Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 739 - Chapter 739 729. Change some vegetable seedlings_1

Chapter 739: 729. Change some vegetable seedlings_1 Chapter 739: 729. Change some vegetable seedlings_1 “Twenty to thirty thousand?!”

Song Tan’s voice suddenly rose!

Although twenty to thirty thousand yuan wasn’t much compared to her three hundred mu of land…but this was just for a set of mulch film!

“Do we really need it?”

Her hard-earned two hundred thousand yuan hadn’t fully reached Taotao Bao yet, and in these few days, she had almost spent it all.

Tai Xiaodong winked, “To engage in agriculture and yet strive for quality, that’s the way it is… The mulch film is still necessary. The silver-black dual-color can retain moisture, meaning insulation and hydration, and it can also repel aphids and reduce weeds… Just buy it. Initial investments are unavoidable.”

Song Tan sighed as well, “I understand the logic, it’s just that spending money really hurts… What else do we need to buy? Say it all at once!”

“There’s quite a bit more!”

Three students gathered around, each with a small notebook, babbling, “We need to buy more brown sugar Duoduo, what we had at home previously wasn’t enough.”

“We’ll take three hundred jin each of rice bran, oil cake, bone meal, fish meal, and organic lime… We need to make some anaerobic fermented fertilizer to reduce the obstacles of continuous cropping, and by the way, use it later for top-dressing and base fertilization.”

“Has the large crusher been transported to the mountain?”

“Can we start using those fermentation tanks? Should we burn more plant ash for now?”

“No no, the village is now satellite-monitored and they don’t allow burning…”

“What shall we do then? Where’s the secretary? You need to apply! Our green farm can’t do without this… we surely can’t have to buy plant ash, right?”

“I could introduce you to a place that sells it…”

“Don’t rush, don’t rush, the kitchens up and down the mountain will slowly accumulate enough…”

“Sigh, we must hurry up and collect the fallen leaves! When Tian Ye was here, I didn’t feel like there was much to do. Once the school term started, it suddenly felt like we are understaffed…”

“I feel the same… Sigh! We’re really short on workers!”

“Are the storage barrels all ready?”

Song Tan was overwhelmed; with her bank balance at zero, she could only pin her hopes on the winter melon strips in the basin and the perilla that hadn’t sprouted in the field yet.

At this moment, Zhang Yanping, who was numbly mixing the lime water for soaking the winter melon, suddenly felt an even heavier weight on her shoulders.

It was from this day that the Lao Song family once again entered a busy farming season.

Of course, the busiest actually was Song Tan.

For a fickle person like her, those peach trees that weren’t bearing fruit on the mountain and the watermelon vine that only had a few stubs of melon left were no longer favored.

The vegetables in the field, because they could last only a month or two at most, only received a little bit of spiritual energy from her when she went to keep Sanbao and Sibao company at night.

The real focus was on the Tea Mountain and the chestnut trees–because the distribution of spiritual energy was so tight that she didn’t even spare much for the black fungus and white fungus, which don’t have high yields in summer!

Instead, it went directly to the perilla and Ai Cao.

“Tsk,” she sighed in the dead of night–when would she be able to grow crops on a large scale on the mountain!

She could now infuse spiritual energy into water. Initially, her plan was, in case Professor Song and the others got to the root of it, she would use the several springs on the mountain to form a reservoir to merge with the spiritual energy and irrigate…

This would not only gradually soak the soil, but it would also save her from toiling night after night, and gradually let everyone feel that it was the good feng shui of their land.

The development process on the mountain turned out to be much more complicated than she had expected, and only now had it finally been settled.

Quite annoyingly, it was distributed in scattered patches…

And here she was, sneaking around in an Ai Cao field in the dead of night!

Of course, it was already September, and the reason for inducing the growth of Ai Cao was not to make Ai Tiao, but because Professor Song wanted to use it as green manure, and later, to use it for making fermented fertilizer.

Too bad he didn’t mention it earlier, now all the scattered Ai Cao fields on the mountain had been cleared and dug up, leaving them spotless. It took her searching until the middle of the night to find this piece of wild land.

The nights after Start of Autumn were cool, with the bright moonlight falling on the bushes and grass in front of her, and the white dew on the Ai leaves swaying in the wind, the air filled with the fresh fragrance of plants.

Song Tan was hidden among them, undetectable by anyone. And as the Spiritual Energy was slowly released, she too gradually calmed down and melded into nature…

It was only when the dawn broke in the east and Dabao and Erbao started calling out on the mountain that Song Tan slowly stood up and silently returned home.

As the sky brightened around five or six in the morning, she followed everyone else and started another fulfilling day.

Meanwhile, Zhang Hong and Aunt Chen who had been called by Wu Lan, as well as Li Lanhua from Zhou Maozhu’s family, looked at this large field of Ai Cao with nothing but surprise:

“Wow, such a large field… This is quite far from our patch, it’s impressive that Lao Song’s family managed to find it.”

“Isn’t it better that there’s more? We can work on Ai Cao for several days! Work from dawn till the sun comes out, and easily earn fifty bucks in the morning, which is more than picking tea leaves.”

Summer and autumn teas aren’t that expensive. Mao Jian is only about twenty or thirty yuan per half kilogram. You might earn just about a hundred or so after a whole day’s work–and that’s if you’re fast and don’t mind the sun.

In comparison, just picking some tender leaves of Ai Cao can earn you fifty, which is indeed a good job!

Aunt Chen, however, was quite optimistic: “What’s there to worry about? Once the Ai Cao is done, I’ll go and strip leaves for their family. That job is easy too!”

Stripping dead leaves in the mountains doesn’t pay much, eighty yuan a day– but it’s even easier than picking Ai Cao, where you have to be selective. With stripping leaves, anything goes and you can rake up a sackful in no time.

Li Lanhua’s determination to earn money had been unprecedented ever since Zhou Tianyu came back one time during the summer. Don’t think that today she’s only here to make fifty yuan; once the sun rises, she’ll be picking tea leaves in the heat!

She had it all planned out: now picking tea could earn her sixty yuan a day, and fifty from Lao Song’s place, making it over a hundred per day.

Eventually, when the picking of Ai leaves is done, the price of White Dew Tea would rise again, roughly earning her a hundred yuan a day!

But the thing is…

“Wu Lan said they would be applying base fertilizer to the mountain these days, just follow behind the machine and scatter the fertilizer, that’s all, one hundred and thirty yuan a day… What do you think I should do?”

The job wasn’t heavy, but the heat of the September autumn could be quite fierce, a bit too much sun.

Ah! After they nearly finished packaging the condiment packets, they had half a month of idle time!

Now, all the work came rushing in, how to choose?

Speaking of this, Auntie Zhang Hong seemed to have some ideas:

“What do you think if I work for them for a couple of days, and then when they stop planting vegetables in this garden, ask Wu Lan to share some seedlings with me?”

“Look at this scorching heat, only their vegetable garden has good growing crops… No wonder their products are expensive, they really do have their reasons!”

In theory, since it’s all one village, the crops grown in everyone’s gardens should be similar. Asking for some seedlings or seeds is not a big deal at all. With things like radishes and cabbage, when thinning out the seedlings, there are heaps of them extra.

But the problem is…

The seedlings and seeds from Lao Song’s family were all directed by a major expert, and now asking for them outright seemed a bit improper.

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