In more than a week, the cliff ditch was filled with soil and the well came out of the water.

Wang Manyin did not delay, and directly set up the pumping machine to open the whole and fill the newly repaired cofferdam with water.

In order to verify whether the cofferdam would leak, he also deliberately left a few marks on the edges. After dinner in the evening, Wang Manyin came over with a local dog.

After confirming that there was no one around, the Liutu dog was on duty outside the cliff ditch, and he quietly entered the space to fetch water.

I was busy for almost half an hour, and I got hundreds of buckets of space water to pour into it.

As a result, when Wang Manyin checked again the next day, he was very depressed. As expected, there are too many cracks in the stones at the bottom of the cofferdam, so the water seepage is quite serious.

In the past night alone, the water level has dropped by more than a dozen centimeters.

He decided to continue filling the water a few more times, and if the cofferdam continued to seep water, he would have to work hard to build a few larger reservoirs.

While observing the water seepage of the cofferdam, Wang Manyin did not stop being busy, but asked twenty or thirty people to help sow melon seeds.

In order to ensure the emergence rate, all seeds come from the space, and then soak them in space water overnight before sowing.

The quality of the melon seeds that appeared in the space naturally did not say, Wang Manyin deliberately weighed it, and the weight of 1,000 grains was about 170 grams, and a catty was about 3,000 grains.

When it was time to plant the seeds, he asked for help from the village, and he was paid one dollar a day.

The main job of planting melon seeds is very easy, just dig a hole in the soil, throw two seeds, and water a bucket of water to live.

Of course, after the melon seedlings come out, you have to chase the fertilizer again.

This is naturally done in order to make it reasonable to make melons produce high yields.

Otherwise, just watering the space water, when the time comes, big watermelons will grow all over the ground, which is really incredible.

It took about four or five days to plant more than 40 catties of seeds. Wang Manyin roughly estimated that the melon planting area in the cliff ditch should be about 30 acres.

In addition to sowing melon seeds, he also chose a place in the shade and sprinkled a lot of pepper seeds alone. With the blessing of space water, I believe that these pepper seeds should have no problem germinating, and people can be arranged to transplant and plant them after autumn.

According to Wang Manchu, in order to support the members of the club in contracting barren mountains, the county will provide a batch of acacia saplings next spring.

However, Wang Manyin did not plan to wait so long, and preferred to be self-reliant. Although the acacia tree is drought tolerant, it does not produce any benefits, and it is not as good as planting pines and cypresses.

When he went to Huangyuan City again, he planned to go to Ganshuigou Village to find Yang Quangui and ask him to help collect some pine pagoda and cypress seeds this autumn.

If there are no surprises, the melons can be harvested in two or three months. Even if the output is twice as small as in the space, it can almost earn 3,000 yuan.

This alone will completely recover the labor costs and fertilizer money invested in the early stage.

And after being made into spiced black melon seeds, the income will definitely be higher.

The essential...... Wang Manyin was afraid of accidents.

Pimple Ridge is located in the wilderness, and once the melons are ripe, they will definitely attract attention.

It is nothing for people to eat, and many melon farmers will welcome others to eat, as long as they spit out the melon seeds and keep them.

What he worries about is all kinds of animals, such as hedgehogs, small birds, all kinds of rodents, etc., which are all melon-eating.

If there is no one to manage it, it is estimated that dozens of acres of melon land can be wasted in a few days.

So Wang Manyin didn't wait for the melons to emerge, so he directly found Wang Lianshun's house and asked the other party to help take care of it, with a salary of five yuan a day.

The price is not low......

Now there are only dozens of acres of melon seeds planted in Pimple Ridge, and Wang Lianshun does not have much to do every day. Patrol the ditch several times a day to see if there are any animals that are spoiling the seedlings.

In addition, it is nothing more than waiting for the melon seedlings to grow too vigorously during the vine climbing period, helping to pinch the tip and hit the top, and even the grass does not need to be pulled.

