Only this green, not disappointing the spring

"Grandpa, let's take a walk around the village. I have some ideas I want to discuss with you."

Li Shoucai immediately smiled until his teeth showed. It seemed that this guy had another way to make money to tell him!

This reminded him of the more than 400 kilograms of pears that he had originally reserved for the nobleman.

Li Shoucai listened to Zhou Xiaoxi's suggestion and asked the widow Zhang in the village to make eight exquisite baskets.

Zhou Xiaoxi asked Doctor Zhang to write the three characters "Xiang Xueli" in large letters, and asked Widow Zhang to weave them directly onto the basket using darker colored material according to the characters.

Widow Zhang’s basket weaving skills are unique in the village. The widow and her children can survive only because of the money she earns from weaving baskets. She has been weaving baskets for half her life, and she never thought she could come up with new ideas!

At first she had no idea how to edit it, so Zhou Xiaoxi drew horizontal and vertical lines on the words using a burnt wooden stick.

Widow Zhang immediately understood how to edit it as soon as she saw it!

Zhou Xiaoxi also gave Widow Zhang several ideas. For example, she could weave the word "Fu" on the baskets during the New Year, and she could also weave the baskets in different heights and sizes so that each had a different use.

Widow Zhang was overjoyed when she heard this, and decided on the spot to sell the eight baskets in the village at half price, and also to make two more to give to Zhou Xiaoxi's family.

Later, the nobles in the city felt very fresh and interesting when they received the pears in baskets. Several families ordered dozens of small baskets in total, saying that they would use them to pack the pears and give them away.

Originally, a large basket only cost 100 coins, and the small basket was also given at the same price.

Widow Zhang's house suddenly became busy, and her daughter, who had been married a long time ago, rushed over from her parents' home to help.

Li Shoucai retracted his thoughts and said in a somewhat humble manner:

"Okay, okay, Xiaoxi girl, I'll listen to you wherever you say we should go."

"Then let's walk from here to the east end of the village. I want to talk to you about the planning of our village."

Li Shoucai was confused.

“How else can we plan our village?”

Zhou Xiaoxi looked at Li Shoucai seriously.

"Grandpa, are you going to make our village rich? Let all the villagers have good food, good clothes, live in big houses, and all the children can read and write."

Li Shoucai felt like he was floating after hearing what Zhou Xiaoxi said.

Is it really possible for a poor place like Dali Village to live a life like a fairy?

If it is true, Li Shoucai would be willing to go through fire and water!

His lips trembled and he spoke with difficulty:

"Xiaoxi girl, are you telling the truth? What do you need me to do?"

Seeing Li Shoucai so nervous and anxious, Zhou Xiaoxi believed that, at least for now, their village head really wanted to do something good for the village.

I hope he can keep his original intention! But that is all for the future, there is no need to worry about it now.

"Grandpa, don't be nervous. You don't need to do anything earth-shattering. We just need to do some practical work."

Li Shoucai, who had already prepared himself for a heroic death, breathed a long sigh of relief.

How could he not be afraid? His calves are still trembling!

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"Although we already have a lot of pear trees in Dali Village, I think we can plant more next year. Let's try not to waste any space!"

"This is easy to do. Many of the trees in our village have their fruits rotting on the ground. They will sprout next year!"

Zhou Xiaoxi smiled and shook his head.

"The saplings grow too slowly, so we can do two things at once. This year we'll pick some pear trees that are lush and bear a lot of fruit, take out the seeds and bury them in the places we've planned."

"The second method is to use the method of pressing branches to obtain plants."

Li Shoucai, a farmer, didn't know as much as a little girl, so he had to ask humbly:

"Little brook girl, can you tell me in more detail how to press the branches?"

I had already prepared a speech and was full of nonsense about how I knew this method, but in the end, I just let it go! The other party didn't even plan to ask...

It couldn't be better, she was really tired of lying!

"The method is very simple. In the early spring of next year, we will select saplings that are more than one year old, find thick branches from the side and bury their lower ends in the soil. After a long time, roots will grow. In the early spring of the next year, we will cut them off from the mother plant and start transplanting after the frost falls."

Li Shoucai was stunned for a while, and suddenly he cried out "Ah!", which scared Zhou Xiaoxi.

"Girl, you are so smart! I discovered this a few years ago and joked that the pear tree was really stupid. Its branches were accidentally buried in the soil, but it actually thought it had to grow roots out. Hahaha! Alas, it turns out that I was stupid. I didn't even think deeply about it!"

Well, it seems that all advanced technologies and inventions come from careful observation of life!

For example, Newton would be curious about why apples didn't fall from the sky, but fell to the ground. Ordinary people would think that only fools would be curious about why apples fall from the sky...

"Grandpa, you are really good at observation! I'll have to trouble you to carefully arrange the ownership of the pear trees in the future. Also, before winter comes this year, we have to prune all the pear trees in the village."

This time Li Shoucai was really curious.

"Little brook girl, do you know how to prune?"

Zhou Xiaoxi immediately pretended to be embarrassed and spoke awkwardly:

"I don't understand, but when we were in Huaihua Village, we always asked Grandpa Liu to borrow the donkey cart. He told me this when we were chatting. Grandpa Liu seemed to be very good at this."

After saying this, Zhou Xiaoxi felt like she had no desire to live. It was too difficult for her, a young, illiterate country girl, to do anything!

In her previous life, Zhou Xiaoxi had read many time-travel novels. The heroines in those novels had the opportunity to study even if they traveled to the countryside, and would also meet very powerful teachers.

Unlike me, the cards I was dealt were terrible!

(Fuck dish)

Zhou Xiaoxi secretly swore in his heart that as long as he led the village to make money, the first thing he would do was to hire a teacher and open a village school!

I hope Old Man Liu won't have the chance to come to their Dali Village. Please...

Li Shoucai was delighted.

"Then tell me quickly, how should we prune this pear tree?"

At this point, Zhou Xiaoxi was a little hesitant. In her previous life, she loved growing roses, so she searched the Internet for information on how to prune them.

One is for more flowers, the other is for more fruits. Logically speaking, the principles should be the same.

But what if I make a mistake?

Then she would become the sinner of the whole village!

Well, let's take a more conservative approach!

"Grandpa, I've only heard about it, but I haven't tried it myself. So let's first find some pear trees that are obviously not growing well and are not very old to prune!"

"As for the methods, there are four main ones: shape the garden according to the tree, keep branches according to the tree; distinguish the main branches from the subordinate branches, and strengthen the main branches; remove the oblique branches and keep the oblique branches to cultivate branch groups; remove the dense branches and keep the sparse branches to make the branches more beautiful."

It's so obscure and difficult to understand?

Li Shoucai acted decisively and invited Zhou Xiaoxi to his home. He took out his treasured writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone and recorded everything in detail.

After he repeatedly asked about the unclear parts, he gave clear explanations.