MTL - Shanwa Small Rich Farmers-Chapter 21 Mountain village nostalgia
"By the way, second brother, can we still rent the ponds here? I plan to rent one or two ponds, preferably bigger ones." After Wen Xu finished talking about the solar greenhouse, he started to fight again. The idea of Shui Pozi in the village.
Although the village is surrounded by mountains, there are quite a lot of puddles (that is, ponds) in this gourd-shaped mountain nest, ranging from five to six yuan in size, the small ones are more than 70 mu, and the large ones are about 700 mu. These ponds are not too deep, and the largest pond is only four or five meters deep.
"There are plenty of ponds, which one do you want to rent?" Wen Shigui asked casually after listening.
"The one closest to my home, Qinglongwa!" Wen Xu grew up here, and knows every one of them, and she just opened her mouth to ask for the nearest one, Qinglongwa, which is the second largest in terms of water surface area. The water in this depression is also the deepest, because viewed from the mountain, this depression looks a bit like a blue dragon's head, so it is called Qinglong depression.
"How long is the lease term and how much is the rent"
Wen Xu asked: "How many years is the longest?"
"National regulations are 30 years old, grasslands can last 50 years, and woodlands can last 70 years, but woodlands can't be cut down..." Wen Shigui is worthy of being the village chief. These policies are a little bit Stuttering without hitting.
"I've rented Qinglongwa for 30 years, how much do you think is suitable for a year's rent? I also want to rent a piece of forest land, and it will be more than 500 acres." Wen Xu became interested when he heard that forest land can still be rented. With forests, pigs, sheep, etc. will have a place to graze. Anyway, Wen Xin doesn't plan to cut down forests and sell trees to make money.
Wen Shigui said: "Qinglongwa Village is the master. You can give it if you feel like it for a year. Two or three thousand is enough. Too little is not good to say. Although there is no point, but this You have to save face in the procedure. If you want to rent a forest, you have to go through the county. Haidong Province has built a nature reserve. We originally said that we would join it, but Haidong didn’t mean it. To put it bluntly, I just don’t want to share our money…”
Wen Xu knew about the construction of a nature reserve nearby, but only after hearing what the second brother said, did he know that there were these things in it.
The undulating mountains are hundreds of miles around, most of them are in the inland Yuedong Province, and a small half are in the Yuehai Province near the sea. Only the Hulu Valley on the side of Wenjia Village is in the border of Linjiang Province.
To build a protected area, and a large part of it still needs to develop tourism resources. Now who doesn't know that this is a cornucopia. No matter whether it is Yuehai or Yuedong, no one wants to play with Linjiang, which is only a fingernail-sized land. To put it bluntly Just because they were afraid that Linjiang would share the profits, the two provinces proposed that this county could be assigned to any of the two provinces. Of course, Linjiang quit, and just assigned a piece of land to you, so that you can see how beautiful it is! In the end, it got to the top, and the top didn't want to disturb this matter. It's not good to offend anyone, so they asked the three to discuss it, and finally formed the current situation. The two provinces are in full swing, and Linjiang doesn't even have the intention of helping , From time to time, I can find some opportunities to add some chaos.
"Then you can ask me again, I just want to rent the mountain bag next to Qinglongwa, how long can I rent it?" Wen Xu said.
Wen Shigui said: "What is there to rent in the mountain bag? There is not even a tree as thick as the mouth of the sea. You listen to my brother, rent a good mountain top, the trees are good there, the trees are tall and the grass is dense! Don't rent the mountain bag. Raising an animal is not easy.”
Naturally, Wen Xu knows the difference between a good mountain and a mountain bag. The mountain bag originally had trees, but it was bald due to excessive felling. Although some trees were planted later, the trees have not grown at all in the past few years. Although Liangshan has been cut down, a small half of the old forest is still there, and there are still a lot of big trees that embrace it. But Liangshan is also troublesome. There are some precious tree species. Now the old forests over there are protected and cannot be cut or moved. Wenxu's side is just raising a sheep or something, so why do you want such an eye-catching place!
"It's enough to have this, and I'm going to raise some chickens, sheep and so on on the mountain bag," Wen Wen said softly.
