Chapter 366 The First Guests of the Farm
After dinner, the sun has jumped out from the mountain ridge, shrouding the farm and orchards at the foot of the mountain in spring light.
In the morning, fish are active. When you walk out of the farm, you can often see fish playing in lotus ponds and ditches, and some big fish jump out of the water and splash.
The ornamental fish in the pond are also very energetic. When you walk over, you can see colorful fish swimming on the water.
These fish are mainly goldfish, with a slightly smaller number of koi. After all, goldfish are more popular at the moment, and goldfish are more suitable to be raised in glass fish tanks.
Put some stones and raise some water plants, and it will have a unique mood when placed indoors.
Of the three small ponds on the farm, two are filled with goldfish and one is filled with koi. They are now almost half a full length tall.
You can sell it after raising it until the end of the month.
This thing is quick to raise and can be sold all year round, even in big cities. There is no fixed off-season and peak season for ornamental fish.
The sales are extremely hot right now.
When he was in the city some time ago, Chen Ling saw stalls selling ornamental fish at many intersections. It was not a flower, bird, insect, or fish market. If there were more people at an intersection, he would set up stalls there and start selling them.
Sometimes at a crowded intersection, I even dream of all the stalls being filled with fish, including fish insects, fish food, large and small fishing nets, and square and round fish tanks. lively.
And they are sold extremely cheaply. You can find them for ten or twenty pieces for one dollar. For example, the little loach is at this price.
Goldfish and koi worth hundreds of dollars are already extremely high-end and rare.
As for the goldfish on the market now, according to Chen Ling's observation and comparison in books, they are all traditional varieties of goldfish.
Like the later Lan Shou, Thai Lion, and Crown Pearls, you can't see them at all.
Among the koi, there is no trace of the dragon, phoenix and butterfly koi.
The common ones among goldfish are butterfly tails, dragon eyes, bubbles, skyscrapers, pearls, lion heads, etc., such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, all kinds of colors are almost covered.
It can be said that the domestic traditional goldfish species are quite complete locally.
The variety is complete, so there must be many people buying fish and raising fish.
As for why so many people are buying ornamental fish these days?
The reason is very simple. In the final analysis, there are few entertainment activities at this time. It is interesting and fun to set up a fish tank at home and raise some fish. Adults and children can enjoy it happily.
Later on, the ornamental fish market gradually slumped, also because the Internet was developed at that time and there were toys everywhere, so few people had the enthusiasm to raise fish.
Think about it, if you don’t do any cooking, how can you have time to raise fish?
From this point of view, there are really many benefits to starting up ornamental fish breeding at this time. At least for the next few years, the family will have no shortage of income.
After walking around the ponds and canals and checking on the fish, Chen Ling went to release the chickens, ducks and livestock.
You don’t need to take too much care of chickens, ducks, geese and sheep. There are many dogs in the house now, so it’s okay for them to run around wherever they want.
The main thing is to take good care of the little green horse. This guy is too restless and wants to go out and run around all day long. It is best for Chen Ling to ride it out and run around wildly.
"You play by yourself first, and I will take you out for a run later."
After stroking the smooth nose of the little green horse twice, Chen Ling quietly came to the edge of the orchard and wanted to see See what bird is causing harm to the vegetable garden.
Generally, magpies are the most common thief birds that harm crops and vegetable seedlings. However, when Chen Ling went to look before breakfast, the fresh footprints on the moist soil were much smaller than the magpie's claws.
Now he unexpectedly sneaked over and took a look. Good guy, a large group of sparrows were falling around the vegetable garden. Not far from the sparrows, there were also wild tits, flower magpies, and gray hemp tied in the bare vegetable seedlings and sweet potatoes. Pecking at the seedlings.
A few smelly aunties were also among them. Their pointed and slender beaks pecked out the vegetable seeds buried in the soil, picked them up and flew to the side to enjoy them.
This situation made Chen Ling furious. He took out his slingshot and struck: "Your uncle, your stinky aunt, even this thick-browed and big-eyed one has rebelled..."
