How long does it take for a barren mountain to become a "Flower and Fruit Mountain"?
A college student who returned home made the answer
Our reporter Han Zhen
"He 'painted cakes' 10 years ago and said he would invite people to watch the orchards and come back to reunite with us. But after so many years, he is still stuck in the mountains...because his heart grew there."
In the early morning, accompanied by the noise of her two-year-old daughter, Tan Ya, a teacher from Chongqing Liangping No. 1 Middle School, spoke calmly.
At this time, her husband Chen Kailin, 250 kilometers away in Huanglin Village, Dachang Town, Wushan County, Chongqing City, was checking the pests and diseases in the orchard.
Thirteen years ago, after graduating from computer science at 23-year-old Chen Kailin University, despite the opposition of his family, he returned to his hometown in the mountainous area to contract the barren mountains, raise fish, and grow citrus.
return home
The Daning River is an important tributary of the Yangtze River.
After the Three Gorges became a reservoir, the water level here rose, forming Gaoxia Pinghu.
Huanglin Village on the banks of the Daning River, the hillside is full of green eyes, which is the 500-acre citrus orchard that Chen Kailin circulated.
In "Little Red Star", citrus trees hang on the branches.
In 2009, Chen Kailin, who graduated from the Three Gorges University majoring in computer science, made a bold decision: to return to his hometown to farm.
Father Chen Zongfu was the first to stand up against it, "I worked so hard for you to study so that you would stop farming. If you dare to go back to your hometown, I will break your legs!"
His girlfriend Tan Ya didn't understand either, and hoped that he would stay in the city and find a stable job.
But Chen Kailin insisted on going back to his hometown, so Tan Ya had to give in.
"He said that his hometown was beautiful, but a lot of land was abandoned. It was a pity that he wanted to go back and do something." Tan Ya recalled.
After getting the diploma, Chen Kailin returned to his hometown without hesitation.
But what made him dumbfounded was that in the past few years, he had been studying abroad, his parents lived in Wanzhou with his elder brothers and sisters, and the adobe house of the old house had long since been dilapidated.
House seemingly endless rain.
Chen Kailin clearly remembered that there was a heavy rain that night.
The old house seems to have opened a "skylight", and rainwater pours into it.
Sitting under the eaves, Chen Kailin stayed up all night, but he said, "'There is no turning back when you open the bow'. No matter how hard you suffer, it is your choice."
Breaking
Chen Kailin came up with the idea of wasteland.
At that time, the road out of the village was a two-to-three-meter-wide mechanized road, and large vehicles could not come in.
The strong laborers went out to work one after another, and behind them was a piece of abandoned land.
With so many old-fashioned styles that "can't stand", can he grow well as a stunner?
Hearing that Chen Kailin wanted to rent land to open up wasteland, the villagers shook their heads and were unwilling to rent the land to him.
In anxiety, Chen Kailin pretended that nothing had happened, and ran to the villagers' houses when he had nothing to do, not letting go of any opportunity for the villagers to "Amway" their own ideas.
Over time, the villagers felt that this young man was practical and a man of work. "Would you like him to try? Anyway, idleness is idleness."
In this way, Chen Kailin has successively transferred 500 mu of land from more than 90 villagers, with an annual transfer fee of 30 yuan per mu.
On the hillside, a clear spring was flowing slowly, Chen Kailin thought, "Isn't it good to open a pond to keep the spring water, which can not only irrigate but also raise fish?"
As he said, Chen Kailin hired an excavator to dig a pond of more than 10 mu.
By the way, I cleaned up the shrubs and weeds in the circulating field, turned the soil, fertilized, and planted citrus.
He was thinking about ecological planting.
To raise fish, let the fish grow naturally in flowing spring water; to grow citrus, only use organic fertilizer and farmyard manure.
In agriculture, the investment is large and the effect is slow.
Repairing fish ponds and planting citrus, Chen Kailin soon used up the small capital, but it was still not enough.
