Although they went down to the ground at six o'clock, the weather in July and August was already hot at half past seven.

Before the weather heated, they had just watered the two vegetable plots of the two families.

Aunt Tian took Tian Xiaoxia to the edge of her paddy field, and was about to go down to the ground by pulling up her trouser legs, but was stopped by Tian Xiaoxia.

"Auntie, go back, I'll pull it out. There's still a lot of work to do at home. ”

Aunt Tian didn't trust Tian Xiaoxia a little, but there was really work waiting for her family.

"Can you tell the difference between barnyard grass and rice?" Aunt Tian confirmed again.

Tian Xiaoxia nodded, although he hadn't done farm work for thirty or forty years, he could still tell the difference.

"Okay, don't make a mistake, the barnyard grass is pulled out, and the rice barn is full. That's all there is to the paddy field, and the rations of your two fathers are pointed to here. ”

Aunt Tian carried the bucket and the water scoop away, walked for a while and then turned back. Tian Xiaoxia thought that the eldest aunt was not at ease, and she was afraid that she would pull out the wrong one.

"Auntie, I can really tell the difference, you can go back quickly. ”

"I know you can tell the difference, I didn't remind you to bring a straw hat when I went out in the morning, give it, it will be dried in a while, I will go home directly, and the straw hat will be left for you. Aunt Tian took off the big straw hat on her head and handed it to Tian Xiaoxia who was soaked in rice.

In fact, Tian Xiaoxia is not drying at this moment, but sloppy feet, there are no decent shoes at home, and the pullback rubber shoes are probably the best shoes she has so far, since she wants to go to the ground, she must not wear that, so she can only wear a pair of flannel shoes.

You can't wear flannel shoes into the water, so you can only take off the cloth shoes on the ridge according to your memory, pull up your trouser legs and go to the ground barefoot.

Although the feet are sixteen or seventeen years old with thick cuticles, people are pampered and pampered for twenty years. The feeling on the feet is far less intense than the impact of the heart.

The water in the rice fields drowning at the ankles, and the thin mud flowing between the toes, are they small flying insects...... These only existed in her memory, and after five minutes of soaking in the water, she had already made up a swarm of leeches around her.

The straw hat given by the eldest aunt was buttoned on his head, and there was a faint smell of straw, but it was more of the smell of dirt and sweat, which was the taste of a cropper.

Tian Xiaoxia carefully moved forward to pull the barnyard grass while driving away the small insects that flew around him from time to time.

Before I knew it, the sun had risen to the highest point, and the temperature was rising little by little, and although I was wearing a straw hat, the burning sensation on my back was still very strong, and the light reflected from the water surface between the rice trees was faintly dazzling.

Tian Xiaoxia straightened up and bent his waist for a long time, and most of the barnyard grass in the field had not been pulled. The watch is not waterproof, Tian Xiaoxia didn't bring it out, it's not early to look at the sky, go back, the sun will go down later. Anyway, I have to pull it out before going to the county seat.

Tian Xiaoxia returned home according to the road in his memory, it was already past eleven o'clock, according to yesterday's time, he had to hurry up and cook, don't let people who have been out of the sea overnight come home and can't eat a bite of food.

Everything makes perfect with practice, including lighting firewood, yesterday a meal was tossed for almost two hours, today it is much faster, and it will be about an hour.

As soon as Tian Xiaoxia dried the water in the yard and threw two towels to wipe his face, Tian Jianshe came back with a fishing net and half a bucket of small fish.

Tian Xiaoxia took the half bucket of fish in Tian Jianjian's hand and beckoned Tian Jianshe to eat.

Tian Jianshe didn't ask Tian Xiaoxia how the barnyard grass was pulled in the morning, in the past, Tian Xiaoxia used the excuse of studying, the weather was too hot, and people were uncomfortable...... If you can't do the work in the field, you won't do it.

The father and daughter ate without saying a word, made up for sleep after meals, and cleaned up housework.

Tian Xiaoxia listened to the crisp sound of the shell wind chimes under the eaves, looked at the blue sky and white clouds that were so low that he could reach out and touch, and smelled the wet and salty sea breeze.

Poverty is only temporary, even if you don't do anything, in the near future, with the arrival of a large number of tourist groups, you can become rich here.

After dinner, Tian Xiaoxia took the initiative to say to Tian Jianjian: "Dad, half of the barnyard grass has not been pulled, and I will go again after eating, and it is estimated that it will be almost the same until it gets dark, and at most there will be some left to finish pulling out tomorrow morning." ”

Tian Jianshe rolled the cigarette he made with newspaper wrapped in tobacco on the sole of his shoe, and the remaining one-third was on the lining of the small square table, "I'll go with you, and I can rest for ten days and half a month after pulling it out." ”

After eating, the two of them went to the ground, Tian Xiaoxia originally thought that there would be no one in the field, but he didn't expect that he met a lot of people along the way, and he could greet him across a large field, Tian Xiaoxia couldn't remember most of them, so he could only listen to Tian Jianshe and others greet him, and then his aunt and uncle shouted all the way.

With the experience of the morning, Tian Xiaoxia took off his shoes and pulled up his trouser legs much more neatly, and he no longer carefully avoided various pilots.

Sure enough, the work also has to be a veteran, and the two of them finished pulling it out in less than an hour, of course, Tian Jianshe pulled out more than half of it.

When I went back, I passed by a wasteland, and said, "Dad, is that land ownerless?"

"No, it's Tian's blind family, his old two died, one of the two sons went to the county seat, and the other went out to work for others to do a side job, not to mention the land is deserted, and the family's house is about to collapse. ”

"Ah, why doesn't anyone rent this kind of land and grow it themselves? ”

"Who will rent land to plant, if you don't have to eat rice, it is estimated that no one grows rice, we have relied on fishing for a living for generations, farming is more dependent on the sky than fishing, drought and flooding affect the harvest, fishing is different, wind and rain at home to rest, anyway, the seafood is there. ”

This...... It's okay, but it's not controlled now, and after two years, the state has stipulated a fishing moratorium, and a holiday is two or three months, and I'm afraid I will have to farm at that time.

"Can this kind of land be bought and sold?"

"Yes, although it is said to be collective land, but it has been distributed to each family, but no one buys it, how can there be spare money to buy land, if you want to build a house or a homestead, you just need to go to the village office and pay some money casually, and find a piece of wasteland to build by yourself. ”

"Is land expensive?"

"It's not expensive, buy a big piece for a hundred dollars, it's not expensive, it's not expensive, some live and some grow, no one buys it. ”

It's just right that others don't buy it, Tian Xiaoxia's heart is moved, land, land, where to find such cheap land, the fishing moratorium was implemented in 95 years, and now in 92 years, there are more people who farm the land after the fishing moratorium, and there is more arable land, so they have to earn money within two years, not to mention anything else, they can buy more land and earn it.

Besides, now my father is saying that going to sea is better than farming, but when I get older, I will know that there are many elderly people in the fishing village who have joint disease when they are old, and the damage to the body from farming should be better than going to sea.

Tian Xiaoxia was thinking about what else he could do after earning money besides leaving his tuition. She never thought about living expenses, and when she went to a big city, she had to earn some living expenses every month, which couldn't be simpler.