This stinky guy My aunt's name is actually the Hoopoe. This bird has a small fan on its head, a long and thin beak, and its feathers are covered with black and white horizontal stripes. It is very beautiful.
When Chen Ling was a child, he always mistaken it for a woodpecker.
Later, when I grew up and became sensible, I realized that although this thing was not a woodpecker, it was also a good bird that eats pests. Who knew it would come to steal seeds?
Chen Ling was really angry.
After firing the slingshot, nothing was hit, only the birds were so frightened that they flew up and fled towards the sky.
I took a few steps forward, but the trap I placed was not in vain.
It was two unlucky wild tits and a gray mozzarella.
Chen Ling called the little boys on the spot, tore the bird feathers that the three unlucky guys tore up on the spot, flew them around, and threw them on the ground as a warning to the thieving birds.
"Er Baldy hasn't come back yet, so just stay here and watch. I'll give you extra food tonight."
Chen Ling touched Er Hei's head and asked him to take the puppy with him. The children take turns guarding the vegetable garden so that they can drive away the birds when they come.
Then I went back to the farm to get vegetable seeds and replanted them, and those seedlings had to be replanted slowly.
"What's wrong, Lingzi?"
The father-in-law came from the village with the calf in hand. When he saw Chen Ling and the dog working in the vegetable garden, he let go of the cow and hurried over.
"Our vegetable garden has been damaged by birds. I will replant these vegetables."
Chen Ling pointed to the old man to see what was going on and said helplessly.
“What is it? The bird is causing trouble?”
Wang Cunye bent down and glared, gritting his teeth in anger.
"Is it okay to let Erhei and the others watch? Or plant two scarecrows to scare these thieving birds."
"That's right, the dog can't watch all the time, then Let’s try planting two scarecrows.”
Chen Ling nodded and went back to get the tools, two broken straw hats and thatch shawls, and erected two scarecrows in the vegetable garden.
After finishing it, I also tied two fluttering red ribbons. When the wind blows, they will float back and forth, also to scare the birds.
Everything is ready. The little white cow also came to the vegetable garden and lay still, guarding it with the little dogs.
Once a bird comes, they drive it away.
At noon, within half a day, the little dogs had pounced on more than 20 birds, neatly placing them on the ground without eating them, specifically to claim credit from Chen Ling.
In the afternoon, the little tabby cat also came to join in the fun. It played with the puppies all day long, and its hunting skills are not weak. At nightfall, it also caught two sparrows.
It's just that this cat was so stupid that he didn't know how to take credit for catching the bird and ate it on the spot.
It is necessary to spray herbicides on the wheat field the next day. There are people around, so there is no need to let the dog lean on it.
But the little dogs seem to know where to look now. Needless to say, they went over to guard it. With the little tabby cats, they gathered around the little white cow in groups. If a bird came, they would It's quite fun to rush out and chase away the birds, then roll around the vegetable garden and play around when the birds don't come.
After a while, Heiwa Xiaojin ran over from the orchard with a few foxes and joined them. The team became larger and more lively.
The three of them, Yu Qian, who was strolling over slowly carrying a bird cage, felt jealous.
Yu Qian even hung the birdcage on a tree on the edge of the orchard, and exclaimed: "I'm a good boy, Fugui, why do you still have a fox here?"
As he said this, his legs and feet were under control. He kept walking towards several foxes with fiery red fur.
Foxes are very alert. When they see a stranger approaching, they will run away lightly with their fluffy and thick tails raised.
Little Jin was having fun playing with the foxes, but when he was disturbed, he barked twice at Yu Qian fiercely, and continued to chase the foxes happily.
After catching up, the big golden-haired dog and the four beautiful red foxes ran side by side. Sometimes they ran close to each other, rubbed against each other, and sometimes touched their noses. They were very intimate and happy.
Yu Qian was so frightened by Xiao Jin's ferocious appearance that he dared not move. Then when he saw this scene again, he asked strangely: "Isn't this a fox, but your Xiao Jin's puppy? Does it look like a fox?"
"No, this is a fox. It's just a wild fox in the mountains. It just plays well with my dog and is generally not a family member."