Wang Manyin has specially explained this.

This year is the first year to plant melons, and the cliff ditch is basically raw soil, so there are not many weeds. Leaving some weeds can also prevent soil erosion.

As for daily watering, once every ten days and a half months is fine. At that time, Wang Manyin will ask others to help, and there is no need for Wang Lianshun to intervene.

Overall, this kind of caretaker work is still very easy, and anyone can do it, mainly staying up for time.

The reason why he found each other was also because of the relationship between the two families. In the past, when the big group was in the past, Wang Lianshun treated himself well.

Wang Lianshun is now inconvenient in his legs and feet, and he has a cough for days, so he can't do heavy work at all. He eats idle meals at home all day long, although his son and daughter-in-law haven't said anything for the time being, but he feels like a waste.

So when he heard Wang Manyin come to the door, he immediately agreed.

For more than a week, Wang Manyin handed over the affairs of the workshop to his mother-in-law to manage, and he put most of his energy on Pimple Ridge.

Now that the melon seedlings have grown, in order to prevent them from being eaten by animals, he patrols every day with native dogs, cats and peregrine falcons. Under the triple blow, the animals in several nearby cliffs and ravines were cleaned up.

As for the water in the cofferdam, most of it seeped out, leaving only a few pits with some water. Wang Manyin was a little reluctant to give up, and pumped water again for experiments. If there is no major improvement in the future, the only way to build a reservoir is to buy cement.

With the advent of the wheat harvest season, the entire jar village was completely busy, even Wang Manyin's family was no exception. After he sent two truckloads of roasted goods to the county seat one after another, he temporarily suspended the work of the small workshop.

Before dawn, the orchid had already gotten up to cook.

Wang Manyin turned out a few sickles and put them on the sand and stone to polish them carefully.

After more than ten years of cultivation, he is now no different from other farmers in Jarzi Village, and he is easy to work on all kinds of crops.

Take sharpening a sickle as an example, it also pays attention to skill. When grinding, you must try to lay the blade flat, and put your fingers on the top and press down gently, and the force should not be too heavy.

In this way, the sharpened sickle will be sharp enough, and it is more durable, and it is not easy to have gaps or curls.

Wang Manyin's family now has more than a dozen acres of land, of which five acres are Sichuan land, and the rest are plateau land and slope land.

Kawachi is a high-quality field, and there is still a bit of vigor to grow it.

The plateau and the slope basically depend on the sky for food, and the input and output are completely disproportionate. Even if the wind and rain are good, the yield will not be too high. In the event of a drought, you may even lose money. In addition, now the production is now contracted to the household, and each plot is very scattered, at most an area of two or three acres. So even in dry weather, it's not worth watering.

If it weren't for the fear of being scolded behind his back, Wang Manyin even wanted to throw away these plots and only pay some retention money.

So in the spring of this year, he discussed with Orchid, except for a few acres of Sichuan land to grow wheat, the rest of the plot was planted with cumin. Anyway, I need a lot of fennel seeds every year.

Moreover, this thing is drought-tolerant and cold-tolerant, and its roots are deeper than ordinary crops, even if it doesn't rain for two or three months, it's fine, it's nothing more than the stalks on it are sunburned.

As long as the roots in the soil are alive and rain, they can still sprout.

In addition, cumin is a perennial plant, planted for one year, can be harvested for many years, saving time and effort.

As for those acres of Sichuan land, wheat can also be harvested with crops such as corn and peanuts, and try to achieve three crops in two years. As long as more fertilizer is applied, the harvest will not be bad, almost enough for a family of five to have food for half a year. The rest, can be obtained from the space.

The sickle was sharpened, and the sky was already bright.

Wang Manyin stood on the edge of the field, shouting at the three children to get up and let them go to the mountains with him to cut wheat.

In fact, just the five acres of wheat, there is no need for children to interfere, and he and Orchid can be busy in two days at most. However, the two have already discussed that they should let the children experience the hard work of farming.

