The land behind the house has been cleared of weeds.
Luo Xuan gathered the weeds into several piles and prepared to dry them for a few days before burning them with a fire.
Looking at the vast expanse of bare wasteland, Luo Xuan took Zhang Xiaoli and tried to dig up a small piece of land, intending to see its soil structure.
But I found that these lands are really barren. And they may still belong to the kind of land with high alkali content.
If it is used to grow food and vegetables, I am afraid the yield will not be too high.
This requires constant fertilization to improve the soil structure.
and,
There are many earthworm and ant nests in these soils.
There are so many that there are ant nests of different sizes almost every few dozen meters apart.
When you dig out the ant nest, you will see that densely packed ants huddled underground, building ant nests one after another, similar to the shape of a wild bee's nest.
The earthworms here are fat and big.
Many of the earthworms, probably because they are too big, seem to have evolved a little hard shell on their bodies!
It's a bit like a centipede...hard.
It still looks scary.
I don’t know whether these earthworms are beneficial insects or pests?
Or both:
They can not only loosen the soil and increase fertility, but they can also harm the root system of crops.
"Go buy some more chickens and come back."
Luo Xuan thought for a long time,
He said, "Since there are so many ant nests and earthworms in the ground, why don't we take advantage of the digging to find some free high-protein feed for these chickens?"
Zhang Xiaoli nodded, "But have you ever thought that if we raise so many chickens and ducks, it will not be easy to sell them?"
Luo Xuan smiled slightly, "It's difficult to sell chickens and ducks because the people in the village don't breed on a large scale."
"And the mountain people in the village have another problem: their opinions are always inconsistent.
Today Nazha Nu wanted to sell chickens in the commune, but Zhamu was drunk and didn't want to go to the market.
Or someone went to Zhafan’s house to buy and sell ducks. But Zhakuan’s family was in a hurry to cross the boundary river to buy cigarettes..."
Luo Xuan said: "This makes those Miao soldiers who want to come to the stockade to collect chickens and ducks not very happy to come to this stockade to do business."
Zhang Xiaoli asked, "So Luo Xuan, how many chickens, ducks and geese do you plan to raise?"
Luo Xuan thought for a while, "You and I are both majoring in animal husbandry. And when we came out, we brought some veterinary medicine with us."
"So, I'm going to raise more. Now I'll go to the village and buy a batch of chickens and ducks.
Just raise as many as you can buy! Anyway, next we have to go to the mountains and reclaim our half of the mountains."
Luo Xuan explained: "When the time comes, so many earthworms and ants can be used as feed for chickens and ducks.
If you feed too little, all those high-protein feeds will be wasted."
Zhang Xiaoli was a little worried, "But people in the village said it was really not easy for them to sell chickens and ducks for cash."
Luo Xuan shook his head, "That's because they are setting up obstacles for themselves. So now, almost no one is willing to come to the village to buy chickens and ducks."
Seeing that Luo Xuan was confident, Zhang Xiaoli said no more.
Instead, he put down what he was doing and took Najudi and Namu to the stockade to buy chickens and ducks.
She didn't even need to ask Luo Xuan for the cost of buying chickens and ducks.
Zhang Xiaoli has a sister and many brothers-in-law.
When she came out to jump in line, people in her family sponsored her a lot of money.
This person Zhang Xiaoli,
She actually has a very indifferent view of money.
In addition to this money, Luo Xuan will use it to do business.
Therefore, Zhang Xiaoli was very willing to use her private money to buy chickens and ducks in the village.
According to Luo Xuan’s plan:
If you raise chickens and ducks by yourself, things will become easier once you reach a certain scale.
Or just work harder, take these chickens and ducks to the commune, and sell them for a few days.
The chickens and ducks are always sold out.
There is another way:
Just discuss the price and agree on the time with those Miaozu hawkers who are financially minded in advance.
When they came over, they bought this batch of chickens and ducks at once.
Luo Xuan really didn’t believe it anymore: If he had poultry and livestock, how could he not sell them for money?
It's just a matter of price and time.
But the situation in the village is very different from that here.
It's a little special over there.
Just because those people in the village are too free and loose!
And all of them are born in the year of Ox and are extremely stubborn!
A Miaozu native with a bit of business acumen, while others finally found time to travel across mountains and rivers to come to the village.
Purchase chickens and ducks for 2 yuan and 1 cent.
As a result, this company is often willing to sell 5 pieces.
That family did have chickens and ducks for sale, but at this time, the man in his family had disappeared.
The man is not at home,
When it comes to money matters, the so-called mistress of their family cannot make the decision.
To put it a bit exaggeratedly: there are some women of an advanced age.
She can't even distinguish the denominations of 2 yuan and 5 yuan bills clearly...
However, the men of some families are at home, but they think the price of 2 yuan and 1 cent for a chicken is too cheap.
