Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 42

The whole month of March was busy with farming. After planting crops and vegetables, Lao Qin's family had been busy for ten days, and in the blink of an eye, when it came to Guyu, almost all the cotton and peanuts were planted.Although it is not my own field, if I plant it, I will have hope and harvest fruits. Maybe this year's harvest will be good, and after paying the rent, I can save more.

After planting the cotton field, Qin Dafu packed up all the tools, looked in the cloth pocket again, and said to Old Qin Tou who was sitting at the door smoking a pipe: "Father, there are still some cotton seeds left."

The cotton is the seeds left by my own family, so it is much better than renting it. Even if the soaked seeds grow well, they will go bad in a few days.I am reluctant to throw it away, but there is no land to grow again.

Beans are planted on the wall and in front of the house, and all the fields that can be planted are fully planted, and no inch of land will be wasted.

Xiuyao heard it, and said with a smile: "Father, can we plant it in the wheat field? I see that the ridges in our wheat field are quite big, so it's not a problem to plant some cotton."

She was a little surprised, since grandpa knew about crop rotation and stubble changing, why didn't he know about interplanting wheat and cotton?This season is just right.And the ridges in the wheat field are really too big, wasting space.

Xiuyao also thinks too much about old Qintou. There are farming habits from different places here, and the ancestors have followed it for generations, so it is not so easy to promote new methods.

Of course, he knows the habit of planting wheat instead of cotton in bean stubble land and not planting beans in bean stubble land. Cotton has not been planted here for a long time, so there are some things that Old Qin doesn’t know .Or maybe people from other places know about it, but it has not spread here.

Qin Dafu's eyes lit up when he heard it, "Father, I'm blind for nothing, let's try."

Qin Sanshun heard it over there and said: "Can it work? It's time to cut the wheat. If you accidentally cut the cotton, it will be troublesome. And after harvesting the wheat, we have to burn the stubble. Otherwise, we don't need to grow millet or anything else." Good seed."

When Xiuyao heard this, she hurriedly said: "You can't burn the wheat field. If you burn the ground, it will harden. It's not good. A little bit of stubble won't delay the growth of the millet, and the millet can't be covered too thickly, otherwise it won't come out evenly." Seedlings."

Qin Sanshun looked at her and laughed, "What do you know, little girl?"

Xiuyao hurriedly explained: "I heard from my grandfather that my grandfather has several brothers, and they are all good farmers."

Old Qin glanced at her, "Your grandfather really said that?"

Xiuyao nodded her head vigorously, "Yes," she was thinking about the day when she would have to have some air with her grandpa, not to mention revealing herself, and how to tell her grandpa so as not to make him suspicious, her little mind was spinning very fast.

Old Qin nodded, and said: "Then plant it in the wheat field. Our big ridge is wide. I think we can plant cotton on the big ridge every five or six small ridges. Our ridge is big, and we can grow cotton in the middle of the big ridge." It doesn't hurt to rake the ground or anything."

Qin Dafu hummed, and put all the cotton seeds back together, and he could not use livestock to gather the seeds in the wheat field, but had to use a big picket to dig holes, pile them up, and pack them.

Because the ground is still wet, there is no need to water it. One is digging the hole in front, the other is planting, and the other is covering it. Only two groups of people are required to go, and the rest are arranged to mow grass and collect firewood.Taoyuan Town is located in a plain and semi-hilly area, and there are several mountains around it, but they are all tens of miles away from other villages, and it is not realistic to collect firewood every day.But there are also woods nearby, everyone goes there to collect firewood and hug the leaves of the trees and so on, and come back to light the fire.

Qin Yang Xiuli followed Xiuyao like a little tail, and Xiuyao took care of it, so they insisted on planting some. Xiuyao was afraid that they would waste it, so she told them to put a maximum of three seeds in a pile, and four if there were broken buds.

After working for a while, Qin Yang coquettishly said to the elder brother who was digging the hole: "Brother, I want to ride a horse."

The so-called horse riding means that he rides on the head of a big hoe and asks Qin Ye to drag him, but this is work, Qin Ye asks him to wait, Qin Yang will not do it, "Sister, I want to ride a horse."

Xiuyao smiled at Qin Ye: "Brother, let him hold you down, and you will not be tired if you use the big hoe as a plow."

When Qin Ye thought about it, it was a good idea. The wheat ridge was loose and effortless, so Qin Yang was also happy and shouted joyfully, "Hey, oh, oh, drive!"

Soon, a cotton ditch was ready, Xiuyao planted it by herself and buried it with her feet, and the efficiency was faster than before.

