Chapter Forty-Nine: The Golden Autumn
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"It's noisy!" There was a chirping bird chirping in his ears, and Li Yu, who originally wanted to sleep a little longer, covered his head with the quilt in pain and rolled on the bed.
The bird's nest in the yard has shown a sharp upward trend in recent times, there are seven or eight of them only seen by Li Yu, plus the bird's nest in front of and behind the house, the whole old house has become a bird's paradise, and grandma is the most happy about this, and even takes some leftovers and broken corn every morning to feed these wild birds, which is simply regarded as domestic.
In the Baling area, it is generally believed that birds nesting at home means that the family is popular, the feng shui is good, and it has a very beautiful meaning, which is the same as the cat to be poor and the dog to be rich. The old house has become a place where birds like to stay, so that grandma's psychological suggestion is greatly satisfied, where will you be stingy with this little bit of leftovers and corn?
In fact, when the rice is ripe and the food is abundant, the birds in the mountains have begun to breed, and they have come to the back village to nest and raise their children.
Grandma is just over sixty years old and healthy, but now she has a full house of children and grandchildren, and her only thought now is that the Li family is safe and sound, so she attaches great importance to anything that has symbolic significance. The number of nesting birds in the family has increased dramatically, which makes the grandmother happy to keep her mouth shut, and she has one more job feeding the birds every day.
Li Yu lay on the bed for a while, and found that the quilt still couldn't stop the bombardment of bird calls, so he could only get up helplessly, wash up and eat breakfast.
Others don't know the reason for the explosion of birds around the old house, Li Yu knows his own family affairs, and this situation is purely the trouble caused by Li Yu himself.
After living in the old mansion for a long time, Li Yu took advantage of the inattention of people to water a lot of space spiritual springs on the flowers and trees near the old house, which made the old house vibrant and attracted a lot of animals.
In addition to the most high-profile birds, the probability of small animals such as hedgehogs, squirrels, hares, pheasants, etc., in the vicinity of the old house has also increased a lot, making the old house much more lively.
Judging from the experiments during this time, in addition to the great benefits for the growth and development of animals and plants, the space spirit spring also has a fatal attraction to animals.
In this regard, Li Yu already has a complete plan, planning to put more space in Yuhu Lake and the surrounding area after the opening of the scenic spot to attract more animals and increase the attractiveness of the scenic spot, but now Li Yu is doing it himself.
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"Xiao Yu, don't play with the computer for too long at night!" Seeing Li Yu squatting by the sink brushing his teeth in a daze, Grandpa said with a stern face.
Grandpa is quite satisfied with Li Yu's performance these days, whether it is the development of Qinghe Company or the success of the planting and breeding project, it proves that Li Yu is not a hot-headed person. Judging from the current situation, Qinghe Company and Houcun are on a promising path, and success can be expected.
In addition, the morale of the Li family and the villagers in Houcun is also constantly improving, and the idlers who used to like to gather to gamble and drink either went to the construction site to help or signed up to learn to drive, or rebuilt their own houses, and the atmosphere of the village has changed greatly.
The only thing that makes his grandfather unhappy is that Li Yu always gets up late in the morning, which is quite different from the 'early to bed and early up' lifestyle habits that his grandfather has always advocated. However, grandpa also knows that young people have their own way of life, and they don't interfere with Li Yu much, but occasionally remind him to pay attention to his body, but today is not usual.
"I see!" Li Yu responded weakly.
Grandpa thought that Li Yu was surfing the Internet and playing on the computer every night, but in fact, Li Yu has been going into the space every night to plant trees these days, and a lot of manual labor has made him tired like a dead dog. Although he is the master of the space, he can transfer items to the space and transform the space with his mind, but the current soul power is unable to support Li Yu to dig pits and plant trees on a large scale.
With a lot of people and a lot of things to do in the vegetable garden and construction site during the day, Li Yu can't often enter the space, so he has to use his evening time as a tree planter.
