Chapter 450 Initial Success of the Plan
Ning Xueling learned only after entering the house that Wei Zixiong and Kong Danyang actually had four children, with the eldest daughter already married and having stayed in the place where she had been relocated. Now, there were two sons and one daughter who had returned with them.
On the second day of her stay, to show her virtue, Ning Xueling got up early to make breakfast for the whole family. Zhao Jianing also had to join in. Wei Zixiong’s job was not yet settled, and the family was currently relying on the money provided by the government after their return to the city.
The Wei Family’s children were quite rebellious, and Ning Xueling simply couldn’t manage them. The youngest daughter even said, "You were originally just a nanny my dad hired for us."
Ning Xueling cried for a long time. After Wei Zixiong found out, he consoled her for a long while, saying he would take revenge for her, and he was very strict. He directly pulled his daughter out of the front door, scolded her a few times, and told her to go out and play with her classmates.
Time flew by quickly, and soon it was the end of March. Luo Qiao, after harvesting a season of crops in her space, cultivated fruit trees, pear trees, peach trees, apricot trees, plum trees, persimmon trees, jujube trees, grapes, and crabapples inside it.
About forty to sixty trees could be planted per acre, and Luo Qiao split the difference, cultivating fifty trees per acre in the space. She waited until they were alive and had matured to a two-year stage with her special ability, then harvested them.
After busying herself with this for more than ten days, she had cultivated all the tree saplings she needed and had already found a place to store them in advance.
Lu Yichen found a truck for her. It took several trips to transport the saplings back to Qingshan Village. Then the villagers were mobilized to help plant the trees, getting paid five cents per tree. It was a good job, where one could plant fifty or sixty trees a day.
Since the land had been deeply plowed during reclamation, digging holes was not very laborious. Luo Qiao had previously arranged for people to build water channels and a storage pond.
Next to the water pond, a sluice gate was dug using quality materials. When the sluice was opened, water could flow through the channel into the storage pond. An outlet was left at the bottom of the pond, so water could be easily used for irrigation whenever needed—it was especially convenient.
Although there’s an old saying that not all trees planted in spring are guaranteed to survive, the saplings provided by Luo Qiao were one hundred percent reliable and more drought and cold resistant than others.