Chapter 51: The Reservoir is Dry

After the autumn harvest, the rapeseed seedlings in the dry land are almost ten centimeters deep. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoAt this time, Zhang Tao's family went out with the whole rice field, digging ditches and digging pits. Several other families in the bay who agreed to plant rape also came to Zhang Tao's house to help, and after learning from their experience, they were able to plant in their own paddy fields.

"Your Xiaotao knows a lot, not only is he good at reading, but he is also a good at doing things." The old village chief took out his dry tobacco stick, and said to Zhang Tao's grandfather with emotion while putting on the tobacco, Zhang Tao's grandfather is also helping now.

"At our age, we were all busy by ourselves at that age, and he was nothing." Zhang Tao's grandfather took a puff of dry smoke and said with a smile, but the smug look in his eyes could not be concealed, and he looked at Zhang Tao with satisfaction talking about how to operate.

At first, it felt difficult to grow rape without guidance and didn't know how to operate, but after really figuring it out, it was actually very simple. Divide a paddy field into several pieces of the same width, dig a drainage ditch about 30 or 40 centimeters wide and high in the middle, and put the excavated soil directly on the soil beds on both sides.

After the ditch is dug on the top of the soil bed according to the row spacing and spacing to dig a small pit, basically with a hoe a hoe down is almost good, and then hoe off the weeds on the soil bed slightly, rape seedlings directly plug in with soil to fix the roots.

If you pay attention to it, turn over the paddy field, and then divide the soil into pieces and dig holes, so that the growth of rape can be better, but it is too labor-intensive and time-consuming.

After the rape seedlings really grow, start fertilizing, put some urea in each pit, put some farm fertilizer, you can do it, just like planting radish. At other times, you don't have to deal with it like this, even pesticides are saved, and it is good to remove the grass a little and wait for the next year's harvest.

After the dozen or so families in Zhangjiawan planted all the rapeseed, the rest of the team did not react, and the captains of the other production teams did not say how many of them were moved, so as soon as the statistics were counted, the twelve production teams in the village completed the task in Zhangjiawan, or overfulfilled, and the faces of the cadres of the brigade were black.

At this time, the captains of the other production teams also felt quite faceless, and they were reprimanded by the village party secretary. It's just that the entire team is just one female captain, and the others are all big men, even if they feel uncomfortable, they are embarrassed to express their dissatisfaction to Zhang Tao's mother, but they are all slandered in their hearts.

They all saw the rapeseed planting in Zhangjiawan, so they just sorted out the rape in the paddy field and planted it. They are all good at farming, in their concept, such rape is completely for the sake of saving face and finishing the task, how can there be a harvest, it is estimated that it will be a joke at that time, and it will also harm the villagers.

However, things did not seem to develop as they thought, and after more than a month, all the rape in the paddy field was growing very well, and the green patches seemed to be growing very well. At this time, some people began to regret it, knowing that growing rape was so simple, and they should have agreed to try to plant some in the first place.

It's just that most people still don't think so, I don't know how to harvest this thing after planting, I heard that it can be squeezed oil, but can the squeezed oil be eaten? In addition, the winter in Shonan is cold and wet, and the paddy fields at this time are often flooded, and it is not certain that the rape will be drowned in the water.

And it will snow in winter, and this rape is not a frost-resistant vegetable like cabbage radish or something, and it may not be necessary to freeze to death. These still have to wait for the verification of time, but Zhang Tao knows that the people in the countryside are actually very practical, and if no one guides them or something, they will definitely not accept some good things, and they will resist.

Originally, they couldn't make much money from farming in a year, and they would definitely not do it if they were tossed blindly. But if someone takes the lead, and then grows something that has a real effect, they will be willing to do it without fines. So all this will change next spring, so that not only Zhangjiawan, but also the rest of the villagers in the entire brigade will be willing to plant rapeseed.

For Zhang Tao's family, growing rape is just a small matter, and their ducks have already begun to lay eggs during the autumn harvest, as are their chickens. The eggs laid by the newly grown chickens and ducks are very small at the beginning, and these eggs are not easy to sell or cannot be sold, so their family eats eggs every day during this time, and eats eggs at meals.

Boiled poached eggs, fried eggs with broken eggs, and steamed water eggs, every day to change the pattern for them to eat, after eating for more than a week, the three brothers and sisters are really tired of eating, almost to the point where they want to go when they smell the fragrance of eggs. Zhang Tao is the one who has persisted for the longest time, because their chickens and ducks are free-range, and the eggs laid are also very fragrant, but they can't stand eating every day, and they have no appetite when they eat too much.

But at this time, the eggs have basically become normal size, and they can be taken out. And Zhang Tao's chickens can also be sold, and they are sold with castrated roosters. On Zhang Tao's side, ordinary people raise chickens like this. Except for a few particularly good roosters to breed, the rest will be castrated, so that the chickens can grow bigger and are easy to sell.

