The turmoil of the new virus continues, and there are things that make the villagers worry again.

Due to the high temperature and the exposure of the sun for several days, the water level of the river next to the village has dropped a lot, and if the weather is still like this in a few days, the riverbed will dry up.

The villagers began to panic, because the rice in their fields would not mature for two months, and the lack of water at this time would cause the rice in the fields to die of drought.

Although everyone uses sunscreen for rice, it only slows down the evaporation of water, and does not completely retain the water in the paddy field, so the water in the paddy field will still decrease.

Fortunately, we are about to mature the rice, and it can be harvested in half a month at most.

Now is the rice heading and fruiting period, and it is also the critical period for rice grain growth and yield to be guaranteed.

A few days ago, my sister-in-law organized everyone to apply fertilizer to the rice field for the last time in the early morning and evening, saying that it would make the rice grains grow white and fat.

Moreover, there is no need for total irrigation in the paddy fields, and according to what we said in the book, combined with the actual situation, intermittent irrigation is implemented in the paddy fields. That is, after irrigating the water once, wait for the water in the field to dry up before irrigating it a second time. In this way, it not only saves water, but also increases the air permeability of the soil, improves the photosynthesis of leaves, accelerates the speed of grain filling, promotes the maturity of rice grains, improves the maturity, and achieves the effect of high yield.

The villagers were very envious when they saw our rice fields gradually turning yellow. Now in this drought situation, there is really no water for irrigation, and we can harvest some grain, so we can't starve to death. All the eyes that look at our rice fields are a little red. But now they are even more anxious about their fields, and if they are not afraid of the new virus, they would like to grow into the rice fields and look at the water on the ground.

Chen Ming and Qin Hanbin at this time. In the evening, after dinner, I carried a bottle of home-brewed liquor and came to our family.

I saw that this was going to have a few drinks, and I had to be warmly entertained as a hostess, so I brought our chef Jiang Zhi into the kitchen, and made a few dishes to let them have a good drink.

A fried peanut and a salted edamame made from freshly picked edamame from the ground in the morning. A plate of beef in sauce, a plate of pork head meat with garlic, and a large plate of cold dishes. There were also a few leftover meat dishes that we ate in the evening, and we were really in a hurry, and there was no time for us to do it again, so we dealt with it.

Two young men looked at a table of good dishes. Halazi will flow to the table.

The men were drinking wine and eating food. When the wine was over three rounds and the five flavors of the dishes, Chen Ming asked Jiang Zhi with a hippie smile: "Brother Jiang, the small river used to irrigate the paddy fields next to our village is about to dry up, what do you say about it, don't all the rice in the field have to die of drought?" ”

It turned out that the two of them came together for a purpose, and they wanted Jiang Zhi to give them an idea about this matter.

Jiang Zhi took a sip of wine and didn't squeak.

Li Cheng took over the conversation and said: "What can be done about this, our village has been living on this river all these years." If it withers, no one can make it grow water. Unless it's raining heavily these days. ”

Qin Hanbin sighed and said: "Hey, isn't it, our village has always relied on this river flowing down from the mountains to live, it has never dried up, it seems that the end of the world has really arrived, the river has dried up, this is not a way to live." ”

"Brother Jiang, Brother Jiang, don't squeak, you can find a way for us, I know you are the most capable, if you also say that there is no way, then we really have no hope." Chen Ming licked his face again and grinded Jiang Zhi forward.

"What kind of ability do I have, I'm just a little common man, farming and living like you." Jiang Zhi couldn't help but smile when he heard him say this.

Chen Ming saw that the sycophants were quite successful, Jiang Zhi finally spoke, and said persistently: "Brother Jiang, don't be modest, we have all understood these days, and your family's actions these days are not simple." Asking for a house, freezing ice, planting rice, opening up wasteland, and covering the sunscreen, this is not an ordinary person. ”

I listened to what he started to say next to me, but the more he talked, the more he said, the more he said. I couldn't help but interrupt him and asked, "You mean to praise us, right?" I saw that Chen Ming nodded, and then said, "But why do I get worse the more I listen to this." Your level of education is too much, and you will be embarrassed to say good things. ”

"Sister-in-law, I'm just a junior high school student, what level do you want me to have, I just don't have the level, so I came to Brother Jiang to give me ideas." After he finished speaking, he seemed to feel that there was something wrong with what he said, and then said again: "No, I don't mean to say that Brother Jiang is not level. I mean, Brother Jiang, your level is much higher than mine, and your idea must be a hundred times better than I thought. We've all discussed it, and we'll follow your pace in the future, and we'll follow what you do, that's right. If we all follow you to plant rice earlier this time, we wouldn't have to worry about it now. ”

After he finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Qin Hanbin and asked, "What I said this time is okay, right?" ”

Qin Hanbin gave a thumbs up to the sky. He was relieved and turned his head to look at Jiang Zhi again.

