Ba Zong's rural life [farming]

After the field is planted, the reservoir on the mountain will release water again, and the water will flow from the mountain to the field to moisten the freshly planted seedlings, making it easier for them to adapt to the new environment and improve their survival rate.

A few days after the reservoir is released, it is time to fertilize the surviving seedlings.

Ruan Xishi went to the supply and marketing agency to buy fertilizer, and Lu Ze still went with him on the day of fertilization. Ruan Xishi gave Lu Ze the task of repairing the water-blocking holes on the ridges of the fields.

It is better for the water in the field to just soak the roots of the seedlings. If there is too much water, it will drown, and if it is too little, it will not be conducive to absorbing chemical fertilizers. Water overflows, or the chemical fertilizers in other people's fields react with the chemical fertilizers in your own fields, which is not conducive to the growth of seedlings, and prevents the fertilizer and water from your own fields from flowing into other people's homes.

In addition to the holes dug for running water on the ridge, there are more frog holes, mouse holes and snake holes. When blocking the water hole, it is necessary to check whether there is any other water flowing at the hole, and if there is, it must be blocked, so the water blocking hole is not A very simple matter.

Lu Ze became interested in the holes of different sizes. He even bent down to look at them, and asked Ruan Xishi curiously, "Do you think there will be mice or something inside?"

Ruan Xishi laughed when she heard this question: "The mice will live in another place in spring, otherwise they will be washed away by the water. These wild mice are very smart."

Lu Ze suddenly realized, and immediately felt admiration for nature and the species living in nature.

After the water hole was blocked, Ruan Xishi rolled up his trousers, took off his shoes, and walked to the field carefully avoiding the seedlings. He held a small bucket of chemical fertilizer in one hand, grabbed the fertilizer in the bucket with the other, and spread it evenly on the field.

After Lu Ze blocked the water hole, he spontaneously eradicated the weeds growing on the ridge of the field. When he was tired, he rested on the spot with a shovel. He looked at Ruan Xishi who was spreading fertilizer in the field. Ruan Xishi's small and thin figure Standing in the middle of the field, she is so thin and pitiful.

He was suddenly very glad that he chose to stay. Without him, Ruan Xishi would not know how hard it would be to plow the land and grow things. It would be too difficult for such a child to survive alone.

It would be great if I could accompany him until he grows up a bit, at least until he grows into a man and can live alone.

The loofah and beans planted in the open space in front of the house have grown vines, and it is time to build a fence to guide them to grow upwards. Ruan Xishi went to the bamboo mountain again and cut some bamboo branches that are two finger thick to make a fence.

Lu Ze also brought a chopping knife to the bamboo mountain. He imitated Ruan Xishi's action to chop off the bamboo branches, cut off the excess branches, and made smooth bamboo branches. The grass and vines were bundled up, and when he went down the mountain, he and Ruan Xishi each carried a bundle, and they also randomly chopped two sweet bamboo shoots that were about half a meter high and went home.

The sun was shining in the afternoon, and after lunch, Ruan Xishi was not in a hurry to put fences on the melon and bean sprouts, but sat in the patio, peeling the shells of bamboo shoots with a knife.

Sweet bamboo shoots are thicker than other bamboo shoots. The thinnest ones are as big as the mouth of a bowl, and the thickest ones are up to six inches in diameter.

Ruan Xishi is not very skilled in peeling bamboo shoot shells. There are thorny hairs on the bamboo shoot shells, so you need to be very careful, otherwise it will hurt for several days if it gets stuck into the flesh.

After the bamboo shoots are peeled off, there are white and fat bamboo shoots. The lower three to four pieces of bamboo shoots are relatively old and suitable for making shredded bamboo shoots for frying. The middle two pieces are between the old and the tender, and are the most crispy parts. The top three sections are the tenderest parts of the whole bamboo shoot, which can be fried and eaten, or dried in the sun.

