In my days as a farmer

It wasn't Xia Dongli's wife selling melons, he felt that the small brick house at this time was really beautiful.

The entire field of goat bean in his family is in full bloom, and at first glance, it is smoky purple. Although it is a pasture, it is no less than an ornamental flower in terms of appearance.

A piece of spring onion planted casually at the door of the house also took part in the excitement and bloomed a wave of small flowers. The green onion looks simple, but the small dandelion-shaped balls are a bit cute and cute under the breeze.

Although the rose flowering in summer is not as good as the standard of spring flowers, it can still be called delicate and cute. Accompanied by some small grass flowers that float in the wind and take root, they are graceful and graceful, very lovely.

In addition to the log-colored bamboo-steel fence he chose as the courtyard partition, and the hut with mottled red wall bricks under the white clouds and blue sky due to the peeling of the outer wall, the whole scenery is quite rural, and it still looks very good. kind of.

Xia Dongli casually turned over the blackboard at the door of the house that said he had something to contact when he was going out, and then began to take out the keys.Lao Li and Xiao Zhang, who were following him, were still looking at Xia Dongli's pasture field in amazement: "What kind of species are you? I look a bit like goat bean, but the plant height of goat bean is not so high, right?" ?”

Xia Dongli immediately felt a little proud. He unlocked the door and said, "These are new varieties of goat beans. Our village cadres helped to buy them directly from the research institute for trial planting. These batches are from this year. It has just been planted in spring, so it may be suitable for our climate. It grows so fast, and the research institute is also quite surprised, I didn't expect it to grow so well in the first year."

The pasture mainly eats stems and leaves, and the taller it grows, the more harvest it will be. Therefore, unlike ordinary crops, the current performance of goat beans already indicates a good harvest!And the current situation is that he has already harvested a batch.

But let me say something quietly, the research institute is actually quite surprised that the seeds are so upbeat after leaving the experimental environment, and they can have such a performance in front of the growers who are farming for the first time. What does it mean?It shows that goat beans are more resistant to tossing and have a promising future in wild cultivation.

Cough cough, don't tell Comrade Xiao Xia who is proud of his planting ability.

He led the two who were looking at his pasture field into the courtyard.As soon as they entered the courtyard, the small courtyard that Xia Dongli had taken care of quietly appeared in front of the two of them.Lao Li is also well-informed, but he was a little surprised to see his unique courtyard.

Different from the traditional and neat courtyards of Northeast people, Xia Dongli's courtyard has soft lines, with a little southern charm, especially the arrangement of water features, which is extremely rare in the north.

The 8-shaped small pools are arranged in a north-south manner, and a pergola is set up on the smaller pool, on which a young vine plant climbs.Lush green plants were planted on the edge of the pool, and a small pottery pot was set up upstream of the pool to keep filling the pool with water. The gurgling sound of running water that everyone heard as soon as they entered the door came from here.

What is surprising is that there is a water outlet at the end of the pool. Just such a small pond still uses running water.

However, Lao Li still cares more about plants than water features.

He approached the pergola with great interest, took a close look at the vine branches with his reading glasses, and even touched them. He immediately judged that he had just misread it. These were actually two vine plants, but they were intertwined. The entanglement made him misjudge at first glance.

Lao Li squinted his eyes and looked carefully, and recognized the variety of this flower, but he observed the winding direction of the two wisterias and frowned: "These two are wisterias? It doesn't seem to be our Northeast variety, right? Why is it a left-handed one? A right hand?"

"Ms. Li has really good eyesight." Xia Dongli replied while holding the cup, "One of them is a Japanese variety with pink flowers, and the other is our native Chinese wisteria. The left-handed one is the Japanese variety. When I bought it, the store clerk told me that these two flowers bloom early and the other blooms late, and planting them together can just catch up with the flowering period."

He looked at the tea jar, hesitated, and was about to turn around and ask the two what to drink, but when he turned around, he saw the two of them pointing around in front of Xiaokang's cage.

Xiaokang in the cage is completely motionless in front of the two human beings as guests. It is lying in the shade of the cage and taking a nap. Its serene appearance stretched out and its belly rising and falling with its breathing are really enviable. .

"Is this a fragrant pig?" Seeing Xia Dongli walking over with two tea pots, Lao Li immediately asked several questions one after another with great interest: "I've read about this breed in a book, and it is said that the lean meat percentage is quite high." Tall? This one is not big, is it immature? Xiaoxia, are you going to raise pigs from the south to the north?"

South-to-northern pig breeding is a more popular breeding method in recent years. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Huaguo introduced Yorkshire white pigs to breed and crossbreed on a large scale for meat supply.White pigs have a good temper, can eat and grow meat, and soon occupied a large area of ​​the pig industry.The traditional black pig breeding was beaten helplessly in front of the white pigs.

