After walking along the path for about ten minutes, the group of three came to the vicinity of a farmland with an extremely wide view. Standing on the ridge of the field and looking up, the green farmland here is connected together, the breeze blows, and the green waves composed of grass seedlings rise and fall with the wind, which looks quite spectacular.

In the breeze, green grass seedlings swayed in the spring breeze, a few butterflies danced in the sky above the farmland, and some unknown small wildflowers dotted the fields, and thousands of purples and reds actually bloomed. Like a beautiful picture, it slowly stretched out in front of Zhang Ran.

"Oh, there's a lot of grass growing in the field! Now it's going to be troublesome! ”

"Uh" Zhang Ran, who was immersed in the spring breeze, was suddenly disturbed by a burst of exclamations, frowned and followed the voice, and found that it was his sister Zhang Sui'er who made the sound.

At this moment, Zhang Sui'er was looking at the green fields in front of her with wide eyes, and her little face was actually stained with a little sadness...

Sui'er grabbed the grip of the stone hoe, looked at the field in the distance and sighed: "There are so many weeds, when will they be dried to clean up!" ”

"Ah Ran, what's wrong? Feeling sick again? ”

Just when Zhang Ran was slightly stunned, a gentle word sounded in Zhang Ran's ears, and then a cold and soft hand touched Zhang Ran's forehead.

"Mother, I'm fine! Let's go, it's not too early, let's hurry up and work in the field! After struggling slightly, Zhang Ran pushed away his mother's palm, shook his head, and then raised the hoe in his hand to signal to his mother.

Zhang Li observed Zhang Ran with a puzzled face, and found that his son's face didn't seem to be too bad, so he felt a little calmer, and said softly: "Okay, Ran'er, if you feel uncomfortable, you must tell your mother as soon as possible!" But don't be reckless and get tired! ”

"Got it, Mother!" Zhang Ran bowed slightly and replied.

When he walked to his field behind his mother and sister Sui'er with a hoe, Zhang Ran realized that his sister's long sigh just now was really not a funny gesture!

Walking closer, especially after seeing the scene in the field, Rao is Zhang Ran already had some preparations in his heart, and he couldn't help but tremble in his heart!

It's miserable, it's so miserable! Is this really farmland?

In the midst of the lush greenery, Zhang Ran widened his eyes and tried to find it, and with great effort, he still couldn't tell which one was a seedling and which one was a weed, and he only felt that his eyes were full of green, as if there were no crops at all!

Without giving up, Zhang Ran stretched out his hand to pick up the weeds in front of him, pulling the grass one by one to carefully distinguish, and finally found the figure of He Miao in the midst of a field of weeds.

The seedlings that appeared in front of Zhang Ran's eyes were only about a dozen centimeters high, and the long ones could only be described as cold and nests, under the invasion of weeds, not only grew short but also most of the leaves showed a tender yellow, which was obvious, because the seedlings were robbed of living space by these weeds around them, and lacked nutrients and light.

In this case, if you don't deal with it in time, eradicate these weeds. The seedlings will soon wither due to lack of sunlight and nutrients, and Zhang Ran's family may have no harvest this year.

What's worse, with the current degree of damage to the seedlings, even if Zhang Ran's family can eradicate all the weeds that hinder the growth of the seedlings in time, it will inevitably reduce the yield this year.

The family is already very poor, and they can barely make ends meet by relying on this little harvest of the fields. Thinking of this, Zhang Ran couldn't help but feel a little heavy.

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Ran asked his mother Zhang Li beside him: "Mother, our seedlings don't seem to be growing well?" Isn't it going to cut production this year? ”

"Well, judging from the current situation, it is probably a lot less grain!"

Zhang Li's brows were also tightly knit when he spoke, his face was a little embarrassed, Zhang Li's heart was very clear, if the ten acres of irrigated fields (irrigated land) by the river reduced the yield, it would not be a matter of harvesting a little less grain.

My family has a total of more than a dozen acres of farmland, all of which are used to grow millet, and the millet planted is also used for their own food, which is used to sell for money, and then pay taxes to the government.

However, despite the worry in his heart, Zhang Li still comforted Zhang Ran and said: "Collect less, collect less!" It's not in the way, anyway, our family has more than 30 acres of land, in addition to these more than a dozen acres of irrigated fields by the river planted with millet, there are more than 20 acres of dry fields and mountain fields planted with a lot of soybean (the general name of beans), and the seedlings are both drought resistant and insect bite, should be fine. This adds up to a lot of food, and you won't be hungry. ”

"Oh" Hearing that there are still more than 20 acres of land at home to grow beans, Zhang Ran was immediately relieved, soybean seedlings are much easier to serve than this seedling, even if they are a little weed, they are not in the way. Eat less millet porridge and more bean soup in the future.

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Because they have not been taken care of for a long time, there are a lot of weeds in the field, so after Zhang Ran's mother and son chatted a little, they began to work in the field under the leadership of Zhang Li.

As soon as this happened, the gap between Zhang Ran and the other three was immediately revealed.

Mother Zhang Li said that she has been doing farm work all year round, so the speed of weeding is very fast, and a stone hoe that does not look sharp does not seem to be sluggish in her hands at all, and every wave of her arm can accurately eradicate the weeds around the seedlings, and do not hurt the seedlings in the slightest.

Even her ten-year-old sister Sui'er is doing farm work well, only a little slower than Zhang Li's.

Poor Zhang Ran, although he grew up in the countryside in his previous life, this kind of farm work like weeding is the first time in his life.

Although farmland in later generations is called farmland in the present day, there is a big difference between the crops planted and the management during the planting period.

Fertilizers and pesticides have been widely used in the farmland of Gaine in later generations, and all kinds of weeds will die in just a few days after spraying herbicides once a year before the seeds germinate.

When the seeds germinate and grow into wheat seedlings or corn seedlings (in the north), there are very few weeds, and even if there are occasional residual weeds, it is basically difficult to affect the growth of crops.

So, you don't need to remove the weeds yourself, just fertilize and irrigate on time, and spray pesticides.

Although Zhang Ran also has a lot of memories of working in the field in his memory, it was Zhang Ran's first time doing it himself, so when he started working, all kinds of actions seemed extremely clumsy.

In order to hide his clumsy movements and avoid the sight of his mother Zhang Li, Zhang Ran deliberately slowed down the speed of weeding a lot (in fact, it was not fast), so that he soon lagged behind Zhang Li's mother and daughter by several positions, and was left far behind by the two.

At the same time, Zhang Ran also quietly watched Zhang Li's every move, tried to imitate her movements, and tried to adjust his posture and learn how to weed...

Occasionally, when Zhang Li turned around, he also saw Zhang Ran's clumsy and incongruous appearance when weeding. But Zhang Li didn't take this to heart for the time being, thinking that it was caused by Zhang Ran's initial recovery from a serious illness and his body was still very weak.

In addition, Zhang Li saw so many weeds in the field, worried that if he didn't deal with it in time, the crop yield would be reduced, so he was already anxious, so he didn't have much leisure to pay attention to Zhang Ran's every move. only occasionally turned his head and told Zhang Ran to think about his body, not to be too tired or something, and then quickly turned his head and continued to remove the grass.