Chapter 20 Planting vegetable fields and planting seedlings behind the courtyard

Yang Yong's parents moved here this morning, and Xiao Haohao was also transferred to Liujia Village Primary School. When Yang Yong's family built a new house, they gave out one hundred and eight red envelopes, and one hundred of them contained six yuan, but the children in the whole village were crazy.

When the new house was completed, Yang Yong did not set up wine, but planned to wait for his parents to move in before setting up wine to celebrate. In the morning, Yang Yong came over and invited Professor Lin, Mrs. Lin and Liu Wen's family to dinner. Liu Wen and Professor Lin, who followed the local customs, both came with firecrackers that rang out for 10,000 years.

Today, Chef Xue Fang, a stir-fried dried shrimp with garlic sprouts, a stir-fried eel, a braised crayfish and a stir-fried cabbage heart picked in Liu Wen's vegetable garden, and today's main dish is boiled with carp.

After letting go of the firecrackers, everyone sat down, Xue Fang's craftsmanship was good, and the knot was cooked more and more authentically, Yang Yong's parents were amazed, and Xue Fang's father-in-law made an exception at noon to eat a small half bowl of rice.

After the meal, everyone sat together and chatted, Yang Yong's father's name was Yang Jiancheng, and he was about the same age as Professor Lin, but his complexion looked far worse than Professor Lin. "Professor Lin, we're about the same age, but my body is far worse than yours. Yang Jiancheng couldn't help but say with some envy after looking at Professor Lin's old and strong demeanor.

"Mr. Yang!"

"Don't! Just call me Lao Yang. ”

"Okay! Lao Yang! I didn't have such a good body before I came to Liujiachong! I found that Liujiacun is very capable of raising people! Especially at an age like you and me, it is really quite good to come here to raise Tiannian. Professor Lin said sincerely.

"Yes, yes, yes! After I came, I found that I couldn't see anything in the city, this environment, this air, and this food!" Yang Jiancheng nodded and said thoughtfully.

In the evening, Yang Yong's family invited the whole village and all the tourists in the village to eat and drink, so Yang Yong bought six pigs to kill, and everyone gathered together to enjoy the food and return happy.

Planting green seedlings all over the field, bowing your head but seeing the sky in the water. Quiet nature is the way, and regression is the way forward. This poem vividly describes the scene of rice planting, and gives a deeper philosophical meaning to the ordinary farm work.

In the morning, after Liu Wen went to the peach orchard to release the chickens, he and his father completely lifted the film of the seedlings cultivated in the backyard, and the seedlings that grew green were more than ten centimeters high, and they looked very gratifying.

Liu Wen and his father carefully shoveled the seedlings together with the soil on the roots with a shovel and put them in the dustpan next to them. After breakfast, Liu Wen and his father walked towards the rice field area with a dustpan of seedlings, and his mother followed behind with a kettle.

Liu Wen's family has two paddy fields, one is one acre and two points, and the other is eight points, and the two are not connected together, but they are not far apart. Two days ago, my father led the oxen again and took a small wooden rake to rake the two fields again.

This year, Liu Wen plans to try to raise a little rice and fish in that small field, the fish eat the weeds and pests in the rice field, and the fish manure nourishes the growth of the seedlings.

After Liu Wen saw it in the book, he felt that it was worth promoting, but he didn't know what the results were, so he planned to try it this year, and if the effect was good, it would be promoted in the whole village next year.

After a small transformation, there is a cross-shaped ditch in this field, and a circular ditch is dug along the edge of the ridge around it, all of which are about half a meter wide and about 30 centimeters deep. The excavated soil will increase the height and width of the ridges on all sides, and these ridges will not be wasted, just enough to plant a circle of taro, taro likes to grow in a moist environment, so many villagers are planting taro on the ridges.

Liu Wen and his parents took a small dustpan containing seedlings and went down to the field with only one layer of shallow water left, and the water was too deep for the newly planted seedlings to float out, and it was not conducive to the growth of the roots of the seedlings.

Liu Wen's father took the lead, took a small seedling from the dustpan with his left hand, threw the dustpan behind him with his right hand, bowed his head and bent over, and then separated a seedling from his left hand with his right hand and inserted it into the field. The distance between the seedlings is about 15 centimeters, and the distance between the rows is almost the same, because it is a small seedling, and only one seedling is needed for each transplantation.

Liu Wen's father planted five seedlings in each row, and after a while, seven or eight rows were inserted, Liu Wen followed his father's right hand and began to plant seedlings, and Liu Wen's mother also buried her head next to Liu Wen's right hand.

The seedlings planted by Liu Wen's father are square and square, which makes people look pleasing to the eye, and Liu Wen inserts them wide, wide, narrow, twisted and oblique, which is really ugly as ugly. Liu Wen insisted for two hours before feeling that his waist was getting more and more sore, and he had to stand up straight, gently beat his waist with his fists, and rest for a while, so he didn't look tired of planting seedlings, but it was actually quite hard.

At more than 11 o'clock in the morning, this field was finally full of seedlings, and the fish were not busy putting them down for the time being, and when the seedlings grew thicker and stronger, and the grass and weeds in the field also emerged, it was time to release the fish fry.

After eating at noon, the family couldn't take a break, so they went to plant another field, and finally planted two acres of rice before dark.

The weather forecast said that today was cloudy, and Liu Wen's family was ready to plant vegetable seedlings in the morning.

