Chapter 17 Rice Planting
Gu Xicheng sat on the steps in front of the hall with his back to him, it was hot in summer, and there was no electricity in this place, so don't count on the refrigeration system.
The steps are made of bluestone slabs, and the slate is cooler after the sun does not shine here in the afternoon, and there is a gust of wind through the hall from time to time, so it should be a fan.
Gu Xixuan was originally holding a straw hat and fanning the wind again, but after listening to Cheng Wei's words, he stretched out his hand.
"Why are you so stupid, you can't say it when your hand hurts?" Cheng Wei's tone was a little stiff. He punctured the blisters with a needle, his brow furrowed.
No wonder Gu Xicheng didn't let him shake the core in the past two days, now that I think about it, the core must be very bulky, and the temporary bearing has been broken twice. And that handle was also made in a hurry, such a rough thing, no matter how thick the skin is, it can't withstand such rubbing.
"It really doesn't hurt." Gu Xixuan looked at Cheng Wei's obviously unhappy appearance, he leaned in front of him, stretched out his hand and touched his face and said. On the Blue Star, every time he has been injured is much more serious than this.
Cheng Wei's eyelids moved, and he tilted his head slightly to the side to dodge. Gu Xixuan's eyes sank, and he subconsciously wanted to move forward, but he suddenly paused and retreated.
He flicked it lightly between Cheng Wei's knotted eyebrows with his hand, and then said with a serious face: "Look, I killed a fly, and I bounced it away." ”
"Get out!" Cheng Wei was so angry that he kicked him directly in the back, and got up and went back to the house.
Gu Xixuan pretended to stumble forward, then relaxed his body and leaned back. He propped his elbows on the steps and covered his face with a straw hat.
Cheng Wei is a good man, and he is not a good partner, he can't give him what he wants.
It is impossible for Gu Xicheng to raise it at home for ten days and half a month because of the few blisters in his palm, and after harvesting the rice at noon, the field will be filled with water, so he will wait for the mud to soften tomorrow and step on the field.
For the rest of the day, he and Cheng Wei tied the threshed rice stalks in the yard one by one, and waited until they were dried to come in handy.
He had not wrapped his palms with a cloth, and in the afternoon he was ordered to stay at home, doing nothing but turning over the rice and then sitting on the stalks.
Before taking a bath at night, when Gu Xicheng untied the cloth with a tung oil lamp, he was surprised to find that a layer of pink new skin had grown under the dead skin.
"Tomorrow will be out of the way." Cheng Wei also leaned over to take a look, and he yawned and said.
The self-repair ability of the human body of the new era after being genetically strengthened is indeed much stronger than the previous one, otherwise he would have swallowed half of his body with that sticky green beast in one bite, and before he could return to the repair warehouse, he would probably die in space due to excessive blood loss.
After he is assimilated, this advantage should slowly disappear.
Gu Xixuan suddenly remembered that when he came to this other world more than half a year ago, Cheng Wei was attacked by a python and his ribs were cracked, and it stands to reason that he would hurt his muscles and bones for a hundred days, and Cheng Wei was fine in only a few days at that time?
According to Cheng Wei's beast god, the genes of humans in this other world should all carry beast genes, so this is the reason why their bodies recover quickly?
Gu Xixuan lowered his eyes, silently took his clothes and took a bath in the courtyard. It's a pity, it would be nice if there was instrumental analysis.
This kind of thought can probably only be thought about, and early the next morning, Cheng Wei took him to step on the field. The fields in Tonghua Village are not fertile, but fortunately, the soil is soft, and the fields that have been soaked overnight have been soft and rotten.
Before going down, Cheng Wei gave Gu Xicheng two very thick cloths, and he motioned to Gu Xicheng and said, "Wrap your feet." ”
After wrapping the bottom of his feet and calves tightly, Cheng Wei took Gu Xicheng to the field, and the harvested rice stubble only leaked a little tip in the water-filled field, and there were still some weeds growing in the field.
They have to trample the stubble and weeds under the soil, then soak them for a few days, and then they will plant the seedlings.
