At the foot of a hill is a newly built village, with neat houses and wide roads, where chickens, ducks and dogs swagger along the road.

The road outside the village road is paved with gravel mined from the mountains, and after rolling and paving, even after the rainstorm, the road is not so muddy, and you can drive when the rain stops.

After a summer exposure to the road, people and animals walked away with rising smoke and dust.

To the east of the village is East Lake, and the river recedes and retreats, and the riverbed is exposed in many places. Naughty children will chase after the water to touch the mud snails and mussels, and then come back and smash them with stones and feed them to the chickens and ducks, so that they can lay more eggs.

One by one, the leaves on the trees began to turn dark green, with a faint yellowish tinge on the edges, and the wild grass on the roadside was cut down in large numbers and dried under the sun, waiting to be dried and taken back to set fire to the rice.

At this moment, it was the afternoon when the sun began to warm up, and most of the people came out and toiled in the fields.

A big black dog came out of the grass by the side of the road, ran up the road, ran for a while, turned back again, and barked twice at a donkey.

A small donkey appeared in front of people's eyes, on the donkey was a fourteen-year-old girl, the top was a light pink cross-collared and narrow-sleeved muslin gown, dark blue piping, only in the piping with a simple pattern embroidered in dark blue.

The lower body wears a dark blue muslin long skirt with a simple pattern embroidered at the waist, a light pink belt embroidered with dark blue patterns, and a bow is tied at the thin waist, which hangs down naturally.

The little girl has red lips and white teeth, a pair of big black eyes, and a smart energy. People are very beautiful, but the attraction is not her beauty, but her demeanor of leaning over and riding on a donkey, leisurely.

Some passing leaders saw it and greeted her one after another: "Soybeans, I'm back from the market." ”

"Well, Uncle Wang, you go to the ground, are you so tropical water?" The little girl's voice was crisp and pleasant, with a sweet smile on her face, and she sat on the donkey and did not come down.

"Bring it, you go and get busy, I'll go to the field and have a look." As he spoke, the old man carried his hoe and took his son to the field.

Huang Dou greeted the neighbors in the village he met all the way, nodded and smiled in response, did not come down, and rode a donkey all the way to the East Lake.

The east lake is a large open space, along the lake to the east, less than a mile in front of the eyes suddenly opened, is a beach that stretches into, by the mountains and rivers there are as many as 100 acres, planted with rice, at this moment has hung down the head heavily.

At the beginning of August, the rice was filled with pulp, and the whole rice seedlings were already dark green and about to turn yellow, and the rice ears filled with pulp looked a little dull.

He tied the donkey to a tree on the side, patted the big black head, and walked along the ridge of the rice field. The rice stalk is tall and strong, and when you walk on the ridge, you can feel that you are a head lower than a person, and I don't know if it will be as tall as a soybean when you walk in the field!

Today, it was Huang Lao Da and Huang Lao Er two brothers who came to clean the ditch by the rice field, and they immediately smiled when they saw Huang Dou coming over: "Doudou, you went to town and came back, what fresh food did you buy?" ”

"The tender water chestnut is already on the market, I bought a basket, and I met the eldest brother of the Tu family, he said, he will help send it over later."

Tu Huasheng, the eldest brother of the Tu family, is Huang Mi's son-in-law and the nephew of the boss Tu of the grocery store in Nanshan Town. Boss Tu's eldest brother opened a grocery store in Xiangyang Mansion for retail and wholesale, and the business was good, and Tu Watson often traveled back and forth to deliver goods.

Huang Michun and Soybeans went to the Tu family's grocery store to buy things, and met Tu Watson, the twenty-year-old Tu Watson has always been a heart disease of the Tu family without a marriage. Grandma Tu saw the yellow rice in front of her and Tu Huasheng on the side, and her eyes couldn't help but light up.

In the past two years, the Huang family's matchmaker has broken through the threshold, and the three eldest boys of the Huang family are not at home, and it will not delay the matchmaker's heart to come out on top. And the three eldest girls of the Huang family have attracted countless thoughts from young people in the surrounding ten miles and eight towns.

Huang Mi is eighteen years old, and she has been high or low for the past two years, and it is not that she is picky, but I don't know how, there are always accidents of this kind and that.

Unexpectedly, Grandma Tu came to the door to be a matchmaker, and the two of them were not new acquaintances, but they both saw the right eye, and it was done as soon as they said it! I have just made a marriage, and I am ready to marry after the autumn harvest.

"Uncle, second uncle, how is the rice ear this year, compared to previous years?" Soybeans folded a rice plant in his hand, and took it in his hand and counted how many rice grains there were. In a few days, all the water in the paddy fields will be drained, and the autumn harvest will begin!

"It's not bad, it's not bad, this year's wind and rain are smooth, it will only be better than previous years, not worse than previous years." Speaking of the harvest, the two brothers of the Huang family are smiling.

After walking the mountain, the Huang family moved and bought half a house of grain, so if they relied on these grains, they would not survive the drought of the second year. The drought lasted the following year until the winter months after the autumn harvest, when the crops planted in the fields were almost non-yielding.

The 100 acres of land on the Huangjia River Beach, because it is close to the river beach, it took a huge amount of manpower to dig ditches. When Huang Dou proposed this, Huang Laohan and the Huang brothers were opposed.

