Alpine Orchard - Chapter 112

[Chapter 112 The Final Project]

Ye Ran smiled and sent fifty red envelopes to her dad, with the remark ‘solid’.

Lin Xiaomian thought it should be solid, but he didn’t place a bet…

“Hurry up, it’s time to start.” Dad laughed.

After counting, there were more than 20 people who placed bets.

Fifty yuan at most, five yuan at least, just have fun.

Dad took the custom-made watermelon knife from Ye Mo, and cut it from the middle.

An extra-large watermelon weighing more than 200 kilograms, the skin of the watermelon is as thick as two fingers.

A circle of people around the table were all staring at the watermelon.

“Hollow~!”

“Hollow.” Someone yelled, and everyone booed.

After the watermelon is cut.

Dad laughed loudly: “Solid.”

This watermelon has been placed for a while, and the flesh is ripe, but it is still solid.

“I bet solid.” The second uncle said with a chuckle: “Hurry up and return me a hundred dollars.”

“I also bet solid.” More

than 20 people bet, and only seven people bet solid.

Dad gave the watermelon knife to Ye Mo, and he took the mobile phone to receive the red envelope, and then looked at the notes on the red envelope, and if he bet solid, he returned a hundred dollars.

“I’m going…Old Qing, you’re not real. We came to help you work, and you still earn our money.” Uncle Li laughed angrily.

“I just asked you to bet solidly.” Dad smiled: “After eating watermelon, go back and take a bath, and then go to the town’s Furong Villa for dinner. It’s twelve o’clock at noon, go there, don’t be late. No one will wait for you if you are late. …”

Ye Mo cut the watermelon.

This watermelon is very big… The watermelon seeds are lined up in rows, and the watermelon seeds are removed directly, leaving only the watermelon meat for everyone.

A large piece per person.

“Try this watermelon to see if it’s sweet.”

“Sweet.” Uncle Li took a bite, “Ye Mo, do you want to save these watermelon seeds for seeding?”

“Yeah.” Ye Mo nodded.

Ye Ran and Lin Xiaomian also held watermelon knives to help divide the watermelon.

“Watermelon seedlings will come out next year, can you give Uncle a few seedlings? I cleared a vegetable garden next to the house and planted some watermelons to eat.” Uncle Li said.

“After the watermelon seedlings are grafted next year, you can come and get them,” Ye Mo said.

“Watermelon seedlings still need to be grafted?” Uncle Li asked curiously, having never grown watermelons before.

“It must be grafted. Use pumpkins, gourds, etc. as rootstocks… and winter melons as rootstocks.” Someone who knows how to grow watermelons said.

This super big watermelon is very sweet.

The sweetness is higher than that of many small watermelons, but it has been stored for a long time, and the moisture is less than when it was just picked.

Typically, the larger the watermelon, the more fibrous it will feel inside. But the fiber of Ye Mo’s watermelon is very brittle, and there is almost no fiber feeling.

Ye Mo thought that these watermelons were rootstocks made of wax gourd or pumpkin seedlings. After selling the watermelons… Ye Mo asked the boss who sold his watermelon seedlings at that time, and all these melon seedlings were rootstocks made of gourds.

Being able to grow so big is definitely not the reason for the seedlings. It’s the spiritual spring…

and the sprinkler irrigation that was built.

These watermelons can grow so big with sufficient water supplement and irrigation from Lingquan.

After eating watermelon, everyone left one after another.

Parents, Ye Ran and the others went back to take a shower.

Ye Mo washed the watermelon seeds and put them in a cool and ventilated place. After returning home, he drove to the Furong Villa in the town.

Dad has already ordered the meals, and he has ordered 8 tables.

Some people from Huangtupo Village were relocated to form a production team, which is very good.

Like before, Ye Mo had to invite people to work.

Now, everyone is not very busy. With a shout, many people come over, and they only care about two meals.

But be it.

Others come to help with work, and you have to go if they have something to do in the future. This is called reciprocity…

It can’t just be that other people do work for you, and you don’t go to help when they have something to do. This cannot be justified.

Gaoshanping has a total area of 2,600 mu, a little more.

Coconut forest, 1052 mu.

Jiabao fruit, 35 acres.

Miracle fruit, 10 acres.

Raspberry, 5 acres.

Goat milk fruit, 3 mu.

There are also some mangoes…

two reservoirs with an area of about 150 mu.

Roads and so on…

the remaining uncultivated land is more than 1100 mu.

Cutting down shrubs, miscellaneous trees, and cleaning up a lot of weeds, dozens of people from the production team came to help, and it was cleaned up in a few days.

Ye Mo and the others did the rest by themselves, leveling the land and digging terraces.

Father Ye, Ye Ran, Lin Xiaomian…

they drove the excavator to clean up the site.

Ye Mo contacted Gao Jin and prepared to make the reservoir.

“Mr. Gao, help me figure out how much it will cost to build a huge reservoir on the mountain.” Ye Mo took Gao Jin to Niubei Mountain.

Niubei Mountain is just like a Niubei. This is the tallest mountain in Gaoshanping. The top of the mountain is more than 300 meters long and the widest part is 77 meters.

A long oval cistern can be made. Or make two…

to make one big water reservoir, the cost is too high.

In the future, I will buy the water pipes, connectors, etc. for drip irrigation. On the land reclamation side, people from the production team came to help, and it didn’t cost much.

Ye Mo still has 1.03 million in his hand.

As long as the reservoir on the top of the mountain is built and the durians are planted, the construction of the entire Gaoshanping will be considered complete.

“What’s the budget?” Gao Jin asked.

“Eight hundred thousand.” Ye Mo had to keep some money in his hands.

Gao Jin and his company have construction experience in this area. Based on the budget and the actual situation of Niubei Mountain, and for the sake of lower cost, they built two oval-shaped water reservoirs.

The total water storage capacity is 21,000 cubic meters, and the total cost is 930,000 yuan.

Although it is beyond the budget, it is acceptable.

Dad can still support Ye Mo with more than a hundred thousand…

He contracted the reservoir to Gao Jin, and within a few days, construction began.

Three 35-ton large excavators came and started digging. The bottom surface is made of concrete with a thickness of 8 cm…

three steps are made on the side of the wall, and each step is 7 meters wide. The top step is only 1.2 meters from the ground.

The depth of the reservoir, the deepest… 4.5 meters. The walls are reinforced with steel-framed concrete with a thickness of 13 cm.

All designs are designed to facilitate construction and save costs.

Two excavators are responsible for digging the soil, and one excavator transfers the soil. In more than ten days, the two ponds were completely dug…

The land reclamation of the orchard terraces has not been completed yet, and three large excavators were hired to help open the wasteland. At the end of September… the entire Gaoshanping was completely reclaimed.

Ye Mo cultivated almost 100,000 durian seedlings, and only less than 10,000 survived.

The seedling raising method adopts cuttings, and the survival rate is very low.

After calculation, 8 trees are planted per mu of land, which is exactly 1130 mu, and there are some leftovers, which are planted everywhere on the side of the mountain and beside the reservoir, and the total number of new seedlings is 9857.

When the reservoir is delivered and all the durian seedlings are planted, the construction of the entire Gaoshanping will be considered complete.

If you make money in the future, improve it.

(end of this chapter)