Chapter 21 Why not plant vegetable seedlings
When I got home, I put down my little dry and went back to the pickup truck and moved the things on the compartment home one by one.
The crowd watched from the sidelines, asking him two questions from time to time.
Although everyone speculated that the car was bought by his wife, this was pure gossip and pure curiosity, and there was no malicious intent. Chen Yang understood this truth, so he didn't show everyone's face.
When everyone asked him where he was going to come back early in the morning, he also happily replied: "I went to the county seat." ”
With that, he picked up the small wooden table and left.
When I returned home, I first put the small carp in a large aluminum pot into a bucket, covered the vegetable basket, and then changed the water for the snails, and then went to feed the chickens and ducks in the backyard.
After feeding the chickens and ducks, he carried the small dry with a strap, pushed the wheelbarrow, pulled the folded baby stroller and snakeskin bags, daddy bags and other things to the peanut field.
The old people who were still discussing around the pickup truck saw Chen Yang coming out with a child pushing a wheelbarrow on his back, and they were silent all of a sudden.
It wasn't until Chen Yang walked far away that an old man said: "Oh, what are we doing here talking nonsense all day long? Look at Chen Yang, with such a young child, and working so hard, and then look at our children and grandchildren who can't even marry a wife, what face do we have to talk about others?"
After saying that, he sighed heavily, and then involuntarily remembered his son who was still beating a bachelor in his thirties.
Another old man also nodded and said: "That's right, no matter how this car came from, it can't be wrong for Chen Yang to work hard, let's talk less about him behind his back in the future, lest he feel uncomfortable when he listens." ”
"Yes, yes, yes. ”
"Well, yes, I'm going back to feeding the chickens. ”
"I'm going back to get ready to dry peanuts. ”
The old people dispersed.
When Chen Yang carried Xiaoqian to the peanut field at the end of the village, the village chief Lu Wenxing and Aunt Liu Mei were already pulling peanuts in their peanut field.
Seeing him coming, Aunt Liu Mei stopped what she was doing and walked over.
"Chen Yang, why are you so late today?" Aunt Liu Mei walked to the side and teased Xiao Qian.
Chen Yang put down the wheelbarrow and replied while untying the things on the car: "I went to the county seat early this morning, and now I just came back." ”
"That's right. Aunt Liu Mei smiled kindly, "Just now our family Zhang Feng also said that he was going to the county seat and called me to go home to take the children, or you can hand over Xiaoqian to me, and I will help you bring it by the way." ”
Chen Yang looked up at the dazzling scorching sun, and said without a trace of hesitation: "Auntie, thank you for your kindness, I know you just want to help me, but I think I should take Xiaoqian with me, so that I can be more down-to-earth when I do things." ”
Liu Mei was stunned.
Originally, I thought that Chen Yang would wish that someone would help him take care of the child, but he didn't expect him to refuse.
Chen Yang continued: "It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that I'm such a relative now, I can't see him, I don't feel at all at ease in my heart, I want to be by his side, even if it will be harder, it doesn't matter." ”
Liu Mei smiled: "Chen Yang, Auntie understands your thoughts, since you think so, then do it, I can understand your feelings, when I had a child, it was the same, I couldn't wait to hold the child in my arms twenty-four hours a day, and then look at him without blinking." ”
"Well, yes, that's what it feels like. Chen Yang also laughed.
After Liu Mei returned to the field, Lu Wenxing felt strange: "Why didn't you bring Xiaoqian?"
Chen Yang said that he wanted to take care of the children by himself. Liu Mei said, and bent down to pluck peanuts.
"Isn't this nonsense? Lu Wenxing said angrily, "The child is still so young, he doesn't think about himself, he has to think about the child." ”
"I don't agree with that. Liu Mei grabbed a handful of peanut vines and said, "What the child needs most is his parents, and it is right to let Xiao Qian follow his father, although it is a little hard and tiring, but the child is happy in his heart." I took it back, although I can make Xiao Qian a little more comfortable, but he can't see his father, crying so much, you didn't see it yesterday, if you saw it, you wouldn't think so. ”
Lu Wenxing is a big boss, and he has nothing to say in the face of his wife's rebuttal.
But he sincerely hopes that Chen Yang can get out of his current predicament as soon as possible.
In fact, Chen Yang didn't feel that he was in a predicament.
These days are a little bitter, but because Xiaoqian is by his side, no matter how bitter it is, it is sweet.
After placing Xiao Qian in the stroller, he prepared the snakeskin bag 'tent' as usual, and then began to pluck peanuts.
Although the peanut field is shining in the scorching sun at the moment, because the night in the mountains is a little cool, some water mist will still form water droplets on the bean vines.
Water droplets fall to the ground, moistening the soil, which will make the originally dry soil softer, and it will be much easier to pull peanuts.
If the soil is dry and hard, there will be a lot of peanuts that will not be able to pull out the soil with the roots the size of toothpicks, so you have to use a small hoe to slowly dig out the peanuts buried in the ground.
This is not only time-consuming, but also laborious.
But fortunately, because the beginning of autumn has passed, the air in the mountains at night is relatively humid, so the land is not too dry, so Chen Yang is more handy when he pulls peanuts.
The ground was pulled out with peanuts, and the fresh soil was turned out, looking like a vegetable patch that had been turned over.
This can't help but remind Chen Yang of the days when his grandparents sowed vegetable seedlings and sold vegetable seedlings to earn tuition for themselves.
Now his grandparents are gone, but the skills that the old couple taught him are always clear in his mind.
"First remove the grass on the surface, and then loosen the soil, the first time with a hoe to loosen, the soil is too large, the second time you have to use a big hoe to break up the soil, while knocking, while the weeds of the grass roots are set out, so that the vegetable seedlings can be fat and beautiful. ”
Grandma's earnest teachings still echo in his mind.
He stared at the refurbished soil for a moment, wondering, why can't we plant some vegetable seedlings in the peanut field?
Although his family is thin, he has a lot of fields, which can be called a large family in the village. If all the fields can be planted with vegetable seedlings, the income will definitely be good.
Maybe not ten thousand yuan, but a few thousand yuan is certainly fine.
Moreover, the growth period of vegetable seedlings is only about 20 days, and if they are served well, they can even be harvested early.
Now is the season of green and yellow, most of the summer vegetables have declined, and the vegetables after the autumn harvest have not been replenished in time, only some greenhouses are in short supply, and some old people grow in the vegetable garden in the thin vegetables to steal the limelight on the street.
If you can sell delicious vegetable seedlings at this time, the price will definitely not be less than four yuan a catty.
It's just that I don't know if I can still grow vegetable seedlings like the ones that my grandparents handled back then.
Those vegetable seedlings catch insects manually, without pesticides, and every time they are pulled to the town, the snakeskin bags have just been laid on the ground, and they will always be snapped up by the shop owners in the town.
Sometimes, before the snakeskin bag was taken out, there was a crowd of people around the motorcycle.
At that time, life was more difficult than now, because he was still studying at that time, and only his grandparents and his old family were helping him save for tuition by farming.
Now, he has grown up and can make money, but his grandparents are gone.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for triggering the daily quest. ”