My village can't be like this

Chapter 187 Natural Disaster
After entering May, the weather is getting hotter and hotter.

The current May Day Labor Day only stipulates a one-day holiday.

The May [-]th Golden Week, which everyone misses so much, has not yet arrived.

But it doesn't matter whether Labor Day is closed for one day or seven days.

For farmers, this is when the harvest begins.

While Zhang An's family was still busy picking cherries, everyone in the village was already busy harvesting rapeseed in the field.

Now it is mid-May, the whole field looks bare, and the view is very wide.

Zhang An looked from the yard and found that in the entire field, there were still crops left in his own field.

Other families have already finished harvesting, and the rapeseed stalks and rapeseed husks have been burned.

The ashes are used as base fertilizer for the next season's rice.

Just finished picking the cherries yesterday, Zhang An's family has to rush to the field to harvest the crops today.

Especially seeing that there are only her own rapeseed in the surrounding fields, Wang Fang is more anxious.

After all, other families have already started pouring water into the fields, and they will start plowing the paddy fields in a few days.

Farming is a matter of slow pace, so we have to hurry up and keep up with everyone's progress.

It took two or three days to harvest all the rapeseed in several acres of paddy fields.

But the good times didn't last long, and the sun was still bright and scorching in the first few days.

Zhang An's family still has to go to the field to harvest rapeseed, but they haven't waited to go out.

The sky began to gather dark clouds, thunder and lightning.

It is said that on the day of June, the face of a child can cry when it is crying, and laugh when it is talking.

But Zhang An felt that the month of May seemed to be about the same.

When I first woke up in the morning, I could still see the sun.

It's time for breakfast, and the sun is off work.

Not long after, the sky began to rain.

Zhang An looked at this posture, the movement of this rain will not be too small.

As soon as he finished talking to his parents, the sky outside immediately turned into a violent storm.

And the most terrible thing is that there was hail in the sky.

It only took a few minutes, and a layer of ice eggs began to pile up in the yard.

At this moment, not only Zhang An's family was staring outside, but countless other families were paying attention to the situation outside.

It's just that most people are lucky, because their crops have been harvested and returned home.

But for a small number of families, there are still some crops in the field that have not been recovered.

Although the hailstorm wasn't very heavy, it lasted a little too long, lasting more than 20 minutes.

All I could hear was the crackling of the concrete floor outside being hit by the falling hailstones.

Every minute, Wang Fang's face became more sad.

At this time, what she was thinking about was no longer the few acres of rapeseed in the field.

Because of such a rain, the mature rapeseeds must have failed to harvest.

She was worried about the watermelons and strawberries in the nest, and the green peaches that had just been hung in the peach grove.

After the rain stopped, Zhang An's family went out to the field to see the situation.

When Zhang An came to Taolin, the ground could only be described as horrible.

The ground was full of green peaches that had been hit by hail and heavy rain.

And on the peach tree, there are still a few sparse peaches hanging.

This can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune, so that this peach orchard will not be completely harvested.

After watching Taolin, Zhang An went down the mountain to look at the nest.

The situation of watermelons is not as optimistic as that of peach trees in Taoyuan.

The small watermelons that have already grown on the ground can grow into big watermelons in a short time.

But now, when the hailstorm struck, they were all beaten to pieces.

Although the strawberries have not yet set fruit, this period is the flowering period.

After this hailstorm, most of the branches, leaves and flowers have been damaged.

Coming out of the nest, Zhang An walked to his own field.

When they arrived at Qingjiao, Zhang An saw that his two uncles had arrived in the field and were checking the condition of the kiwi fruit.

"Second uncle, how is the situation here?"

"The situation is not bad. Fortunately, the vines of the sheep peach grow fast. These vines and leaves block the flowers, so it is not affected much."

Zhang Ershu came here after the rain stopped, and now he has seen this piece of kiwi fruit.

The two brothers were relieved to see that there was nothing wrong with the sheep peach tree.

"Anzi, how is your family doing?"

"My dad went to look at the rapeseed in the field, I guess it's gone."

Hearing this, Zhang An had a complicated expression on his face and a wry smile.

"Although the peach orchard and melon fields at home are not completely harvested, there are not many good ones left. Only strawberries are still blooming, but it feels crooked."

Hearing this, Uncle Zhang and Uncle Zhang were silent, not knowing what to say.

