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Chapter 59 Spring Seeds

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    Spring returns to the earth, everything revives, the yang and the sting, and everything is spring.

    Another year of snow melting and green grass.  The land in the yard has been civilized, and Li Changqing has already taken advantage of the morning and evening to turn the land over.  The red cherry tree has also bloomed cherry blossoms early, and now it has small fruits.  The swallows herald the spring, and the swallow's nest under the eaves has already welcomed its owner back.  The old green onions that were killed last year have reappeared new green, and it has become green in a few days.  The old spinach, after experiencing the whole severe cold, finally began to grow with the help of the sun, from deep green to emerald green.  The water radishes that Yang Yi grows with plastic film have also sprouted.  Everything looks like just waking up.

    A day's plan lies in the morning, and a year's plan lies in spring.

    Farmers must strictly observe the farming time, because if they miss a day, they may miss a year.  No one has the courage to gamble their livelihood.  Now every household has begun to prepare for spring plowing in an orderly manner.  Plow the land, pour manure, prepare seeds, buy fertilizer, pack up farm furniture, and prepare pesticides, just waiting for the spring rain before and after the grain rain.

    The seasons of spring planting and autumn harvest are silent but most powerful orders.

    Every year during the spring planting season, Qingxi Village is a busy scene.  At this time, no matter how lazy the lazy man is, at the urging of his wife, under this silent order, he enters the field and begins to sow the grain for the year.

    The land, the sun, the rain.  Nature is the most selfless existence. As long as you sow seeds carefully, when autumn comes, you will give back to people the harvested fruits, so that you will not have to worry about food and clothing for a year.

    Li Changqing was harnessing the car, and the old donkey stepped forward again at this important season.  For this reason, Yang Yi had already started supplementing him with nutrition several days before this timely spring rain, feeding him corn.  Yang Yi said that in this way, it will be more vigorous when it is planted in spring.

    It is not tiring to work with men and women, the old saying is always so reasonable.  Li Changqing and Yang Yi have walked together like this for many years. Although there are bumps and bumps along the way, the tacit understanding formed over the years has made them more silent than loud at this moment.  Yang Yi counted the needed agricultural tools one by one. She was a careful person and would not let herself go to the field and waste time waiting for the lack of agricultural tools.

    ? Plows, rakes, pickaxes, buckets for spreading fertilizers, winnowing shuttles, rollers, shovels, paper tubes for spraying aldicarb, seeds, fertilizers.

    "Chemical fertilizer, I will only plant two acres of land this morning, one bag is enough." Yang Yi was talking to Li Changqing, and at the same time put another wooden stick, which she used to sprinkle Aldicarb on.  General pesticides with many pests in the ground can't help at all. Although aldicarb is highly toxic, only this kind of pesticide can really work.

    It coincides with the spring rain on Friday, today is Saturday, the children are all at home, and the whole family goes together, and finally there are enough people who can basically perform their duties.  Since the bloodshed happened in the joint farming that year, the "partners" of this big family have also broken up.  Li Changqing's family bought their own new cart and all the farm tools. Although it was a lot of money, they could really stand on their own.  Thinking of not having to fall into that boring dispute again, Yang Yi felt a lot better in her heart.

    It's a good thing to have a partner, anyway, everyone used to eat from the big pot.  But if there are many partners, the more people, the more thoughts, and the more thoughts, everyone has their own little calculations, and they all want to think about making themselves better.  For example, how much farm tools and manpower each family provides, whose land will be planted first, and whose land will be planted later.  Things that were not things at first will become big things when there are too many people.  Instead, it's better to do it alone, so you don't have to worry about it.

    Every piece of land in Qingxi Village has mulberry sticks on both sides. Although these mulberry sticks are not expensive, they can also be sold for money.  As long as things that can be exchanged for money are good things in the eyes of rural people, they should be easily collected. After all, this is a selfless gift from the land to them.  For them, it is equivalent to picking up money.  Although one hundred catties can only be sold at a price of more than 20 yuan, this 20 yuan is already a very valuable capital in rural areas.  For this money, they will spend a few days of a man's labor in the family, use a thick sickle, soak the sweat of his clothes, and chop them back with all kinds of weeds on the mulberry stalks, and then spend nearly a month on the woman  During the time when these mulberry sticks are used, the small branches on the mulberry sticks are removed with a Sichuan knife to remove weeds and become the last mulberry sticks that can be sold.  Rural people spend most of their time in such repetitive physical labor, but they never dare to give up.

