Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 51

Xiuyao drenched in water, said to Lao Liu, "Grandpa, I discussed with you to buy land by the river, have you thought it through yet?"

Old Liu said: "We don't have the ability to buy land, but we have land by the river, but that land is not very good, it will die from drought, and it will die from waterlogging, not to mention, the main reason is that the soil is not good enough. Well, you said that the surrounding area is all black soil, but it is a piece of sandy land. It was originally planted, but later they didn’t like to plant it anymore. We took it back and didn’t charge much for growing vegetables. Sometimes it’s not enough trouble. It's still empty."

As soon as Xiuyao heard the Coke, she hurriedly pulled out all the sweet potato seedlings that could be pulled out, and took out the two sprouted sweet potatoes, and cut them into pieces with a knife. Each sprout was one piece, and there were about ten pieces. Put it in a small basket and pour water on it.

After finishing it, she pulled Lao Liutou, "Hurry up, master, let's go to that sandy field to sow sweet potatoes."

Although it's a bit late now, she doesn't expect a bumper harvest this year. It would be great if she could pick out a large basket of seeds. Next year, she will start raising sweet potatoes and raising pigs, so she can make some money first.

Old Liutou looked at her in surprise, "Girl, what kind of melon shall we plant in?"

Xiuyao nodded, got up quickly and said, "Master, let's go." Qin Yang also hurriedly followed.

The grandparents and grandchildren brought shovels and buckets, and Xiuyao asked the old man to push the cart, and put long baskets without handles made of cotton locust trees on both sides, and then filled two baskets of dung, and pushed them to the southeast side. Idle sand.

When the uncle and others saw it, they hurriedly asked what they wanted to do. They wanted to help. Old Liutou waved his hands and said, "It's none of your business. You can work on your mill. The three of us will do."

After speaking, Qin Yang was asked to sit on the middle beam of the trolley, and he raised his handle and pushed it on the road.

Along the way, willow catkins are flying and poplar flowers are fluttering, and the elm branches protruding from the side of the road are even more green, and there is a thick sycamore tree that is full of branches, and the air is filled with a faint sweet fragrance, which makes people feel good stand up.

I don't know who's peach blossom came out of the wall. Qin Yang saw it while sitting on the cart, and raised his little hand, "Flower, flower, I want flowers."

Old Liutou smiled cheerfully, "Yangyang, you can't fold flowers, you want peaches, big and fat peaches, sweet, you can eat them in summer."

Xiuyao also asked Qin Yang to be good and go pick wild flowers in the field.

When they arrived at the land, Xiuyao ran over to have a look. The land was along the river, running from east to west, and there was a whole piece of it.She looked at the soil, and it was actually good, but it was all because of the riverside, which caused water and soil erosion and began to desertify.Lao Liutou has a total of four acres of land here, but the others have not changed like this.

The grain yield here is already low, and if it is planted in such sandy land, there is insufficient fertilizer, so the yield will be even lower, and sometimes the gain is not worth the loss, and even the money for seeds and human fertilizers cannot be earned back.At first, Old Liutou wanted to grow something else, but gradually the vegetables were not very good. In addition, he devoted himself to the mill, so the land was put on hold for the time being.This place is even worse. Xiuyao really doesn't think it's suitable for the species, but there is no pressure at all for the sweet potato.

Xiuyao took a step to measure it, and the old Liutou said regretfully: "Girl, there is no need to measure, this land is more than an acre. Hey." He pointed not far away, and told Xiuyao that there is also there. Not only his family, but also other people's.

Xiuyao also felt that it was a pity that people who farmed such a piece of land would not be able to harvest anything. It was a pity to be idle, and it was really distressing to sell it and no one would want it.

Xiuyao looked at it and thought about it. Such a large piece of land can completely build a mill.

The terrain on the west side below is higher than the east side, and it is possible to divert water down, which will form a turbulent water flow, and further forward, there will be a large earth pit, which can slow down the speed of the water flow, and a relatively large water storage pool can be formed there. It slowly flows into a tributary of the Daqing River.

In addition, there are many canals built along the Daqing River to divert water from south to north.

Xiuyao knew that it looked like an ordinary canal to outsiders, but in fact there were many tricks in it that ordinary people didn't understand, so the canal was not something anyone could repair if they wanted to.Now that there is this land by the river, it is much more convenient to build a water mill, and she no longer has to think of ways to direct the water to where it is needed.

