The fruits are beginning to ripen! There are not too many fruits, but they are already hanging on the branches, and the fruit branches are bent down one by one.

In the orchards of every household in Shimo Sixth Team, tall or short fruit trees are covered with dark purple fruits.

Gu Siwei walked in the orchard of Sun Laibao's house, reached out and picked one from the tree, rubbed it with his palms, removed the light layer of fruit wax on it, and threw it into his mouth.

When his teeth met the pulp, with just a slight pressure, the sweet juice bloomed in Gu Siwei's mouth.

Um!

Sweet and fragrant!

Gu Siwei nodded his head.

"Siwei, how are the fruits this year?"

Ma Chunya looked at Gu Siwei nervously.

Seeing that the fruit harvest was about to begin, Ma Chunya specially called Gu Siwei to take a look at her orchard.

In fact, there is no need to look at it. It’s already this time, and there is nothing else that can be thought of. The reason why he asked Gu Siwei to come over was just because Ma Chunya wanted to put a scale in his heart, so that he would not have trouble sleeping in the past two days.

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"It's very good, and the fruits are big enough. To be honest, sister-in-law of the Ma family, the fruits in this orchard are really more outstanding than yours."

Gu Siwei picked another fruit, but this one was smaller, almost half the size of the previous one, and the color was slightly lighter. It was not dark purple, but red with a slight yellow.

This is a sign that the fruit is not fully ripe. Although it is not fully ripe, it does not mean that it cannot be eaten. In fact, the fruit at this time is already edible. It is just that after it reaches the mouth, it will be slightly sour and a little bit...

Slightly bitter.

Not everyone dislikes this taste. Hu Yanqiu, for example, prefers fruits of this color. Of course, this is because she is twin.

In addition to Hu Yanqiu, there are several people in Zhuangzi who like the fruits at this time, but Gu Siwei usually doesn't eat them. Today he specially wanted to try them, so he picked one casually.

Putting it in his mouth, Gu Siwei frowned slightly.

"It's not ripe yet, what are you doing eating it?" Ma Chunya said with a smile.

"I'll try it, it's still the same as before." Gu Siwei spit out the remaining half of the fruit in his mouth, directly onto the ground under the fruit tree.

As soon as his feet touched the ground, Gu Siwei was attracted by the ground he saw. He raised his feet and rubbed the ground with his toes.

Ma Chunya saw Gu Siwei's movements and asked curiously: "Is there any problem?"

Gu Siwei said: "Sister-in-law, have you noticed that mud has begun to accumulate in the ground?"

Ma Chunya said: "Do you have any in your land?"

Ma Chunya had discovered this a long time ago. Originally, the land was bare, with rocks exposed in most places. However, after the cherries were planted in the past few years, she found that the ground under the cherry trees began to gradually become greener.

With a little bit of soil and a little bit of stickiness, as the tree grew bigger and bigger, after experiencing several cold and heat, some grass slowly began to sprout on the ground.

Gu Siwei said: "I have one at home too."

Gu Siwei originally thought that only his own land was like this, but he did not expect that Ma Chunya's land was also like this.

So he asked again: "Who else's land is like this? All the land?"

Ma Chunya thought for a while and shook her head: "It seems that two or three of our families are like this. It seems that the ones that were planted later were originally bare, and they are still bare now."

After saying that, Ma Chunya thought for a moment and said: "Brother Wu's garden is not like this. I think it may be related to the fruit falling on the ground. Both our family and your family pick big fruits, and small fruits are left behind."

The trees are waiting to fall naturally. When the time comes, birds come to eat the fruits. When the birds come, they also poop and so on. Over time, a layer of bird poop mixed with rotten fruits and rotten leaves accumulates on the ground of the fruit trees.

Maybe that’s how it came about.”

After hearing this, Gu Siwei learned what Ma Chunya said made sense, so he smiled and said, "I didn't expect that Sister-in-law Ma's sister-in-law, you have such good observation skills."

"You are all people who do big things. I'm just messing around. I don't usually have anything to do. I just have random thoughts." Ma Chunya said politely.

"Sister-in-law Ma, when are you going to pick your fruits?" Gu Siwei asked.

Ma Chunya said: "I listen to you, we will pick it when you say."

Gu Siwei thought for a while and said: "How about picking it the day after tomorrow? It will be more than half mature by then."

Ma Chunya said: "Well, I'll pick it up the day after tomorrow. Siwei, how do they pick it up at your door?"

Gu Siwei said: "They don't want to come this way. They want us to take us to the ferry over there. They have special refrigerated trucks there. If we pick the stuff now, we have to transport it now. If we drag it for a day, it will be a day's trouble."

Ma Chunya nodded and said, "Yeah, I know, this thing can't be manipulated!"

After saying that, Ma Chunya asked again: "Is it just this manpower?"

Gu Siwei said: "The manpower problem is easy to solve. I told the radar station here that they will organize some soldiers to come over and help.

But we can’t let others work in vain, this is not our principle.”

When Ma Chunya heard that the little soldiers came to help, she immediately smiled and said: "I understand, I understand! I will have to thank them properly then."

