In my days as a farmer

After issuing the recruitment notice, Xia Dongli was a little nervous and looking forward to it at first, and paid special attention to the movement of the mobile phone. However, the mobile phone was quiet for several days, and he received nothing except for an advertisement call. Put it aside.

Of course, Xia Dongli has not been idle these days. He controlled Xiaolu to complete the sowing task of thirteen acres of land by himself, and even watered the land thoroughly with a small water pipe.

After walking for a while, he realized why Assistant Xiao Li was so cautious when he mentioned the lack of water. When he was watering the ground, the water meter turned so fast that it jumped a number. A rough calculation cost more than ten yuan.

He only watered the surface of the soil layer because he planted the seeds. One can imagine how much it would cost to water in the dry season.

If Assistant Xiao Li knows what he thinks, he will say that he thinks too much. Xia Dongli, who lives in a first-tier metropolis and has never encountered water cuts except for washing water tanks, doesn't know. The water resources that can be pumped up at the water intake point are definitely not enough. When the supply is tight, tap water will only be available for a limited time.

That water is not enough for life, let alone for him to irrigate the farmland.

This is why even in the 21st century, once a dry season occurs, farmers can only watch the land go barren and are helpless.

Of course, this is unlikely to happen in Xiaojin Village.

The climatic conditions of Xiaojin Village itself are relatively superior. The Baiyun Mountain in the north blocks the northwest wind and the warm air from the north, keeping the warmth and humidity here. Even the driest spring is enough to make other villages envious. precipitation.

At the same time, Baiyun Mountain, which has a very impressive altitude, will also provide snowmelt water in spring.Since the establishment of the waterworks in this area, there has only been one time when there was no water to collect. That was a severe drought across the country. There was no rain during the wheat grain filling period, which directly led to the lack of grain harvest that year, and most of the mulberry trees died.

At that time, the village head made a decisive decision and gave up all but a few old trees that could be used for cuttings. In order to prevent the villagers from being reluctant to give up secretly watering, he personally took an ax and cut down the mulberry trees one by one.Because of these things, the door of the village chief's house was not uncommonly littered.

In order to keep the vitality of the old trees, the amount of mulberry harvesting was also controlled. Except for a small part for saving seeds, all the villagers could only cry and watch the silkworm seedlings starve to death.

Later, judging from the results, the old village head's choice at that time was undoubtedly correct. His behavior of stopping losses in time left a root for Xiaojin Village.

It was precisely because of that big loss that the village head of Xiaojin Village persuaded the villagers who had healed their scars and forgotten the pain to build the water conservancy irrigation facilities that were second to none at that time after the weather recovered.

In this way, Comrade Xiao Li has the confidence just now.

It's just that Xia Dongli didn't know these things. The place he contracted was not in the irrigation area, and the old village chief he saw was just an ordinary little old man who was blushing arguing with others over a few chess pieces.

When the iron-blooded village head turned into a little old man walking a bird in a cage, his deeds are destined to become a myth that only people in the circle know.

After finishing farming, Xia Dongli hired someone to enclose his small brick house and a small piece of land around it—of course, the old Xu Anli's prison was not used exclusively, and others might think that circle What treasure is he hiding here?

Xia Dongli chose a hollow bamboo steel fence with a height of 1.8 meters, which is durable and environmentally friendly. The color of the wood also matches the surrounding scenery, which is very natural and harmonious.

The weather is going to warm up soon, and he can finally invite those little animals out.Although he has already prepared a cage, the safety should be fine, but having a fence makes him feel more at ease when he sleeps at night.

He plans to plant some vine roses around the fence, which can increase privacy in addition to being beautiful, and the thorns of roses are very powerful, which can increase the defense to some extent.

In addition to the fence, Xia Dongli also customized a bamboo-steel wooden floor in this company, and paved walkways for the main road in the yard, and the one at the door of the house was directly raised by ten centimeters.

In this way, next time it rains, he will not step on the mud when he goes out. At the same time, the courtyard can be divided into certain functions, and when there are more chickens and ducks, they will be separated to prevent these poo-making machines from running around. .

After several days of ping pong pong, Xia Dongli's yard was immediately tidied up.Rice was also very satisfied with the results of the new decoration, and the direct expression of his satisfaction was that he quietly lifted his hind legs several times behind Xia Dongli's back.

Xia Dongli pretended not to notice this. A good master must learn to play dumb when necessary.But when he saw that Xiaobaa was trying to lift his hind legs like Rice, he was a little speechless.

—What does your herbivore smell like? !Do you still have the consciousness that you are at the bottom of the food chain?

Rice is instinct, so there is no way, Xiaobaa, he doesn't intend to indulge!

