Chapter 691: When Spring Ploughing is in Progress
Some families have a share of helpers, and some people don't.
Cattle rental has just begun, and with this beginning, there will be more people coming one after another.
These helpers have really helped families.
The man in the family left with Yan Er, and the half-grown child was called out to work on the matter of renting cattle, and there was indeed a shortage of manpower.
Xiao Er formed a tie for them, and as soon as several ladies met, they would make it clear who would have a meal today, who would feed the chickens and rabbits, who would go to herd sheep and cattle, and which would bring helpers to the field.
The helpers also really saw the pride of Xiao'an Village.
The ox is rich, and an ox is more than a plow.
I just hate that the plow is not enough.
The Yan family was assigned five helpers.
Yan Yu took the assigned laborers to his own dry field, watched them get acquainted with the oxen, put a plow on the oxen, and then pressed the plow, turning the land deeply, and the moist and dark soil was turned out, and the dark color was elongated as the oxen moved slowly, stopping at the end, and drawing a new one.
She crouched down and grabbed a handful of soil, kneaded it in her hands, and leaned up to her nose to smell it.
A cold smell of the earth.
Today is worthy of the day given by Mama Rong suitable for farming, the spring breeze is not in a hurry, the sun is high, and there is a faint warmth on the body.
In the field, the weeds of spring appeared, and when the oxen walked by, they were sipped, and then they were overturned by the plow, and the weak little roots were exposed to the breeze, and they shivered.
The three of them drove the three cows, and Mama Rong didn't get started, but through Li Xuemei's mouth, she constantly adjusted the depth of the three people turning the ground to achieve the effect she wanted.
The other two watched from the sidelines, measuring with their hands, remembering the owner's request.
Yes, these people, whether they rent cattle in exchange for helpers, or criminals in quarries, call the people of Xiao'an Village the owner.
It's quite uniform.
The people of Xiao'an Village, who were shouted like this, heard it fresh at first, and then forgot about it in the busy labor.
How can you rest assured that your own land will be handed over to outsiders, especially the former masters of the quarry, God, who are the people who can work, and turn left and right when the ground turns, and they don't take the straight road, so it's better for them to get started themselves.
The oxen and the plough changed hands, and the villagers happily looked at the black soil that was turned straight out under their feet.
That's right, that's it, it's going to be good!
Yan Yu and Mama Rong walked to the river, leaving Li Xuemei to watch in place.
The latter was not satisfied with the dry standing, took the rake and pulled out the weeds that had been turned out, and after a few strokes, he looked down at the child in front of him.
As for why she was so obsessed with farming, Yan Yu seriously suspected that her father had lost the land in her hometown before, and although her mother didn't say it, she had been haunted by it.
is so obsessed with farming, and I have to go to the ground with my children.
The cat was playing in the field, but in fact, it scratched out a lot of weeds with its claws, and the stones in the field were also kicked to the edge of the field by its back.
Yan Yu walked all the way and saw that the people in their village were driving the cattle to turn over the soil one by one, and he couldn't help but support his forehead.
So she asked Mama Rong to take Sanbao to go first, and she turned around and went back to the village to find a few village grandfathers.
Soon, the village elders went out and made a tour of the field.
Lecture from house to house, and talk from house to house.
"You can't teach you how to plow, you can't plough the ground straight, and it's not ridges."
"It's all going to be a meeting, I don't know how many times I've said it, I have to grab the time to open more ground, what's the matter, as soon as I touch the guy's business, I forget about it when I step on the ground! There is a lot of work, and if you don't teach them anymore, you can do it yourself?!"
Yan Yu listened to the meeting, and couldn't stop nodding, yes, yes, you have to educate them like this.
There is too much work, and getting so many people back to the village is to help them share the work.
As soon as we arrived at the riverside.
I saw that Mama Rong and Sanbao had already started work.
Yan Yu hurriedly ran over, picked up a shovel, and followed Sanbao to dig the soil.
The number of dirt bags in the fields has steadily increased.
Yan Yu gradually
found a rhythm that suited her, and the more she dug up, the better she went.
I don't even know when her mother came over.
"Little two! Stop, take a break, and have something to eat!" Li Xuemei shouted.
Yan Yu turned his head and wiped the sweat from his head.
When I was immersed in work, I didn't feel it, but when I stopped, I just felt that my body was sticky and my clothes were stained.
Look at the sun, it's still early, so let's eat?
Li Xuemei saw her looking up at the sky, so she said, "I got up early in the morning, I did such heavy work, and I have digested all the things I eat, so hurry up and pad it."
Hand over a dried tofu roll.
"Wow! Mother, I can eat ten!!" Yan Yu didn't even use his hands to catch it, he directly put it on his mouth, raised his head, went to his mouth, and swallowed it in two bites.
Cucumber! Spring onion! Coriander!
They are all rare fresh vegetables and vegetables.
That is, the Yan family, Mama Rong doesn't care what day it is, she can plant it if she wants to, so that Yan Yu can make it like this.
Served with the miso under Mama Yung, and the moist tofu skin.
She tasted it steaming hot, and she only felt so good when she ate it!
Quench hunger and thirst.
Li Xuemei motioned for her to take off her gloves and poured water for her to flush.
Yan Yu was able to do it himself, and Kuku stuffed it into his mouth.
"Mama Rong doesn't need to eat, these are all mine, hehe!" Eat the dried tofu rolls at the top, and the four bean buns at the bottom are not slippery.
Li Xuemei took out another clay pot wrapped in cloth.
"Mama Rong has been simmering on the pot early in the morning, let's try it, stewed spirit snake meat in sauce!"
Yan Yu: !!
Turning his head in surprise, he exclaimed, "Mama Rong, I love you!"
Knowing that it was hard to go to the field today, I prepared a small stove for her early.
Mama Rong stopped and squinted at Yan Yu from afar.
Gesturing with her hands, let her eat to her heart's content.
Yan Yu nodded, the bean bun was sweet, and the sauce stewed spirit snake meat was slightly salty, tsk, this mix and match, but it couldn't stand the fragrance, she only felt that the strength she had used up, and she was rushing back in a hurry, hahahaha!
With food in his stomach, Yan Yu remembered and asked, "Mother, how are those five people working?" Do you want to work hard?"
She looked fine when she left, but I don't know what happened after she left.
"Work hard, the village elders are biased towards us, and the people who didn't give us a quarry are all farmers who exchange cattle for cattle, so don't worry about getting familiar with the cattle, I let them take turns, they said that the oxen are not tired, and our iron plough is also good, and it can be done all day without rest." Li Xuemei said with a smile: "How can you really make people not stop, this is the first day of work, don't be tired for others."
Yan Yu nodded again and again: "It's just a crop trick, so we don't have to teach it from scratch and delay our efforts."
She has a plan to open up wasteland, and if she plows more in the spring, she will be able to harvest more in the autumn.
"When the paddy fields are dug out here, we have to dig a canal for our village, and build it together with a waterwheel, Grandpa Kang said that he studied the drawings and understood, let's not only bring them back to the few adults who know how to work in the quarry, but they have a round circle for the quarry, and there are a lot of people, these people can't do farm work, how to plan the direction of the canal, how to look at the wind direction to measure the depth of the water, how to assemble the parts of the waterwheel."
Yan Yu swallowed the last sip and drank the water happily.
"I also want them to help circle a few pastures suitable for grazing, I remember that the herdsmen take their cattle and sheep to eat the spring pasture, eat the summer pasture, and then the autumn pasture and the winter pasture, so that they rotate, give the grass time to grow, save them from being eaten bald, we store grass is too difficult, it is all manual work, busy and tired, it is better to follow this method."