Chapter 359: Bird Seed Harvest
Canghai came to the outside of the house with two buckets of watermelon seeds that had been soaked in water, removed the water grate in the bucket, and put the watermelon seeds that had been soaked in water in the bamboo basket and spread them out to dry, ready to sow seeds today.
Shi Wei opened the curtain at this time and walked out of the room: "Okay, okay?"
"It's going to be fine right away, why are you so impatient, did you put the car over safely?" Canghai was busy and didn't look back.
Shi Wei raised her head, looked down the slope and saw that Ping An was driving the ugly donkey to this side, so she said, "Oh, isn't that Ping'an?"
Canghai glanced up and said, "Okay, let's get ready to go!"
Shi Wei looked at the big bags of things at the kitchen door, and opened her mouth to ask, "What are you doing with so many things, let's go to work, not to camp."
Canghai sorted out a lot of things in the morning, it was a tent and a folding table or something, if it wasn't for the fact that it was not easy to get into the car over there in Fenghuanggou, she suspected that her man would put a camping RV over there, in Shi Wei's opinion, this is to plant watermelons in the field, not to go on an outing, what are you doing with so many things.
Canghai said eloquently: "Originally, it was tiring to work, and you can't let everyone eat a hot meal?"
Shi Wei was speechless, which family is not rushing to work in the spring, only his own family seems to be the biggest eater in the world, and such a big thing as spring ploughing looks like it is not as good as a hot meal in his eyes.
Seeing that Ping An came over, Shi Wei had to help move the things at the kitchen door to the cart without saying a word.
Wu Hui walked out with Meng Meng here, and when he saw the board car coming, he also helped to do the work, and Meng Meng also diligently helped to move some small bits and pieces to the board car, and Meng Meng moved the iron head and also got busy.
Canghai put two baskets of watermelon seeds on the cart, turned around and took a few original fertilizing drills from the house, this thing is an iron awl on the head, the awl does not have two ears that can be stepped on by the feet, the big head of the awl is empty, and the handle is inserted inside, so that when the foot steps on the ear, the tip of the cone can be inserted into the soil, and a small pit appears on the ground.
When the time comes, throw a watermelon seed into it, and then bury the surrounding soil into the hole with your foot, and the watermelon planting work is completed.
Put all the things on the cart, Canghai bent down and hugged Meng Meng on the cart first, and then looked at the things on the cart, and saw that there were a lot of pots and pans, so he said to everyone: "Let's get in the car, let's leave early, and we can come back early in the evening!"
Shi Wei and the others listened to it and sat on the board car with their buttocks sideways.
Canghai just wanted to swing the whip, but the third aunt Wei Qin walked out of the kiln, saw Canghai's frame, opened her mouth and asked, "Hai Wazi, wait a minute, I will go with you with your third uncle today."
When Canghai heard this, he immediately waved his hand and said, "Third uncle and third aunt, you don't need it at all, our watermelon field is very easy to grow."
Canghai doesn't want the third uncle and three aunts to go over to help, not only the third uncle and three aunts, but the uncle's family is also ready to help the Canghai family while the melon seedlings in the village have not been planted, but where can Canghai let the big guy help with this, now it is spring, and each family has a lot of things on hand, spring ploughing is not in vain, even if you don't plant watermelons, you can't turn over the ground and plant food or something?
Shi Wei also knew that the big guy was enthusiastic about helping, but also considering that every family had land to plant, so she opened her mouth and persuaded: "Third aunt, Canghai knows this matter, so you can concentrate on your own work."
Since the third aunt and the two have decided to help their nephew, where can the two of them persuade Wei Qin shouted at the house, and Cang Shiyuan came out of the house, already wearing a shabby set of clothes, it seems that this is the third uncle Cang Shiyuan's work clothes.
Canghai had no choice, so he asked everyone to move their positions and let the third uncle and three aunts sit up.
When I drove the cart to the entrance of the village, I found that Uncle Cang Shigui was driving a cart with a few old men and old ladies sitting on it.
As soon as Canghai wanted to open his mouth to ask, he heard Li Licheng, who was driving the car, say to him: "Canghai, why are you grinding in the morning, we have been waiting for you for almost a quarter of an hour."
"I said that what kind of family are you doing, and you don't plant any land at home? I understand everyone's intentions, and each family is still busy with its own family," Canghai asked with a bitter face.
Hu Shijie said with a smile: "Okay, I'll help you for this day, usually we don't have time to help if we want to, no, the children at home are back, and there is no work to do today, just wait for the seedlings or something to be sent to the door to collect it......."
Canghai listened and thought about it for a while, so he had to nod and agree, so the two board cars went to Fenghuanggou one after the other.
The land around Sijiaping Village is good at this, even if it rains heavily, as long as the sun comes out for a day or two, there will be no moisture in the soil, which means that the land is not muddy, not to mention that there is no problem with walking on the board or taking the truck.
Last year's snow was heavy, Sijiaping seemed to be surrounded by snow all winter, and the snow in winter slowly melted at this time, and the snow near the village melted earlier, and the ground was already dry, but in other places, such as the shady slopes, the sun did not shine, and the snow melted more slowly.
There is always snow melting, and the snow water will naturally merge into small streams and small ponds along the terrain.
Along the way, Canghai and his party will encounter some small streams whenever they reach the bottom of the valley, but the small stream is not big, the largest is more than two meters wide, not even twenty centimeters deep, so as long as the people on the two carts come down, the cattle will be very tolerant to pull the cart across the stream.
When the two carts arrived at Fenghuanggou, the grass and trees in Fenghuanggou had begun to sprout, and the whole valley was a thriving tender green, and the temperature in the valley was at least five or six degrees higher than that in other places, because the trees in the valley had budded, many of them had pulled out small leaves, and even some wild fruit trees had bloomed, so the air in the valley was always filled with a faint fragrance of flowers.
