Era: I was a farmer at the foot of Yaoling Mountain

Chapter 85 New Task, Tea and Chestnut

[The pig farm] must be operated according to rules and regulations. If Uncle Wu disobeys management, Fang Wei will have no choice but to give it up.

"Of course I have no objection! I have no education, and raising pigs is all based on experience. If you have a better method, I will definitely listen to you."

Uncle Wu laughed and didn't resist at all.

He had a very good relationship with Fang Wei's father back then, and this child essentially grew up under his care.

The key is that they have real skills. They cultivated rice seeds and increased grain production. Everyone can have enough food this year. Who wouldn't think of the kindness of this "little scholar"?
It’s fine for young people to set rules, as long as they don’t mess around.

"Thank you for your understanding, Uncle Wu!"

After Fang Wei returned, he improved the rules and regulations of the pig farm, and made detailed regulations on the environment, hygiene, feeding, disease prevention and so on.

Such rules and regulations exist not only in the [pig farm], but also in [poultry house No. 2], [composting yard], [experimental field], etc.

Although my fifth uncle was not well educated, he was literate and quickly understood the rules and regulations.

What Fang Wei writes is easy to understand and almost all of his writing uses colloquial expressions.

As time passed, the experimental fields, poultry houses, pig farms, composting sites, etc. that he managed were all on the right track, allowing him to worry less.

The rice in the experimental field was the first to enter the tillering stage. The members of the breeding team went out together to drain the water in the field and began to dry the field.

This is the benefit of standardized management. There are strict regulations on what to do and when, which avoids the uncertainty of doing things based solely on experience.

At this time, the attribute blessing effect of the experimental field is reflected.

Although the transplanting period of the experimental field is similar to that of the field, the growth rate has gradually widened.

This is the result of Fang Wei's conscious control. In the end, the harvesting time of the experimental field will be about 25 days earlier than that of the main field.

In fact, the significance of twenty days earlier or later is not very big. It is mainly to highlight the difference between the experimental field and the field.

Intentionally elevating the status of the experimental field.

Establishing authority is not necessarily a good thing, but sometimes it is not necessarily a bad thing.

If Fang Wei wants to promote the rice variety "Nan Guang No. 1" that he developed, he needs to establish his authority, which has the same effect as advertising.

When you do the same thing better than others in every aspect, your authority is established invisibly.

A few days passed quickly.

Fang Wei was observing the pests and diseases in the experimental field when he heard someone calling him, "Brother Fang, you are really busy."

He straightened up, turned his head, and saw the girl with a beautiful smile on her face.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered that they had agreed to go hunting after the spring sowing, and he couldn't help but shook his head secretly.

This damn memory.

"Sister, wait a minute, I'll be right there."

Fang Wei greeted him, then came out of the field and went to the ditch to wash the mud off his feet.

After the fields were dried in the sun, they were filled with water again and the rice grew stronger.

"If I had known you were so busy, I wouldn't have come. Did I bother you?"

Fang Wei put on his shoes and walked up to Pan Lianhua. The other party still looked carefree and had a pure and lovely smile.

"Let's go sit inside."

Fang Wei did not respond to Lianhua's words and directly took her back home.

When Tian Guihua saw two people enter the room together, she immediately put down the work in her hands, stood up and went forward to greet them.

"Lotus, you haven't been here for a while. Please sit down first. I'll make tea for you."

Tian Guihua smiled brightly and was busy running around.

She served tea, then took out some fried peanuts, and then hurried to cook.

"Sister, how are the crops in the village growing?"

"It's growing well. Grandpa said this year will definitely be a bumper year."

"That's great! If you have any questions, just tell me and I'll take the time to go up the mountain and help you deal with it."

The two of them sat in the main room and chatted casually. Tian Guihua occasionally poked her head out from the kitchen with an aunt-like smile.

After the meal was ready, Fang Ping finished work and returned home.

After a while, four dishes and a soup were placed on the table, including [Stir-fried bacon with dried bamboo shoots], [Scrambled eggs with leeks], [Stir-fried chili peppers with fermented black beans], [Stir-fried vegetables], and a [Pumpkin soup].

This is not Pan Lianhua's first time here, so there is no need to be polite.

Fang Wei and his elder brother drank some sweet potato wine. They ate, drank and chatted, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

After dinner, Pan Lianhua took out a bag of roasted chestnuts, two pounds of bacon, and some dried mushrooms from her backpack.

"I didn't bring anything with me, just some homemade bacon, mushrooms, and chestnuts I picked from the mountains."

As she spoke, she handed these things to Tian Guihua.

She knew that Fang Wei didn't cook himself, so in the end his sister-in-law would have to cook for him.

However, chestnuts can be eaten as snacks, so Tian Guihua opened the paper bag on the spot and put it on the table.

Fang Wei grabbed a chestnut and tasted it. It tasted pretty good.

This is a wild chestnut, which is smaller than cultivated chestnuts. Their shapes are also different: wild chestnuts are mostly conical, while common chestnuts are usually oblate, making them easy to distinguish.

"Girl, are there many wild chestnuts like these around the village?"

