Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 278 Planting Trees
As soon as father and mother left, the yard became deserted instantly.

Li Hongbing put down his luggage and wandered around the old house with his hands behind his back. It feels good to go home. No matter how nice the bungalow is, it is not his home after all.

The loquats in the fruit forest are ripe, and the golden loquats are all over the branches. When one is picked off, the skin is torn off, and the fruity aroma is strong. When you take a bite, it is sweet with honey, the flesh is thick and the core is small, and the taste is delicious.

After eating the loquat, the peel was thrown into the fish pond, and the water splashed and the big fish and the small fish jumped out of the water to fight.

Looking at the fat and strong fish in the pond, Li Hongbing held his chin and meditated.

"It's been a long time since I ate spicy fish."

When you leave the orchard and come to the vegetable garden, you will see all kinds of green, which are full of vitality. The cucumber vines are already full of finger-length cucumbers, all of which have thorns on top of the flowers, and green persimmons are hanging all over the branches. The eggplant is growing so fast that the eggplant seedlings will be broken.

Buzz!
The queen bumblebee flew over again with her big fart twisted, and flew up and down in front of Li Hongbing's eyes, inviting him to visit the hive.

Li Hongbing came to the hive curiously, with a shocked expression on his face.

At that time, I thought that bumblebee nests are generally not too big, and there are only seventy or eighty bumblebees in a nest, and they built a hole the size of a washbasin. Now I really underestimate the effect of the original power.

The fine soil dug up by the bumblebees on the field ridges piled up into slopes, densely packed fat worker bees flew in and out from the field ridges, their round farts were covered with heavy pollen and tried hard to fly, and from time to time they landed on the grass blades to rest.

A bit of a hassle!

At a glance, there are at least a few hundred bumblebees at work.

Looking at the ridges that were about to be dug through, Li Hongbing never thought that the bumblebee queens were so prolific. If they were allowed to continue digging, the entire ridge would collapse when it rained heavily.

Reach out and take the bumblebee queen into the palm of your hand.

"Don't do it again, how about building a new home for you in two days."

Buzz!
The queen bumblebee turned around and turned to Li Hongbing with a big fart, as if I didn't hear anything, and I'm about to have a baby.

The little guy has a stubborn temper.

Li Hongbing shook his head and smiled wryly, walked out of the courtyard to the barn on the meadow.

The meadow has begun to recede, and the bamboo raft I made a few days ago has been stranded on the shore. The hot and humid environment in the forest area and the rising water temperature have caused mountain mosquitoes to hatch in patches. More than a dozen hungry mountain mosquitoes.

Fortunately, there is Qixiang San, otherwise this year would not have been a safe summer.

The cattle are tainted with the power of origin, and the mountain mosquitoes are not a big threat to them. The flocks of sheep and pigs are scattered on the meadow, eating grass leaves leisurely.

Hei Feng, who was wandering in the meadow, suddenly felt that the master had returned, and suddenly raised his head to look at the old house.

From a distance, I saw the master standing on the grass slope who was thinking about it day and night!

Boom!

Hei Feng raised his head and let out a long hiss, which instantly intensified into a flash of lightning, and rushed to Li Hongbing's side, circled around Li Hongbing, jumped up and down, shook his head, and vented his inner excitement.

When the other animals heard the movement, they turned their heads to look.

Heijiao was lazily lying in the grass nest, with a few bleating lambs lying beside him, suddenly heard Hei Feng's long hiss, turned over in a jerk, kicked the lamb away without fatherly love, and ran out of the grass shed.

The buffalo herd followed behind, taking heavy square steps, rumbling towards the grassy slope.

Soon.

Li Hongbing was surrounded by animals.

Watching the animals jumping around alive and well, the restlessness brought by the city was silently smoothed out by them.

The shriveled calf squeezed out from the herd and lowed at Li Hongbing.

"I haven't seen you for a few days, you've grown up so much!"

