Chapter 4 is stupid
The greenhouse was built, and even the mulch film was covered. Wang Yong also deliberately added a layer to each plastic film joint to prevent wind from entering. Then he pulled three ropes from one end to the other with hemp rope, tied a brick to the end of the rope and pressed it.
But after looking at it for a while, Wang Yong felt that something was wrong. After thinking about it for a while, I slapped my head and remembered that the light was covered with plastic sheeting, but the straw curtain, which is the most critical thing to keep warm, had not landed!
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look around, and at the same time began to worry in his heart again. Straw curtains are too rare in the countryside, because they are located in the north, and it is difficult to find the straw needed to make straw curtains. However, the reed curtain that covers the white potato kang at home every spring can also be used, but that thing can't be held by yourself!
Two or three meters wide, five or six meters long rolled into a thick curtain, adults have to carry two people!
But apart from straw curtains, what else is used to make straw curtains? His gaze suddenly fixed on something, and his heart moved, this thing should be, probably, maybe!
What did Wang Yong see?
It was a broken quilt that should have been in a small corner in the southeast corner of the yard. There is the cellar of the family, which contains some cabbage, potatoes and other vegetables that are eaten in winter.
When Wang Yong saw the quilt, he remembered that in addition to the straw curtains, the greenhouse in later generations seemed to be covered with a layer of warm quilts, like blankets.
If you don't have that thing, it should work the same way with a quilt, right? After all, when it comes to keeping warm, I'm afraid a thick quilt is no worse than that thin blanket!
It's just that you don't have to look to know that the quilt is not enough to cover such a large greenhouse, and it is good to cover one-third.
After thinking about it for a long time, Wang Yong, who didn't come up with any good methods, simply didn't want to, and gathered his little soldier, his younger brother Wang Liang, to rummage through the boxes and cabinets and turn out several vegetable seeds left at home.
This year is not like later, every family buys seeds, all seeds have to go to the agricultural material store to buy, and the seeds you keep will not germinate at all in the second year! Or there are no seeds at all!
The most is the green onion seeds, this thing is easy to take care of, turn the vegetable furrow over again, loosen the soil and add some original ecological spontaneous fertilizer (you know what it is, I won't introduce it), and then sprinkle the seeds, walk through them with a nail rake, cover them with a layer of soil, pour a few scoops of water, and you can sit and wait for them to take root and sprout into shallots seedlings.
The second is the persimmon and cucumber seedlings that Wang Liang likes to eat, these two seeds, Wang Yong has seen his mother plant, he has to breed first, and then transplant them after the seedlings emerge.
There is also a seed that makes Wang Yong very happy. This is the pepper seed, and it is a very spicy variety called Wangjiang monkey. The peppers it grows are all erect and not big, but they are very spicy! It is the hottest variety of chili peppers in the region.
Originally, Wang Yong didn't like to eat chili peppers, but according to the experience in his dream, he didn't start to like chili peppers until he went to college, and four or five years after graduating from college, he had reached the point of no spicy and unhappy. A bottle of Lao Gan Ma chicken fat chili pepper can be eaten clean in less than a week.
Affected by the dream, Wang Yong began to drool in his mouth as soon as he saw the chili seeds. Thinking about those delicious dishes, I immediately had the urge to go up and make a few dishes.
I don't know how long it took, Wang Yong wiped the saliva from the corners of his mouth, took the little coolie brother, took a nail rake and a shovel, and went into the greenhouse, ready to turn over the vegetable furrow first.
This guy used to watch his parents do it like it was easy, and it didn't take long to turn over the entire yard as if he was playing, but it wasn't until Wang Yong came to do it himself that he realized that this guy was not easy to do!
Now the weather is cold, it is already frozen, and it is not that the soil is very soft in summer. Hard ground, a spade down the ground, you can't dig much deep. Wang Yong had no choice but to find another two pickaxes (one size smaller than the big pickaxe) and planed them little by little with the pickaxe.
Before he had two square meters, Wang Yong was tired and sweaty, panting for breath. The ground was so hard that he was too young, and he lacked strength, and it would take him a long time to turn over the whole field.
"No more!"
Exhausted, Wang Yong was angry, threw the two pickaxes in his hand, and then hit the ground with his butt. Children in rural areas are like this, and there is no concept of dirty or not.
Maybe it will be better for the post-00s in later generations, but as the post-80s and post-90s generation, who hasn't played wrestling in the local area? Who hasn't bounced a glass ball on the ground? Needless to say, use mud to play with the cannon (make a bowl out of mud, and if you throw it the flat ground, it will make a sound, and you will make a door to say this in the future).
When Wang Liang saw his brother on the ground, he also sat on the ground like his brother, and hit the lumps on the ground with a stick in his hand.
Neither brother spoke, and the only sound in the shed was the snapping sound of sticks hitting the ground. Until Wang Yong felt sweating on his head, and when he was uncomfortable with the heat, he reacted that this simple greenhouse was reliable!
Although this temperature is not measured with a thermometer, it is estimated that it is definitely in the upper teens and may reach 20 degrees. And the temperature at which the normal growth of vegetables is 15 degrees is sufficient.
"Brother, I'm hot!"
Wang Liang was shouting that it was hot, and he was about to take off his padded jacket. Wang Yong hurriedly stopped him, it was a little hot here, but the temperature outside was only a few degrees above zero, and he would go out later, if this little guy caught a cold, his ass would suffer.
