Rebirth in 1984, starting from beekeeping in the mountains

Chapter 52 Rent out the land?
After leaving Yang Maolin's house, Fang Hongan jogged all the way and stopped only when he reached the main road at the entrance of the village.

Next, he planned to go and check out their two acres of land.

Now, it is time to plant the mid-season rice. Fang Hongan remembered that his family's two acres of land had been plowed and watered.

According to the plan in the previous life, I was originally planning to plant rice seedlings in these few days.

However, after I was reborn, I was busy with honey matters, so I put it on hold.

Last night, Lan Wenxiu also asked Fang Hongan about his next plan for digging honey.

What she meant was, if Fang Hongan and the others weren't so anxious to dig honey.

Just find a day to plant the seedlings.

With Fang Hongan and her, and if we ask Wang Tong to help for a day, the three of them should be able to finish it in one day.

According to Fang Hongan, he was not going to do the work of planting rice in the fields himself.

His main energy now is focused on digging honey and raising bees. If he also farms and cultivates the soil, he is afraid he will be too busy to handle it.

Not to mention, my wife is pregnant.

If the planting really starts, given Lan Wenxiu's personality, she will definitely sneak over to help when he is busy.

Therefore, when Lan Wenxiu mentioned the rice planting, it was just a reminder to Fang Hongan that he should rent out the land to others as soon as possible while the mid-season rice planting season was approaching.

Fang Hongan told Lan Wenxiu about this idea last night.

After listening to Fang Hongan's reasons, Lan Wenxiu nodded in agreement.

After reaching a consensus, the matter was preliminarily settled.

However, this land cannot be rented out casually.

You need to think carefully about who you are renting to and how you are renting it.

The couple discussed for a long time in bed, but could not think of a good rental partner.

Finally, Fang Hongan decided to go to the fields and take a look today.

At the very least, you have to be familiar with the basic situation of your two acres of land, and also take a look at who is cultivating the surrounding fields so that you can choose a suitable land rental partner.

Fang Hongan remembered it roughly.

Their family has a total of two acres and two fen of land, which are distributed in two places.

The best one among them is undoubtedly the one acre of land in Niujiao Bay, which is a one-acre second-class land.

The other place is on the Niubei slope above Niujiao Bay. It consists of two terraces separated by an upper and lower area. One is seven fen in size and the other is five fen in size, totaling one acre and two fen.

Niubeipo is located at a high altitude and has difficulty in getting water. The soil is sticky yellow mud with poor fertility. It was reclaimed by the team during the era of the collective when the enthusiasm for land reclamation was high.

The grade of the field is the last level, the fifth grade field.

The grades of fields are different, and the amount of grain harvested when rented out to others is also different.

Following his memory, Fang Hongan took the lead and walked towards Niujiao Bay.

Outside the village, you can see a busy scene between the fields on both sides of the road. Most people are transplanting rice seedlings. They work in families, old and young, male and female, holding seedlings in their hands, standing with their legs crossed and their bodies lowered, transplanting and moving backwards in a certain rhythm.

Young children gathered in groups of three or five on the ridges beside the fields, playing in the mud or turning over the grass, stones and soil on the ridges, looking for insects there.

The busy farming life and the fun are intertwined together, with the lush green mountains in the distance as the background, creating a beautiful picture that is unique to the mountains of this era.

Fang Hongan took a deep breath and felt that everything in front of him was so vivid and beautiful.

Unconsciously, my pace slowed down and I walked for about ten minutes.

As they were about to reach Niujiao Bay, "Hongan!" a passionate and excited voice suddenly rang out.

Fang Hongan looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a young man with rolled-up trouser legs and a straw hat in the paddy field in front of him, raising his hand and waving excitedly at him.

Looking at that warm and familiar face, Fang Hongan couldn't help but blurt out in surprise: "Taozi! When did you come back?"

Fang Hongan's surprise was justified.

The young man in front of him, who was about the same age as him, was named Fang Chengtao and was one of Fang Hongan’s best playmates since childhood.

The two were born in the same year, and Fang Chengtao is only about two months older than Fang Hongan.

Because they have similar personalities, they often play together.

The reason why Fang Hongan and Lan Wenxiu met was because Fang Chengtao's third aunt introduced him to a girl. Fang Chengtao felt a little uneasy and asked Fang Hongan to accompany him to the blind date.

The result was very dramatic. Fang Chengtao and his blind date didn't like each other.

However, Fang Hongan and Lan Wenxiu finally got together because of this blind date.

It was also after that blind date that Fang Chengtao suffered some setbacks. In addition, a distant cousin of his in the city opened a blacksmith shop and happened to need an apprentice.

Fang Chengtao also wanted to go out and learn a skill. A few months ago, Fang Chengtao came home to say goodbye to Fang Hongan. He went to the city that day and became an apprentice with his relatives.

According to Fang Hongan's memory from his previous life, he was gone for quite a few years.

They lost contact.

Later, in 2007 or 2008, the two met by chance in Xingcheng, a city quite unfamiliar to each other.

At that time, the two people, whose faces were full of vicissitudes and had entered middle age, were in a small restaurant on the street. With two plates of small dishes, they talked to each other about the failures and wasted time in life on that cold winter night, and drank in a daze until late at night.

Since then, the two have not seen each other again for more than ten years.

Following this trajectory, Fang Chengtao should be working as a blacksmith in the city at this time. How could he appear in Shiwan Village at this time?

"I got home last night! You didn't expect that!"

Fang Chengtao threw down the seedlings in his hand and walked quickly over through the mud while speaking.

"What's the matter? You don't want to forge iron anymore?"

Seeing that Fang Chengtao was excited, but there was a gloomy look between his brows, he couldn't help but ask.

Based on his understanding of Fang Chengtao, if he came back for a short time to help, it shouldn't be like this.

Sure enough, when Fang Hongan asked this, Fang Chengtao curled his lips and said, "I'm not going!"

As he spoke, he had already stepped out of the field onto the ridge, and he swiped his feet on the water surface several times to wash off the mud on his feet. As he walked towards Fang Hongan, he lowered his voice and said, "Something happened to my dad three days ago. He broke his leg! It just so happened that my cousin had a nephew who wanted to learn blacksmithing. They were closer to each other than me, so my cousin disliked me a little. It was pointless to stay here any longer, so I just came back!"

As soon as he said this, Fang Hongan immediately remembered it.

In their previous life, Fang Chengtao mentioned this incident when the two were drinking in Xingcheng and lamenting about their failed lives.

This incident was also a turning point in his life.

But according to what Fang Chengtao said at that time, he felt ashamed and lost after leaving the blacksmith shop, so he did not return to Shiwan Village!

Why did you come back in this life?

And... the incident with his father breaking his leg...

In my previous life, it seems... I have never heard of it?

(End of this chapter)