"Hey, God, I just want to keep people from being comfortable."

"It can't be helped. Fortunately, the cherries were harvested a few days ago. Otherwise, I'm afraid this year will be difficult."

One must know how to be content, after all, Cherry has earned a lot this year.

At this time, Uncle Zhang and Uncle Zhang remembered that Zhang An's family had sold all their cherries.

The second uncle and the others had no problems here, so Zhang An went up the road to see his rapeseed field.

Sure enough, just as Zhang An thought, it was nothing.

The peaches on the peach tree couldn't hold on, let alone the rapeseeds that were about to open their mouths.

Zhang An went down to the ground to look. There was not even a shell left on the rapeseed stalk, and it all fell to the ground.

This time it's really a piece of mud and dust.

And Zhang Jianguo, at the moment, is pulling rapeseed stalks out of the field.

Although the rapeseeds are gone, these rapeseed stalks have to be pulled out so that corn can be planted later.

"Dad, why don't you stop talking about it first, and wait until it's done."

It has just rained, and the rapeseed stalks are covered with dew, and they are covered in water when they are pulled out.

Hearing what Zhang An said, Zhang Jianguo also stopped what he was doing.

"What about the rest of the place?"

"It's not very good, I guess there is nothing to gain."

As Zhang An walked, he told his father about the situation in Taoyuan and the nest.

Although Zhang Jianguo was already prepared when he saw the hailstorm.

It's just that after listening to it now, I still feel a little twitching in my heart.

After going down the mountain, Zhang An and his son met Huang Erye at the entrance of the village.

The old man looked sad, and he probably came back from the field.

"Second Master, how is the situation of your plums?"

The crops of Huang Erye's family have been taken home a long time ago, and only two acres of plum trees are still bearing fruit.

So without even thinking about it, Zhang An knew that the old man must have returned from the plum field.

Hearing this, Second Master Huang shook his head.

"It is estimated that half of it was knocked down, and the ground is full of plums."

If the half of the plums were all ripe, they would be hundreds of catties, or even thousands of catties.

Even if it costs a few cents a catty, the loss is hundreds of dollars.

"It's okay, Er Ye, let's just thin the fruit for the second time. It's not bad to have half of it. I may not have [-]% of my peaches."

Originally, Zhang An thought that the plums of Huang Erye's family would also suffer heavy losses.

But hearing Huang Erye say that half of it is still hanging on the tree, this is considered a relatively good situation.

"Yeah, it's God's face to have so many left."

Although Huang Erye was a pity, he could understand it in his heart.

"We farmers, we always watch the sky to eat. The past few years have been so good, and we are not hungry anymore. It is considered that God has treated us well."

Second Master has lived to such an old age, many things have long been looked down upon.

In the past few years, the weather has been good, the crops in the field have been harvested very well, and everyone has had enough to eat.

This year's hailstorm is the first in recent years.

Farmers know that God is moody and changeable.

Being able to give them good years for so many years can be regarded as treating the farmers in their mountains well.

"Second Master is right, but it's not that bad."

Zhang An gave Huang Erye a thumbs up.

"The fishermen on the beach say that the bigger the wind and the waves, the more expensive the fish. This time, when it rains, everyone's fruits will be lost. The price must be much more expensive than in previous years."

Huang Erye heard Zhang An say that the price of fruit will increase this year, and asked in disbelief.

"Anzi, will the price really go up?"

"Second Master, don't worry, it will be more expensive than last year."

Zhang An's words gave Huang Erye a reassurance.

After all, he believed that Zhang An would not lie to him, because of how many plums he could have there.

Zhang An's stall is much bigger than his.

Although there was hail this time, the range may not be too large.

But this area of ​​the county is definitely affected.

Although there are fruit merchants now, they only operate in those larger cities.

In such a small county town in the mountains, most of the fruits are produced and sold locally.

Especially when everyone has money in their pockets, the demand for this fruit has also increased.

Now after the disaster, the output of fruit will definitely be affected, and the price will have to increase no matter what.

After all, people with this kind of fruit also need to eat meat.

Back home, Wang Fang also knew the situation in her field, and she felt a little depressed.

Seeing this, Zhang An quickly persuaded him.

"Mom, it's nothing. Even if the Taoyuan and the melon fields are gone, our family has already made a lot of money just selling cherries."

