The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 209 The Reservoir Is Full of Water

The road is muddy. Fortunately, I have long leather boots, otherwise it would be really difficult to move an inch.

On both sides of the South Road, there is a large field, in which sweet potatoes and corn are mixed.The crops grown on the mountain are mainly sweet potatoes, corn and wheat, and these three have always been public grain crops.The best land in Taohualing Village is on both sides of the river. When it is dry, water can be pumped from the river to irrigate the fields. These lands have always been wheat fields.The fields near the village are mostly used to grow corn, and the mountains far away are mainly used to grow sweet potatoes.

There are not many fields in Taohualing Village that can grow wheat and corn, so for a long time, the staple food of the villagers in Taohualing Village was sweet potato noodle pancakes.

Before the use of advanced seeds and chemical fertilizers, the yield of wheat per mu in mountainous areas like Taohualing Village was very low, and the annual average yield per mu was only about 20 catties.Twenty years ago, when the production was not contracted to households, the output of grain in the collective communes was even lower, and when it was distributed to the common people, it was undeniable that they could eat steamed buns and dumplings throughout the year.

Compared with wheat, corn and sweet potatoes are much more productive.Especially for sweet potatoes, it is normal to produce four to five thousand catties per mu, and even new varieties of later generations can produce more than [-] catties per mu.

More importantly, sweet potatoes are resistant to drought and floods, and are especially suitable for planting in mountainous areas.

It can be said that if humans did not discover the crop of sweet potatoes, mountainous areas like Taohualing Village would be very unsuitable for human habitation, and the population capacity of the entire Luzhong City would be reduced by more than 80.00% compared to the present.

Sweet potatoes are a great discovery. Chen Yi introduced this kind of thing from Annan in the eighth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. He should definitely be given a big award.

The entire field covers about 1000 mu, of which more than 600 mu is collectively contracted to individuals, and another [-] mu is the land that the people of Taohualing Village have opened up after the production contract has been contracted to households.

All the land was dug out by ordinary people with a shovel and a shovel. Until 2006, Wu Laoer still liked to open up land on Wujiayuzi Mountain.

For the land opened by individuals, there are regulations in the policy, and the rights must be confirmed in the county government.But the common people definitely don’t understand these laws and regulations. Most people think that whoever reclaims the four wastelands should be managed by them. Therefore, there are about 2003 acres of reclaimed land in the village, but there has been no disturbance until [-]. What a mess.

After the four wastelands were reclaimed into fields, in 2012, the Wu family in Dazhai Village wanted to buy Wujiayuzi as a cemetery, and then dealt with many people who opened up wasteland. The compensation standard was 1 yuan per mu of land. The money is paid in one lump sum.However, the Wu family in Dazhai Village didn't need much land. They needed more than a dozen acres, built a road, and asked for some land at the foot of the mountain.

In the field on the South Road, after it rains, you must not go in and make trouble.When it rained, the soil in the ground was very soft, and people could even sink their entire feet into the mud if they stepped in. If they walked through the ground, the crops along the way would suffer.

If you want to pick a "land", you need to go to the hillside of Wujiayuzi.

Now the entire Wujiayuzi Mountain has been contracted by the Wang family, and the mountain is surrounded by barbed wire, so now Wang Shaodong doesn't have to worry about the "land" on the mountain being taken away by others, and when the two of them walk, they don't How anxious.

The two of them talked very speculatively along the way, and Wang Shaodong found that when chatting with Wang Meina, he always made himself feel very happy.

At the foot of Wujiayuzi Mountain, Wang Shaodong looked up and saw water overflowing from the rubber dam, so he became anxious.

"Sister, go to the mountains to pick up land by yourself, and I'll go to the reservoir to have a look."

Wang Shaodong quickened his pace, and behind him, Wang Meina walked another way, on the grassy hillside, and began to look for "land".This delicious fungus likes to grow on dry haystacks, and when found, it is often a piece.

Wang Shaodong suspects that the extinction of this thing after 2006 in the previous life may be related to those highly toxic pesticides.

Not to mention "land", during the period from 2006 to 2012, when highly toxic pesticides were rampant, even sparrows in rural areas decreased significantly.Later, I don't know if the resistance of these animals has increased, or the amount of pesticides has increased, and the sparrows began to increase slowly again.However, such things as "land skin" are extinct in Gangcheng County.

Wang Shaodong very much hoped that Wang Meina could pick up more "lands" to satisfy her hunger.But now he was more concerned about the fry in the reservoir, so he hurried to the edge of the reservoir.

There was still a light rain in the sky, and Wu Lao Er was still listening to the radio in the housekeeper's hut, which played Tian Lianyuan's "Little Bayi".

"Second Grandpa, are you listening?"

"Listen, why are you here when the road is so slippery?"

After entering the room, Wang Shaodong smelled a strong smell of sour pancakes, mixed with some chive flower sauce.This season is the time to make leek flower sauce, spread a layer on the pancake, and then roll a green onion, for the farmers in the mountains, it is the best delicacy.Of course, if you don’t like spicy food, if you take a bite like this, you will feel dizzy and dizzy when you look back.

"Oh, Second Grandpa, let me see if my fry have flowed out of the dam."

Wang Shaodong went around the room and found a stick.

"If you go any further, the water will overflow the barrage, and it won't be surprising if it really runs away by then."

Wang Shaodong nodded and went out.Behind, Wu's second son also followed out.

Although Wu Laoer was recruited by the Wang family, his old sheep-herding skills have not been lost. Next to the house looking at the reservoir, Wu Laoer built a shed with branches, and his dozen or so sheep are now in the shed.It was raining all the time, and the sheep in the shed saw that the green grass outside could not be eaten, they could only eat dry sweet potato seedlings, and they raised their heads and shouted twice complaining.Wu Lao Er came out of the house, looked up, and found that the light rain should not affect the sheep herding, so he shouted at Wang Shaodong: "Dongzi, I'm going to herd the sheep. There is water in the thermos bottle in the house. Come here when you are thirsty." Drink water." Although it was raining, the weather was muggy and thirsty was inevitable.

Wang Shaodong responded, and then walked along the stone dam to the edge of the rubber dam.

Wang Shaodong bought two rubber dams, of which the west one was installed a little [-] to [-] centimeters higher than the east one. In this way, the east rubber dam naturally became an overflow hole.

The middle of the rubber dam is the lowest, and some water overflowed and flowed down from there.

Walking to the place where the water flowed, Wang Shaodong saw many small fish rushing upstream, that is, running into the reservoir.

Wang Shaodong thought to himself: It's broken, the fish really ran away.

(End of this chapter)