Ye Ming stepped on the gravel and walked deeper into the jungle step by step, and the sobbing voice became clearer and clearer.
After walking forward for more than fifty meters, I pushed aside the grass that was taller than a person and saw a peach forest in front of me. Under a peach tree, there was a woman sitting, sobbing non-stop.
"It turns out to be a person!"
Ye Ming breathed a sigh of relief, but then he was confused, who was crying here in the middle of the night?
With curiosity in mind, Ye Ming walked towards the woman under the peach tree.
"who?"
When Ye Ming approached, the woman heard the footsteps and immediately picked up a sickle in panic to protect her chest, like a frightened deer.
"It's me, Ye Ming!"
Ye Ming announced his home address in a soft voice, because he recognized this woman as Xiaoxue, a villager in Xiahewan.
With the faint starlight, Xiaoxue also saw Ye Ming clearly, and her hanging heart suddenly relaxed.
"Brother Ye Ming, why are you here?"
Xiaoxue's habit of blushing whenever she talks has never changed, but it's hard to see it in the dark.
"I can't sleep. Come out and get some fresh air. What are you doing in Taolin in the middle of the night? By the way, are you on holiday?"
Xiaoxue is a senior high school student in Yuncheng County Middle School. She is currently very busy with her studies and will not come back unless it is a vacation.
Xiaoxue said awkwardly: "I have two days off, and the peaches at home are about to ripen. I will pick them, otherwise they will rot."
There was a basket beside Xiaoxue. The peaches in it were smaller than eggs, and many of them were covered with cracks and insect bites.
"Why are your peaches like this?"
Ye Ming rummaged through it and found that they were all inferior peaches.
Ye Ming didn't ask if he was okay, but when he asked Xiaoxue, he started to shed tears again.
"There was abundant rain this year, and the peaches grew like crazy. Other people's peaches were plump and sweet, but my dad was not in good health and couldn't take care of them, so these peaches fell apart and became bad!"
Xiaoxue's family has no other source of income. The father and daughter live on these two acres of peach groves. Now that the peaches are in such bloom, there may not be a harvest this year.
Seeing Xiaoxue's sad look, Ye Ming couldn't help but feel sorry for this little girl.
"Don't worry, these peaches are actually not beyond saving."
Ye Ming walked to a peach tree to check. The peach tree was growing well, but there were too many redundant branches, which robbed the nutrients of the peaches. This, combined with neglect of management and failure to spray pesticides to control insects in time, led to the current consequences.
Xiaoxue asked: "Brother Ye Ming, do you have any way to remedy it?"
Ye Ming nodded and said: "I learned some plant cultivation techniques when I was in college. Your peach grove was neglected, resulting in uneven ripening of the peaches. This is also a blessing in misfortune. The mature ones must not be damaged if they are damaged."
Yes, but most of the immature ones have not been bitten by insects. With a little management, you can still harvest a lot of good peaches!"
Xiaoxue was overjoyed, stepped forward and grabbed Ye Ming's arm, and said eagerly: "Brother Ye Ming, can you help me quickly?"
Seeing Xiaoxue's sadness turning into joy, Ye Ming reached out and touched her head and said, "Let's prune the peach branches now!"
Ye Ming does know plant cultivation techniques, but he didn't learn them when he was in college. He learned them in "Pictures of Common People", which details the cultivation and treatment of hundreds of thousands of plants. Pruning peach trees is the simplest among them.
One item.
With Ye Ming's help, the two began to prune the peach forest. They cut off excess branches, cleaned up the weeds under the peach trees, and picked all the rotten and insect-bitten peaches for burial.
By the time the two men finished pruning the two acres of peach grove, it was already past four in the morning.
Xiaoxue's body was thin, and this kind of high-intensity physical labor was too much for her. As soon as she sat on the ground to rest for a while, her eyelids began to fight, and she fell asleep leaning against a big tree.