Zhang An has to quickly persuade his mother to be good. He was overjoyed when he sold cherries a few days ago.

And now Taoyuan and Guadil were severely injured after being severely injured.

Such joys and sorrows are intertwined, if it is not resolved, problems may arise.

"That's right, our family has already made a lot of money today. We can't make all the money in the world. What about other people's families?"

After some persuasion from the father and son, Wang Fang finally got rid of her low mood.

After all, no matter what happens, life has to go on.

From that rainstorm, it will rain from time to time.

This means that this year has entered the rainy season.

The big river, whose water level had dropped, rose again during this time.

Taking advantage of this time, everyone hastened to beat up the paddy fields, because the seedlings in our seedling fields can already be transplanted.

Zhang An's family didn't plant much land this year.

Just plant a few acres of paddy fields at home and two nearby mountain lands.

As for other cultivated land farther away, Zhang An proposed to plant it for others first.

At first, Wang Fang refused to agree, because they had planted crops for a lifetime.

I always feel that there is less land to plant, and I feel uneasy in my heart.

But now there are too many things to take care of at home, and there is really no time and energy to take care of so much land.

And even if all of them are planted, there will be no high income, and it will only be a waste of labor.

Zhang An knew that his mother was reluctant, so he used the rapeseed that had been knocked down by the hail to persuade him.

Wang Fang finally let go of her mouth a little, and set aside some of the land at home for others to plant.

But not all of them are released, at least the paddy field at home and two nearby cultivated fields.

In any case, Wang Fang has to plant it by herself, and only agrees to release the cultivated land in the distance.

Now it is different from later generations. In later generations, many families, young and old, went out to work.

So all the land in the family was released, but even so, no one could be found to take it over, so it could only be left unused.

It's different now, there are very few people going out to work now.

People in the village, even if they have a little bit of land, they have to clean it up and plant it.

There are conditions for some families to release their land for planting because they go out to work.

Every year, how much food must be distributed to the host family according to the land, because there is still an agricultural tax to pay.

Even so, there are quite a few people competing to plant.

Knowing that Zhang An's family was going to release the land, many people came to ask.

Although they were all mountainous, no one disliked them, and Zhang An's family didn't want to ask for food.

Thinking of this, I gave this land to others, as long as it is not left unused.

So such a good thing, everyone wants to ask about it.

In the end, Zhang An's family's several acres of mountain land were distributed to two relatives with good relations.

Of course, it's just planted for them. When Zhang An's family wants to take it back one day, they have to return the land after harvesting the crops.

In just a few days, Zhang An's paddy field has been plowed.

After moving some retting manure into the field, Zhang An's family began to transplant rice seedlings after plowing it.

But this year, I don't know why, and nothing goes well.

Some time ago, when the rapeseed was harvested, it rained heavily.

But even though it was raining sporadically, the people in the fields were not ready to call it a day.

Basically, all the families who are planting rice seedlings have finished planting rice seedlings in the field under the heavy rain.

In the rain, everyone can be seen wearing bamboo hats and plastic sheets.

Because few families have raincoats and coir raincoats, the plastic sheet is still bought by the family for fertilizer.

The plastic film in the nylon pocket is used by everyone as a raincoat.

Why not rest, as the saying goes.

Planting rice seedlings does not hide from the rain, and threshing grain does not rest in the cool.

Because the seedlings growing in the seedling fields have to be pulled out, and then picked and transplanted in the paddy fields.

In this process, there will be some damage to the seedlings, especially in sunny days, the damage will be greater.

Even if it is planted, there will be a certain period of recovery.

At this time, Changqing is called the anti-growth period here. If it can recover, the seedlings will be able to take root.

But if it cannot survive, the seedling will die, and the owner needs to replant it.

And many old people, based on years of experience in transplanting rice seedlings, found that.

Seedlings planted on rainy days will take root earlier than those transplanted on sunny days.

In the end, it was concluded that transplanting rice seedlings in rainy days would cause less damage to the seedlings.

Therefore, after transplanting, the recovery time is short, and the roots can start to grow and survive in a few days.

But the weather factor is beyond everyone's control, and rice planting is also in a hurry.

Therefore, on the way of transplanting rice seedlings, when it rains, we will not hide from the rain.

On the contrary, I will be very happy to transplant the seedlings against the rainy weather.

(End of this chapter)