Rebirth in another world is good for farming

Juneday, Babyface.The millet that had just been collected was left to dry for a day, and Zhang Xiaoliu and Zhao Zhengze went to the fields to pluck straw after breakfast the next day.The threshed straw is very useful. It is warm enough to spread a layer of clean straw on the wooden bed during the winter. People who have cattle and donkeys at home can also use it as feed. When planting sweet potatoes, bury them in the mound of sweet potatoes to make Fertilizer, which can also be used to start a fire when there is no hay in rainy days.Of course, no matter how you use it, you must clean it up first.

This job is much easier, but unfortunately the weather is not so beautiful, and the dark clouds come in the afternoon, which makes people feel uneasy, not knowing when it will rain.The millet was still drying at home, and Zhang Xiaoliu didn't dare to expect the wheat to be collected by himself, so he hurried home with the bundled stalks.Fortunately, there are not many stalks left in the field. If it gets wet, use it to fertilize it!

Mai Mai is also very clever. As soon as Zhang Xiaoliu came back, he saw that most of the sun-dried millet in front of the house had been swept away.In addition to the wheat taking the broom to sweep the millet into piles, there was also a bigger boy who was putting the millet into the basket.

"Brother, you're back!" Mai Mai frowned tightly, worrying that she would be washed away by the water before she could put away the millet. At this moment, she was very happy to see her brother.

"Mai, what is this?" He took off the burden on his shoulders and hurried over to help. He only thought that the child looked familiar, but he didn't live near here, and he didn't know which family it was from.

"Brother, my name is Shi Zhu." Hearing this, Shi Zhu, who was trying to pour millet into the basket, raised his head and grinned at Zhang Xiaoliu, looking very cute.

"Shizhu, where is your home? Why are you here to help?" Zhang Xiaoliu asked while sweeping up the millet.It's the busy season of farming, even if such a big child doesn't go to the field, he still has to help look after the grain drying field at home.

His playfulness delayed his family affairs, so he said: "Have you collected the millet in your house? It's going to rain, so you should go back quickly!" When he came back just now, almost every family in the field had people coming home. Run, if this kid confiscates his own millet and runs out to play, he will definitely be beaten.

"My family is at the head of the village. The rice was harvested first, and it was dried and put away yesterday." Shi Zhu said proudly.

The head of the village is on the other side of the river, which is farther away, and Zhang Xiaoliu seldom goes there on weekdays.But he recognized this child, it was the one who was pushed out to speak at the big banyan tree that day.

"It's going to rain heavily, you should go back quickly! Our place is almost finished, thank you for your help." Afraid that he would not be able to go back due to the heavy rain, Zhang Xiaoliu urged him again.

"Brother, can you let Mai come to my house to play in the future?" Shi Zhu took the opportunity to ask after wiping off his sweat after filling the last basket.

"Sure, but we have to wait until the busy season is over." Zhang Xiaoliu was stronger after all, and the two of them had already packed some before, so they quickly swept up the rest.At this time, Zhao Zhengze, who was walking behind, also came back.

"Okay, thank you brother Mai, I'll go back then!" Just now Mai Mai said that he didn't have time to go out to play, but now that Zhang Xiaoliu had said that, Shi Zhu was obviously very happy, he greeted them, and saw that the dark clouds were getting closer , and then hurried away.

Zhao Zhengze and Xiao Liu carried the baskets into the house together, and took the linen bags to pack the rest.

"What's the matter with Shizhu coming here?" Zhao Zhengze asked with some doubts because Shizhu was about to leave when he came back, and he didn't hear the conversation between them.

"Maybe he came to play with Mai. He just asked Mai to go to his house to play in the future!" Zhang Xiaoliu only thought that Mai had made a new good friend, after all, Da Niu didn't often come to play with Mai now.

"Shizhu used to be domineering, and the group of children listened to him. I remember someone beat him once, and he chased him home and beat him back." That's why he was worried that Maimai didn't play well with him, and was beaten by others. came to the door.

"So fierce?" Zhang Xiaoliu was taken aback when he heard that, but he looked like a pretty honest child, not at all mischievous.

"It looks much better now, maybe it's because Qiuming is in charge." Zhao Zhengze didn't take it seriously. The boys in the village were all naughty before the age of 11, and Shizhu was most afraid of him.

"Is he Qiuming's child?" The three of them worked together, and quickly packed all the millet into the sack, and the rain began to fall.He had met Qiuming many times, and he had always had a reputation for being capable in the village.If several companies in busy farming work together, it will definitely be the most popular.

"Yeah, there is only one child in their family." Zhao Zhengze was only a few years older than Shi Zhu, but since his father was gone, he had a difficult life. Looking at Shi Zhu, he thought he was a child.

"Mai, do you usually play with him to bully you? If you don't want to play in the future, don't force it." Having said that, Zhang Xiaoliu also remembered that some time ago he asked Mai to play, and Mai didn't like it very much.

"No. I know." Zhao Zhengze and Xiao Liu dragged the grains in the sack back together, and Mai Mai followed behind to pick up the missed grains on the ground one by one.He thinks that Shi Zhu is easy to talk to, but he likes to play too much.