Don't wait until you grow up to become a lazy person who is not diligent and does not distinguish between grains and grains, and it will be too late to correct it.

So as long as there is a week or a holiday, the two of them will call them when they go into the field to work.

Whether you can do a good job is another matter, but you must follow it to the ground.

After a long time, a few guys also know that crying and screaming is useless.

So as soon as Wang Manyin shouted a few times, he saw them rubbing their eyes and going out one by one.

There was enough rain in the spring this year, and Wang Manyin was willing to use chemical fertilizers and pig manure, so the wheat in the field grew very well. The heavy ears of wheat swayed gently in the morning breeze, and they looked particularly pleasant.

When he got to the ground, Wang Manyin directly divided the labor among the three children.

The two big ones each have five lines of wheat, and Wang Tao cuts four rows by himself, and when he cuts the ground, he can call it a day.

After assigning the task, Wang Manyin took care of himself and got busy.

At this time, the sun was still on the other side of the mountain beam, and there were only more than 20 degrees in the gully, and the light wind was blowing, so I didn't feel hot.

In just half an hour, Wang Manyin cut out twenty or thirty meters away.

He straightened his waist and rested, and Orchid came to deliver food.

Salted duck eggs, salted eggs, big white steamed buns, vegetables are fried beans with lard residue, and half a bucket of rice porridge. Incidentally, he also got three bottles of beer for Wang Manyin.

Beer is not an unusual thing, it has been available in Huangyuan City for more than a decade. However, at that time, it was a rare item and needed to be purchased with a non-staple food license.

The Shibijie Supply and Marketing Cooperative, which only started selling Huangyuan beer last year. A bottle of five cents and five, and the bottle must be returned after drinking.

However, there are not many people who drink it now, not because it is expensive, but because I am not used to it. Many people think that beer tastes weird, a bit like rancid sweet water. And when poured into a bowl and foamed, it looks a lot like "horse urine".

One more thing, this thing is not drunk. It's okay for someone to drink more than ten bottles at a time.

Wang Manyin often goes to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy. Sometimes when I'm tired from work, I feel comfortable drinking a bottle. So before cutting the wheat, he moved home early and prepared twice. Under his leadership, a family of five can now drink some beer.

After taking the wine bottle handed over by Orchid, he directly used chopsticks to pry open the cap of the bottle, and after pouring half a bowl for several people one by one, he directly raised his head and breathed at the bottle.

Drinking beer and eating salted eggs with steamed buns, Wang Manyin was indescribably refreshing.

After eating and taking a short rest, the family of five continued to be busy.

However, as the sun rose in mid-sky, the ravine began to become hot. The wheat stalks were dried up and clattered in their hands.

Wang Manyin's clothes were completely drenched with sweat, his face and arms were stained with a layer of gray-black wheat ash, and the whole person looked as if he had just climbed out of the coal kiln.

He has rough skin and thick flesh, and he doesn't feel anything.

The three little ones complained again and again. Those slender wheat mangs swept on the skin, and immediately red marks appeared, and they were hot and itchy. And you can't grasp it with your hands, the more you scratch it, the more uncomfortable it becomes.

After shouting for a while, seeing that their parents didn't pay attention to it at all, they could only continue to work hard, but the speed slowed down significantly.

It wasn't until two nests of quail eggs were found in the wheat field that the three guys were refreshed.

At half past ten, Wang Lei took the lead in completing the task. The guy took a break after drinking the water and began to help his sister with her work.

For the eldest son's style, Wang Manyin is still quite satisfied. Although Wang Lei is not very good at studying, he at least looks like a boss, and he knows how to help his sister and younger brother when he encounters things.

Of course, this guy still likes to walk on the verge of being beaten, and often does things that give the two of them a headache.

Take some time ago, Wang Lei didn't know where to cast a hornet's nest, put it in a bottle and bring it to the class to show off. As a result, a few hornets happened to emerge from the cocoon inside the hive and buzzed around the cave, causing a group of students to scream and run away.