Xia Dongli picked up the water pipe on the spot and flushed Xiao Baa's pee clean under Xiao Baa's and Mimi's eyes.In addition to rinsing it clean, he also grabbed the sheep and flushed the sheep's butt with water. That's right, the unskilled little baa pissed on Mao Mao gloriously.

Although he moved fast enough, the penetrating power of sheep urine was too strong. After flushing for a long time, he found that the smell couldn't be washed away at all. Baa got more than half of her dirty butt hair shaved off.

Little Baa yelled uncomfortably, but it didn't dare to hide from Rice's gaze, so Xia Dongli shaved the hair on its buttocks and legs without dignity.

Little Bae, who ran out with a naked buttocks on her back, tried hard to look back at her sheep's buttocks, but she didn't know if it saw it or not (Xia Dongli insisted that sheep can't see their own buttocks).Xia Dongli was very angry when he saw it jumping back and forth on the ground.

Xia Dongli wisely returned to being the intermittently invisible master, humming a ditty to add food to the small animals at home.

The little baa who was ignored became even angrier at the moment. It stared at Xia Dongli with its pupils turned sideways, and then at the rice lying on the floor basking in the sun. It didn't know what information it got, so it slapped its feet. A run-up actually easily surpassed the one just made.The fence wall ran out.

After a while, I don't know what it did, and this guy bounced back happily.When Xia Dongli came back, he saw Xiaobaa nestling on the wooden floor so peacefully and docilely, her eyes were sparkling and pitiful, extremely innocent.

Xia Dongli, who didn't know anything yet, didn't take it seriously. He was busy moving the animals.Poultry is very convenient, just move it there, but the Xiaokang pig is a bit troublesome, if it really wants to stay in the house, Xia Dongli really can't help it with his weight of nearly 100 catties.

Just when Xia Dongli had thought up a whole set of work procedures of coercion and profiteering, unexpectedly, Xiaokang followed him out when he entered the room to greet him, and he didn't reject the new cage at all, so he naturally moved Walked into this VVVIP pigsty designed by his father himself.

It turned around in the cage a few times, seemed to be very satisfied with the range of activities, then walked to the place where the thick straw nest was paved with its little trotters, squatted down, squinted its eyes comfortably, and soon passed There was a small snoring sound.

His attitude of being safe as long as he does it makes those chickens and ducks who are protesting in the cage twittering ashamed.

"Don't you really know that your old father made it for you?" Xia Dongli touched his chin, and looked at Xiaokang pig who had no sign of coming out with some doubts. He took a few steps back and took out his mobile phone to record the scene. I took a picture, and then clicked on Lao Xu's WeChat to send it.

Xu Yibai didn't reply immediately, the old Comrade Xu was being led around China by the leader during this period, every day he opened and closed his eyes except for PPT and meeting notes.

His superior student boss is very sincere in this regard. He obviously has a photographic memory, but he just stares at him for meeting notes. Old Xu is so busy every day that he wants to drop his computer, so naturally he has no time to look at his phone.

It was several days after he finally finished a section and turned on his phone on the high-speed train.The sentimental pig father was immediately moved to tears, Xu Yibai hurriedly made a video call to Xia Dongli, but Xia Dongli ruthlessly hung up.

Old Xu dialed back again in a daze.This time the bell rang for a long time before Xia Dongli's face appeared on the screen. At this moment, his face was pale, his brows were furrowed, and his glasses were placed one high and one low on the bridge of his nose. He seemed in a very bad mood.

This expression undoubtedly poured cold water on Old Xu, he put away the idiotic smile on his face, and asked cautiously: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay." Xia Dongli pinched the bridge of his nose and straightened his expression, "Do you want to see Xiaokang? Xiaokang went out to play with Rice. I'll ask him to call you when he comes back at night."

...Is this all right?Xu Yibai hesitated to speak, although he also thought that his family Kangkang was very smart, but as a sensible pig father, he still knew that it was impossible for Xiaokang to call him, but it was obvious that his little friend was already a little incoherent .

"The matter of Xiaokang is not urgent. What's the matter with you, Dongli? Tell me if you have any difficulties. I'm on the high-speed rail now and I'll be here soon."

"It's really okay." Xia Dongli laughed when he heard the words, he hesitated for a while, and finally replaced the phone camera with the rear camera.As soon as the camera cut, Lao Xu saw a cloud of black air.

What the hell?Is it on fire?

Old Xu took a closer look and found out that it was not. The black mass was insects, and the black insects were flying around densely. Because they were far away, they looked like a cloud of black air. It was scary to look closely.

When he realized this, Lao Xu immediately had goosebumps all over his body, "What's going on? What's that? A Bug's Life? Will spraying radar help?"

