After the Earthquake of Rebirth

The first time was raw and the second time was familiar. Compared with the first time butchering pigs, everyone stumbled and operated with Hu Zi and Ning Xiaowen's memory. The second time butchering pigs took half less time than before because of the experience.

Hu Zi and Ning Xiaowen both raised pigs at home when they were young, and they have seen pig slaughtered countless times, but it was useless for the two of them to start at that time.After Huzi's accident and imprisonment, Ning Xiaowen had little contact with the villagers. Most of the fellow villagers avoided Ning Xiaowen when they saw him, as if his sexuality was a fatal infectious disease.

Fortunately, the childhood memories are still there.The conditions were not good at that time, and slaughtering pigs every year before the Chinese New Year meant that it was rare to have meat to eat, so the two had a deep impression on pig slaughtering.

After killing the pig this time, Ning Qiyan saved all the bones and sticks and stuffed them into the refrigerator. On the contrary, the internal organs that are not afraid of freezing were put into the freezer first.

Even if you want to cook the clean internal organs, you still have to put in some effort.The seeds will be planted the next day, in order to race against time, Ning Qiyan plans to eat as simple as possible.

Their family not only has the joint land with Wang Yang and Bai Chengyi outside, but also nearly two acres of land on the platform. The platform did not need to spend too much effort when turning the land before because Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiao were fighting The text has been read once, but the planting is different, it is a real hard work.

The next morning, before dawn, Wang Yang knocked on the door and told Du Cheng who opened the door that the seeds and seedlings in their area had been delivered to the water station, and everyone could pick them up at any time.

After making an appointment with Wang Yang to meet at the water station in 15 minutes, Du Cheng closed the door, and Ning Qiyan went directly into the space to wake up Ning Xiaowen and Hu Zi.

Seeds and seedlings are a big deal, and poor selection will directly affect the harvest. Du Cheng has no experience at all. Ning Qiyan thought he had experience before, but the unhulled rice left in the space before made it clear that his experience is only applicable to After next year, in addition to the climate, other aspects of the current state have to follow Ning Xiaowen's experience.

The four of them got dressed and left the cave. When they arrived at the water station, Wang Yang's family and Bai Chengyi's family had all arrived and were waiting for them.

"Do you need to line up?" Hu Zi asked before approaching.

Bai Chengyi waved his hand, "No. But it says that you can take all the seeds back at once, or you can take them back in batches."

Ning Qiyan reacted when he heard Bai Chengyi's words, and asked, "Batches? Do you get them once a day, or every few days?"

"It's all right, but you need to make an appointment. If you don't get all of them today, you need to apply in advance for how much, what kind, and what day you plan to get next time." Ke Chengwei, who arrived first, explained.

Ning Xiaowen frowned, and was a little worried: "Could it be that there are not enough seeds?" When the crops were declared for planting, they did not say that they would be distributed in batches, so Ning Xiaowen was worried that the number of seeds was insufficient, and the government tried to delay the collection time. , waiting for the follow-up seeds to be replenished.

Ning Qiyan shook his head, "Probably not. If there are not enough seeds, when the land was divided, the government can reduce the area of ​​land that each person receives, so that the free seeds don't need to be so many, and the amount that can be exchanged for credit points is definitely It is limited, after all, no one dares to consume the credit points in everyone's hands casually. So I think it should be to prevent waste."

"Waste?" Wang Yang was puzzled, but he understood as soon as the words came out, "Is it because we are afraid that we will get all of them at once, and if we don't store them properly, the activity of the seeds will weaken when we plant them later?"

Ning Qiyan nodded, he couldn't think of the reason, and he felt that the situation Ning Xiaowen was worried about was basically impossible. Thinking back to his previous life, when the famine was so severe, the senior management of City D could still get so many corn seeds and sweet potatoes Vine, it is only the first year after the earthquake, and it is impossible to eat up all the potatoes and sweet potatoes in the past.

After all, everyone's staple food is still mainly rice noodles, even if some miscellaneous grains are mixed, the proportion is very small.

A potato can be divided into several parts according to the degree of germination, and a sweet potato can produce many vine seedlings from one vine.

"Then what should we do? Get them in batches?" Wang Yang asked.

Ning Qiyan thought for a moment, then asked Wang Yang and Bai Chengyi, "How many land seeds did you apply for?"

"Five acres of sweet potatoes, four and a half acres of potatoes, two and a half acres of corn." Ke Chengwei spoke first.

"Our family has five acres of sweet potatoes, three acres of potatoes, and two acres of corn." Zhang Pingguo, who rarely spoke, followed up.

Before Ning Qiyan could speak, Ning Xiaowen laughed first.

"Are you also planning to interplant?" Ning Xiaowen asked Zhang Pingguo. Ning Xiaowen knew very well about Wang Yang and the others. After all, when he was planning to apply for grain seeds, he and Wang Yang and the others made up the rough plan together.

Zhang Pingguo nodded with a smile. For veteran farmers, the crops that can be interplanted are generally interplanted, after all, the comprehensive yield is high.

Seeing that Ning Xiaowen and Zhang Pingguo started to talk together, and Hu Zi, Bai Chengyi and the others who had planted the land moved over, Ning Qiyan didn't interrupt.As far as his little experience in farming is concerned, he is not much better than Wang Yang and the others except that he can get started faster, so it is better to leave it to experienced people to decide.

Ning Xiaowen and the others made up their minds and decided to interplant corn and potatoes first. They had rested for two or three days before, taking advantage of their strength, to do the troublesome work first, and the sweet potatoes were transplanted quickly, so they were put at the end.

