Leaving the three brothers of the Wang family to reclaim the wasteland, Chen Youyi went to his own field with Qin Ziheng.

The wasteland is scheduled to be planted with pepper trees, which are relatively easy to feed, even if the first planting is not satisfactory, as long as you take good care of it, there will not be too many accidents.

The Qin family's own field was divided into two parts, half for grain and half for chili peppers.

Chen Youyi has planted a lot of peppers on the small balcony before, and she has more experience in growing peppers than planting peppercorns. However, although pepper is also a good variety, it still has certain requirements for soil.

"These plots of land are well drained, and are suitable for growing small things like chili peppers, which are neither cold nor waterlogg-tolerant." After some comparison, Chen Youyi finally chose this side: "The soil here is acidic, deep and fertile, sandy, with good air permeability, and the conditions are met. ”

Peppers are easy to grow and also easy to die. I like dry air conditions, but I can't do without watering. It is often necessary to water, but it cannot be soaked in water, and if the stagnant water does not penetrate in time and the air permeability is insufficient, it will wilt and die within a few hours.

And before that, the procedure is still the same, the field must be leveled first.

The fields here are not as uneven as the wasteland, and the roads are difficult to walk, so they can only be leveled by hand. A flat field like this one can be ploughed with oxen.

The people in the village are busy before spring ploughing, and those who have cattle want to use them at home, and not every family has the conditions to raise cattle.

If you borrow it temporarily, maybe someone will be willing to borrow it. But in this way, it is to inherit the love of others. The favor owed has to be repaid, and sometimes it's not a matter of a few dollars, it's too troublesome.

In order to avoid this kind of trouble, from the beginning, Chen Youyi did not plan to take this path.

"When I went to Renyazi before, I saw that they would also have cattle and horses for rent, so we went there to rent them for a few days." There are only so many pepper seeds in total, and even the Qin family is not satisfied with this little field, and it only takes a day or two to borrow ploughing oxen to plow the land.

Originally, they were afraid that hiring someone would make Annette Mu a little unhappy, so they did the work of plowing the land by themselves, saving them from renting cattle and spending money, which aroused Annette Mu's opposition even more.

Unexpectedly, this time it was Annette Mu who took the initiative to mention it, saying that she didn't want to see the two of them tired, and since they had hired everyone, it would not be bad to spend more money.

In this regard, Chen Youyi thought about it, whether she pretended to be weak and pretended to be too similar, so that Mu Xiulian really thought that she was going to fall down if she did a little more heavy work.

Anyway, Mu Xiulian was relieved, and Chen Youyi was of course willing to make her life easier. If the fields that the oxen could plough in a day or two were replaced by manual labor, it would have taken several days for a novice like her, who had never done farm work before, and she would have to fall on the bed with exhaustion.

The two discussed, Qin Ziheng went to the county seat to rent farming cattle, and Chen Youyi stayed to check the pepper seeds. When I harvested before, I had already roughly checked the score, and there were not many seeds, each one was hope, and it was all silver for the future, and I was reluctant to remove too much, and some of the things that didn't look good were still left, but they were divided into two piles.

If the quality is good, you can sell it for money, and if the quality is a little worse, you can leave it to eat by yourself, and there will be no delay on both sides.

The ploughing cattle were quickly leased, Qin Ziheng drove the cattle, and when they arrived in the field, the two found a major mistake.

"You don't know how to plow?" Chen Youyi expressed her unacceptability for this answer: "But didn't you say that you used to help with farm work, and the rations, vegetables and fruits at home were all grown by you and your mother?" Did my mother plow the land alone before? ”

A thin woman rolling up her sleeves and trouser legs, waving a whip to drive a ploughing ox, this picture is a bit inconsistent to imagine, and a little poignant.

Ploughing may seem simple, but in fact, it is not all the work left to the oxen. Stabilizing the direction of the plough is not a matter of command, in fact, it requires not only strength, but also skill, which is difficult for novices to master. The veteran can skillfully drive the plough ox to plow the land, and the time and effort spent between the novice and the veteran are not of the same grade.

The more unskilled the novice, the more effort is expended, tired and half dead, and the ploughed ground is uneven and not delicate.

Qin Ziheng was deeply amused by her bitter hatred, and his smile flashed, and then disappeared into the long past. Those poor days when mothers and sons stayed together, in retrospect, are vivid, as if they were from the previous life, separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, there is a sense of unreality.

He pulled Chen Youyi, who was standing crookedly, up, and raised his hand to brush a strand of hair that was blown away by the wind at the corners of his lips for her. The temperature of his cheeks had been in the weather that was not warm for a long time, and it was slightly cool, but Qin Ziheng felt a real touch.

It was as if it had been floating for a long time and had reawakened.

"My family used to be too poor to rent cattle, and my mother and I used a rake to level the family's fields." At that time, he was still young, Mu Xiulian was a woman, after giving birth to Qin Huai, there was a big incident in the family, and she never rested for a day, almost holding Qin Huai to work every day, which led to the root of the disease.

Qin Ziheng mentioned that period of time again, and was secretly surprised, the past that had tormented him so much that he couldn't sleep peacefully was brought up again, and now that the old things were brought up, he actually seemed to be a bystander, and he remembered the things clearly, and his heart no longer hurt like a drop of blood.

"At that time, Qin Huai was only a little old, and my mother and I had to do farm work, so I didn't worry about leaving him a child at home, so I used a bamboo basket to put it on the ridge, so that when he cried, we could go to see him."

Qin Huai is so well-behaved now, in his early childhood, like other children, he loves to cry and make trouble, and if he doesn't hold it, he will make people's ears buzz and can't be quiet.

When he talked about these sad sounding past events, his face still had an indifferent expression, but Chen Youyi felt a sour feeling when he heard it.

She became an orphan when she was a child, but luckily, after her parents had an accident, there were distant relatives who were willing to support her, although the relationship was not particularly good, they were more polite to each other, and after she was admitted to the key junior high school, she started her school life all the way, and the relatives were even more estranged.

But at least, her relatives did not treat her badly in terms of food and drink, nor did they have any misfortunes such as abuse, and they continued to provide tuition until she was admitted to university.

Although she began her continuous part-time job after high school, plus a scholarship, she actually didn't spend too much money on her relatives, and after she worked, she paid it off on the grounds of filial piety.

But at that time, a place to stay, a little tuition, was a backing for her, allowing her to avoid the misery of not seeing tomorrow when she was young.