clang farming notes

Ever since there was wine at Lizheng's house, Da Zhu kowtowed to Du Zhongping and offered tea in front of everyone (it doesn't look like a daughter-in-law seeing her mother-in-law), and he was officially a student of Du Zhongping. Run to Du's house every day.

In fact, Du Zhongping didn't teach him all day long. After all, he is not a professional scholar, and each family still has a lot of work to do, that is, teach him a few words in the morning.The textbooks used by Du Zhongping are ordinary three-character classics, hundred surnames and so on. He taught me to recite a few sentences every day, and added red tracing, which was enough for Dazhu to keep busy.

At the beginning of learning, Du Zhongping didn't want to put too much pressure on Da Zhu, an honest boy, because he had a weaker foundation than his own Jin'er.Based on the experience of Du Zhongping in his previous life, for a boy as big as Dazhu, who had no preschool education, just sitting at the desk without moving already required a lot of self-control.If the coursework is more serious, I'm afraid I will get tired of studying.Unexpectedly, Da Zhu could not only complete the homework assigned by Du Zhongping every day, but also go to help Du An in the second half of the afternoon and help with the housework!

When Dazhu did this the first day, Du Zhongping was shocked: Isn't he hiring child labor?No, it doesn't even count as child labor, and Da Zhu can't pay himself for this job, so what's the matter? !

By the time he remembered to stop him, it was already too late, and Da Zhu had already done it.The work of this day is not light work. The Du family has a mule and a donkey. Duane is cleaning the barn, transporting the manure and so on out of the yard, and transporting it to the place where he piles manure and firewood, mixes them together, and prepares for composting .

After all, Duan also has a little bit of a little cleanliness, and he can't help but shy away from doing this kind of work, but Da Zhu does it very smoothly, even better than Duan in comparison.

After finishing the work, Dazhu didn't even enter the house, and ran home in a hurry.

In the morning of the next day, Du Zhongping finished Dazhu's homework yesterday and taught him new ones. Taking advantage of Dazhu's blushing, he told him that he didn't need to help his family with things. Du Zhongping was accepting students, not child labor.Dazhu just kept silent, and Du Zhongping just thought he had listened, let go of his heart, and went to take care of Jin'er again, so he didn't say much.

In the afternoon, Da Zhu figured out what to do by himself, and left when he was done.As expected of being from a farmer's family, you can find the job you want to do with just a glance in the yard, and you don't have to ask.It's much better than the Du family's reminders from time to time.

Du Zhongping sighed, I have never heard of any student who has to work voluntarily at the husband's house after finishing their homework, what's the matter?It felt so weird.

But at night, Du An saw Du Zhongping's troubled face, asked him the reason, and persuaded him: "You don't charge his family much, and you give Dazhu the paper, pen and books now, and he wants to help with some work." It should be. You want to stop him, but he will feel sorry. You know, his whole family wants to be strong, and he will never owe others. "

Even Zhao Ba and Fang Sheng knew about it, and advised him to leave it alone: ​​"Dazhu is a man of measure, a kid from the crop yard, he can do his job, and this guy in the family will not bother him nor tire him. If you don't order him , he just treats you as a child with him. Besides, how can you learn to help the master's housework? How many people are apprentices, working during the day and night, and you can't learn much!"

Du Zhongping was understood by what they said, there are indeed some master craftsmen, if it is not for a long time, they treat the students as family members, and they will not teach their real skills.I'm afraid the Lizheng family thought so too.If so, it's not good to stop him, or let him seek peace of mind.The big deal is to supplement him a little bit elsewhere, just to be worthy of my conscience.

So far, when the class ends tomorrow, Du Zhongping will follow Du An's instructions and arrange the work for him. By the way, let him have some snacks at Du's house at noon and rest, and follow Du An and Zhao Ba in the afternoon. They do something.Sure enough, in this way, Da Zhu became much calmer.The restraint that Du Zhongping had when I saw Du Zhongping since I became a teacher is also much better.Now I can relax, sometimes tease Jin'er, and use some straw sticks to weave some small things for Jin'er, which is very popular with children.

