happy apocalypse

Chapter 193 Another Spring Comes
Anyway, life goes on.

Taking advantage of the few days before the recovery, Jiang Zhi told everyone about diesel oil and renting tractors through the loudspeaker of the village committee.

This time, renting a tractor is free, as long as you pay for the diesel oil, and you don’t need rice, you just need rice, so after all the calculations, our family is still losing money, and we have replaced all the old rice with new rice.

Jiang Zhi also encouraged everyone in the loudspeaker. When there is no tractor in his home, he will turn over more land by hand. This can save some food, and we can also save some diesel. I don’t know when these resources will be available in the future. If you use it, it’s better to save it.

While everyone was still discussing how many acres of land they rented a tractor to turn over, spring was approaching.At the end of April again, in one night, the temperature of minus 40 degrees rose to about 0 degrees. Such a huge temperature difference melted all the snow outside, and the road was full of mud. This also gave a message to the villagers of Tashan Village , spring is coming.

From the second day on, although the frozen soil in the field had not completely melted, many villagers had already gone to dig the field with hoes and shovels.

Our family waited until the third day. The outside temperature was about 6 or 7 degrees in the morning and evening. At noon, when the sun was closest, it was more than 20 degrees. We were all mentally prepared for this kind of weather. As soon as the jacket was taken off, he continued to work in half sleeves.

The younger uncle and elder brother-in-law are in charge of driving two tractors. (The tractor of Lv Dongliang’s family in the village was not sold, and Jiang Zhihua took it to the village committee as the common property of the village.) The second brother-in-law is responsible for arranging time for everyone. It's time to go to the ground to dig the ground.

The young people in our family still have a Juli Talisman per person, to maximize labor efficiency and save diesel as much as possible. Other families have the same idea as ours. The whole family is dispatched, and they can turn as much as they can. Only use a tractor.

It took 3 days for the paddy fields in the whole village to be thoroughly plowed, and then irrigated. On May 5rd, the whole village began to plant rice seedlings. This time, no one helped our family, and everyone was busy working on their own land. We couldn't come, so we went to work on our own, men and women, young and old, and for better or worse it took two days to get it all done.

Finally finished the most important task of the year, but still can't rest, there are still more than 20 acres of dry land to be cultivated, or last year's method, after the rice in the shed was removed, Jiang Dad and Qu Dad immediately Sweet potato seedlings were bred in the greenhouse.

After digging the land, I started to plant corn, soybeans, red beans and other crops. This year, Qu Ma also proposed to plant some beets, that is, beet lumps. When those things grow out, the beet lumps below can be boiled sugar, and the beet tassels on top can be Dried vegetables are dried and eaten in winter. The taste is delicious, slightly sweet, and it is a bit delicate to bite. It is delicious when dipped in egg sauce.

It just so happened that when Trader Qiao came to pull sweet potatoes and cabbage a few days ago, he told us to let us grow more vegetables that can be dehydrated. In that case, it will be easier for him to purchase and transport.

Other families in the village basically use my family as the benchmark now. They will grow whatever we grow in our land, and they will grow a lot of beets after watching us grow beets, regardless of what they can be used for in the future, whether they like it or not.

During the process of farming, Jiang Zhi also found time to find a few young men to repair the pits dug out during the digging in the village, and laid a layer of wooden boards against one wall. The place where the pigs will rest in the future, so another layer of straw was laid on the wooden boards, and a shed was built with bamboo on the wooden boards, and a thick layer of straw was also covered.

A simple pigsty would be fine. Jiang Zhi and I took the time to go out with a tractor and pulled back 30 little pigs.Then I found two hard-working young wives in the village, who came to the pig farm every morning, noon and night to cook pig food, and cleaned once a day.Of course, it’s not for nothing. It’s agreed that after the pigs are slaughtered in winter, they will be given a whole pig for each family and 100 catties of rice for the family.

Then came the construction of the wall and the digging of the ditch.This is a big project, and it cannot be completed by one or two people, so after planting the land at home, the gentlemen in the village left all the work in the field to the women in the family, and then began to work on the unified construction of the village.

Jiang Zhi didn't work on his own, and assigned all these tasks to the idle old men in the village.The old Zhangtou is in charge of contacting the old Yantou who can burn bricks in the village, and asks the old Yantou to come out of the mountain.Zhang Fanyu led the people to dig the foundations of the water storage ditch and the wall around the village, and transport the excavated soil to the brick kiln to burn it into bricks.

