My village can't be like this

Chapter 473 Clearing Farmland

In the days after the roof of Zhang Mingsong's house was renovated, Zhang An and Zhang Jianguo were basically busy helping the villagers renovate the roof.

During this period, there were many houses in the village renovating their roofs, dozens of them, and most of them were damaged houses.

On the one hand, I thought that the renovation would be completed long ago, so I would feel more at ease while living there.

On the other hand, they all want to take advantage of the good weather these days and finish it as quickly as possible.

After all, no one knows that the moody God will be able to clear up for a few days this time. If after a while, his face suddenly changes like the previous few days, it will be too late to hurry up.

So in the past few days, basically before one family has finished, another family will come to the door, just like queuing up.

The main reason is that everyone is very busy during the sunny period after the rain. Many families in the village are busy with crops in the fields.

Although the corn all over the mountains and fields was almost destroyed by the heavy rain, everyone in the village did not want to give up.

It was supposed to be the time to fertilize for the first time, but the corn seedlings are no longer in shape. Everyone looked at me and others, so they just reluctantly dug up the seedlings in the ground and replanted them.

After so many years of farming, everyone knows that there is no hope for this season when they see it in this state.

Fortunately, it's not too late now. It's not too late to plant seeds again. The worst thing is that the harvest will be mature and later.

But compared to the result of no harvest, everyone can still accept the delayed harvest.

At first, only one family in the village did this, but later other families saw it and followed suit.

Therefore, the busy farming scene some time ago is now beginning to reappear in the village.

As for the rice in the fields, there is basically no hope, not to mention that many fields are still flooded.

Even if the paddy fields are not flooded, it will be difficult to replant them.

The fundamental reason is that the cultivation of rice is too time-consuming. It is not as simple as corn, where you can just plant the seeds directly.

First of all, we need to accelerate the germination, then we need to raise the seedlings, and finally we need to transplant the seedlings. In this series, it takes more than a month.

If they are really replanted, it is estimated that they will not be harvested until December, and even the latest rice seeds will not be so outrageous.

And in November, the temperature will drop a lot. There will be no results from planting such rice. There is no doubt about this.

So everyone completely gave up on the rice in the fields and could only let it flow. In the end, they harvested as much as they could, and everyone was also prepared to harvest no grains.

Therefore, for some time, the villagers have focused on replanting corn.

Although corn is not as valuable as rice in all aspects, it can at least help everyone get through this difficult year.

Zhang An's family now only cultivates paddy fields, and there is basically no cultivation in the mountains, so they don't have to be busy with replanting like other families.

Renovating a roof is a major project that requires a lot of manpower, so when people need help, their home is naturally the first one to think of it.

In fact, Zhang Jianguo and Zhang An would take the initiative to help others without having to be invited by others at this time. This way, others would take the initiative to help if something happens at home in the future.

By the time everyone in the village had finished their work, the water in the river had receded, revealing the familiar riverbanks, paddy fields and stone roads.

As everyone thought, the rice seedlings in the field had been submerged in water for so long, and they looked a bit miserable.

Basically none of them were standing upright, they all fell limply in the field.

Not to mention seedlings, even humans, after being soaked in water for so many days, are guaranteed to be softer than these seedlings.

And besides this, there are more serious problems.

The river water is washed down from other mountains upstream, so there must be a lot of branches and weeds in the water.

It would be fine if it were elsewhere, but now, these various things washed down from the upper reaches are all piled up in the fields on both sides of the river.

Having just finished replanting the corn, I have to start cleaning up the garbage in the field again.

Although everyone has given up on the seedlings in the fields, they still have to deal with these weeds and branches.

Now that the river water has just receded, the garbage has not yet settled into the soil in the fields, so it is not too troublesome to clean it up.

If we don't do it now and wait until next year to solve it, it will probably all sink into the soil, and it will be difficult to turn it over with a rake.

It’s not that it’s impossible to do, it’s just that the effort required will definitely be several times that of now.

No one wants to cause trouble again next year, so everyone is busy with this matter.

Zhang An's family is no exception, but although their family has more fields than other families, the area affected by the disaster is only about the same as other families.

