There's a garbage bin in my head

Chapter 236
Prickly orange and Prickly orange are actually local names. The appearance of the tree is similar to that of an orange tree, but the tree is covered with long spikes from top to bottom. Villagers like to use them as fences.

Especially in the land next to the mountains, most of the land will be planted with tangerines on all sides, and then use bamboo to build a fence inside the tangerines.In this way, many larger animals will not run into the ground.

In fact, the fruit of the tangerine tree can also be sold for money. The fruit of the tangerine is rounder than ordinary oranges, and there is a layer of fluff on the fruit.

In the past, the pharmacy in the town would accept tangerines, which are a good traditional Chinese medicine. I don’t know if they still accept them now, but there are very few tangerine trees alive in the village.

Few people planted the land, and no one took care of these thorn orange trees used as fences, and they were slowly dying.

However, the thorn orange trees surrounding the field behind the Taoist temple are growing very well, and they have grown to a height of two or three meters.

In fact, this is because the uncle would prune the thorn orange trees every year, otherwise those thorn orange trees would never be so tall. Luo Jiu had seen thorn orange trees that were four or five meters high.

The tangerine trees behind the Taoist temple have not been picked for many years, and the tangerines fell to the ground and rotted in the end.

Every spring, there are always a lot of small thorn orange saplings growing under those thorn orange trees, and finally they were all hoeed by the uncle when he was weeding.

Luo Jiu intends to use tangerine trees to surround Leigong Mountain and Chashan Mountain. The thorny orange saplings he needs are not at 01:30, and the season for planting trees will soon come. The source of the saplings needs to be found as soon as possible.

The person in the village who is most familiar with the situation in the four miles and eight towns is Luo Xiren. Remembering the need for a huge number of thorn orange saplings, Luo Jiu asked: "Elder Xiren, do you know anyone who raises seedlings in our village? Surrounded by two mountains, how many tangerine seedlings are needed?"

Luo Xiren said: "A few years ago, there were quite a few nursery farmers, and there were subsidies for seedling farmers. However, since 18, the county has canceled seedling subsidies. I don't know if those big seedling farmers still have seedlings. , I will ask you later when I go back.

However, the possibility of thorn orange saplings is very small. Where are there no thorn orange saplings? If you find a place with thorn orange trees, you can dig hundreds or even thousands of seedlings casually.

Moreover, the seedlings are also cheap. The one-foot-high thorn orange seedlings only cost ten cents each, and the price is even cheaper if the quantity is large. In the past, they were sold for four or five cents each. "

"Then please ask Eunuch Xi Ren to find out. If there is no one, go to the nursery in the county and ask, or go to the nursery base in the province."

Thinking of the corn and peanuts that his family planted at the foot of the mountain last year, and in the end they didn't even get back the cost of the seeds and fertilizer, Luo Xiren was a little worried for Luo Jiu: "Are you going to plant around the foot of the two mountains?" A circle of thorn orange saplings? If so, many places have to be rectified before the saplings can be planted, otherwise there will be a lot of gaps.

The beasts don't know what's going on now, they feel much smarter than before, if you don't enclose the place tightly, as long as there is a little gap, they will know to go in from that place every time. "

Luo Jiu thought for a while and said, "I plan to use the excavator to level the land where the medicinal trees are planted around the two mountains, and plant three or four rows of trees around the mountains.

In this case, when the thorn orange trees grow up in the future, it will be difficult for people and animals to run into the circle. If only one row is planted, the effect may not be very great. "

Even if you buy a relatively large citrus sapling, it will not have much effect when you first plant it, because citrus saplings are generally only about one foot long, and rarely taller than half a meter.

And when it was still a sapling, the forks of the thorn orange tree were very few, and they were all straight up, or there were one or two forks on the side, and when they encountered thick-skinned things, they would be given to you directly. ignored.

If the thorn orange tree is planted, at least it will have to wait for the next year to protect it. If it is planted more densely, the thorn orange tree that has grown for one year can grow to about one meter, and there will be many more branches. Most wild animals can be prevented.

"This is the big business you said you wanted to give me. If you said it earlier, then I can start working directly in the first few days, so as not to be in such a hurry.

