Chapter 110: Straw
A group of little children were happily fishing for frogs there, and Le Lang took a look at it and walked back. Shen Min's family has ten acres of paddy fields, half of which are his uncle's. They have always planted all the fields together, and except for some of the rice they received for their own consumption, the rest was sold, and the money from the sale was divided equally between the two families.
The yield of rice per mu of one acre of paddy field is about 1,000 catties, and the two seasons a year are 4,000. What's more, Xiaoxi Village uses machinery for farming, which is convenient and labor-saving, and the saved labor can also go out to do some work, raise some chickens and ducks at home and grow some fruits and vegetables, in fact, it is no worse than being exploited and oppressed by a flesh factory in the city.
But not every place is like Xiaoxi Village, in a few villages not far from Xiaoxi Village, some have already stopped growing grain and planted coconut white, sweet potatoes, corn, these things are sold at a high price sometimes better than rice, so many people change to plant these, among which sweet potatoes have the highest yield, and the price of sweet potatoes is also very high, now there are two pieces a catty, which is already very good.
You must know that if sweet potatoes are well managed, you can get two to three tons per mu, that is, two thousand to three thousand kilograms, or one season, two seasons are four to six tons, and it is no wonder that there are fewer and fewer rice grows. And sweet potatoes are also very easy to manage, so you don't have to worry about bugs and typhoons. However, the staple food in the south is rice, sweet potatoes are just an auxiliary, everyone still prefers to grow rice, but the fields are getting less and less, and the conflict of values is intensifying, resulting in the decline of farming, and there are a few young people who farm now, maybe when they are old.
"Shenmin, do you still have rice seeds at home?" Le Lang asked Shen Min, he also wanted to open a field in the backyard to grow rice, and a piece of jade Ruyi space, self-sufficient, abundant food and clothing, and the province always buys it. Moreover, the things that were watered with the spring water in the Jade Ruyi space were extraordinary, and he also wanted to see what would happen to the rice he grew with the spring water in the space.
"Why, you want to plant too? Where do you want to plant? When the time comes, a few bags will be enough for you to eat for a year, what to plant? Shen Min said to Le Lang, look at this kid's typical full of food and have nothing to do.
"I want to open up some land in the backyard to see, I said do you have it, how can I ask you something, and I will talk a lot."
"What kind of rice seeds do you want, if you want to pull a little back from me, my uncle was going to plant rice next season, but then somehow I wanted to plant sweet potatoes, and the remaining seedlings are useless, you can pull them yourself." Lao Qi said on the side.
"You see, the seventh is much better than you. Lao Qi is good, when the time comes, come to my house, I will give you a little bayberry, you must know that my bayberry is so big. Le Lang gestured at the two with a stinky fart, and his two fingers were bent in a circle, looking like they were the size of an egg.
"You just blow it, it's so big, you can apply for a world record." Shen Min glanced at it and said with a pout.
"You'll know when the time comes." Le Lang patted Lao Qi's shoulder and said.
At this time, a tractor came from the side, and puffs of smoke came out of the tractor head, which simply polluted the environment. The driver was a middle-aged man, and behind the car sat two women wearing hats.
The tractor stopped next to them, and the middle-aged man got out of the car and walked to Lelang's side, and asked enthusiastically: "Young boy, do you sell these straws?" ”
"Sell, how do you count?" Shen Min looked at the middle-aged man and asked, it was useless to keep the straw in his house, so he simply sold it.
Straw is mainly used to make mushrooms in rural areas, and the price of mushrooms has been rising in recent years, and the price of straw has also risen. However, hay is used to make mushrooms, and middle-aged people now buy wet straw either to go back to feed the livestock or to go back to dry it themselves, you must know that straw is still very popular in rural areas.
"One hundred and fifty per acre." The middle-aged man thought for a moment and said.
This price is already very high, in the past few years an acre of hay is only this price, and in the past few years it has risen to more than 200, that is the price of hay, and now even wet grass is sold at such a price, it seems that this must be bought back to feed livestock, otherwise it will not be a high price.