After breakfast, Liu Wen first packed some vegetable seedlings in a bamboo basket and gave them to Professor Lin and Yang Yong's family respectively. Professor Lin was carefully leveling the land behind the courtyard, and after receiving the vegetable seedlings, he asked Liu Wen if he wanted to plant some flowers as well? Liu Wen heard Professor Lin say that the moonflower nightshade flower has a good mosquito repellent effect, so Liu Wen took two packets of moonflower and nightshade flower seeds.

Liu Wen came to the front of Yang Yong's house, Yang Yong's mother was feeding the chickens and ducklings, and Yang Yang's mother called the chickens and ducklings to come over to eat, which was also a bit special. "Come on, come on! It's time to eat. "It's not like the people in the village who only learn the cries of the chickens and ducklings when they are feeding.

Ten chicks and ducklings, hearing Yang Yong's mother's shout, immediately ran around from a distance, bowing their heads and grabbing the rice grains on the ground. Yang Yong's mother, who had never been to the countryside before, almost made a joke when she first started feeding the chickens and ducklings.

Yang Yong's mother saw the ducklings swimming happily in the ditch, wet but didn't see anything wrong, and saw that the chicken's body was soiled by mud and weeds, and grabbed a chick and wanted to bathe it, but fortunately, Yang Yong's father had some common sense and hurriedly stopped it, otherwise, the chick would die if it didn't do well. Because the chicken's resistance is poor, if the body is wet, there is a chance that they will get sick.

Yang Yong's father also planned to send Liu Wen some flower and plant seeds, and Liu Wen took two packs of nightshade flowers and moon season flower seeds, anyway, there is still open space in the front yard and behind the courtyard, so it is good to plant some flowers and plants to repel mosquitoes.

Liu Wen's father had a small pit in front of him, and the size of the pit was related to the width of the interval and the type of vegetables, the peppers should be about 30 centimeters apart, the eggplants should be a little wider, and the tomatoes should be a little wider. Liu Wen followed, first pouring a little fire ash into the pit before starting to plant the vegetable seedlings, and Liu Wen's mother finally watered the vegetable seedlings.

Fire ash is the common name of Liujiachong, but it is not those grass ashes, the ground is first lined with a pile of straw or wheat stalks, and some broken soil with weed roots are poured on top. After lighting a fire, the straw or wheat stalks inside will slowly burn, and the soil will be smoked into loose hard lumps with purple and yellow, black or red, and then smashed with a shovel into powder, which is called fire ash.

Before the ashes are used, they should also be covered with something to prevent them from being soaked by rain, and if the powder particles are wet, some of the fertility will be wasted. Fire ash is rich in potassium fertilizer, which will promote the root growth of vegetable seedlings, and also allow the soil around the seedlings to store water and breathe less compacted, thereby accelerating the growth of seedlings.

Fire ash is especially important for melon plants, such as melons and watermelons, if the soil hardens and hardens, watermelon seedlings will not grow, and in severe cases, melon seedlings will even die. After all the vegetable seedlings were planted, they were watered, and Liu Wen scattered those flower and plant seeds in the open space in front of and behind the courtyard.

In the afternoon, Liu Wen came to the peach orchard with a well-made beehive, and the bees in the space were divided into three groups as the area of the orchard increased, and the honey produced accumulated more and more. Liu Wen once tasted that the honey in the space is viscous and translucent, fragrant and sweet, and not greasy at all, and taking honey regularly is very beneficial to people's bodies, especially for the elderly. Liu Wen went to Taoyuan to put beehives in order to cover up the honey taken out of the space.

Before coming to Taoyuan, Liu Wen saw Qiang Qiang and Chubby lying under a big camphor tree next to Taoyuan, enjoying the touch of the tourists! The two wild boars had half-squinted eyes and half-open mouths, and they chewed a few bites of food when they threw it into their mouths, and their little tails flicked happily.

There were no tourists in the peach orchard, which was just convenient for Liu Wen, who stuffed the wooden box into a stone crevice sandwiched between two large rocks, which was large enough and not afraid of the sun and rain. Liu Wen took out a nest of earth bees from the space and put them into the beehive, and the earth bees quickly settled down and sent vanguard sentinels to explore the nearby environment.

Liu Wen also found that there were seven or eight pheasants mixed in the chicken flock in Taoyuan, only two roosters and the rest were hens, and the two wild roosters, coveting the appearance of more than ten big hens of Liu Wen's family, were preparing for a duel with sabre rattling.

Two wild roosters confronted each other, both trying to open the feathers on their necks to make themselves look stronger, one rooster took the initiative to attack, the two roosters flapped each other with their wings, pecked with their sharp beaks, and scratched each other with sharp claws, after a few rounds, one rooster ran away in defeat, and the remaining rooster flew to a big stone with a high posture and triumphant, and sang "Oh Oh" with his neck singing, as if announcing to the surroundings who is the boss in this part of Taoyuan.

Liu Wen didn't bother forward, turned around to check the situation in the ditch, the mountain crabs and mountain stream catfish are living very well, and the mountain stream catfish has produced many small catfish. Liu Wen saw that there were still many small tadpoles in the water, and he didn't know whether they were produced by frogs or stone frogs.

Seeing that there was no one around, Liu Wen released another batch of mountain stream catfish and mountain crabs from the space, and released many small fish from the space and poured them into the ditch. There are salad, wheat sand silk, bitter flat silk, rice gazi, silk laba, these small fish, the largest body length will not exceed five centimeters, and it will never grow large, just as food for mountain crabs and mountain stream catfish.