Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

After drawing lots, the land was divided, and after the land was divided, each family started to go up the mountain to cut wood.

The forest land belongs to Zhang Xiuhua's family, but the trees on the mountain belong to the entire production team.

The team leader said that within three days, everyone could cut as much wood as they wanted. After three days, the wood on the mountain would belong to Xiuhua's family, and no one could go into the mountain to cut wood again.

Of course, all the big trees on this mountain have been sold to the lumber mill by the production team, and they have also given an estimate of their price.

The thicker trees that can be used to make furniture are marked with white paint. Villagers can go up the mountain to cut down shorter trees.

Zhang Xiuhua and Li Jianguo went into the mountains and marked the straight trees, allowing them to continue growing so that the villagers would not cut them down.

The villagers don't mind because there are so many trees on the mountain.

In previous years, the village planted a lot of trees to have firewood for the winter. Now they were all cut down at once. The number is also quite considerable.

Zhang Xiuhua only marked the nearby woods and did not go inside, because there were enough trees outside for the members to cut down and they would not go any further.

Zhang Xiuhua asked Li Jianguo to quickly order the Gala fruit saplings. "After they finish cutting down the saplings, we have to plant the trees quickly. Otherwise, if it rains heavily, the soil will slide down."

Although there will not be a mudslide, the soil will slide down the slope and we will have to go back and shovel it back up the mountain, which will be troublesome.

Li Jianguo nodded, "Okay! I'll go find the saplings."

Zhang Xiuhua thought it would be no problem for Li Jianguo to find dozens of trees. After all, every village was dividing land, and some villages also had fruit trees, so they had to cultivate new seedlings. But she never expected that Li Jianguo would actually find an orchard and transfer all the trees.

Zhang Xiuhua was shocked when she heard the news, "Why transfer all of them?"

"The villagers don't want fruit trees. They don't make money. It's easier to grow crops."

This is true, because the prices of many crops are now on a dual-track system, and the yield of fruit trees is not high, so it is not as easy as farming.

The tallest of these trees is about ten years old, the smallest is one year old, and the oldest is three or four years old. This year is the peak fruit-bearing season.

There are more than 5,000 trees in total, which is not a lot. The total price is 12,000 yuan.

The money from selling the fruit trees belonged to the production team, so the strong laborers in the village where the trees were sold came to help dig the trees. But these people didn't care about planting them.

Li Jianguo asked the villagers who had hand tractors to help him, paying them three yuan a day. He asked them to help transport the trees and a few strong men to help plant the trees. The wages were also three yuan.

After three busy days, all the fruit trees were transplanted.

The team leader also came over to take a look and asked, "Why are your fruit trees planted so densely?"

Many families in the village have planted fruit trees in their private plots, but this is the first time he has seen fruit trees planted so densely.

Zhang Xiuhua smiled and said, "I read it in a book. It said that fruit trees need to be pruned frequently so that new branches can bear fruit."

The team leader was skeptical because he hadn't seen that the fruit trees planted in her family's private plot had a high yield.

Seeing that the captain was suspicious, Zhang Xiuhua did not explain.

After planting the fruit trees, the strong laborers in the village did not rush out to work, but helped plow the fields. Families without tractors suffered. They had to go to the agricultural machinery station to order machines, but the entire Northeast was implementing the household contract responsibility system, and the orders for hand tractors at the agricultural machinery station were already scheduled for three years later. They were just starting to queue up now, but distant water could not quench nearby fires.

There was no other way, they could only wait for the people with tractors to finish plowing before they could plant.

They were the most diligent in visiting Zhang Xiuhua's family. The reason was simple, because her family only had one mu of dry land and was the fastest in plowing the land.

In order to borrow her family's private land as soon as possible, some smart people went to her land to help.

Zhang Xiuhua planned to plant radishes this year. To this end, she built a plastic shed in her own reserved land early and planted a lot of radish seedlings. After the land was plowed, she began to transplant the radish seedlings into the field.

There was a well at the edge of the field, and we used a hand tractor to pump water to water the seedlings.

