Chapter 141: Rice Planting

After the official start of rice planting, three-quarters of the 20 people who were responsible for pulling seedlings early returned to the rice planting team, and the remaining people continued to be responsible for pulling seedlings to meet the subsequent vacancies.

Although everyone's speed is not fast, everyone is working hard to plant each seedling.

In everyone's eyes, this is the food of the future, and although Yang Yang and others are not familiar with it, they can feel everyone's enthusiasm for growing rice from the time they join.

They are really hungry people, even in the days before Teng Snake's side, it is difficult to be as hungry as them to the verge of death, and that kind of near-death feeling is not appreciated by ordinary people.

Therefore, for food, Yang Yang and others will cherish it even more, and every time they eat, they will eat it in the bowl cleanly, leaving no traces, and the bowl looks like it doesn't need to be washed.

So although I haven't planted seedlings before, I'm very serious at this time, but the speed is really slower.

At the current rate, a person is plugged in two or three points a day, and I am afraid that I will not be able to finish it in three or four days.

It can be clearly seen that the people on Teng Snake's side are more familiar than others, after all, this is also something that was done last year, although there were not many insertions at that time, but the basic skills have been mastered.

Although everyone is in full swing in the field, the hot weather is unstoppable, especially at this time is still hunched over, the whole back is hot, people are dizzy when they come together, although it has not yet reached the point of heat stroke, but the discomfort is real, although the weather at this time is not as hot as midsummer, but the power is still good.

Although everyone's progress is not fast, by the time of the noon break, there will be almost ten acres of land.

And everyone is relatively concentrated, and there are already two small plots of land, all of which have been completed.

If the crowd is completely dispersed, then the progress will not be so obvious, but it is like this to get a dozen or twenty people in a piece of land, acting from both ends at the same time, and the effect is very obvious.

The midday sun is particularly scorching, and if you don't plant it as soon as possible, it will definitely have an impact on the survival rate.

So even though it was very hot outside, so that everyone had a little rest, Song Xuan still led everyone straight to the rice field, and the matter of planting rice could not be delayed.

After experiencing the scorching in the morning, everyone also came up with a little trick to shade the sun with their own skills, although it is uncomfortable under the direct sun, but as long as the strong sunlight is blocked, the temperature is still acceptable, especially the rice fields full of water under the feet, and it is not too hot.

Some take large leaves, and some weave grass rings directly, although it looks relatively simple, but at least it can ensure that the back of the head will not be dizzy from the sun.

Of course, the most effective of these is the hats made of shields by the people of Shilin.

Usually everyone hunts in the forest, even in the middle of summer, there are not many opportunities to chase wild beasts directly under the sun, but this time they really appreciate the power of summer.

When they returned, they went back to the house and pondered, and when they set out, they all had a shield on their heads, and they looked like straw hats in later generations.

Even Song Xuan didn't expect this good method, he just took a few leaves and inserted them on the grass ring, which was really a lot worse than the shield hats of several people.

Although the shield doesn't weigh much in the hand, it can't be put on the head, and a few people can't stop falling after taking it for a while, and they need to adjust it from time to time.

It wasn't until Song Xuan asked them to change to a backpack type, that is, it was directly fixed on the forehead with an animal skin rope, so that when bending down to plant seedlings, even the head strap and shoulder back could be covered, not only would it not slip down, but it would also be easier to wear.

This also woke up Song Xuan, in addition to the basic farm tools, these small outfits that often appear in later events, obviously Teng Snake's side is also very necessary.

Straw hat alone, in the summer, can greatly extend everyone's outdoor work time, usually the main activity of the snake is in the forest, although the children fishing is exposed to the sun, but after all, a long time contact with the water, and the sun at noon is also their rest time, so relatively speaking, it is not so difficult to accept.

These children in the tribe are not fishing all day, so the pressure is too great for them, usually there is a short rest, if they don't catch a net, they will stop and slow down for a while, as long as they are under the supervision of adults, there are not too many constraints, go to the surrounding forest to play, or even simply chase small beasts and no one cares.

The current temperature was already like this, and Song Xuan didn't dare to imagine how he would resist the scorching heat after two months.

Rice is not a kind of rice that you don't have to worry about, just wait for the harvest.

In between, the waterways had to be dredged and weeds removed...... There's a lot of work to do.

