Chapter Seventy-Five: Sowing the Seeds
The problem was successfully solved, so everyone spent two more days taking advantage of the break between work to dig out a few pieces of land in the wheat field, planning to wait for the seedlings to come out and transplant the past. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info now the temperature difference between morning and evening is still very large, plus I am worried that there will be a "cold spring", and then there will be a heavy loss, grandpa spread straw on the planted seeds, sprinkled water to moisturize. Next, you should always pay attention to the germination of the seeds, and once they appear, they should be propped up with slices and covered with straw. If the temperature is too high during the day, remove it in time and cover it back at night.
It would be much more convenient if there was a plastic film, but unfortunately it has not been listed in large quantities now, and it is a high-tech product that is expensive. But fortunately, the farmer has time to be attentive to it, as long as he is not lazy, nothing will happen. A point of hard work and a harvest is a farming affair that was originally said. Especially in the seed stage, it is necessary to take care of it. Recently, the commune has also been very busy, although the call for the division of land to households is getting louder and louder, everyone is always a little affected, and the work is not as active as before. But as a farmer, you can't watch the land be barren and delay the farming time. That's a crime.
Farmers cherish and love this land immensely, and they must find a way to cultivate it no matter what time it is. They would not have imagined that just over 20 years later, the entire countryside would be abandoned on a large scale. When the income from farming is no longer enough to meet the needs of life, and there are more and more temptations from outside, young people will no longer be able to keep the fields honestly like their ancestors. They gave up the hoe and had their own exclusive title - migrant workers.
Young people are dismissive of farming, and they really don't have the ability to mix around with nothing to do outside, rather than go back to the countryside to learn farming. Because then you will be looked down upon and ridiculed by your peers. I have to say that this is the sorrow of the whole society, when the profession of farmers has been disliked to this point, we rely on the basic survival of the basic will be shaken.
Every time my fathers dragged their old bodies to do farm work that was already too heavy for them, they always worried about who would inherit the land in the future, who would cultivate it? They looked bitterly at the cultivated land that had to be abandoned, and watched the land change from three seasons a year to one season a year, and they were still so perfunctory. All that's left is to sigh.
A cycle of decades, this seems to be a fatalistic circulation. When the state was first founded, the promised policy of "cracking down on local tyrants and dividing the land" was implemented, confiscating the landlords' land, abolishing the land system of feudal exploitation, implementing the land system in which the cultivators had their own land, and distributing the land equally according to the rural population. As a result, the rulers found that in less than a decade, the land had been concentrated in the hands of a few people in various ways, and many peasants had lost their land again. From 1958 to 1959, during the period of the Great Famine, everyone came together to re-collectivize and publicize the land.
However, after surviving three years of natural disasters, the result of cultivating the commons was that the peasants did not have a direct sense of responsibility, the enthusiasm for production was not high, and social slackness occurred. When an individual thinks that his or her work has been lost to the group, he or she slacks off in the group. This may also explain the dramatic increase in grain production after the package is delivered to households. Therefore, when this model came to an end, the state had to change and redistribute the land, and the countryside returned to the traditional model of small farming and small family management. This was good in the environment at the time, but it was still the old saying, "If you cross the food and clothing line in one year, you will not be rich in 20 years".
Small-scale farming and the dispersion of land meant that the output of the land itself was very limited, and the price of agricultural products, especially food, remained low at that time, and the value that farmers obtained from small plots of land was also very small. This is also the biggest crux of the current rural problem, and later it has to be changed, and a new land circulation has begun, and a large amount of land has been concentrated again, but this time it is contracted by private individuals, imitating the foreign farm model. Centralize land management in order to maximize profits.
This year is still in the first year of the third change in the nature of the land, and except for Yang Xiaobei, everyone knows nothing about the future generations. Everyone is busy for this year's spring ploughing, and the plan of the year lies in spring, although it is not the busiest season, but it is the most important. Regardless of whether next year's land is public or private, whether this year's harvest is good or not depends on these few days.
Generally speaking, the spring sowing time is in mid to late March, because now we have to plant two crops of rice in the morning and evening, and the harvest of early rice can not be later than August, and the latest needs to be harvested at the end of July, otherwise it will affect the growth cycle of late rice. Therefore, the time is probably at this stage, and according to the temperature, solar terms, etc., the experienced old farmers and the leaders of the commune decide when to soak the seeds, when to soak the fields, when to raise seedlings, and when to transplant. This is a profound technology, if you are not a top student of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, you will not be able to master it if you have not taken root in the countryside for 20 years.
Grandpa and second uncle go out early and return late every day, busy. Yang Xiaobei finally went home once, of course, he used this time to wash and dry at home, and make a good meal for his family every day. By the way, under the devil's training of her mother, she successfully mastered the technique of sewing quilts, please appreciate!
Two days passed quickly, and God asked her to clean up and dry the house inside and out. As a result, on the day of their return, they suddenly turned around and it started to rain.
Spring rains are as precious as oil, and it is better to sow seeds and have a rain in the last one, otherwise you have to carry water every day to water them. But Yang Xiaobei and the others were more unlucky, although her mother arrived in the morning, although she had an umbrella, her pants were all soaked, and as for the shoes, she didn't wear them, and she went barefoot.
You must know that the temperature in March is still very low, not to mention that there is a cooling and rain, only about a dozen degrees, Yang Xiaobei is afraid of the cold, and put on a small padded jacket, and then Mom, you told me to walk barefoot?
Seeing Yang Xiaobei looking at herself incredulously, Yi Huifen laughed angrily. How many months has it been? Others have been working in the fields all the time, but they are just walking barefoot, is it necessary to have a look like the sky is falling? Although the girl should be a little arrogant, Xiaobei is too squeamish like this! The mountain road is muddy and difficult to walk, and the distance is long, it is impossible to wear clogs, let alone other shoes, and the mud can stick the soles of the shoes off after a few steps.
What? You say bicycle? Even if it's a 28-bar bar, the fender on the bike will be covered with mud for a mile, and you won't be able to move when the time comes. No way, the mountains here are full of sticky dirt, basically everything is sticky except that your feet are not sticky. Even if there are rain boots in the future, the locals have experience, and after walking for a while, you have to find a small wooden stick, stop and scrape off the mud on the boots a little before walking, otherwise the feet will be too heavy and it will be too laborious to walk.