The cannon fodder female supporting role stirs up trouble in period literature

This time the annoying person didn't follow. Instead, Honeysuckle followed the two sisters to the peach forest on the mountain.

In order to grow peaches in good quantities, a lot of arable land was occupied when the peach forest was planted. There was no end in sight. If the peaches could not be sold, the land would be wasted. All of that land would be food. No wonder the team was anxious.

Although it is not yet flowering season, you can see that many flower buds have appeared on the branches.

Just as she thought, the peach trees generally had messy branches and twigs, and it was obvious that they had not been pruned much. No wonder the peaches did not grow big.

Moreover, there are a lot of weeds growing in large areas of land under the peach trees. It is a real waste to leave such a large piece of land unused.

After taking a look, Honeysuckle had an idea.

The three sisters dug a lot of bitter gourds on the mountain and picked some wild vegetables. It was already late when they came down the mountain.

Hua Rendong did not go to Zhou's house, but asked the two sisters to go back and call their father to the educated youth point.

Zhou Lai Fu had just got home from work when he heard his two daughters say that Hua Rendong was calling him to go to the educated youth site. He immediately put down his watering can and ran over.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw Hua Rendong and Xia Yu sitting on a small stool, sorting the wild vegetables they had picked. Although I didn't like this guy, he obviously didn't rely on work points to make a living. What if he had a back? It was not good to say something unpleasant.

"Erhua, are you looking for me?"

"Second uncle, come and sit down!"

After saying that, Hua Rendong pushed out another small stool for Zhou Laifu to sit on.

After Zhou Laifu sat down, he also picked up a handful of wild vegetables and started picking them. "What's the matter? I heard from your second aunt that you and the two girls went up the mountain to see the peach forest this afternoon?"

Hua Jindong did not beat around the bush and went straight to the point: "Uncle, I went to the peach orchard this afternoon. The main reason why the peaches in our orchard are not pruned enough is that they cannot grow big. If you believe me, give me a few people tomorrow and I will teach them how to prune the branches. The peaches this year will definitely be bigger than in previous years."

"Okay, whatever you say, I'll do. Now is the busy farming season. Is that enough for three of you tomorrow?" Zhou Lai Fu no longer had much hope for the peaches. Let Honeysuckle do whatever she wanted. At worst, if the peaches couldn't be sold this year, he could just dig up the peach trees and plant corn next year.

When Hua Rendong heard this, she knew that there were definitely not enough people. But it was obvious that Zhou Lai Fu could not transfer more people. Even if he was given three people, they would probably be the elderly, the weak, women and children, who could not do any work.

So he said, "Let Xia Zhiqing and I do the pruning of the peach trees. After we finish, I'll get some strawberry seedlings. I'll call all the kids from the brigade to come up the mountain and plant them with me. I saw a lot of open space under the peach trees today. It would be a waste to leave it there. We might as well plant some strawberries. Even if we can't sell the peaches, we can still make some money from the strawberries."

Zhou Laifu was excited when he heard this, but he was a little worried when he thought about the sales, "Will anyone buy it?"

Hua Rendong smiled, "How come no one is buying them? I'm working at the Women's Federation now. A few days ago, my boss asked me to ask what local specialties there are in the countryside so that they can be given to employees as welfare. I think these strawberries and peaches are both very good."

"Ah? Erhua, have you even found a sales channel for Second Uncle?" Zhou Laifu rubbed his hands excitedly, "Don't worry, Second Uncle won't let you suffer a loss. As long as you can sell it, Second Uncle will give you a kickback."

Hua Honeysuckle waved her hands, "No, no, this is all part of my job. It's cooperation with anyone, and I know my second uncle inside and out. Rather than letting others get a bargain, it's better to let our family get a bargain. Even if peaches are hard to sell in the end, maybe we can still open a canning factory?"

Zhou Lai Fu didn't even dare to think about setting up a factory, but after getting Hua Rendong's guarantee, he finally put his mind at ease and went home happily.