At that time, the manpower in the tribe will not be so sufficient, and it is normal for a few people to do it for a few days, and if they are exposed to the sun like this for a long time, they will definitely not be able to escape from heat stroke.

The most important thing is that the harvest time is basically in the summer, although it is at the end of summer, but the temperature is undoubtedly higher than now, and the pressure on the Teng snake side will be relatively great.

If you don't have good sunshade and heatstroke prevention equipment, it is estimated that you won't be able to last long.

You know, although it is not easy to plant rice with a hunched waist, the amount of activity is relatively small.

But the harvest is not like this at all, in addition to the harvest, they have to be removed from the carrying, each of which is very physically demanding, and it is really not easy to persevere.

Fortunately, the straw hat is not difficult to make, and Song Xuan also has a general idea in his heart, and when the time comes, he can let the skillful hands of the tribe weave it.

You don't have to pursue it too well, as long as you can shelter from the sun.

In addition, Song Xuan also thought of a very useful thing, that is, Lingyi, you must know that now that there is rain in the tribe, if it is not very big, the general impact is not great, after all, the forest will block a large part of the light rain.

And everyone's physical fitness is not bad, and there is no problem with carrying it occasionally, of course, if you are not lucky, you will still get sick, but basically there will be no big problem.

But when it rains heavily, there is no way, even in the forest, you can only find a place to hide, and this is not how the profound limestone soreness is found.

If the situation remains the same, it is to return to the tribe as soon as possible while the rain is lighter, and if the rain stops soon, then it will be fine.

When it rains heavily, there is generally no way to move, which should be placed in the usual hunting and gathering, but rice is different, if the rain is too strong, it must be dug up the water outlet of the rice field, and the water in the rice field is also required, too little is not good, too much is easy to affect the seedlings.

According to the climate of the past two years, it is inevitable to rain for a long time, and the rain gear should be a must.

However, in this regard, Song Xuan only knows a name, and it is not clear how to make it, although he knows that it seems to be made with palm leaves, but there are no traces of palm trees around the Teng Snake

As for the other materials, they can only be explored slowly, but Song Xuan can be sure that they must be made as soon as possible, after all, the rainy season is coming soon, and how to inspect the rice fields at that time is also a very important issue, and now Teng Snake is no more than last year when there were only three or five acres of land.

These hundreds of acres of rice fields, a little careless, everyone's hard work for several months will be in vain, for this batch of rice began to prepare last year.

The various farm tools alone took longer than it used to polish weapons.

Although none of them are the best things, this is the ultimate that Teng Snake can do.

As the time of transplanting became longer and longer, everyone made significant progress, both in terms of speed and spacing between seedlings, which were much better than the control at the beginning.

Today's rice paddies are basically horizontal and vertical, and they are not as crooked as before.

In three days, about 70 acres of land have been planted, and the remaining more than 20 acres of land are still being processed.

This is because Song Xuan underestimated everyone's speed, and at first he felt that he could just connect it.

However, the back is just to level the land, the speed is still okay, seeing that there are still more than a dozen acres of land that can be planted, Song Xuan quickly transferred more than 20 people to help level the rice field with a rake.

Although manpower is not as efficient as animal power, it can only be so at this time.

Although the seedlings only got three or four acres of land, but at present, it seems that there is no big problem in planting more than 100 acres of land, and Song Xuan prepared more than 100 catties of seeds for each acre, although he knew that the density was a little large, but fortunately, most of them had grown to the extent that they could be planted.

Drawing on last year's experience, this year's planting density of each plot will be lower than normal, in order to make these rice grow better, of course, the most important reason for this is naturally that there are rice fields, which are not completely in the most ideal state.

Last year's paddy fields were also temporarily cleaned up, but the captives were really busy for months to clean them all, and although it was manpower, it was relatively more meticulous than this year.

This year's area is so large that it is almost impossible to achieve that perfect state, and there are many places where the roots of the trees are not suitable for planting, so the planting density is appropriately reduced.

There are fewer seedlings planted, and the seeds are naturally used less, almost only two-thirds of what they were last year, which is only a stopgap measure, and I don't think there will be this kind of trouble in another year or two.

And Song Xuan is also a layman, for density and yield, now he is only relying on his own feelings, and he can also take this opportunity to experiment, Song Xuan will also let everyone increase or decrease the spacing between seedlings according to the situation of different rice fields.