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As the age of grandparents increases, the burden of farm work becomes more difficult.
? Although during the busy farming period, parents will rush home from Chengdu to help reduce the burden.
But on weekdays, when the parents are away, there are many tasks in the fields that require grandparents to work.
Weeding the ridges, fertilizing the fields and spraying pesticides, all kinds of things add up to a lot.
In addition, there are five people in our family. When my great-grandmother passed away, her fields were never taken back, and they were all in our name.
So our family has a total of six people's fields - more than six acres of land.
It's impossible to do it with just two people, grandparents and grandma.
? Day and night, I got up early and worked late, people were tired, and I didn't do much work in the fields.
Often people in the yard will come to talk: You are busy every day, but the farm work is not as fast as we do, and some can be done simply. Although I don't know if the other party is kind or deliberately talking to sour grandparents.
At this time, grandma will reply, "You have many people, but your fields are small. We have more than six acres of land, and it was just the two of us."
That's right, there are so many places, and we only have two people to do it. Generally, after hearing such words, the other party will leave angrily.
?After the unremitting efforts of my parents and the joining of my aunt, the farm work finally ushered in a turning point.
Grandpa and grandma finally agreed to use the two lands of Nianxintou and Niuguntang to plant trees.
With more than six acres of land, if these two lands for planting trees are removed, there are only about four acres left. On farm households, it will be greatly reduced.
At first, my grandparents didn't agree, this is land after all. Only with land can we grow crops, and with crops can we have food and drink. Now they want to use fertile land to plant trees? How much is a tree worth?
Moreover, the trees do not grow in one or two years, not to mention occupying the field, and there is no harvest yet. I don't know how long the stalemate has been on this matter.
In the end, with the unremitting efforts of parents and aunts, after several persuasions, grandparents finally compromised.
There may also be reasons for age. The two elders are almost 70, so how can they have so much energy to plant the six acres of land.
Even if these two fields are removed, there are still more than four mu of land, which is not a small project.
After seeking the consent of the elders, the two fields were reserved in advance, and they were not moved when planting seedlings.
Planting trees must have saplings, and this sapling is also very particular. You have to look for seedlings that can grow quickly within a few years and sell for a good price.
Regarding this seedling, it is not easy to do!
It still costs a lot of money to buy saplings on more than two acres of land. If you have less money, no one will be willing to send them to you. As long as the money is in place, you can find the right one.
I struggled with the saplings for a long time, but I didn't settle down. When I accidentally observed these two fields, I found that the Metasequoia was growing very well around the edge of the field.
These trees were planted by my grandfather when my father was a child. It has been more than ten years ago. The small ones are as thick as the mouth of a bowl, and the big ones are the size of a washbasin. They are lush and growing gratifyingly.
"Why don't we plant metasequoia!" I suggested.
When the parents heard it, they felt that it was okay. After struggling for a while, they settled down!
"Beep beep beep~" The phone rang at home, and my father walked quickly. After some communication, his face gradually became cheerful, as if there was some good news coming.
"Yes, yes, I will come over in the afternoon~" Dad happily put down the phone.
"Uncle Yao knew that we were going to carry trees, so he asked me to go up and dig some ginkgo trees (gingko) and plant them." Dad told his grandparents the news on the phone.
"There are so many ginkgo trees there?" Grandma asked.
"There are a lot of them. The field above them is planted with this. He also planted two fields, which cannot be sold. Now he is asking to dig and throw them away. Just as we want, he asked me to dig." Dad was very happy. Happy, after solving the problem of the sapling, I feel happier.
"Then you have to call a car to pull it back." Mom said.
"No, just ask Brother Zhang to ride the tricycle and help pull the tricycle back. Give him some money then, it's better than calling for a car." Dad replied.
The elder brother Zhang mentioned by the father is the old cousin's father, uncle Zhang. The year before last, for the convenience of pulling goods, he bought a large fire tricycle with a large load capacity.
After talking on the phone, after a while, the elder uncle came to my house on a fiery red three-wheeler, picked up my parents and grandpa, and went to dig trees.
And my grandma and I had to stay at home and wait slowly.
There are many weeds growing in the field, and no one takes care of them, covering up the original color of the land.
Grandpa and grandma have been taking care of these two fields since the past two days, weeding and digging holes. Been busy for a few days.
"Grandma, when will grandpa come back?" I lowered my head and dealt with the weeds.
"It should be soon, right? What I said before is that the trees are all dug up, just pull them back, it won't take much time." Grandma is also mowing the grass.
"How tall is the tree?" The hole dug in the field is not big, so I don't know if it will be suitable.
"It's not very high, it's only 70 centimeters!" Grandma raised her head, wiped her sweat, and looked into the distance to see if there was a vehicle coming back.
"Seventy centimeters" I am now 1.63 meters tall, about my middle position
I stared at the waist, roughly calculated, and got a general impression of the little sapling in my heart.
"Wooooow~" There was a continuous roar in the distance, and the shadow of a red car moved from far to near.
"Ren Tao, come quickly~" Grandpa greeted loudly as the car stopped.
I left grandma behind and ran over quickly.
Grandpa handed me a bag of rice cake candy, which was given to me by my uncle. With the temptation of sweet rice cake candy, my anxious mood calmed down.
Under the sun, I started transplanting trees.
In the dug hole, put a sapling first, pour a ladle of dung water, cover with soil, and compact it.
I cooperated with my grandma, and my father and mother cooperated. One planted trees and the other covered soil.
Grandpa is responsible for watering the manure.
The family worked together and finally planted all the trees in the evening.
The metasequoia seedlings are about as thick as a thumb, and there are some eye-paste-sized leaf seedlings on the branches, which have not yet opened.
"Ren Tao, are you tired?" Mom packed up the farm tools and prepared to go home.
"Tired, sore back!" I said bitterly.
"If you are tired, you should exercise! More work is good for your health!" Grandpa said affirmatively
In other words, this way of exercising seems a bit tiring! Not only was my waist sore and my back ached, but even the short shirt I was wearing was completely wet. Wearing it on the body, sticky, very uncomfortable.
However, after all the young saplings were buried in the soil, the sense of inner fulfillment was extraordinarily sufficient.
Just don't know when these small saplings will grow up? I really hope that they will quickly grow into towering trees~ (remember this website URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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