Rebirth in another world is good for farming

Zhao Zhengze and Zhang Xiaoliu put a lot of effort into covering the sweet potatoes with soil, and the sweet potatoes that came out were really big.After the sweet potatoes are taken home, they are stacked in the corner of the house without washing. As long as they are kept dry, they can be stored for more than half a year.

That night, Zhang Xiaoliu picked a few large sweet potatoes, peeled them, cut them into cubes and cooked them with rice porridge.Boil the rice first, then put the sweet potato pieces and cook for a quarter of an hour.When it is cooked, the white rice porridge is mixed with orange-red sweet potato pieces, and the color is attractive.Sprinkle a handful of frosting sugar and mix well, it is very delicious in your mouth.The peeled sweet potato skins can’t be wasted either. They are put away and cooked together with the potato seedlings and vines the next morning to feed the chickens.

Because the potato vines are cut into fine grains, it is enough to dry them in the sun for one day.In the afternoon, it is put away in a large cloth bag half the height of a person, and then used to feed poultry when the crops in the field are green and yellow.Zhang's family does not have a sun-drying field, so they can only dry in the mud in front of the house.After putting away the potato seedlings and vines, Zhang Xiaoliu cleaned the ground again to prepare for drying the rice during the busy farming season.

When the rice starts to bow, the soybeans in the field can be harvested.Soybean grows very quickly after the pods are formed. When the pods turn slightly yellow, if you don't pull them out within two or three days, the beans inside will burst open automatically and fall to the ground.After several days of hard work harvesting corn and sweet potatoes, Zhang Xiaoliu and Zhao Zhengze quickly got used to the work of going out early and returning late, and pulled out all the soybeans after a day.

Regardless of the small size of soybeans, it is not easy to go from being recovered to being edible.First, tie the soybeans with their roots and leaves into small handles, then pull out most of the leaves with bare hands, and then hang them upside down to dry.After July and August, when I have time, I will take it down and hammer it with a wooden stick, and then I will really clean out the soybean grains.Before the rice could be harvested, Zhang Xiaoliu and his family wanted to pull out the leaves of the returned soybeans and hang them up.

Whole soybeans like hillocks were piled up on the hard mud in front of the house. Zhang Xiaoliu and Zhao Zhengze sat cross-legged beside them, tying them into small handfuls and throwing them behind them very neatly.Mai also followed his elder brother's example and helped, while Xiaosong walked up and down on the scattered leaves boredly.

"Go away and play, or don't cry to me if you get itchy everywhere later!" Zhang Xiaoliu took the time to glance at him, and raised her voice to order.The leaves of soybeans have fuzzy hairs on both sides, and it is very itchy to rub against the bare skin.

Xiaosong let out an "oh" in all kinds of boredom, then lay down on the ground and counted the leaves one by one.

When Zhao Zhengze saw it, he pulled out a handful of soybean leaves, pinched off the leaves, leaving only the stems, and quickly circled them with his fingers to make two antennae of a grasshopper.Then buckle the rest of the stalk together like a straw rope, and finally make the remaining part a foot. After a while, a grasshopper is formed.He put the green grasshopper on the ground, stretched out his hand and gently pressed the tail, and the whole grasshopper was like a seesaw, landing on the back and tilting the front. At first glance, it looked like it was poised to pounce to catch prey, which was very realistic.

"Xiaosong, here." He picked it up in satisfaction and threw it to Xiaosong's side.

Xiao Song glanced lazily, then opened his eyes wide, jumped up all of a sudden, held the grasshopper in his palm and teased it over and over again.

"Can this thing be made up?" Zhang Xiaoliu was also very surprised when he saw it.

"When I was young, Momo often made this for me to play with. He can make a lot of things, such as frogs, caterpillars, big ants, and even make them fight separately." Zhao Zheng threw the remaining leaves in his hands Yes, I said with nostalgia.

"Brother Azheng, then make me a frog." Mai Mai saw what Xiaosong was holding and heard what he said, eager to try.

Zhao Zhengze was a little embarrassed, thought for a while and said, "I don't know how to make a frog, how about I make you a caterpillar?"

"Then I want a big ant." Wheat thought the caterpillar looked too weak, so he compromised.

"Okay." Zhao Zhengze agreed, and quickly started to weave.It's a pity that the ant that was made up in the end seems to be no different from the grasshopper in Komatsu's hand except that the antennae on its head are shorter.

Mai Mai took it happily, and played with Xiao Song.

"They probably think that you are much more useful than my big brother now." Zhang Xiaoliu sighed seeing the joyful appearance of the two.Without the protection of their parents, no matter how hard they try to make up for it, the children will inevitably have a dull life.Fortunately, he has these skills, and he can tease the two little ones from time to time.

"How come, you are amazing. You have to go to the fields to cook, and you have to earn money to buy things." In Zhao Zhengze's eyes, Zhang Xiaoliu is indeed a very powerful existence.At this time, I was praised by him, and instead of being happy, I felt terrified.

"You can do the work in the field better than me, and you can do better in a few years." Zhang Xiaoliu has never been stingy with compliments. gratified.

"I'm doing well, so you don't need to go to the fields, and I will take care of you when the time comes." Zhao Zhengze said softly.He also hopes that one day he will have enough strength to be as capable as Uncle Li Sheng.

