1994: Vegetable farmers strike back

Chapter 26: If you want to be handsome, eat vine vegetables

The weather was good in the morning and Chen Jiazhi and Li Xiu were busy.

Early in the morning, he first plucked the tops of the remaining loofahs and replaced them with new ones. After dinner, Li Xiu moved a small stool and put on a straw hat to go to the vegetable field to thin out the seedlings.

Chen Jiazhi started spraying pesticides, mainly to prevent diseases and pests.

Cowpeas, green beans, loofahs, bitter melons, Chinese cabbage, and water spinach were all sprayed once.

"Scholar, your water spinach can be picked soon, why are you still spraying pesticides?" Guo Mancang was also spraying pesticides, but he was not sure if he was spraying water spinach. When he met Chen Jiazhi while mixing the pesticides, he asked.

Chen Jiazhi: "I harvest later, when the stems are fully grown, and then I cut them all at once and plant the next batch."

Guo Mancang understood and then asked in surprise, "Only harvest once, not letting it grow again, harvest multiple times?"

Chen Jiazhi: "No, just pull them out and sow them again. It's the same, and the benefits might even be better. I bought enough seeds."

Chen Jiazhi bought 15 kilograms of seeds, and adjusted the sowing method from the initially planned broadcast sowing to the current on-demand sowing.

Even if I lent some seeds to Qi Yongfeng, the remaining seeds would be enough for him to use.

Moreover, after actually planting them, Chen Jiazhi found that the quality of the Da Gu Qing seeds was very good and the stems were very thick.

The name Daguqing comes from its thick stems and green leaves.

But in later generations, this variety showed obvious degeneration, the stems became thinner, and it was easily infected by white rust and some kind of insects, but the taste remained good.

However, after planting this time, these shortcomings have not been found, and the resistance to adversity is even better.

If single-crop sowing is adopted, and there is a heavy rain after the second sowing and before the harvest, coupled with high tide, most of the land in the vegetable market will be flooded, and pests and diseases will break out at the same time.

The stress resistance of the big-bone green + the small greenhouse + imported pesticides that are not very resistant should be able to survive.

After the heavy rain, vegetable prices skyrocketed, and the second planting of large-grained green vegetables just happened to catch up.

Guo Mancang didn't know this, and Chen Jiazhi couldn't tell him that there would be heavy rain at the end of May.

However, his previous performances have convinced the vegetable farmers of his technical knowledge.

Not long after, Qi Yongfeng came to the door.

"Brother Zhi, I heard that you're going to harvest the vine vegetables a few days later, and you're only going to harvest one crop. What's the explanation for that?"

The word "Brother Zhi" almost made Chen Jiazhi's brain freeze. No one had ever called him that in his past or present life. "You're older than me."

Qi Yongfeng: "What's the big deal? You're a skilled technician, so what if I call you brother? From now on, we can just go our separate ways. You call me Brother Feng, and I'll call you Brother Zhi."

"No, just call me whatever you want."

Qi Yongfeng hadn't sold vegetables for a while, and he probably had run out of food. This crop of water spinach might be his life-saving straw.

Chen Jiazhi thought for a moment and said, "Don't worry about me. I have my own ideas. Harvest your water spinach early, in batches, and sell it early to improve your life. Look at you, you were silent for a while last night. Time is running out. If this goes on for a long time, Aunt Juan will be dissatisfied."

"Fuck, who can blame me? It's Liu..."

Chen Jiazhi glared at him, and saw Liu Minghua and Jia Suzhen just walking by not far away. Qi Yongfeng turned around and rolled his eyes in disdain.

"Don't say too much, harvest the vegetables early. The germination ability of the big-bone green is good. If you keep fertilizing and watering, you can harvest the second batch in ten days, and the profit will be decent."

"Okay, Brother Zhi, thanks to you this time."

"I told you not to call me Zhi Ge."