Xia Dongli was silent for a while, although he didn't want to admit it, but...he muttered, "It's nothing, it's just that I failed to compost."

After a pause, he said with some annoyance: "Actually, it's not that I failed. Originally, it was supposed to be buried in the soil to ferment slowly, but I don't know which animal dug it out. The temperature in our place has risen in the past two days." Higher, it rots..."

And because it rots too smelly, no animals seem to be willing to eat it. After a few days, insects are attracted. Now there are flies flying above Xia Dongli's house, and centipedes crawling below, all vying to eat this food. A big meal in spring.

Xia Dongli tried spraying water and refilling the landfill, but these animals refused to leave as if they had made up their minds. Now Xia Dongli's only way is to wait for them to finish eating before leaving.

But it is easier to invite God than to send God away, and now some flies that cannot grab a place to eat outside have begun to be attracted by the chicken and duck droppings in the yard, and fly to his small courtyard.

He has been really troubled in the past few days. He has tried all the methods on the Internet that can deal with the bugs, and even started to clean the chicken coop every once in a while. It cannot be said that it is useless, but the source of the outside is not fixed. Everything is a palliative, not a permanent cure.

After listening to what he said, Lao Xu felt a little inexplicable: "Didn't you raise a flock of chickens? Just let them out."

Hearing this, Xia Dongli made a C-shape for him with two fingers, and motioned him to look at his hands: "The centipede outside is so big, my chicken is too small, I probably can't let it out."

"Brother..." Lao Xu was silent this time, and he looked at the innocent city man in front of him with an indescribable look, "Do you know that there is hierarchical suppression among natural enemies?"

Xia Dongli:?

"Just, have you read Journey to the West? There is a scorpion spirit and a centipede spirit in it. They are amazing, right? These two pierced the Buddha, and the other bit Sun Wukong until he screamed. As a result, Sun Wukong invited Lord Subaru Rixing and his old lady." Come on, if you don’t beat these two, you will be soft, just because the prototype of Pleiades Star is a rooster, and his mother is a hen, this is level suppression.”

"Chickens are born to resist poisonous insects such as centipedes and scorpions. No matter how big your centipede is, it won't kill the chicken if it can't bite it. The chicken can always be pecked to death by it."

"If you're really worried that the chicken won't be able to beat it, use a big broom to break up the centipede balls and let the chicken eat bit by bit."

"As for the flies, if there are so many, you can cover them with a net and scald them to death in boiling water to feed them to the ducks. This is sending you feed for thousands of miles. What are you worried about?"

... Xia Dongli was shocked.

What happened to his little friend?How did you become so cruel just once you went out?

Xu Yibai showed an indifferent smile, he couldn't hold back, and raised his chin: "This is probably the power of knowledge."

"Go away." Xia Dongli rolled his eyes and scolded with a smile, "Okay, then I'll try it first, and thank you if I need it, brother."

After all, he hung up the phone before his little friend continued to make a proud declaration, and then happily dug out a big broom made of wicker bought at the market, and proudly took the rooster and hen at home to find it. The place is gone.

The fact is exactly as what Old Xu said, when Xia Dongli tentatively pulled out a centipede and swept it in front of the chickens at home, the three big white chickens who had always been docile immediately went crazy, almost scrambling for the first, and they bit the centipede in two or three bites. The little centipede shared the food.

Xia Dongli just wanted to turn around and pull some more for them, when he saw that the two little hens at home had already rushed towards the pile of insects, and their strong wings cooperated with the chicken's claws to fly and kick them indirectly, separating the pile of centipedes into several small ones. pile, and before the centipede could react, they pecked at the centipede's head.

The centipede tried to struggle, curled up and wanted to bite the chicken, the pullet backed away immediately, and then pecked quickly again.

Xia Dongli watched the battle nervously from the beginning, and finally took out his mobile phone and started shooting silently. It only passed the eating time of the five bugs.

He can see why chickens are the nemesis of centipedes. This has nothing to do with size, but with configuration.

If centipedes are cloth-armored poisoners, chickens are dotted with poison-resistant iron armor. Their claws have thick cuticles, their beaks are hard enough, and their faces have feathers. They can't be killed by poison and can't bite. Is it just to admit it?

When Jinwu got off work, Xia Dongli swaggered and took the five full-fledged heroes in his family to announce that Mingjin would withdraw.Now Xia Dongli looked at the pile again, but he didn't feel that it was a mess at all. Isn't that just a self-help delivered to the door.

However, it may be that I am not used to eating so much high-protein food suddenly. The five big chickens in the family are a little loose at night, but their spirits are surprisingly good, and Xia Dongli didn't take any medicine.