"Don't take it off, it's cold outside, it's cold! You go and stay in the house, you don't need it! ”
"No, how warm it is in here! It's warmer than the rest of the house! I've slept here since then. ”
The little one is right, the temperature in the house is really not as warm as it is here. In today's rural areas, even that kind of earth heating has not been installed by anyone, or even heard of it.
When the weather is cold, it all depends on burning a large stove and burning a kang for heating. It's okay if the house is smaller, but if the house is bigger, as long as you don't make a kang head or drill into the quilt nest in the house, you will feel frozen feet in cotton shoes!
"Okay, okay, as long as your parents let you sleep here, I have no opinion!"
"It's so cold in the house, why don't they agree to me sleeping here?"
Wang Yong didn't explain to his younger brother, gave him a blank look, and then got up and walked out of the greenhouse. After a while, he came in with a bucket of water in a foreign iron bucket.
"Get out of the way! You have to wet this ground so that you can grow vegetables and seedlings! ”
"Oh!"
When the younger brother reluctantly got up and left the place where he had opened less than two square meters, Wang Wei tilted the bucket in his hand and poured all the buckets of water into it with a "bang".
Just as he was about to pour the second bucket, he heard a familiar sound outside.
"Oh, wow!"
"Dad, they're back!"
Before Wang Yong could react, his younger brother screamed and ran out. In the greenhouse, only Wang Yong, who was worried in his heart, was waiting for the arrival of his parents in fear.
I built such a greenhouse, but I didn't discuss it with my parents, would they think they were fooling around? Don't get beaten again? Thinking of the pain of his father's calloused slap on his ass, Wang Yong's mind suddenly went blank.
"Where?"
"There! You see, my brother and I did it together! It's warmer inside, warmer than in the house, and I'm sweating after a while! Look, look, there's still one! ”
"Really? Hurry up, mom rub my old son, don't catch a cold! ”
With the sound of footsteps, as soon as Wang Yong looked up, he saw his father who opened the chain and walked in with his younger brother's mother.
"Mom, Dad!"
Wang Yong cautiously said hello to his parents, and then lowered his head and secretly looked at his parents with the corner of his eyes to see if they were going to be angry with him, and then it was a brutal and inhumane force suppression.
"Oops! It's much warmer than outside! ”
Wang Hai, the father who walked in the front, said with a look of surprise, and then looked around with great interest, and turned around inside and out, and finally came to Wang Yong.
"I said, son, how did you know that this method can grow summer vegetables in the winter? Is there any basis for this? Can it work? ”
Not angry? Not angry?
Wang Yong's first thought was this, as long as his parents didn't get angry at the first time, with his extra decades of knowledge, were he afraid that he wouldn't be able to fool the two old farmers who had never even been to the county seat?
"Hehe, how's it going? Pretty, isn't it? ”
"Seriously, tell me how you know that you can grow vegetables in the winter with this method? Can it be done? ”
Mom stared at Wang Yong with bright eyes and asked excitedly. If this method can really be used to grow vegetables in the winter, then the life of the family will be much better.
The two children in the family all rely on the income of planting a few acres of land and more than an acre of apples to survive, and they can just eat a full meal. It's better to have nothing to do with money, otherwise, what can the family's savings of less than 1,000 yuan do! Besides, there is still a lot of famine (debt) to pay at home!
"Sure! This is what I read in the newspaper, saying that a county in Dongshan Province has been making a fortune by growing greenhouse vegetables in winter for eight years! ”
It's not that Wang Yong is lying, but he really read it in the "Youth Daily" ordered by the school, and there are photos on it, which is just right to deal with his parents.
"Really?"
"Can you really use this shed to grow vegetables in the winter?"
This Wang Yong doesn't dare to promise blindly, if he doesn't succeed, he will suffer from his ass! After all, this thing is so shabby, everything is improvised. Whether he can withstand the cold and heavy snow in winter, he has no bottom in his heart.
"Well, not necessarily, right? We can't do this material, it's all improvised! I don't know if it's going to work! ”
"Huh?"
Mom and Dad were angry by his words, aren't they happy in vain?
"No, not as you think. This thing is called a winter warming greenhouse, according to people's standards-" Wang Yong pointed to the east wall and said: "This wall should be at least a dozen centimeters thick earthen wall to keep warm." ”
"Also, the ground has to be dug half a meter deep, this film needs to be made of special greenhouse plastic sheeting, this pole needs to be made of bamboo chips, and the plastic sheet must be covered with quilts and straw curtains, which we don't have!"
"If you get these ready, you're guaranteed to grow vegetables in the winter?"
Wang Hai, who was not very tall, but looked very strong, stared at his eldest son, Wang Yong, excitedly.
"Yes! Absolutely! ”
This time, Wang Yong's answer was categorical, without any hesitation. Just kidding, I can't grow anything else, I can't grow leeks yet! As long as the temperature and humidity of this thing are about the same, you can't even make it long!
"It's done!" Wang Hai almost jumped up excitedly, "Son, you say, what are you going to do now, tell Dad, Dad will help you do it!" ”
Wang Yong was dumbfounded! What's going on?
"You man! The car hasn't been unloaded yet, so let's unload the car first. ”
"Yes, yes, unload first. Anyway, we've finished the work in the field today, so we won't do anything in the afternoon, just get this, this shed that can grow vegetables in winter! ”
After speaking, Wang Hai went out to unload the car in a hurry, leaving the three of his mother staring at each other speechlessly.