My village can't be like this

Chapter 441 Planting Rice

Chen Ze didn't know how to pick, it was a complete torture, so Zhang An strode forward, wanting to take over the burden.

"No, wait until I finish this trip."

Chen Ze didn't agree. How could a man admit that he was not good enough? He had to finish this task no matter what. A real man never gives up halfway.

Fortunately, Zhang An's paddy field is not far away, just two steps from the gate.

Chen Ze gritted his teeth and carried the load of rice seedlings to the field ridge before putting it down.

"Why is this thing so difficult to pick? I see other old people in the village picking it up with no effort at all."

Chen Ze rubbed his painful shoulder with one hand. This guy had thin skin and tender flesh, but the skin on his shoulder was almost worn away just by picking it up once.

Only then did he realize that although he usually saw people laughing and joking on the road, farm work was really not easy to do.

“And this pole is too soft, it’s not strong enough at all, and it’s uncomfortable to swing around.”

"What do you know? The softer the pole, the easier it is to carry. If it's hard, you can't carry much. When carrying a pole, you must learn to find a balance point. When walking, you must keep your body straight and follow the rhythm of the pole. It will become very easy.”

Carrying a shoulder pole seems very simple, but there are also a lot of details involved. People who know how to pick up a pole have completely different ideas from those who don't.

People who don't know how to do it think that a hard pole that can't be bent is easier to use. When walking, they will unconsciously bend down and let their back bear the unloading force.

But the people who know how to choose are different. Men, women, old and young in the village are accustomed to using soft shoulder poles, so when making shoulder poles, they try to choose trees with softer wood. Some people even use bamboo to make them. When walking, they always use soft shoulder poles. He always walks upright, except when it's time to rest.

This is because a soft shoulder pole has an advantage. When walking, the burdens on both ends will sway up and down rhythmically.

In the process of swinging upward, this part of the gravity is offset, thus saving everyone a lot of effort. ,

That's why Chen Ze felt that when he saw the people in the village carrying burdens, they were very relaxed. Some people could even chat with others while carrying burdens.

Even a young and strong man wouldn't be able to get very far if faced with a straight fight.

As for how to make your shoulders more comfortable, you have to find a balance individually, and others cannot teach you.

After spending some time, Zhang An and Zhang Jianguo scattered all the seedlings in the paddy fields.

Although it is said that there are nearly six acres of paddy fields near the door, there are actually only three of them, all of which are very large.

"Xiao An, you pull the rope over, and we'll fall back from this side."

Zhang Jianguo divided one end of the drawstring on his hand and handed it to Zhang An. The two men stood on one end and pulled up the rope in the field.

The purpose of pulling ropes is to control the distance between rice plants and it also looks good. Everyone in the village does this.

Although these fields are large, they are all rectangular, so the width is not too large, and the total distance is less than two feet.

Among the people planting rice seedlings in the field today, only Chen Ze is a novice. He has never done this work before. He was called over by Mr. Chen today.

The old man didn't know how to do it, but he went to help his old friends for a few days, so he was already started.

Their nanny's family is a farmer, so she is no stranger to this aspect.

So when it came time to plant the rice seedlings, Chen Ze was wrapped in the middle of the field, giving him maybe two meters of space, which was enough to plant four to five rice seedlings at most.

"Look, you have to do this like me, pinch the roots of the seedlings with your fingers, and then insert them into the mud in the water, so that their roots touch the mud and they will take root."

At this time, Mr. Chen was teaching his grandson how to plant rice with a proud look on his face.

He learned this from his old friend a few days ago, and he happened to be applying it to Chen Ze.

What else could Chen Ze do, he could only study hard. After all, this was his biological grandfather, and he did not dare to disobey him in the slightest.

And if he messed around casually, he would be embarrassed to serve the bowl when he went back.

When the others saw this, they just laughed, but they did not disturb the teaching process of their grandfather and grandson, and they did not miss the movement of planting rice in their hands.

Today is Saturday, Su Ying did not go to school. At this time, she was watching everyone planting rice seedlings on the field ridge.