Although this rain has made the people who dry the millet busy enough, it is still very popular when it really rains.It is just that after harvesting the things in the field, as long as there is no water accumulation after the rain, it is convenient to plant anything.The best sesame oil sold in this town is squeezed from peanuts, so in the second half of the year, many people planted peanuts in order to sell them at a good price.Zhang Xiaoliu was only worried about not being able to harvest more millet, so naturally he didn't dare to think about planting all kinds of things, and still planned to transplant rice seedlings in the paddy field, and only grow some omnivores in the dry land.

There are no more than seven or eight cattle farmers in Xiaba Village, and this time it will come in handy.Putting on a plow and driving the oxen for an hour can turn over the land compared to two days for an ordinary laborer.The Zhang family had no relatives or friends to borrow livestock, nor did they have the labor force to exchange jobs with other families, so they had to honestly carry a hoe to dig the ground.Fortunately, there is plenty of rain this year, so I don't have to stay at the fields at night to dig water.

Here is the summer harvest and summer planting. After finishing the rice, some people are harvesting peanuts in the dry land. On the other side, many people have started planting peanuts.There are no peanuts in Zhang Xiaoliu's plan, and they have a little more time to work.He carefully hoeed the paddy field and shoveled the grass beside the field, then took the millet to Dashun Momo's house, returned the rice seeds of the first half of the year to him, and asked him to help bring the rice seedlings of the second half of the year with him. superior.

The rice seedlings here are still using the seeds left by the family. Before soaking and sprouting, the empty millet is simply removed with water float, soaked in water overnight, picked up and placed in a cool place to wait for it to germinate on its own.When most of the rice seeds have long milky white buds, the seeds are scattered in the seedling field.

Although Zhang Xiaoliu knew these steps after seeing them once or twice, he didn't dare to try them lightly.Many of these things require experience, such as observing the length of the sprouts. If they are too long, they will break easily, and if they are too short, they will not survive in the field.Another example is to sow seeds evenly, otherwise they will not be sown well, and some places will grow in piles, while others will be left empty.In addition, the seedling field also needs special care. Generally, people will dig a big hole by the side of the seedling field, pick up the manure that has been retting earlier, mix it with the mud in the paddy field, and pour it on the seedling field.All in all, if there is a mistake in one of the steps, the seedlings for the past six months will be lost.

Dashun has more than nine acres of paddy fields in his family, and he raises seedlings by himself every year, so he readily agreed.Zhang Xiaoliu was relieved, so he just buried himself in taking care of the fields, dug water and planted them in the fields, and when the seedlings were big enough, they could be transplanted.

In fact, the speed of digging the ground with a hoe is extremely slow. Zhang Xiaoliu saw how fast Uncle Zhang Wu's house was working that afternoon.Take the ground for planting peanuts as an example. Use a hoe to turn over the ground first, then break up the large lumps of soil and arrange them into ridges about four feet wide, and finally dig holes at a certain distance to put the peanut seeds in. , Sprinkle a layer of fertilizer before filling the pit and leveling the ground.Even for families with labor, it takes two or three days to clear the ground before digging formal pits.

But he saw that Uncle Zhang Wu's family only needed one person to drive and hold the plow, and the place where the plow passed was turned over, which was much deeper than what they had turned with a hoe.One person and one cow plowed the ground in front, and the people behind directly leveled it with hoes, and then dug holes for planting.In just one afternoon, the seven members of his family planted an acre of land with one cow, and the cow almost completed half of the work.

"Hey, Uncle Wu's cattle are really useful!" Zhang Xiaoliu was so envious that he almost straightened his eyes.

"That is the cow that Uncle Aqiang used to herd, but he is obedient. Last year, this cow gave birth to a calf, which was taken to sell by Uncle Wu." Hearing his question, Zhao Zhengze straightened up and took a rest. Talk to him in a low voice.

"Why are you willing to sell a calf after giving birth? You see, there are so many of them waiting to use the calf, wouldn't it be better to have an extra calf?" Uncle A Qiang also has several children under him, and the family has been separated now.This cow was raised by Uncle Wu on weekdays to pull a cart, and it was also bought in exchange for money when the family was separated.But when the farming season is busy, several families will work together to harvest the seeds, and the cattle are almost shared.

"They can use it in exchange now. A calf is worth a lot. Uncle Wu sent Ling Jun to a private school with the money from selling the cow." Zhao Zhengze was quite surprised by his words. Having a cow is very remarkable. Which family is willing to raise two cows?The money for one calf is enough for ordinary people to save for ten or eight years, and it is also enough to buy two acres of good paddy fields.

"Lingjun? Is there a private school in the village?" Zhang Xiaoliu heard someone mention the private school for the first time. In his opinion, the traffic here is blocked, the productivity is low, and there is only food and clothing above the living standard. How can he care about studying?

"Don't you know? We don't have any in our village. They are all sent to Mr. Chen in Panshi Village." It's just that in the past few years, there are fewer and fewer people in the village who can afford to pay their children and are willing to send their children there. The reason why he knows is that It's also because there was a scholar among Mr. Chen's students last year.

Zhang Xiaoliu was silent, he found that the longer he was here, the more things he felt powerless.To improve their lives, it is definitely not enough to just take care of this field.

The beans in the vegetable field are gradually decreasing, so Zhang Xiaoliu carefully collects all kinds of dried vegetables, and they will be of great use in March and April next year.These days, I occasionally pick some eggplants, bitter gourds, and leeks and pumpkins, etc., and the dishes are also very rich.The busy farming season of the next month is finally over. Because of the proper planning, the days seem to be less difficult.