What a sin! The most handsome lazy man in the village married a crazy woman.

Ye Peng borrowed a plow from the village chief's house and led the big yellow ox to plow the fields.

It was his first time plowing a field and he had no experience. As soon as he entered the field, he fell and got covered in mud.

Fortunately, it was just drizzling today and not very cold. After sneezing, Ye Peng continued to plow the field.

"Go, big bull, move forward as hard as you can." Ye Penghu urged the big yellow bull with a fierce face: "Why don't you move?"

He whipped the ox and it moved a little, but only for a moment and then stood still.

"Let's go!" Ye Peng was extremely angry. "I just gave you a bunch of hay to eat before we went out, and you're already exhausted in just a short while. Let's go. We have to finish plowing this field today."

The big yellow ox just didn't move.

Village chief Zhao Huaifu came hurriedly and saw this scene and shouted: "Ye Peng, you installed your plow upside down."

Ye Peng: “…”

He looked down and saw that there seemed to be something wrong with the installation of the plow.

Zhao Huaifu came to the edge of the field, holding two sharpened sickles in his hands: "This field you bought has not been planted for two years. The weeds are many and tall. We need to remove the weeds first. In addition, the weather is warm now, so be careful when you weed, don't step on snakes."

Ye Peng couldn't believe it: "There are snakes in here."

"There's so much grass that I can't even see the road. How could there be no snakes?" Zhao Huaifu looked at him as if he were a fool. "Your daughter said you don't know how to farm. She was afraid you'd get stuck in this field and couldn't get back, so she asked Ping An to ask me to come over and teach you how to plow the land."

Ye Peng looked at the field and said, "How dare you sell such a poor field to me and say it is the best."

"There are only two unowned pieces of idle land in the village. The other one is only half the size of this one. You are lucky to be able to buy it. You still dare to despise it. You don't know what's good for you!" Zhao Huaifu pointed at him and yelled.

Nowadays, the emperor pays attention to agriculture, and every household has a lot of idle land. After planting their own land, the diligent families will rent land from the landlord, or rent unowned land in the village.

These ownerless lands were all acquired from families whose members had all died.

Most people would not sell their land.

Fields are the life of farmers.

Unless forced to do so.

"Get out of the way, I'll fix the plow for you." Zhao Huaifu was too lazy to argue with Ye Peng, so he pulled him away and took the plow down.

"Look carefully, the plow must be installed in this way to be correct. If you don't understand, ask, don't mess around." Zhao Huaifu taught Ye Peng how to install the plow while cursing, "Fortunately, your daughter had the foresight to know that you, her father, were unreliable, so she invited me here. Otherwise, you would be exhausted, but it would be a big deal if you broke my plow. And Da Niu, the good boy, would also be tormented by you, a foolish master."

The big yellow cow flicked its tail and said, "Moo!"

You are quite right old man.

After a while, the plow was reinstalled. Zhao Huaifu took Ye Peng to weed with a sickle first, and then tested the depth of the plow. He plowed a little first, and then let Ye Peng try it.

"Hey? The bull is moving. It's moving." Ye Peng was a little excited: "It's moving even without the whip."

Zhao Huaifu snorted, "If you use the right method, of course it will move. Wait, where are you going? We haven't finished plowing this side yet, why are you running over there? First plow out a track, then... Oops, wrong, how could you be so stupid! That's the ridge, don't damage it, stop, stop, stop!!"

Under the command of Zhao Huaifu, Ye Peng turned around and plowed a large circle in the excellent rectangular paddy field.

Zhao Huaifu covered his face, unable to bear to look.

"Sister, can Dad do it?" In the house, Ye Ping'an was following Ye Tang to make long-tube waders using rabbit skin that had been treated with nitrate.

"Dad has no problem doing heavy work." Ye Tang threaded the needle and sewed rabbit skin.

There were too many leeches in the fields and she was very scared. There were no water shoes here, so she thought of making a pair out of rabbit skin.

As for dad and brother, they said they didn't need it.

They are just small bugs. As men, they are not afraid.

It was almost dark when Ye Peng came back, looking so tired that he seemed to have lost his soul.

"Plowing the fields is so tiring!" He didn't feel so tired even after killing five pigs at a time.

Zhao Huaifu followed him and said, "You didn't find the right method. You did a lot of work in vain."

A good piece of land was almost ruined by this guy. If he hadn't been watching, this guy would have plowed directly into the paddy field of someone else next door.

So capable!

"Uncle Village Chief, thank you for your hard work!"