She wanted to experience the industry because she was not in the village during the rice transplanting last year.

I caught up today, but Wang Fang sternly rejected her idea of ​​going to the fields.

She now has a big belly and it is difficult to walk. How can she be allowed to go to the fields?

The daughter-in-laws from other families were trying to find excuses and would not go to the ground if they could. It would be better to come to her place, and she even asked for it.

Zhang An was amused by her and advised her that it was indeed inconvenient for her this year and that she would wait until later.

If you marry a rural person like him, you will have many opportunities to do farm work in the future.

"Teacher Su, Uncle An, we are here."

Before the seedlings were planted in the field, several students from Su Ying's class came together. They were all children in the village who had already attended junior high school.

"Why are you here? It's finally Saturday today. Why don't you go play by yourself?"

Su Ying was very curious. Her students were usually very playful. Today was the weekend break, so why didn't they go play and come here instead?

"Haha, we saw Teacher Su planting rice seedlings at home, so we came over to help."

The children were all twelve or thirteen years old. It was the sunny time, and they all had lively smiles on their faces.

"Oh, you go and play by yourself. How can I ask you to help? Besides, if you come to my house to plant rice seedlings, if the adults at home can't find it later, they will be punished when you return home."

Su Ying didn't expect that students like herself would take the initiative to help her family with farm work, so she couldn't laugh or cry on her face.

However, her first reaction was to refuse, because she was afraid that the adults in the student's family might have other ideas and say behind her back that she was using her status as a teacher to get the students to help them with their work.

This kind of thing is very common in the countryside. When Zhang An and the others were in elementary school, the teachers were basically people from the village.

At that time, when the farming was busy, the teacher would give everyone a holiday and let everyone go home to help with the work. Naturally, it was also common to help the teacher at home.

It's usually not a heavy job, usually when planting small and large rice seedlings, all the children in the family who are over six or seven years old have to go to the fields.

But regardless of whether Su Ying agreed or not, the children had already rolled up their trouser legs, took off their shoes and went straight to the fields.

"Don't be afraid, Teacher Su. My mother called us here, so we don't dare to play."

Several children said in unison, and the adults at home basically asked for permission.

This is because Su Ying is not only very responsible to students at school, but also very kind.

I often spend my own money to buy a lot of stationery to motivate students to learn.

Today's junior high school students are relatively young. If they receive praise from the teacher, they must show off to the adults when they get home.

So when they got the reward, they proudly showed it to their adults when they got home.

Those parents were of course very happy to see their children praised by the teacher, and even more so when they received stationery for study. They couldn't stop thinking about showing off their children to the neighbors. After all, these things are necessary for children to study and they cost money to buy. This can save the family a lot of money.

At first, they thought that these rewards were given by the school, but after a long time, they found out that Su Ying paid for them herself, so they, the parents, kept these things in mind.

No, today I saw that Zhang An's house was about to plant rice seedlings. Su Ying's big belly was definitely inconvenient. It was not convenient for them to come over to help, so they called their children over to help.

Firstly, it can repay Su Ying's kindness to children like them, and secondly, it can also make her own children get closer to the teacher in the class. They will definitely be more attentive to learning than other children in the future.

Although the paddy field was originally two feet wide, it was still a bit spacious. Zhang An alone was responsible for half a foot.

But now that there are four or five more children, the field seems a bit narrow. Everyone only needs to insert a few seedlings to plant a ditch.

Chen Ze next to him became very happy when he saw these children coming to help.

After all, in this field just now, the seedlings planted by others looked like ditches horizontally and rows vertically.

Even the ones his old man planted were not very good, but they were still passable.

Only the seedlings he planted looked crooked at first glance.

Moreover, Zhang An's mother still needed the help of reworking those ditches at the beginning, but later it became easier to do without reworking.

Now he saw several children joining in, and felt that he was not the worst offender.

But after these children started taking action, he just glanced at them and froze.

Because the seedlings planted by others are similar to those planted by Zhang An's family, and they are also faster.

In this comparison, he realized that he was really worse than a child, and his face was somewhat embarrassed.

