In my days as a farmer

There is an unwritten rule in the social scene in Northeast China—everyone is plastic friends before having a drink or two.

Here, if you drink two bottles of beer, everyone can say something intimate, if you drink two bottles of rice wine, you can almost be included in the list of possible contacts, if you drink two bottles of sorghum, it is a life-threatening friendship at this moment of drinking .

Uh, but this method of making friends is no longer suitable in the new era. As more and more young people in Northeast China don't know how to drink, everyone starts to stop drinking when making friends.

But it still works in the eyes of the older generation.

Xia Dongli opened Lao Li's chatterbox with his collection of special beers from all over the world, and then supported the chatterbox with his own quick food in the refrigerator. The two chatted non-stop while clinking glasses.

Comrade Xiaozhang, who was about to drive and couldn't drink, sat at the next table with Xun Yao.Compared with Xia Dongli and the others, the table was lively and lively, while the other table was completely silent. Each of them had a computer, one edited videos, and the other studied online classes. The atmosphere was not to mention sacred.

Some people say that drinking capacity is all about practice, while others say it is innate. It depends on the ability of the body's enzymes to break down alcohol. Both have their own advantages, but Xia Dongli's words are for the latter anyway.

He doesn't drink very much, but he can drink quite well.Moreover, Xia Dongli's face was the same red after drinking one cup and ten cups.But outsiders don't know, people look at this guy with his face flushed from drinking, he looks like an honest person, this physique has allowed him to take advantage of several business activities.

Xia Dongli is a bit of a collector. He used to buy some souvenirs when he went to unfamiliar cities. From small bookmark refrigerator magnets to large beer souvenirs, he would happily carry them home and put them on the display cabinet.

Especially for some more distinctive beer brands and special tastes, he usually buys a few bottles for storage. If a guest comes to the door, ouch, it looks quite spectacular at first glance.

Now he also used this small cabinet of beer to keep Lao Li behind, and obtained precious information.

Don't get me wrong, he's not talking clichés or anything, and Lao Li didn't say anything confidential, but information and policies are just things that laymen can hear, and sometimes someone really needs to help analyze them to see them more clearly.

The national policies issued by Huaguo are generally encouraging policies. This kind of policy has a certain degree of guidance, expressing the country's attitude and hope that you will develop in this direction.

For example, the encouraging policies in the past two years have encouraged the development of green and organic food, and slightly opened the floodgates for the cultivation of cash crops.

"The higher-ups don't dare to let go too much." Lao Li gestured with his thumb and index finger to make a slit, "That's all, if you open too much, you're afraid of accidents."

Simply put, economic crops are all agricultural products other than food crops, including vegetables and fruits.

Its characteristic is that the pricing has a large floating space, and the price is determined by the market. Unlike food crops, the price range is fixed by the state, so the profit of growing economic crops is also relatively high.

Everyone is profit-seeking, so they naturally prefer to grow cash crops.

However, the safety of food crops is an existence that the country must guarantee. There is food in hand without panic, and the rate of food self-sufficiency is an important indicator of social stability.

Therefore, the price of staple food also determines the determination of people's livelihood data such as the pricing of subsistence allowances in each city and the wage increase of social relief funds, which are very important guiding data.

The land in China is limited, and the economy and food are at the two ends of the steelyard. Once the balance is out of balance, there will be major social problems. According to the past practice, the country will frantically pile weight on food crops, but this year it is in cash crops. One piece was quietly released.

"The main thing is to encourage the cultivation of rations for livestock and the cultivation of oil crops. Mr. Xia is still very discerning." Lao Li clinked glasses with him, "The future of pasture cultivation is quite promising. Haven't you decided what to plant yet? , we can appropriately increase the planting area of ​​some oil crops. Although our peanuts and soybeans can only be planted for one season, they are of high quality and can be sold at a good price.”

"Oil crops..." Xia Dongli had an idea, "Can sunflowers be grown?"

"Yes, yes." Lao Li threw a peanut into his mouth, feeling a little strange, "But why did you think of planting this? The income of sunflowers is much lower than that of soybeans, and soybeans have received quite a lot of subsidies in the past two years."

"No way, sunflowers produce honey, they have a big appetite." Xia Dongli pointed to the nest of bees on the roof to indicate that they were the culprit.