Qin Ye shouted to Qin Dafu on the other side: "Father, let Xiuli hold you down, you are like me, you are brisk."

Seeing this, Qin Dafu also smiled and said to try. Xiuli was already envious of Qin Yang, and immediately ran over. Xiuyao shouted: "Be careful of the wheat seedlings, don't step on the wheat."

Qin Dafu smiled and said: "At this time, the wheat is not afraid of stepping on it, it's fine, it will be all right after a few days."

Using Xiuyao's trick, the three groups of people lit up the remaining cotton seeds in a short time.

Qin Dafu still felt that he was not satisfied, and said to Old Qin: "Father, I really found that the wheat field is empty and a waste of space. It would be great if there was something to grow."

Xiuyao made a tentative tone and said: "If there are beans, mung beans, peas, broad beans, peanuts and so on, it will be fine."

It is not too late to plant melons and beans during the rainy season.

Qin Dafu looked at Old Qintou, "Father, anyway, the seeds won't be used much, and there is still a lot of empty space in the wheat fields. Let's scatter them here and there, as long as we harvest them, we will make money."

With his head behind his back, Old Qin turned his cigarette pipe and pot, "Fat is also a problem."

Xiuyao said: "Grandpa, in addition to the fat from the pigsty, our family can also make fat. Doesn't everything we throw into the pigsty become fat? Then let's throw more."

She found that the local people like composting, but there are few rettings, but southerners like composting, and there are composting ponds in every field, so it shouldn't be a problem for me to say that composting pigsty.

When she reminded her like this, Old Qintou really felt good, and sighed for a moment: "If our family has livestock, at least we can save some fertilizer. People on the side of the Daqing River can also dig river mud for fertilizer."

There is little water and no boats here, so no one digs the river mud as fertilizer. In fact, the mud at the bottom of the river is also fine, but it can't be dug when there is a lot of water, and it can only be done when it bottoms out.

Xiuyao said: "Grandpa, after our family harvests the wheat, the stubble won't burn well. Why don't we dig a hole in the ground, pile the stubble in, add water and manure to retting it."

Qin Ye said with a smile: "Grandpa, this is a good way. Don't dig up the stubble and go home. It doesn't matter if you burn it."

When the family was burning waste before, Mrs. Zhang always said that the burning was useless, so she asked the family to dig the stubble and burn it, so that it would turn into ashes, and she could still take it to the house for cooking. She thought it was a good deal.

Old Qintou agreed to the proposal.

In the next few days, the Qin family interplanted peanuts and bean crops in the wheat field. At that time, because they dug the pits and planted them, there was basically no waste. I also want to add soybeans.

Xiuyao persuaded him, "Grandpa, if you want to grow beans in the sorghum field, you have to make it wider, otherwise the sorghum will rise, and the beans won't be able to get any sunlight."

Old Qintou thought about it too, and praised Xiuyao for being smart and willing to use her brain, making Xiumei very angry, and secretly scolded Xiujuan Xiuting a few times for the little fool.

After finishing all this, Lao Qintou leveled the remaining bit of land and wanted to use it as a vegetable garden.

If we grow vegetables, we will have vegetables to eat in summer and autumn. Otherwise, no one can bear to eat only pickled vegetables all year round. Anyway, in such a small area, we can’t harvest a few liters of grain, so it’s better to just use it to grow vegetables.

Xiuyao saw that this place was a little far from the village, and if she grew vegetables, she would be stolen by someone, so she expressed her doubts to Old Qintou.

Old Qintou wiped his sweat with a towel: "I'm also worried, if someone will steal here, but there is no other place. Our place is suitable, but we have to save the field to dry the wheat, Can't grow vegetables."

Qin Ye, who was looking at the land, said: "Grandpa, we have land on the side of the field, but there is still wheat, and we don't rush to grow vegetables after harvesting the wheat."

Xiuyao was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Hurry up, grandpa, brother, let's set aside a wheat field, plant the vegetables that should be planted, and then we will use the wheat as a vegetable garden."

The wheat field is on the sidelines, and it will be close to home when the time comes, and you can see it when you come in and out of the field, and it will not be so easy for others to steal it.

Old Qintou thought it was good, and looked at Xiuyao subconsciously, "Then what are we doing with this land?"

Xiuyao looked at it, and found that the place wasn't very big, so she said, "Grandpa, why don't we dig a pit for fertilizing, we have to fertilize the wheat and plant millet, pull the fertilizer from the circle over, add grass Ah, the leaves of the tree are soaking."

The old Qintou smiled and said to Qin Ye: "Daye, you see such a simple thing, we look at it every day, but we can't think of it, Yaoyao is still careful."