Those three little foxes have grown up now. Because he was rescued by Chen Ling when he was a child, and later he often went to the farm to eat and drink, he was only close to their family.
I am still very wary of other humans.
When you see someone approaching, you will run away quickly.
Knowing that the fox likes to play with the farm's dogs and cows, Yu Qian and the other three were amazed: "These gadgets you raise are just fun, and they can make friends on their own, which makes people like them."
"What are you going to do today, spray pesticides?"
"Yes, spray some herbicides to kill the weeds."
"Weeding? Won't this kill the wheat seedlings?"
"Haha, what you said is definitely not true. The dose of medicine is not that big. It just kills the grass that has just grown up."
Anyone who has planted fields knows that when crops in farmland sprout and grow, various types of weeds will also grow along with them.
For example, wheat, although it is winter wheat, the land has been plowed before sowing. It seems that the weeds have disappeared, and there are only rows of tender green wheat seedlings, which are very neat and clean.
But that won’t work when the weather gets warmer, and various grasses will gradually pop up again.
It was very inconspicuous at first, far less tall and strong than the wheat seedlings.
But as long as there is a little rain, even a light rain, they will grow tenaciously and savagely. After a few rains, they can surpass the wheat seedlings and take the lead.
Especially after such heavy rain, the weeds in the farmland really look different every day.
Leave it alone for one month or two months, allowing weeds to rob the land of fertility unscrupulously, and the farmland will soon become barren.
So killing the grass when it is young not only saves time, effort and pesticides, but also reduces the dosage of pesticides, which is also good for the soil and wheat.
“Qi’an is young and didn’t catch up with the queue to go to the countryside. He doesn’t know anything. I used to think that farming means just spreading seeds on the ground and leaving it alone. I don’t know that there are weeds in this farmland. If we ignore the harm caused by insects and insects, we will lose everything.”
Ma Wei said with a smile: “Qi’an, do you know why the scarecrow over there is used?”
"Old Ma, you are going too far. Can I not know about the scarecrow? It is a bird-proofing thing."
Zhou Weijun said in support: "That's right, Old Ma, you are going a little too far. Qi'an is not that stupid. I don’t even know what the scarecrow is for.”
Then he turned to Chen Ling and asked, “Why did you make two scarecrows? Do you dislike the fact that there are so many birds here?”
"It's not that there are too many birds. In fact, there are too many birds. It's not a bad thing. It's just that those birds have caused great harm to my vegetable garden. I had no choice, so I made two scarecrows and put them there."
Chen Lingyi said this After the incident, Yu Qian became energetic and volunteered to show Chen Ling the vegetable garden.
What a pity those birds were eaten by dogs, it would be better to give them to him.
Everyone knew what he was thinking, but they didn’t reveal it and just let him go and do whatever he wanted.
Zhou Weijun and Ma Wei picked up hoes and shovels and helped Chen Ling and Weng Weng remove some slightly larger grass.
While working, I discussed with Chen Ling that their crew would be coming tomorrow and there were a lot of people coming. I asked him if he could arrange for some people to live in the farm.
Since it was not Zhou Weijun's own crew, he made it clear to Chen Ling that the accommodation fee was as much as various other miscellaneous expenses.
The environment of the farm is very good, with beautiful mountains and rivers and pleasant scenery. As long as Chen Ling allows you to live there, it doesn't matter if you pay more for room and board.
"Okay, since we are your friend's crew, Lao Zhou, I will give you this face no matter what."
When Chen Ling heard this, he agreed without saying a word. Coming down, there are so many rooms in the farm, which are originally meant for people to live in.
Our farm occupies a large area, with a two-story bamboo building and a three-story wooden building.
Zhou Weijun made it clear that there wouldn’t be too many people, so they would just live in the wooden building.
Now that the children are older, the father-in-law and mother-in-law are also here, so all parties can be taken care of, and it will not affect the normal life of their family.
Besides, these people didn’t stay long.
Sooner or later the day will come when the farm will receive guests properly.
(End of this chapter)