Chapter 182: A New Year Begins
The whole village had a happy New Year, although there were no good things at home, but they also brought out the whole thing, and it was fungus and dried vegetables, and the Chinese New Year's Eve meal was still much more abundant than usual.
Dad Jiang and Dad Qu waited for a year in the greenhouse, and they also ushered in a bumper harvest before the year, and their own family couldn't finish eating, so on the day of the New Year, they decided that it was better to be happy alone than to be happy, so they let the children in the family be responsible and sent some fresh vegetables to every household in the village. Each family has a small bag of beans, five large tomatoes, five eggplants, two cucumbers, and more than a dozen green peppers.
After the year, our family came to pay New Year's greetings to the villagers in an endless stream, which shows that the bag of vegetables of Father Jiang Qu played a great role, and everyone thanked them as soon as they entered the door, and the vegetables given by our family made the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table of the whole village a lot richer.
After the Chinese New Year, it is also about to enter March, and many of the village's plans for this year are now about to be implemented.
The first one is the matter of rice seedlings.
In less than a month, the rice seedlings will be raised, and now we have to count which greenhouses can be used and which greenhouses are to be maintained.
At the beginning of the statistics, there were only 8 greenhouses, Jiang Zhi went to see each family, and now there are some greens planted in the greenhouses, but like our greenhouses, there are really not many beans and persimmons, and most of us plant some leeks, celery, cabbage and other vegetables with a short growth period in the greenhouses, so swollen and watered.
These families also said that when Jiang Zhi said that he wanted to raise seedlings. No matter what is being planted in the greenhouse, even if it is ripe in a day or two, it will be pulled out correctly. I am very happy that the villagers can have such an awareness, and I also highly praise them for their support of the work.
After walking around, these greenhouses are in use, although there are two greenhouses, it doesn't look very strong, but it can stand in the snow as big as before. We have reason to believe that it is okay to support it for another month in April. It's too cold outside now, even if you want to repair it. Nor can it be now.
Then Jiang Zhi and I went home to discuss where the remaining rice seedlings would come from, and these greenhouses could also breed 200 acres of rice, and there were still more than 200 acres of rice seedlings in the whole village. It would be a shame if we couldn't plant it this year.
The two elders of the Jiang family and the two elders of the Qu family were sitting in the living room, figuring out a way with us. I walked around the living room. Thinking hard.
"Now this weather. We can't build greenhouses, so let's move the rice seedlings to the house and plant them. After a period of silence, Qu Ma made a constructive suggestion.
"Move to the house and plant?" I asked a little incomprehensibly, and I asked a little clearly.
"yes, just like we did in the city, can't we use a small wooden box to grow it?" Although Qu's mother gave her opinion, she was not very sure.
"Yes, we can let people who don't have greenhouses. Do you raise rice in a wooden box at home? As long as you burn a few more firewood at home, it will definitely be warmer than a greenhouse. I said happily. Finally, I came up with a good idea, if this worked, the whole village could be planted with early rice.
"How can it be as easy as you think, it's the most basic point, who has such a big place to put a wooden box, do you want everyone to plant it on the kang, where does that person sleep at night?" Qu's father saw me say that the wind is rain, so he asked a question and hit me.
"This ...... It's not a problem...... "Although I said it wasn't a problem, I already knew in my heart that it was a big problem. Even in our house, there is no place to put wooden boxes, unless it is really artificially made for the rice seedlings to nest and let them sleep on the bed, we don't sleep.
"Wrong, it's a problem, it's a big problem." Qu Dad Kexia found that his girl was not as good as him, so he could make his father useful, and criticized me loudly and eloquently.
"Our family in our village can be regarded as relatively good, not to mention the house, it has to be this." Dad Qu compared his thumb, and then changed his index finger, using body language to emphasize the goodness of our house.
He didn't care whether we were smiling or not, and then said, "It's our family, and there is no place for Yumiao to be at home." is also against the wall, how many seedlings can be raised, one acre and a half acres of the sky. ”
Dad Qu just finished counting me, and before I could refute it, Qu's mother was not happy: "What's the matter, you still look down on that one and a half acres, if you can plant that one and a half acres, it will be enough for you to eat for a year, and you can't look down on it." Besides, although our house is good, but we also have a lot of family, there are basically no empty rooms, although other people's houses are small, but there are few people, and there are more vacant places than ours. Finally, if the farmers were to choose, they would definitely prefer to give the kang to the rice seedlings than see that there is no land to plant in the spring, believe it or not? ”
As soon as Qu's father saw that Qu's mother was powerful, he immediately became short of breath, and hurriedly said: "Believe, believe, I don't believe what you say, who do I believe, okay, don't you face me, I can't talk about your girl." ”
Qu's mother saw that Qu's father had succumbed, and glared at Qu's father, so she didn't continue to hit him. I hurriedly stepped forward and hugged Qu's mother's arm and patted her ass, "Mom, what you said is so good, that's what happened." You said that you are so wise and martial at such an age, I must be up to you. ”
When I was patting my ass, I didn't forget to praise myself too, which made everyone laugh.
