After lunch, Chen Wen offered to go to see the farmland, and Grandma Li took Chen Wen to the field.

Grandma Li gave Chen Wen her new straw hat to wear, and she wore the old one. This straw hat is not the right size for Chen Wen, so in order not to block his vision, Chen Wen has been holding it with his hand.

In the other hand carried a basket containing water in a bamboo tube and two sweat towels.

The fields are not close to home and take a five-minute walk to get there.

Grandma Li took Chen Wen to stand on the ridge, put down the farm tools, and pointed to the field in front, "This is our family's land." ”

Chen Wen raised his eyes and saw that the land was not big. Every household here grows the same, with only one crop, rice.

"I just planted the seedlings a few days ago, and you can see that the ground has not dried yet, and when the time is dry, you have to irrigate every day." Grandma Li pointed to the river behind her and said, "The irrigation water is taken from this river." ”

After listening to this, Chen Wen knew that he had not caught up with the farming.

"So what do you need to do every day?"

Grandma Li folded her trousers, landed barefoot, and then beckoned to Chen Wen.

Chen Wen also learned to fold his trousers and step into the mud.

"You see, when this seedling falls, you have to help it up, let it grow upright, and then remove weeds and prevent diseases and insects."

"That's all?"

Grandma Li smiled at Chen Wen's curious eyes, "Yes, that's all." Don't underestimate this work, but it's fine. ”

Chen Wen patted his chest and raised his chin confidently, "Grandma, don't worry, I'm careful." ”

"Then you do it, I'll watch."

In order to show that what he said was not empty words, Chen Wen immediately took action.

But as soon as the hand tried to touch the 'weed', it was stopped.

"Wrong, wrong."

"Huh?" Chen Wen withdrew his hand in time, "Isn't this a weed?" ”

"You scratch its leaves."

Chen Wen used his index finger to scrape the leaves of the 'weed', and the sharp touch, thinking that he was going to cut the skin, Chen Wen hurriedly withdrew his hand.

"Hands can be cut."

"Yes, the one who feels like you'll be cut is the rice seedling."

"Okay."

Chen Wen couldn't tell the difference between weeds and rice seedlings with her naked eyes, and if there was anything that looked like a weed, she would touch it, although it was clumsy, but she rarely made mistakes.

After bending over and patrolling from beginning to end, Chen Wen straightened his sore waist and thumped it hard.

Grandma Li sat on the ridge, fed her water, and touched her blushing little face, "I'll go back and weave a little straw hat for you." ”

"I'm going to learn too!"

"Okay, I will come across a haystack on the road in a moment, so smoke more hay."

Chen Wen wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with a sweat towel and nodded.

On the way home, Grandma Li looked at other fields, and said regretfully, "This used to be our family's land, and when I was young, I didn't say anything else, and farming was no problem." Now it's not okay to be old, and a few years ago, I told the village chief that I couldn't do it, so the village chief distributed the land to a family with many young men in the family. ”

Chen Wen looked at a large area of green rice seedlings, and sighed in his heart, grandma was too capable when she was young.

……

left a piece of land, in addition to the grain to be handed over, the rest is enough for Grandma Li to live alone, and now with Chen Wen, it is not difficult.

Since that day, Chen Wen has taken over the day's work, which is actually very easy, as long as he patrols the fields, he has to weed the rice and support the seedlings every day, which does not take too long.

Chen Wen is also doing better and better, and he will no longer be unable to distinguish between weeds and seedlings.

She is even more glad that it is not the ripening period of rice, and in another month or two, the harvest will be overwhelmed.