"Phoenix Ditch is really a treasure land, I didn't expect you kid to have this vision!" Hu Shijie waited for the cart to stop, and then said with a smile at Canghai.
"That's right, the trees around the village are plum blossoms, and the buds of the trees have just sprouted, but the Canghai side has sprouted, and it is estimated that there are more than ten days behind this season" Li Licheng crooked his ass and got off the cart with a smile.
"You two are not here to enjoy the scenery, hurry up and work," Wei Wenkui laughed and joked.
The two laughed twice when they heard this, walked to Canghai's board car and took a handle to help Canghai unload things.
There's nothing to say, everyone is here to work, although there are not many tools in Canghai, but since the old people are here to work, of course the tools or something are also brought by themselves, farming this kind of thing, the old generation is much more particular than Canghai.
Roll up your sleeves and everyone start to work, Canghai demonstrated it here, and the old masters in the village took a look at it, and everyone started to work in groups of two.
Canghai put the two baskets of soaked melon seeds, and a little green melon seeds came out of the tips of the melon seeds on the slope, so that everyone could take them at will, and he took Shi Wei to start planting melons.
Canghai stuck the awl on the ground, walked to a place two meters away after lifting it lightly, and then planted a small pit, Shi Wei bent down and threw the melon seeds in his hand into the pit, and then gently covered the pit with his feet.
Ping'an and Wu Hui were in a group, and Canghai was about four steps away from each other, and the two of them were the same, and they were safe in the pit, and Wu Hui threw melon seeds into the pit and then covered the pit.
Next to Ping'an and Wu Hui are the two brothers Li Licheng and Li Liren, and further up the slope are Hu Shijie and Li Lida, and Wei Wenkui is responsible for carrying a watering can on his back to fill the watermelon with some water, keeping the water in the soil and creating conditions for the seeds to germinate.
The melon seeds in Li Liren's hand were exhausted, and he turned his head and walked towards the basket on the ground, and when he was not close to the basket, he saw some birds with yellow heads on a green background, white circles, and a beak of about five or six centimeters long gathered around the basket, constantly pecking something in the basket.
Seeing this situation, Li Liren thought that these birds were stealing melon seeds to eat, so he immediately quickened his pace and stretched out his hands to make a yo yo sound to drive away these 'thieves'.
The 'thieves' were not afraid of Li Liren, and when they saw Li Liren pounce, they just spread their wings and jumped outside the basket, and some of the guys who had watermelon seeds in their mouths spread their wings and flew up the slope, flying to about ten meters away, pecked their pointed long beaks on the ground, and threw the watermelon seeds in their mouths.
Li Liren's eyes were very good, and when he saw that this beautiful bird was not holding melon seeds to eat, but to bury them in the soil, he shouted at the crowd: "Canghai, Canghai, come and see, this bird is burying seeds in the soil!"
Canghai had actually been waiting for someone to shout a voice for a long time, and when he heard it, he immediately leaned on the cone handle and wanted to respond.
This is actually Canghai's little plan, the night before yesterday, Canghai discussed this matter with the Tree of Life, all the birds will be planted sounds too scary, so I had to choose a bird, and then the planting does not have to be as orderly as last year, it looks more 'reasonable'.
Otherwise, a few people on his side planted thousands of acres of melons in more than a week, which would be too scary, so after the planning of Canghai and the Tree of Life, this long-beaked bird was used as a shield.
Canghai hadn't spoken yet, so peaceful that he opened his mouth: "Second Grandpa Li, you don't care about the birds, let them take them, we found out last year that these birds don't eat melon seeds, but they will bury seeds in the soil ......."
Ping An can't think of saying that all birds can be planted, and for Ping An birds are birds, regardless of what kind.
As soon as he heard Ping'an say, Canghai closed his mouth, and opened his mouth from Ping'an, the effect was much better than Canghai, because everyone felt that Ping'an was 'stupid', and for the elders in the village, the words of fools were sometimes much more credible than normal people.
Hearing Ping'an say this, the villagers in the village turned their heads to look in Li Liren's direction, and some even ran to the side to watch.
The bird species today show no regularity and are very scattered. Some of them are larger, and some places are smaller, as old crops, and soon some people discovered the lack of bird species.
"It's a mess! This watermelon seedling is about four or five steps away, and the seeds of Tozo are messy and a bit of a waste of seeds!" Wei Wenkui said.
Li Liren said with a smile: "What are you afraid of, just get rid of it when the time comes!"
Ping'an happened to come back to get the seeds at this time, and said with a smile: "Where to use a hoe, Second Brother Hai said that the seeds with strong vitality can grab the sunlight and water, and the seeds with weak vitality will die quickly, and the surviving melon seedlings are all strong, and the melons that are given are also big!"
Everyone listened to it and thought about it, and it was really like this!
"Then just let these birds grow!" Hu Shijie said as he began to ponder.
Ping'an shook his head and said: "If we don't do it, this bird will not do it, only if we plant these birds will bury seeds like this, it seems that for them, it seems like learning from us to play ......."
Hearing Ping An say this, everyone couldn't help but be amazed.
"Big guy, stop what you're doing!" Hu Shijie shouted.
Canghai heard this, so he looked at Hu Shijie with an awl.
After everyone had stopped for about five minutes, the birds flew back to the branches not far away, chirping one by one, and none of them flew into the basket to take the seeds and bury them.
"Interesting, interesting!"
A group of old people found it interesting and said one after another.
After playing two or three times in a row, a few black lines hung on Canghai's head, and he felt that these old men were really boring.
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