Rebirth of Jiuyouyan

Since the rice planting in the Bai family finished sooner than other houses, it was not yet May when it was all completed, and the weather was not warm enough.In order to protect the seedlings, deep water should be introduced into the fields.

The canal in Yincheng passes through the farmland in the outskirts of the city, and the farmers bring water from the canal to the fields.The Bai family is a little far from the canal, but there is a spring on the mountain not far behind, and the flow will not stop throughout the year. When the snow on the mountain melts in spring and summer, the flow of the mountain spring will increase.Xia Yue went up to see it, and felt that it might be formed by the surging groundwater, but the water quality was very sweet. Shi Yan also said that it was a waste of water to use for farming.

Deep water was drawn into the fields of the Bai family, and three-quarters of the seedlings were covered.The water insulation effect is very good, which can prevent the seedlings from shrinking in a climate that is not warm enough, and the growth ability of the roots will not decline.If heat preservation is not carried out, in colder climates, the roots will not develop well, and the ability to absorb fertilizers in the field will also be reduced.In addition, the depth of water in the field can also inhibit the growth of weeds.

The deep water was maintained for about seven days. During this period, the seedlings survived smoothly and took root well.Xia Yue stood on the ridge of the field, bent down and pulled up the stone blocking the drain.The stone was quite heavy, so he temporarily put it on the ridge of the field, and went to the next acre of field to drain the water. After all the fields were drained, he walked again from the beginning to block the stone back.

Yi Ao had to go to school in the morning, except for the few days when he planted rice seedlings, he asked for leave with his husband, and he would not come back until the afternoon in summer.Shiyan basically went back to Bai's house to help in the morning. When Xia Yue came back from the field, he was making grass dolls.Luo Yue's straw puppet is very simple, it just has a head and body pierced, no hands, only a horizontal wooden stick.

Grass puppets are only used in autumn to drive away birds that peck rice.It's just that Shiyan feels that there will be a lot more fields to be plowed this year, and a lot of grass puppets will be needed, so she wants to make preparations little by little from now on.

Xia Yue stood behind Shi Yan, looked curiously, and asked if this could really drive away the birds, Shi Yan stopped her movements after hearing this, with a helpless expression on her face.

"It was okay before, but now it doesn't have such a good effect, and people still need to catch up. But it's better to use it than not to use it."

"Hmm..." Xia Yue touched his chin, "Does this straw man wear clothes?"

Shi Yan pointed to the bamboo basket on the side: "The ones inside are all old clothes."

Xia Yue went to search and found that they were all short clothes that are convenient for working in the farmhouse, most of them are summer clothes, the sleeves are not long, and they are more close-fitting.Xia Yue thought for a while, then looked back at Shiyan.The straw puppet seemed to be tied up, and Shi Yan was standing it up for inspection.

"Shiyan," Xia Yue walked to Fu Lang and squatted down, and looked up at the crude straw puppet with him, "Have you ever thought about wearing looser clothes for the straw puppet?"

"Huh? Why?" Shiyan turned her head and looked at him puzzled.

Xia Yue took the straw puppet in his hand, put it horizontally on the ground, poked it with his fingers, and said: "I think, the birds are probably used to the existence of this thing. After a long time, I found that this thing won't move. , they are not afraid. After all, this is a dead thing, and there is no way to move, but I think that if the clothes are bigger, they will swing when the wind blows, maybe it can scare them?"

Perhaps at first, when birds saw a human-shaped thing standing in the field, they would think it was a human being and would not dare to land in the field.But after a long time, the bird also has the ability to learn, and probably realized that it is not a person, but just a non-moving thing, and gradually it is not so afraid.If nothing is done, those birds will probably fall into the fields unscrupulously to peck.

Shiyan had never thought about the straw puppet issue, but after listening to it now, she felt that her husband's method might work, so she went to tell her father.Father Bai thought it would be good to give it a try anyway, Father Bai found an old robe from the room, and Shi Yan took it to Xia Yue to choose.Xia Yue picked out the sleeves which were not very wide and put them on the straw man, cut off the excessively long hem, and tied the belt tightly.Then I found a rather broken straw hat and buckled it on, and tied it with a knot.

