My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 241 Pen pals

   "Chuangzi, are you at home?"

  The morning after the wine was sold out, Chen Ling drove Wang Zhenzhen on a tractor to Huangni Town and came to look for Han Chuang.

   "At home, at home, Brother Ling is here, come in quickly."

   Hearing the shouting outside, Jiang Xiaoqing trotted out, opened the big iron gate of the yard, and asked him to drive the tractor into the yard.

   "It's coming too, come down quickly, the watermelon is ready for you."

   "Thank you, Mrs. Xiaoqing."

  Wang Zhenzhen jumped off the tractor and walked to Jiang Xiaoqing with a smile. The two watched Chen Ling drive the tractor into the house.

After Han Chuang got married, the new home was quite large. It was built outside the town and had few neighbors. It was surrounded by orchards planted by several families, and outside Huangni Town was the famous Tubaoling, which was not crowded. So the yard is built very spacious here, and parking a tractor is not a problem at all.

   "Where's Chuangzi? You look like a big girl, and you don't see anyone for a long time."

  Chen Ling parked the tractor under the tree on the south side of the yard. After walking down, Han Chuang could not be seen.

   He agreed to come to Han Chuang today and take the sunflower planter back.

   The so-called sunflower planter is not a new thing, it is just a modification of the jiang (jiang, three tones, the same sound as "speaking") used for planting grain in the local area, making it suitable for planting sunflowers.

  The crop of sunflower is rare in the local area, and sowing can only be done manually.

   Aquilegia can't be planted.

   After talking about the situation at his house last time, Han Chuang reassured him, saying that his eldest brother Han Chao would do this.

And Han Chuang is also very talented in this area. He learned a few tricks from his brother when he was a child. He knew what was going on with this thing. He went back and told his elder brother Han Chao, and gave it to Chen Ling. He will pick it up after ten days.

  Chen Ling said that if it doesn't rain today, he will come here, and the day is set.

"He went to buy donkey meat. There is a family who opened a factory in Zhennan to have a wedding. Yesterday morning, he slaughtered a donkey. Chuangzi said that you will definitely come over in the next two days, so go buy some donkey meat and come back, so as to make snacks. "

   Jiang Xiaoqing said with a smile, and then asked Wang Zhenzhen: "Have you ever eaten donkey meat?"

  Wang Zhenzhen shook his head: "I haven't eaten it, we can't afford it there, and we can't bear to eat it."

  In Fenglei Town, they all rely on pack horses and donkeys to drive the mountain road. Donkeys are very expensive, and they are willing to slaughter them to sell meat. Even if they kill them, they are old donkeys and sick donkeys that cannot be cured.

Just as he was talking, Han Chuang came back, pushing a small cart with a big donkey's head and assorted donkey meat on it, followed by a small green dog with its tongue sticking out. Seeing two strangers, Chen Ling and Wang Zhenzhen, they pricked up their ears and rushed to the front to bark.

  Han Chuang kicked it and scolded it, then walked forward with a laugh, and talked to Chen Ling.

   The two were talking and unloading the donkey meat.

   "I didn't buy any good meat, and I didn't ask for a donkey whip, so I bought some head hooves and some neck meat."

  Han Chuang said regretfully.

   "Okay, that's a lot. Just this donkey head, don't look like there's no meat, let you eat it, you won't be able to finish it in two or three days."

  Chen Ling said, "Call your uncle, aunt, and brother Han Chao at noon. If there are too few people, you won't be able to finish it, and you won't be able to leave it for long in the hot weather."

This guy Han Chuang bought a big donkey head, a donkey tail with a big tail bone, a donkey intestines, and a donkey neck meat with bones. .

   said and sighed: "You also said that there is no good meat, the donkey's mouth is also there, and the intestines are also there. The key is that the meat on the neck is all given to you, which is very good."

   "Hey, I don't understand as well as you, it's fine if you think it's good." Han Chuang smiled, "How about it, let's start cleaning up now?"

   "What to pack, what to pack, Brother Ling and Zhenzhen have just come here, and they haven't even sat down yet, so you yell at people to work."

