Happy Farm Ranch

Chapter 48
Mrs. Hei was also unambiguous, and drew a ditch on the ground with a shovel.

"Now a total of more than [-] mu of land has been cultivated. Let's pick up the vegetables we eat and plant them one mu at a time. Just use the canal as the dividing line, and the two sides are estimated to be about the same." She took it as she said. The bag of vegetable seeds that Su Mu handed over.Pick out ten of the most common vegetables and distribute them to individuals.

They were used to farm work, so growing vegetables was much easier than Su Mu thought.

The person in front used a hoe to directly draw several equal-distance soil ditches on the fertile and soft ground; the person carrying the vegetable seed bag grabbed a handful of rapeseed and threw them evenly into the small ditches, and then dumped the thrown soil Use your feet to pull and fill it; the last person is responsible for carrying a bucket of water and pouring it one by one with a water ladle.

Seeing that they were doing it easily, Su Mu went up and tried it a few times, only to find out that doing this work made him bend over a lot, and after a short time, he felt a pain in his lower back.

"Muzi, why don't you carry water with the boss, Uncle Ansheng? Don't you think we are all doing it for a while? No one can bear it all the time!" Seeing that he straightened up and beat him twice, Mrs. Hei Smiling, he took the water ladle in his hand and took over Su Mu's work.

As soon as the vegetable seeds were planted, the ground had to be thoroughly watered, so the large wooden barrels on the two carriages quickly bottomed out.

The owner of the car helped dig the ditch for a while, and seeing that the water in the big wooden bucket was gone, he hurriedly picked up the whip and drove the carriage back to the river. "Let's go, Muzi, uncle will take you to catch fish!"

As soon as he heard that he could catch fish, Su Mu ran a few steps and jumped into the carriage, and followed him to the river.

The boy scouts had already filled the buckets, and some of them even stumbled on the weeds by the river.Many friends jumped to cheer them on, the middle ones were blushing and had thick necks, but they only competed for strength, rolling around on the ground, with a lot of dirt on their clothes.

"The boss is back! Hurry up, catch fish!" The sharp-eyed little boy saw them driving the carriage from afar, and began to cheer loudly.

The lively few who were pinching didn't care about the fight anymore, they wiped their sweat off the ground and ran to the river to wait quietly.

"You guys load the car first, I'll go and see if the fish have taken the bait." The owner of the car arranged the work, and walked to the place where the wicker basket was placed just now with a cigarette in his mouth.

Only then did Su Mu take a closer look at the Taohua River. The surface of the river more than 20 meters wide is sparkling, and the water quality is clear and translucent.The bright sunshine sprinkled on the river, like a handful of gold.

There are reeds growing along the naturally tortuous river; the place where the water is fetched is closest to the water surface, and the ground is full of washed pebbles, which are very comfortable to step on with bare feet; there are various lush trees growing on both sides of the river, and some of them are full of flowers. tree flowers.Along the entire Taohua River, a few steps form a scene, which is no worse than the scenery designed by those scenic spots.

Sumu can even think of summer, fishing in the shade of trees, swimming in the river, cicadas chirping on both sides of the river, and the cool breeze blowing, it must be great!
"Muzi, come and have a look!" Che Boss bent down to look at the wicker basket he had unloaded, and whispered for him to come over.

"Hush! Make a little noise." He waved his hand to signal Su Mu not to make a big noise.Su Mu looked curiously at the fingers of the owner of the car, and saw that there were already many small fish swimming slowly in the wicker basket under the shade of the tree, and some of them would "gnaw" on the willow leaves from time to time.

Due to the refraction of light on the river, Su Mu couldn't see very clearly with his glasses.

The boy scouts knew that some small fish must have entered the basket, so they hurriedly filled the buckets of the two-horse cart, and then carefully tiptoed over to watch the excitement.

"I'm ready to catch fish, who will help?" The owner of the car spoke in a low voice for fear of scaring the fish away.

A group of children anxiously scratched their heads and wanted to sign up for help, but they were afraid that the sound of talking would scare away the fish in the basket, so they all stretched their arms and shook them vigorously, hoping that the boss would choose themselves.

"Let your brother Muzi try the first basket too, Xiaoqiang, come and help me first; I'll switch to someone else in the next basket." The owner of the car smashed the cigarette butts that were only a little bit left, and threw them on the ground. , and quietly untied a few thin willow branches tied to the willow tree.

He took one by himself; handed one to Su Mu and Kid Wang, and then instructed: "Later, be gentle, and pull up when you pull forward slowly. When I say 'start' , let's go to one place and pull up the willow basket, okay?"

"Okay, okay!" Kid King nodded impatiently.

Su Mu held a slender willow tip in his hand, stood a little further away, and the three of them distanced themselves.

At the beginning, they followed the pull of the owner of the car, and their movements were very gentle. They could only see a little ripple on the water surface in the direction against the current.A few seconds later, the slowly rising wicker basket was almost out of the water.

"Get up!" Boss Che shouted at the right time, and before his words fell, Su Mu and Kid Wang pulled the wicker basket out of the water with all their might!