After the honeycomb products purchased by Xia Dongli online finally arrived at Xiaojin Village slowly, the little bees enjoyed the joy of being artificially fed.The nest spleen is really amazing!This kind of beeswax is used as the raw material, and the honeycomb piece pressed by the mold fully conforms to the bee body engineering of the bees.

The little bees only need to be slightly processed according to the needs of the group, and they can move in immediately, which greatly saves the pressure of secreting beeswax to build a nest.

So not long ago, the little bees who had settled down completely began to work hard to expand their family.Small animals in the breeding period work the hardest. Every time Xia Dongli passes the pasture, he can see bee colonies carrying pollen and nectar back and forth.

It's just that I don't know if I'm tired of the taste of goat bean nectar or I've pampered every flower. These days, Xia Dongli found that the little bees have begun to fly to the mountains.

Xia Dongli, who was keeping bees for the first time, was stunned by the appetite of the bees. He has more than ten acres of flower fields, and he still can't feed half of the bees!This unscientific!

As a landlord who can't provide enough food for the tenants, what can Xia Dongli do?He can only start to study honey plants!

But nectar plants can't be planted casually. In the final analysis, it depends on whether they are suitable or not and the yield. Xia Dongli took out his own homework and asked Lao Li to help him find out which ones are suitable for planting here.

When Lao Li took the tablet and put on reading glasses to read the information, he brought over the cucumbers he had picked and chilled before, and according to the local custom, he also took the dipping sauce made of miso and put them in front of Lao Li.Of course, he also put a copy on their table.

"Ouch!" Lao Li immediately laughed when he saw his posture, "You are so particular!"

Eating cucumbers with sauce is a traditional way of eating here in Northeast China, but throwing them in ice water like Xia Dongli is not.

However, it is very refreshing to eat something iced on a hot day.He reached out to pick up one, and broke it apart casually. The cucumbers that had just been picked from the vegetable field were tender. After being chilled, the fibers tightened and the taste became more crisp. It was an excellent appetizer when paired with a salty and spicy dipping sauce.

"Cucumber is good!" Old Li ate half of it in two bites, and he smacked his lips, "It's just that your dipping sauce is a bit bland, didn't we buy it here?"

"Well, this is fried by Xiaoyu." Xia Dongli also touched one and gnawed slowly, "I added some sweet noodle sauce and hot sauce, the pure soybean paste is too salty, so it's more refreshing. If Teacher Li likes it, you can bring some Go back, put it in the refrigerator for a long time."

"Hey, then I'm welcome." Lao Li narrowed his eyes, but he didn't refuse. He patted Xia Dongli's small body, "Next time I will buy you a drink! It's okay to try the beer here. But the taste of the wine is too weak, I will take you to try our Changbai Mountain beer, the water quality of our Changbai Mountain is first-class, and the brewed beer tastes so delicious!"

Seeing that Xia Dongli wanted to refuse, he patted the person on the shoulder again: "You can only be friends if you come and go. Don't be polite with uncle for a meal!"

Xia Dongli had no choice but to respond with a smile.Seeing that he agreed, Lao Li nodded in satisfaction and looked at the tablet.When Xia Dongli was collecting information before, he had made a table of relevant information, indicating the flowering season and how many days the flowering period lasted.

Lao Li shook his head again and again after looking at two, and pointed out: "You can't use the date you checked on Baidu directly. It is written in a range of dates. The weather in the south is warmer, and the flowers bloom earlier. In the north, it is cooler, and the flowering period is later. .If you plant according to this range of dates, it seems to be connected, but in fact there is a gap of one or two months, and then your bees will have to eat their money."

Then, he picked up a pen and gestured: "Look, let's talk about this sunflower. Its flowering period on the Internet is from May to August. According to this time, it blooms in May in South China, and blooms in June and July in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In our case, it will only open in August.”

"But this date is the date for viewing flowers. Sunflowers will bloom about two months after they germinate, and will set seeds in February. Autumn has already entered September in our northeastern region, and the temperature in October is only 2 degrees. If we follow this If the rhythm of viewing flowers comes, the seeds will not form, and the flower pots will wilt when the cold snap comes, and then you will plant for several months without harvesting."

"So, if you want to plant this, you have to let it bloom in July, pick it up and dry it in September, and put the stalks in the soil for fertilizer in October." He wrote on the tablet as he said, "Look, Is the time inconsistent with what you wrote before?"