Wen Shigui heard this and said: "I think it's a little difficult to implement your idea!"
"Why?" Wen Xu asked curiously.
"You'll find out after you go and have a look by yourself. You also have to go and have a look at Qinglongwa. If you really want to rent it, tell me when you come back. I can decide the rent for the pond. Two or three thousand is waiting for everyone to come back during the Chinese New Year and vote at the meeting. Linzi has to go to the county. The 70-year lease term is not counted as I said here. It only counts when the county seals it. ..." Wen Shigui said.
Wen Xu nodded and said: "Then please help me with this matter."
"My brother, why are you talking about this?" Wen Shigui said.
The two brothers, one old and one young, chatted for a while, and Wen Shigui stood up: "Forget it, I'm fine here, so I'll go and have a look with you, lest you stay in a big city for a long time, and don't know where the land grows." It's time to say that my second brother didn't tell you in advance!"
Hearing what the second brother said, Wen Xu also stood up, and followed the second brother out with a smile. The house was not locked, but the gate was kept around, and Wen Xu and the second brother walked towards the field together.
After crossing a small stone bridge, you can see the pebbles in the river bed at a glance from the clear stream under the bridge. On the banks on both sides of the stream, peach trees are planted on the side near the village, and weeping willows are all on the side near the fields. Enter the Huanyi pond, which is less than one mile away from the village. This pond becomes a natural big bathhouse for children in summer.
Xiaoqiao Liushui people, this kind of scenery has a Jiangnan style, but after waiting for this area, when we arrived at the original countryside, the painting style suddenly changed. The continuous wheat fields in my memory are now only a few dozen or so. The wheat seedlings were pulled out one by one, and the wheat field, which could not be seen at a glance, looked like a messy shaved head, one bald and one green, and the bald area was much larger than the green area.
"Is such a large piece of land abandoned like this?" Wen Xu asked.
Wen Shigui said: "What should we do if we don't throw it away? Our land here is not outside the mountains. It is a kind of good long crops. Our acre is not as much grain as other people's six-cent land. When outsiders heard about Wenjia Village, even the matchmaker would shake their heads, and now it’s because all the young and strong have gone out to work, and there are only some old people left at home, and every household can only grow some rations as much as they can. ...".
Listening to the second brother's explanation, Wen Xu felt very uncomfortable, and walked behind the second brother among the fields without saying a word.
"Here! Look, this is a pond and that is a mountain." Wen Shigui walked to Qinglongwa with warmth, and pointed.
Wen Xu saw that Qinglongwa, which was full of lotus leaves and water lilies in his memory, was gone, and now water hyacinths were all over the pond, and there was such a small place in the center of the depression that exposed the water.
"Why do you grow this thing?!"
Wen Xu knows about water hyacinths. The biggest use of this thing is to watch and feed pigs. Wen Xu is going to raise pigs, but how can I use these things! Wen Nuan doesn't want to spend this time fishing for this thing every day!
Besides, Wenxuan in this pond is intended to be used for raising fish. Water hyacinth is not good for fish. It covers the water surface, which not only reduces the space for fish to move, but also competes with fish for oxygen, and the roots of this thing The fish cannot be eaten yet because it is poisonous.
The more important thing is that these guys are extremely tenacious to survive, and their roots can be stuck into the mud for several meters. It's a headache.
Wen Shigui said: "Now the water puddles are full of these things, and they can't be wiped out. Besides these things, there is this thing. See if you recognize it."
While talking, Wen Shigui raised his foot and kicked a weed on the side of the road.
"It looks like pigweed," Wen Nu said, looking at the plants on the side of the road.
"It's called big hogweed, and it's even more annoying. We used to produce less food, but now it's less than 70% of what it used to be, even with intensive cultivation. It's still good. If you can't take care of it, The grain harvested is not as much as the seeds sprinkled, and now the mountains and plains are full of these things, and the land cannot be planted," Wen Shigui said.
After hearing this, Wen Xu reached out to poke the grass, but Wen Shigui immediately stopped him: "Are you allergic to pollen?"
"I'm not allergic." Wen Xu didn't understand.
