slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 355
Cang Hai carried two buckets of soaked watermelon seeds to the outside of the house, removed the water grate in the bucket, put the soaked watermelon seeds in a bamboo basket and spread them out to dry, ready to Sow seeds today.

At this moment, Shi Wei opened the curtain and walked out of the room: "Are you ready?"

"It will be ready soon, why are you so eager to wait, has Ping An brought the car over?" Cang Hai hurriedly shook his head without looking back.

Shi Wei raised her head, looked down the slope and saw Ping An driving the ugly donkey, so she said, "Hey, isn't that Ping An?"

Cang Hai looked up and said, "That's all right, get ready to go!"

Shi Wei looked at the big and small bags at the door of the kitchen, and opened her mouth to ask: "What are you doing with so many things? We are going to work, not camping."

Cang Hai sorted out a lot of things in the morning, including tents and folding tables. If it wasn't for the difficulty of getting into the car at Fenghuanggou, she doubted that her man would set up a camping car there. From Shi Wei's point of view, this is going to grow watermelons in the field, not for an outing, why bring so many things.

Cang Hai said eloquently: "Working is already tiring, why can't we let everyone have a warm meal?"

Shi Wei was very speechless, which family started to work in the spring was not rushing to work, only his family seemed to have the biggest meal, and in his eyes such a big event as spring plowing seemed to be nothing compared to a warm meal meal.

Seeing Ping An coming over, Shi Wei had no choice but to help move the things from the kitchen door to the cart without saying a word.

Wu Hui came out with Mengmeng, saw the cart coming and helped to do the work, Mengmeng looked at it and diligently helped move some small odds and ends to the cart, Mengmeng moved the iron head Also followed busy up.

Cang Hai put two baskets of watermelon seeds on the cart, turned around and took some fertilization drills from the house. The head of this thing is an iron awl, and the end of the awl has two ears that can be stepped on. , The big head of the awl is hollow, and a handle is inserted inside. In this way, when the foot is stepped on the ear, the pointed awl head can be inserted into the soil, and a small hole will appear on the ground.

At that time, throw a watermelon seed into it, and then gently bury the surrounding soil into the hole with your feet, and the work of planting watermelon will be completed.

Putting all the things on the cart, Cang Hai bent down and carried Mengmeng onto the cart first, and then looked at the things on the cart, seeing that there were a lot of pots and pans, so he rushed to the cart. Everyone said: "Get in the car, let's start early, and come back early at night!"

After hearing this, Shi Wei and the others sat on the cart with their buttocks sideways.

Cang Hai was about to swing a whip, when third aunt Wei Qin came out of the kiln, saw Cang Hai's posture, and opened her mouth to ask, "Haiwazi, wait a minute, your third uncle and I will go with you today." .

Cang Hai immediately waved his hands and said, "Third Uncle and Three Aunt, there is no need at all, our watermelon field is very easy to grow."

Cang Hai didn't want the third uncle and three aunts to come and help, not only the third uncle and three aunts, but also the uncle's family were all ready to help Cang Hai's family while the melon seedlings in the village hadn't been planted, but how could Cang Hai? Let the big guys help with this, it's Spring University now, each household has a lot of things on hand, spring plowing is not for nothing, even if you don't grow watermelons, you don't have to turn over the fields to plant food or something ?

Shi Wei also knew that the big guys wanted to help enthusiastically, but she also considered that each household had land growing, so she opened her mouth to persuade: "Third Aunt, Cang Hai knows this matter well, so you can concentrate on your own work." work."

Since the third aunt and his wife have decided to help their nephew, there is nothing they can persuade. Wei Qin yelled into the room, and Cang Shiyuan came out of the room, already dressed in shabby clothes. It looks like the work clothes of the third uncle Cang Shiyuan.

Cang Hai had no choice but to ask everyone to move a seat and let the third uncle and three aunts sit up.

When I drove the scooter to the entrance of the village, I found that my uncle Cang Shigui was driving a scooter with several old men and women sitting on it.

Just as Cang Hai was about to open his mouth to ask, he heard Li Licheng who was driving the car say to him: "Cang Hai, why are you so slow in the morning? We've been waiting for you for almost a quarter of an hour."

"I said, what kind of fun do you guys join together? You don't even grow any land at home? I appreciate everyone's wishes, so each family should be busy with their own work." Cang Hai asked with a bitter face.

Hu Shijie said with a smile: "Okay, I'll just help you for a day. Normally, we don't have time to help. No, the children at home are back, and there is nothing to do today. We just wait for the rice seedlings to be delivered to our door." Just take it away..."

Cang Hai thought about it for a while and nodded in agreement, so the two carts headed towards Fenghuanggou one after the other.

The land around Sijiaping Village is just this good. No matter how heavy the rain is, as long as the sun comes out for a day or two, there will be no water in the soil, which means that the land will not be muddy, let alone walking on a scooter. Trucks are fine.

Last year's snow was heavy, and Sijiaping seemed to be surrounded by snow all winter. The winter snow gradually melted at this time. The snow near the village melted earlier, and the land was already dry, but don't worry. In places where the sun does not shine, such as a shady slope, the snow will melt more slowly.

There is always snow melting, and the snow water will naturally merge into streams and small ponds along the terrain.

On this road, Canghai and his party will encounter some small streams whenever they reach the bottom of the valley. Fortunately, the streams are not big, and the largest one is more than two meters wide and not even twenty centimeters deep. When the people in the cart got off, the animals easily pulled the cart across the creek.

When the two carts arrived at Fenghuanggou, the vegetation in Fenghuanggou had already begun to sprout, and the whole valley was a thriving tender green, and the temperature in the valley was at least five or six degrees higher than other places. , Because the trees in the valley are all sprouting, many of them have pulled out small leaves, and even some wild fruit trees are blooming, so the air in the valley is always filled with a faint fragrance of flowers.