Ruan Xishi adhered to the principle of not wasting, and made two bamboo shoots into shredded bamboo shoots, sliced ​​bamboo shoots, and dried bamboo shoots. He is going to hang it up and store it to eat when there is no food in the future.

After the bamboo shoots are boiled, put them on the wall to dry one by one, day after day, until the water is completely dry, they can be stored.

Ruan Xishi stepped on the high stool and evenly spread the tips of the bamboo shoots on the wall. There are not many shoot tips from two bamboo shoots, about [-] pieces were cut out, and it is estimated that there are only a handful of them after drying.

After handling the bamboo shoots, the sun was already westward. Ruan Xi got off the stool and saw that Lu Ze hadn't taken a nap, but was looking at herself in the corridor, so she asked aloud, "Brother Lu Ze, aren't you sleeping?"

Only then did Lu Ze say, "I'm going to sleep right away, you should sleep for a while too."

Ruan Xishi and Lu Ze went back to their respective rooms. Ruan Xishi was lying on the bed in his own bedroom, the window was open, the sunlight came in sideways, the whole room was bright and warm, and the lifelessness of a few months ago could not be seen at all.

Ruan Xishi was lying on the bed and couldn't sleep for a while. He counted the days with his fingers. It is now May. By July, the ducks raised at home will lay eggs, and the loofah, pumpkin and beans planted in front of the house should also bear fruit. He has harvested, and by then, he will be able to make some money, and maybe his life will be much easier.

In short, everything will get better, Ruan Xishi is no longer depressed and decadent as before, the more he conceives of the future, the more he feels that the future is full of hope, and his whole heart becomes positive.

Then he fell asleep holding the quilt in such a mood, and had a dream of a big harvest. In the dream, he was holding a big golden pumpkin, and a group of ducks were quacking behind him. When he looked up, he saw Lu Cho stood not far in front of him, looked at him with gentle eyes, and said to him "You are back".

Ruan Xishi couldn't help but raised the big pumpkin in her hand, and responded with a bright face, "I'm back."

The dream came to an abrupt end. Ruan Xishi opened his eyes and saw himself raising his hand upwards, maintaining the last movement in the dream, but there was no pumpkin in his hand, and there was no Lu Ze in front of him. Only then did he realize that he was dreaming just now. When he woke up, he felt My hands and my heart are empty, as expected, the dream still needs hard work to come true.

So he jumped up from the bed, put on his coat, and went out to plant fences for the melon and bean sprouts in front of his house. The sun was no longer as hot as at noon, and the sky was not dark. It was a good time to do farm work.

He found a flexible straw in the firewood room, and was about to go out when Lu Ze came out of the house. Ruan Xishi is not as restrained as he was at the beginning, after all, he has received Lu Ze's help many times, and he doesn't care One or two more times.He grinned at Lu Ze and said, "Brother Lu Ze, you just woke up, come and stick a fence with me."

Lu Ze smiled and nodded: "Okay."

Ruan Xishi couldn't be bothered about planting fences. He has been tending the vegetable garden with his grandfather since he was very young. Bamboo branches should be inserted in the middle of the two pits. Put a bamboo branch on the place, and a simple fence is ready.

With the help of Lu Ze, rows of fences were quickly erected on the land in front of the house, which looked neat and orderly.After Ruan Xishi tied up the fence, he led the head of the melon seedling and bean seedling to the fence, and lightly tied it with a straw at a place ten centimeters below the head of the sprout.

After finishing, Ruan Xishi clapped his hands and said to Lu Ze: "Plants grow fast at night, like vines, which can grow more than ten centimeters in one night, so the fence should be planted before evening, so that when the vines grow at night, they will grow along the tree. Climb the fence, and then you can climb the fence without guidance."

Lu Ze nodded to show that he remembered.

After finishing the fence, Ruan Xishi went to the septic tank behind the house and brought a bucket of dung water to water the seedlings. Pumpkin seedlings don’t need to climb the fence, they will spread on the ground by themselves, so what Ruan Xishi has to do is to pour the dung water. Their buds move toward the open space.

