"yes, because you can't grow anything." Bonon replied.

Bai Yi glanced at the farmland on both sides, and although it was covered in snow, he could still see the occasional sharp stalks from the snow in the fields—it must have been harvested this season.

"This area is the lowest, and there is no way out of drainage. There was a time during the Apocalypse when there was a drought in the south for seven years. The terrain is low, and the drought is added, and the depression is prone to salinity.

"The land is compacted, the crops are planted, and the roots can't absorb fertilizer, so no one has planted them." "When I first came, they were willing to let me put my household into the farm because they said I could plant the land. ”

Bai Ling looked at Siye in surprise, "It looks like he's really alive now." ”

"Yes, in fact, it is not difficult, it is irrigation and drainage, silt and seepage prevention, and if you can't come up at the beginning, you can plant everything, and you have to prepare lime ...... all year round."

Bai Nongan said as he walked, "It's been like this for more than ten years, and I'm lucky, since I lived in Pingjing, it's all smooth here, you look at the present." ”

He pointed to the monument in the distance, where the field ended.

"These pieces of land are pretty good now, it's really good, my grain payment this year is almost catching up with the number of several households in the village combined!" Bernon laughed.

Not far away, a farmer's yard could be seen, and a fat woman stood at the door of the courtyard, and Bai Ling saw her waving her hand to him.

She was wearing a dark green flower jacket, her face and the tip of her nose were a little red, and she smiled, her breath turning into a white mist and dissipating into the air.

"This is your aunt!" Bai Nongan introduced with a smile.

"I heard you laughing again from afar," Bai Nong'an's wife, Fang Shi, glanced at Bai Nong'an who was approaching with a little disgust, and then looked at Bai Ling and them with a smile, "Did I tell you how good he was doing in farming again?" ”

Bai Yi laughed, "We took the initiative to ask." ”

Bai Nong sighed, "People took the initiative to ask." Then he whispered, "...... Besides, I do grow well. ”

The food in the house had apparently been prepared early in the morning, and had already been heated several times by this time.

As soon as Bai Nongan entered the room, he sat down at the dinner table and beckoned Bai Ling and Bai Yi to the table. Bai Yi followed the aunt to take the bamboo basket on her back to the kitchen, and Bai Ling was arranged

The two boys, one older and one younger, stood in the room waiting, looking at Bai Ling and Bai Yi with some fear, and when they saw them come in, they shrank behind the woman.

Bai Ling and Bai Yi originally thought that this was Bai Nong'an's son, but after careful questioning, they learned that they were already grandsons after a generation - his only son had been on an errand in Jiangzhou for the past two years, and it was said that he could be transferred back after this year.

The two children are usually taken by the daughter-in-law, but the daughter-in-law happened to return to her parents' house in the past two days, so there were only two of them left in the family.

Bai Nong'an's home is different from other residents in the south, their house has built an earthen kang, no matter how cold it is outside, it will be warm as soon as you enter the house, which is obviously the configuration of the north.

"Eh, did Qian Sang also build an earthen kang?" Bai Ling asked with some curiosity.

"No, I stayed in the north for a while, and I learned this trick." "That's good, one is that the heat from the stove is not wasted for two meals a day, and the other is the leftover corn stalks in the field, which can just be used as firewood." ”

"Uncle has been in the north?" Bai Yi was surprised again.

"I've been there!" Bo Nongan said, "Didn't your father stay the same?" ”

"Oh, he's going to make a medical book, so he's going to need to travel—"

"It's all the same," Bonon laughed, "we who come out of Keats Hall basically go through more than a dozen state capitals first, so that we know that the things we have learned are outdated, and what needs to be changed, and we are ...... 'practice is the only criterion for testing truth.'" ”

There were two clear sounds, and Bai Yi and Bai Ling's chopsticks fell on the table at the same time.

The brother and sister looked at Bai Nong'an together, their eyes boiling for a moment.

Bai Nongan was taken aback, "...... What's wrong with you guys? ”

Bai Ling reacted first, she lowered her head, "It's okay, I just think what Uncle just said...... Makes sense. ”

"Yes, that makes sense." Bai Yi nodded, "Yes...... Who said that? ”

"Our old master of Khits Hall should have passed away by now." Bai Nongan said, "The old man was born in water conservancy, and most of my skills were taught by him. ”

"Keats Hall...... What is the place? ”

Bai Nongan was stunned for a moment, "Didn't Bai Shijun mention it to you?" ”

The brother and sister shook their heads at the same time, "No." ”

Bai Nong'an's expression froze for a moment, and then he let out a soft "ah-oh" and lowered his head to eat.

"Yes...... Isn't it easy to mention? Bai Ling asked.

"It's not ...... either," Bai Nongan pulled two chopsticks of rice, "Oh, we adults, don't worry about you children." ”

"I'm twenty, uncle." Bai Yi said.

"You still know you're twenty," Bo Nongan frowned, "have you married a daughter-in-law?" Did you have a baby? What do you think about the fact that you haven't moved at twenty yet? Bai Shijun was worried all day long, he didn't tell you, but the bitter water poured all day and night on me...... Annoying me! ”

Bai Nong'an bombarded with artillery, and Bai Ling laughed on the side, but thinking about her marriage that had not yet declined, she lowered her head and concentrated on eating.

Fang Shi hurriedly sandwiched a few pieces of meat into Bai Yi's bowl, "Your uncle's temper is like this, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to get into that with your father a few days ago." ”

Bai Yi decided not to speak for the time being.

He didn't have much contact with this uncle, but how to talk about it, compared it and suddenly felt that Bai Shijun was still quite good.

"So why did my uncle and my father quarrel?" Bai Ling whispered, "...... Bai Yi's marriage? ”

"How can it, I don't care about the marriage of the two of you," Bai Nongan said, and looked back at his two grandsons, "But you two are not allowed to study, do you hear?" If you don't get married after twenty, the government will arrest and go to jail! ”

The two little boys nodded like garlic.

After eating this meal, Bai Ling almost understood why Bai Shijun often came to talk to Bai Nong'an.

He is indeed able to talk, and he is basically the dominant topic at the dinner table, but the most important thing is that the awkwardness in her, Bai Yi or Bai Shijun is not at all in Bai Nongan.

Eat when you're hungry, marry when you're old, find a way to grow it if you can't grow something in the land, and the sickle in Bai Nongan's hand will always cut at those specific problems.

Although this attitude can sometimes feel crude and unreasonable, there are moments when it can really clear people's tangles.

After the meal, Fang's cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks alone, Bai Ling tried to help but was still kicked out by the aunt, she sat down at home, and offered to go to see Bai Nong'an's water canal, Bai Nong'an happily led the way.

After more than ten years of reinforcement and renovation, this canal is no longer as simple as it was at the beginning, and in some key openings, Bai Nongan has been reinforced with bamboo chips and bricks.

Bai Ling sighed and praised all the way on the side, Bai Nongan was very happy, and the laughter almost never stopped.

"Did the uncle learn all this at Keats Hall?"

"Of course!"

"Is my father's medical skills the same?"

"yes."

"So Keats Hall is a school, right?"

"No," Bo Nong'an waved his hand, "it's a local orphanage in Qiansang, and any family that can't afford to raise a child will be sent to our Keats Hall." But most of the girls came, and in my year, the male dolls were just me and your father. ”

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