Ye Tang and Ye Ping'an had already made their water shoes and prepared dinner.

Ye Tang asked Zhao Huaifu to sit down.

Seeing the egg soup, braised pork, garlic cabbage, and braised pig ears on the table, Zhao Huaifu was a little flattered.

"Just eat something casually, why cook so many dishes?"

There was meat and white rice. His family might not even eat such good food during the Chinese New Year.

He was just teaching Ye Peng how to plow the fields, so how could he let the Ye family prepare such delicious meals to entertain him?

"Uncle village chief, please sit down and eat. You're welcome. These are the leftover meats from my father's sales. They will go bad if we don't eat them all in this hot weather. You have to help us finish them all today." Ye Ping'an greeted Zhao Huaifu warmly like a little adult and scooped him a big bowl of white rice.

Zhao Huaifu took it with a smile: "Then I won't be polite."

What leftovers? The Ye family’s business in the town is so good, and they don’t have enough goods to sell every day, so how could there be any leftovers?

At the dinner table, Zhao Huaifu drank and talked to them incessantly about the interesting things in the paddy fields.

“Tang girl, if you need to plow the fields next time, you should hire someone else. Don’t let your father continue to destroy the paddy fields. The field was saved today with great difficulty, but it may not be saved next time.”

Ye Peng's face flushed red, and he agreed with Zhao Huaifu's words: "Your village chief uncle is right, plowing the fields is not a job I can do, so let's leave it to someone else!"

It’s fun, but also tiring!

The main thing is that no one earns as much as he does from slaughtering pigs. After plowing the fields for a day, he doesn’t make a penny and still has to treat people to meals.

Farm work is not something that everyone can do. It looks easy, but it is really tiring to do.

Seeing that her father was really scared, Ye Tang smiled and nodded: "Okay, I won't let Dad plow the fields anymore."

She plowed the fields herself.

Now that the water shoes are ready, she can go to the fields.

"When your father and I came back, we had already diverted the water from the river into the fields through the ditch. Remember to check on it later. If the water level reaches a high level, we must block it." Zhao Huaifu reminded before leaving.

Ye Tang agreed and asked Ye Ping'an to send Zhao Huaifu out.

After eating, Ye Peng lay on the bed with his arms and legs spread out.

Ye Tang calculated the time and went to the fields to block the water under the protection of his brother.

"Go to bed early, we will transplant the seedlings tomorrow morning." After returning home, Ye Tang asked his brother to go to rest.

Ye Pingan remained skeptical: "Sister, can you really do it?"

He had helped Uncle Lin Chengye to move rice seedlings before, which caused him backache and all the rice seedlings floated on the water.

"You'll know tomorrow." Ye Tang smiled.

It was still dark the next day.

Ye Tang got up early and made breakfast.

I got up my father and younger brother, had breakfast together, and then the three of us went to pull up the rice seedlings.

"Don't use too much force, or you'll damage the seedlings."

"This one has been cut off from the roots, so there is no way to keep it."

Ye Tang was busy while teaching his father and younger brother.

At the beginning, I damaged the seedlings a little because I didn't control my strength well, but I quickly adapted.

It took more than half an hour to pull the seedlings.

Then the three of them carried the seedlings to the paddy fields for transplanting.

Ye Tang taught his father and brother first before concentrating on transplanting the seedlings.

Her hands moved very quickly, and not a single seedling floated up.

She was the one transplanting most of the seedlings.

A villager passed by and saw the seedlings she transplanted. He said anxiously: "Ye Tang, your seedlings are transplanted too densely."

Ye Tang smiled and said, "I know. I will transplant it again next month. This is just to grow seedlings."

This is called two-stage seedling cultivation. Only when the seedlings grow well can there be a high yield.

The villager was puzzled: "Do we have to cultivate the rice seedlings twice? Where did you learn this? I have been farming for decades and have never heard of growing rice this way."

Ye Tang: "I figured it out myself, the purpose is to increase production, I don't know if it will work, let's give it a try!"

"You kid, you just like to mess around." The villager thought she was doing a stupid thing, and seeing that she insisted on doing so, he was too lazy to persuade her and left with his hoe.

Whenever there were other people passing by, they would come to give Ye Tang and the other two some advice.

The Ye Tang family is still unique.

Aunt Li spat from a distance: "I don't believe they can grow any good rice with this nonsense."

Someone asked, "What if the seeds are sown?"

"If the Ye family can grow decent rice, I will eat all the rice straw." Aunt Li sneered sarcastically.

"No, that's for cows."

Aunt Li: "..."