Chapter 937: 919. Next year’s plan
Qiaoqiao truly sighed with all her heart.
How rich in variety the mountains were during the sumr and autumn! Cowpeas, eggplants, chilli peppers, tomatoes, water spinach, celery, pickled bamboo shoots…
Back then, I couldn’t wait to chop and dry them every day, cramming the small warehouse full of dry goods and pickles. But now, although the mountains are covered with varying shades of green, from afar, there are still large patches of uncultivated land.
However, he was not panicked, and at this mont he pointed out each one to everyone:
“Underneath the apple tree, in spring we’ll transplant and pick Ai Cao fruits. I heard that when Ai Cao fruits mature, they look especially pretty being all red and plump, but I haven’t seen one yet since no one here grows them.”
“Over there in that empty space, we will plant the local big green pears—big, crisp, and sweet. They’ll be for the kids to eat!”
“And over there, we’re going to plant pogranates—originally we ordered the grown tree saplings too late, so it was too late to plant them in winter. We’ll wait till spring to plant.”
As he walked, he pointed his cara towards the distant mountains, his words full of anticipation for the next year:
“Fruit trees bearing fruits is like giving birth to babies; it takes many years to gather the strength… But I really, really want to eat them. The saplings my sister bought can bear fruits; they’re so expensive!”
Speaking of which, he started to feel distressed.
After all, those mature saplings capable of bearing fruit need to be painstakingly selected from other orchards, and if it weren’t for Professor Song knowing so many people far and wide, and having enough status, thus getting many eager offers through his friends’ circle… It wouldn’t be easy to gather these ordinary fruit trees.
As for the price difference between the trees dug up from the orchards and those small saplings from the nursery, it’s enough to make the fifty-dollar-a-day intern Qiaoqiao endure the heartache.
“And over this area…” Qiaoqiao slowly made her way to the steepest part of the hillside: “There are so many, many tiny stones in this soil, you just can’t pick them all… My sister said fruit trees might not grow well here, so next year, we’ll plant Ai Cao here instead.”
As he spoke, he suddenly rembered sothing and quickly asked the live stream: “Kids, have you used the Ai Tiao I sent you before? How were the effects?”
He shook his head proudly: “Doctor Sister said, although this Ai Cao isn’t three years old, the effects are surprisingly good, and many people in the village use it to treat sumr diseases in winter, and they haven’t had recurrences yet!”
When he ntioned giving everyone fruit to eat earlier, everyone was chattering about it, and now that he brought up Ai Cao, they were even more eager to speak up:
[Just one question, this plot of land looks pretty big, will there be so Ai Cao for
next year?]
[What’s Ai Tiao? What’s Ai Tiao? Did the host ever give out Ai Tiao?]
[How could you have the audacity to ask that, when you clearly only gave Ai Tiao to those at the top of the leaderboard!]
[Hahahaha, ecstatic to receive it! But I didn’t use it for health, but for better sleep and mosquito repelling, and it worked wonders]
[The one upfront is wasting such treasure! I took it ho for my wife to use for her abdon. It was such a long piece and after using it for 7 days, her periods are no longer painful!]
[I, I, I took it ho and used it on my mom’s legs, the effect was really good! It’s just a pity that when I asked again in the backstage, there was none left]
[Aaaaah, rolling in pain and jealousy, why didn’t I get any]
[Equally resenting everyone who got an Ai Tiao]
[Host, look at ! I don’t ask for much, just give
a chance to buy so Ai Cao next Dragon Boat Festival!]
But the host didn’t look at anyone.
Qiaoqiao, like a sprightly deer, frolicked up the mountain, soon reaching another slope, and then proudly declared:
“My sister said we’ll plant sunflowers here! When the ti cos, take
to see the sunflowers flicking their heads— I heard that sunflowers follow the sun during the day, and co deep night, they’ll flick their heads back to original position…”
“After watching the head flick, we can eat sunflower seeds!”
[Blazingly, blurrily, hahaha]
[Damn, sunflowers flicking their heads]
[Hahaha laughing till crowing, there’s a perk to the strear not reading the barrage, like right now he doesn’t know our joy]
[That said, I also have this question, how did the sunflower return to its original position?]
[To be honest, I want to see too…]
[Strear, look at , they are all laughing at you, and I am the only one crying — can I buy next year’s seeds?]
[Was laughing, but imdiately stopped when I saw the seeds — can’t grab anything at all, hey!]
[Exactly! If I can’t grab them next ti, I’m climbing the signal tower!]
Everyone got angry again because the seeds had yet to be sown, and Qiaoqiao took everyone to see the plan for Ju Zi —.
“It’s a bit cold here in winter, and the orange trees are sowhat afraid of frost… But it should be okay, other uncles in the village also grow them, so sister said we should plant them on the mountain too!”
It’s the dead of winter, and the sun feels warm on the skin, but the mountain wind is still sowhat cold.
Qiaoqiao’s nose has been reddened by the wind, and now she took everyone to another place: “Here we’ll plant dates… Sister calls them winter dates, but the big date trees here all ripen in the autumn… I don’t understand why they’re called winter dates…”
“And the wheat fields at the foot of the mountain… Is it not lush and green now? Teacher Xin said that heavy snow heralds a bountiful harvest, it’s like having a thick blanket over the wheat…”
“And over there, that’s where we breed the Ai Cao, has everyone bought our straw mats? It’s weaved from this.”
He listed them one by one, leaving everyone dazzled and anticipating with excitent… it’s like seeing their own farmland.
But, finally soone ca to their senses.
[Co to think of it, after seeing such a big piece of land, I finally realized that the strear doesn’t aim to make money from what he plants]
[I realized it too, how to say? I hate that he doesn’t properly make money, but also moved that he still has extras to sell to us]
[What what? The person speaking in riddles, please speak clearly]
[Can’t understand what you all are talking about]
[Haven’t you understood yet? The plot of land the strear showed us isn’t big, and each type of fruit tree and plants he plans to grow takes up even less space!]
[It vaguely reminds , originally there were only 20 acres of Eagle Beak Peach.]
[More types, less land, ans less quantity. With such little quantity, how much produce can be sold to us?]
[Ahhh, each type is a new variety, I must buy each, so many people snatching so little stuff… woo woo woo is my fate so hard]
[I’m just saying, the peaches from your farm taste pretty good, with a couple hundred acres of land in front of you can’t we plant just those? That way at least everyone could get a box each turn]
[Thinking of wishful things, haven’t you understood? The strear’s family first plants what they want to eat, and only sells the surplus]
[The main idea is whimsical and not profit-driven]
[Can I beg him to make money now?]
[Diversified planting consus labor and increases cost, when will we get rich this way]
anwhile, Qiaoqiao sniffled, checked the live broadcast ti, and then happily said:
“It’s been an hour, ti to show you the effects of the hand cream, ah no, hand mask!”
The fans in the livestream who had already forgotten about the hand mask: …
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