   Jiang Xiaoqing brought Wang Zhenzhen and hugged two watermelons over at this time, scolded Han Chuang, and asked Chen Ling to sit down and eat the melons.

   "Come on, Brother Ling, really, sit down and let's eat watermelon first."

  Han Chuang was still laughing, saying that he didn't want Chen Ling to work, but wanted to quickly get the wine and vegetables ready.

  Chen Ling heard the words and sat down with a smile, "These things are really difficult to clean up. It's almost 9:30 now, so let's boil the water first. Let's clean up first."

   "Okay, I'm going to boil water right now. Chuangzi and I always go to your house to eat and drink a lot, keeping you and your sister-in-law busy. We can't keep you busy with Brother Ling today."

   Jiang Xiaoqing said seriously.

   "Well, that's right, I'll call my parents over now, they can clean up this thing, just let Lingzi cook again in the afternoon, and let's fix it for him."

  Han Chuang clapped his hands and stopped stammering. He was about to ride a motorcycle and call his parents.

Chen Ling couldn't stop him either. After a while, Han Chuang took an old couple into the courtyard. When they came, he enthusiastically asked Chen Ling to sit down and let him not worry about anything. The two went into the kitchen and boiled water to clean up. Donkey meat.

  Han Chuang's father and mother are similar to Jiang Xiaoqing's father. They are also not good-looking, and they are a little fierce, but when they talk and laugh, they are very warm and kind, which makes people feel friendly.

"You haven't been here since the last temple fair. Take a look at how our yard is being cleaned up? Xiaoqing and I have been tossing around for more than ten days, and most of them are made according to the layout of your house. Fish ponds, grape trellises, small vegetable gardens, all the things planted now have grown up, much stronger than before."

   Three, one and one small were sitting together eating watermelon and chatting, and Han Chuang pointed to the yard to show Chen Ling.

Chen Ling nodded while looking at it: "It's not bad, but your yard is still a little big, and it looks empty without things. I'll send you some flower seeds and tree seeds in a while, you can choose to plant whatever you want. What, there are many kinds of flowers in the yard, which not only look good in summer, but also smell good at night."

   "Okay, that's fine."

Han Chuang said: "Actually, Xiaoqing's unit gave some tree seeds, and the ones planted outside are. I don't lack tree seeds, I just need to order flower seeds like your yard. Plant a large piece of the kind that can cover half of it. A yard, the flowers are not big, but there are a lot of flowers, and I look at them very nice."

   "Oh, yes, I've seen that kind of flower in Brother Ling's house too, it looks like spiraea, right?" Jiang Xiaoqing said while nibbling on the watermelon.

"Well, it's Spiraea. This kind of chrysanthemum grows fast and it's easy to live. It can grow up when you put it in and water it with a little water. It's very fragrant at night. It's just that the flower is too small. I'll bring you some more. , let's match the seeds." Chen Ling said.

   The three chatted and quickly ate most of the watermelon.

   At this time, Wang Zhenzhen said that he was going to the teacher's house and wanted Chen Ling to send her there.

   Actually, she came here today to play with the little daughter of her teacher's house.

This wild girl is not idle at home. She even writes letters to the teacher and her daughter from time to time. The teacher's daughter is two grades older than her and is going to junior high school. She doesn't know how to play with her. I come here more often than Wang Zhenzhen, and my family often receives letters.

   "Oh, it's really amazing, I can still write letters, I'm going to see my pen pal."

  Jiang Xiaoqing said with a smile, he was surprised and amused that such an older child could write a letter to someone.

   Don't talk about her, even the two old men who came out of the kitchen and went to the well to wash the donkey into the water heard this and laughed loudly and said a few words.

   said that this girl doll is amazing and will definitely have a future.

   "The real teacher is in town, right? Let's go, then I'll go with you too, and by the way, let's go to the brewery to buy a barrel of beer and come back."

  Han Chuang washed his face, wiped the sweat from his body, and happily followed Chen Ling and the two out.

As a result, Wang Zhenzhen was sent to her teacher's house and found that Han Chuang's cannery was nearby. Han Chuang said, "My family's cannery is nearby. Let's take you to my cannery first, you haven't done so yet. Been there."