You have to hold on to 2 yuan and 8...
Even if the price of a chicken is 2 yuan and 1 cent, it is the price that the vendor had verbally agreed with the owner last time.
It doesn't matter either.
Falling out and repenting is a common occurrence in the village, and no one can do anything to him...
Over time,
Those traders from Miaozu were very reluctant to come to this village to buy poultry and livestock.
This has resulted in the current vicious cycle:
The chickens and ducks in the mountain people's homes are getting bigger day by day, but their growth rate is getting slower and slower.
Eat more, gain less meat,
It is really not cost-effective to continue raising them.
But if you want to turn all these chickens and ducks into cash, the vendors who buy chickens and ducks are not willing to come to the village to do business.
If they work harder themselves, they can sell them on the streets of the commune.
Going back and forth, it took two days to talk.
We still have to walk 70 miles of mountain roads.
During the journey, the mountain people even risked their lives to walk through the deep mountains and old forests...
In the end, I sold 3 or 5 chickens and ducks, and got about 10 to 8 yuan.
to be honest,
This little money is not enough for them to buy cigarettes, and they have spent all their rice noodles...
So it took a long time,
The people in the village were too lazy to take the chickens and ducks at home to the commune to sell them.
After two days of hard work, I went to the commune and had to sleep in the open for one night.
As a result, the chickens and ducks were gone, and the money was gone...
Draw a yarn?!
With the current situation, no wonder the vendors are unwilling to buy chickens and ducks.
It's no wonder that the people in these villages are there: after all, it takes them two days to go back and forth to the commune.
Isn’t it normal to spend 7 or 8 yuan for such hard work?
So...they have chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and cows on hand.
But I can't get it out of my house, even 1 yuan in cash...
This situation,
What exactly is...what's wrong?
Taking advantage of Zhang Xiaoli and Na Zhudi's time, they went to the stockade to buy chickens and ducks.
Luo Xuan went to the mountain and cut down some large branches to make hoe handles.
"Don't make it so long."
Na Li saw that the wooden stick cut off by Luo Xuan was fully 1.2 meters long.
He quickly stopped him and said, "Whose hoe handle have you seen with such a long handle?"
People here like to use short hoe handles, which are about 5 or 60 centimeters long.
It is very laborious to dig the ground with this kind of short hoe.
And it’s extremely expensive.
But here, this is their habit.
Luo Xuan made a longer hoe handle, Na Li, Hua Hua and the others were not used to it.
You have to cut it short anyway.
“Only by plowing deeply, planting shallowly, and weeding frequently can crops grow well.”
Luo Xuan began to try to change Na Li's perspective, "If you dig the ground with a short hoe, the soil you turn out will be very shallow, just the top layer of soil."
"And if you want to make the soil more fertile and dig out all the grass roots, you have to use a long hoe to dig the soil deeper."
Luo Xuan explained, "It's like grass roots. If you don't dig them out and dry them in the sun, the weeds will have already grown taller than the crops before they grow."
"in spite of!"
Nali pouted, "For thousands of years, this is how we have farmed here. Just dig a hole and scatter rice seeds into the ground..."
Luo Xuan pointed to the upland rice on the mountain, "With your farming method, the yield of upland rice per acre is 5,60 kilograms. Do you still think it's pretty good?"
"No matter! This is how we have always farmed anyway."
Namu was also a stubborn donkey, "Besides, we don't care how many acres of land we have. We mean how many bags of grain our family has harvested this year."
"Well..."
So stubborn?!
Even with step-by-step instructions and face-to-face guidance, are you still going your own way and unrepentant?
Every household in the village here farms half of the mountain.
a hilltop,
Not to mention too much, there are still several hundred acres of mountainous land.
only,
They usually only develop part of it. The rest is left to grow wild trees and weeds.
On average, one acre of land costs 10 kilograms of rice seeds, and in the end, 5 or 60 kilograms of upland rice is recovered. This is the norm for farming here.
But the mountain people,
But he does not carefully calculate the output-input ratio like Luo Xuan.
They only look at the total amount of grain harvested in the end: This year I planted a quarter of a hill and harvested 15 bags of rice...
Oh, it’s enough to feed my family for half a year.
With the blessing of the mountain gods, this year's upland rice has not been damaged by wild boars and voles... It's good.
Thanks to the mountain god for blessing!
"Walk!"
Luo Xuan picked up Na Li and walked into the house, "I want to see who will surrender first today?"
How the mountain people farm is beyond their control.
But the land behind his house will become the "agricultural demonstration garden" of the Laku production team.
Luo Xuan planned to plant something famous on these two acres of land in order to serve as a "pioneer model" for the mountain people.
Now that I am using words, I can't convince Nali in front of me.
Then use practical actions to teach her to be obedient!