These saplings were bought by Li Yu from the Internet, after the last tree transplantation, the space was much empty, Li Yu had to plant another batch, tens of thousands of saplings, Li Yu needs to honestly dig pits, fill in the soil and plant, its workload can be a lot, quite a test of Li Yu's physical strength and energy. Even if Li Yu insists on practicing Ghost Fist in the early hours of every morning, his physical fitness has improved a lot, and he will feel a little struggling.
However, as the purchased saplings are being planted in the space little by little, Li Yu's workload will gradually decrease, and this extreme lack of sleep time will also be greatly alleviated.
"Today is our family harvesting rice, you are so listless will be talked about, how old are you and still so unreasonable?" Grandpa couldn't help but say again.
"I know, yesterday I asked the monkey and Brother Shan to borrow tools, and I also invited the people, so you can rest assured, and I will go when I finish taking care of the vegetable garden and fish pond."
In grandpa's heart, harvesting rice is a big deal, and it should not be treated sloppily, Li Yu's words made the old man very satisfied, but he still smiled and said a few words, and then walked away with a smile behind his back.
After washing, Li Yu stood in the courtyard and moved his body, and then went to the rockery to overlook the slowly rising sun in the eastern mountains, and the feeling of tiredness finally disappeared slowly.
Although he has seen the beautiful scenery of the rising sun countless times, Li Yu still does not feel tired, on the contrary, he likes this quiet and beautiful mountain village even more, and hopes to build it even better.
Breakfast is very simple, today Li Yu's family harvested rice, and the chief took Xu Meiting and sister-in-law Yan to prepare the ingredients for lunch in the kitchen, and breakfast was handled casually.
After breakfast, Li Yu first went to the vegetable garden to water, and took pictures and records of various experimental control groups, so that he knew the subtle changes of the planting project well. Later, Li Yu went to the fish pond and fed the whitebait.
After a few months of breeding, tens of thousands of whitebait and osmanthus fish seedlings have grown to the size of an arm, swimming flexibly in the fish pond, both in terms of growth rate and health, Li Yu is extremely satisfied.
In order to make the quality of these osmanthus fish closer to that of wild fish, Li Yu put a lot of phytoplankton and small fry into the fish pond, trying to build a complete ecosystem in the fish pond.
Generally speaking, like Li Yu's fish pond, this kind of water source comes from the waters of wells and streams, because the average water temperature is only about 15 degrees Celsius, the growth and development of various animals and plants are greatly restricted, and it is not easy to provide a large amount of self-sufficient food for fish under such conditions.
Fortunately, Li Yu has a big killer like the Space Spirit Spring, which can easily solve the problem of low nutrition in low-temperature waters, and a complete and huge ecosystem is gradually forming.
After feeding the whitebait, Li Yu's main work for the day was completed, and the rest of the time was freely arranged by him, which was the comfortable life that Li Yu dreamed of.
However, Li Yu's wish today was disappointed, and Li Andong came just after feeding the fish.
After Li Yu's rice field was contracted over by Li Yu, plus his own rice field, Li Yu's rice field has a scale of 10 acres this year, of which four-fifths are Li Andong's family, after all, except for Li Yu's family's rice is only for their own consumption, most of the villagers still rely on rice to sell for money.
"Xiao Yu, the crates, the mats, and the wooden rafts have all been borrowed, and the big guys are waiting, why are you still at home." Li Andong said urgently.
It's no wonder that Li Andong is in a hurry, at this time in previous years, the villagers of Houcun would get up earlier than usual, the sky just turned white, and the whole village began to smoke from the road, accompanied by the sound of pots and pans, and the sound of chickens and dogs barking one after another, which immediately woke up the sleeping mountain village from its sleep, and was instantly full of vitality and vitality.
The housewives cook breakfast in the kitchen, and the head of the house takes the sickle that has been left in place for months from the barn, squats in the yard and begins to sharpen the knife.
"Uncle, I'm going too." San Lang was wearing shorts and shorts, pulling the corners of Li Yu's clothes, but he heard the adults say that it was fun to harvest rice, there were many friends, and you could also catch hares, loaches, and birds, and San Lang remembered it in his heart.