Ruan Xishi said to the pumpkin seedlings while pouring manure water, "You need to grow up quickly and grow more pumpkins. I'll just wait to sell pumpkins to raise Brother Lu Ze."

When Lu Ze, who was not far away, heard his words, the corners of his mouth curved up uncontrollably.

When Ruan Xishi was cooking at night, he remembered that the dried bamboo shoots had not been taken back. After a while, there would be fog outside, and the dried bamboo shoots would become moldy after being touched.He hurriedly wiped his hands and took a vegetable basket to collect the dried bamboo shoots. When Lu Ze saw it, he took the basket in his hand and said to him, "You can continue cooking, I will collect it for you. "

Ruan Xishi looked at Lu Ze who could get things on the wall without moving a stool, felt that he was tall and useful, and at the same time was very envious.

After the paddy fields in the village were fertilized, the reservoir stopped releasing water, and there was no water upstream, but there was still some water in the canals on the mountain, which were full of small fish.

After the first person to go up the mountain took a handful of fish with taro leaves and returned to the village, everyone in the village soon knew that there were small fish on the mountain, so they took fishing nets and buckets from their homes and walked up the mountain, and they almost formed big fish. The troops, a group of people mighty.

When Ruan Xishi heard the news, his heart moved, and he also planned to go up the mountain to catch some fish. The small fish has many bones and little meat, so it is not a good food, but it is undoubtedly a rare and nutritious food for ducklings in the growth and development period.

Ruan Xishi did what he said, he took a small bucket and a net bag, and called the bored Lu Ze to go up the mountain together to join in the fun.

There were many people standing in the canal on the mountain, a few of them stood guard in a puddle, and went down to catch a lot of small silver fishes, and Ruan Xishi couldn't wait to join the fish fishing ranks when he saw it.

Everyone who knew him greeted him and asked, "Shizi, are you here to catch fish too?"

Ruan Xishi put the caught fish into the bucket, and replied: "There are a few ducklings raised at home, let's catch fish to improve their food."

His serious answer drew good-natured laughter from others.The canal was very lively, with both adults and children. The adults chatted here and there, and the children ran around barefoot. When they saw Ruan Xishi, they would call out Brother Ruan openly. As for Lu Ze, they Children are born with the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Lu Ze's appearance is not easy to mess with. They ignored Lu Ze after calling Ruan Xishi, made faces at him, and then ran to other places playfully. up.

When the sun was about to set, the villagers began to go down the mountain one after another. Ruan Xishi came late, so he only grabbed half of the bucket and was reluctant to leave.

Uncle Fang, who came down from the mountain, saw that they were still fishing in the ditch, so he said to them, "It's time for Shi Zai to go back, otherwise it's not easy to go when it gets dark."

Ruan Xishi only noticed that it was getting dark, so she could only reluctantly go down the mountain with Uncle Fang.

On the way, I passed the orchard planted by Uncle Fang. The orchard planted Sanhua plums. The fruits were half green and half yellow hanging on the branches. If you didn't look carefully, you thought they were leaves. Ruan Xishi touched the branches a few times and didn't notice. When there were fruits, Uncle Fang picked a few branches and ate one by himself, and gave the rest to Ruan Xishi.

Ruan Xishi took the Sanhua Li with a blank face, and then noticed that the tree was full of fruits, and he said to Uncle Fang: "Hey, Uncle Fang, aren't these fruits going to be sold, why are you giving me so much? "

Uncle Fang waved his hand and said, "Hey, Sanhuali has not made any money these past few years, and even buyers are too lazy to buy them. These fruits are basically rotten on the trees. Aunt Fang and I can't eat a few, so we pick them too." It’s not much, share some with relatives and friends, and whoever wants to pick the rest can pick it up, it’s better to eat it than to waste it.”

Ruan Xishi looked regretful after hearing this, but Lu Ze frowned, as if thinking of something.

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