A few days later, the rice seedlings that Steward Zhou helped them find were delivered. It's just a pick, it's really not much, but it's neatly tied, and it's obvious that it has just been pulled from the ground.

"This is a rice seedling. How to plant it? Ah Hao asked curiously. It was the first time he had seen rice seedlings, so he even dropped his books and came to see them.

"Let's go, get down to the ground." Geng Qiu took the lead, picked up the seedlings and left, and the field had already been prepared. It's just that he doesn't know how many seedlings there are, and there is no water in the field, but his family's land was originally not far from the water's edge, and now he only needs to build a field stalk, store a little water, and insert the seedlings into the thin mud.

Not to mention that Ah Hao is curious, the people in the whole village are curious, and everyone has come to see the excitement. None of the people here have ever grown rice, and they have almost never seen rice grown. Everyone planted all dry fields, not paddy fields. As soon as Geng Qiu's family started to build a field and release water, everyone began to talk about it.

After the water was placed, Geng Qiu and the third uncle went down to the field first, took a shovel and a wooden rake to clean up the mud in the paddy field, and let the water soak the soil. Because there are not many seedlings in the first place, the paddy field they have prepared is about one acre in size. Geng Qiu was estimated by seedlings.

After preparing the field and then starting to plant seedlings, Geng Qiu remembers the scene of planting seedlings when he was a child. In each field, everyone inserts a vertical row according to a certain width in advance, and calls for rowing. Then each person starts to insert in a row according to the place where the line is played. It is necessary to pay attention to neatness, and the number of seedlings planted in each handful should be about the same. So he went first. Untie a large handful of seedlings, tear them into five or six small handfuls, and insert them into the thin mud. This action seems simple, but in fact, it is still a little difficult, if you insert it deeply, the water will drown the seedlings, and the seedlings will die. If it is shallow, it will not work, and the seedlings will float up from the mud, which is useless.

Geng Qiu hadn't done this kind of work for many years, in fact, even before, he had only learned to do it a little. This kind of work is generally done by women, because women are dexterous and fast, and men are generally picking seedlings for them, or throwing handfuls of seedlings to women planting seedlings in the middle of the field, because these jobs require more strength, rather than speed and dexterity.

Don't look at the fact that there is only more than one acre of land, Geng Qiu, plus the third uncle and three aunts, and even Ah Hao have gone to the ground. The four of them worked for most of the day, until it was completely dark, and then they barely finished inserting. It also made everyone so tired that they couldn't straighten their waists. That's not all, at the beginning, several people went down to the field to learn how to plant a few seedlings, which can be regarded as a lot of work for them.

"Ouch, this job is not easy to do, you have to keep bending over and bowing your head, the mud is not as dry as the ground, and sometimes it will be silted when you step on it." The third aunt sighed.

"The most annoying thing is that there are leeches in this field, which suck a lot of my blood." Ah Hao viciously pinched a leech that was about to suck blood from his feet, and pulled the leech into several pieces with all his might.

"It's useless. The life of a leech is very long, and it will grow well. When we were children, we played with leeches, but we wore them upside down with bamboo skewers, put them in the sun and dried them violently, and then they died, and then they all dried up. It seems that this is still a medicinal herb. Geng Qiu also pinched a leech down from his calf.

"Don't bother so much, throw it in the fire and burn it, I don't believe it can't be burned to death." The third uncle smiled. Fortunately, everyone is a person who has seen leeches, otherwise, they would not dare to go to the field, but now it is good, all the calves and feet are sucked by leeches and bleeding everywhere. Although the wounds are small, they look quite scary. Brother Ning saw it for the first time, and his face turned white with fright. However, he doesn't have to go to the field, and has been taking care of Ah Niu on the shore. When the sun was about to set, Ah Hao asked the third aunt to take the two children home first, and the third aunt also had to go back to cook first, and also go home to take care of the ducklings and sheep.

"Ouch, I've seen some women plant seedlings before, and they have to plant them in several rows in one breath before they straighten up and take a breath. Like us, we have to rest a few times, the action is slow, and some are too shallow to insert and need to be reinserted, this acre of land takes more time than others to insert five acres of land. Geng Qiu said, beating his waist with his backhand, his back was sore, and he was about to straighten up.

When he was a child, he saw a lot of rice planting experts, at that time, every family had to have six or seven acres of paddy fields, when planting rice, they were all three or five families working together, and after planting one today, another one would be planted tomorrow. Six or seven acres of land, only seven or eight people, or even five or six people, can be planted in one day. Everyone had to plant all the seedlings in a hurry, so everyone was fast, and there were some very fast masters, and every family loved to ask them to help. Planting rice for other people's families, the host's family is entertained with good food and food. At that time, the countryside was poor, and on this day, the main family would also buy fish and cut meat, and make a decent meal to entertain everyone.

"It's okay, this is done, it won't be as slow as it is today. In the future, if you plug in too much, you can also ask the villagers to help. If it were just a few of us, it would only be three or five more days. The third uncle smiled. Although he was tired, it was still within the range he could accept. What's more, who in the village doesn't go down to the ground at dawn and go home to rest at night.

When I got home, there was a pungent smell of meat from the kitchen, Ah Hao didn't care about taking a bath first, ran into the kitchen, and asked, "Third aunt, I fried meat today, it's really fragrant." "There has been no big piece of fried meat in the family for a while.

