The happy little days of the Ye family

Not long after the meal, the village chief's grandson came over and informed everyone that one person from each household would go to the ancestral hall. The village chief had something to tell everyone.

When Mr. Ye went to the ancestral hall, most of the people in the village had already arrived. People in twos and threes and acquaintances were whispering about what was going on.

Not long after, everyone arrived, and the village chief asked everyone to quiet down.

"Everyone, please be quiet first. What I am going to say next is very, very important. You are not allowed to speak."

Seeing that everyone in the village had calmed down, he continued: "Last year, Dr. Li told the village that the medicine shop collects honeysuckle, and it does not require any preparation, just dry the flower buds. Brother Guitian went to the county seat I have inquired with the town, and the price in the town is 50 Wen per catty, and in the county it is 55 Wen per catty."

Knowing that this honeysuckle is so valuable, most people in the village couldn't help it. Aunt Ma asked: "Village Chief, can you just pick off the buds of this honeysuckle, dry it and send it to the drug store for sale? Is it that simple?"

The village chief signaled everyone to be quiet, "Yes, it's that simple. Everyone, be quiet first, and then I will tell you how to plant honeysuckle."

"This honeysuckle can be grown by cuttings, just like sweet potatoes. You can plant it with honeysuckle vines. You have also seen honeysuckle in the mountains. Don't plant it too densely when planting. Water more when it is first planted. Just fertilize frequently and that’s it.”

"In fact, I have to thank brother Guitian for planting honeysuckle. If it weren't for his suggestion to plant honeysuckle, I never thought that I could grow honeysuckle and sell it in the drug store." The village chief specifically said that it was Mr. Ye who proposed planting honeysuckle.

"Just a small suggestion. The village chief is smart and knows that honeysuckle can be grown by cuttings. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to find so many honeysuckle seedlings."

Mr. Ye really doesn't think the idea of ​​planting honeysuckle is so great. The most important thing is how to plant it.

The village chief signaled everyone to be silent, and then said: "Tomorrow I will organize people to go to the back mountain to pick honeysuckle vines. Each household can be assigned a bundle of honeysuckle. As for where to plant it, everyone decides on their own."

"Honeysuckle grows on the mountains. We have two acres of sloping land at home, which is perfect for growing honeysuckle." Ye Dahe said cheerfully beside Mr. Ye.

"All the fields at home have been planted with grain, and only two vegetable plots are left. Can they be planted in the vegetable plot?" Aunt Liu beside Ye Dahe said with a frown.

"Are you stupid? What if you plant such a valuable thing outside and it is stolen? Of course you have to plant it in your own yard." Aunt Ma rolled her eyes in disgust.

Land in the countryside is not valuable, and every household has a large front yard and backyard. It is not a problem to grow honeysuckle.

Most of the people present agreed with what Aunt Ma said. Although the atmosphere in the village is good, it's hard to say. What if someone with a bad heart has bad intentions? It's not easy for country people to make some money. ah.

"That's all I have to say. Let's go back first and tidy up the ground early tomorrow morning. Once the honeysuckle vines are divided, we must plant them as soon as possible."

Everyone present was smiling and eager to rush home to share the good news with their families.

When Mr. Ye returned home, his father, mother and several children had already gone to bed. Only Mrs. Ye was waiting for him in the room with a light on.

Mr. Ye opened the door and saw Mrs. Ye mending Mr. Ye's clothes under the lamp. He felt warm in his heart.

"Thank you for all your hard work these years." Mr. Ye held Mrs. Ye's hand. The smart girl at the time had become a grandmother in a blink of an eye, but she was still so beautiful.

"You're already old, so you're not ashamed." The old lady blushed, but she didn't take her hand away.

Early the next morning, Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye took Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin to Xiaohoushan.

Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing were originally planning to go to Xiaohoushan together, but they were stopped by Mrs. Ye.

"You two with small arms and legs can't be tied together like Dong Lin. Just stay at home and embroider and feed the livestock." After saying that, he took Mu Xiu's brothers and left without looking back. .

It was difficult to push a cart up the mountain, so I only brought my family's wheelbarrow. Mr. Ye walked in front pushing his family's wheelbarrow. There were several buckets and dry food on the cart. Mrs. Ye looked lovingly at her grandson who was playing around.

A few people came to the stream in Xiaohou Mountain in a hurry. Mr. Ye hid the basket he brought behind the weeds and began to divide the work.

"I'm here to water the honeysuckle I planted yesterday. Old lady, you take your two grandsons to dig a hole first. Plant half of them today and plant the rest tomorrow."

The honeysuckle vines in Xiaohoushan should be newly grown in the past two years. They are not connected into one large area like those in Backshan. There are not many honeysuckle vines on the mountain, and they can barely cover ten acres of land. When these honeysuckles grow up next year, it will be enough to plant them in about ten acres.

50 cents per kilogram sounds like a lot, but honeysuckle is small and light. One person can pick seven or eight kilograms in one day, and it will be half lighter when dried.

Mr. Ye pushed the wheelbarrow to the stream, filled the bucket with water, and used the wheelbarrow to transport the water to the honeysuckle field for watering.

Although this honeysuckle field covers several acres, there is only one honeysuckle tree two or three meters away. Mr. Ye finished watering the honeysuckle field in about an hour.

Mr. Ye plans to plant honeysuckle all along the low mountainside between the foot of the mountain and the bamboo forest. The bamboo forest has already taken up half of the mountainside. Mr. Ye plans to use the remaining half to plant fruit trees, and plant pepper on the top of the mountain.

The honeysuckles are far apart, and the holes dug are small. When Mr. Ye found Mrs. Ye, Mrs. Ye and her two grandsons had almost finished digging the hole for planting honeysuckle.

Seeing that nothing happened to him, Mr. Ye touched his nose and had no choice but to cut the honeysuckle vines.

Mr. Ye cut the honeysuckle vines and placed them neatly on the wheelbarrow. It took three times to transport all the honeysuckle vines down.

The next step of planting is relatively simple. Brothers Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin are responsible for placing honeysuckle vines in front, while the old man and Mrs. Ye are responsible for filling in the soil.

Today there are two more brothers, Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin, and the work is much faster than yesterday. The honeysuckle was planted early.

After planting the honeysuckle, Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye watered the honeysuckle vines and sent their two grandsons to hunt pigweed. They still had a few precious piglets at home, so they couldn't starve them.

There was a whole patch of water celery on both sides of the stream. Ye Donglin simply took his younger brother to pick water celery and feed it to the pigs. The cress growing by the stream was good, and within a short time the two brothers picked four baskets full of cress.

After killing pigweed, the two brothers felt bored and ran to talk to Mrs. Ye again, and then ran to the bamboo forest to dig bamboo shoots.

I had just dug bamboo shoots two days ago. There were not many bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest. It took the brothers a long time to dig up dozens of kilograms. Mrs. Ye and the old man helped dig for a while, and then the four of them pushed two taels of sacks of bamboo shoots and four baskets of pigweed and went home talking and laughing.