How to Save a Failed Farm

Sandwich has grown a lot in this month, gained a lot of weight, and is so big that Ye Qun can't easily hold it.It took him a lot of effort to pull the sandwich that was obsessed with eating dirt from the ground.

"Don't eat mud!" Ye Qun felt tired with a stern face, snapped the collar on the sandwich, and held on to the rope tightly to prevent it from being suddenly distracted by some flying insect and ran away.

There is nothing to love in life, Lance should be allowed to come.Ye Qun struggled back to their makeshift dining table with the extremely uncooperative sandwich, and Lance was still lying on the ground shamelessly.

"Excuse me, why are you still lying down?" Ye Qun said as if confirming, "You don't really want me to feed you, do you? It's easy to choke in this position."

Lance, who was lying on the ground, was amused by his seriousness, and he raised a sunny smile: "Then give me a kiss and I'll get up."

"Are you on Weibo again?"

"Your Weibo is very interesting, although I don't understand most of it." Lance replied honestly.

"This request is very easy to fulfill." Ye Qun bent down calmly, his breath passed over Lance's face, stayed for a while but did not kiss.He moved his head and kissed his little brother through the jeans under Lance's questioning gaze.

"God!" Lance's face quickly turned red, he jumped up hastily and almost hit Ye Qun's head.

"Honey...you...I..." Lance's embarrassing look made Ye Qun pat his knees and stood up in relief. This honest man is still pure and innocent as always, and he will never win against himself when it comes to flirting.

Lance was probably really hungry, and he ate three pieces of bread in one go.After eating, Ye Qun put away the cutlery and rinsed it with the faucet on the edge of the field. Instead of loosening the collar of Sandwich, he carried it to the tractor together, otherwise it might run into the middle of the road later.

The tail of the tractor is equipped with two huge shovel-shaped metal objects. When it moves forward, it will automatically remove the weeds in the field and renovate the soil, but the speed is very slow, and it will be even slower if it needs to be plowed twice.Ye Qun looked at the vast field and realized that what Lance said was not an exaggeration. Taking care of the farm is indeed not an easy task.

Huge smoke and noise rose from the field, and Ye Qun had to say loudly: "This is a bit different from what I saw in the video."

"What's the difference?"

"That kind of tractor is fast and can level plowed fields."

"It's for large farms. It's a Fendt tractor made in Germany, and the price is three times more expensive." Lance turned the steering wheel while looking back, estimating the turning distance, "We can go faster, but it will be more bumpy. It won't work too well."

Ye Qun held his churning stomach and felt a burst of frustration. He didn't want to look delicate, but his body wanted to fight him.He is probably really not suitable for any farm work.

"Is it hard?" Lance asked with concern. Ye Qun stopped him from stopping the tractor, and nodded as an answer. He was fighting the urge to vomit.

"You are from the city, and it's normal not to get used to it. I'll send you to the border. Can you go back with a sandwich first?" Lance said, "I'll finish it soon."

Ye Qun didn't try to be brave anymore, he was about to vomit.He held Sandwich and stood in the huge smoke and waved to Lance, watching him slowly drive away in the tractor.He really shouldn't have asked to drive a tractor with Lance just out of curiosity.

He had felt much better during the walk back.But Lance's getting better soon is probably not the same as him. Ye Qun didn't come back until it was dark.

"Have you finished plowing?" Ye Qun asked while putting the dinner on the table. Considering that he has been doing physical work recently, he prepared more meat to supplement protein.

Lance had just come out of the bathroom, his body was covered with steam, he swallowed after smelling the fragrance: "Not yet, but all the plowing will be finished tomorrow morning, it's a bit late to start today."

Kung Pao Chicken is Ye Qun's best dish at the moment. According to Westerners' preferences, he makes the taste a bit sweeter. Lance likes this dish very much, and he can eat it up every time.He doesn't cook often, and Lance cooks most of the time, but now that Lance has to work during the day, he takes the initiative to take on this responsibility.

Thanks to the box of special products brought by Fan Zhou, even a mediocre cook can conjure up a table of good dishes, otherwise poor Lance would have to eat Kung Pao Chicken every day.