But Huawu Bairihong, after satisfying the demand for meat, people gradually began to find that the growth rate of white pigs is too fast, and the accumulation of flavor substances is far inferior to that of black pigs. Simply put, their meat is not fragrant enough, and it is too fatty. Good for your health.

As a result, farmers began to turn their attention to black pigs again.

At present, the distribution of black pigs is mainly in the south, and because the north is the main grain-producing area for most pig feed, coupled with the large land and sparse population, low input costs and policy support, there is a gradual rise in buying pig breeds from the south in the north. breeding behavior.

In recent years, the north has tended to replace the south as the focus of pig farming.

However, as a member of the local forestry bureau, Lao Li knew very well that the state did not support this behavior and even had some headaches.

Huaguo is a big consumer of pork, and pork safety occupies a very high position in food security.However, raising pigs from the south to the north will inevitably lead to the transportation of pigs from the north to the south. Once an infectious disease occurs, this mode of transportation will lead to the spread of the virus in a large area. Not to mention the difficulty in handling it, it will also lead to a shortage of market supply and a soaring price of pork.

Therefore, when he saw this little fragrant pig, he was in a complicated mood. He was drumming fiercely in his mind which position he should stand on, and whether he should persuade him that this move would not have a promising future, but Xia Dongli pushed it away. Pushing his glasses, he said, "No, this is a pig raised by my friend. He was coaxed by a trader to raise a piglet, but it grew bigger and bigger. He couldn't keep it in the city, so he was fostered by me."

"I'll just say it! This is a single-family environment." Lao Li felt relieved, and was immediately amazed.He looked at the special design of Xiaokang's cage with some curiosity, especially the few ports on the outside of the cage: "What are you using this small hole for?"

"Ah, that's the water injection port. It was designed for cleaning after passing through the water." Seeing him curious, Xia Dongli looked at Xiaokang's current location, and after making sure it wouldn't affect it, he pulled a hose to cover it. , and then unscrew the water valve.After a while, the two saw water flowing on the floor of the cage, and the flow rate was quite fast, enough to push the small soil particles on the floor to the groove area.

Then all these small pieces of rubbish flowed into the pipeline along the terrain.

Because there is no pig excrement in the cage, the whole process of cleaning the chassis seems to be quite smooth.Xia Dongli glanced at the two bosses of the Forestry Bureau who were a bit unsatisfied with expressions and explained: "This is a self-cleaning pipe designed by Xiaokang's owner, but in fact we don't usually use this when taking care of Xiaokang."

He pointed them to a small water tank on the other side of the pipeline. It was a small cistern transformed from a drinking water barrel. At this moment, it was inserted upside down into a section of the pipeline. "Xiaokang loves cleanliness very much. He will excrete regularly and regularly. He usually goes to the toilet in the room—the toilet on the first floor is a squatting toilet. He will use that. If it is really inconvenient to solve personal problems in the cage, he will also use it. I will choose a place near the mouth of the waterway to solve it, and then just put the water there, and it will be washed away at once."

However, this design, which seriously underestimated the IQ of the well-off pigs, was extremely effective when applied to birds.

Xia Dongli demonstrated the cleaning of the lower chicken coop to the two of them. It only took a few minutes, and the chassis of the cage was clean and tidy again, and all feathers and poop could be washed into the pipe.

As for this pipeline...

Lao Li was a little curious: "You have passed so many things down, isn't it very troublesome to take them out?"

He thought Xia Dongli had flushed all of these into the septic tank.The septic tank relies on natural fermentation, which is slow and easy to block. Once it is full, it can only be taken out by a specialized worker, which is expensive, not to mention troublesome.Therefore, ordinary rural households would rather bury materials that are the most difficult to decompose, such as feathers, than flush them into septic tanks.

But the situation of Xia Dongli's family is obviously different.

Xia Dongli explained the design of the underground purification tank to the two of them, and showed Lao Li the instruction manual.

The septic tank uses bacteria fermentation and filtration settings, which are much stronger than ordinary septic tanks in terms of decomposition ability and slag removal ability. If you keep adding bacteria, the maintenance period will take ten years if there is no accident, and they The family has a small population, so putting in the feces of small animals can be regarded as making the best use of everything.

"Then what is this?" Lao Li leaned over excitedly after knowing that the water in the small pond was purified domestic sewage and rainwater. He was pointing at a green machine placed beside the large pond. , and a water pipe was inserted above it, leading straight to the roof of the small brick house.Lao Li suddenly had a guess, "Do you recycle the water?"

