Easy to farm

Chapter 46

The weather is getting warmer and warmer, and the whole Nanhe Village has become busy. The men who were looking for work outside have also returned home one after another, and started to tidy up the paddy fields and prepare for farming.

The Sheng Dynasty was different from Pei Xiangxiang’s previous dynasties. Rice was only grown for one season here. When Pei Xiangxiang first found out about this, she was quite surprised. You must know that in modern times, the paddy fields planted by her family are all grown for two seasons. The utilization rate of the land is also the highest, and a lot of rice is harvested every year.

Pei Xiangxiang also asked Pei Yongping later why he didn't grow rice for one season. When Pei Yongping heard Pei Xiangxiang's words, he couldn't help smiling, thinking that he was a child and didn't understand these things, so he told her that the rice was planted early, but it would It was damaged by frost, so the seeds were planted only when the weather was warmer, and the seedlings were not transplanted until June.

When Pei Xiangxiang was young, she often heard the old people in her family talk about the scene of farming in the past, which is similar to the prosperous dynasty she lives in now. At the beginning, she also planted single-crop rice. She was worried that the seedlings would freeze if they were planted too early. With the advancement of science and technology, more and more land is used in rural areas, with two crops a year and three crops a year. On the contrary, less rice is planted in one crop.

The climate here is similar to the place in Pei Xiangxiang's impression, but when she thinks about the situation here, she can also understand that farming in ancient times was all done manually, without the help of machinery, and many things were wasted a lot of effort.

Let’s talk about plowing. If you use cattle, you can plow one or two acres of land at most a day, but you have to get up early and catch up late. If you use a cultivator in modern times, let alone one or two acres, it is one or two hundred acres. That is, it takes a little over a day, and the difference is huge.

Now it is April, and it is going to May. Everyone is busy. The ditches need to be widened and deepened.

Pei Xiangxiang's family only had two acres of land, and the land was not very fertile. After Pei Yongping and the Yang family got married and lived alone, Pei Zhenglian generously gave Pei Yongping two acres of paddy fields.

When Pei Yongping first got married, he still wanted to earn more money and then buy a few acres of land. Even if he couldn't grow it himself, he could rent it out to others and collect the rent himself. But the idea is good, but the reality is cruel. When Yang was pregnant and gave birth to Pei Xiangxiang, she had a difficult labor and suffered many problems. Pei Yongping didn't talk about saving money, but instead lent money to Yang's medical treatment and recuperation.

Poor people have nothing to prevent people from getting sick. This is completely universal whether it is modern or ancient, and it is even worse in ancient times. Medical technology is too backward. If you don’t pay attention, a typhoid fever may kill a person.

Pei Xiangxiang's family is short of labor, but Pei Zhenglian's account has a lot of labor. The three brothers Pei Xingcai, Pei Xingliang, and Pei Xingjia's two sons, Pei Zhihua, 14 years old, and Pei Zhiwen, 11 years old, can also go to the fields to help with the work. As for Pei Zhiyong, Although he is only seven years old, he can also go to the fields with adults to plant rice seedlings.

When the farming season is busy, the village schools are closed, and the teachers and students also go home and start doing farm work.

When farming in previous years, Pei Zhenglian would discuss it with Pei Yongping. The two families helped each other and planted the land in partnership, and this year was no exception.

Pei Zhenglian's account has a lot of people, actually four households, so there is a lot of land. The paddy fields, good or bad, add up to more than 30 mu. This is not a big family in Nanhe Village, but it is not a small one either.

Because Pei Zhenglian's field is now planted with some rapeseed, the rapeseed must be harvested first, and then the land will be plowed to plant rice. Therefore, before dawn, Pei Xing's family has already called the door outside Pei Xiangxiang's house, calling Pei Yongping to get up for dinner and then go to work.