  Chen Ling naturally had no opinion, so he followed him to the cannery.

   As soon as I entered the gate of the factory, I heard the sound of running water.

   In the spacious factory yard is a large pool. Two faucets that are far away are sparsely draining water into the pool. When the two approached, they were shocked by the colorful fish on the water surface.

  Chen Ling leaned over and looked at it for a while, then said with a smile, "No wonder you can feed rouge, this pond is big enough."

   "It's quite big, are you still catching fish? My brother put a lot in it again."

   "No more fishing, no more fishing, there are more fish at my farm."

While the two were talking, Han Chuang's eldest brother, Han Chao, came out. Chen Ling met him at the last temple fair, but their family had more relatives coming to the temple fair. It is acquaintance.

   "The Aquilegia has been changed for you, come and have a look."

Han Chao is nearly forty years old. Although he is not as tall and strong as Han Chuang, he is also tall and tall, with a mustache, and his personality is much more stable than Han Chuang. After greeting him with a smile, he brings Chen Ling went to see the cowardly Aquilegia.

   What he improved was the three-legged Aquilegia.

   This thing is a relatively primitive planting tool, which was available during the Han Dynasty.

  This farm tool is mainly used to grow wheat, millet, soybean, sorghum, sesame and other crops.

   If you grow corn, it's almost meaningless.

   After all, corn was introduced into China relatively late, and traditional agricultural tools were not designed for corn.

   But it’s not impossible to plant at all.

  The three-legged Aquilegia blocks the grain outlet in the middle, and it can barely be planted, but it is very easy to get stuck during the planting process, and it always needs to be stopped to repair, which takes a lot of time and human patience.

   Of course, this is about the mountains here.

  The use of farm tools still depends on the area. If the plot is small, most of it is artificial.

   "Is this changed to a single leg?"

  Chen Ling walked in and saw a one-legged chariot.

"No, this is a one-legged one for my family last year, and the seedlings of the buds are still not very good. It's not that the seedlings are leaked in some places, or the seedlings are thick and the seedlings have to be thinned out. This is old It's wrong, it's very laborious, it's really not as accurate as we go to 'Dianbaogu'."

  Han Chao smacked his lips and said helplessly.

Chen Ling touched a couple of hands, nodded and said, "This is actually very good. Now the seeders on the market can't plant buds. It's very easy to break the machine if you try to plant it. Very, most places still have to use people to go down to the 'Dianbaogu'."

   "Dian Bud Valley", also known as "Planting Bud Valley", sounds like a job that requires hard work and meticulous cultivation.

   This method is also artificial sowing in traditional farming.

When planting, people hold a shovel with a schoolbag full of corn seeds around their necks, shovel and kick in the field, and then push the wooden handle of the shovel with one hand. At this time, the other hand squeezed two or three seeds and threw them into the dirt pit, removed the shovel, and walked straight forward, stepping on the dirt pit in front of him in the process of walking.

  Skilled old farmer, when "spotting the buds", he works very fast. He shovels, pushes, pushes and spreads, which makes people dazzled. Before anyone else can react, the old farmer is already a dozen paces away.

   However, this traditional method is labor-intensive and labor-intensive.

Unfortunately, there is no way. At this time, the Aquilegia seeds are not very good, and the accuracy of the planter is far less than ten or twenty years later. thinned.

   To put it bluntly, it means saving energy when planting, and still having more energy after planting.

   It is very troublesome to think about this hot day.

   "You're right, let's see this changed for you."

   "Your request is simple, so it's easy to improve it. When using it, it doesn't waste the columbine. It's not like the seedlings are half damaged in the ground."

As Han Chao said, he walked up to the modified three-legged Aquilegia: "My cannery has been doing well for the past two years, and I have a lot of busy time. It can be better than this.”

   "It's a pity that tinkering with this stuff can't support the family, it's just playing around and can't delay the family's serious business."

   Chen Ling has seen a lot of people like this. They are very skilled and can be called civilian farmers scientists. Unfortunately, most of them are not recognized.

   After watching the scorpion, Chen Ling stuffed him with two packs of good cigarettes to express his gratitude, and said that he came to pick up the scorpion after dinner, and the two were polite.

