The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 73 The Autumn Harvest in the Mountains

The idea of ​​building a reservoir cannot be put into practice for the time being. The main reason is not the money issue, but because the busy farming season is coming soon, and it is difficult to find hired labor. If you rush, it will be a joke.

The construction of barrages and reservoirs will have to wait until the spring after the ground thaws in the new year.

The 150-meter-wide barrage is not a small project, and it will take about two months. 20 is Wang Shaodong's estimated cost, and he is not sure how much it will cost to build the barrage in the new year.

After repairing the reservoir, it will be convenient to eat fish in the future anyway.

As for what kind of fruit trees to plant, Wang Shaodong also had a general idea in mind.

The autumn harvest season is here, and each person in Taohualing Village has an average of one and a half acres of irrigated land and one and eight acres of mountain land.

The irrigated land is fertile, with guaranteed harvest during drought and flood, and is suitable for planting crops such as wheat and corn, while the mountainous land mainly grows drought-resistant crops such as peanuts and sweet potatoes.

Taohualing is located in the hilly area of ​​central Shandong, with an average annual rainfall of just over 400, and nine droughts in ten years. This place was very poor in the past.

Before liberation, there was almost no local irrigation and water conservancy in Central Shandong, and all the land was basically dependent on the sky. And because of the poor planting technology and seeds in the past, the local people could not eat enough all year round.Every spring when the crops are lean, there will be a large number of poor people from several villages around Taohualing Village to go to other places to beg.

Later, after liberation, the government mobilized the local people to build a lot of water conservancy projects, which allowed the villages to have irrigated land and high-yield crops such as wheat and corn, so that the people could have enough to eat.

Of course, these things happened in the 60s and [-]s, and Wang Shaodong had never experienced them.

At the beginning of the busy season, the wheat and corn in the four and a half acres of irrigated land of the Wang family and the sweet potatoes in the five and a half acres of mountainous land have to be harvested, and the farm at home is inseparable from people, so after the busy season, the Wang family's manpower All of a sudden tense up.

After all, Wang Shaodong is much weaker than his parents in terms of physical strength and experience in farming, so when the farming season came, Wang Shaodong was left at home to take care of the chickens in the five sheds, while his parents were in a hurry to get them. The fields were harvested.

The autumn harvest begins with breaking corn.The wheat has been harvested after the summer Xiaoman festival, and the wheat field is full of stubble.

After the corn is harvested, sorghum, millet, sweet potatoes, etc. must be harvested.Sorghum and millet are not the crops that every family grows, but sweet potatoes are the crops that all villagers in Taohualing Village grow.

When we were poor, sweet potatoes were eaten as food, but now everyone has enough corn and white flour to eat. The sweet potatoes are mainly used to feed pigs or sold directly for money.

The mountain is barren and not suitable for planting other crops, but the crop of sweet potato is well adapted to the mountain environment.

If there were no sweet potatoes introduced from Luzon in 1593 at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the land of Taohualing Village would still be deserted.

Seeing his parents working hard in the field every day, while he was so leisurely walking around several hen houses every day, Wang Shaodong felt very uncomfortable.

It is really hard for the two parents to plant ten acres of land.

However, this situation will change next year.Next year, after I set up an ecological agriculture company, the ten acres of land in my home can be completely taken care of by the company's employees for spring planting and autumn harvest.

From mid-September to the end of October every year, it is the harvest time of corn.After the corn was harvested, every household was busy cutting sweet potatoes again.

Sweet potatoes are root crops with relatively high water content, so they are not suitable for storage. Then the common people used their ingenuity to cut sweet potatoes into thin slices, and then dried them into dried sweet potatoes, which solved the problem of storage.

Sweet potatoes are high-yielding crops, with a yield of about [-]-[-] jin per mu, and about [-] jins of dried sweet potatoes.

All the sweet potatoes should be dried in the sun before they are frozen, otherwise the sweet potatoes will rot as soon as they are frozen.

In 2002, if someone hired someone to collect corn, it cost about 35 yuan per mu of land, but Wang Fumin and his wife were not willing to do so.

This year, Wang Fumin and his wife planted two acres of wheat and harvested 1600 catties of wheat, enough to feed them for a year.For the remaining two and a half mu of irrigated land, Wang Fumin and his wife planted corn.Now because the corn seeds are good, the yield is also very high, and one mu can produce more than 1000 catties.You know, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the yield of corn per mu was only about 150 to 300 catties.

The advancement of science and technology has brought great benefits to human beings. However, while some technologies bring convenience to people, they also bring hidden dangers.

For example, the use of a large amount of pesticides and chemical fertilizers has caused the food grown by farmers to harm people's health.

Wang Shaodong is determined to run a completely ecological and green agricultural enterprise. At least the products he produces can make him feel safe and bold to eat. That is the basic requirement.

At the end of September, Wang Fumin and his wife leaned against the ground all day.

Two and a half acres of corn and five and a half acres of sweet potatoes can be harvested by just two people.

During this period of time, Wang Shaodong was very leisurely.

It is true that there are no people in the breeding area. After getting up every day, Wang Shaodong needs to go to the other three chicken farmers to check the growth of his own chickens, the temperature and humidity, record the casualties, and observe the health status of the large group.Wang Shaodong is a careful person, and he is very concerned about raising chickens, which makes the three helpers Ma Zhentang, He Jiaqing and He Jiaxiang not dare to neglect.

Moreover, everyone admired Wang Shaodong's knowledge of raising chickens.

As long as he listens to the voices in the flock, Wang Shaodong can almost judge the health status of the flock, which is impossible without seven or eight years of breeding experience.

It will take more than an hour to finish this work, and then in the rest of the morning, Wang Shaodong has nothing to do.

At home, the two chicken coops are taken care of by Liu Yujiang's wife and Su Yulong's wife, and I just observe the situation of the chicken flock and the chicken coop.

When he has more free time, Wang Shaodong spends it on the Internet.

Wang Shaodong occasionally plays online games, but most of the time, Wang Shaodong hopes to meet Ma Lili and have a chat.

But what makes Wang Shaodong puzzled is that Ma Lili seems to be lukewarm towards him. This is not the situation that Han Kang said in the previous life that Ma Lili likes him.

This made Wang Shaodong very anxious. He still regards Ma Lili as the key training object in his life.

Next, Wang Shaodong began to plan a plan in his heart, that is to find a reason for himself to go to Spring City every month.Only in this way can we get in touch with Ma Lili more and have the possibility of the next step.

(End of this chapter)