Coupled with inertia, the entire wicker basket was dragged to the grass by the river as soon as it left the water.

The little fish in the half-wicker basket only reacted at this moment, bent over and struggled desperately, but all the fish jumped onto the grass, never getting any more water.

"Bring two buckets here, and quickly pick up the fish. It won't taste good if you marinate them when you're thirsty." The owner of the car cheerfully asked them to carry the buckets.

The other children didn't need to explain, they rushed to the grass to catch fish.

Those little fish were not big in size, but they fought desperately one by one.The body of the fish was already smooth, and the small fish jumped all over the ground, making the scouts shout and pick up the fish, and the river bank suddenly became lively.

"Uncle Boss, your skill in weaving willow baskets is really good!" Only then did Su Mu see the willow baskets for catching fish clearly.

Kuan Kuan Da has a slightly shallow bottom, a bit like the baskets they use to dry dried radishes at home, but it is a little deeper than that, and the bottom of the basket is full of small holes the size of a fingertip.

"It's all small gadgets made by country people when they are free. Most people in our village can play with them a few times. I can also weave wicker, and the old black wives are very handy. They can use bamboo and sorghum stalks to weave grasshopper cages and baskets." All kinds of gadgets, that’s called good craftsmanship! I just have nothing to do when I’m idle, and it’s okay to amuse the children.”

Boss Che was modest in his mouth, but he liked Su Mu's compliment from the bottom of his heart.

So watching a group of children chirping and catching fish, the smile on his face grew stronger, and he couldn't help humming a few familiar lines.

Su Mu tried a few times in the river with the willow basket, and finally figured out something.

Small schools of fish like to gather in places with deep water, shade and lush aquatic plants.The adults in Huatanao disdain to catch these small fish, but the children want to catch them but don't have the right tools.

The willow basket woven by the owner of the car hangs in the deep water under the shade of a tree.There are willow leaves on the willow branches, which are mixed with aquatic plants to make it look like real ones. The little fish are not on guard and are easy to be fooled.

When fishing out, small fish fry will leak down from the hole, and they will go up to catch slightly larger fish.

As long as there is a willow basket in hand, anyone can catch a lot of fish with a little patience.However, it seems that Boss Che is trying to coax these boy scouts to be obedient and to whet their appetites, so he occasionally makes them a small willow basket for fishing.

"Okay, let's put the basket into the water this time, and when we come back, we can catch the second basket!" The owner of the car saw that they had picked up all the fish into the bucket, so he took it The willow basket in Su Mu's hand found a suitable position again, adjusted the angle and tied it to the tree.

"All of you count how many fish you caught just now. Whoever counts correctly will get two extra fish when eating fried fish at night. Count each one, and you are not allowed to pass the answer, otherwise you will be disqualified from answering!" Su Mu sat in the carriage It's up, and I even gave questions to a bunch of children.

The most important thing is to prevent them from fighting when they have nothing to do, so that when they get home, they will be scolded by their family members like mud monkeys that just got out of the soil.

By the way, we have to subtly let them know that they can count and have fish to eat, and lay the foundation for future school from small things.

Children are generally impressed by eating.If you ask them about ordinary addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, they may not be right, but if you ask them how many sugar balls they ate, no one will be wrong!

"Brother Muzi, don't lie!"

"I, I'll count first, you guys go to the side!"

"Don't squeeze, come one by one!"

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Sure enough, Su Mu's move immediately aroused the boy scouts' enthusiasm for counting, and each of them started counting fish with their fingers in front of the two buckets.

"Give way to the older ones, and the younger ones; the boys have to give way to the girls!" The carriage was far away, and Su Mu's shout was still floating in the wind.

From a distance, he watched them line up to count fish under the leadership of Kid Wang, and he sat firmly in the carriage.

Boss Che also looked back, slapped his whip and laughed, "It's still that you urbanites are good at coaxing children, and you can scare them with a few words. If you want to calm down, they would have started a fight by now! Yes! Now, I also want to ask you, is it easy to learn to drive a car? It’s so easy to turn the key and go, I’ve been driving a car for so many years, and I really want to see if I can tame a car!”

"It's not difficult to learn to drive. If you want to drive outside, you have to get a driver's license; just drive in our village, and I'll teach you when I have time." Su Mu felt that he had finally found an entry point, so he guided: "Uncle Boss, let's Although the living conditions in the valley are a bit harsh, there are many good things.

As long as we use the high technology outside to improve the conditions and life in the mountains, you can also buy a car yourself in the future!

I have planted so much land here, and I need to use a lot of machinery and equipment. You should learn to drive first.At that time, things like tractors and harvesters can be learned by groping. Not only can you learn how to drive and use them, but you also have to hold a training class to teach young people in our village to follow suit.

Otherwise, how tiring it would be to rely on manual management for so many lands!Do you think this is the reason? "

"It makes sense to say that. The old saying goes, 'Live and learn'. I'm not old yet. It's a good thing to learn more." How fast you run, how much you pull, if you learn how to drive, it will be far better than driving a car!

(End of this chapter)