"Loach, you have to slow down your feet, you can't use force, it's not fun to hurt your feet." Zhang Tao reminded.

The loach was a little impetuous, and stood on the rice stalk with both feet, and stepped down as if jumping. It's definitely a bit dangerous to do this, and if there's a sharp object underneath, it won't scratch your foot.

About an hour later, the last valley of the hill field was finished, and everyone went ashore to rest according to Zhang Tao's instructions, drinking water, eating grass, and eating snacks to replenish the loss of water and energy. There is not much work in the afternoon, rice planting is tomorrow's business, and the rest is only the sorting of more than one acre of fields, which can be completed by a dozen people in one assault.

"Let's work harder, finish early and finish early. After finishing work, I took everyone to the reservoir to take a bath. In the evening, if you are interested, I will take you to catch loaches and frogs. Tomorrow, we'll have one more dish. Zhang Tao felt that it was still necessary to give these rookies some cookies and encouragement.

After Zhang Tao's encouragement, when the work started again, everyone's enthusiasm was really much higher, and they were all busy in the fields like a competition.

"Old horse, come here, I'll take you to a place to catch loaches." Zhang Tao thought that he should fulfill the promise he made to Ma Tian in the morning.

"If you don't have time, leave me alone, you see I've done a lot in the afternoon." Ma Tian said to Zhang Tao as if understanding.

"It's okay, I'll just take you over, I won't mix it anyway." Zhang Tao was very satisfied with Ma Tian's empathy, no wonder people buried their heads in the fields to catch loaches alone, and they didn't say a word to themselves.

In the afternoon, the hill field that had just finished the valley was leaning against the side of the mountain, and the terrain was relatively high, and it belonged to the arid field. If you want to plant late rice in this mound field, it will take a lot of effort. It has no living water source, and it relies entirely on the help of the sky, so it will save trouble if the wind and rain are good. However, such a good year is almost non-existent. The field where the seedlings are planted needs water all the time, and no matter how good the day is, it is impossible to see that the water in your field is almost dry, and it will give you a timely rain! Therefore, almost as soon as the seedlings are planted, the fields have to start fighting drought.

Before last year, the family was in poor poverty and had no money to hire a water pump, so every summer, Zhang Tao's family got here almost every few days to fetch water to fight drought. The place where the water is carried is not far away, which is a small pond more than 50 meters away from the edge of the field, mainly because the amount of water is large! The five members of the family worked hard from 6 o'clock in the morning to 12 o'clock in the afternoon, and only then did they let the water run in the field, which was equivalent to giving those hungry and thirsty seedlings a dry mouth.

The seedlings weep in the sun, and the people who carry water to fight the drought can be better than you? They were sweating all over their bodies, with tears in their eyes, and blood dripping from their hearts! In order to harvest this little bit of food, it is only exchanged for sweat, tears, and blood!

There is a small spring at the foot of this hill field, which used to be surrounded by mud to drink water and dry mouth. Later, Zhang Tao's parents had an idea to dig a pond here to store water, and Zhang Tao caught some small loaches and threw them into the pond as if they were playful. Who would have thought that this local specialty loach, after drying up this small pond in the second year, he caught more than a dozen catties of loaches, and there was such an unexpected harvest every year after that.

This thing is indeed a little puzzling, how could those few little loaches grow so many loaches back then? Later, it was almost cleaned every year, why are there so many loaches in the next year? Where do these loaches come from? And how did it grow so fast? The only thing that can't be figured out is naturally not to want to. There are so many things in this world that you can't figure out, and if you want to figure it out with your little brain, you'll have to go to an insane asylum. Over the years, Zhang Tao's family has been able to get this pool of loaches for white every year, which can be regarded as a happy event for God and a happy event for the family!

"Old Ma, you ask Brother Ma to help you drain the water in this pool with a bucket, you can dig it directly into the mud, and I am sure that you will be pleasantly surprised!" Zhang Tao took Ma Tian to the pool and said.

Ma Tian did not question Zhang Tao's words, and directly called Ma Liang to come over and go down to the pool with him to pick up water.

"Cher, Nana, come here!" After arranging Ma Tian, Zhang Tao shouted at the two girls who were standing in the field and worried.

Cher and Nana were standing with one foot in the field and one foot on the rice stalk, with hesitation and fear on their faces. He obviously also thought that although this thing was simple, it was really not suitable for them to do, one was that they had little strength, and it was really not necessary to step on the rice stalk or the pocket of his trousers. Second, their feet are too delicate, not to mention the sand and stones, I am afraid that the hairs may scratch their feet.

"Don't you want to catch loaches? I'm going to teach you how to do it now. The two girls came over with a fart, and Zhang Tao said to them.

"Good! All right! They immediately cheered.

"However, we can't learn what you did in the morning!" Cher added hesitantly.

"Don't worry! It's much easier than that, and a three-year-old can do it. After a pause, Zhang Tao turned around and pointed to the small ditch near the bank of the field and said, "Look, you choose a section from this small ditch, block it with mud at both ends, and you take the basin on the shore and stand in it and dig the water into the field." After drying, the two of them will pull the mud with their hands, and those loaches, yellow eels, and fish will jump directly into your hands. As long as you are willing to dig out this section and then the next one, you will gain a lot from keeping it. ”

"It's pretty simple." Nana agreed, a hint of hesitation flashing across her face as she said this, apparently skeptical that she would be able to catch the loaches.

"Go ahead and do it! Will Brother Tao still lie to you? Ten years ago, I could have done this. Zhang Tao cheered them up again.

The two girls were happy to catch loaches right now. Soon after, their cries of surprise rang out in the field, "Brother Tao, I caught a loach!" "Brother Tao, I caught it too!" "Brother Tao, I caught a big yellow eel!"

This shout didn't call Brother Tao, but it made the young people in the field lose their heart to work, and they ran to Xue'er and them one by one. Seeing that this method of catching loaches was so simple, they were even more happy, some helped to dig out water, plug the mud or something, and some did it themselves.

Of course, this thing is not allowed to happen, otherwise how can this work be done in the afternoon? Zhang Tao shouted angrily at the moment, "Get back to work for me!" When you're done, there's time for you to catch loaches. ”

These people also thought that if they didn't finish this work, they wouldn't be able to catch loaches, and they would rarely be scolded by Brother Tao, a tyrant, so they consciously accelerated their work one by one.