Because Zhang Jianwen helped transfer all his family's fields to the entrance of the village last year, the few acres at the entrance of the yard are on higher ground and have not been flooded. Naturally, there will be no garbage rushing into the fields.

But the few acres along the river bank were not spared. They were all submerged. And because they were upstream of the bridge, there were more residual branches and weeds rushing in from the fields than those downstream.

And that's not all. The strawberry field in the nest and the watermelon field with grass were also completely wiped out, and a lot of tree limbs were also piled up.

So it would probably take a lot of time to clean everything out of their house.

When they got up early in the morning, except for Su Ying, all three members of the family carried pitchforks and started going to the fields.

After the school gave all students two weeks of make-up classes, the final semester began, so Su Ying and the others were already on vacation.

She was a little tired of staying at home now and wanted to go to the fields with her.

But how could Wang Fang let her follow her? After all, she had a bulging belly, and the field ridge was not a good place. If she accidentally slipped and fell, the consequences would be disastrous.

And not to mention that she is pregnant now, even if she is not pregnant, Wang Fang will not let her follow her to the ground. It has always been like this before.

When we came to the field, some of the thicker branches didn't take much effort. We could just pull them out a few times.

But those weeds, vines, and relatively slender branches are very troublesome.

Because not only are they tied to themselves, they are also entangled with the seedlings that are more than a foot tall in the field.

There are even several piles that are relatively large, and more than one or two seedlings are entangled.

Zhang An's family of three slowly untied the tangled weeds and branches bit by bit, and then carried them outside in batches.

"No, we can't do this in the afternoon. It's too slow. We should bring the sickle and chop with it."

Although I brought a pitchfork with me in the morning, I mostly handled it with bare hands.

But this was too hurtful, and the progress was extremely slow. Only a small piece of land was cultivated in the morning, not even half an acre, and Zhang An was very dissatisfied.

So after dinner at noon, Zhang An decided to bring the sickle with him when he went in the afternoon and serve directly with the sword and axe.

"But if you use a sickle to cut it, the seedlings must not be damaged, no, no, no."

Although everyone said that there was no hope for this year's food supply, Wang Fang still had a glimmer of hope for them.

Zhang An wanted to bring the sickle with him in the morning, but Wang Fang was afraid of cutting down the seedlings, so he refused to use the sickle. "Mom, the seedlings in the field are all like that. You can cut them as soon as you can. When the time comes, you can get them back to feed the sheep. If you don't use a sickle, just rely on your hands to pull them slowly. It will take so many years and months. , at our pace this morning, we may not be able to finish it in another half a month. Besides, our family has not only these few acres of land to clean up, but also the dozens of acres in the nest."

What Zhang An originally wanted to say was to simply cut all the seedlings in the field.

After all, it would be a waste to leave seedlings that cannot produce food until autumn.

It is better to cut it back while it is green and tender and use it as green storage to feed the sheep.

But when Zhang An thought about his mother's temper, he thought about it and let it go.

"And we still have so much millet at home that we can't finish it in several years, and it's not less than this season."

"It's better to use a sickle to chop it. If you clear it out sooner, you can feel at ease sooner."

Zhang Jianwen and Zhang An had the same idea. He saw so many clumps of branches and weeds in the field today, and his head got bigger.

Finally, after much persuasion, Wang Fang was convinced.

The most important thing was that the warehouse of food piled up at home gave her confidence. Zhang An's statement that she had eaten it in several years was not an exaggeration at all.

After all, their family has not sold a grain of grain in the past two years, and now there are at least tens of thousands of kilograms of millet in the barn.

Sure enough, I took the sickle to the fields in the afternoon and the cleaning speed was much faster than in the morning.

Whenever he encounters a ball of grass wrapped together, Zhang An directly picks up a sickle and chops it open, and it is cut open in a few strokes without any entanglement.

"Zhang An, why don't you call me when you have something to do? I'll be embarrassed if you call me for dinner next time."

Zhang An looked back and found that Chen Ze was running over. Moreover, this guy took off his shoes and rolled up his trousers and was about to go to the fields to help.