Because this land is close to the river, the river bank is below, and the water flow is turbulent, which leads to soil erosion over time.She looked around. In fact, not only this land, but also the land next to it had desertification to varying degrees, but it was not as severe as here.

Xiuyao vacated the place near the river, picked a place to the north, and asked her grandpa to help her turn the land slightly, smooth it out, and then pour manure into it and mix it well.

Seeing that this land is indeed barren enough, and that little dung is not enough, she discussed with Old Liutou: "Master, let's dig some silt by the side of the small river over there."

Those silt can be used as fertilizer.

Although Lao Liutou is curious about how this girl knows so much, thinking about people is different from person to person. Some people are born to think more than others. Xiuyao may be this kind of person. What Lao Liutou was doing was just thinking that she had seen too much and had a lively mind, so she didn't doubt anything else.

After all, the world is so big that there are all kinds of people, no matter how smart the old Liutou is, he has heard of it. Xiuyao is nothing at all, but a child of the poor who is already in charge of the family.

Lao Liutou carried a few barrels of the silt with buckets and poured it on the ground, using it as base fertilizer for ridges, and then ridged on the spot, cultivating the soil mixed with manure into sweet potato ridges.Because of the large area, she made the ridges wide, about one meter long, and then built another ridge, so that the sweet potatoes had enough room to grow.

Xiuyao took out the bundle of sweet potato seedlings that had been soaked in water, pinched one, and then slipped her little hand on the sweet potato ridge, a small pit appeared in the sweet potato ridge, and the sweet potato seedlings stayed in the pit.

Then Xiuyao asked her grandfather to carry water, and Qin Yang took the initiative to help her water, pouring half a scoop of water into one pile, because the soil was deserted, so the water permeated quickly, and when the seedlings were planted, the first few piles were also full of water. No water remained.

Xiuyao squatted down to support the sweet potato seedling with her left hand, pressed the end of the sweet potato seedling with her right hand slightly into the wet soil, and then began to wrap it, completely wrapping the end of the sweet potato seedling to the position of the leaves, and then pressed her hands slightly after wrapping , make it a little stronger, so that it will not be ventilated.

Old Liutou watched curiously, and also imitated Xiuyao's bag bag. Xiuyao dictated the main points while bagging, "Master, it's similar to bag cotton bag. In fact, old Liutou knows everything. He has never planted sweet potatoes but planted vegetable seedlings." What.

After everything was wrapped, Xiuyao took a look and found that there were about thirty piles of sweet potatoes, and then she added those pieces of sweet potatoes.

Qin Yang poured water hard, and Lao Liutou looked at it strangely, "Girl, is it so different?"

Xiuyao explained: "Grandpa, I want to try and see which method is faster, more convenient and easy to use."

If it is the mother and child of ground melons, spread sand in a warm place, bury the mother and child of sweet potatoes vertically, pay attention to keep warm and ventilated, sweet potatoes will germinate slowly, pay attention to watering every day, and when it rains in spring, it will almost The sweet potatoes can be pulled out.

The north is no better than the south, so it should not be too late. If it is too late, the production of sweet potatoes will be affected, and the taste will also vary.

After all the seedlings were ready, Xiuyao warned: "Grandpa, you have to come and watch every day, so that no one will harm you."

Old Liutou smiled and said: "Don't worry, in Yangliu Village, you dare not say anything else, no one dares to harm your grandfather's things."

He pointed to the surroundings and said: "Look, the land around here belongs to our family, that belongs to your third grandpa's house, that belongs to your seventh grandpa's house, and that piece belongs to your fifth grandpa's house." .”

Xiuyao knew that her grandfather had several brothers. Besides her own brothers, there were also cousins. They had a very good relationship and helped each other on weekdays.The dozen or so people who moved the mill that day were basically grandchildren and nephews of the same family, and they only lived nearby.

Hearing what grandpa said, Xiuyao didn't worry anymore.

She said to her grandpa again: "Grandpa, do we plant all our land for other grandpas or do we plant it ourselves?"

Old Liu said: "I also grow it myself. When the farming is busy, we will partner up and have a few people from the family. This way, the work of the mill will not be delayed, and the carpentry work of your third grandfather's house will not be delayed."