"Not much. These are what my brothers and sisters picked when they went out hunting. They've been stored in the jar for a long time, so you don't get to eat them often."

"Oh, I've seen wild chestnuts in the mountains before, but they weren't ripe yet. I'll take you to see them later." "Okay, you promised to go hunting with me in the mountains."

The two young men chatted more and more excitedly, and Fang Ping and his wife had already quietly gone into the house.

Seeing that it was getting late, Pan Lianhua prepared to leave. She needed to go to the commune to meet up with her brothers and sisters before returning to the village.

"The [Ox King Festival] is coming soon. We need to buy some glutinous rice to take back. If you are free during the Dragon Boat Festival, come and visit me in the village."

The [Ox King Festival] in the Yao village is very grand, but according to custom, outsiders are not invited to watch the ceremony, nor are guests entertained.

On the day of the festival, glutinous rice cakes and sweet wine are used to feed cattle. For this festival, the county specially approved some glutinous rice for the Yao village, which they need to buy from the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Okay, I'll take you there."

When Fang Wei sent Pan Lianhua out, he happened to see the team's tractor going to the commune to do some business, so he let Pan Lianhua take a ride.

After returning to the house, Tian Guihua couldn't help rolling her eyes.

She felt that with such a good opportunity, her younger brother should send her to the commune. He couldn't even show his courtesy, which was a sign of being a blockhead.

In fact, Fang Wei didn't have such thoughts. It was true that he had a good impression of Pan Lianhua, but it was far from the level of a romantic relationship.

He felt that his sister-in-law was just trying to match people up and was even more anxious than him, the real partner.

night.

Fang Tao came back from school and ate the remaining chestnuts with his sister, and kept saying how delicious they were.

"When autumn comes, I'll go to the mountains and pick more chestnuts. They're not easy to get now."

Fang Wei kept this in mind. He also liked eating this thing and planned to go to the mountains to have a look when he had time.

A few days later, he took time to go to the valley to weed and water the peanut field, and then followed the marked route to find the small patch of wild chestnut trees.

There are about twenty chestnut trees, sparsely scattered, covering an area of about 500 square meters.

The area of the [picking area] is 2 square meters, and the designated oil tea forest only occupies about 4000 square meters, which is very redundant.

So he also designated this small chestnut forest.

Then Fang Wei began to look for chestnut tree seedlings. This area was rarely visited by people, so there were always some tree seeds that fell to the ground and took root and sprouted.

He strengthened his [Detection] attribute and quickly found what he needed.

There were five small seedlings in total. He carefully dug them out with their roots and prepared to take them all back.

Chestnut branches are difficult to germinate, so planting by cuttings is not feasible. Either sowing or grafting is required.

Transplanting like Fang Wei is possible, but it is more difficult and the survival rate is a big problem.

He was going to give it a try.

Then he went to the wild tea oil tree forest and found several tea oil tree seedlings as well.

The purpose of this trip had been achieved, so Fang Wei hurried back. By the time he got home, it was already dark.

He spent most of the day traveling.

The mountains are high and the roads are long, to be honest it is really inconvenient. If the supplies were more abundant now, he would not have suffered this hardship.

"Old Three, why are you up so late today?"

The family had already eaten dinner. Fang Ping had stood outside the door and watched several times, feeling quite worried.

Tian Guihua hurried to heat up the food, and the meals were left out separately.

Fang Wei washed his face and told his elder brother about what happened today: "I want to plant some chestnuts on the mountain in the team. I also found a large forest of wild tea oil trees."

Fang Ping suddenly became energetic. Although the mountain was high and the road was long, who would complain about having too much oil at home?

"That's great. Wait until autumn and you and I will go pick tea seeds and squeeze out more tea oil so that we don't have to use oil when cooking."

"Okay, I'll show you around when I have time."

Fang Wei could understand his elder brother's mood at the moment. This was the helplessness of an era of material scarcity. At the same time, people in this era were also easily satisfied.

Looking at the light radiating from Fang Ping's eyes, all his tiredness from the day seemed to disappear.

After dinner, he checked his nephew's homework, explained a few questions to him, and then went back to rest.

Two more tasks were added to his "to-do list": one was to gradually improve the team's tea oil trees, and the other was to find a way to plant a chestnut forest.

Of course, this process may be long, but he has patience.

The next day.

Fang Wei went to find Zheng Xianfa and told him his thoughts.

"I need one or two acres of forest land to experiment with raising seedlings."

"That's easy. All the trees on the back hill have been cut down, and all that's left are shrubs and weeds. Huang, I'll arrange for someone to clear two acres of land for you later. Is that enough?"

Zheng Xianfa thought it was a big deal, but it turned out to be just a small matter.

The team has a considerable amount of forest land, which is the source of fuel (firewood) for the members. It is not too difficult to clear out two acres of forest land.

So I agreed immediately and told him that if two acres of land were not enough, I could just ask.

"That's enough, that's enough."

Fang Wei was very happy. All he wanted was a status.

With a name, you can designate it and thus improve the quality of the saplings.

Zheng Xianfa didn't say anything more and immediately arranged for people to clear out two acres of forest land as an experimental forest base for the breeding team.

(End of this chapter)