The arrival of the new educated youth caused a ripple in the village, but it was quickly overshadowed by the new news.

There is nothing lacking in the village, but there is no shortage of all kinds of gossip, and some news that catches the wind and shadows are said by some people to have noses and eyes.

Add oil and vinegar, fan the flames, and they use it to be perfect, the news of this village is changing day by day, and the people who watch it are overwhelmed, just two words, stimulating.

If the rumor-mongers provoke those who are short-tempered and not afraid of things, they will be chased and beaten by someone on the bench or with a big stick, and if they are lucky, they will run away, and they will not be cheap next time, and if they are unlucky, they will not run away, and they will be bruised and purple, and they deserve it, and in the next half a month, the conversation in the village is the confrontation between the two of them.

In Chenhui Village, where there is no other entertainment activity, the information exchange station at the entrance of this village is the biggest source of spiritual food for some people, and they rely on this news every day to pass the boring life.

In the blink of an eye, it was another month, and spring plowing was coming.

The group of old ladies who used to gather at the entrance of the village every day to talk and laugh also went to the ground one by one.

As soon as the harvest was over last autumn, the dry land in the village was turned over with hoes, and if the snow was heavy and the ice was thick and lasted for a long time, the insects that hid in the soil for the winter could freeze to death.

In the era when there were no pesticides to fight insects, this was the most simple way to kill insects.

As for the paddy fields in the village, they are all filled with water, and the five old calves in the village are already ready to go, and as for the two calves born last year, they are still too young to even wear a nose rope and cannot plow the land.

The cattle in Chenhui Village are not small in the dozen or so villages in this vicinity, so the pressure of spring plowing in their village is far less than that of other villages.

For example, in some villages where there are very few cattle, the young and strong people in the village have to take turns to plow the fields, and this work is particularly hard, and people who are not in good health and have little strength can not do it.

The paddy fields used to raise seedlings are naturally the first to plow, and when these fields are plowed, the time has come to the beginning of March, and the seeds have been soaked, soaked for two or three days, and when the rice seeds germinate, they can be sprinkled in the very flat fields that have been swept away, and these fields are also covered with bamboo frames, and the outside is covered with straw, which is equivalent to deducting a greenhouse for the rice fields.

This villager made it to increase the temperature and humidity in order to keep warm from the cold and create good conditions for seedlings to be raised.

It takes about a month to raise the seedlings, which means that the village will be ready to plant the seedlings by mid-April.

During the spring ploughing, everyone is busy, the edge of each paddy field needs to be inspected and repaired by the villagers, some of the broken and leaky places need to be repaired with mud, the weeds and wild vegetables on the ridges need to be pulled out, and the wild grasses that cannot be eaten are thrown directly into the paddy fields for composting.

Some of the bushes that are too luxuriant and block the sunlight of the fields or the reeds that are particularly tall need to be cut down and dug up for the roots.

Qin Xi and Tang Ying were assigned to the same group to work, and the work they do every day now is to pull weeds, the ground is full of wild vegetables such as shepherd's cabbage, dandelion, gray cabbage, wild peppers, shallots, etc., as well as wild grasses, these grasses will compete with the crops in the field for nutrients in the land, and they need to be pulled out.

Wild vegetables can be brought back to eat by themselves, although the work of pulling weeds is not very much, only five points of work a day, but there is an extra harvest! And it's not tiring, at most it's just back pain and leg pain.

This is for Qin Xi, who has never been in the ground much before, although she often drilled the forest last year, it is different from the mechanical squatting or bending over to pull weeds now.

Besides, after all, I've been raising it for a winter, and my body is a little tired, and after I go back from work, I really don't want to move at all, or I'm tired of moving my fingers.

After the snow melted in Qin Xi this year, she has also entered the mountain a few times, but the places she took care of last year had little harvest, even if she deliberately left seeds, it still couldn't be compared with last year.

Last year, she dug herbs in the forest, and on average, she could earn seven or eight yuan a month, but this year, if she continued this work, her income might be cut in half, and it was not as good as a year, and her career development was seriously restricted.

There are only so many resources in this forest, and the resources will naturally become less and less where she has dug and mined, in short, this road is almost blocked, and it is time for her to find a new way out.

She doesn't want to work hard in the field every day with other people, sweating, not to say that she looks down on this, she is not afraid of sweating, but she is afraid of sweating in vain.

She has always felt that the effort of farming is not proportional to the harvest, like her eldest brother and second brother, who can get eight points of work a day, except for the time to take leave and rest in the rain, let's count them as 200 days of work a year!

After 200 days of sweating in the field, in the end, only 300 catties of grain and 10 yuan were all their harvest in a year.

Although a small part of the work of the two brothers was used to buy Qin Xi's head food last year, it still couldn't be drawn, if they didn't care about Qin Xi, they alone might be able to divide more than 20 yuan, which was nothing.

When she was a child, she saw countless scenes of her grandparents bending their waists in the field and working hard.

When I was young, I worked hard to farm the land, and half of the grain had to be handed over, if I rented someone else's land, I removed the rent, rented an acre of land, and finally left the rice for my own food, but it was only a few dozen catties, which was not cost-effective, right? But I can't help it, I want to eat!

She has always wondered why the older generation of farmers, obviously working so hard to pay taxes, and their contribution to the country is not small, but when they are old, they do not have any protection, all their contributions seem to be erased, and everyone naturally ignores them.

As a result, the vast majority of the villagers have left their homes to make a living, and the farmland has been abandoned in large numbers, and the fields that had been painstakingly cultivated are now overgrown with weeds, thorns, bushes, and even pine trees.

However, this is also a return to nature in another sense, and there are more and more snakes, insects, rats and ants in the wild grassland.

Turning around, Qin Xi set his eyes on the rabbit he bought a year ago, and now there are eight rabbits at home, and there are only five of the eight little rabbits that came with the big rabbit.

As for the litter born by the big rabbits in the back, even though they have been very careful to maintain them, there are still only two left, and the others have been hung up for various reasons.

(End of chapter)