The end-of-life life of a mountain farmhouse

Their family doesn’t have many other things, and the fruit is definitely enough. Every year because of the low price, they can’t sell it and eat it all rots in the ground. Lin Yang has been used to it since he was a child. Seeing that the fruits that have been grown for a year are rotten in the ground for various reasons, it is like losing their souls. I have long wanted to raise pigs at home and feed them with fruits.

How well he thought, they say that the pork on the market is grown with hormones, and they feed it with fruits and grains at home. It doesn't matter if the meat grows slowly, but it must be delicious.

In fact, even if you raise pigs, you can't consume the fruits that rot in the ground, but at least you can harvest some pork in return.

However, Lin Yang was firmly opposed to raising pigs at home. A few years ago, he didn't want to raise pigs. It was difficult enough to support himself and asparagus, and he didn't want to make trouble for himself.

In recent years, because the two got married and had children, they were even more busy, but this year, seeing the child was sent to kindergarten, Asparagus's thoughts about raising pigs began to stir again.

As Lin Yang expected, after holding back for 2 minutes, Asparagus began to probe secretly again.

He first said to the twins who were lazily lying on the ground: "Grapefruit, Chengzi, do you know little pig?"

"I know, it's Page." Cheng Zi held his upturned little feet in his hands, showing his amazing flexibility, and his voice was as crisp and sweet as if mixed with honey: "Dad, I want to see Page."

He knew there was no TV here, but Dad and Big Daddy could watch it on their mobile phones.

"Peppa!" Yuzu's eyes that were about to be opened were widened to the maximum, and her dark eyes looked at Dad expectantly, and he wanted to see too.

Asparagus smiled awkwardly, kid, he has been thinking about watching cartoons all day long, what's so good about Peggy who looks like a hair dryer, he cleared his throat, and continued to seduce: "It's not Peggy, it's Little Pig, can you The kind that eats meat, oranges, don’t you like meat the most? Braised pork, braised pork, twice-cooked pork, bacon, crispy pork, steamed eggs with minced meat..."

He said that he was hungry, and he ate two big bowls of noodles for lunch.

"Oh, okay, eat it at night, I'll eat it." Chengzi is a clever little ghost, and he wants to smash what his father said with a hammer.

"Well, eat meat!" Yuzu nodded in agreement.

Asparagus was a little embarrassed: "Who said you ate meat at night? I mean you asked Dad to raise a pig." He dared not talk about raising Peppa. If the piglet brought back by the twins found that it looked different from Peppa , and then cried for them to change, then where to find a pig like Peppa.

Lin Yang heard it clearly from the tree, threw a red bayberry on the asparagus, and said jokingly: "You'd better not tell them, the one who will be in trouble will be yourself."

"Isn't this a waste!" Wenzhu pointed to the bayberry fruit that was half-packed in a woven bag with a random sweep just now, and couldn't help sighing: "There are still few red bayberry fruits, and more persimmons are rotten. Chickens can’t be eaten at all, let alone two pigs, even ten pigs will be fine.”

"I think you are suffering from an old problem." Lin Yang jumped down from the tree, poured the red bayberry into the box, put his hands on his shoulders, and stuck his whole body on it as if he had no bones: "There is no end to work. There are only two of us, four hands, how much we can do, if we insist on being brave, we will get sick from exhaustion, and the persimmons will only rot in the field for a year or two, it is worth you to say it every time."

Lin Yang was talking about 5 years ago, when the persimmon market was rotten and worthless.Fruits only cost 3 cents a catty, and the 3 cents are standard fruits with a diameter of at least 6 centimeters, not crooked or small fruits. This price is really unsalable, and the labor cost for picking persimmons alone Not only that, Lin Yang was unwilling to sell them, and would rather let them rot on the tree than pick them.

In addition to selling persimmons, they can also be used to dry persimmons. This is their family’s biggest income every year, but the fruit is sold out, so how expensive can persimmons be? Lin Yang sold the most expensive persimmons that year The purchase price is 2.5 cents a catty, and they are extra large persimmons, Grade A, the best batch. Afterwards, the price of persimmons fell all the way, down to 8 cents, 5 cents... In the end, no one bought them at all, so it's a shame, they all Let it rot in the ground.

Anyway, that year, not only Lin Yang's family, but their entire Leping County suffered heavy losses of persimmons. When the winter was frosty, there were red overripe persimmons all over the mountains and plains.

In addition to the bad market, there is another year. Lin Yang remembers that it was because of the rain. Since picking fruit in August, the rain has not stopped, and it has been raining for the second half of the year, at least 8 days a month. Heavy rain, light rain, drizzle, anyway, there is no stopped. ,

The times have progressed. Although everyone has some equipment at home that can be used for drying, fruit farmers do not run factories after all. Most of them still rely on the weather to make a living. The persimmons that year suffered heavy losses. Not to go out, because most of the fruit sold is for drying persimmons, and the weather is bad and the persimmons cannot be dried, so who would buy fruit?

In those years when persimmons were easy to sell, in fact, Lin Yang’s family’s persimmons were not completely sold out. It can only be said that the prices in those years were good, and they could make money relatively.