    In order to prevent the mulberry strips from covering the crops in the land, the rural custom is to plant two ridges of corn close to the mulberry strips. The corn grows high, which can prevent the mulberry strips from spreading into the ground and prevent the  Will be blocked from the sun, this is the wisdom handed down from the ancestors.  People from other families are busy cleaning up the residues of last year's crops with rakes, but Li Changqing's family doesn't use them.  Yang Yi has already dealt with these things a long time ago.??Mother's guilt for letting her young children fall into such manual labor. They should be enjoying their youth, but the life she gave them does not allow it.

    Yang Yi's proficiency has already made the sowing frequency similar to that of walking. She sowed forward quickly, like a machine, with exactly two to three peanut seeds under her feet. Occasionally she stopped because she sowed an extra peanut.  She would also quickly kick forward half a step with her feet, then drop two peanuts, step on her foot, restore the original frequency, and continue to move forward at a high speed.

    It's just that when it comes to children, the speed drops a lot.  Due to their age, Chen Feng and Chen Yu's speed was too slow to match.  In particular, Chen Yu even counted three peanuts in his hands before dropping them, then stepped on them slowly, and started counting the number of peanuts.  After all, Chenfeng has been working for many years and has experience. He is only slower than his mother, but much faster than Chenyu.  Chen Piao followed her mother and sprinkled chemical fertilizers, stopping to rest for a while from time to time, because the work of spreading chemical fertilizers was much more convenient than that of sowing seeds, as long as she didn't sprinkle too much in her hands, if she didn't carry chemical fertilizers in her hands  bucket, and occasionally need to reach in to get the fertilizer, and then sprinkle it into the ridge, her speed is no different from walking.

    After about four or five ridges were planted, Yang Yi put down the small cage and began to sprinkle aldicarb.  Because of its strong toxicity, this kind of thing only needs to be sprinkled in a very small amount, and even its original size is no larger than gravel.  In order to control the amount, they specially made spreading tools.  The tool is a paper bucket wrapped in plastic film when Yang Yi grows vegetables at home to buy plastic film in spring, and the bucket is very hard.  Li Changqing blocked the two sides of the cardboard bucket with a hard plastic cloth, and at the same time used scissors to open a small opening the size of a fingernail in the front. Aldicarb will fall from here, and then the other opening is from  It is used to pour aldicarb into it.  When sprinkling Didime, Yang Yi had to hold a stick the size of a firestick, and while beating slowly, walked quickly. The power of Didiemi sprinkled at this speed was just right.

    "Don't let aldicarb get into the shoes, and pour the soil out of the shoes every once in a while." Yang Yi instructed the children, and quickly began to replace the small cages filled with peanut seeds.  Her aldicarb work was temporarily suspended, and then the children pulled the winnowing shuttle and roller.

    They performed their own duties and assigned all the work matters to just the right amount. The scene of the family working together and working hard for their lives made Yang Yi satisfied.  Although the children will be a little tired, as long as they work hard, the future will be fine.  With this hope, she accelerated the pace of sowing. Li Changqing skillfully directed the old donkey to plow the land one after another. He accurately grasped the direction of the plow and worked on the land.  The children's thin bodies are busy, everything is ordinary, but everything is beautiful because of the ordinary.

    Spring breeze turns into rain.  At this time, not only Li Changqing's family, but also the land of Qingxi Village, there are countless villages on the land of China, and countless farmers are sowing seeds of hope with the gift of spring rain from nature.  The land is the field they hoped for.  They have worked hard on this land for generations, and they have used their wisdom to take advantage of the seasons, constantly updating planting methods and techniques, and constantly developing farming tools, day after day.

    People wear the stars and the moon, work at sunrise and return at sunset.  On the dirt roads in the countryside, there are only the greetings of families passing by, orders to drive animals, and birds chirping.  Screw carts, ox carts, donkey carts, 28 bicycles, the simplest machines help them to work faster according to the season.  Although the cherry blossoms, apricot blossoms, and pear blossoms have fallen, the branches of the tree still quietly hang small fruits.  Poplar teeth, Sophora japonica, Yuqian, bitter herbs, gray grass, etc. once again came to the dining table of rural people.  They are willing to give their time for the land, which is the mother who feeds them.

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