The dense fog in Liang Village is still filled, but the life of the villagers is still the same, and everyone will still get up from the warm quilt at the usual time to get up and prepare to work in the field today.

Don't look at the fog that seems to cover the sky and can't see everything in front of you, but when the sun comes out, they will gradually dissipate. Compared to the dense fog formed by the large number of dust particles in the industrialized cities, the fog in the mountains and forests can easily disappear and has no effect on the work of the villagers.

In early winter, although it is the slack season, there is still a lot of farm work waiting for the villagers, and the hard-working farmers do not have much free time throughout the year. They always have endless thoughts, endless farm work, and a future with no end in sight.

In almost every farmhouse, mothers-in-law are busy in the kitchen, preparing breakfast for the doll preparing for school and the husband who is about to leave for work, and the smell of the food gradually wafts with the smoke of the cooking. Compared to the situation where people in the city can buy breakfast everywhere, people in the countryside have to cook almost everything by themselves, which is a bit cheap, but it is also quite troublesome.

While listening to the mother-in-law's words urging the child to get up, the men took out the iron plough that had been dusted for several months from the tool room, carefully installed it, and then debugged it in the yard. Now that the weather is getting cooler, it's time to plough and turn the soil.

Ploughing the field at this time can turn the soil up, so that the mold, pests and insect eggs that live in it will lose their lives under the dual effects of sunlight and cold. In this way, when planting crops in the coming year, the chance of pests and diseases will be reduced, yields will be increased and management costs will be reduced.

During this season, almost every household has to plow their fields, which is a very important task every winter. Sometimes, you can see whether a farmer is industrious or lazy, and you can see it when you go to his field in winter.

After breakfast, the men took up the iron plough on their backs and drove the oxen out of the house, and with him went out were dolls with school bags. The adults walked outside the village, and the children slammed and greeted their peers, laughing and running to the school. The backs of one big and one small gradually walked away in the fog, and they behaved so differently, one was quiet and the other was lively, maybe this is the true meaning of life.

On the way to the wilderness, the sound of one or two peasants driving cattle can be seen from time to time, and their low or high-pitched reprimands cut through the silent space, as if to wake up the sleeping village. It has become common for villagers to greet acquaintances with smiles and discuss some agricultural matters.

People say that the plan of the year lies in the spring!

But for farmers, the New Year's harvest often begins to be laid in winter, and it is not easy to dig from the ground.

Soon, the sound of farmers directing oxen to plow in the fog began to be heard, and although they could not be seen, it was enough to listen to the sound to make people clear what was happening in the fog. In the Qingyun area, there are some concise and bright phrases and words for directing the cows to work, and the peasants are shouting such words, and they are stubbornly turning the cows who do not understand people's surnames into good helpers who can obey the command.

In many history books, the use of the tremendous power of livestock to help people plough the fields was widespread in the pre-Qin period. Of course, limited by the backward level of science and technology at that time, the plowshares used by farmers were not as strong and sharp as they are now, and the labor efficiency was extremely low.

Thousands of years have passed, and although various agricultural machinery has been widely used in agricultural production, the tradition of oxen plowing the fields has not disappeared. In rural China, there are still a large number of villagers who raise livestock and train them to be their powerful helpers.

But how to train the cattle so that they can do all kinds of hard work obediently under the command of the people is a rather complicated subject?

When the cow reaches the age of one and a half, it is time to train the cow accordingly. This time should be chosen just right, and it is not something that can be done casually. Calves that are too small are not strong enough, and training can easily cause them to be overworked, which can affect their development.

Half-sized calves are most suitable, and at this time the calves have not yet been finalized and have quite a plastic surname. If it is a little older, the calves will naturally form their own spleen surname, and it is really not easy to change it.

Calves are suitable for training because they have an inexhaustible amount of strength, and when they put on the yoke, they can pull the logs behind them around the ground and learn how to pull the plow. In the countryside, villagers can be seen driving half-sized calves and pulling a log behind them to do training. The villagers were holding whips and were shouting simple phrases to remind the calves to move left and right, to advance or to stop.

In the process of training livestock, there are always some colloquial phrases that dictate the actions of the calves, so that the calves can slowly form a conditioned reflex.

After about half a month of training, the calves, which had become a little restless due to the development period, began to become quiet. Walking on the road every day pulling heavy logs, their physical strength and energy are squeezed out, and there is no room for naughty at all. In addition, under the command of the whip, they firmly memorized some phrases from the mouth of their masters, and their movements were gradually standardized.

As the saying goes, there are no rules, and this principle applies to both humans and animals.

After a rigorous training, the calves begin to grow up from not knowing anything, and begin to adapt to the feeling of lifting heavy loads, laying a solid foundation for plowing the field in the future.

Of course, pulling logs on the road is not considered to be a qualified training, and it has to go through many tests before the results of training can be tested. In rural areas, some villagers are very good at training and training their calves, and often relatives and friends will hand over their half-sized calves to them, and use their experience to train good helpers who can handle all kinds of complex tasks.

In the early morning mist, the shouts of the peasants, interspersed with the occasional mooing of the ploughing oxen, made the otherwise silent field full of life.

As the red sun slowly rose over the mountains to the east, the mist that swirled in the wilderness and did not want to disperse soon dissipated. The scenery that had been covered with a thin veil became much clearer, and the red sunlight shone on, adding a warm hue to everything on the earth, making the early winter morning a little bleak no longer so cold.

After harvesting, the rice field, except for some crooked rice stubble, only some clumps of weeds, does look a little dilapidated. But as the villagers began to plow, a mood called hope began to spread across the northerly wilderness.

(To be continued)