Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 195 Cultivating Sugarcane

When it entered June, it became hot all of a sudden. The gunshot wound on Gao Mingcheng's body had already healed, but he was too lazy to move. At this moment, he was staring at the watermelon in the field, wondering when the watermelon would be ripe.

This year he also planted a small plot of watermelon and cantaloupe, only about a dozen seedlings, just enough for his family to eat, after all, he didn't plan to sell them.

Other families in the village grow a lot, one kind of planting three or four acres of land, and when the watermelons are ripe, they will be sent to the town and county for sale on a flatbed truck.

As for the old market in Junling, when the watermelons are ripe, this old market will be the hardest-hit area for watermelons, and it will be difficult to sell them, so the local people in Junling will sell them here by the way. When the price comes, you have to go to the county to sell it.

In addition to selling them in the county, there are also traders who will go to the countryside to buy watermelons, but the price will naturally be much lower. If the family does not have enough labor, they will sell them. Once the accounts are settled, the watermelons on a few acres of land will not be profitable. Too much money, but this money is also one of the main incomes of many families.

He was staring at a watermelon flower in a daze when his third younger brother Gao Mingwan came over.

"Second brother, you haven't been to the county recently?" Gao Mingwan said it cryptically, but Gao Mingcheng understood it immediately.

Only then did he remember that he had promised to find Gao Mingwan a job in the county.

So he stood up, helped the straw hat on his head, and said: "Tomorrow is the market day in the county, I will go tomorrow, will you go with me?"

If Gao Mingwan heard this, his eyes lit up instantly, and he said impatiently, "Go!"

After the agreement was made, Gao Mingwan went home contentedly. He dug out the closet, took out a new set of clothes, and gesticulated on his body.These are new clothes he specially made, and he hasn't worn them yet.

Seeing his movements, Gao Yuanjian knew that the second child would take the third child to the county tomorrow.

Putting down the worries in his heart, Gao Yuanyuan summoned his son: "Third brother, follow me to work in the field. The sugarcane field needs to be plowed."

"Hey." Gao Mingwan put down his new clothes, picked up a straw hat, and carried a hoe, and went out with his father.

The sugarcane they plant here is summer sugarcane, which was only planted in May, and now it has grown six or seven leaves and has begun to tiller. At this time, it is time to carry out the first soil cultivation. Weeds were also hoeed.

The father and son were walking on the country road, and Gao Yuanjian told him: "When you go to the county tomorrow, let the second elder brother take you to shave your head first, so that you will look more energetic."

"You brothers also played with Gao Hong and Gao Yue when you were young, and you have some friendship. When you meet Gao Guobing, don't be stage fright, and call uncle affectionately, you know?"

"Hey." Gao Mingwan replied, with a look of anticipation on his face.

They were about the same age, and they lived in the same village when they were young. They did play together, but Gao Hong and Gao Yue preferred to play with his second brother, and often left them and went to other places to play.

Uh, to be precise, Gao Hong and his second brother have the best relationship, and Gao Yue is Gao Hong's follower, so the three of them played together.

Gao Yuan saw that the place where sugar cane was planted was far away from the village. You had to climb over the back mountain to get there. When it was possible to open up wasteland, the land near the village was occupied by people. If you want to open up more wasteland, you have to go farther. So Gao Yuanjian led his family to open a field on the hillside here.

After turning over the back mountain, you can see a large piece of gentle slope land, full of sugar cane.

Not all of these belonged to their family. Their family occupied two acres of land, and the rest belonged to other families in the village.

The reason why everyone chooses to plant sugarcane here is not because the soil here is good, but because it is far from home and close to home. Everyone will choose to grow vegetables and melons, which is convenient for timely management and picking to sell for money.

As for sugar cane, this is the hard-line task of the top, and it must be planted. The plant is still a variety for sugar extraction. It is sweet, but it is too hard to bite. steal.

If it is a fruit like watermelon and melon, you have to be careful. Every time it is ripe, you have to watch it carefully. Although most people in Gaojia Village have the surname Gao and their ancestors belong to the same family, it does not prevent some people from every village from stealing. someone else's stuff.

Especially children who are half-grown and young, they will steal food when they are hungry.

When they arrived at the sugarcane field, the father and son began to work. This was the first time the sugarcane field was cultivated. It didn’t need to be raised too high, just about three centimeters. When the tillering was in full swing, the second soil cultivation would be carried out. , this time it takes six centimeters.

But this is not over yet. When the sugarcane grows in the early stage, the soil will be cultivated for the third time. This time it needs to be [-] to [-] centimeters high!

In addition to cultivating the soil three times, we also have to weed, fertilize, water, and remove the dead leaves under the sugarcane. There are many things during the whole planting process, and the sugarcane leaves are pricked, which makes people uncomfortable.

But the most uncomfortable thing is that the price of sugarcane is very low, and because it is a hard task, the sugar factory will send people to purchase it every autumn harvest, but the time is not fixed, sometimes it is on time, and sometimes it will be delayed for more than a month go!

At this time, there will be complaints in the village. Almost no one wants to plant sugar cane, but they have to.

Gao Ming's Cheng family didn't plant any crops this year, because he had just separated from his family and only wanted an acre of land from his family. He had no land, and the land was reclaimed by himself. Although he reclaimed several acres of land, the people in the brigade did not come. When looking for him, he pretended to be a fool not to grow sugar cane.

Planting sugarcane is a thankless task. He remembered that in 92, the villagers collectively went on strike. After a long time of trouble, they were not given the task of planting sugarcane. Since then, the village has not seen anyone for several years. Having planted sugar cane, it can be seen that he hates sugar cane deeply.

Although Grandma Xi's family planted sugar cane this year, there were very few of them. At the beginning of the year, she went to the village committee and said that she was getting older and had less labor at home, so she didn't want to plant sugar cane anymore.

But the members of the village committee refused to let her not plant, fearing that if she did not plant, other people would not plant if they followed suit, so they promised to let her plant less, and Grandma Xi just planted half an acre of land. .

At this moment, she and Gao Zhuang were also cultivating the sugar cane here, and He Xiuman also came, but she was not allowed to do any work, but she was only asked to rest under the shade of a tree.

He Xiuman's physical condition is not bad. After pregnancy, apart from not having much appetite, there is no other discomfort.

At this time, she was standing under the shade of the tree, watching Gao Zhuang work. Although Gao Zhuang was shorter and weaker, he was diligent and down-to-earth, and he had no other bad problems. He Xiuman became more and more satisfied the more he watched.

But thinking that in two days, her natal family would come to give her stomach money, He Xiuman frowned slightly.

Hey, I need to find another reason to coax her parents!
(End of this chapter)