Qu's mother scolded with a smile: "You bear child, don't talk nonsense, hurry up and discuss it." ”
Dad Jiang said at this time: "I think, the idea of raising early rice seedlings with wooden boxes is very good, but we don't necessarily have to put the wooden boxes at home, we can build a row of shelves in the greenhouse, and put the wooden boxes in the greenhouse." ”
We all listened to it and thought about it, it was really this reason, there was no place at home, and the problem of putting it in the greenhouse was solved. Don't worry about the temperature, it's a great way to get the current conditions.
After that, I flattered my husband again, but Dad Jiang didn't resist and quit early.
Jiang Zhi also thought it was a good idea, so he decided on the spot to do it this year.
Then the next step is to find someone to make wooden shelves, wooden boxes, and find good labor to dig for backup.
In the evening, our family opened another table and invited all the think tanks from Tashan Village to discuss how to implement this plan.
Uncle Guo heard that he was looking for someone to make wooden shelves and wooden boxes, so he recommended himself, "I can do this job, I also studied for a while when I was young, although I haven't done it for so many years, but it's no problem to make a few boxes." After finishing speaking, he asked Jiang Zhi with some uncertainty: "Is it okay to be able to load soil, it doesn't need to be so fine, right?" ”
Jiang Zhi and Lao Zhangtou touched the wine glass, took a sip of wine, and then said, "Yes, Uncle Guo, we don't make furniture, we can use it ourselves." ”
Then he thought of something and added: "It has to be stronger, maybe it will have to be moved up and down in the future, if it is not strong, it will be scattered after a few strokes, but it will be broken." ”
"That's certain, let's nail two more nails and we'll have everything." Uncle Guo said with confidence.
"You can't do so much in a month alone, and you have to find a few more to help you do it." Lao Zhangtou said while drinking.
Zhou Jianguo opened his mouth at this time and said, "My second brother can also do it, I'll talk to him tomorrow and let him help do it." ”
"Okay, Qingguo is a carpenter, and he is much more stable than Lao Guo." Uncle Qin teased Uncle Guo, and Uncle Guo looked like he was blowing his beard and staring.
"Hmph, this is revenge, we are old and strong, much stronger than you, who can only wait for death at home......"
Jiang Zhi and Lao Zhangtou ignored the two old men, who were more than a hundred years old and had occasional convulsions, and discussed the carpenter candidates.
They were afraid that there would be too many wooden boxes to make, and the two of them would be too busy, and in the end it would be bad to delay things enough, so they wanted to pick out a few people from the village who could do carpenter work and make wooden boxes together.
After determining the carpentry, we also have to study how to take this soil.
It's winter now, and the land outside is covered with heavy snow, and after removing the snow, at least one meter deep against the ground is frozen, which is not something that ordinary people can dig holes.
Zhang Fanyu, who came with him today, gave everyone an idea, that is, after removing the snow, spread a layer of charcoal on the frozen soil, and after the layer of frozen soil below is soft, he quickly scraped a layer of soil out, and then baked, scraped again, and dug until the frozen soil is one or two meters deep, and then it is easy to dig.
After thinking about it, everyone couldn't think of a better way, so they decided to try the trick Zhang Fanyu said.
Then he studied the personnel who went to dig the soil, and Li Cheng said beside him, "What else to study, just let the strong laborers of our training class do it." ”
Jiang Zhi and the others were right when they thought about it, basically all the strong laborers in the village went to participate in the training class, and now just let them go to the training class.
After the methods and personnel were determined, the next plan was well implemented, with Lao Zhangtou in charge of everything to make wooden boxes and shelves, and Li Cheng and Li Shanqing in charge of leading the village's strong laborers to dig the soil.
After determining everything, the next day, Jiang Zhi first took Li Cheng and Li Shanqing to see the place where they were going to dig, which was at the bottom of the mountain, and the paddy fields in the village were in two directions.
When Jiang Zhi asked them to dig, he dug a deep pit in a rectangle, and he planned to build a sunken pig farm here next year to raise pigs underground, so that it could be a good way to prevent heatstroke and cool down in summer.
Then Jiang Zhi went into the mountain again, of course not into the deep mountains, he went to the mountains just as a pretense, he had to take out the wood stored in the ring little by little, you must know that raw materials are needed to make wooden boxes and wooden shelves.
I looked at a few big trees that Jiang Zhi carried out from the mountain, and said with a sigh: "We really didn't enter the mountain in vain last summer, these dead trees and dead trees dug up are not very useful, and so on this summer, let's go into the mountains to see, if there are still frozen trees, we will also dig them back, maybe when we will use them." (To be continued......)