Turning around and entering the water station, Ning Xiaowen directly asked the soldiers stationed at the water station for about two acres of corn seed and four acres of potato sprouts.

Seeing that the corn seeds brought by the soldiers have been processed, and they can be directly sown after washing with water once or twice, and the grains are full and the color is also good, Ning Xiaowen is really relieved.

The potatoes are also cut, and there is at least one good sprout on each potato piece. Just be careful not to damage the potato sprouts before putting them into the soil.

While Ning Xiaowen brought the others back to bring the seeds and potatoes back, Huzi and Zhang Pinguo went to the field first and marked the land suitable for interplanting corn and potatoes.

Due to the lack of land, and the land to be interplanted by his family was close to the edge of the mountain depression, Hu Zi marked it first, and then went to Wang Yang's family's land to mark the suitable land for their family.

Regarding the interplanting of corn and potatoes, whether it is Zhang Pingguo from D City, or Ning Xiaowen and Hu Zi from J City, they are used to four rows of potatoes and two rows of corn, so there is no disagreement between them. Ning Xiaowen and Zhang Pingguo have beards A few of them have planted the land, and they grow potatoes at a fast speed. The number of potatoes is large, and the buds are relatively fragile. Ning Xiaowen is not at ease with Wang Yang and the others. I still don't know what kind of distortion the land in this ridge can be. It's better to let them slowly plant corn seeds according to the already planted ridge, so that even if it is crooked, it can only be twisted within a certain range, and it will not It was a mess.

Planting seeds is more tiring than hoeing, and one has to bend over deeply all the time. Ning Qiyan had to stop and straighten his waist after planting for a while, otherwise his waist might be broken.

After half a day, the speed of sowing was not as fast as expected. Everyone thought that they wanted to sow the seeds when they were in their best condition. They simply asked Ning Qiyan and Dong Wen'an to bring them directly to the field after cooking, which would save more time. .

Ning Qiyan and Dong Wen'an didn't cook time-consuming dishes either. The earthen stove in the cave and the temporary earthen stove in the yard were all used to steam rice. After steaming the four big pots of miscellaneous grain rice, the two carried the pots to the field , Just make do with pickles.

It can’t be called improvisation. For Wang Yang and Bai Chengyi’s family, pickles are also a good thing now. One is for eating, and the other is that pickles are also made of vegetables. Except for the wild vegetables that pop up in the mountains, they have long had no sources of vegetables. There is not much in stock, and it is also restricted to special families to buy, like the three of them who are strong, they will not even give them a vegetable leaf.

Hurry up and finish the meal, Ning Qiyan and Dong Wen'an didn't go back to deliver pots and bowls, and started to plant seeds with Ning Xiaowen and the others.

They were busy until [-] o'clock in the evening before they planted all the seeds and potatoes they had brought back in the morning.

The other two rejected Ning Qiyan's plan to have dinner with them, everyone was so tired that they couldn't stand upright, how could they have the nerve to ask Ning Qiyan to cook for so many people again.

Seeing their refusal, Ning Qiyan didn't insist. To be honest, he was really too tired. If Wang Yang and Bai Chengyi didn't exist, Ning Qiyan could have reheated the meals prepared the day before and ate them directly.

After returning to the cave, Du Cheng and Huzi asked Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen to lie down and rest for a while. It was not difficult to heat up the meal, so they could heat it up.

When the food was ready, Du Cheng looked back and saw that Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen had already fallen asleep. Seeing the obvious exhaustion on their faces, Du Cheng and Huzi were reluctant to wake them up, but what they did this day Live more, if you don't eat, your body won't be able to keep up, so you have to wake them up.

Du Cheng mixed the food together, picked out the onion and ginger, brought it directly to the bed, half picked up the drowsy Ning Qiyan and leaned in his arms, and fed Ning Qiyan bite by bite with a spoon.

After eating, Ning Qiyan was already a little sober, but he suddenly relaxed when he came back, his arms were shaking so much that he couldn't lift up, let alone the chopsticks, he couldn't even hold the spoon, so he had to continue to let Du Cheng feed him .

Huzi also fed Ning Xiaowen like Du Cheng did, but Ning Xiaowen was obviously better than Ning Qiyan to adapt to such fatigue, and after a few mouthfuls, he took the spoon and ate by himself.

After finally finishing their meal, Ning Xiaowen and Ning Qiyan didn't bother to wash their faces, took off their dirty coats and pants, lay down and fell asleep.

Du Cheng and Huzi shook their heads when they saw their lover's miserable state, and they figured that in the future, even if they were free, they would have to exercise for their lover, so as to save their skin from peeling off every time they were busy.

Back at the table, Du Cheng and Hu Zi ate dinner slowly.It's not that they are not tired, but they are not as miserable as Ning Qiyan and the others.After the meal, the two discussed it for a while, and then Hu Zi took the ID cards of the four of them and went down the mountain with a flashlight.

Only the free seeds can be collected at the water station, and the extra seeds can only be exchanged at the redemption point at the foot of the mountain.Tonight, Hu Zi brought back the grain seeds planted on the platform first.

Since the three of them have interplanted potatoes and corn, the free seeds are definitely not enough for them to cover the land. The government distributes grain seeds per acre simply by calculating the number of seeds needed for the same crop per acre of land. After interplanting, the remaining They have to spend credits to buy the missing seeds themselves.But these can be bought together by the three at that time.