We couldn't be happier at him.

"Don't worry, our family doesn't just have a paddy field, and now there are 26 acres of newly opened land waiting for us to figure out a way." Jiang Zhi said what we were worried about right now.

"That's right, Brother Jiang, we just want to ask you, how are you going to water your 26 acres of land." Chen Ming looked at Jiang Zhi as if he had finally seen the sun, and his eyes sparkled with Jiang Zhi.

"I really want to know?" Jiang Zhi asked him.

"I really want to know." Chen Ming nodded affirmatively.

"Then you just wait, I haven't thought about it yet." After Jiang Zhi finished speaking, he picked up the chopsticks again and ate the vegetables.

Chen Ming was stunned for a moment, and then picked up his chopsticks and ate dejectedly.

I looked at his wilted head and drooping head, so I glared at Jiang Zhi and said, "Don't tease him, he's enough to get angry." ”

As soon as Chen Ming heard me say this, he immediately came to his senses again, and this time he changed his goal and spoiled me.

"Sister-in-law, hello, you see that I've been on fire these days, I can't eat, I can't sleep, Brother Jiang is still teasing me. Sister-in-law, you're the best, just tell me, what can you do? ”

"Well, we have come up with a solution, but it is only a solution for our wasteland, and we don't know if it will work out, so if you want to learn, you have to think clearly, it may not be easy to use, maybe it will be a waste of time for you." I'll have to explain to them beforehand that there's no way we can do it.

"It's okay, just say it, and you'll know if you can make it a try."

"I don't know if you've watched the agriculture channel before, but we've seen an irrigation method on TV before, which is very water-efficient, called 'drip irrigation'. We intend to use this method of irrigation for the newly opened wasteland. "I saw that Chen Ming and Qin Hanbin were a little confused, so I had to explain to them what drip irrigation is and its benefits.

"Drip irrigation is a very water-efficient irrigation method. I've all been on a drip, it's a bit similar to a drip. It mainly moistens the soil in the part of the plant root system, which can effectively reduce the ineffective evaporation of soil moisture, and because it only moistens that area, the rest of the soil is still dry, so it can also effectively prevent the growth of weeds.

Since the water does not move in the air when it is irrigated, does not wet the pages, and does not evaporate from a large area of the soil surface, it wastes the least amount of water directly on evaporation.

In short, if drip irrigation is done, it should be an irrigation method that saves water and labor, increases production and income, and is most suitable for the current dry weather. "I try to speak as plain as I can, and I don't know if they can understand it.

"Well, that sounds great, so how do you do this drip irrigation." Chen Ming and Qin Hanbin's eyes flashed brightly after hearing this, and Qin Hanbin nodded and said.

"Now the conditions are limited, we are not professionals, we only know the basic theory, and we have not practiced it, so we plan to use the tools we can find at hand to make a simple drip irrigation system first, and if there are better alternative tools in the future, we will continue to improve." I said it in a high-sounding way, but in fact, I just haven't done it, and I'm not very good at it.

"Yes, it's simple, it's okay to use it." Chen Ming's requirements are very low.

"We plan to use large plastic buckets as water containers, and for the time being, there are not so many rubber pipes, so we will use bamboo instead of water pipes. As for the dripper, I used the thicker, harder pine needles from the mountain. Jiang Zhi opened his mouth and explained to them the tools used in our simple drip irrigation system.

"I tried to make a ridge of land a few days ago, and tomorrow I'll try it first, if it's good, if it's good, I'll teach you how to do it. Also, as your sister-in-law just said, this method is for our crops that are normally grown, and crops that require a lot of water like rice may not be allowed. Jiang Zhi affirmed to them again that this irrigation method may not be suitable for rice cultivation.

"It's okay, if you don't do anything, the rice in the field will definitely die, if you do, maybe there is a glimmer of life, that is, it doesn't grow well, it's okay to grow, and there are some grains that can't be harvested." Chen Ming had already figured it out, this was a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

"Okay, if you think about it, then tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock, before the sun comes out, let's go to the field to try it, it shouldn't delay the morning work." Our rice has not yet been harvested, and we still need to work every morning and evening.

Chen Ming said: "Okay, then we will come over at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning, and let's go to the field together." ”

I saw that Chen Ming was always scratching his legs when he was talking this night, and at this time he scratched more frequently, and he had some bad premonitions, so I asked him: "Chen Ming, do you have itchy legs, why do you always scratch?" Was it bitten by a mosquito? (To be continued.) )