When the two families were doing farm work together, they ate together. Now they were working for Pei Zhenglian, and Yang and Pei Xiangxiang also went to eat. Although they didn't have to follow Zhu and Lin to harvest rapeseed, they had to follow Zhu and Lin. Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Jiang cook such a big family meal, and then when the rapeseed is collected from the field and picked up in the yard, they have to spread the rapeseed evenly with a wooden rake.

Hearing Pei Xing's family calling for the door, Pei Yongping and Yang quickly got up. Pei Xiangxiang, who was sleeping next to them, didn't sleep very deeply, and when he heard the movement outside, Pangpang also woke up and let out a "woo hoo" on the bed Although Pei Xiangxiang really wanted to sleep until he woke up naturally, but considering that she had to go to work in the main room today, she had to get up, otherwise Zhu's nagging would be unavoidable.

After getting dressed and washing up, the main room of the Pei family has already set up meals. As usual, there are two tables for men and women. Except for Pei Xing, the men of the Pei family have not returned from a long trip to do business. Pei Zhiheng is not feeling well and is lying on the bed. And the women, except Pei Xiulan and Pei Xiufen who were already married, were all there, and it was barely a family reunion.

While sitting at the dining table eating, Pei Xiangxiang looked at other people from time to time. This was the first time she ate with the Pei family after time travelling. If she ignored Pei Yuxue and gave her a glance from time to time, Pei Xiangxiang felt that the meal was delicious. , there are so many people, and more importantly, because of the farm work, the breakfast is very rich, not only fish but also meat, which makes the carnivorous Pei Xiangxiang very satisfied.

During the meal, the room was very quiet, which surprised Pei Xiangxiang, but she was also not used to it. She likes the family to chat while eating to deepen their relationship.

The advantage of everyone not talking is that eating is also very fast, and everyone eats with peace of mind, so it didn't take long to finish the meal.

After Pei Zhenglian put down the bowls and chopsticks, he began to speak, arranging the day's labor tasks. As a typical farmer, Pei Yongping was naturally assigned to the hardest job by Pei Zhenglian, picking the rape stalks back.

Pei Xingjia and Pei Xingliang have been studying all the time, and their strength is not as strong as that of Pei Yongping. Pei Zhenglian ordered them to be responsible for cutting rapeseed, while Pei Zhihua, Pei Zhiwen and Pei Zhiyong were younger, so they went to the field to help tie the cut rapeseed and put them in baskets. Waiting for Pei Yongping to pick it up and go home, as for Pei Zhenglian himself, he took a hoe to the field to clean up the ditches.

Pei Zhenglian's land has a total of six or seven acres of rapeseed, and the project will take more than two days to complete. At the beginning, Pei Xiangxiang was very worried about Pei Yongping. It would be so tiring to pick so many rapeseed stalks by himself.

But later I heard from Pei Zhenglian that until tomorrow, the two sons-in-law of the Pei family will come to help, and they will share the work of picking rape stalks, so Pei Xiangxiang is relieved, although it is more than 100 catties for Pei Yongping The burden is not too tiring, but it's too much, Pei Xiangxiang is still worried that his cheap father will be tired.

After everyone had finished eating, Pei Zhenglian and his children and grandchildren started to go out, while Mrs. Zhu ordered the daughters-in-law to clean up the dishes on the table, and then fetched water to make tea.

Because Pei Yuxue, Pei Xiangxiang, and Pei Sijing are about the same age, Mrs. Zhu arranged for the three of them to do the same work. When the tea was ready, the three sisters were responsible for delivering the tea to the field. As for the eldest sister Pei Yufang, she was married soon. , the work at home is not for her to do, she stays in the room and continues to embroider her wedding dress.

Mrs. Yang knew that Pei Yuxue and Pei Xiangxiang were not getting along, and she was afraid that something would happen during the busy farming season, so she secretly told Pei Xiangxiang to try not to fight with Pei Yuxue as much as possible, and let her do what she could. Pei Xiangxiang agreed verbally, But Pei Xiangxiang knows very well in his heart that sometimes, it's not because you let the other party go, the other party will not provoke you. It turns out that Pei Xiangxiang was right.

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