Both Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang were used to Chen Ze coming to help with work.

After all, Chen Ze has come to help with a lot of work in the past six months.

At the beginning, Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo were embarrassed to ask others to help. After all, this was a rich young man, so what was the point of asking others to farm the land.

But this guy Chen Ze comes whenever he wants, and sometimes he even takes the old man with him, just for the sake of exercising.

This is true. At first, he just thought it was fun, so he wanted to come over and join in the fun.

But later I discovered that after following Zhang An's family several times in the fields, his health was much better than before.

In the past, when I walked a little further and climbed a high slope, I was out of breath. In the past, when I went into the mountain, Zhang An had to stop and wait for him and Ding Yi after taking a few steps.

Things are different now. I eat deliciously and feel great. Climbing up this mountain twice is no problem at all.

So this guy still likes farming. He will come over to help Zhang An's family whenever they need to do any work.

That way, he didn't look like the city dwellers from before, he looked like he had muddy legs.

Not only that, he and his old man opened up a vegetable patch in the extra space in the yard, and now they are growing a lot of things.

On weekdays, they not only eat it themselves, but also often give some to Jiang Qiong and the others.

Later, Zhang An found out that this guy was just trying to show off in front of Jiang Qiong.

Because Jiang Qiong was also a city dweller who had never been in the countryside. When she saw that Chen Ze, a young man, could do so much farm work, she felt different in her heart.

"How did you know we were here?"

We have just cleared out the one-acre field on the roadside, and now this field is in the corner of the nest.

You can't see this place at all from the bridge. Zhang An was curious about how Chen Ze found this place.

"I went to your house. Xiaoying said you were here, so I came over."

He is not stupid. Standing on the bridge, he can see so many villagers working hard in the fields. Zhang An's family has more fields than ordinary people, so he must be busy in the fields as well.

"Then you don't have to accompany Teacher Xiao Jiang today?"

Although Chen Ze is a straighter man than Zhang An imagined, what is unexpected is that not long ago, he got the little teacher Jiang without showing off.

Later, Zhang An found out that during the heavy rainstorm, this guy braved the rain every day to deliver supplies to Jiang Qiong and the others.

Because Jiang Qiong and the others had just rented a house in the village for a short time and did not have any reserves of daily necessities.

Especially during the days when the power was out, it was even more difficult.

Chen Ze thought of this immediately and braved the rain to send a copy of everything he had at home.

Anyway, give whatever you need, and give whatever you don’t need.

Just like that, after a few days, the little teacher Jiang was completely moved.

Then under the coaxing of Chen Lili and the other three, they were brought together by chance.

Later, Zhang An asked Chen Ze to thank God. If it hadn't been for the heavy rain that lasted for so long, and Chen Ze's dull temper, the two of them would have had to run a hundred thousand miles without breaking the paper. .

When Mr. Chen found out, he was also filled with joy. They were all in the same village. He had met Jiang Qiong many times and had a good impression of this female doll.

Although their family is considered a wealthy family, they have no requirements for Chen Ze and his family to be well-matched in their personal problems, as long as the children are satisfied.

This can be seen from the fact that Chen Ze's brother took Su Ying's sister in the past.

"No, she is also at your house now. She is discussing teaching issues with Xiaoying and some training matters that will take place in the next few days."

Chen Ze said to Zhang An while carrying the weeds that Wang Fang had just chopped out of the field.

In the past, whenever Jiang Qiong was mentioned in front of Chen Ze, this guy would blush and become very shy.

Not anymore, this guy seems to have evolved and is able to handle this kind of thing.

"Oh? They trained so quickly this year?"

Zhang An remembered that last year, the school organized pre-job training before Su Ying and the others started school.

Because last year there was also a group of new teachers who had just graduated from school like Jiang Qiong and others, and Su Ying was the one who came to join them.

I just didn't expect that the organization would start so early this year. It seems that the problem of teacher recruitment this year has been solved.

"Yes, it starts on Monday, it seems to be the day after tomorrow."

Chen Ze is now just like Zhang An. After staying in the village for a long time, he has become timeless in the mountains and does not know the day of the week.

(End of this chapter)