As the saying goes, the tree is divided, and the big man is divided.

Although Niu Tiangou and Teresa Teng disagreed, after the beginning of the year, at the urging of their father, Niu Tiangou and his parents still separated.

Dad said, "Can you still live with the old man for the rest of your life?" You have to learn how to run a house, right? ”

After a while, Niu Tiangou bought a small piglet from the pig market, put it in the pigsty, and began to feed it scientifically while reading the book given to him by "Pile Pile".

After a while, Teresa Teng bought back two yellow geese and 20 fluffy chicks from the market.

After a period of scientific feeding, the piglet grew red, oily and slippery, greedy for food and sleep, and occasionally sprinkled a burst of joy in the circle.

The geese and chicks are even more lively and cute, running around the house and the threshing field, like a flock of fluffy balls rolling happily on the ground. The goose was a little larger, as if it were their leader, and the chick followed them closely around them, not leaving a single step. Teresa Teng regularly sprinkled fine rice on them, changed the water, raised them carefully, and took care of them like her own children.

The couple began to live a happy farm life.

Although he only planted 1.2 acres of land, he had to do every farm work after separating from his parents, firstly, his parents were old, he did not want to trouble them, and secondly, he also wanted to learn to arrange farming according to the season.

In this year, Niu Tiangou held a chalk in one hand and a hoe in the other, and experienced the hardships of peasant life in the tiredness.

At the turn of March and April, the frog drums suddenly sounded, and the rape flowers were golden. In his spare time, Niu Tiangou rolled up his trouser legs, got barefoot, and began to learn to soak seeds, and went to the field to smear mud and arrange the seedbed.

At the end of April, Niu Tiangou was covered in muddy land and harrowed the fields, and pulled seedlings and planted seedlings in the field with Teresa Teng, until he was so tired that his back hurt and his eyes were dizzy.

In mid-June, the seedlings are growing vigorously, and the eyes are full of green.

Every time Niu Tiangou carries a shovel to check the seedling water in the field or carries a sprayer to spray the seedlings with pesticides, he likes to come to the high pond dam and sit down to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the field.

As far as the eye can see, the verdant and turquoise are all covered with brocade and embroidery, and the villages near and far are all wrapped in green and shaded, just like the green islands on the blue waves of the Yanghai Sea, and the scenery is poetic and picturesque. Sometimes, a cloud floats in the sky, and a "yin" walks on the ground, adding a wonderful dynamic to this splendid beauty.

Intoxicated by the beautiful scenery in front of him, Niu Tiangou couldn't help but sigh in his heart: labor creates a new world, and farmers are the hardest working painters on this earth!

Thinking of this, the backache in the past seems to be nothing. In fact, his tired body from farming has long since melted and disappeared in Teresa Teng's gentle embrace......

Niu Tiangou slowly took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a comfortable puff: "Huh-"

Unconsciously, he remembered Tang Xiaoping from Xiangliu County, Jiangnan Province. What is she doing now? Maybe busy next to the loom? If he had chosen her, he would not have had to work so hard in the mud and water, and he might be leaning on the bedside in reverie now, or lying on the table quietly writing his poetry and prose......

And that Wu Lanlan in Wupu Town, is she living well? Maybe you're married, right? If he had chosen her, he wouldn't have had to carry a shovel and roll his trouser legs in the field to check the seedlings, or carry a heavy sprayer to spray pesticides and insects in the field......

I didn't expect to choose the girl and choose her future lifestyle.

But Niu Tiangou doesn't seem to regret his original choice.

Teresa Teng's sweet smiling face and lively personality are destined to become the source of eternal happiness in his life and the spiritual home of his soul. Although the body is a little tired, but the spirit is happy, he understands that the human body is governed by the mind, as long as the heart is not tired, no matter how hard and tired the body is, it can be soothed and released......

Late July is the most difficult time to "double grab". Because the season waits for no one, the rush to harvest early rice and the rush to transplant late rice must be completed in this short period of time. After finishing their own work, the brothers and sisters have to help their parents.