Qi Yongfeng left with satisfaction. Chen Jiazhi walked to the water spinach field with a sprayer on his back. Looking at the green water spinach, he suddenly felt a little craving for it.

However, the water spinach next door had been sprayed with pesticides, and there might be some spray, so I didn't dare to pick it to eat, so I shouted:

"Yongfeng, pick me a handful of tender vines later and take them back to stir-fry for lunch." Li Mingkun, who was not far away, heard this and shouted, "Jiazhi, just pick mine. It's fine if you want to. Yongfeng's isn't fully grown yet."

Chen Jiazhi waved his hand: "I just want to try this variety. This variety of vine vegetable tastes better."

Qi Yongfeng also replied loudly: "No problem, I'll pinch it for you later. If you want to be handsome, eat vine vegetables. Brother Zhi, have you liked eating vine vegetables since you were a child?"

This kid is very smart!

Not entirely stupid.

Chen Jiazhi also shouted: "Yes, eating vine vegetables will make you look more handsome!"

The sound is loud and clear, and can catch up with the village radio.

"When did Jiazhi become so shameless?!" Chen Jiafang and Li Xiu started communicating even though they were twenty or thirty meters apart.

Li Xiu glanced at Chen Jiazhi, who was spraying pesticides with a sprayer on his back. "He's quite handsome, yeah."

"What's so handsome about him? He's so tanned!" Chen Jiafang then complained, "My parents spoiled him since he was a child. He's the only one in the family who's tall and thin and looks good.

I've never been able to endure even the slightest hardship since I was little, so I've only recently become successful."

The Chen family has four siblings, and the three sisters are short and strong. The whole family is not tall, but Chen Jiazhi is an exception. When the four siblings take a group photo, they look like Ximen Qing and his three Wu Dalang sisters.

Li Xiu smiled, her parents-in-law were indeed very partial to each other, not only in food, but also in other aspects.

While the three older sisters did not finish elementary school, Chen Jiazhi only studied in high school for two years. If he had not dropped out of school because he was too poor and had no food to eat at school, he might have continued his studies.

After coming to Huacheng to grow vegetables, I also like to read the book "Lingnan Vegetable Planting Technology" when I have nothing to do.

That's why everyone calls him scholar.

But I didn't expect that the book actually teaches vegetable growing techniques. Jiazhi's performance during this period has simply broken everyone's cognition.

At first, some people thought that it was luck that he harvested the crops early.

But now, after the lectures on the beautiful vine vegetables and Chinese cabbage, the small arch shed, and the pollination of the loofah, no one dares to think that he is lucky anymore.

Vegetable farmers talk about everything through growing vegetables.

As for the tips on pollination, few people know them, and even if they do, they can't quite articulate those professional terms...

Pah!
I suddenly thought of something.

Li Xiu buried his head in the weeds, and his ears suddenly turned red.

Before the temperature rose at noon, Chen Jiazhi finished spraying all the pesticides. When he went back to put the sprayer away, he happened to see Li Mingkun pollinating in the cucumber field.

Other vegetable farmers who planted ridgeless loofah and cucumbers are also busy pollinating.

It seems that many people listened to what he said. It may also be related to the fact that most people have not gone to sell vegetables recently and are relatively idle.

It's always good to listen~
In fact, he still wanted more of these vegetable farmers to stay. After experiencing disasters in the previous life, there were only a few vegetable farmers who could persist.

He, Qi Yongfeng, and Liu Minghua all changed their careers, and Li Mingkun and Guo Mancang could only barely make ends meet.

Yi Dinggan has a solid foundation and understands technology and management. Although he is lazy and cannot make a lot of money, he can always stand firm in the industry.

Therefore, Chen Jiazhi basically does not interfere with Brother Yi's vegetable planting. Brother Yi understands many techniques at a glance. The key is whether he is willing to complete them step by step in a timely manner.

If a vegetable market wants to expand, it must have its own team. Although these fellow villagers each have their shortcomings, he has no choice.

(End of this chapter)