Qin Ye smiled and said, "Yes."

Xiuyao immediately explained, "I always listened to my grandfather's nagging, and then I thought about it after watching too much."

Old Qintou sighed: "Sometimes I watch it every day and don't think about it."

In the evening, waiting for dinner, Xiuyao and Lao Qintou held a fire stick in the yard to plan the composition of the vegetable garden, "Grandpa, let's plant a row of eggplants on this one, green onions on this one, and green onions on this one." Lentils, cucumbers in one row, rapeseed in there..."

In order to achieve better results, Xiuyao also carefully thought up several intercropping schemes, given that there are far fewer vegetable varieties here than in modern times, and there are fewer varieties to choose from in the north than in the south.

For example, if you plant green vegetables now, you can eat them in more than 20 days. When you have eaten enough, you can plant summer vegetables such as eggplants and summer onions. In autumn, you can grow radishes, cabbage, and spicy vegetables. Go home, cellar for cellar, pickle for pickle.

There are many vegetables grown in spring, including green vegetables, leeks, cucumbers, garlic, lentils, green onions, ginger, loofah, carrots, gourds, gourds, pumpkins, winter melons, lettuce, chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, bitter gourd, etc., enough to choose from.

Xiuyao was so hot-headed for a moment that she forgot to restrain herself. Old Qin's eyes sparkled and his ears pierced when he heard it, "Yaoyao, we can't plant so much on our land, so it's worthwhile to plant something."

Xiuyao scratched her head, and explained embarrassingly: "Grandpa, I'm so greedy, I just wanted to plant a vegetable garden."

She thought for a while and then said, "Grandpa, at least eight or nine vegetable beds can be made in our vegetable field. Anyway, let's buy some seedlings from others. If we plant them all, we won't be able to eat them all in one summer and autumn. Let’s dry the ones that are not finished. Like dried eggplants, dried beans, dried gray strips, you can also make garlic eggplants for pickling, radishes can be buried and pickled, grandpa, there are not many.”

The second aunt and the third aunt have been eavesdropping while washing clothes, and couldn't help but sneer: "How can you eat it after it's dried in the sun? It's like feeding pigs."

Her voice was not loud, but Xiuyao still heard it, and she was not as knowledgeable as her.

Sun-dried vegetables are obviously available everywhere, how could the old Qin family not know about them?
Old Qin gently knocked on the pipe pot, this is his habit of thinking, he likes to play with his pipe pot, he looked at the small rectangular grids drawn by Xiuyao on the ground and said: "Zhong, let's do this manage."

After planting so much land and harvesting so much grain, the result is that I can’t even eat enough. There is no food, no vegetables, no oil and water. This is really not a man’s life.

Don't pay rent for this vegetable, it's all yours if you collect it, why don't you plant it, plant it!
He was mobilized by Xiuyao, and discussed how to divide the vegetable field and how to plant it with enthusiasm that he had never had before, without treating Xiuyao as a child at all.

And the family members didn't think it was too strange. One kind accepted Xiuyao's rhetoric--everyday, they were influenced by what they heard and saw, and they said it directly when they saw it, but they didn't pay attention to it. The other kind was the second and third aunts who felt that Xiuyao He Li became smart once and for all, he is no longer the fool he used to be.But they naturally don't think that monster possession is so outrageous, they just think that there is no fool in Dafang's family, they are all cunning and cunning, one is more shrewd than the other.

The boss Xiuqin looked at the gentle and soft smile and seemed to be easy to talk, but in fact she was full of heart, never said a word, and never did a single thing wrong.

The second child, Xiuxian, looked straight and careless, but in fact, who knows if she was pretending to be stupid and talking to irritate people on purpose, and speaking with a sincere eye is even more annoying.

The third child is beautiful, that is the essence of humanity.

The fourth eldest, Xiuyao, who was originally stupid, suddenly became enlightened when she was seven years old, and she also became a ghost.

Of the three boys, the eldest, Qin Ye, was simple and honest, he laughed with everyone, never blushed, and never underestimated their second and third siblings, and he tried his best to do what their two aunts asked him to do.However, who knows if it's a foolish face and a treacherous heart.The third aunt kept saying that he was not as honest and honest as he appeared on the surface, and that he was full of bad habits, like the big house.

Needless to say, the second child, Qin Xian, is a profit-seeking brat who is smarter than anyone else.

The third child, Qin Yang, relied on his mother's preference and acted like a little emperor at home. Do you really think of him as the young master of the landlord's family?
(End of this chapter)