Xiuyao thinks this is very good, this is the big family in the ancient countryside she yearns for, not like the old Qin family, the family is like a black-eyed chicken, and the grandfather obviously has a few brothers, I don't know why, but the relationship between the two families is weak Yes, the good ones are the homes of the great-grandfather, second-grandfather and third-grandfather.

The grandpa has passed away for many years, only the second and third grandpas are still there, but they don't work together, especially the second grandpa's house, it is said that there is an unpleasant quarrel with the nanny, but everyone is doing well.

It may be because everyone's living conditions are different, and they are afraid of uneven division of labor, or who will take advantage of whom, so they all do it alone.

Since she wanted to cultivate the land, she naturally had to use fertilizers. Xiuyao told him what she suggested to Old Qin, and specifically told her grandpa that if she asked about it in the future, she should tell her that he taught her.

Old Liutou smiled cheerfully, "You little girl, you have a lot of eyes. We really do this here. Ren Lizheng's family is like this, but their family has a big business, except We rented out the land and hired a lot of short-term laborers to work at home, so it is very convenient for people to compost. We don’t have so many manpower, so composting is troublesome, so it’s better to just pile up the compost in the circle and use it.” Composting The fertilizer is also fermented to make mature fertilizer, but the quantity cannot be increased.If it is retting, you can put grass, hay, wheat bran, etc. into it for retting, and there will be more and more fertilizer.

Ren Lizheng is the Lizheng of Yangliu Village, and now Lizheng and Jiashou are no longer appointed in turn according to the amount of family property and fields, but now they are all fixed.And now it's not like before, no one wants to be the head of Lizheng and Jia for fear of bankruptcy, but now it's a beautiful job.

At present, part of the small tax and land rent can be exempted, and the candidates are not just anyone.Not only must someone have land and rich family property, but also have a reputation. They must be jointly recommended by the three elders and appointed by the county magistrates of each county.And Jiashou Yulizheng chose to accept his fate as his assistant.

Ren Lizheng could talk to the Feng family, the largest family in the county, and had relatives who were abductees. In addition, the family property in Yangliu Village was quite rich, so he became Lizheng.

Li Zhengjia is well-informed and has contacts all over the country, so he can naturally learn a lot of new methods. In many cases, he is also willing to promote them to the villagers, but not all methods work.

The villagers have been farming for generations, and gradually formed the habits of each family. Unless it is very suitable, everyone will follow suit.The so-called different winds for five miles, and different customs for ten miles, this is the truth.But things like retting, if everyone thinks it is profitable, they will follow suit. If the family has a large population, they will also be retting.

The old Liu family now regularly cleans out the manure from the stables, then pulls it to the ground with a land rower, piles it up and lets it ferment, and when it is necessary to plant the ground and apply base fertilizer, it is directly raised in the ground with a shovel.

In order to accumulate more manure on weekdays, we also add more soil, green grass, fodder grass and some unnecessary grass clippings and wheat bran in the donkey shed and pig pen. Manure, which is better than retting, but the amount is limited.And Xiuyao's method is that in addition to this trick, she can also increase fertilizer more flexibly.

Old Liutou thought it was good, so he simply dug a hole at one end of the land, and planned to fertilize here this year. Anyway, the land of several families is near this, and it will be convenient to pull manure at that time.

Xiuyao took a look, the sun had already passed the middle of the sky, and they had been busy all morning.Looking at grandpa's enthusiasm, it seems that he can't wait to finish the work in one go. At such an old age, he doesn't know how to take it easy.

"Grandpa, it's noon, let's go to eat at home, otherwise uncle and the others should come looking for them."

Old Liutou looked at it, laughed and said, "I forgot about my work all of a sudden, let's go, let's go to eat at home, and let's dig a hole after noon."

Xiuyao hesitated and said: "Grandpa, can I let Uncle help you?" After all, I am over 60, and although I am old and strong, I can't take it lightly, if I lose my waist or something, it will be troublesome.

Old Liutou smiled and said: "No need, your grandpa and I are not old yet, I can do it, so what is this little work?"

After speaking, he called Qin Yang to pack up the house and go home, and asked Qin Yang to sit in the car.Qin Yang frowned and pinched his nose, "Master, I don't want to sit anymore, the smell of dung is too strong." When I came here, it was firm and not so obvious, but now the dung has been dumped, and the basket is empty. The taste is so big!