"Well, yes, I have ten acres here, do you want them?" Shen Min asked at the middle-aged man.
"Yes, yes." The middle-aged man nodded busily.
"Then you wait, it'll be fine soon, you can go down and tie the grass again." Shen Min said to him.
The middle-aged man answered, and leaned on the tractor to talk to the two women, and after a while, the rice cutter finished cutting his family's rice, and the master who drove the rice cutter put the rice on Lao Qi's car and went to cut someone else's. After loading the rice, Le Lang followed Lao Qi to the warehouse to help dry and bagged, and then sent the rice that Shen Min's family wanted to leave behind to his house.
And Shenmin has to stay with the middle-aged people, otherwise they will tie the grass here, and people who don't know will misunderstand, and it will not be good if something happens when the time comes.
When they came to the drying warehouse, Lelang and they took a look and found that there were few, but fortunately, there were few people, otherwise they didn't know when it would be their turn.
It was Le Lang's turn to dry, Le Lang and they remembered that they forgot to take the bag to fill the rice, Le Lang just wanted to go back to Shen Min's house to get it, but found that the son of the old man Lin came over with a bunch of sacks.
"Uncle Qingyuan." Le Lang and Lao Qi greeted Lin Qingyuan.
Lin Qingyuan nodded and asked, "It's the rice of the Shenmin family." ”
"Yes," Le Lang replied with a nod.
"Use this load, I told Xinming a long time ago, he has already sold all this rice to me, and when it is loaded later, see how much they want to keep, you can take it away."
Le Lang and Lao Qi nodded when they heard this, and after a while, Shen Min rushed over, and greeted him when he saw Qing Yuan, and finally Shen Min left two thousand catties of rice, and let Lin Qingyuan pull the rest away. In fact, there is no need to keep so much, the next season is only about three months, and I can't finish eating.
After being busy, he had a meal at Shen Min's house, and Le Lang went back. When he returned home, he began to open a paddy field in the backyard for about three minutes, then fertilized it with chicken and duck manure and sheep manure piled at the foot of the wall, and then led the mountain spring into the field.
In the Yuruyi space, he also spent a while to open a paddy field of about half an acre, the land in the space is fertile black soil, but there is no need to fertilize, I didn't see those banana fruit trees grow tall and big, and the fruits grow big and good.
After the paddy field was opened, the seedlings were pulled from the field of the old seven families and planted them, and it took a few days to get everything right. After being idle, Le Lang cut a plate of pineapples, lay on the rocking chair under the longan tree leisurely, and slowly ate the pineapples with a fork.
The wild pineapples in the mountains taste really different, although they are not large, they are sweet and juicy.
The clouds and mist surrounding the land in the Yu Ruyi space rolled, and he retreated in a big circle, and there was an acre or so of land in the space, which was incredible, but all this was going on quietly, and Le Lang still didn't know anything.
The flowering period of the old longan tree on the head has passed, and small longans have formed on the branches. Le Lang didn't expect that the old longan, which has never borne fruit, has rarely borne fruit this year, and the fruit is quite weird. The other longan fruits are all yellow shells, but these ones are white, slightly yellowish white, very strange, but Le Lang has long been surprised by these, what is more strange than a fist-sized lychee and a peach the size of a pigeon's egg.
Le Lang picked up the pineapple on the side again, chewed it slowly, felt the different flavor of the wild pineapple in the mountains, swallowed it slowly, and thought about the mobile phone in his pocket.
"Hey," Le Lang looked at it, it was an unfamiliar number.
"Brother Lang, it's me, Ren Shaoyun, remember?"
"Oh, oh, Ren Shaoyun? Oh, Ren Shaoyun, of course I remember. How do you want to come and play? "Le Lang's surname has always been very good, and he almost didn't remember it.
"Yes, we have decided, tomorrow to play with you, there are more than 20 people, I may disturb it then, sorry."
"It's okay, you guys can come, it's nothing anyway."
"Then thank you, you're busy, that's all."
"Doodoo Doo"
Le Lang looked at the "beep" phone and smiled helplessly, are these boys so nonsensical?
At this moment, there was another ringtone in the phone.