Chapter 5: The Covenant of the Nine Mile Temple (I)

Chang'an Slope after autumn is more desolate. Pen & Fun & Ge www.biquge.info Nowadays farmers rarely grow autumn grain, not because they are reluctant to plant. It's that the autumn grain is too squeamish and needs to be taken care of constantly.

A crop of autumn grain, every year to buy seeds, autumn grain seeds are not like wheat seeds can be kept by themselves, leave the seeds harvested today for next year, autumn grain is different, every year the seeds have to go to the seed company to buy, the price of seeds rises every year. Those people in the seed company are also hangers, and they don't worry about the farmers' affairs at all, they seem to forget that in the county, no matter how good you live, the delicacies you eat and the mink leopard prints you wear, you will always be the son of the farmer; They seem to have forgotten their roots, forgetting the fundamentals of their own life, remembering one year, all the seeds supplied by the seed company did not emerge, and the angry local old farmer said that people cannot forget their roots, just like a tree cannot break its roots. Seeds are expensive every year, not to mention, quality problems can not be guaranteed, autumn grain is not planted like wheat, autumn grain should be planted in a row, in order to facilitate irrigation in the future, horizontal and vertical as a whole, and save time and effort when irrigation can be done in the future. It turns out that one person plows the land in front and one person plants in the back, two grains at a time, and if one does not sprout, the other can also sprout, and if both germinate, the farmer will leave one with a good rise and hoe the other after germinating. Later, with the machine planting, it was much easier for people.

Autumn grain is not like wheat, herbicides can be used, autumn grain can not use herbicides, wheat uses herbicides once a year, and can not be used for three or four years in a row, autumn grains can not be used once, and autumn grains will be killed by herbicides when herbicides are used. Autumn grain is not like wheat, wheat does not give birth to insects, autumn grain will often have insects, from the beginning of the seedlings to the harvest of autumn grain, there will be insects, in addition to insects, it is necessary to grasp one by one with your hands, thousands of seconds per acre of land, farmers catch day after day. Autumn grain is not like wheat, wheat can be planted with fertilizer once, autumn grain can only be fertilized one by one after the seedlings emerge, and fertilization is an art, can not be more, can not be less, less has no effect, more seedlings will be burned. Autumn grain is not like wheat, wheat can be harvested without any care, autumn grain must be irrigated every three or five times, otherwise it will die of drought. Autumn grain is not like wheat, hungry and stable, you don't take care of autumn grain, maybe it's a bad harvest, you only take care of it will have a harvest, and autumn grain will not be planted one acre by one, generally dozens of households are planted together, a large piece of seed, if a family planted, it will be stolen, eaten by sheep, everyone planted, you can take care of each other, you help me weed, irrigation, harvest, I also help you weed, irrigation, harvest, this is the farmer.

Prices are rising every year, seeds are rising, fertilizers are rising, water bills are rising, machinery is working, and the dealers in the fields are not selling at a good price. Boys in the countryside go out to work to earn money, because they don't go out, not even a daughter-in-law. Our society should be grateful to the obscure farmers who selflessly provide us with a steady stream of agricultural products.

had to go to the appointment, Xiaojie told himself that now, in order to understand the grievances he and Bao Ke only saw, and in order to prevent Bao Ke from pestering Sadako in the future, Xiao Jie carefully thought about how to go to the appointment.

Chang'an slope is a big slope in the east-west direction, the west is high, the east is at the bottom, there is a temple in the slope half waist from the slope about 200 meters, sitting north and facing south, the temple is dedicated to the three virgins, the legend is that Chang'an Slope is the first person to take the Jinshi to build, the temple is not big, the size of two rooms, the incense is continuous every day in the past, now there are many fewer people in the countryside, the temple only has the most people when the temple fair is held every year, usually the first day of the new year, the fifteenth, there are also a few old men and old ladies are very dedicated to burn incense and worship the Buddha, these are voluntary, no one ordered, Maybe that's faith. There is a soaphorn tree about ten meters outside the seedling, the trunk is wrinkled, it takes three adults of one meter eight to hold so thick, every October, the soaphorn of the tree is hung on the branches, the black pressure is pressed one by one, the women of the three, three, five or five will come to pick up the soap, go back to wash the clothes, the children of the three three five five will pick up the stone and throw it up to hit the soaphorn when the soaphorn is not yet mature, beat it down, set aside and eat the meat inside.

There is a willow tree in the east and west of the temple, next to the temple in the countryside, as long as it is not sandy soil, you can see willow trees everywhere, because other saplings have to be bought to plant, the willow trees next to the temple are just this willow branch fork, which can be made, and can not be inserted in the next year, just like this, after the efforts of I don't know how many people, the willow trees in the east and west are alive and thriving. It's just that the east side is relying on the sun, and the rise is obviously good, and the west side is not inferior, and they don't want to be compared to it.

Xiaojie arrived at Chang'an Slope early, sitting fifty meters away from the temple in the north of the slope, looking at the scorched yellow earth, overgrown with weeds, there are three or five farmers sifting sand in the river that has dried up in the distance, now there is no autumn busy, in order to make as much money as possible and people who can't go out to work, the river has become a place of self-reliance. When there was water, Xiaojie still vaguely remembered that older children went to the river to play in the water every summer, and the farmer's uncle also raised ducks and geese, and some people dug ponds to raise fish and shrimp. Now that the river has dried up, those things are a memory. People began to dig the river, when there was water, the river water nourished the people here, and now there is no water, the river is still silently feeding the people here, without any complaints.

Xiao Jie looked at the people coming and going on the ramp, all of them were hurrying their own way, the hills in the distance to the west looked particularly bleak in the autumn, without a trace of vitality, there were a few sheep on the mountainside foraging for grass, and a few birds in the sky were flying freely.

Xiaojie looked at the surrounding mountains, looked at the people around him, looked at the surrounding earth and trees, and he vaguely seemed to see Sadako.

Dressed in white, as if I had seen it for the first time, pure and immaculate, with long hair dancing in the wind, dark and shiny, pink sneakers, set off the white clothes and black hair. Getting closer and closer, Xiaojie was a little nervous and a little excited.

Xiao Jie came back to his senses, and at this time Sadako had already walked to Xiao Jie's side.

Sadako said: How you talk doesn't count.

Xiaojie said: I'm sorry, I have to come, I'll make a break today.

Sadako said: You promised me not to come, why didn't you keep your promise?

Xiaojie told Sadako everything he thought in his heart, and Sadako slowly understood Xiaojie.

Xiaojie said: Thank you for Apple, I haven't read the letter yet, I plan to go back and read it.

Sadako said: No thanks, I just hope you can be safe and sound when you give you the apple.