One of the big white chickens, a slightly bigger rooster, even crowed early in the morning.

After going out to herd chickens every day for a week, finally none of the centipedes on the ground outside could be seen.

Centipedes are not fools either. Their number began to decrease on the third day. One is that the food has been almost eaten, and if they stay any longer, they will probably fight each other.Secondly, I also know that there are natural enemies here, so if I can't beat them, I can only fight.

When the last few chickens need to dig carefully in place to find bugs, the chicken herding activity is officially over.

During this event, the feelings of the chickens heated up rapidly. Xia Dongli saw with his own eyes that several of his little roosters had pecked centipedes and dug-out earthworms half dead and gave them to the hens.

Seeing this scene, Xia Dongli was in mixed emotions, just like the owner who saw the pig at home finally knead the cabbage.

The problem of centipedes is easy to solve, but flies are very troublesome.

In the early days, there were a lot of flies, and he could still catch them with a net bag, but in the later stage, the scattered and fast-flying insects were very distressing. They were like wild monsters that appeared randomly, staring at them. What kind of benefits, but they have to be ignored and they will come buzzing in front of you, which is very annoying.

Before the fly traps purchased online arrived, Xia Dongli used local materials to smoke the flies with mosquito repellent incense.Can mosquito coils kill flies?Of course not. The main insect repellent material of most mosquito coils is pyrethrin. This naturally extracted substance has a strong contact effect on insects, but the premise is that the dosage is sufficient and can be effectively contacted or fumigated by insects.

Unless it is in a completely enclosed environment, the pyrethrins released by any mosquito coil burning will not kill mosquitoes-but the repelling effect can still be achieved.

He drove the small animals back to the small brick house, and then set up a dragon gate array with mosquito coils at the door of the house, showing a satisfied smile under the smoke.

I don't believe that any fly can carry it under this situation, let's smoke it once!

Finally, on a day in mid-May, the bug crisis in Xia Dongli's house was basically brought under control, and he found the first egg laid by a pullet in the chicken coop.

The three roosters are still young chickens, so naturally this egg cannot be used to hatch chicks.Xia Dongli, who was finally able to eat his own eggs, was so happy that he mixed a pregnant woman's meal to comfort the pullets.The two chickens didn't intend to cuddle, they seemed to instinctively know that the egg would not hatch a chick, so they just lowered their heads and indulged in delicious food.

Xia Dongli then reached out to take out the eggs indifferently, but just as he took Wen Wen's eggs out of the chicken coop, he suddenly felt a pain in his calf. The chicken feathers on its tail exploded little by little, and it made an attacking gesture.

Wait, is there something wrong with this?

Xia Dongli turned his head to look at the hen who didn't care, and then at the rooster in front of him making an attacking gesture. After hesitating for a moment, he put the egg back, pressed down the chicken feathers slightly, and then took it out..."swipe" to support it.

OK, he sees what's going on.

Obviously, this rooster regarded the egg as a fertilized egg.

Brother Chicken, wake up a little bit!You are still a minor, even if this is a fertilized egg, it is not your cub!Why bother with feathers?

Xia Dongli hesitated for a moment, looked at the big white chicken in front of him, and then at the open door, his heart moved, he grabbed the egg and ran away.

The big white chicken probably didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, and was stunned for a few seconds before flapping its wings and catching up. However, just as Xia Dongli, who was secretly delighted, was about to rush into the room, another big white chicken flew over in front of him.

Why come another one?

... what the hell?Whose wife gave birth to this egg?

Xia Dongli, who was besieged by two chickens, rushed to the gap in the fence.He thought very clearly, there were already chickens guarding the door of his house, and now he could only rely on the fence to give him shelter!

5 meters, 4 meters... Duck!

Xia Dongli stretched out one hand towards the fence gate, with 1 meter left!

Just when his fingers were about to touch the fence, he suddenly found a young man outside looking up at him. Seeing his eyes meeting, his black eyes flashed a little surprise.

Xia Dongli didn't have time to think about who this person was and why he was here. His only thought now was - it's too late!

"Get away!" Xia Dongli exclaimed, but it was useless to pull back the brakes at this moment, and the inertia threw him out.

"Bang—" He didn't hit the fence door of his own house, but bumped into a warm embrace. The young man outside the door didn't dodge, but opened the fence door in time and caught him.

At the same time, he raised his hand and pinched the neck of the big white chicken chasing him.

"Oooooooooooo" Dabai, who was originally rampant, uttered a cry, then kicked his feet, begging for mercy softly.

Xia Dongli couldn't take care of the big white chicken's begging for mercy, and he had only one thought in his head - why does this person smell the same as the incense he uses at home?

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