"Uh, no." Xia Dongli was ashamed, but it didn't have to be that level!

He pointed out to Lao Li a bulge visible to the naked eye on the roof of the building, which is where the water tank is, and the shadow on the side is the home of the bees: "I put a beehive on it, and the bees like to drink running water. Just use this water pump to pump the water in the pool up, and after a circle on the roof, the excess water will re-enter the rainwater collector, and then enter the purification equipment."

In this way, the drinking water needs of bees can be met, and water resources will not be wasted, although some power consumption is required.But on the other hand, it also ensures that the small pool has a steady stream of new water, which is actually okay.

When Lao Li looked at the two stainless steel barrels of Xia Dongli's house and the strange-looking canopy covering a large area in the yard, he suddenly understood, pointed to these, and asked: "These are all rainwater collectors? So do you still use tap water?"

"It's for use." Xia Dongli brought the tea set, knowing that Lao Li must have regarded him as an extreme environmentalist, so he said with a smile, "I actually installed these because I discovered it after the land was contracted." There is no underground pipeline, so the domestic sewage in the hut can’t be discharged at all. In order to solve this problem, I bought a sewage purifier on the recommendation of a friend. The manufacturer said that the treated water can reach the level of rainwater, so I don’t think it should be wasted. To solve the irrigation problem, a small pool was built."

While talking, Xun Ao just parked the car and came in. He didn't interrupt when he saw a few people chatting, but walked over and moved the garden table out to the middle of the yard. He took the tray from Xia Dongli's hand and put it on the table. On, brought another thermos bottle over.

Xia Dongli hurriedly invited a few people to sit down. Lao Li sat in the middle of the yard and looked at the hydrangeas in full bloom and the animals taking a nap in the cage. I can take care of it at a young age.”

"I didn't take care of it," Xia Dongli said blushingly, "I'm actually only in charge of buying, and the main care and maintenance are all up to Xiaoyu."

As if to confirm what he said, Xun Yu happened to walk by carrying the bamboo basket that Xia Dongli was holding before, and a few wobbly ducks followed behind him.

As soon as the ducklings who had been cowering outside before returned to their familiar environment, they immediately strode around the yard with splayed feet, not to mention their proud appearance.

In just a few words, Xun Yao has neatly finished stuffing the puppies who had slept in a small puddle into the nest, released the ducks, added water and food to the chicken and duck cages, and washed the baskets to dry, etc. The series is alive.

Oh, by the way, he also arranged the punishment task for Dami and San'er, and the two dogs are now aggrieved and thinking about it on the ground.Each dog has a fruit on its head, rice has a peach on its head, and San'er has an apple on its head, all of which are fruits that dogs love to eat.

Lao Li had just heard Xun Yao tell them that whoever fell would have nothing to eat, so the two dogs were not too nervous, their eyes were looking up and down, and they were almost cross-eyed.

"It's quite capable." Lao Li couldn't help but admire.

Compared with Xiaoguo's high efficiency, Xia Dongli's pace is simply slow. He is skillfully digging open tea bricks, washing cups and waking up tea.Hearing Lao Li's praise, Xia Dongli couldn't help saying proudly: "Xiao Yu is very good. He is currently learning the basic knowledge of veterinary medicine while taking the technical secondary school through correspondence."

"Oh, a veterinarian?" Lao Li's eyes flashed, and he understood that the meat was coming. He smiled and took the small porcelain cup handed over by Xia Dongli, "There are not many people studying veterinary medicine in our place, but the demand The quantity is still very large, and the young man has a bright future."

Xia Dongli smiled and said: "Yes, I also think this industry has a bright future, but the educational resources in Fenghua City are somewhat lacking, I would like to ask Mr. Li if there is any better teacher for us to study veterinary medicine , You have to find a good teacher to introduce you to this kind of thing.”

Although there are academic requirements for the qualification certificate of practicing veterinarians, it does not mean that you cannot be an apprentice without academic qualifications and experience.

Xia Dongli had thought about it before. Veterinary medicine, a practice-oriented discipline, would not be as experienced as being an assistant with a teacher no matter how long he sat in front of the computer.

Academic qualifications can be tested slowly, but experience can be accumulated first.This time, he happened to meet two staff members from the forestry department, so he wanted to find out if there were any veterinarians with better medical ethics and skills nearby, and see if he could put Xiaoyu in there to learn from them.

"Don't you know?" Lao Li was a little surprised, "Doctor Xu in your village is an excellent veterinarian!"

Doctor Xu...?

Xia Dongli, who had been pressed on the waist before, froze, and said with difficulty: "Isn't Dr. Xu a human doctor?"