newbobooks Chapter 839 Tuanyu Pond
Chapter 839 Tuanyu Pond
Li said, "Zhuangzi can't be read at any time. I have to keep these things well. These are your uncle's favorite foods. If they go bad, they will be gone."
Zhou Guo pulled her out and said, "It's the same if you give these to them. They can do this. Now that we are at the manor, we have to go for a walk. I'll take you to the mountain. Haven't you always wanted to see the fruit trees on the mountain?"
Li was dragged away by her helplessly.
Zhou Guo pointed at the ponds and said, "Mom, look, this pond is so big, we can raise more than 100,000 crabs in it next year."
Li took one look and said, "It's really bigger than the one at home. Why are there lotus flowers in that pond but not here?"
She pointed toward the small pond.
Zhou Guo said, "I don't have that many lotus seeds. This year, the four prefectures need them, so I'll scatter them in the small ponds first. Next year, the big ponds will have them. In the summer, the lotus flowers will be so beautiful. Mother, we can stay here for a few months to avoid the heat."
Li said, "It's not like there aren't any at home. I came all the way here to see the lotuses. And I see, it's even hotter here than at home. If we want to escape the heat, we'd better stay at home."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Then come in spring. You see, the fruit trees on the two sides of the mountain will bloom next year. You can enjoy the flowers in spring, and pick the fruits in autumn when the mountains are full of fruits."
Li walked around the hills on both sides, looked at the cherry seedlings that were taller than her calves, the apple and pear trees that were taller than her, and smiled, "In the past, the only decent fruit we could eat all year round was the big apricot tree in the yard. Even then we could only eat some bad fruit, those with worm holes, holes, and cracks. The good fruit was kept to sell. Now, the whole hill is full of them."
Zhou Guo said: "I have also planted more than ten apricot trees in Chengding, and they will bear fruit next year."
Apricot seedlings are cheaper than cherry and apple seedlings, and are easier to buy. The ones we buy are all large ones.
Li was surprised and asked, "Why don't you bring a few home? Wouldn't it be better to plant them next to the house?"
Zhou Guo said, "I asked them to buy them, but I forgot to ask them to leave a few for home. I've also found the pomegranates, grapes, and oranges you wanted, and have planted them all in Chengding. I'll move a few back this fall."
Li was really surprised. "I didn't hear you mention it. When did this happen? We thought there was no clue."
I dare not ask.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "We found some in Wujiang this spring, but not many. There are only about ten seedlings of each type. When these seedlings grow up, we can graft them. Then we will have more."
Li said, "That's enough. There are more than ten trees. There are only a few of us in our family. Even if we include our relatives and friends, we can't finish them. How can we have so many?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said nothing. Of course, he would sell it.
Although people don’t have much money these days, fresh fruits are sold at high prices. I guess they are bought by rich people.
She also wants to make money from rich people.
Besides, grapes can be used to make wine, although she doesn't know how to do it.
Zhou Guo took her to tour the farm inside and out. Li still liked the mountains full of fruit trees and the vast green rice fields the most.
She patted Zhou Guo's hand and said, "This farm is great. Is it managed by the bald man? I never thought that a grown man like him, who used to be a bandit, could manage the farm so well. It really has everything. Except for oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, we don't have to go out to buy them."
Zhou Guo said: "This is just one of the villages. There are still several villages you haven't visited yet."
Li smiled and said, "I don't need to go to other manors. Just look at this and you will know that these manors are no worse than ours."
If her home didn't have a few hills with so many sheep mushrooms and flower mushrooms planted there, as well as pine mushrooms every year, she would really like to live here for a year or two.
"Mom, mom, come and look, there are round fish in here, my second brother caught a round fish, we will have round fish to eat tonight!"
Zhou Suli was shouting from the small pond. This small pond was not big, only about five or six acres, and was specially used for raising turtles.
The two walked over.
Zhou Guo watched them fishing for turtles with a homemade fishing rod. There was only one in each bucket. He couldn't help but say, "I have at least eight or nine thousand turtles in this small pond. How come it took me half a day to catch just one?"
Several people were silent. Who told them not to fish?
The old man appeared out of nowhere, took out a fishing rod, sat down and started fishing.
Seeing this, Zhou Guo also asked someone to take one and said, "Then let's compete to see who catches more."
The group of people suddenly stopped talking.
Li shook her head and smiled, then went downstairs to clean up. She had to go to the kitchen to check.
The group sat by the small pond and fished for more than half an hour. Zhou Guo's bucket had the most fish, sixteen.
The old man is second, with ten.
The others had three of the four, and Li Lai didn't catch any at all. It was only when Zhou Su secretly stuffed one into his bucket that his bucket was not empty.
Several buckets were placed together, and Zhou Guo said with a smile: "Let's keep these for now, and throw the uneaten ones back when the time comes."
Cangshan Village is frozen for three or four months a year, which is not very suitable for raising turtles. They can only be raised in Kang'an and Huaiyang. This is the first year of breeding.
Later on, when the scale gets bigger and bigger, we will be able to make money.
Turtles are not much cheaper than crabs.
More importantly, these turtle seedlings were not obtained by her from Baoyue Tower. They can be sold in various prefectures and cities, and she can sell them wherever she wants.
To be honest, the number of times our family has eaten turtles over the years can be counted on one hand.
This thing is not very easy to buy. Sometimes you are lucky enough to catch one or two in the river, or happen to meet someone selling it, but the whole family has never eaten enough.
Especially the old man, he likes it very much and likes to eat it with wine the most.
In the evening, Li picked out four turtles to cook, two for braising and two for stewing with chicken, and drank the soup and ate the meat.
The old man took a bite of the braised food and said, "It's good to have land at home. You can grow anything you want to eat."
This thing is so rare that there is actually a pond on this farm.
Zhou Guo said, "Master, if you like them, eat more. There are still many in the pond. In a few years, these groupers will be as abundant as the crabs at home. There will be more than 100,000 of them in the pond every year."
After thinking for a while, he said, "Then you can eat as much of the big red pomegranates as you like."
Everyone looked up when they heard this.
"Do you have the grape seedlings I want?"
"My dates, red dates, are delicious whether eaten raw or dried."
Zhou Guo nodded, "We have everything, we have everything. We will have enough to eat next year."
Zhou Su said, "Sister, is it on this farm? I looked around the whole farm and didn't see any fruit trees."
Even if he doesn't recognize other things, how could he not recognize the grapevine?
If you haven’t eaten grapes grown at home, how could you not have eaten wild grapes?