I haven't seen him for half a month, and the shriveled calf seems to have grown a lot. It is estimated that it will weigh more than 400 kilograms.

"Uncle Red Soldier, here we come!"

Dakui's broken gong sounded behind him, Li Hongbing looked back and grinned, three generations of old, middle-aged and young people from Caogou Village were all present, and each of them had a white cloth sachet hanging around their waist or neck.

"Uncle Hongbing, this year is your blessing, and I finally don't need to wear a hat to go out."

Da Kui pointed to the top of his head, and the following mountain mosquitoes buzzed in the air, but no one was bitten, and the others nodded one after another.

"The Qixiang powder in the village is enough!" Li Hongbing looked at the scholar, and when he was in Mingzhu City, he specially told Shanxing to use the herbs in the medicine field as a medicine introduction, powdered and mixed according to the ratio of [-] to [-], and the effect was not as good as that of his own medicine garden. The herbs are good, but more than enough to repel mosquitoes.

"It's enough. The old warehouse uses a machine stone mill to grind powder very quickly. The Qixiang powder that is ground in one day is enough for the whole village to use for half a month." Xiucai seemed to have a happy event, his face was full of red.

"You boy, are you married to Er Nizi?" Li Hongbing joked, but he didn't notice that Lao Gen's face in the crowd was as black as the bottom of a pot.

Li Hongqi, who was eager to try, jumped out, and the scholar rushed forward to stop him in fright, but his small body could not hold down Li Hongqi, and was caught under his arm instead, Li Hongqi began to break the news.

"Brother, you don't know yet! Widow Liu is now blocking Xiucai's house every day to scold her. After scolding in the morning, she scolds at night. She must say that Xiucai harmed Erni."

What!
I haven't taught you how to flirt with younger sisters yet, so you have learned it without a teacher!

Li Hongbing looked at the flushed scholar in shock, he didn't know whether it was because he couldn't change his temper because he was caught in the trap, or because he was ashamed because of the embarrassing things he said.

Snapped!
Fu Sheng slapped Li Hongqi on the back of the head, cursing

"You son of a bitch, you saw it with that eye, what nonsense, go away."

As the saying goes, family ugliness should not be publicized, not to mention the family ugliness of old brothers. Lao Gen often complained to his old brothers about this mess. If Shan Xing hadn't made peace with them, Widow Liu would have ruined Lao Gen's family.

"Uncle Hong Soldier, what can you do with us?" Lao Gen not far away mentioned family affairs in public, deliberately changing the topic.

Only then did Li Hongbing think of business.

"It's like this. I bought a lot of fruit trees outside and plan to plant them around Horseshoe Bay. There are a lot of trees. I plan to ask the villagers to help. The wages are 200 yuan per worker."

Plant trees?

It's worth paying for this matter, and treat us as outsiders, who do you look down on!
The three generations of old, middle-aged and young people in Caogou Village were indignant.

But when I saw more than a dozen bouncers, all spraying black smoke, driving into the old house from the mountain road at the entrance of the village, and the fruit trees in the carriages were 20 centimeters long and three to four meters high, they were all dumbfounded.

This is a fruit tree?

Could Uncle Hong Bing dig up other people's orchards?

"Doctor Li, the first batch of trees has been brought to you." The long-faced driver of the Bengbeng car in the lead is an old acquaintance, and he used his car to deliver the animals several times.

What!
This is the first batch?
The three generations of old, middle-aged and young people in Caogou Village secretly put the shovels and hoes on their shoulders behind their backs.

Just such a tree requires at least four people to work together to plant it. There are at least a hundred trees in these bouncing cars in front of me. If I count on my group of people to plant them, they will not be able to plant them all.

No wonder Uncle Red Soldier wants to start wages.

"I'll call someone, Brother Hongbing, I'll give you 200 per worker, right?" Li Hongqi ran to the village with a bright head, leaving the scholar who was regretful because of his slow response, and Jianjun and the others.