It's not a technical job, but it's very boring, and although the mud in the field is soft, there are a lot of small stones and various aquatic insects under the soft mud, so you need to wrap the soles of your feet with a cloth.
The mud was soft, and he hadn't done farm work for several years, Cheng Wei got used to it for a while, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that Gu Xicheng had stepped forward.
He pouted, in the end, it was the powerful man who took advantage.
After stepping on the field in two days, Gu Xicheng picked up a few loads of manure and splashed them in the field, and at this time, several families had already come over to let them get the seedlings.
"You see at home who else will let you get the seedlings, and I'll go to Xiahe Village." Gu Xixuan and Cheng Wei said a word, and then went to Xiahe Village with two bamboo baskets and the people who came to inform.
Cheng Wei gave him two strings of copper plates, hurriedly loaded him with three sweet potatoes, and brought a bamboo tube of honeysuckle tea before letting him go out. The sweet potato was dug by him two days ago, and he was still small, and he was teased by Daddy Wei when he saw it, why was he so greedy.
After ten days, Cheng Wei and Gu Xixuan's two acres of paddy fields had enough seedlings, and the first batch of seedlings had already taken root.
Looking at the jagged seedlings, Daddy Wei sighed. That's no way, as many Tian Guan's families will send as many kinds as they are, that's a certainty. In addition, each family has to leave a handful of seedlings to prepare for replanting, and it is the landlord Liu's house that can produce more, and the thirty handfuls that were brought back in Xiahe Village after three trips.
Moreover, it is not possible to require every household to harvest and plant seedlings on the same day, and no one knows whether the seedlings of other families are more or less before they go to the field.
However, after coming to another world for so long, Gu Xigao finally found that there was one thing he couldn't, that is, rice planting.
There is still water in the soft field, and when you step on a pit, you will only be inserted into the field one moment, and the next moment the seedlings will float with the water.
Cheng Wei: ......
"Okay, you go up, let me come alone." Cheng Wei endured it for a long time, and finally pulled up the crooked seedlings that Gu Xicheng had inserted, he leveled the big pit that was stepped on with his feet, and planted the seedlings in three or two clicks.
Gu Xixuan stood aside and looked at him with a serious face, still holding half a handful of seedlings in his hand.
Cheng Wei's eyelids jumped, how could he feel that Gu Xixuan looked aggrieved after he said that?
"Cheng Wei, I'll go to Liu's house tomorrow to pick up a short-term job." Gu Xixuan, who had tried countless times, finally recognized the fact that he couldn't learn to plant seedlings, he gave the small half of the seedlings to Cheng Wei and said.
"Daddy Wei asked you to go?" Cheng Wei straightened up and thumped his waist and glanced at him.
"Hmm." Gu Xixuan didn't hide it. Because his family's field is really not much, and because of the problem of intermittent seedlings, there is no good way except to wait for nothing. Wei Xiaodad said that eating at home is also for nothing, it is better to take a short-term job, and you can earn two copper plates to make up for the loss of buying seedlings.
Gu Xixuan thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he thought about it.
"You want to go?" Cheng Wei asked him again.
"Hmm." Gu Xixuan nodded.
"Then go ahead." Cheng Wei didn't stop him, he went to Liu's house in the evening to say something, and the next day he prepared a knife and other utensils for Gu Xicheng, and let him go out.
As soon as Gu Xicheng arrived at Liu's house, he was stuffed with a bamboo pole by the foreman. Born so tall and big, it's a waste not to be a porter.
Being a porter costs two pennies more than others a day, Gu Xicheng didn't say anything, and went with a bamboo pole. In addition to picking up the paddies, the porters also had to carry the paddies together and bundle them up himself. Liu's field is far away, and there is a section of the road that is particularly difficult to walk, and it is very hard to be a porter every year.
Gu Xicheng picked from morning to night, and the Liu family managed two meals, one breakfast and one lunch. In the morning, I ate porridge cooked with mixed grains, and at noon I ate fried potatoes and fatty meat. The housekeeper of the Liu family knew that he was a porter, and seeing that he was born tall, he gave him two full spoons.
But one day, Gu Xicheng's two arms were full of traces of rice stalks, and there were a few shiny bags on them that I didn't know what insects were gnawed.