The happy little days of the Ye family

After entering the vernal equinox, it rained heavily one after another. Even though it rained heavily, the villagers braved the rain to plow the ground and plant rice seedlings for fear of missing the spring plowing season.

After the Qingming Festival, it rained heavily for several days.

The heavy rain knocked the newly planted seedlings upside down, and the water level in the river rose a lot.

The seedlings in the paddy fields were all newly planted. Before they had time to take root in the soil, they were easily washed away by heavy rains.

Mr. Ye took his father, Ye Donglin and Ye Xilin to see his family's paddy fields in the heavy rain.

The family's original three acres of high-quality paddy fields have high yields. The family's food depends on these three acres of paddy fields. Mr. Ye is particularly concerned about it.

The four grandfathers and grandsons came to the field and found that many seedlings had floated on the water due to the heavy rain.

Some seedlings have even been washed into the ditches and flowed away by the rain.

Mr. Ye felt heartbroken when he looked at the seedlings washed away by the rain. He quickly rolled up his trouser legs and went down to the field, inserting the floating seedlings back into the field.

The father and son on the side were not slow in their movements, and they quickly went down to the field.

Ye Xilin is young, has a petite stature and is relatively flexible. He is responsible for salvaging the seedlings from the water, and the remaining people are responsible for replanting the seedlings that have been washed away in the fields.

Many of the grass seedlings floating on the water have been washed away by the heavy rain. Just the grass seedlings that Ye Xilin salvaged are not enough.

Fortunately, Mr. Ye has rich experience and has already known that there will be heavy rains this year, so he has prepared replanting seedlings during the seedling raising.

Several people bent over and replanted the missing seedlings in the field one by one. Raindrops as big as soybeans slowly seeped in through the gaps in the raincoats, making several people's clothes wet.

It was very uncomfortable to have wet clothes sticking to the body, but several people were busy replanting seedlings, and no one had time to worry about whether they felt comfortable or not.

In addition to the four members of the Ye family, there are many farmers in the surrounding areas who are desperately replanting seedlings despite heavy rain. The floating seedlings were carefully inserted back into the field.

A lot of the grain seedlings floating on the water were washed away by the rain. Fortunately, the experienced farmers were well prepared and prepared some extra grain seedlings when they were raising seedlings.

Some families had extra seedlings, and even the drainage canals were planted with rice.

The seedlings in the field were replanted by the grandfather and grandson. When they returned, they all turned into clay figures.

On their way back, several people stopped by to take a look at the two acres of dry land at home.

Corn has been planted in the ground some time ago, and many seedlings have grown. However, there was really too much rain during this period, and many corn seedlings were soaked by the rain.

Mr. Ye was very distressed when he saw the corn seedlings soaked by the rain, but he had no choice but to wait for the heavy rain to stop before replanting.

At home, Mrs. Ye and Mother Ye have already cooked ginger soup and a large pot of hot water.

As soon as the four of them arrived home, they were immediately fed a large bowl of spicy ginger soup by Mrs. Ye.

Although all four of them were wearing raincoats, the clothes inside were still wet from the heavy rain.

Mother Ye urged several people to take a hot bath and change out of their wet clothes. In early spring, the wind and cold were the worst.

After drinking ginger soup and taking a hot bath, a few people felt alive.

After lunch, Mr. Ye hurriedly took the men at home to the foot of Xiaohou Mountain.

The 50 acres of newly opened paddy fields have all been planted in the past few days.

There is a lot of rain in spring, which is a good time to pick mushrooms and dig spring bamboo shoots. Mr. Ye kept the 20 men who had previously helped open up wasteland.

Now there is no need to deliver wild vegetables to the Liang Family Restaurant. The five women who came to help dig wild vegetables have gone back.

After all, there are 20 men here, and it is not right for these women to stay here after all.

It has been raining heavily these past few days, and these 20 men just stayed here to take care of the fields.

Mr. Ye and others came to the field and found that all the ditches in the paddy field had been dug and the rainwater in the field had been drained out in time.

There were several men in the fields, shirtless and braving the rain, replanting seedlings.

Several people quickly rolled up their trousers and went to the fields to help. A group of people worked until the evening to replant all the seedlings washed away by the rain.

Although these people in Dashan Village rarely farm, they are very hardworking and willing to work. The 50 paddy fields are well taken care of.

Mr. Ye thought about what Tangshan had mentioned to him before, about finding permanent workers. The newly opened 50 acres of paddy fields and two hills really needed people to take care of them.

After dinner, Ye’s mother and Ye’s father were called to Mrs. Ye’s room.

Mr. Ye said directly: "My family now has 50 acres of newly reclaimed paddy fields and two hills. We don't have enough manpower to take care of it."

"I want to select 20 people out of the 10 people in Dashan Village to work as long-term workers to help take care of the family's fields and hills for a long time."

Father Ye was very happy and pounded the table excitedly, "I have already said that I would ask long-term workers to take care of the fields at home. There are so many fields in the family, and it is really difficult to take care of them without long-term workers."

Mrs. Ye on the side disagreed, "The yield of the newly opened paddy fields is low, and the food grown is not enough to pay the long-term workers."

"As before, just ask odd workers to come back and help during spring plowing, summer harvest and autumn harvest."

Although it is difficult to recruit help now, people can still be found in remote mountains.

Mother Ye also agreed with Mrs. Ye, "Nowadays, people from all over the country are busy opening up wasteland, and there are few people willing to work as long-term workers. The wages of these long-term workers are only [-] Wen a month."

"For 10 people, that's 5 taels a month, and 60 taels a year. For a newly opened paddy field, an output of 200 kilograms per acre is considered very good, but the grain grown is simply not enough to pay wages."

Father Ye added: "The yield of the newly opened paddy fields was indeed low in the past few years, but there are still two hills, and people have to pick the mushrooms and bamboo shoots in the mountains."

"There are also honeysuckle and jujube trees in the mountains. These also need manpower. If we hire part-time workers, the total wages will not be lower than those of permanent workers."

Mr. Ye and his father had the same idea, "Spring plowing and summer harvesting, autumn harvesting is busier. Usually they only need to fertilize and weed. In their free time, these people can go up the mountain to pick mushrooms and dig bamboo shoots."

"And there are 15 acres of corn on the slopes to take care of. We can pick honeysuckle in the summer and dates in the fall. They can help with these."

Mrs. Ye carefully calculated in her mind that 10 people would earn 60 taels a year.

Although it is a bit more, the newly opened paddy fields always need to be taken care of by hand, and the mountain products are also worth a lot of money.

In the end, Mrs. Ye and her mother were persuaded by the father and son, and the four of them reached an agreement to invite 4 long-term workers to come back to help take care of the family's fields and hills.