Aunt Wang and Uncle Wang were the first ones to help her family farm.

The old couple used all the money they earned from raising chickens to buy a house for their son in the provincial capital, and they could not afford a hand tractor. They were also too old to plow the land, so they planned to ask Zhang Xiuhua for help first and then borrow her tractor to plow the land.

Last year, Aunt Wang planned to plant an acre of cabbage and sell it to Xu Chunying.

But Xu Chunying was frightened by the crackdown and dared not go to the county town to deliver vegetables. She decided not to grow cabbage and directly planted corn and soybeans.

Seeing that Zhang Xiuhua planted radishes on one mu of land, she was worried about Zhang Xiuhua, "You can't make much money even if you plant so many radishes and send them all to the supply and marketing cooperative."

The radishes in the county are very cheap.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't care. "I grow radishes because I don't have much land at home. This way I can grow two crops a year, which is one more crop than you do."

In the Northeast, vegetables can be grown for two seasons, but not staple foods.

There is an old saying here: "In the first ten days of summer, you can harvest radishes; in the second ten days, you can harvest vegetables." In June, you can harvest radishes and plant cabbages. Cabbages that have been frosted are the most nutritious.

She also bought a lot of chicken manure from the production team.

Now all the things in the production team are private, but the chicken farm belongs to the entire production team, so if private individuals want manure, they have to pay for it.

Fertilizers were hard to buy at that time. Chicken manure was the easiest fertilizer for her to buy. And it was not expensive.

Zhang Xiuhua was planting radishes while chatting with Aunt Wang Er, "Has Tiegang bought a house in the provincial capital?"

"I had my eyes on it before the New Year. His father sent the money over when he came back from Pengcheng. There was still a little money short, so he took an advance of two months' salary and finally bought it." Aunt Wang couldn't stop smiling.

"how much is it?"

"More than 4,000 yuan. It's over 200 square meters, with a yard where you can grow vegetables." Aunt Wang has never seen it, but she liked it more and more after she heard about it from her son when he came back during the Chinese New Year.

Zhang Xiuhua nodded. A house in the provincial capital for over 4,000 yuan was indeed a good price.

At noon, Zhang Xiuhua went home to cook, and Aunt Wang went back to feed the chickens. The two walked back together.

When I arrived at the entrance of the village, I met Miao Xiaohua and Li Jianxin. The two seemed to be arguing. When I got closer, I heard Miao Xiaohua urging Li Jianxin to go to the fields to work.

Li Jianxin refused to go. "I have already contracted the land to my eldest brother. He will pay taxes in the future, and he will also be responsible for the food supply for our family of three. Why should I farm?!"

Miao Xiaohua was furious, "Your eldest brother has a lot of land at home, and you want to tire him to death?"

"If he doesn't want to farm, I'll lease the land to someone else?" Li Jianxin looked indifferent.

Miao Xiaohua's eyes widened, "How can that be possible!"

"I gave it to him, but you think he's tired. I gave it to someone else, but not to him? You said I don't care about brotherhood. What do you want me to do?" Li Jianxin was helpless. "It's my own land, I don't want to farm it, and it's not wasted if I give it to someone else! Don't worry about it, you like farming, but I don't. I'm not going to starve to death!"

Miao Xiaohua was so angry that her face turned red and her neck became thick, but Li Jianxin didn't take it to heart at all.

The villagers passing by had interesting expressions on their faces when they heard what Li Jianxin said. They had laughed at Li Jianxin for letting his child take his wife's surname before, but now all the villagers were working in the fields, and he was the only one who did nothing. His two children were also in school, so he led the donkey to the fields to graze, and then found a shady place to read a storybook.

What a relaxing and pleasant day!

Aunt Wang whispered to Zhang Xiuhua, "We are all old and still working in the fields to earn a living. He is only 40, why is he already taking care of his old age?!"

Zhang Xiuhua didn't feel envious at all, because it was natural for some people to have good luck, because he could see things more clearly than others.