"Fenghuanggou is really a treasure land, I didn't expect you to have such a vision!" Hu Shijie waited for the cart to stop, and said to Cang Hai with a smile.

"That's right, the trees around the village are plum blossoms, and the tree buds have just sprouted, but the Canghai side has sprouted. It seems that the season is about ten days away." Li Licheng tilted his buttocks from the The cart got on and off and smiled.

"You two are not here to enjoy the scenery, hurry up and work," Wei Wenkui joked with a smile.

The two laughed a few times when they heard this, and walked to the side of Cang Hai's cart to help Cang Hai unload things.

There is nothing to say, everyone here is working. Although there are not many tools in Canghai belt, since the old people are here to work, of course they have their own tools. Pay more attention.

Rolling up their sleeves, everyone started to work. Cang Hai demonstrated it here, and the veterans in the village knew it after a glance. Everyone started to work in groups of two.

Cang Hai put two baskets of soaked melon seeds with a little bit of green on the tip of the melon seeds, and put them on the slope for everyone to take at will, while he took Shi Wei to start planting melons.

Cang Hai stuck the awl on the ground, lifted it lightly, walked two meters away, and made a small hole. Shi Wei bent down and threw the melon seeds she was holding into the hole, and then lightly Lightly cover the pit.

Ping'an and Wu Hui were in a group, about four steps away from Cang Hai and his wife. Like the couple, Ping'an set up a hole, and Wu Hui threw melon seeds into the hole and then covered it.

Next to Pingan and Wu Hui are Li Licheng and Li Liren brothers, and further up the slope are Hu Shijie and Li Lida, and Wei Wenkui is responsible for carrying a watering can to water the place where everyone planted watermelons to keep the moisture in the soil for the people. Create conditions for seeds to germinate.

The melon seeds in Li Liren's hands were exhausted, so he turned his head and walked towards the basket on the ground. Before he got close to the basket, he saw some green-backed yellow-headed birds with white eye circles and long beaks about five or six centimeters surrounding them. Next to the basket, he kept pecking at something in the basket.

Seeing this situation, Li Liren thought that these birds were stealing melon seeds to eat, so he immediately quickened his pace and stretched out his hands to make a yo-yo sound to drive away these 'thieves'.

The 'thieves' were not afraid of Li Liren. When they saw Li Liren rushing over, they just spread their wings and jumped out of the basket. Some of the guys who got the watermelon seeds spread their wings and flew up the slope to a distance of about ten meters. The pointed long beak pecked at the ground and threw the watermelon seeds in his mouth.

Li Liren has good eyesight. Seeing that this beautiful bird is not eating melon seeds, but burying them in the soil, he shouted to the crowd: "Cang Hai, Cang Hai, come and have a look, this bird is eating melon seeds." The seed is buried in the ground!"

In fact, Cang Hai had been waiting for someone to shout, and immediately leaned on the handle of the awl to respond when he heard it.

This is actually Cang Hai's little plan. The night before yesterday, Cang Hai discussed this matter with the Tree of Life. It sounded too scary to plant all the birds, so he had to choose a kind of bird, and then planted it. It doesn't have to be as organized as last year, it looks more 'reasonable'.

Otherwise, it would be too scary for a few people on my side to grow thousands of acres of melons in just over a week, so after the planning of Cang Hai and the Tree of Life, I used this long-billed bird as a pawn .

Canghai didn’t speak yet, but Ping An said, “Second Li, don’t worry about the birds, let them pick them up. We found out last year that these birds don’t eat melon seeds, but they will bury them in the soil. Plant the seeds...".

Ping An can't think of saying that all birds can grow. For Ping An, birds are birds regardless of their species.

Hearing Ping An's words, Cang Hai closed his mouth and let Ping An speak. The effect was much better than Cang Hai's, because everyone thought Ping An was "stupid". It is much more believable for normal people to say it.

Hearing Ping'an's words, all the villagers in the village turned their heads to look in Li Liren's direction, and some even ran to the side to watch.

What the bird species showed today is irregular and scattered.Some places are vacated to be larger, and some places are vacated to be smaller. As an old crop method, some people soon discovered the shortage of bird species.

"It's too messy! The watermelon seedlings are about four or five steps away, and the torizo ​​seeds are so messy that it's a bit of a waste of seeds!" Wei Wenkui said.

Li Liren said with a smile: "What are you afraid of if you mess up, just get rid of it when the time comes!"

Ping An just came back to get the seeds at this time, heard the words and said with a smile: "Where to use a hoe, the second brother Hai said that the seeds with strong vitality can grab the sun and water, and the seeds with weak vitality will die soon. The melon seedlings that come down are all strong, and the melons that come out are also big!"

Everyone listened to it and thought about it, it really is the case!
"Then let these birds grow!" Hu Shijie began to ponder as he said.

Pingan shook his head and said: "If we quit, this bird will quit too. Only we plant these birds to plant seeds like this. It seems to them that they are learning from us to play around...".

Hearing what Ping An said, everyone couldn't help being amazed.

"Big guy, stop what you're doing!" Hu Shijie shouted loudly.

Cang Hai heard this, so he leaned on the awl and looked at Hu Shijie.

After everyone stopped for about 5 minutes, these birds flew back to the branches not far away, singing non-stop, and none of them flew to the basket to pick up seeds and bury them.

"Interesting, interesting!"

A group of old people found it interesting and said one after another.

After playing for two or three times in a row, Cang Hai had a few black lines on his forehead, thinking that these old men are really boring.

(End of this chapter)