I could only silently lower my head and bend over to plant rice, without looking anywhere.

Zhang An is busy planting rice now, but he doesn't know that his mental activities are so rich at the moment.

If he knew, he should be advised not to compare with these children.

Do you understand the value of Brother Xiaozi? Children in the village are not just for fun. After they are six or seven years old, they have to work in the fields with their families.

Even on school days, after school every day, I would either go to the fields to help, or go out to cut pig grass with a basket on my back. When I came back, I would be responsible for cooking and waiting for the adults to come back.

Although these children are only twelve or thirteen years old, they have at least four or five years of working experience and are much more skilled than him.

The distance between seedlings for large seedlings is relatively large, and there are more people today. A field was planted in just one morning.

"Then don't worry about it now. Go back and have dinner and come back in the afternoon."

When he was about to change a field, Wang Fang shouted in the yard.

After all, with so many people working, someone must prepare meals, so around ten o'clock, Wang Fang took Su Ying home to prepare lunch.

"Okay, let's come back in the afternoon. Let's wash our feet and go back to eat."

As the host, Zhang An came out of the fields first and took everyone to the river to wash the mud off their feet.

Although there is a running water pipe in the yard, it is inconvenient to wait in line with so many people.

The river was full of water, and there were only a few steps. I could wash myself off after just two trips to the river.

"Old Chen, didn't you notice that you have a big baby on your leg?"

Zhang An was walking behind Chen Ze and saw a green-brown leech stuck to his calf.

And this leech is not small. It seems to be at least one centimeter wide. Even if it shrinks into a ball, it is still two or three centimeters long.

"Ah, what?"

Chen Ze didn't know what was going on. After listening to Zhang An's words, he lowered his head and looked back in confusion, only to feel a squirming feeling on his legs.

"Fuck, what the hell is this?"

When he saw such a big thing clinging to his leg and squirming continuously, Chen Ze reached out and tried to pull out the leech.

"Uncle, this is a leech. You can't pull it off like this. You have to use your big mouth to swat it and it can be swatted off in one go."

The few people nearby saw Chen Ze hurriedly trying to pull off the leech, so they reminded him kindly.

The leech is a stubborn creature. It's fine if you don't move it. The more you pull at it, the more it will burrow into your flesh.

In some serious cases, it may even penetrate into the blood vessels.

Chen Ze was originally afraid of this thing. After listening to the words of some children, he immediately shouted at his calf with a few big mouths.

But for some reason, I just couldn’t get the location of the leech right.

"Um, uncle, doesn't it hurt when you shoot like this?"

Seeing Chen Ze being so cruel to them, the children suddenly felt that this uncle was really a cruel person.

"It hurts, but you said, do you have to do this to take a photo of it?"

There was no need for Chen Ze to say whether it hurt or not, because his calf had already been red from being patted.

"Yes, but you don't need to hit it so many times, and you don't need to use such force. Look, won't it come down just like this?"

In the end, the children couldn't stand it anymore, so they stepped forward and knocked the leech to the ground with a gentle slap.

"This guy is sucking my blood. How much blood did he suck with such a big mouth?"

Looking at the huge mouthparts of the leech on the ground, Chen Ze furiously dealt with it, and even picked up a stone and cut it into two pieces.

"Okay, this leech is not afraid of you breaking it into pieces. If you do this, it will turn into two pieces. Just leave it in the sun and it will die when it dries."

When Zhang An saw this thing, he thought of Xiaoyao Hou. It was so disgusting.

After returning home, Zhang An greeted the children first. Su Ying also went to Zhang Xinmin's house to buy two bottles of high orange soda, because this kind of soda was their favorite.

Because of work today, Wang Fang not only killed chickens and fish, but also got a rabbit.

This time, I have conquered a few kids. After all, at home, except for New Year celebrations and banquets, I can’t eat such good food.

But despite this, no one wolfed down the food and they all ate slowly. This is how rural families educate their children.

The little ones kept saying it was delicious, which made Wang Fang very happy.

(End of this chapter)