Joe's Farming

The four of them went to Xiaxixi Village first, but Xiaxixi Village was good at raising ducks and fish, but not many people grew fruit trees.

Only a few families planted persimmons and pears.

Da Zhuang is familiar with the villagers because he often comes to Xiaxixi Village to collect duck eggs.

When the villagers heard that they wanted to buy fruit seedlings, they recommended Jintian Village, which was a little further away.

"There are more trees planted in the village over there, and sometimes they pick out what they can't finish eating and sell it."

Qiao Yu thanked the villagers and asked Gu Feng to take him to Jintian Village.

He couldn't even find this village in his original body's memory, so it must be really far away.

The carriage took an hour to arrive.

The houses in Jintian Village are all built on the hillside. There is a cliff behind the village and peach trees are planted around the village.

It was not difficult for Qiao Yu to imagine how beautiful this small village would be when the peach blossoms bloomed next month.

"Brother Gu, have you been here before?"

Qiao Yu asked.

Gu Feng shook his head: "No, this is my first time here today."

Xiao Bai also nodded and said, "Me too, this place is too far from Ueda Village."

If it weren't for the carriage, he probably wouldn't have come here specially.

"You see, every household in their village has planted peach trees. They will be very beautiful when they bloom in spring. I also want to plant a peach forest on the mountain. It will be beautiful to enjoy the flowers in spring."

Xiao Bai smiled and said, "Brother Qiao is really thoughtful. We never thought of planting peach trees specifically for viewing the flowers."

Qiao Yu continued to fantasize: "When the time comes, I'll make something delicious, spread a big mat under the peach tree, and put all the delicious food on it.

You can enjoy the flowers while eating, playing cards and chatting. No, I think it's beautiful just thinking about it now."

After Qiao Yu finished speaking, he couldn't help laughing.

Xiao Bai yearned and said, "It must be so beautiful."

"But I wonder if they are willing to sell such a large fruit tree to us?"

If it was just a seedling, he would have to wait for many years before he could go under the tree to enjoy the flowers.

Gu Feng stopped the car and led Qiao Yu down.

"Don't worry Qiao'er, I'll go buy it."

Unlike the people in other villages, the people of this village did not gather at the entrance of the village. Instead, they planted a locust tree in the center of the village.

At this moment, several middle-aged men were gathered under the tree, looking at them with doubtful expressions.

Gu Feng immediately explained his purpose to them.

"What? Buy a peach tree?"

One of the big men with a beard asked back loudly.

Qiao Yu smiled and said, "Yes, I want to buy a bigger one that will bear fruit this year."

The big man looked like a handsome young man with delicate skin and tender flesh. It was obvious that he was not a serious tree planter.

Then he waved his hand impatiently and said, "Not for sale!"

When the other people heard him say this, those who originally wanted to ask how much it could be sold for shook their heads and refused.

Qiao Yu didn't expect that someone would be unwilling to buy a fruit tree.

Da Zhuang said unhappily, "You haven't even asked me how much my boss is willing to pay. It would be stupid to refuse like this."

The bearded man's eyes widened immediately, he raised his fist and asked, "Who are you calling stupid?"

Seeing this, Xiao Bai hurriedly stood in front of Da Zhuang and said with an apologetic smile, "Brother, he didn't mean that. Our boss is really sincere in selling the fruit trees, and the price is negotiable. Are you really unwilling to learn more?"

Xiaobai spoke in a soft and gentle voice, and his tone was pertinent.

The bearded man put away his hands, crossed his arms and glanced at Qiao Yu: "Then tell me the number."

Qiao Yu looked at Gu Feng. How would he know how much a fruit tree would cost?

Gu Feng naturally didn't know either.

"Why don't you give me a price first, and then we can talk if it's suitable."

Qiao Yu smiled.

He wants to buy a lot, so it’s better to understand the market conditions before buying.

The bearded man also realized that Qiao Yu was the one in charge among them.

He also put away his casual attitude and said seriously: "Each of our families has been raising these peach trees for many years, and we can sell them for a lot of money every year."

Qiao Yu kept smiling: "I know. Just name a price, I really want to buy it."

The bearded man thought for a moment, then held out a hand.

"Five taels per tree."

Qiao Yu raised her eyebrows and didn't say it was expensive nor did she say it was not expensive.

The bearded man sneered and said, "One of my peach trees can produce 100 jin of peaches a year. A jin of peaches costs four wen, which means 400 wen a year. I will charge you five liang per tree, isn't that too much?"

Qiao Yu felt that it was not excessive, but he still felt that it was a little bit expensive.

"I want twenty of those peach trees you said can produce a hundred pounds of peaches. Give me a discount. I don't want you to cut too many either. How about four pounds per tree?

I also want 100 seedlings, which cannot bear fruit. I see you have quite a lot of them in your field, so 20 cents per seedling is not too much, right?

If you think it's okay, I'll pay you now."

Qiao Yu said domineeringly.

The other people behind the bearded man were a little surprised when they heard this.

Their peach production is not so high every year, and when the harvest is good, every family is selling them, so how can they get such a high price?

The price of four taels is already very high.

Immediately, someone said to the bearded man, "Village Chief, my family is willing to sell two!"

Others also expressed their willingness to sell.

So this man is the village chief, Qiao Yu thought.

His attitude became more respectful: "How about it? Since everyone agrees, let's go choose a tree now."

Village chief Jin also saw that Qiao Yu really wanted to buy, and wanted to buy so many trees at once, so his attitude softened a little.