"I am strong and strong, why should you take care of me? The work in the field is the most tiring. Don't always think about carrying everything on yourself. Let everyone take it easy so that your body won't break down." Zhang Xiaoliu has seen a lot here because the main labor force in the family collapsed, and the whole family fell down in a short time. Zhao Zhengze's father was a lesson in itself.

"No." Zhao Zhengze responded, moving his hands quickly.

Zhang Xiaoliu knew that his heart was too serious, maybe he didn't take his own words to heart, secretly thought it was fine, he was a responsible person after all.It's just that I don't know which brother will be so lucky in the future, and it will be worth it to meet someone who loves so much.He never felt in his heart that the marriage date at that time had come true, and getting along with Zhao Zhengze on weekdays also felt quite natural.

During spring planting, no fertilizer was used in the fields. Later, chickens were raised at home. Zhao Zhengze scraped away the chicken droppings and the layer of soil below the chicken cages with a shovel every day, and raised them in the open space behind the house. A mound of soil, and the plant ash taken out of the stove is stirred every few days, and it has been almost retting in the past few months.Zhang Xiaoliu was still worried, and in the past few days, he dried and burned the dead branches and leaves cleaned in front of the house and the house, and then loosened the fertilized soil before covering it with a layer of corn stalks.

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By June [-]th, the sun was already very strong during the day.On this day, the five-color rope tied during the May Festival should be untied and burned by the water, so that the flowing river can take away the plague patients from people.

Remembering this incident, Zhang Xiaoliu woke up before dawn that day, got up and quietly untied the five-color ropes from Mai and Xiaosong's hands and went out.Zhao Zhengze was already guarding the door, and handed him the five-color rope that he had untied.

There is nothing special about burning five-color ropes. If you have incense strings at home, bring one and stick it in the burnt place to light it, which is considered to be full of etiquette.After Zhang Xiaoliu finished burning, he went to the field to look at the rice. At this time, some people had already started harvesting.

"Brother Liu, are you here too?" While walking back, a familiar voice came from behind.

"Cao'er!" Zhang Xiaoliu looked back, and the person calling to stop him was Lin Cao'er who hadn't gone out for a long time.He was followed by a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, his eldest son Li Kang.

He waited for a while, and the two caught up.Zhang Xiaoliu carefully looked at his complexion, it seemed that he was more energetic than when we met last time, but he was still very thin.

"Brother Akang, morning." He called the boy next to him, and said to Lin Cao'er, "Is Cao'er feeling better? Why did you come to the field so early today?"

"It's much better these days. I'll see if the rice in the field can be harvested. His father always said that the millet will be fuller in a few days, but I'm afraid that the sky will wait for no one!"

"Can you still trust Uncle Li Sheng's vision? I think our family's crops are still green, and I'm still not sure whether to harvest them in the next two days or not." Zhang Xiaoliu said with a smile.

"He is always willing to wait. You don't have to worry about three or four acres of land. I have been worried about rainy days since the day the rice bowed its head." Lin Cao'er was also a very capable person in the past. The quality of the crops is very good.So even if I'm sick, I don't feel relieved, I insist on getting up and taking a look.

"Uncle Li Sheng also makes sense. Waiting for two or three days will bring you dozens of catties more! Don't worry too much about Cao'er, at most it will be collected sooner."

"Well, after reading it, I'm really not willing to use the sickle now, and I plan to do it in two days. Are you ready for anything in the basket at home?"

"It's all ready, just waiting for the harvest." They all had great expectations for this harvest, and started preparing early, even the wheat knew that he was urging him to sharpen the sickle.

"Good boy, I heard from his father that you harvested the corn and sweet potatoes in the dry land very well, not inferior to other families. Our family should have helped out, but I can't go to the field now, and there are only a few of them in the family. Busy..."

"You and Uncle Li Sheng have already helped us a lot. How can we rely on you to help us when the farming season is busy? What's more, we only have this little land, and it won't take many days to do it slowly. Cao'er should rest more, don't worry about it I'm exhausted." During the busy farming season, everyone hated having to eat and sleep and scramble to work, Zhang Xiaoliu didn't dare to expect others to help, so he hurriedly declined.

"Everything you do now is more stable than A Kang, so I'm relieved." Lin Cao'er also knew that there was really no one to help the family these days, seeing that their family was also busy, she felt very relieved. sigh.Although there are not many fields, two children in their teens can do so well, which is really beyond the reach of ordinary children.

"We can't compare to Brother Akang. We just watch what other people in the village do, and then follow suit." Zhang Xiaoliu scratched his head embarrassingly, as if he was only childish in front of Lin Cao'er.He suddenly remembered the unopened pickled cabbage at home, and said to Lin Cao'er: "Cao'er, I couldn't finish the vegetables grown at home a while ago, so I even pickled a jar of sauerkraut. I'll take a look when I go back. If you can eat, I will send you some more."

"You child, you are really as capable as you. It's a pity that your health is not good..." Lin Cao'er heard this, and sighed: "Now Cao'er can't take care of you, but instead eats the vegetables you grow gone."

"In the beginning, we couldn't open the pot at home, because there were eggs from Youcaoer. We just watched the vegetable field and ordered food, so we took care of it very carefully. When summer passes, I'm afraid there will be no vegetables in the field again. .”

"There are a lot of vegetables that can be grown in autumn and winter. If you don't know, come to my house after the busy season, and I'll leave some seeds for you." Lin Caoer told him after listening.In this village, it is difficult for any vegetable garden to live without vegetables.