"Doctor Li, where to unload the tree? We are still waiting to go back to pull the second trip. It is not easy to run a car at night." The long-faced driver asked anxiously while waiting to go back to pull the second trip.

Li Hongbing pointed to the surrounding area of ​​the grass slope, "Unload over there."

"Okay!" Changlian started the jumping car and reversed the car to the edge of the grassy slope.

Talking, talking, laughing.

When it was time to work, the three generations of the old, the middle-aged and the young in Caogou Village stepped forward to unload the trees without hesitation.

Since the bouncy car does not have a self-unloading function, it can only be lowered from the car one by one by manpower using lifting bars and ropes.

Li Hongbing can cure diseases, but planting trees is not his strong point.

How trees are planted, where they are located, orientation, and spacing are all particular.

Naturally, the older generation took over the baton, and Li Hongbing was reduced to a capable instrumentalist.

The fruit trees were unloaded from the car, and the drivers turned around without taking a sip of water, and went out of the mountain.

Uncle Mifu squinted his eyes, looked up at the sky, and carried a hoe to measure his steps along the grassy slope of Horseshoe Bay, looking for the best tree planting spot.

Every time they found a suitable place, they first dug a shallow pit with a hoe, and then Dakui and the others used a shovel to dig a deep pit according to the size of the tree ball.

The tree pit is dug out, and the rest is planting trees.

An old fruit tree with a diameter of 20 cm and a height of 4 meters weighs about 300 kg.

This weight is nothing to farmers who have been farming all year round. Generally, farmers who carry 300 catties on their shoulders are everywhere, and they walk like flying.

But an old fruit tree weighs two ends, and someone needs to lift the tree ball in front, and someone needs to lift the canopy in the back. The job of two people needs four people to do it, which affects the efficiency of tree planting.

"Uncle Red Soldier, here we come!"

Just as Li Hongbing had just planted a fruit tree, there were noisy footsteps on the mountain road behind him, and he turned around to look back.

A mighty group of people on the mountain road, men and women, old and young, all of them carrying shovels and hoes, basically all the able-bodied people in the village came, even Shan Xing was among them, when they saw Li Hongbing There was lovesickness in his eyes.

"When will I come back, I won't tell anyone." Shan Xing complained and took out a towel and patted the dirt off Li Hongbing's clothes.

"Just got home." Looking at Shan Xing's fair and delicate neck, Li Hongbing couldn't help spitting, holding back for half a month, it was time to eat some meat.

"Yo, Uncle Red Soldier, why are your eyes glowing green!" As someone who has been there, Guifeng's sister-in-law is very familiar with this look, but every time Dakui comes back from the mountains, his eyes are like this, wishing to eat himself, and then
Tiemei's sister-in-law responded loudly on purpose, "This is hungry. Men can't be hungry. When they are hungry, they will glow green."

The left-behind woman, Shuangyan, looked envious, "Xing'er, hurry up and bring Uncle Hongbing into the house, and let him out after he is full. If he eats something wrong, he will lose money."

"Who loses is not sure!"

The two of them were surrounded by a group of female drivers. You talked to each other and stepped on the gas pedal unscrupulously. The old men around laughed from ear to ear.

In the end, Shan Xing had a thin skin and pushed Li Hongbing away and ran into the old house.

Da Kui came out to smooth things over.

"Okay, let's talk, laugh and laugh, work quickly, there will be a bouncy car to deliver fruit trees later, Uncle Hongbing can pay 200 yuan for a job, don't just talk nonsense."

Caogou Village was changed from a production brigade to a village, and a production team into a villager group.

The name has changed, but the function has not changed.

It turns out that the village team leader is Da Kui, Tie Zhu, and Lao Gen.

Several people greeted the villagers' team members and assigned tasks. The men carried the tree and the women supported the tree crown.

After the initial chaos, slowly planting trees became methodical.