"Okay, I'll take you to choose."

Almost every household in Jintian Village plants trees, so he plans to let each family choose so as to be as fair as possible.

"Besides peach trees, do you want other fruit trees?"

Village Chief Jin suddenly spoke.

Qiao Yu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he nodded quickly: "Yes, yes. What other trees are there?"

Village Chief Jin pointed to an ugly tree that had just sprouted and said, "This is a fig tree, which is very easy to grow.

It also likes to bear fruit, but it is easy to attract insects. Every time it is ripe, it must be picked within a few days, otherwise it will be eaten by insects.

Let's pick these fruits. They won't keep well, and everyone will eat them. They won't sell for much."

Qiao Yu nodded immediately: "I want two!"

Village Chief Jin pointed out several fruit trees that Qiao Yu didn’t recognize.

There are loquat trees, mulberry trees, and apricot trees.

There was no apple tree that Qiao Yu had always wanted. It seemed that apple trees were not common in this era.

Loquats seem to be different from those in the world today. They are said to be very sour and the fruits are small.

Qiao Yu didn't care and just sold them first.

Finally, in addition to the peach trees that he had agreed to buy earlier, Qiao Yu also bought ten loquat trees and ten apricot trees.

As for mulberry and pear trees, they also have them in Shangtian Village, so they don't buy them here.

Because they bought so much, the horse-drawn carriage could not accommodate it all, so they ended up buying an ox cart in the village.

"Anyway, we need cows to plow the paddy fields. With a cow cart, it will be convenient to buy things in the future."

Qiao Yu smiled.

It is impossible for Da Zhuang and his friends to use horse-drawn carriages for all their purchases in the future. It would be much more convenient to have an ox-drawn cart, as they can carry more things and don't have to worry about getting the carriage dirty.

However, Qiao Yu required that the roots carry as much soil as possible, so so many trees were a bit overweight.

Finally, Qiao Yu paid the money and asked Da Zhuang and Xiao Bai to move the trees in two trips.

He and Gu Feng went to their own mountain to choose a place for the peach trees they bought.

Finally, Qiao Yu took a fancy to a relatively flat hillside and decided to plant all the peach trees there, with the small peach saplings scattered around the big trees.

The rest of the fruit trees are planted scattered around.

When planting trees, first dig a big hole, fill it with "nutrient soil" mixed with fermented farm manure and wood ash, and then plant the peach trees.

After planting, people were sent to the foot of the mountain to scoop water to thoroughly water the roots of the trees.

“This is called fixed root water.”

Qiao Yu said to Gu Feng.

Gu Feng nodded: "Well, Qiao'er knows a lot. These fruit trees will definitely grow well."

Qiao Yu smiled awkwardly and said, "Don't praise me too early. This is my first time planting fruit trees."

His biggest farming activity before was to grow onions, mint, rosemary and the like on the balcony.

The kind that doesn’t even need to be repotted in winter.

But when he has nothing to do, he likes to watch some short videos about growing vegetables, flowers and trees.

I think they are all similar.

It took more than twenty men to plant Qiao Yu's fruit trees.

But these are far from enough.

But after going out today, Qiao Yu felt really tired and exhausted.

So next, he started the bounty mode.

Ask the villagers to send him fruit seedlings.

Qiao Yu has very low requirements, as long as it is fruit and edible, it's fine.

Then the money will be given based on the on-site identification, and the minimum is no less than twenty cents.

If the fruit tree is big enough, the price can be over a thousand coins.

Now, the people in Shangtian Village who had already finished tilling their fields could no longer sit still and went up the mountain to dig up saplings.

Of course, Qiao Yu also harvested the most common fruit trees in the village.

At first, Bai Lan thought that Qiao Yu bought the mulberry tree for raising silkworms, but Qiao Yu said that he bought it for eating mulberries.

Bai Lan: ...

In the next few days, Qiao Yu's fruit seedling harvesting process went smoothly.

New and strange species are encountered every day. The villagers can’t explain what they are, but Qiao Yu feels that they match some of the plants in the world today.

For example, when the villagers talked about sour fruit, Qiao Yu thought it was lemon.

It does look like a citrus plant.

Anyway, you won’t suffer any loss, so just take it.

The most surprising thing is the wild grape.

Qiao Yu almost jumped up at that time.

He missed wine so much!

He gave the man two taels of silver on the spot.

There are some things that Qiao Yu really doesn't know what they are. If she plants them all together, the result may be like opening a blind box. It's fun to think about it.

Finally, Qiao Yu asked people to transplant some chestnut trees and hawthorn trees in the back mountain.

Now his mountain finally took on the appearance of a small Flower-Fruit Mountain.

It rained within a few days.

Qiao Yu couldn't help but admire the wisdom of the ancients once again. It started to drizzle that night and lasted for three days in a row.

After a winter of dormancy, the earth was awakened by the rain.

The next day, Qiao Yu discovered that the vegetable seeds he had sown some time ago in the vegetable garden had begun to sprout.

"Brother Gu, Brother Gu! There are sprouts in the ground!"

Qiao Yu said excitedly.

Gu Feng nodded: "The corn and potatoes in the field have sprouted, do you want to go and take a look?"

Qiao Yu nodded vigorously immediately: "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Li Xin and the children also came over and wanted to watch it together.

So a group of people set out towards the fields in a mighty procession, as if they were "country bumpkins" who had never seen the world.