In the midst of the wreckage, the villagers saw that the child was sincere in his work, and could not bear the money he invested to go to waste.
Chen Kailin also did not "stand still".
The "Murcott" citrus only bears fruit in three years, and he interplants sesame and potatoes in the fruit forest.
In those three years, relying on intercropping, he could earn more than 100,000 yuan per year.
Although the income from fish farming is small, it is stable.
The fish he raises is delicious and inexpensive. Nearby restaurants and restaurants come to buy it, and his annual income is more than 100,000 yuan.
The hard days are finally over.
With the investment of the government, the mud road from Dachang to Huanglin Village has been built into a cement road, and it is convenient for trucks to enter and leave the village.
The citrus on the hillside also bears fruit, and the mountains and plains are endearing.
Knowing that Chen Kailin is an ecological plant, the surrounding fruit dealers drove to the field one after another and bought the fruit directly from the whole tree and the whole field.
In the first year of fruiting, Chen Kailin's citrus sold more than 200,000 yuan.
With the arrival of the harvest season, the income is also increasing.
Today, the annual income of citrus is stable at more than 500,000 yuan.
With the income, Chen Kailin paid off the villagers' loan as soon as possible.
He also invited villagers to work in the fields for a long time, paying more than 100,000 yuan in labor fees every year.
lead the way
In 2019, Wushan County, which is located in the core area of the Three Gorges tourism, opened a tourism express road from Dachang Town to Pinghe Township.
The road passes through Chen Kailin's orchard, and it takes only half an hour from the county seat to the village after the road passes.
The improvement of traffic has made the villagers see the hope of "green water and lush mountains turn into golden mountains and silver mountains"; Chen Kailin's success has made the villagers feel that there is still much to be done in his hometown.
Chen Kailing, who is one year older than Chen Kailin, has been working in Shenzhen in the past. Seeing the changes and prospects in his hometown, he took the initiative to find Chen Kailin and wanted to "do a career" with him. The two hit it off.
Today, Chen Kailing is in charge of the fish pond and Chen Kailin is in charge of the orchard.
The two plan to use the opportunity of the expressway to open to traffic to build a "rural tourism complex" in Huanglin Village that integrates fruit picking, fishing, catering, and accommodation to drive rural tourism in Huanglin Village.
The idea quickly spread in the village.
Villagers Li Yangcai and Tan Yuansheng also moved hundreds of acres of sloping land beside Chen Kailin's orchard, planted citrus, and began to develop together.
Seeing this, other villagers also took care of the wasteland one after another, planting citrus trees in front of and behind their houses, all wanting to eat "rural tourism meals".
In the past, the courtyard was dilapidated, but now it is full of vitality, and the hometown is changing little by little.
Chen Kailin saw beauty in his heart.
He ran to the villagers' houses more diligently, and the usually taciturn young man gradually became the confidant of the villagers.
In March last year, in the general election of the party branch of Huanglin Village, Chen Kailin was elected as the deputy secretary of the party branch, and he also felt a heavy responsibility.
"In recent years, government departments at all levels have been helping Huanglin Village and me." Chen Kailin pointed to the sign of "Organic Fertilizer Substitute Control Area" in the orchard and said that all these years were the use of organic fertilizer, and the County Agriculture and Rural Committee not only subsidized the funds , and also sent technical experts to guide and conduct quality inspections for citrus free of charge.
"With the strong support of the government, as long as you are willing to do it yourself, there is nothing you can't do!" Chen Kailin said.
Chen Kailin said that over the years, his wife and daughter are the ones he is most sorry for.
His wife, Tan Ya, usually teaches at Liangping No. 1 Middle School, and she returns to Wanzhou on weekends to take her daughter and concubine.
The two don't see each other once in a month or two.
Chen Kailin is looking forward to bringing his wife and daughter over for the holidays when his rural tourism complex is built. At that time, he will accompany them to fish, pick fruit, and watch the stars in the night sky and the twinkling of fireflies.