"Go wash it. In a quarter of an hour you will be able to eat. As soon as the third aunt came back, she boiled hot water first. At this time, I was still taking care of two stoves, one pot was stir-frying, and the other pot was cooking. She was so busy that she boiled two eggs for the two children to pad their stomachs, and she couldn't wait to grow eight hands.

Although the greenhouse did not burn later, Geng Qiu did not give up raising some vegetable seedlings first, so the vegetable field behind his house now bears the first fresh vegetables such as cucumbers, peppers, and small greens in the village, and other people's vegetable gardens are now full of vegetable seedlings that are two fingers long. However, it is the end of spring, and many people are directly picking some wild vegetables and coming back to eat, so everyone is not short of vegetables to eat.

Today, the third aunt specially picked a few handfuls of tender wild celery at the edge of the field, and she was making bacon and fried wild celery at this time. She also picked a few tender cucumbers and prepared to make a cold cucumber. At this time, he handed it directly to Ah Hao. Ah Hao took the cucumber and went to the clean room to take a bath while eating.

Ah Hao finished washing, then Geng Qiu, and then the third uncle, and when the three of them were washed, the third aunt's meals were all cooked. The whole family was tired and hungry. A pot of brown rice with three dishes, the dish with bacon is particularly delicious, and of course, the cold cucumber is also very good. Because I don't have time to hunt, my family still eats bacon stored in the winter. No matter how much inventory there is, it can't stand up to a long time, and when eating, the third uncle and three aunts try not to eat the meat, just eating vegetables, Ah Hao frowned, and asked, "Is there no meat to eat at home?" Is there enough food? ”

"There are still 100 catties of grain, and there are still two pieces of meat, which is almost 10 catties." The third aunt said. During the busy farming season, the family began to eat three meals, and because they did more physical work, the amount of food they ate also increased, and the consumption of this food increased greatly.

"It seems that we have to go into the mountains to hunt some wild animals and come back, and while the weather is not very hot, we can still pickle them and eat them slowly." Ah Hao said.

"Where do you have time?" Geng Qiu asked rhetorically. It's not that he doesn't know the situation at home, but it's really because Ah Hao is also the most nervous now, and he doesn't dare to bother him with these things.

"I'm not in a hurry for the next few days. It's the food that matters. In the day after tomorrow, it will be hot, and even if you hit the prey, you won't be able to eat much. It's not that you have to exchange it cheaply for the villagers. Ah Hao said. Although he still had more than 300 taels of silver on hand, he didn't dare to spend it at will. After all, he now has to spend one or two taels of silver a month just for pen, ink and paper, and don't go out for the exam twice in advance, which time will not cost twenty or thirty taels of silver. Although he is very economical, he will not be a poor student like Ah Xuan, who is reluctant to eat, and several people live together. So his flowers are relatively large. When he goes out, he won't be too wronged by himself. After all, I am going to take the exam, and I can't be sloppy in terms of food and housing, and I can't lose a big one because of a small thing.

Last time, there was a young student named Liu Zhihua, because he didn't have extra money in his hand, he lived in Datongpu, he couldn't sleep well every night, and he still had gruel and pickles every day, and he was pale and crumbling after three days. Later, Ah Hao found him privately and lent him a tael of silver to let him eat first. At first, the man still refused to ask for it, so Ah Hao said: "If you keep up, will you still be able to finish this exam?" Do you want to wait another year next year? "Wait one more year, that flower won't cost a tael of silver.

Liu Zhihua thought about it seriously, thanked him for a long time, and said, "Thank you Gongzi for mentioning it, my family is poor." I'm afraid it's going to take a long time to pay you back. ”

Ah Hao smiled: "It's just a tael of silver, and I'm not in a hurry to use it." Don't wear down your body, what's the use of high school then? ”

Liu Zhihua took the silver, and sure enough, he began to eat an extra steamed bun for every meal, and occasionally added a small dish, and stayed together for almost a month, Liu Zhihua's body became a lot better because of these two silvers. I also did well in the exams. Ah Hao is not a person who talks a lot, but now he is consciously taking over more people. However, this Liu Zhihua also cast his eyes, and he also had one more person who could speak, although the two are not friends at present. As a father-in-law of A Hao, it is not easy to find a few people who can speak among students. After all, there is a difference between a husband and a man, and if you don't get it right, you will make some trouble.

"Meat, eat meat." Ah Niu shouted. This little kid can speak very clearly now, but he still can't say sentences, and he can say simple words. Don't look at him small, but he loves to eat meat and fish, not vegetables. As soon as he heard the meat, he screamed, which made Ah Hao feel more and more sad, as if he, the father, couldn't even satisfy his son wanting to eat some meat.

"Okay, in two days, Dad will get you a lot of meat to eat. Let Ah Niu eat to his heart's content. Ah Hao smiled, and sandwiched a small piece of semi-fat meat and fed it to Ah Niu. Recently, the living standard of the family has been declining, unlike the New Year's period, every day is a big bowl of meat and big pieces of fish, which makes the child hungry for meat. Apparently it's out of stock. The amount of chewing used by the family is still very large. They are all pot-bellied men. Ah Hao Geng Qiu didn't talk about it, they were all masters who could eat three bowls in one meal, and the third uncle was not smaller than them, Ah Niu and Ning Ge'er had to make some fine food for them alone. The three aunts in the family ate less, but when they got busy, they did more work and put more effort into it, and even the three aunts ate two big bowls today. There is a bowl of meat on the table, which is obviously not enough to eat.