The Pastoral Life of a Cultivation Master

Chapter 38 Talking About Parents

Chen Mo walked with his father, but found that the road seemed to be wrong, and this road was not the path to his own fields.

"Dad, isn't this the way to the fields at home?" Chen Mo asked in surprise.

"Yeah!" Father Chen Jianguo replied in a low voice.

"Dad...?" Chen Mo shouted.

"Wait until the end of the field." Father Chen Jianguo said.

Hearing what his father said, Chen Mo could only stop asking for a while.He knew his father's character, he was a kind but stubborn farmer, and everything at home was his father's word, so Chen Mo could only shut up.

Walked a short distance along the foot of the mountain, crossed a small stream, and arrived at the northwest corner of the village's hillside, which is the innermost part of the village. It is about a few hundred meters away from the village's road. A few miles along the Panshan Highway is Qinggang Village.

"Here!" said the father.

Chen Mo looked around and found that this is the land closest to the foot of the mountain in the village. Compared with the land next to the road before, the traffic is a little more inconvenient, but fortunately, the land is basically the same.However, since it is the place closest to the roots of the mountain and the innermost part of the village, after a short walk along the dirt road, it is all wasteland and mountains.

"Dad, this is..." Chen Mo pointed to the field and asked.

"Well, last year, due to the planning of a batch of homesteads in the village, 50 meters of all the land on the south side of the road was occupied, and the family's fields were also within the scope of requisition. After the replacement and adjustment, all the 10 acres of land here will be allocated to our home. You didn't come back last year, so I didn't tell you." Father Chen Jianguo said.

Chen Mo looked at the surrounding environment, but it was hard to say anything. After all, compared with the previous fields, there is not much difference, that is, the traffic may be a little bad, other than that, it is relatively close to home.And at the foot of the mountain, on the hillside are some village woodlands, and there is a winding valley looming.

"It's good here, it's closer to home." Chen Mo replied with a smile, and he didn't say anything else and started working with a hoe.

"However, Dad's land should have been raw land before, right?" Chen Mo asked.

"Yes, so there are four more acres of land." Father replied.

"Then the land is still undeveloped or what?" Chen Mo asked.

Father Chen Jianguo saw that Chen Mo was very curious about the land at home, but it was a little strange, but he was not so curious before.

The father pointed to his own land and said: "Our land is the farthest outside, so the land past our house is wasteland, which has been abandoned for many years." He pointed to the position facing west and said: "This is On the side is the 200 mu of wasteland that the village had previously contracted to others, but after a few years of planting, it was abandoned, and no one has contracted it until now, and it has been left like this all the time!"

"Why are you asking these?" Father Chen Jianguo asked.

"Oh! Just curious to ask!" Chen Mo smiled and replied.

Chen Mo knew that his parents and brothers used to have 6 mu of land together, and there were 6 mu of land originally owned by his sister, but after her sister got married, it was taken back by the village, leaving 10 mu of land.Although 6 mu of land is replaced now, relatively speaking, it is definitely not as good as the previous [-] mu of mature land.But it has been planned for a year, so it is impossible to care about these.

The father and son didn't say anything more. They gathered the fields and weeded the weeds. After they were busy until noon, they were basically finished.Spring wheat is planted in the ground, spring is sown in summer and then corn is planted.Rotation is adopted to relieve the pressure on the land.Spring wheat will be ready to be harvested in late August and early September.

Father Chen Jianguo is a kind of taciturn person. He doesn't talk much and just lowers his head to work, so the two of them work very fast.

In fact, if it was in the past, it would be exhausting to plant ten acres of land.Ten acres of land is already the limit of a peasant's labor, and it may be possible to use livestock.However, now the countryside has been better as early as ten years ago. Whether it is spring sowing and autumn harvesting, there are people who drive agricultural machinery to do the work. With some labor, the land can be ploughed and sown, and the rest is some watering, fertilizing, etc. Easy work such as weeding, etc. When harvesting, the agricultural machinery comes again, and then the goods are received and packaged.What farmers have to do is to drive a walking tractor and pull the packaged grain from the field home to dry and store it, or sell it directly to buyers.

After finishing the work, the two returned home one after the other.Busy in the morning, basically can not go to the field in the afternoon.

After lunch, Chen Mo talked to his parents, and then went out for a walk.Mainly to see the wasteland near the mountain, as well as places such as Gourd Valley that I used to play when I was a child.I spent the whole afternoon walking around without talking, and took a lot of photos with my mobile phone.

Chen Mo's old house is here. There are several connected houses, all of which were built with adobe bricks before. They are very dilapidated, and no one lives in them.

To the west of the old house is 200 acres of land, but it has been idle for a long time, and all are covered with grass.About [-] meters north of the old house is a hillside, which is covered with some bushes and some sparse trees.In the past, when I was at home, the hillside was contracted to plant fruit trees, but for some reason it might be at a loss. After a few years, all the fruit trees planted were cut down, which is a pity.