After saying that, he asked again: "Should we follow last year's instructions?"

"Let's mention it. We have made money here after all. It's a bit unreasonable to just provide a few meals to others. We still have to provide food, but... forget it, I'll discuss this matter with you guys. Let's see.

Let’s see if the village can unify and send some supplies to the army when the work is over,” Gu Siwei said.

Life at the radar station is very hard now, and there is no money or water after a week. Although the radar station also raises pigs and feeds sheep, they are not specialized in this, and it is impossible to raise dozens of them.

, then everyone should stop doing radar and just start raising pigs.

In short, the life of the army is not much better than the life of ordinary people. It is all miserable.

"Okay, we all listen to you!" Ma Chunya said with a smile.

Gu Siwei smiled and joked: "Aren't you afraid that I will lie to you?"

"Our whole family is happy to be deceived by you!" Ma Chunya laughed after hearing this.

Now Ma Chunya's status in the family is not low. Let's put it this way, even her parents-in-law sometimes want to listen to her opinions. It's nothing, it's just that Ma Chunya decided to follow Gu Siwei's path.

Now Ma Chunya's decision has brought huge returns to the family, not to mention the money earned from selling the fruits to the factory two or three years in advance. Just this time, Ma Chunya's family's fruits can be said to be the most valuable.

Apart from Siwei's orchard, it has the best fruit.

There is one thing about her orchard that exceeds that of Gu Siwei's, and that is the area. The area of ​​Gu Siwei's orchard is not as big as that of Ma Chunya's family.

Let's put it this way, if anyone's fruit sales in Zhuangzi this year make the most money, she, Ma Chunya, will probably be the first.

Gu Siwei smiled after hearing this, but still praised: "Sister-in-law Chunya, you really take good care of the orchard."

"I don't know anything else, I can only do this," Ma Chunya said with a smile.

At this moment, Guo Shengshui's voice suddenly came from outside.

"Is the fourth dimension present? Is the fourth dimension present?"

"Here you are, come inside!"

Gu Siwei responded.

As soon as the voice fell, Guo Shengshui came over and opened the cherry branches in front of him. When he saw Gu Siwei and Ma Chunya standing next to the fruit tree, he said, "Ms. Ma Chunya is here too."

"Why, I can't come to my orchard yet?" Ma Chunya said with a smile.

Guo Shengshui said: "Nothing."

"Do you have a problem with me?" Gu Siwei asked Guo Shengshui.

Guo Shengshui said: "Go to my house and take a look. There seems to be something wrong with some of the fruit trees."

Gu Siwei was a little strange and thought to himself: What could happen to the fruit tree?

Seeing the anxious look on his face, Gu Siwei raised his hand to signal him to lead the way.

Ma Chunya was also curious, and the orchard of Guo Shengshui's house was not far away, so she followed him there.

When they got to the fruit tree, before Gu Siwei could open his mouth, Ma Chunya said, "No wonder."

"What's wrong?" Guo Shengshui asked a little confused.

Ma Chunya said: "With your approach, it's only strange that there are no problems with the fruit trees. After all, you are not a person who handles crops. You don't know this common sense at all."

Seeing Guo Shengshui's confused face, Ma Chunya said: "You piled too much fertilizer on the roots of the fruit trees, and what kind of fertilizer is this? It hasn't even been soaked. You just piled it on the roots of the tree. That's not true."

Did he burn to death?”

Gu Siwei also saw the problem. There was a pile of farmyard manure at the base of Guo Shengshui's fruit trees. It was not toilet dung, but poultry manure, such as chicken droppings, duck droppings and the like.

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These things are indeed fertilizer, but they have to be fermented. When placed in rural areas, they are retting fertilizers. This means piling up these things and leaving them for a period of time to wait for microbial transformation.

If it were piled directly to the roots of the trees, that would be what Gu Siwei saw now. The roots of the fruit trees would be burned directly by the fertilizer.

Guo Shengshui said: "I think everyone piles them up like this."

"Do you think who piles up the fertilizer like this? Which one piles up fertilizer that has not been soaked? You don't even ask anyone to ask, you just cover the roots directly," Ma Chunya said.

At this time, someone was passing by outside and came over after hearing the noise here.

He came in and stood here to take a look, and immediately said to Guo Shengshui: "Why, we don't need the tree anymore, how can we compost under the fruit tree?"

"Didn't I learn it from your family?" Guo Shengshui asked.

The visitor replied: "Follow me. My family is not as smart as yours. We compost directly under the roots of fruit trees. We only use composted compost. You don't know how to...".

Guo Shengshui's face suddenly stretched.

"Why are you still standing there? Quickly peel off the fat."

Only then did everyone react, so they immediately took the things and began to shovel aside the piled fertilizer in the orchard.

"No more, right?"

All the nearby villagers came over to help. Some of them took out hoes, while others carried water and poured water on the roots. In short, after a lot of messing around, the bottom of the manure-filled fruit trees was finally cleaned up.

"This is just superfluous. The fruit is obviously about to ripen, but you do this..."
Chapter completed!