Zhang Tao's chickens were not sold at the market, and the monkey chatted with his co-workers casually and said that there were people in their village who raised a lot of chickens and ducks, and the people in the mine would often follow the monkeys to buy a few when they needed them, and the eggs and duck eggs were also, except for a small amount sold to nearby villagers, most of them were consumed by the people in the mine.

There are several mining areas in the state-owned coal mines, and people in many mining areas have interconnected information, and when the monkeys and their people in the mining area buy more, people in other mining areas will know about it.

Before the Chinese New Year, Zhang Tao's chickens were almost sold, and his family harvested thousands of yuan, plus the money for eggs, almost 5,000. And that's not counting the fish in the reservoir and the more than 20 pigs in the pig pens, which can be sold by the end of the year.

At this time, the people in Zhangjiawan began to envy Zhang Tao's family, when Zhang Tao's mother contracted the reservoir in the team, everyone thought Zhang Cuihua was a little stupid, and now they found that people have accurate vision, and they have long taken a fancy to the reservoir where it is convenient to raise poultry and livestock, and the annual income from these is enough to contract the reservoir for several years.

However, at this time, Zhang Tao's folk customs are not bad, and the villagers in the village do not have pink eye or anything like that. For Zhang Tao's family to earn money, people in the bay will only say that Zhang Tao's mother has vision and ability, and she is full of envy. The most is just "the ancestral tomb of the Zhang family is smoking!" ā€

But after a few years, the people around here became weird, everything was staring at money, and there was pink eye, and I couldn't see anyone else making money. Sometimes other people's breeding is not to put medicine in other people's reservoirs, or to steal other people's fish, chickens and ducks, or to deliberately engage in some sabotage or something.

In fact, this situation is not only like Zhang Tao, but almost the whole society is like this after a few years. Because the leaders called on us to look at money, and the special years have distorted some people's hearts, the whole society is changing at a speed that can be seen with the naked eye.

Those who were mobilized by Zhang Tao's mother to grow rape saw the changes in Zhang Tao's family, as well as the growth of rape in the paddy field getting better and better. The confidence in the rape he planted with him also became sufficient, and all the money for the rape seeds was handed over to Zhang Tao's mother.

Zhang Cuihua was still very happy that these people could pay the money, and Zhang Tao pulled her mouth on the side. The Long March has just begun, and when my mother speaks in the bay, the whole village will follow, and then the life of my village tyrant will become more realistic.

When the family started selling chickens, Zhang Tao's mother bought a vegetable oil press and a pumping machine from the city and came back, spending more than 1,000 yuan. The oil press is installed in the house in their bay, where it is easy to get in and out, and there is enough space for the next year's rapeseed extraction.

Then he hired a few laborers from the bay, plus Zhang Tao's aunt and his wife, and began to renovate the reservoir. At this time, the water in the reservoir has been dried up because of the dry weather and because the surrounding paddy fields are no longer water, and it is the best time to renovate the reservoir.

The first is to divide the reservoir into five parts, which was planned when the reservoir was contracted, and then the perimeter of the reservoir should be repaired, which is more conducive to the future reservoir breeding. Dividing the reservoir into five parts is a big project, first of all, according to the pre-planned size, with trees piled, after driving two rows of stumps, throw some branches and miscellaneous trees into the middle, so that people will not step on them and not completely sink into the water, and then start filling in the soil.

After filling in a reservoir, the isolated reservoir was immediately pumped with a pumping machine, and at this time, everyone in the bay, including the original old captain, suddenly realized. It turned out that Zhang Tao's mother even had this idea, so that after the reservoir was dried up, the water in the reservoir itself was not reduced, so it was not considered that the water in the reservoir was not discharged, and the people around him had no opinions.

In fact, the more important surprise is still to come, but it has not yet been manifested at this time. The reservoir was divided into five pieces, and the middle one was the big surprise, because the place where it had sunk was there, but that place had to be left until the end to dry up. The harvest after the water in the four corners is drained is not small, and it is more than enough to earn back the money from the contracted reservoir.

Because the silt in the reservoir had to be cleared out and filled in all the surrounding embankments, a lot of loaches and yellow eels were caught in it, and a single corner was sold for more than 2,000 yuan. And Zhang Tao's mother is also very good at being a person, every fish from the reservoir will be given a share to the people in the bay, and the old man will have more.

Then several cadres of the brigade and Wang Zhongqiu's family will also send a little, these are necessary to live in the countryside, if their family is more powerful, it doesn't matter if they do it or not. However, Zhang Tao's mother's current behavior is still very popular, so that the people around her praise her very much, and she is embarrassed to show a little unhappiness.