To the east of the old house, which is also in front of the gate of the old house, is a rural dirt road, which is about 6 to 7 meters wide, and next to it is dozens of acres of wasteland and gradually rolling hills.This dirt road used to be the main road in the village. One end was less than a kilometer away from the newly built provincial road, and one end disappeared at the foot of the mountain.It turns into a small mountain road directly into the mouth of Hulu Valley.

Hulugukou is located not far from the northeast corner of the old house. After entering, there is a relatively large valley, but the valley is shaped like a gourd, so the locals call it Hulukou.Chen Mo has been playing here a lot since he was a child.

The valleys inside Hulukou are all barren mountains and ridges. In the middle of the valley, there is a small stream that is not very large. It flows directly out of the valley to the southeast, and flows along the windings of the mountains, and finally turns in parallel with the provincial road. After passing a large mountain pass, it is towards another village at the Sancha Road, that village is called Liying Village.One road on Shancha Road is the main passage leading to the town and connecting the county and the urban area, and the other road is the road leading to Qinggang Village after passing through Chenjia Village.

After entering along Hulukou, it is only a few kilometers away, and there is no wide terrain. It is directly undulating mountains of various sizes. If you go straight in, you will enter the Qinling Mountains, but the mountain road is steep and also No one lives in it.

There used to be people living in Hulu Valley, but as early as more than ten years ago, they were all relocated to the planning area of ​​the village homestead in front of Chen Mo's old house, and no one lives there now.The entire Hulu Valley, including the slopes and valleys on both sides, is about tens of thousands of acres, but it may not be easy to develop and there is no good scenery, so no one has contracted for development so far.

Chen Mo has been walking along the old house and Hulukou for a while. If he wants to go home and contract the land, he must be prepared. He can't talk nonsense without actually inspecting it.

When I got home, it was already time for dinner, and my parents didn't ask anything. The family of three gathered around the dining table for dinner.

After dinner, Chen Mo took his father and mother to the main room of the house and wanted to tell them about his plans.

"You said you don't want to go to work in the city anymore?" Father Chen Jianguo lit a cigarette, and was suddenly silent when he heard that his son was planning to go back to the village to farm.

"Dad, the employment of college students is also very fierce now. My major is biology, so the counterpart job is not easy to find. So I want to go back to the village to farm." Chen Mo said.

"No! I want you to leave the land and live a glorious life in the city for you to go to school, not to let you go to college and return to face the loess as a farmer!" Father Chen Jianguo said angrily.

"Dad! Listen to me first." Chen Mo pondered for a while, and then said: "I majored in biology, so I studied a high-tech farming technology in school and wanted to go home and experiment."

"High-tech farming? I've been farming all my life, and this is the first time I've heard of high-tech farming," said his father, Chen Jianguo.

"Dad, don't look down on high-tech farming. In the past few years, the village was not engaged in sideline business, but introduced commercial crops for planting. Don't the technicians at the agricultural science station have technical support?" Chen Mo said.

"Fart! The imported peach trees have already been chopped for firewood by the village, high-tech shit." Father Chen Jianguo despised these things.

"Dad, can't you just let me try it? What if it works?" Chen Mo stared at his father's eyes and said firmly.

My father didn't speak and kept smoking.

"Dad, you said this...? Why don't you let the child try it!" Chen Mo's mother, Fu Huili, saw her son winking at her, so she could only beat the drum beside her.

"What about your studies?" Father Chen Jianguo was a little worried about Erwazi's studies. He finally got into the university and returned to farm, which definitely made him a little angry and heartache.

"Study has been completed, and after a few months to submit the graduation thesis, you can apply for a graduation certificate!" Chen Mo told the truth.

Father nodded, but didn't say anything, just took out a cigarette and lit it, smoking a cigarette in a dull manner.

"His father, you have to say something!" Her mother, Fu Huili, waited for a while, and urged her in a hurry.

"If you come back to farm and do experiments, it's up to you! But you also know the situation at home, don't let the family pay!" Father Chen Jianguo said.

Chen Mo smiled and said to his mother, "Mom, thank you, if it wasn't for your intervention, Dad would definitely not agree."

"It's the way you chose to come back to farm, don't regret it." Mother Fu Huili was a little unsure whether her child would be able to persevere, so she could only say this.

"Don't worry, it will definitely surprise you." Chen Mo said.

"Hey! How much money do you have, if it's not enough for the family, there is still some!" Father Chen Jianguo was still talking about the fact that the family had no money, but seeing that his children made up their minds to go home to farm, there was nothing to say. , can only support, how to say, are their own children, who do not feel distressed.

(End of this chapter)