Chapter 379 If these fruits don’t grow better, I’ll be sorry for her!

Facing everyone's puzzled looks, Qiao Ran explained:

"This potato is not planted whole. Instead, it can be cut into pieces after germination and planted. One potato can be cut into several pieces, leaving one or two strong sprout eyes on each piece. A small piece of potato is enough. You can grow a bunch of them.”

After everyone heard this, they suddenly became happy again.

So, these two big sacks of potatoes are quite a lot!

Qiao Ran said: "Because this is the first time to plant, you can plant a few ridges in a small amount to try it out, and then save the seeds for yourself after the seeds are planted. You can plant more in the second half of the year."

"Okay! Okay! That's good. We have a lot to plant this time. When we open up more wasteland in the future, we can grow more potatoes and sweet potatoes."

Everyone happily went back with the potatoes they were given, and decided to listen to Qiao Ran's advice and put the potatoes in a warm sunny place and cover them with a straw curtain for germination.

The Qiao family had eaten the potatoes brought out by Qiao Ran many times along the way, and were very interested in this delicious and filling crop.

Qiao Ran took out more than thirty potatoes from the space, which was enough to plant several ridges of land.

In fact, she grows a lot of various crops in her space, and the harvest time is much faster than outside. There is no shortage of these things at home.

But she has to plant some so that she can have an excuse to take them out of the space!

Qiao has a large family. Although the seven grandchildren except Qiao Ran have all gone to school, Qiao Erhe, Qiao Sanhu, Chen Huiniang, Lin Guizhen and Qiao Ran are all hard-working people.

Not only did they reclaim more than ten acres of wasteland, they also planted the fruit trees that Qiao Ran bought on the hillside. They planted every kind, just so that their family could have all kinds of fruits to eat.

Devil's Valley is very big, not to mention that the area within a ten-mile radius belongs to the people of Qingshui Village, so everyone can choose a large piece of wasteland and reclaim it to grow food, fruits and vegetables.

There are relatively few people who grow fruit trees. Except for the large families here who have villages and mountains to grow fruit trees, the farmers here can only be allocated some small fields and dry land, which are used to grow food and vegetables. Who has any open space or time to plant them? Fruit trees?

Ordinary farmers have no concept of planting fruit trees, and they have no money to buy fruits to eat. They usually go into the mountains to pick some wild August melons, mulberries, raspberries, peaches, plums, apricots and other wild fruits to eat.

But often when the wild fruits mature, the villagers living around the mountains will go up to the mountains to pick them, so they can’t pick much. Farmers are satisfied as long as they have enough to eat. The demand for wild fruits is not very big, and it’s not easy to go up the mountains to pick them. Just to comfort the children at home.

There are not many families like the Qiao family who dote on their children and have dedicated a large piece of wasteland to plant fruit trees.

The Qiao family basically listens to Qiao Ran in everything now. When she says she wants to plant trees, everyone goes to plant them.

The reason why Qiao Ran wants to plant some of each kind of fruit tree at home is to make it easier to get fruits from the space in the future. These fruit trees planted outside are her shield.

Especially grapes, a rare fruit that is only abundant in the Western Regions, Qiao Ran wants to grow it here. Not only can it be sold to wealthy families in the city at a high price, but it can also be used to make wine.

Wines with low alcohol content and beautifying properties will definitely become popular among the noble women in the capital.

And growing grapes is very simple. You don’t need to plow the entire land. You only need to choose a sunny place, dig a hole about a foot away and bury a grape that has already taken root in an area with only low shrubs and weeds but no tall trees. If the branches are watered once every two or three days, they will sprout and grow freely in half a month.

Qiao Ran had already cut the grape seedlings in the space. After they were planted, they were watered with stream water mixed with spiritual spring water. The survival rate was 100%.

After the grape seedlings grow up and spread out many vines, you can use wood or bamboo to build a shelf and let the vines climb on the shelf, which is beneficial to even exposure to sunlight and flowering and fruiting.

Not only grapes, Qiao Ran even wanted to grow some of the honeydew melons she bought on her way to escape.

At that time, when her family members were eating honeydew melons, they spit out all the melon seeds, dried them and put them away. She cultivated a batch of melon seedlings in the space and planted some of them on the hillside in the space. The remaining ones were More than two hundred seedlings are still in the nursery field.

Anyway, what is planted is not planted? Maybe the soil and climate here are not suitable for growing honeydew melons, but with the magic weapon Lingquan, maybe you can grow them?

Qiao Ran also took out more than two hundred honeydew melon seedlings. Although Qiao Erhe and others were a little surprised, thinking about it, this is the capital, what can't be bought?

So everyone planted these melon seedlings like watermelons and melons without saying a word.

Qiao Erhe and Qiao Sanhu were responsible for digging the soil, while Lin Guizhen and Chen Huiniang were responsible for shaping the land into ridges and planting the seeds and seedlings bought by Qiao Ran.

The job of carrying water was Qiao Ran's. She was very strong and filled the largest bucket with water. She could walk steadily on the hillside without spilling a drop of water.

Every time she picked up a load of water, Qiao Ran would quietly mix it with spiritual spring water.

With the blessing of spiritual spring water, it would be a shame if these fruits didn't grow better!

During the days when she was busy opening up wasteland and farming, Qiao Ran followed Cao Dashan's advice and took the time to go to the surrounding villages to recruit thirty young men who looked honest and hard-working to help lay foundations and build houses. They paid fifty cents per person per day. This is much more cost-effective than farming.

These people are even willing to bring their own dry food. Instead of the host family being responsible for the meals, the people of Qingshui Village only need to be responsible for lunch for Cao Dashan's group of craftsmen and another team of twenty craftsmen he hired.

Craftsmen and helpers are busy building houses, and villagers are busy clearing wasteland and cultivating land.

In such a fulfilling and busy day, half a month passed quickly.

That afternoon, the Qiao family, who were still busy on the slopes of Devil's Valley, suddenly received news that the old lady of the General's Mansion was visiting.

The old lady of the General's Mansion? Isn't that Chen Huiniang's biological mother and Qiao Ran, Qiaodong and Qiao Bei's biological grandmother?

When Chen Huiniang heard this, she dropped the hoe in her hand to the ground. She didn't care about anything and excitedly pulled her daughter and ran out of the valley.

When Qiao Ran was pulled home by her panting mother, before she even entered her tent, she saw several carriages parked in the open space outside the tent, and a dozen servants were moving the things on the carriages into Qiao's tent. .

Chen Huiniang didn't look at the things that were moved from the carriage. She took her daughter and rushed straight to her tent.

When he was about to reach the door, he suddenly stopped, held his messy temples with his hands, and asked his daughter anxiously: "Ranran, do you think my mother's hair is messy? Isn't this rude?" "

Qiao Ran looked at her mother's head and shook her head: "Mother, your hair is not messed up. It's fine."

"Ran Ran, I...just in case..."

Chen Huiniang stood a dozen steps away from her tent, hesitating.

Qiao Ran saw her mother's uneasiness and comforted her: "Mother, don't worry, such a coincidence will never happen again! You must be General Zheng's daughter, and Mrs. Zheng must be your mother." My grandma! Grandma has been looking for you for so many years, no matter what you look like now, she will never dislike you."