Fruit trees were buried in tree pits.

Uncle Mifu had a serious expression on his face, and he pulled Li Hongbing aside.

"Red Soldier, 78 doesn't plant trees. Old trees are old-fashioned. I'm afraid your trees won't survive,"

The 78 not to plant trees is an old saying in the forest area, which means that you can’t plant trees in July and August. This is because the temperature is high in July and August, the climate is dry, the trees are sleeping, and the leaves begin to fall in autumn. It is not suitable to plant trees in this season. Rarely survived.

Li Hongbing didn't take Uncle Mifu's worries to heart at all. Let alone planting trees in August, even in the cold winter months, he can grow trees himself.

If you have the power of the source, you are afraid of a hair.

"Uncle Hongbing, this is an apple tree! Do you want to plant it together?" Lao Gen asked loudly from a distance.

"Plant together." Li Hongbing turned his head back, and comforted Uncle Misty, "It's okay, these trees are gifts from friends, if they can be planted, they will be planted, and if not, they will be used as firewood."

"You!" Uncle Mifu shook his head and sighed helplessly. Young people now think differently. If they dared to ruin fruit trees like this in the early years, a beating would be light.

soon.

The first batch of more than 100 old fruit trees were planted on the grassy slope of Horseshoe Bay. Women carried buckets to fill the roots of the trees with water, while men sat on the ground to smoke and drink water.

"Uncle Hongbing, I recognize the apple trees, peach trees, and pear trees. What kind of trees are there on your side? Why haven't I seen them before?"

Lao Gen pointed to a few fruit trees with smooth trunks and spotted branches and leaves not far away.

"That is?"

To be honest, Li Hongbing didn't know him either. At that time, Yaguohui had signed contracts with 23 or ten fruit companies, and there were fruit trees from all over the world. After that, he didn't know what he bought.

But I am a druid!

Swipe on the fruit tree with your senses to get its information.

"That's a lychee tree."

The older villagers looked at a blank look. They didn't know what kind of tree a lychee tree was, and they had never heard of it.

But Li Hongqi and his group of young people knew that they frowned when they heard that they were planting lychee trees.

"Brother Hongbing, lychee trees are fruit trees by the sea, can we grow them in the mountains? They will all freeze to death when it snows."

In this regard, Li Hongbing can only weave a white lie.

"It's okay, there are nutrition packs sent by them, and you can live with just one injection."

People in the mountains have seen injections given to humans, animals, and trees. This is the first time they have heard of it.

Can't help feeling that the world has changed too much.

Trees can be needled.

Rest for a while.

The second batch of bungee carts arrived, and they were full of more than a dozen carts of fruit trees.

The villagers are busy again.

Planting along the grassy slope of Horseshoe Bay, you can see Horseshoe Bay at a glance when standing at the entrance of the village, but now it is no longer possible because it is blocked by a row of fruit trees.

The third batch.

Fourth batch.

Caogou Village has never been so lively. From daytime to dusk, the sound of bouncing cars never stops.

The villagers planted trees and planted hemp!

For the first time, I felt that planting trees would be so tiring.

From morning to sunset, at least 3000 to [-] trees have been planted by visual inspection. According to Uncle Hongbing, it is only a small half, and there are more than [-] trees in the future.

Be nice!

The villagers trembled secretly when they heard this.

Back then, the production team was not so ruthless when it came to large-scale construction. Uncle Hongbing wanted to build an orchard in Caogou Village with four thousand fruit trees.

As the sky darkened.

Sanpao called and said that it was dark and the Bengbeng car did not dare to walk at night, and the remaining trees could only be sent to the village tomorrow morning.

When Li Hongbing told the bad news.

The villagers breathed a sigh of relief, and sat on the ground for a long time, unwilling to get up.

As the old saying goes, money is hard to earn and shit is hard to eat.

This 200 yuan salary is really unpalatable.

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(End of this chapter)