Yan Xin's family has more than four acres of paddy fields and more than two acres of dry fields, adding up to a total of six acres and seven points of fields.

However, the paddy field is a discounted field, because the terrain is relatively low, it is often flooded, so it is discounted, and only more than two acres of area are counted.

Now there is no need to pay agricultural tax, it doesn't matter whether it is discounted or not, when the tax is heavy, there is such a discount, you can save a lot of money a year - compared with a year's net income.

Cotton is grown in dry fields, and rice is grown in paddy fields.

In addition, the land is about five or six points of bamboo forest behind the house, and there is a vegetable garden in front of it.

Their family lives on these lands.

Now agricultural products are not worth much, and even if there is no agricultural tax, you will not be able to earn a few dollars a year.

Yan Xin's father sometimes helps others with work, such as picking cotton, planting rice, harvesting rice, etc., for about 20 yuan a day.

Life is very tiring, there is little money, and life is tight.

If you don't help other people's families, your life will be even more difficult.

In the eighteen years after Yan Xin was born, this man suffered the death of his parents and the death of his wife, and he had to bring Yan Xin up for him to study until he finished high school.

has no culture or technology, mainly relying on the few acres of land at home, and occasionally helping others do odd jobs.

The hardships of the days can be imagined.

It's just that Yan Xin didn't understand the hardships his father endured before, and only disliked that his father was useless, he couldn't let the family live a good life, and he couldn't even get the money for his mother's treatment, so he was kicked out of the hospital.

For this reason, he disliked his father and even had some hatred.

The rebellion that began in junior high school has its roots here.

It wasn't until he walked out of society and stumbled for a few years that he understood the difficulties of life and realized that his father was not easy back then.

It's just that it was a little late to regret it at that time, his father had become a cripple, and since then, he has been suffering from illness.

Until his father died of illness, he did not enjoy his blessings.

This is something that Yan Xin felt guilty about when he thought about it in his previous life, and sometimes he even wanted to slap himself twice.

He and Feng Xi have a discordant relationship, but he has always been grateful for this woman, and it is also because Feng Xi took care of his father for the last few years.

In his previous life, he thought that if there was an afterlife, he would definitely treat his father well and no longer let his father live so hard.

Now reborn, he hopes he can do it.

The Yan family's rice is planted in more than four acres of paddy fields, and the father and son can't eat so much grain, and the extra grain will be sold.

There are very few rice crops grown in the village, and basically one rice is planted.

Because the yield of early rice is not high and the price is relatively low, planting two crops of rice can earn one or two hundred yuan more than planting one season of rice, but it is much more tiring.

That is, the Yan family is too poor, so they live on these few acres of land, and they can only fight to get tired and earn more money.

It's the end of June, and in another ten days, it's time to harvest the early rice.

After the harvest, the ground must be plowed out and the seedlings planted.

This is called double grabbing, and you have to hurry up to do it, otherwise you will miss the agricultural time.

At this time, it is the hottest time of the year, which is quite hard, and I will suffer from heat stroke if I am not careful.

In the past, when Yan Xin was very rebellious, he had a very bad relationship with his father, and he would also help his father to do double robbery, otherwise he would definitely not be able to be busy relying on his father alone.

Every year he gets heat stroke.

The word "double robbery" was like a nightmare for him, and it was the hardest time of the year.

But it can't be helped, and the hard work has to be done.

What is better than before is that in the past two years, there is no need for cattle to plough the land, and you can use machinery to plough the land, which can save a little trouble, otherwise you have to borrow other people's cattle, and you have to return the work, and one and a half labors can be worth a cow worker.

Other villages have started to use harvesters to harvest rice, but they have heard that the effect is not good and it will spoil the grain, so not many people use it.

In Yan Xin's memory, it would take another two or three years for the village to harvest rice with a harvester, and now it is still manual.

Not to mention rice planting, in Yan Xin's memory, the countryside in his hometown until he was reborn, it was all purely manual rice transplanting.

In the evening, when eating, Yan Xin couldn't help but say to his father: "Dad, don't plant two crops of rice next year, just plant one season, there's no need to be so tired." ”

Yan Xin's father is only in his forties now, but he looks very old like a person in his fifties and sixties.

This is caused by overwork combined with malnutrition and chronic anxiety.

The peasants of that era generally looked much older than their urban counterparts.

And he looks much older than his rural peers.

In the city, in his forties, in his prime, the so-called man forty-one flowers, and the word "old" is completely incompatible.

But in Yan Xin's eyes, his father was never young.

In the past, when the father and son ate together, they basically didn't communicate.

That is, after Yan Xin was reborn, he had a better attitude towards his father, but he was not too affectionate - the father and son had been estranged for so long, and suddenly they were too affectionate, he couldn't do it, and his father couldn't accept it.

In fact, when Yan Xin opened his mouth to call "Dad" a few days ago, he was shocked by his father, who hadn't been called that for several years, and thought that Yan Xin's college entrance examination results were not good and stimulated.

It's only been a few days since I got used to it.

Hearing Yan Xin say this, he knew that his son was unwilling to engage in double robbery, so he was embarrassed: "However, if you plant one crop of rice, your income will be much less." ”

If you plant one season of rice, your income will be about 1,000 less, but for the Yan family, it can already be described as "a lot".

Yan Xin pursed his lips: "How much less income can I have?" I haven't studied now, I'm going to work in a while, you can't do double robbery alone, it's better to plant a season of rice to save trouble. You're not going to ask me to take a leave of absence to come home and help you with the double robbery, are you? ”

Father Yan was stunned for a moment: "You want to go to work?" ”

"Or else?" Yan Xin smiled, "Do you still stay at home and farm?" ”

The son who has always been lazy and rebellious actually thought of going to work to earn money, which made Yan's father have some surprises, but also some relief, and some worries - with his son's rebellious character, can he really survive in the outside world?

Yan Xin looked at the roof and said:

"This house is too dilapidated, we have to save some money and try to build a new house in the next two years, otherwise it will collapse one day, and it will be dangerous."

Speaking of this, he still felt quite guilty in his heart.

In his previous life, he also went out to work after the double robbery in this year, but at that time he had no sense of saving money at all, he spent as much as he wanted, and for more than two years, he had no savings at all.

As a result, the snow disaster that year collapsed the house, and his father suffered so many sins.

When Yan's father heard his son say this, he had some joy and some sadness.

- The son has grown up, is sensible, and knows that he has to earn money to support his family.

- But if you have the ability, where can you let an eighteen-year-old child take on all this?