When    went out, Han Chuang said that his brother should go back to eat at noon, and that his parents were also there.

  Han Chao listened and didn't refuse, saying that since he's here, don't rush to leave, let's take Chen Ling to the canned production room first.

   Entered the production workshop, and Chen Ling opened his eyes to the miscellaneous canned fruits and meats.

   "Lingzi, try this can of yellow peach, take it back later and use well water to ice it, it's more refreshing than a popsicle."

  Han Chao opened a can of yellow peach for him, which is also a canned fruit in season.

  Chen Ling took two mouthfuls of the canned juice and poured two yellow peaches into his mouth, "Well, it's delicious. The fresh canned food just tastes different."

   "It's delicious and I'll get a few more later." Han Chao said with a smile. There used to be several canning factories in Huangni Town, but they are the only ones who can do it now.

  The three of them talked and laughed after visiting the production room of the cannery, and chatted for a while. Han Chuang took Chen Ling to the brewery to buy beer.

   "Brother, go there early in the afternoon."

   "Understood, you guys go buy a bar first, I'll go back and call your sister-in-law and go over."

  …

   Huangni Town is indeed a place where factories gather. Chen Ling followed Han Chuang around, and there were many flour factories, instant noodle factories, breweries, biscuit factories, brick factories, and textile factories.

   "After a while, the biscuit factory will be the busiest. Before August 15th, they started making moon cakes day and night. It was all night long, and the evening and morning were full of people working and leaving."

   "Further back, in winter, the brick factories are busy, and many houses are built in winter."

   "Instant noodle factories are not doing well this year."

  Han Chuang introduced him.

   I kept talking all the way, and when I got to the brewery, I picked up a bucket of draft beer and walked home.

   "Come to our brewery to buy wine. When it's hot in summer, it's better to drink draft beer, and drink less bottled beer."

   Walking on the road, Han Chuang's mouth didn't stop.

  Chen Ling has heard the benefits of draft beer. This thing is fresh beer or draft beer, which has higher nutritional value than ordinary beer.

   He thought that Han Chuang would also say this.

  I don't know, but Han Chuang said next: "Because we have a lot of bottled beer here, it's not wine, it's urine."

   "What? Urine?" Chen Ling was startled.

"Yeah, I'm not fooling you, there aren't many factories in our town. It's hot now, and the **** young workers in the factory go to guard outside the brewery after they get off work in the evening, and steal beer to drink when it's dark. Do you know how they stole it?" Han Chuang raised his eyebrows when talking about the thief.

   "I don't know, how did you steal it?"

"Hey, this is what my brother told me, saying that the brewery produces a lot of beer in summer, and that guy piles a lot against the wall, and the young workers are just outside the wall, tying a hook with a rope, just like fishing He threw the hook over the wall, covered the beer bottle and hooked it up slowly, then opened it and drank it outside the wall."

"After drinking it, they were afraid that the brewery would stop putting beer on the wall after they found out, so they came up with an idea, yes, that is to pee in the wine bottle. Pretend it's beer, put the lid on, and put the beer back in with a string."

   "Damn it, can I still do this?"

  Chen Ling was dumbfounded, "If you do this, won't the brewery find out?"

"Well, most of the time, I really can't find it, because these **** guys learned ghosts and ghosts. They use nails to open the bottle cap and open it along the mouth of the bottle, so that after opening the bottle, the wine can still be covered in good condition. Go back. Don't drink all the beer, but only drink half a bottle, and don't drink the rest, just put urine in it."

  Han Chuang said this, his face full of admiration.

   "My dear, after hearing what you said, I won't dare to drink bottled beer in the future."

  Chen Ling thought that half of the bottle of beer and wine was urine, and his stomach felt uncomfortable for a while.

  Han Chuang patted him on the shoulder carelessly: "Hey, don't be nervous, Lingzi, this is still drinkable. Beer with urine tastes like a broken beer. It smells very bad."

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Thanks to the "Yunhui Q" boss for his 10,000 rewards and 20 monthly passes, the "Xiansheng" boss for his multiple rewards, and the "LG Lonelyyl" boss for 5,000 yuan. More ha.

   (end of this chapter)