The rural life of a peasant girl

Chapter 93
Such moist soil can be directly sown.In the words of Lao Zhuangjia, God loves people.If there is not enough rain during spring plowing, farmers have to carry water to the fields bucket by bucket.That kind of labor intensity, even the labor of a mature man, is hard to bear.

Father Su put on the plow stick and drove the ox into the field.Then, he inserted the tip of the iron plow into the center of the ridge, adjusted the depth, and swung the whip to drive the calf forward.

Generally, it takes two people to lift off the ground with a plow stick.One person holds the plow, and the other leads the oxen and horses in front.However, there are also those like Su's father who only use one person to drive the plow while driving the cattle and horses.This latter type often requires an experienced and good cropping style.

Father Su is a good cropper, and what's more, they use cattle.Some plow poles are pulled by mules, donkeys, or even horses.Cows are not as fast as mules and horses, but they are steady.Therefore, the plow poles pulled by oxen do not have high requirements for the operator.Therefore, Father Su can easily hold the plow and drive the cattle by himself.

Seeing Su's father helping the plow to plow the ground, Chen Changgong hurriedly led Su Ho to follow.Chen Changgong was in charge of planting, and planted two bean seeds at intervals of about the same distance as a bundle.Chen Changgong was a seasoned worker at the time, so sorting beans was not difficult for her at all. He carried a basket of beans in one hand, and grabbed a handful of beans from the basket with the other.Hanging on the ridge, with his waist slightly bent, he walks along the ridge like one foot on top of another, and the bean seeds automatically fall from his hands into the plowed ridge.

Each drop is two.No more, no less, and the intervals are not too big or too small, as if measured with a ruler.

Su Ho pulled Sister Su Duo and followed closely behind Chen Changgong.They are responsible for cultivating the soil.It is to stand on both sides of the ridge with two feet, and use the feet to cultivate the soil to close the ridge where the bean seeds have been sown.

It is much faster to pull a plow stick by an ox than to plan a ridge manually with an iron pick.Chen Changgong folded his feet.Without raising his head, he followed Su's father closely, and the children also followed closely behind Chen Changgong.Sometimes, Su's father would slow down a little so that Chen Changgong could keep up with the plow stick.This is because the plowed ridges are exposed to the air, and the moisture in the soil loses quickly.To retain as much moisture as possible in the soil.To ensure the germination rate of peanuts, the plowed ridges should be sown as soon as possible and the soil should be closed.

After Su's father plowed to the end of a ridge, he would let the cattle rest on the field, and he would walk back quickly, planting and cultivating the soil.

There are people working in the fields on the left and right.This large piece of land, the land is very good, very suitable for growing beans.There are several houses in a row, all of which are growing beans like the old house.

The children of the peasant households all have to work.

In a field not far away, there are two young children who are helping the adults to plant.After the adults in that family taught the two children how to plant, they also took out two straws, and one child gave one.It turned out that the adults of their family were afraid that the children would not be able to grasp the distance of planting, so they specially got two straws so that the two children could put the bean seeds in the ground according to the length of the straws.

Su Ho looks very memorable, she has never ordered beans, but when she planted beans at home, she saw her brothers and sisters doing this in the field.

Look at Su Qin, Grandpa Su, Su Qin, and Su Zhi working in groups of three.Grandpa Su was in charge of digging the ridges, Su Qin was in charge of planting, and Su Zhi was in charge of cultivating the soil.

Among the three kinds of work, planing ridges is the hardest and most labor-intensive.

Su Zhi was doing the golden rooster stand-alone pose, grinning his teeth, took off a shoe, and poured the soil out.

Su Qin held the basket in one hand and planted the seeds with the other.I saw him walking squarely, straightening his back, but keeping up with Mr. Lian's pace.

While working, Grandpa Su, who was always ahead of his children and grandchildren, fell behind Lian Suyou, Su Jian and others in order to match the speed of Su Qin's father and daughter.

Grandpa Su dug the ground for a while, straightened up to catch his breath, and saw that Su Zhi hadn't come back to cultivate the soil.He put down the pickaxe, walked back quickly, and began to cultivate the soil where Su Zhi had just cultivated.He had just planted a foot of soil when he stopped and stared at the ridge ahead, his face turning blue.Then, he looked behind again, and seemed to find something, then turned around and walked back along the ditch for a while, this time, his face turned greener.

"Look at you kid, what kind of work do you do?" Grandpa Su complained, then glanced back, and let out a long sigh.

Su Zhi doesn't know how to do farm work, and was pampered by Su Qin and Feng's family since she was a child. She said that if Su Qin went to high school in the future, she would be the lady of the official family. If it is found, the crops in this ridge will be useless.When the earth is destroyed, so is the seed thrown into it.

"Master, then I'll go back to work." Seeing that Grandpa Su's expression was not looking good, Su Zhi said carefully, his voice was as soft as a mosquito.

Grandpa Su didn't speak. He walked to a place where the soil hadn't been cultivated, and walked forward for a while. This time, not only did he look ugly, but his brows were also tightly frowned.

Some of the bean seeds that Su Qin ordered were too close to each other, and some were too far away. In some places, several bean seeds were lost, while in some places there was only one single bean seed.What made him even more unacceptable was that there was still a long distance, and the bean seeds had all gone outside the ridge.

"Prodigal!" Grandpa Su cursed inwardly.

If it were someone else, of course he would curse out loud.But his children and grandchildren are all in front of him, and there are folks in the village far and near. He has to save some face for his son and granddaughter.

"Fifth, please stop first." Grandpa Su greeted Su Qin while suppressing the anger in his heart.

"Hey." Su Qin stopped obediently, and didn't ask Grandpa Su why.

Grandpa Su stood on the ground with a livid face for a long while.Su Qin's father and daughter stood beside them, not daring to speak.

Grandpa Su is making a difficult decision.

To rework or not to rework?
If they go back to work, the face of Su Qin and his daughter will be gone.Even he has no face.If there is no rework, then the income of this ridge will be gone.

He knew that both Su Qin and Su Zhi were not good at doing farm work, so he deliberately arranged both of them by his side.Children who are a few years old from other people's families can also work if they are led by adults in the family.He is an old farmer, and he can't take care of his two grown-up children and grandchildren.

In the beginning, under his leadership, although the two moved slowly, they didn't make any mistakes.He was relieved, not as tight as he looked.As a result, this slack made it impossible to watch the work of these two people.

Grandpa Su felt that something was blocked in his throat, and he couldn't swallow or exhale.

The other working children and grandchildren all turned their faces to look at him.The folks near and far seemed to have stopped to look at him.

Grandpa Su took a big stride, walked back and picked up the pickaxe, and strode back again, with his head depressed, he dug away all the ridges that Su Zhi had cultivated.

(End of this chapter)