Happy Farmer's Life

The rain did not come as people expected, but the weather was getting hotter and hotter. Du Weiming felt that he could not sit still. After much consideration, Du Weiming decided to turn over the two mu of rice that was planted in the back to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes.The water in the river is slowly decreasing. If it doesn't rain again, the crops in the field may not survive.Potatoes and sweet potatoes are relatively good species that are easy to survive. Now that we have a lot of land at home, rice needs more water. I don’t know if we can last until the heavy rains come.

Du Weiming called Zhou Wen and Wang Wu to cut off all the rice seedlings in the field, keep them to feed the cows, and then plow the field to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes.Wang Wu and Zhou Wen couldn't understand it.

"Master, do you think it's not raining? It doesn't matter. Wang Wuqin and I hurry up and water more. It's a pity that the rice is overturned now."

Wang Wu also nodded desperately beside him.

"Don't worry about it, turn over these two acres of land and plant potatoes and sweet potatoes instead. It's probably going to change."

Zhou Wen and Wang Wu persuaded him for a long time, but Du Weiming didn't listen. Wang Wu was so straight-tempered that he didn't talk to Du Weiming for several days.Zhou Wen is winking. Although this young master is young, he does things in an orderly manner. It is estimated that there must be his idea in doing so.The two still listened to Du Weiming's words, and went to the ground to cut the rice together. When Wang Wu was cutting, the circles of his eyes were red.What a good rice, why do you want to cut it?

The three hurriedly cut the rice, turned the land again, and planted potatoes and sweet potatoes.When Wang Wu went to the town last time, he asked him to buy two big bags of land and sweet potatoes, cut the potatoes into several pieces, and ensured that each one had at least one or two sprouts.The sweet potatoes were also cut into pieces and planted in the fields.Wang Wu picked up water and watered the two acres of land.

Du Weiming asked Wang Wu to go to the mountain to see if he could find any prey, and he and Zhou Wen harvested all the edible vegetables grown in the half acre of land, green vegetables, cabbage, leeks and the like were cooked. I took it back.Looking at the field of flowers in front of the door, it is estimated that there is no need to sing, so I dug up all of them.

"Master, don't you usually like these flowers the most, why are you willing?"

"Zhou Wen, don't ask, I'll tell you tonight, pull out all these flowers now."

Du Weiming also pulled out the flowers at the door and planted potatoes.He cooked at home by himself, and asked Zhou Wen to go to the back of the village to pick wild vegetables and mow grass before it was dark.

Wang Wu beat two rabbits, two pheasants came back, and Zhou Wen also dug up wild vegetables and cut a lot of cattle grass.After dinner in the evening, Du Weiming asked the two of them to stay.

"I know you all blame me for cutting the good rice and planting potatoes instead. I think it's going to change."

"Changing weather? What's wrong?"

"Do you think it has rained since spring?"

The two thought for a while and shook their heads.

"Generally there will be spring rains after spring, but this year there were only two light rains, and the land was not even wet. We used the river water to irrigate the fields very early. Have you noticed that the river water has become much shallower?"

The two thought about it carefully, and it seemed to be the case.

"I guess if this continues, the river will dry up soon. At that time, our rice will definitely not be kept."

Du Weiming didn't go on, both of them understood.

"Master, do you want to talk to the village chief?"

"I will. Let's go to the town together tomorrow, and I'll talk to the village chief about it when I get back. Get up early tomorrow, and we'll set off as soon as we finish breakfast."

The three of them set off for Pingfu Town early in the morning. Du Weiming took the usual money this time and went to the shopkeeper's shop to give another 50 pieces of soap for consignment.Last time, all the 17 Kuai soaps were sold out, and I also sold 5 bottles of body oil. I got 760 cash, and the total after deducting the housekeeper was 684 cash.Du Weiming bought twenty large clay pots, ten catties of salt and some daily necessities, spending a total of 150 Wen.I paid another 50 wen for 200 small porcelain vases.After Du Weiming asked Wang Wu to load the things into the car, he and Zhou Wen went to the rice store with the money.

Brown rice cost ten cents a catty, and Du Weiming gritted his teeth and bought a hundred catties of brown rice.All that money was spent on brown rice.I went to the vegetable market and bought two large baskets of potatoes and one basket of sweet potatoes, which cost another 2 Wen.Du Weiming went to the cloth shop to buy some oilcloth and the cheapest linen, but he didn't have a penny left.

The bullock cart was full, and the three of them went home.Du Weiming asked Wang Wu to carry water to water the potatoes planted in front of the house and the olive trees behind the house.I picked up a few buckets of water and came back, filled the newly purchased 20 large clay pots with water, and put them all in the storage room. Potatoes and sweet potatoes were also placed in the storage room, and the brown rice was not placed in the storage room. Du Weiming asked the two to divide the brown rice into two portions.I put half under my bed, and let Zhou Wen and Wang Wu put the other half under their beds.Although the two of them didn't understand why they did this, they still did so according to Du Weiming's words.

Du Weiming didn't know what would happen next, but he remembered that he also experienced a drought when he was a child, but that time was not particularly serious. The government had allocated funds and food, and people worked together to overcome the difficulties in the end.But in this place, there is still water in the river, he doesn't know if his guess will be accurate, so he can only plan for the worst.I hope my judgment is wrong and it will rain in two days.

Du Weiming asked Wang Wu to kill all the prey he caught yesterday, eat some at night, and cook the rest as bacon.The last time I went to town and decided to buy a bow, I was right.Wang Wu himself cut some bamboo arrows out of bamboo, which can be used with a bow.Zhou Wen mowed the grass, fed the cows, and cooked, while he went to the village chief's house once.

On the way back, Du Weiming was thinking about how to tell the village chief about this matter. If he persuaded the villagers to cut off all the rice and wheat planted in the field and plant potatoes and sweet potatoes instead, if the drought did not come in the end, his sin would be great. He might even be sent to jail.But if he didn't say anything, he was afraid that everyone would blame him if they found out. Du Weiming was very contradictory.

Du Weiming went to the village chief's house, and the village chief's family was there.

"Er Gouzi is here, have you had dinner, or you can eat it at your aunt's house."

"Auntie, no need, Zhou Wen is cooking at home. I'll talk to the village head uncle."

The village chief heard Du Weiming's words and came over. Du Weiming said he wanted to ask the village chief a few questions alone, and the village chief took him to the room in his house and sat down.

"Village Chief, it hasn't rained for a long time, and the crops in the field can't bear it anymore." "Yes, the situation this year is very strange. It hasn't rained much for so long."

Du Weiming and the village chief expressed their concerns and asked him what to do.The village head was also silent. In fact, as a farmer for half his life, the village head knew that this year's weather was strange, and he was afraid that there would be disasters, but he couldn't help it.

Du Weiming told the village head that some of the land in his home has been replanted with potatoes, and the villagers have to consider whether they should also replant part of the land with potatoes or sweet potatoes.The issue of the river water was also raised. The whole village relies on this river for water. Now that the river water is slowly getting shallower, I don't know what to do.

The village chief was silent. He knew that what Du Weiming said might be correct, but he didn't know how to tell the villagers.After Du Weiming finished talking about his thoughts, he didn't say anything. After all, he had already done what he could, and he couldn't take care of the rest of the matter.