"Want to wear a hat?" Shi Yan asked while watching.

Xia Yue nodded: "This hat is so torn, Father Yue said no more. I see that the sides are all blooming, and the wind blows it violently, so maybe it will work."

Two people carried the new grass doll into the field.

There will still be birds falling in the fields at this time, but the birds at this time are harmless and will help eat the pests that are harmful to the seedlings.Xia Yue and Shi Yan wanted to test whether this new straw puppet could frighten these well-learned birds.

Xia Yue inserted the straw man near the ridge of the field, pressed it hard into the soil, shook it again, and let it go when he felt it was stable.With a box of snacks in his arms, he looked up at the sky, it was just entering May, and the morning sun was still mild, not considered a sunburn.He decided to have a picnic in the field with Fu Lang, so he dragged Shi Yan to sit on the wide ridge far away from the straw man.

During this period of time, Shiyan has a good appetite, and her appetite has also increased.Although there were reasons for the hard work on the farm, Xia Yue still felt that Dr. Shen's acupuncture played a big role.

It was still some time before noon, Shi Yan was already a little hungry.Obviously he had eaten breakfast... He felt a little embarrassed that he had eaten too much.

Xia Yue is very happy to see his husband eat more, not to mention other things, this child is only nineteen, and he is still growing, so it is normal to eat a lot.He happily fed Fu Lang snacks, and occasionally got Shi Yan to feed him a bite or two, Xia Yue was very happy.

There was a small slope behind where they were sitting, and there were mixed dwarf trees on the top of the slope. Although the sun was getting higher and higher, the place was still covered in the shade of the trees, and the shade was very comfortable.The two finished their snacks, drank a few sips of water, and leaned together to look at their fields.

"Sanggong, you never go over to Xijiuzui, is it alright?" Shi Yan asked him, leaning her head on her husband's shoulder, dawdling for a while.

Xia Yue smiled, rubbed his right cheek against the soft hair on the top of his head, and said: "There is no problem over there. Now that the weather is getting warmer, few guests drink hot wine. However, the guests who are attracted by hot wine in winter are more likely to drink hot wine." I still come here often, and the business is very stable, so I don’t need to worry.”

"When will the ice cellar come in handy?" Shi Yan raised her head from her husband's shoulder and asked. He remembered that there was a lot of ice in the cellar. Although he probably knew what her husband was going to use it for, he didn't ask the specifics. Pass.

"Then we have to wait for the weather to get hotter. When everyone is thinking of ways to avoid the heat, we will not recommend hot wine, but ice wine."

"Ice wine?" Shi Yan was very interested.

Xia Yue put his hands on Shiyan's back waist, stroking the curve there with enjoyment, and couldn't help kissing her husband: "Well, the wine has been chilled. At that time, I will ask the young lady to help you taste the drink and find the best drink. Suitable temperature, but also with new summer dishes."

Shi Yan was willing to help her husband, so she smiled happily and nodded in agreement.

Xia Yue caressed Shiyan's face with the other hand, squeezed it, suddenly thought of something, and said again: "Shiyan, open your mouth and let me see."

Shi Yan was startled: "Open your mouth?"

"Well," Xia Yue nodded, "Open your mouth, the bigger the better."

Seeing Shiyan's embarrassed expression, Xia Yue tapped his forehead with his left index finger, and said with a smile: "What are you afraid of, only your husband is here, so don't be ashamed."

Shi Yan glanced around embarrassedly, making sure no one was there, then raised her head and opened her mouth wide.

Xia Yue looked carefully, and sure enough, it was not too big, but before it could only fit one quail egg, but now it is estimated that it can fit two.Shiyan's facial stiffness is gradually improving, which makes Xia Yue feel relieved.