The first is "snatching".

I got up at 5 a.m. and didn't go home until 8 a.m. for breakfast;

Then I started at 9 a.m. and worked until 1 p.m. for lunch. The sun is hot at noon, and the temperature is above 40 degrees. When the sun in the sky spewed "flames" like crazy, a wave of heat rushed to the face, and the whole field was like a boundless brick kiln that burned through, scorching people breathlessly

"On the afternoon of the day of the grain cutting, the sweat drips like rain. Set up a steamer under your feet and roast sweet potatoes on your back. "I kept bending over and leaning over, swinging the rice sickle endlessly, I was so tired that I couldn't straighten my waist, I couldn't open my eyes so hot, and I felt dizzy.

After lunch, I started at 2:30 p.m. and went home at 19:30 p.m.

After 12 hours of hard work, at the end of the day, I suffered from low back pain, leg pain, sore arms, and was paralyzed when I sat down.

After the "snatching".

Get up in the morning and go to the field to pull seedlings, and after breakfast, Niu Tiangou picks seedlings, and then helps Teresa Teng plant seedlings. For a long time, he leaned down in the paddy field to plant seedlings, his hands were like chickens pecking rice, his body was like a full bow, and his waist was as sore as a knife and a saw.

At noon, the water in the paddy field is very shallow, the sun is shining, the white is bright, the water temperature is as high as 40~50 degrees, the bow is in the paddy field, the poisonous sun roasts the back, and the heart is stuffy and short. The uncomfortable thirst makes people forget the hygiene of tea, and after raising their necks and "gurgling" to drink it, the tea quickly turns into sweat, soaks through their clothes, and after a while, a large salt stain is baked on their backs......

Niu Tiangou returned home, his thighs and lumbar muscles were like heart-piercing pain, and he had to support the bench with his hands when he sat down and stood up, and he didn't dare to bend over anymore, if he hadn't endured the soreness of his right arm and pinched himself a few times from time to time, he would have been unable to support it.

Teresa Teng was so hot that her throat was smoking, so she went to the village Dai store to buy a few popsicles, sat down and nibbled on them......

Nima, Mr. Teach, doing farm work, that's just deadly.

He really doesn't know whether what he said in front of Uncle Taurus at the beginning, "I want to pursue my own happy love and happy life in the twists and turns and tribulations, and I don't want to be too dull and too smooth, because only after the tribulation can I experience the ups and downs of life" is right or wrong.

In addition to the "sweet and sweet" at night, the life of this day is really "sour", "bitter" and bubbling, and "spicy" enough.

In August, after the "rushing" is completed, it is time to pick up the "grass heads" (bundles of rice) that are resting on the ridges. The field is two or three miles away from home, and a load of nearly 200 catties of grass has to be carried home in one go, and the road cannot rest (the rice will be scattered all over the ground when it rests).

Teresa Teng also wanted to help pick up a few burdens, but Niu Tiangou refused to let her, because picking grass is mostly a man's business, besides, she has never done it in her mother's house, and her delicate body must not be able to stand it.

After picking the grass, Niu Tiangou's shoulders were red and swollen, and the pain was unbearable.

This is followed by "Milling". They took apart the grass and spread it on the threshing floor, and after drying it, they drove the oxen to pull the stones and roll them round and round on them, like a donkey pulling a mill.

After milling, the milled rice is turned and sunburned. Sometimes when it rains while turning the sun, I have to rush to pack the bags and carry them back bag by bag, and I am so tired that I am panting like a cow.

After the grain has been scorched and dried in this way, it has to be cleaned up with a wooden shovel to remove dust and impurities, and then bagged and handed over to the grain. The early grain that has been laid down has to be handed over in according to the quantity arranged by the production team, and the peasants' rations mainly depend on the late grain harvested in the next season.

Niu Tiangou's public grain was delivered by his father in a cart, and he only drove the cart in front of him.

