Chapter 217 (1/2)

When villagers in Qianmen village order corn, they dig a hole in the field and put two or three corn kernels into the hole. One of the two or three corn kernels will emerge, as long as one corn seedling grows.

Now there are rice transplanters and corn planters, but Qianmen village used to be poor. No villagers had these agricultural machines at home. Only some people with harvesters from other places came to harvest rice every year and charged one or two hundred yuan per mu to help the villagers cut the rice.

But it's easier to order corn. The villagers of Qianmen village, men, women, old and young, will fight together. It won't be long before they can plant 100 mu of land. After all, Qianmen village doesn't have much, but there are many people.

Li Mu returned to the village with more than 1000 vines. Most of the corn fields in the village had been planted. When Li Mu said hello, hundreds of villagers rushed over to help plant vines.

”Li Mu, these vines look good, and they already bear small grapes. If these grapes don't fall, they will grow into grapes in a short time!”

Xia Youwei can't do farm work. When the villagers are busy, she takes a group of half aged children in the village to cook mung bean soup. When she sees Li Mu coming back, Xia Youwei quickly welcomes them.

”In half a month, these grape trees will mature in the next half a month!” Li Mu said confidently.

”It's best to mature in half a month, but it's still summer. If you transplant grapes, you need a lot of watering, otherwise you may not live!” Xia Youwei thought for a moment and said.

Although she can't do farm work, she still knows this common sense. Summer is not suitable for transplantation. If there is no water shortage, it may be difficult for plants to survive.

”Not only grapes, but also other fruit trees, so I'm going to dig Xiaoyue lake and water from Xiaoyue lake to irrigate fruit trees!” Li Mu said.

Qianmen village needs to plant hundreds of mu of fruit trees. It's too busy to expect the villagers to carry water for irrigation. We have to divert water from Xiaoyue lake for irrigation.

”That's OK. Xiaoyue lake has a lot of water. Although irrigation of so much land will consume a lot of water, there's no other way now!” Xia Youwei nodded.

Generally, there are pumping stations in villages. When rice is planted every year, groundwater is pumped to irrigate the land. However, Qianmen village and several nearby villages can't get groundwater, so Qianmen village can only use the water of Xiaoyue lake.

”Uncle Niu, I'll plant grapes here. You take people to Xiaoyue lake. Dig Xiaoyue Lake today and let the water wet wetland of Xiaoyue lake first!” Li Mu shouted.

”OK, I'll go now!” Old Niu nodded, turned back and shouted, ”big egg, two eggs, crooked mouth, you take a shovel with me to dig Xiaoyue lake and lead the water to the irrigation canal!”

”I see, Dad!” Niu Dadu promised, turned back and asked someone to get a shovel, followed the old man Niu to Xiaoyue lake.

Xiaoyue lake is a few miles away from Qianmen village and Houcun village. Old man Niu went there with more than a dozen people. After a while, he couldn't see anyone.

”Er WA, what kind of vine do you say?” Old man Zhang, who lives in Houcun, looked at Li Mu and asked.

”According to the contract, the more than 1000 vines are enough to plant more than ten mu of land, starting from Aunt Liu's house!” Li Mu waved his big hand and said.

Villagers with hundreds of acres of land want to plant their own land first. After all, this land can be harvested one day earlier, but there is always a priority for so many land.

”Good, good, plant my land first, and my contract says grow grapes!” Aunt Liu stood up excitedly and said.