The rural life of a peasant girl

Chapter 91 Spring Ploughing

The prepared dishes include stewed pork with mushrooms, scrambled eggs with black fungus, fried pork with bean sprouts, fried pork with garlic sprouts, and ready-made haggis and roast chicken bought in the town. Sliced ​​scallions and dried tofu.

Mother Su also specially brought out wine for them. After all, in this weather, drinking some wine can warm up the body. Besides, there are not many times when they can eat and drink happily, so everyone drinks happily. up.

Here, they may also feel that the new owner does not have the so-called big airs and looks down on them, so they are very relaxed, and even toasted Su's father. In the end, Su's mother was worried that Su's father would be drunk, and sent He led Su Ho out and pulled Su's father to whisper a few words, and then saw Su's father Gou Ran no longer showed his previous attitude of not refusing anyone who came. Concerned about Su's mother being pregnant, if he gets drunk later, he is afraid that Su's mother will be troubled. Seeing that Su's father is not there like before, these long-term workers did not toast frequently.

After drinking for three rounds, Su's father was already slightly drunk, so he asked the servant girl to remove the banquet, and arranged for a waiter to lead them to the previous sauerkraut workshop. Two bunks were set up in the old house, and they were asked to make do with it temporarily. Considering that old man Liu was getting older, Su's father arranged their grandparents and grandchildren in the upside-down room where the gate came in. By the way, they could also guard the gate. Come and be notified in time.

Now, the sweet potatoes at home have successfully grown seedlings, and the spring plowing is about to start, so we have to discuss what to plant. With such a large population, wheat, the staple food, must be indispensable. The yield of sweet potatoes is so high, and It is still necessary to promote planting, and it should be more diverse. As for other miscellaneous grains, we can plant less. After all, Su Ling does not like to eat coarse grains such as sorghum and broomcorn, so she does not advocate variety.

However, beans can be grown in different varieties. Beans are rich in nutrients, and can be used to cook miso and make tofu. It is really necessary to have more varieties, such as red beans and mung beans. Su Ling also advocates making them at home Plant some.

The fish ponds of Su Ling's family were finally completed before the Qingming Festival. Every fish pond was filled with fishes, this was to kill the diseases and insects in the fish ponds. When the fish were actually released, the fish would not There are so many pests and diseases.

There are three neat rows of houses built on the fish pond. They are not built like courtyards, but separated from each other, and a kitchen is built in addition.

A few rows of willows were transplanted on the shore, and they were about to start spitting their teeth. The fish pond was dug, and a new house was built. Su Ling's family held another banquet, although they didn't stay in The new home is so formal, but it's also their house anyway, so holding a banquet is a must.

It will be Qingming soon, and this year's Qingming is similar to last year's. They all go to the mountains to worship and worship at the ancestral hall. Even Su Dong and Su Qin are back.

In the blink of an eye after the Qingming Festival, it came to the Grain Rain season, just like the poem described in the poem "there are many rains during the Qingming Festival", and as reflected in the word "Grain Rain", there were two consecutive torrential rains, and the spring plowing in Huaxi Village was about to begin. The spring plowing began. up.

Su Ling's family is busier than other families.While they have to take care of these fish ponds, there are also some bamboo shoots that are eager to come out that can be harvested, and their family is busy getting dried bamboo shoots, while rushing to finish planting the land in this most suitable season.

Before planting, the family sat down and planned carefully.

This year, their family has more than 51 mu of land to plant.The [-] mu on the Zhuangzi between Huaxi Village and Qingshi Town, the [-] mu bought by their family in Huaxi Village last year, plus the more than [-] mu originally owned by their own family, there are more than [-] mu. Although they hired long-term workers, But it is also a very difficult task to plant so much land and finish it in a few days.

"Wheat, sorghum and broomcorn, these things must be grown." Father Su said, wheat is the staple food of farmers, and in winter, sticky bean buns made from broomcorn millet are also an indispensable staple food, and sorghum is also a staple food in normal times. will often be late.So, these kinds of things should be enough. "Our family has a large population. I think we have to plant at least [-] mu of land for wheat. For millet and sorghum, five or six mu of each is enough... enough for our family's rations for a year, and tax and food are almost enough. "Well, that's fine." Mother Su nodded in agreement.

Firstly, the planting area of ​​rations and tax grains was determined, and the next step was corn and sweet potatoes, which Su Ling valued most.

"We now have about [-] catties of corn seeds. We definitely can't plant them all. I don't plan to spread this corn, so I plan to buy a new farm to be responsible for planting corn. I counted it last year. One mu of land needs about two catties of seeds, so we can plant [-] to [-] mu of corn this year." Su Ling said, "The sweet potato seedlings haven't grown well yet, and they are about to be popularized. Our family can grow enough for our own consumption. If there are still supplies that can be supplied, we can go to the restaurant. We will set aside ten acres of land first. If the seedlings are sold by others first, our family will wait for others to come and get the seedlings before planting. There are also small beans, which we need a year The beans we eat and the miso we need to cook are all needed, and all kinds of beans have to be planted on a few acres."

If the sweet potatoes and corn are planted well, the income cannot be estimated for the time being.But what is certain is that it will be a surprising number.

"I think it's okay to plan this way. Our family has enough land for planting this year. In addition to ration land, we can grow corn and sweet potatoes first, and then plant the rest." Father Su said.

"Milk and sorghum are counted as five acres of land each, and there are thirty acres of wheat, which is already forty acres, and sweet potatoes also need ten acres. Not counting corn, there are also various types of beans, etc. It seems that we still need to buy some land." Suho said.She has also started to learn arithmetic from Su Ling now, and she can calculate very quickly, and she can give the answer verbally for ordinary small numbers.

"Mizi and sorghum have been planted with five acres of land each, and we must plant small beans. If we don't have time to boil big bones, make tofu, and stew miso, we have to buy additional small beans." Su Mu said.

"En." Su Ling nodded in response to Su's mother's words, "Then where do we start planting first, Su Ling's family's land is divided into two places, so it is not far to go to plant the land."

"Let's start with the ones near our house! We grow scattered ones here, and the ones on the village grow wheat, sorghum and millet."

"Then our family has so much land, if we want to take advantage of the wet land and plant it all in a few days, do we still need to hire someone?" Su Ling asked.There are so many lands in the family, although there are about ten long-term workers, but it is very difficult to rush to finish planting, so she asked this way.

"Everyone is busy farming during the busy farming season. Even if we want to find part-time workers now, it is difficult to find them. Everyone has worked hard for the past few days. After the busyness, we will have more time to rest, so I do not agree to hire people again. "Although Su's father also knows that there are so many fields in the family and there are so many people, it is impossible to finish it in a few days, but he would rather work hard by himself than hinder others from farming.

(End of this chapter)