Farmer's Ruyi Manor

Chapter 6 Digging (2)
"Mom, I thought about digging a hole and putting grass on top of the hole to cover it, but it doesn't work. Pheasants can fly and are very light, so it's impossible." Xiao Ting sighed softly, Why is it so difficult to feed your own stomach?Looking at the sallow and sallow face of the cheap mother, it was hard for her to imagine what it would be like if she had a sallow and sallow face.In fact, she really hasn't looked in the mirror, or maybe it's water, isn't she just sallow now, and she can count the few thin bones all over her body.It's just that she doesn't want to admit it, subconsciously she still thinks she is as white as when she was modern.

"Then if you plant a few branches under the pit and stretch the distance between each branch, do you think it will work?"

"Mother, but that pheasant is so light, how could it fall off easily?" Xiao Ting was a little overwhelmed at the moment, and wanted to eat chicken and eggs often in the future, but it was so difficult to implement.If only modern, so many capture tools.

"By the way, I heard that the pheasant's eyesight is not very good in the morning, before it is too bright. Can we dig a hole, then insert the branches, and then spread some grass on it, come here in the morning, and put the pheasant in How about catching them in the pit? Pheasants have poor eyesight, but they are not easy to catch if they flop, so we will do this, do you think it will work?” Finally, I couldn’t think of a way, so I thought of a book I read before. Those who traveled through it said that chickens have poor eyesight, and when they wake up in the morning, they catch a bunch of balabarabas.

In fact, many things are forgotten after reading, and I can't remember clearly.I don't know if it will work, but I'll try it first.Otherwise, stop this big pie and continue painting in the future. What people fear most is hopelessness. We must give them hope and then move towards the goal.I remember my husband said, there is a plan, step by step.Thinking of my husband, my heart felt sore, my nose felt sore, and I really wanted to cry.Husband, do you know, I miss you very much, I don't know how you are doing now, I am here, in this strange world, I am not living well at all.

"Xiaohua, what's the matter with you, is there something uncomfortable, or is it hungry? Why don't we go back to eat first, and then come back and have a look." Jing Niang saw her daughter suddenly fell silent, her face was full of sadness, tears in her eyes It cannot be dropped.There was a kind of despair and resentment in the face of grievance and an inexplicable sadness.Jing Niang was a little frightened, what's wrong with this daughter, how can she show such an expression so well, this expression is not what she should have when she is only 8 years old now.

Since this daughter fell off the hillside, although she has become smarter, she always feels weird.how to say?For a child who is only 8 years old, she looks a bit too precocious now. Although it is said that children from poor families start their own families early, it is an indescribable feeling.Looking at such a daughter, Jing Niang was filled with a feeling that she couldn't describe.There is no way, the husband was forced to join the conscription, and he probably died too.

She can't help herself as a woman, there are old people on the top, and young people on the bottom.Since ancient times, the thought has been to marry and obey the husband, and when the husband dies, obey the son, and the family has to be supported.Her mother's family is far away from Chengjiakeng, more than 20 miles away, and she is also poor. There is an older brother and a younger brother in the family.There is no land, and all the crops are rented from the horse landlord. After a year, it is not enough for the family to eat, let alone subsidize her.In her husband's family, there is only one husband and one sister-in-law. The sister-in-law got married two years ago and married a hunter in the next town.At that time, there was no way, my husband was taken away, there was no labor force in the family, and I was pregnant and couldn't do many things. When my mother-in-law was young, in order to raise her husband and sister-in-law, she fell ill all over her body. My husband broke his eyes from crying when he was forced to join the army, and now his eyes are not working well.

At that time, the sister-in-law took her mother-in-law to discuss with her, married the sister-in-law, and asked for a dowry, so that she could continue to live until she gave birth.The daughter (the original owner) was 5 to 6 years old at that time, and she was a fool, a family of old and weak women and children.In desperation, I married my sister-in-law. At that time, my sister-in-law had just reached the age of Ji, and I wanted to find a good family for her to marry, but unfortunately everything was not as expected.

"Mother, it's nothing. Let's dig a hole and go back to eat quickly. We still have a lot of things to do in the afternoon. By the way, mother, is our family farming now?" Xiao Ting didn't want Jing Niang to see anything, so she moved topic.

"Not yet. My mother has finished the field a few days ago, and the millet hasn't been sown yet. I plan to plant it again in two days when the weather is warmer. It's still a bit cold."

"Mom, how many times a year do we plant rice? What month do you usually start planting?" Xiao Ting was a little curious. When she was in high school, Xiao Ting was the best in geography. There are two seasons of rice, and one season in the north. Except for Hainan, which has three seasons, it is basically the same.The ones in the south are basically finished before the Ching Ming Festival, but I am too embarrassed to ask what month it is, what year it is, and so on.These can only be discovered slowly by yourself.

"Generally, when the weather is warm in March, you can start sowing millet in the field, which can only be planted once a year. Sow millet in March, and it will not be harvested until September. After September, it will be cold, and rice cannot be planted. I can grow some other things. Our family only has one mu of paddy fields, and there is no dry land or wasteland. The food we grow in a year is not much except for the imperial court and after leaving millet seeds. There are more than 3 catties left. Not enough for a family to chew, hey..."

Xiao Ting was stunned. What kind of place is this? It takes so long to grow rice, and how much is the tax, how can there be only a little left after leaving the seeds and paying the tax.After the millet is threshed into rice, there are only a few catties left.As a typical southerner, I love to eat rice, but I am not used to it. The output of this paddy field is too low.No wonder now I can only drink wild vegetable soup every day, and I almost vomit from it. If I don't eat it, I won't starve to death, Xiao Ting will never drink it.

In addition, Mother said that the millet would be sown in a few days, and she also said that the millet would be sown in March, so wouldn't it be March now even if there is no March? What's delicious in March?Xiao Ting was a picky eater in her previous life, but she was not picky about fruits. Her mother once said, if you love food as much as you love fruits, I will feel relieved, meaning you are not picky eaters.

Xiao Ting only knows that there are loquats, cherries, and red bayberries in late spring and early summer.There are watermelons, lychees, mangoes, etc. in summer, not to mention autumn, and oranges in winter.Spring doesn't seem to be there yet.Forget it, why think so much, first solve the current problem.

"Mom, let's dig a hole first. Have you brought a knife? Let's chop some branches. How do we dig another hole?" Facing the hole, Xiao Ting was full of questions. How did she dig it before?By the way, the iron catalpa is used, how much is that.But now I don't have any jobs, what kind of digging do I use, and I don't know if there is a hoe at home, but it will take a long time to go home.

(End of this chapter)