, and the puppy immediately ran excitedly to the main room, nudging Xiaoxia's legs along the way, wanting to play with her.
"Stop playing with your little frog and come here to drink some milk." Lin Heng said as he poured milk for her.
"Okay." Xiaoxia came over quickly after hearing that it was something delicious. She was already hungry.
Lin Heng saw her take two sips and asked, "Is it delicious?"
"It tastes good~" Xiaoxia nodded and drank from the small bowl with a squeak.
"Second Dad, we are here to drink milk."
After a while, Lin Wei pushed open the door and rushed in with his two younger brothers.
"Come here quickly." Lin Heng waved at them, and when they came over, he gave each of them a big bowl.
Xiaoxia drank a small bowl and stopped drinking, playing with her little frog. Lin Heng didn't feed her too much, just a little bit every morning and evening, too much can easily cause indigestion, Chinese people are a little lactose intolerant.
After drinking milk, the three nephews fed Xiaoxia's frog. Such wind-up toys are rare in the countryside.
Lin Wei even chased after Lin Heng to ask where he bought it, how much it cost, etc. But before long, the mother's voice sounded next door, so he could only go back quickly with his two brothers.
Lin Heng looked at the remaining milk. There was probably more than three pounds left, and a glass bottle could only hold more than half of it.
"It's a bargain for you."
Lin Heng poured the rest into the dog bowl and gave it to the two puppies to drink.
“Woof woof~”
The Xiongba in the yard pulled the chain and stuck out his tongue, wanting to drink very much.
"I'll get you some next time." Lin Heng said without untying the chain, because its big mouth would have drunk it all in one gulp.
"Meow~"
Instead, Jinbao, who was sitting on the bench with his paws tucked in, shamelessly ran over to drink with them, bullying the two little puppies.
Lin Heng took a look, turned around and put the glass bottle of milk into the pot to heat it. After sterilization, there would be no problem leaving it there for a day. He could just heat it up in the evening and drink it.
"Xiaoxia, let's go plant trees." Lin Heng prepared the milk and walked to the backyard with a few saplings.
Seeing Xiaoxia playing with frogs on the ground as if she didn't hear anything, he had no choice but to tell Xiulan and went to the backyard.
You can't plant too many trees in the backyard, so Lin Heng planted a Hutai No. 8 grape seedling next to the wild grapes, and then he would graft a red grape onto the wild grape around the Waking of Insects.
You can enjoy the cool under the grape vines in the summer and eat grapes in the fall. It is a very enjoyable thing.
In addition to grapes, Lin Heng also planted a tangerine tree in the corner of the backyard. He plans to keep the tree smaller so that it can remain green all year round and be viewed from the outside.
As for what kind of fruit trees to plant in the back hill, we’ll decide in the afternoon.
In the morning, Xiulan cooked rice, stir-fried spinach, and stir-fried sour cowpea with bacon. After eating, it was almost nine o'clock, and Lin's father and others came over, waiting to take the saplings up the hill.
"Seven of us are still a little insufficient. Caiyun, go and call Dad and his family to help." Lin Heng said after thinking for a while.
"Okay." Caiyun nodded and went out.
Father Lin looked at Lin Heng and said, "Do you think we should plow the land again and plant fruit trees?"
"There's no need to be so troublesome when planting fruit trees. We can just weed them in time later." Lin Heng shook his head.
Then he continued, "After I grow the Chinese medicinal seeds I bought, I will plant them in the ground, and then I will dig them up. After a few years, when the fruit trees grow up, I can dig up my Chinese medicinal herbs too, so I won't be late."
"That's fine." Father Lin nodded in agreement.
After discussion, they decided to go to the slope to plant the apple saplings today.
After Caiyun called Sandie's family over, they all carried all a thousand apple saplings up the slope at once.
The spacing between apple trees is three meters, and the row spacing is three and a half or four meters. Sixty to seventy trees can be planted in one mu of land. They are planted on slopes, all terraces, so they can be planted a little denser, because cars will not be able to get in.
But slopes also have their advantages. If you pull a steel wire, the fruits can slide down directly along the wire.
After discussion, all the apple trees were planted in Lin's father's land, with eight to nine hundred trees planted in ten acres of land. The rest were planted densely together as replacement seedlings.
After going out and walking down the road for a distance, there is a valley in the road, which they call Huangliupo. This place is full of terraces from the top of the mountain to the bottom. The lower two-thirds belongs to the Lin family, with about eight acres of land, and the upper part belongs to other people.
The apple trees were going to be planted here. After Lin Heng gave a brief explanation on the matter when we got to the mountain, everyone started to work. Planting trees is not a difficult task for people in the countryside.
"Lin Hai, let's go and cut down all the trees on the edge of the field." Lin Heng said, holding a diesel saw.
"Okay." Lin Hai was very interested in this job and ran over with a smile.
The two men sawed a distance of three meters along both sides of the ground. It was not difficult to cut the tree with an oil saw, but it took a lot of effort to lift the tree.
