Chapter 184: "Seeing Death as Home"
(Cat flutter Chinese) Ploughing the land is done by two animals pulling a primitive iron plough, and then the animals pull a large iron dam to pull away the larger soil piles, and then people line up like geese to level the land with iron rakes, while smashing smaller soil slabs.
Ploughing, damming, and leveling must be connected, and it is quite laborious to smash the soil if it is dry. After that, the large area of land is divided evenly by ridges, and the ridges are dug out with slabs, and then the ditches in the ridges are flattened. Finally, the wheat is sown by hand or by livestock in a simple planter, and then manually leveled again to prevent the wheat kernels from being exposed to the air.
Harvest sesame seeds, peanuts, sweet potatoes......
With the efforts of the old and young masters, women and children of the whole village, united as one, united struggle, and continuous combat not afraid of fatigue, Lishugou finally successfully completed the autumn harvest and autumn planting task.
After handing over the public grain and distributing the grain, the farmhouse looked unusually full and full. The walls of the courtyard have long been covered with yellow, orange and orange corn. Soybean stalks were piled up on the ground, crackling in the sun. The dried peanuts are plump and fresh, and the home-grown pumpkins on the wooden shelves are cut into strips and semi-dried.
The whole autumn was spent in this hectic and hectic work, sweating like rain, in exchange for abundant autumn fruits, sowing the hope of a good harvest in the coming year.
Throwing away the scythe and hoe, patting the dirt on his body, he can finally sprint with all his strength, and put his mind at ease to fight at night. This time, instead of holding a book of quotations, they picked up a textbook that they hadn't picked up for years or even ten years.
In late autumn, the trees withered, and the vine seedlings in the front and back vegetable gardens in the courtyard of the Hua family withered and dried up.
Hua Henian pulled out all these vine seedlings, and after turning over the land, the land was completely rested for a winter.
Hua Junyao sat in front of the door, her hands on her cheeks, looking at the newly turned wet land, and the smell of earth came to her face.
"Big brother, why don't you grow some vegetables." Hua Junyao asked deliberately.
"Stupid girl, it's cold, and you'll be killed by frost." Hua Henian held the hoe and looked at her with a smile.
"Is that easy? Wouldn't it be nice to cover it with a quilt. Hua Junyao said with a smile.
"What a stupid girl, the quilt is covered by people, covered in the ground, it's just a waste." Hua Laoshi walked over and said.
"Hey!" Hua Junyao was stunned when she heard this, and then smiled, "The quilt I am talking about is to go to the river beach to cut some thatch and come back, tie it into grass and cover it on the vegetables." Then he came down and stood on the vegetable garden, gesturing, "There are many bamboos on the mountain, and the toughness is good, so that they are bent into an arch and rooted in the soil, and covered with grass to keep warm and moisturize." He tried his best to persuade, "Isn't this thatched house built with thatch?" ”
Hua Henian listened carefully, scratched his chin, looked at Hua honestly and said, "Dad, this is feasible, we don't plant vegetables such as rattan seedlings, only some, spinach, coriander, garlic sprouts, small rape, leeks...... As a side dish, it is better than a winter cabbage, white radish, and white. ”
"It's best to make egg drop soup in winter." Hua Junyao slammed her mouth and said.
"You gluttonous cat, you talk about it for a long time and it's for food." Hua Henian looked at her and scolded with a smile.
"The people live on food." Hua Junyao said confidently, looking at her father and eldest brother with rolling eyes, "And our family's self-reserved land is also idle in winter?" Well? She looked at them meaningfully.
"No, you can't eat it all if you plant too much." Hua Henian said without thinking, "That's a waste." ”
"If you can't finish eating, can you sell it?" Hua Junyao looked at Hua Laoshi with burning eyes, Dad, what I said is so obvious, you always give you a reaction!
"Sell? This is a speculative *inverted* hand! Hua Henian shook his head like a rattle and said, "If you are arrested, you will go to jail." ”
"Who said that I am a speculator, I am a vegetable basket to enrich the citizens, as the saying goes, people are iron and rice are steel, and people in the city eat well, dress warmly, and are healthy, so as to contribute to the realization of the four modernizations." Hua Junyao said in a high-sounding manner, "He said that the old man said: the body is the capital of the revolution. ”
Hua Henian couldn't refute what he said, Hua Henian looked at Hua Laoshi, "Dad!" ”
"Big brother, it seems that your consciousness is not high enough, right?" Hua Junyao teased, "Dad, the eldest brother's rigid head does not turn, and he is not as enlightened as your old man!" Can you be bolder? ”
"Dad, you agreed." Hua Henian's eyes widened and he looked at his father in disbelief.
Hua honestly looked at the honest eldest son, and said helplessly, "Your sister is not bad, your head should be turned." You forget, in the past six months, the mountain goods we collected have been sold to department stores and hospital logistics, as long as they can be grown, there is no way out. ”
Hua Henian's eyes lit up and said, "Dad said yes!" ”
"Silly boy." Hua honestly scolded with a smile, looked at them and said, "Be bolder." Suddenly sighed, "Anyway, we are already half-cut people, so we might as well be active." ”
The corners of Hua Junyao's mouth twitched when she heard this, and she could use it to look at death as if she were home! "Dad, it's not a crime. The land itself is up to us to decide what to plant, and we have no right to interfere with it. Then he cheered up, "This policy will only get better and better, Dad, you can put a hundred and twenty hearts!" ”
"You! The gun shot the first bird, do you know it. Hua honestly looked at her worriedly.
"Daddy, I know the early birds get worms." Hua Junyao continued.
"But I also know that the early worms are eaten by the birds." Hua honestly looked at her meaningfully and said.
"Dad, your quick thinking, I really admire, admire." Hua Junyao clasped her fists with both hands.
One step ahead is a genius, two steps ahead is a madman. Genius is a special realm, one step away from it is a fool, and one step beyond it is a madman.
It's like an early bird being eaten by a bird: the other insects are still sleeping in the nest, and the restless insects are discovered by the birds because they get up early and become the birds' belly. It's not about waking up early, it's about doing what you should do and not doing what you shouldn't.
"Thank you dad for your teaching." Hua Junyao said sincerely.
Hua honestly got up and said, "In the Year of the Crane, I will go to cut thatch on the river beach, and I will go to my brother to chat." ”
Hua Junyao looked at the back of his father's departure, he may not understand any big truth, many years of life experience let him know what reality is, and it has almost become an instinctive instinct to seek good fortune and avoid evil.
Then Hua Henian went out of the house with a sickle, Hua Junyao shook her head and chuckled, yes! Today's dinner is going to be postponed.
Lei Daring listened to Hua honestly, of course he had no opinion, the most important sentence touched Lei Daring, seeing that the child was about to take the university entrance examination, the poor family was rich, and there was no money in his pocket.
So after the autumn harvest and autumn planting, the pear tree ditch, which was supposed to rest in winter, suddenly became active again, and the strong labor cut back the thatch, and the old people in every household could do it.
Planting vegetables is even more trivial in their eyes, and the little bit of self-reserved land, plus the front and back of the house, is really planted with their eyes closed and playing.
Candidates who don't need to prepare for the exam at all do it. (To be continued.) Cat flutter Chinese