If the road had been repaired and started immediately, more than half of it would have been completed by now. "

Luo Changqing was a little surprised when he heard that the area around Leigong Mountain and Tea Mountain would be leveled to be used for planting tangerine hedges.

This time when Luo Jiu asked Luo Changqing to go back to the village together, at first Luo Changqing thought there was something wrong with the repair of the road above the tea mountain.

Now that it was such a job, Luo Changqing was a little surprised and pleasantly surprised.

Because doing things for Luo Jiu is not only easy to pay, but also the wages are [-] to [-]% higher than others.In addition, I am working in the village, so I can eat everything I eat at home, and I can often accompany my wife and children.

Don't look at Luo Changqing who is only a year or two older than Luo Jiu, but now the child is over a year old, and his wife has a second child in her stomach.

Luo Changqing's wife used to be a teacher in the village next door. She was a rural support teacher. She didn't know how she got close to Luo Changqing.

After the teaching support ended, it was also the time when the primary school in the village was closed. At that time, the two also got married, and married with a son.

Originally, I wanted to be transferred to teach in the county town, but I was transferred to the central primary school in the town.After the baby was born, it was handed over to Luo Changqing's mother to help take care of it, and his wife came back to take care of it every day after finishing school.

As for Luo Changqing's father, he used to occasionally go out to do odd jobs, but this year, for some reason, he also joined a group of people in the village to help move goods in the warehouse.

In the elementary school in the village, there are actually many teachers who have been there over the years, most of them are newcomers who have just joined the classroom industry. When Luo Jinyan entered the No. [-] Middle School to teach, she was sent by the No. [-] Middle School to teach in a school in the countryside for a year. .

I don’t know if this is a tradition in Mei County, or a new policy these years. Anyway, most of the teachers will stay in elementary or junior high schools in the countryside for a period of time, as short as half a year, usually a year. .

Luo Changqing's wife is the one who stays and doesn't leave.

However, Qingshan Primary School was really unable to support it. When the school was closed the year before last, the whole school consisted of the principal, the cooking aunt, the gatekeeper, and four teachers. These seven people were the entire teaching staff of Qingshan Primary School.

7 people must think that it is very small, but when you know the number of students in the whole school, you will not think so. When Qingshan Primary School closed, there were only 16 students in the school from the first to the fourth grades.

In fact, this kind of situation is all too common in rural primary schools. Most families who have the conditions will try their best to take their children to places with good conditions to study.

Those who work in other places, as long as they have a way, they will think about taking their children to study with them.

After all, when you work part-time, you usually choose a place with better economic conditions. Naturally, there will be more investment in education, and the conditions will be much better than those in your hometown.

There are also many parents who send their children to schools in the county or town. It is not surprising that the number of schools in the village is decreasing.

As Luo Jiu knew, many primary schools in the nearby villages are similar to Qingshan Primary School, and they have all closed in the past few years. Now there are still some primary school students in the former junior high school, and most of the primary school students are in the center of the town. primary school.

However, the central primary school in the town has grown bigger and bigger in recent years, and nine out of ten students from the closed village primary schools have entered the central primary school in the town.

Most of the students who stayed in the village to study were students from families with relatively poor conditions, or they were children from single-parent families. Their parents were unable to take them to study in big cities, and they did not have the financial conditions to allow their parents to go there. I rent a house in the county to accompany me to study, so I can only stay in the elementary school in the village to study.

It is rare for people like Luo Changqing and the others to stay in the village as husband and wife.

However, Luo Changqing's conditions are unmatched by ordinary people. Luo Changqing drives two excavators, and when the business is good, he earns thousands of dollars a day.

My wife teaches in an elementary school in the town. The job is easy and the income is not bad. In addition, the expenses are not large. The family's foundation is better than that of ordinary people. In the first few.

Thinking of what to do next, Luo Jiu said to the two of them: "Let's go around the foot of the mountain later, and see where big moves are needed, so we should have a plan in advance.

Moreover, father-in-law Xi Ren needs to help determine the boundaries of some places. Otherwise, if he digs the wrong place at that time, he will inevitably quarrel with others. "

Seeing that Luo Jiu was determined to build a circle around Chashan and Leigong Mountain for planting tangerines, Luo Xiren did not shy away from working. Luo Changqing was on the side, and said to Luo Jiu: "It's okay to make a circle around the mountain. The place where trees are planted is not an easy task, and it can't be done in a day or two. The excavator may cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Although these two mountains don't look big, but the winding circle down, even if it is not ten miles away, there is not much difference.