There are also students who were stung and their faces swollen into big buns. When Orchid learned about it, she could only come to the door to apologize.

After Wang Lei and Wang Xing finished cutting the wheat, they began to help Wang Tao again.

It wasn't until the assigned task helped that the three of them rushed home.

After Wang Manyin admonished him, he continued to bend over and be busy, planning to finish cutting all the land in the morning.

By the time the two of them got home, it was already half past eleven, and they were all sticky.

Orchid got two buckets of warm water and went to bathe in the cave next door, while Wang Manyin went directly to the lotus pond.

Because of the sweat on his body, he did not dare to enter the deep water, but half lay on the stone slab near the bottom of the water, washing leisurely.

After a while, the smell of sweat attracted a lot of small fish, which pecked around him......

Wang Manyin caught two ears of wheat as soon as he fished them out.

After soaking for half an hour, he went back to the cave to change into clean clothes, only to feel that his body was getting more and more sore.

Not to mention Wang Manyin, the rest of the family is also tired enough.

After lunch, the family lay down in the cave to rest.

When the weather changes, the wheat is ripe, and the wheat must be harvested.

Many families have had lunch and take a short rest, and they are busy again at two o'clock. Some people even don't go home to eat at noon, and have people send them to the fields, just to cut more.

Wang Manyin's family didn't plan to rush like this. It wasn't until about four o'clock in the afternoon that he and his family went into the ground again with a sickle.

In two days, five acres of wheat were harvested and pulled home.

Next, it's time to play!

At present, the rural areas of the Loess Plateau have not yet become popular with wheat threshing machines, and most people use oxen or donkeys and horses to drag the stones and crush them. This method is very inefficient, a person in front of the livestock slowly and slowly, and the back has to turn over with a person, and it is great to be able to threw half an acre of wheat in a day.

In addition, the livestock may also carry urine in the middle of the way, which is particularly troublesome to get into the wheat pile.

Wang Manyin's family has a tractor, which naturally saves a lot of effort.

Taking advantage of the good weather, he laid a field of wheat straw on the side of the field after eating in the morning, and then drove the tractor around and crushed it.

After more than ten minutes of continuous pressure, Wang Manyin stopped the car again and flipped over with a wooden fork with Orchid.

And so on several times, and the crushing was completed. Then pick the straw aside and pile it up, waiting for the wind to blow......

After eating, the wind is coming. As a result, the sky soon became pitch black, mixed with rumbling thunder.

See, heavy rain is coming.

Wang Manyin and Orchid suddenly became nervous, and panicked to transport the wheat they had just beaten down to the cave. As for the three children, they are also helping to gather the wheat pile at the moment.

Seeing that there was not much left, the bean-sized rain was already crackling.

When all the wheat is harvested into the cave, the two of them are completely turned into chickens in soup.

However, for this sudden rainstorm, Wang Manyin was very happy. He originally wanted to irrigate the 30 acres of melon seedlings in the pimple ridge again in a few days, but now he has saved a lot of work.

However, after ten minutes, the brick trough on the top of the kiln began to flow water. From a distance, the field is even more gray, and the turbid water fills the deep ditch, carrying mud and grass foam, rolling towards the east mountain.

The wheat vacation is not over yet, and Wang Lei and Wang Tao don't have to go to school in the afternoon.

Seeing such a heavy rain outside, the brothers immediately couldn't hold it back and wanted to go to the ditch to catch fish in a plastic bag.

As a result, they were reprimanded by Orchid, and they honestly continued to stay at home.

When the rain subsided, the two of them began to hum again.

This time, Wang Manyin agreed, but just told him to be careful.

As a result, as soon as Wang Lei arrived at the side, he shouted at the top of his voice: "Dad, hurry up and come out to see, there is a lot of wheat washed down in the water!" I don't know whose house! ”

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