Xia Yu, who didn't say a word the whole time, was assigned the task of pruning branches. He wanted to say something several times but stopped himself. In the end, he just started to pick up the wild vegetables silently.

Wild vegetables are delicious, such as stir-fried bracken with meat and prickly ash with sauce. Just thinking about it makes me drool. After pruning the branches, he can also go up the mountain to pick some wild vegetables and bring them back to dry.

The next day, Xia Yu and Hua Rendong, who were assigned work, went up the mountain together.

One of them took a pair of large scissors for pruning branches and started cutting them, and all that was left were the main trunks.

Xia Yu worriedly asked, "If they are all bald, will they still bear fruit?"

Hua Honeysuckle patted his chest and assured, "With me here, what are you afraid of?"

With the guarantee from Honeysuckle, Xia Yu worked harder and the two of them pruned three acres of orchard in one morning.

Every time a honeysuckle tree is pruned, it transfers some supernatural powers. After pruning, the fruit trees are indeed full of vitality. Some of the trees even accidentally transferred too much supernatural power and bloomed a few flowers. The honeysuckle quietly pinched the flowers.

It took five days to prune all the more than 20 acres of peach orchard. The cut branches were not wasted. Xia Yu carried some back to the educated youth site as firewood, and called on the team members to take the rest back.

When the team members saw the trees were a little bald due to pruning, they all suspected that Zhou Lai-fu had handed the orchard over to Honeysuckle just for fun, and they estimated that they would not even be able to harvest many peaches this year.

After pruning the peach trees, Hua Rendong found Zhou Lai Fu before returning to the city and asked him to send Zhou Sanye to her home in the city the next day to get strawberry seedlings.

Mr. Zhou didn't know the way to Hua Rendong's house, so the next day, Zhou Lai Fu and Mr. Zhou came together.

The roots of the strawberry seedlings were wrapped in plastic sheets by Honeysuckle and placed densely on the ground. It took three people a while to move them all into the car.

Along the way, Zhou Sanye kept recalling how delicious the strawberries were when he was young, but Zhou Laifu just sighed.

Hua Rendong couldn't bear to listen any longer and asked, "Second Uncle, what's wrong with you?"

Zhou Laifu still sighed, and Zhou Sanye couldn't bear to watch it any longer. "What can we do? The rice fields were about to be planted in a few days, but who knew that some bastard had harvested all of them. When we found them this morning, there were only a few alive. Without the seedlings, how can we plant the paddy fields in our village?"

"Disrupting farming is a serious crime. Aren't those people afraid of being shot if caught?"

Zhou Laifu sighed again when he heard this, "But we have to catch the perpetrator. The village has investigated thoroughly, and the police have sent people, but they still haven't figured out who did it. We're about to plant rice, so we can't afford to delay."

Hua Jindong comforted him, "Uncle, don't worry. You guys take the strawberry seedlings back first. I'll go ask someone if they have any ready-made seedlings for sale. If they do, that would be great. If not, let's see if there are any late rice varieties. At worst, we can plant them a few days later. It shouldn't delay anything."

Zhou Laifu thought that this was the only way. Otherwise, he could turn the cultivated rice fields into dry fields. If he did that, it would delay the planting of autumn vegetables next season.

It was agreed that after delivering the strawberry seedlings, Uncle Zhou would come again on his ox cart in the afternoon, and then the three of them would separate.

Of course Hua Honeysuckle would not go to any agricultural marketing cooperative. She had a lot of rice in her space, and it was urgent to stimulate it to grow now. Moreover, they were all top-quality rice that had been stimulated for several rounds in the space using supernatural powers. Even if she planted it in the land outside later without using supernatural powers, it would not be comparable to the current rice.

But if we don’t find the bad people who destroy farming, the crops will not be safe even if we plant them.

There are also the peach and strawberry trees on the mountain. No matter how beautiful they look, they are still afraid of bad people.

The most urgent task is to get the seedlings out first, and then quickly catch the people who are sabotaging behind the scenes.