Also, should the road be built only to the point where it connects to the reservoir, or should it be dug along the reservoir and the two mountains?
If we had to dig a circle along the sides of the reservoir and the two mountains, then the road would definitely be more than ten miles long. "

After Luo Jiu explained his plan and what he wanted to dig out, the more Luo Xiren heard it, the more he felt that this was not planting a thorny orange tree fence on the ground, but building a road around the two mountains was more appropriate.

As for those thorny orange fences, they are just incidental to this road. After all, many people in the village used to plant thorny orange trees as fences, and no one like Luo Jiu had to use an excavator to level the ground before planting them. Thorny orange tree.

Everyone came here in whatever way was convenient. At most, they planted thorn orange trees densely at corners or gaps. This is really the first time I have seen someone like Luo Jiu do this.

"Anyway, after the fruit tree grows and bears fruit, the road below will have to be repaired sooner or later. Now dig out a blank for him, and slowly repair it when there is time.

Moreover, it is more convenient to plant the thorn orange tree fence, and there will be no gaps everywhere. "

After walking along the road that had just been dug on the mountain, several people quickly walked along the road to the other side of the mountain. Luo Jiu pulled out the hatchet attached to his belt and said to the two of them: "We will start from the foot of the mountain along the edge of the mountain. Let's walk back along the border between Chashan and Luoyingshan, when Brother Changqing builds roads in the future, there are places where the boundaries are not very clear, and Eunuch Xi Ren needs to teach more."

Luo Changqing and Luo Xiren also picked up the hatchet they carried with them, chopped the thorns in front of them, and said to Luo Jiu: "Don't worry about this, I will ask Father Xi Ren if there is anything unclear."

"Don't ask me about this. The area from Chashan to the reservoir is all owned by the village collective, so when you dig, you can dig as long as you can save trouble, and no one will talk too much about it. What are you guys.

However, on the side near the village, some areas were allocated to individuals in the past. Although no one is planting them now, you still need to ask clearly before digging to avoid taking up other people's individual areas. "

In fact, the boundary between Chashan and Luoyingshan is relatively easy to distinguish. Except for some small shrubs and a very small number of old tea trees on the side of Chashan, the rest are yellow thatched grass.

On the Luoying Mountain on the other side, there are densely packed pine trees and fir trees. Even those miscellaneous trees that cannot be named, the small ones are as thick as the mouth of a bowl.

As for the small trees that grow slowly, most of them are dead.

So as long as you dig along where there are no trees, there is generally no problem.And since these places are all owned by the village collective, even if Luo Jiu occupies a little more, no one will come to trouble him if he has nothing to do.

Although it may only be two or three miles from the place down the mountain to the place near the village, the three of them walked for more than half an hour.

In fact, there used to be a road at the foot of the mountain. Everyone went up the mountain to take care of the tea gardens from the forks of the road below.

However, the tea mountain has been abandoned for many years, and this road has gradually disappeared. Only the places where the bluestone slabs were paved before can still be seen that this was indeed a road that many people walked before.

After explaining to Luo Changqing, he drove the excavator back to the village tonight, and after the construction started early tomorrow morning, Luo Jiu turned and went to Luo Liyun's house.

Luo Jiu went to Luo Liyun this time because his father Luo Bang helped Luo Jiu set up a line during the Chinese New Year, but Luo Jiu came to the door this time, it was just a personal invitation to Luo Liyun.

The person with the most experience in planting in the village may be Luo Liyun. He used to work in a large seedling farm for many years. The ten-acre seedling farm is dedicated to cultivating saplings for returning farmland to forests.

With the end of the work of returning farmland to forests, Luo Liyun also closed his seedling farm, and now he is cultivating osmanthus saplings. Every year when trees are planted, people come to buy osmanthus saplings.

During the first month, Luo Liyun agreed to come to Luo Jiu's orchard to help.In the future, all the daily work in the orchard will be handed over to Luo Liyun.

(End of this chapter)