Shiyan, who didn't know her husband's intentions at first, felt a difference when she opened her mouth.He never yelled and ate more politely, so he didn't know that he could open his mouth to this extent.Shi Yan touched the corner of her mouth in surprise, and then touched her cheek, with an unbelievable expression on her face.

At this moment, a wind blew up in the relatively calm field. The two of them were taken aback for a moment, and they both stopped paying attention, and turned to look at the lonely straw man in the field.

The loose sleeves of the straw man were blown in by the wind, bulging, and kept shaking in the wind. Xia Yue could hear the sleeves making the sound of the sleeves in the wind even when he sat far away, and the loose brim of the broken straw hat was blown wildly by the wind. , making a rustling sound.The birds that were parked near the straw man seemed to be frightened by the sound, and a few flew away.After a while, one or two flew back, but they dared not land near the straw man.

It seemed to be useful, and the two of them were quite satisfied. They sat and watched for a while, until Yi Ao came back from the school and ran to the field to call them back, and they stood up from the ground.Xia Yue patted the dust off his clothes, walked over and pulled the grass puppet out of the soil, carried it on his shoulders, and led Shiyan back to Bai's house.

Daddy Bai was very happy when he heard that the new straw man seemed to work well, and immediately went to dig out all the old clothes.There are few clothes with wide sleeves in the farm family, so Daddy Bai intends to dismantle the old clothes and change them.Xia Yue told him not to make the sleeves too big, otherwise it would be easy to catch the wind, and when the wind was strong, the straw man would easily fall down, and it would be bad if it crushed the rice seedlings.

At noon, I drank some porridge at Bai's house, and Xia Yue helped some brothers-in-law with some homework.When the sun turned a little bit, he went to the field to weed.

Weeds can hinder the growth of seedlings.These things that grow in clusters in the field will take away water and nutrients, and when they grow taller, they will block the sun and destroy the ventilation between rice plants.However, the weeds are very tenacious in their vitality, except once they will pop up again soon.Bai's father said that growing rice takes half of the effort on weeding.

In Luoyue, where there is no herbicide, all weeding is done manually. A farm tool called Eagle Claw is used to plow the soil between the seedlings, turn up the weeds by their roots, and bury them under the soil.Xia Yue remembered hearing in the last life that tilling the soil allows more oxygen to enter the soil and be absorbed by the rhizomes, which can promote the respiration of plants and the extension of roots.He thought, this method of weeding also has the same effect. Instead of pulling out the weeds, they are buried directly and let them die in the soil. After being decomposed by the soil, they will become fertilizer for the seedlings.

The sun in May was already very hot in the afternoon, bending over to weed [-] acres of land, although it was not as good as transplanting rice seedlings, it was still quite hard work.The sun was shining directly on his back, and Xia Yue's sweat slipped from his forehead, soaking his back, and a few drops fell into the field.Now it is better to put water in the ground, but if the water is stored, the reflection of sunlight on the surface of the water will make people feel more uncomfortable.

Xia Yue straightened up, picked up the sweat towel hanging around his neck and wiped the sweat from his head, turned his head to meet Shang Shiyan's distressed eyes, and quickly smiled at him comfortingly.

Shiyan also sweated a lot, a few strands of hair were stained with sweat and stuck to her skin, her face was flushed with heat, and some of her clothes were wet.Xia Yue moved his eyes down, and suddenly felt his tongue was a little dry, so he quickly took out the bamboo tube and took a sip of water.

Then he didn't dare to look at Shiyan any more, and quickly lowered his head and bent over to focus on weeding.By the time the four of them finished handling most of the fields, the sun was already setting into the mountains.

Back at Yun's house at night, when she was about to go to bed, Shi Yan saw her husband was depressed, so she couldn't help asking him what was wrong.

Xia Yue glanced at Shi Yan in distress, and felt that the issues he cared about were really petty, but he couldn't convince himself that he didn't care.