Of course, the same rice breeds a variety of people, and not everyone supports the project proposed by Jiang Zhi, thinking that what Jiang Zhi is doing is useless.If someone really wants to snatch it, even if you build a bunker, he can still try to get in, so why waste that effort?
But this matter is for the benevolent to see the benevolent and the wise to see the wisdom. Jiang Zhi does not force those who do not want to participate in the construction, but the ugly words come to the fore. If they do not participate in the overall construction, they will not have all the benefits of the village this year. In the fence (it is impossible that the fence will be diverted because several families disagree, so in the end, all the villagers must be surrounded.), but not protected by everyone. If there is a day when there is danger, it is No one will lend a helping hand to them.

I listened to Jiang Zhi's words and sniffed. These words are meant to scare people. Since the fence is built, it must be to wipe out the enemy in the bud when someone climbs the wall. How can they let them in? .So the few of them are obviously doing nothing, and they still enjoy the protection of the wall.

Jiang Zhi patted my forehead helplessly, and said, "Then tell me what to do, I can still force them to do coolies."

I was a little annoyed and said: "Then let them sit back and enjoy their success."

Seeing my angry appearance, Jiang Zhi patted my head comfortingly and said, "Don't be angry, it's easy to get old when you are angry. It's not worth it for those who don't know what to do. Besides, I have given it to my second brother-in-law to think about it." There is a way, he used to be a leader in the unit, so he should know how to deal with those thorns."

I put my big hands on my head and said, "Oh, you are quite good at using people."

"It's okay, isn't this led by your leader?"

Jiang Zhi and I joked a few words, and then we took this matter over.

In fact, those misfits are old rivals of our family. One is Old Li Tou’s family, the other is Li Sanye’s family, and the other is Li Sanye’s nephew’s family. It's very quiet, so when raising seedlings, their rice seedlings are also distributed uniformly by the village, but these families are too dishonest. The rice in this field has just been planted, and they came up with a moth.

Later, the second brother-in-law and Jiang Zhi said that the best way to deal with these thorny people is to stay cold. The more you talk to him and do his work, the more energetic he will be, thinking that the world can't do without him.Conversely, if you ignore him, treat him as if he doesn't exist, treat him like shit, he will feel uncomfortable and frightened, and eventually he will take the initiative to move closer to the organization.

We adopted this suggestion, and after telling those families about the consequences if they did not participate in the construction, we ignored them. There are so many people in the village, and those few people are not bad.

Later, the old Zhangtou came to tell Jiang Zhi that the old Yantou who could burn bricks in the village agreed to go out of the mountain, but he hadn't done it for a long time, so he didn't dare to start a stove by himself, and he didn't know how to build a brick kiln. Knowing the plan of the village, they said that the traditional method of burning bricks was too slow, and it would take a few months to burn the bricks for the construction of the village, and it would be too laborious to make bricks by hand.

This old Yantou gave old Zhangtou another idea. It turns out that there is a brick factory in J County, called Anhong Brick Factory, which is located on the side of the provincial road leading to H Province in the south of J County.

In recent years, the villages near J County have built houses and built yards. If bricks are used, they are all bought from Anhong Brick Factory. You know, bricks are now made by machinery, which is much simpler than the bricks fired by hand in clay kilns earlier.

Jiang Zhi and I discussed it and felt that this method is feasible. If we burn enough bricks to build the wall ourselves, as the old Yantou said, it will take several months. In that case, the project may not be completed this year.Digging pits and building walls can only be done before July and after September. It is necessary to avoid the hottest period of the two months in between. That way, the construction period is only a few months, so if the bricks can be burned quickly Of course it is better to come out.

So we are going to go to the Anhong Brick Factory to see if there are any brick-burning machines left so that we can use them directly.

As soon as possible, after arranging everything at home, Jiang Zhi carried me on a bicycle, Li Cheng, Chen Ming, and Zhang Fanyu each had a bicycle, and the five of them set off for the Anhong Brick Factory.

On the road, Chen Ming rode his bicycle without stopping, and said, "Brother Jiang, do you think we might encounter robbers on this road?"

I said with some displeasure: "Chen Ming, can't you think of something good this day? Why are you just talking about this when you just came out? Are you hoping that we will encounter robbery?"

"Sister-in-law, you are really right. Before Chen Ming came, he said that he wanted to try the skills he had practiced in the past few months." Zhang Fanyu exposed Chen Ming's background with a smile.

"That's fine, if we see someone with malicious intentions on the road later, we will all point at you." I said.

"Hey, sister-in-law, you said that if someone blocks the way, you can't reach out. I have practiced fighting hard for 5 months. In our village, except for Jiang Zhi, Brother Li and Chengzi, everyone else He's not my opponent." After Chen Ming finished speaking, he didn't forget to straighten his increasingly magnanimous chest.

"Xiao Mingzi, you have to know that there are people beyond people and heaven beyond heaven, and not everything can be resolved by force." Chengzi pretended to be profound.

"Oh, don't worry, I'm here."

Talking and laughing along the way, it seems that they are about to enter the county.

(End of this chapter)