The weather is getting warmer, and everyone in the village is busy making preparations for spring plowing.

The Du family is new here, and all the farm tools are new.Some sickles, picks, shovels, forks, etc. are all made by blacksmiths. When they are brought home, they have to be fitted with a suitable wooden handle and sharpened with a whetstone. It's easy to use.There is also farmyard manure, which has to be retting before it can be used.Zhao Bafangsheng helped with all kinds of miscellaneous matters, and with Da Zhu as his helper, it was not difficult for the Du family to prepare.

The Du family has a total of [-] mu of land, and after Kaihua, they will go to Hewan to open up [-] mu of land for rice fields, which is quite a lot.Du Zhongping discussed with Du An that for the [-] mu of land, [-] mu of land should be used to plant wheat, and it is said that each family can grow two or three mu of potato seeds, and the rest of soybeans, mung beans, and red beans can be planted in a few mu. It's enough for the family to eat.The rest of the land, just like the big guys, can be planted with corn and sorghum.

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The strong wind that lasted for almost half a month softened the bare and hard trees, and made the treetops and branches turn blue.The strong wind also melted the snow, exposing the black land that had been hidden for the whole winter. It was no longer cold and hard to step on, but soft and moist.The winter snow melted and seeped into the ground, moistening the land.

When the strong wind turned from the northeast to the southeast and gradually became smaller, Yanbei ushered in another spring.

People took off their heavy cotton-padded jackets, put on light jackets, went to the fields, carefully looked at their land, grabbed the soil and squeezed it, and estimated how far the ground had been thawed. It would take a few days for the ground to slightly Be dry and able to withstand the pressure of cars and people, and plan your own spring plowing smugly.

Du Zhongping gave Dazhu a holiday and asked him to come back to class after planting the land, but he just told him not to forget to review the words he had learned after working every day.Dazhu has learned more than 100 characters these days, which is not easy, and Du Zhongping doesn't want to forget them all when he comes back.

The cotton curtains that had been covering the windows and doors of Du's house for a whole winter have been removed, and the whole room is much brighter.

Jin'er changed into a jacket and moved around much more easily, so she didn't want to stay in the house all day anymore.Du Zhongping also refused to restrain him, and ran around with him in front of and behind the house.Sometimes when he is free, Du Zhongping and Du An will accompany him to run around.

Green shoots emerged from the withered and yellow weeds in the yard, and there were a few unknown trees in the backyard, with flower buds the size of millet grains on the branches.The Du family didn't study trees, even Zhao Bafang and Sheng had to wait for the flowers to bloom before they could determine the species. That's right, who had nothing to pay attention to.

Both families went down to look at the fields, and felt that it would take a few days to wait for the wind to dry the ground before starting spring plowing.The preparations have been completed, so these few days are rare days for everyone to relax before the busy start of spring plowing.

In the past two days, the Du family opened two plots of land against the wall in the backyard. One planted leeks and the other trampled shallots.Du Zhongping and Fang Sheng partnered to intensively cultivate a piece of land for seedling cultivation, and Du Zhongping planted some of the various vegetables collected along the way.After a few days, when the land is planted and the seedlings in the yard grow larger, they can be planted separately.

In other words, after eating the few dishes stored in the cellar for several months, I have long been tired of eating, so everyone has great hopes for this seedling field.Jin'er also followed Du Zhongping, walking around this small piece of land several times a day.

Although my own vegetable seeds have only been planted now, the wild vegetables in the field have already grown.After finding several kinds of wild vegetables such as mother-in-law, shepherd's purse, and wheel vegetables in the yard, several people couldn't sit still, picked up the basket, picked up the small sickle, and went out to scoop out the wild vegetables.

There are many people who want to think like them, and they meet many people one after another all the way up the mountain.The big guys talked and laughed and walked together.