Seeing her husband hesitate to speak, Shi Yan felt anxious.If the husband didn't want to say anything, he would tell himself tactfully when he asked, saying that there was nothing wrong, but he didn't say anything, and looked like he wanted to say it. Shi Yan had never seen Xia Yue like this before. What is it that bothers the husband so much?

Shiyan opened her mouth to continue asking, but Xia Yue suddenly picked her up and put her on the bed, then watched her husband blow the lamp, lay beside her, and stretched out her arms to hug her.

"What's wrong?" Shi Yan hesitated for a while, but asked again.

Xia Yue was silent, and after a while, he heard his muffled voice coming from above Shi Yan's head: "You don't want to go to the fields in the future."

Shiyan was stunned, he didn't understand why her husband suddenly refused to let him go to the field, and forgot to ask why.Xia Yue didn't wait for him to ask, and continued to say: "Otherwise, don't roll up your trouser legs when you go to the field."

"Eh?" Shi Yan was even more puzzled.Shimoda doesn't roll up the trouser legs, won't it get dirty?It's better when water is put on, but if the field is watered, it will get wet if you don't roll up your trouser legs.

Xia Yue was silent again.

Shiyan waited for a long time, couldn't help but grabbed Xia Yue's clothes and tugged, felt her husband rubbing against her head several times, and then heard his voice said very unhappy: "You roll up your trouser legs, your whole calf exposed."

Luo Yue's Qingguan has less hair, not completely without it, but it is much thinner than Lang Guan's. The hair on Shiyan's body is even sparser, and even if you don't look carefully, you can't see any hair on your legs.Today he was weeding with his trouser legs rolled up. Xia Yue lowered his head and saw two white and tender calves exposed. All he could think of was bad things, and he almost had a nosebleed.

This cannot be blamed on him, after all, he can only see his husband's skin that is usually hidden under his robe at special times, such as when taking a bath together, such as having sex, and seeing it suddenly under the blue sky and broad daylight is quite exciting.

Luo Yue didn't have such things as water shoes, and anyone who went to work in the fields had to roll up his trouser legs. Xia Yue was aroused by those white legs, and on the one hand, he didn't want to be seen by others.Now the Bai family's farm work is progressing faster than other families, but it will be almost the same down the road, and there will only be more and more people in the field. Xia Yue feels depressed when he thinks that he will be seen by others.It was the first time he found out that he had such a strong desire for monopoly, and he felt that he was very stingy, and he was worried that he would scare Shi Yan, but he spent a long day, but he still couldn't convince himself not to care about this matter.

After figuring out what her husband meant, Shiyan was both helpless and happy.It's not that her husband doesn't want her to go back to help with work, but she's just unhappy that other people see her legs. Of course, Shi Yan originally thought that her whole body belonged to her husband, and Xia Yue's desire for dominance wouldn't scare him at all.After thinking about it, the child of his husband agreed not to roll his trouser legs when he went to the fields.

Xia Yue couldn't be happy after hearing this, and walked in the paddy field without rolling up his trousers, and his trousers were wet, how uncomfortable it would be.Shi Yandu agreed to such an unreasonable request, which made him look like a willful little brat.

It's just that right now he really can't think of a solution, and he really doesn't want to let Shiyan show her calf.The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was not good enough, Xia Yue sighed in his heart, and simply stopped thinking about it.

He forced himself to put aside the messy thoughts in his heart, and fell asleep just as he wanted to comfort Shiyan with a few words, but before he could speak, he felt Shiyan put his hand into his underwear, and the person stuck to it, and then Feel the soft touch on the lips.

Xia Yue's naked desire for monopoly made Shi Yan unable to bear the emotion. In her mind, only the words that everything about herself was her husband made her body heat up inch by inch. Give it to the husband, and let the husband completely occupy himself, so that he can stop the throbbing in his heart.

The scene I saw in the afternoon had been lingering in Xia Yue's mind, but at this time Shi Yan made such a tease again, the fire that was suppressed in my heart flared up again, and it was out of control now.Xia Yue turned over, and regardless of the tiredness of both of them, he directly ate up the obedient and docile child under him.