Whose farming family has the male protagonist giving three piglets as a gift at the beginning?
Chapter 567 Planting Corn
The rain continued for two days and two nights, and on the third morning, the sky finally cleared up.
Early in the morning, when the sky was still gray, the people in the Su family got up one after another.
Su Ziling's door was slammed. "Xiaoqing, Xiaoqing, are you awake?"
It had rained, and the temperature was just right for sleeping under the quilt. Su Ziling slept particularly soundly. She vaguely heard someone calling her, "Mother?"
She rubbed her eyes and tried to open them for a long time, but failed. After calling "Mom", she turned over and fell asleep again.
After waiting for a long time without hearing any movement in the house, Su's mother increased her efforts.
"Not awake yet? That's fine. Let her cook at home. We can go and plant the seeds. The ridges and furrows are already made. We can just plant the seeds directly. It's fast too."
Grandpa Su said as he was looking for tools.
"Xiao Qing? Xiao Qing? Get up and cook in a while. Don't oversleep, okay? We also have to cook the pig food."
Su Ziling was startled and completely awake now, "Mother, where are you going?"
"It's clear now, go plant the corn. Plant the corn first, otherwise the ground will dry up when the sun comes out."
The sun here is notoriously strong. If it rains for ten days, one day of sunshine will be enough to dry up all the moisture on the surface.
This is why Grandpa Su and others keep shouting “hurry up with the festival” every day. If you plant the corn seedlings one day earlier, the corn seedlings will look different.
"Has the rain stopped?" Su Ziling asked while putting on clothes, squinting his eyes.
"It's sunny now. It cleared up in the first half of the night. Remember to get up and cook. Bring it directly to the field when it's done."
With a creaky sound, the door opened from the inside. "Growing corn? I'll go with you. Let my grandma do the cooking. Steaming some vegetable buns is fine. I'll come back and cook when the time comes."
Su Ziling yawned and glanced at the wet yard.
It was still dark at this time, and the people in the yard could only see a blurry figure.
"The land is very rotten. It's all mud when you step on it. You can just stay at home. It's just a small piece of land. We will be done with the crops in two days." Seeing that she didn't even open her eyes, Su's mother's face was full of heartache.
"There's a lot more land this year than last year, and we can't finish planting it in two days. I'll go with you. The sooner we finish planting, the sooner we can rest assured. We also need to plant the peppers quickly. The pepper seedlings are big, and we should have planted them long ago, but there's been no rain. And the millet should be green by now, right?"
"It's out. We estimate that we can plant rice by the end of April." Su's mother responded, and it happened that Grandma Su was calling her.
"Here are the seeds. See if they are enough. If not, I'll get some more."
"That's about it. Take this much for now. We don't know if it will rain again in a while. Plant these first. If it's not enough, come back for lunch later and get more."
Mother Su put the seeds into the backpack and said, "Oh, by the way, mother, Xiaoqing is going to work in the fields with us. I'll have to trouble you to prepare lunch for us. Just steam some steamed buns with vegetables. Xiaoqing will cook the vegetables when she comes back."
"It has just stopped raining, so don't take the cow out. Just throw some hay for it."
"I know. Go ahead. I'll remember it." Grandma Su waved her hand and then yawned.
Looking at the gray sky, she lost her sleepiness and went back to the kitchen, lit the fire, and cooked the pig food first.
Su Ziling and her group, carrying seeds, hoes and crowbars, headed towards the fields in a mighty procession.
It was still dark when I went out, but when I arrived at the field, it was already bright. Looking up, I saw the hillside was covered with white fog.
Each of them carried a small bag filled with seeds and held a crowbar in their hands.
"How do you plant it? In a row or in a triangle?"
When they planted last year, they planted a row on one side. Then it rained and some of the seeds were washed away, so they had to plant again.
The seeds for supplementary planting are not good enough. They are not as big as the ones planted previously. The seeds planted previously grow too fast and directly block their sunlight and absorb their nutrients.
Those planted later simply couldn’t keep up, so when they were harvested later, many of them didn’t grow corn cobs.
At that time, Su Ziling told them to point out triangles when planting next time. Although they didn't know what a triangle was, it didn't stop them from remembering it.
"Let's click on the triangle. The triangular seeds have to be placed individually. If they are placed in pairs, it will be too crowded." Su Ziling took the lead in demonstrating to them.
"Point one here, take a step, and compare it with a crowbar. It's about the distance of a crowbar. Point another one here, and measure it one by one."
She pointed at a section, and everyone stood by and stared at it, "How is it? Do you understand it?"
Father Su scratched his head and said, "I can't seem to grasp the distance. I'll order two. Can you tell me if the distance is okay?"
As he said that, he started to move, slowly at first, the distance was okay, although it was a bit sparse, but better than too dense.
Later on, Father Su sped up. Once he sped up, he couldn't control the distance anymore. Not only did he plant more and more densely, but many times the seeds were placed in the wrong place.
Some nests have two, some have three. Su Ziling's mouth twitched, "Dad, slow down, slow down, it's too dense, too many seeds have been lost, dig them out, otherwise I will have to come over to thin them out later."
Father Su wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "It's hard to be sure when to put one in. I always put too much by accident."
In the past, when I ordered single rows, I always put two in a nest. I got used to it and found that two were indeed easier to put than one. Now that I suddenly have to put only one, it is really easy to put too much.
"Slow down, it will be fine once you get used to it." Su Ziling could only comfort her in this way. After all, it was easy for her to put two pills in.
What can I do? If I put too much in, I can just take it out.
Seeing this, others also started to take action. It was very slow at first, but they became much faster after they got the hang of it.
The Su family had already occupied almost half of the land, and then other people started to come.
"Brother? Why are you here so early?"
Hearing someone shouting, Mr. Su stood up and said, "It's not early. We just got here too. Are you here to plant corn too?"
"Yes, I came here as soon as the rain stopped. This time it rained really hard. By the way, have you planted the peppers? Mine are already big, but I haven't been able to plant them since it rained."
"No, the pepper seedlings are already strong. How can we plant them without rain? Xiaoqing and the others said this morning that we should plant corn first and then plant some."
"Yes, it's the season, so we have to plant corn." That family also started planting.
They didn't make ridges in advance, so one person had to make holes in the front while another person placed the seeds at the back, kicked the soil in place, and filled it back.
When two people worked together to plant, the speed was much slower. It took them half a day to plant only three or four rows.
The man who was making the nest was very tired. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked back at Su Ziling's land.
After planting three or four rows of corn, he had finished planting the field above Su Ziling's house and had now moved to the field below.
"What kind of planting method is this, big brother? So fast? At this rate, I'm afraid they'll have finished planting everything in two or three days."
"It's quite fast. You see, they don't use hoes, they just use a crowbar. And why do they tap both sides? Aren't they afraid of being too dense? Or will the harvest be better this way?"
"How should I know? You plant it first and I'll go ask my brother."
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