Sister-in-law Wang and a few young daughters-in-law also went to dig vegetables together. When they saw Du Zhongping and the others, they went all the way to greet them.When she got close, Mrs. Wang took Jin'er from Du Zhongping's arms and kissed her well.Jin'er has seen Sister-in-law Wang more often, not to mention that Erzhu who is beside Sister-in-law Wang is his good friend, and he is not afraid of giving birth, and he does not struggle when held in her arms.

Several adults in my family were busy gouging out wild vegetables, so I went back to taste something new in the evening, and let him and the two little children of Erzhu get together and tinker by themselves.

While Zhao Ba and Fang Sheng cared about digging by themselves, they had to distract themselves from teaching the Du family.When Du Zhongping and Du An met someone they didn't know, they would bring them over and ask them. After all, even Du An had only seen shepherd's purse tidied up in the kitchen, and it was the first time he dug it himself.Moreover, the types of wild vegetables in the north are different from those in the south. After picking wild vegetables, you have to ask the people around you how to eat them. The two of them took the trouble, asking and asking, very busy.

The green and tender shepherd's purse is called shepherd's purse locally. In the north, the young leaves are usually washed and dipped in sauce.The Du family prefers to use shepherd's purse and fresh meat to make dumplings and wontons, or to make shepherd's purse soup, which is also very tender and delicious.When Duan saw the jagged leaves of shepherd's purse, he felt very kind, and determined to pick more shepherd's purse and cook a feast of shepherd's purse, which would open the eyes of people like Zhao Ba who only know how to dip in sauce.

There are also mother-in-law diced and lettuce all over the place. These two dishes are also dipped in pickles. According to Fang Sheng, they taste a little bit bitter, but eating them in spring will just relieve the anger accumulated in the next winter.And if you eat a lot, you will taste the unique bitter fragrance.Du Zhongping hesitated for a while, but he still wanted to do as the Romans do, adding these two things to his vegetable basket.

If you are lucky, you may still encounter mountain celery.Du Zhongping felt that the mountain celery didn't look much like what he had imagined, but he still picked a lot of it. Whether it was stuffed or mixed with water, it tasted good.Sister-in-law Wang said that there are water celery beside the water in summer, which is much tenderer than the ones grown at home.

The little ones enjoyed picking cat paws and skulls.The former looks very cute and attractive.The latter is because the leaves exposed on the ground are very similar to grass, and you can only find them out of the weeds with a little vision, so children always like to look for them to show that they are very capable.As for eating, the brain shell is a bit spicy with garlic, and most adults like to eat it.Kids are just having fun.

Zhao Ba became impatient after squatting and digging for a while, and ran into the woods alone, not to mention, he even found the thorn buds.This is one of the best flavors among wild vegetables.Zhao Ba took off his outer clothes and wrapped them in a big bag. Duan suspected that he took off everything he saw.Naturally, such good wild vegetables should be distributed to everyone to take back and taste.Duan asked Zhao Ba, sure enough, he still only knows one trick, dipping in sauce.Duane put the thorny sprouts directly in his basket, lest he spoil the good stuff.Well, looking at the leaves are fat and tender, if they are dipped in egg liquid and fried like toon fish, it should taste good.

After being busy for a while, everyone's baskets were almost full.Jin'er also came back with an armful of green leaves. Du Zhongping saw that although there were mostly weeds, there were several kinds of wild vegetables in it, so he praised him again and again.

A big meal of wild vegetables, whether mixed, fried, deep-fried, made into soup, or stuffed, can be regarded as a severe solution to the gluttony of several people who have not seen green leafy vegetables for several months.Since being praised by Du Zhongping, Jin'er often digs everywhere in her yard with a small shovel.Erzhu often came to give him technical guidance. With his help, Jin'er gradually picked more wild vegetables than weeds.Du Zhongping was very happy to go out to play more, but he was worried about getting out of his eyes, and it was much better to have Er Zhu to accompany him.Du Zhongping used all kinds of snacks to hook Erzhu Jiantian and ran to Du's house.