They have been busy since that day.The next day Lance plowed all the [-] acres of wasteland, and in the afternoon he drove the corn planter to push away the remaining corn stalks in the field.The corn planter on the Hunter Farm is not the kind that is mounted on a tractor. This operation is very simple, and the vibration of the diesel engine is not so loud that the leaf group wants to vomit.

The rotary knife rotates in the opposite direction, throwing straw and weeds to both sides.Ye Qun played happily like a child who got a new toy. Lance followed him and drove a tractor with a baler to collect all the straw.

"How to deal with these straws?" Ye Qun jumped out of the car.

Lance piled the straw in bundles on the edge of the field: "Last year I smashed it up and sold it to the cattle farm in the town, and the rest was used as fertilizer." Their balers are not big, unlike large farms It can be harvested and smashed at the same time, and two hundred acres of land can be settled in one hour.

It took a lot of time for the two of them to harvest the [-]-acre straw together. After bundling all the straw into bundles, Lance wiped off his sweat: "I've reserved a few cows for the market next month. The straw ash is enough for them to eat for a while."

"Is our work done before planting?" He knew nothing about farm work, and he didn't even know when to sow.

"Not yet. Before planting, we have to turn over the soil again to dig out the roots of the last season's corn."

Ye Qun sighed and said: "Taking care of a farm is no easier than any other occupation. You must have had a hard time last year."

"Yes." Lance nodded, "To be honest, when my father was here, he hired people from the town to take care of the farm, and he only drove around occasionally. When I first came back, I really didn't understand anything. I check the information by myself and borrow books every trip. Fortunately, people in the town are very enthusiastic, and neighbors sometimes come to guide me.”

"What's terrible is that there were a few rare rainstorms last spring. The drainage system on the farm was not so stable. You know, it was a disaster for a novice like me. I stayed in the field almost all day, thinking about how to fix it, But the harvest is still not very good. There is no way, I always lack some experience."

Lance now feels heartbroken when he thinks of the submerged and soaked corn. It's not that he can't survive without that part of the harvest, but this cornfield is indeed grown under his careful care, a person without any experience Only he knows how much effort it takes to start from scratch.

"Then we should strengthen this part this year." Unlike Lance, Ye Qun always has a completely rational way of thinking. Solving problems before they arise is the valuable experience he gained from research. They all have a fluke mentality that Lance said "this kind of heavy rain is impossible to happen again", then the follow-up will probably be a mess.Everyone knows Murphy's Law.

"It's not easy." Lance coughed dryly, as if he felt that Ye Qun was whimsical, "Neither of us has an engineer's license."

"If you are willing to use your brain, it won't be difficult." Ye Qun glanced at Lance full of contempt. He had already discovered that Lance had the common problem of all heartless people. He was too easy to be satisfied with the status quo , There is no plan for life at all.

Lance was not angry at all because of his sarcasm. Anyway, he unconditionally supports what Ye Qun wants to do even if he thinks it is unnecessary. In fact, there are many such disputes in their daily life caused by different ways of thinking and habits. .It's not appropriate to call it a dispute, because the most Lance can say is this, and he is always the one who is extra tolerant.

Ye Qun didn't want to accuse Lance of anything, he didn't have the habit of imposing his attitude towards life on others.He just thinks, how should I put it, young people should pursue more?Ye Qun shrugged and looked into the distance. The field was empty and flat, while the land under their feet was barren like an isolated island.

The sudden sense of loneliness made him feel a little sad. Lance lived alone for a year, and he figured out everything slowly. How many difficulties did he encounter?The reason why Ye Qun has so many critical opinions now is because he has never experienced the life of managing a farm by himself. It is very difficult. In fact, Lance has never been easy, and he is already working hard.

Guilt crept into his heart, Ye Qun had to admit that he was a little harsh on Lance.He tried to sound as natural as possible: "You ran the farm well when you were alone, but we can do better now that there are two of us."

"I believe in you." Lance smiled silly.

"I forgot to mention that Jones called today to say that we have applied for a building permit and we can start construction." Lance said as if suddenly remembering something, "We still need to build a cowshed."

It's just one thing after another, after they come back from a month's vacation.Ye Qun and Lance worked together in a division of labor, one to study the drainage system and the other to build the cowshed.