The grandparents and grandchildren returned home in a hurry, and the uncle was telling Liu Qi to go and see and help grandpa do some work so that they could come back early for dinner.

"Father, what on earth have you been doing all this time?" The uncle hurried forward to pick up the cart.

Old Liu said: "Didn't you see it when I went out? I loaded a cart full of dung, pushed it to the field by the river, and planted something."

The uncle was stunned for a moment, "Ah, where are you going? What can be grown there? It's been deserted for a long time, and the grass doesn't grow very well."

Old Liu said: "It's okay, President, we planted something else, you just wait and watch."

The grandparents and grandchildren ate lunch quickly, and then went out with the cart and other tools. The uncle was very curious and told Liu Sheng, "Go with your grandfather to help."

Old Liu waved his hands and said: "No, you just do your work, I can do it myself."

Liu Sheng wanted to go with him, but he insisted, so Li asked his uncles not to argue with him, and just let him do the work by himself, anyway, with such an old bone, he can count on himself.

Old Liutou pushed Xiuyao and Qin Yang with a cart, and when they passed the big elm tree, he had enough elm branches to give them money to eat.

On the road, I happened to meet Liu Hongmu carrying a hoe and holding a peach blossom branch in his hand. When he saw Lao Liutou and the others, he smiled and said hello, and then handed the peach blossom branch to Xiuyao, "Yaoyao, I'll play with you. "

Qin Yang snatched it over, "Give it to me, my sister doesn't want it."

Liu Hongmu hesitated for a moment before being snatched away, but he immediately laughed again, and said to Old Liu, "Grandpa, I'm going to see how the cotton seedlings are growing. What are you doing?"

Old Liu said, "That piece of sand is well laid out."

Liu Hongmu was surprised: "I saw it, and planted something, what is it?"

Old Liutou said casually, "The little seeds I want are called sweet potatoes."

Liu Hongmu became curious, and followed him to see it. When he got to the field, he didn't look at the seedlings. He wanted to help Lao Liutou dig a hole, but he refused to let him go, so he started to help with the work.

Xiuyao led Qin Yang to survey the terrain in the name of picking wild flowers, and memorized the figures one by one, and picked a lot of wild flowers after seeing them, so she led Qin Yang back.

When going uphill, she found that grandpa was talking to several people, and one of them was still bending over to look at her sweet potatoes. She said to Qin Yang, "Little Yang, go and see what's going on."

Qin Yang groaned, "Sister, someone stole our sweet potatoes."

Xiuyao took his little hand up the slope, "It hasn't worked out yet, so don't be afraid if someone steals it."

The two of them went up the slope and came to the field. They saw grandpa talking to an old man in a maroon silk shirt and azurite muslin trousers. On the other side a young man in a stone blue shirt was looking at her sweet potatoes.

She hurried over, and Liu Hongmu hurriedly said: "I told him not to damage it, he didn't move."

Xiuyao smiled sweetly at him, "Thank you, Brother Hongmu." Then she walked towards the sweet potato ridge, and just so happened that the man also got up to look over, Xiuyao was taken aback, she knew this man.It was the boy who came to see the mill at his grandfather's house that time. Well, another time, it seemed that when her family was planting cotton, there was a conflict between Lao Qin's family and Zhou Xiaoli and his son, and he came to help talk.Later, I heard from my sisters that he was the one who saved her. At that time, because she was in a daze, I didn't have time to thank him.

Thinking of being beaten by Mrs. Zhang that day, Xiuyao felt a little uncomfortable and a little embarrassed.After all, being slapped in public makes one feel embarrassed and ashamed. Although she is a little girl now, her face and self-esteem are ten percent of that of an adult.

Xiuyao hesitated for a moment, Gu Ning had already seen her, he walked over, smiled, and said: "It's you, what a coincidence, did you plant that?" He pointed to the sweet potato planted on the side.

Liu Hongmu heard it and shouted: "Didn't I tell you just now that it belongs to my fourth grandpa's house?" This kind of good-looking scholar is strange, and he doesn't listen to what people say, as he said just now, Why do you still ask.

Gu Ning's face was gentle, he didn't think it was disobedient, and said: "I haven't seen it before, but today it suddenly fell, I thought it was this little sister's."

Liu Hongmu muttered a word and stopped talking, buried her head and continued digging.

(End of this chapter)