Wen Shigui said: "It's good if you don't have allergies. If you are allergic, if you touch this thing, wherever it gets on, you will get egg-sized blisters! It looks disgusting and makes you want to vomit."
Wen Xu couldn't help but retracted his hand when he heard it: "So powerful?"
"Let me tell you this, except for the trees, almost all the hilltops above are made of these things, and even the original foxtails have been almost driven out by it. Do you think it's terrible?" Wen Shigui said: "Okay That’s all these things, do you want to rent now?”
"Rent, why not rent?" Wen Xu is here to cover up, and Wen Xu doesn't believe that the water plants and green grass in his own space can't kill these water hyacinths and giant hogweeds. If this doesn't work, Wen Xu will admit it , even dug out the **** pond mud, I don't believe they can still grow!
Wen Shigui immediately said: "Second brother, I have said everything I should say, and you will understand the situation. Since people still want to rent, let's rent it."
Wen Xu nodded. Just about to say something, he looked up and forgot to see the old terraced fields on the south slope, so he asked, "Is there any more rice produced in our village?"
"You are an old calendar. A few years ago, the old spring on Nanshan stopped leaking water. Now there are no rice fields. The land on the southern **** has long been planted. Who can bear to divert water to the mountain all day long? It’s a waste of electricity! Now if you want to eat rice, you have to use animals to carry it from outside the mountain.”
Wen Shigui licked his lips with his messy head when he said this: "Don't say it, I really miss the taste of our Nanpo rice after hearing what your kid said. I haven't eaten such good rice for several years. It's a pity that I can no longer eat the mountain spring rice on the southern slope!"
"Second brother, if you are busy going there beforehand, I'll walk around here," Wen Xu said.
After hearing this, Wen Shigui waved his hand at Wen Xu and said, "Be careful, don't go into Shantai. Over the past two years, people from Yuehai and Yuedong have released wild boars and bears in the forest. I heard there are leopards. Although no one in our village has seen it, I heard that an old hunter who went into the mountain has seen it."
Hearing what the second brother said, Wen Xin smiled and said: "If I don't go far, I just go around these two hills and look around. Besides, I don't have the time to think about it."
"Anyway, be careful, don't go deep into the woods." Wen Shigui gave another instruction, then turned around and walked back slowly.
Wen Xu started walking alone according to the path in his memory, watching as he walked, the air in the mountains is needless to say, but the wasteland on the side of the road is really distressing. When I was a child, it was still a patch of fields, but now except for some drainage ditches In addition, it is almost impossible to see the appearance of the field. It is covered with the big hogweed that Shigui's second brother said, and the patches are almost as high as the thighs.
Walking up Zhengnan Mountain, the original terraced fields are almost destroyed now, and the irrigation canals repaired by the predecessors for a generation or two are now almost dry soil ditches. Walking up the old terraced fields for about a mile, Wen Xu arrived at his old rice field, which was also dilapidated, and there were some rocks in the field at some point. It took an hour to arrive along the edge of the field. Xiaotushanliang, Wen Xu found that it was indeed as Shigui’s second brother said, the original Tushan Spring now only has an irregular stone depression of more than 40 meters left, and the water that was originally full can still be seen gushing out from time to time The springs that flowed from the river are now a dry and cracked stone pit.
Walking around for a while, until more than three o'clock in the afternoon, Wen Xu almost looked around the neighborhood, and found that it was exactly as Shigui's second brother said, just two words: dilapidated!
When I returned to the village, I realized that the village had hardly changed from the time I left. The old houses of each house were still the same, and the children holding bowls were almost the same as their fathers when they were young. In the same way, two lumps of rural red hang on the face, and the way of eating has not changed, holding a bowl sitting on the threshold of his own house, there are a few bowls in his hand where two pieces of meat can be seen, more bowls Among them are some pickles.
The clothes on his body are also dirty. Although they are missing patches compared to their parents, they may not be any better.
There are some children who met Wen Xu yesterday, among them the brave ones will call Uncle, or Grand Uncle or something like that, while the others are looking at Wen Xu with novelty, as if they were looking at someone from outside!