Xia Dongli looked stunned, and then nodded seriously: "Thank you, Mr. Li,"

Lao Li deleted and deleted from Xia Dongli's list: "Hey, there is nothing to thank for this. We are also happy if you avoid detours."

This is not to take a little detour, planting does not matter, the key is that four or five months of busy work, the frustration is not small.However, seeing Lao Li's uncomfortable face, he still didn't say any more, he kept his gratitude in his heart, and just poured another glass of wine for someone.

Lao Li coughed dryly, and continued to point at Xia Dongli's tablet: "This needs a lot of fertilizer, and your soil is not good enough, so it's best not to plant it now. This growth period is long and the income is slow, so you can either spend a lot of money to buy adult seedlings." , or just plant a small amount in the corner and let it grow, and then move it back after seeing the results. Ah yes, you’d better save some fields to plant some herbs that can be used with pesticides.”

Lao Li suggested, "It's not that organic farms can't spray pesticides, but they can't spray chemical pesticides. You can get some natural ones, such as bamboo vinegar and persimmon lacquer. You can also use some spices to squeeze the juice Soaking in water, the effect is also good. But these are not resistant to rain, and the consumption is relatively large, you should pay attention to this."

"I have thought of some ways to prevent insects." Xia Dongli introduced some non-staff members of his family with some interest-the little tadpoles who have just grown their hind legs in the small pond.

"Ah? Tadpoles, I haven't studied tadpoles, and the small appearance of tadpoles doesn't make much sense." Lao Li followed Xia Dongli to the edge of the small pond and waited for him to pick up the tadpoles for him to identify. I can see it, but the tadpoles all look about the same when they grow up."

"It's okay, as long as it's not a toad." Xia Dongli said with a smile, very thoughtful.

In fact, toads can also be... But toads have poisonous glands on their bodies, and he is worried that the rice will accidentally touch them, so try to avoid them as much as possible.

At first, I thought Xia Dongli was going to get a fishing net, but the young man turned around and opened a coke bottle by the pool, sucked some red liquid from it, and sprinkled it into the pool.

The red liquid dissipated as soon as it entered the water, and a taupe mass soon surrounded them.

"What is this, Daphnia?" Lao Li looked at the Coke bottle with some interest, and when he took a closer look, he could see that the Coke bottle was actually cut in half. Xia Dongli put an oxygen pump inside, It was bubbling and bubbling all the time.

"It's not water fleas, it's freshly hatched brine shrimp. This is easier to hatch than water fleas, and it has a stronger smell. Tadpoles like to eat this." Xia Dongli also worked very hard to feed these small tadpoles.Tadpoles mainly feed on algae, but his pond is so big, the growth rate of algae cannot keep up with the food intake of tadpoles, Xia Dongli has spent a lot of effort for the physical and mental health of tadpoles, and finally heard that the brine shrimp is palatable Well, I also specially bought shrimp eggs to hatch by myself.

Brine prawns are actually seawater prawns. Their hatching can be fooled by salt water, but they cannot grow in salt water and will die within a few days.Therefore, it can only be eaten and hatched as it is, which is also very laborious.

Fortunately, the effect is good.

Xia Dongli picked up a handful of tadpoles easily with a washbasin.Although these little tadpoles who have just grown legs feel the shock of the water body, they still eat happily. Their calm appearance shows that they are very rich in fishing experience.

Cough cough, it seems that something has been revealed.

Xia Dongli put the water basin in front of the two of them, and said excitedly and worriedly: "Mr. Li, can you see if this is a frog or a toad?"

Lao Li was silent for a moment, he slowly took off his presbyopic glasses, wiped them and put them on again, with a complicated expression on his face.How should I put it, even though they are not toads, it is impossible for little comrades to expect them to catch bugs for themselves.

"Teacher Xiao Xia, this is neither a toad nor a frog."

He looked a little confused: "The color of this tadpole... It's either a snow clam or a puffy one. No matter which one doesn't like living in dry land."

Snow clams are wood frogs. This kind of frog likes to live in dense forests. Its main food is earthworms and insects living in the forest.The scientific name of Qiguzi is the northern narrow-mouthed frog. This kind of frog is relatively large and not good at jumping, so it mainly lives in the wetlands of streams and feeds on insects that drink water and lay eggs.

Unfortunately, Xia Dongli's current planting plan is all dryland crops.

After reading Baidu Encyclopedia, Xia Dongli feels that the whole person is not very good!

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