At this time, Niu Tiangou had completely taken off his former scholarly anger, his face, arms, and legs were tanned and shiny, and he was wearing a pair of gray black pants on his lower body, a faded yellow-green shirt that seemed to never wash off sweat stains, a pair of torn gray sandals on his feet, and a straw hat that was about to turn black from the rain.

His "respectful appearance" reminded him of the appearance of Tian Meixia, a girl from Yelang County, Jiangnan Province, when she first went to Beihe Town Middle School.

He really couldn't imagine how Tang Xiaoping from Xiangliu County, Jiangnan Province, and Wu Lanlan from Wupu Town would feel when they saw his current "bear-likeness"?

He drove the brim of his hat low, "breaking his hat to cover his face through the city", he was afraid of running into those face-loving teachers and students on the highway.

When the board truck arrived at the grain station, they had to wait in line for inspection. The workers of the grain station hold a sharp iron cylinder about the thickness of a thumb and a groove, poke a hole in each grain bag, and then pour the grain in the groove of the iron cylinder on their hands, grind it with their palms, bite it with their teeth, and only let them go to the scale after they are qualified.

When passing the scales, only the village group, name and weight of the grain delivered are written down, and the receipt is issued, and then handed over to the accountant of the production team, and the grain station does not give a penny to the grain payer.

Finally, there is the valley. The peasants had to carry the sacks of grain to the granary and then to the top of the pile to be emptied. Because people are constantly pouring valleys on it, the gray gas on it is filled, and people choke their throats and noses.

Between the high grain piles and the ground lay a few narrow planks, or improvised single-plank bridges made of planks, nailed to them with small non-slip horizontal strips. People struggled to climb up from the planks or bridges with their sacks of grain, gasping for air, squinting and frowning, forced to breathe in choking ash.

Niu Tiangou carried a bag of grain weighing more than 100 pounds, walked the single-plank bridge, only felt light-headed, trembling to the top of the valley, and almost fell off the single-plank bridge several times, so nervous that he broke out in a cold sweat......

After finishing the grain and dragging the tired body back with the ox cart, Niu Tiangou only had five words in his heart: being a farmer is really bitter!

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Although farming is very hard and tiring, there is basically enough food to eat, and if the harvest is good, you can sell some surplus food.

Niu Tiangou thought that farming could only be fed and dressed, and if he wanted to get rich, he had to rely on his family's sideline.

Raising pigs, geese, and chickens for a year, Niu Tiangou and Teresa Teng have accumulated a little experience, but they understand that small fights can only slightly improve their lives, and they have to expand their scale and carry out large-scale breeding in order to get rich.

However, large-scale farming requires a large site and a large amount of capital investment. They don't have either.

As a result, Niu Tiangou is looking for a planting and breeding project with a small footprint and high returns.

Hearing that the cultivation of medicinal herbs such as saffron and cordyceps sinensis occupies a small area, has little investment and high returns, Niu Tiangou ran to several places according to the advertised address, and found that they only sell materials and seedlings, and do not have a production base, obviously only making money for materials and seedlings. Because saffron, especially Cordyceps, has very high environmental and technical requirements, it is difficult for ordinary farmers to successfully plant it. So Niu Tiangou gave up.

I also heard that the income from planting white fungus is high, Niu Tiangou went to a few places to take a look, although they have a production base, but the investment is too large.

Later, Niu Tiangou went to Hengshan City, Jiangnan Province, and Danshui City, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province to buy back some Tuyuan (ground turtle insects) eggs and seedlings. After a period of incubation and breeding, a little finished product was harvested, but because no one in the local area cultivated Tuyuan, and the number of his finished products was too small, the local medicinal materials department did not accept it, and the finished product of Tuyuan was easy to mold and was not easy to preserve, so Niu Tiangou had to give up again.

In the end, with the support of Teresa Teng, Niu Tiangou still used the small earthen house behind the house to feed 200 local chickens.