18 Sudden resignation
With the cooperation of the teenagers, the fertilization and weeding were completed at the same time. The newly planted more than a dozen acres of sweet potatoes did not take much time, under the supervision and guidance of Wu Daoli, these teenagers who had already mastered the planting skills did quite beautifully. Although it is said that it is inferior to an old veteran like Wu Daoli, compared with most of the villagers in the village, it is also similar.
Even if some of these teenagers did not choose to go out with Li Tianyang in the end, just these skills learned in the camp could allow them to have a stable life in the future.
Looking at this large area of neat ravines, the teenagers who were still busy finishing in the field, Li Tianyang's heart was full of satisfaction. He doesn't have great skills, but he can foresee that these partners around him who have grown up together since childhood will have a happy life in the years to come, so it is not in vain that he has worked hard to open this camp.
"Alright, let's all come and assemble." The work is almost done, Wu Daoli looks at the sky, and it is time to get out of class, or work.
"I did a good job today, and I have almost handed over all my skills to you, and there is nothing more to give to you. In the future, the rest of you will go to work in the fields more, and become more familiar with the habits of work and crops. When Wu Daoli said this, he was actually a little gloomy. For he knew that when he said this, it would mean that for a long time he would not be able to return to the camp to teach the boys, at least, until the children in the camp had grown up, and he would never have the opportunity to receive more than half a tael of silver a month.
Although he had already had the heart to drag on for a long time, Li Tianyang didn't say anything to him, but his simple personality made him embarrassed to continue to drag on and dominate this position. When he plucked up the courage to say these words today, although he was a little uncomfortable, he was also relieved in his heart. For more than two months, he has not taught the teenagers anything new, and he is worried about going to class every day, for fear that Li Tianyang will ask questions and blame him for not fulfilling his responsibilities.
When Li Tianyang heard this, he was actually a little surprised, in fact, he had already noticed that Wu Daoli was uneasy in class during this time, and he had not made any achievements. Originally, he wanted to wait for a while longer to let Wu Daoli be prepared, but he didn't want others to say behind his back that he crossed the river and demolished the bridge or something. But now that Wu Daoli has proposed it himself, Li Tianyang, who has fallen into the province, has become this villain, which makes him have a little more joy in addition to the accident.
It's just that the next biology course, what knowledge to teach, makes Li Tianyang a little headache. He already had some eyebrows, but when he inquired in the village, he found nothing. Grafting fruits and vegetables is the next course Li Tianyang has prepared for biology, but Qiongzhou is remote and scarce, and no one in the village knows how to do such a relatively high-end craft.
At the end of class, Li Tianyang first found Wu Daoli, had a good talk with him, and then asked him to take his own slip to the camp's account office to withdraw two months' salary, which was his reward in the past few years.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you. If there is still a place where I can be used in the future, you can find someone to send me a message. Holding the newly arrived silver, Wu Daoli smiled on his face.
"Uncle Wu, you've worked hard in the past few years, and it has taken a lot of effort to educate us unsuccessful boys! It's just that if you leave, I'm afraid that our course will fall behind, I don't know if Uncle Wu has a good gentleman to recommend and continue to teach us boys. Taking advantage of the opportunity that Wu Daoli had just received a good salary and was in a good mood, Li Tianyang wanted to inquire with him.
"In fact, the skills of farming are always changing, and everyone is not much different from each other, at most it is just a difference in proficiency. It's not that I, Wu Daoli, are talking big, and now there are still people in the village who are qualified and capable of teaching you new things, but basically there are no more. Hearing Li Tianyang's inquiry, Wu Daoli retracted his smile and replied. Everyone has a good face, and no one will say that his eating skills are not as good as others, let alone his Wu Daoli's ability to farm by himself, which is quite confident.
"Then I want to inquire, I heard that some people will use the technique of grafting to grow melons and fruits, and the crops they grow have a different taste, is this true?" After some foreshadowing, now Li Tianyang has only entered the topic. He actually wanted to inquire with Wu Daoli for a long time, but Wu Daoli was still their husband before, and he was afraid that saying it rashly would make Wu Daoli have other ideas.
"Yes, there is this skill, but for us rural villagers, these things are too flashy and useless to learn, so no one learns it. However, I heard that there is a melon farmer who grows watermelons and other things in the Qiongzhou Mansion, which is quite extraordinary, and it is estimated that he may be able to use this skill. Hearing Li Tianyang inquire about this, Wu Daoli was a little disappointed, and a little lucky, and said everything he knew.
"Really? After a while, when the little ones below grow up and have strength, I'm afraid they will have to trouble Uncle Wu to continue to teach them. Getting what he wanted, Li Tianyang was silent on the surface, but he was excited in his heart.
"Everywhere, I didn't help you much, and I took your silver for nothing, so I am embarrassed!" After Wu Daoli got the reply from Li Tianyang's mouth and continued to ask him to teach the next batch of children, he was even happier than when he had just received those few taels of silver, his mouth had always been modest, and his body was becoming more and more humble.
After sending Wu Daoli away, Li Tianyang began to think about the melon farmer in Wu Daoli's mouth.
Ancient farmers have always been optimizing the crops they grow, but in their fixed thinking, they rarely thought of using different species of food species to breed new species. And grafting is a wonderful flower in their thousands of years of conformism, but it has been used by them in fruit trees and melons and vegetables. As a later generation, Li Tianyang, although he didn't know what hybrid grain was all about, it didn't prevent him from wanting to cultivate better grain varieties through all the techniques and skills of the current era.
Of course, something like this that requires a lot of time and energy to study and cultivate, Li Tianyang will definitely not be able to involve a group of people. He had long made up his mind to train the few gifted and interested teenagers he observed in private to become full-time researchers.