The road is muddy, but fortunately there are long leather boots, otherwise it would be really difficult to walk.

On both sides of Nanda Road, there is a large field, and the field is mixed with sweet potatoes and corn. The crops grown in the mountains are mainly sweet potatoes, corn and wheat, which have always been public food crops. The best land in Taohualing Village is on both sides of the river, and when there is a drought, water can be pumped from the river to irrigate the land, and these fields have always been wheat fields. The fields around the village are mostly used to grow corn, and the distant mountains are mainly used to grow sweet potatoes.

There are not many fields in Taohualing Village where wheat and corn can be grown, so for a long time, the staple food of Taohualing Village villagers was sweet potato flour pancakes.

Before the use of advanced seeds and chemical fertilizers, the yield of wheat per mu in mountainous areas like Taohualing Village was very low, and the average yield per mu was only about 400 catties. Twenty years ago, when the production was not yet available to households, the grain output in the collective communes was even lower, and the number of cases in which the people could eat steamed bread and dumplings all year round was counted.

Compared to wheat, corn and sweet potatoes are much more productive. Especially sweet potatoes, it is normal to have a yield of four or five thousand catties per mu, and even the new varieties of later generations can yield more than 16,7800 catties per mu.

What's more, sweet potatoes are drought and waterlogging resistant, especially suitable for mountain planting.

It can be said that if human beings had not discovered sweet potatoes, a mountainous area like Taohualing Village would be very unsuitable for human habitation, and the population capacity of the entire Luzhong City would have been reduced by more than 80 percent compared with the current one.

Sweet potatoes are a great discovery, and Chen Yi introduced this kind of thing from Annan in the eighth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, and he should definitely be given a big certificate.

There are about 1,000 acres of this whole field, of which more than 600 acres are collectively contracted to individuals, and another 400 acres are the land that the people of Taohualing Village have opened up after the production has been contracted to the households.

All the land was dug out by ordinary people with a shovel and a shovel, and until 2006, Wu Lao Er still liked to open up land on Wujiayuzi Mountain.

For the land opened by individuals, there are provisions in the policy that the rights must be confirmed in the county-level government. Most people think that whoever reclaims the four wastes should be operated by whom, so there are more than 400 acres of wasteland in the village, but by 2003 there has been no trouble.

After the four wastelands were reclaimed into fields, later in 2012, the Wu family in Dazhai Village wanted to buy Wujiayuzi as a cemetery, and then dealt with many ordinary people who opened up the wasteland, and the compensation standard was 10,000 yuan per mu of land at that time. However, the Wu family in Dazhai Village didn't want much land, so they asked for more than a dozen acres, built a road, and asked for some land at the foot of the mountain.

In the fields on this side of Nandaji, you can't go in and make trouble after it rains. When it rains, the soil is so soft that people can sink their whole feet into the mud when they step into it, and then if they walk through the ground, the crops along the way will suffer.

If you want to pick "land", you need to go to the slope of Wujiayuzi Mountain.

Now the entire Wujiayuzi Mountain has been contracted by the Wang family, and then the mountain is enclosed with barbed wire, so now Wang Shaodong doesn't have to worry about the "land" on the mountain being snatched away by others, and then when the two of them walk, they are not in a hurry.

The two talked very speculatively along the way, and Wang Shaodong found that when he chatted with Wang Meina, he always made himself feel very happy.

When he arrived at the foot of Wujiayuzi Mountain, Wang Shaodong looked up and saw that there was water overflowing on the rubber dam, so he became anxious.

"Sister, you go to the mountains to pick up the land by yourself, and I'll go to the top of the reservoir to take a look. ”

Wang Shaodong quickened his pace, and behind him, Wang Meina took another road, on the grassy hillside, and began to look for "land". This delicious mushroom likes to grow on dry grass piles, and when you find it, it is often a piece.

Wang Shaodong suspects that the extinction of this thing from his previous life to 2006 may be related to those highly toxic pesticides.

Not to mention "land", during the period from 2006 to 2012, when highly toxic pesticides were rampant, even sparrows in rural areas decreased significantly. Later, I don't know if it was because of the resistance of these animals, or the amount of pesticides used, that the sparrows began to increase again. However, such a thing as "land" has become extinct in Gangcheng County.

Wang Shaodong very much hopes that Wang Meina can pick more "land" to satisfy her hunger. But now he was more concerned about the fish fry in the reservoir, so he hurried to the edge of the reservoir.

There was still a light rain in the sky, and Wu Lao Er was still listening to the radio in the caretaker's hut, which was playing "Little Bayi" said by Tian Lianyuan.

"Second grandfather, what are you listening to?"

"Listen, why are you still here when the road is so slippery?"

After entering the house, Wang Shaodong smelled a strong smell of sour pancakes, mixed with some leek flower sauce. This is the season to make leek flower sauce, spread a layer on the pancakes, and then roll a green onion, which is the best delicacy for the farmers in the mountains. Of course, if you don't like spicy food, if you eat it like this, you will be dizzy and dizzy when you look back.

"Oh, second grandfather, mine look at my fry, have they flowed out of the dam. ”

Wang Shaodong walked around the house, and then found a stick.

"If it goes down again, the water will overflow the barrage, and it won't be strange that it will run away then. ”

Wang Shaodong nodded and went out. Later, Wu Lao Er also followed.

Although Wu Lao Er was recruited by the Wang family, his old sheep herding skills have not been lost, next to the house watching the reservoir, Wu Lao Er built a shed with tree branches, and his dozen sheep are now in the shed. It was raining all the time, and the sheep in the shed couldn't eat the grass outside, so they could only eat the dry sweet potato seedlings, and they raised their heads and shouted twice with many complaints. Wu Lao Er came out of the house, looked up, and found that this light rain should not affect the sheep herding, so he shouted at Wang Shaodong: "Dongzi, I'm going to herd the sheep, there is water in the thermos bottle in the house, you come to drink water when you are thirsty." "It's raining, but it's hot and humid, and thirst is inevitable.

Wang Shaodong answered, and then walked along the stone dam to the edge of the rubber dam.

Wang Shaodong bought two rubber dams, of which the west one was installed slightly higher than the east one by thirty or forty centimeters, so that the rubber dam on the east side naturally became an overflow hole.

The rubber dam was the lowest in the middle, and some water overflowed and flowed down from there.

Walking to the place where the water flowed, Wang Shaodong saw many small fish running upstream to the current, that is, in the reservoir.

Wang Shaodong thought to himself: It's broken, the fish really ran away.