As a last resort, Soybeans drew them a diagram of the ditches and told them how to drain quickly by these ditches if the rain was heavy. In the event of a drought, as long as a small pumping windmill is erected at the water inlet, the water of the East Lake can be poured into the more than 100 acres of fields.

As it turned out, the soybean approach was correct. And the Huang family, in the eyes of everyone, did such a stupid thing that immediately turned into an incredible achievement after the autumn harvest.

This year, the drought swept almost a third of the land in the south, and large areas were wiped out and more people were displaced. However, the river beach of the Huang family has ushered in a historic harvest.

In the early days, rice planting relied on sowing and planting like wheat seeds, and it was completely up to God to harvest more and harvest less. Soybeans proposed to select full-grained seeds to cultivate and plant them in the field. No one has ever heard of this method.

Boss Huang thinks that if soybeans want to try, then give her ten acres of land to experiment, plant well, and follow the soybean method in the coming year, even if the planting is not good, it will be ten acres of land.

In fact, according to the idea of Huang Laoer's father and son, ten acres is too much, just give her one or two acres of experiments.

In the end, it was Huang Laohan who made the decision and divided the more than 100 acres of land into five parts, the five brothers and their family of 20 acres, and the remaining few acres of Huang Laohan for pension. As for how each family grows, it is up to their own family to decide, and it will be their land in the future.

Huang Laosan and Huang Laosi handed over 20 acres of land to Soybeans without any disagreement, and Huang Guigui had already made it clear to his father and mother when he left, and his things were fully decided by Soybeans, so that Soybeans had an experimental field of 60 acres of land in his hands.

Boss Huang hesitated for a long time, and under Huang Deguang's strong persuasion, he took out ten acres of land and handed it over to Soybeans. Huang Lao's father and son discussed for a long time, and finally decided to plant according to the old method.

Huang Laohan's five acres of land are also planted according to the old method, and Huang Laohan and his wife said in private: "If Doudou is not managed well this time, even if the yield is reduced by half, with our five acres of land, at least we can make up for the three and four." ”

Seventy acres of land, it is a great risk to be handed over to soybeans in this way.

Huang Dou grew up in the countryside until he was admitted to the university, and the concept of instilling it was to study hard, be admitted to a good university, and leave the countryside. And now, it is the life in the countryside that has allowed her to survive in this land.

Modern agriculture grows rice, because of Grandpa Yuan's research results continue to break through, in the hometown of soybeans, only one pound of rice seeds is needed per acre, and the normal yield per mu can reach 1200 catties to 1800 catties. Between the row spacing and plant spacing, it is required to be wide and conducive to ventilation, and artificial planting can reach one acre and five points to two acres of land a day.

The 70 acres of soybean land, each mu of rice seeds prepared is five catties, and the requirements between the row spacing and plant spacing are intensive. The rice seeds that soybeans can get are all seeds selected from each family's own fields, and they are not hybrid rice in later generations at all. If you follow one pound of rice seeds per acre of land in later generations, then you really don't want to harvest.

Five catties of rice are planted in the ground, and one person is only about five to seven points of land a day.

When Huang Dou said that the prepared rice seeds only cost five catties per acre, the hearts of Huang Laohan and the Huang brothers were half cold. The rice they are planting now cannot be less than 10 catties per mu, and the yield per mu is only more than 200, and if they can receive 300, it will be considered a high yield.

Under the game of Huang Laohan and soybeans, 70 acres of land, 350 catties of rice seeds were cultivated and 450 catties. Huang Laohan thought that it was his insistence, in fact, the soybean preparation was 450, she didn't know the cultivation situation, she didn't dare to take too much risk, and deliberately left a hundred catties of leeway.

After all, there is an old saying that if you have money to buy seeds, you can't buy seedlings.

Rice seedlings emerge, transplanted rice fields, soybeans are soaked in the field almost every day. In April and May, the sun was already very strong, and the soybeans were tanned a few colors from a white and chubby tender girl, lost a lot of weight, and became a little black girl.

Planting seedlings in the ground, no one will, soybeans will pull up their trouser legs and personally lead the team to the ground, one day down, climb ashore, soybeans only feel back pain, the next day directly waist and leg pain can not get up.

Seventy acres of land, twenty young women were employed, and it took almost ten days to plant seventy acres of land, from the beginning of the unskillful to the final handy.

There were also some more seedlings, and the soybeans were planted in the ditches and corners, and the harvest was not wasted.

Everyone is watching the jokes of the Huang family, such a toss, when the time comes, a big flood will be in vain. And this kind of rice transplanting method is unheard of, but I'm afraid it's okay to find trouble.

This year, there was a great drought, the water of East Lake fell again and again, and the originally open Nanshan Wharf retreated to the point that only one big ship was allowed to enter and exit, you must know that in the past, Nanshan Wharf could be used by two big ships to enter and exit at the same time.

The Huang family built a small movable windmill and began to drive water, and a steady stream of water entered the rice fields from East Lake, moistening the land. At the time of the autumn harvest, this golden rice field caused a sensation on the land with almost no harvest.

The Xiangyang Prefecture specially sent people to Nanshan Town and stationed here to wait for the harvest.