"Okay, Saburo will go too." Li Yu picked up San Lang and said with a smile, San Lang has now become the pistachio and little baby of the family, and grandma will be in a hurry to look for it everywhere if she disappears for a while, and the old man has found the feeling of raising Li Yu's three brothers and sisters again, and he is happy to do it.
The rice field is in front of the monkey's old house, when Li Yu and Li Andong went, there were already many people standing on the side of the rice field, except for the monkey, Li Gang, and Li Shan, the others were all helpers invited by Li Yu, and there were some young men from this village and other villages.
In addition to the wine is famous, the soft and glutinous and sweet rice is also in demand, rare goods, so there are countless farmers who plant rice in the villages along the Qingjiang River, but the cultivation, planting and harvesting methods of Qingjiang rice are primitive and backward, there is no mechanized work from the outside world, everything can only rely on manpower, and cutting rice is heavy and hard work, the demand for manpower is great, and the lack of strong labor along the Qingjiang River has caused the situation of cross-village mutual help.
When Li Yu was studying in the village elementary school, he often met his classmates in the class to plant rice, and then the classmates in a class went to help, although it was a group of bear children, but they were sharp-eyed and quick-handed, and they were not much better than adults.
But the job of cutting rice can pick people, non-prime, stick young men can not be competent, October weather is the autumn tiger is the time to be majestic, at noon the weather is very hot, so the harvest of rice must start as soon as possible.
The water in the rice field is drained as early as when the rice ears are filled, after so many days of wind and sun, the soil in the rice field has been as hard as iron, can easily bear the weight of the human body, the rice is golden, the ears are full, and there is a smell of rice.
However, the villagers who got up early today also affected the tourists who stayed in the village, and when they heard that the rice harvest in the village had begun on a large scale today, they all climbed up excitedly to experience the taste of the harvest up close.
When the first rays of sunlight shone on the back village, all the men, women and children of the village were ready, and everyone walked towards the field outside the village with scythes and poles. Beside them, tourists with cameras around their necks are interested in recording the rustic scene in front of them.
The main force of the rice harvest is the housewives and the big girls, who wave their sickles lightly, knock down a large patch of rice with a 'swish', and then tie it up. They had already repeated this action thousands of times, so it didn't seem to have any muddy feeling, but it had a hint of flowing water.
As for the strong laborers of the household, they have the more important task of dragging the crates enclosed by mats, beating handfuls of rice from wooden rafts, and threshing the rice primitively.
The rice fields in the back village are concentrated together, the rice fields of Li Yu's family and Li Andong's family are on the side, seeing that the rice fields of other families are already in full swing, they are all young people who are naturally unwilling to be left behind, and they don't say anything polite to each other, Li Yu handed everyone a cigarette, rolled up his sleeves, threw off his arms and started.
When the village was not electrified, the villagers were accustomed to threshing in the field with a human thresher, but this year, under the call of Li Yu, the village purchased two electric threshers after being electrified and did not come in handy.
In the process of harvesting rice, one or two hares were driven out of the rice field from time to time, which caused the little baby who was picking up ears of rice in the field to shout and scream, which added a bit of a relaxed atmosphere to the busy work.
In addition to reducing waste, they also look forward to their mother's ability to find bird eggs from the rice bushes and eat them beautifully.
There are also nests of rats and pups in the rice field from time to time, the pink and tender ones have not yet grown hair, and the cats and dogs that follow behind are happy, this is their favorite delicacy, which can't help but make Li Yu think of "three squeaks".
There are also large and small holes in the wet places of the rice fields, which are the shelters of loaches and yellow eels, and the bears and children dig open the holes with their fingers, pull out smooth loaches from them, and string them with dog tail grass, and they can be fried at noon to eat.
In the midst of mechanized mass production, this spectacular sight of the whole family fighting together has long since disappeared, which makes tourists from the city feel very fresh. They always feel that their memory card is not enough, and no matter how much they shoot, they can't restore the harmonious and joyful scene in front of them in the photos, because no matter how realistic the photos are, there are no more smells and laughter that can touch the hearts of the scene.
The harvest of rice means that the most beautiful harvest season of the year in Houcun has begun!
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