dream village

"Loach, you have to step down slowly and don't use force. It's no fun to hurt your feet." Zhang Tao reminded.

The loach was getting a little restless, standing on the rice stalks with both feet, stepping down like jumping.It must be dangerous to do so, in case there is a sharp object underneath, it will not hurt your feet.

About an hour later, the last mound of grain was finished, and everyone went ashore to rest according to Zhang Tao's instructions, drinking water, eating bad food, and eating snacks to replenish the lost water and energy.There is not much work in the afternoon, transplanting rice seedlings is tomorrow's job, and the rest is just finishing an acre of fields, which can be done by a dozen people in one assault.

"Everyone work harder, finish work early and stop work early. After work is over, I will take everyone to the reservoir to take a bath. If you are interested in the evening, I will take you to pick up loach and catch frogs. Tomorrow, we can have another dish." Zhang Tao feels that it is still necessary to give these rookies some cookies and encouragement.

With Zhang Tao's instigation, when the work started again, everyone's enthusiasm was much higher, and they were all busy in the field like a competition.

"Old Ma, come here, I'll take you to a place to catch loaches." Zhang Tao thought of fulfilling the promise he made to Martin this morning.

"If you don't have time, don't worry about me. You see, I caught a lot this afternoon." Martin said to Zhang Tao with understanding.

"It's okay, I'll just take you there, I won't get involved anyway." Zhang Tao was very satisfied with Martin's understanding, no wonder he buried his head in the field alone to catch loach, and didn't say a word to himself .

The hilly field that just finished threshing in the afternoon is on the side of the mountain. The terrain is relatively high and it is a dry field.It would take a lot of effort to plant late rice in this hilly field.It has no living water source, and it is completely dependent on the help of the sky. If the weather is good, it will save trouble.However, such a good year is almost non-existent.The field where the seedlings are planted needs water from time to time. No matter how good the day is, it is impossible to see that the water in your field is almost dry. Let it rain again in time!So this mound field has to start drought resistance almost as soon as the seedlings are planted.

Before last year, the family was in a difficult situation and had no money to pay for a water pump. Every summer, Zhang Tao's family came here to carry water almost every few days to fight the drought.The place where the water is carried is not far away, which is a small pond more than 50 meters away from the edge of the field. The main reason is that the water volume is large!The five members of the family worked steadily from six in the morning to twelve in the noon before letting the water run through the fields, which was equivalent to giving those hungry seedlings a dry mouth.

Grass seedlings cry under the sun's exposure, how can people who carry water and fight drought be better than you?They were sweating, their eyes were dripping with tears, and their hearts were still dripping with blood!In order to harvest this little food, it can only be exchanged with sweat, tears, and blood!

There is a small spring near the foot of the hill, which was surrounded by mud to drink water to dry up the mouth.Later, Zhang Tao's parents had an idea to dig a pond here to store water, and Zhang Tao caught some small loaches and threw them into the pond for fun.Unexpectedly, this place is very good at loaches, and after cleaning up the small pond in the second year, they caught more than a dozen catties of loaches, and there will be such an unexpected harvest every year thereafter.

This matter really makes people a little puzzled. How could those few small loach grow such a loach?After that, almost every year was cleaned up, why are there so many loaches in the coming year?Where did these loaches come from?How did it grow so fast?The only thing that can't be figured out is naturally not wanting.There are so many incomprehensible things in this world, if you want to figure it out with your own little head, you will have to go to the madhouse.Over the years, Zhang Tao's family can get this pool of loach for nothing every year, which is considered a happy event for the family!

"Old Ma, ask Brother Ma to help you drain the water in the pool with a bucket. You can just dig it out in the mud, and you will be pleasantly surprised!" Zhang Tao said as he brought Ma Tian to the pool.

Ma Tian didn't question Zhang Tao's words, and directly called Ma Liang to come and go down to the pool with him to get water.

"Xue'er, Nana, come here!" Zhang Tao shouted to the two worried girls who were standing in the field after arranging the Martin field.

Xue'er and Nana are standing with one foot on the field and the other on the rice stalks, with expressions of hesitation and fear on their faces.He obviously also thought about it, although this matter is simple, it is really not suitable for them to do, for one thing, they are weak, so they may not be able to step on the rice stalks or trouser pockets with one foot.Second, their feet are too delicate, not to mention sand and stones, I am afraid that even grass hair may scratch their feet.

"Don't you want to catch loaches? I'll teach you how to do it now." Zhang Tao said to the two girls as they walked over.

"Good! Good!" They immediately cheered.

"However, we can't learn from your method in the morning!" Xue'er added hesitantly.

"Don't worry! It's much simpler than that, even a three-year-old child can do it." After a pause, Zhang Tao turned and pointed to the small ditch next to Tian'an and said, "Look, you can choose a section from this small ditch, and the two ends Block it with mud, and you can stand in the washbasin on the bank and pour water into the field. After the water is dry, the two of you will pull the mud with your hands, and those loaches, rice field eels, fish, etc. will go directly to the field. You jump on your hands. As long as you are willing to dig out, dig out this section and then dig out the next section, and you will gain a lot from keeping it."

"It's really quite simple." Nana agreed. When she said this, a trace of hesitation flashed across her face. Obviously, she still doubted whether this method could catch the loach.

"You can do it at ease! Brother Tao will still lie to you? Ten years ago, I specialized in this kind of thing." Zhang Tao encouraged them again.

The two girls immediately started to catch loaches happily.After a while, they shouted in surprise, "Brother Tao, I caught a loach!" "Brother Tao, I caught it too!" "Brother Tao, I caught a big eel! "

This shout didn't call Brother Tao, but it made the young people in Mantian lose their mind to work, and they ran to Xue'er and the others one by one.Seeing how easy the method of catching loaches was, they were even more delighted. Some helped to dig out water and block mud, and some did it by themselves.

Of course, this matter is not allowed to happen, otherwise how can I finish the work in the afternoon?Zhang Tao shouted angrily at the moment, "Get out of here and go back to work! After work, there is plenty of time for you to catch loaches."

These people also thought that if they didn't finish their job, they wouldn't have a good time catching loach, and it was rare for them to be scolded by the tyrant, Brother Tao, so they started to work consciously one by one.