Lin Heng felt sad that there was no small excavator now, otherwise if he dug out these tree roots, he could have several more acres of land on both sides to plant fruit trees. Besides, the small excavator was also very good at planting trees.
In one morning, Lin Heng and Lin Hai helped to cut down the trees. Lin's father and others planted four acres of land, which added up to a total of 300 saplings.
The men dig the holes and the women plant the trees. It is not too tiring and is much easier than planting crops.
I went home for lunch and joined Lin Heng and Lin Hai in the afternoon. We planted even faster and finished planting the remaining five acres of land in more than two hours.
"There are still 350 saplings left. This is a lot more than we expected."
When counting the saplings, Lin Heng discovered something was wrong, but they were clearly planted according to regulations, with each tree occupying about ten square meters of land.
His third father Lin Xutao smiled and replied, "This is not surprising. When we measured the land, it wasn't actually this big. Over the past decade or so, we have been cutting down trees on both sides to expand it. In fact, it is now much more than eight acres."
Farmlands in rural areas near forests are always eaten by animals and shaded by trees. Every year when farming, people cut a circle around the edge of the fields and set fire to them.
Over the years, the land has expanded a lot.
Father Lin also said: "Yes, and you have planted fruit trees directly near the edge of the land. These trees occupy half of the area of the mountain forest."
Lin Heng nodded and asked again: "Are the other two acres of land in the ravine?"
"Yes, we have to take the mountain road." Father Lin nodded.
The group climbed over a mountain and came to the edge of a ditch. There were terraced fields on both sides of the ditch. His family also had two acres of land here, right in the middle of the ditch.
This place is far from the highway, and zip lines don't work well.
Lin Heng looked at the place and said, "Why don't we not plant here? It will be exhausting to carry the fruit trees when they are ripe."
It's impossible to build a road in this place.
Xiulan looked at him and said, "Plant them, but plant them sparsely. Wouldn't it be more troublesome to plant crops instead of fruit trees?"
Lin Heng thought so too. If he didn't plant trees, his father would have to come here to farm, which would make him even more tired.
"Let's get started." Lin Heng nodded.
This time he didn't bring a diesel saw, so he had to cut the trees on the edge of the field by hand, so he gave it to his father.
Even though the planting here was sparse, we still planted 253 saplings in one afternoon, and finally there were 211 saplings left.
He took them back and planted two of them in the mountain behind his home, gave ten to his third uncle's family, and planted the rest densely in the ground, waiting to be supplemented later.
The next day is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. According to tradition, the festival is considered over after this day.
However, Lin Heng's family was not idle today, they were planting grapes. Because he thought the growth rate was not high enough, Lin Heng sent someone to take a letter yesterday to ask his uncle and Li Shiwei to come and help.
If you give them a few good fruit tree seedlings when you leave, they will be very happy.
His uncle actually came down early in the morning, which made Lin Heng and others very curious.
Lu Honghai looked at everyone and smiled: "What's the matter? I heard the cowherd said you were planting fruit trees. Can't I come down to help and take a few seedlings back?"
"Yes, of course. Uncle, just take whatever fruit tree seedlings you want." Lin Heng nodded repeatedly.
"Let's talk about it after we finish planting." Lu Honghai said with a smile.
"Let's drink milk, eat, and then leave." Lin Heng said with a smile.
We let everyone taste our own milk, ate some food and then went up the hill.
Lin Heng's family's land on both sides of the river is very scattered, but there is nothing they can do but farm on it.
Grape planting is different from apple planting. It is planted in rows with a spacing of more than two meters between rows. Two trees are planted in a row, and the spacing between plants only needs to be one meter.
When building the grape racks in the future, building them row by row will not only look beautiful but also make it convenient to apply pesticides and pick the fruits.
With the addition of three big men, the speed was even faster. They worked on six acres of land in one morning. Three hundred grape trees can be planted in one acre of land, so a total of 1,800 grape trees were planted in the six acres of land.
Father Lin finally decided to leave a few acres of land to grow crops. Lin Heng said that rice fields could be planted every year, but he still wanted to keep it.
There were some fields where wheat and rapeseed were planted, so we simply destroyed part of them and planted grape vines in them. After all, it was just digging a hole and wouldn't destroy too much.
After planting in the morning, Father Lin's land was considered finished.
In the afternoon, he planted for his elder brother. One acre of land can plant one hundred red-heart kiwifruit trees. In the afternoon, he planted ten acres of land, and exactly one thousand trees.
"Brother, if I grow kiwis, then I owe you 600 yuan for the kiwis alone, and 700 yuan for the gun."
On the way back after planting the fields, Lin Yue said with a smile.
Because red-heart kiwifruit is very precious, a three-year-old grafted seedling costs 30 cents.
"It's okay, they're all the same, just remember it." Lin Heng said with a smile.
"Let's go back and eat dumplings." Lin Hai ran over, grabbed their shoulders and shouted.
(End of this chapter)
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