Ye Ming called softly twice, but Xiaoxue did not respond.
The humidity in the forest was high at night, so Ye Ming took off his coat and put it on her, then walked into the peach forest.
Pruning peach trees and removing rotten peaches is only one of the treatment methods. These will not change the future growth of peaches, because the peaches have basically been finalized. Even if the peach tree is fed with chemical fertilizers, it is impossible to turn the peaches into egg-sized peaches.
Ripe until fist-sized.
Arriving in the peach forest, Ye Ming sat cross-legged and slowly raised his palms in front of his chest. The spiritual energy in his body was circulating, and a faint mist soon appeared around him.
Ye Ming is not practicing the "Common Life Technique", but running a mental method for nourishing plants, called "Sweet Rain from Heaven".
The function of "rainfall from the sky" is to condense the spiritual energy between heaven and earth into water vapor, and then nourish the surrounding plants for their growth. Ye Ming can actually use the spiritual liquid in the jade gourd, but it requires a lot of water to dilute it.
There is no water source nearby, so you need to walk a long way to get water. This process is troublesome, so Ye Ming gave up directly.
As time went by, the fog around Ye Ming became thicker and thicker, and then gradually spread throughout the peach forest.
The peach trees were soon covered with crystal clear water droplets filled with aura. After absorbing the aura-filled mist, the peach leaves that were originally wilted and droopy began to stretch out visibly, and the wrinkled peaches the size of eggs also eagerly absorbed them.
With mist, it becomes round and shiny in the blink of an eye, and is filled with the aroma of peach.
A fish-belly white color appeared in the east. Ye Ming exhaled a breath of turbid air and slowly opened his eyes.
“The effect is not bad!”
Ye Ming admired his masterpiece and nodded with satisfaction.
"Wow! Tao Zi has changed so much overnight!"
A surprised voice came from behind, it was Xiaoxue waking up from her sleep.
She excitedly ran to a peach tree to observe. The peach leaves were green and the peaches were full and bright, making people salivate.
Although the peach is not as big as other people's, Xiaoxue is already very satisfied that it can reach this level.
"Brother Ye Ming, you are so amazing. Just pruning it changed the appearance of my peach tree overnight!"
At this moment, Xiaoxue's eyes were full of admiration, and she seemed to have become Ye Ming's little crush.
Ye Ming gradually lost himself in the sweet voice of his annoying brother.
"What's all the fuss about? I will manage it carefully for you these days. I will make your peaches the best in Xiahewan, no, the best peaches in the entire Yuncheng County and even Donghai City!"
Ye Ming is not bragging. As long as he uses "rain from heaven" on the peach grove at regular intervals every day, the peaches will definitely grow better and be sweeter than anyone else's peaches.
Xiaoxue was immediately moved. Apart from her father, this was the first man to be so kind to her.
If I could marry such a person, I would have no regrets in my life.
Thinking of this, Xiaoxue startled herself. The girl's heart pounded and she lowered her head shyly.
"How about a taste of the peach?"
Ye Ming chose a peach that had been ripened by "rain from heaven", took a bite, and his eyes widened immediately.
The taste is sweet and soft. Ye Ming thinks he has never tasted a peach with such a good taste. The rain from the sky can't stop it!
"Xiaoxue, you should try it too!"
Ye Ming picked another one and stuffed it into Xiaoxue's hand. Xiaoxue lowered her head and took a small bite on the peach without wiping it.
Ye Ming asked expectantly: "How does it taste?"
Xiaoxue was pregnant with spring at the moment, and her mind was full of Ye Ming. She couldn't taste anything, but she kept nodding her head and saying it was delicious.
"Peach is a fresh fruit, aren't you on holiday? Let's pick some ripe ones and sell them!"
At Ye Ming's suggestion, the two picked a basket of ripe peaches, carried them down the mountain, and took a passenger bus to Yuncheng County to sell the peaches.