Anyway, for one reason or another, every kind of fruit, their family will always have hundreds or thousands of kilograms left over. Lin Yang grew up here, and he is used to this kind of situation, but asparagus is not, his previous world material Extremely scarce, completely disdainful of such waste.

Asparagus was rubbed by Lin Yang so hot that he didn't say anything, but he actually agreed with him in his heart, but every time he saw it, he still felt uncomfortable, and he had to say it every time, but why not? He wanted to be comforted by Lin Yang.

After talking about it, Lin Yang thought it was a pity for him, so he thought about it and proposed: "How about we raise two sheep?"

Pigs have to be fed, and sheep have to go to the mountains every day, and they can come back by themselves when it gets dark, which is much easier than raising pigs, and there are no wild animals such as wolves near them, so they don't have to worry about being killed.

But one thing is that their family seldom eats mutton, but this is not a big problem. They can sell it if they are not used to it. Anyway, their family does not eat it, and some people eat it.

Wen Zhu's eyes lit up, thinking that his idea was good, why didn't he think of it, but he hesitated for a moment: "The mountains near our village are all planted with fruit trees, isn't it good to herd sheep?"

Even if they drive the sheep to their own mountain in the morning, but the sheep have long legs and no one watches them all day, it would be troublesome if they ran to other people's fields and gnawed the fruit seedlings.

Lin Yang didn't even want to answer: "Then rush to the fields, the village is full of barren fields, tie them up in the fields like oxen, and lengthen the ropes, they will never be hungry if they eat in the fields for a day, if there is not enough grass, then Just buy some forage seeds online and scatter them in the fields, and we don’t raise too many, one or two..."

Seeing that the expression of asparagus bamboo was not right, he gritted his teeth and added another one: "Two or three, a few acres of pasture will definitely be enough for rotation."

Wenzhu already agreed in his heart, but seeing his proud look, he still couldn't help but yell at him: "Is it your field? If you want to raise sheep, you can raise sheep, and if you want to grow grass, you can plant grass."

Lin Yang didn't care: "Then tell them, I'm sure I'll be happy."

There are too few people in their village, and those who are capable move to towns and county towns. Like Lin Dahao, there are also people who move to the city or further away. Willing to stay at home and work.

However, although these people are not in the village, their fields, land, and houses in the village are still there, and no one wants to occupy them. They are busy with their own.

Therefore, people who have moved away or went out to work want people who stay in the village to take care of them, but those who have planted fruit trees on the mountain are fine, and they can at least pick fruits and sell them for money.

Don’t think this is taking advantage of it. Taking care of the fruit trees is an investment. The annual cost of pesticides and fertilizers is a lot of money. The default in their village is whoever helps take care of them, and the fruits of the fruit trees are what they get.

If you feel disadvantaged, you can leave the fruit mountain deserted, but after two to three years, four to five years, it will be completely abandoned, so many people who go out are willing to let those who stay in the village take care of them.

Because there are fruit trees planted on the top of the mountain, some people in the village are willing to help manage them, but almost no one is planting the paddy fields, and the price of rice is cheap. If you manage a few more trees, you will be able to pay for a year's food, and there is no trouble in farming. Who is willing to plant them!

Therefore, many paddy fields in the village have been abandoned, especially the terraced fields that were built on low hills decades ago. Now they have basically turned into mountains again. It is estimated that in a few years or ten years, they will completely degenerate into earth ridges.

"Then hurry up and call and ask, tonight," Wenzhu said in a slightly expectant and excited tone, "How about now?"

Lin Yang's eyes were helpless, and he really convinced him, saying that the wind is the rain, so he was afraid that he would go back on his word.

"Okay, okay, anyway, you just remember this." Wenzhu had already got a satisfactory answer today, and didn't dare to force him to live again, so he climbed another tree in a good mood.

However, Lin Yang was not let off just like that. Throughout the afternoon, Wen Zhu was happily imagining the days when his family would raise sheep in the future.

He figured it out, the sheep are raised next door to the chickens. When building the new house, Lin Yang bought all the red bricks for the new house without any discount at all in order to deceive others, but the new house at home only used a few Half of the time, the other half used the Qinggang rock that the two of them brought back from another world. This kind of stone is more suitable for drawing rune arrays, and the bricks fired in the brick factory are not tolerated.

The remaining bricks were not wasted, most of them were used to build persimmon sheds, and a small part was built at his strong request to build chicken houses along with the adobe bricks from the demolition of old houses. Lin Yang asked Lin Yang to cover the big piece, but Lin Yang promised well, and only covered one-third of it when he turned his head.

But it is not enough to raise [-] chickens for a third of it. When he goes back to tidy up, he can spare half to raise lambs.

There is a place to raise sheep, so where is the best place to herd sheep? Asparagus sat tall on a bayberry tree, and while ordering forage seeds online, he discussed with Lin Yang: "Didn't Uncle Zhang Wu want us to plant their house last year?" At that time, we didn’t agree, so in the evening...you can call him some time and ask him, now we want to plant grass and herd sheep, and ask him if he would like to?”